The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: No More Change

Episode Date: May 29, 2024

Content warning: part of segment 2 discusses depression and suicide. If you are feeling suicidal or in emotional distress: Please call or text the Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or reach out through chat by visiting 988lifeline.org/chat. We happen across one of the biggest revelations of the year as Greg Cote rats on his son for discarding coins, but wouldn't you discard something you hated the smell of, too? Then, Mike learns what happened to his sunglasses, and Dan needs to delete an endless amount of political emails. Also, we take a moment to discuss mental health in sports after Lexi Thompson's retirement from golf and Grayson Murray's tragic passing. Plus, Against the Spread featuring Seth Lugo, an old clip exposes Amin, Stugotz dismisses The Rock, Mike Ryan details rules the NFL should steal from the UFL, and we learn Greg's college nickname. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the Stoogats Podcast. You've heard me lament on this show something that I feel feels un-American which is there are many places all over the place where I cannot use my hard-earned American cash. It will not be taken by places that will accept it in a tip jar but won't accept it because they're card only on transactions. I want to ask a follow-up question to the group because I don't know how you handle this. What is your relationship at this point in your life given all of the inflation going on in the world with coins?

If many of you are not dealing with cash in general, because anytime I ask any of you if you have cash, the answers always no. What are you doing with coins when they come into your life? I'm keeping them because Dan I'm telling you right now if you hold on to the right coins for long enough eventually those coins will become very very valuable. It's like a two dollar bill. So where do you put them? Where do you keep your coins?

The two dollar bill also is valued at two dollars. No there are certain two dollar bills if you check the serial number, I'm telling you, it could be worth up to like $5,000. Okay, not true of coins though, and weird that you would be looking to parlay coins into the lottery. That's not the answer I was expecting. Where's a Trump coin that's gonna be

a pretty penny in one day? I hate everything about coins. I always have. I hate the smell of them. I hate the noise it makes in your pocket when you have change in your pocket. I hate the smell of them. I hate the noise it makes in your pocket when you have change in your pocket. I hate everything about it. I think, and if StuGots wants coins to be worth something,

I got a way we could do it. Let's get rid of coins. Guys, coins are worth something. No, I'm saying. They literally are all worth something. They're as good as money because they are money. We're operating at a deficit. It costs more to make a penny.

Folks, I'm telling you, if we get rid of coins, if we come out, everything's a dollar. If you wanna pay cash, it's a dollar, okay? What, in today's society, what costs less than a dollar? Why can't everything just be a dollar? You're an agent for inflation. I bought mustard the other day for 75 cents. Get outta here.

I thought it was a great price. Where? I was at Target. Exactly. It was the generic, it was the generic Target brand mustard, 75 cents. And here's the thing about yellow mustard, I'm not gonna use it all that often. So am I gonna buy a, I don't even know. Who's, who's? The cost per use, that is.

75 cents for a buck, whatever it is, a tube of mustard. If you're paying with a card, fine, charge me 75 cents. But if you wanna pay cash, it's a dollar. No more change. And I'm telling you, Billy says there already were something. If we cancel if if there was Like if Biden came out change is done

All change would all of a sudden be risk we Obama ran on change and Biden's running on no more change I'm telling you that I would vote for him. Okay, that's strange. No more change It's honestly because of the noise that makes in my pocket more than anything That's what the the other people say too. It's because of the noise they make no more change. I don't like the smell of it Stop talking I'm talking about the coins. It is incredibly privileged.

There are many people making minimum wage who are valuing every cent because they must value every cent. Even they want dollars. I'm telling you. I love change. What's wrong with you people? Change is awesome. I have a change jar next to my bed. I put it in, it counts the money going in. You know what's great? It's a great feeling when you have amassed enough change in your car and you can pay for like a Burger King drive-thru meal. It's fantastic. I just hate when I get home, I'm like emptying my pockets and I'm

just like, what do I do with this 14 cents? Okay, here's what you do. Dad in his kitchen has a big glass bowl. Wild Bill? No, no me I'm talking about the dressing Christopher a changeable a changeable Yeah, and it fills up and then like smells terrible. I bet there's always a paper clip in there random screw You could not pay me to smell that smelling my coin bowl exactly twice a year I bring it to Publix they had this thing that for a 10% I hate that coin star I bring it to Publix they have this thing that for a 10% I hate that coin star You can go to the bank I used to roll my own

Satisfaction Dan just arrived in the United States of America a 10% fee. Yes, Dan I was stunned by what Greg Cody just said you can go to the bank and not have a 10% fee or you could go to Publix and have a ridiculous gouging fee. Yeah, okay, my- It said 10% is fair. Greg Cody, my friend Priya, she has like an entire closet full of coins in her apartment, and she doesn't know what to do with them because it weighs like 30 or 40 pounds.

She's like, I don't know what to do with this. If you take it to the bank, you have to do it yourself. They give you the papers. You could get one of those coin counter thingies and it'll sort it all for you, but those cost money too. If we end change, that will be worth double what she has. To have that cut, first of all, Priya's a millionaire, she doesn't even know it.

Second of all, a closet full of coins, what? It's a lot of change. It's a lot of coins. Is she storing it for a rainy day? Does she think the economy's gonna collapse? I think they're just too, been too lazy to do the actual like act of getting it counted and taking it to the bank.

So it's just been accumulating and accumulating and accumulating for decades. But that coin counter machine, you get one of those and then you can play Scarface, that da da da da da da, and it just starts counting the money. Push it to the limit. Nobody's with me on the smell, huh? They have the fun ones that you see and you're like,

where's it gonna go, what is that? Christopher, you've always been weird. If I have like, my hand full of change and then like I give it away, that leftover change smell is, I just hate it. When Christopher first started driving, when Christopher's like 16 years old and he first started driving,

all of a sudden I'd be walking to my front yard and I noticed there were pennies and nickels and dimes all over the driveway You're lying. That's not true. You used to throw coins on the driveway. That is just not true. This is a big moment. You know I'm anti-change. Are you denying you did that?

I'm denying that I ever just littered our driveway with coins. Maybe at McDonald's if they had me two pennies, I'm like, get that shit out of here. There you go, there you go. What? I mean, hold on a second. The case is, hold on, it's building up against you. Anti-change, so is obviously something that an anti-change person would do, would just throw their change in their parent's front yard, and then you're admitting to doing it

at McDonald's. I've never done it at my parents' house. Oh. Jesus. You literally just said, I've never done this, and then five seconds later, you said, I've done this. I said, I've never done it at my dad's driveway.

I agree with you on the smell. Y'all, and at the behest of my client, I'm gonna ask him to stop talking. Imagine OJ. He's in court. Another voice. Murder at my house? Not at my house.

Never done it at McDonald's. Now that's a different story. There was one moment where I was like, I kind of miss OJ and it was when Sheffler got arrested. I was like, I would have liked to have seen this Twitter reaction video. Hello Twitter world. Hello Twitter world.

You know, it's me, yours truly. You know, sometimes law enforcement gets very overzealous and I don't know why. I think Scotty overreacted. Is that Doc Rivers? No, no, hello yours truly, this is OJ Simpson. Doc Rivers is like this. The over hit.

We have a little bit of a situation that I discovered a couple weeks ago on Mystery Crate that we may need to address right now. Mike just now was looking for a pair of sunglasses that he had. Yeah, what happened to those? Cause I had a pair of pit vipers here. They were my pair of sunglasses in case I,

like the lights were ever bothering me and they've been missing for weeks and no one has, I just assumed like either someone swiped them or threw them away. To be clear, the pit vipers, are these the wraparound, I have a dog in my bio Type of sunglasses. Yeah, the ones that you know are really in style now come with American flag Looks like you want to play volleyball in the early 90s

Maybe say like my pronouns are like up yours or something like that. I think you're taking this way too far They're just cool sunglasses. They are cool. I didn't say they're not cool. I'm just kind of What vote for no? What the hell happened to my sunglasses? I mean you're gonna love this. They are cool. I didn't say they're not cool. I'm just trying to clarify. Would vote for no change. What the hell happened to my sunglasses? Amin, you're going to love this. Let's watch this clip. Can we talk about something privately? We've got 20 seconds.

It happened the other day off air. Mike was really mad because his pit viper glasses were missing. Oh, no. No, no, no. We can't talk about this. Oh, do you know what happened to them? Oh, please talk about it. I don't know about this.

Tell me what happened to them. I don't want to get her in trouble, but Willow attacked them, so I had to talk about this. Oh, do you know what happened to them? Oh, please don't. No, I don't know about this. What happened to them? Hurry up, you guys. I don't want to get her in trouble, but Willow attacked them, so I had to throw them away. Oh! Oh! Oh, we said it. We'll be back.

Oops. That doesn't sound like her. How dare you accuse Willow. I found him on the floor one day. Oh, shit. You knew that? Me neither. He was so mad.

He's like, there's thieves around here. And I'm like, I don't want to put Willow in a bad spot, but I saw her eating them on the floor one day, so I tossed them. That would have been the last time I saw Willow. It was like, it was like, it was like two months ago. Mike is such a big fan, too. Yeah, he was a fan.

Incinerator. Whoops. I didn't say anything, because I didn't want to say it. That's a rotten thing to do. That's a really rotten thing to do. No, just to not say it. I think that the nice gesture is, hey, Willow accidentally ate your sunglasses.

Here's a new pair of pit vipers. That'd be the right thing. Not a new pair. You would have been fine with the news, though. Yeah, they were used. I would have been like, hide it from me. I mean, I said it out loud, and everyone just like, I feel like an asshole.

Like, I fucking said it out loud, and everyone just ignored me. And you all kept this cute little secret for mystery, I feel like an asshole. Like I fucking said it out loud and everyone just ignored me. And you all like kept this cute little secret for mystery, cray fuck off. We were waiting for the reveal on the show. No, no. Everything is content. All I want is my fucking sunglasses.

You know who should feel like an asshole? Everybody in here who's been like, oh the dog is here, oh my god, dogs make everything better. Oh my god, I wish we had dogs here every day. The dogs here every day would make everything better. Oh my god. I wish we had dogs here every day The dogs here every day would make everything better. Oh my god Look they're so well behaved Oh look at them, the dog is so well behaved Can we have another dog?

Are you doing a wicked, is that a wicked Is that a wicked witch you're doing? That's called the asshole who's right I thought it was Mickey Mouse Who's pulling together some money for a, why don't you get some of that change Yeah Mike, I will buy you get some of that change? Get me some sunglasses. Mike, I will buy you a new pair of pit vipers. I'm sorry on Willow's behalf that she ate your sunglasses.

I'm not mad at Willow. You should be. At all. You should be. I'm mad at everybody here that just kept the charade going on. We meant to play it for you the next day, but we haven't been scheduled on the same day

for three weeks. That's a very mean thing to do to somebody. That's property. You know what it is, Mike, it's the kind of disregard scheduled on the same day for three weeks. That's a very mean thing to do to somebody. That's property. You know what it is, Mike? It's the kind of disregard that people have when they think they can just bring a herd of animals into a studio.

You know that was my first COVID impulse buy? It was the first targeted IG ad that worked on me during the pandemic. Those pit vipers. And that shirt was the second, right? This one, no, this is one of the more recent ones. There are a number of appalling things that have been discovered over the course of this segment.

The idea that we just skipped past Chris Cote throwing away money and littering, like the combination. The driveway. The combination of them. Yeah, not the driveway. Well, you claim it's not the driveway, but I tend to believe whenever your father,

look at your father's face right now. Whenever he becomes indignant with a memory, and he's sitting here saying to you, I wish I'd taken photographs, but your father is insulted as a hardworking man who descended from Wild Bill Cody. He does not like the idea of just change being thrown as litter in his driveway.

He wouldn't make that up. I think he's misremembering. No I'm not and I picked up the coins. Of course, money for you. Yes I did. Put them in my coin jar. Throw them to Publix. Damn right.

Chris, how would he know about coins being tossed from the window if it hadn't happened in the driveway? No, because he knows that I used to have a thing with change where I wouldn't want it. How did, like, did he ever witness to you you I go coin and throw it out the window not at home I think I think it's happened at a drive-thru before he's been Yeah Who throws away coins?

Who does and who claims that someone, that an old man, would be misremembering something in a segment about him putting the gloves on the wrong hand? Thank you. Still a fine bucket? Thank you. Willow. Backstreet's back, all right.

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Is there back in my day? There is actually. Are you not going to tell anyone? Wait a minute. You guys. Guys. It's a Tuesday. Stugots. There is actually It's a Tuesday still gots here's your guy great Cody with back in my day Adultery! We are back! I can't wait for this one! This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats. I don't know if because it's, as Billy calls it, an erection year, this is getting worse,

what I'm about to say, than it has been. But I spend an inordinate amount of time in my day deleting email that is just an endless array of political junk that I've never signed up for, that it feels like someone has hacked my accounts and I'm being sent a bunch of stuff I don't care about. Mike mentioned a Trump coin earlier. An email I am now getting endlessly that we're gonna put up on the video screen that I had not seen until it started inundating my email box is this trumpinator bobblehead that is being sold because trump at this point

is trying to pay attorneys and i'm assuming these attorneys want their money up front because he doesn't pay for everything so he's got to get a bunch of different ways to sell a bunch of different crap is this happening to you guys are you guys getting i'm not talking about the text spam that we're all getting we're all getting a ton of of everyone's got our cell phone number and you're getting a bunch of political shit on your phone but are the rest of you getting no i'm

not lying i mean it's it might not even be dozens i'm talking about i might have to go through a hundred of these a day where I'm just killing shit And I'm unsubscribing from it, and it doesn't do anything to actually kill it They always find a different angle a different way to send it to you. Yeah, I'm getting emails for the Trump Bible, huh? Is this happening to the rest of you? Getting the text the spam text the spam calls the spam you I get everything how many bobbleheads by The spam texts, the spam calls, the spam, I get everything. I'm on some list.

How many bobbleheads did you buy? I'm more interested in the risk management masters. That guy looks like he knows what he's talking about. Is this happening to you, Greg? It is not, no, I must say. I get a lot of political things because in the past, my wife and myself, mostly my wife, have donated to an unnamed political party.

And so we get a lot of stuff asking for more money and more money and more money. But I have never yet been offered a bobblehead doll. Rent is too damn high, Varti. Exactly. Somebody did this to me. I'm assuming that I'm getting this because- You're blaming someone else.

I'm assuming that such a name- Are you a registered Republican? 100 a day is crazy. If you're a registered, I'm still a registered Republican. So I got a bunch of text messages that I have to say, variations of stop, also like I throw in an F word occasionally, depending on what's in the news. Are you also anti-change?

I am anti-change. Like the coin, seriously, if there was a politician, even if he were a Republican that said, hey no more change, I'm like, let's hear this guy out. Thank you! I had someone. Merrin Rogers became the VP, and his whole big idea that he brought to the ticket was, no change?

No change? All right, I'm listening. I had someone use my email one time. Not for long. Not for long. And that guy sounds weird. The president, just like his voice sounds weird. This is a healthy option.

They signed me up for UM Athletic Department updates, and I can't unsubscribe. It's just constantly happening over and over again. I feel like you need to have some sort of verification. You can't just blindly give out people's emails. Maybe next time, tell me where my sunglasses are. By the way. If you listen to Mystery Crit,

you would have known a few weeks ago. Somebody, I don't know who, has gotten ahold of our internal email, the list, because I get these emails from people and I'm just like, how did you get my email? Like, hey, do you want more followers on TikTok? Why are you emailing me? I get emails for you all the time.

Do you guys get emails for oddball? For oddball all the time. All the time, and it's like, Mr. Amin, you should sign up for this thing and i'm like triple your follower Chris uh one of our production people has put in the slack something from oddball and amin that is being alleged incriminates amin on the drew holiday take that he's been trying to offer context to all show let's get that video to see what it proves or what it doesn't prove and we're gonna get to against the spread in a second. But before we do that, I'd just like to get

Greg Cody's thoughts on Lexi Thompson retiring from golf at the age of 29, citing mental health concerns. There is a thing happening in sports now and I Associated as being led by Damar DeRozan and Kevin Love speaking freely and openly about mental health But something is happening in sports right now where people of an age some of them are like no stress levels not reasonable I don't want to work and live under these conditions. I've made enough money. I had a good career. I'm out at 29 because this isn't healthy. The obsessive compulsive way I have to live doing this thing doesn't make me happy enough. I have to go check in on my mental health.

I have to think that, pardon me, that when she reads that a PGA Tour golfer Grayson Murray about her age commit suicide and she's the same age very good golfer by the way this is not a marginal player 15 time winner in the prime of her career quitting on top and I give her immense credit because she's saying I can't let myself get to where I'm Grayson Murray to where the mental challenges and the and the mental weight on my mind. We don't know there are a lot of things that go into taking one's life we don't know how

severe her mental health issues are but she's doing something in her 20s that not a lot of people have done in order to have her mental health protected. And she has been very open and out front about mental health challenges. And she even took several months off, I think it was a year or two ago, to address this. So I'm not saying that she's ever had suicidal thoughts, but she has been very open about the mental challenges and the stress and all that. And the fact that she's taking had suicidal thoughts, but she has been very open about the mental challenges and the stress and all that, and the fact that she's taking a very dramatic way to deal

with it and to put her mental health first, I think is enormously important and a good lesson for other athletes and non-athletes to consider. She's won a major, she's been number one in the world. I always go to Dan with tennis players and golf players, the loneliness of that sport. Because just getting to the LPGA tour, swimmers as well, yeah, they don't really hang around with friends.

It's them alone on a golf course or a tennis court or in a swimming pool, left to their own devices, not really communicating with many, many people other than their families, and I always wonder just how lonely of an existence that actually is. Yeah, I thought of Ash Barty retiring in tennis recently. She's only 28 years old now, and Lexi Thompson

went pro when she was really, really young. And so she's had this entire career in the spotlight from just before she was even a teenager. I think she qualified for the from just before she was even a teenager. I think she qualified for the US Open when she was 12. So I can imagine that her career has been like very, she's been under a microscope from a very early age. Even like the one tournament where she was playing really well and a fan called in and said that she had taken the wrong stroke on a penalty like that sort of like super under a microscope type of thing with

golfers that I think if you can tell like she's just really needs a break there were massive expectations she was supposed to be what Nellie Korda is and she never developed into that but she still had a wonderful career. She won a major and she won over 14 million dollars. I always wonder though because we don't really understand how these people have to be built to get to maximum success. I know a lot of people complain about Carl Anthony Towns is complaining about every call and I'm like well he cares deeply about having success in his career and if you were undermined by in your line of work by something you might be upset too. The way that you have to care in order to be this kind of golfer and beat other golfers who care like that is so

obsessive that I would say sports are a mental health challenge. Getting to the top of sports is more mentally health challenging than a great many things in a great many workplaces because you have to beat other people for money, for livelihood, for greatness, and you've been trained as a child to compete against other robots who have been molded to get to the top of the country club through all of the competition of all of the people

trying to get to the top of the country club. I think all of it is challenging in ways we don't understand when we bark into microphones criticizing that Bobrowski needs to stop allowing so many rebounds. On ice. Like he's on ice, there's 70 guys standing in front of him, the puck is coming 112 miles an hour,

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whole by a 13-foot shark without any of her friends noticing. That's the weirdest part about that story. You're swimming with friends, you're having a good time, and then all of a sudden people are looking around and go, where's Shelly? Like, nobody screamed? Every friend group friend group has a Shelley though that if they go missing because a shark ate them whole you wouldn't notice classic Shelley exactly right yeah two gods she went quietly apparently if I'm swallowed whole by a shark you're gonna know it this is the done libertar show with a stew God two gods. That's right, it's time for Against the Spirit! And it is sponsored by DraftKringz. Stay tuned because you'll hear about all DraftKringz has to offer throughout the show.

DraftKringz, the crown because you'll hear about all DraftKrings has to offer throughout the show. DraftKrings, the crown is yours. Billy, kick us off. Last week on Against the Spread, I took the Panthers minus one and a half. Game one against the Rangers, I was mocked, I was laughed at, people said, "'What a buffoon that man is, he doesn't know Puck.'" Talks about rhinos wearing skates with sandals on the ice, what a silly.

And it covered this week, I'm gonna go with the Rangers plus one and a half tomorrow night against the Panthers. I'm not saying the Rangers are necessarily gonna win, but this has been a tight series the entire time and I think it's gonna be hard for the Panthers to win by two goals again. And that's against the spread. Against the spread.

The spread. No, I didn't like that pick. So you're betting for a close game is what is the bet. I think that it's not gonna be a two goal difference one way or the other. I think that that's what's gonna end up happening. Mike, who you got? I'm gonna take a game against the spread,

even though I like them straight up. They're an underdog. You can lay the minus 190 on Kansas City to cover the one and a half, or you I like them straight up. They're an underdog. You can lay the minus 190 on Kansas City to cover the one and a half, or you can take them straight up. I think this is a live dog. I like Seth Lugo. Kansas City's bullpen is crap.

However, he carries games deep into the seventh, and Minnesota can't hit recently. So I'm going with Seth Lugo. Against the spread. The gods bring us home. The Mavericks let the Timberwolves back into the series last night. Don't you dare let that get to a game six.

It's going to get to a game six though. Minnesota, minus five at home over the overrated Dallas Mavericks and Kyrie Irving. I have the Timberwolves minus five against the spread. Sorry Chris. The series price on that would suggest that the have the Timberwolves minus five against the Spurs.

The serious price on that would suggest that the books think that they have about a 20% chance to win that series. The Royals are somehow good this year. Baseball. That's not a mirage. It's a weird season. Also, I thought all the rule changes would bring about more offense

and we got like the worst league wide average in several years No one appears to be like super good outside of a handful of teams, especially the NLs confusing to me That's baseball talk folks. Yeah Stay with it. Stay with it. I mean I gave you some good stuff on that bullpen there. That's real good. Whoo. That's all I got This has been a bit of a frustrating day with the mean because he's been coming in and out he rushed in he flew in because he didn't like the way that we had framed

his drew holiday is a corpse analysis and he's been coming in and out of the show aggressively he's left again and i wanted to play this sound to him that wasn't when we caught him in the back of the car angry and upset lashing out at us it's from his show oddball it's everyday except monday does it with charlotte wilder this is in a more composed state it's his show he's in total control of what it is he says and how it gets edited so so he called drew holiday a corpse on this show now he denies that we had the right context around what he was saying because corpses somehow a compliment and here he

is on on ball and these are his true unemotional thoughts before the two before drew holiday played a game for the Celtics on what drew holiday meant to the Celtics I was pretty tough on Joe Cronin last week. I said, unless, a lot of people forget this part, unless we see what happens with what they do with Drew Holiday. And they did some with Drew Holiday, and I'd be the first to say, look, man,

I thought the Celtics way overpaid, and kudos to Joe Cronin and that Portland staff for getting value for Drew Holiday like that. Two first round picks. I thought Portland did great. From Boston's perspective, look, I'm consistent on this. I think a lot of people are excited about Drew Holliday because he's number one, he was a great player at one point.

He's an elite defensive player and a pretty good offensive player at one point, but I think that point is, we're past it. And people like scrapbooks. It's like when Carmelo Anthony went to the Lakers and when Carmelo Anthony went to the Blazers. I'm not talking about Carmelo Anthony's career. I'm just telling you right now, Carmelo Anthony is not the guy that you saw in New York and in Denver.

And the same thing here. I don't think this is the same Juholy that saw in New Orleans, locking up Damian Lillard and in that playoff series. I think this is an older guy who, I think he's still a very good defensive player, but he's not quite the defensive player he once was. And offensively, I don't think he's a great decision maker and I thought that was something that the Celtics really needed.

They needed a pure point guard and they still don't have one of those. Can I get a ruling from the group because Amin was in here all show today objecting to what it is that we were doing and it sounds like that's what he was saying. He was questioning the Drew Holiday. Giving up too much for Drew Holiday.

Did he leave because he knew we had this clip? I think so, because when I tried to get him back in, he's like, I got it, we're doing something right here, right now. Too long, didn't read. I want to get to something that's happening in the UFL that I think people are going to like if the NFL added, but before we do that, Stu Gotts,

I just want to show you a clip here. I want you to look at this video and tell me if you recognize this this photograph if you recognize Who this person is in the the movie the Smashing Machine? Do you recognize? the person who is Acting like a fighter in that photograph I do not but they are chiseled okay that is the rock what's in a lot of makeup in makeup that makes him unrecognizable in the smashing machine i've told you eight twenty four is probably the best studio

making stuff now and the rock is trying to reinvent himself as somebody who's got acting range and tackles things like depression and so he's doing it in a character that you will not recognize when he's on screen. It's so much makeup that he doesn't look like The Rock anymore. Benny Safdie is directing this. The Safdies have split up as a filmmaking duo and he's been trying to get this movie. Remember the UFC event where you went out with Masvidal and The Rock was there? He announced to the crowd back then that he was finally making this Mark Kerr movie.

And it's been a real struggle for him to actually have it made. And Emily Blunt's in the cast. This is The Rock fully going for it. This is him really going for some serious praise for his acting chops, for some hardware. This is a career defining role for him. I don't want that from The Rock. I want The Rock to be The Rock. I want The Rock to jump from buildings and save the world. That's what I want.

I end up with the acting, who cares? A couple months ago, The Rock went back to being like The Rock from wrestling lore. So that was hopefully a moment that could kind of change. I mean, he had some box office duds, some critical duds, so he definitely needs an uptick, and maybe he's getting it with the UFL. Hold on, we'll get there in a second.

He looks totally different, but he's still gonna sound like Maui. By the way, that's coming out in six months. What? Yeah, Moana 2, coming out in six months. I didn't know they were making a sequel. Disney is really good at keeping the animated movies secret. It's unbelievable.

Wow, the smashing machine, huh? Stugats is grabbing the campaign slogan of Chris Cody as it regards the rock. No more change. Rock, I need you to be the rock, okay? I don't need you to try and try and be something that's softer than change rock. I need you to be the rock. Okay. I don't need you to try and try and be something That's softer than a rock. I just need you to be what I know to be the rock It it's I'm laughing because the smashing machine was my nickname in college

I swear and it just it made me smile thinking of it It was so much fun to watch in the studio the wordless lighting of the fuse by Jessica and Mike trying to get that joke to Greg Cody and seeing on his face that he wanted to reject it even though it was a good joke. He rejected a my dick is hard joke from earlier in the show. I was about to say, he should have seen what they wanted me

to say regarding Stephenson. Ridiculous. You gotta draw the line somewhere. Think about how horny a trailing, like you're fading down with him on the couch and him just going, my dick is hard. It would have smashed, like Greg in college. He was too slow.

I saw that happening out there with him on the therapy couch where, honest to God, it was Chris Cote and Mike Ryan and they were third base coaches waving someone home trying to get Greg Cody to speak and Greg Cody simply refused to say. Just stopping on third. Yeah, just stop, he just stopped right on third and took a shit on the back.

Damn right. Like it's not just that he stopped on third, he squatted over and, but that was a very good joke. You in high school as the smashing machine. When you were the 25 year old Richard Gere. That's a fine. When you were the 25 year old American Gigolo. Right.

The UFLs, you got. Mike Ryan is the only one around here interested in it. Mike Ryan has just been collecting an assortment of fringe sports. Yeah, well that's very mean to NASCAR. Super. It's gonna be on prime next year. It's not just.

They made a terrible decision with Coca-Cola. It's not NASCAR, it's all of it. You are just collecting. Well I'm the voice of the voiceless, Dan. Like you guys over here, you pay attention to three sports and you call it a day. Someone's gotta pay attention to all these other things. I also gotta know that Seth Lugo is a really good pitcher

that sometimes takes games into the seventh inning and Kansas City's bullpen is kind of weak, so it's a real commodity, Seth Lugo. There you go. There's your Kansas City Royals talk for the day. You're welcome. I pay attention and I lose hundreds so you don't have to. Well, thank you.

And the rule changes, you're- Quite the sacrifice. If all these alternative leagues just exist to make the NFL slightly better because they're trying things that the NFL can adopt, I can support all of these alternative leagues. Well, I do have a bone to pick with the UFL primarily because it's the UFL and not the XFL. That is where my brand loyalty lies. Now, I'm very happy that the XFL defeated the USFL overall head-to-head matchup. So

we're entering the final week of the season. And another bone that I have to pick with the UFL is the NFL adopted the XFL kickoff rule. You know who does not have the XFL kickoff rule? The UFL. No sense. Zero sense. That's insane. Zero sense. But here are two other things that are going down in this sport that I think the NFL should steal. Number one, and I think Stugatz would love this, the Super Challenge. Oh wow.

It is a one-time challenge in which you can challenge literally anything. If you think the head official missed a holding call on what could have been a big play, you can challenge whether or not that official missed a call. That's a good rule. Amazing. You don't even have to explain it. One time per game? Something called the Super Challenge Stugatz is in. play you can challenge whether or not that official missed a call. It's a good rule. Amazing.

You don't even have to explain that. One time per game? Something called the Super Challenge, Stu gots his end. Yes. Is there a different flag for it? I mean... I don't... I've actually only seen the...

There should be. I caught like the Super Challenge once while Blandino. That's another thing. Is part of the strategy is, well, let's see what Blandino does with this. Just give him a file to look for something and he'll come back with something. The super flag is a red flag but it's on a pole and you have to wave it from the sideline. Gotta be smarter than that.

That name will always be funny to us, right? Blandino. And the other thing is the two worst teams in the league are actually playing this week and the UFL has decided the winner of that game gets the higher draft pick. The winner, not the loser, will be rewarded with the top pick in the draft and the top pick in every round.

That's good. We have to mark it to the times and the fact that it's an important political year. That super flag has to be somebody wrapped in the American flag. Just maximum patriotism is at any point I can. That's the USA and Belden. That's it. That's what we need to do. Backstreet's back. All right. Since the dawn of mankind, we've cooked our food over an open flame

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