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Dan LeBatard
You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network.
Stugotz
Yeah, sure thing. Hey, you sold that car yet?
Chris Cody
Yeah, sold it to Carvana.
Stugotz
Oh, I thought you were selling to that guy.
Greg Cody
The guy who wanted to pay me in foreign currency.
Chris Cody
No interest over 36 months.
Greg Cody
Yeah, no.
Chris Cody
Carvana gave me an offer in minutes.
Greg Cody
Picked it up and paid me on the spot. It was so convenient.
Stugotz
Just like that.
Greg Cody
Yep.
Stugotz
No hassle?
Lucy Rodin
None.
Stugotz
That is super convenient.
Lucy Rodin
Sell your car to Carvana and swap.
Chris Cody
Hassle.
Dan LeBatard
For convenience.
Stugotz
Pickup fees may apply.
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Lucy Rodin
Welcome to the Big Sui presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show.
David Sampson
The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBatard podcast?
Lucy Rodin
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 that if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it. And now here's the marching man to.
David Sampson
Nowhere Fat face and the habitual liar.
Lucy Rodin
Lucy Rodin is smirking. I'm gonna say mischievously. And that that smirk generally. Generally creates fear in me. But also wonder because she is a content creator extraordinaire and now she has to do some sort of challenge in order to see if she's part of our late rush army that we're throwing Super Bowl. We will get to her in just a second to find out whether she gets. I don't know if she's ever been to New Orleans. I don't know if she's been. I don't know if she has been to Radio Row and seen the Stugotz experience, but Lucy reporting on Stugotz would be fun. Content, just following him around in the wild. Yes, Lucy.
Dan LeBatard
Dan, you were with me last year at Radio Row. We were there together.
Lucy Rodin
Okay, I don't remember. I don't remember anything that Our entire show, I just.
Jessica
All of us together, we sang songs.
Lucy Rodin
Yeah, I don't remember on Radio Row. I remember there. That I remember. We carpooled downtown. Yes. I don't remember. Forgive me. I forgot that I went and talked to the Golics on Radio Row one day. I was there for 15 minutes.
Dan LeBatard
Yes, we carpooled. And on the car right over, you talked to me about had I been to Radio Row before.
Chris Cody
Lucy seems like a great carpool buddy. Like, if I was ever carpooling somewhere, I'd be like, lucy, you're with me.
Dan LeBatard
Oh, thank you.
Lucy Rodin
Okay, put it on the poll. Does Lucy seem like a great carpool buddy? Let's go back into the other room, though, real quick, because I want to see what's happening with David Sampson trying to motivate Greg Cody to do better. Show Sampson. What do you have?
David Sampson
I really have a problem right now, Dan, because I can't get Greg going. He told me just now that the whole break threw him off, that he's very concerned about his outfit, that he thought he was wearing a blazer. And what I've said to him very clearly is we've never needed him more than we do now, as witnessed by the length of all of the break and all of the people not here. So, Greg, one more time for you. Can you please get yourself together?
Greg Cody
This is elderly abuse. Hold on.
David Sampson
Can we do that again?
Lucy Rodin
Okay. Well, you did it very poorly if the object was to hit him in the face. It's funnier if it makes a sound than if you just drop the microphone.
Greg Cody
All right, I want to review the last 30 seconds to 1 minute of this show because Dan Levatar, the man constantly calling me disoriented, just betrayed himself as not remembering that he was on sad, sad Radio Row slightly less than one year ago. That's the man calling me disoriented. Like I said before, I'm perfectly oriented. I've got nothing going on but love and. And best wishes for everybody. If I'm given a chance to speak into a mic for five minutes in a row without being interrupted and admonished.
David Sampson
But you have a button down shirt on.
Greg Cody
It's a beautiful button down shirt that my wife bought me. I've taken to wearing shirts over T shirts lately. I don't know whether that's a thing. I don't know whether that's proper, whether people do that.
Chris Cody
What are you hiding?
Greg Cody
I'm not hiding anything.
Lucy Rodin
Sores?
David Sampson
The veins on his feet?
Greg Cody
No, I don't have open sores anywhere on my body, by the way.
Lucy Rodin
Okay, we'll come back to you in a Moment. Thank you. That's fine.
Greg Cody
And if I did. They're not sores. They're jumping Charlie cuts.
Lucy Rodin
All right, $5, please, for coughing into the microphone. This is Venmo Fine Bucket account work. Because all of this is in play. The Venmo Fine Bucket, which is now going to be more vigorously enforced. Because of Lucy. Because of Lucy. And because of her refusal to pay a fine for killing somebody on the show and disrespecting the rules. Does Greg now have the Venmo account on his phone? Because he swore to us that his wife was that or Lane was going to do that for him.
Chris Cody
Yes, he's got it set up. I made payments for him. You know, we're still working on him doing it without anyone helping him. It's on his phone and the payments have been.
Lucy Rodin
I will just say that some of this behavior around the fine bucket is self destructive. Jessica, you were making, I'm going to say, hundreds of dollars there for a while when you had the contents of the fine bucket.
Stugotz
No, not quite. It was more like 80 something, but it was still nice. I'm not complaining about, but I'm saying.
Lucy Rodin
You got paid for the better part of two years every time. You were getting fines all the time. Are you not counting those? It was just a total of $80.
Stugotz
Not a lot of money. Which leads me to believe maybe someone again pilfered from the fine bucket.
Lucy Rodin
Yeah, we've got some problems. But now Venmo is now securing the entirety of the thing.
Chris Cody
Venmo sponsors our bucket and they also sponsor the Lucy Super Bowl Challenge presented by Venmo. So we got to figure out here what is going to happen.
Lucy Rodin
All right, so we've been teasing this here for weeks. Lucy, where are you on whether you're going to the super bowl or not? You have to fulfill this challenge. If you do not fulfill the challenge. Greg, do you remember what the challenge was?
Greg Cody
I do. It was. It was Lucy dressing up as a dinosaur, walking through them all.
Lucy Rodin
What kind of dinosaur?
Greg Cody
I can't recall offhand.
Lucy Rodin
It was your dinosaur.
Stugotz
I wasn't even here that day. And I remember what it is.
Lucy Rodin
You brought it up out of nowhere. It was the whole funny reason for the bit.
Greg Cody
An uprightosaurus. No, of course I. I know what it was. It was an iguanasaurus.
Dan LeBatard
You were a guanodon.
Lucy Rodin
An iguanadon.
Greg Cody
An iguanadon.
Lucy Rodin
You understand? The whole thing was born of that word being funny and coming out of nowhere. Yes.
Greg Cody
Funny word.
Lucy Rodin
Iguana.
Greg Cody
Don.
Lucy Rodin
So the challenge.
Chris Cody
Punch you right now.
Lucy Rodin
Have you done this, Lucy? Are you going to do it? The challenge is you're going to dress as an iguanodon and walk through a mall.
Dan LeBatard
Yes. So here's the thing. Here's the situation. I have had a great time on off roading, potentially too great of a time. So I am not. I'm not permitted to make company purchases. So I was told that I would be getting an iguana don thing in the mail. And I did. And I went online and I looked and it was 900 for a costume. And I just thought, even that's a little. A little intense. So this is what showed up. Is this really janky Iguanadon T shirt that I definitely didn't make myself? I would have never done that. I would have done a much better job.
David Sampson
Lucy, I want to thank you because there. That's a very soft applause. I'd like to make it much stronger.
Lucy Rodin
Thank you. Thank you. This is not. This is not a penalty to walk through a mall with a shirt that says Iguanodon.
Dan LeBatard
Dan.
Stugotz
Dan.
Dan LeBatard
I walked to get coffee this morning. Everyone was like, is that a band? What is on her shirt? Why is it not level? And why are the letters spaced out? It was incredibly embarrassing.
David Sampson
No, I'm thankful to you, Lucy, because you did it right. When you see that 900, you cannot proceed. You cannot spend that kind of money.
Lucy Rodin
On some ridiculous venture by Cody.
David Sampson
You get the shirt for 9.99 and you get yourself to the Super Bowl.
Lucy Rodin
Sam.
David Sampson
Yes.
Lucy Rodin
I got McAfee giving away $100,000 for field goal kicks. I got Jay Williams going into his own pocket going $100,000 for half court shots. We can't afford $900 on a costume.
David Sampson
If I thought that the juice was worth the squeeze in that $900 would actually generate any sort of attention, then I would think Radio Row or in.
Lucy Rodin
A mall where she's a content creator, she's an influencer.
David Sampson
We are being sponsored and paid for Lucy to do a challenge that is just as good in the T shirt as it is in the 999.
Lucy Rodin
That's ridiculous.
Greg Cody
No way. Her in an iguanodon costume. Haunting, sad, sad. Radio Row would be super bowl gold. You know, forget them all the Radio Row thing. Other podcasts would be interviewing her. She would be. I want.
Lucy Rodin
I want Lucy on Radio Row. This seems easy enough to fulfill. This is not the way to fulfill it cheap before going to the super bowl is not the way to do it. Do you remember last year's show? There was music Wu Tang Clan was there. We're going from that to we can't afford a night 900 costume.
David Sampson
I do remember last year's show. And I remember the fact that I'm still. Exactly. I'm dealing still with the budget reality of last year's show.
Lucy Rodin
Yeah, that was expensive.
David Sampson
It was a nightmare. So you can forgive me trying to save the 900 bucks which I'm trying to spread to the talent.
Dan LeBatard
Lucy Dan, I feel like you don't remember last year's show because five minutes ago you asked me if I had been to the Super Bowl.
Lucy Rodin
Listen here, Iowa. All I remember from last year is that and that Wu Tang Clan mistake.
Chris Cody
I remember when Wayne Newton almost fell and Tony saved him.
Lucy Rodin
Oh, my God.
Chris Cody
Like, we had these, like, high top, like. Like bar stool type chairs. So he kind of had to, like, get up on it and. And the chair started going and Wayne was going.
Lucy Rodin
We were.
Chris Cody
We almost had a Wayne Newton falling on our stage, breaking a hip probably. And Tony stepped in, caught the man. Right arm.
Lucy Rodin
Yes, that is all correct. We were so close, you understand, on the floor near the pool of fragments and pieces and rubble of Wayne Newton just being on the floor. A Las Vegas icon. We could have killed him.
Chris Cody
That would have gone viral.
Lucy Rodin
It would have been death would have.
Greg Cody
Been better for the show.
Lucy Rodin
What?
Greg Cody
No, really. I mean, Wayne Newton falling off a high chair.
Lucy Rodin
You can't do that.
Greg Cody
No, it would have been better.
Lucy Rodin
Can't do that.
David Sampson
It would have been the Greg Stopless.
Lucy Rodin
You can't do that.
Greg Cody
I don't mean him injuring himself. I just mean him death. I just mean him taking a pratfall.
Lucy Rodin
Oh, okay, so not actually killing him in pieces.
Greg Cody
I love Wayne Newton. Danka. Shane, Are you kidding me?
David Sampson
Old men don't take pratfalls.
Greg Cody
Well, I. I take a Pratt.
Chris Cody
You're getting to the age where we know can't be fallen.
Greg Cody
No, I fall.
Lucy Rodin
Greg, what do you mean you take a pratfall? The last time you took a pratfall, we monetized it for profit. Your son didn't sell enough T shirts and he produced a video of you falling in the bushes after drinking too many beers.
Greg Cody
No, I've taken a pratfall since then.
Lucy Rodin
You have?
Greg Cody
Yeah, just a few months ago. I remember the face was bruised. He doesn't remember that either. The guy calling me disoriented doesn't remember me having a bruised face and wearing a ma. Half a mask covering half my face just several months ago. But Wayne Newton. Pratt falling at Moss, Miami or Vega, whatever. It's called.
Lucy Rodin
It's become an unhealthy obsession over the last 10 plus years.
Chris Cody
And how is this still.
Lucy Rodin
Come on. Come on this. He got sick there. He had to have gotten sick in Cartersville. I don't know what to do about a ruling here because we're too late in the game and we're understaffed. Like, Lucy's going to get to go whether she commits to the challenge or not. Like, we botched this. We have not gotten the penalty that we need to get here, but we've.
David Sampson
Included her going and it's sponsored and the T shirt is just fine. So I'd like you to move past it.
Lucy Rodin
Okay?
David Sampson
The problem is you're stuck on this as though we don't know that you're showing the Billy thing on a loop. Don't treat us like fools. Let Lucy go and it's gonna be fine.
Chris Cody
Thank you.
Jessica
Say bits on air.
Chris Cody
We just went over this.
Lucy Rodin
Oh, geez. I hit the wrong button. Yeah, you have to. Sampson Samson, you have to get out of here. Okay. I like just.
Greg Cody
We've got a penalty.
Chris Cody
Five minutes, Major.
Lucy Rodin
That was a joke we were going to be doing for three hours that you just on. You just on that joke. We were going to do it for three straight. Where that comes in and you're like, hey, it's a loop, everybody. I'm the ruiner. Fun. Get out of here.
David Sampson
See you later.
Greg Cody
You're disoriented today. You're hitting the wrong button.
Lucy Rodin
Show with stu. God celebrates 20 years of content this year.
Jessica
Still going.
Lucy Rodin
It's on a loop. Yeah, it's on a loop, asshole.
Chris Cody
We all need to take a deep breath, everybody. Well, but you'll make me find the entire company.
Lucy Rodin
You see? You see? Did anyone pay those.
Greg Cody
Yes. A lot.
Lucy Rodin
Three people paid you. Fine. The entire company. $5. I diligently went in there and paid the $5. Who's keeping track? Who.
Greg Cody
Who's keeping.
Lucy Rodin
Who's keeping track of the Venmo Fine bucket? Because it should by now. If everyone in the company has to pay $5, that's hundreds of dollars. We have a lot of employees, including Gabe, who I just met.
Stugotz
Your math is not great.
Greg Cody
Double.
Jessica
Should we ask him what he thinks about the fine system?
Lucy Rodin
Do you. Are you more aware of how many people we're paying than I am? Yes. Okay. Because I don't. I don't think you are. And if I say $5 to everyone in the company and we're paying 100 people, that's $500. Like, if Chris is Finding everybody in the company. That's a significant amount of money.
Stugotz
There's, like, four people out there, Dan.
Lucy Rodin
This is not the company. Is not Gabe here? Yes. There is nobody out there. The company all went to the super bowl, so Lucy's gonna have to go. But we botched this, so what are you looking forward to doing there? Tell. Yes. Congratulation. This is.
Dan LeBatard
I work so hard. This is so rewarding.
Greg Cody
Yeah.
Lucy Rodin
This is not. This is not the way to do this. Chris, are you upset that you're not going to the Super Bowl? Because, like, we all did go last year. Now because Sampson has to reign in the budget, we can't all go.
Chris Cody
I got a little fomo, but my liver is happy. I don't need. I don't need New Orleans in my life. The super bowl, in my experience, is like. I like to. I like everything. I gotta work. But then I like to have fun, so it's. You end up. By the end of it, my voice is gone. I know. It's just. To answer your question. I'm good. Not going. I had FOMO at the beginning of the week, but now I'm just like. I'm tired. I'm good.
Stugotz
This sounds like cope.
Lucy Rodin
Yeah.
Greg Cody
Fomo.
Chris Cody
No, I'm good. Have you ever had fomo, Dad?
Greg Cody
I don't know what that stands for.
Chris Cody
Fear of missing out.
Greg Cody
Okay. No, I didn't know it. I didn't know the acronym. I mean, everything has. Does everything have to have an acronym? Can you just say four words in a row without coining a phrase for it? Come on. Exactly. Just say what the. And don't worry about what.
Lucy Rodin
Who was talking to you? Who are you saying exactly to? I'm looking at Chris, Jessica, Jeremy.
Greg Cody
Somebody said wtf, and you rolled with it.
Lucy Rodin
Greg.
Stugotz
Where?
Greg Cody
Like a Big Wheel?
David Sampson
Was it Gabe?
Lucy Rodin
Greg.
Greg Cody
What?
Lucy Rodin
This is what just happened. Okay?
Greg Cody
Don't use the word disoriented because I'll bring up all the things you've done. Okay?
Lucy Rodin
Okay, okay. But how would you just.
Stugotz
Great point.
Lucy Rodin
Agree. Agreed. Agreed. But it's not because I'm distracted at all.
Greg Cody
Stf. Stfu, Dan. How's that?
Stugotz
Got your ass?
Greg Cody
Stands for something. I don't know what it stands for.
Lucy Rodin
What do you imagine it stands for?
Greg Cody
I know what it stands for. Don't make me say it.
Lucy Rodin
I'm not going to take a quiz or you know it.
Greg Cody
No, I know what it stands for. I know modern acronyms. Okay?
Lucy Rodin
Fomo. FOMO is a modern acronym.
Greg Cody
I know, but I'm a gin. It. You know, I Don't. I'm. Just say what you're going to say and don't make a phrase out of it or an Lucy, what are you.
Lucy Rodin
Looking forward to at this Super Bowl? Are you going to learn from the master Stugats, who I already see is getting into position? I have a camera here. He is in position and you're headed out to meet him. What are you looking forward to?
Dan LeBatard
I've never been to New Orleans, so I'm actually really just excited to go. I'd like to have a beignet. Maybe I'll get a beverage or two and make it appropriate since Venmo is sending me. And by the way, quick shout out to Venmo. They're my favorite social media app. That's where you learn all the good stuff that's happening.
Lucy Rodin
Okay, so, Stugots, we're looking forward to what Stugatz is going to bring us soon. Do we know. Have you gotten any reports? You're just learning. I guess you got to go now. But you're. You're just learning now that Billy has been knocked into a gutter, right? That part of our super bowl coverage has been derailed. Are you going to be on God Bless Football?
Dan LeBatard
Maybe. I don't know. I will say, Billy, get well soon. However, really good news. Rose doesn't have to do as much work now and we get to hang out.
Lucy Rodin
Okay. That's not good news. I need people working.
Dan LeBatard
Okay, well, us hanging out is work.
Lucy Rodin
No. And it's okay. Thank you for all your efforts. Thank you for saving the company money. Yes. Billy Gill is getting our coverage off to a rip roaring start. We are sending reinforcements. Did other people here have fomo? Anyone else here have FOMO? About the Super Bowl, Jessica, did you want to get back to the Super Bowl?
Stugotz
Yeah, I think we all would have liked to go, but I wouldn't like four weeks ago.
David Sampson
So I would like to have gone for the first time.
Lucy Rodin
Yeah. You weren't invited to that one.
David Sampson
Nope.
Lucy Rodin
Yeah, you get your feelings hurt when you're not invited to things around here.
David Sampson
I just think you did it purposefully and I thought that it was silly. You had everybody go. It was the biggest budget item of the year. Everybody was last year.
Chris Cody
Come on.
David Sampson
Name one person in front of a microphone who makes his living with Meadowlark in front of a microphone.
Lucy Rodin
Pablo. Pablo didn't go.
David Sampson
Pablo doesn't think of himself that way.
Greg Cody
He's perfect.
David Sampson
He would lower himself to be a part of that.
Lucy Rodin
Wait a minute. What?
Stugotz
And you would one hundo.
Lucy Rodin
Well, so you guys noticed when these podcasts, these stupid podcast awards came out, that we are celebrating overzealously. You guys did notice that Pablo very much did say in a category that I don't understand sports documentaries by podcast form, that he was the very fine French restaurant upscale and that David Sampson and God Bless Football are hot dog water. That comparatively that what they make compared to what he makes. You're telling me he was.
David Sampson
He didn't say the water.
Lucy Rodin
Yeah.
Chris Cody
To be fair, he just said a hot dog stand.
Lucy Rodin
No, but it was the inference. Look, I went straight to the water like he went straight to the hot dog stand. Yeah, hot dogs are also delicious and can be award winning, but it's not fine dining and we all know it. And Pablo is lording over Hee Haw3. Like he's saying that what he does is more important than the artistic crafting that was He Haw three being a breakout band in Vegas.
Chris Cody
Can I just jump in real fast? I'm sorry. I'm looking at our Radio Row feed and it is just Radio Row in a nutshell. We're supposed to have Diana and Stugotz right now from Radio Row. And they are both behind the set, just chumming it up.
Lucy Rodin
Yes.
Chris Cody
Just talking to people. They're supposed to be on air right now with us. And they're just both shaking hands, kissing babies.
Lucy Rodin
This is what Billy does. And he's out like Billy Rangel. Billy Spence, get our talent. Fuentes, Gabe has passed you in the company.
Chris Cody
Send Gabe New Orleans. I want new. I want Gabe in New Orleans tomorrow. Because Gabe would not stand for this.
Lucy Rodin
Fuentes.
David Sampson
No room in the budget.
Lucy Rodin
Fuentes. We need Diana Rossini. They are hobnobbers, the two of them. She's got a lot in common with Stu, guys. She does. Oh, my God, she is. She. Her and Stug are something close to kinship. Soulmates. And we will not find them. Because if there's a Golic around, we've lost Rossini and Stugac for a while. Any kind of Golic. Golic of any kind. But Stugac is trying to get something from them. Diana just genuinely likes people, but also wants information. So she too wants to get something.
David Sampson
Do we have a time zone issue? Is there a chance that Stugatz thought that it was 10:00 Central?
Lucy Rodin
Sampson, this is the experience. Please put it in picture. In picture, we will have a live cam, and that will take the consequences of however Stugots behaves. When I heard in my ear, one of the reasons I was distracted during the first hours, because I just heard a stray. Hey, Stugotz went for his morning breakfast of two heaters and a bottle of water. Like. And so I'm just hearing a stray from Radio Row as they start, as they get us uplinked. I've got people there. And this is Stugatz's life. For four days, nobody knows where he goes. At night, he gets into some crevices, but during the day, he is for 12 hours nonstop, maximum hobnobbing at the top of the industry.
Chris Cody
Classic. As you're saying it. Stugatz has now made his way out of our shot.
Greg Cody
Just.
Chris Cody
I don't know where he went.
Lucy Rodin
This is not work to him. You guys got to understand, we are paying everybody to be Lucy in some form. Stu Gats is also there to just enjoy himself and belch out content while just being getting a hero's welcome. Because our podcast is popular, because everyone loves them there, right? You have to understand what Radio Row is. It's a cacophony of the same noise making predictions about the same game. So whoever there is in that place that is a little bit rebellious, a little bit rebellious about the nonsense that we do, they think Lucy and Stugots are hobnobbing heroes. That Stug will be slapped on the back by everyone who works there, except maybe Mad Dog who lords over him. I think Stugatz is maybe Jim Rome, too. Jim Rome goes with bodyguards.
Greg Cody
Oh, God. Are you kidding?
David Sampson
Are you. Are you sure?
Lucy Rodin
I'm positive. Yes.
David Sampson
Like. Like what? What do you mean?
Lucy Rodin
Like bodyguard, bodyguard, sole job.
David Sampson
Not producer, bodyguards. Just bodyguard.
Lucy Rodin
Bodyguards. Bodyguards.
Greg Cody
Plural.
Lucy Rodin
Bodyguards, plural. Jim Rome has been dominating Radio Row for a long time. They bring him all the important guests and those guests who are celebrities, because everything there is a piranha feeding frenzy. If Snoop Dogg is coming through, that person needs security to bring him to where Jim Rome is. And Jim Rome himself uses that security to get around the building, because if he has to go to the bathroom, seven people will grab him trying to get him to do something.
David Sampson
Are they armed?
Lucy Rodin
I think so, yes.
Stugotz
If I may change the subject quickly. I found out recently that my Grandma has a YouTube addiction and she can't actually stop watching YouTube videos. And she's gotten fed a lot of our videos in the algorithm. And she just texted me and said, is he really making fun of that older gentleman? Which I believe refers to you making fun of Greg. So I think my grandma would like an apology on Greg's behalf.
Greg Cody
She could mean either one of us. I mean, Dan's no spring Chicken. You know, it's true.
David Sampson
I thought she meant me, and it was a family thing with you and me.
Stugotz
What do you mean?
Greg Cody
Gtfo?
Lucy Rodin
She could be referring to either one of us. Yeah, either, because you've, you've also, you have locked horns with me today. You are done with being called disoriented you don't like.
Greg Cody
Right.
Lucy Rodin
I can sense sometimes with you as my lifelong friend, when it is that I'm landing on the wrong side of you.
Greg Cody
That's happened. That's happened. Look, you run a loose ship here. You're letting Rodine get away without, you know, go to New Orleans despite, you know, ruining the bet with the Iguanodon. You know, now you're, you're, you're kowtowing to Sampson on financial matters. I mean, it's, it's.
Lucy Rodin
I'm not, I'm not. It's delegated. It's stuff. It's, it's, it's giving the longest two.
Chris Cody
Sentences I've ever heard.
Greg Cody
My life with a K. Not enough people know that word. Does it have a hyphen? Does it not have a hyphen? There's some dispute there on kowtowing.
Dan LeBatard
Jessica.
Stugotz
Holy shit.
Lucy Rodin
Grandma. Getting caught in the algorithm is a lot of fun. I also enjoy the idea because I've told you guys the stories about my 80 year old grandfather where I asked him one time to answer a cell phone and I come into the other room and he was answering the television remote control. He was trying. He didn't know the difference between the two things. A cell phone was something that was foreign to him. I've also told you the stories of, like, showing my grandfather ESPN Classic, you know, the Jim Layritz home run. Like walking by the television. He thinks it's a live game because he doesn't have any perspective and understands why his son is an expert or grandson is an expert. Because I say it looks like Wohlers is going to throw a pitch here that Layritz is going to turn on and hit over the left field fence. That's what happens. My grandfather's amazed. Coming from Cuba, doesn't speak English. He's like, wow. My grandson, he knows so much about sports. The idea that we have an 80 year old issue around here where people are, what are you smiling about, Sampson? What are you laughing about? Because I love the idea of her grandmother getting stuck in a YouTube algorithm where she thinks Jessica is the biggest broadcast star in the world because all she's getting is videos from this show and television just becomes her daughter Because I don't know at what point 80 year olds don't quite understand what the technology is doing to them.
Stugotz
She's denial. She's very with it, Dan. She just watches a lot of YouTube videos.
David Sampson
This is going very wrong, Dan.
Stugotz
Great example of your elder abuse tendencies.
Lucy Rodin
Ageism, I don't think. Look, you guys are doing Pat Riley is too old to do that job at 78.
Greg Cody
We love that Riley.
Lucy Rodin
But wait a minute. We just got done with a bunch. Look, tell me where the line is here because we've done it to two of America's leaders here. We've been making fun of a delirium that can happen at this age. Between 78 and 80 years old. I don't know. Yes, there are very I. My fault for assuming that your grandma is lapsed into some form of senility.
Stugotz
Being said, I don't think she should run the heat either. But that's not because of her age. It's just that I don't think she'd be very good at it. Just like maybe not very good at it right now.
Lucy Rodin
I might be wrong that I can. I can assume that most 80 year olds aren't dealing with YouTube. No.
David Sampson
Her grandmother does not think she's a star. Not a star because of YouTube and seeing her on YouTube. She believes her granddaughter a star because all grandparents think their grandchildren are stars.
Stugotz
Not really. In my family, you got to earn your stardom. I think my grandma can appropriately assess my level of success because she is not senile and she understands I'm on a big show. I'm not the title of the show, but I do very well for myself.
Chris Cody
Can I close a loop from the first hour? My mom's mom's name is Mary Elizabeth.
David Sampson
That's your grandmother. Chris.
Lucy Rodin
Wait a minute.
David Sampson
It's not a loop closure.
Lucy Rodin
Did Greg get it wrong?
Chris Cody
My bad. I asked my mom. I said, what's your mom's mom's name? My bad. I misspoke again. My mom's grandma's name is Mary Elizabeth.
Lucy Rodin
Chris. Chris.
Chris Cody
Mom's mom. Like, David's getting comments here.
Greg Cody
They're both married.
Jessica
Mom's mom's mom.
Greg Cody
Okay, they're both Marys then.
Lucy Rodin
Chris. Chris. You interrupted everything we were doing with an important mom alert that you then just delivered in a way that confused everybody.
Chris Cody
I'm confused.
Jessica
Like it's his mom's mom's mom.
Lucy Rodin
Just your great grandmother.
Chris Cody
Minor penalty. 2 minutes delay a show.
Lucy Rodin
Out of here. Chris. Just get out of here. Like, I don't know what you were doing.
David Sampson
There still wrong.
Lucy Rodin
Chris, I don't know why you were doing it. You can yell at everybody. You can take it up with everybody. Get out now, please. Thank you.
Stugotz
I think he was right.
Lucy Rodin
Okay, you can leave with him. Both of you can get out of here.
Chris Cody
Minor penalty, two minutes delay a show.
Lucy Rodin
The thing that I wanted to ask Greg Cody and David Sampson, in the business of sports that you guys have seen. Oh, I'm sorry. I hit it again.
Chris Cody
Minor penalty, two minutes delay a show.
Lucy Rodin
Extra.
Greg Cody
A fine for a mistake.
Lucy Rodin
That's fine. I'll pay the fine. That's fine.
Greg Cody
Disoriented.
Lucy Rodin
I will pay the fine. I pressed it because I thought when I lost my executive producer that that sound wasn't going to stop. So I pressed it again because I had the, the cheering involved. But I wanted to ask you guys, as people who have studied the business of sports, when you see I'm going to call it the disloyalty of what Dallas just did to their biggest star. Although you can call it just the evolution of teams trying to get a hold of the players on. If you're going to leave in a year and a half, we're not going to let you have all the control and Damian Lillard is going to try and shift it this way and we're going to watch what Jimmy Butler does. And Luka, we're going to do this. Like, if there's nothing else here, we're going to do this 18 months beforehand so you don't go to the lakers on us 18 months from now and you get to leave as a hero.
Chris Cody
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Dan LeBatard
What is Dax, are you tracking all.
Lucy Rodin
Our cars on Carvana value tracker on all our devices? Yes, Kristen. Yes, I am.
Dan LeBatard
While I've been looking for my phone.
Lucy Rodin
For in dax's domain, we see all. So we always know what our cars are worth.
Greg Cody
All of them?
Lucy Rodin
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Greg Cody
Quiet, man.
Lucy Rodin
Yes.
Greg Cody
You know, I'm a married man. I don't cheat on my wife. Despite that gratuitous line in back in stugats, I wish you were here. My wife, I really miss her. No, I don't. That's the thing about being married, you know, you're not allowed to say, I don't miss my wife. I've been gone gone two days. I haven't been gone long enough to miss my wife. I'm sorry. I call her.
Chris Cody
I'm gonna go with her.
Greg Cody
30 seconds. You know, what am I. Hello? All right. All right. We'll see you. All right. And then, you know, I'm gonna see her in two days. How's jumping, Charlie? Good.
Lucy Rodin
This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats. The news that I saw yesterday in football that results in 1 miles Garrett requesting a trade, which is not a normal football thing. I know it happens some, but usually in football a player doesn't quite have the power to do that publicly and garner support the way Myles Garrett just did. Which is like, okay, can that power come to football now? But then also coldly I saw and this, the business of this kind of was like, man, really, Cooper Kopp wants to keep playing for the Rams. The Rams announced yesterday, yeah, we're trading him. And Cooper Kupp doesn't rip the organization, but just says, I'm highly motivated to get the next money on that contract. And as I'm watching that happen, I'm like, okay, so Cooper cup basically won the super bowl for that team. If you can have an allegiance to a region. He made Matthew Stafford this because in the super bowl when they were down on the game winning drive, nobody in the stadium didn't understand that the ball was going to Cooper cup. And Stafford is throwing the ball to him with no look passes for that person and that memory to be so disposable at the end that Cooper Kupp is now like, hey, see you later. Sorry if that hurts, but we've got Puka now and we can't have two of you because we understand the finances of the league. It. It makes me long in some ways for the 1972 Steelers that were able to stay together and not have any sort of free agency because those teams could stay together for a while, then build something that I would remember for a time without having the ending be contaminated like this, when that should be a beautiful thing with him in that relationship with the city. Like they did a beautiful, really hard thing together and did it on a body that has taken all of the abuse because those receivers play so physically that you're basically churning them through a wood chipper. Like, Puka's body is going to age really fast because of how physically those receivers play. And Puka's job now replaces Cooper, takes his money like. And so at the end, what am I supposed to do with all of that? When something is that cold of a business transaction, in the age of the.
David Sampson
Transaction, you're supposed to not keep using a typewriter when there's a computer available. It is true that people long for the day of when a player would be on a team for an entire career, but those days have been gone for 40 years. I mean, the Robin Younts of the world are the exception, not the rule. And so stars change teams. What shocks me about this is the position the GM took, Andrew Berry, who said, hey, give me two number ones. I'm still not trading him. I will not trade this guy. That's more GM malpractice. You've got to trade somebody if there's an overpay. And it seems like someone would overpay for Myles Garrett.
Greg Cody
It's not only what, what is happening in the NFL and the NBA and everywhere else. When Myles Garrett sees what LeBron James was able to do and sort of revolution of players under contract being able to steer their way out. And now you have pro players seeing the transfer portal in college where college players, you know, all of a sudden Carson Beck is with the Miami Hurricanes. And if you're Myles Garrett, you're trying to get out of that hellhole, which is Cleveland, why not leverage whatever you have? And despite what the general manager is saying, how can you keep him if he's blatantly unhappy not being there?
David Sampson
I don't want to be forced to trade a player because they say they're unhappy. The Marlins did it with Derek Jeter when Yelich said he was unhappy and they made a terrible trade. You cannot let players dictate whether you move them. And taking an ad out in a paper and putting it in bold font and saying I want to win a Super bowl, it's not Cleveland to Canton.
Lucy Rodin
Give me a. David, yours is a bygone time though. You're. You're using old executive privilege there. The players have more power than that now. Miles Garrett can exert something over Cleveland. Like you can say all you want. Organization has to ignore that. He's unhappy. Not once he goes public with it. That's not the world we live in anymore.
David Sampson
The only power they have is what we give them. We. That. That's the facts. You can't. It's like saying. It's like blaming a player for signing a big contract. The owners decide to agree to the contract.
Jessica
David, does it change in a capped sport versus a non capped sport though? Because like if you're the Marlins, you can or any other team in Major League Baseball, you can have money wasting away on your bench, but just spend more money to make up for that in a capped sport like in the NFL or the NBA, that's not the case. So when someone's taking up so much of your cap, are you not behooved to move them more than maybe in Major League Baseball because they're unhappy if they're not going to play for you if they're going to hold out if they're not going to give you their max effort. We've seen literal examples of this over the last month in the NBA.
David Sampson
Literal examples of players who stop playing because they want to be moved. They stop playing. Well, they. Are we saying that Luka was feigning injury or that's Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler has chosen not to play in order to get Pat Riley to trade him. Is that the position that he took?
Lucy Rodin
No. The metrics were obviously supported that he wasn't trying very hard. He was.
David Sampson
By taking fewer shots.
Lucy Rodin
Just all of it. Just all of it. Run it. Whatever.
Jessica
Running slower.
Lucy Rodin
Just. It was obvious. It could be obvious to even the human eye. But what are you saying if that. That power is not an irrelevant one, the ability to just quit on your team. I think most of sports would say that. That basically, if you don't want to be here, we don't want you here. Like, if you like the way that those locker rooms unite around whatever it is that they're doing, that he'd have turned on Jimmy Butler. Like, those are real friendships that have been fractured by what's happened over the last three weeks. Those were. Those were real. Hey, we shared those memories just a couple of years ago. Oh, you're going to throw those away? Like those relationships are legitimately hurt. They don't want him around.
David Sampson
Do you think it's a coincidence that all of the guaranteed portion of Myles Garrett's extension in 20 are finished and now he's into the unguaranteed part? Do you think there's any part of this where he's trying to get guaranteed money?
Lucy Rodin
Yes, of course.
David Sampson
So then what are you talking about? This is all just posturing by Myles Garrett that he's hiding under the. I want to win a Super bowl. And you're going to guarantee that you're going to win a Super bowl because you're traded? I was thinking about this on. Nothing personal. What's the list for Andrew Berry? I'll take. I'll take from the. From you guys. What's the list of where he should be traded? Chiefs.
Stugotz
I don't know which teams have the cap space for it, but it might not be a guarantee that wherever he is traded wins a Super bowl, but it is a guarantee if he stays in Cleveland, he will not. That's how bad the situation is there.
David Sampson
There's a lot of bad. I happen to totally agree that the Cleveland Browns with Haslam and Watson are finished. Although Watson, I think is likely finished.
Lucy Rodin
Finish.
David Sampson
But you can't Giancarlo Stanton did this to us. He said, I want to win a World Series. I want. I won't go to the Cardinals, I won't go to the Giants. I want to go to the Dodgers or Yankees. Went to the Yankees a long time ago. No ring yet. It's a lot harder than you think. So we don't allow a player to just say, I want to win.
Lucy Rodin
No, but look this. I don't know what will happen here. I don't know what the Cleveland Brown statements will be about what they do. I do assume that once this Salvo has been fired, he doesn't want his guaranteed money in Cleveland. He wants his guaranteed money. And he'll get it. Cuz he's at maximum leverage. He's the most fearsome thing that there is, and he's done the impossible. He has made Greg Cody rise from the old days and write the old newspaper column in the Miami Herald. Dolphins should get Myles Garrett. It's a column Zaslow has been making fun of Greg cody for. For 25 years.
Greg Cody
Yeah.
Lucy Rodin
Greg Cody was called by Taylor and told that that was a good column. It had slipped. It had. It had slipped what? It had slipped his attention.
Greg Cody
I had a feeling that was coming. I did not write the column because Taylor told me to. I was writing something else when Christopher called me and says, hey, Taylor says this and this and this. I had not heard the Myles Garrett news yet. Okay. When I was done, what. What the other thing I was doing, and I found out that Miles Garrett was saying, hey, trade me, me. I absolutely would have written that column without a prod from anybody else.
Lucy Rodin
Wow.
Chris Cody
Because no credit for Taylor and I.
Greg Cody
No, in this case, no. When. When somebody like Myles Garrett says they want to be traded and I think there's a plausibility that the Dolphins could be in the market. I'm going to write that.
David Sampson
You're saying you didn't know he wanted to be traded? Did you know or did you not know?
Greg Cody
I didn't at the time that he told me because I was writing something else. I was concentrating on something else.
Lucy Rodin
You detoured based on Chris and Taylor and will give them no credit for giving you the column that made you not write the previous column.
Greg Cody
This is exhausting. No, I wrote the previous column and then I went to Myles Garrett.
Lucy Rodin
The Gill family are proud owners of two dogs, Izzy and Dopey.
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Episode: The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa
Release Date: February 4, 2025
In the February 4, 2025 episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz engage in their trademark blend of sports analysis, pop culture commentary, and lighthearted banter from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami. The episode, titled "The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa," dives into various topics ranging from personal challenges and workplace antics to in-depth discussions on sports dynamics, particularly focusing on the NFL's evolving player-empowerment landscape.
A significant portion of the episode centers around Lucy Rodin’s anticipated participation in the Super Bowl, which is contingent upon completing a humorous challenge. The challenge requires Lucy to dress as an Iguanodon and walk through a mall, a task that becomes a focal point for both comedic exchanges and deeper discussions about practicality and team dynamics.
Challenge Reveal:
[06:55] Lucy Rodin: "The challenge is you're going to dress as an iguanodon and walk through a mall."
Host Reactions:
[07:03] Dan LeBatard: "I have had a great time on off roading, potentially too great of a time. So I am not permitted to make company purchases... so this is what showed up. Is this really janky Iguanodon T-shirt that I definitely didn't make myself?"
Lucy’s Struggle:
Lucy expresses her frustration with the high cost of the costume, highlighting the tension between maintaining budget constraints and meeting show obligations.
[08:05] David Sampson: "When you see that 900, you cannot proceed. You cannot spend that kind of money."
Humorous Banter:
The hosts and co-hosts engage in playful teasing about the feasibility and execution of the challenge, underscoring the show's lighthearted atmosphere.
[09:07] Lucy Rodin: "This is not work to him. You guys got to understand, we are paying everybody to be Lucy in some form."
The episode incorporates an ongoing joke about the "Venmo Fine Bucket," a playful system where hosts and guests incur fines for various on-air mishaps or infractions. This recurring gag adds a layer of interaction and humor, with participants frequently reminding each other of pending fines.
Fine Enforcement:
[05:21] Chris Cody: "Yes, he's got it set up. I made payments for him... it's on his phone and the payments have been."
Lucy’s Vigilance:
Lucy takes her role in monitoring the Fine Bucket seriously, emphasizing accountability among the team.
[13:03] Chris Cody: "We all need to take a deep breath, everybody."
Ticking Off Penalties:
[27:32] Lucy Rodin: "Extra. A fine for a mistake."
These interactions not only provide comedic relief but also foster a sense of camaraderie and friendly competition among the hosts.
Lucy Rodin shares anecdotes about her grandmother's YouTube addiction, highlighting the generational gap in technology usage and understanding. This segment delves into themes of ageism and the challenges older generations face in adapting to rapidly evolving digital landscapes.
Lucy’s Story:
[24:04] Lucy Rodin: "My grandma can't actually stop watching YouTube videos. She thinks she's her granddaughter because all she's getting is videos from this show."
Hosts' Reactions:
The conversation evolves into a discussion about the portrayal of older adults in media and the importance of respecting technological limitations.
[25:24] Stugotz: "She's denial. She's very with it, Dan. She just watches a lot of YouTube videos."
A substantial and insightful segment of the episode is dedicated to analyzing the changing dynamics of player power within the NFL, exemplified by Myles Garrett's public request for a trade. The hosts debate the implications of such actions on team management, player morale, and the broader sports industry.
Myles Garrett's Trade Request:
[28:20] Lucy Rodin: "Myles Garrett can exert something over Cleveland. He's the most fearsome thing there is, and he's done the impossible."
Debate on Player Leverage:
David Sampson and Lucy Rodin discuss whether players' newfound ability to influence trades represents progress or poses challenges for team cohesion and management.
[35:12] David Sampson: "You can't let players dictate whether you move them. Taking an ad out in a paper saying I want to win a Super Bowl... it's not Cleveland to Canton."
Comparisons to Other Sports:
The conversation extends to comparing the NFL’s salary cap and contract structures with Major League Baseball, examining how these differences affect team decisions regarding unhappy or high-salary players.
[36:06] Jessica: "Does it change in a capped sport versus a non-capped sport though?"
Impact on Team Decisions:
Greg Cody emphasizes the difficulty teams face in balancing player satisfaction with financial constraints, highlighting specific examples like Cleveland Browns and potential trades.
[38:19] Lucy Rodin: "Salvo has been fired, he doesn't want his guaranteed money in Cleveland. He's at maximum leverage."
Throughout the episode, the hosts engage in their signature banter, characterized by playful teasing, quick-witted exchanges, and inside jokes. This dynamic not only entertains regular listeners but also creates an engaging narrative for new audiences.
Banter on Penalties:
[15:44] Stugotz: "This sounds like cope."
[15:48] Lucy Rodin: "Yeah."
Jokes on Disorientation:
[15:54] Lucy Rodin: "I'm not going to take a quiz or you know it."
These interactions add depth to the hosts' personalities, making the show relatable and enjoyable.
"The Big Suey: Listen Here, Iowa" offers a compelling mix of humor, personal anecdotes, and critical sports analysis. From the amusing Super Bowl Iguanodon challenge to the serious discourse on player empowerment in the NFL, the episode encapsulates the essence of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz. Listeners are treated to a rich tapestry of conversations that balance lighthearted moments with insightful commentary, making it a standout installment in the series.
Notable Quotes:
This summary encapsulates the key discussions and interactions of the episode, providing a comprehensive overview for those who haven't tuned in.