The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Great Pole Vaulting Plague of 2002

Episode Date: August 6, 2024

Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Greg Cote, Billy, Jessica, Mike, and Roy. It's Greg Cote Tuesday, and we have a morning full of Greg and Stugotz determining who can and can't qualify to compete for certain countries in the Olympics... Then, we stick with our Olympics coverage with International Patty Mills, Mondo Duplantis, and how Jess saved Stugotz from the ire of Olympics Twitter. Plus, where were you during the Great Pole Vaulting Plague of 2002? Also, Greg Cote's latest family heirloom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Trademarks owned by Becle. SAB, the CV. Copyright 2024. Proximo. Jersey City, New Jersey. Please drink responsibly. Jessica, I'm a little worried about the chaos of today. We're trying to send Billy wants to very excitedly get out to his home school and they've got a big announcement today. But we've been having all sorts of video and technical difficulties the last three days and I just feel like things are elevated around here today and then Billy's going to leave in the middle of the day and we've missed him. I need Billy to stay long enough to

talk about the pole vaulter so. Mando? Which pole vaulter? There are two famous pole vaulters right now are there not? No yesterday was Mondo's day Dan you sound silly you sound like a silly goose right now. The other pole vaulter? Old news. Okay so big the guy who the guy who the guy who failed because his penis crushed his Olympic dreams, old news already? Old news. He up had his day. So this new guy, what's his story?

Billy, I mean, tell us about him. So his name's Mondo, he's the world record holder. He went to LSU, was competing for Sweden, and he was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, which I said, how did that happen? I found out his mother is Swedish, so I was like, is this like the world baseball class? You just get to choose where you're going to compete. So I started doing a little digging and then I read up, I believe, unless I misread, he chose Sweden over the U.S. because Sweden

agreed to let his dad be his coach and he's the world record holder, which by the way, bad job America. The best guy in the history of the world at an event and you're choosing not to do it. Yes. Yeah, no, well he spends. He's really good though. He spends half his time in Lafayette, Louisiana. He went to LSU.

Spends half his time in Lafayette, Louisiana, half his time in Sweden, depending on where, when the weather is good for training. Guy's just training all year long. Oh, I love pole vaulting. I forgot about my love for pole vaulting until yesterday when I was watching. I was like, oh that used to be me. Not like that, obviously. I wasn't a world record holder or anything, but that rush, the way

you see them go over the bar, the form. You fell in love all over again with pole vaulting? It relived my spark and I said, you know what, I miss this. And my wife said, you're never doing that again. And I said, yes, man. Wow. Rushing dreams over here. Sometimes you need to see something to be reminded just how much it meant to you, you know? Yeah, I mean, that's what happened yesterday, but I'm not in the best shape. And it's a dangerous sport.

It can be dangerous. I'm here for a book of Stugatz's wisdoms like that one when he goes deep into the life philosophy tree and just talks about gratitude and appreciation. Sometimes you have to be reminded. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Greg Cody, do you have any thoughts on pole vaulting? I have nothing but thoughts on pole vaulting. Does the pole ever snap? Oh yeah, it happens. Because what's it made out of? Fiberglass? Yeah, well carbon fiber also depends. So if it snaps, doesn't it send potentially deadly?

Shards. Shards and? Yeah, shrapnel. Well, potentially deadly, potentially, I suppose. It also, by the way, when it snaps, like the reverb or whatever, it's hard. Like it'll bruise your hands. Wow.

What was your best vault? You on meters or? No, let's, let's, Well this is what was your best vault? Um, you want meters or no? Well, this is what you have on Paul that thing your thoughts all of your thoughts on pole vaulting or questions for Billy All right. Let's just start the show. Greg Cody's not ready. Let's start the show. It's the perfect time to start This is the Don Leventhal show with the StuGuts podcast The Avatar Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show.

DraftKings, the crown is yours. Greg, I don't know what you think we do here on tuesdays exactly besides promote all of the things that you have a podcast and now a book we're going to be promoting that so i don't know what you think we do but just generally speaking if before the show we're wandering around as people who've done this for twenty years and you squawk at some point at some point fraud swede yeah and and so that's all when i think all cody's got something on

paul vaulting and so that i go to you when the show starts and what happened yes billy a question right now he's the only former paul vaulter among us i know bird but you had a strong opinion you had a strong opinion that i'm still waiting for you said you have a ton to talk about him on pole vault yeah Mondo Billy answer me this is Mondo another question although Swedish citizen if he spends half his time in Sweden half his time in US I would assume so I think you'd have to be a citizen to compete for the country I don't know about that okay but he was born in the US is that correct he was born in the US so I don't know about that. Okay. But he was born in the US, is that correct? He was born in the US. So I don't like

this where guys are born in a certain country and they're playing a sport for another country. It's ridiculous, it's absurd. It shouldn't be allowed. Mondo should be forced. This is your Olympic take now, guys. You heard that from Joe LMB? Yeah, I don't think you're aware of how much that actually hurts the US more. Okay, I'm gonna look this up right now. Okay, this is gonna be a bit of a gauntlet today. I'm just looking it up. I've got two people here. I did nothing. No, but the two of you are aggressively ignorant anti sort of things. Immigration. Okay, I take it back. He does have dual citizenship. Okay, he's got paperwork. Well that changes everything. That changes everything, unfortunately.

I still think he should be to uh... relinquishes metal relinquishes metal more legit than i thought it was why should he have to relinquish his metal well he's born in the united states that's weird so greg cody gets to decide what citizenship you have what nationality you are going to draw the line you know my grandmother was born in canada it doesn't make me Canadian. Sports are where you will find all sorts of things in politics. Just know that's the

America of the future if somebody wins. Just know that, yes, I get to decide who everybody's nationality is. Greg gets to decide. Me maximum. Yes, me maximum is going to be president of the United States. I'm just saying the Olympics began as country versus country. So it's the US athletes versus the Swedish athletes. I just want to be clear on some things, Stugatz, because I don't want to make these games geopolitical. They have been blessedly free of any sort of free-ish.

You have 35 athletes from Belarus, I believe. geopolitical they have been blessedly free of any sort of Free ish you have 35 athletes from Belarus I believe in Russia who are competing on a team that's been described as not a team All right, you know what you are correct. We will find any manner of malfeasance here that we can wrap a number of flags and sports absolutely does that but to have these two guys in here as the aging demo on what it is the olympic should be during the bet that what feels like that some of the best olympics we've had since blank like so that that they before

that it's been a while for whatever reason that america has felt like it gathered around the television set to care about pole vaulters it's been more than a decade yeah well the last olympics was swallowed by the pandemic and the twenty games were actually played in twenty one so i think we were predisposed to love anything that was actually taking place on time in front of huge crowds let alone in a cinematic gorgeous setting of of paris so uh... but i agree with you i think it's been a wonderful games well there's no disagreement to be had on that like there's somehow consensus about

like you'll dislike things here and there are you about things that they hear in there but you can find wonderful stories look man it's the best of sports in little cubes like it's it they are giving you nonstop stimuli. Mike Ryan yelled at me as we're starting the show, Patty Mills is going off. International Patty Mills is a problem. Might be a basketball hall of famer. He's a different player.

They're up 20 on Serbia right now in the quarterfinal. This is a big upset for Australia. Order on the poll is International Patty Mills, a basketball hall of famer at that show everyone gets in that which other athletes greg should not be allowed to compete for the country that they live in part of your full-time just so we know like right clearly which you know well as soon as your decisions this momentous have to be uh... vetted

and research i would need to be given a list but basically you should be competing for the country of your birth or the or the kind of your first citizenship in my opinion so if you leave a country because they have like an oppressive regime in you immigrate somewhere else you should have to go back to that country if you want to see the layers no i think that's an exception to the rule

okay so the rules said well It's good that you so you think you should change the rules But basically you think you should change the rules me maximum so you get to decide what an American is Well to the best of my knowledge Sweden does not have an oppressive Government or nation I could be wrong I'm gonna have to talk to my Swedish friends to determine that but i don't think that i guess by country then you get to choose by country like but it is your choice this country bad it is

you know is that i i i i'm happy to be the commissioner of the olympic while the athlete themselves needs to be a needs to be born in a certain country can't be the parents reagan just saying when he watches the olympics he wants to know that he's watching Americans when he's watching I mean under USA he wants to know they're all from the United States Soccer has no shot. I can't believe what's happening around me. You're We should change the subject. I have a question Greg. So like I I thought we could do this is spoof They're not playing the game correctly. I mean, I heard him workshop in a bile steak

Let's let's just go away from the gymnastics entirely Oh, I think the big story with Mondo by the way is the fact that he wants his dad to be the coach This guy is very good. He's top of the line right top shelf and what he does He's a mercenary well, yes, did you hear Billy's part of the story? The only reason that he's winning identifying the way he is is because he negotiated his dad as coach. I know and that's a terrible job by the United States of America. Like if Michael Jordan wants his dad to coach, you and I once said if it takes Maverick Carter coaching the Heat to get LeBron James, we would allow that. We would want that. And if this guy wants his dad to be

his coach, you're the United States States You let his dad be the coach I mean I think both of his parents coach him per the broadcast yesterday because his dad was a pole vaulting champion and his mother was a Heptathlete yeah Can I just warn everybody as as Marlon Humphrey is learning there is a whole different? Aggregation algo when it comes to the Olympics. If you guys decide to do show around Olympics, I don't think you're fully aware

of what you're stepping into. I think our Sweden numbers could go up, to be perfectly honest, good or bad. If they're gonna listen to us to hate us, the Swedes, you're welcome to, because we need to up those numbers. I believe that we need to feed off the hate. I miss feeding off the hate.

I don't want to be scared of being aggregated unfairly in the misinformation age. But I want to descend a little deeper into where it is Stugats and Cody might be taking us as men who are going to decide for all of us who gets to be American. I wanna play on this third rail for a minute because they don't realize how it is that they sound and i want to make them uh... alert to it but also play with it a little bit because of how

absurd it is what they're saying well i'm glad you said that because i almost did something yesterday and then i thought no this is mean i'm not going to do it and that was i saw stu gots' take about simone vials and it was it was starting to pick up some engagement traction on social media and I thought if I retweet this it might cross over to either gymnastics Twitter or women's sports Twitter and then he'll start getting some real hate like I think Dan would Dan probably wants me to do this but then I thought no I don't want to do this to Stu gots some people you know don't know Stu gots is doing a shtick

although who knows if that's a shtick or not I mean we will never find out. Whoa wait a minute you know. So I didn't do it. Penalty box for you. What? Penalty box for caring too much. To think uh to think. High shticking. I was worried for what would happen to him. Minor penalty two minutes for lying. Lying about the idea that that might have been a schtick Stugatz was doing yesterday. He absolutely believes that Simone Biles needs to be better. That's not schtick he's doing. We got the high schticking joke, so it's a win all around. All that matters.

In Greg's defense, I feel like Greg's argument really is everyone should compete for America. Not people shouldn't compete for America because they're not American. I think Greg's argument is everyone's American, so they should all compete for america not people should compete for america concern on american i think greg's argument is everyone's american so they should all compete for a man and it to make clear when i said that mondo should have to relinquish his metal that was before i learned that he did have

dual citizenship if if to me if if you're not a citizen of the nation you should not be allowed to compete for that nation in the olympics doesn't apply to anything else well it applies international competition of applies world championships and everything certainly doesn't apply to

you know teams and in leagues but uh... more power to mondo has a swedish mom that kind of thing you called him a fake Swede, more power to Mondo? You called him a fake Swede. A feed. Yeah, he's a fake Swede in the sense that he was born in this country, went to LSU.

Talk about it, you try a Swedish accent out at LSU and they'll run you out of town. Put it on the poll, are there any Swedish accents at LSU at Levitard show? I can't believe that we've- It depends on who Brian Kelly is recruiting. Yeah. No doubt.

I can't believe that we- Borky Borky Four Star. Are the show that descends into age so poorly that Stu Gotz is trending for ripping Simone Biles. Ripping? Just, yeah. All I said was stick the landing. I said she's the greatest gymnast we've ever seen. I love her. She's awesome. She did not deserve to win the vault. Did you see the balance beam last night? What

a nightmare. She fell off. She didn't win the gold. You need to stay on. The only girl who stayed on. I think it was the Brazilian. She won the gold. You need to stay on. The only girl who stayed on, I think it was the Brazilian, she won the gold because she stayed on the beam. Yeah. Yep. I mean, do you realize the amount of power and momentum that Simone Bowles puts forth on the vault? I do.

So you're asking for her to stick the landing. You don't. I didn't rip her. I watched a sporting event and I said I thought someone else should have won. What's the big deal? That was yesterday's take. Very strong. I appreciate your efforts. It's not shtick.

It is not. This is who this man is. This is who this man is. He thinks Simone Biles needs to be better. I want that to end up in USA Gymnastics Twitter. Summer's the best time to run the way you want. Dial it up with new challenges and programs and bring your workouts with you to make the way you want. Dial it up with new challenges and programs and bring your workouts with you to make the most of outside sunny days. There's no better way to do that than with Peloton. With Peloton, take advantage of how beautiful it is outside right now.

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I had a moment yesterday when watching the Olympics in prime time, which is like a rear of what happened during the day. So we already knew the results, but I hadn't seen it play out. And I felt almost un-American and I didn't like it because America benefited from this, but I felt very bad for Romania who did not benefit from this. And it was in the floor exercise where Jordan Childs,

I guess they made a protest to like go against it. Why don't you tell them? Can't do that. Well, it's terrible. They awarded someone the bronze medal and then they reviewed Jordan Child's performance on the floor and they gave her the bronze medal after announcing that someone else had won the bronze medal.

Can't do that. Correct. She was, I believe, in fifth place at the time and then there was a protest and then they redid the scoring and then all of a sudden she wins the bronze when there was a Romanian gymnast who thought that she had won the bronze and now has lost the medal. So America takes silver and bronze in where it looked like Jordan Childs was gonna finish fifth.

I'm confused, what's her name? Cause Sugat's called her something different. Yes, he put a D in there. Are you going former governor of Florida or former point guard for Knicks? I'm not sure what happened. I'm just glad I knew the details around the Florida guys. He's a big on gymnastics guy.

Thank you, I am. I love gymnastics. He's glued to it. I mean, his takes may be questionable, but he's watching. I knew the details around the Big on gymnastics Glue to it. I mean it's takes maybe questionable, but he's watching Charles Let me explain to the audience that the guy that did a job different every day Are those Bob Graham or something Bob Graham? I'll ask Billy Corbett when he's here Claude Kirk What Stu gots just did? during that segment, swaggering, is something that represents the lowest the bar has ever been put in this medium. Because he got the name

wrong and what he sang in only my headphones after doing that little bit where he had two sentences of information, he sang in my ear, watching the games, Dan. Yeah, well, I mean, is he? Because the Brazilian didn't even metal in the beam. Not retaining the correct information, not watching. He didn't say watching the games correctly, Dan. Just watching. He's got a Brazilian winning a medal that you didn't win.

Watching the games. So you got to be lowering the bar, but Mondo, he kept raising the bar, and oh my God, he pole vaulted over, I think it was what Billy, like 20 feet, 26 inches or something like that? What is like the, I mean Greg asked you this, but I'm genuinely curious, like what are most college pole vaulters clearing in competitions

that you've been at, because that seems unfathomable. Well, I'm eliminated from the competition when anyone's close to that. I get out very early if I even cleared the opening. I was not a good pole vaulter. Well, I don't think we've, I don't think that we have taken full advantage and Jess and Greg have tried really hard for some reason

to make you more of a pole vaulting authority than you're willing to accept. Well, hold on, is that supposed to mean? You know what, now thinking back, the last meet that I, and granted, I don't mean for this to sound as grandiose as it will, the last meet that I competed in was in one Lafayette, Louisiana, at the University of Lafayette, Louisiana. Home of the fake Swede.

Right, home of Mon- And I'm wondering- They just call themselves Louisiana right now. I'm wondering, no that's Monroe. No, UL Monroe, like no, Louisiana raging Cajuns, they don't want to distinguish Lafayette anymore. They are the University of Louisiana. At the time they were proud of being Lafayette, which I guess they no longer are, which they should be because they're home of the greatest pole vaulter to ever live. And Jake DeLonge. Now I'm wondering if a

little young Mondo decided one day to go over to the Sunbelt Conference Outdoor Championship and be inspired by one Billy Gill pole vaulting, not to say that I inspired the greatest pole vaulter in the history of the world. I'm just saying, it's possible that we crossed paths. He was a young lad at the time. I was wrapping up my career at the moment. It's very possible that a young Mondo was out there watching. Very, he's doing a lot of work in that. No, it's very possible. I mean, the University of Lafayette, Louisiana,

if you're gonna watch pole vaulting, would you not go to the Sunbelt Conference outdoor championships? Billy, what month was it? Cause he may have been in Sweden during that time of the year. No, we were, no, no, no, this was prime pole vaulting time. It was good weather.

They were hosting the outdoor championships. But were you winning? Wasn't in Sweden. Were you winning or were you? No, no. Why would he be inspired by the guy finishing 12th? Well just because he goes and he watches. No first of all I believe it was 7th if I'm going to state accuracy. Journalism is still alive and well. Let's report the facts. I

believe. Excuse me? 7th place is a tin medal. Congrats. I would have settled for a tin medal. 4th, 7th. Same. At that point you don't even distinguish. Yeah. After second. You're the top three or you're nowhere. Aluminum. Aluminum. But Billy, I've asked you several times and you're reading the question. What was the tallest height that you scaled? The best I cleared I believe was 14'2". Very nice. So it was about six feet shy of the world record, which is just one human being. The whole thing seems aggressive as an event. It seems a scary thing to do. That is not a small height if you get it wrong,

if the stick breaks, if you fall backwards. Like a lot of bad things can happen at that height. I missed the pads once. I landed in the metal box. Wasn't great. You know what my fear would be? Did you hear what he said at all there? Or you wanted to just run? Missed the pads once. I landed in the metal box. Wasn't great. You know what my fear would be? Did you hear what he said at all there? You just wanted to get to what you wanted to say?

Because there seems to be more on that bone right there. Did you hear what he said? Yeah, go ahead. You've been asking him questions about Howie Povolk. He gives you an interesting story and then you just moved right on. Well, I might have asked him to elaborate on that, so go ahead, Billy. Well, I mean, that's the gist of it You missed the pets. Yeah, I think I wasn't running fast enough So I went upside down and then I heard someone scream and I was like, oh, that's not that's not a good sound You're upside down the earth someone screams You knew before the scream you know before she did that something bad was coming. So wait, so wait, wait, wait. You knew before the scream, you knew before she did that something bad was coming.

Well I heard this scream, and I was like, uh-oh. And instinctually somehow, look, if you can see the pads here, so that box there is metal. Or at least the one I was using was metal. So I hear the scream, and I was like, that's not what you're supposed to hear

if you're doing this right. So I instinctually somehow spread my legs and caught the two side pads on my way down. No, like a split? Yeah, I opened them up to slow myself down. I don't know how I thought to do that. And it did slow me down, but I still hit the box. I completely destroyed my shoulder at the time.

I don't think I dislocated it. It was a really bad sprain. To this day, I still have clicks when I rotate it like this, because I had physical therapy and I couldn't do it. And at the time, and this is like the bad part, I couldn't drive because my car was a manual car and I did this to my right arm.

So I couldn't even drive with my left hand. I'd have to use my right hand to like switch the gears into place. So I just very quietly, because I was embarrassed by this, sat in my car and adjusted my seat till it was in a laying position so no one could see me embarrassed sitting in my car as I waited for a family member to come and pick me up

and take me to the hospital. That sounds terrible. I was watching this whole pole vaulting competition yesterday, Billy, and do they bring their own poles? Yeah, yeah, you have to take your own poles. How do you travel with a pole vault pole? I used to put it through the the middle window in F 250 so I would have it go out the back and then I'd have it like go very dangerously like lay on the dashboard and then go out the back window. I guess I mean on

a plane. Yeah on a plane I would assume you check it. There's no way that fits. Does it have a case? Like you would assume? Does it have a case? Does it have that you would get it. Does it have a case? Does it have like you would carry a billiard stick? Like you'd show up at the vault and you've got a bigger bag than, or cooler bag than others? Forgive me, I have a lot of questions as well. I was making fun of Jess and Greg for throwing you questions, but this story,

how is it possible that we, how is it possible that we have spent nearly 20 years doing this, 20 years in September, and that's the first time that we're hearing that story? We've been coming to you for poll vaulting information for two decades and never gotten that story. You guys didn't care about poll vaulting,

I knew it, I just kept the show moving along. By the way, Bob Graham, former Florida governor, not Billy, he was an evangelist. Yeah, that was strong word worked by you, Lawton Chiles, you make fun of Billy Corbin. You're our less politically adept Billy. Okay, I'm on that, I don't care. You mentioned Lawton Chiles,

I wanna get back to what Stu got to say. You wanna know how you travel with the pole? Yes. So they have containers that you can use. You can also get like giant like, well, we stored them in like the backs of trucks, which is not how you should be taking care of your poles, but like it's not, you know,

then the world, you could be at like a giant PVC pipe or something that you put it in. And then there's like a travel case that you get and you put it in and then there's different poles. You can use different poles for different heights if you want to. The poles themselves are made of different material, they also have like a different level of flex,

so some could be stiffer than others, it's like a personal preference. Interesting, so Dan. They're also scaled for like weight, so like you could do your weight. At the time when I did it in high school, you had to be under the weight of the pole, so like the pole was calibrated for like,

let's say 150 pounds, you had to be under 150 pounds, or that was the situation. So one time I was there, you had to be under 150 pounds or that was the situation. So one time I was there, I had to take off my underarm or long sleeve that I had under my tracksuit because I was overweight slightly. And then I had to go do a couple laps, then I reweighed myself, boom,

I was good for the state championship because I got underweight again. It's like luggage at the airport. Mm-hmm. Has there ever been an obese pole vaulter? That's common. What kind of question is that? No, just because I associate pole vaulting, he just mentioned the weight, I associate pole vaulting with, you know, slender

people and I'm just wondering if there's ever been like a really fat pole vaulter. Here's my other question, how often do you get to the apex and then fall backward? That happens, that happens too, and I think it happened at the Olympics and someone fell and banged their, that happens too. I think it happened at the Olympics and someone fell and banged their head on the track. I imagine so because that's a, you're 20 feet in the air and all of a sudden you're falling backward. That's terrifying. I gotta tell you when I got into it,

and no one cares about any of this, so we'll keep it brief. When I got into it, like it was a crazy time in pole vaulting where people were dying regularly. Like they then had to like change the size of the pads because it was almost like we were using like two high jump pads next to each other. And then people were going off the back, they were banging their head, there was helmets

that were being used for like a time. I wanted to get a helmet because I didn't wanna die, I was a young boy and then you know, my coach told me you don't actually get high enough to injure yourself if you fall on your head, so you don't really need a helmet. Since 1980, 20 people have died. I'm telling you, of those 20 people,

probably like 16 where I wanna say in the year like 2002. Billy, I believe that we may be the only national sports show airing today with a former D1 pole vaulter on it. So I'm so glad that you're here to answer all of our questions about Mondo, specifically has there ever been an obese pole vaulter? Yeah, correct. But really, I find this fascinating.

I think the best part of the Olympics is when there is some kind of niche sport or something that we don't listen to or watch really, and then it goes viral because someone does something crazy in it. And this guy, he, so Billy, correct me if I'm wrong, after you win the gold, you get three chances to try to go for a world record.

Is that how that works? No, he won, so like what he won the meat was it my understanding of what happened He won the meat so he's the only one that was left in it So like when you're the only one left you can just choose whatever height you want to jump at and he could he could have Kept going honestly because like he's not eliminated until he fails three times So like he could have gone for another world record had he wanted to, which when I was watching, I'm like, why don't you try to go like two or three inches higher and just keep raising the bar, literally. There has not been somehow nearly enough Greg Cody

in this first segment and at once. Did he find a fat pole, Walter? Way too much Greg Cody as well in this first segment. But he has just turned his computer to me with a single Google image of a obese person holding a pole vault. And that is his contributions to the segment as well as volunteering to decide on behalf of all America who should be American. When you're hiring for your small business, you want to find quality

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Please, I've got cruise control built in. It's called my right foot. It controls how fast the car goes. No button or steering wheel lever needed. Power steering. There's another one. Why do I want to give my power to the car? The power that I once had. The car is a ton of metal. I'm a damn college graduate. Stugats. Bluetooth, HD radio, satellite.

I'll take AM please, with Wolfman Jack talking through the static, and I'll crank the windows down so everybody can hear. I'm Greg Cody and that's how This is the down Libertar show with the Stu gods Juju can you put it on the pole, please? Has there ever been an obese Paul vaulter and also can you put on the pole? Did you miss the great plague of 2002 pole vaulting deaths because Billy is saying most of those deaths took place all in in one year and really he was a hero athlete here locally he is an

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there's going to be an announcement at FIU announcing a partnership between them and Pitbull. So then we were discussing, should we cover this live? And a lot of things have been going wrong behind the scenes. So I assumed we were not doing this. I in fact just told Danny, I don't think we're doing this today. But we are doing this?

I don't know, I'd like to do it. Roy, what were you laughing about back there? Jessica had sang a lyric from a song that starts with the letter C. I don't know if I can actually say it. Culo. Yeah, okay, she said it. Why couldn't you say it?

The C word, like what is that? No, not that one. Yeah, I don't know it's not right. Why couldn't you say it the c-word like what is that? What are we doing with this is Danny now canceling our plans to get pitbull I think Billy canceled the play well No, I mean some you know sometimes you have to be the responsible person in the room We have a number of guests lined up. We have weekend observations to get to we have liners to be ready Lots of things. Greg's in studio. I don't know how polite it is. Don't forget Game Time.

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There is a lot going on today and we're having technical difficulties. Now being reported that Tim Walz is the vice presidential candidate selected by Kamala Harris. Pablo Torre will be here in a few minutes to discuss that and some other things but greg cody keeps moving this computer and i've asked him to keep it in front of me because uh... what he didn't reveal to me while it is that he was pushing in front of me a photo of a clearly very heavy man pole vaulting is that that is premium photo extremely obese man pole vaulting ultra stock photos AI generated art of course and so it's not real and Greg Cody's

contribution to the segment was to find a fake fat pole vaulter after calling a gold medalist from Louisiana a fake Swede those have been your contributions to the show today so far. It's early It also appears to be a javelin it's up for debate. No, it says well It may be a javelin, but it does that the the the words say pole vaulting He just googled he just googled obese pole vaulter and what came back is the internet gave him somebody Who generated a bad pole vaulter is not real? Billy if I may, does it do the Anfield athletes feel like they get like the shine of the track athletes

overshadows them? Cause I feel like the Anfield athletes are having a hell of an Olympics between shot putting, discus, triple jump. I'm just, it's been a- Hammer throw too? Oh, the hammer throw. So satisfying.

Not the most glamorous of events, I would say, the Anfield crew. And also, I don't know how much of you watched yesterday. It's a very long event to watch. It can last for hours, especially when you have disparities in talent, where you have someone that can barely clear the opening bar and then someone setting a world record.

You can go on for four hours in one of these competitions. It's very long. They said yesterday it was over three hours between the start of the pole vaulting and like the final jump. And there was also an athlete doing high jump the other day. Apparently they go in like these little sleeping bags in between their jumps. Did you see this? This Ukrainian woman, she ended up getting the gold medal.

She like climbed into a little sleeping bag in between her jumps. Cause I guess there can be a really long wait in between jumps and they want to keep their limbs warm. It's very cute. A sleeping bag? Yeah, like a little Coleman sleeping bag. She can't stay awake? No.

To warm her legs. Oh, you only have her sleeping in it. You don't have her warming in it. Okay, so you have it. What else do you do? So you have it having no other uses. Like it just, so a sleeping bag isn't a warm bag. It's called, so you either sleep in it you don't have a warm in it okay so you have it else do you do so you haven't having no other uses like it just so a sleeping bag isn't a warm bag it's called it so you either sleep in it or get the hell out yeah but this is the Olympics can we do better than having the contestants bring their own sleeping

bags what are we doing figure it out figure out something a place where they keep their legs warm I made it a game show it's weird show the feud build a Motel 6 right next to the arena and have them get a room of their own, you know, sleeping bag. What weighs more, a shot put ball or a discus? This is a great way to cover the Olympics. Greg Cody just wandering in telling us who's an American and who's not and then just asking remedial questions about details from the olympics and then criticizing the people who don't perform as well as he would like them to perform has the same claimed any other people with the coli is this uh... still uh... is this still a burgeoning controversy yes it has also the shot

put is sixteen pounds in the disk is is four point four pounds so the shop but is four times the weight according to Google. It's 16 pounds? That's what it said when I just Googled it. It's pretty heavy. You know what? I had it being lights, I mean. Well, I didn't know it weighed that much.

I use, to give everyone perspective, I use a 14 pound bowling ball. And the idea that I could throw my bowling ball more than 10 feet. That does give everyone perspective. It does. It makes them understand that people who are shot putting have to be strong to throw something that's heavy. And that concludes our Olympic coverage for the day. Have you closed the categories for the

Cody Olympics yet? Because now I'm thinking maybe you do the bowling ball shot put. Oh wow. I am going to write that down. He's going to write it down. Look at him, working hard. That's a great – that's going to be the second best event that we've ever had. Bowling ball shot put. That's great. While we're at it then, and this is what he's dying for, it's the only reason he's here, we're not likely to get his attention the rest of the show. The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody is featuring an Olympics between him and his son, and I assume the best event is there.

The very best event in the history of Father-Son Olympics, I'm assuming we can find on the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody. Yeah, for sure. The last one we did was, and this is a first for the medium, this is a first in the history of podcasts. We went towing with a 57-year-old die. What is towing? 57 year old die. Okay, we were barefoot. We grabbed a small die. I call it dice. It's one dice. I still call it a dice. Officially it's a die. We grasp in our barefoot, in our toe, the great toe.

With your talon, with your rotten talons that Greg, that Stugatz has clipped the toenail, the great toenail twice off of. Your giant talon, you're rolling dye with your feet? We're not rolling it, we're throwing it. We're whipping our foot and propelling the dye down the street on my block. We have video of it to prove we did it. I'm not going to say who won, you got to listen to our podcast, but towing with a 57-year-old die, a family heirloom, if I ever get this Greg Cody Hall of Fame off the ground, you know that that die is gonna be in a lucite square case like they have for, you know, gold medals and, you know,

Hall of Fame baseballs and such. I'm surprised the die didn't get stuck under your big toe, your big talon. Well, and here's the thing. It's one of those small dye. It's not the big dye. How do you feel about the dye that are like six-sided or eight-sided that they have now? Oh, yeah, we don't know.

I guess it's a nine-sided one. No. To me, that's an aberration. Nice categories. Yeah, it was a hexagon or something. We like the classic dye. Yeah. The square die. One through six. Yeah. And you'd be surprised how far you can whip the leg and throw the die. You know, the key is you don't want to whip the leg too hard that the die falls out

of your toe before expelling. Can you please explain to me whether there is anything about these 1957 die that if I were holding them in my hand I wouldn't say that they're 2023 die? Like you say they're a family heirloom, you're throwing them down the street. Do they look, do die look, they have to be yellow. Do they look different from 1957? That's an excellent question and there's a photograph of me holding the die and it is way yellow keep in mind this die was white when i a you got the game delivered to me

uh... in nineteen sixty eight the spring of nineteen sixty eight and fifty six or whatever years later it's yellow yeah i like the color of on so he's yet like the color of arms so if you have it like the color of on brush teeth right away to paint yeah look at that the photo i've got the photo on footer somebody get that uh... don't look at that i'd love the way he does his job is just somebody getting ready and i don't get it but i just understand okay understand that

when greg cody walked in today there are so many things to talk about my asked him what it is that he wanted to talk about and all he said was me yeah just me maximum i want to talk about my podcast i want to talk about a book that i'm publishing they look orange they don't look like the color of unbrushed teeth they look like the orange dye uh... and basically what you're describing is a game of of rotten foot

throws rotten die which uh... which is a older which is a game of rotten foot throws rotten die. Which is older? Which is older and more rotten? Greg Cody's dice from 1957 or Greg Cody's feet from 1957? 1967. It's a 57 year old die. That die used to be white, bone white, and now it's yellow or as you call it, orange. Rotten.

If this is a quote unquote family heirloom should you treat this with a little bit more respectable you know we considered that consider that another beautiful question uh... you're in his wheelhouse he wanted so badly to come in here just talk about himself today to be the center of the olympic team this is that he was the center of the stanley cup final he misses not being at the center of the bible question for you greg uh for you Greg in regards to the Olympics and what we were talking about sleeping bags

Why don't you guys have a sleeping bag competition where you just maybe take a nap between you and Christopher? Yeah, also a follow-up question. How do you feel about the advancements in in sleeping bags? I don't know if you've seen them, but they have sleeping bags now. They'll go all the way around your head Yeah, you can almost wear like a hoodie. How do you feel about those? Yeah, the nickname for that is the suffocator. I'm not a fan of sleeping bags. At all? No. No. If I'm forced to sleep outdoor, it's going to be au natural. And I don't mean nude. I mean I'm going to sleep on the ground. I'm not going to lay on a mat. I just don't believe

in that. You're not going to use a tent? I mean, what if it's raining? You know what? Maybe I'm claustrophobic because I just don't like the idea of being zipped up in a sleeping bag. What if the zipper breaks? Then all of a sudden you're squirming around in a sleeping bag and you can't get out? They're thick enough where you really can't rip through them. So you're in a real pickle there, you know? I've never understood that expression. What's that?

Is the pickle the game of pickle? If you're in a real pickle, is where it is that you're stuck in a game, the game of pickle where someone throws a baseball, two people are throwing a baseball, the game of pickle. You're trying not to get tagged and that's the game. Where does that expression come from, getting in a real pickle. Nobody knows? Well, I mean, in this situation, if he's trapped inside a sleeping bag, it would be as traumatic as being trapped inside a pickle, I would think. It would be. Yeah. You know, I just can't...and the idea of a sleeping bag that goes over your head, what's the point of that?

Should we just call it... You can't see a bear rumbling toward you like Ron McGill with a buffalo marauding right through his tent. I don't want to do that. I'm in a sleeping bag. You can't even see the buffalo. The origin is apparently from William Shakespeare's The Tempest, but that's just the first result. And we got an AI-generated dude holding a javelin the last time we did that, so let me keep digging. I wish that Stugatsen said that. I wish to go. When you're hiring for your small business,

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