The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz XX
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[1] This is the Dan Levator Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
[2] I know you've been asking yourself, where has Gabe been?
[3] I am told that Gabe is making a triumphant return here in moments.
[4] We are going to do a segment with rising new media star Gabe.
[5] He will be before Ricky Williams picks the game.
[6] Ricky Williams has asked for the first time ever.
[7] I just can't believe it.
[8] He's asked to come on the show and do something.
[9] So first we will have the opener of Gabe.
[10] And then we will go to Ricky Williams.
[11] We have to do against the spread, and we have to celebrate that God Bless Football is about to kick ass all over the Super Bowl.
[12] For Diana Rossini to get there and be jealous of Stugatz's setup, that's not a normal thing.
[13] I wanted to, before I go any further, though, I've been negligent in not doing this.
[14] The Codys have gone with some employees here as a ritual of real bonding and trust.
[15] They've gone golfing with Taylor and others.
[16] And thank you, by the way, Izzy, for stepping in.
[17] for David Sampson.
[18] David Sampson had to step out to do something with Danny Cannell.
[19] That'll be a likable conversation.
[20] You're welcome.
[21] Greg Cody and Chris Cody going with Taylor golfing.
[22] What happened here?
[23] Because I was told that Greg Cody almost got into a fight.
[24] Well, no, actually, there's two things here.
[25] I played a prank on my dad that we can get to.
[26] I actually, and my dad is part of this, I technically almost got into a fight.
[27] But let me tell the story here.
[28] So in golf, one of the worst things you can do is hit the ball up onto the group that's in front of you.
[29] So we were on a par five.
[30] I'm 250 yards away.
[31] That's a long way to hit the ball.
[32] There's a group on the green.
[33] I mean, hold on a second.
[34] Hold on.
[35] Was it necessary?
[36] No, no, I'm saying I was 250.
[37] I didn't say the ball I hit.
[38] You're teeing off?
[39] No, no, I'm in the fairway on a par five and there's 250 to get to the green.
[40] How far did your drive go?
[41] It was like a 400, probably like 280.
[42] 280 drive.
[43] It was a long par five.
[44] There's the look at me, Louis.
[45] I'm trying to give context.
[46] It was a very long hole on the course.
[47] This is a par five.
[48] I'm trying to reach in two.
[49] I'm hitting the three wood off the deck.
[50] Is this like a straight shot or are you going like a...
[51] Straight shot.
[52] No dog leg here.
[53] So I need to hit the shot of my life to reach the green.
[54] Most of the time, I'm going to come up 20, 30 yards short here.
[55] You're hitting a hybrid or like a five iron?
[56] I'm hitting a three wood.
[57] Oh, okay.
[58] So it's basically, I can wait.
[59] This has been a slow round, a lot of waiting.
[60] I can wait to let those guys move.
[61] Chances are I'm not going to hit them.
[62] So you know what?
[63] I'm going to speed this up.
[64] I'm going to hit.
[65] What do I do?
[66] I hit the shot of my life.
[67] I'm going to say I nut it.
[68] I nutted this golf ball.
[69] As soon as I hit it, you can ask Taylor, I said, oh, shit.
[70] Because I was just like, I got it.
[71] And, you know, there are two ways to run it up on people.
[72] You can land it 20 yards and it rolls into there.
[73] That's not as, you know, no one's really going to get hurt there.
[74] Or there's...
[75] And the ball, like, lands, and you're like, holy shit, I almost just died.
[76] That's what happened.
[77] It landed on the green.
[78] So I am, like, I'm throwing up the international sign for holy shit, I'm so sorry.
[79] I don't believe that's the international sign for that.
[80] I think that's just a guy being held up at gunpoint.
[81] You've got your arms over your head.
[82] It was like I was doing the thing where I grabbed my chest, arms up, chest, arms up from 250 yards away.
[83] That's the sign for both my arms, both my arms, not just one.
[84] So the guy.
[85] This is where the this is where the aggression comes in the guy's reaction on the green He's like a young guy my age, you know looks like a tough guy.
[86] He grabs the ball Just chucks it in oh no what he takes the ball.
[87] That's see the motion I'm sitting here saying, look, what I just did was extremely rude.
[88] Yeah.
[89] So I kind of get it.
[90] And then this is where my dad comes into the equation.
[91] I thought he had your back and came rushing into the scenario.
[92] Now I'm afraid of a Don Zimmer, Pedro Martinez situation.
[93] This is exactly.
[94] I am sitting there being like.
[95] I understand it.
[96] I was just like, I'm an asshole.
[97] It was a mistake by me. I shouldn't have done it.
[98] Greg Cody over here, 70 -year -old Greg Cody, once he finds out the guy threw my golf ball, puffs his chest out and is just like, I had to essentially hold my dad back from going to yell at this guy on my behalf where then I would have had to be defending my dad.
[99] That's how rage and family bonds work so that someone gets killed and killed by a golf club on a golf course.
[100] Granted, should the guy have thrown my...
[101] ball in the water?
[102] Probably not.
[103] Yes.
[104] But I understood it.
[105] I got it.
[106] Now, that is just the reaction of fear.
[107] If something whizzes past your ear that is dangerous, you want instant revenge.
[108] And it's worse of the two options, Chris, because if it would trickle up to the green, somebody would be like, hey, hey, easy, we're still up here.
[109] But this guy's imagining it hitting him directly on the head, which probably would have killed him.
[110] But it didn't.
[111] On the international scale of asshole -ism, okay, Throwing someone else's ball into the water outranks hitting somebody else.
[112] That's crazy.
[113] Hitting into somebody else.
[114] I think they're pretty similar.
[115] No, I agree with Greg.
[116] You obviously made a mistake, and he had every right to be angry, but picking up your ball and throwing it into the water is kind of insane.
[117] I've never seen someone do that before.
[118] It was juvenile.
[119] I'm not saying what he did was great.
[120] I did enough to him that I wasn't going to get angry at him.
[121] I was just like, you know what?
[122] We're even.
[123] I'll drop another golf ball on the green.
[124] Like, I don't give a shit.
[125] And dad, of course, steam coming out of his ears, wants to fight on my behalf.
[126] Well, postscript, I ran over the guy with a golf cart.
[127] That's not true.
[128] Two questions here because I need to hear more first about this international scale of assholeism because we need to form whatever it is that that is.
[129] But I also need to know your son is deeply apologetic.
[130] Clearly did not intend to do that.
[131] But I know that in the instances when I am most enraged and act outside of my behavior, it is at least in part usually because I've been startled by something that then scared me. For example, the number of fights that people have wanted to try to.
[132] have with me because my dog is afraid of skateboarders and my dog just reacts very very like it barks scares them and now i'm pulling on the leash there's never any actual danger but the skateboarders are just angry and now they're coming at me because because they're just mad and i understand you get scared some people react that way And so you're apologizing for something.
[133] You're deeply sorry.
[134] International sign.
[135] But now he has.
[136] It's not the international sign.
[137] That is not the international sign for I'm sorry.
[138] I don't.
[139] It's you rubbing your nipples and then throwing your hands in the air.
[140] And I don't I don't believe you have to mouth my bad.
[141] It doesn't count as a universal symbol.
[142] It's a long hole.
[143] I hit three wood.
[144] Like 250 yards.
[145] Chris, you got to do like the flat like Midwest smile and hold your hand up like.
[146] Oh, just like, yeah, that's true.
[147] Head down with a wave, head down with a wave.
[148] Is this different by region?
[149] The pantomimed apology from a distance that might not be seen or visible for 250 yards if someone has bad eyesight and is just mad about a whizzing golf ball.
[150] Because the other question I had is, is this the greatest of the golf etiquette fronts?
[151] Like in terms of things that you have to apologize for, is there a greater breach than hitting a golf ball into the group of people in front of you because you haven't had the patience or the self -awareness about your game?
[152] to know that that's not something we do in golf.
[153] The only thing worse would be looking for your golf ball in a bush for 15 minutes.
[154] Or really slow play because somebody's using an exploding golf ball.
[155] You get two minutes.
[156] That's another thing.
[157] You know what?
[158] We should get to that right now.
[159] Let's play this video.
[160] Oh, wow.
[161] There's an exploding golf ball situation?
[162] I pranked my dad.
[163] The audio here will set it up.
[164] My dad's about to tee off, and you can hear me set it up for the audience what's happening here.
[165] I switched my dad's golf ball with one of those exploding golf balls.
[166] This ball's about to explode.
[167] Ball explodes.
[168] What the f*** was that?
[169] It's a good prank.
[170] It's a good prank.
[171] You slipped one on him.
[172] When did you do that?
[173] When you were looking at the ducks.
[174] Oh, my God.
[175] I was trying for multiple holes.
[176] Every time my dad would walk up to the tee box, I was like, I need to get him.
[177] He puts his tee down, his ball on the tee, and I got to distract him.
[178] I'm like, Dad, look at that house over there.
[179] What do you think that costs?
[180] Greg, look at those ducks.
[181] Have you seen those ducks before?
[182] And finally, I got him on the ducks after like three tries.
[183] So he's just like, actually, those are ugly.
[184] Those aren't ugly ducks.
[185] Those are great.
[186] And as he's like rambling about ducks, I bent over real fast, switched his ball out for an exploding one.
[187] Oh, it was epic.
[188] We're going to do against the spread in a second.
[189] do have to get to Gabe, but I do want to ask you guys the hypothetical because everyone objected.
[190] Everyone said, well, the greater crime is throwing the ball into the lake.
[191] That's the greater crime.
[192] But if you'd hit someone in the head and then they threw the ball in the lake, would you then be more okay with it?
[193] They probably would have died.
[194] That's the point of their anger.
[195] I think I was kind of joking about the looking for ball.
[196] There's nothing worse in golf that you can do is fly it into a green where someone's on.
[197] You're endangering their life.
[198] You were obviously in the wrong in this situation.
[199] There's no dispute.
[200] Which is why I did that.
[201] Was the reaction appropriate?
[202] Oh, no. It was not.
[203] But I can say, okay, he overreacted a little bit.
[204] But it's not to the point where I'm going to go, he threw my golf ball.
[205] That's it.
[206] That's what your dad did.
[207] That's what your dad did.
[208] That's what I mean.
[209] I'm not going to do that.
[210] I don't give a shit.
[211] How old was this guy?
[212] He was probably my age.
[213] But he's not someone I was excited to go run up and have an altercation with.
[214] He stole your property.
[215] At the very least.
[216] I endangered his life.
[217] You know, I think that's extreme, too, though.
[218] You keep making this a death.
[219] Dan, from 250?
[220] You take a golf ball to the head from 250?
[221] Okay, yes, but that's a dead -eye shot.
[222] Yes, but I suppose that could indeed happen, yes, from 250.
[223] I'm just saying you're not hearing about a lot of golf ball deaths.
[224] Chris.
[225] You hit the shot of your life.
[226] Oh, I nutted that thing, dude.
[227] Oh, my God.
[228] The reason is because as golfers, we live in a society.
[229] We have a code.
[230] We don't do what Chris did.
[231] I just can't tell you how much I enjoy the idea of the shot of your life immediately ending in both apology and your father headed to a fight.
[232] Like, that's not the way the emotions of all of that should go.
[233] It should just be the shot of your life.
[234] Thankfully, you had your rage -filled father in tow, and I need to get to this international scale of assholery.
[235] And I got Uncle Dick over here just like, ah, what happened?
[236] Greg, what happened?
[237] You hit it up there?
[238] He didn't catch any of it.
[239] That's a great dick.
[240] Did Uncle Dick have any reaction to the exploding golf ball?
[241] Well, yeah.
[242] I mean, he was just like, oh, when did you do that?
[243] Yeah, okay.
[244] He gets fooled by things.
[245] He kind of has the same response to everything.
[246] All right, let's do against the spread here before we get to Gabe.
[247] Let's hurry up and do this.
[248] You don't have it?
[249] You weren't ready for it?
[250] No, I hit it.
[251] That's right.
[252] It's time for Against the Reds.
[253] We have to do better in a country.
[254] And it's brought to you by DraftKings.
[255] It's Super Bowl week.
[256] DraftKings, the crown is yours.
[257] Jeremy, what do we got?
[258] I'll take over music.
[259] The Florida Panthers are on the road against the Washington Capitals.
[260] And while you might be thinking, going on the road to Washington, a really good team.
[261] The Panthers have won three in a row.
[262] Washington has lost three out of their last four.
[263] We're taking the Florida Panthers minus one and a half again.
[264] Are you purposely delivering that in extra broadcaster -y voice?
[265] Yes, we are.
[266] I picked the game just so I can tell Dan Lebitard how to pronounce Amen Thompson.
[267] It's Amen and Usar.
[268] Just go uh every time you want to talk about them.
[269] Houston is at Brooklyn.
[270] They are nine and a half point favorites.
[271] Brooklyn loses every game by double figures these days.
[272] I just want to remind everybody that I told you about Amen Thompson first and everybody who's been...
[273] Glazing him ever since.
[274] You can thank me for putting him out there.
[275] Wow, you're putting that flag out there first.
[276] Houston Rockets, minus nine and a half.
[277] Yes.
[278] You said it before Steven Adams said he's the most athletic player he's ever played with, including Russell Westbrook?
[279] That is correct.
[280] And I'm also going to remind everybody, Steven Adams is 31 years old.
[281] That's crazy.
[282] That is crazy.
[283] Do we have anything else for this?
[284] Any other music?
[285] The music is dead.
[286] Back to you, Dan.
[287] All right.
[288] Thank you, Jeremy, for all of your efforts there in both song and broadcastry sing -song.
[289] Welcome.
[290] We are going out now to rising star Gabe.
[291] I am told that he has a top five list.
[292] I don't know.
[293] Gabe, how do you feel about your first appearance on the show a couple of hours ago where you were given a hot take?
[294] How do you feel about how you did?
[295] Do you have any regret there?
[296] Are you happy with your performance?
[297] No regrets.
[298] I think I did pretty well.
[299] All right.
[300] Okay, excellent.
[301] So now we've got a top five list.
[302] What is this top five list as Gabe tries to climb into superstardom today on a Greg Cody Tuesday?
[303] It's his day to shine.
[304] What do you have?
[305] Top five list of what?
[306] Top five Gabes.
[307] Ah, classic.
[308] Self -involved.
[309] Okay, any OLI or just we're going straight through the five?
[310] Oh, I have OLIs.
[311] All right, go ahead.
[312] What is your first OLI?
[313] The Archangel Gabriel.
[314] Oh, wow.
[315] OLI for the Archangel Gabriel.
[316] Okay, we're still buffering.
[317] Buffering machine!
[318] All right, let's see if we've got...
[319] I've got to report you over here.
[320] Go ahead, Gabe.
[321] What else do you have, OLI?
[322] And last OLI, Gabe Kapler.
[323] Okay.
[324] The enthusiasm is electric.
[325] Yeah, this is what Gabe brings to the program.
[326] The enthusiasm and energy you generally associate with a Gabe.
[327] Number five.
[328] Number five, Gabe from The Office.
[329] So you did say Gabe Kapler, not Gabe Kaplan, right?
[330] Not welcome back, Cotter, but the Rangers manager, the guy who's incredibly buff.
[331] Correct.
[332] Number four.
[333] Number four, Gabriel Iglesias.
[334] Yeah, Fluffy.
[335] He was going to deliver Fluffy.
[336] Good job, Gabe.
[337] Okay, not a lot of Gabes out there.
[338] You can't include Gabriel in our best Gabe list.
[339] Yes, you must.
[340] Different names.
[341] No, they're the same name.
[342] No, if you're doing best Thomases, you don't want to throw in a Tom or a Tommy.
[343] Gabe, what's your full name?
[344] Gabriel.
[345] Number three.
[346] Number three, Gabe Davis.
[347] Yeah.
[348] Hey, go Knights.
[349] Number two.
[350] Number two.
[351] Gabe Vincent.
[352] Okay, excellent.
[353] Excellent enunciation.
[354] All right.
[355] And the final.
[356] Wow, the number one.
[357] Put it on the poll.
[358] Are we still making Gabe's?
[359] Hold on a second.
[360] Everybody, get ready.
[361] Number one?
[362] Number one.
[363] Me. No Gabe Kaplan at all.
[364] I love that he had to read that off his piece of paper.
[365] What a debut.
[366] Legend.
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[413] Don Lebertard.
[414] He called me on my own podcast.
[415] He called me full of shit, claiming that I'm faking interest in the solar eclipse.
[416] Well, you do do this.
[417] You love to just get excited about everything.
[418] Okay, Junior.
[419] Stugatz.
[420] I had to school you and explain to you.
[421] He was going to take you to Augusta.
[422] When I was 17 years old, Alan Sherry and I used to haunt the Bueller Planetarium.
[423] This is the Don Lebertard Show with the Stugatz.
[424] Ricky Williams is exceedingly human and demands that his human interactions be meaningful and not just be, let's get right to work.
[425] So everyone say hello to Ricky here before we get started so he can have maximum chemistry with our room here.
[426] Hi, Ricky.
[427] Hello, Ricky.
[428] All right.
[429] So you've got Jessica, you've got Chris, you've got Roy, and you've got the historic situation where Ricky has requested to come on today.
[430] Never in my history with Ricky has he ever...
[431] desired to be on any of the shows that I'm on, and he certainly hasn't asked.
[432] It's always me asking him to come on, but this time he's asked to come on with us.
[433] Why is this, Ricky?
[434] Why are you desiring to do this?
[435] This is something in our career, in my lifetime with you, you have never done before.
[436] Because it's the time of year where we get to predict who's going to win the Super Bowl.
[437] Excellent.
[438] Excellent.
[439] Ricky's pickings is what we're doing here.
[440] Yes, he wants to pick the Super Bowl through astrological signs.
[441] Before we do that, though, I have some football questions to ask you.
[442] Is that OK?
[443] Please.
[444] No, please.
[445] Well, Miles Garrett just recently here yesterday requested a trade from the Browns.
[446] Have you, in your experience, ever requested a trade?
[447] Have you known a teammate who has requested a trade in your time in football?
[448] Was it even allowed to request a trade?
[449] Yeah, I mean, it was considered taboo.
[450] I mean, you weren't like a locker room guy if you decided to request.
[451] a trade.
[452] I mean, there are times where I wanted to request a trade, but I didn't feel like I could.
[453] So I was always envious of the guys who had the courage to ask for what they wanted.
[454] When did you want most to ask for a trade?
[455] It had to be during one of those 400 carry seasons.
[456] Actually, it wasn't.
[457] It was pretty much day one in New Orleans.
[458] I mean, when I went to the press conference when Coach Ditka had the dreads on.
[459] That would have been great at that press conference to get up there and be like, you know what?
[460] I see these dreadlocks on Coach Ditka.
[461] I'm requesting a trade.
[462] Why didn't you do that?
[463] It would have been so honest.
[464] And what a great beginning press conference that would have been.
[465] You know what?
[466] The dreadlocks offend me, Coach.
[467] I'm out of here.
[468] I mean, but the reality was, you know, at least the way I felt is they own me now.
[469] They owe me. That's a little extreme.
[470] Day one.
[471] That is not exactly a dream scenario.
[472] I've talked to you a lot over the years about pressure.
[473] And I was curious in this Super Bowl, when you go through the astrological charts, is there a sign more equipped, better equipped for pressure than other signs?
[474] It's the same sign or the same astrological archetype that makes someone a football player.
[475] So it's Mars.
[476] it's the god of war is when the bullets are flying who has the ability to keep their minds straight and aim accurately and hit the enemy and so any great football player the i think the way we define greatness in football is who has the ability to perform under pressure and so in aries uh leo sagittarius what we call fire signs are the signs most equipped to handle pressure.
[477] Can you walk me through, because we were just talking about Miles Garrett here, when you thought of physical specimen, either inside of your locker room or on the other side of the ball, where you're like, holy shit, that guy is unbelievable as an athlete.
[478] I mean, you were that to a lot of people because of your speed and lower body, but were there many you were running into where you were like, that Miles Garrett, that's crazy what's happening over there.
[479] We played a...
[480] We played Julius Peppers one year when I was in Miami, and Jake Long, our tackle, was out.
[481] And so just looking at Julius Peppers and how massive he was and we couldn't block him, it's like the whole game was over from one player on the field.
[482] That hadn't happened to you?
[483] When was the last time that on any level had happened to you where you're running out on the field and that's what it feels like?
[484] Because Myles Garrett is a good deal better than Julius Peppers, and I'd say that as no insult to Julius Peppers.
[485] Yeah.
[486] Maybe, maybe he is, you know, you know, we have the generational debates, but Julius Pepe just, I never had that experience where one person on the field could really dominate the entire game.
[487] Ricky, you mentioned Jake Long.
[488] One time I was at a club in Fort Lauderdale.
[489] This was at the peak of Jake Long with the Dolphins, and him and his friends were walking out of the club as me and my friends were approaching.
[490] My friends and me, a lot smaller than Jake Long and his friends, and he did the thing of, like, we were walking by him, and he's like, whoa, big fella's coming through.
[491] Watch out.
[492] And he, like, mocked me and my friends just for how we just looked walking past his group of friends.
[493] Smaller than them.
[494] Like, whoa, big guy's coming in the club.
[495] And I was just like, hello, Jake.
[496] Jake Long, big fan.
[497] That is a sad phrase.
[498] No question.
[499] Just wanted to share a little story.
[500] At the peak of Jake Long is such a, like at the peak of Jake Long was so just a sad time in life walking into the club at the peak of Jake Long.
[501] Chris, are you aware that Ricky is my wife's astrologer?
[502] Spends twice.
[503] He's an instructor.
[504] You'd be surprised at how many of our listeners have come out and visited Ricky in Grass Valley.
[505] He's got an unusual relationship with an assortment of our listeners because they come out and spend a weekend with you sometimes.
[506] Right, Ricky?
[507] Yeah, we do retreats out here, and I've had a bunch of people come.
[508] I think we've had almost 20 in the past year, and 90 % of them found me through these conversations.
[509] So it's been great, a way for me to get to know fans on a deeper level.
[510] It's great to be able to have astrological conversations with other sports fans.
[511] It's been fun.
[512] Ricky, how odd is Dan with it?
[513] Does he sit in the corner and watch you and Valerie?
[514] I'm not there.
[515] I mean, you nailed it.
[516] He's pretty like...
[517] He's pretty bad at it, you know.
[518] But I will say, Valerie is really good.
[519] Because in order to be good at astrology, you have to have a lot of curiosity.
[520] And so, yeah, he sits in the corner and he waves and says hi.
[521] And then he comes in and does his, you know, joke.
[522] And then Valerie fake laughs and I smile.
[523] And then he's like, all right.
[524] And then he goes.
[525] He does a joke?
[526] Fake laugh.
[527] It's what we were all picturing, yeah.
[528] You got me standing in a corner.
[529] You guys have me standing in a corner, and you're creeping me out with the visual image of me standing in a corner.
[530] You know how hard that is to do?
[531] Sitting in a corner, whatever.
[532] Not better.
[533] Nearby, but not involved, just sort of watching voyeuristically.
[534] The thing that you guys are describing is a bit insulting to me. It's like Jerry Falwell Jr. -esque.
[535] Yes.
[536] Well, you cucked me. Let's just say it.
[537] That's what we said back here.
[538] You were just saying it privately.
[539] I saw it on your face.
[540] I saw it on all your faces.
[541] Jesus, all of you were laughing.
[542] Cock.
[543] Ha ha ha.
[544] You're all laughing.
[545] Look at you.
[546] Why can't you read your own wife's astrology sign?
[547] Oh, we've got a master teacher here.
[548] You've got a guy.
[549] Look, your curiosity is endless on this stuff because what he's doing is trying to figure out the secrets of the universe.
[550] But how often, Ricky, when you're here trying to pick games, you've said before that this is not that.
[551] This isn't the science of predictive behavior.
[552] So what part of the game is interesting to you or what part of the astrological?
[553] impact on the game is interesting to you?
[554] Well, it's interesting to me that, you know, I used to be a pundit.
[555] You know, I did a little football, a little TV stuff, and people would, you know, ask me to predict the game.
[556] What's going to be the score based on what you've seen?
[557] What do you think?
[558] But from an astrological perspective, it's not a consideration of what do I think.
[559] It's when I ask the question, what does the chart say it's going to happen?
[560] You know, in the olden days, they would cut open a goat.
[561] or a sheep and then they would look at it at its entrails and its liver and its intestines and based on that they would say this is what's going to happen or this side of the this country or this nation is going to win the battle but with an astrological chart i asked a question and And it's a cool technique because it's from the moment you ask the question, you look at the chart for that moment and it gives you the answer.
[562] And so I was thinking about what is the moment where I'm going to ask the question and what question am I going to ask?
[563] And I decided the question I was going to ask is, are the Chiefs going to win again?
[564] That's the question.
[565] And when am I going to ask the question?
[566] So I said, I'm just going to wait until it feels like it's the right moment to ask the question.
[567] My son Blaze was in town this weekend and he came over and he said, who do you got in the game next week?
[568] And I was like, OK, this is the time to ask the question.
[569] So I went on my phone and I created a chart for that moment in Grass Valley, California, where I live.
[570] And I looked at the chart to determine who's going to win the game.
[571] So it takes away anything I know about football and it goes straight to.
[572] The stars, it goes straight to divination to decide who's going to win the game.
[573] And to me, that's cool.
[574] And you feel like you have the science of this.
[575] You feel like you don't even have to watch the game, that you can have a general outline from the universe through the charts that feels predictive to you.
[576] By the way, the group laughed, not surprisingly, at the learning that your son's name is Blaze.
[577] Yeah.
[578] I didn't choose his name.
[579] It's his middle name, but he goes by Blaze.
[580] And his mom chose the name, but it was obvious what we were doing when we made him.
[581] Do you have a daughter named Mary Jane?
[582] Marley.
[583] Her name's Marley.
[584] Marley, okay.
[585] Another son, Keith?
[586] I didn't choose Blaze's name.
[587] Sorry, I can't.
[588] Again, I mean, it's a cool name, but I can't take credit for it.
[589] It is a cool name.
[590] How many of those do you want to do?
[591] Because I just did, I thought it would be funny to limp in with Doobie.
[592] His favorite basketball player's name is Bowl Bowl.
[593] Yeah, it's just stupid.
[594] Yes, way to go.
[595] Congratulations.
[596] Thank you.
[597] You're going to applaud and leave the room.
[598] No!
[599] No, you don't deserve to give yourself that sound.
[600] Get out of here.
[601] You know, you can't do that.
[602] All right, so what does the chart say, Ricky?
[603] What is interesting about, and take us through, take us through the details that you're using.
[604] Okay, perfect.
[605] This kind of astrology is called orary astrology, meaning you look at the hour and it gives you the answer.
[606] And in the general rules, if the chart shows 29 degrees, they'd say it's not a good time to read the chart because it means something is about to end.
[607] That's the general rule.
[608] So when I pulled up the chart, it was 29 degrees Leo.
[609] And Leo is the sign of royalty.
[610] So my interpretation was 29 degrees Leo means the end of a dynasty.
[611] That's the first.
[612] To me, it was clear.
[613] It was like a clear image.
[614] end of the dynasty another technique you'd use is on the left side of the chart it represents the team you're asking about and because my question where are the chiefs going to win left side of the chart represents the chiefs right side of the chart represents the eagles in the chart there's a lot more planets on the right side of the chart which means that the eagles have more power so another indication that maybe the eagles are going to win and then i looked and for the Chiefs, that there's a lot of energy for prestige.
[615] And they're the Chiefs.
[616] And the planet Uranus, which is a planet of things changing really quickly, going back and forth, being unpredictable, is really strong also.
[617] So my interpretation is that it's going to seem like the Chiefs are going to win, and then something crazy, some reversal is going to happen, maybe towards the end of the game, and the Eagles win, and it's the end of a dynasty.
[618] Do you realize that if this is correct, this will be the single strangest gambling segment ever produced by anybody in the history of gambling?
[619] And I really badly want this to be something that we do regularly because you knock it out of the park with some sort of refereeing decision at the end of the game costs the Chiefs a dynasty.
[620] You feel like you have confidence in what you're saying.
[621] You believe that this is already kind of ordained from what you're reading.
[622] It's what the chart says.
[623] Well, I mean, this is.
[624] something and the reason I reached out and I'm excited about it is because this is this orary astrology thing it's been around for forever and I've known about it forever but just in the past month or so I've taken a deeper interest into it so I can't say I'm an expert but I can trust myself to learn so I feel like if I have an opportunity to throw it out there put it out and it there's something there that it could turn into something very valuable because where astrology and football overlap no doubt is gambling and as i think about how to use astrology for gambling it's not about looking at the individual's charts because you can't go inside of someone's head and know how they're going to handle some kind of situation but this this type this orary astrology was specifically built to answer these kinds of questions and even if as i get better and better at this you and someone who knows football and learns a little bit of this technique they can use it to be able to help themselves gamble because like the more you understand the game and the more you understand what the chart is saying you can see when it's saying something and when it's not because it's not they're not saying that this technique works every time but if you learn when it works and when it doesn't someone can make a whole lot of money gambling on games Jessica, are you assuming that most of the audience is listening to this and saying, is the Dan Levitard show with Stu Gatz through DraftKings trying to go through the stars and Ricky Williams to tempt me to make a bet?
[625] That that feels like a bit of a cheapening of what it is that Ricky is doing through the science and the stars to have him close to whether or not the Eagles are going to win or not.
[626] I think they're still laughing at the cuck jokes.
[627] Yeah, they probably are.
[628] What is the rule?
[629] that you're in right now, Ricky, because I want to take a guess.
[630] I'm going to say a business center at a Hilton.
[631] No, it's my office upstairs in my house.
[632] That looks way more antiseptic than I would have thought that the business that the that your office would have looked in your house.
[633] I would have thought that it would have had more Ricky flair.
[634] It looks like something that that doesn't have a lot of personality.
[635] It's just it's just an office.
[636] So if I showed you the rest of the office, you would change your mind.
[637] Like so right here, I have a picture I have on the wall.
[638] I have pictures of me and all my mentors over there is all in is astrology, merchandise stuff.
[639] We have a central oil.
[640] I have my crystals right here.
[641] So just this is the one this is the one boring place because right back here, right behind the chairs where I do my yoga.
[642] So I try to keep this this area.
[643] Well, Chris, Cody just said, wow, you really insulted Ricky.
[644] I'm like, well, no, I kind of know that usually if he's in his office, it's probably got a little bit of personality.
[645] Like I wouldn't think that he would go antiseptic and be wanting to spend a lot of time in a place that doesn't have at least something.
[646] I imagine that his setup is he can spin it around if he's like, I'm joining a fun.
[647] podcast.
[648] I got this background.
[649] Can you do it?
[650] Can you, can you take us, can this camera angle be moved in any way?
[651] No, you just go, uh, you go most traditional.
[652] This is, yeah, this is it.
[653] This is, this is my, some people think it's more like a made up background, but it's, can you grab one of those books?
[654] Would you be kind enough to grab one of those books that speaks to you?
[655] And just so that we can have a glimpse into just a minor, minor glimpse into what it is that your life looks like away from, uh, the antiseptic chair behind you.
[656] The Astrology of Human Relationships is the book.
[657] Techniques for guiding or evaluating.
[658] I can't see what my glasses are.
[659] Is that a bowl of ramen on the cover?
[660] What is that?
[661] It looks like a pizza.
[662] It's neither of those things.
[663] It's a snapshot of an old drawing of all drawings of the constellations in the sky.
[664] I have my cards.
[665] The tarot cards.
[666] Yes.
[667] Tarot cards.
[668] I have crystals.
[669] So these are healing crystals.
[670] I have a rose quartz right here.
[671] Crystal.
[672] Regular clear quartz right here.
[673] Something called hoppe.
[674] Some people know what hoppe is.
[675] Chris Cody just whispered in my ear nonsense.
[676] The healing crystals are nonsense.
[677] If I stub my toe and I'm holding that, is it less pain?
[678] Explain what's going on here.
[679] No, no. Healing crystals are used that way.
[680] If you go outside on a really hot day and you lean on a rock and it's kind of hot, so stones, minerals, they're like batteries.
[681] They can hold.
[682] heat or cold they can hold energy um and so you know like someone they feel you feel a heaviness in your stomach and this is anyone can experiment with this every anytime you notice i feel heaviness in my chest or heaviness in my stomach when you take a crystal and you put it close to that area and you can ask the crystal can you get rid of this heaviness for me and just keep it there for a couple of minutes And afterwards, see, does it feel better?
[683] Does it feel the same or does it feel worse?
[684] That's an experiment that anyone can do.
[685] On Super Bowl Sunday when we have heartburn, we should get crystals and ask it to cure our acid reflux.
[686] If you don't have a crystal, would a AA battery work?
[687] You can try it.
[688] I mean, you can try anything.
[689] But just the history over time, people have recorded that crystals have the capacity to hold stuff.
[690] And again, the best example is you put a crystal outside in the sun.
[691] You pick it up, it's holding, it's retaining the heat.
[692] Ricky, you just said you have to axe the crystal.
[693] Do you actually have to talk to this crystal?
[694] You don't have to speak verbally, but you can speak mentally to the crystal because obviously a crystal can't talk.
[695] Ricky, you're always very kind when met with what feels like disrespectful skepticism.
[696] You're just very gentle about never getting insulted by it.
[697] Well, because I've been there.
[698] I've been to the point where I saw someone doing that.
[699] I was like, that's stupid and that's crazy and that doesn't make any sense.
[700] And then part of me was like, how do you know?
[701] And so I experimented with it and I was like, whoa, I felt something.
[702] And if I felt something, I was curious and I would just go down a rabbit hole and find every piece of information I can find that helps understand how the hell that just happened.
[703] And if it makes sense, you know, I'll stick with it.
[704] If it doesn't, I'll let it go.
[705] So I can be kind because I've been there.
[706] Do you have anything else in the charts that would foretell or that we need to know as part of this new segment, Ricky's Pickies?
[707] I love this.
[708] And it's not that people would change their bet.
[709] But if someone was like, I had that same thought, right, that those people, I say double down, double down.
[710] The other thing is Saquon's birthday is, I think, a day or two after the Super Bowl.
[711] And in the chart, in the Eagles, the part that represented the Eagles was Aquarius.
[712] And Saquon isn't Aquarius.
[713] So I'd say that probably means we're going to see a whole lot of Saquon.
[714] And if I were choosing an MVP, I would choose Saquon.
[715] Okay.
[716] So those are the picks right there.
[717] Him and Greg Cody.
[718] He's being very firm about it's Philadelphia as an underdog.
[719] It's Saquon.
[720] The dynasty ends.
[721] What were you going to ask him, Chris?
[722] I was wondering, we sent Lucy to a Texas game a couple months back.
[723] How did that go?
[724] Because you guys were on the sideline together.
[725] How did that go?
[726] That was awesome.
[727] Because I know she came from you guys, she was trying to get me to run on the field.
[728] I think she was serious.
[729] And I think you were seriously considering it, too, at one point, weren't you?
[730] I had this awareness that every time Dan and I do something together, I always get in trouble.
[731] So it was, that was, that was the, that was the end result for me is if I hang around Dan, I would end up on a, in a wedding dress on the cover of a magazine.
[732] And it's just going to, it's just going to get me. This was not my idea.
[733] This was not my idea.
[734] I imagine you put Lucy and Ricky in a group text and was like, hey, you two do something together.
[735] Yes, but after Ricky was upset that I did, I asked Ricky for simply a favor to help Metal Ark Media get a credential because Lucy was having trouble getting credential to a game.
[736] So I merely asked Ricky to help me with a credential and he went the extra mile of looking for that trouble.
[737] Like, Ricky was offended that I didn't come up with the creative idea to collaborate on trouble.
[738] So, like, you blame me. it on me but there's something about you that also gravitates toward it so i i'm guessing our science it's us it's it's it's us it's a we it's a wee thing but just to clarify the story is if you would have come to me first and said hey take her to the game then no one would have ever gotten in trouble but because i had to ask for the credential and get denied then it was yes it was my it was my idea but it was a good idea But when I showed up to my good friend, John Bianco, who denied the credential claim, and Lucy and the producer were right next to me, I was kind of like...
[739] They walked on the field behind you without credentials.
[740] I will say it was awesome to throw my weight around a little bit because they had all this extra security.
[741] And I was like, I'm just going to see what I can get away with.
[742] And I just walked through and everyone was like...
[743] Hey, Rick.
[744] Hey, Ricky.
[745] Hey.
[746] You violated every college football television contract with a credential list.
[747] It makes me wonder if you could have just walked on the field nude and nobody would have stopped you because that field is about to be named after you, isn't it?
[748] The field is the Campbell -Williams field.
[749] And I think if I walked out there nude, they would have started and they would have stopped and then they would have started again.
[750] They would have given them a second of pause.
[751] Wait a minute.
[752] They wouldn't have tackled you as quickly as they tackled any other nude person.
[753] You would be tackled more slowly than any nude person not named Earl Campbell.
[754] Stiff arm.
[755] It depends.
[756] If I had cleats on, it would have taken him a while to catch him, for sure.
[757] Put it on the poll at Levitard Show.
[758] If a nude Ricky Williams was running from security on the Campbell Williams field, would it take a while to catch him?
[759] I'm sorry for my ignorance that I didn't know that that field was named after you already.
[760] I thought it was en route to.
[761] How long has it been named after you?
[762] Almost five years.
[763] That is terrible ignorance on my part.
[764] But you should be able to throw your weight around on a field named after you.
[765] Put that on the poll as well.
[766] should you be able to throw your weight around on a field named after you?
[767] That had to feel good.
[768] Yeah, I did.
[769] I was throwing our weight around.
[770] It wasn't just me. It was both of us.
[771] That's a lot of weight.
[772] It's a lot of weight.
[773] I can't believe you guys just have me in the corner watching their astrology work together.
[774] Not every man can read their wife's horoscope, Dan.
[775] Ricky, good seeing you.
[776] Thank you for being on.
[777] Good spending this time with you, sir.
[778] Yeah, thank you.
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