Hour 2: The Child Vampire

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz Episode: Hour 2: The Child Vampire
Release Date: February 11, 2025

From the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz engage in lively discussions covering a range of topics from pop culture and personal anecdotes to sports and supernatural tales. Below is a detailed summary capturing the key points, insightful exchanges, and memorable moments from this episode.

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1. Opening Banter: Gary the Bag

The episode kicks off with a humorous discussion about a character named "Gary the Bag." The hosts reminisce about childhood rivalries and the playful antagonism between the names Greg and Gary.

• Chris Cody (02:42): "Any parent would say, you know what? I want my baby when it comes out of the womb, to be so cute. And then I'm gonna name it Gary."
• Billy Gil (03:24): "But Gary and Greg, well, those aren't either."
• Stugotz (03:52): "No, it's not a straw man. And the rivalry is partly why we were good friends."

This segment highlights the playful chemistry among the hosts as they delve into nostalgic reflections and name-based rivalries.

2. Health Updates: Stugotz’s Struggles

Stugotz shares his recent health challenges, providing a personal touch to the episode.

• Stugotz (05:53): "Yeah. I'm old. My body for the past week and a half has been betraying me."
• Billy Gil (05:56): "See you, Gary."
• Stugotz (06:55): "I have a sty."

The conversation covers Stugotz’s experience with a sty, a sprained ankle, and a bout of the flu, emphasizing the everyday struggles even the hosts face.

3. Pop Culture and Movie Critiques

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing various movies and late-night show experiences.

• Stugotz (08:19): "I didn't like the movie selection. On the flights this past week, there weren't good movies or shows available, so I went the classic route."
• Chris Cody (09:38): "He seems like, did not really have a great sense of humor at times."
• Billy Gil (11:03): "There's a chapter that involves the celebrity that Ron attained through his work with the zoo and through being on this show."

The hosts debate the merits of films like Snake Eyes and Billy Madison, and reflect on David Letterman's behind-the-scenes demeanor compared to Jay Leno. They also touch upon the complexities of producing books that intertwine personal and celebrity anecdotes.

4. Audience Engagement: Bold Takes Segment

The hosts emphasize the importance of audience participation in their "Bold Takes" segment, encouraging listeners to submit more creative and insightful opinions.

• Chris Cody (15:04): "I have a new telephone number, okay? And I want these to be better because we've given a couple of prizes that weren't deserved."
• Izzy Gutierrez (16:50): "Great. A lot of offense like my dad. The defensive line, offensive line is very important."

A standout submission discusses the unsettling nature of processed meats, which the hosts find amusingly relatable.

• Mike Ryan (17:15): "My bold take is that lunch meat. Like, you know, turkey, chicken, ham. Frickin creepy. Like why is it cooked?"
• Izzy Gutierrez (17:28): "It's a great point. Is there a creepier, weirder meat than processed deli meat?"

This segment underscores the show's interactive dynamic, blending humor with everyday observations.

5. Supernatural Tales: The Child Vampire Story

A central narrative of the episode revolves around a whimsical yet intriguing story about a child vampire.

• Billy Gil (24:04): "She's not a vampire."
• Stugotz (24:40): "But do vampires age?"
• Chris Cody (25:48): "If you turn your attention to Nosferatu, which just borrowed from, well, stole famously from Bram Stoker's Dracula."

The hosts delve into vampire lore, discussing whether vampires age, the implications of child vampires, and the societal perceptions of these mythical beings. This creative storytelling adds a fantastical element to the episode, engaging listeners with imaginative discourse.

6. Personal Stories: Greg Cody’s Life Changes

Greg Cody opens up about his personal life, sharing insights into his divorce and the beginning of a new chapter with a new wife.

• Greg Cody (39:20): "Well, me and Bianca didn't make it. So I moved on. We are real, you know, good friends."
• Jeremy (38:46): "Congratulations on feeling whole, feeling complete second time."

This heartfelt exchange provides a genuine moment of vulnerability, allowing listeners to connect more deeply with the hosts beyond their on-air personas.

7. Sports News: The Jake Paul and Canelo Alvarez Fight

The episode touches on recent sports news, specifically the highly publicized potential fight between Jake Paul and Canelo Alvarez.

• Chris Cody (39:53): "It would have been a giant thing and Jake Paul would have won forever the moment that fight was signed."
• Mike Ryan (41:37): "It was big game week, and I've got just the thing to make your big game time a Miller time."

The discussion highlights the intersection of celebrity influence and professional sports, pondering the implications of such high-profile matches and their impact on the boxing landscape.

8. Vampire Lore Deep Dive

Returning to the supernatural theme, the hosts engage in a detailed exploration of vampire characteristics and rules across different media.

• Mike Ryan (30:08): "In the early 2000s, in the Interview with a Vampire sequel, we learned the name of the mother of all vampires. What's her name?"
• Chirs Cody (33:02): "Greg, would you be a vampire if you could never eat garlic again?"

This segment deepens the earlier vampire narrative, examining canonical traits and the ethical dilemmas posed by immortality and supernatural abilities.

9. Closing Remarks: Reflections and Future Topics

As the episode winds down, Chris Cody expresses anticipation for future stories, hinting at more personal and possibly controversial content to come.

• Chris Cody (37:17): "Tomorrow this racist story, the most embarrassing to happen to me at the super bowl, is going to be told."
• Greg Cody (39:20): "I have a new wife now."

These remarks set the stage for upcoming episodes, promising continued engagement with both personal anecdotes and broader cultural discussions.

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Notable Quotes:

• Stugotz (06:08): "I'm old. My body... has been betraying me."
• Chris Cody (09:38): "Did not really have a great sense of humor at times."
• Mike Ryan (17:15): "Processed deli meat is creepy."

Timestamp Highlights:

• 02:42: Discussion on "Gary the Bag" and name rivalries.
• 05:53: Stugotz shares his health struggles.
• 08:19: Pop culture critiques, including movie selections.
• 15:04: Introduction of the Bold Takes segment.
• 24:04: Introduction to the Child Vampire story.
• 39:53: Insights on the Jake Paul vs. Canelo Alvarez fight.

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This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz weaves together humor, personal stories, and creative storytelling, offering listeners a blend of entertainment and thoughtful dialogue. Whether discussing the quirks of processed meats or delving into the mystique of vampires, the hosts maintain an engaging and approachable atmosphere, making the show a must-listen for fans of dynamic and multifaceted conversations.

Transcript

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Stugotz]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Stugotz]

This is the Dan Levator show with the STUGATS podcast.

[Greg Cody]

It's 11am on a Thursday. The media, the crowd shuffles in. There's an old man sitting next to me smoking cigs as we ask our questions. He says to us, who needs me, dummy? As the Dolphins head to play the Bills. But he's talking to me. I am on Greg Cody, writing columns with takes that'll kill. La la la, that kind of thing. La la, did he Da da ding. Yeah. I got a God of Buffalo with Bernie Pomelee. I will always remember that quote from a dolphin's Gary.

[Chris Cody]

Put it on the pole. Juju. Are we still making Gary's I don't feel like a baby right now. Any parent would say, you know what? I want my baby when it comes out of the womb, to be so cute. And then I'm gonna name it Gary.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

See you, Gary.

[Chris Cody]

I don't think that's something that's happening anymore.

[Billy Gil]

Gary the Bag.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, for the love.

[Stugotz]

The Bag.

[Chris Cody]

He loves going inside. And look who follows him into the breach. Big surprise.

[Billy Gil]

What?

[Mike Ryan]

Ready, Freddie?

[Chris Cody]

Gary the Bag. Of course, for those of you who don't know. And that's all of you.

[Stugotz]

Everyone knows the Bag.

[Billy Gil]

Everybody knows Gary the Bag.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Unless you were at my dad's 70th because he was a star that night.

[Billy Gil]

He's a staple of the Greg Cody show podcast.

[Stugotz]

It's not true.

[Billy Gil]

Nah. You know, might as well be. But when I was a kid. I'm being serious here. Gary's And Greg's were bitter rivals. Right. Like if you were named Greg, you felt superior to Gary's. But the opposite was true. It was like, I don't know that there's any two names now that are rivals. Like, wow.

[Chris Cody]

But Gary and Greg, well, those aren't either.

[Billy Gil]

Oh, believe me, they are.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

So why were you guys such good friends if this rivalry existed?

[Billy Gil]

Well, because.

[Chris Cody]

Straw man.

[Billy Gil]

No, it's not a straw man. And the rivalry is partly why we were good friends. Because we were like opposites. Like he was a big Yankee fan, I was Red Sox. I would have the Yaz trading card against his Mickey Mantle. He was a Gary, I was a Greg. We were yin and yang, you know. But the rivalry, it was real. Still is, I think. Although really name rivalries aren't what they used to be.

[Jeremy]

Gary and Greg in the 70s and 80s were staples in the top 30 names for boys.

[Billy Gil]

Yes.

[Jeremy]

They no longer own.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

I thought Greg beefed with Craigs.

[Chris Cody]

No, I thought one one G Greggs feuded with two.

[Billy Gil]

That goes without saying. That's 100 accurate. And it's also accurate to say that Greg's felt and feel superior to Craig's. Yeah, a Craig is a Greg wannabe.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

To his point. I do hate Chris's with a K. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[Chris Cody]

What are we making more of these days? Craig's or Greg's?

[Billy Gil]

It's gotta be Greg.

[Stugotz]

Has to be.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, Craig's a misspelling.

[Mike Ryan]

Gregory. Is that. That's what it's short for?

[Billy Gil]

No, I don't think there's a Craiggory.

[Stugotz]

Craig's a perversion. Honestly, it's not a real name. It is exactly.

[Billy Gil]

Just like if your name is Tom and you spell it with an H. Oh, silent homs.

[Mike Ryan]

Get out of here.

[Billy Gil]

No, no, I've known Tom's.

[Mike Ryan]

Although Brennaman's done All right. And a testament to giving people second chances.

[Chris Cody]

Put it on the pole, please.

[Stugotz]

Let's Tom York up to.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, Yorkie side projects the smile.

[Chris Cody]

Put it on the poll. Juju at Lebatard show. Are Craig's a perversion of Greg's? I've got to get to my racist story. We're running out of socks.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, wrote them down here.

[Chris Cody]

And Walter Payton socks. We've fitness. We've got to get to that as well. But before we do so, Billy, what's going on with your eye?

[Stugotz]

What? What's going on with my eye?

[Chris Cody]

Do you have a sty?

[Stugotz]

I do. It's kind of been an off air conversation. Just ask me out of the Blue. Put me out there.

[Chris Cody]

Well, you're on. You're on camera.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Glasses on. I feel like I've hit it.

[Billy Gil]

I just.

[Stugotz]

I have a sty.

[Greg Cody]

I didn't even realize you had it.

[Stugotz]

Thank you, Jerry.

[Mike Ryan]

You're hiding it well.

[Stugotz]

And if. And if you did notice, it's polite of you not to point and say, what's wrong with your face, freak. Which is how I received that.

[Chris Cody]

What's happening? What happened?

[Stugotz]

Like, my body's betraying me, Dan, I'm old. What do you want me to tell you? I'm old. My body for the past week and a half has been betraying me. I sprained my ankle the other day. I thought that was the worst of it. That was just the tip of the iceberg. Had that. Then I had a stomach thing, possibly the flu. Tamiflu knocked that out. You know, second day of Super Bowl, I got a stye on the bottom of my left eye. So all my contacts that I had, you know, rationed for the week were no longer necessary. I just had to wear my glasses because I look like a freak. Then I come back and, you know, I'm still a little exhausted. My stye jumps from the bottom of my eye to the top of my eye. And here we are. Here we are. But I'm just. I'm just a man trying to power through it and hopefully not be, you know, called out on my disgusting looks. But guess that is a luxury not afforded to me.

[Mike Ryan]

When I was a teenager, I used.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

To get sties when I was dealing with, like, a lot of stress or anxiety. So if there's anything or anyone in your life that's really stressing you out.

[Billy Gil]

You should probably cut that out.

[Chris Cody]

Put it on the poll at Lebatard show.

[Mike Ryan]

This guy. You're stuck with him.

[Chris Cody]

Have you ever had a sty at Lebatard show? Are those stress induced? Those are stress.

[Mike Ryan]

Every time I've. I've gotten quite a few in my life. Every time I've gotten them, they've been stress induced. Except for one time where I stayed up and watched 18 consecutive hours of Nicolas Cage movies, and I streamed it live and I rubbed my eyes so many times, I gave it to myself.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

I had one that lasted for so long that I had to get it surgically removed and kept me awake.

[Mike Ryan]

And it cut off.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

All right, we're having a die off here.

[Stugotz]

Zip that off. Exactly what I'm saying. I just was reading and it's like, yeah, sometimes your body can fight off a virus and it gets a sty it's part of the process. So like I'm just, I'm trusting the process here and hopefully it goes away the next couple days.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Everyone giving their sty bona fide.

[Stugotz]

It's unpleasant.

[Mike Ryan]

I thought Snake Eyes was going to be way better.

[Chris Cody]

It was really bad.

[Stugotz]

Really? Mojo was in that.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. But there was that one funny scene where it gets the shit beat out of him. He wasn't Snake Eyes.

[Jeremy]

He was. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Not the one.

[Stugotz]

That G.I. joe one.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, that was a different one.

[Chris Cody]

Ah, Did Snake get a zero on Rotten Tomatoes? I believe that Snake Eyes. Do I have that wrong? I just remember that being an epically bad.

[Mike Ryan]

Relax. It wasn't that bad.

[Stugotz]

Don't worry about the Rotten Tomatoes. I mean, no one needs. I was reading a thing about Billy Madison and how bad it was reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes and like what it took to make that movie.

[Mike Ryan]

It's an all timer. That's a great film, a classic.

[Chris Cody]

Put it on the poll. Was Billy Madison a great film, a classic.

[Stugotz]

Now they're talking about classic movies. I know no one asked me about this and you guys don't care, but I figure it's a good time to get it in. I didn't like the movie selection. On the flights this past week, there weren't good movies or shows available, so I went the classic route. On the way up, I saw Charlie's Angels. 25 years old. Charlie's Angels. Can you believe that?

[Mike Ryan]

Lucy Lou still looks the same.

[Stugotz]

Good flick, Charlie's Angels. Yeah, not bad. Not bad. There's the creepy skinny guy who I think was like, so isn't he like a famous person?

[Mike Ryan]

Glover.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, him. Creepy guy.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, no, that's his thing.

[Stugotz]

He comes back. He was just ripping people's hairs off and smelling. Yeah, smelling hair. Yeah, Drew Barrymore's hair. Weird. I bet she went on a cruise.

[Chris Cody]

Word association with Crispin Glover. It's the only time I've ever seen it in the history of the David Letterman show where right before a break, he came very close to kicking David Letterman in the face. And then when they came back from the break, he was no longer on the air like that. They just, they just said Crispin Glover. They didn't even explain why Crispin Glover came that close. Goes without saying to kicking Letterman in the face. But he was removed from the premises and they never said anything about it.

[Stugotz]

He's a grump, right? David Letterman, like, everyone's like, oh, legend. So great. But he seemed like, did not really have a great sense of humor at times. If he was like the one that was being laughed at and, like, also secretly, like, kind of rude to guests.

[Chris Cody]

Well, one of the things that has been interesting to me in the history of late night is how many of these people had such pressurized environments that the people who worked for them and with them. This is said of the Tonight show now with Jimmy Fallon. Like, things that you would think are fun end up being so pressurized that even David Letterman will tell you now, when I hear him interviewed now, and I love listening, Letterman, he will have some remorse, some great remorse about how he didn't enjoy any of that more or make it more fun while it was happening.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, there's always big expose about behind the scenes and how people feel in those uber creative environments. It breeds a lot of creativity, a lot of stars, but also there's a lot of stress. People personalize their creative ideas in ways that they don't. If you were to turn in a TPS report and the numbers were off.

[Billy Gil]

In the Pride of a lion book that McGill and I did, he tells a story in one of the chapters about how he had such a wonderful experience with Jay Leno doing late night, but it was the polar extreme with David Letterman that David Letterman was just not.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

What chapter is this?

[Stugotz]

How did that come up? Because I thought the story was about a lion.

[Jeremy]

Look at me, Louis.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

I definitely read it, so I know, but tell the audience.

[Billy Gil]

There's a chapter that involves the celebrity that Ron attained through his work with the zoo and through being on this show.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

You tell the Michael Jackson story again.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, the Michael Jackson story, I think might be in that same chapter.

[Stugotz]

I thought this book was about Gwazi.

[Billy Gil]

It is, but how. It's also about Ron McGill.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Take a little break in chapter seven. You're like, now a chapter about Ron.

[Stugotz]

Exactly right. Here are my famous friends.

[Billy Gil]

It's about quasi of the lion, but it's also sort of a biography of Ron McGill. And. And I find it very interesting because I always loved Letterman, and to hear that he was sort of a, you know, could be an to guests that he didn't know real well was illuminating. I found it interesting.

[Mike Ryan]

Can I ask you something?

[Chris Cody]

Here we go.

[Mike Ryan]

All right. It's just us, right?

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Hold on.

[Mike Ryan]

Do you think Michael Jackson was lucky to have died when he did?

[Stugotz]

Timing worked out for him.

[Mike Ryan]

It was just a matter of time, you know? Right.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

He spent some time in Wyoming with those animals.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Not be good for him right now.

[Jeremy]

Lucky, yes, very lucky.

[Chris Cody]

The Prince documentary that will never see the light of day would have Been very poorly received by people who love Prince because of. Because of looking back on things like that and understanding that 40 years ago, 30 years ago, 20 years ago, you could get away with stuff that absolutely is not stuff you can get away.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Allegedly.

[Billy Gil]

Allegedly. Allegedly.

[Mike Ryan]

Very litigious. The Prince thing is confusing.

[Chris Cody]

They're worried about was I not vague enough?

[Jeremy]

Like getting allegedly, allegedly vague.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Gotta wanna hear.

[Mike Ryan]

Is it just putting this thing in the public conversation that everyone's like, huh? Because some of this stuff is kinda known. It's just people don't wanna do the digging. But it's not hard. Like I'm a big David Bowie guy. I'm a big Prince guy. Like I know there's complicated legacies.

[Stugotz]

When you wrote this book, did you say like now I'd like a chapter about my life and my accomplishments or. No, Ron didn't allow that.

[Billy Gil]

No, no, it was a. It was his story.

[Mike Ryan]

Have you ever been on a talk show?

[Jeremy]

Your story?

[Billy Gil]

Have I ever been on a talk show? I don't think so.

[Mike Ryan]

Not. Not even like on the local level?

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Not even like whammy.

[Jeremy]

Today in South Florida you're a PTI.

[Stugotz]

And sit down with Kelly Blanco.

[Billy Gil]

I don't think I'm not a talk show guy.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Cody's corner on cbs.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, that's a good idea. No, no, I don't, I don't count that.

[Stugotz]

If the feedy invites you on the couch, don't go, don't.

[Billy Gil]

He has invited me on did you.

[Stugotz]

Know Would you go Petty play.

[Mike Ryan]

Good for you.

[Jeremy]

That's why you're still living.

[Stugotz]

He doesn't stop digging that Jim defeating.

[Billy Gil]

I'll tell you what, there's nothing to dig around me.

[Stugotz]

Well, you know, that's what you think.

[Billy Gil]

Digging it. Yeah, I mean I know I don't. I'm not a talk show guy.

[Stugotz]

What would your story be? What would your quip be if you were there because you'd have like a pre interview. You have to go in there with like almost prepared material. What would you say? How would you start it out?

[Billy Gil]

They're interviewing me, not vice versa.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. What do you think about Gaza?

[Chris Cody]

I think it's a sports bang would have been one of the choices.

[Stugotz]

He was on that.

[Jeremy]

He was on sports.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

He doesn't remember.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, but that wasn't a talk show. There was no shenanigans.

[Billy Gil]

There was Iron Sports Bank.

[Jeremy]

I don't know.

[Billy Gil]

I don't know either.

[Chris Cody]

Wow, that's great work by the both of you. Can't remember. No, but I mean they're Both. It's stupid.

[Mike Ryan]

It was the 90s.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. They don't know. Okay, good. You know what?

[Stugotz]

Back when Bowie could be Bowie, you.

[Jeremy]

Know, back when Gary was popular.

[Billy Gil]

Yes.

[Chris Cody]

Let's go ahead and just kick them both out here.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Minor penalty. Two minutes for adding nothing.

[Mike Ryan]

All of us just play and Stugat.

[Chris Cody]

For not having any memory when they're being asked a question. Like, I didn't bring any of this up. Okay, he's bringing up, have you been on talk shows? And when he answers the question, the two experts who would be here who can answer the question can't remember whether they did something. So you, Billy and Greg, out. All of you out. For adding nothing, Billy.

[Mike Ryan]

Wow.

[Chris Cody]

Yes.

[Jeremy]

Snake eyes. 41% rotten tomatoes.

[Billy Gil]

Thank you.

[Chris Cody]

I do appreciate you doing a little work on the. Yes, I appreciate your work on the way out the door.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

I always associated Crispin Glover with, like, Mike, that.

[Mike Ryan]

That smash hit Marty McFly's dad.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Oh, I guess that's fair. Him and Jesse Plemons both like Mike.

[Chris Cody]

Chris, let's get to our boldest take of the week. I have not been happy with our audience here in leaving Bold Takes. The takes need to be bold. And this segment I don't believe has yet worked. And I'm actively blaming the audience for this because we have a new telephone number, okay? And we had to change this a couple of different times because you people aren't doing it correctly. What do you mean by you people? 305486 Gotts is now the number. And I want these to be better because we've given a couple of prizes that weren't deserved. Okay? We've got the entirety of the world at our disposal that can call this telephone number. And be funny, be wise, be clever. I know many of you listening to this think you can do this, think you can give takes, are good at giving takes at the bar when you're talking to your friends, but then all of a sudden, when you call this line, they all stink and they haven't been good enough. So are you telling me, Chris, that we're gonna do this better now? Because I think Boost Mobile deserves better from our audience than what it is they've been getting. I'm always saying, our audience, when it competes on clever, and we've closed the text lines, we don't have a lot of phone lines. Our audience, when it competes on clever, I'd put up against anybody's audience competing on clever. I have gotten no proof of that with these calls. So I'm hoping the new phone number Gives us more luck here. So what do you have here, Chris?

[Izzy Gutierrez]

I have a non sports take. Cause to your point, they were too sportsy.

[Billy Gil]

They.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

We got a lot of submissions about the Super Bowl. A lot of rose spins. Great. A lot of offense like my dad. The defensive line, offensive line is very important. Not bold enough. And with Boost Mobile, the boldest take from the weekend, it's presented by Boost Mobile, the newest 5G network in the country. When you call 305-486-GOTTS give us the good stuff. And so this one we have here the winner for this weekend. It's not sports related. It's a random life take. And it's about processed meat.

[Billy Gil]

Hey, this is Tegan from Vermont.

[Mike Ryan]

My bold take is that lunch meat. Like, you know, turkey, chicken, ham. Frickin creepy. Like why is it cooked? But now it's cold again.

[Billy Gil]

It's all slimy.

[Mike Ryan]

It's weird.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

It's a great point. Is there a creepier, weirder meat than processed deli meat? It sweats if you leave it out. It's a weird meat. I love it. I love a ham and turkey. I love the buffalo chicken, but it's weird. I agree with this caller. It's creepy.

[Chris Cody]

We gotta do better with these takes.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, that's progress. I think that's a little bit better.

[Chris Cody]

It is progress. It is progress. I'm just, I'm demanding this of the audience, okay? Because I am saying that the people who support this show through their sponsorship deserve the best of this show. And I believe the best of our audience competing on Clevver can be better than what it is that we're presently getting. So 305486 Gotz is the telephone number. Work on this because this is a chance to show how clever you are. I would say that because a lot of people have performance anxiety that the ability to be clever anonymously with a phone call is vastly easier and less nerve wracking than having to actually do it in front of a lot of people. In fact, the secret performer that hides in certain people who aren't quite brave enough to do performing, because performing is hard to do. This is a place where you can exercise that muscle. And I am demanding that the audience get better at this because I want Boost to be proud of the takes here and I would like to be proud of the takes because the audience can often be vastly funnier than we are, clever, smarter than we are. And so I'd like to see that theory tested and then proven because it has not been so far.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

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[Jessica]

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[Billy Gil]

Thank you.

[Jessica]

You made my day. I mean, they are gorgeous. Never had so many roses in my whole life. 85 years. Holy shit.

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[Chris Cody]

Don LeBatard. You don't remember the idea.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

I was probably, like, that kind of thing.

[Billy Gil]

Something. Okay. No, the home run call was that kind of swing. That kind of thing.

[Chris Cody]

Stugats.

[Stugotz]

Oh, it's a good call.

[Billy Gil]

Thank you. And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it. Like, you're not tailoring it to a particular name. You know, all that jazz, you know, you don't got to do that. Oh, that would be a great call. Swing. That kind of thing.

[Stugotz]

This is the Dan Levatar show with this two guards.

[Chris Cody]

Greg Cody.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

The Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody is every week, and it's getting more and more popular. What is it that you're promoting on this week's? Because I want to show people something that I did not know. The PFPI Trophy. I knew it was big. I did not know it was twice as heavy as the Lombardi Trophy. That it is a monstrosity like it is.

[Jeremy]

It means more.

[Chris Cody]

It is so giant here. What can you tell us is on this week's episode of the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody.

[Billy Gil]

First, a very quick detail. The trophies are about the same height. The Lombardi Trophy is 22 inches tall. The Dad's Dynamics cup is 23 inches tall.

[Chris Cody]

But.

[Billy Gil]

But I outweigh Lombardi 2 to 17 pounds for the Lombardi Trophy, 13.6 pounds for the Dynamics Cup. Our episode, we have Izzy on. Izzy Gutierrez. He talked. We talk a lot about the heat and the trades. We talk about the super bowl halftime show, commercials, all that stuff. We talk about a child vampire who bit my granddaughter. So there's a lot going on.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

It was a kid who said he was a vampire. He's not an actual.

[Stugotz]

Do you get tested? Did Grayson get tested?

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, the patino test.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah. And, and she passed. Thank God she's not a vampire.

[Jeremy]

She's okay.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah. Okay, but, but the child said I'm a vampire and then bites her on the shoulder. I'm assuming he's a vampire.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Billy Gil]

Like seven year olds don't even know to lie yet. You know, they always tell. Oh they do, do they? Okay.

[Chris Cody]

You think 7 year olds always tell the truth? You think a 7 year old stugots was out here? Truth tell, he was just working on his craft.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

They're just, they're just now learning to lie. They're, they're lying a lot.

[Stugotz]

A vampire, an older vampire is more likely to lie than a younger vampire.

[Billy Gil]

I think that's very true because they.

[Stugotz]

Know more about the social stigmas that come with being a vampire and they know that this is something that I should hide from the general public where a young vampire is just going around telling the truth all willy nilly. Just thinking this society accepts vampires exactly right.

[Billy Gil]

When you're, when you're seven, you're proud to be a vampire.

[Stugotz]

Exactly right.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

But do vampires age?

[Mike Ryan]

Because it's a very rude thing to do to turn a seven year old into a vampire. As in, as Anne Rice's interview with the vampire told us, they end up living this long, very mature life, but they are stuck as a little girl and it causes all sorts of problems. That's why one of the unwritten rules in the interview with the vampire series is never change a young person.

[Stugotz]

I think the question for this young vampire is how long have you been a seven year old vampire?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, well, like vampirina. Because vampirina is like she's growing up.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Overrated.

[Chris Cody]

Do vampires age?

[Mike Ryan]

No, famously they stay the same as when they were turned. If you see an old vampire, that's either someone made a request or it depends on the series. In Bram Soaker's Dracula, Gary Oldman turns very old, but he's also a shapeshifter, so you gotta keep your eye on that.

[Chris Cody]

Well, but let's think about this for a second though. If vampires don't famously age, then it means there's no such thing as a baby vampire. Correct. There can be a child vampire and maybe even I don't think there's a toddler vampire. Like a child vampire is a thing. But what's the earliest.

[Mike Ryan]

The Twilight series told us that you can have a baby vampire.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

And a werewolf could potentially imprint on.

[Stugotz]

That baby vampire, which would be really.

[Mike Ryan]

Not great for everyone to be. Gotta be a very troubling pregnancy because of what they feed on.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Billy Gil]

So the vampire, the child vampire who bit my granddaughter, theoretically, while pretending to be and looking like a seven year old vampire, could have been six or seven hundred years old.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, precisely.

[Chris Cody]

Right?

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Billy Gil]

Okay. Yeah.

[Stugotz]

And then they would know. They would know better. And then maybe would be of lying age.

[Billy Gil]

Right. And imagine being that old and having the Persona of a seven year old. That's gotta mess with you.

[Mike Ryan]

What you're describing right now are the seeds of resentment between Lestat and Luffy.

[Billy Gil]

Exactly. That's what I was thinking.

[Jeremy]

Dan, to answer your question, there are no age requirements for becoming a vampire.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, but they are in Anne Rice's universe.

[Stugotz]

Yes, but there is for voting. Crazy.

[Chris Cody]

So the baby vampire would have fangs then.

[Jeremy]

Right.

[Chris Cody]

When it's teething.

[Mike Ryan]

Not all of them do. If you turn your attention to Nosferatu, which just borrowed from, well, stole famously from Bram Stoker's Dracula. They had front teeth, the original Nosferatu. And in this one, the mustache covers that teeth. However, while the vampire doesn't age and stays in its form from like the mid-1600s, the skin is dead, being fed on by maggots and rats. So that provides a bit of a hurdle for Nosferatu. Now, in the originals, the reason why Nosferatu had the pointy ears and the pointy nose is. No matter what. And the nails as well. Those parts of your body age throughout, even after you die. It would have been nicer to see that in Robert Eggers telling.

[Billy Gil]

Could.

[Stugotz]

Could a toddler vampire lose the fangs the way a toddler loses teeth?

[Mike Ryan]

Excellent question.

[Stugotz]

And then. Do you only do it once?

[Chris Cody]

Don't nails still grow after humans die? Like in.

[Mike Ryan]

That's why that. Yeah, that's why I invoke the Nosferatu rule.

[Chris Cody]

So that.

[Mike Ryan]

But that would have to follow along. I know.

[Stugotz]

We're not talking about.

[Chris Cody]

I am following along. And I don't need the condescension of. Please follow along. I was asking about human beings, not vampires. I was asking about human beings. Beings.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. So that's. What. That's what. Yeah. I mean, there will be a quiz.

[Billy Gil]

Pay attention then.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Not shockingly, my dad handled this incident the same way he did the golf thing, where he got way more angry than I did about this. He's like, you got to call the school. That kid should be expelled.

[Stugotz]

Someone needs to protect your granddaughter.

[Billy Gil]

The vampire was suspended from school.

[Stugotz]

Good. For how long?

[Billy Gil]

I don't know. I don't. That's a good question. Suspended for the rest of his life. Never got the. The vampires have names. We never got the name of the culprit.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

They don't give out kids names when they.

[Stugotz]

How do they know they suspended the right kid?

[Billy Gil]

Well, I mean, it was the vampire, right?

[Chris Cody]

Vampire.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

Mike is actually writing out a quiz for us. I mean.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, good. I look forward to it. I've got another problem, though, because I've got unruly producers everywhere.

[Jeremy]

Racism.

[Chris Cody]

Yes, this. I want to tell this story, but the problem is that I asked one of our producers to get me the guest that I need, and now I can't get a hold of the producer, like, so I just. It was supposed to. I need somebody in order to tell this story. This story. I need a guest in order to make it maximum embarrassing and have a big reveal. And as it stands right now, I can't even reach the producer who was supposed to do this for us.

[Jeremy]

How about Walter Payton's Socks Feet Ness?

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Is there a chance the producer's talking and you just don't hear him?

[Chris Cody]

Nope, can't reach him.

[Billy Gil]

Okay, just.

[Jeremy]

And these stories are tied together, right?

[Chris Cody]

Yes. And if he were talking, he'd be talking very quietly.

[Mike Ryan]

First question is, what was the seed of resentment between the vampire Lestat and Luke?

[Chris Cody]

Can one of you get a hold of Coogler for me, please? Because I need to be able to get the payoff. For two days, I've wanted this story and I. I thought we were going to do it today. And I'm telling the audience again and again that we're going to do it today. And I'm not doing this as a purposeful tease. I need certain elements that this show requires from production. We have thousands of producers around here. I just need an answer to my question so I can get the payoff for the audience.

[Stugotz]

Did the vampire break skin on Graceland or No.

[Billy Gil]

Happy to say no.

[Stugotz]

Oh, good. That's probably what spared her.

[Billy Gil]

Left a red mark.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

There was a mark, but no.

[Stugotz]

Spared her. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

In the early 2000s nu metal sequel of Interview with a Vampire, we learned the name of the mother of all vampires. What's her name?

[Billy Gil]

Nellie.

[Chris Cody]

Nellie. Dougie.

[Billy Gil]

Correct.

[Mike Ryan]

It was Akasha, famously played by the late Aliyah.

[Jeremy]

Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

The aforementioned Queen of the dam. Close.

[Billy Gil]

Greg. Greg.

[Stugotz]

If your parents could live forever, forever as vampires, instead of passing away, would you take it?

[Billy Gil]

I think I would.

[Stugotz]

Really?

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

But what if they turn on you and potentially turn you into a vampire?

[Billy Gil]

You know, I'm physically stronger than a vampire.

[Chris Cody]

No, you're not.

[Mike Ryan]

What?

[Billy Gil]

No, I am.

[Mike Ryan]

Superpowers.

[Billy Gil]

I don't believe they are really.

[Chris Cody]

Your beliefs don't matter.

[Billy Gil]

They're the.

[Stugotz]

Personal experience.

[Billy Gil]

Look at here.

[Jeremy]

Careful.

[Billy Gil]

Okay. All right. Virtually all of the cooking I do includes garlic. I'm a big garlic fan. Really? I have garlic all over my house. Strings of garlic.

[Jeremy]

You are stronger.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

For protective purposes or just you like the taste of garlic?

[Billy Gil]

Both.

[Chris Cody]

Garlic does make most things better.

[Billy Gil]

It does. Oh, my God.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. That's great. That's not up for dispute, and I stand corrected. But that's not a matter of strength. That's a matter of you just have good seeds seasonings in your house.

[Mike Ryan]

Right. Some of that stuff is inaccurate in Rice's universe. Louis pressed by the interviewer, what about crucifixes and all that stuff? And Louis reveals, I'm actually quite fond of them. Now, in the AMC series, I really like how that one's played between Lisette and Louis. And they are fully embraced in their gay love story, which is one that the film kind of touched on because the times were different. But you get a truer sense of their relationship in the AMC series, which I highly recommend, that Lestat knocks it out of the park. Dare I say, even better than Tom Cruise's version.

[Billy Gil]

If you recoil at the sight of garlic because you're a vampire, of course you're going to pretend like, bring it on. I love garlic. I love a crucifix. You know, I mean, that's a defense mechanism.

[Jeremy]

The old bait and switch.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, that's right.

[Jeremy]

I dare you to do it.

[Chris Cody]

Right.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, exactly. So, you know, the string of garlic's here. Come at me. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Universally stake through the heart. Kill it with fire beheading. That works.

[Billy Gil]

Stake through the heart is always.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a classic.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah, it's perfect.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't think I can bring myself to do that.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Even if I knew this was pure.

[Billy Gil]

Evil, you need a good mallet. You know, the hard rubber.

[Mike Ryan]

What if I knew this? That's embarrassing.

[Stugotz]

Not the rubber.

[Jeremy]

You can drive a stake through a. Through a heart.

[Stugotz]

I don't think I could.

[Jeremy]

It meant you were gonna die.

[Mike Ryan]

I would say. Someone else go, oh, if I had a hammer.

[Billy Gil]

Exactly.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Billy Gil]

In the morning.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. Greg, would you be a vampire if you could never eat garlic again?

[Billy Gil]

No.

[Stugotz]

No. Really?

[Billy Gil]

No. Garlic means too much to me.

[Jeremy]

Right.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

Speaking of hammers, Greg Cody shocked me the other day by having very strong opinions on the hammer throw.

[Billy Gil]

Well, okay. At a track meet in Colorado, some poor spectator was hit by and killed by an errant hammer throw.

[Mike Ryan]

Sheesh.

[Billy Gil]

So I'm Doing a little research. First of all, the hammer throw doesn't even include a hammer.

[Chris Cody]

Right.

[Billy Gil]

Okay. A hammer throw is a shot put attached to a heavy wire and then flung around. Okay, so it's a, it's a misnomer, first of all. But second, a hell of a weapon.

[Chris Cody]

In like the Mad Max movies.

[Billy Gil]

So why are we throwing hammers in 2025? Right. It's a. It's like shot puts too. It's like a medieval sport.

[Chris Cody]

You're right.

[Billy Gil]

You know, it's. It's like shooting someone from a cannon.

[Chris Cody]

Yes.

[Billy Gil]

Over a, over a castle wall.

[Jeremy]

I think what you're trying to ask is why are we throw when a live audience is there? That could kill people in the audience. And you get hit with a football, maybe you break your nose, you go to the hospital, you're out in a couple of days, you get hit with a hammer, you're dead.

[Billy Gil]

Right?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Billy Gil]

I think a track event should be throwing a stick of dynamite, you know, I mean, it makes as much sense.

[Mike Ryan]

Another thing that we have to ask ourselves is why in the older films is Dracula transform into your conventional bat, but in Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, he transforms himself into a six foot bat. That's not very sneaky.

[Billy Gil]

No, it really isn't.

[Jeremy]

Where's the netting on the hammer throw? Like what are we doing to protect the spectators during the hammer throw?

[Billy Gil]

And it would have to be a heavy chain link.

[Jeremy]

Yes.

[Billy Gil]

You know, it has to be like.

[Chris Cody]

Yes.

[Billy Gil]

It has to be like what they have at nascar.

[Jeremy]

Like a fence.

[Billy Gil]

Yes, yes. Whereas the tire is flying through the air.

[Jeremy]

Yes.

[Billy Gil]

And you need something to stop that. But Mike, you're obviously the vampire expert among us. Is it true that vampires cannot see themselves in a mirror?

[Mike Ryan]

Not universally, but in most content that's out there, that's, that's usually canon.

[Billy Gil]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

Nosferatu, the silent movie. And in the one in the 70s.

[Jeremy]

Let's be honest, Greg, like if we never had another hammer throw again, like if they just got rid of the sport, we'd all be fine. Nobody misses it.

[Billy Gil]

Right.

[Mike Ryan]

Wouldn't think of it once, right?

[Jeremy]

I've never thought of it.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah. And why, why'd they call it a hammer?

[Jeremy]

I don't know.

[Mike Ryan]

It's not a hammer. But if you've got the hammer, you've got use it.

[Jeremy]

Yes.

[Billy Gil]

It's flinging a shot put. You're right, is what it is.

[Jeremy]

It's not really a hammer throw.

[Billy Gil]

No.

[Chris Cody]

Right. Jeremy, can you find out for me why it is called the hammer. I'm sure there's. There's reasoning behind this.

[Jeremy]

I think back in the day, Dan, they actually threw hammers, but they realized that was a bad idea. They're still throwing things that can kill people.

[Chris Cody]

I don't think that's an accurate historical representation of the event.

[Jeremy]

How do you know?

[Chris Cody]

Guess if I have a don't know, but I just don't think that's right. I don't know.

[Billy Gil]

The javelin.

[Mike Ryan]

The javelin makes sense.

[Billy Gil]

Literally a weapon. A javelin? Yeah, literally a weapon.

[Mike Ryan]

I saw someone like go through an airport with one of those. I'm like, how is this allowed? But maybe they're gonna kill vampires.

[Chris Cody]

I have seen video of somebody being hit by a javelin as it's being hurled at a track and field event. Because some of the things that happen at track and field events are a bit crazy unruly. And you've got flying hammers and javelins and all of that stuff can be dangerous.

[Billy Gil]

Medieval.

[Chris Cody]

It is a bit medieval Tradition traces.

[Stugotz]

It back to Ireland around the year 1830 BC. Sometime later, the Celtic warrior reputedly took a chariot axle with a wheel still attached, spun it around and hurled it along way. The wheel was later replaced by a rock with a wooden handle attached. A sledgehammer began to be used for the sport in Scotland and England during the Middle Ages.

[Mike Ryan]

Can you look up what they were doing at the end of Braveheart part? Oh, well, because like the camera pans down, but only so much and I was young when I saw it. I'm like, are they doing something with his balls?

[Chris Cody]

Stugats. You can't be right with a sledgehammer being a hammer. That's not worse. That's not what you were talking about. I know, but he was. He was talking about the hurling of hammers. Traditional run of the mill hammer, not a giant sledgehammer. That doesn't.

[Izzy Gutierrez]

The one with the hook on the end.

[Chris Cody]

That doesn't count as Stugot's being right. Unfortunately I have to apologize to the audience and say that tomorrow this racist story, the most embarrassing to happen to me at the super bowl is going to be told. But today I will tell the second most embarrassing story that happened to me from the super bowl which is me walking out of a bathroom and being greeted by two people laughing at me upon seeing my face. Vince Wilfork and his new bride. Oh, I wish I was there. Just both of them seeing my face and both laughing. Because of this clip right here, you are very comfortable talking about how you met your wife, how Much you love her, how important she is to you. And that's the reason. Reason that I asked the question. I've always admired that about you, that you are. You have no problems whatsoever professing your love. Well, the thing is I have a new wife now. You know, me and Bianca didn't make it. So I moved on. We moved on. It was for the better, both of us. And. But we are. We are real, you know, good friends. You know, we are parents. First.

[Jeremy]

Things just got a little awkward there. So let me be the first on this show to congratulate you on the new wife. Congratulations on feeling whole feeling complete second time. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

I have an update on William Wallace's balls.

[Jeremy]

Important.

[Mike Ryan]

They strongly imply that he was subject to the full execution. Now, a lot of this feels excessive because he does end up getting hanged at the end of all this. But they first start with quartering where the body was cut into pieces. Then they also do something called drawing, which is disemboweling and castration. So bang on. On the balls. And then they hang them. I feel like we're beating a dead horse.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, my wife heard them laughing from inside the bathroom.

[Jeremy]

You've earned it.

[Chris Cody]

She asked. Who was laughing at you?

[Greg Cody]

Well, Dan, a fight we had led us to a divorce. But that's okay. Cause how could you know that? Of course, me and Bianca didn't make it this time. But that's okay, Dan, because I have a new wife. I didn't come here to discuss my divorce. But that's fine. Now you know that I have a new wife.

[Chris Cody]

I am a bit stunned. I've got to be honest. I am a bit, bit stunned two days into this week that we have talked for approximately six hours without mentioning what was a very brief holy shit moment from sports news this weekend when ESPN reported that Jake Paul's next opponent would be Canelo Alvarez. Like, that was very close to happening, it appears, before it dissolved. And the amount of triumph that Jake Paul could allege before throwing a punch in that ring, if that's the fight that he got to just to get.

[Jeremy]

Him in the ring, you're saying it's.

[Chris Cody]

Just staggering that somebody's Internet currency and attention would be bigger than boxing. That somebody in the modern age, under 30 years old, would not have an upper level, elite skill set at boxing and would get in the ring with. With the prize fighter that makes money these days because he's somehow a financial equal. The paperwork evidently was signed. Like, I don't. I have not done any of the reporting to find out where and how that fell apart. But that was a thing that was going to happen and it would have been a giant thing and Jake Paul would have won forever the moment that fight was signed. The idea that that guy has taken over boxing that way where he gets to summon the best pound for pound fighter in the world and the biggest Dr. That sport has and be able to consider himself, hey, I'm your equal as a draw. You're doing this as much with me and for me because you just need to make a little money before your next real fight and I've made it to the top of this mountain.

[Jeremy]

So you're saying Jake Paul wins even if he loses that fight, which he would have lost that fight.

[Mike Ryan]

Obviously it fell apart because of Riyadh season and Canelo signing a new multi fight deal with the Saudis that I think delivers a Terence Crawford fight.

[Chris Cody]

That is correct. But still. And it was probably a negotiating ploy to make sure that all of that could happen.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, but still, it's happened to both Paul brothers. By the way, like, reportedly the fight between McGregor and Logan got blown up at the last second.

[Chris Cody]

Chris Cody, was that a sneeze that you just blew snot into your face?

[Izzy Gutierrez]

Yes, it was.

[Jeremy]

Bless you.

[Billy Gil]

Gesundheit.

[Dan LeBatard]

Valentine's Day is coming up, and for me, there's only one place I trust. 1-800-flowers.com Every year, I order stunning, high quality bouquets from 1-800-flowers that my grandma absolutely loves.

[Jessica]

Jessica. Holy. I got the most gorgeous roses. I don't think I ever got that many roses in my whole life. Certainly not from your lovely grandfather. May I still rest in peace. Thank you. You made my day. I mean, they are gorgeous. Never had so many roses in my whole life. 85 years. Holy.

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Mike Ryan]

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