The Big Suey: Greg Cote Remembers Nothing (feat. Earleen Cote)
43 min
•Feb 10, 20264 months agoSummary
Greg Cote appears on The Dan Le Batard Show to discuss his Hall of Fame voting memory (or lack thereof), his Super Bowl cioppino recipe, and various pop culture tangents. The episode also features commentary on the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show controversy and cultural backlash to Spanish-language performances in American sports.
Insights
- Memory and accountability in public voting: Greg's inability to recall his own Hall of Fame votes raises questions about transparency in voting panels and whether voters should be required to document and defend their choices publicly.
- Generational attitudes toward cultural diversity: The backlash to Bad Bunny's Spanish-language halftime show reveals a pattern of gatekeeping around 'American' cultural events despite the U.S. having 40+ million Spanish speakers.
- Media grift around cultural grievance: Conservative media figures like Megyn Kelly monetize outrage over minor cultural shifts by framing inclusive programming as exclusionary to white audiences.
- Sports league inconsistency: The NFL's selective enforcement of 'American values' contrasts sharply with MLB's embrace of Spanish-speaking talent, suggesting corporate politics rather than principle drive these decisions.
- Personality-driven podcast format: The show's success relies on allowing hosts like Greg extended tangential segments rather than strict editorial control, creating authentic but meandering content.
Trends
Cultural backlash to multilingual sports broadcasting: Conservative media mobilizing audiences against non-English language content in major sporting eventsCorporate diversity theater under pressure: Sports leagues forced into inclusive programming by activist pressure (Kaepernick/Jay-Z model) rather than organic commitmentGrifting on cultural anxiety: Media personalities building audiences by validating grievances about demographic and cultural change in AmericaGenerational memory and digital accountability: Public figures unable to recall their own documented decisions, raising questions about voting integrityInternational sports expansion creating cultural friction: U.S. sports leagues globalizing while domestic audiences resist cultural accommodationAuthenticity in entertainment over assimilation: Artists like Bad Bunny refusing to anglicize performances despite commercial pressurePodcast format favoring personality over efficiency: Long-form audio allowing hosts to meander and build character through repetition and tangents
Topics
Hall of Fame voting transparency and accountabilityMemory and aging in public figuresBad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show controversySpanish language in American sports broadcastingCultural gatekeeping and 'American values' rhetoricMedia grifting on cultural grievanceNFL diversity initiatives and corporate politicsMLB's integration of Spanish-speaking talentMegyn Kelly's conservative media commentaryPuerto Rico representation in U.S. sportsSuper Bowl viewership and audience demographicsCioppino recipe and seafood preparationGinger identification criteria and geneticsPodcast format and host personality dynamics
Companies
DraftKings
Primary sponsor of The Big Suey podcast segment; sportsbook offering bonus bets and live betting features
Chime
Financial technology company offering fee-free banking, early paycheck access, and credit-building tools
Miller Lite
Beer brand sponsor; featured in casual hangout scenario during sports viewing
Walt Disney World Resort
Theme park vacation sponsor offering discounted Disney Magic Tickets and hotel packages for 2026
Virgin Atlantic Holidays
Travel company offering Disney vacation packages with up to 25% off select 2026 arrivals
NFL
National Football League; subject of discussion regarding Super Bowl halftime show and diversity policies
Major League Baseball
Discussed as counterexample to NFL's resistance to Spanish-language content; has significant Spanish-speaking talent
People
Greg Cote
Sports columnist and show personality; featured guest unable to recall his own Hall of Fame voting decisions
Earleen Cote
Greg Cote's wife; guest discussing his memory issues and stubbornness in admitting mistakes
Dan Le Batard
Show host; leads discussion on Bad Bunny halftime show backlash and cultural gatekeeping in sports
Stugotz
Co-host; participates in Hall of Fame voting quiz and cultural commentary segments
Bad Bunny
Puerto Rican reggaeton artist; performed Spanish-language Super Bowl halftime show generating cultural backlash
Megyn Kelly
Conservative media personality; criticized for on-air commentary calling Bad Bunny's Spanish performance exclusionary
Bill Polian
NFL executive; referenced for his Hall of Fame voting memory lapses in comparison to Greg Cote
Reggie Wayne
Former NFL player; subject of Hall of Fame voting quiz regarding Greg Cote's ballot
Frank Gore
Former NFL running back; Greg Cote confirmed voting for him as third all-time leading rusher
Kendrick Lamar
Rapper; referenced as performer of previous Super Bowl halftime show praised by hosts
Jay-Z
Music executive; brought in by NFL to oversee halftime shows following Kaepernick controversy
Colin Kaepernick
Former NFL quarterback; his kneeling protest led to NFL's diversity initiatives in halftime programming
Ricky Martin
Puerto Rican artist; referenced as example of Latin performer in American pop culture
Quotes
"I am so done working around the fragilities of mediocre white people when it comes to accommodating them and what they want."
Dan Le Batard•Halftime show discussion segment
"Not one word of English, not one word of English. You can bond the hip time show in the football game."
Sid Rosenberg (referenced)•Bad Bunny halftime show criticism
"I love him like a pet is what my dad says to like my mom."
Greg Cote•Catchphrase discussion
"I easily admit when I'm wrong. Not. That's not true."
Earleen Cote•Greg Cote memory/stubbornness discussion
"My wife always handles the wand."
Greg Cote•Remote control anecdote
Full Transcript
Welcome to the big sui! Presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, that face and the habitual liar. This episode of the Dan Levitard show is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Greg Cody, when we quizzed you two weeks ago, wondering if someone ten years younger than Bill Polian would have the memory two weeks later to remember who it is that he voted for. Did you or did you not vote for Reggie Wayne? You had to start off with the tough one, didn't you? Damn it. Probably because I'm a homer, yes, but I don't think I did. And that's exactly the Polian quote that he gave when Don Van Notta called him, because you did not vote for Reggie Wayne. See? My final answer was, I don't think I did. Yeah, but you can't really remember. You're not sure. Eli Manning, did you vote for Eli Manning? Hell no. Hell no? No. Did you vote for George Seaford? No. Did you vote for Mike Shanahan? No. I am nailing this. Reggie Wayne is not nailing it. The last thing I said was, I don't think I did. Did you vote for Tory Holt? Close call. No. Wow. Did you vote for Luke Keekley? No. Did you vote for Chuck Knox? No. Dan is withering because I'm nailing this. What's your problem with Shanahan? Chuck Knox. Did you vote for Jason Witten? No. No. Did you vote for Frank Gore? Yes. As everyone should have. He's the third all-time leading rusher. How can you not vote for Frank Gore? That's why I hate voting panels other than the baseball writers. But when you fill out your ballot, the baseball ballot, there's a check mark. I make my ballot public. Of course, I check it all the time. There should be complete transparency. We should know exactly who did and didn't vote for Bella Check. Complete transparency across all halls of fame. That's what I'm calling for. Do you know who you voted for in baseball this year? My ballot seven weeks ago? Yeah, whatever. I mean, if you give me the same, did you vote for him or not? I would tell you, of course. Yes, I'll take that quiz. But you can't remember. You'll take the quiz, but you can't remember. I remember several of the names I voted for. I mean, I don't remember all of them. I think I voted for seven. This is a good game interrogating and badgering an old person. Like I like this game. It's ageism. Did you or did you not vote for Bobby Abrayou? No. It can't be. Stuck them on the first one. That's a close vote. I remember going back and forth on him. You asked me about that one, I think. I'm pretty sure I did, but I'm not positive. I'll answer. I thought he was a very close vote. You did. Not for that. Oh, wow. He's right there. So I was correct then. No, you. No, that is what it's being said. It was a very close call, but I don't think I did. All right, let's move on. You said, quote, I'm pretty sure I did. I'm not positive. I was misquoted. Can I ask him one more? It's like Charles Barkley claiming to be misquoted in his autobiography. He did. Charles Barkley actually claimed that he was misquoted and something that was an autobiography. Did you or did you not vote for Felix Hernandez? I did not. That is correct. Thank you. Did you or did you not vote for Carlos Beltron? Absolutely yes. That is correct. Okay. You should have quit while you were ahead, says. I don't know why you did. He said one more. I don't really know why you decided to keep doing that. We got the payoff that we needed. I love that that is correct though. When he says that is correct, it just warms. Well, that's one of your favorite words or you were right about that, but you never admit you're wrong about that. Like getting it when I'm wrong all the time. Oh, no, you do not. That's not your famous for admitting wrong. All right. Can you call your mother, please? I'd like to talk to her, Lane. Just put down a famous, famous for, okay, does Greg admit when he's wrong? Because I think old people keep getting more and more stubborn, put it on the pole at Levitard Show. This is what's happening with the Miami Heat. Chris, I do not want to call my mom today because someone's going to ask her about the one. Yeah, you got to do that for the show. Do you always handle the one? We're making Valentine's Day shirts. Angels already been summoned. We're putting into rush supply right now. And for Valentine's Day, my wife always handled the wand is among the funniest things ever said inadvertently on this show. Also is Jim tome ginger or just white? He's not pure. Really? He's in the Sam Donnell category. Although we have the up yesterday. I did notice after the show Sam Donnell's arms. But his hair is just clearly not a full ginger, but his arms bring him closer to pure than I gave him credit. So it's not skin tone. It's freckles. It's more freckles. I just got to see your hands. I got to see if the freckles go to the hands and it's the beard and then the top of the head. Because a lot of people got the red beard. It's really what it looks like when you take that. Chris, but what is just I don't know what you're doing here. You claimed yourself an authority yesterday. Put it on the Polat Lab at Tarshow. Do you have to see the ginger's hands to see if the ginger is indeed a tree when it's part of it? It's part of it. Cuticles. They give the game away. Okay, but what is the feature above all others? Because you dismissed Sam Donnell as a ginger yesterday and then you saw his arms and you didn't even inspect his cuticles. So what is the thing on the body? Because I thought it was the red. Like I forgive me. I thought it was the red. You see that? You're an amateur. Okay, that's what you say, but you say you're an expert and you didn't check Arnold's arms and he's a super bowl champion and you failed. It's pretty easy to follow. I think his criteria is pretty well established. It's your freckle per capita. It's your beard. The pale skin. Cuticles are part of it. But what's the order of those things? Because you dismissed Arnold and he's paler than he's important than Andy Dalton. Yes, you gave me that. It doesn't seem like there's like a tear. Like it's a combination. It's an alganation of all those. Got to have three out of the four. Ginger porn, you're looking at the hands. Okay. I don't watch ginger porn. No, like, ginger's no watch ginger porn. Some people have like red heads is the thing for them, not for me. Put it on the pool. I love it, Tarnesh. Do ginger's watch ginger porn? It's so low. You don't want to see it. I've never, like, you think I've hooked up with a ginger? Get out of here. That would be. Sean Penn in one battle after. Two ginger's hooking up would just be like, that for me, that'd be an eye sore. It's like, what are we doing here? It's more ginger than that. Ginger, Carl. I love it. So, wait a minute. Are you claiming that Andy Dalton and his parents were both ginger? That can't be. You've never seen a ginger with a ginger. They just don't date. I'm telling you. Hey, you guys talk about this. No, I'm with him. It's too much. Have you ever seen a ginger? Just two ginger's holding hands walking down the street. It's like cross the street. Not in Miami. Cross the street. Tell you that. Put it on the pool. Would you be scared if you saw two ginger's holding hands crossing the street? I don't know what I'm doing there. But you're claiming, just to be clear, the most authentic and original of the ginger's would be if you had two ginger parents, correct? And then you would look at their cuticles. Correct. But you never see that. So, one ginger parent, pure, is usually good enough. What's with the cuticles? There's usually a lot of dry skin. Oh. What? Because the skin's not in great shape. It's pretty sensitive, especially around the arms. Yeah, my elbows are super good. You said that with the right tone being gentle. You were very gentle with the ginger community as a self-loading ginger. You just said you never see ginger's with other ginger's because we don't think ginger's are attractive. Like that's it. Well, that we don't think we're attractive. It's just like we just both know this would be weird. Yeah. Like, it's not my main focus, but it is adjacent to my general observations when it comes to teeth, hair, skin. According to how to be a redhead.com, it is a rarity for a ginger to date another ginger because often they're stared at in public. What? It's like too much at one. And that last line was unnecessary, but not individually, but together. Stared at in public. I don't think it's a big... Redhead bullying. I got this couple to feel proud instead of embarrassed. In Miami, I do tend to linger. I don't think that it's a big leap from all the things, a big logic leap from all the things that we're talking about to say based on available information that ginger don't find other ginger's attractive or at least not attractive enough to choose a life that allows them to be stared at in public. Like which you should... You should just get a lot of, is that your sister? Right. Plus they think we all look the same. That's another thing. Every day I walk somewhere like, hey, you look familiar. It's like, oh, I have right hair. You saw another redhead. I think we all look the same. It depends on what part of the country you're in. Because Bouges Shamby down here turns heads. He does. For Miami. I'm not saying he's an odd looking individual. I'm saying he's an odd looking individual for Miami. He made the mistake of allowing me one year to buy his Halloween costume. So I took all of that and bought a giant red heart. And he will never make that mistake again because he... You think they were looking at him a lot under those circumstances? Well, listening to the show might not know that Zaz got his start with the original, the OG, the original ginger. Bouges Shamby. That is what... First time I was ever allowed on a microphone. That is where Zaz learned to apply his craft. Well, come out, Rushmore. What a surgeon Bouges Shamby was hosting a talk show. So I wanted to get to Greg Cody Super Bowl home experience. How did your dish go over? It went over exceptionally well, my Chappino. People really loved it. I had someone say, can you make this for my birthday? I mean, it turned out exceptionally well. I do something with my Chappino that most people don't do. I don't put fish in it. I use only muscles, clams, and shrimp. Wow, that's unusual. I think of... I didn't know very much about Chappino, but I thought it was a fish dish. Well, it's a combination. It's a seafood dish, but it's uncommon not to put fish in it, but I simply choose that. Even if you get a firm fish, it tends to fall apart a little bit, and I just prefer the shellfish and the shrimp. Shrimp is out of the shell very easy to consume, and the shellfish, the clams and muscles, very easy. It falls right off the ground. The appreciation was where you wanted it. Yeah, it was. Because it's not a dish that normally would be served at a super bowl party. At a super bowl party, you think of chicken wings, chips and dip salsa. This is a little more involved. You got to have a bowl. You got to have a spoon. It's super hot. But it went over very well. I was excited. I will say it was getting rave reviews. That's why I did the move of Tuk-Sum to Go, because just like I said earlier in the week, it's a delightful dish that I want to eat, but it's just at a super bowl party. I'm wheeling and dealing with chips. I'm wings. I'm just, I didn't have time for a bowl. Yeah, respectfully. If I were to walk in, you were inviting me in order to see that. I'm good, actually. I'm fasting today. People were raving, though, so I did bring some home. I'm going to eat it today. Yeah. Hello, friends. Hello, listeners. I want to talk to you about chime, because chime is changing the way people bank, and honestly, it just makes sense. This is fee-free, smarter banking built for regular people like you and me. Not old school banks charging overdraft and monthly fees just for trying to get through the week. I know that it's not a banking that actually feels like it's on your side, which is very, very important. 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He called me full of shit claiming that I'm faking interest in the solar eclipse. Well you do do this. You love to just get excited about everything. Okay junior. Stugats. I had to school you and explain to you. He was going to take you to Augusta. When I was 17 years old Alan Sherry and I used to haunt the Mueller planetarium. This is the Dan lebertard show with his two guards. Well the thing about that dish though is that the next day it's still good in terms of the shellfish. But after that like I wouldn't keep the muscles and the clams and eat it five days. He's insulted you by if he's going to do it two days later. It's not going to be as good as when you prepared it correctly. You you take some indignation some insult from the fact that you I think the most offensive thing your kids do is they don't read your sports columns. But this would be a close second of not respecting the time you take to cook something. In this case I forgive them because there was a ton of food. Somebody made sloppy Joe's and we got a lot of that. I was that super bowl food right there. I saw that come in and I'm like I don't have time for Chappino today. Right. Well even I didn't save my entire Chappino. I took out the clams and the muscles ate them individually and essentially just saved the broth which also has chopped clams in it. So the broth I still have and that'll be good in the fridge. It'll be good a week later. Mike, you like it extra sloppy sorry Dan. Why are you guys looking Mike? Why are you looking so askew at Greg Cody? I'm just taking it in listening to what the show has become. What do you mean? Listening to what the shows become? What is that supposed to mean? As if the show hasn't always been wander around Greg Cody's meandering. See what's over there. See where he's insulted. I looked at my notes for what it felt like for five minutes and I looked back up and he was still talking about clams. Are you not aware that you have to give on the days that he doesn't have it back in my day? I thought you would have learned this by now as someone who's been around the show for as long as you have. You have to give him three minutes to talk about the shit that he wants to talk about or you will lose him later in the show. Have you not figured that out yet? Well we lost somebody. Okay. Mike didn't want to learn. Didn't want to earn. Okay I'm going to have to do this to myself here. Wow. Wow. Minor penalty two minutes for explaining the show. Dad since you mentioned got to want to earn got to want to learn. Why don't you update the Greg Cody catchphrases for this week? Do you remember those? Oh my gosh. Oh here we go again. He doesn't remember what to he picked this year. What number are we even on? Dude. We're on 40 and 39. Write him down. I think that was last week. No. Last week was 40 and 41 and 40. So you're going to do 40 again? No. No it's a new one. I just, Christopher's setting me up here to embarrass me. I'm trying to tease our pod captain. Tell me what the second one was because I remember the first one but the first one wasn't very good. Just keep the first one then. No. No. You go ahead. Do you remember them? This is, I was legitimately just trying to tease you up to set up the body. No but I, you know, I've done 50. I do 50 of them. I don't remember the order of every one. But you haven't done 50 of them. No but we've done like 11 now. Greg, I just want to let you know. Mike wrote something down over here and it's usually does notes for the show. He wrote something down that I think you want to be careful about. Okay. Too much Greg. Yeah. I can't throw this away though. We can turn it around. All we got to do is ignore you for a good 30 minutes. I think we'll be in nice and weak calibration. That's one of the things that Christopher's the one who intentionally set me up to fail. Seeing you up to tease your podcast is setting you up to fail. This is what it's, it's literally your bit. He's setting you up to do your thing. Okay, but first of all, I only want to give one of them and it's the second one, number 39 that I'm trying to think of. But I just can't remember it off. Give the one you can think of. No because it's a bad one. Well, if it's a bad one, why do you even make the list? Give me the good one. It's controversial. I thought it was to make the list. Christopher didn't, but now he can't even remember it. What is it? I should get back in there. I just remember it was bad. You don't remember either of them. Right. This is one of the all time, like write them down. It's unbelievable. I leave you alone for two minutes and you guys all forget how to do the show. It's just bad dream and old man. What do you remember? Remember anything. He doesn't remember anything. Do you know how hard it is to arrive at a point where we're saying, an hour and a half into the show, we're saying too much Greg. I leave every show Greg does, everyone saying not enough Greg. Not enough Greg. This is a pleasant change. Today, 80 minutes in, you guys are just asking him, what do you mean? You don't remember things you did on your podcast. He's absolutely right. He's right. It's been too much Greg today. We ask you questions. You don't know how to promote your own podcast. You don't remember your Hall of Fame votes. I'm basically doing, I'm doing a show with someone in a memory loss unit. Christopher. I'm Wendy Williams. Don't. What? And he doesn't know why he's going to Vegas. I know why I'm going to Vegas. I think it's for the ego. Wendy Williams was putting up memory loss. I can't believe I'm laughing about this. Wendy Williams was putting a memory loss unit for alcohol induced dementia. What do you think 12 beers a day is going to do? It's not 12 beers a day. You don't remember what you did on your podcast. You don't remember your catch phrases. I don't remember. I can't give you all 11 in a row. We're not asking for that. We're asking for the last two. 50 to 39 every week. Right down those two. Bring them in. They're written down at home. We told you that 12 times. You don't remember because you should be in a memory loss unit. We ask you every week. I don't think I've ever seen Chris this disillusioned with as well. His job is to remind me to bring in. And I'm thinking of a million things on this show. All I ask you to do is remember your catch phrase. What are we asking you to bring in your catch phrase? And so we can promote your podcast, which is the only thing that he wants. OK, like the Eagles would say, take it easy. OK, relax yourself. OK, will that be on the catch phrase? I invented the phrase, relax yourself. No, I'm, you know, all right. You know what? The catch phrases are longer than we had to be done. Or get out of here. Get out of here. It's a long overdue. Five minute major. Where's the so-called itself? Who? Meal. Yeah. Hidden with a Schockular. We haven't done that here not in years. Blow the dust off that thing. All right, let's show killer is back, Joe. My god. So proud of him. I could box him. I could box him for charity right now. Schockular. What? You need to bring that back, Jack. What I mean about what the show has become. People think my dad is saying Schockular. Schockular. Instead of Schockular. That was amazing. It, everything that just happened there was amazing. 90 minutes into the show. Usually that's what Peter's out end of the day, Wednesday. That's what happens toward the end. He's done it back in my day. We've gone to him, throwing him a couple of lobs. And he's tired. He doesn't have the stamina he used to. Another crisis solved. All right. Get your mother on the phone so I can answer. He actually said the one, the one coaching thing he said is that he's actually very good at admitting when he's wrong. Which is absolutely, absolutely in no way true. Zazlow. That was chaotic. Danny Belloni, I didn't forget about you. Now, Zazlow, so you killed David Baker. Oh, man. And the $50 because we're bringing back the money line in fine bucket. Money line has rushed to the rescue and is now sponsoring the fine bucket. It's been a while when Mike says, bring back the show, the show that used to be. We used to have a fine bucket that people respected. That fine bucket used to have hundreds of dollars in it. And then somebody stole it at the Cleveland or somebody here amongst us. I don't know if that person is still there. It was a job. Oh my god. It's just so bad. There were hundreds of dollars in a piggy bank filled with the fine bucket. And somebody from inside the company absolutely stole it one day. Just the cash was taken and nobody's found out who it was. But you're you seem dismayed by that. Yeah. I mean, I, well, dismayed about which part me having to pay $50 or just made that something that stole it. You seem more dismayed by the fact that it was an inside job that somebody around here stole hundreds of dollars of what was supposed to be fine money that end up, you know, somebody lost at the bucket. And then they went all excited to think they were going to get $500 because it was a fine bucket plus automatic death. Automatic death in the bucket was something that people craved because of the sheer amount of them. The amount I was being fine because I'm the only one who pays the fines around here. Everybody knows two things about me. All right. Number one. I think thieves and number two, I'll never be a cock. Everybody knows. Wasn't there something earlier in the show that everyone knew that was different than that? These are the two things everybody knows. But what about the other thing that you said from before that everybody knows about you? These are the two things everybody knows. Everybody knows that he can't go to the sphere because he has burgett. There are two things everybody knows about me. Number one. That's exactly how you should say burgett. Vurgett. You should say it if you had a purpose. Put it on the poll at Leviton show. If you have vertigo, do you say it burgettino? I can't go to the sphere because I vertigo and that I'll never be a cock. The show is ruined me. Okay. I got to go back to this because of how amazing that was. Shokiter. He's the magic that he has is, and Mike, I don't think agrees with this, but I feel it all the time. The worst that he is, the better that he is. Really fake, Chris? I'll see you. Oh, man. Oh, my God. Dropping like flies. That's what happened. That's what it happened. That's what it was. Is it a lie? Is it a theater? 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I'm going to take myself out here. I'm going to take myself out here. I'm going to take myself out here. I'm going to take myself out here. I'm going to take myself out here. I'm going to take myself out here. What if they were terrible players down here? What if they were terrible players down here? What could they be on the list? Of course. You're just looking for your top five. The Heath Bell was ginger. Who is he? The Heath Bell ginger? I think so. Chris? Heath Bell? No. Not a peer for sure. I mean, he might have had a red beard, but I don't look at him as a peer. Brian Campbell. From a Florida panther. From a black honk. Trevor Kid. Yes. Dad, you have number 39. Yes. Dad, you have number 39. Now we're Poland. You have number 39. You have number 39. I love him like a pet. That's okay. That's better than the one you didn't want to mention? Yes. That's the good one. See, the way count downs go, they get better as they get to number one. Okay, except you just said that number 40 was terrible, and you're doing a list of 50. So why is that number 40? Well, 40 was controversial. It wasn't terrible. It was terrible in some eyes, such as Christopher's eyes. But I thought it was good to say. Listen to the pot. You know, it's about three quarters of way through the pot. The beginning of the pot is inside the PFPI Super Bowl party, or rather the Super Bowl party. And then we get to McNugget Kaviar and Pepsi, Grand Theft, Polar Bear, and other stuff. Incredible. Thank you. I love him like a pet is what my dad says to like my mom. But that's different than let a pet. No, no. I love him like a pet is my dad whenever he's trying to like show me and my brother love. It's like talk about it to other people like I love this guy like a pet. Yes, correct. Because I love my pets. It's also weird because their household refers to farts as pets. Different pet. Yeah. Yeah. This is the literal Michael fart. No, they're not interchangeable. Love him like a pet. Refer to real pets. So pet means pet, but pet also means fart. Yes. But that pet doesn't mean pet. That's correct. You've got to exactly right. No, you have it correct. Get her lean on the phone. And also Mike is right. You're going to redeem yourself, but Mike is right. There's been too much Greg in today's show, right? We're going to need you to pick it up here over the next couple of hours. I wanted to get to you. You just said there's too much of me. Now you want more of me. Dial it back. Jack. Thanks. Thank you. Jack. Jack. All right there. All in those. No, no, no. No, no. No, no. No, no. I'm just going to do this prematurely. Oh, no. Just. I'm doing it prematurely. That's you plan. I'm just out of the club. No, I'm just out of the club. Just no more rambling. No, what's the rambling? No, you did over the first two hours. Dreaming of a truly magical 2026. 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Let me get to what it is that I wanted to get to here earlier that I have not gotten to because it has been really surprising to see, although I guess I'm only allowed to be so surprised as, but I do think growing up in Miami, I had grown a bit immune to the idea that people speaking different languages would be something that would upset people who really like to call everybody else snowflakes. And they would run over to Kid Rocks, you know, side show in white shorts, because they would be so offended and want something more all American than Spanish. And so when I say I'm surprised like you guys all warned me this would be bad. And it's not like I haven't seen what's been going on in America over the last few years, but growing up in Miami, this is not really a thing here. It's not just for Spanish Creole like when you grow up with diverse people and they become your friends and people you're always interacting with, you don't get so homogenized that you get scared of something like Spanish. And I understand what's happening in America. Okay. And I tell you I want you to be inclusive, you feel excluded. Like that's not like that's the way that transaction is working anytime I go to somebody and say how about being inclusive if you're on the other side of this argue with me, like no, that excludes me. I feel threatened by it, but I don't feel threatened by that. I grew up among it. What I feel threatened by is truck testicles and American flags overrunning, you know, the capital or gun toting that feels threatening to me. I'm like, what's happening with Spanish in a half time show I'm like, really you guys with the guns are going to get upset about Spanish about because the most pop culture thing there is happens to be in Spanish in America, but you want your sport to be so American that you don't want to even give them 13 minutes when everyone's taking a break on your thing. Ricky Martin doesn't even get those 15 seconds. No, no, no, no, I want it all to be American. So then you get Sid Rosenberg who came up here locally and I don't even know where to start with this but really fragile loud mouth like really fragile and so he's rewarded by this time in America. And so this is what's happening all over the place in reaction to this half time show and I really I guess I ought not be surprised. Obviously I ought not be surprised, but I really do think that I've been numb to it here in Miami. So listen to this is what's happening all over the place. It was a bad football game and when you're coupled out with bad bunny who may have been the worst half time show not one word of English, not one word of English, one word. You can bond the hip time show in the football game. I think Clay would agree is a great sports guy too. What a waste of three hours. Right. Yeah, bad. I took German in high school. I was with my dad. He said he's 81. He said, Hey, this is the worst football game top to bottom ever. So I think he was right on that one. Although turning point together a great show. So bad bunny did use some words in English God bless America. He said English United States. He said in English. Selfie say cheese. So there were a few words. You guys are unsurprised by this right. I'm the naive one to see the size of the reaction because Megan Kelly did this too and this is this is her lane now. And there are plenty of people who want the right to put this under the flag wrap themselves in the flag and tell people who are not this homogenized. Hey, get out of here with your different languages. I do think what we should do is when these games go to Madrid, we should make all the football players speak Spanish. Good idea. When it's in Madrid, everybody, it's going to be in Madrid for for several years now the NFL wants to be global. Make all the football players do their interviews in not one word of Spanish. Nobody's going to say see or know like it's as ridiculous right. It's you this is a pop culture icon at the middle of a spectacle that they had to have Colin Kaepernick go bring in J. Z. So he can make it black or brown or because they don't want black and brown around this stuff like they made they made it clear. The owners of this league none of whom are black or brown have made it clear that they have to be ordered by Rooney rule and by J. Z. To make this stuff slightly more diverse. And so the objection you get sounds a lot like this from Megan Kelly. I'm sorry, Pierce, but to get up there and perform the whole the whole show in Spanish is a middle finger to the rest of America. Who gives a damn that we have 40 40 million Spanish speakers in the United States. We have 310 million who don't speak a lick of Spanish and whether it's bad money who is American but refuses to speak English in his performances or anybody else. We have to keep the Super Bowl, which is a quintessential American event football that kind of football is ours. They call it American football and the half time show when everything around it needs to stay quintessentially American. It was the hour she's talking about. It sounds like she wants to say white. Megan Kelly was given an entire hour of the today show. She's so desperately wanted to be accepted by mainstream America. And now she's working a more conviction over a reggaeton artist or Latin superstar than she did around the legal age. I am so done working around the fragilities of mediocre white people when it comes to accommodating them and what they want. There are options. It's the Super Bowl. Sometimes you like to have time show. Sometimes you don't. Every single one of these conservative talking heads have made money pointing at the other side in the 2018 sand. They don't want you to love anymore. There's snowflakes are sensitive and every day there is some new thing that is insignificant that they are complaining about. It is exhausting. I'm embarrassed by the way half of America has reacted to bad money singing in Spanish in a half time show. It's ridiculous. And compounding that is the Puerto Rico happens to be a common wealthy United States and their citizens over there. They're US citizens. It's part of our country. Why can't we embrace them? It's absurd. I just I don't understand the over reaction. And by the way, parenthetically, it's also an over action to say worse Super Bowl ever. 36 of 60 Super Bowl have been double digit points. Five have been 30 or more. I covered a Super Bowl that was 55 to 10. One year ago, Philadelphia was up 34 to nothing before the cheese woke up. Super bad Super Bowl is a thing. Half time shows you don't like or a thing, but don't pin it on the fact that he's speaking Spanish. I enjoyed the music. I'm not a huge bad money fan, but I enjoyed the music, the pageant of it. The fact that it was so Puerto Rican, I loved with the sugar cane and the coconut vendor and all that stuff. I loved it. Love every minute of it. Also, it's the highest viewed half time show of all time already. It's going to continue to do those numbers. But also when Megan Kelly says not a lick of English, what do you want him to do? Translate songs that are in Spanish to English and then wrapped in English. Yes, yes. Are you not proud of your game? Our game. American football. Well, bad money proved the theories right that he would bring more audience to your game. Now you didn't exactly put on a show. The game was crap. But it is a largely American experience. The world stops and watches this very American thing. You should be happy that bad money is bringing new audience to further indoctrinate everybody in your American thing. And the irony is is these same people who are grifting off of this now right by feeding into the fury. They never complain about America's pastime having so many Spanish speakers within it, right? Major League Baseball. Baseball is America's pastime. And yet there is not a league in America that has more Spanish speaking individuals representing that game in an incredible way who are not from the United States or are from the United States. But one way or another this grift is purely based off of oh, we have something we can seize on with people who are going to be angry in the moment. They don't give a shit. Yeah. And to that point, the world cup is in the United States this summer. The most international of sports, the most foreign speaking of all sports because it's global. Why can't people get over the fact that the US is part of a world community here? You know, I give the NFL, I blame the NFL for a lot. I give the NFL credit for its last two super bowls. Well, it was forced on them. The Jay Z thing was forced on them by the cavernic stuff. Don't give them too much credit, okay? Because they made sure that they made sure that the guy was kneeling in front of the flag wasn't in the game in the first half or second half. Jay Z you can have half time. Like that's that's and it was forced on them. Fair comment. I was referring to Kendrick Lamar last year. But in the case of bad money, it's he's an international artist. We're part of the international community. It's just absurd. And I give I do give good, dull credit. There was an instant upper over bad money and half time he had an opportunity to make a switch and he didn't bend. So I do give him a credit for that. He's right. It seems as though the NFL is like the only professional sports league that doesn't really care about Donald Trump firing off to socials and complaining about now. They cared when Pence was at the games like now. Look, half times what you get minorities and they don't want you to have that. Erlene is here now. Thank you, Erlene. I know you're very busy. You don't have time for all of our foolishness, but your husband said something so egregious earlier and I said it with a straight face. And I just like and I said, this is what it's like to be married to him because he's stubborn. He entranches himself on things. Anything. He's right. But he just said and I'd like to get the number of times in your marriage that he has confirmed, provided proof for what he just said is about a true. He just said, I easily admit when I'm wrong. Not. That's not true. I beg to differ. That's not true. He'll talk himself in 14 minutes of circles, just to say that he was right, but. Give me the number of times in your marriage that he has immediately said, my bad, I'm sorry I was wrong. About something substantive, maybe 12% of the time. There you go. And like every day, every day crap, like less. You know, you're the same way. I mean, we're both super stubborn. Yeah, we are. That's a dynamic of the marriage that works. Young and young. Mom is Sam Darnell, the true ginger. I have, I've only seen him with his clothes on. I don't know. Oh, okay. There is. I mean, I was more basing into that one. Basing it off his arms is beard. You know, yeah, I say, yeah, why not? Why is he not? You're doing this thing where you let everyone in. Okay. Who do you, Erlin? Who do you think is more ginger, Christopher or his brother Michael? Well, I think they both are equal. They just have different kinds of, you know, some of them have more, some have more hair than the other one is. So he looks more red air. But actually Christopher, I'd say Christopher. I'm going to go. We're going to sell t-shirts here. Your husband said this earlier in the show. What are your thoughts on your husband saying this? My wife always handles the wand. Always handles the what? My wife always handles the wand. The TV one. Jesus Christ. Yeah, that's the app. Well, that's because any, it's really a sad predicament. We're in when I'm in charge of IT in the house because I'm lame and he's the worst. What happened? What happened on Super Bowl Sunday that he turned off the television or the kickoff was nearly missed because he was giving a speech to the crowd about how it was all going to be and how the rules were and then we all had to be quiet during commercials that we was saying it during a commercial. And he had the wand that controlled the thing like in his hand and he's like waving it around in circles. And then he's like, I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything. I said, what's that thing in your hand? I may have overreacted slightly. Another crisis saw. Thank you, Arlene. Good talk. Good to work. Earn money. Yes. That's what I do.