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Dan LeBatard
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Stugatz
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Dan LeBatard
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Greg Cody
None.
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Greg Cody
I know you've been asking yourself, where has Gabe been? I am told that Gabe is making a triumphant return here. In moments we are going to do a segment with rising new media star Gabe. He will be before Ricky Williams picks the game. Ricky Williams is asked for the first time ever. I just can't believe it. He's asked to come on the show and do something. So first we will have the opener of Gabe and then we will go to Ricky Williams. We have to do against the spread and we have to celebrate that God bless football is about to kick ass all over the Super Bowl. For Diana Rossini to get there and be jealous of Stugatz's setup. That's not a normal thing. I wanted to. Before I go any further though, I've been negligent in not doing this. The Cody's have gone with some employees here as a ritual of real bondage and trust. They've gone golfing with Taylor and others. And thank you by the way, Izzy, for stepping in for David Sampson. David Sampson had to step out to do something with Danny Cannell. That'll be a likable conversation.
Dan LeBatard
You're welcome.
Greg Cody
Greg Cody and Chris Cody going with Taylor golfing. What happened here? Because I was told that Greg Cody almost got into a fight.
Dan LeBatard
Well, no, actually there's two things here. I played a prank on my dad that we can get to. I actually. And my dad Is part of. Technically almost got into a fight. But let me tell the story here. So in golf, one of the. The worst things you can do is hit the ball up in the. Onto the group that's in front of you. So we were on a par five. I'm 250 yards away. That's a long way to hit the ball. There's a group on the green.
Greg Cody
I mean, hold on a second. Hold on.
Dan LeBatard
I'm just. No, I'm just trying to give a little context of why I.
Greg Cody
Was it necessary?
Dan LeBatard
But no, no, I'm saying I was 250. I didn't say the ball. I. You're teeing off? No, no. I'm in the fairway on a par 5, and there's 50 to get to. How far did your drive go? It was like a 400. Probably like 280. 280. Drive a long par 5. Okay.
Stugatz
There's the. Look at me, Lou.
Dan LeBatard
It's a. Is that the long context? It was a very long hole on the course. This is a par five. I'm trying to reach in two. I'm hitting the three wood off the deck. All right. I'm trying, like a straight shot, or are you going like a straight shot? No dog leg here. No dog. So I need to hit the shot of my life to reach the green. Most of the time, I'm going to come up 20, 30 yards short. In a hybrid or like a five iron, I'm hitting the three wood. Oh, okay. So it's basically. I can wait. This has been a slow round, a lot of waiting. I can wait to let those guys move. Chances are I'm not going to hit them. So you know what? I'm going to speed this up. I'm going to hit. What do I do? I hit the shot of my life. I'm going to say, I nut it. I nutted this golf ball. It is. As soon as I hit it. You can ask Taylor. I said, oh. Because I was just like, I got it. And, you know, there are two ways to run it up on people. You can land it 20 yards and it rolls into there. That's not as. You know, no one's really going to get hurt there. Or there's. And the ball, like, lands, and you're like, holy. I almost just died. That's what happened. It landed on the green. So I am like. I'm throwing up the international sign for holy. I'm so sorry, but I don't believe.
Greg Cody
That'S the international sign for that. I think that's just a guy being held up at gunpoint. Well, I'm just telling you, it was.
Dan LeBatard
Like I was doing the thing where I grabbed my chest, arms up, chest, arms, arms up. From 250 yards away. That's a sign for notice how you can do that with my arms, both my arms, both my arms, not just one. So the guy, this is where the, this is where the aggression comes in. The guy's reaction on the green, he's like a young guy my age, you know, looks like a tough guy. He grabs the ball, just chucks it in.
Greg Cody
Oh no.
Dan LeBatard
What? He takes the ball. That's what I would do. See the motion? Just chucking it into the water. And I'm sitting here saying look, what I just did was extremely rude.
Greg Cody
Yeah.
Dan LeBatard
So I kind of get it. And then this is where my dad comes into the equation.
Greg Cody
I thought he had your back and came rushing you of the scenario. Now I'm afraid of a Don Zimmer. Pedro Martinez.
Dan LeBatard
Exactly. I am sitting there being like, I understand it. I was just like, I'm an. It was a mistake by me. I shouldn't have done it. Greg cody over here. 70 year old Greg Cody, once he finds out the guy threw my golf ball, puffs his chest out and is just like I'm going to like. I had to essentially hold my dad back.
Greg Cody
It's great.
Dan LeBatard
From going to yell at this guy on my behalf where then I would have had to be like defending my dad.
Greg Cody
Yes. That's how rage and family bonds work. So that someone gets killed and killed by a golf club on a golf course.
Dan LeBatard
I mean granted, should the guy throw my ball in the water, probably not. Yes, but I understood it. I got it.
Greg Cody
Now. That is just the reaction of fear. If something whizzes past your ear, that is dangerous. You're. You want instant revenge.
Dan LeBatard
And it's worse of the two options that Chris because if it would trickle up to the green, somebody would be like hey, hey, easy, we're still up here. But this guy's imagining it hitting him.
Greg Cody
Directly on the head, which probably would have killed him.
Stugatz
But it didn't.
Dan LeBatard
On the international scale of asshole ism, okay. Throwing someone else's ball into the water outranks hitting somebody else. Like hitting into somebody else. I think they're pretty. No, I agree with Greg. Like you, you obviously made a mistake and he had every right to be angry. But picking up your ball and throwing it into the water is juvenile, insane. I've never seen someone do that. It was juvenile. Like I'M not, I'm not saying what he did was great. It just wasn't. I did enough to him that I wasn't going to get angry at. I was just like, you know what? We're even. I'll drop another golf ball on the green, like I don't give a shit. And dad, of course steam coming out of his ears, wants to fight on my behalf. Well, post script, I ran over the guy with a golf cart. That's not true.
Greg Cody
Two questions here. Because I need to hear more first about this international scale of asshole ism. Because we need to form whatever it is that that is. But I also need to know. Your son is deeply apologetic. Clearly did not intend to do that. But I know that in the instances when I am most enraged and act side of my behavior, it is at least in part, usually because I've been startled by something that then scared me. For example, the number of fights that people have wanted to try to have with me because my dog is afraid of skateboarders. And my dog just reacts very, very like bark scares them. And now I'm pulling on the leash. There's never any actual danger, but the skateboarders are just angry. And now they're coming at me because. Because they're just mad and I under. I under. You get scared. Some people react that way. And so you're apologizing for something. You're deeply sorry.
Dan LeBatard
International sign.
Greg Cody
But now he has. It's not the international sign. That is not the international sign for I'm sorry. I don't. It's you rubbing your nipples and then throwing your hands in the air. And I don't, I don't believe.
Stugatz
If you have to mouth my bad, it doesn't count as a universal symbol.
Dan LeBatard
It's a long hole. Long hole. I had three wood like 250 yards. Chris, you got to do like the flat like Midwest smile and hold your hand up like. Oh, just like.
Greg Cody
Yeah, that's true.
Dan LeBatard
That's a head down with like a wave. Head down with a wave.
Greg Cody
Is this different by region? The pantomime topology from a distance that might not be seen or visible for 250 yards if someone has bad eyesight and just mad about a whizzing golf ball. Cuz the other question I had is, is this the greatest of the golf etiquette fronts? Like in terms of things that you have to apologize for, is there a greater breach than hitting a golf ball into the group of people in front of you because you haven't had the patience or the self Awareness about your game to know that that's not something we do in Go.
Dan LeBatard
The only thing worse would be looking for your golf ball in, like, a bush for, like, 15 minutes or really slow play because somebody's using an exploding golf ball. You get two minutes. That's another thing. You know what? We should get to that right now. Let's play this video.
Greg Cody
Oh, wow. There's an exploding golf ball situation.
Dan LeBatard
The audio here will set it up. My dad's about to tee off, and you can hear me, you know, set it up for the audience. What's happening here? I switched my dad's golf ball with.
Stugatz
One of those exploding golf balls.
Dan LeBatard
This ball's about to explode. All explodes was that.
Greg Cody
It's a good prank. It's a good prank. You slipped one.
Stugatz
When did you do that?
Dan LeBatard
When you were looking at the ducks. Oh, my God. I was trying for multiple holes. Every time my dad would walk up to the tee box, I was like, I need to get him. I need. He puts his tee down, his ball on the tee, and I got to distract him. I'm like, dad, look at that house over there. What do you think that costs? Greg's. Look at those ducks. Have you seen those ducks before? And he finally. I got him on the ducks after, like, three tries. So he's just like, actually, those are ugly. Those aren't ugly ducks. Those are great. And as he's, like, rambling about ducks, I bent over real fast, switched his ball out for an exploding one. It was epic.
Greg Cody
We're going to do against the spread in a second, and we do have to get to Gabe. But I do want to ask you guys the hypothetical. Because everyone objected, everyone said, well, the greater crime is throwing the ball into the lake. That's the greater crime. But if you'd hit someone in the head and then they threw the ball in the lake, would you then be more okay with it?
Dan LeBatard
They probably would have died. That's the point of their anger. Like, I think I was just kind of joking about the looking for ball. There's nothing worse in golf that you can do is fly it into a green where someone's on where, like, you're endangering their life. You are. You are obviously in the wrong in this situation. Right. There's no dispute. But why I did. Was the reaction appropriate? Is the. Oh, no, it was not. I can. But I can say, okay, he overreacted a little bit, but it's not to the point where I'm going, like, I'm gonna go.
Greg Cody
He threw my.
Dan LeBatard
He Threw my golf ball.
Greg Cody
Well, that. That was what. That's what your dad did. That's what your dad did.
Dan LeBatard
That's what I mean, like, I'm not gonna do that. I don't give a guy.
Greg Cody
Was he like.
Dan LeBatard
He was probably my age, but he was like, he looks like he's not someone I was excited to go run up and have an altercation. He stole your property. At the very least, I endangered his life.
Greg Cody
You know, I think that's extreme too, though. You keep making this a death and I'm from 2.
Stugatz
I feel like you take a golf.
Dan LeBatard
Ball to the head from 250.
Greg Cody
Okay. Yes, but that's a dead eye shot. Like. Yes, but I suppose. I suppose that could happen. Yes. From. From 250. I'm just saying it's. You're not hearing about a lot of golf ball deaths, Chris.
Stugatz
You hit the shot of your life.
Dan LeBatard
Oh, I know. Oh, my God. And the reason is because as golfers, we live in a society. We have a code. We don't do what Chris did.
Greg Cody
I just can't tell you how much I enjoy the idea of the shot of your life immediately ending in both apology and your father headed to a fight. Like, that's not the way the emotions of all of that should go. It should just be the shot of your life. Thankfully, you had your rage filled father in tow. And I need to get to this international scale of assholery, but sorry.
Dan LeBatard
And I got Uncle Dick over here just like, ah, what happened?
Greg Cody
Yeah, that's Greg.
Dan LeBatard
What happened? Where'd you. You hit it up there? He didn't like, he didn't catch any of it.
Stugatz
That's a great Dick.
Greg Cody
Did. Did Uncle Dick have any reaction to the exploding golf ball?
Dan LeBatard
Well, yeah, I mean, he was just like, oh, when did you do that?
Greg Cody
Yeah, okay. He gets fooled by the.
Dan LeBatard
He kind of has the same response to everything.
Greg Cody
All right, let's do against the spread here before we get to g. Let's hurry up and do this. You don't have it?
Stugatz
You weren't ready for it?
Dan LeBatard
No, I hit it. That's right. It's time for we have to do.
Greg Cody
Better in a contract.
Dan LeBatard
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Greg Cody
We have to draft kings.
Dan LeBatard
The crown is yours. Jeremy, what do we got? I'll take over. Music. The Florida Panthers are on the road against the Washington Capitals. And while you might be thinking going on the road to Washington, a really good team, the Panthers have won three in a row. Washington has lost three out of Their last four. We're taking the Florida Panthers minus one and a half against the spread.
Greg Cody
Are you purposely delivering that in extra broadcaster y voice?
Dan LeBatard
Yes, we are. Bump, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. I picked the game just so I.
Stugatz
Can tell Dan Libertard how to pronounce Amen.
Dan LeBatard
Thompson.
Greg Cody
Just go every time you want.
Dan LeBatard
To talk about them. Houston is at Brooklyn. They are nine and a half point favorites. Brooklyn loses every game by double figures these days. I just want to remind everybody that I told you about Amend Thompson first and everybody who's been glazing him ever since.
Stugatz
You can thank me for putting him out there.
Greg Cody
You're putting that flag minus nine and a half.
Stugatz
Yes, you said it before.
Greg Cody
Stephen Adams said he's the most athletic player he's ever played with, including Russell Westbrook.
Dan LeBatard
That is correct.
Greg Cody
And I'm also going to remind everybody.
Dan LeBatard
Stephen Adams is 31 years old.
Greg Cody
That's crazy. That is crazy. Do we have anything else for this? Any other music? The music is dead.
Dan LeBatard
Back to you, Dan.
Greg Cody
All right. Thank you, Jeremy, for all of your efforts there in both song and broadcastry. Sing song. You're welcome. We are going out now to rising star Gabe. I am told that he has a top five list. I don't know. Gabe, how do you feel about your first appearance on the show a couple of hours ago where you were given a hot take? How do you feel about how you did? Do you have any regret there or are you happy with your performance? No regrets. I think I did pretty well.
Dan LeBatard
Circumstances.
Greg Cody
Okay, excellent. So now we've got a top five list. What is this top five list? As Gabe tries to climb into superstardom today on a Greg Cody Tuesday. It's his day to shine. What do you have? Top five list of what? Top five Gabes.
Dan LeBatard
Ah, classic.
Greg Cody
Nice self involved. Okay, any Oli or just. We're going straight through the five.
Stugatz
Oh, I have Olis.
Greg Cody
All right, go ahead. What is your first? Oli? The Archangel Gabriel. Oh, yeah. Wow. Oli for the Archangel. Okay, we're still buffering. Okay. All right, let's see if we got you over here. Go ahead, Gabe. What else do you have? Oli and last Oli, Gabe Kapler. Okay.
Dan LeBatard
The enthusiasm is electric.
Greg Cody
Yeah. This is what Gabe brings to the program. The enthusiasm and energy you generally associate with a Gabe. Number five. Number five Gabe from the office. So you did say Gabe Cutler, not Gabe Kaplan. Right. Not welcome Back Cotter, but the Rangers manager. The guy who's incredibly buff. Correct. Number four. Number four, Gabriel Iglesias.
Stugatz
Okay. Yeah.
Greg Cody
Fluffy. Fluffy.
Dan LeBatard
He was gonna deliver Fluffy.
Greg Cody
Okay, not a lot of Gabes out there.
Stugatz
You can't include Gabriel in a best Gabe list.
Greg Cody
Yes, you must.
Dan LeBatard
Different names?
Greg Cody
No, they're the same name.
Dan LeBatard
No, if you're doing best, Thom, you.
Stugatz
Don'T want to throw in a Tom or a Tommy.
Dan LeBatard
Gabe, what's your full name?
Greg Cody
Gabriel. Number three. Number three, Gabe Davis. Yeah.
Stugatz
Hey.
Dan LeBatard
Go Knights.
Greg Cody
Number two. Number two, Gabe Vincent. Okay, excellent. Excellent enunciation and the final.
Dan LeBatard
Wow.
Greg Cody
The number one Gabe. Put it on the polar. We still making games? Hold on a second. Everybody get ready. Number one. Number one. Me.
Dan LeBatard
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Stugatz
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Greg Cody
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Dan LeBatard
Well, I've been looking for my phone for.
Greg Cody
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Dan LeBatard
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Greg Cody
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Stugatz
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Greg Cody
Don LeBatard.
Dan LeBatard
He called me on my own podcast. He called me full of shit, claiming.
Stugatz
That I'm faking interest in the solar eclipse.
Dan LeBatard
You do do this. You love to just get excited about everything.
Stugatz
Okay, junior stugats. I had to school you and explain.
Dan LeBatard
To you he was gonna take you to Augusta.
Stugatz
I mean, when I was 17 years.
Dan LeBatard
Old, Alan, Sherry and I used to haunt the Bueller Planetarium.
Stugatz
This is the Dan Levatar show with.
Dan LeBatard
The st.
Greg Cody
Ricky Williams is exceedingly human and demands that his human interactions be meaningful and not just be. Let's get right to work. So everyone say hello to Ricky here before we get started so he can have maximum chemistry with our room here.
Stugatz
Hi, Ricky.
Dan LeBatard
Hello, Ricky.
Greg Cody
All right, so you've got Jessica, you got Chris, you've got Roy, and you've got the historic situation where Ricky has requested to come. Come on today. Never in my history with Ricky has he ever desired to be on any of the shows that I'm on. And he certainly hasn't asked. It's always me asking him to come on, but this time he's asked to come on with us. Why is this, Ricky? Why are you desiring to do this? This is something in our career, in my lifetime with you, you have never done before.
Stugatz
Because it's the time of year where we get to predict who's going to win the Super Bowl.
Greg Cody
Excellent. Excellent. Ricky's picky is what we're doing here. Yes. He wants to pick the super bowl through astrological signs. Before we do that, though, I have some football questions to ask you. Is that okay? I need to.
Stugatz
Please. No. Please.
Greg Cody
Well, Myles Garrett just recently here yesterday requested a trade from the Browns. Have you, in your experience Ever requested a trade? Have you known a teammate who has requested a trade? In your time in football, was it even allowed to request a trade?
Stugatz
Yeah, I mean, it was considered taboo. I mean, you weren't like a locker room guy if you decided to request a trade. I mean, there are times where I wanted to request a trade, but I didn't feel like I could. So I was always envious of the guys who had the courage to ask for what they wanted.
Greg Cody
When did you want most to ask for a trade? It had to be during one of those 400 carry seasons.
Stugatz
Actually, it wasn't. It was pretty much day one in New Orleans. I mean, when I went to the press conference when coach Ditka had the dreads on, that would have been. And then you traded all those piece.
Greg Cody
But it would have been great at that press conference to get up there and be like, you know what? I see these dreadlocks on Coach Ditka, I'm requesting a trade. Why didn't you do that? It would have been so honest. And what a great beginning press conference that would have been. You know what? The dreadlocks offend me, Coach. I'm out of here.
Stugatz
I mean, but the reality was, you know, the way, at least the way I felt is they own me now. They owe me.
Greg Cody
It's a little extreme. Day one. That is not exactly a dream scenario. I've talked to you a lot over the years about pressure. And I was curious. In this super bowl, when you go through the astrological charts, is there a sign more equipped, better equipped for pressure than other signs?
Stugatz
It's the same sign or the same astrological archetype that makes someone a football player. So it's Mars is the God of war, is when the bullets are flying, who has the ability to keep their mind straight and aim accurately and hit the enemy. And so any great football player, I think the way we define greatness in football is who has the ability to perform under pressure. And so in Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, what we call fire signs are the signs most equipped to handle pressure.
Greg Cody
Can you walk me through? Because we were just talking about Myles Garrett here. When you thought of physical specimen either inside of your locker room or on the other side of the ball where you're like, holy shit, that guy is unbelievable. As an athlete, I mean, you were that to a lot of people because of your speed and lower body. But were there many you were running into where you were like that Miles Garrett? Like, I don't. That. That's crazy. What's Happening over there.
Stugatz
We played, we played Julius Peppers one year when I was in Miami and Jake Long, our tackle, was. Was out. And so just looking at Julius Peppers and how massive he was and we couldn't block him, it's like the whole game was over from one. One player on the field.
Greg Cody
That hadn't happened to you. When was the last time that on any level had happened to you where you're running out on the field? And that's what it feels like because Myles Garrett is a good deal better than Julius Peppers. And I'd say that as no insult to Julius Peppers. Peppers.
Stugatz
Yeah, well, there, there's maybe. Maybe he is. You know, you know, we have the generational debates, but Julius Pep just. I, I never had that experience where one person on the field could really dominate the. The entire game.
Dan LeBatard
Ricky, you mentioned Jake Long. One time I was at a. A club in Fort Lauderdale. This was at the peak of Jake Long with the Dolphins. And him and his friends were walking out of the club as me and my friends were approaching my friends and me a lot smaller than Jake Long and his friends. And he did the thing of like, we were walking by him and he's like, whoa, big fe. Coming through. Watch out.
Greg Cody
And he like mocked, oh no.
Dan LeBatard
Me and my friends just for how we just looked. Walking past his group of friends smaller than like, whoa, big guys coming in the club. And I was just like, hello, Jake Long, big fan.
Greg Cody
Yeah, that is a sad phrase.
Dan LeBatard
No question. Just wanted to share a little story.
Greg Cody
At the peak of Jake Long is such a. Like, at the peak of Jake Long was so just a sad time in life. Walking into the club at the peak of Jake Long. Chris, are you aware that Ricky is my wife's astrologer? Spends twice he's an instructor. You'd be surprised at how many of our listeners have come out and visited Ricky in Grass Valley. He's got an unusual relationship with an assortment of our listeners. Because they come out and spend a weekend with you sometimes, right, Ricky?
Stugatz
Yeah, I've had a bunch of. We do retreats out here and I've had a bunch of. A bunch of people come. I think we've had almost 20 in the past year and 90% of them found me through. Through these conversations. So it's been. It's been great. A way for me to get to know fans on a deeper level. It's great to be able to have astrological conversations with other sports fans. It's been fun.
Dan LeBatard
Ricky, how odd is Dan with it? Does he like, sit in the Corner and watch you and Valerie there.
Greg Cody
I'm not.
Stugatz
I mean, you nailed it. He's pretty. Like, pretty bad at it, you know? But I will say, but Valerie's really good because in order to be good at astrology, you have to have a lot of curiosity. And so, yeah, he sits in the corner, he waves and says hi. And then he comes in and does his joke. And then Valerie fake laughs, and I smile. And then he's like, all right. And then he goes.
Dan LeBatard
He does a joke, fake laughs. That's what we were all picturing.
Greg Cody
Yeah, well, you got me standing in a corner. Like, you guys have me standing in a corner, and you're creeping me out with the visual image of me standing in a corner, corner. You know what that is to do? Sitting in a corner. Whatever, whatever.
Dan LeBatard
Just not better.
Greg Cody
Nearby, but not involved. Just sort of watching voyeuristically. Like, the thing that you guys are describing is a bit insulting to me.
Dan LeBatard
It's like Jerry Followell Jr. Esque.
Greg Cody
Yes, well, you. Me, that's why. Let's just say it. Like, let's just.
Dan LeBatard
Back here.
Greg Cody
Yeah, you were just saying it privately. I saw it on your face. I saw it on all your faces. All of you were laughing. You were all laughing.
Dan LeBatard
Look at you. Can you read your own wife's astrology sign?
Greg Cody
Well, we got a master teacher here. You got a guy. Look, your curiosity is endless on this stuff because what he's doing is trying to figure out the secrets of the universe. But how often, Ricky, when you're here trying to pick games, you've said before that this is not. That this isn't the science of predictive behavior. So what part of the game is interesting to you? Or what part of the astrology, the astrological impact on the game is interesting to you?
Stugatz
Well, it's interesting to me that, you know, I used to be a pundit. You know, I did a little football, a little TV stuff, and people would, you know, ask me to predict the game. What's going to be the score based on what you've seen. What do you think? But from an astrological perspective, it's not a consideration of what do I think. It's when I ask the question, what does the chart say is gonna. You know, in the. In the olden days, they would cut open. Cut open a goat or a sheep, and then they would look at his. At its entrails, at its liver and its intestines. And based on that, they would say, this is what's going to happen. Or this side of this country or this nation is going to win the battle, but with an astrological chart. I asked a question, and it's a cool technique because it's from the moment you ask the question, you look at the chart for that moment and it gives you the answer. And so I was thinking about, what is the moment where I'm going to ask the question, and what question am I going to ask? And I decided the question I was going to ask is, are the Chiefs going to win again? That's the question. And when am I going to ask the question? So I said, I'm just going to wait until it feels like it's the right moment to ask the question. My son Blaze was in town this weekend, and he came over and he said, who do you got in the game next week? And I was like, okay, this is the time to ask the question. So I went on my phone and I created a chart for that moment in Grass Valley, California, where I live. And I looked at the chart to determine who's going to win the game. So it takes away anything I know about football, and it goes straight to the stars. It goes straight to divination to decide who's gonna win the game. And to me, that's cool.
Greg Cody
And you feel like you have the science of this. You feel like you don't even have to watch the game, that you can have a general outline from the universe through the charts. That feels predictive to you, by the way. The group laughed, not surprisingly, at the learning that your son's name is Blaze.
Stugatz
Yeah, I didn't choose his name, his middle name, but he goes by Blaze. And his mom chose the name, but it was obvious what we were doing when we made him. Do you have a daughter named Mary Jane Marley? Her name's Marley.
Dan LeBatard
Marley.
Stugatz
Okay.
Dan LeBatard
Another son, Keith.
Stugatz
I didn't. I didn't. I didn't choose Blaze's name, but.
Greg Cody
Yeah, okay.
Stugatz
I get. I mean, it's a cool name, but I can't take credit for it.
Greg Cody
It is a cool name. How many. How many of those do you want to do? Because I just did. I thought it would be funny to limp in with Doobie.
Dan LeBatard
Favorite basketball player's name is Bol Bowl.
Greg Cody
Yeah. Stupid. Yes. Way to go. Congratulations. Thank you. You're going to applaud and leave the room. What?
Dan LeBatard
No.
Greg Cody
Hey.
Stugatz
No.
Greg Cody
You don't deserve to give yourself that sound. Get out of here. You know you can't. All right, so what does the chart say, Ricky? What is interesting about. And take us through. Take us through the details. That you're using.
Stugatz
Okay, perfect. All right. This kind of astrology is called orary astrology, meaning you look at the hour and it gives you the answer. And in the general rules, if the chart shows 29 degrees, they'd say, it's not a good time to read the chart because it means something is about to end. That's the general rule. So when I pulled up the chart, it was 29 degrees LEO. And LEO is the sign of royalty. So my interpretation was 29 degrees LEO means the end of a dynasty. That's the first. To me, it was clear. It was like a clear image. End of the dynasty. Another technique you'd use is on the left side of the chart. It represents the team you're asking about. And because my question where are the Chiefs going to win? Left side of the chart represents the Chiefs, Right side of the chart represents the Eagles. In the chart, there's a lot more planets on the right side of the chart, which means that the Eagles have more power. So another indication that maybe the Eagles are going to win. And then I looked, and for the chiefs, that there's a lot of energy for prestige, and they're the Chiefs. And the planet Uranus, which is a planet of things changing really quickly, going back and forth, being unpredictable, was really strong also. So my interpretation is that it's going to seem like the Chiefs are going to win, and then something crazy, some reversal is going to happen maybe towards the end of the game, and the Eagles win, and it's the end of a dynasty.
Greg Cody
Do you realize that if this is correct, this will be the single strangest gambling segment ever produced by anybody in the history of gambling. And I. I really badly want this to be something that we do regularly because you knock it out of the park with some sort of refereeing at the end of the game, cost the Chiefs a dynasty. You feel like you have confidence in what you're saying. You believe that this is already kind of ordained from what you're reading, is what the chart says.
Stugatz
Well, I mean, this is something. And the reason I reached out and I'm excited about it is because this is this orary astrology thing. It's been around for forever, and I've known about it forever. But just in the past month or so, I've taken a deeper interest into it. So I can't say I'm an expert, but I can trust myself to learn. So I feel like if I have an opportunity to throw it out there, put it out, and there's something there that it could turn into something very valuable. Because where astrology and football overlap, no doubt, is gambling. And as I think about how to use astrology for gambling, it's not about looking at the individual's charts, because you can't go inside of someone's head and know how they're going to handle some kind of situation. But this, this type, this orary astrology was specifically built to answer kinds of questions. And even if, as I get better and better at this, you and someone who knows football and learns a little bit of this technique, they can use it to be able to help themselves gamble. Because the more you understand the game and the more you understand what the chart is saying, you can see when it's saying something and when it's not. Because they're not saying that this technique works every time. But if you learn when it works and when it doesn't, someone could make a whole lot of money gambling on games.
Greg Cody
Jessica, are you assuming that most of the audience is listening to this and saying, is the Dan LeBatard show with Stu Gotts through DraftKings trying to go through the stars and Ricky Williams to tempt me to make a bet? That. That feels like a bit of a. Of a cheapening of what it is that Ricky is doing through the science and the stars to have him close to whether or not the Eagles are going to win or not.
Dan LeBatard
I think they're still laughing at the cuck jokes.
Greg Cody
Yeah, they probably are. What is, what is the room that you're right now, Ricky? Because I want to take a guess. I'm going to say a business center at a Hilton.
Stugatz
No, it's my. It's my office upstairs in my house.
Greg Cody
That looks way more antiseptic than. I would have thought that the business that the. That your office would have looked in your house, I would have thought that it would have had more Ricky flair. It looks like something that. That doesn't have a lot of personality. It's just. It's just an office.
Stugatz
So if I showed you the rest of the office, you would change your mind, like so. Right here I have a picture on the wall. I have pictures of me and all my mentors. Over there is all Anaya's astrology merchandise stuff. We have essential oils, have my crystals right here. So just this is the one. This is the one boring place because right back here, right behind the chairs where I do my yoga. So I try to keep this. This area.
Greg Cody
Well, Chris Cody just said, wow, you really insulted Ricky. I'm like, well, no, I kind of know that usually if he's in his office, it's probably got a little bit of personality. Like, I wouldn't think that he would go antiseptic and be wanting to spend a lot of time in a place that doesn't have.
Dan LeBatard
At least imagine that his setup is. He can spin it around. If he's like, I'm joining a fun podcast. I got this background.
Greg Cody
Can you do it? Can you take us? Can this camera angle be moved in any way? No, you just go. You go. Most traditional.
Stugatz
This is. Yeah, this is it. This is my. Some people think it's more like a made up background, but it's.
Greg Cody
Can you grab one of those books. Would you be kind enough to grab one of those books that speaks to you and just so that we can have a glimpse into. Just a minor, minor glimpse into what it is that your life looks like. Away from the antiseptic chair behind you, the Astrology of Human Relationships is the book techniques for guiding or evaluating. I can't see what it looks like.
Dan LeBatard
Is that a bowl of ramen on.
Greg Cody
The COVID What is that? It looks like a pizza. It's neither of those things.
Stugatz
It's a snapshot of an old drawing of drawings of the constellations in the sky. I have my cards, the tarot cards.
Greg Cody
Yes.
Stugatz
I have crystals. So these are healing crystals. I have a rose quartz right here. Crystal regular, clear quartz right here. Something called hoppe. Some people know what hop A is.
Greg Cody
Ricky, Chris, Cody just whispered in my ear. Nonsense. The healing crystals are nonsense.
Dan LeBatard
Like, if I stub my toe and I'm holding that, like, is it less pain? Like, explain what's going on here.
Stugatz
No, no. Healing crystals are used that way. You know, if you. If you go outside on a really hot day. Day, and you lean on a rock, right? And it's kind of hot. So stones, minerals, they. They can. They're like batteries. They can hold heat or cold. They can hold energy. And so, you know, like someone. They feel. You feel heaviness in your stomach. And this is. Anyone can experiment with this.
Greg Cody
Every.
Stugatz
Anytime you notice I feel heaviness in my chest or heaviness in my stomach. When you take a crystal and you put it close to that area and you can ask the crystal, can you get rid of this heaviness forming and just keep it there for a couple of minutes and afterwards, see, does it feel better? Does it feel the same or does it feel worse? That's an experiment that anyone can do. Anyone can do.
Dan LeBatard
Super Bowl Sunday, when we have heartburn, we should get crystals and ask it to cure our acid reflux. If you don't have a crystal, would, like, a AA battery work?
Stugatz
You can try it. I mean, you could. You could try anything. But just the history over time, people have recorded that crystals have the capacity to hold stuff. And again, the best example, you put a crystal outside in the sun and you pick it up, it's holding. It's retaining the heat. Ricky, you just said you have to ax the crystal. Do you actually have to talk to this crystal? You don't have to speak. You don't have to speak verbally, but you can speak mentally to the crystal. Cause obviously a crystal can't talk.
Greg Cody
Ricky, you're always very kind when met with what feels like disrespectful skepticism. You're just very gentle about never getting insulted by it.
Stugatz
Well, because I've been there. I've been to the point where I saw someone doing that. I was like, that's stupid and that's crazy, and that doesn't make any sense. And then part of me was like, how do you know? And so I experimented with it and I was like, whoa, I felt something. And if I felt something, I was curious. And I would just go down a rabbit hole and find every piece of information I can find that helps understand how the hell that just happened. And if it makes sense, you know, I'll stick with it. If it doesn't, I'll let it go so I can be kind because I've been there, there.
Greg Cody
Do you have anything else in the charts that would foretell or that we need to know as part of this new segment? Ricky's pickies.
Stugatz
I love this. And it's not that people would change their bet, but if someone was like, I had that same thought right, that those people. I say double down, double down. The other thing is, Saquon's birthday is, I think, a day or two after, after the Super Bowl. And in the charts in the Eagles, the part that represented Eagle, the Eagles was Aquarius. And Saquon is an Aquarius. So I'd say that probably means we're going to see a whole lot of Sakewell. And if I were choosing an mvp, I would choose Sake.
Greg Cody
Okay, so those are the picks right there.
Dan LeBatard
Him and Greg Cody.
Greg Cody
He's being very firm about. It's Philadelphia as an underdog. It's Saquon. The dynasty ends. What were you going to ask him, Chris?
Dan LeBatard
I was wondering. We sent Lucy to a Texas game a couple months back. How did that go? Because you guys were on the sideline. Together. How did that go?
Stugatz
Oh, it was awesome. She was trying to get me, and I think she mean because I know she came from you guys. She was trying to get me to run on the field, and I think she was serious.
Greg Cody
And I think you were seriously considering it too, at one point, weren't you?
Stugatz
I had this awareness that every time Dan and I do something together, I always get in trouble. So it was. That was. That was the. That was the end result for me is if I hang around Dan, I'm going to end up on a win a wedding dress on the COVID of a magazine, and it's just going to.
Greg Cody
It's going to give me. This was not my idea. This was not my idea.
Dan LeBatard
I imagine you put Lucy and Ricky in a group text and was like, hey, you two do something.
Greg Cody
Yes, but after Ricky was upset that I did, I asked Ricky for simply a favor to help Meadowlark Media get a credential because Lucy was having trouble getting credential to a game. So I merely asked Ricky to help me with a credential and he went the extra mile of looking for that trouble. Like, Ricky was offended that I didn't come up with the creative idea to collaborate on trouble. So, like, you blame it on me, but there's something about you that also gravitates toward it. So I'm guessing our science. It's us.
Stugatz
It's.
Greg Cody
It's our.
Stugatz
It's a we. It's a we thing. But just to clarify, the story is if you would have come to me first and said, hey, take her to the game, then no one would ever gotten in trouble. But because I had to ask for the credential and get denied, then it was. Yes, it was my. It was my idea, but it was a good idea to, you know, when I showed up with. With. To my good friend John Bianco, who denied the credential claim, and Lucy and the producer right next to me, I.
Greg Cody
Was kind of like, they walked on the field behind you without credentials.
Stugatz
I will say it was awesome to like, throw my weight around a little bit because that. All this extra security. And I was like, I'm just going to see what I can get away with. And I just walked through and everyone's like, hey, Rick. Hey, Ricky. Hey.
Greg Cody
Violated. You violated every college football television contract by credential list. It makes me wonder if you could have just walked on the field nude and nobody would have stopped you because isn't that field is about to be named after you, isn't it? Or. Or the field.
Stugatz
The field is. It is the Campbell Williams field. And I think if I walked out there nude, they would have like started and they would have stopped and then they would have started again. They would have given him a second of pause of like, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Greg Cody
They wouldn't have tackled you as quickly as they tackled any other nude person. You would be tackled more slowly than any nude person not named Earl Campbell.
Stugatz
A stiff arm. It depends if I had cleats on.
Greg Cody
They wouldn't.
Stugatz
They would. It would have taken a while to catch for sure.
Greg Cody
Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. If a nude Ricky Williams was running from security on the Campbell Williams field, would it take a while to catch him? I'm sorry for my ignorance that I didn't know that that field was named after you already. I thought it was on en route to. How long has it been named after you?
Stugatz
Almost five years.
Greg Cody
That is terrible ignorance on my part. But you should be able to throw your weight around on a field named after you. Put that on the poll as well. Juju, should you be able to throw your weight around on a field named after you? That had to feel good.
Stugatz
Yeah, I did. I was throwing our weight around. It wasn't just me. It was both of us.
Greg Cody
That's a lot of weight. It's a lot of weight. I can't believe you guys just have me in the corner watching their astrology work together.
Dan LeBatard
Not every man can read their wife's horoscope.
Greg Cody
Dan, Ricky, good seeing you. Thank you for being on. Good spending this time with you, sir.
Stugatz
Yeah, thank you, friends.
Dan LeBatard
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Stugatz
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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Episode: Hour 2: Top 5 Gabes and Super Bowl Horoscopes (feat. Ricky Williams)
Release Date: February 4, 2025
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Greg Cody
Guest: Ricky Williams
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
The episode kicks off with a lighthearted discussion between Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and Greg Cody about selling cars to Carvana. Dan shares his seamless experience selling his car, highlighting the convenience and speed of the process.
This segment sets a casual tone, emphasizing the hosts' camaraderie and their engagement with everyday topics.
Greg Cody introduces the return of Gabe, a rising new media star, setting the stage for upcoming segments. He teases Ricky Williams' special appearance, marking the first time Ricky has been invited to the show proactively.
A significant portion of the episode features Dan recounting an incident on the golf course where he accidentally hit a golf ball towards a group ahead. This story delves into golf etiquette, personal responsibility, and family dynamics.
Key Points:
Accidental Hit: Dan describes being 250 yards away on a par five, attempting a three-wood shot.
Reaction: A young man reacts aggressively by throwing Dan's ball into the water hazard.
Family Dynamics: Dan’s father, Greg Cody, almost responds violently on his behalf, highlighting familial instincts in tense situations.
Golf Etiquette: The discussion emphasizes the importance of safety and respect on the golf course.
Dan Le Batard [06:37]: "He takes the ball. That's what I would do."
The hosts transition into their regular sports betting segment, "Against the Spread," where they provide their picks for upcoming games. This segment is infused with their trademark humor and sports insights.
Notable Quote:
Throughout the episode, there are brief advertisements that the hosts integrate humorously into their conversations. These include promotions for Carvana, 1-800-Flowers, and Miller Lite. However, as per the summary guidelines, these sections are acknowledged but not detailed to maintain focus on content.
The highlight of the episode is the guest appearance by Ricky Williams, who introduces an unconventional approach to predicting the Super Bowl outcome through astrology.
Key Discussions:
Notable Quotes:
The latter part of the episode features casual conversations about Ricky's office setup, healing crystals, and personal anecdotes related to football experiences.
Key Points:
The episode wraps up with the hosts and Ricky Williams exchanging final thoughts, maintaining the show's blend of sports, humor, and unique perspectives.
This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz offers a unique blend of sports commentary, personal stories, and unconventional insights through the guest appearance of Ricky Williams. The hosts' ability to weave humor with thoughtful discussions ensures an engaging listening experience, making it a standout episode for fans and newcomers alike.