The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The Greatest Of All The Nuts (feat. Roy Wood Jr.)

Episode Date: January 29, 2025

Roy Wood Jr. joins the show to discuss his latest special, the death of retail leading to the death of communication, how prank calls are a young man's game, DEI elimination taking down big and tall stores, his experiences with Martin Short and Steve Martin, and the validation he searches for the most. Then, Amin breaks down what's going on in Sacramento with De'Aaron Fox before we get to the group's definitive thoughts on the best type of nut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is the Dan Lebatore Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Stugatz is down and out. He's gotten sick. This is a bad time to get sick. He's about to dominate Radio Row. Billy, are you ready for Radio Row? Because it is a bit of a crazed, manic, sprawling tapestry of nonsense that you guys, you go to the Super Bowl, you're rigorous, you are buttoned up as a producer, all you need is reliability from Stugats, it's impossible. He will not give you reliability and now he's sick. Well, I mean the good thing is it's the most reliable he is, many are saying, so I'm looking forward to that. I don't know what the hell he's doing. He's sick, but he's just kind of wandering about the office,

pulling people aside, having side conversations. I look out there, he's talking to Carl in the car. I'm trying to piece together exactly what's going on with him, because he was quite sick in there, but Narius sneezed outside once I see him kind of rubbing elbows, talking about brand deals with Cynthia and the like. I wonder if his form will say separated or married or what on it.

He likes to be chummy, man. That's why this is his nirvana. This is why it's a promised land. He just likes to slap people on the back, feel important, be important, you know, and God bless him. God bless football. That's what Metal Arc supports.

Roy Wood Jr., I will tell you, in Lonely Flowers, it's a new stand-up he's got on Hulu, it is getting great reviews. I don't know if he reads his reviews. He's a wildly talented stand-up. And your reviews here, you have felt how about them. Have you been reading these things? Because you're getting a lot of applause for being able to reinvent yourself here during the political, you know, after leaving

the Daily Show and having a business that's you alone. Man, thank you brother. I do read them. Especially the stuff on Reddit. It's two places in comments I respect. Reddit and YouTube, because those people got time. Like it's not the quick Twitter nonsense. It's gonna be a deep dive into why you suck and somewhere in

there might be a very justified critique. So I'm okay with that. Love or to hate it, it's out there. Hulu gave me my money, the check cleared, I don't care. How do you feel about it though? You say you don't care but these things require a great deal of care. When you do a special, it's supposed to be special. It's the height of your craft, is it not? You value it more than the other work you do. Yeah, because it's just me. Nobody can give me notes on it or anything like that.

And I mean, I just want it's weird. I didn't write the special to talk about loneliness, but the more I wrote, the more I realized all these jokes are just about, we're alone, bro. We need to join a book club or a sex party. We need to connect again. And that's where the thoughts just started flowing from. So I didn't really even delve. Surprisingly, I didn't really get into politics.

Like I had Kamala and Trump jokes when I first started out, but by the time it was time to tape in DC. I was a Oh, but you're you're you're a smart businessman and Writing about loneliness is such a great place to connect right now Roy What's changed over the last four years is kind of crazy people have been alone with themselves and gotten uncomfortable with that alone with themselves Because it makes them look at things that are like, whoa, I didn't know that was so. You know what part of it was to me is that something

as simple as the rise of Uber Eats and not leaving your house to go get better food, because like delivery used to be what? Pizza, sandwich wings, that was it. Now you can get a whole, like conversation food, you can have delivered. Sushi, take your ass out the house. Go get that.

Whole ass T-bone steak coming to your house. I used to work, shut out to Steak Out. It was a 90s establishment in the, down south that delivered steaks, solely steaks to the rich side of town. Like that was such an elitist thing. Now anybody can have a damn rib eye at their crib. You're supposed to go to the store, get bad service,

have a conversation and bond with people. And like I just think man, the death of retail was the death of communication. Put it on the poll, was the death of retail the death of communication at LeBittard Show? Stakeout is still in business. Stakeout is a Richard Dreyfuss. It's a Richard Dreyfuss movie. Like Stakeout is still in business. Stakeout is a Richard Dreyfuss. It's a Richard Dreyfuss movie.

Like Stakeout is a movie that, Stakeout is a movie I'd watch if Roy Wood was in it. A buddy cop movie. Yeah dude, I just think, like think about retail bro. Retail was the last spot when you would talk with a stranger. Either that or if you showed up to the game early

and there's somebody close to you in one of your seats where you're sitting. Otherwise, when do you just voluntarily talk to people anymore? So it's impossible to know where people are going. Jeremy is aggressive about meeting people. Oh yeah, I'll go to the mall and just walk around for a stroll and go into stores just to kinda talk

to people. I'll buy something for no into stores just to kinda talk to people. I'll buy something for no reason, just so I can talk to people that aren't in this office. Cause I mean, conversations with people in here. When I used to work at Golden Corral, there were people like you who would come in and just eat alone just to talk to the server. What you could do back in 98,

but now your server has eight tables and she's understaffed and somebody else's food is like, they don't have time to talk to us either. Like nobody interaction anymore. Bro, the strippers don't even talk to you anymore. They used to like come over and be like, why are you here, sir? Have you found that with the strippers?

Ah, yes, I know lots about that. Have you Georgia aquarium? Used to be a people business. Lonely Flowers is the new hour of stand up on Hulu and I will say New York Magazine calls it mesmerizing and brilliant. The New York Times says quote, Wood puts all of himself in this special.

And Dominique Foxworth, our favorite critic, has tweeted twice that it is perfect. Did you think it was perfect? There's one joke I flubbed, but other than that, yeah. I set out what I meant to do. Hey, we're lonely. Here's why we're lonely. Here's solutions to the loneliness. Here's where I'm lonely.

Good night. Those were the three beats of the special. Because I don't think you can get out there without talking about your own stuff a little bit. I don't think, I think that's disingenuous in a way. You know, I deal with that a little bit. Like I joked about it, but I did get invited to a sex party by two porn stars and I didn't go and then my mother told me all they were trying to do was connect with you. Like in what world does your Christian

mother have to point out the fact that you rejected connection? Essentially is what I did. Say what you want about weird stuff, but at least those people found their tribe. Roy, Dan read these very nice quotes from prestigious outlets and Dominique Foxworth. But to you as a comedian, these can't be the places where you're like, oh, I feel good that New York Magazine really like my stuff, right? Where do you find, I won't call it validation, but where do you find that feel good of, man, so-and-so really respected my work? It won't be now, bro. It'll be, I mean, it'll be like three years from now. Some stand up that I respect and look up to. It'll just be, you did your thing with the flower shit. And then they'll just walk off.

Like it'll be the quickest, shortest interaction and it will mean the absolute world to me bro. What are the ones that have landed? What are the ones that have memorable over time when you're getting the compliment from a comedian's comedian? Chris Rock complimented me one time on a Daily Show segment and it was something I'd done like two years prior. So the fact that that was like still sitting in his mind and he was like, well, first off, why are you at home watching the Daily Show?

Chris Rock, don't you have stuff to do? And I guess the answer is no. So... Ha ha ha ha ha. Sinbad watches a lot of comedy still. Sinbad knew who I was. I met him at a Netflix party. And like, that's one of the guys that I looked up to.

It was Sinbad, Carlin, Chris Rock, and Martin Lawrence, you know, when I started. And so that was really, really dope. I did a thing on Daily Show, man, this might've been year two. Dan, you might remember this. You remember when I did the, we took the black Trump, I wore a Trump wig, and the basic theory was that

you could take any Trump line and it sounds like a rap song. And we took a series of Trump quotes and created a full rap song comprised of nothing but actual Donald Trump quotes and shot a music video for it. And Martin Lawrence retweeted it. And then like, then on Facebook typed the whole paragraph about why this is good and what like really broke down. This takes me back to when I was,

and I was just like, wow, like that, those stand out like legit. I think that black Trump shit, I think it's still somewhere on YouTube or wherever, but I remember that one being one that really made me feel good. I mean, the magazines are cool. I mean, they're going to rip you one day.

They're going to like you the next. But when you get the respect of your peers and your people, you go see Chappelle at the stand, and he sees you in the room and goes, hey, man, go get on stage, please. That's more of a review and an assessment of your career and your worth within your craft. You know what I'm saying?

Like that to me, that will always mean more. You're saying those are the highest compliments, right? There are none higher, right? If Chappelle says get on this show where they're here to see me, what's higher than that? I think you're good enough that I will put you on stage in front of my audience. No comic is going to put on somebody

who's gonna lay a turd on the stage. So for me, that's the highest compliment that could be paid to a comedian. Roy, the opposite of that, do you ever get when someone comes up to you and says, oh man, I really loved that bit or that joke that you did. And you look back and like, oh, that was so sophomoric. And it was like, I'm so much better than that now.

You're always embarrassed by it. Every prank call I've ever done. On the radio? Yeah, well, you know, for the people who don't know, I did mornings for a decade, probably a mass two, three, 400 prank phone calls over that time. I put out three CDs and then people were bootlegging me

to death, like remember going viral over email? Like back in the day kids, when you liked something, you emailed it to your friend and then they downloaded it. They downloaded a random file from a stranger. And so like my pranks have found a second life on TikTok now with all the young kids who found the bootlegs on YouTube. And I don't hate on it. That's some evergreen comedy though, right?

Like that's my brother used to love do that. Like that's the playground. Whatever you were doing with those prank calls is about the most fun that you can have. Just anytime you pick up a phone, you're able to make comedy. Yeah, but it's also, I was 20 when I was doing those, 46. So people like, we'll find them on TikTok.

Hey, man, you should do those again. Nah. I was cussing out black people and like, there was a lady I called one time. She was in the, literally in the hospital attached to an EKG and I didn't hang up with her. We kept arguing. She was literally in the hospital attached to an EKG, and I didn't hang up with her. We kept arguing.

She could have died, bro. And so pranks are a young man's game, and I'm happy that people have found that part of my career, but that is the past. I'll never go back to it. I'll never do another prank. I think I did an episode of Crank Anchors 10 years ago. Even that felt weird.

Put it on. I just, like, but I love that the kids have found it and laugh at it. Like there's young TikTokers that have reached out to me. Is it okay if I post it? Yeah, post it. I'm not gonna copyright strike you. Monetize it. If you can figure out a way to get money off a joke

I told 25 years ago, so be it. That's how I give back for all the bootlegging I did. Pranks are pranks, a young man's game. Put it on the poll At LeBittard. That's how I give back for all the bootlegging I did. Pranks are pranks, a young man's game. Put it on the poll, at LeBittard show. The special, as I said, is Lonely Flowers. It is on Hulu. Let's play a clip here for Roy.

I don't know if we've selected a clip that he likes or he doesn't like, but he'll break it down for us. No, I doesn't, man. Afterward, let's see. Every son's dream, every child's dream is to retire their parents. You ain't got to do this no more, mama, I got you. Not realizing that we're creating a disconnect

for our parents. But I saw you work, I saw you bust your ass for five, six decades, and it's thankless. It's education, you ain't gonna make bank on it. So relax. You've done your best. Relax. I just talked to Trevor Noah. He getting ready to quit the show. I'ma be the host.

You can relax, mama. You can stop. You got to hit a lick, Jules. I had to call my mama back six months later. You didn't quit yet, did you? That is a fairly accurate representation of what happened between me and my mom. Have you gotten over it? Because I don't know that, like I was rooting so hard for you because I think you would have been perfect for the time and the place.

And with that support system, it would have been unbelievable. So I don't know. Has the sting of that gone away? Yeah, I mean, it was never a sting as much as it was. All right, y'all don't know what y'all wanna do. At some point, I mean it was never a sting as much as it was. Alright, y'all don't know what y'all want to do. At some point I'm never going to be working here anymore anyway. Like that's the inevitability of all employment.

So I will just leave now. And I mean bro, I'm blessed man. I got the Hulu special, CNN, we're back next month, and I'm in a movie with Keanu Reeves later this year Can you take that? Can you get me the name drop, please? I was hitting look at That's not a name drop I'm in a movie with Keanu Reeves It's not a name drop somebody's job. I'm in a movie. I mean, I'm always like being in a movie Look, look, there's of left. I just left Sundance last week. I was in Sundance with all the stars. I saw John Ham.

Look at me, Louie. Yes. That's both of them. Yeah, the rarest of things. Look at me, Louie and a name drop at exactly the same time. Are you doing John Wick? No, no, heavens no. This is, it's a comedy. It's Keanu Reeves and Jonah Hill. It's called Outcome. All I can say about it right now, it'll be on Apple Plus. All I can say is that I play a character that is essentially, imagine if Deon Sanders was a civil rights lawyer.

Why is that all you can say? Cause I don't know what is that all you can say? Cause I don't know what the hell else I can say legally right now about a film that doesn't have a trailer yet and I don't want to get in trouble with Apple. All right, that's a good reason. I'm sorry. See that's how people get edited out of movies

talking too much. I'm sorry. They got the AI, they'll take my ass right out and put in Anthony Anderson or something. No. Then you gotta call your mom again and say, yeah. Yeah, Joyce. Bad news?

Anthony Anderson. I don't know that you could have done funnier than Anthony Anderson there. What do you make of, because I did wanna talk some politics with you and I wanted to talk some sports. What have you been making of all the DEI stuff? Like I thought inclusion and diversity

and I thought these things, equality, I thought these things were positive things. I thought every, thank you, I mean, I thought everyone was kind of in favor of those things. Yeah, but I think somehow equality in DE and I, they've equated to welfare or a handout instead of recognizing as people as qualified or more qualified than white applicants.

Statistically, white women benefit the best and the most from DE&I. So I think it's going to be on them to lead the charge to get that back on the books once they get all unemployed. It's hard. I can't do it all by myself. I think it's that also, I think bro, there's gonna be like a downturn on harassment suits and trying to prove discrimination

in the workplace as well. Like it's about to get weird. I have a broader question about DE&I as we start eliminating initiatives and programs. Do big and tall stores fall under DE&I as we start eliminating initiatives and programs, do big and tall stores fall under DE&I? Put it on the poll. And should we get rid of them? Put it on the poll at LeBotard Show.

Do big and tall stores, I thought that these were the places that we could still make fun of people and we can go after men who are heavy, I know. Well, there's Lane Bryant. So I mean, no, stop, I'm not making a joke about, just we know what Lane Bryant? So I mean, no, stop. I'm not making a joke about it. Just we know what Lane Bryant is. I'm just saying, I know this to be so,

that these are spaces that are still allowed to mock men who are heavy and short. This is still allowed, I thought. I just, here's the issue. I'm at that weird threshold and Dan, I don't know where you are on your fitness journey right now, but I feel like you're you're like me where I'm Almost too big for the department store, but I'm too skinny for big and tall right there So I need a 40 32. I live there. I live in that purgatory 38 32 40 32 depending on the depending on the clothing designer, right?

And there's almost always only one 40, 32. And then you go, can you check your other stores? And they go, yeah, we got one five hours away, you kind of chubby bastard. So I either need to gain 20 pounds or lose 10. And I want to know whether or not I can sue these department stores for not carrying enough 4032s, because I think it's discrimination against my people. If a woman can sue Lyft for not being able to get in the car, I should be able to sue a department store

for not being able, you know. Roy, did you discover as I did that she's a rapper? Like from the news story. No. The news story is that rappers sue Lyft. They're like, you rap? I guess that's a great way to get your name out. Okay, well then I want her on stage with that other rapper that they keep wheeling out.

There was this name, Dave Bluntz. Put it with him. Dave Bluntz, that dude. Yeah, you know the one. I know. The guy, he sat the whole time, and he's a great rapper. He's so big that he stood during one of his raps and got a standing ovation.

Just for standing. I'm not hating. I'm just saying I want in on this inequality lawsuit game too and I think big and tall is gonna be my play. The other day I was watching Only Murders in the Building and I saw you in an episode and it reminded me of, I think it was either Greg Cody or Stugatt saying Martin Short and Steve Martin were both overrated as comics.

So I wanted to ask your opinion as someone who's in their sort of like career renaissance show right now. So bad. I saw, I read that script for that episode in season one and I think it's a five page scene that I'm in. There's probably a page and a half of dialogue that they hit once for the director, that the director gives them the Steve and Martin short Do Your Thing magic take.

And they did everything in that scene without the dialogue that was on the page. And it somehow still fit the dialogue that I had to throw back at them and they improvised all types of extra stuff and they didn't add a second of tape to the tape. The level of perfection, it'd be literally like if I told you to rap a song as written and then I say, now freestyle that same song, hit all the choruses, hit all the bridges at the exact same time, but use whatever words you want and make sure the song still says the same thing. Roy, when you're talking about what that mastery and that expertise is, I would think that

even someone as prolific as you would be awed and careful about doing the double Dutch with them when they're into the comic rhythms of we're going back and forth. I would find all of that intimidating. I would fall on the floor and want to leave the room. Double Dutch with them when they're into the comic rhythms of we're going back and forth. I would find all of that intimidating. I would fall on the floor and want to leave the room. Deathly intimidating. Like, they're straight up gods, bro, and they're like, okay, now you're in the scene and I'll talk about a cactus, and you're just praying you don't mess up.

But they don't let you feel intimidated by them. They have a way of disarming. Like, it's like they're, Steve Martin for sure, he's aware of how great he is and how great you think he is, that he will just kinda disarm you in a scene. Overrated why? Are we going stand up?

No, but it's wildly disrespectful. Look, you're somebody, tell me in your community, because I don't know where it is that comedians now who are getting success, who are younger, are disrespectful to whoever. Let's say Andrew Schultz doesn't think Seinfeld is very good and isn't shy about saying so and garnering the attention that comes from saying so. Do you ever see any of this beef in your world where you're like, that's disrespectful, young fellow?

No. Most of the disrespect that I see is about business. It's about, or it's about joke theft. Like if you look at Cat Williams and the grievances he had on Shannon Sharp, none of it was about, I don't think you're funny. It was more technical business related stuff. You cross me, you wrong me, you disrespected the game in some sort of way.

But just coming out and going, somebody ain't funny, that's not gonna be enough for you to build your career for 20 years. Anybody can get five years and stand up, regardless of your skill set. You can get a five year runway, but then as your audience's taste evolves, can you evolve with them will be the question,

and that's the true testament. So, you know, we'll see. Roy, Jessica asked you about only murders in the building that's one where you're going in with these comedy icons the opposite of that I guess would be Flatbush Misdemeanors where you're kind of the established comedian and you're dealing with younger guys who are trying to make their way what's the difference in doing one that one show versus this one? I think setting an example is probably the weirdest thing. You know, like, cause the scene I was in was with

Hassan Johnson, who, you know, we know as Wee Bay from The Wire. And, you know, he's a drama, you know, he does drama for the most part. So to be in a comedy with him was like, that was dope. But when I'm around younger comics, man, I'm just here to be a reservoir of advice. I remember when I first moved to LA, bro, in 06,

I was in this acting class and they have all the pictures of everybody who took the class before you. And Aisha Tyler was on there. And I sent her a disrespectfully long Facebook message, just, hey, give me the game you black on black LA hello It's a good ending though for him to say hello and then for it immediately to be good This is a message from sponsor into it turbo tax Taxes was waiting and wondering and worrying if you were going to get any money back, and then waiting, wondering and worrying some more.

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Now this is taxes. See if you qualify in the TurboTax app. Excludes TurboTax Live. Must start and file in app by February 18th. Don LeBretard. Billy, somebody has written in in here I need way more. I'm sorry. I just said in his headset haven't you been to all of them too? It sounded like you were speaking aloud my bad. 100% on me. Stugats! But that goes without saying.

Right. Well now he said it. Why, Greg? My apologies. Why, Greg? He apologized. Sincerely. This is the Don LeBathard Show with the Stugats!

Let me get some basketball from Amin. Show with the Stugats! Let me get some basketball from Amin. I just need De'Aaron Fox talk. This is, the Sacramento Kings are evidence of it is not easy to stay up there. Like you can visit, you can visit, but the Sacramento Kings is a franchise or a good example for how hard it is to stay up there. And now they're in a position where they're going to lose, I don't know if that's a bonus's team but they're going to lose somebody who matters to them.

Well Dan, it's funny that you said it's hard to stay up there. They were there for the briefest of moments. I make this joke all the time. They've made one play playoffs since the bush administration the one and i was the one two years ago and they lost in the first round the step curry in the warrior so uh... it's one thing to say it stay up there they i would even say they got up there they just merely

rose their heads ago over the water line of awful for a brief moment of gasp of oxygen and then back down underwater again and they blame their coach for it. I don't think that that was the right way to do it but I understand how things get to where they get and at some point you don't really have a choice. The coaching fraternity though really rallied around how unfair it was that Mike Brown would have more success there than anyone since Adelman and that they would turn around and be that unforgiving about forgetting about it. Well I'll tell you how that happens Dan. It's very simple.

It happens when there's two ways to handle discourse or whatever right. Guy comes up to you, someone in the front office, someone in ownership, someone in the organization who's not the head coach. Say that coach cement coaches kind of screw me over over here there's two ways and all it there's the way it's handled as salin most of the nba words like we have you know it's kind of messed up the he's doing that and which basically

gives you leeway all okay there's a crack here in the foundation i can criticize coach i can bring grievances these guys are on my side and regardless of whether that's the intention in the moment down the line this will happens what ends up happening is you have contradicted the coach you have undermine them even if you know he's doing a good job you reach a point where sacramento reaches doesn't matter if he's a good coach

doesn't matter if you don't go down doesn't matter if he's done a good job until now those guys don't are listen to him anymore and once they've lost that that kind of respect whatever it's over the other part is did the pat Riley ever get the edge i'd never get the edge and right then and there that's the decision it's at that moment very early on in the relationship between the coach the front office and the players you're telling a story there.

Did you guys understand his basketball shorthand for did you ever get the itch, I never get the itch, because I don't think any of you understood what he was saying, and you're the audience. The shipping container, does it have any idea what he's talking about there? I'm in Tummiak City right now. Can you, what, the itch?

Jack itch, I don't know. I know, but Billy didn't. No, it was good. Yes, you wanna explain? Sure. It's LeBron, it's Pat Riley. It's a moment in time where the Miami Heat are nine and eight and LeBron bumps Spoh on the court

and then asks Riley, do you ever get the itch to coach again, and Riley. Yeah, so the team's not doing great. He goes to go meet with Riley, talk about what's going on, what's going on, how can we be better. And in the middle of this conversation, how can we be better, LeBron asks Pat, hey, don't you ever get the itch?

Meaning like, do you ever feel like you wanna come down and coach, which is LeBron testing the boundaries. Like, hey, is this dude on my side here? Or it's like, yes, Bo's kind of messing up. Maybe I will. If Pat writes anything, like, yes, sometimes, but you know, like automatically you are validating this emotion that's coming across your desk. And legend has it, Pat leans forward across the desk and stares at him and says, I never get the itch meaning like don't even try that bullshit around me even if that doesn't get the edge

he wasn't about to admit it right there because he knew if he did eric spoushers now hall of fame worthy career over what season that is why we have this statue to pat riley here that is why we talk so much jimmy butler and alienate our audience. So going back to Mike Brown, Mike Brown I suspect because you can't get from hey this is the most successful coach we've had since Rick Adelman to a year and a half later get out of here unless someone has conversations of the itch variety. Maybe not like it's because it's not a i had coach and all but this is what

this is a lot about a lot in sacramento did d air and fox have anything to do with that and where does d air and fox thinking going then the in that playoff run that he's responsible for some of the success that they've had out there and now why is the air and fox wanting to play with in san antonio i'm not even put on d air and fox understained players were disgruntled and their disgruntlement was not met with well that's the coach you better march to his orders and then they figure out what man they're really

serious about this coach their disgruntlement was more likely than likely met with yeah i get it can be tough but that i like once you do all of that that placating it undermines the best coach they've had since Rick Adelman, right? No disrespect to Michael Malone. Now Fox. Well it is disrespect to him.

No, I think Michael Malone would say, look he did a better job in Sacramento than I did. Now Michael Malone would say they didn't give me a shot to be that great because I got fired very quickly as well. Jessica's stomach problems are now troubling me. I believe that she is sinking into her seat. Why do I have heartburn? It's 11 a.m.

She's going to, did you? Welcome! What did you have? What happened, what happened? She's on our side. A bag of deluxe mixed nuts. That should be okay, right? I don't know.

Just yesterday, like I asked the room, just aloud, I go, you guys' bodies just ache anymore, you guys not there yet. And yesterday I gotta, no, we're not there yet. I'm glad, today we're there, and I'm glad, welcome. Welcome to here. What kind of curse did Nick Wright put on me? Was it the shower or is it football for all year?

We're all stumbling, burping, belching to the finish line of football. Is it, are we sure, Jessica, you, I mean. I've been pretty backed up this week, stumbling, burping, belching to the finish line of football. Are we sure, Jessica, you, I mean. I've been pretty backed up this week, if that's what you're asking. It's just age, man. She's crossed a line that you shall never cross back.

Oh no. You are one of us now. I'm blaming Stugats for getting me sick. Where's Stugats? Heartburn is always the first sign I'm getting sick. Really? Yeah. Are we all getting sick?

Is that what's happening? No, you guys are getting sick. No, you're already sick. You told us this morning you were sick. You said that this morning? Yeah, he started the show with it. Why are you here? How do we get back to our plan?

You know why? Because Jason Kelsey, that's why. He's worried. We'll go to the Super Bowl with him. I had to get in and talk about Tyree Kill. I just had to. If you didn't, who would, you know? No, really, who would?

I am really struggling here toward the end of the show. Can you guys tell me all of the information that I need to know? I am ignorant on this subject. Is Madonna one of the great reinventers of my pop culture lifetime? Is she doing something with stand-up comedy that is a very bad decision by her?

This is why I'm upset that Roy never came back, because I wanted to ask him about this. Madonna is apparently friends with Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer was at The Cellar in New York and said to Madonna, hey, you should get up there and do a set. Madonna proceeds to do 32 minutes and bombs. Boom! And all I could think of was, 32 minutes and bombs.

And all I could think of was, I hope that I am never so rich, powerful, and successful that my comedian friends, in order to placate my celebrity, suggest to me, you should try standup. Hear that, Brad Williams? I'm not opening for you. Brad Williams is the star of the Greg Cody show you guys need to do something here Our audience needs to boost those YouTube numbers over there for the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody on YouTube They have Brad Williams being able to talk very very exceptionally little about a movie that he's in

what movie about a movie that he's in. What movie? The famous sequel, Dan, you know it. I suck with all these. Spinal Tap. There you go, that one. Oh! Spinal Tap.

I didn't want one of these spinal taps. Okay, it's a good promotion for your dad and his YouTube channel for you not to know anything. My dad wanted to talk Spinal Tap. I've never seen the first one. Oh, you would like it, I feel like, it's funny. It's great. Spinal Tap holds up. Wait, there's a Spinal Tap sequel I've never seen the first one. Oh, you would like it, I feel like. It's funny. It's great.

Spinal Tap holds up. Wait, there's a Spinal Tap sequel? It's coming out with Brad Williams. And Brad Williams is in it? Yes. You'll never guess the role he plays. What's your guys' favorite nut, almond, cashew, or shower?

I'm worried about you, and I say the cashew. The cashew is the best of the nuts. I will have no disagreement on this. Although the macadamia nut. I'm addicted to them. That's probably why I've heartburned. I've eaten probably 6,000 macadamia nuts this week. Well, the macadamia nut has an enormous amount of fat.

So that's absolutely what's happening in your stomach. You have put now an oily, there's an oily residue of, that is the fattiest of the nuts. But it's healthy fat, right? Dr. Iberfluss, I presume. I am your nut doctor. I'm picturing the nut getting into your stomach and you being like, hey, you give me the fat

and the nuts looking at your belly being like, no, you have the fat. It's Dr. Bento. No, I am Iberfluss the nut doctor. Well. I'm fine with that. He's an ENT. You're right about that. Glorious.

Why did he check my prostate then? Where did that come from? There was no reason for a glory hole there. You were just to send. It fit. You were trying to be part of the fun. It fit. Glorious.

I am a nut expert. I don't care who knows it. And I will rank the nuts for you if you like. The macadamia nut is the greatest of all of the nuts. If you're willing to do that, that fatty. It's aggressive. It's an enormous amount of fatty nuts. My father, the cashew is number two. I will not have an argument about this. I will not discuss it with you further. And number three is the pistachio. It is, that is the list. Billy, you have something that? No, I just, I like the P.

I like predates. That's a legume. What about Ds? Is it? Yes, it is. We normally do top fives around here, Dan. I did, I did it so aggressive, I did it in the wrong order. But yes, number one would have been Ds nuts. Yes, of course. That's what it is.

That's what we're thinking of obviously. What's number four? If I had done it correctly, no, it was now I have to do it the other way. Right, number four, the pistachio. Number three, the cashew. Number two, the macadamia nut. And number one, Deez Nuts.

Hey! I think we got it number five. I did it wrong. Pecan, it was pecan. Did you say your dad's a cashew? My dad is a cashew nut. Oh, wait. Is he a nut for cashews?

Yeah, he's addicted. I'm the nut doctor, you're a floose. My father loves cashews and went through a period where he was eating those Costco cashews. And that, like, do you talk about stomach problems? Because you're just oiling, you're just oiling your entire system. I feel like we're all Greg Cody right now,

just petering out. Honestly, I laughed so hard, I feel better now. My heartburn kind of went away. You feel like we're petering out, and all I feel like is a group of people staring at me as I press the gas on Nut Talk, because I can see that you're petering out. So now I'm pressing the gas.

But these are the best nuts and I will not have it disputed. Nuts are pressing the gas too. Yeah, apparently. Can you guys dispute any of what I'm saying? Any of you gonna make an argument on behalf of a nut to crack our nut top four there? I'd say like the morning time.

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