Greg Cody (2:15)

Or he's dressed exactly like Stone Cold Steve Austin, complete with a vest that says Austin316, the jorts and the bald cap. But sure, somebody else.

Tony (2:23)

Does he need the bald cap?

Greg Cody (2:24)

Stone Cold Steve Austin. Yes.

Nick Wright (2:26)

Okay.

Greg Cody (2:27)

And the other guy's Macho man. Biggest hint is the macho man shirt.

Dan Le Batard (2:31)

I can't see it. He hurt his back. Do you guys. Do you guys know? Because he was limping around here yesterday. He was worried. He was lamenting and mumbling about his age because bad back. Put it on the poll Juju at lebatard show. Have you gotten old when you're suffering from the bad back? Because it was a bit of a crossroads for Chris, who fancies himself our best athlete, to wake up in the morning with a bad back for no good reason. It felt like Howard Bryan pulling both of his hamstrings when he got out of bed.

Greg Cody (3:04)

How arrogant did I sound correcting you on wrestling?

Dan Le Batard (3:06)

You were very pleased to do it.

Greg Cody (3:08)

But he looks like someone that's not Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Dan Le Batard (3:10)

Come on. All right, do me a favor.

Greg Cody (3:11)

Has he ever stretched before? Zaz is stretching. I'm like, I'm convinced. He's never stretched in his entire life. Let me tell you something, Batgate. This is the Don Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.

Dan Le Batard (3:29)

Makes me genuinely happy to be associated with everything that you. You just saw on the screen after the Macho man and Stone Cold Steve Bloated were on your screen. Put on the picture in picture, please put them up. I want to keep an eye on them because we're going to go live soon to Delray Sunrise, Pompano, Doral, where Domino is with Chris Cody and Zaslow. Greg Cody. I wish you guys had seen him. I wish that I didn't have so much going on that you would have had narcissism cam on Greg Cody as he watched his highlight open because you should have heard him yesterday as he left here harrumphing. He's like, hey, I did that highlight song. When's it going? When you using it, huh?

Tony (4:15)

Did I really have that tone of voice?

Dan Le Batard (4:17)

Yeah, you were. You were like. And I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about. I don't. I don't. I. I don't know. And then I asked Carl, you know, you act as if you don't know who works here.

Tony (4:27)

Back Jack. I just wanted to air it. That's all. I was airing my grievances, hoping Highlight is back, Jack with air. Finally. What a song. What a performance.

Dan Le Batard (4:36)

Are you winded already?

Tony (4:38)

No, not at all.

Dan Le Batard (4:39)

Yeah, Tony, he sounds winded.

Greg Cody (4:41)

Well, he did an extra show yesterday. We did Mystery crate yesterday. So he had an extra show. So he's got a little bit more, you know, gas.

Tony (4:46)

Yeah, I do it all.

Dan Le Batard (4:47)

All right. Do we have microphones? We got a lot going on. All right, Nick Wright's going to join us and he's about to play in one of the biggest, I think, one of the biggest tournaments of his life. We're going to air it tonight on our channel. And I'm pretty sure that he is giving you guys a st in what it is he's doing tonight. And so if he wins big, a small percentage of him winning big, I think is a big amount of money. I don't know if this is true about Nick. I'm going to ask him. But I think he prides himself on being a gambler more than he does being a sports media member. Because sports media member, it's easier to get on top of the suckers than it is in gambling. So he can climb to the top of this. He respects the gamblers more.

Greg Cody (5:27)

There's fewer sharks in the media game than there are in the poker game. Feels like there's a lot more sharks.

Dan Le Batard (5:32)

And so I'm gonna ask him these questions. He's gonna be here in a little bit, but I wanna go out because they are in Pompano, I am told. And it was a big night last night in Coral Gables. It was a fun night last night in Coral Gables.

Greg Cody (5:44)

It was a magical night. But for those listening to the podcast and not following along on the stream, when Dan says, our channel YouTube.com batardshows where you get tonight's Nick Wright gambling event.

Dan Le Batard (5:54)

Thank you for that. And Nick will be here in a moment. But he's playing in a big poker tournament and we are going to televise it for you, even though you usually for those things in order to see it. And you will see and find out in minutes what the stakes are for the shipping container. Because he does want to. He feels bad about the fact that he hasn't won you guys any money yet. And I think he's got a chance to win you a pretty substantive amount of money tonight.

Greg Cody (6:18)

No, I'd be nice. Because he's, you know, a very good gambler and he plays in these massive, high stakes, high limit games. And he talks about how he won a Rolex Presidential day date. That's a $75,000 watch. And he flexes it on us and it's like, all right, buddy, time to. Time to redistribute a little bit of that wealth.

Tony (6:34)

Do I get a Kind of that or.

Dan Le Batard (6:35)

No, we'll find out. We'll find out who Nick is cutting it. Didn't he cut somebody out last week? Who was it? Was it Jeremy last?

Greg Cody (6:41)

Yeah, I think Jeremy.

Nick Wright (6:43)

Well, no, I.

Greg Cody (6:44)

It was. I lost us that bet because I.

Nick Wright (6:46)

Dared to even float the idea of a kicker missing a field goal.

Greg Cody (6:50)

It wasn't as bad as Roy saying that there was going to be an interception. Like that's unforgivable.

Tony (6:56)

Nothing worth.

Greg Cody (6:56)

I apologized because I don't have much.

Nick Wright (6:59)

Experience gambling, which is like understandable why Nick is the way he is. Right.

Greg Cody (7:04)

Like I could have some success in.

Nick Wright (7:05)

Media, I could not have any success in gambling. So I get why he, he feels that way.

Greg Cody (7:10)

Look what I'm surrounded by, Dan. Okay, we've got Roy who says there's going to be an interception on the last drive. It happens. I've got Jeremy over there who says Harrison Bucker is going to miss an extra point. He does. They lose, we lose out on money. What? The only guy I have around here.

Nick Wright (7:24)

Is worth his salt right here is.

Dan Le Batard (7:25)

Right next to me, Mike. But I don't think that is including him in anything. I want to talk about what happened in Coral Gables last night because Mike was watching the baseball, watching both games, but he was, he seemed more interested in the baseball game than the basketball game. As the U. N. Basketball team is ending Virginia Tech's NCAA hopes. Virginia Tech has lost on a bunch of. Bunch a bunch of buzzer beaters and then lose this way at the end here where Miami can't make any threes. They've got two fatal flaws that are going to kill you in the tournament. They can't shoot threes or free throws.

Greg Cody (7:56)

But they just can't shoot.

Nick Wright (7:57)

They can't shoot period.

Dan Le Batard (7:58)

Free throws. No, but, but what they can do, what they can do is just throw bodies at bodies at and at the shot clock and it's not quite Bob Huggins, you know, just throw athletes throw the ball at the shot clock and see if you can get it. But they can't shoot free throws and they can't shoot threes and they need Donaldson to bail them out with 24 points in the second half when they're not getting much of anything from anyone else. And they beat Virginia Tech, They're a big favorite against Virginia Tech and they. Virginia Tech is playing for its season. If you don't think that matters, look at what Georgia did to Kentucky yesterday because they, they knew they were playing for their season.

Greg Cody (8:35)

Oh, don't bring up the Kentucky game. I'M sor. Because that job is going to open up and the first call they better make is to Jay Lucas. Because look, you mentioned the spread and you also mentioned that Virginia Tech's had a tough season. I think Virginia Tech's a pretty good basketball team. And when you get given the emotion of the North Carolina win, the epic comeback, the travel back. This is a vintage ACC let down spot for the Miami Hurricanes. Renew goes out for some time in the second half and you're carried by Trey Donaldson's career high 32 points. It was unbelievable. But the totality of the sports night on campus was insane because you had people starting their evening at Marklight Stadium against ucf. Jeremy School, good baseball team, one that has had a lot of success recently against Miami. You had those fans leave to go to the Watsco center, the game, improbably so, because UCF was dominating this baseball game. Miami had like four hits entering the eighth inning. Miami ties it, it sends it to extras. It goes all the way to 13 innings. And what you have on television is an amazing scene where some students were running back to Marklite Stadium. And the garage that's adjacent to Marklight is jam packed with, um, basketball fans. It was an electric atmosphere that's one of the coolest like things in, um, kind of like basketball, baseball. You can sit at that garage that sits right over and watch some of the games. And it's like so cool.

Dan Le Batard (9:55)

I will tell you some of the backstory here that makes it interesting as you watch what it is that Zaslo and Chris Cody are doing. We will go to them in a second. But for those of you not familiar with what a weird, wonderful place the University of Miami is, it doesn't really make sense for a campus of any kind of that size, manicured size, to exist in the area it exists in. This is not a college town in any way.

Greg Cody (10:21)

It's one of the richest zip codes in America.

Dan Le Batard (10:23)

And it just doesn't make sense, okay, that between a baseball stadium. That is honestly the reason that Miami started mattering in sports to the country when ESPN started televising Ron Frazier's baseball team to the nation. The University of Miami baseball team was this foreign thing in the south that would make its way to Omaha and really made the program start mattering, honestly, like Rick Barry did what he did in the 50s. And football obviously did important things too. But Ron Frazier and the University of Miami baseball program made college baseball matter and they made sports matter more in this town beyond the Dolphins. So they've got Their stadium on the corner. And at that time, the basketball arena is in the bottom of a hotel. It's at the night center. It's at the bottom of a hotel. Like, I'm not even making this up. It's like the basketball gym where the basketball team played. Never mind final fours, it was underneath. This is good.

Greg Cody (11:24)

Continue giving the entire history of both sports.

Dan Le Batard (11:26)

I want to do this because of what happened last night. And you've got an arena now in basketball built on campus between that and the baseball stadium, it's walking distance. And what's there is a parking garage between the two things. And you know, and a bunch of things that medicine makes possible.

Greg Cody (11:43)

Because you mean a hospital. Don't forget the green tree practice fields where legends are made.

Dan Le Batard (11:48)

And so between those two things, Miami rarely gets to feel like a college campus town that way, with the small sports, smaller sports, not football, in other words. And so on this night, you've got college baseball, the program that gets. It's one of the most respected programs that there is in the country in baseball because of its history and because of its now. And the basketball team is playing a game during what I said Mike was the most prove it time in their schedule. And they've won all of the games they've played so far, so they should be ranked. Okay. Now, it's not the easiest thing to be ranked. The other Miami of Ohio has won 25 straight games, and they're barely in the top 25. Like, they haven't even gotten into the top 20 yet. And they're unbeaten at whatever it is, 25, 26 and oh, but Miami will be ranked because this, this game was a letdown game. They had no business winning the last two games, but they won them anyway. Like, honest to God, Greg, this story is beginning to feel. I don't know if they could beat any of these big dogs, but they're just junkyard dogs. Like, they're just a team that's sort of been thrown together on, can you beat everyone even though you can't shoot? Put that elbow in that guy's ear and make the refs call it. Because all you're going to do is play some physical basketball that's going to ground down. I thought Virginia Tech deserved to win that game last night.

Tony (13:07)

And it's worth repeating that Jay Lucas, what he took over was similar to what, worse than what Mario Crisval took over on the football team. He had to do a complete rebuild. Like, he had to start over. Larry Yeager was great for the program but he left Jay Lucas nothing. And so what Jay Lucas has done is ground floor stuff. To go from where he, what he took over to where they are now is just fantastic.

Dan Le Batard (13:34)

The reason that I'm explaining the entire history, I understand that Mike doesn't think that the University of Miami audience needs that or the Miami audience does. But I am explaining it to the national audience that happens to listen to the local hour, what the history of these programs are. Because it doesn't make sense that those two things exist where they do in Miami, right next to each other. And to have that night, that night is not a night that feels possible almost at any other time. You need, you need the college basketball program to grab the community and the students and fall in love with the basketball team at the same time that the University of Miami baseball team is playing an extra inning game with that specific community of people, which is the baseball people at the University of Miami. The fans of that team might be the closest knit community there is at the University of Miami attached to any sport because they have a place, they have a corner to go to where it feels like they've still got the 1950s neighborhood.

Tony (14:35)

And I'm glad you gave credit to Ron Fraser Frazier, the great Ron Frazier, the showman. He put that sport on the map in a way, he did a lot to put college baseball on the map because he made it a spectacle. He made you want to go to games with all this gimmickry and all these giveaways and everything. And he made Mark Light field filled up. So he's been great. And to be excited about the fourth game of a college baseball season is difficult like that. Nobody talks about college baseball the first weekend of the season, but it was worth it last night. And what they've got right now is a good double play. And you're right, they're right up the street from each other, a two minute walk.

Greg Cody (15:16)

I do love that sense of community. And in what would be considered a doldrum for Miami athletics, this is always an exciting time of year because Miami baseball always opens up with like a month long homestand because it's freezing everywhere else in the nation and you can often do a double. You can start your night at Mark Light, have a beer and a shake, walk over to the Watsco and the event like something happens last time, which is just a magical scene, a perfect storm of things coming together where both teams win really dramatic games. A walk off home run, just a huge bomb to left center. It was an incredible night. And you know we said this every time Miami's hired a football coach where you hope to get it right, but especially when they hired Mario Cristobal, which is when the football team is good. Everything at that university just seems to cook. Get the football team right and that tide will lift all boats. And it's starting to happen and it's starting to be a really exciting time.

Dan Le Batard (16:08)

Coral Gables, also the University of Miami basketball team is now 21 and five under high. Lucas that's a 14 win increase from last year. They were seven and 24. It's the biggest turnaround in the country. Like there's been no team in the country that has done that from one year to the other.

Greg Cody (16:26)

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Tony (19:42)

I do. Yeah. One of the great characters in the history of television, in my humble opinion. And. And to my credit, my personality.

Dan Le Batard (19:52)

In my humble opinion. Followed by to my credit. It's amazing.

Tony (19:56)

My personality.

Dan Le Batard (19:56)

Just amazing.

Tony (19:57)

Predate. Curb your enthusiasm.

Greg Cody (19:59)

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Dan Le Batard (20:00)

Oh wow.

Tony (20:01)

I'm not gonna say Larry David.

Dan Le Batard (20:02)

Okay.

Tony (20:03)

Patterned himself.

Dan Le Batard (20:04)

You copy? All right. Put it on the please. Juju did Greg Cody copyright being an asshole long before Larry David?

Greg Cody (20:10)

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stool guys.

Dan Le Batard (20:16)

We will get out to Chris and Zaz in a second, but Nick Wright is joining us now and as I mentioned, he's playing in a big tournament. I don't know whether it's the biggest of his life, but you can watch it@pokergo.com or on our YouTube channel tonight. I don't know how long is this going to go tonight? I don't know what the stakes are Nick, fill us in on the specifics of what it is you're doing and what the stakes are for the shipping container.

Nick Wright (20:39)

All right. Hi, thanks for having me. I'm the guy on the phone in the airport, so I'm gonna try to keep my voice down, and I'm not. It kind of looks like I'm in a bathroom. I'm not in a bathroom. Hold on, let me move around so you guys can. I can prove that. All right, good. It's not a tournament, it's a cash game. So the distinction there is, Dan. You, you know, you can, I guess, make or lose, you know, differing amounts of money. It's not like you paid a tournament. You paid 10 grand to get in. And then one person ends with all the chips. That's not what this is. As far as the stakes, Dano, it seems like they might be a little bigger than I had anticipated because there. This is guys. This. A lot of the guys who are playing yesterday, the guy who put the game together, Antonio Sfandiari, who old poker fans will remember as the magician during the poker boom, he put the game together and in what was supposed to be a pretty friendly game with him and some LA businessmen, he lost $345,000 yesterday. And which means today's stakes are probably kicked up, which, you know, could be good. We'll see. I wired. I mean, it's going to be on stream, so I can just tell you guys, I wired a hundred thousand dollars to the Aria Resort and Casino and hopefully they wire back more than that. Now, as far as the shipping, how people can watch, they can also watch on my YouTube page. It's free for everyone. People should watch on your YouTube page. It'll start. The stream will start, I believe at 6pm Eastern and will go six hours. It'll just continuous play. And am I wearing the same thing in that picture? Close to it. And you look.

Greg Cody (22:19)

You don't.

Dan Le Batard (22:19)

You are. You look like you're out of Rounders, though. You. You really do look. You look like you're out of. That jacket is out of. You just emerged from a Turkish bath and that's that.

Nick Wright (22:29)

That jacket. That jacket in the picture I just realized is Scotch and soda velour sweatsuit that I wear. This is an old Nike tech fit. But I'll wear something different on stream, but it doesn't matter. The point is this. The. So I'm just gonna give the shipping container a free roll of 5% with a maximum win for them of 5k. So that would. So if I Make. If I win 50 grand, the shipping container can chop up 2500. If I lose, they lose nothing. And if somehow I go, you know, you know, if this thing goes crazy, they're. They're maxed out at 5k to split amongst themselves. I'm glad Roy is there because the last time I did this, I don't think Roy was.

Dan Le Batard (23:11)

So who gets to be a part of this? Who.

Nick Wright (23:13)

What's the group there?

Dan Le Batard (23:14)

Well, we've got.

Nick Wright (23:15)

Let me see the room.

Dan Le Batard (23:16)

You got Roy, Greg, Cody, Tony, Mike, Ryan, Jeremy are the people who are here.

Nick Wright (23:21)

And Louis and Lewis. And Louis can't forget about Lewis. Lewis is the only guy I talk to every time I really need to move because it really does look like I am in the bathroom. Yeah, I got to get behind a door or something. I got. I'm going to do it from here. And so now I will tell you an added element of it because I think my edge might come in getting under people's skin. There's a guy in this game who. They call him Kiki. He also is known as Senior Tilt. He's actually one of the main sponsors. I'm not saying I think this guy's a crook. I wouldn't say that. But I don't like him. And he seems to have endless money. Now. Where does this money come from? No, no way to tell. But he seems to have a lot of it. And so I would really. I want to win, but I really want to win by kind of going through him. So that seems like it would be good. The guy who created Burning man seems like something Mike Ryan would be into. He's. He's playing in the game I mentioned. Antonio. There's this guy named Doc Hol. Holiday. Doc something who's like a neurosurgeon. Guys, that's racist. He's like a neurosurgeon who. But he also wore like a bedazzled hat yesterday, so I don't know how sharp he is. So I don't know. So it'll be good. It'll be fun. And I need to, you know, need is strong, but it's. I thought this was going to be a game where a good win or a bad loss would be in like the low to mid five figures. And yesterday a lot of people won and lost in the six figures, so I might be slightly under rolled for it. But, you know, the good that. The good and the bad side of having A plus credit amongst the gambling community is just because I only brought 100 grand doesn't mean, I only have access to it, so we'll see. It didn't take. You know. You know, I work hard. I deserve to take a shot and I think it's a good spot. No pros in the game except for Antonio. And Antonio is going to be on Mega Tilt because he lost 350 grand in a 100200 game yesterday. Any other questions?

Dan Le Batard (25:26)

Yeah, I've got a ton you still haven't answered. Who's involved in the shipping container on this bet? You have to select.

Nick Wright (25:33)

I just told you all.

Dan Le Batard (25:34)

Okay, but so the six.

Nick Wright (25:37)

Yeah, those six.

Greg Cody (25:38)

Six.

Nick Wright (25:38)

Lewis, there's four people here.

Dan Le Batard (25:42)

All right, so it's five of you. My bad.

Greg Cody (25:44)

Macho man's not allowed to be in.

Dan Le Batard (25:45)

Okay?

Greg Cody (25:45)

No Zazzle, he chose to be Macho.

Dan Le Batard (25:47)

No Zazlow, no Chris Cody.

Greg Cody (25:49)

Definitely not.

Dan Le Batard (25:52)

Got money.

Nick Wright (25:52)

Is he in the shipping container?

Tony (25:54)

I was going to give my cut to charity.

Dan Le Batard (25:56)

He was trying to get in there, but I guess.

Nick Wright (25:58)

Can I just tell you something? Greg Cody has been suckling at the teeth of legacy media for so long. If this guy doesn't have millions in cash literally buried in the backyard of his house, I'm disappointed. So he doesn't.

Tony (26:13)

It's true.

Dan Le Batard (26:13)

Okay?

Nick Wright (26:13)

He doesn't need it. And given the fact. And again, Greg, I hope you're around forever, but I've seen the toenails. That means Chris Cody one day is going to get millions of dollars buried in the back of Greg's house. He's fine.

Tony (26:25)

It's all on a coffee can. A couple of coffee cans.

Dan Le Batard (26:28)

Okay, so pokergo.com is where you go. The question we had before we let you out of here. He's going to do this at 6:00 clock tonight. His YouTube channel. Our YouTube channel. It's a live no limit.

Nick Wright (26:38)

Juju's got to be involved. Is Juju not in?

Dan Le Batard (26:40)

Juju's not in. So we've got to include Juju now. Now it's seven.

Nick Wright (26:43)

No, I'm including Juju. No, there's not seven. I don't know where people. It's the four people on screen plus Lewis plus Juju.

Dan Le Batard (26:53)

Right?

Nick Wright (26:53)

There's like a. Yeah, yeah, seven.

Greg Cody (26:57)

Just not Chris Cody, not Chris Cody.

Nick Wright (27:00)

Not Greg Cody, not Zazlow. Zazzlo. Nice, nice breasts.

Dan Le Batard (27:06)

Cody. That's not Zazlow. That. Who are you talking to, Zazlo or Chris Cody? Chris Cody's the macho man.

Nick Wright (27:12)

Like, oh, that made me then. I didn't mean to be mean to Chris like that. I like Chris.

Dan Le Batard (27:17)

Okay.

Nick Wright (27:18)

I guess I was Talking to Chris.

Dan Le Batard (27:19)

The question I had before you get out of here, the question I have is, what do you identify as more sports media member, where you get your sports identity? Prouder of a sports media member or a gambler?

Nick Wright (27:34)

I have been a gambler longer than I've been a sports media member. I, you know, my dad, my, my grandfather on my mom's side until, you know, weeks before he died, went to the racetrack four times a week into his 90s. My dad, I. Statute of limitations up on this. He's 75 years old. Before he became a very productive member of society, you know, in the, you know, bowels of Kansas City, helped run illegal craps games. I first, I first learned to gamble when I was 12 years old. My dad hustled me out of $108 and nine ball and made me pay him $10 a month for 12 months because there he was charging, going to charge me 10% interest on it. And he thought that was going to teach me the dangers of gambling. And instead it taught me, Matt, wow, you can make a lot of money gambling if you know what you're doing. And so I, you know, this is, I, you know, I, I, the answer is both, but, like, one is in my DNA and the other is, you know, what I love and what I do for a living. So probably gambler first, sports media member second is, I guess what it would be. But I mean, it's this, I don't, this, this is not for everyone, but it certainly is for me. And I've never been happier with respect to this great show, that in your millions and millions of listeners, my wife is not one of them because my wife and I don't. She knows I'm a gambler, but we don't really talk so much about amounts. And if she were to be watching and heard the amount that was wired the Aria Resort and Casino, I think she would call me and be like, you were joking with them, right? My answer would be like, well, you know, you don't want to lie, but yeah, so, yeah, so it is. We'll just, we'll just see how it goes.

Dan Le Batard (29:28)

All right. PokerGo.com is nice enough to allow us to do all of this tonight, so enjoy it. Thank you, Nick. We will. The answer is you're a gambler, and the answer is you're a gambler because, you know, it's harder to get on top of all gamblers than the suckers in the sports media business who are easy to get past.

Greg Cody (29:48)

Quick question, Nick, before you go, Mahomes Just restructured his deal. He pulled the Tom Brady, saved a bunch of money for Kansas City against the Cavs. Do they make a run at Tyree Kill? Do you want Tyree Kill?

Nick Wright (29:58)

Oh boy. So I'm, so I'm on the record at various times over the last like three years ago I said I think Tyree Kill is going to play for the Kansas city chiefs in 2026. He obviously in, you know, in the last two years he already had a tough off the field, you know, rap sheet. It got tougher. He also suffered a catastrophic injury. He also was an all time first ballot bad teammate to tua. So for all of those things, I am not certainly as hot on it as I once was. But I'm also not going to lie to the audience. If they sign him, I'm not going to be like, I won't be a fan of the team. Like maybe that makes me a bad person. My concern on it is that, listen that every football team is going to have some, you know, potential bad actors. I worry if a team's bad actors are, are or potential bad actors are congregated in one position room and the Chiefs have a bunch of good guys with no, you know, question marks and then a bunch of guys with question marks who all seem to be in the wide receiver room. So adding I don't know if Tyree Kill is like veteran leader there, but if they get him for 5 million bucks and see like I, I'm not gonna, I just gotta be honest. Like this is, you know, know it's pro football and I'll probably be like, man, maybe they can recreate some magic and I'll deal with it. But I don't think it's a necessity. I am, I am very interested. I want your guy. I want your guy, Mike at ninth in the draft, Bane, if he's not like I want, he is my number one hope as far as realistically could be available who I want. I would rather have him than Jeremiah. Love the running back. Back. If Bain's gone, the running back I think is fine. But it's just, it's a risky move obviously, but the Chiefs right now, speaking of gambling or betting right now on DraftKings, I think the Chiefs are 17 to 1 to win the Super Bowl. They have the ninth best Super bowl odds. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. And that is only predicated on the fact that there is questions about Patrick. And I would, I would bet a lot of money that Patrick Mahomes will be dancing at Travis Kelsey's wedding and will be starting for the Chiefs week one. And when that happens, they'll have top four super bowl odds as they should.

Dan Le Batard (32:21)

Oh, but what he also just did though, Nick. And we'll let you go. But what he just did.

Nick Wright (32:25)

No, I got time there. My flight's not boarding. I'll talk to you as long as you want.

Dan Le Batard (32:29)

Well, what he's doing though is he's making sure with what he's learned in the humbling of the last few years of body and mind. Oh, I'll just make a bunch of money in a bunch of other places and I'll go get a bunch of players because I'll work with the organization to partner with the organization on get me the best offense, please. We all know what it takes to win here. I'll save you some money. I'll do what Brady did in a salary cap sport. You're going to get your quarterback value. You're going to get the most valuable thing there is, a great quarterback who you're getting at value.

Nick Wright (33:01)

Well, listen, I don't. He's done this. I don't want to. You know, I'm not trying to go in the face of what you just said, but I don't think it's about humbling. He's done this repeatedly. The, the, the brilliance of the 10 year contract contract that they gave Patrick which no one has understood because it was a great contract for Patrick because again I'll be quick here. But the, the way the option year mechanisms worked it they all he always got, they were like, oh, it's not that much guaranteed money but all of his money for the two years down the road locks in 18 months early. So it's rolling guarantees. So it essentially was a $450 million contract with 400 million of it guaranteed. And so every year they do this thing where he's going to have a $75 million cap. It becomes a $35 million cap hit like that is that is just the way his contract works. They can do it easily but they're still not under the cap like they still have other work to do. But listen that the Chiefs will be fine. It is. They had an awful year there. The but it was also we were also reminded how flawed the rest of the conference is and how two of the teams that are we're supposed to be next up disasters. They fired their coaches. So I'm not worried about that at all. And I want to say one other unrelated thing which is Mike Bryan, I stand with you, buddy. I thought your rant was great. And I also think that while I have, I think more respect for people that whether they're on our side or the other side that are open and unabashed about which side they're on rather than the, the folks and this is. I know you're going to think right now, Dan, I'm talking about Stephen A. I'm actually not in this regard. The folks who make fact errors when they're talking about real life stuff and attribute it to, oh, I didn't know. And if you track those fact errors, 100% of them have been an error in the direction of whatever the conservative talking point was. They never once was like oh man, man, I got fooled by a liberal meme on this and I spread that misinformation. They always make mistakes in the same direction, which is quite telling. But I thought your, you put it quite concisely and quite well about the shift in political discourse among sports media and what is and isn't allowed and so I like that a lot and I appreciated it.

Dan Le Batard (35:31)

Mike he punctuates the societal dismount by sitting back on the toilet. Back in the toilet. See you later Nick. Good luck tonight. Thank you for, thank you for allowing us to be on this ride with you. He is an exceptional gambler and I think you're going to see tonight in an entertaining fashion him make some people at that table crazy like because he, I think he enjoys, he enjoys the human silliness of how do I get under the skin of my gambling friends here. They're not as good as he is at this. It doesn't mean they won't get better cards. It doesn't mean mean that they won't beat him. But they aren't as good at the science of studying people as he is.

Greg Cody (36:17)

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Tony (36:20)

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Greg Cody (36:27)

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Nick Wright (36:29)

You'Ve got that kind of self control. I mean some people want leftovers, others.

Tony (36:34)

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Dan Le Batard (36:39)

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Dan Le Batard (37:49)

You have some hot takes today, Joe.

Nick Wright (37:50)

Chestnuts of fire. Oh, he's on fire. He calls Connor McDavid overrated before the show.

Dan Le Batard (37:55)

What the hell was that, Greg?

Tony (37:56)

Yeah, no, I. I love it.

Greg Cody (37:58)

Stugats, Roy.

Tony (37:59)

Let me explain it to nothing. You need. You know more about hockey.

Dan Le Batard (38:02)

And this is coming from a guy.

Nick Wright (38:03)

That'S watched Conor play six times, right?

Tony (38:05)

If that.

Greg Cody (38:08)

This is the D Ler show with the two gods. Can someone relay to Zaz that occasionally picking your leg up does not constitute a stretch?

Dan Le Batard (38:24)

All right, let's go to zaz. Let's go. It's long overdue. Let's go to Zaz right now. Also, please put up on the screen instead of Stone Cold. Stone Cold. Steve Bloated, put on the screen the running man character that I said that he looked like. Tell me that I have this wrong. I feel like this is what Zaslo looks like in the ring. I think we need the audience to help us come up with the name of this tag team here because I'm going to go with Los gorditos. And if you guys have anything for me on this front, I'd like a name for. This is a tag team. I think this is younger than Mr. Toadswild Ride. Yeah, I blew that yesterday. I wore that one all the way home. I was thinking about that when I drove in today. Why did I go Mr. Toad's wild ride there. Ichabod Crane say that Zaslo joins us now from Sunrise. Delray, Pompano, Doral, and Zaslo. Tell us why it is that you think a stretch is to just kick your knee up again and again. Yo, you guys clearly don't know how to stretch, all right? You're sitting down there in a studio talking your talk, all right? I'm here getting work in that.

Greg Cody (39:29)

You See that?

Dan Le Batard (39:30)

That's how you stretch. You see this? That's how you stretch. All right. Learn something. Okay. Sorry. I didn't mean to offend you. We need a name for this tag team. Domino is helping teach them. He seems slightly embarrassed. From the shadows. He doesn't seem like he is proud of his wrestlers. He thinks that they. They look funny. And. And I want to know, where are you right now, Chris, with your boy back? How are you feeling with your back? O. See, that's how you do it, Dano. I'm feeling all right with my back, Dano. The great ones tell their body not today. That and a bunch of Advil.

Nick Wright (40:05)

I'm not seeing straight right now.

Dan Le Batard (40:08)

Yo, you're in for surprise. Let me tell you something. You may look at me and say, yo, Zazlo, he looks great, but he doesn't have any experience, all right? In wrestling, I'm a great wrestler. You're going to see. I know so much about wrestling. Wrestling.

Greg Cody (40:20)

I'm gonna be awesome here. I'm a great wrestler.

Dan Le Batard (40:22)

All right, Domino, what have you seen so far? Because I fear that if, like, for example, if Chris Cody just tried to do the most basic of Hulk Hogan's, run from one end of the ring to the other and do a leg drop, his back is gonna break like he's. I don't think he can do this correctly. His back is what I meant to say. No, apparently. Apparently, they think this is still Halloween. Why are you in your gear? I came to work.

Greg Cody (40:46)

I came to see.

Dan Le Batard (40:48)

I don't know what you're doing. I look more like Stone Cold than you. I have the actual knee brace on.

Greg Cody (40:52)

All right.

Dan Le Batard (40:53)

And this one. Macho Man. All right. You don't know that I. Macho man, this Domino's been running his mouth. Costume contest. You didn't get the memo. We're ready to work. You're wearing, like, pajamas or something. I've always been a Checkers guy. N. Man. Hey, all right, so wait. Are you guys gonna actually do some wrestling? Are you gonna do some moves, or are you just gonna be in character? We were gonna train. We were gonna train, but I think I'm just gonna have to go straight into a fight, because the disrespect is real. You want to fight? Yeah. If you want to fight somebody, you fight me. You know, two on one. You want to fight somebody, you fight me. I'll tell you, your partner's already cowarding away. See? See what happened? Now what? Oh, you need weapons now?

Greg Cody (41:36)

What?

Nick Wright (41:37)

You need weapons?

Dan Le Batard (41:37)

You want to get violent. Now, I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. There's one of you. There's two of us. How about no little bits? We have a. We get down. How about that? How about we show everybody?

Greg Cody (41:50)

We're gonna put you down.

Dan Le Batard (41:52)

I don't know what you said, but it sounded tough. Whatever. Chris, are you gonna hit him with the chair? Oh, you're just gonna put the chair down and play with your hair. Well, we're very. We're very winded. He'd have to take a breath, so stay tuned. All right, thank you. That's about enough.

Greg Cody (42:09)

This is called foreshadowing.

Dan Le Batard (42:11)

That's enough. All right, that's good. We've set up.

Greg Cody (42:13)

We've set up.

Dan Le Batard (42:14)

We've set it up. So Chris's character, as far as I can tell, is just a wrestling character that moves the hair out of his face. That's all. And then points.

Greg Cody (42:23)

You're forgetting the point. He's like one of those animations at Disney that only has, like, so many moves. It's like this, like, double jump on his feet thing and then goes up to the ropes and just points at him. And I think he workshopped a catchphrase. Hey, now.

Dan Le Batard (42:37)

And Kingsley, There are no wrestlers using the hey, now. That is absolutely not something that you see wrestlers use. And he did do very well, though. He has down. I don't know whether he practiced this in Delray Pompano Sunrise. And what kind of down he has down. The flipping of the hair out of his face.

Nick Wright (43:06)

Double flip.

Dan Le Batard (43:08)

I don't think we're allowed to make down syndrome, Joe. Whoa.

Nick Wright (43:11)

Who said anything about that?

Tony (43:13)

You did it.

Dan Le Batard (43:16)

I did it.

Greg Cody (43:17)

Whoa. It should be a fine man.

Nick Wright (43:21)

Switch gears.

Dan Le Batard (43:24)

We will check back in with the folks in the wrestling ring in a little bit. I did want to get back to one local story. Giannis is still doing interviews, and Giannis is in the middle of talking out of both sides of his mouth with Malika Andrews. He won't say that he wants out, but he's leaving the option to get out.

Tony (43:49)

Yeah. That sort of means he's saying that he wants out without saying it.

Nick Wright (43:53)

Right.

Dan Le Batard (43:54)

Okay. But this is. We've been here a while, so let's play the sound real quick of Giannis.

Greg Cody (43:58)

You're not okay with staying in Milwaukee.

Dan Le Batard (44:00)

And never having that feeling?

Nick Wright (44:01)

No, I want to be. But the most important thing, I want to win a championship with Walking Bucks. And if that's not on the table or in the plans, so that's when you kind of like, okay, maybe. Maybe I gotta pivot because I really want to win. Enough of this.

Greg Cody (44:20)

Pshaw. Back of the hand. Pshaw.

Dan Le Batard (44:23)

It's the same thing, right? He's doing the same thing over and over again.

Greg Cody (44:27)

Who's advising him? Does he think this is cool? This sucks.

Dan Le Batard (44:32)

What is he doing, though? What is. What would be the logic in sitting down and giving the same quotes you've been giving for 10 months? Really? It's two years of him looking at his watch and saying, time's running out for you guys.

Greg Cody (44:45)

He's doing the exact same thing Dwight Howard did. I have a T shirt still in my closet of Dwight Howard saying loyalty. It says loyalty over it. That one time that Dwight Howard was trying to force his way out of Orlando and then tried to pretend that he was all about the Orlando man. He is ripping a page from the Dwight Howard playbook. And let me tell you, that is not a playbook you want to cheat off of.

Dan Le Batard (45:05)

Guys, do me the favor, please, of finding some of the best video there has ever been in sports of Dwight Howard coming over and being chummy with Stan Van Gundy after Stan Van Gundy immediately had just ripped him to the press. Get me that video so we can start the next hour with it.

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