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The Greg Cote Show (2024): Episode 242

Greg Cote Show podcast: Meet the former 960-pound Vegas legend Big Elvis! Plus ,Dolphins’ big loss, Canes’ big win, Messi’s big week, live report from Taylor Swift’s Miami concert, more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Broadcast on:: 21 Oct 2024
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Greg Cote Show podcast: Meet the former 960-pound Vegas legend Big Elvis! Plus ,Dolphins’ big loss, Canes’ big win, Messi’s big week, live report from Taylor Swift’s Miami concert, more.

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I mean, out of people that we could have had on the podcast, Greg. - Yeah. - Where does Pete Big Elvis Valley land? - I mean, he's up there, you know? We couldn't get, you know, our podcast was too late for the Elvis Presley. So we're going for the next best thing. You know, we, I don't think podcasting had been recommended when the real Elvis died. But, you know, we got Big Elvis. - I cannot wait for Greg Cody of the H.E.A.R.3 and Big Elvis to reunite. Like what a, what a cool thing. - Yeah, yeah, we can swap some stories there. But, you know, we've never met. I mean, the H.E.A.R.3 never performed with Big Elvis or anything like that. So, you know, I don't, there's not a direct connection. - But it's a H.E.A.R.3 though. I mean, like he's going to know, he has to know. - I would think so. - Of course. - You know, the world's greatest lesser known lounge act. - Yeah. - No, that's true. To my knowledge, there have not been any H.E.A.R.3 impersonators. I don't think that, you know, unlike Elvis, I don't think we've generated that kind of thing. But you never know. I mean, he may have said, yeah, there was a H.E.A.R.3 impersonator, you know, playing the sands back in '68, I don't know. - It's really the only thing that sets Greg Cody and the H.E.A.R.3 apart from Elvis himself, or, you know, is that we don't have impersonators yet. - Right. - No, no one, as far as we know, no one's made a living impersonating us. - I wanted to get a Greg Cody impersonator for his birthday party. I wanted there to be-- - That would have been incredible. But like, fake Howard wasn't available. - I couldn't figure out like who like Michael was like the only option to play my dad and Michael needed to be there. But like, I just wanted, but yeah, but that didn't come to fruition. - The Greg Cody impersonator would have been tremendous at that party. - That would have been genuinely exciting and ridiculous because there is no such thing. There's only one of me. No one can impersonate me, okay? Except your sons. - Speaking of big guests, I was shocked to learn this week that this show could have had Dion Sanders. - Yeah. - I don't think I knew that. - I did not know that either, Yeti. I'm so glad you brought that up because my dad said on "Lebotard Show" this week that the Greg Cody show was offered Dion Sanders when he was at Jackson State. - Yes. - I guess, and the stipulation was that he had to be called coach prime. - Yes. - And my dad got, please explain yourself why that was a deal to breaker for you. - You know, at the time, maybe I was in a bad mood that day, but I just wasn't gonna jump through hoops for this guy. You know, coach prime. A, he's not my coach, okay? I remember Don Shula telling me once, years after we'd known each other a long time, that one of the first things he found notable about me is that all the other sports reporters were calling him, "Hey coach, hey coach Shula, hey coach." And I called him Don, even though I was in my mid-20s at the time. And he liked that, and he liked that. And he mentioned it later to me. And the point of that story is, I never played for Dion Sanders. He was never my coach. And that's, first of all, second of all, coach prime is like a nickname he made up. You know, coach Sanders is more likely for me to call him than coach prime. But like, what did you become this like fun police? Like you're just like, like, who are you? - I know. - He knew not to tell us that he had that opportunity. We would have taught them into it. - Yeah, you would have. - The bleeper you! Who are you? (laughing) Like what do you think? - Okay, great. - The other thing, yeah. The other thing that needs to be mentioned is that at the time, this is early in our podcast, this is probably four years ago. At the time, Dion Sanders is just the Jackson state coach. Okay, this is long before Colorado still Dion Sanders. - I think this was even before NIL or any, all of that seismic change in college football. - He was just a nobody, a NIL buddy. - The best, like, one of the best cornerbacks of all time, like an instant top five guests probably, even at that time. - Oh yeah. - All right. - No, Dion gets eyeballs. He does. - Okay. - And how far away are we from him saying I can't be on the show because I'd like to be called Yeti Blanc. (laughing) - Well, and it's, that is funny that that doesn't bother you. - Okay, if he insisted I call him Yeti Blanc. - Wow. Oh, so would you start calling him Greg? - Oh, wow, geez. Yep, I mean, geez. Oh, wow, dad, you know, you know his real name. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what a flex. - Okay, you don't tell me on my own podcast. - See, God, see right there. - How I need to address. - Just the idea that Yeti right there like made a joke about like making you call him something, you like said his name, which you know he doesn't want said. Oh, I didn't know that. Well, all right, zip it out. - No, we are going to zip it out, but it was just like a funny, like you, that was you being like, see, I won't be told what to say. If someone tries to tell me what to say, I'll say their name on a podcast. - Okay. - They don't want it. - Greg, if you had to demand for someone to call you by a pseudonym, what would it be? - It would be Hap Bismarck. - No, dad, I just actually thought of a way we can spin this into a win and turn this into a content for our show and for Levittard show. - Okay. - Didn't you recently get a request to do an interview somewhere? - Yeah. - Like for you, you need to demand that they call you upset bird. They have to call you upset bird. - Okay. - It might not go up for marketing the book, but still. - Yeah, I was going to say I'm being, I'm talking on a Virginia radio station about the back of my day book, which was written by Greg Cody. I just want to see what their response is when you have a demand. - And if they get the show, they'll deny you. - If they get the show, they'll deny you. - Greg Cody will join your pod. Yeti, you've been in contact with him. I want you to respond. Yes, Greg will attend your, will join your podcast, but he requests that you only refer to him as upset bird. - All right, let me give you, we're about to let in Big Elvis. - Belvis. - So let me mention this real quick, because this is a better example. This is a better analogy of the whole Dion Sanders coach prime thing. If Big Elvis insisted as a prerequisite for being on with us that I only called him Big Elvis, that we could not say his real name, then we would do that. We would do that. But I would do like it. Okay, but who gives a show what you like? - Okay. - If he had told us about Dion, we would have made him have him on the show. We would have taught him into it. So he knew better than to talk to us about it. - I will admit, well, Yeti, you were not involved on the show yet, but Christopher was. But I'm going to admit here, which I did not admit on the Levittard show, which is that, yeah, I probably regret doing that. I probably regret not having Dion on. We need to like, we need fireworks right now. Is my dad ever admitted to being wrong before? - No. - That was really, I'm like, my head, I just got a headache from that. - I don't know. - Some other says that all the time. You just said like one. I've never even heard those words for like, did you, can you say it again? - I think I may have aired. I may have been wrong. They are refusing to call him coach prime and having that be a deal breaker. - If you say so. - In retrospect, like I would have him on right now and I would call him coach prime once and not again. - Once. - Yeah, once. - Half Bismarck. You're listening to the Hat Bismarck show with Hat Bismarck. - Hat Bismarck. - Have you ever used that name? - No. - Is that your role-playing name? (laughing) - No. - Is Hat short for anything? - Not that I know of. Is that your swing-your-name? - It is my swing-your-name. - And this is Tinder profile. - This is Tinder profile. (laughing) - That's right. - We found out grabbing his entire secret life as Hat Bismarck. - Love me, Tinder. - Love me, true. - You should try to sing with him too. Like, please dad, let's make this ridiculous a little bit. Like, if it's just stiff and like, oh, you're in Vegas, how long? Like, lean into all that stuff as much as possible. - Okay. I wanna have fun. Okay. I wanna have fun with him, but, but I also wanna interview him. I wanna talk to him. - Yeah. Yeah. I wanna hear that. I wanna hear that interview. - Good. - As long as you want. Chris, what would your name be? - My, what would my what name be? - What would your, if you had a pseudonym that you wanted people to call you, what would, what would it be? - Pat Rap. - Pat Rap? - Mm-hmm. - No, that's a former Marlon's picture. - RIP, Josh Ritter, what was his name? - Oh, John Ritter. - Was it John Ritter? That's the answer to that, right? - Jack Ritter, Jack Ritter. - Jack Ritter, Jack Ritter. - Jack Ritter. - That's right. - A lot of very famous people have pseudonyms, like when they check into a hotel room or something. - So does Roy. - That was the biggest, that was such a surprise last year. - Jack Spade, why? - Why not, I guess? - It's one of the more ridiculous and hilarious things in Roy's repertoire. - Right, then it's Roy of all people. - Yeah. - So there's a lot of, a lot of people trying to like, - Like just picture Roy walking into a hotel, like, you know, he drove there in the sun, he's got glasses to sunglasses still on, and he walks up to the front desk and he's like, checking in, what's your name, sir? Spade, Jack Spade. - So I mean, - I mean, - I mean, - I could be skins of a rink then. - Or I could be Merle Waxman. - I mean, you're Greg Cody, though. Why would you wanna be one of the sidekicks that aren't even with the show anymore? - I know, but you know, the He-Hought Three are so famous that, you know, we don't wanna be besieged by groupies and fans and everything when we check into a hotel. - Oh, when you check into a hotel, yeah. I mean, Merle is dead, but no one has seen skins in like over 30 years, so, - Right. - You could always assume his identity. - Yeah, skins of a rink, that's true. (laughing) ♪ Skin of a rink, a dink, a dink, a dink ♪ ♪ Skin of a rink you do ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ - All right, since we're waiting on Big Elvis, I wanna mention one other thing about Diana Rucini transition. It was amazing to me that twice on The Levittart Show, we have caught her being beaten on a big story, like pretty much live on the air. - Geez, I mean, that's an odd way of putting it. - No, but I'm getting, here what I'm getting around to. The Robert Salafiring and then the Devante Adams signing by the Jets. And it made me admire her all the more because what we saw of her professional anxiety is why Wojch abruptly quit because he just couldn't deal with the stress anymore. And you realize the pressure, and I've done this, I covered Miami Hurricanes football in their championship years for four seasons. I covered the Dolphins full time for two seasons. - And dance personal life. (laughing) - Yeah, that's true, I was on The Levittart Beat as well. And there's a lot of pressure just covering one team. And Diana Rucini and others like her are covering 32 teams plus the NFL, plus the league. And there's a hundred different ways every day of her being beaten on a story. And I don't think people who haven't been in journalism realize the stress of that. And so I just want to say out loud that I really appreciate somebody like her who's taking that on and feeling like she has to have every single story that breaks or else she's failed. And I would not want that pressure. I had it once, I would never want it again. So good for her, good for her. - Yeah, let's talk to Big Elvis. - Okay. - We want to welcome Pete Valley to the show, AKA and better known as Big Elvis. And when I say that this guy is a legend in Las Vegas, I'm not exaggerating. - First of all, you look great. You look fantastic. - Thank you. - Are you always in character? - No. - I mean, at the glasses, I think, you know, my hair is the cut, you know, it's the way it's cut. It stays the same. - Right, yeah. - I don't peel off the burns or anything, but no, it's the way I am. - Right, Big Elvis, you own that, right? Like you recognize who you've been in that city, right? - You know, Roy Orvisin said something a long time ago for us that remember Roy Orvisin. - I do. - He said, "I've been around long enough, you've become a legend." (laughs) - That's fair. - I would say I'm a fixture of Vegas, I think. - Yeah, that's for sure. How often are we paying for meals around town? - Quite a bit nowadays. - Yeah, come on. - Every ball game, remember? When I was a young fellow in Vegas, it was the day of 99 cent shrimp cocktails, right? - Oh, yeah. - The goodness. - I don't think 99 pounds anymore, guys. - No, and the drink prices. - Oh my goodness, I just, you know, I started at Barbary Coast in 2002, and everybody goes, I remember the 99 cents margarita. I said, well, I don't think you'll find them anywhere in the country, but in Vegas, they're definitely not 99 cents. - No, it's crazy. I wanna mention that when Elvis got super popular in the late '50s, like that's even too young for me. Like I couldn't even remember that 'cause I was too young. But I do remember my older brother. He had that iconic album. It was the first album I ever remember seeing in the house. 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong with him in that gold suit. - The gold money. - Yeah, exactly. And so that was my entree into Elvis. Now in your case, it became such a passion that it turned into your lifestyle, your career. How did that happen? Like when did it happen and how? - You know, it's really, really ironic. I mean, most people say, well, that sounds, you know, kind of corny, but it started in church like Elvis. I was actually raised in the assembly of God church, which Elvis was raised in the same church. So of course, he was very predominant in the church that I was raised in. So the pastor said, man, you sound just like a young Elvis Presley. And that's, you know, kind of how it started. And then the next year I got a guitar in my mother bought me a guitar, she was a singer. And I went to a high school and the teacher loved Elvis. Well, Elvis had just died, you know, I guess a couple of years before, 77. This was at 79, I was like 14 years old. And she loved Elvis and she was pretty. So I thought, you know, I'm gonna sing for her. So I said, you know, sing Elvis. And she said, sing me a little bit. So I sang for her and she goes, you're going on the high school talent contest. And she put me on the high school talent contest and when I got out there, when I sang for the kids, they thought it was real cool. But when I went out that night and all the parents out there and they started screaming and yelling, I was hooked. I was like, oh, this is what I want to do. You know, I just couldn't believe it. So that's how long it kind of started. - Wow. And you've been at Harris since how long? - 2012. - 2012, okay. But you came into Vegas in '97, right? - The first time I came to Las Vegas, I was 15 in 1980 and I played at the Sahara. And I was there through the '80s, I had a band. And then I left and went back up to Washington State in the '90s for about three or four years. And then I came back in '97 and I played for the station casinos and a lot of the local casinos around town. And then I end up on the strip in 2002. - Greg, Greg, you and Big Elvis had to have crossed paths with the H.E.H.3. - You know, I'm just curious if Big Elvis does remember the H.E.H.3 at all, the original H.E.H.3. I think the original H.E.H.3, we were probably two, you know, you weren't old enough, right? Because this is, I would say this is like mid '60s. Like you weren't around then. - Okay, $9.65, so. - Right. - They're also known as the Zagat pack. - Right. Yeah. - Was this in Vegas or Tennessee? - Okay, I'm the only original member of the H.E.H.3. We reformed with two new guys, including Yeti. And last year, when was it last year, we played the Cirque? - It was just February, it was this year. Super Bowl week. - Really? - Yeah. - Okay, it was, it seems like two years ago. I don't know. But we played the Cirque in outdoor stage. It was a nice event. I mean, it was like a reunion concert for us. - Well, I missed out on some good music, I think. - Yeah, I think you have. Yeah. - Most definitely. With hits like Viva Greg Cody. - Yeah, we, and Dad, tell 'em about Skis. - Skins. - Well, our Skins of Marink and Murrow Waxman were the two original members with me. And they're both, you know, one's gone and one we've never heard of falling off the face of the earth and all that stuff. But, you know, that's enough about me. (laughing) No, seriously. My wife and I have seen you at Harris several times. I've seen him. I've seen him too. You have, I didn't realize that. Yeah, okay. Meg Elvis, you, first of all, I wanna ask you this. Are you any distant relation to Rudy Valley? And I asked that seriously. - No, seriously, it's possible. I mean, my mother told me there might be some relations years ago, but I don't know. I really don't. There's no proof on that. So. - Okay. - But I remember Rudy, I do remember Rudy Valley with the megaphone because I had a school lecture. There was a big fan of his. So she told me all about it. - Right, right. And it's an unusual surname. Now, I wanna ask you seriously about, I don't know how long it's been, but one of the reasons you're called Big Elvis is that you're a large person and you've been a lot bigger. And you don't mind talking about some of your weight issues, which I admire because a lot of people go through it. At one point, you weighed not 1,000 pounds, but pretty close. You were a big, big man. - Was over 900 pounds. - And when was that? And you look great now. I don't know how much you weigh and you tell me if you want to, but how did you lose all that weight? How much? - I weigh 400 pounds currently. I've actually walked down to 350. I got COVID, I got like a, I mean, I got so skinny it was, look, I mean, it was fine, but I've gained some back. I'm actually losing some again. But how did I, people ask me, how did you get, you know, so big and how did you lose the weight? So first of all, how did I get so big? Well, you know, we all have certain genes and genetics. So I have a very bad propensity to gain weight faster, retain water. So if you start eating a lot of carbohydrates, you start eating fast foods, you know, anything, sugar, whatever, you just blow it up. - 99-cent shrimp cocktails. - I know. - Yeah, too many 99. - That would be the death of me. - Yeah. Well, you know what? So what I did was I just went on a, I got off the carbs, a lot of the carbohydrate stuff. Of course, a lot of chicken and vegetables and fish. And I started swimming. I got myself above ground swimming pool to start with. And I started swimming as much as I could. And cause that was the only thing I could do. So the weight started really peeling off. The first two, three hundred pounds was nothing. And then the last couple hundred pounds has been a battle, you know, all my life back and forth. Not back and forth, but to get down to 400 pounds has been, you know, been a lot of work for 350. - Right. I'm not going to lie, you just kind of gave me the idea of swimming Elvis. If you ever want to hit it here. - I see it. - Swimming Elvis, boy. Still swim the Wednesday. - I can just, I'd go watch that. - Yeah, like seeing the tunes while in a pool. Yeah. - Yeah. - It was great. - I don't think that's been done by somebody. So it's possible. - That's what I'm talking about, man. Me and you, it's 80-20 my way. - I can't help falling in love with pools. - Right. - Imagine being on the Olympics singing Elvis. - There we go. - There we go. - I like this. - All the possibilities. - Yeah. - You can just panic this, by the way. You know what? It's all yours. - I don't know whether it's called your big Elvis or Pete. I'm going back and forth. You do three shows three days a week? - Four. - We started for her in April. So now it's 12 shows a week. I don't know if we're going to keep a current situation going. I live outside of town. So it's quite the drive. I might go back to the three days a week next year, I think. - Oh, wow. - And do you still take requests or no? - Matter of fact, you know, sometimes 80, 90% of the show's requests. - Wow, but it has to be Elvis songs, right? - No, not at all. No, we do, you know, I was raised in country music and I was in a band that played rock and roll. We do everything for Kenny Rogers, to the Rolling Stones, to Elvis, to the, I mean, the list is extensive. It goes on and on and on and on. We do whatever people want to hear, we can do. - What's your favorite song to perform? - I get that all the time. It's really funny because when it comes out, I love them all. But I mean, I really like his love songs. I like the 70s stuff like, you know, American trilogy in the ghetto with suspicious minds and if I can dream in my way. I like that kind of stuff. I do like the earlier stuff as well. And I love the 60s stuff, you know, like Little Sister and, you know, Devil in Disguise stuff like that. I like that beat, you know. - So we know there's a good backstory between Elvis and Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You." Do you cover that one? - Oh, of course, we've been doing that for years. - 'Cause he never officially got the rights to record it, right? Did he ever perform it live? - I mean, he was going to record the song. Dolly Parton actually brought it to him at the Hilton in 1976, a backstage and talked to him about it and he loved it. And when Colonel Parker heard it, he was like, "Oh, that's fine, but I want the rights to talk "because that's all the Colonel was." Tolly Parton, like the Colonel Parker said, "I'm not giving you the rights to my song." And that was the end of that. - Right. Did he ever perform it live that you know? - No. - Okay, so you have and he hasn't now, yeah. - I have. - He's achieved something he never did. - Yeah. - That's true. - When you're out in public, like when you go out to eat, do people recognize you as like Valley Big Elvis or do most people see just, "Hey, there's an Elvis impersonator?" - Well, no, it's really a half and a half. I would say, you know what, I go to Vegas, it's an even in my little town here. They know who I am, so it's Big Elvis. And, you know, if I'm on the strip, somebody walks by that hasn't seen me. "Oh, there's Elvis or something." But, yeah, mostly you're like, "Oh, it's Big Elvis." And can we take your picture and stuff like that? So, it's kind of nice because you're your own person. They know who you are, which I don't think a lot of Elvis guys get to enjoy. You know, they get, "There's Elvis." And that's, you know, that, which is sad, you know? - Let's do a little public service announcement for all the fans out there that come to your shows. Like, what's the song they shouldn't request? Like, the one we're just really annoyed with at this point and... (laughs) - Okay, well, I got one lady and I shouldn't say it 'cause she's such a nice lady, but she always comes up to the show and she goes, "Okay, you got to do my song for me. "I'll tell you the name of the song." It's called "Song of the Shrimp." So, if you ever listen, if you ever want to hear an Elvis song that he hated to say that I don't like to sing, "Song of the Shrimp." - All right. - Another one I don't like is "Old Chef" is a real Debbie Downer, and I'm gonna tell you why. - Oh, yeah. - Oh, he lost him. And I have a hard time getting through the song. - Yeah. Was that the Walter Brennan song that was like a spoken song? - "Old Chef" or "Song of the Shrimp." - "Old Chef." Like I'm trying to think of who's saying that and it's a spoken song, right? - I don't know if it was spoken, but Elvis sang it, of course. - Okay. - How about "Song of the 99th Century?" - That could be a new one, but I don't know if it'll fly because I don't know how many people remember "Song of the 99th Century." - I know. - True. - It's a damn shame, big Elvis, damn shame. - Really? - "The United States" marker, "Read a good Lord." I mean, come on. - This guy gets it. Have you been to Graceland or, for that matter, even performed at Graceland? Has that been a point? - I tell you, two answers to that. Number one is, yes, I've been there three times the last time I went. I thought it was really a lot different than the first time I went. First time I went, I sat in the kitchen with Elvis's aunt, Uncle Aunt Delta Mae Biggs. She actually handed me a guitar and I sang for her. So yes, I did sing in Elvis's kitchen. - Okay, cool. Do you think we could, like, maybe on the way out here, get a little sample, a little taste, like a little 10 second riff? - You wanna hear? - Whatever. I mean, some shrimp, how about a shrimp song? - She's one of the one of the eights? - No, not the shrimp song. Oh, no. - They need to be like-- - My favorite suspicious minds, that's my favorite one. - Obviously. ♪ We're caught in a trap ♪ ♪ I can't walk out ♪ ♪ Because I love you too much, baby ♪ - Oh, yeah. - How's that? - That's right. - I love it. - I love it. - Oh, thank you. - Hello, Chinnu. - Okay, Dan. - Oh, there he goes, Greg. Go ahead, Greg. - I can't let you go without asking you. And this has been written and speculated and I want the truth from you in person. Are you the love child of Elvis Presley? - I wonder how many questions, how many times have been asked? And I wonder how many other people have been asked. - That was not the question I thought he was gonna ask. - Okay, well, I was hoping it was another one, but this is okay too. - Okay. - I've been in the family for years that my mother met Elvis and that something did happen. My manager said the test was conclusive. I never saw the test. I'm not gonna lie. I think it's possible, you know, people will tell me, well, if you think it's possible, how come you didn't go after the estate? Because I thought I'm not gonna be a fool if it comes up being no. And I never tried to push the fact, nor did I try to push the fact to make my career larger because there's guys that actually have done that. And I'm not knocking anybody that does whatever they want to do. But that's not been my intent with my career. So there you have it, it has been speculative forever. - What question were you hoping he asked? - I was asking it, I was hoping he would ask me what was my favorite kind of food or something like that? But anyway. - Yeah. I thought he was gonna ask us if Elvis is actually dead. If you believe Elvis is dead or not. - But that's- - You know why? Because I've known his friends. Sunny West was Elvis's bodyguard for many, many years. He was the best man in my wedding. And I've known him. I knew him too. He passed away for seven or eight years. And everybody, and even David Stanley, which was at the Westgate, I've talked to all these people. He definitely died in 1977. So I believe, I don't think Bob Joyce, the one guy that's a preacher's Elvis or all that. You know, Elvis is this guy or that's, or he's over here to Burger King. No, he's long gone. I think it's very, very good spirit. We'll live on forever. - Right, that's for sure. Who's played Elvis the best on screen? - You want my honest opinion? Hurt Russell, bar none. - Wow. - I'll give him a lot of credit, did a great job. I think Kurt is just a much better actor. He really, when I watched it as a young man, I was just blown away at how he had him down. And had that feeling of Elvis. And really, I thought Kurt Russell bar none. - You probably think Jordan's better than LeBron too. It's fine. It's just like my day, yeah. - Chris was just hoping you'd say Chris Cody. - Look out now. - All right. - Okay. Pete, thanks a lot for joining us. I mean it, next time I'm in Vegas at Harris, taking in one of your shows, I wanna come up to you and shake your hand between sets. And-- - Well, I'll do so. And I give you a, I'm gonna give it a real good plug. So it's Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, right now. 2, 3, 30, 5 p.m. The next time you come, you gotta be a little Elvis. I mean, you just gotta get up and write the bullet. We got, the guy that's funny right there, he's definitely gotta be a little Elvis. - Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. - He's not that little in real life. - Very little, not any of us. - Wow. We're all just trying to hide it right now. Look at all of us hiding in his zoom screen. - Big Elvis, thank you very much for joining us. I really mean it. - Okay, thank you. - You are great. You are a truly a Las Vegas legend. May you continue performing for decades. And hopefully there's gonna be an audience for Elvis for decades to come. I know whenever I go to Graceland, I gotta admit between you and I, it can be a little depressing, you know, 'cause the fans are getting a little older, but you keep bringing a man, man, more power to you. And the Greg Cody show has a young audience, and we're gonna go out to your shows and our audience, like I want people to go up to you after shows and say, the Greg Cody show sent me here. - I love it. Hey, what these grandparents are sending their grandkids. Now, I'm not gonna tell you they're sitting there being a stoic as the grandparents. They get pretty wild, but a lot of young people showing up at that shows, it's a good thing. - That's nice. - Can use your help guys, I'm almost gonna use your help. - Okay. - Thank you so much for having me. - Yeah, thanks a lot. - Thanks Pete, really enjoyed it. - Thank you guys, bye bye now. - Thanks. (upbeat music) - Hey, I bet you don't want me singing about PayPal. - Too late. ♪ I'll speak a little louder ♪ ♪ I'll even shout when it comes to all that cash back ♪ ♪ You know that I'm proud and I can't get the words out ♪ ♪ Oh, ah ♪ - Get 5% cash back on the category you choose every month with a PayPal debit card. ♪ I wanna pay with you everywhere ♪ Every payment everywhere, every time. 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I want to just start me like, just start all the way all three of us. Like just doing like improv shit. We'd like just take hacks with stuff. And like, if it's funny, we keep it in. If not, we cut it kind of stuff. Like at the end of like a recording session. - I'm not sure what you mean, but like I have some ideas. Like I want to do one right now with you. Are you ready for it? - Yes, and go ahead. - Ooh, that's see how he gets it. Okay, so you're a server dad at a restaurant and I'm your customer. And you're just like, you're just greeting me. - Hello, how are you doing? Have you been here before? - Oh, that's an odd greeting from a server. Hi, what's your name? - Hap, Hap is Mark. - Wow. - You're laughing at my name. No, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry, it was just my wife said a funny joke earlier. This is my wife, Karen. - Okay. - Hi. - There. - Okay. - But no, it's our first time here. And it's a very confusing menu. - How's that? - It's just like, it's like, each item is written like four different times, it's weird. It's probably different languages. Why don't you choose the language you know and just read that line? Okay. - I know you used to have 99 shrimp cocktails. - Did you? - Yeah, it sure makes me horny. Yeah. Is that true you have? - 99 cent shrimp cocktails? Yeah, back about 1958. - It makes my wife horny. - I can't help that. Go take care of it, man. What are you doing in a restaurant with a horny wife? Why don't you both, why don't you both repair to the restroom and we'll see you in about 20 minutes. Although it may be more like five minutes from what I've heard. See like that, I like just doing stuff like that as like cold opens and stuff like that's fine. - I'm up for anything, man. You will never make a suggestion that I'm telling you. - I literally think the podcast could be us doing like seven of those. - You know what I mean? - Right. How about we start by interspersing one or two? - What are you laughing at? What are you doing in a restaurant with a horny wife? It's the funniest question I've heard in a long time. - Oh gosh. - Oh God. - And now we transition from horny shrimp wife improv to a football weekend and Chris is somehow transported to a Taylor Swift concert with his family. I'm not sure if we'll hear from him the rest of the show or not. - Wow, how'd that happen? I mean, let's put it this way. We were, I don't even know how to put this. I don't know how to say it. Christopher and, well, Christopher and Christie and Graceland's entire Christmas gifts from us are this concert. So hopefully on Christmas morning, they don't expect anything because when I say that the three tickets to Taylor Swift at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami cost a little bit of money. I am understating it. Let's just put it that way. So we were happy to do it. And the idea of, he sent us a video of them telling Graceland that they were going to see Taylor Swift and she was so happy that she started crying. - Oh, that's so cool. - It was one of those tears of jewelry type of thing and it just melted my heart to see it. So that alone was worth it. - I don't have to say one of the things I appreciate about you and Erleene and what I've observed from the Cody family is you all really do prioritize experiences. - Oh yeah, for sure. - Like you live in a home that is nice, but it's not exorbitant. - Right. - You've owned it for 30 years or so, something like that. - Yeah. - You guys do a lot to make sure that you have what it takes to be able to do. The experiences and create the memories 'cause that's a lot more important than a mansion. - Yes, for sure. And I just really think that's really cool. - Yeah, by the way, our Taylor Swift correspondent appears to be in the building here. Chris, work? - Who needs me? - We have you on audio. - Yeah, that's all you're gonna get. It's pretty hectic around here. - Okay, we'll take that. Describe the scene, first of all. - Tons of Swifties, did I join my dad bragging about buying these tickets for me? - Yes. - Yeah, great. So I have to, as much shit as I give my dad, I have to bow down to him here. He, this was all him. And usually, and I think he would admit this, usually these kind of insanely nice gesture start with my mom and this one actually started with my dad, so much love. - Yeah, thank you. I was telling Yeti that you would send us the video of when you told Graceland that she was going to see Taylor Swift on Sunday and she dissolved into tears of joy. And that moment was worth every penny I spent, seriously. - No, that was a cool moment. She, my wife and Graceland just started bawling and I'm sitting there like, I thought we're supposed to be happy. - It was funny. People who don't know the Taylor Swift phenomenon have no idea what we're talking about, but I think by now, most people do know, right? - It's lived up so far. We've been here like an hour. Everyone's super nice. Graceland's trading friendship bracelets with everyone she sees. Like there's just a vibe of what it is, friendliness and just like everyone. You could just tell like at like the ticket location when people are scanning their ticket, they're like, oh my God, we're here. Like people are like losing themselves with excitement just by scanning their ticket. Like I've never really felt this before a concert. - Yeah, yeah, she's one of a kind. I don't think, you know, I grew up in Beatlemania. Like one of my earliest memories was the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, early 60s and just Beatlemania. And I don't know that there's been many phenomenons in music like that since Beatlemania. Like what Taylor Swift is right now globally. It's amazing. - I'm gonna go find Graceland and maybe we'll do a quick check in with her, but you guys keep doing your thing and I'll check back in a second. - Okay, Yeti, I just wanted to mention a couple of things in sports. UM football wins 52 to 45 at Louisville. Their last three games have been insane. Like right down to the wire, heart attack kind of games. The Dolphins lose 16 to 10 at Indy. Just a terrible game, they gave it away. They gave a win away. Dinner Miami set an all time MLS season record for most, you know, best season points record. They qualified for the 2025 Club World Cup. Now they're awaiting their playoff foe. This is looking forward the biggest week, I think, in South Florida sports history, not including a championship week. The Dolphins host FSU. - I was about to say. - Yeah, I was gonna say. - They are the Dolphins playing that bad 'cause FSU is definitely not playing that well. - No, they're not, but there's still a bitter rival. So I don't expect that to be an easy game. - Hey, Greg, I don't want to interrupt you, but I have the girl of the hour here, not Taylor, but Graceland. - Hey, Graceland. - Hey, Graceland, what do you want to say to pop? - Pop, we're here. - Yay, I'm so glad. How is it? How would you describe how it is so far? - We're trying to bracelet. - Oh, the bracelet thing. Okay, I'm not sure how that works, but I guess you give a bracelet and you get a bracelet. How does that work? - I think it's fun, fun, but we can't even look fun. - Okay, we have terrible sound. - I got a lot of love. (laughs) - All right, sorry, she's gone. - Okay, no, not a problem. - All right, dad, it's super loud in here. I gotta go. - Yeah, go ahead. Appreciate you dropping by. Have fun tonight. Enjoy yourself. - No. - I was gonna say Greg, Florida State has the opportunity to do the funniest thing in the world. For me, for someone who has a Florida State fan, to have the just absolutely garbage season they're having and somehow play spoiler to Miami, it won't happen. It won't happen. But, oh. - Oh my God. You're right. (laughs) That is the intrigue in that game, is that there's no way UM should lose, but it's still FSU. I don't care what their record is. - Right. - And then the Dolphins, they host Arizona and more importantly, it could be the first game back from concussion for the quarterback. So that's gonna be big. Inter Miami and Lionel Messi are about to start the playoffs. It's just a huge week in South Florida sports and in South Florida generally, if we're including three straight sold out, it shows that Hard Rock's had him by the incomparable Taylor Swift, so. - So what's going on with Messi this year? Because last year, him coming to Miami, it was a big deal. We talked about a lot on this show. And then I didn't even think about it 'til the other night. I saw he had a hat trick in like 10 minutes or something like that. - Yeah, right. - 10 or 20 minutes. And I realized I was like, we've barely talked about him this year. - That's true. - And why is that? - Yeah, he's missed a lot of games. - Is that, did it just cause a disconnect? - I'm not sure. He's missed a lot of games. He had a bad ankle injury that kept him off for several weeks. - Y'all don't have tickets anymore. That's what it is. - That's probably true. - That's probably true. You're right. But now it's Messi season again, because the playoffs start. Their first playoff matches is Friday. Is he slated to be on the team through the playoffs or is he gonna have interruptions? - No, I believe he is. And this is coming up the busiest week of my entire career. Okay. - Tell us why. - All right, first of all, I'm doing the Levittard Show Monday and Wednesday this week, not Tuesday. Wednesday night, the Miami Heat have their season opener. I'll be there. Friday, Inter Miami, plays their playoff game. I'll be there. Saturday, UM-hosts FSU, I'll be there. And Sunday, the Dolphins play Arizona with hopefully two of back. I'll be there. I'm getting way too old to work this hard. - And Chris is gonna be out of town. - Right. - And it's my anniversary. - Yes. - Oh, wow. How are we gonna put, we'll put, we have to put together a show. How are we gonna do it, Greg? Because I also might be in Asheville helping with cleanup again. - Oh my God. - We'll make it work though. We'll make it work. We will have an episode for you audience. - That's right. Just for you, just for the audience. Should we do jokes and three facts Jack real quick or no? - Um, yeah, we can do it real quick. I do have a question before we get into that. - Okay. - I remember a long time ago when jumping, 'cause I never heard this in person at any time I've been at your house. But when you'd poop, you would always hit him with a hoop-hoo. Is that still a thing? 'Cause that was pretty early on. - No, it is. - Yeah. - Okay. - Well, this week, you mentioned another habit that you have with Charlie when it's time to go to the bathroom. - Right. - That I had not heard before. And so I guess, I found it hilarious and I just had to do something with it. - Do you have a name for taking jumping Charlie out for number one or number two? - Yes, yeah. - What do you say? - Well, it's sort of embarrassing, but I'm beginning to alliteration. So when I'm taking him out, I say, "Go pee pee, go potty, go poop." - What? - Jump and Charlie is full, go out by the poop. - Go pee pee, go potty, go poop. - Go these directions work more than you thought. - Go pee pee, go potty, go poop. - Now, Gregory Koji seems this alliteration tool and the idiom glob that does the job. - Go pee pee, go potty, go poop. - Jump and Charlie is full and Koji is two. - Go pee pee, go potty, go poop. - Go to the yard and then find a good spot. Go pee pee, go potty, go pee pee, go potty, go poop. (laughing) - That's so ridiculous. I love it. - So thank you. - Go pee pee, go potty, go poop. (laughing) The way we talk to dogs is ridiculous. - Yes. - Anyway, let's hit some dad jokes. - Okay. ♪ He's always kind of thinking that his puns are any vogue ♪ ♪ He cracks himself up like an egg with a yolk ♪ ♪ And now Chris is more Alice broke dad jokes ♪ (upbeat music) - Number three, which bird is the least afraid of fire? - I don't know. - A flame and go. - Mm, number two, where do ghosts prefer to swim? - At the swimming ghoul? - Lake Erie. - Ow, okay, ow. - Number one. - Swimming ghoul, I don't know. - Okay. - Number one, what do you call a cow with two legs? - I mean, there's the ground beef joke, but I don't think that's it 'cause that's a cow with no legs. Tell me what it was the answer. - Eileen. - Ah, there we go. All right, I like that one better than the other two. You finally actually saved the best one out of your three for the final one. - That actually got a lot out of you. - A little bit. - A little bit. - And a kind of, kind of. ♪ There are three things that interest him ♪ ♪ So sit right back for three facts, Jack ♪ - Number three, a baby elephant can walk within two hours of being born. Number two, information travels from the brain to the central nervous system at speeds of up to 268 miles per hour. I don't know how anybody tracks that. - Right, how do you figure it out? - Yeah, some nerd knows how to do that and I don't. - Exactly. - Or they're just lying. They're just making, there's no way to verify that. They're just making it up. There's no way to, no, no way. - Mine is definitely slower. I. - Yeah, and the thing that always gets me, it's such a specific number, 268 miles per hour. You know, not 275, not 250. - I always like that with prison sentences too or fines, like civil fines, like we find you $285.63, like I always find that funny. - Yeah, exactly. Number one, he suffered dyslexia, so severe, he could not spell the simplest words in high school, but he found his future in music, his name, John Lennon. - I've not ever heard about him having dyslexia. - Yeah, there you go. That's why I'm here for you, three facts, Jack. - Just had his 84th birthday. - Oh my God. - A couple weeks ago. - That's crazy. - Well. - That is insane. Should we wrap it up? - Yeah, I think we should, Greg, 'cause we got to rest up for this busy week next week. - We got to rest up. I'm working harder than ever, because I have to repay buying three killer swift tickets. So I've got a second job and... - What is your second job, Greg? - You know, I'm plowing the fields. - You're a waiter. - You're a waiter. - They drive. - They map Bismarck. - Yeah, Bismarck. Well done, good call back. - I wanna thank Pete Malley, the great, legendary, big Elvis for joining us. - Oh, Greg, yeah, let me say, Pete's manager reached out to us and said that that was his favorite interaction on any podcast he's done so far. So good work by you and Chris and me. But before we actually close out, you reminded me of something the other day, and I forgot to do this last week, so I wanted to make sure we got to it this week. We got a really nice review the other day on Apple Podcast, and look everybody, we wanna start highlighting these things. So go to Apple, go to Spotify, give us a five-star rating, and on Apple or wherever they allow you to write a review, leave us a review, it helps our audience, and we'll take the ones that we think are funny or that are really nice and we'll read them on air. So we got a really good one the other day from You Never Know 2023. This person said there's no sweeter sound than my 13-year-old son walking in from school and announcing he's home by yelling, "B-Haw three!" - And I returned the favor when he hits threes in basketball games. It's brought us closer listening to you guys and inspired our own Fatherson Olympics. Thank you. Thank you, You Never Know 2023. And, or thank you, Greg, for faking that review, one of the two. - Wow, no, I honestly didn't do it. I'm not that smart to think in terms of leaving my own favorable reviews, but no, that's nice to hear. And it's not totally surprising, because I think some of what we convey is certainly workable in that realm. You know, where a father and a son may be able to incorporate stuff like that. So it's good to hear. Really appreciate it. And on that note, thank you, Big Elvis. Thank you, listeners. We'll see you all next week. Really appreciate you all, my Pond family. That kind of thing. - Is there food that makes you aroused, Greg? Breakfast sausage. - Nothing. (laughs) - That's right, the sausage I put in my pocket, which is still in my fridge. I'm not sure if it's ever gonna be eaten, but it is there. How about that? - Given it's been a few days in your family's history of pork, I would recommend against that. Have a good night, Greg. - See you next week. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) [BLANK_AUDIO]