The Big Suey: Jeremy Gets De-Microphoned (feat. Adnan Virk)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Big Suey: Jeremy Gets De-Microphoned (feat. Adnan Virk)
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Release Date: August 7, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz dive deep into the current sports landscape, focusing primarily on baseball's MVP race, player performances, and betting insights with a special guest appearance by Adnan Virk. The episode is titled "The Big Suey: Jeremy Gets De-Microphoned," indicating a lively and possibly contentious discussion spotlights around Jeremy, one of the show's regulars.

DraftKings and MVP Odds

The episode kicks off with a discussion about DraftKings and its influence on MVP odds, particularly in relation to Shohei Ohtani's standout performance.

• Stugotz [01:07]: "I have been trying to figure out how to deal with MVP odds and our friends at DraftKings and the odds, they go up, they go down. According to what people are betting."

• Jeremy [01:49]: "He's totally unprecedented. Like, we talk about all of these great players in the history of baseball, but to last night, the home run that he hit was 460ft. So he's doing that on the same night."

The hosts highlight Ohtani's exceptional skills, noting his dual-threat capabilities as both a pitcher and a batter, emphasizing his potential to win MVP awards consistently.

Debate Over Ohtani's Home Run Authenticity

A lively debate ensues regarding the legitimacy of Ohtani's reported 460-foot home run.

• Adnan Virk [02:00]: "David already told us. They make it up."

• Stugotz [02:05]: "They don't even know it's the 460 is cool."

• Jeremy [02:10]: "So you're buying the Cal Raleigh, like made it by a foot thing?"

Jeremy defends the accuracy of the home run distance, while Adnan expresses skepticism, leading to a humorous exchange about the credibility of online projections.

Discussion on Contractual Agreements and MVP Requirements

Stugotz introduces a debate about a young player's (Roman Anthony) lucrative contract that includes stringent MVP performance clauses.

• Stugotz [02:32]: "A new deal. But the maximum amount of the deal that was announced, 230 million. He has to win the MVP every year for the next nine years. It's the stupidest thing in the history of contract."

The conversation critiques the unrealistic expectations set within certain contracts, questioning the feasibility and fairness of such terms.

Kyle Stowers: A Contender in the MVP Race

A significant portion of the episode centers on Kyle Stowers' impressive performance and his potential candidacy for the MVP award.

• Jeremy [05:02]: "I think that Kyle Stowers absolutely deserves to be high in the MVP race. He's third in the National League in OPS. He's taken a team... to six games behind the San Diego Padres for a wild card spot."

• Stugotz [05:35]: "He's a ridiculous. You have him high in the MVP race."

Jeremy passionately advocates for Stowers, citing his statistical achievements and impact on the Miami Marlins' performance. However, Stugotz and other hosts express skepticism, leading to a dynamic debate on Stowers' rightful place in MVP discussions.

Interlude: Movie Reviews and Personal Anecdotes

The hosts transition into a segment reviewing recent movie releases, sharing personal experiences and opinions.

• Dan LeBatard [07:39]: Discusses watching the comedy remake of "The Naked Gun," praising Liam Neeson's performance and chemistry with Pamela Anderson while noting some comedic misses.

• Adnan Virk [18:25]: "I'm stunned with this. I don't know the last time I enjoyed a movie as much as I enjoyed Superman."

This segment showcases the hosts' diverse interests beyond sports, offering insights into their cinematic preferences and family-friendly viewing choices.

Smelling Salts Debate

A humorous yet informative discussion arises about the use and regulation of smelling salts in sports.

• Stugotz [28:24]: "The NFL went backwards all the show yesterday. The problem is when we do shows, they stay forever."

• Billy [30:13]: Shares a personal experience of using smelling salts on a previous podcast, describing it as a terrible experience.

The conversation highlights the controversy surrounding smelling salts, their legal status in various sports, and personal anecdotes related to their use, blending humor with informative content.

Personal Health and Appearance

Jeremy opens up about his health journey, discussing weight management and its impact on his self-esteem and mental health.

• Jeremy [32:05]: "All of a sudden you're having a bad day."

• Stugotz [32:14]: "I just want you to know that you look great."

This candid discussion emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and mental health, resonating with listeners who may face similar challenges.

Audience Engagement and Light-Hearted Banter

The episode concludes with light-hearted interactions among the hosts, addressing each other's appearances, sharing amusing stories, and maintaining the show's signature comedic flair.

• Jeremy [26:10]: "I did hear Billy mention that the other day."

• Chris Cody [25:23]: "I apologize for having fun, Jeremy."

These moments reinforce the camaraderie among the hosts and provide a relatable and entertaining wrap-up to the episode.

Conclusion

"The Big Suey: Jeremy Gets De-Microphoned" offers a comprehensive look into the current state of baseball's MVP race, insightful debates on player performances, and engaging personal stories from the hosts. With Adnan Virk's guest appearance adding depth to the discussions, the episode balances serious sports analysis with humor and personal anecdotes, making it both informative and entertaining for listeners.

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Notable Quotes:

• Stugotz [01:07]: "I have been trying to figure out how to deal with MVP odds and our friends at DraftKings and the odds, they go up, they go down."
  (Timestamp: 01:07)

• Jeremy [01:49]: "He's totally unprecedented... there's no player like him."
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• Adnan Virk [02:00]: "David already told us. They make it up."
  (Timestamp: 02:00)

• Jeremy [05:02]: "I think that Kyle Stowers absolutely deserves to be high in the MVP race."
  (Timestamp: 05:02)

• Stugotz [28:24]: "The NFL went backwards all the show yesterday."
  (Timestamp: 28:24)

• Jeremy [32:05]: "All of a sudden you're having a bad day."
  (Timestamp: 32:05)

These quotes encapsulate key moments of the episode, highlighting the passion and differing opinions among the hosts.

Transcript

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[Dan LeBatard]

Welcome to the Big Sui presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast. I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys.

[Jeremy]

I've done it.

[Dan LeBatard]

And now here's the marching man to Nowhere Fat face and the habitual liar.

[Mike Ryan]

This episode is present about DraftKings.

[Stugotz]

DraftKings.

[Mike Ryan]

The Crown is yours.

[Stugotz]

I have been spending this entire week in Miami, as you know, I've been staring at Marlins park and I have been wondering, not just proud of Marlins park, but proud of the Marlins. And I have been trying to figure out how to deal with MVP odds and our friends at DraftKings and the odds, they go up, they go down. According to what people are betting. Ohtani, last night goes four innings pitched. I. I'm Jeremy. I'll talk about Ohtani every day now because he is the MVP and will win the MVP every year that he takes the mound and gets up at the plate. He drove in two runs with a home run last night, gave up one in four innings pitched. Is. There's no player like him.

[Jeremy]

He's totally unprecedented. Like, we talk about all of these great players in the history of baseball, but to last night, the home run that he hit was 460ft. So he's doing that on the same night.

[Adnan Virk]

David already told us. They make it up.

[Stugotz]

They don't even know it's the 460 is cool.

[Jeremy]

Stack cast has real projections.

[Stugotz]

It's better now. It's better now, but not. It's not.

[Jeremy]

You used to make it up. So math.

[Billy]

Wait, so you're buying the Cal Raleigh, like made it by a foot thing?

[Jeremy]

No.

[Dan LeBatard]

Come on.

[Stugotz]

Not at all.

[Jeremy]

I mean, it's just.

[Stugotz]

It's.

[Adnan Virk]

Jerry's exasperated.

[Stugotz]

Don't be it's okay, Jeremy, don't be exasperated, but just know that we're allowed.

[Jeremy]

To be excited about things. We got excited and within five seconds it became a debate about whether or not the home run is real fault.

[Stugotz]

That's all. Zaz, I'm going to get back to Ohtani and tell you that when you sign a contract and there was a big announcement yesterday in Boston that got my attention because I loved it so much. A young player, Roman Anthony in is going to sign a new deal. But the maximum amount of the deal that was announced, 230 million. He has to win the MVP every year for the next nine years. It's the stupidest thing in the history of contract.

[Jeremy]

What's the floor of it?

[Stugotz]

130 million. Not too shabby. Not too shabby. It beats Corbyn Carroll. It's pretty good. But people are going around saying, oh, he's going to make 230 and then they read the fine print. He has to win the MVP every year for nine years to get to third.

[Adnan Virk]

Do you think that makes writers uncomfortable by.

[Stugotz]

By telling you the fact that when you give. They want to give big numbers. People love seeing big numbers.

[Adnan Virk]

But I mean it makes writers uncomfortable or like if it. It's late in the season and all right, he's. He's in the MVP conversations in the race and you're voting who to give the award to.

[Stugotz]

The NBA is the biggest thing because you can do all NBA.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right?

[Adnan Virk]

Right.

[Stugotz]

And that then you're eligible for deals. Yeah.

[Billy]

So they put a $10 million bonus essentially every year on it.

[Stugotz]

It's plus and plus an all star. But it's just stupid. You're not gonna get it.

[Chris Cody]

I looked up longest home run hit by a pitcher. You're gonna like this one, Jeremy. Hideo Nomo hit a 575foot home run during the Japanese league All Star game. I mean it's here you think I just made that number up right here. Hideo Nomo 575 foot home run Tokyo Dome. No Japanese all star is there video 1995. Also John Gray hit a 467 foot home run in 2017. But as that course feels didn't go.

[Adnan Virk]

Raga hit one that was like 500 something upper like the middle of the upper decade. Yeah.

[Jeremy]

Harper legend that in high school he hit one 550ft with the aluminum bat. But I mean the craziest thing about the Ohtani thing last night is it's four innings, one run, eight strikeouts. He hits a home run, drives into they Lose five to three. And that's what the Dodgers.

[Stugotz]

That.

[Jeremy]

That sounds like what he used to do with the Angels to have that happen with the Dodgers. He's the mvp.

[Adnan Virk]

Still lost.

[Jeremy]

Well, the real question becomes, like, who's second, who's third, who's fourth? Because the National League has a bunch of really interesting candidates, ultimately including Kyle Stowers. But Kyle Schwarber is probably going to be above him with good reason. He has been unbelievable for free agents. Yeah. What are you going to get paid? As he should.

[Stugotz]

He's a ridiculous. You have him high in the MVP race.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I think that Kyle Stowers absolutely deserves to be high in the MVP race. He's third in the National League in ops. He's taken a team in the Miami Marlins that were not supposed to be all that much and really buoyed their lineup for the huge portion of the year. He has, I believe, three walk off home runs. He has multiple games where they won, and he was the only guy driving in any runs. He actually plays a position unlike the two guys ahead of him in Shohei Ohtani and Kyle Schwaber, who are only designated hitters. He's been pretty solid.

[Adnan Virk]

You can't make that case for Ohtani.

[Jeremy]

Ohtani's different.

[Chris Cody]

I said, that's weird. A minute ago we were praising. No, no, no, no, no.

[Jeremy]

I'm saying in terms of. In terms of hitting. Right. It's a different thing. And Ohtani is a freak all of his own. Right. He's at the beginning. But then you start to get to Pico Armstrong, who hasn't had a great second half. The way he lit the world on fire at the beginning. You get to Manny Machado. I think that there's at least reason to consider a player like Stowers, although I know Adnan Virk totally disagrees with me.

[Stugotz]

Well, you know, Adnan is here and I'm so thankful to have him on our show. Hello, Adnan. It's really.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hi, David.

[Stugotz]

Nice to see you on the show.

[Adnan Virk]

I just want to congratulate you being.

[Dan LeBatard]

Welcome back to Miami. That was a great story. The president was reaching out open arms to have you back there. I still want to hear more about the Nude beach with Larry Beinfest, if you don't mind.

[Stugotz]

Well, that. Listen, I. I can't disclose more than that, except to tell you that it wasn't. It didn't suck. And I. And I did have my eyes up more than. Not because it's critical at a nude beach where your eyes are. But Adnan you're coming here and I would love to just talk about movies with you, but please pick a gun.

[Dan LeBatard]

David, we're back. We have, we have a comedy in movie theaters. This is amazing. It's great.

[Stugotz]

Have you gone to the theater to see it?

[Dan LeBatard]

I went opening night, David. I took my 14 year old son. I said, buddy, I laughed uproariously when the first one came out. He said, dad, what's up? Roarious mean. I said, don't worry about going to go watch. We're going to have a blast. 27 minutes of trailers, David, Enough for the trailers and the commercials. Please. Can we stop? AMC apparently now is they just put a statement yesterday. They're going to start to work on this a little bit. Thank God. 85 minute movie, that's five minutes of credits. It's a comedy actually in theaters. Liam Neeson is fabulous. As you and I know. Leslie Nielsen was a dramatic actor his entire career. When he did the Naked Gun, it was a lark. It was like, wait, he's going to do a comedy? Similarly, Liam Neeson has such great gravitas. We saw that in Schindler's List, seen him be an action star. Him doing a comedy is absolutely brilliant. It's great casting. Him and Pamela Anderson have wonderful chemistry. They've been canoodling together on the red carpet. Not every gag works. Okay, I get that there's some misses along the way. It's not the original, of course. The original is an all time classic, but it's very funny. I know you're going to enjoy it.

[Adnan Virk]

Adnan, did you show your son the original before you took him to this?

[Dan LeBatard]

That's all I did. And there was a few questionable moments. Wife was like that part. I'm like to be a little quick on that one. And I said, drake, listen, the thing with the Naked Gun is there's no profanity. Sasler. Even in the new one, there's not one four letter word uttered but there's sexually suggestive content here to kind of COVID his eyes for a sec. But he did like the original.

[Stugotz]

So you cover his eyes for the sex part but not the violence part. Is that. Are we just clear that that's how.

[Dan LeBatard]

You'Re okay with violence? And quite frankly there's a little bit of profanity because we can't cover his ears that quickly. Anything with sex. And I got to cover his eyes a little bit.

[Stugotz]

I again, for the record, and I'm not going to make an issue like Mike did about this, however, I don't get it. I don't get Adnan. You're at a movie theater and there's about to be a pair of boobs, and you're like, my God, stop the presses. Wait a minute. There's a machine gun that's killing someone? Please.

[Jeremy]

It's a lot easier to.

[Billy]

It's a lot easier to explain to.

[Dan LeBatard]

A kid that that's fake.

[Billy]

That murder that actually didn't happen.

[Stugotz]

Boobs.

[Billy]

It's like. It's like a dick. I don't want to have this conversation.

[Adnan Virk]

That nipples real, Adnan.

[Jeremy]

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[Mike Ryan]

Kind of good stugats.

[Stugotz]

Thank you.

[Billy]

I had a beard's grown out a little bit.

[Dan LeBatard]

I got a little life in my face. I feel like little tan Colorado, San Francisco I had a great time.

[Mike Ryan]

You got life on your face.

[Dan LeBatard]

You've got death on your face.

[Mike Ryan]

I think you got 40 to life on your face.

[Chris Cody]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Stugotz]

Do you believe that Kyle Stowers do you know Adnan that Kyle Stowers was the throw in in the Rogers trade here in Miami.

[Dan LeBatard]

Great story David as you know is that everyone said okay hey Michael Ice never wants to part with anybody.

[Stugotz]

Wow.

[Dan LeBatard]

He's giving up Norby prize prospect. He's gonna get Rogers. Rogers as you know was terrible last season. Actually been pretty good this year.

[Stugotz]

He flags out this year. Right.

[Dan LeBatard]

He's been very good. So that it's helped redeem that trade for Michael Eyes. But yeah Stowers is a throw and listen I try to give love to my friends right. I I know Jeremy does a phenomenal job with the pitch clock. Quite frankly he's keeping me in the metal arc family by having me on the pitch clock once a month. So I appreciate that.

[Mike Ryan]

Hey hey hey the hockey show.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hey the hockey show as well. Thank you to Roy both those guys.

[Stugotz]

And the main show.

[Dan LeBatard]

Other than that, other than those three shows appearance coming to nothing personal and.

[Adnan Virk]

That'S a full time employee actually.

[Mike Ryan]

But congrats on your co hosting gig on supaudity. I see.

[Dan LeBatard]

Appreciate that Mike. Yeah Stu is keep me in the mix as well. Back to Jeremy. I want to give a little love, right? It's like, if University of Miami had a big win, I would text Mike Rhyme, hey, congrats to you, buddy. So with Tasha, I text him like, hey, man, Stowers, 25 home runs, first homer off the lefty. His response, David, was stower should absolutely be second or third in MVP voting. Do I have to come down there and smack the South Florida out of him? I love Kyle Stars. It's a great story. I'm rooting for the Marlins. I interviewed Yuri Perez, MLB Tonight this week, which I also texted Jeremy about Luis, the translator. Fantastic. I told Perez, I said, yonder Alonzo, fellow Miami guy, said that Yuri Perez reminds him of an eel. In 20 plus years of broadcasting, Yuri, I've never asked other man this. If you were a fish, what kind of fish would you be? Yuri laughs and says, I'd be a whale because I'm huge. So I don't know if he's a humpback or a beluga whale, but I love Yuri Perez. I love what the Marlins are doing. But Stowers is not second or third in MVP voting. Ohtani Machado, Schwarber, pca. There's a ton of other Juan Soto, Pete Alonzo. There's a lot of guys ahead of him.

[Jeremy]

It's the Machado one that, that really kills me. And pca, if you look at weighted runs created plus. No, I mean, what do we. What do we care about in this league? Okay, you want batting average? You want batting average? We could do batting average in home run. How about this? There's two guys in baseball hitting over.290 in terms of batting average with 25 or more home runs. You know who they are? Kyle Stowers and Aaron Judge. Those are the only guys in baseball. If you look at weighted runs created plus, he's fourth in the National League, he's sixth overall in Major League Baseball. Machado, 13th, PCA, 25th. Now, understandably, both of those guys are elite defensively at their positions. Machado, not the same way that he used to be. And I know what Adnan Virg's going to say. He's going to say, hey, since 1997, the Padres haven't had a guy to lead the league in hits, not since Tony Gwynn. You know who has a better batting average? Kyle Stowers. He's been better on a team where for half the year they couldn't figure out who to put behind him in the lineup. He had guys like Matt Mervis, who's been DFA'd since then, hitting behind him stinks. And on the Padres, there are real guys sitting behind him. PCA has Kyle Tucker hitting behind him. Kyle Schwaber even. He's been spectacular. Obviously he should be above. To me offensively, his valuable is there.

[Dan LeBatard]

Kyle Tucker is better than him in.

[Jeremy]

Terms of the statistics, in terms of the impact. Kyle Stowers has led a team that everyone anticipated being one of the two to three worst teams in Major League Baseball to the level of success where they're six games behind the San Diego Padres for a wild card spot. They have an opportunity with a crazy road trip coming up. Five games in four days in Atlanta, three games against the Red hot Guardians, three games against the Red Sox. If they can get through that and get back home. And Kyle Stowers continues to be on fire. I just think the deeper we get into this, he's going to get. He should get the type of consideration to be second or third in mvp. He really should. He really should. I understand why Ohtani is always going to be number one. He should be right. What he did last night is ridiculous. He's always going to be there. And for that matter, Kyle Schwaber, ridiculous year he's been unbelievable. I am having a tough time after those two. Finding anyone that should 100% be voted for above Kyle Stowers.

[Stugotz]

I really do believe despondent about that whole diatribe is watching Billy and Mike just disinterested.

[Jeremy]

This is. This is their team.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I'm in on it. I just, I mean, I've been part of the chat where I've been seeing people saying Kyle Stower should be serious in the MVP conversation. I'm like, okay, this is a little ridiculous.

[Dan LeBatard]

Even. Even Billy, who is an avid marlin.

[Jeremy]

I don't understand why.

[Chris Cody]

Well, I mean, because if Sour's got.

[Dan LeBatard]

A top 10 MVP vote, that would be a remarkable achievement.

[Chris Cody]

Top five, top seven. But like the idea that he's gonna make a serious run.

[Jeremy]

All right, you want another one? You want another one to back it up? Let's. Let's do it one more time.

[Stugotz]

It's okay.

[Mike Ryan]

I'd rather talk about Eddington.

[Stugotz]

Okay.

[Chris Cody]

They have a losing record.

[Jeremy]

Let's talk about wrestling. On what streaming program? It's on for another hour.

[Stugotz]

Oh, wow. Mike.

[Jeremy]

It's our local team. That was the local hour, Right.

[Chris Cody]

A week and a half before we see Jeremy again.

[Jeremy]

I'll never be back here. Really something just excited about our local team.

[Stugotz]

I have lost control. Adnan, you come on here. And this is what the issue Is we're trying to make you a part of our great family while you're swiping at our toes.

[Chris Cody]

Sounds also like he's had a good.

[Dan LeBatard]

Things up against Sampson. I apologize.

[Chris Cody]

He's had a good month and a half, which is why he's in all these conversations.

[Jeremy]

He had like a really, really great two months to start the year, then had 30 games where he didn't hit a home run. He was awful. And we all thought that, all right, it was a fluke. And then over 33 games, home runs, RBI.

[Stugotz]

Did you just demicrophone him? Is that it? Mike turned it off.

[Billy]

That's what we call it.

[Stugotz]

So we're now. I call it D. Microphone.

[Dan LeBatard]

Microphone. I like it.

[Stugotz]

I think that's a word. Virg, you said something that that bothered Zas, and I want to make sure that I have it right. Did you say Superman sucked?

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, yeah. I thought it was terrible.

[Stugotz]

Oh, come on.

[Mike Ryan]

I liked it, but let's hear the sake.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. I'm so excited to go see it. I say see the trail. I got to take my kids. Here we go. First, I don't want to sell just like Francesca because somebody sent me the 8 1/2 minute rant. I said, I'm not going to watch this. With respect to Mike Francis, I don't need to see his movie opinions. I go, no, you got to see this. I gotta be honest. Mike Francis said more right than wrong in this review. What's with the dog? Enough with the dog. I don't care about crypto. It's the whole movie's with the dog. Also, my main issue is as low way too much of Mr. Terrific. And I know James Gunn did.

[Adnan Virk]

He was one of the highlights of the movie.

[Dan LeBatard]

Now, Gunn did a great job with Guardians of the Galaxy because he had all these different characters, and I get that there's a myriad of options you can root for. Fantastic. First, Guardians was fabulous. But in Superman, I want Superman. It's a Superman movie. I want to see Superman against licks Luthor. I don't want Mr. Terrific Hijacking, as you said, one of the best sequences of the movie. Or why is he being featured? He's Lois lane's running shotgun. Mr. Terrific. It was ridiculous. I'm stunned at being Superman.

[Adnan Virk]

I'm stunned with this. I don't know the last time I enjoyed a movie as much as I enjoyed Superman. I had a smile on my face, Adnan. The entire movie. The entire time I was on the theater. I love that movie. Like, you didn't have Fun watching that movie.

[Mike Ryan]

I was introduced to Mr. Terrific. I thought you did a great job. Look, I know the Superman character and I know its limitations. So I like being introduced to other characters that have a little bit more depth to them. And by the way, the dog was a great decision because people struggle to find connection points to Superman. We've seen the story so many times and he's perfect. He's got the one weakness. But everyone loves a dog. And that really helped endear this character in ways that quite frankly, Warner Brothers has really struggled to do with since Christopher Reeve.

[Adnan Virk]

And then did you at least like David Corn Sweat?

[Dan LeBatard]

Couldn't disagree with Mike more. To me it felt like such an obvious attempt to play to the young audience, to kids and to every dog over out there. Has nothing to do with the movie. It doesn't help the movie at all. It doesn't help the narrative. It's just ridiculous. Oh, there's a dog. Hey, we'll cheer for the dog.

[Mike Ryan]

He may be a dog, he may not even be a good dog, but he's alone and he's scared.

[Dan LeBatard]

Like, I also didn't ride. I also didn't think the guy was a great Superman. I'm not saying everybody has to be Christopher. I don't think. I don't think he's got charisma.

[Mike Ryan]

He was solid. He was solid. Superman's a tough role to have charisma for.

[Adnan Virk]

I thought he was a great.

[Mike Ryan]

I thought he was really good. But I appreciate the perspective.

[Dan LeBatard]

I really do like and I can agree in Eddington, can we talk Ari.

[Mike Ryan]

Aster, the master of horror, even though he doesn't describe himself as a horror guy. Now Eddington, not a horror. It seems as though Ari Aster wants to be a dark comedy guy. And Eddington. I have this theory, Adnan, that is going. The movie is going to blow up when it hits the streamers for word like exclusively word of mouth because of how perfect this movie presented that whole very confusing time in Covid. It's about COVID Early early stages of COVID in a New Mexico town. And it is an equal opportunity offender. I think some of the biggest laughs were from the jokes at the progressives expense. And then as Ari Aster is one to do, he does hell of a left hook. Then he does his twist. And it may lose people because of that twist, like often his movies do to certain segments of the population. But I thought it was a great movie. I thought it was really funny. A really good dark comedy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I liked it a lot with you as well. Listen, the twist didn't necessarily work for me. It went in a much, much darker, more severe tone. But I appreciate Ari Aster has a singular vision. He makes movies like nobody else does out there. And the first time I thought was laugh out loud funny like Mike said guys, I'm not the first guy in line to see a Covid comedy. I'm like we have to live through the process. I'm not sure how much more could be said about it, but it's particularly skewing towards the left which I thought was really well done and well charmed and scathing and great performances as well from Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal. I really enjoyed it. I do kind of to Mike's hinting. I wish he'd go back those ways he did at the beginning. Like I love Hereditary love Midsom. I made those horror movies but was afraid I enjoyed it was certainly a good experiment and I did like Eddington but I'd love to see him go back to those horror movies but a different movie to see at the multiplex.

[Jeremy]

Can I interest you in Augustine Ramirez as rookie of the year at least? Because 3 multi home run games, 2 multi stolen base games thus far in 89 games of his career the first.

[Billy]

Guy to do Alrighty, back to you.

[Dan LeBatard]

I did hear Billy mention that the other day. Listen, I love Drake Baldwin. I push for him for the Braves and if Mizarowski gets some more starts obviously in the aisle. But Augusta Ramirez has been great.

[Jeremy]

No question.

[Adnan Virk]

Adnan. I am very excited for a movie that is coming out this weekend. Mike's into it also. I've been looking forward to this movie for months now. I already have my tickets get we're going tomorrow afternoon. Me and my boys, we love horror films. Are you interested in weapons?

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm not as much of a horror guy as you, Zaz, so I'm not running out to get tickets or taken my boys. But listen, I'm intrigued by it. Certainly anything is better than War of the World's an ice cube. I heard you guys discussing that the 2% rotten tomatoes remeder shout out to David. By the way, who wanted the IMDb score? Cody's just kept wanting to give him a Rotten Tomatoes. David's go I want the IMDb score. Is it under 4 or not? Anyways, needless segue, I'm not seeing weapons. I hope you enjoyed Zaz. I'm sure it'll be good.

[Adnan Virk]

Wow, Mike, he's not going to see weapons.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean it's got 100% on rotten tomatoes. It's got a good cast. It's got Zaz.

[Jeremy]

Don't you want to know? I want to know why the kids are leaving.

[Adnan Virk]

Don't you want to know? It's 2:17am in the middle of the night. The kids are run out of the homes, they're never coming back. Don't you want to know why?

[Stugotz]

Tuesday is the middle of the night. Says you don't have to say 2:17am in the middle of the night.

[Adnan Virk]

Well, maybe you know, again, Lord's time zone.

[Stugotz]

No, lord, it's still 2:17am Okay, I want to know when Eddington is streaming because that's what I've been waiting for. And I want you. You get worked up about not able to find your NFL and then works me up is I have to go look around at every streamer and see when Bad Shabbos is going to start streaming.

[Chris Cody]

Aren't you a SAG member? Why don't you get like. Like screeners?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I get the screeners.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

No.

[Chris Cody]

David, weren't you in Dumb and Dumber or something? No. What was it? Three Stooges.

[Stugotz]

Three Stooges. And I was not a SAG member, though I'm joining a union shortly. Okay, you can talk about that. That's a little spoiler alert just to.

[Chris Cody]

Go in and bust it from the inside. Maybe break it up all Trojan Horse.

[Dan LeBatard]

I want to go to David's point, but when something is not streaming. David, are you like me? You get so frustrated you go, fine, screw it, I'll buy it. I want to watch Barney's version with Paul Giamatti. It's not streaming. I'll pay 20. I'll get the physical media and I'll put it my DVD player and enjoy the Blu ray. Do you do that?

[Stugotz]

Except I don't have a Blu ray player or a DVD player anymore. Are you excited? Are you going on a book tour?

[Dan LeBatard]

I am. Thank you for mentioning Buddy Cinephile. Is the book. It's coming in August 26 available right now. Mango publishing group.com which of course published Greg Cody's books are there there in Miami. Shout out to Hugo. You can go to Amazon.com wherever books are sold. August 26th the book comes out. Yes, I'll be on tour. Maybe, maybe, maybe. Me and David Sampson together in New York City. We shall see.

[Stugotz]

I can only imagine how great it will be to read all of Adnan's movie views and views on life. Because he's Adnan, Zaz. And his opinions, frankly, are more important with movies than yours.

[Adnan Virk]

I'm not. It's not a competition, you know, like, what?

[Stugotz]

It's always a competition. All right, Adnan, thank you.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you, David. And one last shout out to listen. People forget the fact Samson's loyalties to Wisconsin. How about the Brewers? Best team in baseball? Pat Murphy. He's eating pancakes out of his pocket. Love it. Go Brew Crew.

[Stugotz]

Adnan just had to get that in.

[Jeremy]

Can't wait for him to be as right about the MVP stuff as he was about predicting the Diamondbacks and Royals to go to the World Series at the beginning of the year.

[Stugotz]

That's tough, though. Jeremy, don't do that. Oh, I know that guy.

[Jeremy]

Come on.

[Stugotz]

Who is your pre playing around?

[Jeremy]

I didn't pick anybody. That's why I shove it off on you guys.

[Stugotz]

Easy.

[Jeremy]

Oh, of course. I'm just having some fun.

[Stugotz]

It's not right. It's just not right.

[Jeremy]

It's not right for me to have fun around.

[Chris Cody]

I apologize for having fun, Jeremy. Right now.

[Jeremy]

I apologize. I'll look directly at the camera. I apologize for having enthusiasm and having fun.

[Stugotz]

I want accountability, work.

[Billy]

He looks great, though. Look how thin he looks. He's been. Remember all the fish we made fun of him for cooking and, like, it's paying off all the healthy lunches.

[Stugotz]

His arms are incredibly shiny.

[Billy]

He looks sick.

[Stugotz]

Just.

[Chris Cody]

Wow.

[Stugotz]

Amazing.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thanks.

[Chris Cody]

I will say, say this, David. Right before the show came in, we were complimenting him, saying, you look good. Like, he's like, yeah, I feel great. I go, that's gonna change real soon.

[Jeremy]

And it's totally warned.

[Chris Cody]

I go, that's gonna. I'll get you to that feeling. That's gonna change. About 20.

[Jeremy]

A week and a half away from this place.

[Billy]

He said he got a little thinner for health purposes and not to look better.

[Jeremy]

It is.

[Billy]

I was like, you liar.

[Stugotz]

No, genuinely, you know that you're on TV now.

[Jeremy]

Well, yeah, but also, I spent three years ballooning on tv, and it was partially. Sorry about that because of unhealthy habits and stress and probably being bullied.

[Billy]

His doctor said, has your heart been bullied?

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I believe it's more like your candy cabinet. But in any case, one of the fast food. Fast food. That's.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, the getting out of games at midnight and going, oh, shoot, I haven't had dinner. Just like, can you.

[Billy]

Let's all close our eyes. Just, like, give your order. What you do at, like, 1:00am wherever you are, just, like, say it to the. To the restaurant.

[Jeremy]

Double large fries, large Coke, zero.

[Billy]

This was a good bit.

[Chris Cody]

Why are we closing Our eyes for this.

[Billy]

I just want to visualize Jeremy at like 1am After a heat game. Just like a sad one.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I've got, I've got sleeves rolled up from the button down shirt, the tie a little bit loose, driving through the drive thru of which I'm certainly the only person dressed that way at 12:30 in the morning.

[Stugotz]

Am I give you a word of advice. If you're going to be in the baseball world and this just comes from experience, you cannot give in to eating after games like that.

[Jeremy]

No, I don't, I don't. Because of my health. It became a problem and so now I'm trying to be healthy and I get the added benefit of the vain side.

[Billy]

The problem was is you said that you don't like to eat before a broadcast. Like you don't want to be full. So it's like if you don't eat before.

[Jeremy]

Yeah. Just decided to power through that.

[Adnan Virk]

It's really because you don't want to make duty during the game.

[Jeremy]

That is part of it.

[Billy]

He also got caught on during a Heat game, like, oh my God.

[Stugotz]

Well, you shouldn't eat when you're on tv. However, I will tell you that the baseball time clock is if you're going on the air at 6pm For a 7 o' clock game, you generally about 4:42, you put a bite in, you eat a little bit and then you power through but you eat a good breakfast.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, that's basically what I've been doing at this point is like either an early lunch or a late breakfast. I'm sure the audience is really intrigued by the timing of when I'm eating.

[Stugotz]

I just want you to know that you look great.

[Jeremy]

Thank you.

[Stugotz]

And you're doing that. And I'm sorry that you come in here and all of a sudden you're having a bad day.

[Jeremy]

Oh, I'm having a great day. You guys just told me that I look great. I didn't bring fish. Turkey sandwich.

[Stugotz]

Okay, I need to get back to smelling salts because I don't understand why.

[Jeremy]

We don't have them avoiding salt on my food as well.

[Stugotz]

We have everything. We have costumes, we have love. We've got all of these little games and gimmicks. We have Adnan speaking incorrect grammar, a myriad of. We don't have smelling salts. And the reason I'm obsessed with it is that the NFL went backwards all the show yesterday. And the problem is when we do shows, they stay forever. But you do a show saying smelly salts are banned and it turns out they're not banned. One day later.

[Adnan Virk]

I'll be honest, I. I thought they were banned. Like, I thought smelling salts have been gone. Except for hockey. I thought they'd been gone for a while.

[Chris Cody]

If I. If I understood the story correctly, I believe this is George Kittle's fault. So I think George Kittle decided to break the news that smelling salts were banned. And then the NFL Penns or the NFL or someone came out and clarified. They said they're not banned. You just have to bring your own smelling salts moving forward.

[Adnan Virk]

Like David, that's a. That's a liability issue. Is what they.

[Stugotz]

What we did with tobacco in baseball and it's total horse hockey because we did give players tobacco. We just couldn't do it overtly. We just would hide the cans in a different place.

[Adnan Virk]

So there's no reason to believe these NFL teams are not still going to have smelling salts available.

[Stugotz]

We can't get them ourselves.

[Billy]

We've been efforting all morning.

[Stugotz]

How do you think the players are going to do it in Plantation?

[Billy]

Well, it's one of those things where you can do it. It's pretty easy on Amazon. Yeah, we're trying to get it to this morning, and our local CVS didn't have it, so we're efforting.

[Stugotz]

I'm just saying that the players will not be bringing their own smelling salts to games.

[Adnan Virk]

Have you ever tried smelling salts?

[Stugotz]

I've never.

[Adnan Virk]

I never either.

[Stugotz]

I'm too scared. There's a whole lot of stuff I haven't tried. I mean, I don't mean like, skydiving. I like skydiving, but I'm talking about, like, smelling salts or drugs of. Of most kinds.

[Billy]

I did it a few weeks ago on my dad's podcast randomly. It came up before this was even a story. My dad brought it randomly.

[Adnan Virk]

Like, you're in the middle of conversation.

[Billy]

I came up on one episode on the podcast and we were like, let's order it. And the next week we did it. And it was terr.

[Jeremy]

Terrible.

[Billy]

I hated it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Bad. Did it. Did it cause you to have.

[Billy]

I'm not even sure I got the full experience because I hated it so much, but I got like, a few whiffs and it just, like, it stayed with me for like an hour. It was terrible. I hated it.

[Chris Cody]

Have you guys seen those? I think they're called boom sticks that they sell that.

[Adnan Virk]

I considered buying those.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. How does. How does that work? And what's the difference between, like, smelling salts and that? Because that, like, I think it was, like, introduced to most people on, like, Shark Tank or, like, Shark Tank clips that go out there now, they sell them, like, at the airport. It's basically, like, nasal. Like, it looks like a chapstick that you stick up your nose, and you just take, like, a whiff, and it likes you all the way up.

[Mike Ryan]

I had those back in the old.

[Chris Cody]

Studio, and they worked. Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

I liked having them in my car.

[Jeremy]

What if it was a late night.

[Mike Ryan]

And I would get a little drowsy at the wheel? I'm like, I'm a little tired.

[Jeremy]

What does this do?

[Adnan Virk]

Yeah, what?

[Mike Ryan]

It's kind of like a little slap in the face.

[Chris Cody]

But, like, it clears up. Like. Like, if you're sick, it clears you up or it gives you, like, an energy shot. Like, I don't know what they kind of like. I just see it, and I see, like, Robert Hersh of whatever his name is go. He has, like, a crazy face. I'm like, dude, I think coke right now.

[Mike Ryan]

What if, like, they put a little Viva on your chest?

[Stugotz]

It's kind of like, I'm sorry, gentlemen, what paper rope. Are you not describing Afrin?

[Chris Cody]

I don't know what it is. That's what I'm asking. I don't know what it is.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't. I. I don't know. I don't know what it's called. I just like what it does.

[Stugotz]

This can't be happening to me. I'm not allowing this. As if you don't back me up here, we're in a fight. If you're telling me you don't know what Afrin is.

[Chris Cody]

It's a nasal spray.

[Stugotz]

Can't be. Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Stugotz]

You stick it up your nose.

[Jeremy]

Like addicting, right?

[Billy]

It's one of those things.

[Jeremy]

You do it.

[Stugotz]

You don't let your kids do it. It can ruin your nasal.

[Billy]

Once you start doing it, it clears you up, but then you'll need it worse the next day. One of those things. No, I'm not trying to do, like, the chiropractor.

[Stugotz]

I never been.

[Billy]

Once you go, you got to keep going back.

[Chris Cody]

It says simple ingredients, essential oils and menthol inhaler.

[Stugotz]

That's the Afrin. Or that's the boomstick.

[Mike Ryan]

That's a boomstick. You definitely smell the menthol.

[Jeremy]

I want to go back to me looking great for a second. I think that even when I was weighing a little bit more, I looked great. Because it's most important that. What's going on in the inside.

[Chris Cody]

Back to you guys.

[Jeremy]

No, no, no, no. Because it's really important because I don't want anybody in our audience to feel like if they've gained a little bit of weight in recent times, that they still feel good about themselves. No, you should still feel great about yourself, regardless of what your weight is, so long as your health is intact. Because I don't want us or anybody else. I understand there's an issue. Ashamed of his vanity, I don't think. I don't think that that should be where we are because it's really impacted my mental health and I don't want it to impact anybody else's. I put too much weight into my literal weight, and I don't want anyone else to do that. So, yeah, I look beautiful, but I would have looked beautiful if I was, you know, a lot, A lot heavier.

[Chris Cody]

We get it. Yeah, you're not making fun of fatty.

[Mike Ryan]

Got it.

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[Stugotz]

Don LeBatard.

[Mike Ryan]

I win in the margins.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm like.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm like, you're money ball of sex. I'm basically Scott Hatterberg.

[Billy]

Stugats a lot of walks, but I'm.

[Mike Ryan]

On base when it comes to sex. A lot of foul tips. Other other dudes, they can be Giambi.

[Jeremy]

You know your role, you play.

[Mike Ryan]

I know my role.

[Chris Cody]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats. It has menthol, eucalyptus oil, and peppermint oil in it.

[Stugotz]

Oh, man. I don't think that seems healthy to me. I prefer not to do smelling salts. Boomsticks. There was a story I heard when you guys did your pirate ship when you didn't invite me. Story of having people do smelling salts or something. I can't remember what it was, but I don't want to be a part of that while I'm in the chair. If you want to do it tomorrow and bring in smelling salt to your.

[Adnan Virk]

Heart, I would try it.

[Stugotz]

Content.

[Adnan Virk]

Yeah, I would try it.

[Stugotz]

I think that you could end up like Lloyd Bridges.

[Adnan Virk]

I don't know what that is.

[Dan LeBatard]

Thank you.

[Adnan Virk]

With the hair. Okay. Very good.

[Stugotz]

Lloyd Bridges. He sniffed. I picked the wrong. We can stop sniffing glue.

[Billy]

The ones that I had, it, like, affected the whole room. Like, if Zaz did it, you would feel it too.

[Stugotz]

Smelling salts, secondhand.

[Jeremy]

Maybe I did it poorly.

[Billy]

I, like, opened up the container and it just like. My wife walked into the room like an hour later and she's like, what? I'm like, sorry, I did.

[Stugotz]

I love the idea of leagues covering up their players concussions. I love when boxers do it between rounds. I love when NFL players do it. I love when you get knocked to the ground, you do a little smelling salt and you come up and boom, you're good to go.

[Adnan Virk]

I'm fairly certain it is banned in boxing. Smelling salts. I don't think boxing allows it, but I was wrong. Apparently the other sports, like, it's been legal.

[Stugotz]

I thought Mike Tyson used to do it all the time.

[Adnan Virk]

Oh, but I mean, it got banned eventually. Like, yeah, I'm sure he did do it at one point, but boxing does not allow it.

[Stugotz]

I think that's a mistake. I think sports are worse off for not allowing. I think steroids, smelling salts let everyone do everything. What's the actual difference, I mean, I'm not going to. Everyone can do everything. They stopped a sport that was going to happen. Did you guys read about this? I mean, this would be. I would. I wanted Billy to actually do this. Where you participate in Olympic events on steroids. It's called the Steroid Games.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, hold on. Let's just rewind. You want me to take steroids and do the Olympic Games because you're an.

[Stugotz]

Athlete, you say that you can kick field goals, you can hit.

[Chris Cody]

No, I.

[Stugotz]

You can hit. I used to use fastballs, you can catch fly balls, you can tackle players. You've told me you can do all these.

[Chris Cody]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Billy]

I can kick a field goal.

[Chris Cody]

I'm. I could hit off a big. No, this side of the room can do all of those things. I'm very aware of my very precipitous decline athleticism and really just health in general. I mean, Jeremy on the other end, we were bookheading. Bookending these two great athletes here is like two chubbos. But now Jeremy's gotten in shape and I look like shit still. So, like I'm. I'm on an island over here. I can't do anything. I can barely tie my shoes.

[Stugotz]

Well, if you took steroids.

[Chris Cody]

I have. I've thought about that.

[Stugotz]

You'd be able to do everything.

[Adnan Virk]

Where do you think you would get them? If you thought about where you would acquire.

[Stugotz]

It's Miami.

[Chris Cody]

There's a gym I used to go to that I'm pretty sure a lot of people were doing steroids because it was like this little mom and pop gym. And they had like a whole room was just like mirror walled. This was like, you know, I was like fresh out of high school at the time when I was going there. Honestly, the best gym I ever went to, these boutique gyms, the LA Fitnesses of the world, where it's all just pish posh and let me be vain. This is like real, like you're on there meat and potatoes type gym. And then like people would just go disappear behind this mirror wall. And I was like, what the hell's going on? Like, they check like, what air conditioning back there, like, what's happening? And then like, I was young and naive and I quickly realized, oh, they're probably just all shooting up steroids as they go in there, like two at a time, then come back out a couple of minutes later. And I was like, all right, well.

[Adnan Virk]

Oh, yeah, let's say. Let's say that's accurate what you're saying.

[Chris Cody]

What Would you do like, oh, I couldn't get steroids.

[Adnan Virk]

Like, when you walk up to them and it's like, yo, you got them, Roy.

[Chris Cody]

No, I couldn't if I wanted to. Like, we've, we've gone over a number of times. Like, my barber thought that I was a police officer. I don't give off. Like, I can go obtain illegal things easily. I'm not. I don't. I don't look like someone that people could trust with.

[Adnan Virk]

Well, what if right before you ask them if they got them roids, what if right before that, like, you know, you snort a line like, oh, this.

[Stugotz]

Guy, I mean, he's not doing that at the gym.

[Chris Cody]

Well, there's mirror wall.

[Stugotz]

I'm telling you, they're not doing. How do you do cocaine on a wall?

[Chris Cody]

You know, you go behind the mirror wall and then there's another world back there. Keep up. Back up. Yeah, come on.

[Billy]

Billy doesn't give off drugs. We used to have to walk from the Clevelander to, like the 7th street garage, like three blocks. I would daily get offered drugs on the walk just because of my look.

[Dan LeBatard]

Daily.

[Chris Cody]

No one offered to sell me drugs. People were like, so insulting.

[Billy]

I would get weed, coke, as like, as I'm walking by someone like every day and I would tell them, Billy's like, I never.

[Chris Cody]

It was so insulting. Like, no one thinks I could be addicted to drugs. I don't. Like, come on, look at me, Jeremy.

[Dan LeBatard]

You got it.

[Jeremy]

That happened cool all the time.

[Stugotz]

Were the choices. Only weed and coke.

[Jeremy]

Mike, would you get what I heard?

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

No, I never got offered.

[Jeremy]

Wow, Roy.

[Chris Cody]

Yes.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I've never been offered any of that stuff, except the one time that I was at a bachelor party in Costa Rica.

[Chris Cody]

That doesn't count.

[Dan LeBatard]

Good golly.

[Chris Cody]

Come on.

[Stugotz]

So what I heard that as not.

[Mike Ryan]

Your generation ruined that for ours. Yeah, we can't go to Costa Rica. Can't go to Colombia. If you say, oh, there's a bachelor party in Colombia or Costa Rica, you'll get Hell no. I know what happens.

[Billy]

I have some friends that do scary things there.

[Chris Cody]

What is that?

[Billy]

I've never gone.

[Mike Ryan]

You can kill a guy.

[Chris Cody]

Wait, hold on. What does that mean?

[Billy]

I'll tell you off air.

[Mike Ryan]

If you want to kill a guy, you can kill a guy.

[Stugotz]

That I didn't do that.

[Billy]

It's like, hostile, but I will say it's very overwhelming.

[Stugotz]

It may be the only time that I was happily in a pool with other people.

[Chris Cody]

Wait, what?

[Stugotz]

Normally I'm not happy, but in a Costa Rican bachelor party At a pool. There's just a lot going on and so you're in the pool and I got past all of my germ issues.

[Mike Ryan]

Why is Andy Slater always in Colombia?

[Stugotz]

I. I'm not answering that. I bet you could ask him yourself. But I believe that. Why? Hey, if he got him, have him smoke them.

[Chris Cody]

Did what? Did you play the pee pee game in the pool?

[Stugotz]

No.

[Chris Cody]

Did they pee in the pool?

[Stugotz]

Games?

[Chris Cody]

Whoa, whoa, what other games?

[Stugotz]

Out of other stuff.

[Chris Cody]

Come on, man, just tell us. It's fine.

[Stugotz]

No, it's Costa Rica. Anything goes where you can be a 65 inch Jewish looking middle aged guy and there are people saying, wow, you're super attractive and would you like drugs?

[Billy]

It's always weird when you say your height in inches.

[Jeremy]

Jews are attractive.

[Mike Ryan]

I can't figure that out.

[Billy]

I don't say 65 inches.

[Stugotz]

That's how tall I am.

[Billy]

Just say whatever you are.

[Mike Ryan]

12 inches in a foot.

[Adnan Virk]

Yeah. 12 times.

[Stugotz]

You can do it. Mike.

[Adnan Virk]

24.

[Stugotz]

I believe in you.

[Mike Ryan]

5 5.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, you got. I know.

[Billy]

You think it sounds better. It does say 5 5.

[Stugotz]

I think 65 inches sounds taller than 5 5.

[Chris Cody]

65 inches sounds like you might be in the six foot range because somebody start tricking people, you're just hoping 72.

[Billy]

Someone thinks you're saying 6 5.

[Jeremy]

No, it's like they measure babies in months.

[Billy]

Hey, how many months old are you?

[Stugotz]

My child is 26 months.

[Mike Ryan]

Don't get me started on the weeks.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Babies and weeks. I, I just, I check out.

[Billy]

Yeah, don't.

[Stugotz]

My child is 161 weeks. I mean, it's absurd.

[Billy]

If you say 53 weeks, like your baby's almost one.

[Stugotz]

If you're 53 weeks old, you're over one.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, but that's close.

[Dan LeBatard]

You're over three.

[Mike Ryan]

This is why you say years.

[Billy]

This is why you go years.

[Adnan Virk]

This is why you embarrass yourself in front of Jeff Conan.

[Stugotz]

Got that.

[Billy]

One's that way.

[Stugotz]

What a great. He texted me about it. He said, was Cody doing show.

[Billy]

I don't think he knows my name.

[Chris Cody]

No, he does.

[Billy]

Now I know you're lying.

[Stugotz]

No, he knows exactly.

[Mike Ryan]

Did he have a good time? It didn't seem like it.

[Stugotz]

He loved it.

[Chris Cody]

I didn't. He seemed not happy.

[Mike Ryan]

He's hard to read.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, he's just very. That's how he played. Except when he. His frustration would come out. He'd bend his helmet, the ears until they'd snap. Yeah, but he wouldn't, you know, he was very, I don't think tense he.

[Billy]

Didn'T like my joke where I was like, Josh Beckett. We should have saved him for game seven.

[Mike Ryan]

He also didn't like me saying, hey, that great NLCS game that you had, you had a pretty bad game prior to the game.

[Adnan Virk]

Winning.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Adnan Virk]

That was an interesting tack that you took.

[Billy]

That's bad for one with a ground into a double play.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a story of perseverance.

[Adnan Virk]

I think what you said was you had a really terrible game.

[Mike Ryan]

You had a bad look. Runs were at a premium. All right, he had the game winning hit.

[Jeremy]

Right.

[Mike Ryan]

But he also grounded into a double play and got picked off at second.

[Adnan Virk]

That's pretty bad.

[Stugotz]

I don't know if this would shock you, but there are people who come to your atmosphere and. And don't actually enjoy it.

[Mike Ryan]

I was paying him a compliment and also doing a show also. I had heard that he was in the. In the area of Adrian Peterson when it came in the handshakes. So when he showed up in those jeans with a tucked in polo and jeans, I'm like, this guy's gonna try to rip my hand off. I gotta give him the business. I dominated that handshake.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Stugotz]

I'm surprised he didn't just give you knuckles.

[Billy]

It was underwhelming. It was underwhelming, the handshake.

[Dan LeBatard]

Just.

[Billy]

Cause I thought it was gonna be amazing.