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Welcome to the big suey! Presented

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by DraftKings. Why are you listening to

0:36

this show? The podcast that seems very

0:39

similar to the other Dan Lebittard podcast. I'm

0:41

sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact,

0:43

the only difference seems to be this imaging.

0:46

I have been tempted in restaurants just

0:48

walking past tables to grab somebody's

0:50

fries if they're just there. That

0:53

hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And

0:55

now, here's the marching man to nowhere, that

0:58

face and the habitual liar. So,

1:01

guys, have you seen the Edmonton

1:01

Oilers power play statistics? Have

1:04

I seen what? The Edmonton Oilers power play

1:06

statistics. Why would I have seen that? I'm gambling again.

1:09

Oh, Jesus. Yeah, they're unstoppable.

1:12

Unstoppable. OK, slow

1:14

down, Mike. You've come in. I love a good power play.

1:16

I do. You've come in hot from

1:19

LA. I don't know what you're snorting out

1:21

there, entertainment wise. But

1:23

you just got a taste. Everyone

1:26

told us not to build this in Miami. It couldn't work. Had

1:28

to be in New York, had to be in LA. You can't get good help

1:30

in Miami. Nobody lives in Miami that would

1:33

do any of this. And we

1:36

are in Miami, and now we've got offices

1:39

in New York, and Mike Ryan's coming back

1:41

from LA because he's interested in global

1:44

conquer. He

1:45

wants to be a movie producer. Why

1:47

are you looking at me like that, Billy? Well, to conquer the globe,

1:49

we have to leave the country. Yeah, yeah. We

1:52

just keep expanding the country, You're not really gonna go to Canada

1:54

myopic and that's not really my goal My goal

1:57

is more like Dooko Kane with Mickey Rourke, but sure

1:59

whatever

2:00

Mm-hmm. You do that here seems like you did you could

2:03

you could do that here he is from Miami

2:05

all done here

2:06

the story that I wanted to get

2:09

to Strogatz because it It

2:13

might not be something that anyone cares

2:15

about because Sports is all entertainment

2:18

and a lot of people don't want moralities

2:20

around sports. Just play

2:22

the games entertain me They're just games.

2:25

They're not societal at all reflections,

2:28

would

2:28

you please just enjoy yourselves

2:30

and get out of the political playpen? And

2:34

stop, stop Lebitt Tard with the

2:36

dangers of white men

2:38

with power not using

2:41

it correctly. White men with power

2:43

never facing consequences. White

2:46

men with power, Daniel Snyder, can run everything

2:48

into the ground, and it's $6 billion. Vince

2:52

McMahon. I

2:54

don't do a lot of Stu Gatz, the

2:56

judging of public figures. I

2:59

try to abstain from just

3:01

the eviscerating of human character.

3:03

Same.

3:05

Vince McMahon, truly

3:09

horrible. And

3:11

I've been entertained by wrestling and I grew up

3:13

watching him. He was just a sideline guy, like

3:15

a reporter. He was Mean Jean Okerlund. Like

3:17

I've seen his, whatever, 40

3:19

years, dominating the sport

3:22

from like the voice to now, he's back

3:24

in power. He's running WrestleMania.

3:26

Mike's coming back from WrestleMania

3:30

and Vince McMahon is back in power. And

3:32

I just, maybe you don't care. Maybe

3:34

you think it's a small thing, but now you

3:36

know why Endeavor didn't comment on Dana

3:39

White.

3:40

Now you know. They couldn't have two of them

3:42

in a cage while the deal was being done because the

3:44

deal wasn't done yesterday. They couldn't jeopardize

3:47

the WWE deal, the $9 billion

3:49

deal, that now goes totally dirty,

3:51

run by two kings who have no consequences

3:54

for anything, McMahon and Dana White. And

3:56

I'm sure it'll be a profitable,

3:59

great business. in streaming, like how could it not

4:01

be?

4:02

But

4:04

what's running both organizations and the labor

4:06

being ground into the fighters using

4:08

their actual body just thrown into the

4:10

mill here so they can make their money

4:12

so the two awful ones without consequences

4:15

can make their money?

4:17

Maybe it doesn't bother you. Maybe you

4:19

just want to be fake sports, wrestling,

4:22

and mixed martial arts. I'll enjoy the fights in

4:25

Miami on Saturday.

4:26

Like I can make moral grandstands I could

4:29

I could raise my fist and be infuriated

4:32

but I'll be a hypocrite like I'll be a

4:34

hypocrite on what I'm watching

4:37

where the party is you're not alone

4:39

most people just want to be entertained they don't

4:41

care how they get their entertainment who's providing

4:44

the entertainment they want to be entertained just know

4:46

what's happening at the top of that company

4:48

just don't let it happen quietly what's

4:50

happening at the top of that company and

4:53

and what the men at the top of that company are

4:55

accused of doing and how they cash in anyway,

4:57

because there are no consequences for them, whether

5:00

it's rape allegations or video of

5:02

you hitting your wife in public. So Vince McMahon

5:04

comes into power,

5:05

come returns back into power a few

5:08

weeks ago, really, because his

5:11

daughter and Nick Khan were co-CEOs.

5:13

The news comes back that he's going

5:15

to re-assume his position as chairman

5:17

of the board because he has the most stakes

5:20

in the company and you can't approve

5:23

a sale without the approval of someone with

5:26

the most shares in the company so

5:28

he really Logan Royd this one it's

5:31

succession. Amazing dirty power like

5:34

what a dirty power play back to

5:36

power in a mustache. It's Vance McMahon

5:40

he's come back as a wrestling... It's Vicente.

5:45

He died his hair. He did? Yes. That

5:47

hair is dark. He did Mike. He's

5:49

in disguise. What he's wearing a disguise

5:51

in his hair. So with Dana

5:53

White, heard

5:56

Dana White and I think many

5:59

people realize it. Cancer culture is

6:01

only real if you're governed by some shame.

6:04

If the person that's guilty of all these things that are

6:06

worthy of being, air quotes, canceled, they're

6:09

governed by shame, like Al Franken was,

6:11

or how even Vince McMahon was at the

6:13

start of all this during the New York Times

6:16

reporting,

6:17

there are some punitive measures. But if you just persist

6:20

in the face of it, you're

6:22

pretty Teflon. And Dana White sat there and explained,

6:26

suspending me would only punish the UFC

6:28

because I am the only one capable of

6:30

running this. Vince McMahon may have had

6:32

the same pitch

6:34

to endeavor, but here's the

6:36

thing. They

6:37

were actually doing great without Vince McMahon.

6:40

The business, every mentor, a quantifiable

6:42

metric that you would do to boost your

6:44

market value, the

6:46

creative, the television ratings were bouncing

6:49

back with Vince McMahon out of creative

6:52

and morale

6:53

was up. Wrestlers that had left that

6:55

company wanted to come back because Triple

6:58

H was there because they were all beaten

7:00

into the ground by the bad morale

7:02

that surrounded Vince McMahon.

7:04

And yesterday, Vince McMahon running

7:07

the full show again, running in guerrilla

7:09

position, which is where basically

7:11

the director of everything is running. And

7:14

morale,

7:15

low again, by all reports from people that

7:17

cover the sport. A true fact

7:19

that as a lifelong wrestling fan that I'm embarrassed

7:21

to admit to you,

7:23

that I thought legitimately plausible and

7:25

confused me at the beginning, when I read

7:27

the phrase Gorilla position and

7:29

did not know that in wrestling there

7:32

is someone who stands at the center of the spectacle

7:34

and entertainment known as the Gorilla. I thought

7:36

Vince McMahon went yesterday in

7:38

a Gorilla costume so that they wouldn't know

7:42

that he was there.

7:43

It's actually named after Gorilla Monsoon who

7:45

would be positioned there during television

7:47

broadcast because

7:50

even though he was owning the WWE at the time,

7:52

Vince McMahon was also the voice of the WWE

7:54

so you needed someone to actually run the broadcast from

7:56

backstage and Gorilla Monsoon would do that and now

7:58

if you're running a show

8:00

you're running it from gorilla. But you

8:02

have these. Wait, what are you laughing about? Well, I, I

8:05

much prefer the image of Vince McMahon's

8:07

great showing up in a gorilla suit. Why? Because

8:10

he doesn't want to be noticed. Or because he's

8:12

not allowed to be there because he's been banned

8:15

from the facility because they don't want to near the power

8:17

or the morale. It's, it's just funny because

8:19

the general vibe and WrestleMania was a

8:22

great atmosphere and you actually kind of feel better about

8:24

supporting the, the, the product of Vince

8:26

McMahon.

8:27

isn't this major cult of personality

8:29

that is driving everything. There was a

8:32

lot of positive momentum around

8:34

Triple H's creative and the product

8:37

kind of turning around and getting away from some of the Vincisms

8:40

that have plagued the industry a little

8:43

bit. And it seems as though no one

8:45

really wants this except for Vince McMahon

8:47

and Endeavor. They want Vince McMahon

8:49

to be in that position, to be running things.

8:51

They also want Nick Khan to be killing it.

8:54

He's absolutely killing it. Honestly, if Roger

8:56

Goodell decides to leave the NFL,

8:58

I would hire Nick Khan to be the commissioner

9:00

of the NFL. It seems as though everything

9:03

Nick Khan touches turns

9:05

to gold.

9:06

And he's saying to make a ton

9:08

of money from this deal because he had a bunch of equity

9:11

in there. I was wondering, all right, that

9:13

was kind of the mission accomplished. What does Nick

9:15

Khan do now? No, he's just going to accrue more

9:17

power. Well, Mike, Nick Khan, for those who

9:19

do not know, I think this was happening

9:22

with Skipper at ESPN. all of Nick

9:24

Khan's people in the agent business,

9:27

all of them were running ESPN. They

9:29

were, it felt to people like

9:32

Nick Khan at ESPN was the one putting

9:34

people into all of the positions. Well, he

9:36

worked at CAA, you're saying that agency

9:38

kind of, it felt like it was running ESPN.

9:41

But Nick Khan in particular was such a dominant

9:43

figure. If you were looking at some of the highest paid talents

9:46

in ESPN's employee were Nick Khan,

9:48

fine. This is, so I think this was

9:50

happening in or around Skipper's

9:53

tenure, and Skipper speaks

9:55

highly of Nick Khan, but so you've got

9:57

this shark with McMahon, and

9:59

in

9:59

de is run by Marc Shapiro, the former

10:02

ESPN president, I think. He's

10:05

gonna be put as president of this, but

10:07

it

10:08

was really kind of sad. They made

10:10

Triple H do this whole spiel, we're

10:12

not going anywhere, it's gonna be the same WWE.

10:15

And that would have been a great rah-rah speech

10:17

if it were actually

10:19

coming from Triple H, now written down for him

10:21

by the new head of creative and Vince McMahon

10:23

again. So it's an interesting time

10:25

for WWE. There's a lot of transition. trying

10:27

to project that it's going to be the same. But

10:30

the same to them is what it was when Vince

10:32

was still in power and not what it had become,

10:34

which was a fun, exciting thing that

10:37

started putting distance between them

10:40

and the competition. And it was a really exciting time

10:42

for pro wrestling fans because it was this breath of

10:44

fresh air. And now it's Vince McMahon

10:47

again, and you're left with all the bad feelings that go associated

10:49

with it. Tony, why are you and Billy and

10:51

Jeremy making faces? I'm excited, Dan.

10:54

The astronauts in the Zoom. I want to talk to them.

10:56

There's a lot of things Okay, you guys

10:58

have wrestling opinions though. I see them you

11:00

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11:03

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13:00

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13:01

Good morning. Hello,

13:04

sir. Hello. It

13:08

is nice to see you. You were at the game last

13:10

night, they told us. Yes,

13:12

yes, it was awesome. Wow, that stadium

13:14

was packed. The energy, all those college students,

13:17

it was great.

13:18

You could see up close how shitty San

13:20

Diego State looked. Oh, man.

13:23

You know what though, everybody played hard and

13:25

man, I was standing next to the court like if

13:27

one of them dudes ran into me full speed, it

13:29

will be a bad day man for the knees and the back.

13:33

So, you know, I

13:35

knew I couldn't get up there and hang with any of them. So

13:38

it was great to watch them play. So you're closer to the court

13:40

than you're going to be to the moon then, huh?

13:42

Oh by a long shot, by a long shot,

13:44

man. That is actually a really important part

13:46

of this mission to understand. We aren't landing on the moon.

13:49

We aren't even going to orbit. We're not going to stop and get into

13:51

a low orbit. going to pass the moon and our

13:53

closest point will be between 6 and 8,000 miles. That's

13:56

the diameter of the Earth. Now, we'll

13:59

still be close to the...

14:00

compared to the 240,000 miles we start off at. But

14:04

it'll be awesome to see the moon and the foreground

14:06

and the earth out way beyond it.

14:09

Your occupation is fascinating. You've

14:11

got to get out of here because you're very busy. Only 24

14:13

people have ever done this, gone around. He's headed to the moon,

14:15

man. Yes, gone. It hasn't happened

14:17

around the moon. I'd be more

14:20

impressed if he was landing on the moon, but still impressed.

14:22

That's fine. Victor, are you infuriating?

14:24

Agree with you. Thank you. I

14:27

was going to say, are you furious that you get this get

14:29

this mission instead

14:30

of the one that allows you to walk on the actual moon?

14:33

No way. This is awesome. Like you said, 24

14:35

human beings and all of human

14:37

history. And so we're going to increase that

14:39

number. But man, this is a special time

14:42

and this mission is special. And I

14:44

listen, I'm a part of a team and to

14:46

get the team to that next stage where we're going

14:48

to land people or dock to a space

14:50

station, a gateway around the moon. It

14:53

is a privilege just to be carrying the baton for this

14:55

part.

14:56

What are you guys laughing about back there? Well,

14:58

it's like when you say something special like my mom says I'm special

15:00

too, but it's like, you know There's other things that are more important.

15:02

There's always things more important. That's true.

15:05

Yes But we're going to

15:07

the moon Pretty

15:09

bad. Can you explain singular?

15:12

Yes it is. What is what is the question

15:14

you most often get people are curious

15:17

about that? Your lifestyle

15:19

I have a variety of questions, but what's

15:21

the one you get most often?

15:23

Oh, wow Wow. Honestly,

15:25

the question I get most often, which is

15:28

a little surprising is, is

15:31

the earth really round?

15:34

I mean, I get asked that

15:36

so much, or maybe that's just the one

15:38

that stands out the most to me, but people ask

15:40

me like, like, seriously, they pull me aside, like, okay, I saw you

15:43

just give your talk. I saw the videos like when

15:45

you filmed an entire orbit and did a time lapse.

15:47

Yeah. But like, come on, tell me for real. Is the

15:49

earth really around.

16:00

around the Earth. And so, you know, orbit's not possible

16:02

if it's not round. But it looks

16:04

to be a little more specific. It's an

16:06

ellipsoid. If you took a tomato and look at

16:08

that, it's not perfectly round. It's kind of flat on the top

16:10

and the bottom. It is that shape. It

16:13

is. But it is round. Orbit wouldn't be possible

16:15

without it being, you know, spherical.

16:18

I can't believe your job is fascinating,

16:20

that that's the most common question. I thought

16:23

it'd be in the realm of what's

16:26

the most scared you have been in

16:28

thinking about some of this stuff that

16:30

you do for a living that many of us find scary.

16:33

It takes a certain type

16:35

to do this.

16:37

I do get asked that question quite a bit and

16:39

I would say listen I'm sure you

16:41

have worked with folks who

16:43

the thought of speaking to hundreds of people

16:46

all around the country is scary and so your

16:48

job is scary to some people. I loved watching

16:50

those young men play last night you know one of those

16:52

teams was going to win and one was going to to lose. I always

16:55

appreci the heart it takes to ge

16:58

of a stage group of peop And

17:00

so I appreciate curre its

17:02

forms. And so yes, th uh

17:05

demanding thing and ri

17:07

a challenging thing, but we

17:11

train uh and we do so at

17:14

one that helps you to prepare for

17:16

it. But you a you can

17:18

and can't do. And get

17:20

to a stage where worr being

17:23

afraid would only make you less capable in

17:25

the moment. And so we trained, we trained.

17:27

That movie, The Right Stuff, wasn't about ego. It's

17:29

not about ego. This is not a machismo thing. We

17:32

work hard. We bust our ass to

17:34

be ready to do the job that we do.

17:36

Rictor, you're going to be the first black astronaut to go on

17:38

a lunar mission. Why don't you go over some of the history

17:40

of African-Americans going to space? Oh,

17:43

gosh. OK, well, listen, I got to start with

17:45

my friend, mentor, and icon,

17:47

Ed Dwight, who, back in the Kennedy

17:49

administration, was asked to become the first

17:51

astronaut candidate. And because of a lot of things

17:53

that will summarize it's just racism was

17:55

not allowed into the program and didn't make it

17:58

into that class. That was 20. years

18:00

before the first black

18:02

astronaut was flying space. That's again, another friend

18:04

and mentor Guy Bluford, who flew as

18:06

a part of the shuttle program. Right after Sally

18:08

Ride, the first woman, he got to watch her navigate

18:10

those challenging situations. And then he

18:12

was the first black man to

18:14

fly in space. But actually between

18:17

the two, between Ed Dwight and Guy Bluford, we had another

18:19

man named Robert Lawrence, Major Robert Lawrence,

18:21

who was training for the Air Force's space program,

18:24

the manned orbiting laboratory, the mole program. And he

18:26

died in an airplane accident. And so there's

18:28

been a really interesting history.

18:31

And I believe I come along as the 21st

18:33

African-American selected for the NASA astronaut

18:35

program. You had a Cuban American,

18:37

a black Cuban fly with the Russians. Actually

18:40

back then they had the Soviet Union. And

18:42

yeah, so Cuba

18:45

had an astronaut fly. And so it's

18:47

been an interesting history. And I tell you what,

18:49

my favorite thing about it is people like

18:51

to talk about the first man, but the second's third

18:53

and it becoming normal is what I'm about.

18:55

So hopefully I'm a force to get

18:58

this on the point, to the point where

19:00

young black kids grew up thinking, man, I can hoop,

19:03

I can be a football player like Emmitt Smith, my

19:05

fraternity brother, but I can also be an astronaut

19:07

or a doctor like Victor Glover or his daughter wants

19:10

to be. And so I love it that we're changing the

19:12

game. We're broadening the game.

19:15

That's unfair to do that. No, no. He

19:17

was bonded to Lemon. Victor, can

19:19

you please tell us, what is

19:22

something to a layman that a layman wouldn't understand

19:24

about how hard, When you say it's physically taxing,

19:27

explain it to us in ways that we

19:29

can understand.

19:30

Oh, big time. First of all, Ivis Smith

19:33

is a great, I don't know why that was

19:35

debatable. Okay. No, he's a classy man.

19:37

No, they were making fun of you. You don't get the show. No,

19:39

they're making fun of you for name dropping. They're making

19:41

fun of you for name

19:44

dropping and it's a funny show. Alright,

19:47

so this job, physically demanding part

19:50

of this job is spacewalking. We're not going

19:52

to spacewalk on this mission. Artemis 2 won't have any

19:54

spacewalks. but space walking is challenging

19:56

and we still train for it. I'm an instructor

19:59

so I will still do. space walking training

20:02

and it's the equivalent, we call it space walks,

20:04

we really should say space crawl because

20:06

you don't use your feet as much, you move around

20:08

with your hands but then you also have to

20:10

do the work with your hands so when you get where you're going

20:13

you put the clips down and you get

20:15

your drill when you do the work to repair

20:17

or install whatever you're doing and those space

20:20

walks you see us outside when you watch

20:22

NASA TV like I know you all do we're

20:24

outside for seven hours plus or minus but

20:26

we get in the suit hours before and we're

20:29

in about an hour afterwards. So you're inside

20:31

that enclosed volume for 10 to 11

20:34

hours and all you have is 32 ounces

20:36

of water and it is a very physically demanding

20:38

suit even though you're weightless in space there is

20:40

momentum so when you start moving you

20:42

have to use the strength of your grip and your muscles

20:44

to stop yourself from moving and that

20:46

suit can with your body and it can weigh upwards of

20:49

a thousand pounds so it is physically

20:51

demanding even though there's no weight in space when

20:53

things are moving it It still requires some

20:55

force to stop them or change direction. A

20:58

million questions and you've got to get out

21:00

of here so quickly. Greg's got one and Stu

21:02

Gots is got one. I'm curious, do you

21:04

ever wear the full bulky spacesuit

21:07

out in public just for laughs?

21:09

You know, I have to check it out from some people and if

21:12

it was easy to get it out, would totally. No,

21:14

but I would. You would. Of course

21:17

you would. Who wouldn't? Do you ever get tired

21:19

of drinking Tang?

21:21

No, because we don't drink Tang. I think the last time

21:23

I was a kid, I know like, I'm

21:26

sorry to just like shatter that, but we don't eat freeze-dried

21:29

ice cream or drink tang. But

21:32

I love tang. I would love to have some. Can

21:34

you call us from the moon tomorrow? Like how

21:36

does this work? Are you not in space

21:39

now? Are you just a, you're just in a studio?

21:41

Can you change your zoom background? That's

21:43

just a background. I thought he was in

21:45

space. I thought you were joining us from

21:47

space. I was gonna say the earth

21:49

is round.

21:49

It'll

21:52

be a little bit longer than tomorrow, but

21:55

I'll try to call it. All right, please. Yeah, that'll

21:57

be great. Please do. Please

21:59

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22:01

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23:00

This is the Dunlebatar Show with

23:02

the

23:02

Stu Gods.

23:04

["The Stu Gods." theme

23:06

music plays in the background.]

23:09

Greg Cody has a back in my day, and

23:12

he's told a variety of people he's a little

23:14

nervous about it because it's controversial. He

23:17

is evolving his

23:18

back in my day. The back in my day, I won't

23:21

say it's grown stale. I will just

23:23

say that he's having trouble coming

23:25

up with new ideas because he feels like

23:27

he's done just about everything there is

23:29

to be done in the name of opinion making,

23:32

that there's nothing else to write about and talk about.

23:35

And now that it's sponsored, he wants more money, so

23:37

he thinks he needs to do more controversial

23:39

things to push the envelope a little

23:41

bit, to grow it as

23:44

someone who's trying to keep his career

23:46

lively in the podcast game,

23:48

a columnist dinosaur trying to

23:51

stay evolved. It's not sponsored anymore,

23:53

which is weird because the last time it was sponsored,

23:56

you took a shot at subscription services

23:58

and rebates when... The

24:00

sponsor had one of those so it's weird that they went away.

24:02

I found that out afterward That was right.

24:04

It's too hot to handle is the the larger

24:07

point is that Greg's not for sale And

24:13

exactly right integrity Balance

24:15

Greg Cody did Billy Corbin cost us

24:17

Bacardi because he came in here Well, we're gonna end

24:20

and talking about things that Bacardi

24:22

was doing in the neighborhood Did he cost us that

24:24

sponsorship probably and you don't

24:26

have to say everything that comes to your mind

24:28

So Greg Cody's back

24:30

in my day is something that we will get to

24:33

in a second But I just I want to

24:35

because Vince McMahon

24:37

He really did as Vance McMahon.

24:39

He came back as a wrestling character with a

24:41

ridiculous mustache a pencil thin

24:43

mustache It's it's he did

24:46

trick us. He tricks us. It's like that's not a rapist.

24:48

That's a fool and He

24:50

he just looks so ridiculous. The mustache

24:53

is too close to the lip not close enough to

24:55

the nose He looks like Vicente looks like somebody

24:57

on Spanish TV that would be giving me the news Yeah, I would

24:59

trust though We got a couple good looks

25:01

like on Twitter one of them is Vince McMahon

25:03

looks like he's about to ask me for photos of spider-man

25:08

I thought Vince McMahon looks

25:11

like the evil manager of a haunted hotel

25:13

in an early 2000s comedy Yeah,

25:15

that's good Vince McMahon

25:17

looks like his men are hunting Zorro as we speak

25:20

You have him as Vincent Price as well. Yeah

25:23

Vince McMahon looks like John

25:26

Waters having an allergic reaction. That's

25:29

good. Vince McMahon looks like

25:31

he's going to swindle your entire town on his magical

25:34

miracle tonic pictures in the ailment. Vince

25:36

McMahon looks like he's about to say, McSoozy.

25:38

He

25:41

also says, in keeping

25:45

with what Tony was doing there, he looks like

25:47

he's dressed up as Vicente Fox

25:49

for Halloween and really angry no one

25:51

gets it. which

26:00

made me laugh a lot. And yeah,

26:02

and someone put him on top of like a salsa. Uh.

26:05

Uh. Uh. Uh. It's,

26:08

I mean, it's a funny photo. He looks ridiculous.

26:11

And again, it's the way it's that it's

26:13

one of the dirty tricks that the

26:15

man can do in wrestling and entertainment. I

26:18

can be truly awful as a human being, but look

26:20

at my mustache. Ha ha. You're

26:22

not even going to talk about the bad stuff I

26:24

do because look at my pencil thin mustache.

26:27

Look how easy it is for me to trick

26:29

you guys about

26:30

not having any morals and being

26:32

someone who's compromised in every way and creates

26:34

a terrible workplace. Let me

26:37

just, yeah, I mean, that's out of

26:39

makeup.

26:40

That's how I would draw that on his lip if

26:42

I was trying to distract people from

26:44

the fact that he's 80 and still running this

26:47

dirty game.

26:51

It's unbelievable, Stu Gant. It

26:53

is, it's a great trick. I love

26:55

the idea of him going into the mirror and having like the full

26:57

mustache and being like, Nah, they'll see right past this.

27:00

Hold on, give me the razor. Yeah. They're

27:02

putting it out in the mirror and it's like, this

27:04

is it, masterpiece. And

27:08

meanwhile, Mike is in the middle of the spectacle,

27:11

watching the Final Four games

27:13

on his phone because he can't get close enough to

27:15

the action because of how much his father made

27:18

him love wrestling. What?

27:21

That was a lot. Now, I wanted

27:23

to be in Houston and it seemed like, I was jealous Greg

27:26

and Chris went out there for

27:28

the FAU. Yeah, we did. Sponsored by Sheets

27:30

and Giggles. Thank you. No,

27:32

I'm not except when it involves the final four.

27:35

But the Greg Cody Show podcast is from Houston

27:37

this week. Mike, if you would have ever told me

27:39

that you would have missed UM

27:42

in a final four, I would not have. Crazy. Never

27:45

have believed it. So I was really trying to make it work.

27:48

And the best option was for me to

27:50

fly at six o'clock

27:51

in the morning to

27:53

drive to Anaheim take

27:55

my chances on a spirit flight for about a grand.

27:58

Dangerous game. It was just. So I worked

28:00

myself into thinking, yeah, I

28:02

would love to be there around this atmosphere right now.

28:05

I don't know how many times we'll ever get to this point and it never

28:07

happened before, but I realized

28:09

that if I went and I put my body through

28:12

hell

28:12

and I spent all sorts of money

28:14

to get myself over there and they lost, I'd

28:17

feel like a world-class idiot. And

28:19

so I told myself, if they win, yeah, I

28:21

wish I'd be there for that, but I'll just see on Monday.

28:23

And that was my plan going into it. And after

28:26

they lost, I was like, well, at least I get to drown my sorrows

28:28

in LA as opposed to Houston. Greg,

28:30

put us there if you don't mind as one

28:32

of the probably the most famous

28:35

alum from FAU right behind Carrot

28:37

Top. I would say you, Chris Cody

28:39

and Carrot Top, but you were there buzzer

28:41

beater. They lost. Put us there. Like what were you

28:43

thinking? How were you feeling? Yeah, I was, uh, wait

28:46

a minute. Are you interviewing Greg? No, I

28:48

appreciate that. Thank

28:49

you. I'd like to know the experience. I've never

28:51

been to a final four. I would like to know.

28:53

I had never been to a final four either

28:55

as a journalist. This time I mostly went as

28:57

a fan, so we're trying to get into the stadium

29:01

and I'm doing my chant and hoping

29:03

that everybody plays along with me. They say,

29:05

who? We say hoot. And

29:08

I said that like three or four times in a row. Nobody did it

29:10

with you. You were by yourself. Nobody was doing

29:12

it with me. It's very vulnerable. That was a little sad.

29:15

Yeah, it was shocking to me that nobody

29:17

would play along with me. But the game

29:19

itself, you know, it's all where you're sitting.

29:22

I was sitting

29:23

right in front of two San Diego

29:25

State fans who were like obnoxious.

29:29

I mean they were the worst. So

29:31

you know we thought the whole game we were winning,

29:33

yeah I can say we because I'm an all foul

29:36

all on the prowl. Although when I went there

29:38

I'm so old, didn't have basketball yet,

29:40

no program there. Didn't even have it.

29:42

Give me the sport. The sport. That's

29:45

right. Nate Smith hadn't done his thing yet.

29:48

But it was a great experience because it's

29:51

the only event I've ever been to

29:53

where it's four fandoms all

29:55

at once. know all kind of different

29:57

you know I pose next to an owl

30:00

You know a guy in an owl head, you know

30:02

Christopher told me later the guy had a little bit

30:04

of a woody Which I didn't notice

30:06

but it was you know, that was a little disconcerting

30:09

to be photographed next to him, but

30:11

you know at any rate Let's

30:14

not elaborate on that the photo is somewhere

30:23

Thank you hold on

30:27

Excellent interview question

30:29

by Stu Gods that I mocked because

30:32

he asked Greg Cody put us there as

30:34

your heart is broken as if he was

30:36

on defense. I haven't heard a

30:38

call to Woody in quite some time. Mike, I need

30:40

you to allow me the moment. You have come

30:42

in here very hot and I need you to

30:45

settle down. There

30:49

are some wrestling

30:51

takes in the back row that I need to get

30:54

to. But the detour that

30:56

we just took, Greg

31:00

Cody was next to a owl,

31:03

and in that photo you decided to tell

31:06

all of us that the owl seemed to be aroused,

31:08

and it made me think about something that Tony's

31:10

been talking about, which is

31:13

that adults in costumes

31:15

at parties or at festive things

31:18

make him sad. They have the opposite

31:20

reaction that you wanna have about

31:23

mascots. Incredibly sad when

31:25

you're looking at I was at my nephew's birthday party

31:27

It was a ninja turtles birthday party and then all

31:29

of a sudden halfway through the party a ninja turtle comes in But

31:32

it's kind of like a guy who was smoking cigarettes out before

31:35

What's on the helmet smells like cigarette like cigarettes? He

31:37

can't talk because he's a mascot or

31:39

whatever you call those things and it's like he's

31:42

just sitting there like

31:43

doing robotic moves

31:45

and it's just such a sad thing like the sleeves

31:48

little down so I and see his skin when he's got a glove

31:50

on. I'm like, oh, this is, what

31:52

are we doing here, guys? Are you scratching

31:54

out a living? I mean, I mean,

31:56

side game, come on. Put it on the

31:59

phone!

31:59

Should the clown

32:01

scratching out a living at the kids

32:03

party be smoking a cigarette?

32:06

Because I always smoking a cigarette No I'm willing

32:08

for America to take that freedom away from

32:10

clowns and people and adults in costumes

32:13

They you need to keep up the illusion for the kids

32:15

sir clowns don't smoke cigarettes

32:18

Neither does Barney Barney doesn't

32:20

know

32:21

and those actors spent four years at a hundred

32:23

and twenty thousand dollars on a BFA college

32:25

that that too. Did the

32:27

turtle have a scotch in his hand? No,

32:29

I think he had a beer before though. I could smell

32:31

that too. Nothing wrong with that. So what happened

32:33

with the owl and the last minute and

32:35

the last moments of this game because

32:38

you were probably invested. Look

32:40

man, Greg Cody's been covering sports for a long

32:42

time.

32:44

StuGots doesn't know the short stop for

32:46

the Mets. The sports fandom dies

32:48

a little bit when you get older.

32:51

Greg Cody, Did you feel like a fan? Did

32:54

FAU take you on a bokeh ride? Were you

32:56

a proud sports alum for the first time

32:58

in your life about anything FAU? And

33:01

then did you get your heart broken at the end because

33:03

you legitimately wanted to see them get dragged

33:05

and slaughtered by UConn last night? Well,

33:07

listen, the UConn game was later,

33:10

so we didn't know then that Miami was destined

33:12

to lose. And FAU was winning

33:14

the whole game. I thought FAU was going

33:16

to win that game. And I'm thinking, you know what? Wow,

33:18

maybe the canes have a shot. actually

33:21

an FAU UM championship

33:23

game. That would be unheard of. It would thrill

33:26

us. It would probably bore the rest of the country,

33:28

but who cares? It might actually happen. And

33:31

then San Diego State makes that comeback and

33:33

the fans behind me are just yapping. And

33:35

it's, you know, I'm wearing my Owls t-shirt.

33:38

I never do that. I have never in my life

33:40

worn an FAU t-shirt until Saturday

33:43

night. You visited sports fandom. Yes,

33:45

I did.

33:46

Which was a whole mind-blower to me. I can't believe

33:48

how much those souvenirs cost by the way. I

33:51

bought a coffee cup for my wife

33:53

to bring back because She hasn't worn

33:55

a t-shirt since 1978 So

33:57

I presented with a coffee cup and she's like, why?

34:00

I have so many coffee cups. It was a nice gesture.

34:02

I had to bring her something. Thank you I've

34:05

never been to a final four, but there's really nothing

34:07

like it in sports because you have most

34:10

championship games They have two fan

34:12

bases coming together and a lot of corporate interests There's

34:14

a lot of corporate interest, but there's something about

34:16

the semi-final It's even bigger than

34:19

the final because the week of hype and

34:21

the media machine Surrounds that one

34:23

double header. Yeah, and it's got to be a really

34:25

cool spectacle I'm envious that I didn't get

34:27

to go because it just didn't work out It was totally great

34:30

and if I had to guess I would say the four

34:32

fandoms were about equal You know, you couldn't

34:34

pick out one where wow, I haven't seen many Yukon

34:36

fans or look at all You know, I think it

34:38

was about equal and and for the most part

34:40

FA you huh? Even FA Yeah,

34:43

we had so many we flew out of Fort Lauderdale granted,

34:45

but we had so many foul owls on the

34:47

prowl Okay on our plane. It was unbelievable.

34:50

I do feel like there's a there's something

34:52

here that's not being covered, right? Because Mike is

34:54

now playing an elaborate armor defense

34:57

against people being able to get into

34:59

his vulnerable

35:00

feelings about his program. He

35:02

was going to be in LA watching WrestleMania

35:04

not enjoying this because this would have been very unpleasant

35:06

to feel once the internet jumped on his neck

35:09

as Kane Homer guy. But it's

35:11

fairly shocking for an adult U.M.

35:13

fan to be at WrestleMania. All the

35:15

shit you've talked this season. You could have just thought that

35:17

adults. As one of U.M.'s biggest supporters.

35:20

Yeah. I've done a lot. And

35:22

social media was actually kind to me

35:24

because it was a great season. Actually

35:26

kind of an oddity, the men's and women's

35:28

programs,

35:30

the last two consecutive years have

35:32

lost to the eventual champion. So

35:34

they've run into really good teams. Miami

35:36

played LSU

35:37

better than anyone probably did outside

35:39

of Utah in that tournament.

35:41

And UConn

35:43

was just a dominant force in this

35:45

tournament, but I'm very proud of the season. And

35:48

like I said, it's a weird thing about college basketball

35:50

that getting to the Final Four is

35:52

almost a bigger deal than making

35:54

it to the Final. Now, if you win it, that

35:56

lives forever, but I love how the semifinals

35:59

are the attraction on then.

36:00

I could not agree more. I think there's such

36:02

a goal like that yet again There's such a gulf

36:04

between the elite eight and the final four when

36:06

you make the final four all of a sudden more than

36:08

bracket heads Are watching do not allow everybody

36:10

Greg do not allow him to do this This is what he's

36:12

doing. He'll just throw it to another part of the room and you're

36:14

the easy mark here Well, let me tell you you're

36:17

the

36:18

no, let me tell you what I was about to say to Mike

36:20

Which I've heard this on the street In

36:23

the Golden Cane community There's

36:26

you are now ostracized. Is that right?

36:28

Whoa? Wow well I believe

36:30

that's true that's not what I'm hearing

36:33

it's on the grapevine It's on the coconut telegraph

36:35

that the other golden canes the other GCs

36:38

are looking down on you big time I was and

36:41

you know it

36:42

No, no, you don't hit me with an and

36:44

you know it And you know it And

36:47

you know it That's a little problem Why

36:50

does this voice change? It's a great,

36:52

it's a great argument Andrew So you come

36:54

to him aggressively with the Injuno and

36:56

several of them run a tattoo, you can't argue

36:59

with it. He's got your corner. You

37:01

know, I guess he's right. I can't fight back with

37:03

the Injuno. But

37:06

please quit deflecting. Right,

37:09

what do you want to know? I was very sad. You

37:11

were at WrestleMania, that's what we want to know. Why?

37:14

No, this is the general

37:15

question. And I mean this, and I've listened to the show for

37:17

a long time and I understand your, you

37:19

know, deference to wrestling and Dan's

37:22

history with wrestling. My general question

37:24

is, who gives a flying f**k about

37:26

wrestling? Wow. Great take.

37:29

It's just amazing take. Every song and every

37:31

movie that's ever existed are on my f**king iPhone.

37:34

Whoa. Wrestling? Whoa, Jeremy. You

37:37

haven't been here long enough to curse. Two minutes. Get

37:39

out of here. Wow. Get out of here.

37:41

You're about to curse. Get it out the bleep. You're

37:44

coming up in the business. I don't know who this kid is,

37:46

but why is he speaking to me this way? You're

37:48

coming up in the business. You thought that was a good idea.

37:50

The heat don't like that. The Marlins don't like that.

37:52

Comfortable my friend. I don't like that you see seen

37:54

the jokes. He was

37:55

making the other day work. Ooh get

37:57

your ass out Every

38:00

song though in every movie. Yeah, what did he mean

38:02

by that? He hit me with I haven't been

38:04

here for the week Who the fuck is this kid?

38:08

Why is Jeremy Tashade telling me I haven't

38:11

been here for a week I was doing lots

38:13

of drugs

38:19

Jeremy wants to be executive producer

38:21

What the hell is that? Don't look at me for a month.

38:24

What the hell is Jeremy Tashay to speak to me

38:27

like this? I'll take it from Greg. You

38:29

have me with, you know, I know it. I knew it. Bishop

38:31

to Rook Nine. But what the hell was that from

38:33

Jeremy? Tony backed off, I noticed. No, no, no, I

38:35

didn't back off. I said, hey,

38:37

wrestling's not for me. Way too comfortable

38:39

there. Well, that's not what you were

38:41

saying before. My current time, it's not what you were there.

38:44

Today, Dan asked me how many people work in this

38:46

building. And I can tell you, with full certainty,

38:48

one fewer one tomorrow. Mike,

38:51

you are, you're unhinged and you're

38:53

power hungry and you're not, you're not projecting

38:56

all of this. You're knocking the microphone

38:58

around, uh, Billy and the

39:00

back row was wanted,

39:02

felt like to me, wanted to mock all

39:05

the wrestling things. You just

39:07

kicked Jeremy out

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of here. Billy just accused Tony of immediately

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backing off. They want, they have

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wrestling opinions. Yeah.

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So I, I like

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the spectacle that is a WrestleMania.

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It's always on Final Four. But it's fake, you know that, right? Yeah,

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jeez, are we really gonna do this thing? I'm

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just saying. No, no, please explain

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it to me. It's fake. Okay, cool.

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Good talk. But like you like it, how so? But you like

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it? Yeah, I think it's a stunt show, that's

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incredible feats of athleticism

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with storytelling, and it's just silly.

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You know what it is? I like to have a drink with

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some friends and root on the dudes with tights

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as they do stunts throughout the air and shit

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that legitimately hurts and they put

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their bodies on the line for entertainment. I mean,

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to me, it's not

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unlike some other combat sports. There

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are certainly huge performative aspects

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to it.

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No, you can like the thing no no it's not

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about the thing I'd

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argue you also follow a fixed sport in combat

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sports

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What

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I was gonna say is what I realized while my thing to get

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sensitive over I'm just saying

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I realized what it is both of you is you have seen fake

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now too. So you emerged fake come on I

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just asked the same company Jeremy

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Two minutes, it's your journey. Oh, wow It's

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I realized it. It's that when Mike was talking.

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I was like, oh man This is kind of like the characters at a

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kid's birthday party. It makes me sad That's

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what it is. Resting kind of makes me sad. It can

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make you sad It's cool. Like it's not it's not for

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everybody people believe this and that makes

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me sad also. No one believes it Forgive

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me I

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will continue this conversation in a second,

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but Stu gots and I have both at the same

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time received a text at

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the same time

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Stu gots It

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is Greg Cody. It's a boner.

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It's a boner. The guy's got a full blood.