The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz XX
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[14] Jessica, I'm a little worried about the chaos of today.
[15] We're trying to send, Billy wants to very excitedly get out to his homeschool and they've got a big announcement today.
[16] But we've been having all sorts of video and technical difficulties the last three days.
[17] And I just feel like things are elevated around here today.
[18] And then Billy's going to leave in the middle of the day.
[19] And we've I need Billy to stay long enough to talk about the pole vaulter, so.
[20] Oh, Mondo?
[21] Which pole vaulter?
[22] There are two famous pole vaulters right now.
[23] Are they not?
[24] No, yesterday was Mondo's day, Dan.
[25] You sound silly.
[26] You sound like a silly goose right now.
[27] The other pole vaulter, old news.
[28] Okay, so big, the guy who, the guy who hit the, who failed because his penis crushed his Olympic dreams, old news already?
[29] Old news.
[30] Yep, had his day.
[31] So this new guy, what's, what's his story?
[32] Billy, I mean, tell us about him.
[33] So his name's Mondo.
[34] He's the world record holder.
[35] He went to LSU was competing for Sweden, and he was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, which I said, how did that happen?
[36] I found out his mother is Swedish, so I was like, it's like the world baseball classic.
[37] You just get to choose where you're going to compete.
[38] So I started doing a little digging, and then I read up, I believe, unless I misread.
[39] He chose Sweden over the U .S. because Sweden agreed to let his dad be his coach, and he's the world record holder.
[40] Which, by the way, bad job America.
[41] The best guy in the history of the world in an event, and you're choosing not to do it.
[42] Yes.
[43] Yeah.
[44] No, well, he spends...
[45] He's really good, though.
[46] He spends half his time in Lafayette, Louisiana.
[47] He went to LSU.
[48] He spends half his time in Lafayette, Louisiana, half his time in Sweden, depending on when the weather is good for training.
[49] Guys, just training all year long.
[50] Oh, I love pole vaulting.
[51] I forgot about my love for pole vaulting until yesterday.
[52] When I was watching, I was like, oh, that used to be me. Not like that, obviously.
[53] I wasn't a world record holder or anything.
[54] But, oh, that rush, the way you see him go over.
[55] over the bar, the form.
[56] You fell in love all over again with pole vaulting?
[57] It relived my spark and I said, you know what?
[58] I missed this and my wife said, you're never doing that again.
[59] And I said, yes, ma 'am.
[60] crushing dreams over here.
[61] Sometimes you need to see something to be reminded just how much it meant to you, you know?
[62] Yeah.
[63] I mean, that's what happened yesterday, but I'm not in the best shape.
[64] And it's a dangerous sport.
[65] It could be dangerous.
[66] I'm here for a book of Stugats' wisdoms like that one when he goes deep into the life philosophy tree and just talks about gratitude and appreciation.
[67] Sometime you have to be reminded.
[68] Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
[69] Greg Cody, do you have any thoughts on pole vaulting?
[70] I have nothing but thoughts on pole vaulting.
[71] Does the pole ever snap?
[72] Oh, yeah, it happens.
[73] Yeah, it snaps.
[74] Because what's it made out of fiberglass?
[75] Yeah, well, carbon fiber also depends.
[76] So if it snaps, doesn't it send potentially deadly shards?
[77] Shards.
[78] Yeah.
[79] Shrapnel.
[80] Well, potentially deadly, potentially, I suppose.
[81] It also, by the way, when it snaps, like the reverb or whatever, it's hard.
[82] Like, it'll bruise your hands.
[83] What was your best vault?
[84] You on meters or feet?
[85] Well, this is what you have on Paul.
[86] Your thoughts, all of your thoughts on Paul vaulting are questions for Billy.
[87] All right, let's just start the show.
[88] Greg Cody's not ready.
[89] Let's start the show.
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[95] Greg, I don't know what you think we do here on Tuesdays exactly, besides promote all of the things that you have, a podcast, and now a book we're going to be promoting.
[96] So I don't know what you think we do.
[97] But just generally speaking, if before the show we're wandering around as people who have done this for 20 years and you squawk at some point, at some point, fraud, swede.
[98] Yeah.
[99] And so that, so when I think, oh, Cody's got something on pole vaulting.
[100] And so then I go to you when the show starts.
[101] And what happens?
[102] You ask Billy a question.
[103] Right.
[104] He's the only former pole vaulter among us expert.
[105] No, but you had a strong opinion.
[106] You had a strong opinion that I'm still waiting for after you said you have a ton to talk about on pole vaulting.
[107] Mando, Billy, answer me this.
[108] Is Mondo a Swedish citizen?
[109] If he spends half his time in Sweden, half his time in U .S., I would assume.
[110] So I think you'd have to be a citizen to compete for the country.
[111] I don't know about that.
[112] Okay.
[113] But he was born in the U .S., is that correct?
[114] He was born in the U .S. So I don't like this where guys are born in a certain country.
[115] and they're playing a sport for another country.
[116] It's ridiculous.
[117] It's absurd.
[118] They shouldn't be allowed.
[119] This is your Olympic take now, Guy.
[120] You heard of Joe L. M .B. Yeah, I don't think you're aware of how much that actually hurts the U .S. more.
[121] I'm going to look this up right now.
[122] Okay, this is going to be a bit of a gauntlet today.
[123] I'm looking it up.
[124] Yeah, I've got two people here.
[125] I did nothing.
[126] No, but the two of you are aggressively ignorant, anti -sort of things.
[127] Immigration.
[128] Okay, I take it back.
[129] He does have dual citizenship.
[130] Okay, he's got paperwork.
[131] Well, that changes everything.
[132] That changes everything, unfortunately.
[133] I still think he should be made to relinquish his medal, but he's more legit than I thought he was.
[134] Why should he have to relinquish his medal?
[135] Well, he was born in the United States.
[136] Yeah, that's weird.
[137] So Greg Cody gets to decide what citizenship you have, what nationality you are.
[138] Yeah, you got to draw the line.
[139] You know, my grandmother was born in Canada.
[140] It doesn't make me Canadian.
[141] Sports are where you will find all sorts of things.
[142] things in politics, just know that's the America of the future if somebody wins.
[143] Just know that, yes, I get to decide who everybody's nationality is.
[144] Greg gets to decide.
[145] That's right.
[146] Me maximum.
[147] Yes.
[148] Me maximum is going to be president in the United States.
[149] I'm just saying the Olympics began as country versus country.
[150] So it's the U .S. athletes versus the Swedish athletes.
[151] I just want to be clear on something, Stugatz, because I I don't want to make these games geopolitical.
[152] They have been blessedly free of any sort of free -offerty -free -ish.
[153] You have 35 athletes from Belarus, I believe, in Russia who are competing on a team that's been described as not a team.
[154] All right.
[155] You know what?
[156] You are correct.
[157] We will find any manner of malfeasance here that we can wrap a number of flags in sports absolutely does that.
[158] But to have these two guys in here as the aging.
[159] demo on what it is the Olympics should be during the bet what feels like that some of the best Olympics we've had since blank like so that 84 that it's been a while for whatever reason that america has felt like it gathered around a television set to care about pole vaulters it's been more than a decade yeah well the last olympics was swallowed by the pandemic and the 20 games were actually played in 21 so i think we were predisposed to love anything that was actually taking place on time in front of huge crowds, let alone in a cinematic, gorgeous setting of Paris.
[160] But I agree with you.
[161] I think it's been a wonderful game.
[162] Well, there's no disagreement to be had on that.
[163] Like, there's somehow consensus about, like, you'll dislike things here and there and argue about things here and there, but you can find wonderful stories.
[164] Look, man, it's the best of sports in little cubes.
[165] Like, they're giving you nonstop stimuli.
[166] Mike Ryan yelled at me as we're starting this.
[167] the show.
[168] Patty Mills is going off.
[169] International Patty Mills is a problem.
[170] Might be a basketball Hall of Famer.
[171] He's a different player.
[172] You're right.
[173] They're up 20 on Serbia right now in the quarter final.
[174] This is a big upset for Australia.
[175] Put it on the poll is International Patty Mills a basketball Hall of Famer at Levitard show.
[176] Everyone gets in Dan.
[177] Which other athletes, Greg, should not be allowed to compete for the country that they live in partially or full time, just so we know like clearly which, you know, what your stance is decisions this momentous have to be uh vetted and researched i would need to be given a list but basically you should be competing for the country of your birth or the or the country of your first citizenship in my opinion so if you leave a country because they have like an oppressive regime and you immigrate somewhere else you should have to go back to that country if you want to be in just to be clear no i think that's an exception to the rule okay so the rule well said well it's good that you, so you think you should change the rules, but basically you think you should change the rules, me maximum, so you get to decide what an American is.
[178] Well, to the best of my knowledge, Sweden does not have an oppressive government or nation.
[179] I could be wrong.
[180] I'm going to have to talk to my Swedish friends to determine that, but I don't think that would...
[181] So it's by country then?
[182] You get to choose by country.
[183] Like, this country good, this country bad?
[184] It is you choosing.
[185] I'm happy to be the commissioner of the Olympics.
[186] Wow.
[187] The athlete themselves needs to be born in a certain country.
[188] It can't be the parents.
[189] Greg is just saying when he watches the Olympics, he wants to know that he's watching Americans.
[190] When he's watching Team USA, he wants to know they're all from the United States of America.
[191] Under Greg's rules, that's what Greg is saying, that's all.
[192] I can't believe what's happening around me. You're all he's saying.
[193] We should change the subject.
[194] I have a question, Greg.
[195] So like, I thought we could do this as spoof.
[196] They're not playing the game correctly.
[197] I mean, I heard him workshop in a Biles take.
[198] Let's just go away from the gymnastics entirely.
[199] I think the big story with Mondo, by the way, is the fact that he wants his dad to be the coach.
[200] This guy is very good.
[201] He's top of the line, right?
[202] Top shelf at what he does.
[203] He's a mercenary.
[204] He's a mercenary.
[205] Well, yes.
[206] Did you hear Billy's part of the story?
[207] The only reason that he's winning, identifying the way he is, is because he negotiated his dad as coach.
[208] I know.
[209] And that's a terrible job by the United States of America.
[210] Like if Michael Jordan wants his dad to coach, you and I once said, If it takes Maverick Carter coaching the heat to get LeBron James, we would allow that.
[211] We would want that.
[212] And if this guy wants his dad to be his coach, you're the United States.
[213] You let his dad be the coach.
[214] I think both of his parents coach him per the broadcast yesterday because his dad was a pole vaulting champion and his mother was a heptathlete.
[215] Guys, can I just warn everybody?
[216] As Marlon Humphrey is learning, there is a whole different aggregation algo when it comes to the Olympics.
[217] If you guys decide to do show around Olympics, I don't think you're fully aware of what you're stepping into.
[218] I think our Sweden numbers could go up, to be perfectly honest, good or bad?
[219] Like, if they're going to listen to us to hate us, the Swedes, you're welcome to, because we need to up those numbers.
[220] I believe that we need to feed off the hate.
[221] I miss feeding off the hate.
[222] I don't want to be scared of being aggregated unfairly in the misinformation age.
[223] But I want to descend a little deeper.
[224] into where it is Stugatz and Cody might be taking us as men who are going to decide for all of us who gets to be American.
[225] I want to play on this third rail for a minute because they don't realize how it is that they sound and I want to make them alert to it but also play with it a little bit because of how absurd it is what they're saying.
[226] Well, I'm glad you said that because I almost did something yesterday and then I thought no, this is mean, I'm not going to do it.
[227] And that was I saw Stugats's take about Simone Biles and it was starting to pick up some engagement traction on social media.
[228] And I thought, if I retweet this, it might cross over to either gymnastics Twitter or women's sports Twitter.
[229] And then he'll start getting some real hate.
[230] Like, I think Dan probably wants me to do this.
[231] But then I thought, no, I don't want to do this to Stugatz.
[232] Some people don't know Stugats is doing a schick, although who knows if that's a schick or not.
[233] I mean, we'll never find out.
[234] Whoa, wait a minute.
[235] You, no. So I didn't do it.
[236] Penalty box for you.
[237] What?
[238] To think, uh, to think, uh, to think high sticking.
[239] I was worried for what would happen to him.
[240] Minor penalty, two minutes for lying.
[241] Lying about the idea that that might have been a schick Stugatz was doing yesterday.
[242] He absolutely believes that Simone Biles needs to be better.
[243] That's not schick he's doing.
[244] We got the high sticking joke, so it's a win all around.
[245] All that matters.
[246] In Greg's defense, I feel like Greg Greg's argument really is everyone should compete for America.
[247] Not people shouldn't compete for America because they're not American.
[248] I think Greg's argument is everyone's American, so they should all compete for America.
[249] And to make clear, when I said that Mondo should have to relinquish his medal, that was before I learned that he did have dual citizenship.
[250] Okay.
[251] To me, if you're not a citizen of the nation, you should not be allowed to compete for that nation in the Olympics.
[252] It doesn't apply to anything else.
[253] Well, it applies to international competition.
[254] It applies to world championships and everything.
[255] Certainly doesn't apply to, you know, teams and leagues.
[256] But more power to Mondo has a Swedish mom, that kind of thing.
[257] You called him a fake Swede.
[258] More power to Mondo?
[259] You called him a fake Swede.
[260] He's a fake Swede in the sense that he was born in this country, went to LSU.
[261] Talk about a, you try a Swedish accent.
[262] at LSU, and they'll run you out of town.
[263] Put it on the poll.
[264] Are there any Swedish accents at LSU at Levitard show?
[265] I can't believe that we've...
[266] It depends on who Brian Kelly is recruiting.
[267] We can't, I can't believe that we...
[268] Borky, Borky, four star.
[269] Are the show that descends into age so poorly that Stugats is trending for ripping Simone Biles.
[270] Ripping?
[271] Just...
[272] Yeah.
[273] All I said was Stick the Landing.
[274] I said she's the greatest gymnast we've ever seen.
[275] I love her.
[276] She's awesome.
[277] She did not deserve to win the vault.
[278] Did you see the balance beam last night?
[279] What a nightmare.
[280] She fell off.
[281] She didn't win the gold.
[282] You need to stay on.
[283] The only girl who stayed on.
[284] I think it was the Brazilian.
[285] She won the goal because she stayed on the beam.
[286] Yeah.
[287] I mean, do you realize the amount of power and momentum that Simone Bowles puts forth on the vault?
[288] I do.
[289] So you're asking for the ball?
[290] for her to stick to land.
[291] I didn't rip her.
[292] I watched a sporting event and I said I thought someone else should have won.
[293] What's the deal?
[294] That was yesterday's take very strong.
[295] I appreciate your efforts.
[296] It's not schick.
[297] It is not.
[298] This is who this man is.
[299] This is who this man is.
[300] He thinks Simone Biles needs to be better.
[301] I want that to end up in USA Gymnastics, Twitter.
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[319] out and hitting the one or two notes of that kind of thing and you know it and then just giving us finger guns and leave it baby you should listen to the great cody show podcast because that's all we do for 55 minutes a week is just say catchphrases we even make songs about them and you know it is a song for crying out loud that's great hopefully that's a suey nominee for best song and you know it baby and you know it stugats and you know it baby and you know it This is it.
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[323] This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats.
[324] I had a moment yesterday when watching the Olympics in primetime, which is like a rear of what happened during the day.
[325] So we already like knew the results, but I hadn't seen it play out.
[326] And I felt almost un -American and I didn't like it because America benefited from this.
[327] But I felt very bad for.
[328] Romania who did not benefit from this.
[329] And it was in the floor exercise where Jordan Childs, I guess they made a protest to like go against it.
[330] Why don't you tell him then?
[331] Can't do that.
[332] Well, it's terrible.
[333] They awarded someone the bronze medal and then they reviewed Jordan Child's performance on the floor and they gave her the bronze medal after announcing that someone else had won the bronze medal.
[334] Can't do that.
[335] Correct.
[336] She was, I believe, in fifth place at the time.
[337] And then there was a protest and then they redid the scoring.
[338] And then all of a sudden she wins the bronze when there is a Romanian.
[339] gymnast who thought that she had won the bronze and now has lost the medals.
[340] So America takes silver and bronze and where it looked like Jordan Childs was going to finish fifth.
[341] I'm confused.
[342] What's her name?
[343] Because Sue Gott's called her something different.
[344] Yes, he put a D in there.
[345] Are you going, former governor of Florida or former point guard for Nix?
[346] I'm not sure what happened.
[347] I'm just glad I knew the details around the Florida...
[348] He's a big on gymnastics, guys.
[349] I love gymnastics.
[350] He's glued to it.
[351] I mean, his stakes may be questionable, but he's watching.
[352] Lotton Charles.
[353] let me explain to the audience here is that the guy that did a job different every day or that was bob graham or something i'll ask billy corby when he's here claude kirk what stugats just did during that segment swaggering is something that represents the lowest the bar has ever been put in this medium because he got the name wrong and what he sang in only my headphones after doing that little bit where he had two sentences of information, he sang in my ear, watching the games, Dan.
[354] Yeah, well, I mean, is he?
[355] Because the Brazilian didn't even meddle in the beam.
[356] Not retaining the correct information, not watching, he didn't say watching the games correctly, Dan.
[357] Just watching.
[358] He's got a Brazilian winning a medal that you didn't win.
[359] Watching the game.
[360] In the background.
[361] Sugars maybe lowering the bar, but Mondo, he kept raising the bar.
[362] And, oh my God, he pole vaulted over, I think it was what, Billy, like 20 feet, six inches, or something like that?
[363] What is like the, I mean, Greg, I asked you this, but I'm genuinely curious.
[364] Like, what are most college pole vaulters clearing in competitions that you've been at?
[365] Because that seems unfathomable.
[366] Well, I'm eliminated from the competition when anyone's close to that.
[367] I get out very early if I even cleared the opening night.
[368] I was not a good pull -valt.
[369] Well, I don't think we've, I don't think that we have taken full advantage.
[370] And Jess and Greg have tried really hard for some reason to make you more of a pole vaulting authority than you're willing to accept.
[371] Is that supposed to me?
[372] You know what?
[373] Now thinking back, the last meet that I...
[374] Granted, I don't mean for this to sound as grandiose as it will.
[375] The last meet that I competed in was in one Lafayette, Louisiana.
[376] Wow.
[377] At the University of Lafayette.
[378] The Home of the fake Swede.
[379] And I'm wondering...
[380] They just called themselves Louisiana right now.
[381] I'm wondering...
[382] No, that's Monroe.
[383] No, U .L. Monroe, like, no, Louisiana Raging Cajons.
[384] Oh, that's true.
[385] They don't want to distinguish Lafayette anymore.
[386] They are the University of Louisiana.
[387] At the time, they were proud of being Lafayette, which I guess they know what longer are, which they should be because they're home of the greatest Polvalter to ever live.
[388] And Jake D 'Lone.
[389] Now, I'm wondering if a little young Mando decided one day to go over to the Sunbelt Conference Outdoor Championship and be inspired by one Billy Gill pole vaulting.
[390] Not to say that I inspired the greatest Polvalter in the history of the world.
[391] I'm just saying, it's possible that we cross paths.
[392] He was a young lad at the time.
[393] I was wrapping up my career at the moment.
[394] It's very possible that a young Mondo was out there watching.
[395] Very's doing a lot of work in that sense.
[396] No, it's very possible.
[397] I mean, the University of Lafayette, Louisiana, if you're going to watch pole vaulting, would you not go to the Sunbelt Conference Outdoor Championships?
[398] Billy, what month was it?
[399] Because he may have been in Sweden during that time of the year.
[400] No, we were, no, no, this was prime pole vaulting time.
[401] It was good weather.
[402] They were hosting the outdoor championships?
[403] But were you winning?
[404] Were you winning?
[405] No. Why would he be inspired by the guy finishing 12?
[406] Well, just because he goes and he watched, no, first of all.
[407] 12th.
[408] I believe it was seventh, if we're going to state accuracy.
[409] Journalism is still alive and well.
[410] Let's report the facts.
[411] Excuse me?
[412] Seventh place is a tin metal.
[413] That was fourth place.
[414] I would have settled for a tin metal.
[415] Fourth, seventh.
[416] At that point, you don't even distinguish.
[417] Yeah, after second.
[418] You're the top three or you're nowhere.
[419] Aluminum.
[420] Aluminum.
[421] But, Billy, I've asked you several times, and you're evading the question.
[422] What was the tallest height that you scaled?
[423] The best I cleared, I believe, was 14 -2.
[424] Very nice.
[425] So it was about six feet shy of the world record, which is just one human being.
[426] The whole thing seems aggressive as an event.
[427] It seems a scary thing to do.
[428] That is not a small height.
[429] If you get it wrong, if the stick breaks, if you fall backwards, like a lot of bad things can happen at that height.
[430] I missed the pads once.
[431] I landed in the metal box.
[432] It wasn't great.
[433] You know what my fear would be?
[434] Did you hear what he said at all there?
[435] You just wanted to get to what you wanted to say?
[436] Because there seems to be more on that bone right there.
[437] Did you hear what he said?
[438] Yeah, go ahead.
[439] You've been asking him questions about Howie Polvo.
[440] He gives you an interesting story and then you just moved right on.
[441] Well, I might have asked him to elaborate on that.
[442] So go ahead, Billy.
[443] Well, I mean, that's the gist of it.
[444] You missed the pads.
[445] Yeah, I didn't, I wasn't running fast enough.
[446] So I went upside down and then I heard someone scream and I was like, oh, that's not a good sound.
[447] You're upside down the ear and someone screams.
[448] So then I knew, I knew something bad was coming.
[449] So wait, so wait, wait, you knew before the scream.
[450] You knew before she did that something bad was coming.
[451] Well, I heard this scrub, and I was like, oh, oh, and instinctually somehow, look, if you can see the pads here.
[452] So that box there is metal, or at least the one I was using was metal.
[453] So I hear the scream, and I was like, that's not what you're supposed to hear if you're doing this right.
[454] So I instinctually somehow spread my legs and caught the two side pads.
[455] Oh, like a split?
[456] Yeah, I'd like open them up to slow myself down.
[457] I don't know how I thought to do that.
[458] And it did slow me down, but I still hit the box.
[459] I completely destroyed my shoulder at the time.
[460] I don't think I'd dislocated it.
[461] Like, it was a really bad sprain.
[462] To this day, I still have clicks when I rotate it like this because I had physical therapy and I couldn't do it.
[463] And at the time, and this is like the bad part, I couldn't drive because my car was a manual car and I did this to my right arm.
[464] So I couldn't even drive with my left.
[465] hand.
[466] I'd have to use my right hand to, like, switch the gears into place.
[467] So I just very quietly, because I was embarrassed by this, sat in my car and adjusted my seat until it was in a laying position so no one could see me embarrassed sitting in my car as I waited for a family member to come and pick me up and take me to the hospital.
[468] That sounds terrible.
[469] I was watching this whole pole vaulting competition yesterday, Billy, and do they bring their own poles?
[470] Yeah, yeah, you have to take your own poles.
[471] How do you travel with a pole vault pole?
[472] I used to put it through the middle window an F -250, so I would have it go out the back, and then I'd have it, like, go very dangerously, like, lay on the dashboard and then go out the back window of the pickup truck.
[473] I guess I mean on a plane.
[474] On a plane, I would assume you'd check it.
[475] There's no way that fits.
[476] Does it have a case?
[477] Can you check it?
[478] Does it have a case?
[479] Does it have, like, like, you would carry a billiard stick?
[480] Like, you'd show up at the vault and you've got a bigger bag than, or cooler bag than others?
[481] Forgive me. I have a lot of questions as well.
[482] I was making fun of Jess and Greg for throwing you questions, but this story, how is it possible that we, how is it possible that we have spent nearly 20 years doing this, 20 years in September, and that's the first time that we're hearing that story.
[483] We've been coming to you for pole vaulting information for two decades and never gotten that story.
[484] You guys didn't care about pole vaulting.
[485] I knew it.
[486] I just kept the show moving along.
[487] By the way, Bob Graham, former Florida governor, not Billy.
[488] He was an event.
[489] Angeles so yeah that was a strong word work by you Lawton Childs you make fun of Billy Corbyn you're not you're our less politically adept Billy okay I don't know you mentioned Lawton Childs I want to get back to what's do got you want to know how you travel with the with the pole yes so like you get they have containers that you can use you can also get like giant like well we store them in like the backs of trucks which is not how you should be taking care of your poles but like it's not, you know, than the world.
[490] You could be got like a giant PVC pipe or something that you put it in.
[491] And then there's like a travel case that you get and you put it in.
[492] And then there's different poles.
[493] You can use different poles for different highs if you want to.
[494] The poles themselves are made of different material.
[495] They also have like a different level of flex.
[496] So some could be stiffer than others.
[497] It's like personal preference.
[498] Interesting.
[499] So Dan.
[500] They're also scaled for like weight.
[501] So like you could do your weight.
[502] At the time when I did in high school, you had to be under the weight of the pole.
[503] So like the pole was calibrated for like, let's say, 150 pounds.
[504] You had to be under 150 pounds, or that was a situation.
[505] So one time I was there, I had to take off my underarm or long sleeve that I had under my tracks suit because I was overweight slightly.
[506] And then I had to go do a couple laps.
[507] Then I reweighed myself.
[508] Boom.
[509] I was good for the state championship because I got underweight again.
[510] It's like luggage at the airport.
[511] Has there ever been an obese pole vaulter?
[512] That's common.
[513] What kind of question is that?
[514] No, just because I associate pole vaulting.
[515] He just mentioned the weight.
[516] I associate pole vaulting with, you know, slender people.
[517] and I'm just wondering if there's ever been like a really fat pole vaulter.
[518] Here's my other question.
[519] How often do you get to the apex and then fall backward?
[520] That happens, that happens too.
[521] And I think it happened at the Olympics and someone fell and bang their head on the track.
[522] I imagine so, because that's a, you're 20 feet in there and all of a sudden you're falling backward.
[523] That's terrifying.
[524] I got to tell you when I got into it and no one cares about any of this, so we'll keep a brief.
[525] When I got into it, like it was a crazy time in pole vaulting where people were dying regularly.
[526] Like they then had to like change, the size of the pads because it was almost like we were using like two high jump pads next to each other and then people were going off the back they were banging their head there was helmets that were being used for like a time I wanted to get a helmet because I didn't want to die as a young boy and then you know my coach told me you don't actually get high enough to injure yourself if you fall on your head so you don't really need a helmet since 1980 20 people have died I'm telling you of those 20 people probably like 16 where I want to say in the year like 2002 Billy, I believe that we may be the only national sports show airing today with a former D1 pole vaulter on it.
[527] So I'm so glad that you're here to answer all of our questions about Mondo, specifically, has there ever been an obese pole vaulter?
[528] Yeah, correct.
[529] But really, I find this fascinating.
[530] I think the best part of the Olympics is when there is like some kind of niche sport or like something that we don't listen to or watch, really.
[531] And then it goes viral because someone does something crazy in it.
[532] And this guy, he, so like, Billy, correct me of my memory.
[533] wrong.
[534] After you win the gold, you get three chances to try to go for a world record.
[535] Is that how that works?
[536] No, he won.
[537] So, like, he won the meet.
[538] It was my understanding of what happened.
[539] He won the meat, so he's the only one that was left in it.
[540] So, like, when you're the other than one left, you can just choose whatever height you want to jump at.
[541] And he could have kept going, honestly, because, like, he's not eliminated until he fails three times.
[542] So, like, he could have gone for another world record had he wanted to, which when I was watching, like, why don't you try to go like two or three inches higher and just keep raising the bar literally there has not been somehow nearly enough gregg cody in this first segment and at once did he find a fat pole vaulter way too much greg cody as well in this first segment but he has just turned his computer to me with a single google image of a obese person holding a pall vault and that is his contributions to the the segment as well as volunteering to decide on behalf of all America, who should be American.
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[560] Don Libetard.
[561] I miss crank windows.
[562] Too many unnecessary conveniences now, cruise control.
[563] Please, I've got cruise control built in.
[564] It's called my right foot.
[565] It controls how fast the car goes.
[566] No button or steering wheel lever needed.
[567] Power steering.
[568] There's another one.
[569] Why don't want to give my power to the car?
[570] The power that I once had.
[571] The car is a ton of metal.
[572] I'm a damn college graduate.
[573] Stugats.
[574] Bluetooth, HD radio, satellite.
[575] I'll take AM, please, with Wolfman Jack talking through the static.
[576] And I'll crank the windows down so everybody can hear.
[577] I'm Greg Cody, and that's how it was back in my day.
[578] This is the Don Labatar show with the Stugats.
[579] Jujer, can you put it on the poll, please?
[580] Has there ever been an obese Paul Volter?
[581] And also, can you put on the poll, did you miss the great plague of 2002 pole vaulting deaths?
[582] Because Billy is saying most of those deaths took place all in one year.
[583] And really, he was a hero athlete here locally.
[584] He is an FIU legend, I would say.
[585] One of the most famous graduates FIU has ever had.
[586] And today he returns home.
[587] I'm worried about this for a number of different reasons.
[588] Our technology has not been great.
[589] But you are going to celebrate with your school as a proud alum and a distinguished alum.
[590] And what are we allowed to tell the people about what may or may not happen there?
[591] What's being announced and what is it that might – what treasure chest might our audience get from this announcement?
[592] Oh, what was put out yesterday was just a press release that at 11 o 'clock today there's going to be an announcement at FIU announcing a partnership between them and Pitbull.
[593] So then we were discussing, should we cover the – this live and a lot of things have been going wrong behind the scenes so i assumed we were not doing this i in fact just told danny i don't think we're doing this today but we are doing this i don't know i'd like to do it roy what were you laughing about back there jessica had uh sang a lyric from a song that starts with the letter c i don't know if i can actually see it yeah okay she said it's right why couldn't you say it the c word like what is that no not that one yeah i don't know the rules about that one What are we doing with this?
[594] Is Danny now canceling our plans to get Pitbull?
[595] Well, I think Billy canceled the place.
[596] Well, no. I mean, sometimes you have to be the responsible person in the room.
[597] We have a number of guests lined up.
[598] We have weekend observations to get to.
[599] We have liners to be ready.
[600] We have lots of things.
[601] Greg's in studio.
[602] I don't know how polite is.
[603] Don't forget game time.
[604] Oh, yeah, a big one.
[605] Did you mention game time?
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[611] There is a lot going on today and we're having technical difficulties now being reported that Tim Walz is the vice presidential candidate selected by Kamala Harris.
[612] Pablo Tori will be here in a few minutes to discuss that and some other things.
[613] But Greg Cody keeps moving this computer and I've asked him to keep it in front of me because what he didn't reveal to me while it is that he was pushing in front of me, a photo of a clearly very heavy man pole vaulting is that that is premium photo extremely obese man pole vaulting ultra stock photos AI generated art Of course And so it's not real And Greg Cody's contribution to the segment was to find a fake fat polevolter after calling a gold medalist from Louisiana A Fake Swede Those have been your contributions to the show today So far, it's early It's early years would be a javelin, it's up for debate.
[614] No, it says, well, it may be of javelin, but it does, the, the, the words say pole vaulting.
[615] He just Googled, he just Googled obese polevolter, and what came back is the internet gave him somebody who generated a fat pole vulture who's not real.
[616] Billy, if I may, does it do the Anfield athletes feel like they get, like the shine of the track athletes overshadows them?
[617] Because I feel like the Anfield athletes are having a, hell of an Olympics between shot pudding, discus, triple jump.
[618] I'm just, oh, it's been a...
[619] Hammer throw, too?
[620] Oh, the hammer throw.
[621] So satisfying.
[622] Not the most glamorous of events, I would say, the Anfield crew.
[623] And also, like, I don't know how much of you watched yesterday.
[624] It's a very long event to watch.
[625] Like, it can last for hours, especially when you have, like, disparities in talent, where you have someone that can barely clear the opening bar and then someone setting a world record.
[626] Like, you can go on for four hours in one of these competitions.
[627] It's very long.
[628] They said yesterday it was over three.
[629] three hours between the start of the pole vaulting and like the final jump.
[630] And there was also an athlete doing high jump the other day.
[631] Apparently, they go in like these little sleeping bags in between their jumps.
[632] Did you see this?
[633] This Ukrainian woman, she ended up getting the gold medal.
[634] She like climbed into a little sleeping bag in between her jumps because I guess there can be a really long weight in between jumps and they want to keep their limbs warm.
[635] It's very cute.
[636] A sleeping bag.
[637] Yeah, like a little like a little Coleman sleeping bag.
[638] She can't stay awake?
[639] Not that I'm in it.
[640] It's a warmer legs.
[641] Oh, you only have her sleeping in it.
[642] You don't have her warming in it.
[643] Okay, so you haven't...
[644] What else do you do?
[645] So you haven't having no other uses.
[646] Like, it just...
[647] So a sleeping bag isn't a warm bag.
[648] It's called it...
[649] So you either sleep in it or get the hell out.
[650] Yeah.
[651] But this is the Olympics.
[652] Can we do better than having the contestants bring their own sleeping bags?
[653] What are we doing?
[654] That's ridiculous.
[655] Figure it out.
[656] Figure out something.
[657] A place where they can keep their legs warm.
[658] I made it a game show.
[659] It's weird.
[660] The feud.
[661] Build a motel.
[662] six right next to the arena and then have them get a room of their own, you know, sleeping bag.
[663] What weighs more?
[664] A shot put ball or a discus?
[665] This is a great way to cover the Olympics.
[666] Greg Cody just wandering in telling us who's an American and who's not, and then just asking remedial questions about details from the Olympics, and then criticizing the people who don't perform as well as he would like them to perform.
[667] Has the sin claimed any other people with E. coli?
[668] Is this still a burgeoning controversy?
[669] Yes, it has.
[670] Also, the shot put is 16 pounds, and the discus is 4 .4 pounds.
[671] So the shot put is four times the weight, according to Google.
[672] It's 16 pounds?
[673] That's what it said when I just Googled it.
[674] It's pretty heavy.
[675] You know what?
[676] I had it being lights.
[677] I mean, I didn't know it weighed that much.
[678] I use, to give everyone perspective, I use a 14 -pound bowling ball, and the idea that I could throw my bowling ball more than 10 feet.
[679] That does give everyone perspective.
[680] It does.
[681] It makes them understand that people who are shot pudding have to be strong to throw something that's heavy.
[682] And that concludes our Olympic coverage for the day.
[683] Have you closed the categories for the Cody Olympics yet?
[684] Because now I'm thinking maybe you do the bowling ball shot put.
[685] Oh, wow.
[686] I am going to write that down.
[687] He's going to write it down.
[688] Look at him.
[689] Working hard.
[690] That's going to be the second best event that we've ever had, bowling ball shot put.
[691] While we're at it then, and this is what.
[692] he's dying for it's the only reason he's here we're not likely to get his attention the rest of the show the greg cody show featuring greg cody is featuring olympics between him and his son and i assume the best event is there the very best event in the history of father's son olympics i'm assuming we can find on the greg cody show featuring greg cody for sure the last one we did was uh and and this is a first for the medium this is the first in the history of podcast uh we went towing with a 57 year old die okay we were barefoot we grabbed a small die i call it dice it's one dice i still call it a dice officially it's a die we grasp in our barefoot in our toe the great toe with your talon with your rotten talons that gregg that stugat says clip the toenail the great toenail twice off of your giant talon you're rolling dye with your feet we're not rolling it we're throwing it we're whipping our foot and propelling the die down the street on my block.
[693] We have video of it to prove we did it.
[694] I'm not going to say who won.
[695] You've got to listen to our podcast.
[696] But towing with a 57 -year -old die, a family heirloom, if I ever get this Greg Cody Hall of Fame off the ground, you know that that dye is going to be in a lucite square case like they have for, you know, gold medals and, you know, Hall of Fame baseballs and such.
[697] I'm surprised the dye to get stuck under your big toe, your big talon.
[698] Well, and here's the thing, it's one of those small dye.
[699] Ah.
[700] You know, it's not the big die.
[701] How do you feel about the dye that are like six -sided or eight -sided that they have now?
[702] Oh, yeah, we don't know.
[703] I guess it's a nine -sided one.
[704] No. That's, to me, that's an aberration.
[705] My scatigories?
[706] Yeah, it was a hexagon or something.
[707] We like the classic dye.
[708] Yeah.
[709] The square die.
[710] One through six.
[711] Yeah.
[712] Yeah, and you'd be surprised how far you can whip the leg and throw the die.
[713] You know, the key is you don't want to whip the leg too hard that the dye falls out of your toe before expelling.
[714] Can you please explain to me whether there is anything about these 1957 dye that if I were holding them in my hand, I wouldn't say that they're 2023 die?
[715] Like you say they're a family heirloom, you're throwing them down the street.
[716] Do they look, do die?
[717] They have to be yellow.
[718] Do they look different from 1957?
[719] That's an excellent question.
[720] And there's a photograph of me holding the dye, and it is way yellow.
[721] Keep in mind, this dye was white when I got the game delivered to me in 1968, the spring of 1968.
[722] And 56 or whatever years later, it's yellow, like the color of unbrushed teeth.
[723] Yeah, like the color of unbrushed teeth.
[724] Right way to paint a picture.
[725] Yeah, look at the photo.
[726] I put the photo on Twitter.
[727] Somebody get that.
[728] Look at that.
[729] I love the way he does his job.
[730] Somebody got that.
[731] Look, just understand, okay?
[732] Understand that when Greg Cody walked in today, there are so many things to talk about, and I asked him what it is that he wanted to talk about, and all he said was me. Just me, maximum.
[733] I want to talk about my podcast.
[734] I want to talk about a book that I'm publishing.
[735] They look orange.
[736] They don't look like the color of unbrushed teeth.
[737] They look like orange dye.
[738] And basically what you're describing is a game of a rotten foot throws rotten dye.
[739] Which is older, which is older and more rotten?
[740] Greg Cody's dice from 1957 or Greg Cody's feet from 1957?
[741] No, 19607.
[742] It's a 57 -year -old die.
[743] That dye used to be white, bone white, and now it's yellow or as you call it, orange.
[744] Rotten.
[745] If this is a quote -unquote family heirloom, shouldn't you treat this with a little bit more Respect.
[746] You know, we considered that, boy.
[747] Consider it.
[748] That's another beautiful question.
[749] We're in his wheelhouse.
[750] He wanted so badly to come in here and just talk about himself today, to be the center of the Olympics.
[751] He misses it.
[752] He was the center of the Stanley Cup final.
[753] He misses not being at the center of things.
[754] Well, I have a question for you, Greg, in regards to the Olympics and what we were talking about sleeping bags.
[755] Why don't you guys have a sleeping bag competition where you guys to maybe take a nap between you and Christopher?
[756] Also, a follow -up question.
[757] How do you feel about the advancements in sleeping bags?
[758] I don't know if you've seen them, but they have sleeping bags now that'll go all the way around your head.
[759] You can almost wear, like, a hoodie.
[760] Like, how do you feel about those?
[761] Yeah, the nickname for that is the suffocator.
[762] I'm not a fan of sleeping bags.
[763] I'm not a fan of tents.
[764] No, if I'm forced to sleep outdoor, it's going to be on natural.
[765] And I don't mean nude.
[766] I mean, I'm going to sleep on the ground.
[767] I'm not going to lay on a mat.
[768] I just don't believe in that.
[769] You're not going to use a tent?
[770] I mean, what if it's raining?
[771] You know what?
[772] Maybe I'm claustrophobic because I just don't like the idea of being zipped up in a sleeping bag.
[773] What if the zipper breaks, then all of a sudden you're squirming around in a sleeping bag you can't get out?
[774] They're thick enough where you really can't rip through them.
[775] So you're in a real pickle there, you know?
[776] I've never understood that expression.
[777] What's that?
[778] Is the pickle the game of pickle?
[779] If you're in a real pickle is where it is that you're stuck in a game, the game of pickle where someone throws a bake, baseball, two people are throwing a baseball, the game of pickle.
[780] You're trying not to get tagged, and that's the game.
[781] Where does that expression come from, getting in a real pickle?
[782] Nobody knows?
[783] Well, I mean, in this situation, if he's trapped inside a sleeping bag, it would be as traumatic as being trapped inside a pickle, I would think.
[784] It would be.
[785] Yeah.
[786] You know, I just can't, and the idea of a sleeping bag that goes over your head, what's the point of that?
[787] You can't see a bear rumbling toward you, like Ron McGill with a buffalo.
[788] marauding right through his tent I don't want to do that I'm in a sleeping bag you can't even see the buffalo The origin is apparently from William Shakespeare's The Tempest but that's just the first result and we got an AI generated dude holding a javelin the last time we did that so let me keep digging I wish that Stugats here for my friends over at Simply Safe if you're like me you're constantly thinking about the safety of the people and things you value most after a friend told me about a break -in in his home in which many of his most valuable possessions were stolen, I knew I needed to secure my home with the best.
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[815] I just said that off the top of his head.