Hour 1: The Beauty of Me

Summary

Summary of "The Beauty of Me" – The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Release Date: June 23, 2025

In the episode titled "The Beauty of Me," hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz delve into a variety of engaging topics, primarily centered around sports, particularly soccer and basketball, while also touching on societal issues such as the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and the evolving landscape of hospitality services. The episode is peppered with lively discussions, insightful commentary, and interactive segments that keep listeners entertained and informed.

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1. Spotlight on the FIFA Club World Cup

[01:55] Dan LeBatard:
Dan kicks off the episode by highlighting the excitement surrounding the FIFA Club World Cup. He shares his enthusiasm for the high-stakes matches, mentioning a recent game between Bayern Munich and Boca Juniors that drew an impressive crowd at Hard Rock Stadium.

"There was a packed house on Friday for Bayern Munich vs. Boca Juniors. Those Boca crowds at Hard Rock Stadium have been incredible." [01:55]

[02:44] Stugotz:
Stugotz engages in a deep dive into Inter Miami's prospects in the tournament, discussing Lionel Messi's pivotal role and the club's aspirations leading up to the 2026 World Cup.

"Whether Messi will be a part of it, whether Messi will be in the new stadium... it's an investment toward that time at Soccer in America." [02:44]

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2. Inter Miami, Messi, and the Growth of Soccer in America

The conversation shifts to Inter Miami's performance and Messi's influence on both the club and the broader American soccer landscape.

[03:28] Dan LeBatard:
Dan analyzes Inter Miami's chances of advancing beyond the group stage, emphasizing the strength of their competition and the significance of Messi's contributions.

"Inter Miami, which in that game they were carried by Messi. Messi had a spectacular goal. If they get out of this group stage... it's something to be worth celebrating." [03:28]

[05:18] Mike Ryan:
Mike underscores Messi's impact, recalling his signature goals and their inevitability against goalkeepers.

"Messi had a spectacular goal... Goalkeepers know it's coming. It reminds me of one of the first goals he scored with Inter Miami." [05:18]

[06:03] Stugotz:
Stugotz draws parallels between Messi's unique skills and signature moves in other sports, likening them to artistic expressions.

"What are the other things that are like that in sports where you're looking at a signature genius... that is an unstoppable thing because of how much curve he has." [06:03]

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3. Fanatics Games: Athletes vs. Fans

The hosts transition to discussing the Fanatics Games, a competitive event where athletes face off against fans in various challenges.

[09:50] Greg Cody:
Greg reveals the outcomes of the Fanatics Games, highlighting Tom Brady's victory and detailing the performances of other athletes and participants.

"The winner was Tom Brady, 399.1 points. He won a million dollars..." [09:51]

[16:37] Billy:
Billy teases future competitions on their own podcast, hinting at a "Grandfather versus Granddaughter Olympics."

"We're having a Grandfather versus Granddaughter Olympics that'll be on our podcast coming up." [16:37]

[17:22] Greg Cody:
Greg humorously suggests additional competitive events, showcasing the playful dynamic among the hosts.

"There's the striking challenge. That's for UFC. That one's harder. The goal scoring. And then finally, closest to the pin." [17:22]

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4. NBA Injuries and Their Impact on Team Dynamics

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to analyzing recent trends in NBA injuries and their repercussions on team performance and league dynamics.

[24:44] Stugotz:
Stugotz critiques the increasing frequency of severe injuries in the NBA, questioning the effectiveness of current injury prevention strategies.

"Why are you seeing so many more of the most, arguably the most catastrophic injuries... when we're in a recent era of load management?" [24:44]

[26:03] Dan LeBatard:
Dan reflects on the historical context of these injuries, comparing current trends to past occurrences involving stars like Isaiah Thomas and Kobe Bryant.

"When it happened to Kobe, we all like, wow, that never happens in this sport. Now, we're seeing it routinely." [26:03]

[32:11] Billy:
Billy connects the discussion to personal anecdotes, emphasizing the broader implications of these injuries on the sport and its stars.

"They do anything to play in that game... There's no shot that any player in the NBA would not take in order to make sure that they can play in that game." [32:11]

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5. The Rising Influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Society

The hosts veer into a discussion about AI's pervasive impact on various aspects of daily life, education, and employment.

[32:03] Chris Cody:
Chris raises concerns about the future of jobs and education in an AI-driven world, suggesting that traditional skills may become obsolete.

"People are cheating at school. There's no point to pay for school anymore... you're just burying the teacher in a bunch of fakery because the computers can do it well enough to get you a B." [32:03]

[33:06] Dan LeBatard:
Dan elaborates on the necessity of adapting to AI by developing new skills, such as coding, to stay relevant in the job market.

"How do I find this? How do I write code to find things? That's what you need to start training in now." [33:06]

[34:00] Dan LeBatard:
He further discusses the concept of AI reparations, advocating for compensation as AI begins to replace human labor.

"AI Reparations. This is a prevailing theory too... human beings need to be getting their cut." [34:00]

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6. Interactive Segment: Friend or Co-worker

To add an interactive and entertaining element, the hosts engage in a game titled "Friend or Co-worker," where they guess whether Greg Cody considers certain individuals to be friends or coworkers.

[17:57] Stugotz:
Stugotz initiates the game, setting the stage for playful competition.

"I'm going to penalize him retroactively here... So you're gonna have to go." [09:29]

[18:10] Mike Ryan:
Participants discuss their guesses, leading to humorous exchanges and friendly banter.

"I know that my dad really likes Roy. I think he genuinely... he'd say friend." [20:27]

[21:05] Stugotz:
The game concludes in a tie, highlighting the hosts' camaraderie and the light-hearted nature of the segment.

"That ended as a tie." [21:05]

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7. The Decline of Hotel Mini Bars

In a lighter vein, the conversation moves to the diminishing presence of mini bars in hotels, with Stugotz sharing surprising insights about their decline.

[42:11] Stugotz:
Stugotz reveals information about the minibar industry on the brink of extinction due to logistical issues and inefficiencies.

"The minibar is endangered. The hotel minibar, it's a bad business and it's going under." [42:11]

[43:07] Dan LeBatard:
The discussion touches on personal anecdotes, with Billy humorously recounting his father's attempts to maintain a minibar.

"I thought they were... putting in the bathtub." [43:07]

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8. Closing Remarks and Reflections

As the episode winds down, the hosts share final thoughts, reflecting on past experiences and the blend of sports with personal stories.

[39:32] Greg Cody:
Greg reminisces about nearly hosting a show with NFL personalities, emphasizing the unpredictable nature of show business.

"What are you doing?" [39:32]

[39:55] Dan LeBatard:
Dan humorously warns Stugotz about potential future revelations, maintaining the show's playful tone.

"This is gonna age so poorly for you in 10 years." [39:55]

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Dan LeBatard [01:55]:
  "There was a packed house on Friday for Bayern Munich vs. Boca Juniors. Those Boca crowds at Hard Rock Stadium have been incredible."

• Stugotz [02:44]:
  "Whether Messi will be a part of it, whether Messi will be in the new stadium... it's an investment toward that time at Soccer in America."

• Mike Ryan [05:18]:
  "Messi had a spectacular goal... Goalkeepers know it's coming."

• Greg Cody [09:51]:
  "The winner was Tom Brady, 399.1 points. He won a million dollars..."

• Stugotz [24:44]:
  "Why are you seeing so many more of the most, arguably the most catastrophic injuries... when we're in a recent era of load management?"

• Dan LeBatard [34:00]:
  "AI Reparations. This is a prevailing theory too... human beings need to be getting their cut."

• Greg Cody [17:22]:
  "There's the striking challenge. That's for UFC. That one's harder. The goal scoring. And then finally, closest to the pin."

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Conclusion

"The Beauty of Me" episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz masterfully intertwines discussions on high-profile sports events, the pivotal role of athletes like Lionel Messi, the intriguing concept of Fanatics Games, and the pressing concerns surrounding AI and its societal impact. The interactive segments and banter among the hosts add a layer of entertainment, making the episode both informative and engaging for listeners. Whether you're a sports enthusiast, tech aficionado, or someone interested in the evolving dynamics of modern society, this episode offers valuable insights and lively discussions that resonate across various interests.

Transcript

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Stugatz]

You're going tonight. Greg Cody, can I interest you in a soccer conversation? Can I interest you in an Inter Miami conversation? Interesting crossroads on the architecture of the future here. Whether Messi will be a part of it, whether Messi will be in the new stadium. Whether everything that Messi was brought here to do will end up being anything other than an economic boom for the people who run the team but not catapult the sport into the stratosphere that it wishes to be in when the World cup arrives in 2026. All of this an investment toward that time at Soccer in America, funded by Apple tv, plus Messi as its biggest star. Inter Miami playing interesting games. Mike, when's the last time you were at a game? I thought you were boycotting the way that they were gouging those prices.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I don't have season tickets anymore, but this is a. I got a great deal on game time. I'm going to this matchup because this is a world class matchup and it's a. It's a big time game. I think this is going to sound hot Takey, because they're not going to win a trophy by getting out of the group stage. They've certainly qualified for the Club World cup by winning things like Leagues cup and the Supporters Shield. I think getting out of this group in the Club World cup when you're in a group with Al Ahli, the most decorated soccer club on the planet, Porto, a team that has won two Champions League, one of which has been won in this century, and Palmettos, a great team out of Brazil in getting out of the group. I understand different standards for different clubs in different countries. If you ever get out of the group stage, it's something to be worth celebrating. This is a huge, monumental achievement. If they get out of this group, chances are they do. They only need a draw to control their own destiny. Or for Ali to not make up the goal differential in the group because head to head is a straight up tiebreaker. Let's talk about that. They came back from 10 in Atlanta against Port Porto to win that game 2 1. At that time, they were the first team ever from the Americas to defeat a European club in a high stakes competition. Now after that two Brazilian teams ended up doing that. The Brazilian clubs are playing really well this tournament and they're taking it very seriously. But MLS has been kind of embarrassed during this tournament. And yet you have Inter Miami, which in that game they were carried by Messi. Messi had a spectacular goal. If they get out of this group stage into the knockout phase of this tournament, from a football standpoint, forget business. From a football standpoint, how can you not just stand back and marvel at this move? They're beating teams like Porto and it's because of the acquisition of Messi. It is a huge achievement and one worth celebrating.

[Mike Ryan]

I think this is the biggest accomplishment if they get into the group stage in this tournament. The biggest accomplishment of the Messi era. And it's been a short era, granted, but this is the best they've done. And they're still the first MLS club, they'll be the first ever MLS club to beat a top European club in a recognized competition. Messi's goal, that's the goal he's been famous for his entire career. Goalkeepers know it's coming. It reminds me of one of the first goals he scored with Inter Miami in the leagues cup match that introduced himself to South Florida and. And he's been scoring that his entire career. It's always brilliant. Goalkeepers can never stop it because it's unstoppable. Where his left foot kicks, it curls it right into the upper right corner.

[Stugatz]

What are the other things? What are the other things? Like that Monet. Since you mentioned Monet, I don't know if I want to go to the graffiti artist on this, but what other things are that are like that in sports where you're looking at a signature genius and you're identifying his signature genius with one whistling kick. That is an unstoppable thing because of how much. Because of how much curve he has.

[Dan LeBatard]

Steph Curry has a couple of them. Impossible fade away threes. And that really top, almost parabola like layup off the top of the glass.

[Chris Cody]

It was Kareem, right?

[Dan LeBatard]

Kareem, yeah, with the hook shot.

[Stugatz]

There just aren't very many where you remember them. Like all timers with their all time moves. I have to do this on delay though. And forgive me for this, Greg, you said very matter of fact fact in the last segment. The beauty of me.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, the wonder of me. Really. I'm kidding.

[Stugatz]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, modest man. Okay, this is all for show.

[Stugatz]

But the beauty of me is what you were. You were. You continued during the break to tell me what the beauty of you is. And I thought you should share it with the audience.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, look, the. The beauty of me is that I am just having a conversation here, okay? And I'm including the listeners in it. I'm having a conversation here. I'm in a room with a bunch of friends and co workers. I lose track of the fact that I should be leaning professionally into a microphone because we're just talking, okay. When I'm having a real life conversation with real life friends in my home, I'm not looking for a microphone, and neither am I looking for a microphone right now. And the beauty of me is that I think people can relate to that. Okay? I don't want to have a professional. I don't want to be speaking like a broadcaster. I'm not talking about.

[Chris Cody]

Is that your impression of me?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. Well, no, no, no.

[Greg Cody]

You don't have a broadcast.

[Mike Ryan]

You're the opposite. I've already said you're the opposite. Okay. You know, you're more like Mike. Francesca.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Stugatz]

Francesca.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

That's not an insult.

[Stugatz]

Eric Reed is the broadcaster. Use whose voice? You. You.

[Mike Ryan]

You mock Glenn Rice from the three. He's got five three pointers today.

[Billy]

I want. I want to. I want to say 5 out of 7. I want to say that that's what he does for only Eric Reid. That's what he does anytime he hears any broadcaster. A baseball game could just be like 2:1 count, and he'll just be like.

[Mike Ryan]

And it's a 2:1 gown. It's second and seven from the 17 Aldeara goddess used to be one of my favorites because it always speak like this. And I don't want to be that guy who has that broadcaster voice. I'm a regular guy having a regular conversation.

[Greg Cody]

You're taking this the wrong way, Dan. Like, you're making this as though, Greg, some sort of unprofessional broadcast here, when in reality it's a compliment to you. You've created such a comfortable situation for Greg that at times he just feels like he's talking to some friends and co workers as he continues to describe them, which I wonder where the line is. Like, who if we were to draw a line right down the middle, who falls on the friend side, who's on the co worker side. But we don't need to get to that.

[Stugatz]

No, let's do that.

[Greg Cody]

We don't need to. No.

[Stugatz]

You know what? Let's have you host the game show right now. Friend or coworker with Greg Cody. No, I'm not going to do that. I want It. No, I want you to.

[Billy]

Basically, if you were invited to his 70th party, I want Greg Cod.

[Stugatz]

I want Billy to host the game show. Friend or coworker with three or four people here. I would like to do that before the. Before the end of the show. But for the moment, I'm going to penalize him retroactively here. I was looking for this, and for some reason, they took it out of the studio.

[Greg Cody]

Brett Cody, major penalty, five minutes.

[Roy Bellamy]

Me maximum.

[Mike Ryan]

That's a penalty?

[Stugatz]

Yeah. You're going to have to go.

[Mike Ryan]

Why is that a penalty? Me maximum. It should be celebrated.

[Stugatz]

Put it on the poll at Levitage shows. Should Greg Cody's me maximum be celebrated? Just go into the other room. And I would like Billy, at some point for you to host the game show.

[Greg Cody]

I'm ready right now.

[Stugatz]

Oh, you're ready to do it right now?

[Greg Cody]

I don't have any imaging or anything, if that's what you want, but I'm ready.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, we got a song.

[Stugatz]

No, we've got a song already. Well, we need to get everybody miked up in the other room. We got to do however it is that we're doing this, because we are doing this on the fly. And the thing that I wanted to talk about that came over the. I didn't even understand what it was. Did you guys watch any of these Fanatics games? Because Tom Brady wins again. It's fans competing against athletes. And is it. What is. It's not Michael Cohen. What's the Fanatics guy's name? The guy who owns Fanatics. That's the party guy who has.

[Greg Cody]

Michael Rubin.

[Stugatz]

Michael Rubin. Thank you. Well, but he's friends with all these athletes.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, does he do that? White party.

[Stugatz]

He can get all these athletes to a place and get Tom Brady. He has whatever clout it is you need to have. I don't know if you guys have been seeing sort of the power brokering that goes on at the top of sports, but Kevin Durant's got one of these business managers who's with him all the time. And the economy of. Durant has a guy that knows how to run business for Durant. Michael Rubin has these relationships all throughout the industry and left the Philadelphia 70, 76ers. This dude is a shark. Like, he is the highest of business things that there are. And Fanatics is a giant, and he can get. He's got clout like these videos, these professionally made videos of white parties that have everyone from Jay Z to Tom Brady at him.

[Dan LeBatard]

Rich Kleiman's the guy that you're talking about with Durant. Yeah. Michael Rubin's always had a huge network. Loves posting photos with his famous buddies. What would seem like to be like an antiseptic type of atmosphere for that. For Fanatics Fest, he's manufactured into an event if you're an autograph seeker to go to. And they've done a real good job capitalizing on social media, making it seem like this is a place that you want to be when the first edition of it was kind of like a lackluster convention. He wanted to make a sports comic Con. And I think with more viral moments and years of branding, he'll actually be successful at doing it, which I thought was kind of like a lame concept at first.

[Stugatz]

He. He left the Sixers and Embiid and parlayed whatever the relationship was embiid to.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, he did that because he didn't want to get caught for tampering with James Harden.

[Stugatz]

Great access beyond the NBA. Basketball ownership was small. Given how he's thinking about reinventing money and the game at the top of sports.

[Dan LeBatard]

They have a monopoly over sports merchandising. They've just sealed it off, made it theirs. They dominate sports merchandising now. Everybody has to have a partnership with fanatics.

[Greg Cody]

You guys see the Monopoly is going moneyless in, like, the end of this year. They're cheap. They're no longer printing money. It's going to be an app that keeps track of the money for you.

[Stugatz]

What?

[Greg Cody]

Where you scan something. You don't have the paper money anymore.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's convenient.

[Greg Cody]

Now we're talking about. We mentioned Monopoly, and it seemed apropos to sneak it in here because I feel like, Dan, you were probably a big Monopoly guy growing up.

[Stugatz]

I played some Monopoly.

[Greg Cody]

Really?

[Stugatz]

I didn't have that as the detour in the conversation because I thought you were interested in this fanatic competition that Tom Brady won.

[Greg Cody]

The Fanatics games.

[Stugatz]

I didn't know that Monopoly is what it is. I learned something this weekend.

[Greg Cody]

I'm an onion.

[Stugatz]

Dan, I did not know. You make me cry.

[Greg Cody]

I have many layers.

[Stugatz]

Do you?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, that sucks, though. It's a great way to teach children money.

[Stugatz]

Really?

[Greg Cody]

Or you can still do it just on an app, which is really how money works now anyways. Right. Money's just an app.

[Dan LeBatard]

I wasn't aware that there was a Fanatics game, so I just saw, like.

[Greg Cody]

These clips this year, I believe.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is that what Cody Rhodes was doing? Because Cody Rhodes.

[Greg Cody]

Terrible.

[Dan LeBatard]

That was bad. Was it because the suit was too tight?

[Greg Cody]

Embarrassing.

[Dan LeBatard]

That was A tough look for our fellow Cubans.

[Chris Cody]

I understand. Like why does Cody Rhodes volume? He's supposed to be like a representative, a top guy in wwe. Why is he even pick up a basketball? He has to know he's gonna look awful doing it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Dude, that was so bad.

[Chris Cody]

It was really terrible.

[Greg Cody]

He needs to have a business guy around him. Doesn't let him do those things because then he knows this is going to look bad. KD by the way, was a participant in the Fanatics games. It seems as though he didn't really put much of an effort as he finished 97th place out of 99.

[Stugatz]

He traded during it.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, but he competed in all eight competitions. He only amassed 56.4 points. Spoiler alert for those of you who are kind of going to catch up on the Fnatics Games on your own time. The winner. Tune out if you don't want to know. The winner was Tom Brady, 399.1 points. He won a million dollars which is good because Tom, you know, divorced. Has divorced.

[Stugatz]

He gave it away. He gave it away.

[Billy]

Eli attacking him was cringe.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, that felt forced. That was. Well, that was one of the compet. So the competitions were WWE Superstar entrance. So that was Tom Brady's entrance. There was the pitching accuracy contest which Joe Burrow made look like it's the hardest thing in the history of the world. He was hitting the side of the net every time he threw the ball. There was the washer dryer puck shooting contest. And again spoiler alert. Gronk won that one with 37.5 points. The QB skills competition. Tom Brady finished second above many active quarterbacks at the time, which is kind of crazy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Finished second though the only quarterback that finished ahead of him was CJ Stroud. Rattle off some of the names in the passing that Tom Brady today just beat.

[Greg Cody]

Again, spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. If you're going to catch up on the Fanatics games at your own pace. CJ Stroud one. Then Tom Brady finished second followed by Russell Wilson, Eli Manning, Jaden Daniels, Ron Cooper a fan. Matthew Bailey a fan. Mark Groenick a fan. Then Joe Burrow, then Dwight Howard, then another fan. Then Bryce Young.

[Chris Cody]

Dwight Howard ahead of Bryce Young.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. Then Jack Settlement, another fan. And then Nick Foles. Tyreek Hill was in there. That checks out. The worst quarterback finish here. Gronk finished.

[Stugatz]

What happened to that? Did the Noah Lyle. Did the. The. Did that race with Tyreek Hill get canceled?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

No.

[Chris Cody]

Lyles backed out.

[Stugatz]

What happened?

[Dan LeBatard]

Said personal because he almost lost his speed.

[Chris Cody]

Personally didn't want to lose.

[Stugatz]

Really?

[Greg Cody]

You mentioned speed. Speed finished in first in the around the world contest.

[Dan LeBatard]

That guy's incredible. He's gonna be president one day.

[Stugatz]

Greg Cody is in the penalty box still. He's been listening to the show, and I wanna play this game with him with Billy as the game show host with the opposite of prude, Greg Cody. Greg, you're gonna need to grab that microphone. You need to kind of take your feet up off the desk.

[Mike Ryan]

Why?

[Stugatz]

Okay. But did you have any thoughts on Tom Brady winning the Fanatics Games?

[Mike Ryan]

The Fanatics Games? I. I love the whole idea of athletes and celebrities going up against regular people in. In regular events like this. I look at that competition and I'm like, I feel like I could do very well on that competition.

[Billy]

Yeah, dad, you should. This might be a time to tell the audience what the Greg Cody show has planned in terms of competitions coming up.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, that's true. And you know what? We might take a page from this and do some of these events, but we're having a Grandfather versus Granddaughter Olympics that'll be on. On our podcast coming up.

[Billy]

Say the fun name that we came up with.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes. 7 versus 70 is the subtitle of the Olympics, and we're looking forward to that. We have several events in store. We have no idea what they are yet, but they will be in store and super exciting. But this fantasy thing, or Fanatics Games, whatever it's called, the events are perfectly constructed. I feel like. I'm not saying I would have beaten Tom Brady, but I think I would have done very, very well in that competition.

[Greg Cody]

Well, there's other competitions, Dan. There's the striking challenge. That's for ufc. That one's harder. The goal scoring. And then finally, closest to the pin. Yeah, on the dick as a hole in one. I mean, he might be the closest you can come to the pin.

[Mike Ryan]

They call me Mr. Nine Iron.

[Stugatz]

Okay. I'm sorry, I can't. Nobody calls you. No one calls you that. No one calls you Mr. Nine Iron.

[Mike Ryan]

Some do.

[Dan LeBatard]

I've heard one person do that, actually. When we played golf together, we were driving by on a golf court. Someone said, Mr. Nine Iron.

[Stugatz]

Chris. Chris Cody. Chris Cody, help me corral Billy in this game show. That is Friend or co worker.

[Billy]

Nah, Billy's got this.

[Stugatz]

All right, Billy.

[Greg Cody]

All right, it's time for America's favorite game. Friend or coworker?

[Mike Ryan]

Coworker.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

The audience is in on this, Dan. Let me stand up for this.

[Stugatz]

Yes.

[Greg Cody]

I want to welcome everyone in to Friend or co worker.

[Billy]

Thank you.

[Stugatz]

Now, you already did that.

[Greg Cody]

I'm setting this up for those who are new to the program. This is how the game works. We have a big cash prize to the person who can most correctly identify whether or not Greg thinks this person is a friend. Or Tom.

[Stugatz]

The name of the game is just to be clear.

[Billy]

Wait, so we're all playing. I thought this would be. You asked my dad a name, and he says whether he will.

[Greg Cody]

But we're playing. We have to guess if Greg considers that person a friend or co worker.

[Billy]

Simple.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right.

[Stugatz]

Can he hear us, or are we gonna put him in a soundproof booth?

[Greg Cody]

Oh, wow. So you want to do this Family Feud stuff?

[Stugatz]

I don't know. It's your. It's your call. It's your game.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, well, me let's.

[Dan LeBatard]

Me or you?

[Greg Cody]

Today's contestants who are going to be deciding whether or not Greg considers this person a friend or co worker are two person who know Greg very dearly. It is Chris cody and Dan LeBatard. So you are the only two who are going to be guessing if Greg considers this person a friend or co worker.

[Billy]

I like it.

[Greg Cody]

All right. Do you have your writing utensils in hand?

[Stugatz]

Well, he's going to. He's going to lie, but I'm going to tell the truth, so I'm going to be honest. But he'll lie. Try to be friendly in public when he considers very few people friends. Go ahead.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, so you have. Chris, you ready? Okay, Mike, you're the official scorekeeper here today. All right, the first option. And again, the winner wins a big cash prize.

[Stugatz]

Roy is bobbing his head to this music like he. He really nailed it with this music.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is childhood right here, man.

[Greg Cody]

You are so proud of himself. The first person, Roy Bellamy. Does Greg consider Roy Bellamy a friend or co worker?

[Stugatz]

Huh? I. I'm going to say he's going to say friend, but he's going to be afraid to say co worker.

[Billy]

Well, that's not your. What's your guess?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, you need to lock it in.

[Stugatz]

He's going to say friend.

[Greg Cody]

I'm going to get a. Ryan says friend.

[Billy]

I know that my dad really likes Roy. I think he genuinely. This is a genuine one. He'd say friend.

[Greg Cody]

Greg, is Roy a friend or co worker?

[Mike Ryan]

Friend.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yay. All right.

[Stugatz]

Congratulations.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you.

[Stugatz]

It is a great game.

[Dan LeBatard]

They both get a point there. But Dan wanted to make sure you knew.

[Stugatz]

Yes.

[Dan LeBatard]

That Greg doesn't actually think you're a friend.

[Stugatz]

Well, and more to the point, I'd say Greg if here's the thing. If I said. If I said to Greg, give me a number of friends that you have. Give me a number that you consider friends. What is that number?

[Mike Ryan]

It's not an easy question or answer because everyone has different tier levels.

[Dan LeBatard]

For love of God, he's trying to pin you down, Greg. Don't let him.

[Greg Cody]

And that'll do it for this edition of Friend or Co Worker. It ended as a tie.

[Stugatz]

Thank you. Excellent game, Billy.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'll date it. We'll circle back, we'll play it again.

[Stugatz]

Yes.

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[Stugatz]

Dan LeBatard.

[Mike Ryan]

I heard that as a woman faking pain, I, I didn't think that sounded real. I really didn't.

[Stugatz]

You know, it was not fake. It was in no way fake.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, you can spot a woman faking it stugats.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, I can. Jess Expert. I've been married 40 years.

[Greg Cody]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Stugatz]

Circling back to the NBA. Home teams in game seven finals are now 16 and four. So basically four out of five times, just if you're playing at home, if you got game seven at home, that's the biggest advantage to have. And last night, you guys are with me on the idea of OKC is an absolutely historically great regular season team that was ripe for the taking at the end because of all of the use things that you associate with not being able to win a championship. Stopped because in four of the seven games they allowed a lesser team to dictate the entirety of the game to them and made them play four of their worst games of the season. The result of these Finals is that the best team won, but the best team won because they got lucky that Halliburton wasn't around for the second half. That seems like a crazy thing to say. It was a lot harder than it needed to be because that Indiana team is simply not as good as that OKC team. Not at defense at all.

[Dan LeBatard]

OKC this year is a bit of an outlier in terms of recent history. But the sport, when I was growing up back to the mid 20 teens, it did probably the best job in making sure that the people that followed the sport knew this was quantifiably the best team. The team that won the championship was always the best team. You look back, we're alternating championships at a rate that we've never really seen in our lifetime.

[Chris Cody]

No, we never have seen seven.

[Stugatz]

Seven straight different champions. Crazy.

[Dan LeBatard]

It feels a little bit more random. And while the best team won this year and you make an argument best team won last year, they're getting the benefit of injuries that I'm not really sure. I'm sure if we dove into it, maybe I've forgotten some other injuries. But it's odd that injuries are playing a bigger part of the story in these championships lately when we're in a recent era of.

[Stugatz]

What the hell was that? What was that?

[Dan LeBatard]

Sneeze tight.

[Stugatz]

Okay, professional. I didn't.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, not a professional broadcaster.

[Greg Cody]

Sedan makes everyone come. So they just think that they're hanging out in the room talking to him.

[Dan LeBatard]

So Kyrie Irving gets injured last year, Jimmy Butler gets injured. These were players that had load management programs around them. We're in an era of load management and yet in the postseason we had three Achilles injuries. You could go entire NBA seasons without seeing that type of injury. Why in an era where we're so attuned to the athletes bodies, where we're trying to avoid injury, are you seeing so many more of the most, arguably the most catastrophic outside of death, the most catastrophic injury a basketball player could suffer? This was considered a death sentence before and now we're seeing it all the time, routinely when we're trying to stop injuries.

[Stugatz]

So is three a trend? Because Boogie Cousins was never the same after this. And this is one of the places that I remember learning of how it is that a potential can go to die, where athleticism can go to die. If the Achilles is snapping in a way, it's a gunshot. People can hear it. Halliburton knows what it is. That's why he starts crying. He knows immediately that that is not something he gets up from. We saw this happen to Kevin Durant kind of the same way, right? Where we don't know what these guys have to do to mask to get out there like we do. Man. We put a lot under that umbrella of someone's banged up like they are just. I can't even imagine what doctors are doing to protect those economies. Just to be clear, right? Did you guys see that An NBA executive said that when Dallas won the lottery. It's worth between 500 million and a billion dollars to win the lottery in basketball to your economy because of how if you get one of these stars and you ride his body for five years, you can make a giant business around everything that's happening in this sport and these bodies. Kawhi Leonard told you a while ago, don't trust the doctors. Total mystery the way that he won a championship injured. But we don't know the lengths these people go to. But when Kevin Durant breaks because of something else that was wrong with his body, when Halliburton breaks that where all of us are like oh, there's the slow motion. That's the Achilles. We know this now. And it's not that looks like a move any of them can make at any time. Unless you're on hopped up on so much medicine that you're muting all of your body screaming. And when you're not supposed to move that way, you got so many drugs coursing through your body. Cuz you must, right? I'll put all the allegedly's out there, but they'll do anything to play in that game, right? There's no shot that any player in the NBA would not take in order to make sure that they can play in that game last night. We all know this, it's an understood part of it. But it ignores something that now threatens the Pacers next season. And I think it's fair to say threatens whatever Halliburton becomes next. Even if science does allow you to come back from this better because Kevin Durant is still a great shooter. But Halliburton does kind of need some of that quickness like that that injury, that game was being controlled by him with no turnovers last night. And then he leaves the game and all of a sudden it's 21 turnovers. And that's exactly how OKC is going to win the championship. Wire to wire all season. Just stealing the ball from you.

[Dan LeBatard]

I thought about the Orlando Magic last night too. When that injury went down. The Orlando Magic made an aggressive move and people are criticizing the amount of picks they gave up but they got a player that is exactly what they need. A guy that can cut, a guy that can be a 3 and D guy, shoots at 40% from 3 point range, exact fit for what they need to win in the East. And not only do they make that move, but they're looking at an Eastern Conference that doesn't have Jason Tatum in it anymore, doesn't have Tyrese Aliburton anymore due to this injury. Milwaukee too, the Lillard thing is definitely. And they're probably going to get rid of Antetokounmpo because of an Achilles. So you have three teams that were atop that Eastern Conference, a conference that was already wide open, that are just totally devastated for next season. Man, I'm surprised Orlando could have given up two more first round picks and the move would have been justified.

[Stugatz]

Is three a trend? Like, I don't load management? We're going to great lengths to keep these bodies healthy and then all of a sudden you get this particular injury.

[Dan LeBatard]

Dan, we went 20 years. Just saying, man, I remember when Isaiah Thomas had that injury and it was a wrap. Remember that? When, when Kobe got the Achilles, everyone was like, man, we haven't really seen this since Isaiah Thomas and since Kobe. So many NBA all stars, so many future hall of Famers have had this injury.

[Stugatz]

Yes, but with Kobe, it, it bears noting that whatever the end of Cody Kobe's flame was, he couldn't move the same way at the end. He was always going to be able to get fade away jumpers.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, my point is that when it happened to Kobe, we all like, wow, that, that, that never happens in this sport. It certainly never happens to a star player. The last time this happened was in the early 90s. This, this is not, this is something that's foreign. And now the second someone's playing through a calf strain, you're worried about, man, is he gonna get Duranted?

[Chris Cody]

It may sound stupid. I'm just gonna say it anyway. All these players wear low top sneakers now. Does that mean anything?

[Dan LeBatard]

There is a, there is a theory. This is, I mean, I googled it, so I'm sure there's a lot of artificial intelligence, but a lot of the stuff that came back was the shoes have changed and there's an argument to be made. Now, a lot of these injuries have happened in this postseason, but that load management actually hurts. This is a tendon.

[Chris Cody]

Of course it hurts.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is a tendon that needs to be stretched and constantly be active.

[Chris Cody]

And the game is played faster than it's ever been played.

[Dan LeBatard]

So if you're taking several days off and you allow that tendon to actually tighten back up. You're. You're acting against the best interest.

[Billy]

More back to backs.

[Stugatz]

You mentioned artificial Chuck Taylors. You mentioned artificial intelligence. I saw that. The godfather of AI he suggests that if you want to survive and whatever the future holds, you should become a plumber. And I also saw that because of AI And I did not have this as an early byproduct of AI but evidently everyone's now cheating at school. There's no point. There's no point to pay for school anymore because everyone can have all of their work done by artificial intelligence. So you're just. Just burying. You're burying the teacher in a bunch of fakery because the computers can do it well enough to get you a B. Or like, what is that? Like that you render schooling almost irrelevant. You now, Pat Sajak gave us that wisdom. You don't have to learn anything anymore. You just have to know how to find it.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's the skill. How do I find this? How do I write code to find things? That's what you need to start training in now.

[Stugatz]

You guys worried? I mean, it's, It's.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes.

[Dan LeBatard]

I mean, it's going to lead to a lot of. Back in my days, no one could.

[Chris Cody]

Do what I do.

[Mike Ryan]

It's going to lead to the dumbing down of America and we can't get much dumber. But you know, in this case, there's a shortcut to finding out that makes us not want to learn anymore. Makes kids not want to learn. I don't care about myself at my age, but I think about that. What kind of a world is my granddaughter going to grow up in when there's AI and well, in every facet of life, Better step plumbing.

[Dan LeBatard]

Better be. We better be getting our kickbacks if. If we're out of work, we better be getting our AI kickbacks. What is AI built on? All the information that human beings have put into it with.

[Greg Cody]

You're welcome.

[Dan LeBatard]

AI Reparations.

[Greg Cody]

I don't know about that.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, absolutely. AI Reparations. This is a prevailing theory too. Read the book. A bunch of. This is something that has been talked about. Once AI does actually come for the jobs and starts replacing the workforce, human beings need to be getting their cut. Okay. It's better for the. What?

[Roy Bellamy]

Minor penalty.

[Stugatz]

Two minutes, asshole. It was. Read the book. Abundance. That was the sentence that got you going.

[Greg Cody]

Wasn't Mike asking for reparations?

[Stugatz]

It wasn't. It was just read. It was the phrase. Read the book. Abundance you just gave us a reading assignment.

[Dan LeBatard]

Read the audiobook. This. This is gonna age so poorly for you in 10 years. Just. I'm getting kicked out for invoking something that is gonna be like, what?

[Stugatz]

Okay, all right. I brought up the threat. There are many, many existential already are dumber. They are many, many. We are surrounded every minute by existential threats. This weekend brought an almost literal apocalypse of I don't recognize the America I live in. When we're at war, this. This flippantly I'm gonna say, and I'm.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm back, I'm back, I'm back, I'm back, I'm back.

[Greg Cody]

Oh.

[Dan LeBatard]

Two minutes. Let's just pretend.

[Greg Cody]

Can we just invent, like, a computer virus to take out AI? Like computer Covid. Go on, you go. And the AI is compiling all these problems for us, taking our jobs. We're losing our recipes because of AI. But if you make a computer virus, let's call it like a super virus, a bug that shuts down all of.

[Chris Cody]

AI like an entity.

[Greg Cody]

Can we not win?

[Dan LeBatard]

What if the key to this virus is buried beneath the arctic sea?

[Greg Cody]

Hmm? Mr. Nine Iron.

[Stugatz]

Do you know what he's referencing there when he says we're losing the recipes? I believe it's the greatest. The greatest moment in the history of University of Miami football broadcasting was Warren Sapp and Michael Urban on the set of an NFL product.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's all I had for about a decade. No success on the field. It was just the NFL morning show in that segment of SAP and Irvin.

[Stugatz]

What are you laughing about?

[Mike Ryan]

I don't remember the SAP and Irvin show. Sorry, what?

[Dan LeBatard]

It was a segment inside of NFL game day where they would talk about all the games, but Sapp and Irvin had like a five minute segment where they would just, you know, just be over the top. Real manic energy. I'm not really sure what was going on there.

[Stugatz]

I was. Did. I don't think I've told you this. I was supposed to host a show for the NFL Network with them, but I had to fly to Los Angeles every week to do it, and I wasn't willing to do it. Let's play this sound right here. Because. And I aired, by the way, because this could have been my life and I would have rocketed to television stardom all over the globe, carried on the whimsy and general recklessness of these two men on television, neither of whom should ever be on television, except they're both great at television. Oh, my God. This is what's wrong with Today, the young ladies today, they're not learning from.

[Mike Ryan]

Mom how to cook.

[Stugatz]

We're losing recipes.

[Mike Ryan]

There you go. I can relate.

[Dan LeBatard]

How?

[Mike Ryan]

Recipe books, man. Oh, I mean, Nana, you know, had a nana. Doogie had a thick recipe book this thick with all hand. Some of them were clipping, she had cut out, but most of them were handwritten recipes. And where is that book today? But the problem is now, and it's a version of AI or Google or whatever. Now you want to make a chicken parm and you're dumb. You don't know how to do it without a recipe. You Google chicken parmesan and you just get it like that. You know, you don't even need a recipe book anymore, let alone long standing family recipe.

[Billy]

You still print recipes. I'll go to your house on a Sunday and you have like the printout from the website.

[Mike Ryan]

If it's a. If it's a recipe that I haven't made very recently.

[Billy]

You do it for everything. And you're always like, I have my own way. But I just need to.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, I made, I made steak and baked potato and asparagus yesterday. You think I had recipes for those staples of cuisine.

[Greg Cody]

There was something charming. Greg, I think you'll agree with this. There is something charming about a handwritten recipe book where. Where sometimes maybe their little splish splash from the stove gets on the recipe. Is that a teaspoon? Is that a tablespoon? We'll figure it out.

[Mike Ryan]

Splish splash. I'm a taking a bath. Yeah. So splash. You don't need a recipe book anymore. I feel bad for the people still writing recipe books. Who's buying those? You know, I mean, AI, you know, it's crazy.

[Billy]

You're selling two books right in front of you.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, these aren't recipe books. You can't get this anywhere else.

[Stugatz]

Oh, but that's a recipe for recycled.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, back in my day. Says the guy whose last nine episodes of South Beach Sessions have been best ofs.

[Dan LeBatard]

God damn.

[Stugatz]

What are you doing?

[Mike Ryan]

That's not recycling, though.

[Dan LeBatard]

Reality was last week.

[Billy]

What are you talking about?

[Mike Ryan]

Before that? No, I'm a South Beach Sessions fan. I see it. Greatest hit. I mean, am I wrong?

[Dan LeBatard]

What do you think SAP and Irvin felt when they were like, yeah, the Levitar doesn't want to fly out, so that's that.

[Mike Ryan]

They could have relocated. They could have done the show from so flaw. They chose not to.

[Stugatz]

No. The show had to be in Los Angeles.

[Billy]

So flaw.

[Stugatz]

Yeah. Why did you do that? Why did you do that?

[Mike Ryan]

I'VE been saying so flaw for years. I hadn't really gotten off the ground, but I've been. You know, that's my nickname for south Florida.

[Greg Cody]

Don't give up.

[Chris Cody]

I would lose that.

[Dan LeBatard]

What's your greatest professional regret day?

[Stugatz]

My greatest professional regret.

[Mike Ryan]

Not counting me.

[Stugatz]

I gotta think about that one first.

[Dan LeBatard]

Think about it and probably don't even answer it.

[Mike Ryan]

Apparently. It's a long list.

[Stugatz]

No, I've got to think about it for a second so that I don't. You're asking me. I may blindside somebody here. So let me think about it for a second.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's why I'm saying probably don't do it. I know famously on the show you said that you were once offered like seven figures to move to Detroit and be a columnist there, but you were.

[Stugatz]

Like, no, no, I just. I actually, no, I was not. I was offered. It was not a seven figure job. Those jobs, column jobs don't pay like that. Never.

[Mike Ryan]

That's what I was thinking when he said that.

[Stugatz]

Never had.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, you're good, but not that good.

[Stugatz]

But. Yes. I would not live in Detroit. I. I didn't want to live in Detroit. Yes. Is this.

[Greg Cody]

Wow. It's time again for America's favorite show.

[Dan LeBatard]

Going to use the F5.

[Greg Cody]

Friend or coworker.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right.

[Greg Cody]

For the those just joining us today's contestants are Dan and Chris Cody. I'm gonna name a coworker. Mike is keeping score here. And we are going to have Dan or Chris Cody. Guess whether Greg considers this person a friend or co worker. We have a tight one right now. One, One.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is this a new game? And the last one ended in a draw.

[Greg Cody]

This is the second edition.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay. So. But it is a tight one right now because it's tied. Zero, zero.

[Greg Cody]

It's a tie. One all.

[Roy Bellamy]

Tie.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

If it was seven game series. Right now it's tied. Zero, zero, one. All right. Jonathan Zaslo. Does Greg consider. Consider Jonathan Zaslo a friend or coworker?

[Stugatz]

Yeah, that's coworker. I don't think he likes.

[Billy]

Is there a third option?

[Greg Cody]

Chris, friend or coworker?

[Billy]

Is there a worse option than a coworker? I'll go coworker.

[Stugatz]

A worse or enemy. Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

Co worker.

[Stugatz]

Enemy. That's a different game.

[Greg Cody]

That's a different game.

[Billy]

Oh, friend.

[Roy Bellamy]

Co worker.

[Billy]

Enemy.

[Greg Cody]

Greg, is Jonathan Zaslow a friend or co worker?

[Mike Ryan]

I would say a co worker. If that.

[Billy]

So I get extra points.

[Stugatz]

You should. The if match deserves an extra point. It does.

[Dan LeBatard]

Dan tried that last game.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, we didn't allow him. All right, so that. That's a tie. All right, it's a tie. And that'll do it for this edition. Friend or co worker. Thank you.

[Stugatz]

Do you guys. I was made aware of something this weekend that I was not aware of. And I'm guessing I'm gonna shock you when I tell you that.

[Greg Cody]

Can we guess?

[Stugatz]

So you're not gonna get it right.

[Greg Cody]

Is it that there's more microplastics in glass than there are in plastic bottles?

[Stugatz]

What it was that actually, no. Thank you. The minibar is endangered. The hotel minibar, it's a bad business and it's going under. And very few places are still doing it successfully because it is either on its way to extinct. It's just a terrible business for hotels. They get stolen, things go bad, and even though they're charging you four and five times what they should be charging you, I had no idea that the mini bar did. You guys know this? I'm shocking all of you with this. Correct?

[Billy]

I mean, I've seen my dad put in some work on them, so I thought they were.

[Mike Ryan]

I love the mini bar.

[Stugatz]

Yeah, put it on the poll at Levittard show. Did Greg cody for about 10 years single handedly keep the minibar business alive at Levittard show?

[Billy]

Although my dad's move at a hotel is go buy a six pack somewhere and then fill his.

[Stugatz]

Put it in the bathtub.

[Billy]

No, no. Well, that would be if he had like two dozen. He filled up the sink.

[Stugatz]

No, the bat. I've seen the bathtub. He's slowing down your old man.

[Dan LeBatard]

Howdy, folks, it's Mike Ryan. Now, if you've been listening to the show a lot lately, you've heard so much playoff talk. Playoff hoops. Down here in South Florida, we're especially enamored with playoff hockey. It's not just limited to the playoffs. Motorsports, tennis, golf is truly one of the best times in the sporting calendar. And with the weather outside warming up, it's just perfect to hop in a pool, maybe grill up some food, but most certainly crack open some Miller Lights. I just described a pretty perfect day, didn't I? And it culminates with Miller time. There is something about a perfect grilling day. The sun's out, friends show up, and that first sip of Miller Light just hits different. I've been stocking up the cooler with it for years. This year, Miller Lite turns 50. That is five decades of cookouts, laughs, and ice cold moments that never miss. And if you've listened to the show for its 20 year existence. You know this to be true. Miller Lite Great Taste 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Cheers to 50 years of Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.