Dan (3:43)

This is not over, though. Like, it's good right now. The fan base is happy. I'm sure that Nico Harrison's gone and they're not going to chant fire Nico anymore. But that anger is now just going to transfer to Patrick Dumont. Like, it's it. This atmosphere in that building is not over. Maybe it would be a little bit better if Anthony Davis were healthy and actually playing. They're going to maybe, you know, in six months when Kyrie Irving returns, it'll feel a little bit better. But this team sucks.

Nick Wright (4:08)

No, you have to hit on Cooper Flag, like, and this and this.

Dan (4:10)

But they are hitting on him. Like, he looks good.

Nick Wright (4:12)

No, but this can swallow him like this. This is an. This is how you build the next part of the story. The only way to actually. I'm not even going to say. I'm not even going to say repair or put balm on what this particular wound is because it's so emotional and sort of personal. Again, I just can't say it enough. Superstar in his prime that everyone cares about internationally. You just don't get the 10 years of promise of that. And so Cooper Flagg has to be something close to as good as him. It's the only way. It's not even balm. It just soothes a little bit. The scar of this will last. Like, you wreck a generation of fans here. Like, you wound kids with this in a way that Cooper Flagg gets that.

Chris Cody (4:58)

Crucifix It's a top down situation, obviously from the ownership. They have to sign off on the trade. Is there any sort of flacker, Any sort of like, hey, what's going on with Mark Cuban?

Dan (5:08)

I said that months ago he didn't.

Chris Cody (5:11)

Need to sell his portion of the team.

Dan (5:12)

I said that months ago that Cuban has completely skated in this scenario. He gets to sit there and play this victim. Oh, I wasn't consulted. I wouldn't have done it. I didn't have any control. He sold the team to these people because he wanted the highest dollar value. That's fine, but he sold the team to these people who very clearly have no interest in basketball. There appears to be an ulterior motive. Casinos this, that he chose to sell to these people and now he sits there as if he's some kind of victim. Why don't you make sure you're the caretaker of the franchise? Make sure if you're going to sell the team to somebody, you're giving it over to someone who is going to take just as good care of the team as you did or take by far the most money possible. And that's what he chose.

Chris Cody (6:04)

And the bullshit of the year was like, oh, no, I'm going to still be involved in basketball. No, no, you're not, buddy. You sold the team. You know who makes decisions? People that write the ch. Yeah, you got the check. It's over. There's nothing for you to say. They don't have to consult you for shit. Don't they need to trade Anthony Davis now? Because with Nico Harrison gone, Anthony Davis is going to remain the face.

Dan (6:24)

They should totally start over. They should. They should totally start.

Chris Cody (6:27)

Yeah, start over with Cooper Flag and go from there.

Dan (6:30)

Hello.

Nick Wright (6:31)

All right, before we get to Nick right here, can you give me Ethel Merman's hello? And can you give me just some history of Ethel Merman as Greg Cody keeps the show in the demo that we've always wanted it in. He sounds like Ethel Merman. Get me Ethel Merman. Sound sounding like Ethel Merman. Hello.

Chris Cody (6:49)

What is that?

Nick Wright (6:50)

That is an old woman singing. And so as well is this Hello. Give me just the history of Ethel Merman real quick. I've got to get younger here on Greg Cody Tuesdays.

Greg Cody (7:04)

Ethel Merman, born in 1908, died in 1984 performing on Broadway in Anything Goes. Annie get yout Gun, Gypsy and of course, hello Dolly.

Chris Cody (7:12)

That's her classic hello Dolly, you kidding me? Ethel Merman, that kind of thing.

Nick Wright (7:17)

Nick Wright with us now, and he's the host of FS1's First Things First. What's Right with Nick Wright is the podcast I keep urging you to listen to because he does it. To. Does it with his son. And it is. It is charming, it's endearing, it's humanizing. I don't think.

Chris Cody (7:32)

Thank you, Dan.

Nick Wright (7:33)

I don't. I don't believe people get to see this side of you that often.

Chris Cody (7:37)

Well, yeah. So the. Why is that a shot at the viewership numbers of the pod? Because if the. He's. If. If that's charming, they get to see it quite often. It's three days a week, mass. Mass platformed. But on that note, this is kind of a perfect synergy because you're talking about the show getting younger. I'm about to make the show feel a hell of a lot older because I am not doing the podcast. Greg's gonna love this with my son for the next few weeks because he is out, because as of yesterday, he's on paternity leave, which means, Greg, Cody, I'm with you on Team Grandpa. You and me. I need to. I need to brush up on the Ethel Merman news because we're not getting younger boys. We're getting.

Nick Wright (8:28)

Oh, congratulations, Grandpa Nick Wright.

Chris Cody (8:34)

Grandpa Nick Wright. Man, that. I know, man, it's. I really got it. It's got to be so confusing to people that just casually drop into this show or my show or the pot or whatever, if I get, you know, referenced as a grandfather and they're like, wait, yeah, the. The. The. The guy with the gambling problem and the jewelry who, you know is like, that guy's a grandpa. Nobody understands it. I'll be honest. I don't totally understand it, but it is what it is. And so, yeah, so that's the big news. That's the. As of. As of two days ago. And I gotta think. I think I'm. I think the last grandfather on. No, because Wilbon or Kornheiser, one of them's gotta be right. I'm not taking. I'm not being. That wasn't me being fresh. Like, I don't know. They're the. But I was gonna say, am I the first grandfather on daytime sports TV since your dad?

Nick Wright (9:34)

Oh, so. So. Well, okay, so you're not talking Lee Corso category. You want the grandpa. Hold on. I thought you were feuding with Pablo and Mina now you want the grandpa demo?

Chris Cody (9:43)

You want it all. I want it all. And by the way, I. Listen, I'm not feuding. I'm not feuding with Mina and I thought, I, I thought Mina's tweet this weekend was pitch perfect and really well done. And I'm very excited. I mean on pins and needles, refreshing the feed for the only, you know, honest journalists left in America for the long form episode on so huh. What is that, Stephen? A solitaire app all about? I listen no sacred cows. I'm sure, I'm sure Pablo's furiously working on it. And I listen. I know there's a lot of these got a lot of irons in the fire. I but I mean it feels like it's, it's like is it gambling? Is it not sports people? I listen the Phil Mickelson texts are great and I'm all in for gets a little stickier to do this story, but you know, the journalism goes wherever the story is. I'm excited to hear the episode. Hi, Greg. How you doing, Nick? Hey, do you have the over or under on the delivery date for your. Well, no, I would have. I mean, yeah, I mean that, that, that bets in. She was, she was a few days late. My wife's out there.

Nick Wright (10:58)

Two days ago. Wait a minute. Two days ago.

Chris Cody (11:02)

He said it like guys, that kind of thing. Don't worry about it. I thought it was a pending birth. I didn't know it was. No, Greg, it's fine. It's fine, Greg. Don't worry about it, buddy. He's just asking. And you know what? I was gonna play along. I was gonna act like, you know, I had the over and I lost. I knew it was a mistake, but it doesn't matter, Greg. Us old folks got to stick together. I hear you. I hear that you look like my grandson.

Nick Wright (11:27)

Kids.

Chris Cody (11:27)

The hell's going on? I know. This is unbelievable. So that's the news. Dan, congratulations.

Nick Wright (11:33)

I am, I am thrilled. I am thrilled for you. And I didn't realize that the Poppy lane is open on being a grandpa publicly, growing up in front of sports fans as, as a grandpa. But I actually want to tackle the thicket of the gambling stuff with you because you are somebody who must be fascinated, like really riveted. Everything that's happening here, from the amateurism surrounding Terry Rozier and Chauncey pull ups and just how, how, how buffoonish all of this is. The FBI, the NBA investigation, the mafia, that all of it is, is seems pretty dumb. Then you have the baseball scandal which gets less attention and I'm not sure why when you're talking about you're going to get lifetime bans there as well. One of them from one of the Great closers in the game. How, how do you take the map?

Chris Cody (12:21)

And then there's the, and the poker piece, which again, I don't want Pablo knock, knocking on my door, but, and maybe I should respond to some of his text messages. Bad job. By me. But I mean, I like, I read those indictments, the full indictments, and I'm like, oh, I recognize at least two of those names. Like the, the, and so like the, the poker piece was real. Like, not, those are not games that I play in. But, but those are, but those are, you know, six degrees of Kevin Bacon. We'd be a couple degrees.

Nick Wright (12:55)

But when you're reading the details on this, even the most amateur of poker players would know that those games were rigged away, rigged in a way that's not sophisticated, like the car.

Chris Cody (13:04)

Oh, I disagree with that. I disagree with that. I, I, I think the way that game, those games were rigged was super sophisticated. I think that any, I think that any, you know, person that regularly plays poker for real money knows, hey, one of the skills of being someone who plays cards for money is being able to sense out if the game's on the level or not. But there's so many, there are a lot of ways people, Dan and I know we can get to the, the sports betting piece of this, but just on the poker piece, because this is like super. I, I, I'm really in that. And it's one of the reasons, so let me just back up a little bit real quick. One of the reasons I travel all the way to Vegas and if I can't get to Vegas, I go to Philadelphia or that I play in that game, the from last month, that, that's too big for me is because I want the certainty of the following three things. That the game is not being cheated, that the game is going to get paid at the end of it. That the game and that the game is not going to be, you're not gonna be sitting in a card game and have the, the cops come in because someone's either selling drugs out of one of the rooms or because it's an illegal casino where they're taking a rake. So the, the game that I play in in New York that's too big for me to play in really is totally legal because no one's taking a rake. Like you can play poker with your friends for $10aman or 10 million a man, and it's totally legal as long as the house is not taking a cut. And so as whenever you venture outside of the casino, you run the Risk of different types of cheating. The most common type of cheating is collusion, which is you, me, Greg, the shipping. And there's seven of us playing together and six of us have all said, hey, we're gonna chop up each other's winnings and losings. And then poor Greg. What? So basically it's all of us against Greg. Like that is that. And you can, that's a way to get someone, you get someone big in the game and they can't win because it's the, it's one on six, basically. So that happens a lot. And you gotta be careful of it. There is th. There is people, just two people having pieces of each other. So, Dan, you and I are in a game and you have 50% of my action, I have 50% of your action. So we're incentivized to have the other person do well, which changes how we play, which is kind of okay, but certainly not okay if it's not disclosed to everyone. That happens and you've got to be aware of it. Victims known as quote fish. Yeah, exactly. What, what, what is being alleged here is the rigged shuffling machine is very sophisticated and scary and the marked cards is not sophisticated in that it's obviously been done for years. But having it done on that level is surprising. And so, yeah, like that is. That's unrelated to the sports betting except for the fact it gave you a little bit of a window that, oh man, some of these guys might be in more money trouble than I thought and be putting themselves in worse positions than I thought. What does Zyn give you? Not just smoke free nicotine satisfaction, but real freedom. Freedom to do what you love and choose your rewards. With Zinn Rewards, you can redeem points for premium tech outdoor gear and gift cards to your favorite retailers. Find your zen and keep finding rewards that fit your lifestyle@Zinn.com rewards. Warning. This product contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical.

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Dan (19:26)

Don Le Batard.

Chris Cody (19:27)

I feel like we need to normalize saying the scientific terms for organs on the air. Like if someone. Yes, you know what? If someone takes a foul ball to the penis, we should just say he took a foul ball to the penis. Sts that free kick hit him right in the cockadoodle doo.

Dan (19:48)

This is the D Levitar show with the stugats.

Chris Cody (20:03)

I think I have the fits to the sports betting. What was the original question? Just talk about poker for 20 minutes.

Nick Wright (20:10)

Well, this is the problem with him. And sometimes if you allow him. No, no, you didn't do a bad. No, look, that is.

Chris Cody (20:15)

That was informative.

Greg Cody (20:16)

Don't let them get to you. Nick.

Nick Wright (20:17)

Nick.

Chris Cody (20:17)

Hey, where's the day date by the way?

Nick Wright (20:19)

Nick, you did not do a poor job with that. That was absolutely good content. That was super nourishing for the ill informed. As someone who comes from the inside of this world. The thing that I was saying that wasn't sophisticated is just when you're going, when the cards are landing the way they are. There's not a way to bet that the cards are going to be gut shots on the river. And you. Right. Every time like that seems super unsophisticated, but the next.

Chris Cody (20:43)

Well, yes, so. So you shouldn't. So here's what I'll say. Just very quickly and put me on a damn timer. Chris Cody. I thought I was act. You guys can do more Ethel Merman sound drops. I thought I was actually being helpful here, but you should not be able to be scammed more than twice by the same group. I played. I was in. God dog it. Where was I? I was in. I played in a game that I am certain was rigged in Milan, but I. I played in it once.

Dan (21:17)

What was the giveaway?

Chris Cody (21:19)

The way. So, I mean, I kind of caught him, but there's nothing I could do. And that was like, in rounders. Just, like, grabbed his hand.

Dan (21:26)

Was there a hanger?

Chris Cody (21:27)

It was a private game in a casino, but it was private. It was in a casino. James Bond shouldn't have. I shouldn't have played. As soon as I. As soon as I got there and they're like, oh, there's a bigger game upstairs you can play in. I should have been like, that's a bad idea. But I was an idiot. And I was winning a very little bit. And then I told him, I was like, hey, I got one more round, then I gotta leave. And second to last hand was one of these setup hands like that you hear about. But those happen. Those happen in real. Those happen just organically. Or it could be a setup where I get aces, someone else has queens, all the money goes in pre and a queen comes out and I lose. Like, God dog it, you know, bad luck. And so that I did not know it was rigged because of that. I was like, it's bad luck. And I left. And then as I'm about three minutes after I left and I go to get my wife who's playing blackjack, I'm like, oh, man. I left my sweatshirt up there and I went back. And as I'm walking back, I hear them all talking about it and laughing like, God, dog it. Bad job by me. It's like, that's a bad job.

Nick Wright (22:33)

I love.

Chris Cody (22:34)

It's a bad job by me. But I did that to myself.

Nick Wright (22:36)

I never played a safer game. The sentence, though. I played in a game that was rigged in Milan. It really did thinks he's James Bond. It did make him sound like James Bond, did it not?

Chris Cody (22:48)

Yes.

Nick Wright (22:48)

Even though he's the sucker in the story.

Chris Cody (22:50)

Yeah. No, I'm the sucker. Yeah, I'm the sucker.

Nick Wright (22:53)

The other part of this though, the. Okay, outside of the poker and you just, you took out Stephen A. Smith and you took out.

Chris Cody (23:01)

I didn't take out anybody. I'm just waiting for the Journal, the only journalist left in America to, you know, listen. I. Maybe that'll make cocktail parties a little uncomfortable at times. I just want the truth, but go ahead.

Nick Wright (23:11)

Pablo Torre, do you have anything else for him? You've been very critical of his award winning podcast.

Chris Cody (23:16)

I've not been critical. I have not been critical at all. This podcast, actually, I've been very complimentary.

Nick Wright (23:22)

Critical, critical, critical of his.

Chris Cody (23:28)

I do. I, I've not. I, I have got. Listen, just like Pablo, I just call balls and strikes and you know, so do occasionally do I notice something like Pablo somehow having fresh ready available on his phone. A New York times screenshot from 2019 because his old Harvard econ professor got an obit when he passed and and uses that to when someone questions his credentials. I'm no economist, but I did take a semester of microeconomics and a semester of macro. Also, my professor was literally this guy and then just saved screenshot from the guy's New York Times obituary. Do I find that adorable? Of course I do.

Nick Wright (24:21)

Because I'm.

Chris Cody (24:22)

Because everyone does. I just. Evidently everyone's decided, man, that someone should say something to Pablo. We don't want to. I bet Nick will take care of it for us, so I will take on that burden. But the podcast is great and deserves all of the flowers and it has been fearless, which is. And I'm so. I just want to learn more about the solitaire app. But you wanted. You had a question for me about the prop betting before we get to your. And my big bet, which I've set up beautifully.

Nick Wright (24:54)

Yes, thank you. Outside of the poker elements of this that are fascinating to you, the prop elements of this, they're obviously going to get control of this. You're not going to be able to. You're not going to be able to bet individual pitches anymore. And explain to me how we arrive at Emmanuel Classe over what is reported as, you know, $400,000 is risking his career for $400,000. I thought that some of these too much money to be tempted by the prop bets.

Chris Cody (25:24)

So I think there is a level of unsophistication from non gamblers about how easy it is to flag those types of irregularities. And so I think it's as simple as victim. It's perceived as a victimless Crime and how are you going to prove it? So I just think it's like ignorance too. Oh, it is going to be so easy to catch you. I think, you know, I think that guy probably thought I, you know, I throw a bad first pitch all the time prove it. And so I, so I think that is, you know, I think people don't realize that any market that there's typically, you know, very low volume on that all of a sudden has huge volume on it. That always means there's inside information.

Greg Cody (26:10)

Always.

Chris Cody (26:11)

And so the, the, the rub is here is what is true pre massive legalized gambling. There was, there were more games particularly on the collegiate level that someone would be on the take on and we would not find out because there was not as there, there wasn't a database of the bets because it was done at bars and you know what I mean, with bookies or whatever it is. So it is true that legalized gambling has made it way easier and quicker to root out actual game fixing or you know, a player on a college team they're favored by 17 and it's like okay, I don't have to, we can still win. Just not cover that stuff. Thanks to legalized gambling will be discovered instantaneously. What, what is also true is pre legalized gambling you could not make these individual player prop bets. They did not exist certainly first pitch certainly Terry Rozier unders and overs, those didn't exist. So how do we account for that? And I think it's very simple. I think it's very, I think there are very easy ways because I have said make them one way markets which means only offer overs on individual player performance bets. I that would fix a lot of this. That also again I don't want to get too in the weeds but is really bad for the better. And I don't want that because the, the thing a two way market shows you is what the fair price is. So if we set Steph Curry's total points at 25 and a half and the over is minus 140 and the under is plus 100. So you then see oh okay so there is a 20 cent vig that it should be, you know it minus 120 is where the equilibrium is. You see how much the biggest. If you only have overs available to you, you don't see what the fair market price is. So I don't love that for the better for the consumer. So I do think the work around Dan is this. I think all of these places saying essentially for anything other than star players. The player prop market has very low limits, like $50. And you can. Because what they want is, what they want is parlays anyway. Because that's what everybody loves to bet these days. That's what. So you can do. You could have 17 player props in a parlay and still have it. So I think that is, I think you just have to put very low limits on non superstar player and the.

Nick Wright (29:18)

Superstar is uncontaminated because there's too much to risk, too much money involved. It would cost you to get in the game.

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Nick Wright (32:31)

Before we get to our bet and before I get your thoughts on Nico Harrison being let go, because I really. I. You just can't let a guy you're going to fire eight months later make that trade, Nick. Like, that's.

Chris Cody (32:42)

Well, I don't think they had any idea they were going to fire him. And I heard your guys blasting Mark Cuban. That's so unfair. And, you know, I'm not. It's not even like, I'm a huge Cuban fan, even though it does appear he and I have very similar feelings on podcast. But. But I do. I do think that if I had my family home that we've. My family's lived in for a hundred years, and it's like, you know what? It's time to sell. The market's great, and I sell it to a otherwise seemingly normal person, and then three months later, they light it on fire. I. I don't think it'd be fair for, like, my, you know, my son to be like, why didn't you see that coming, dad? That's where we grew up. I'm like, well, I didn't think they were gonna burn it to the ground for sport. Yeah, like, I don't think Cuban could have saw they're gonna trade Luka Doncic in the middle of the night because Nico Harrison is so bothered by the fact there's someone in the organization more powerful than him.

Dan (33:44)

Yeah, your home. Your home doesn't have fans, though, Nick. Like, the only people care about the home are the people living in the home at the time. The franchise has millions and millions of people who care about it.

Chris Cody (33:55)

My home has fans. Yes, but he didn't sell it to.

Greg Cody (33:57)

Hold on.

Chris Cody (33:58)

He didn't. He had no reason to think he was selling it to.

Greg Cody (34:04)

He didn't.

Chris Cody (34:06)

How would he anticipate if I sell the Mavs to the Adelsons who own casinos, they are then going to put in charge the son in law, who is then going to empower Nico Harrison, who is then going to make the single worst trade in 100 years of sports. Like, I don't get what you're saying. Like, it, it, it. It'd been one thing if he's like, hey, guys, I, you know, I'm selling the team to the Paul brothers and, you know, and they're gonna do. Or I'm selling the maps to Mr. Beast and he's gonna start holding contests for who's gonna be on the team. Then it's like, okay, maybe we've done wrong by our fans. He just sold the team to a totally normal. The type of people that buy teams. Now.

Dan (34:55)

He sold the team to someone who doesn't give a shit about basketball and might have ulterior motives when it comes to their casino business.

Chris Cody (35:04)

But. Okay, again, I don't want to. I'm not really trying to argue, but I guess I don't know how to do anything else there. Those are the ulterior motives because of the casino business is in direct conflict with trading Luka Doncic. Like, so are you. Are you real. So this is. I, I am gonna be serious about something for a moment. I. And I'm not accusing you of doing this, but I really, really don't like when people bat their eyes at dumb conspiracies they don't believe because it aids an argument that they want to make. If you are arguing that trading Luka Doncic was part of a plot to move the Dallas Mavericks and premeditated and all of it, then say that. If you think that's as dumb as I think it is, then I don't understand the point you made about their casino business.

Dan (36:03)

No, I, I don't.

Nick Wright (36:04)

I.

Dan (36:04)

There's no proof until that actually happens. So I don't really know about all that. But I do think that as a caretaker to a franchise, which is what Mark Cuban was, I think there's a responsibility that when the day comes that you're handing over the franchise, that maybe you make sure it's going to continue to be in good hands.

Chris Cody (36:18)

How do you do that?

Dan (36:21)

You make sure that you're selling it to people who care. I mean, he decided to sell it to anyone who is offering the most money possible, which of course is his right.

Chris Cody (36:31)

And by the way, and by the.

Dan (36:32)

Way, Nick, I mean how silly is it to assume that he was still going to be the governor of the team?

Chris Cody (36:36)

That that I think is the biggest point. That part I agree with. That part I agree with. Even though it now seems like Genie Buss actually is going to be the governor of the team. I agree with that part but I just, I don't hear the end of the. How do you ensure that this per. Like one could argue just for whatever it's worth that the act of allowing Luka Doncic to be traded shows a more not committed but involved owner than most teams have. One would imagine that if it's just I don't give a about this asset, I'm just adding it to my portfolio that the, the marching orders would be just status quo. It don't do anything crazy. Like I again, I think Nico Harrison was a madman, but I don't think, I think retrofitting it to Mark Cuban should have seen coming down the pike that if he sells it to the Adelsons they are going to value the Mavericks so little that they put in charge of it their son in law and he is then going to be enraptured by this GM who then so all of those things have to happen and then that GM has to also say I want to trade Luka and be convinced not to tell anyone about it. Like that is talk about drawn to an inside straight. That is. That is such an unlikely sequence of events. I think blaming Cuban for it's crazy. I just do. Nick, I agree with you on those points. There's no way to see that coming. But when you do sell majority stake of the team and you're still nebulous in your basketball, like I'm going to still be kind of a part of this and like be overseeing stuff but then have something happen that went under your nose and now it's like oh no, I didn't see this.

Nick Wright (38:32)

And you still own 27% of the team. So you're a stent sensibly going into partnership with these people on they get to make the decisions and you trust them to do.

Dan (38:41)

And he hired Nico Harris. Like Cuban by the way hired Nikola Harrison.

Dan Le Batard (38:46)

Correct.

Chris Cody (38:46)

So all that to me is like fair criticism. That part I agree with. I just think that we are. What we have is a fan base that has been murdered. Murdered in a way I can, I honestly think is nothing. Like there's been nothing like it since the dude who owned the Red Sox, sold Babe Ruth because he wanted to make a play that I think that Ethel Merman was in. And. And we are, we are looking at the murdered fan base. There is someone standing with a knife over it, over the body. And we're like, hey, who's the person that decided to ship those knives to the hardware store? And who's the clerk who sold it to him? It's like, guys, there is one villain here above all else, and he's the guy who got fired an hour ago.

Nick Wright (39:58)

We're gonna let him go in a second. Always appreciate his time. We'll tell you again, even though his son is not on it, grandpa Nick Wright over the next couple of weeks has a wonderful podcast that he used to do with his son. What's right with Nick Wright back when he wasn't a grandpa. What is the nature of our bet? Because I'd like to know how it is. DraftKings has told me that they are working on a Corvette. And so I.

Chris Cody (40:23)

So here's what I propose. And this is one is just for. Because I want the whole shipping container rooting in the same direction for the biggest Chiefs regular season game that they've played since Mahomes has been there because they don't play big regular season games prior to this year. If the Chiefs beat the Broncos by three and a half, I'll give the shipping container plus Tony. Who is it that I talk to every day when I first started? Tony, right? Lewis.

Greg Cody (40:54)

Lewis.

Chris Cody (40:55)

Sorry. Lewis.

Nick Wright (40:56)

That's Lewis. Lewis.

Chris Cody (40:58)

Tony's in the shipping. Whoa.

Nick Wright (40:59)

So you're.

Chris Cody (41:00)

That's what I thought. I was confused.

Nick Wright (41:02)

Those Latin guys, they all look.

Chris Cody (41:03)

They all brothers. Okay, first of all, I've never seen Lewis. I don't know what he looks like. For all I know, looks like you. Oh, there he is. What up? Oh, that's a good looking fellow. You're right.

Nick Wright (41:12)

You can't imagine how happy you've made him. How much is this bet going to be worth that you're.

Chris Cody (41:16)

No. So listen, I'm just. It's not even a bet if that. Because I'll. I'll be in the clear because I still feel bad. And Dan, you have to put anything up. If the Chiefs beat the Broncos by at least three and a half, I'll give the shipping container plus Lewis, 2500 bucks to distribute amongst themselves per person. No. Relax, Cody. And Cody, you're about to cut out from the beginning. You're. You're. You're. You're really on a. On a thin ice What I would like to do with Dan, but I don't know if now we have time to do it, because it's such. It's such great content. I would like to do a Super bowl champion draft. Me versus Dan. And whomever ends up with the super bowl champion, the other person's gotta give them the white Corvette. Yes. Want to do. But do we have. I don't know how much time you have left in the show? Do we have time to pull that off?

Nick Wright (42:07)

Yes, I think we can.

Chris Cody (42:09)

We're not going to do the draft right now. We will do the draft next week.

Nick Wright (42:11)

Yeah, let's. Next time. You're on. We will do it, but we will commit to that bet. But right now, what you're committing to is the shipping container is rooting five people. Just because there was confusion about this last time.

Chris Cody (42:21)

Yeah, it's the. It's the four people there today, plus Louis. So it's 500 bucks a man is what they'll get.

Nick Wright (42:27)

Wow. Okay.

Chris Cody (42:30)

Just want to put the record straight. That means Mike Ryan is excluded.

Greg Cody (42:33)

We're.

Chris Cody (42:33)

I'm just putting that out there.

Greg Cody (42:34)

Yes.

Chris Cody (42:36)

I mean, is. Is he there today? Nope.

Nick Wright (42:38)

So it's 500 bucks a piece, is what we're saying.

Greg Cody (42:40)

That's right.

Nick Wright (42:40)

500 bucks a piece. This weekend, all they need to root for is the Chiefs. Three and a half. Okay, I will. I'll double that. All right, so.

Dan (42:52)

Gonna have a good.

Nick Wright (42:54)

Wait a second.

Chris Cody (42:55)

Are we rooting for the Broncos then?

Dan Le Batard (42:56)

Plus the points?

Chris Cody (42:57)

No, no. God, no. Who said that?

Nick Wright (42:59)

Roy.

Dan Le Batard (43:01)

What?

Nick Wright (43:02)

What?

Chris Cody (43:03)

What? We got $1,000.

Nick Wright (43:05)

See you later, Nick. Good talking to you.

Dan Le Batard (43:09)

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Nick Wright (43:25)

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Nick Wright (43:42)

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