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This is the Dan Labatore Show with

1:12

the Stoogatz Podcast.

1:20

The original crew today on

1:22

a Greg Cody Tuesday. My

1:25

wife, loving angel that she

1:27

is, does not think I should be here today.

1:30

Stoogatz, you need to turn off something

1:32

that's echoing on your microphone. There

1:34

is an echo. I'm not certain I

1:37

should just start pushing buttons here.

1:39

That's it. Do that. Start pushing things.

1:41

Bump plug too. Yeah. Let me see if I can

1:43

fix it. Hold on.

1:46

It's nice to have you here. It

1:48

is nice to see you. You

1:52

too. As I was saying, my my

1:54

wife doesn't think I should be here. We will see

1:56

if I can get through today's show. We'll

1:59

see if I can get through.

1:59

this segment.

2:02

I told her I needed the laughter.

2:05

I badly needed the laughter. We're

2:08

off to a great start. Well this

2:10

is not comforting news that I'm about

2:12

to share and I understand that my energy

2:15

is down and I want to apologize to the

2:17

audience for being in and out of here physically

2:19

over the last couple of weeks

2:22

and I want to apologize to you guys in the

2:24

audience for being out of here emotionally

2:28

for the last year, the hardest year of

2:30

my life that

2:32

culminated with the hardest thing of my

2:34

life at 2am this morning.

2:39

My little brother, my

2:42

only sibling, my

2:47

closest family member in a very small

2:49

family that's very

2:51

close, responsible for

2:54

all the art around here and my

2:57

best friend for 50 years.

3:00

Passed

3:04

away last night at

3:08

2am.

3:10

I don't have a lot

3:13

of experience

3:16

with grief but

3:19

I have been grieving him for

3:21

a year because when

3:24

he was diagnosed more than a year ago he's

3:27

been steadily deteriorating since

3:31

and it's been brutally,

3:33

brutally hard to watch a

3:36

poison eat him up from the inside

3:38

and one of the biggest spirits

3:41

I've ever seen consumed

3:45

by illness. I will say

3:47

that Jason

3:53

Isbell wrote one of the

3:56

greatest love songs I've ever heard about vampires

3:59

oddly enough. Juju put it on the pole,

4:01

one of the greatest love songs ever written

4:03

be about vampires. But

4:07

one of the lyrics is, and forgive

4:11

me if I botched this, in the emotion of

4:14

this, what if time running out were

4:17

a gift,

4:18

I'll work hard till the end of my shift.

4:22

And the hospitals

4:26

and the sickness, and basically

4:28

I've worn one of those x-ray

4:31

leaded vests for a year

4:33

just draped on me walking

4:35

around with something I

4:37

never imagined that I would encounter.

4:40

I was preparing for the death of my parents.

4:42

So to have my father whispered

4:46

to my brother last night, we'll

4:48

see you soon,

4:51

was a special kind

4:53

of heartbreaking because I was just, this

4:56

is inconceivable to me. It's something that I had

4:58

never considered

5:01

possible. But

5:04

what I will tell everyone listening

5:07

here, when

5:10

you put a clock on it, because

5:13

you hear all the time right about these things,

5:16

changing people and changing life perspectives,

5:20

when you put a clock on it and

5:24

you value the moment you get

5:26

because you don't know how many you're going to get in

5:28

a way that's uncommonly

5:31

present, what

5:34

you get is the gift of gratitude

5:36

that I have is for

5:38

the last year I have spent

5:40

because it wasn't a sudden, sudden, you

5:42

know, a sudden finality of a car accident,

5:46

I've spent the last year saying

5:48

all the things, getting

5:51

a chance to

5:54

appreciate him and say goodbye

5:57

and ask for forgiveness for the death of

5:59

my father. the family stuff

6:02

and pour out my heart

6:04

to him. And I will

6:09

tell you that there was grace and freedom at

6:12

two o'clock in the morning. As

6:17

I'm watching the monitors show

6:20

the numbers going down to be in

6:22

his ear, like physically,

6:26

mouth to his ear

6:28

telling him that it was okay to go.

6:33

That he was safe. That

6:39

he didn't have a reason to be scared. And

6:43

to see him stop suffering. And

6:48

to see him peaceful amid

6:51

the horror of

6:53

that.

6:55

Was a seismic

6:58

and great beauty

7:00

that I'll forever be

7:02

grateful for. And

7:04

so I'm thankful to be able

7:07

to do this show with you guys in

7:09

general.

7:11

I'm thankful to be able to

7:13

do this show for the people who listen

7:15

to it. And I just

7:17

want you to know to the degree that this show

7:19

or me haven't been myself

7:21

for more than a year,

7:24

it's because I've been hiding

7:26

in

7:28

the pain of this and it's

7:30

a hard way to do this.

7:32

So I will

7:34

try to do this with you guys

7:37

today and I will appreciate the laughter. I was thrilled

7:39

when I came in and Greg Cody said, hey, first

7:41

back in my day since May today. It's

7:45

a Tuesday. Yeah, of course. What

7:48

do you expect Tuesday? Tuesday

7:52

with the normal hosts. So yeah, regular

7:54

show. That's what he does. We've

7:56

got Brad Williams and Lucy in the other

7:59

room.

7:59

We'll bring them in in

8:02

a moment should be easy to onboard them.

8:04

Yeah They're

8:07

still here They are

8:09

still here

8:11

Billy Billy's got to leave Lucy left

8:13

welcome back. Yeah, Lucy's gone for good.

8:16

Good, right? I snow and you lose It

8:20

was nice to come in today and see us

8:22

two guys at 840 smoking a heater

8:24

in the parking lot and saying hey Sorry about

8:26

the way I parked as I couldn't get out of my

8:28

car because my parking space terrible

8:30

job I had a foot on the other side and I

8:33

squeeze in I felt terrible. I mean,

8:35

why didn't you just move the car? The

8:38

car I did I did offered to move the car.

8:40

Did I not I was

8:42

already part I Saw

8:45

something for the very first time. I saw

8:47

a bucket right outside

8:49

the studio door where a whole bunch of cigarettes Bucket

8:52

huh? Overflowing with cigarette.

8:54

This is like the shittiest way

8:56

to copy the ending of Titanic

8:58

When Rose finally goes back

9:01

to the boat and everyone's smiling and welcoming

9:03

her. It's just two guys with

9:05

a bad parkin job Surprising

9:09

you with my job today I

9:11

regretted my decision as soon as I

9:13

tried to bark and couldn't get out of my

9:16

car Like I saw I saw Stu

9:18

gots first of all, I thought to myself Why is it he

9:20

in the meeting like talking about whatever things

9:22

have to be discussed because I might not be here

9:24

today Nope, he's just outside

9:27

smoking cigarettes. Are you preparing

9:28

for your New York appearance? Like did you

9:31

guys talk at all yesterday about him going

9:33

and doing WF a N at the end of

9:35

this week? So mad dog was on yesterday

9:37

and Stu gots was like in a very coy

9:39

way Asking mad dog if he needs

9:42

to do prep for the show on

9:44

Thursday and Friday Which was wild?

9:47

Yeah, yeah,

9:48

I felt like doggy was like that's August.

9:51

Just let it fly have some fun with Geo Are

9:53

you okay? So you're hosting a local New York show?

9:55

Are you watching any New York sports like are

9:57

you watching any Yankees or Mets games this

9:59

week?

9:59

Like are you following the Jets?

10:02

Why would I be watching the Jets don't

10:04

play until Thursday? You're hosting

10:07

a local sports show in New York on

10:09

a station that you want to work for.

10:11

Yeah. To Billy's point, you're back to work. Spoiled

10:13

by this show. You actually have to prepare in that

10:16

market. We'll see. I

10:18

do think we should stop the show briefly

10:21

and acknowledge what just happened

10:23

back in my days back. Yeah.

10:26

I think I, I think I speak for everyone that kind

10:28

of rocked our world

10:29

a little bit. And I didn't know. I mean, obviously

10:33

a new stuff was going on. I didn't know till

10:35

that, that very moment, but

10:38

we're all pretty shell shocked that the league would

10:40

issue that memo about Damien

10:42

Lillard. It's pretty unprecedented. And

10:45

ridiculous, man. It's, it's honestly

10:48

something that we've never seen before. And

10:50

to be able to sit in front of these microphones

10:52

and have to do a show under the

10:55

weight of that is pretty unfair. Can't

10:57

work in these conditions, Dan. I'm sorry.

10:59

That memo, was it

11:02

not just basically don't

11:04

do that anymore, but you've already

11:07

done it and therefore we're going

11:09

to make a big show of we don't

11:13

love that the players have this much power

11:15

to control this stuff. You'll be disciplined

11:17

next time, even though you've already

11:19

done it. It seems like something that's very

11:22

silly and, and both

11:25

Lillard and his agent would be like, okay,

11:27

we won't say it anymore. We've

11:29

already said it. If you want us

11:32

to stop doing that because it's

11:34

a bad look for your league, even

11:36

though I don't think it's a bad look for your

11:39

league to have the news stream for two

11:41

months covered by the transaction or the

11:43

possibility of the transaction or your

11:45

team might get the guy. I do wonder

11:47

if the memo would have been differently different

11:50

if he had offered five trade locations,

11:52

whether they would have said anything to him because

11:56

that way you just keep everybody in

11:58

the game and all you're doing is advertising.

11:59

all summer at a time that basketball

12:02

doesn't get its advertising. I

12:05

will say that I had a smile

12:08

on my face

12:10

next to my brother's deathbed

12:13

because... That's a sentence. I

12:15

was sent... Wait till you hear what I'm about to read

12:17

to you. This could go anywhere at

12:19

this point, how that started. I don't know who Giannati

12:23

is, but Giannati is being quoted

12:25

on StuGott and WFAN

12:27

saying the following. Gio.

12:30

Quote, that StuGott's is always

12:33

sniffing around here when things are open.

12:36

The day the newspaper

12:38

article came out with Craig

12:41

Carton leaving,

12:42

I got a text message from StuGott's

12:44

asking if I was close with Chris Oliveiro.

12:47

Who is that? The

12:49

guy who runs WFAN. StuGott's

12:52

also said... This Gio's got a motor

12:54

mouth, I mean, Jesus. StuGott's

12:57

also said, this is in the quote, to

12:59

Gio,

13:00

because they cut a big deal over

13:03

there with Metalarc Media and he's making

13:05

a lot of money, that he would

13:07

have worked here for free. That's not

13:09

exactly what I said. He's taking it way

13:11

too far. I mean... He was also

13:13

quoted as saying you've been begging to work there. Oh,

13:16

that's not true either. Exact

13:18

quote. What is true? Because you

13:20

told us yesterday... I've been a great employee. I

13:22

mean, you're the guy abusing the Metalarc vacation

13:24

policy. I mean, Jason

13:27

Isbell wrote a song about Rick Patino, huh? I

13:30

did read. I read that. I'm like, wait

13:32

a minute. He's going to work in New York for free

13:34

and not work for us for money. Hey,

13:37

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13:42

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13:44

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13:46

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14:39

Dan Levatard. Cody decides

14:41

to give his opinions on things

14:44

right when we're coming back. He started yammering

14:46

about, don't you hate the phrase controlling

14:49

your own destiny? Destiny can't be controlled.

14:51

Right. An oxymoron. Stugatz.

14:54

I fully thought you were gonna go in with take

14:56

the oxy out of it, that's what you are.

14:58

I didn't say it, I'm saying that's something the

15:00

dammit said. I

15:03

love you. You didn't say I love you back. You're

15:07

mad at me. Put it on the pole

15:09

Guillermo. Does Stugatz throw out I love

15:11

you's only to get I love you's back? Greg,

15:14

I love you. I love you. Okay, feel better

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16:00

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16:03

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16:05

is well what he ends up saving

16:07

good job My

16:14

gals going on in Oregon I mean my

16:16

guess was better for your story better for your punchline

16:19

you gotta guess low Stu Gantz has never

16:21

gotten any good at Astronomically

16:25

high that's Savitages

16:28

my ability to do that correctly by guessing

16:30

so high as to make it my He

16:32

steals my punchline. This is what you're getting

16:35

Gio

16:35

when he gets to New York unprepared

16:38

Can I ask a question about this New York thing because

16:40

I've seen conflicting reports a lot of questions

16:42

Yeah, so you told us yesterday that you originally

16:45

agreed to Monday Thursday and Friday.

16:47

I did not say that I said I was asked to do

16:50

Monday Thursday and Friday. I agreed

16:52

to do Thursday and Friday Well, it's interesting

16:54

you say that because what I saw was

16:56

that you had agreed to do Monday Thursday and Friday

16:58

And then bailed on Monday and put them

17:00

in a bad spot. That's not

17:02

true at all I didn't put him in a bad spot. He

17:05

asked

17:05

me late last week I said I don't think

17:07

I could do Monday I could do Thursday and

17:09

Friday came back an hour later after

17:11

thinking about it and said I'm not doing Monday Why do you

17:13

play tonight? I have the text here. Really always

17:16

play that game Why does I'll let you know

17:18

what you know the answer? I have to text

17:20

here. I would like to have access in here. No all

17:22

your texts Listen, I'm gonna hand it over to you

17:24

confidently because I know what I did I mean and

17:27

that's when you know I'm not lying I'll

17:30

scroll up because when you say he asked you I'm

17:32

sure if I go back and I just scroll up maybe two

17:34

inches I'll see

17:35

a whole bunch of you asking him. I've had it Will

17:38

you shave for this apparent? We'll see

17:42

You're pressing a lot of buttons there. Is he

17:44

deleting? I don't know not doing anything. I'm just

17:46

getting it right I'm getting it right there for my

17:49

Updating the software See

17:55

if I could find very

18:00

quickly updating some. No, no, no.

18:02

Let's go. Would you like to update now? Yep. Start

18:04

on Thursday. Go ahead, Mike. Tell the truth. Start

18:07

on Thursday. Don't you hand me your phone, Mike. I'd

18:09

like to scroll through that. I mean.

18:12

He updates the software,

18:15

erases all the lies. He wants

18:17

the app that just erases all the lies,

18:20

at which point Mike will try to read his

18:22

text, and there won't be any there. They

18:24

will have all evaporated, because

18:27

everything he sends into the atmosphere

18:29

is an untruth. I'm scrolling

18:31

way up. You could scroll

18:33

up. I don't care. I see a lot of long texts on

18:35

that chain. Well, yesterday I asked him if

18:38

he was interested in certain guests. So

18:40

that was probably the longest. Who'd you

18:42

promise?

18:42

I didn't promise him anyone. No

18:44

joke. I just, yeah. Golic.

18:49

Greg Cody has a back in my day

18:51

ready. I am very excited to hear

18:54

that. We will get to these

18:56

texts in a moment. I

18:58

wanted to ask the shipping container, and

19:01

by the way, the audience vetoed Mission Control. They

19:03

said you guys cannot be promoted to Mission

19:06

Control. Promoted? You have to stay.

19:08

Mission Control sounds too competent

19:11

and not scared enough.

19:12

I mean, we haven't been to

19:14

the moon in like 60 years. How competent

19:19

are they over there? Put it up on the pole, Juju.

19:21

How competent are they over there, those

19:23

people who try to go to the

19:24

moon? Do you have an idea for Sugats to

19:27

originally co-host on WFAN? No,

19:30

Mike. Yeah, because I'm

19:32

going back to the original sin, January 15, 2021. One

19:36

of the fun things me and Dan discuss is how great

19:38

it would be if I go. Oh, it's Thursday, Mike. I

19:40

mean, Jesus. I haven't

19:42

told a lie since Thursday. He's

19:45

only doing what you wanted from these

19:47

texts that I'm reading right now. It's all your idea. Well,

19:49

Dan's happy for me. He knows. Like, it

19:51

means something to me. I'm not taking anyone's job.

19:54

I'm going up there for a couple of days, having some fun,

19:56

going to spread some stigats all over WFAN.

19:59

And if they offer me a job,

20:01

we'll cross that bridge once we get to it. I

20:03

mean, but Dan's happy. He

20:05

knows it means something to me. I'm filling in for Boomer.

20:08

You and I would have a blast, buddy. Come on, let's

20:10

do this. Spread some Stu-Gots all over

20:13

F.A.N. Sounds like STD.

20:15

Yeah, you're right. Put it, go

20:17

ahead and read the first, the original, the

20:19

ground zero of first

20:22

text over there. Because

20:25

Gio has claimed that Stu-Gots has begged.

20:27

This is publicly. I don't know Gio.

20:30

I've not talked to Gio, but Gio is quoted

20:32

as saying Stu-Gots has been begging to be

20:34

on W.F.A.N. for a long time. Actually, some of these

20:36

text messages are kind of cute. You would not know

20:38

it by his general care for the job, but he's

20:41

actually proud of the stuff that he's done here.

20:43

Yeah, he's like, we're about to do some cool stuff. We've accomplished

20:45

stuff. Not to brag too much, but you know, we're

20:47

about to do some big stuff. It's actually pretty cool to see the history

20:49

of Metal Arc through his prism. It's called

20:52

a pitch, Mike.

20:55

Have you guys, I want to ask Cody, this

20:57

is someone who has covered soccer locally since

20:59

the Fort Lauderdale strikers. Have

21:02

any of you here seen at

21:04

any point

21:05

our city wallpapered

21:08

by an athlete? The way

21:11

Messi

21:12

is on every bus and every bus

21:14

stop. I'm assuming that's

21:15

Adidas. I don't think that's in

21:18

Miami. I think that that's Adidas that's doing that.

21:20

But have you guys ever seen an athlete in

21:22

this town? It's been painted pink

21:25

by everywhere. I look, Messi's face

21:27

is somewhere and it's an extraordinary

21:29

cost to paint our city that way. When

21:32

LeBron got here, was there a similar

21:34

not like this? There were murals. There were some

21:36

murals, but it wasn't what I'm presently

21:39

seeing. Like, I don't know if

21:41

you guys can remember an athlete

21:43

arriving because to me, it feels

21:45

almost like I'm driving around and feels like Argentina

21:48

in some of the places where I'm like, this is an

21:51

overwhelming amount of I'm seeing

21:53

this dude's face everywhere from one

21:55

day to the next. And it isn't just buses

21:57

and billboards. It's walls.

21:59

of buildings, like murals

22:02

of him on walls that are, you

22:04

know, 50 feet tall.

22:06

I mean, it's incredible. It's Apple, it's

22:09

Adidas, it's MLS. I

22:11

think very little of it is actually coming out of Inter Miami's

22:13

marketing budget. You're talking about some of the biggest,

22:16

most powerful brands on the planet

22:18

seizing on an opportunity, and so far, it's

22:20

working out for all the brands involved. When

22:23

you sign him, though, when you get him, part of what you're

22:25

getting is free marketing. I mean, it's

22:27

messy. Well, what? With endorsements.

22:29

There are a couple of local establishments

22:32

getting free marketing. I have enjoyed photoshopping

22:35

Lionel Messi running with wings in his hand.

22:39

I told you that at the hard rock. There's a chicken

22:41

sandwich, the messy chicken sandwich. He

22:43

cooks it for you and he serves it to you. That is

22:45

actually one of the few legitimate

22:48

endorsement deals when it comes to messy

22:50

hawking food. And from

22:52

what I understand, that one campaign

22:55

has received

22:56

billions upon billions of impressions.

22:59

I don't know how to anymore

23:02

do

23:03

calculations on ratings.

23:05

So what I'm about to say to you that I'm just

23:08

taking off the internet, I have no way

23:10

of quantifying and I don't know if it's

23:12

true. So you guys, please help

23:14

me decipher what I'm about to read to

23:16

you because his

23:18

unveiling was said

23:20

to have done. And

23:22

again, I'm saying said to have done because

23:25

a lot of people lie to you now with the ratings. You

23:27

can't almost trust anybody who's releasing

23:29

information because it's so hard to measure.

23:32

But his unveiling

23:34

viewed globally was said to

23:36

have had 3.5 billion

23:40

streams. The Super Bowl

23:43

is 115 million. How

23:45

is that possible? Can that number possibly

23:48

be right? Impressions. So it

23:50

takes into account people watching it repeatedly.

23:53

Right. YouTube.

23:54

I think that was a YouTube. But still the number

23:56

again, I'm going to say that again, 3.5 billion. versus

24:01

the Super Bowls 115, 150, whatever million.

24:07

I'm guessing it's not apples to apples

24:10

because of just video

24:12

streaming versus an exclusive

24:15

rights broadcast on network

24:17

television. So the math is different.

24:20

But to put in that

24:22

context without any ability

24:25

to quantify the numbers, saying Messi's

24:27

unveiling

24:29

is that much larger than the Super

24:31

Bowl? Yeah, you

24:33

haven't been living under a rock. You know, this guy's the

24:35

biggest thing on the planet, right? I know, but the Super Bowl is

24:37

not small. Yeah, but most people- But it's so distinctly

24:40

American. But as you pointed out also,

24:42

a lot of people, their streaming

24:44

stuff put into that number and a lot of people

24:46

just watch the Super Bowl on TV and that's it,

24:49

you know? That's the big difference for me between

24:52

what's happening with Messi and what happened

24:55

in 2010 when LeBron came here is that one is

24:57

a huge story in America and

25:00

one is a huge story worldwide.

25:03

I

25:03

don't think there's a burrow on this

25:05

entire planet where Messi

25:08

isn't being talked about in some form because

25:11

soccer has a reach, unlike American

25:14

football, a hundred fold. Billy,

25:17

who is a new father, once

25:20

again, congratulations on that.

25:22

I asked him on the way in after walking

25:24

past all of Stugat's cigarettes and cigarette

25:27

butts, how's

25:29

fatherhood treating you? And he

25:32

said, you know, chaotic, and that he thought

25:35

about

25:36

watching last night. I did.

25:39

The Woman's World Cup at 3 a.m. I

25:41

did think about, I was up. So I said, you know

25:44

what, we're gonna talk about this. I'm

25:46

up, why not put it on? And then I

25:48

realized that's probably not the best remedy

25:50

for sleepless children is turning on the television

25:53

with lots of bright lights and noise and all that. So

25:55

then I just quickly checked my phone and I saw a 00. I'm

25:57

like, I'm good. Like I don't need, I don't.

25:59

I'm fine. I don't need to do that. Well,

26:02

your analysis to me was, not only

26:04

did I not see it, I didn't miss anything.

26:06

It was zero-zero. And as far as I can tell,

26:08

what has happened? Well, I can tell you what I saw,

26:10

Dan. You want me to tell you? Please. I'll say straight from the horse's

26:12

mouth over here. Good. I'd rather

26:15

not paraphrase you. I would rather you say it

26:17

yourself. Well, I get up, and it's like 3 in the morning,

26:19

and I'm there changing diapers, trying to calm down children,

26:21

make them go back to sleep, talk them into bed, do all

26:23

this stuff. There's this big World Cup game,

26:25

do or die elimination game, so

26:28

we were told.

26:28

So I think this is a big thing. The U.S. has to win

26:31

this game. This, everyone in the world will be watched.

26:33

Forget the messy numbers. Everyone's going to be watching this,

26:35

even though it's 3 in the morning. And, you know, maybe if you want to grow

26:37

a soccer in America, don't have games at 3 in the

26:39

morning, but that's the story for another day. Oh, my God. They are

26:42

trying to grow elsewhere. I'm

26:44

just saying, if you want to grow a soccer in America, don't

26:46

put the games on at 3 in the morning when they're impossible

26:48

on a birthday. You guys would have enjoyed

26:51

Stugats- A program to me. You

26:53

guys would have so enjoyed Stugats and Cody

26:55

talking right before the show started, both

26:58

of them agreeing,

26:58

why isn't every time zone on

27:01

my time zone? Both of them were just

27:03

saying, why is it not 928 in the morning, everywhere,

27:07

right now? But no one has a good answer. Why

27:09

is it not 929 everywhere on the planet? The

27:14

ultimate East Coast bias. There are

27:16

time zones. I

27:18

can explain it to you. You will stop. You will drift

27:21

off and not listen to the explanation, but please,

27:23

Billy, so that I don't paraphrase you. Well,

27:25

so then I go to my phone and I see it

27:28

0-0, nil-nil,

27:28

some people call it. And I'm like, oh,

27:31

it didn't seem like I missed much. So then I start

27:33

seeing, well, what's the buzz? What are people talking about this game?

27:35

Then I saw someone call the man of the match

27:38

the post because the ball hit the

27:40

post, Portugal hit the post, and if it would

27:42

have gone in, I guess the U.S. would have been eliminated. And

27:44

then all the commentators were just complaining about

27:46

the Team USA dancing and celebrating after

27:48

this nil-nil nothing.

27:50

And then everyone just got angry

27:53

at the U.S. team. Yeah, everybody got angry.

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28:55

Don Lebotard. Many of you, by

28:58

the way, are writing in and you're saying,

29:00

Dan, quit being so

29:02

mean to co-hosts that you always

29:05

deem incompetent.

29:06

That's the formula, man. Me being

29:09

mean to the co-host is what

29:11

allows Stugatz to take a very wealthy vacation

29:14

right now. Stugatz. It's

29:16

a winning position for everyone but me. Haven't you guys

29:18

not figured this out yet? That's

29:20

the whole thing is me being rotten straight,

29:22

man, as everyone else gets to be incompetent,

29:25

then I yell at them for being incompetent. And

29:27

here's the miracle of it, it's the magic elixir.

29:30

Bad, which is the only thing Greg Cody can

29:32

be, becomes good and lovable. And

29:34

it's because standing next to obnoxious, strident

29:36

me

29:36

makes everyone look that way. And

29:39

the brush with death helped. Yeah, that was planned

29:41

by me. The whole thing was contrived. This is the

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So Billy's talking about putting babies back

30:10

to sleep late at night. It's a No

30:13

one wants to be there. It's a tough spot to be in as a parent.

30:15

What's your method Billy? Are you a little bouncer you

30:18

get her you get to get them on the shoulder a little bounce? What's

30:20

like if you could stand up? Maybe give us a little walk through exactly

30:22

the you know what it's stan There's I said

30:24

there's two methods to this. There's there's

30:27

a bounce and then there's a sway

30:29

So you can be a side-to-side guy and sway

30:31

the baby back to sleep. We have a room full of expertise

30:34

I'm more of a bouncer Have you guys ever put the

30:36

baby in the car because all the

30:38

car is money yet Rachel really liked

30:41

motion It would always put her to sleep But so that

30:43

was our trick when she was growing up you

30:45

would just drive around with the baby in the car That's

30:48

a popular move. No, we just lock her in the car.

30:50

It's very quiet We've

30:55

got a room full of experts back there Greg

30:57

Cody and Stu Gods are too old to

30:59

remember what it was like to rock

31:02

a baby to see a bouncer I can see it Yeah,

31:05

I had on the shoulder and bouncing around

31:07

walking around the entire house. Yeah. Oh the

31:09

whole house Yeah, it's different rooms. I like

31:11

to stay in one room because you don't want to doors

31:13

are loud Do

31:14

you sing do you hum? Do you have a go-to song?

31:16

Yeah, I was a big Barney. I love

31:19

you An

31:21

annoying song what? The

31:23

baby's going shut up already

31:25

Billy what is your method since

31:28

you weren't willing to and

31:30

yes Chris Cody Tossing you

31:32

something and you just to completely sabotage

31:35

what he was doing. No, I was asking if he wants me to

31:37

like physically show I was looking around his answer

31:39

or just talk or he said let's show

31:41

me how to do it. So I'm saying me Well

31:47

the thing is If

31:50

he was so good at it that he picked you up

31:52

and you immediately Chris

31:54

I could put grisly

31:55

I do

31:57

a little humming too. Do you guys do a humming sometimes?

32:00

Sometimes there's the lullabies, people sing songs.

32:02

So you don't want to go full lyric. Are you not

32:05

confident? Are you insecure to sing in front of your child? It's

32:07

not the singing. It's that I'm

32:09

also not humming tunes of

32:12

songs that you would normally sing to a baby.

32:14

You're doing like baseball tonight. You're like,

32:16

duh, duh, duh. No, I was actually

32:18

doing an Enrique Iglesias and Henta the Sona

32:20

song. And I just go, oh,

32:23

oh, oh, oh, oh,

32:25

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

32:28

oh. This is

32:29

nice. I'm getting the

32:31

baby. Yeah, but it's by no means a lullaby.

32:33

But I just go, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, over

32:35

and over again. And it's like not an appropriate song

32:37

to sing. It's a sensual song, correct? Yeah, exactly right.

32:40

But the beat is just, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

32:42

The Iglesias don't sing any other kind

32:44

of song except sensual songs.

32:47

The thing about two kids that I'm learning is that

32:49

like before,

32:50

we as parents had the advantage. And

32:52

now we don't have the advantage anymore. We're

32:55

still playing man defense, though. No. That's what

32:57

people like to say to parents. I had two parents. No, because

32:59

man, one

33:00

more in your playing zone. They

33:02

have so much more energy than I do. So

33:04

like they have the upper hand in every situation.

33:06

They're in charge. And I just have to kind

33:08

of trick them into doing what I want them to do at

33:11

this point. And one of them is like three weeks old,

33:13

which is crazy. But it's already outsmarting me. Mike,

33:17

are you a bouncer? Are you a swagger? Are

33:19

you a singer? Or were you? I'm a

33:21

rocker. I'm a rocker, to sleep. Two

33:23

different directions. I get in the rocking chair, and

33:26

I rock. So you're getting all angles, too.

33:28

That's the move. You need to have multiple

33:30

motions at the same time. So you can kind

33:32

of do this, but also do something like that. I'm telling

33:34

you guys, it's just the bounce. I get like leg workout. Like,

33:36

yeah, it's like the whole thing. It's just the bounce, guys.

33:38

You guys are overcomplicating it. It's just the bounce. Juju,

33:41

put it on the poll, please. And give me what the choices

33:43

are here at Lebittard Show. How

33:46

do you rock a baby? Best way to rock a baby

33:48

to sleep. Put them in the car by themselves.

33:51

Yep. Lock the doors.

33:53

Bouncer, swayer,

33:56

rocker. Or like a combo. Singer.

34:00

Central songs. Central singer of sexual

34:03

songs. Or baseball tonight theme. Or

34:06

the baseball tonight theme. Yes. It's

34:08

a little awful. You are.

34:11

So great. Yeah. It's

34:17

how Kirch and Diddin' and me. For me it

34:19

was like, ba-ba-ba-ba. We're on the pole.

34:21

At Lebotard Show, did Kirch

34:23

and Rock his children to sleep? Mm-hmm.

34:30

To the baseball tonight theme. Wait

34:33

a minute. That's the NBA. Yeah,

34:35

no. I mixed them all in there. Ba-ba-ba-ba.

34:38

They were coming to your

34:40

city. If you want a little

34:42

zing in your zing zang. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

34:47

Can you guys get up on the screen

34:50

for me? Because Cody evidently did not

34:52

see this.

34:53

Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

34:58

Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

35:01

Jimmy Butler

35:03

in China. Cody, you have

35:06

not seen any of the footage

35:08

from China. I have talked before

35:10

I imagine the audience at large is

35:13

with me on the idea of nobody

35:16

has had the star turn

35:18

in basketball without winning a championship

35:22

that Jimmy Butler has

35:23

had in his 30s. This

35:26

is a stardom story

35:28

that doesn't have a precedent.

35:31

And as people were awed

35:33

by the size of the crowds for Jimmy in

35:37

China, I don't know if people had the thought I

35:39

did.

35:40

I wonder how many had the thought I

35:42

did, which is, yeah,

35:44

it's communism. Those people don't have freedom.

35:47

Young people in China think the unemployment

35:50

rate is over 20%. Those

35:53

crowds may indeed all be there

35:55

because Jimmy Butler is that

35:57

famous in China, or they may be there

35:59

because that's the way China would prefer all

36:02

of that look when there is star power in

36:04

China. And I understand the NBA has done

36:06

a great job of growing

36:08

over there globally, but to just see

36:10

Jimmy Butler not play, to see Jimmy Butler

36:12

wave, I'm skeptical basically of

36:14

any video that comes out of a communist

36:17

country always. When

36:19

I see video, I'm like, what's orchestrated

36:21

there? Those people aren't free. Those are not

36:24

free people. It should be noted that Jimmy is

36:26

the face of Li Ning and his

36:28

current footwear deal is the

36:29

same company that did Wade's signature

36:32

deal. So as big as Jimmy is over here,

36:34

he is quite literally the face of

36:36

an entire brand over there. So

36:39

it makes sense. He's actually bigger over

36:41

there than he's here. We're looking at a propaganda

36:43

video, quite frankly, for the Chinese

36:46

government. I mean, it suits

36:48

them

36:49

to have adulation on an athlete

36:52

who sells their sneakers. I

36:55

mean, I guarantee you the government

36:57

arranged for a crowd that

37:00

impressive to be there. I don't know. I

37:02

don't know. I just am telling the audience

37:05

that whenever I see video, I'm instantaneously

37:08

skeptical. What Mike is saying is

37:10

true. I know Jimmy Butler is very popular

37:13

over there. I'm just saying that anything that

37:15

comes from a communist country almost

37:17

immediately, I assume propaganda

37:19

and then work my way back

37:21

from there. I mean, I think you're safe to assume

37:24

that, but those don't look like plants

37:26

to me. They have time

37:28

and time again had massive crowds

37:31

for NBA superstars that go there during the

37:33

off season. It looks like an absolute

37:35

circus. Well, basketball arguably

37:38

is the most popular sport in China,

37:40

more so than soccer.

37:43

And Jimmy Butler is a star, but I

37:45

think the fascination with American athletes

37:47

and with the NBA is such that a much

37:50

lesser star than Jimmy Butler

37:52

can go over there with a shoe deal

37:54

and

37:54

draw a damn impressive crowd.

37:57

And part of that is that you have so many...

38:00

hundreds of millions of people in China that

38:02

you know you can draw a crowd for just about anything

38:04

I would imagine. So you're saying anyone could do it? I

38:06

think Cody Zeller could go there. Think the Greg Cody

38:09

show could draw a crowd like that? I think we could. We

38:11

could go there. We could do an episode from there and draw

38:13

a big crowd. They got 20,000

38:16

plus at Drive Pink Stadium to watch Messi

38:18

come out during a rainstorm and hold up a pink

38:20

shirt. Right. The crowds were much smaller

38:22

for Duncan Robinson. I got my dad that

38:24

kind of thing. Yeah you never know. All

38:28

my catchphrases will be said in Chinese

38:29

from now on. And you know it! How

38:32

do you say and you know it in Chinese? Don't try.

38:35

I think it's Mandarin also. Is it? Okay.

38:38

Go sit in the penalty box. Oh yeah, Mandarin,

38:40

Chinese. Don't make it worse. Mandarin.

38:45

I meant Mandarin. It's about to be a five minute major. Just go

38:47

sit in the penalty. I love a Mandarin orange by

38:49

the way. Really juicy. Easy to

38:51

peel as well. Yeah. That's the original cutie.

38:54

The Mandarin orange. Top five orange? Let's

38:57

put that on the pole. Is the Mandarin orange

38:59

the original cutie? A little sweeter too. Yeah.

39:02

Yeah.

39:02

You can peel it in the heartbeat. No seeds either. It's

39:04

amazing. I guess Natalie would.

39:06

You can almost eat it in one bite. Tangerine.

39:09

Smaller than a tennis ball. One bite? Yeah. Don't

39:11

you break them up in the little... I would love to see you try it. I

39:14

would love to see you try it. Can you eat a Mandarin orange

39:16

in one bite? You eat it like an apple? Give me a Mandarin

39:18

orange right now. Taylor, go get a Mandarin

39:21

orange and we will see if Greg Cody can

39:23

eat it in... He said almost a bite.

39:25

In one... No. We're gonna...

39:27

Now we've gotta all see it. Could you chill

39:29

it though? Because if it's got a little

39:32

refrigeration

39:32

to it... Greg, I'm with you. You want a cold orange? Yeah.

39:35

I will ask you again to leave. Please. What am

39:37

I doing? Two minute penalty. But who's gonna eat the oranges?

39:39

Who dance mate? The orange, I promise

39:41

you, given the efficiencies of Metal Argue Media,

39:44

will not be here in the next two minutes.

39:46

Oh, that's a good point. I

39:48

know a lot of people, Stu Gatz, have

39:50

been talking about the

39:53

running back situation, the NFL. I

39:55

did enjoy Chris Cody becoming

39:57

the face of get your ass out there

39:59

and...

39:59

work at a game for a little bit. Not a flattering picture

40:02

we put out there. God, do I hate that

40:04

picture. Terrible. But for all

40:06

of the conversations about, hey,

40:08

the running backs are being paid less than the

40:10

kickers, that doesn't seem terribly fair.

40:13

I think the greatest example I have

40:16

for you of, holy shit,

40:18

this running back situation is really screwed

40:21

up.

40:21

Delvin Cook is available, but

40:24

not only is Delvin Cook available, and I

40:26

would have imagined at any time people would want

40:28

Delvin Cook. He's one of the best athletes

40:30

I've ever seen out of Florida State. He's in the top

40:32

five, but like Dion Sanders

40:34

and Jalen Ramsey,

40:36

Peter Warwick.

40:38

The thing that I think is happening

40:40

there that is

40:42

emblematic of the running back payment structure

40:45

is really screwed up is everyone

40:47

in the AFC East is interested

40:49

in him and his price isn't going up.

40:52

That never happens. No

40:54

leverage. You've got, what do you mean, no

40:56

leverage? What do you mean? Everybody

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in the same division wants him. He's meeting

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with all of them. Buffalo, the

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Jets, New England, and the Dolphins. I'm

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assuming that all these other visits are just to make

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the Dolphin offer go up because he wants

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to be in Miami, but

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the offer doesn't go up.

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I'm like, Delvin Cook's available. The entire

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AFC East wants him. Why

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can't he get more money? It's

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Delvin Cook.

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He's pretty good.

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Over the hill. I mean, he's a guy

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who had 1100 yards, eight touchdowns.

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I mean, he started every game last

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year. I can't answer that question for you,

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but that's why the running backs are in such a terrible,

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terrible spot here because you don't

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have the leverage to get yourself. You have leverage,

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but you don't have the leverage that you want, which allows

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you to get more money merely by flirting

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with the Jets. He also had off-field stuff. That's

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pretty murky.

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When has that ever stopped football teams?

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When they're trying to negotiate a price and someone's

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on an open mark. it's a running back. Yeah.

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That's true. That too. The murky

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stuff doesn't keep them from welcoming him

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into the building and interviewing him. It's

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when he asks for a certain amount of money that

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becomes murkier. It prevents them

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from paying 50 million dollars. It's

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less murky, cheaper than it is expensive.