The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Kick His Ass on a Bowling Lane

Episode Date: April 30, 2024

Today's Crew: Dan, Stu, Greg, Chris, Billy, Mike. Greg Cote is thankfully okay after a spill and joins us in studio to reveal the bruise to his face. We discuss his bowling game and why he wants to challenge Hall of Fame receiver Cris Carter to a bowling match. Plus, LeBron's Lakers career could be over, but will LA draft Bronny to keep him around? We discuss where his next move could be and how he could once and for all convince Stugotz that he is better than Michael Jordan. Plus, Netflix is hosting a live roast of Tom Brady this weekend and the upcoming Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fight, Stugotz has an update on his book and explains why Andre Dawson took a baseball bat to this head in one of the chapters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. What a perfect, perfect symbolic ending to LeBron's Laker career, possibly. Not the loss, just that at the end of the loss, he dominates the landscape by giving a non-answer to a question that is the only non-answer he can give that will result in us talking about LeBron after he's been eliminated,

and other teams are headed to the second round because the league has been taken over by other people for the first time in a long time. It's a welcome change but in the short term it's going to be bad for the league. Not in the long term but ratings this year this is not good that all your stars are out and the league has been taken over and the next revolution is here. In the long term it'll be good but not not this year. But before we go any further, Greg Cody damaged his face considerably. I don't know that I've had a friend, maybe Izzy Gutierrez, in my entire life that has had a face as busted up as Greg Cody's looked yesterday. And we have a song to commemorate. You love Jimmy Buffett. You

recently saw a memorial concert at the Hollywood Bowl because of how much you love Jimmy Buffett. So I imagine you will love this song. Drippin' off, it's these deck shoes This is a lovely bruise Or maybe I fainted, I woke up confused Tony, this is a lovely broom. The Phantom of the Opera mask that you are presently wearing, you bought for how much on Amazon? I think it was one of those weird numbers, $6.39 or something like that. Yeah, but next day delivery man shows up in a little package and when the package has my name on it, it just makes my heart flutter with joy

because 99% of the packages we get have my wife's name on it. It does feel great to get an Amazon package, like to track the package from the warehouse to your house, it's fantastic. I feel special, honestly. I know. It's why Bezos is the richest man in the world. God bless him.

Worth every penny. Even after giving up 50% of his stuff. I was still reacting to the God bless him part. Yeah, worth every penny of it. Convenience, man. He's selling convenience. Look at you. I'm telling you, and this thing, it's as sturdy as flimsy plastic can possibly be. That's right.

We will have a reveal in a second here, but let's go back to yesterday because it has healed some since yesterday. Let's look at the picture that we have of Greg Cody that has been now, you know, that's been a day and you've gotten all the clicks that you wanted from embargoing the information on what happened, you threatened to take Chris Cody out of your will, if we took the clicks that you got from revealing how it is your eye got that way. But can you tell us now for the people who have not heard

the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody? With, yeah. Fine. Yeah, it's all over man. It's all over the country Well, I took a spill I took a bad spill and I face planted on asphalt And that's what happened. Did you feel it coming? Did you know? No, you just passed out from one second to the next without feeling like a wooziness or a light-handed He had a coughing fit so he stepped outside like he does. I'm pretty much done the chronic cough thing, but I did have a little bit of a coughing

fit just before that, but I was not aware of fainting, of passing out, of falling. One minute I'm walking to my car with my heavy bowling bag in my right hand, and the next minute I'm down on the floor, barely conscious, and I say barely conscious because I'm supine, and hearing what sounded like disembodied, distant voices hovering over me. And thank God one of them was Christopher's voice. Pete That's something worth thanking God for. Pete The detail here that was here now that would have been worth giving the clicks to the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody because of how truly pathetic a detail it is to have in the middle of this.

You walking somewhere with a bag with your bowling ball. Yes. Ha, 14 pounds. For your? Actually, I take that back, 15. Wow. That's a big one. That's a big ball.

Yeah. No doubt. Do a lot of damage. Yeah, you can. The ball okay? You know what, the ball's okay. All right. Yeah, yeah.

For your weekly bowling match that represents the last vestiges of any athleticism or competitiveness that you still have in your soul? It's a league bowling thing Christopher and I it's a family league it's Christopher and I his father-in-law Michael and then a family friend it's it's a wonder I look forward to that weekly bowling league like none other. Dan that's unfair have you seen this man kick field goals? I mean that you're welcome. I have and he heard seven years ago. Well, that means there's nothing you can do to prevent injury.

I know, but that would end his athletic career. I said the last vestiges of his athletic career and he comes back with the, let me make a correction here from seven years ago when Greg injured himself trying to kick a field goal that ended his athletic career. Yeah, but he's still out there bowling. I mean, right. And bowling requires athleticism, believe me. Put it on the poll, please, Juju. Does bowling require athleticism, believe me?

Hell yeah. That's the whole talk show. That's right. The Duke. How'd you bowl that day, I think? I think that the most important question. How did I bowl? My bowling game is mediocre. You're about a 150, right? I am exactly a 150 average and you know I'm capable of bowling a 200. I'm also capable of bowling a 112.

You know, so I'm all over the map. Very inconsistent. Chris Cody, can you please play the Lord song of the last time where we buried Greg Cody's entire career as an athlete I've never seen Cody in the flesh but he sounds like he's 80 years old I know he's not proud of how he dresses In an 80s shirt and a 70s haircut But on the show he's like knuckleball curveball I can hit a home run Kershaw Verlander don't matter who is throwing I don't care

I'll hit them 400 feet in air And then great Cody's like I can take D, Wade and Bosch I'm the double team, find the open man And even if they're guarding me I don't care I'm draining threes from everywhere And I can kick field goals Like my idol Faudreville's I'll hit from 50 yards at least. Even though I'm missing P.A.T.'s, I'm good enough to place wagers. And win the money from Lebatard, and then I'll...

Ow! I think I just bought my quad. You did actually pull your quad, right? I did, yeah. That was an injury that required doctors doctors care, did it not? Well, they took me into the trainer's room at St. Thomas Aquinas. Chris Carter heckled you. He was mocking you.

Chris Carter did heckle me, you're right. CC. I forgot about that. Nice detail there. But, no, that quickly healed. I'm going to tell the audience I'm putting all the heat and panther stuff in the local hour You will find it an hour from now at the moment I want to cover some of the stuff from last night so local hour is officially an hour from now. Yeah, okay

Hmm, I'm just you know, that's official. It's been How dare CC mock you what do you think he bowls now? All he does is catch touchdowns. I mean, yeah, that's true. Does he bowl? I don't know. I challenge him. I challenge Chris Carter to a bowl. Wow. Wait, hold on. Look straight at the camera and do that I'll find it. I challenge him to a bowl off Just hold on a second, let's see which he looks so menacing in there. Yeah The wooden thing here. All right right here this wooden that's right now go ahead There we go right there you talk to Chris Carter so that we can send this to him Chris Carter

I want you on a bowling lane you and me Man to man wait a minute wait a minute that sounds like you've offered to have him to take him to desire him on a bowling I am gonna kick his ass on a bowling lane kick desire him on a bowling lane. I am gonna kick his ass on a bowling lane. Kick. That's right. Because it sounded like you wanted him to lay down on the bowling lane.

Eh, you got a dirty mind. Let's try it again just in case. Yeah, one more time. Take two. Chris Carter, you mocked me when I pulled a hamstring trying to kick field goals of st. Thomas Aquinas And now I challenge you to a game of bowling I have no idea why but I challenge you to a game of bowling just you and I a

Thousand dollars to the winner whoa wait what? It's fronting that Dan's gonna front me on that no all he all he does is throw strikes. Mr. Meadowlark Mr. Meadowlark is gonna Put up my thousand dollar bill Do you guys do the same thing when you hear the name? Well, he called it flawed ravies I thought it was I've always pronounced it flawed Reves Yeah, yeah, but do you guys go the same place mentally than I do? Because there's

only one place I go with the frau- when I hear the name Fouad Reves and it is not football, field goal kicking, or being good at anything that he was good at that I knew about. It's something he was good at that I didn't know about, which is that the Vikings had a defensive tackle, John Randall, that everyone in the league was kind of scared of. He was terrifying. He would celebrate his sacks by crawling around and pretending to urinate like a dog on the quarterback. And John Randall was a menace in his own locker room. And one day he went after Fuad Revez, in his own locker room, and one day he went after Faud Revees, Faud Reves, who then ended up putting him in like a figure.

Do you pronounce the Z? Actually, I think it's just Faud Reve. Huh. Are you French? I don't know how to pronounce this man's name. I put a Z on there. Faud Reves. Reves.

Faud Reves. Chavez Ravine. That's right. Yep. Yeah, that's exactly right. Regardless, John Randall was locked up in the locker room in a way that he had to tap out because the kicker... Oh, you have that story. Excellent. I didn't know you had that story. I heard on Friday from an informed source that Fawad Ravez, the kicker, reduced him to tears in the Vikings locker room. Fwad, true or untrue? Well, let me say this.

It is true to a certain degree. It's true in that he always liked to just jump on people from behind and just give them a hard time. And he did that to me, and being that I was a former wrestler and I was able just to wrestle my way and to put him into a lock, into a position that he could not get out of until he was able to beg for me to let him go.

So needless to say from that day on, a lot of my buddies just gave him a really hard time. Begged, made John Randall beg. So awesome, yeah. It's Mike Ryan. I've been watching sports for a long time now. As an adult, a lot has changed. A lot has changed since I turned 21 in the world, but once I was able to enjoy sports with the wonderful tastes of Miller Lite, I knew that there was no topping this.

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Don LeBretard. He called me on my own podcast. He called me full of shit claiming that I'm faking interest in the solar eclipse. Well you do do this. You love to just get excited about everything. OK, Junior. Stugats. I had to school you and explain to you. He was going to take you to Augusta. When I was 17 years old, Alan Sherry and I used to haunt the Bueller Planetarium.

This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats. Let's go to last night, Stugats because a handful of interesting things happened. During the day, a report comes out that the Lakers are open to drafting Bronny to keep LeBron around. Funny. It is funny. He's going to be able to make a decision as the oldest player in the league gives him

options and allows him still to do what he wants to do because still he is somehow his own economy and then they lose last night to denver denver is a worthy champion i would say to you lebron james lost last night but lebron james doesn't generally deserve to lose. His team is very good. He's still very good. He ran into a champion last night and the champion finished him because Jamal Murray is now getting

into these situations where he's been in enough of these games that he could be the second option that makes the shot because everybody's worried about the other guy and when i say the other guys to god someone ask the group here tom brady's the standard in all of sports for people had no idea how good he was going to be how could no one who's an expert at football

know that was going to be good but i think this is the standard in basketball now this guy in denver joke is and i've not throughout sports but in basketball a guy who made everyone look like a fool because how could you not know that he was this good how can nobody know that there was a guy who didn't deserve to be drafted in the first round who was going to become as dominant as anyone you've ever seen and in the game last night

he's the guy you know is going to win you know his team is going to win because he makes excellence look boring i'm asking you man of genobly used to be someone like this who made at the hall of fame from the second round of the spurs were said to be good at this but i don't think i can find anything in basketball that vaguely resembles close to what do you mean one of the best players ever. Nobody had any idea he was going to be any good. Nobody had any idea that he'd be a starter in the league. Like how is that even fundamentally possible when you have experts analyzing sports

all over the place. Even the Manu comps, while I see why you go there, it was just a different time in the NBA where it was harder to sign those guys. So Jokic was more of a true eval at his draft spot. It's considering the resources that go into NBA and how just different it is to scout that, you could stack up where he was drafted. It's not quite Tom Brady's sixth round tier, but it's actually pretty close when you consider how much the NBA has developed their scouting arms. But to Dan's point, this is a second round pick.

It's not Dennis Rodman. He has a different skill set. Now that I'm thinking about it, how did every team miss on it? Like the fact that he might turn in to one of the great players we've ever seen because that size with that skillset. Not drafted though, the game was also very clearly headed in a different direction and you could understand how people weren't exactly sure

how he'd fit into it. Now he fits into it like a glove. Well, when you say the sport was headed in a different way or different place, positionless, this part's fascinating to me. The Boston Celtics suffered an injury last night that will end them if he cannot play against the teams in the West because the four top seeds in the West can all beat the Celtics, but the Celtics are better with Porzingis, but they

need Porzingis. They need they have Horford. If they know they have Horford, but they've got a real size problem. If they go into the deeper into the postseason and have to face Denver, have to face Jokic with a size problem. Like you don't want hard. Someone ends up beating the nuggets. It'd be shocking to me. Just given what we've seen recently, no one's really had an answer for him. How do you go about stopping them? I'm asking because I'm genuinely curious

because I don't pay that close attention to the sport to know or even comprehend what the book is on stopping Jokic. This year's team is actually better than last year's team that won the NBA championship. And the reason I say that, Mike, you and I have talked about this guy for a while, but he's finally coming into his own. Michael Porterr. Is the reason the nuggets are a better dad

No, I disagree was so good last night. He's been so good all season. This is where I disagree with you Okay, Michael Porter was good all of last season and then was what there was the worst starter in the finals That team is not as good as it was last year because Bruce Brown and Jeff Green matter and their bench is light and young that that team isn't as good as it was last year is still very good Minnesota can beat them can you guys look up for me the box scores of the last series Minnesota and Denver played against each other last season because Minnesota is also a good deal better and Anthony Edwards is here for stardom and Rudy Gobert does have the kind of size that somehow doesn't get taken off of the court now

in the first round and Minnesota can absolutely beat Denver, but Denver last night what they did with Jamal Murray had LeBron James after the game I want to play this sound because Stu gotatz, this question is so easy to answer if you actually have made your mind up and don't want to create the hysteria that he's going to create by specifically answering it this way.

This might be the end of his career. This might be the Laker career. And this might be what it sounds like because this is what the endings have sounded like every time he leaves tonight was there any thought at all that you know this could have been your last game with the Lakers I'm not gonna answer that appreciate it what a perfect final act. Well done. Yeah.

The pause, the pause said more than the no comment. The no comment said more. Full smirk. There were three things he did there where it's like, yeah, if I'm going to go into my off season, I'm going to do the move where I neuter some of the criticism on television tomorrow morning by getting them to talk about the transaction and my next stop. I'm going to, I'm going to turn the volume down just a little bit on how much they criticize me for leaving, or for losing, because I'm going to titillate them with leaving. It's so good. It's such a good move.

It's a veteran move by him. And almost immediately come the leaked reports. The Lakers are open to drafting Brawny and giving LeBron what he wants at this stage in his career. And I gotta say, just because you're accomplished and you wanna bring your family along, that's kinda whack, no? Yeah, but it's the ultimate power, like the ultimate flex. Jess, you're long in the tooth,

you've had a nice career in your industry, and you insist on bringing a family member around, it's just, I could never. Mike, he's 40 years old. He's going to be 40 years old. If he could convince an NBA team to draft his son who has no business being drafted in the first round, that's the ultimate flex. Mike's right though, it's unprofessional. Mike's right, you shouldn't do that.

No one thinks he's as good as you do because you're just related. No one wants to see this. You're biased just because you love the person. It's not about their qualifications. It's not about merit. That's supposed to be a meritocracy. Sports is supposed to be a meritocracy. Lebron has talked for 10 years about wanting to play with his child.

This is not a... You shouldn't work with your... Tom Izzo played his son, Father. I mean, I agree. It's nepotism, you know. You shouldn't work with your son. You got here a little late, Greg. We were already doing that. It was really more of a barb and Dan. No, no, I took it. I absorbed it. The reverse nepo. And then I realized... I saw it was directed at me, but while I did it, I was staring at Chris. I was like, why am I on the camera right now? But last night, Stugantz, I'm telling you,

the Lakers are good, and he's still good. Like, that's. Oh, he's great. Yeah, he was really good. He was really good down the stretch. Going to the cup, getting Aaron Gordon out of position, and taking advantage of that. Going to the line, doing the LeBron things,

and you realize that even if it's not Jokic making Gordon out of position and taking advantage of that, going to the line, doing the LeBron things. And you realize that even if it's not Jokic making the buckets on the other end, his presence just absorbs so many bodies out of there that Erick Gordon can win a one-on-one against LeBron James and rip it away from him. Or he can go up and get it himself and turn a mediocre possession into one that they get two to three points on. And Jamal Murray's finally, he's getting healthier and healthier with each passing season.

I don't know if he's ever gonna be bubble Jamal, but to be the, he's exactly what they need to be that guy down the stretch. He wasn't supposed to play yesterday. He was begging him to play. He should have sat out. Yep, hit the game winner. I have some advice for LeBron James.

Me and Greg were talking before the show. I think this is a great final act because Dan, when you think back at his career and you think about what he's chasing and who he's chasing, and that's Michael Jordan, of course, LeBron has won championships in the South. He has the South covered. He has won in the Midwest. He has Middle America covered. He has won out West with LA. He has the West Coast covered. He is one out west with LA. He has the West Coast covered. Whoever loses between the Knicks and Celtics, okay, in the Eastern Conference Championship is where LeBron goes. Because if he goes to one of those teams, okay, and he helps them win a title, Boston, can you imagine he wins one in

LA and one in Boston or the Knicks? Oh, my goodness. I think people, Dan, he would have the entire country covered and I think people might start saying that he was better than Michael Jordan. How about that? Stugats is right. The King of New York, LeBron, the King of New York, that's the apex of a mountainous career. I just want to be clear on Stugats' takes on this because he can be wildly, wildly inconsistent. You didn't want him on the Kn next when i asked you six weeks ago you

simply flatly stunned me by saying you didn't want him on the next night and although but i don't know that was them just a month okay yes that was that and now you are saying i've been saying meaning you for the entire time leBron's been alive, he's not as good as Michael Jordan,

but he will be if he comes to my team. No, not his team per se, the region. Well, no. Region. Yeah, but New York. He said Boston. No, but Dan's right, I was thinking next. But he has to win one.

That's right. They have to lose and he has to win one. So only winning one for you will make him better. Winning one for me is like winning 10. That's right. They have to lose and he has to win one. So only winning one for you will make him better. Winning one for me is like winning ten. That's right. Discover the extraordinary with echo the spectacular new show by Cirque du Soleil Opens May 8th under the big top at Toronto Lakeshore Boulevard West Tickets at Cirque du Soleil calm the world is yours to create echo Thanks, it's presenting partners on life and its official partners Air Canada and MasterCard Don libertar. Yeah, we got to go back out there. That was big

Wake him up He doesn't want he doesn't want to be bothered anymore now It's getting tense because he didn't need that as a result. He needs something Can we bother are we bothering you right now turn on your microphone my microphones on Stugats paint the scene the paint the scene is I gotta go to work good night This is the done. LeBpe show with the Stugats. Pablo Torre is going to be here in a moment. He is tackling a topic on the next Pablo Torre Finds out that I believe everyone in this room

will be interested in as soon as I present to you the subject matter I happen to be talking about the thing he's doing in the kitchen with a few of my friends recently it's a story from 1973 in sports that I would love to happen today just to see how people reacted because i'm certain you guys are going to be interested in the subject matter at some point during the show today we're going to reveal whatever it is that greg kody's face looks like now he wants us to do it now because he's finding the six dollar and thirty nine cent purchase on his face to be uncomfortable and so he wants to take it off now should we just get it over with because we've got a couple of uh... i'm gonna say on

anti-climactic announcements to make around here today because stugatz is botched another thing and he's taking advantage of the fact that nobody is in charge around here anymore that uh... all of a sudden mike ryan has left his position to just snort hockey all the time and now Stugats got, you know, he ran Witte out of here because Witte was just tired of loved everything about the job except trying to corral Stugats. He's going to make Billy fundamentally insane. I mean Witte would wake up one morning expecting me to be in studio and I'd be at Shoreline Amphitheater watching Dead in Company. That's part of the problem.

And so last week, last week, because he needed a travel day to get to not Detroit. Detroit-ish. Detroit. He needed, that would have actually been a better way to do it. Detroit would have been a better way to do it than the way, I know that you did it parenthetically by putting the entire Troy in the way Tony did it, but the way that Greg just said it would have been the way to do it just Detroit and there's for you like a faux Detroit funny Detroit adjacent but still got to need two days to get to not Detroit yeah so he had to

be out Wednesday show and Thursday show and before leaving Wednesday pulls me aside me I'm not the planner and tells me all the different ways that the book has to be announced last week and reveal the cover and he's not going to be here and do it last week and so i did it last week you did and now he wants to do it again today because he says today is the reveal of the book of the book cover and i just don't think this is the way to make announcement you weren't supposed to do it last week i was just checking on inventory i was making sure the cover was here i was making sure the book cover and I just don't think this is the way to make announcements. You weren't supposed to do it last week.

I was just checking on inventory. I was making sure the cover was here. I was making sure the book is here and it's here. And I was gonna make an announcement. And so you weren't supposed to do it last week. I appreciate that you did it and you're about to do it again. How about that? Look, bang for my buck.

Why would I do it last week unless you told me? Like why would I announce something with the cover and formally and bring it out and do the whole thing if you hadn't told me to do that while you were away except you weren't supposed to do it so early and today was the day we were supposed to announce it. I was waiting for a co-author to be here with me and I have one in studio, his name is Greg Cody. Thank you. I mean Thank you still waiting on your forward by the way. It's a great looking book. Thank you

It is that cover is spectacular. What did you what'd you have to pay the league to license the Lombardi Trophy? We mentioned this last week's we think you have a liability issue here that you don't know about that You've just done some things that you can't just sell as if it's you know You got a licensing agreement with the four major sports. I think the good people at Random House who have been at this for quite some time, they know what they're doing. I mean, I have a book deal with Random House. That's true. That would argue the other point then.

Plus, if you look real closely on the football trophy there, it says Lombardi T like they get around it by just slightly misspelling Lombardi Detroit is brilliant. Yes. Yeah, it's Also that's not scale on the trophies, but that's nitpicking You're gonna critique the cover Well, it's just we all know that Lord Stanley is much larger than the Lombardi Trophy. Now, if you wanna make the Lombardi Trophy the same size as Lord Stanley, I'm all for that, but it's just not accurate. What's the announcement?

Is it just what the cover looks like? So the announcement is now through Thursday, okay? If you go to stugotsbook.com and you pre-order the book, you're gonna get an autographed copy. You're also gonna get a special insert, a decal. It's very cool. Instead of a book worm, it's a book snake. How about that? Oh, that's very clever. If the World Series trophy were the same size as Lord Stanley,

it would have impaled somebody by now. That is true. You're hung up on this. It would have poked somebody's eye out. It's just very, there's a reason why practically it is the size that it is, but for your personal record book, unless in your personal record book all the trophies are all the same size. Billy had a great idea yesterday and perhaps, I don't know, I wish I would have done this, but all the people that

contributed, Greg Cody being one of them, Mina K tim kerch and i thank all them stan van gundy Billy, wants all their names on the cover of the book but he wants them in order Like the biggest name at the top the smallest name at the bottom Biggest name is in most famous Yes, i suggested to him that he says by stugats and and then just a series of ands and they just continue to get smaller as They go down on the front of the book so that it looks like it was by all which it was by all of these people Yeah, and then you're also like going to upset whoever it is. Their name is laughs. That's a great idea That's a better cover than the one that we're announcing right, but that's a nice cover though, right?

No one asked Billy Stu gots that's better than this, are you sure? Well perhaps I'll find a place for it. That's a funny joke to go, and are you, is the smallest name, are you going to insult somebody by making the smallest name the most famous name? Like if it said Dan Lebatard as the smallest name, or Greg Cody, like what's the funniest

joke to make the final name in the smallest print? Well that's what we were working on is who would be the smallest name. Stu Gatz decided that he was going to have Andre Dawson be the smallest name. He's the MVP of this book, I am telling you. I wrote a chapter about how Andre Dawson has absolutely, absolutely no reasons to have an MVP. You cannot have an MVP and be in a last place team.

You can't do it. And so I called my friend Andre and I told him my take and I asked him to write a rebuttal and did he ever. Well, he took a bat to my head, Dan. Everything there is true except for the part where Stugat says I wrote a chapter. Well, what did you say to Andre Dawson? They're my takes.

What did you say to him? Also the my friend part. Well, I said Andre, I need you to do me a favor, I wrote a chapter, it's called. No, how did you thank him when he sent you that lovely chapter? Well I sent him a, I told him he's not the real MVP. Like I said, you're the MVP of the book,

but you're still not the MVP of the National League for the Cubs, that's what I said to him. Billy, can I, I know that we- Paul got right back to me. I know that we have a long history of Stugats just doing truly, you know, shameless. F long history of Stugats just doing truly shameless. Felt like Billy was setting him up for something there. For a story he told me yesterday,

which is he said that he told me, oh thanks Andre, I love this, you did a great job, also you still shouldn't be the MVP. Well that's what I did, yes, that's what I just said. He's not the MVP, I mean that team won like 47 games. Hold on, thank you for writing a chapter on that. Hold on, hold on. Let me just explain. You can't be an MVP in a last place team.

Hold on. Let me explain to the audience. You can't write a chapter. Did you send them a carafe of embalming fluid to thank them? Let me explain to the audience what just happened. Mike Ryan and Billy are tossing to Stugatz a story that says all over it for everyone to see, hey Stugatz, be Stugatz and tell the Stugatz story. And Stugatz forgets how to be that Stugatz because he's too busy being this Stugatz, famous author of a book and getting to the story I was getting to, of all your shameless acts, there are legions

of them. I don't know that there's one that runs through me quite as icky as the idea that I'm pretty sure the only time you talked to Andre Dawson in any capacity was at my wedding and that you asked him to do this for no pay while insulting him is just one of the great shameless acts. And now that you will profit off it while not paying him and call him your friend, it's just, it's delightful book snakery. Everybody go to stugotsbook.com where you can get all the kind of true stories told by others about Stu God. Well thank you for the great promotion Dan and the kind promotion I appreciate it. He said yes he did it with a smile on his face and I've done way worse. I know but just I mean Mike Breen was on hold during stupidity while I went over to interview Jake Paul. I mean he thought my electricity went out. Jake

Paul minus 180 against Mike Tyson. Really? I wanted to bet Tyson. What? Big money on Tyson. Yeah, that line's actually come down. Yeah. Last I saw. But you saw now it's a sanctioned fight, so maybe that changes the math a little bit.

It's a sanctioned heavyweight fight, and I did want to ask you about this because I think it's going to be a giant thing. And I've been fascinated by the stuff Netflix is doing. I don't know when this Tom Brady roast is. This Sunday, yeah. Belichick's one of the roasters. Is he really? Yes.

Belichick is one of the roasters. Yep, Edelman, Brinkowski, Belichick, I think Drew Palenso is in there. Oh man, this is okay. So now you're putting some expectations on it for me. I hope they don't patriot it by being the patriots. You want Belichick to be. Oh, I just, I mean, they're attempting comedy, right? I hope they don't patriot it by being the patriots. You want Belichick to be...

Well, I just, I mean, they're attempting comedy, right? The Roast is a great format. I would love to see what Tom Brady is doing with all of his branding the rest of his career. I've told you guys that I'm fascinated. Like I'm hugely fascinated by the economy of Tom Brady versus LeBron James, paint manning over here. Hey, let's make stuff. I bet you I can do something late in career

where I might be able to make more money than I made playing. Let me make stuff. And you know what else I'll make? A whole lot of money because I'm competing against LeBron and Peyton and all of these guys who are now fighting at the top of sports.

These guys, it's so fascinating what's happening in this business. These athletes who have stormed it all of them realizing wait a minute I could just use my fame in a microphone and in Paul George's got something on the side where he doesn't need any media ever again for anything because he's got his own platform I could speak directly to his fans and he's figured out what Draymond Green has while still playing let me go get that money now because holy shit there's more money after as shack and barkley

will show you than there was playing the athletes don't need us anymore we talked about all ten years ago they don't need us so the part that's fascinating about the making of stuff jake paul is the younger version of this he's just made a giant event in boxing he created that from the sewer but that's all self-made that's you too but yeah and he said he's gonna fill a football stadium in dallas fighting someone and we're gonna watch and boxing has now become whether you like it or not

it's circus freak town this is what we want not the boxing fan not the purest the spectacle and young person, Jake Paul, about a thousand miserable, questionable things around him, but very little governance, fights Mike Tyson, and people are gonna watch it, and I find it interesting, and I've got a very strong chance

of being hugely loud wrong, because I, wanting to believe in 57 year olds because I'm almost one of them might be underestimating that the betting odds are hey Jake Paul's young and strong and kind of a good boxer but I'm like it's Tyson I would not fight him in 90 he could be in hospice dragging a dialysis machine and he will strangle me to death with its cords well your logic is winning This is not just some old guy, this is the 57 year old guy anywhere in the world whose fists I would fear more than anybody's. Hey it's Mike Ryan.

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