The Big Suey: As There's A Drive Into Deep Left Field By Castellanos

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[16] Why are you listening to this show?

[17] The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard podcast.

[18] I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that.

[19] In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.

[20] I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there.

[21] That hasn't happened to you guys?

[22] I've done it.

[23] And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.

[24] Great.

[25] You know one thing that we didn't discuss about drones, aside from the taxis and how we were saying back there that we're worried about, if drones do replace Uber's, who's going to enforce it?

[26] Because as it is, people are crashing into each other on the earth and there's, you know, lines painted on the ground that you have to follow.

[27] What it's going to happen if you're in this lawless society where people are just flying around at any height crashing into each other and coming crashing down to Earth, what are we going to do?

[28] One thing that we didn't discuss, though, Greg, is, you know, because of drones, I don't really think that there's aliens.

[29] I just assume that every UFO is a drone.

[30] You know what I mean?

[31] That's not a bad theory.

[32] And I can't disagree with that, really.

[33] I just, I don't see the need for drones.

[34] There was a snake in the middle of that.

[35] I was deflating the tire.

[36] I was deflating because he's engaged.

[37] He's engaged, Greg here.

[38] And it's not normally on Monday.

[39] It's Tuesday.

[40] It's not normally when he comes back from vacation.

[41] so you can hear that he's got a bit of sprawl to him in general.

[42] Yeah.

[43] And by the way, on this air, I'm the one who first plumbed Billy for information about his pole vaulting career.

[44] And at the time, you made fun of me. You're like, what are you doing?

[45] Who cares about Billy's pole vaulting?

[46] I thought it was a gold mine, and it continues to be.

[47] Because this is the only college athlete among us, I think.

[48] I didn't play sports in college, not counting my career as a backup goalkeeper on a club.

[49] team.

[50] Stucats was a college.

[51] I play lacrosse, I mean.

[52] That's true.

[53] In fact, he's very accomplished lacrosse.

[54] Yeah, he was.

[55] He was good.

[56] You continue to be a top 10 score?

[57] Yes.

[58] At Clark University.

[59] No, I am.

[60] I hope several records.

[61] We checked this out eight years ago.

[62] He didn't magically get more goals.

[63] No, I saw it in the record.

[64] Check it out right now.

[65] We were so prolific that they switched you to goalie.

[66] We already did this.

[67] You've done this show like 10 years ago.

[68] That was five years ago.

[69] And five years later, I'm still in the top ten in many categories.

[70] More records will get broken.

[71] Someone had to play goalie.

[72] I do what I have to do for the team.

[73] I mean, that's it.

[74] Our goalie was hurt.

[75] I will give you credit there.

[76] Thank you.

[77] I'll say I was also the first one to plumb Greg on his opinions on drones.

[78] Thank you.

[79] Getting back to that, thank you, Billy.

[80] You guys now have, just to be clear, like the Jetsons and like the movie the Fifth Element, you guys have drone cars flying all over space age no longer on highway soon, which is something that they've thought about in the cartoon since the 1970s.

[81] George Jetson.

[82] That has not yet arrived here.

[83] Yeah, 60s.

[84] I remember watching George Jetson.

[85] I was enchanted by the idea that somebody could fly in their own private little individual plane, and now that's coming to fruition.

[86] But it's not, though.

[87] Very soon, that's going to happen.

[88] You can look that up.

[89] I'm not lying.

[90] What do you mean?

[91] Look at it up.

[92] You know, Maxwell Smart used a shoe phone, which foretold the iPhone, the personal phone.

[93] Correct.

[94] I know it's passe to admit how much you like oral sex, but to all the ladies in the 1800s, I would.

[95] All right, enough of that because I don't know why it is that you continue to do this.

[96] Greg Cody.

[97] Donnie.

[98] Had an exclusive interview with Mario Cristobal.

[99] And for those of you interested in college football, it really is hugely fascinating to see how the business of it has gotten so brazen and crass that Cristobal can say, yep, this is the team now, stronger and bigger and better than any I've had because I'm a great recruiter.

[100] and that it can be as brazen as I've pretty much got three years to do this now, 10 -year contract or not.

[101] This is the team that he is telling us is what he built at Oregon.

[102] That he's telling us that I've now had three years and that the overhaul was complete, and he's using utter and complete rebuild.

[103] We've just endured what Mario Cristobal would have us believe are the worst two years of the Cristobal tenure.

[104] because he had to fix everything.

[105] Yes, that's exactly what he wants to get across.

[106] You know, you can argue whether he's just covering his own ass, but I sort of believe him, and he is a great recruiter, and he's been great with the portal.

[107] You can argue he isn't a great sideline coach, a great game day coach.

[108] I would argue that.

[109] Okay, and you could with justification, but he has had three straight top 10 recruiting classes, including the 25 class, which is also top 10 at the moment, moment.

[110] And he just got Cam Ward from the portal, who a lot of people considered to be the prize of transfers.

[111] So I think he's done that right.

[112] I think he has a foundation now.

[113] I think he has layers of talent in a way that he didn't before.

[114] I think the construction of the roster looks great in terms of traditional recruits, portal, seniors, youthful players.

[115] I think he's set himself up.

[116] He did win a Rose Bowl at Oregon.

[117] And now the pressure is on him, Because with the increased 12 -team playoff, I think it's legitimate to think that he might be in the mix for the playoffs.

[118] Well, what a monster first game.

[119] And I know Mike's been saying that for the business of us, it's the biggest one in program history.

[120] But Stugat, if you've been following college football, Florida and Miami are in the same position.

[121] This is an enormous game for where the program's been and what it's failed to be the last 15 years.

[122] because Florida's got similar expectations when you go back to spurrier times.

[123] And Billy Napier is under the same kind of microscope that Mario Cristobal is down here with Miami.

[124] But the recruiting classes aren't as good there.

[125] No, Miami's has been better.

[126] I'm happy that Mario is saying this is the year where I need to start winning.

[127] And Greg is also saying that as well because it is, Dan.

[128] We're three years into this thing.

[129] He's recruited well and he needs to start winning.

[130] But Billy Napier needs to start winning too.

[131] And that's why it's such an intriguing great game.

[132] because FSU passed them.

[133] FSU passed them both last year, turned it around quickly when we all thought Norville was going to be out of there.

[134] It looked like he was done there.

[135] It looked like he was on the thinnest of ice and he survived it.

[136] But the new model now, Mike, and the business of this is, I know Miami has to play this out with Cristobal because they can't afford seven -year buyouts.

[137] That's not the program they are.

[138] That's not the NIL deal that they have.

[139] But three years in, it's surprising to see everything and get fast forwarded that fast in college football.

[140] That's not even a cycle of four years of recruits.

[141] Yeah, but I also don't think that that's not a new school development.

[142] As long as I can remember, you got a new coach in, you can't really make a call on him until year three.

[143] Now, the new thing in college football is if you have a bad year one, you're going to have plenty of message boards and plenty of people on important platforms maybe calling for your firing because especially in the modern day, you can change things so quickly with the transfer portal.

[144] You mentioned Mike Norvell.

[145] there's a great case there on how the transfer portal can change your fortunes quickly.

[146] But this would be the first time in program history that they would have back to back top, back to back to back top 10 recruiting classes.

[147] It's the type of team that he wanted to build along the trenches, and that's how he got his results in Oregon.

[148] I think he showed you, proof of concept, much like the transfer portal, you don't have questions that much about Cam Ward because you saw him do it.

[149] It gets held against him, and I understand it because, yeah, he showed you last year.

[150] Game day coaches in a close game.

[151] might lose you one.

[152] And that is a sin that is almost insurmountable what happened in that Georgia game.

[153] You cannot look past it.

[154] Georgia Tech.

[155] Yeah, I'm sorry, Georgia Tech.

[156] But there are a lot of good coaches that have won national championships that those questions have been asked of.

[157] Ed Orgeron won a title.

[158] Less Miles won a title.

[159] Recruiting base coaches sometimes take a while.

[160] And the hope is that Mario Cristobal is indeed that guy.

[161] But I think if you do have one major concern about this season, it's not a personnel grouping.

[162] It's the coaching staff.

[163] I mean, for what it's worth, Chris Abol thinks he finally has the coaching staff that he loves, that he trusts.

[164] What's he going to say, though?

[165] Well, that's fair.

[166] He hired him.

[167] He's not going to say anything if he doesn't believe that.

[168] But it's not just words in that he hasn't been here for very long, but usually there's turnover.

[169] If he's unhappy with the coach, there's cohesion now across the coordinators.

[170] Second straight year in both their coordinator's programs, he is happy with the coordinators.

[171] I want to celebrate just Greg Cody cornering Christobal and getting four private.

[172] it minutes.

[173] No, we had 20, a little over 20.

[174] Did you do the coach in his office column overlooking the field, or how did you do, which column did you do there?

[175] 20 minutes in a corner in a meeting room?

[176] Where did you put it all together?

[177] Actually, with my podcast in mind, we actually did it by Zoom because I wanted the audio, I wanted the visual, and I'm not smart enough to do all that by myself and, you know, selfies and what am I doing?

[178] So we did a, it was fine with Mario.

[179] I told him I'll, I'll come down there and sit in your office if you'd prefer it, and he said no, Zoom stuff.

[180] This is a new and an improved down -lebatar show with the Stugas.

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[194] Don Lebertard.

[195] Quiet man. Yes.

[196] You know, I'm married man. I don't cheat on my wife despite that gratuitous line in back in my name.

[197] Stugats.

[198] I wish you were here, my wife.

[199] I really miss her.

[200] No, I don't.

[201] the thing about being married you know you're not allowed to say i don't miss my wife i've been gone two days i haven't been gone long enough to miss my wife i'm sorry i call her i'm on the fun with her 30 seconds you know what am i hello all right all right we'll see you all right and then you know i'm going to see her in two days i was jumping charlie good this is the dan lebatar show with these two gods a very happy four year anniversary to this castiano's to leave things off jim day's going to be us the rest of the way through this game as Holland takes over on the mound.

[202] I made a comment earlier tonight that I guess went out over the year that I am deeply ashamed of.

[203] If I have heard anyone out there, I can't tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart, I'm so very, very sorry.

[204] I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith.

[205] As there's a drive in a deep left field by Castellanos, it will be a home run.

[206] And so that'll make it a 4 -0 ballgame.

[207] I don't know if I'm going to be putting on this headset again.

[208] I don't know if it's going to be for the Reds.

[209] I don't know if it's going to be for my bosses at Fox.

[210] I'm going to apologize for the people who sign my paycheck for the Reds, for Fox Sports, Ohio, for the people I work with, for anybody that I've offended here tonight.

[211] I can't begin to tell you how deeply sorry I am.

[212] That is not who I am and never has been.

[213] And I'd like to think maybe I could have some people that could back that up.

[214] I am very, very sorry, and I beg for your forgiveness.

[215] Jim Dale will take you the rest of the way home.

[216] I know that we're not allowed to have a sense of humor about these kinds of things.

[217] that is better as a dismount than Michael Jordan hitting the shot over Byron Russell as the end of a career.

[218] Now, I know Brenneman's coming back just like Michael did.

[219] But that would have been a great dismount if we could just laugh for eternity on the dumb things that human beings do because they're human.

[220] I will now, Nick Castellanos is a very good baseball player.

[221] He's got at least a couple, you know, he's got a couple of big seasons.

[222] He's got at least 1 .30 home run season.

[223] in.

[224] This is what I will remember him for.

[225] And I think that goes for everybody listening to this as well.

[226] Nick Castellanos is, I don't know, he's in his 30s, so he's had a 10 -year career that's bounced around a little bit, Detroit and Cincinnati.

[227] And now he's in Philadelphia.

[228] He's got a big contract.

[229] But I won't associate him with anything else.

[230] Like this is the fact that he interrupts moments with home runs, historic moments, he bounces outside of baseball because of the comedy of that specific time during the pandemic when we were all looking to laugh.

[231] Everybody needed a little bit of a laugh.

[232] That is a totally empty pandemic ballpark.

[233] He is making that apology at the end of his career in a hollow, in a dugout, echoey, barn of a stadium that they're only concession workers in, and they're not needed because nobody's there to buy food except, like, the players and a couple of people.

[234] There's nobody in that ballpark.

[235] It would be weird to have concession workers if no one's at the ballpark.

[236] So wasn't even that?

[237] Ice cold beer.

[238] Here, here, here, here.

[239] Cracker Jack.

[240] So who was in the stadium?

[241] There was nobody in the ballpark except people to get food for the broadcasters?

[242] Maybe like some security post it outside, but the concession workers are there to serve the people.

[243] And if there's no people, fair enough.

[244] What's the point?

[245] Cracker Jack?

[246] Up court.

[247] I found out this weekend you mentioned Nick Castellano, so he's been in the major leagues for 12 years now.

[248] I was watching a game.

[249] game, and I just looked it up, under 10%, and I heard it was close to 6 % of baseball players play 10 years in major leagues.

[250] Only 6%.

[251] Like, that's crazy.

[252] Because Emilio Bonifacio's been in major league baseball for like 14, and I wouldn't say he's in the top 6 % of baseball players ever.

[253] He made it seem like he's still in major league baseball.

[254] He might be.

[255] He was for that one day, though.

[256] I mean, had a day.

[257] He is not in the big league still.

[258] One of the great marvels of my life is that Emilio Bonafacio was able to play more than a decade in the league.

[259] You think it's a surprising that only 6 % of players would have a 10 -year run through baseball because I would imagine it's pretty damn hard to be able to keep 21 -year -olds off of you once you get into your 30s.

[260] That's surprising to me. I mean, it's, you know, it's not a violent sport.

[261] I would imagine more guys lasted longer in baseball.

[262] I just, I figured they would.

[263] You always have that guy that's just on a team always.

[264] And it's just because, like, baseball's lazy.

[265] And it's like, oh, we need someone on the bench.

[266] Who do we get?

[267] Oh, you know, Billy Butler's out there.

[268] Let's sign him.

[269] You know what I mean?

[270] I mean, like, just yesterday it came out, Johnny Quedo was called up again for the Angels.

[271] Johnny Quedo was called up in the year of our Lord 2024 to play for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

[272] The last time we saw Johnny Quato, he was a disaster for the Marlins.

[273] And sure enough, someone signed him to a minor league deal and then you need a spot start or whatever.

[274] Who do we call up?

[275] Johnny Quato's there.

[276] Let's bring him up.

[277] The other thing about this is front offices like to screw around with service time.

[278] So that's one of the reasons why you don't see a lot of longevity in that.

[279] Well, I would also just think that the averages are brought down because the last 12 guys on your roster, none of them play 10 years.

[280] Cup of coffee guys.

[281] I mean, you've got a bunch of averages that are skewed by the majority of your roster's not playing 10 years.

[282] We have to close a loop on the Sugott's athletic achievement front.

[283] What happened?

[284] Because we dug deep, and at first we were a little, we were a little curious as to why there had really seemed to be an update since the 2020s, but that just means Clark has fallen on some hard times, apparently.

[285] But Suggat's, uh, kudos to you.

[286] Thank you.

[287] For points in a season, your 1992 season is still ranking top 10.

[288] Tied for fourth.

[289] Thank you.

[290] 58 points.

[291] He had a 92.

[292] Stugat was right.

[293] Holy shit.

[294] Stugatros right.

[295] Goals in a season, you are sitting at eighth presently.

[296] Oh, congrats.

[297] Yeah.

[298] Now, how is it that we have over time crippled him here, right?

[299] Because he said he played against Method Man, and Method Man School wiped the floor with you guys.

[300] That was high school.

[301] He said he kicked my ass.

[302] I mean, he did, but we won the game, and we won by a lot.

[303] The problem with my college career is the individual stats are great.

[304] The team stats, horrific.

[305] We won like five games and four years there.

[306] I mean, but I got mine.

[307] That's all the matters.

[308] But, like, hold on.

[309] Winning five games in a season wouldn't impact your career goals.

[310] Five games in four seasons.

[311] Yeah, but I'm saying you're saying that the reason your stats aren't better is because your team was horrific.

[312] Your individual stats could have still been living on.

[313] Well, if he's got bad teammates, his points would be affected by that.

[314] Yes, correct.

[315] Are you in the Clark Hall of Fame or no?

[316] I should be.

[317] I'm not.

[318] You should be.

[319] Yes.

[320] Let's make that happen.

[321] They haven't asked me yet.

[322] Damn right, they will.

[323] That in a commencement speech.

[324] You should do that.

[325] I'm deserving of one.

[326] It's Clark University.

[327] Yeah, you need one.

[328] Jesus Christ.

[329] You're the king of Clark.

[330] That's Clark since Caitlin.

[331] You can't be trusted.

[332] To write a speech and, like, adhere to necessary guidelines.

[333] And Taylor would do it.

[334] He would.

[335] But they don't want to hear from Taylor.

[336] Like, you're just nodding your head.

[337] Yeah, I absolutely wouldn't write my own commencement.

[338] I put my own spin on it to make it funny.

[339] I mean, I would.

[340] Yeah.

[341] No, kind of like how, like, Trump goes.

[342] Like, I actually think it's a lot more than 100%.

[343] It's a number that is better and greater than 100%.

[344] I honestly don't want to give the commencement speech, but I should be a Clark University Hall of Famer.

[345] It's not like we're churning out athletes in Worcester, Massachusetts.

[346] We're not.

[347] Can we commend Greg for saying the greatest Clark since Caitlin when I thought he was going Kent?

[348] Hmm.

[349] I thought he was going to go Lewis and.

[350] Well, I'm modernizing the reference.

[351] You know, I'm all about today.

[352] You're not all about today, but you are all about yourself.

[353] And earlier you were talking about your podcast and the double dipping you did so that people would hear your exclusive Mario Cristobal interview on the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody.

[354] He's also writing a book that is coming out shortly that you can pre -order that is so about not being for today.

[355] Yeah, but the back of my day thing, see, people mistake it that I'm anti -technology.

[356] I'm not anti -technology.

[357] What I am is pro nostalgia, okay?

[358] I hate the idea.

[359] Greg, you ask for an iPhone with a button on it.

[360] You hate drones.

[361] It's a good spin.

[362] Hear them out.

[363] Okay, okay.

[364] But I also hate the idea.

[365] that my granddaughter, who's six and a half years old, will grow up never having loose change in her pocket, never knowing what a wall phone is, never hearing a typewriter clack.

[366] These are things that we need to keep in the mainstream, keep in the memory, and appreciate, and that's what back of my day is all about.

[367] Now, my Mario Cristobal interview is not in the current episode of the Greg Cody show that dropped today.

[368] We talked to Field Yates, the ESPN fantasy football expert, who gives you intel to help you win your fantasy league and also the father -son olympics crescendo with two great events the pool noodle javelin and the omelet cookoff so it's a action -packed did you check for snakes i did not but i look i looked through the hole i couldn't find the hole i mean i couldn't find the hole did not go through you look through it though it didn't go through it and it's because until i held up the tube so it was level it was like it's an amazing thing for him yeah it's like christopher i can't see through the other land and it's like drooping down it's true Your neighborhood sounds insane.

[369] Like, one week you guys are throwing die with your toes, and you're doing something with pool windows, some neighbors flying drones all over the place.

[370] Like, what's going on?

[371] There's people cutting lawns in the background.

[372] That's normal.

[373] Warren Smith drives by in his 40 -year -old Chevy Suburban.

[374] He has had that thing for 20 years.

[375] Oh, at least.

[376] Classic Warren.

[377] Can I make a proposition for you since you worried about Graceland growing up without knowing all these things?

[378] You should turn your house into, like, a functioning museum.

[379] Like, you should just use, like, older -day technology.

[380] Like, you should have the wall phone.

[381] You should have a typewriter.

[382] Like, get rid of the computer.

[383] What do you need that for?

[384] You know, that's a good idea.

[385] Because then she'll know.

[386] Well, we're in the process of trying to buy 1440 and turning it into a Greg Cody Hall of thing.

[387] We are?

[388] Nice.

[389] No, we are.

[390] We're looking into that.

[391] By the way, speaking of my neighbor, Shelley Quintner, who I once said was eaten alive by a shark in Australia.

[392] Oh, yeah, what happened?

[393] Yeah, what happened?

[394] Okay, Shelley comes up to me the other day.

[395] She's alive.

[396] She's alive.

[397] She had heard that.

[398] She had heard me reference that.

[399] Oh, thank God.

[400] Like a daughter of hers or a son -in -law of hers or something had heard it mentioned.

[401] And I was sort of embarrassed.

[402] I had to explain to her that a woman in Australia who looked exactly like you was eaten alive by a shark.

[403] So thank God you're alive.

[404] You must have been so relieved to see Shelly.

[405] I was.

[406] It's amazing.

[407] It's like a ghost.

[408] Yeah, it was fantastic.

[409] Yeah, it was great.

[410] Thank God she's alive.

[411] Yeah.

[412] I want to see what 1440 is going for.

[413] It might, if we put the address out there, though, someone might buy it, though, and swoop in.

[414] Yeah, yeah, no, let's not do that.

[415] What's the opposite of sorry for your loss?

[416] Because that's what I want to wish you.

[417] That's true, yeah.

[418] I almost hugged her.

[419] I thought that would have been a little forward.

[420] Really?

[421] Yeah.

[422] Yeah, she just got a new boyfriend.

[423] Shelly did.

[424] He's a great guy.

[425] I thought she was married.

[426] I thought she was married.

[427] No, you can have a boyfriend when you're married.

[428] Abraham Lincoln did a guy?

[429] Not because of a shark.

[430] He was eaten by a shark?

[431] No, he was.

[432] It's not.

[433] No. I mean, it's no laughing matter.

[434] What's the boyfriend's name?

[435] Believe me, it was no laughing.

[436] Marvin.

[437] No, no. Marvin is her ex, her late husband.

[438] He was eaten by a shark.

[439] Sorry for your loss.

[440] No, he was not.

[441] What happened to Marv?

[442] Natural causes.

[443] He passed away.

[444] Marvin, what a name.

[445] Rest in power.

[446] It's not any of our business, much like Abraham Lincoln's private relationships.

[447] Okay.

[448] What are you thinking the first thing to go into the Greg Cody Hall of Fame is going to be?

[449] I mean, I was looking at my house the other day.

[450] I still have the goalie glove I used at FAU.

[451] Oh, nice.

[452] Of course, the aforementioned die from the 1967 Stratomatic game, which is now the color of unbrushed teeth.

[453] I've still got a soapbox derby car from when I was in Cub Scouts.

[454] Excellent.

[455] And my dad as a scoutmaster wearing short pants was a sight to see.

[456] Not shorts.

[457] Well, Bill Cody, dressed like a Cub master.

[458] The Cubmasters have this sort of modernized.

[459] They look.

[460] I'm sorry.

[461] Come on.

[462] You're grown, I respect the grown men who want to be Cubmasters, but they dress like Cub Scouts.

[463] You clearly have not read or watched any of the documentaries recently on the Cub Scouts.

[464] No, I haven't.

[465] What happened?

[466] A bit of a PR crisis.

[467] Okay.

[468] Well, I was a cub back in the good day.

[469] It's not tying into that.

[470] Yeah, let's just move on to other subjects.

[471] He's talking about the outfits, though, right?

[472] Yeah.

[473] The thing that Greg Cody just did there that you guys all missed was, he's a good.

[474] great guy, he's a big fan of mine.

[475] It's true.

[476] Those are the qualifications of being a great guy.

[477] If you want Greg Cody to say that you're a good person, just tell him what a big fan of his you are and you'll be golden with him forever.

[478] Please tell us more about the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody's Olympic's father, son.

[479] We're about to end here this month long, summer long extravaganza.

[480] Right.

[481] I go into the last, you've got to listen to the episode to find out, but I go into the last two events trailing five to three and needing to sweep these events to force a one event Olympic off.

[482] Must wins for you, huh?

[483] Yes.

[484] And so the pool, did I win the pool noodle?

[485] Did I win the blind taste test with the omelet cookoff with my wife as a judge?

[486] Listen to find out, but I'm telling you one thing, the Greg Cody, Father's Son Olympics might not be over?

[487] What is that?

[488] What one thing are you said just saying?

[489] It also might be over.

[490] It might be over it.

[491] It's just a bit of a tease there.

[492] It's a bit of a tease.

[493] Can you give us any information on the pool noodle javelin throat?

[494] Any any tease there?

[495] Do we have a video of it or anything?

[496] No. You would have asked for that beforehand if you wanted it.

[497] I don't know where you think we get video from.

[498] That stuff has to be planned in some way.

[499] Not everyone here lives to your every beck and call.

[500] If you watch it's a tonight show, The celebrity guests are always surprised as to whether or not do it.

[501] Do we have a clip?

[502] I had an independent thought just now.

[503] Does everyone have video to support it immediately?

[504] I mean, I hired two producers, and, you know, I guess none of them stepped up to the plate.

[505] But the pool noodle was interesting because it was a windy day in the hood, and pool noodles are very, very light.

[506] But yet we had a victory.

[507] I will say this.

[508] Wait a minute.

[509] Someone won.

[510] Somebody won.

[511] Somebody won.

[512] So let's just say 7 -6 now.

[513] I will say this much.

[514] Beginning the thing you won.

[515] It was controversy.

[516] Really?

[517] Into who won the pool noodle.

[518] Oh, me, oh my.

[519] Javelin.

[520] So what happens if it ends up being a tie -s or a tie -breaker?

[521] This is a fatal flaw in these Olympics that it's going to be five -five after ten events.

[522] It's just ridiculous.

[523] It could be.

[524] In which case, we've got to come up with a bopho tie -breaker.

[525] What was that?

[526] And hypothetically, if we had to, what would be some good tie -breaker competitions we could do?

[527] Baffle one.

[528] We need to come up with something.

[529] Right.

[530] So it is a tie.

[531] Yeah, get on that, okay, guys.

[532] As soon as you get the video, get on whatever it is his podcast has to be about.

[533] Make sure to handle that.

[534] I have no idea how this ended.

[535] It's got none of your names in it.

[536] It is a Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody.

[537] But go ahead and do whatever it is you've got to do back there to get his podcast ready for consumption publicly.

[538] But again, the Cristobald Double Dip is not in this episode.

[539] It's the next episode of the double dip.

[540] So next week you get an interview that's one week old.

[541] That's right.

[542] Unless there's a tie -breaker.

[543] Well done.

[544] It also is, that's like the UM game is next week, so the interview will come out right as.

[545] Still risky.

[546] Wait, did you say next week's a best of?

[547] So it's not Christopal.

[548] No, it is next week.

[549] Oh, okay.

[550] Yeah, ahead of the opener in Gainesville.

[551] Right.

[552] But just so we're clear, all the words that Christopal spoke that were interesting, he already put in the Miami Herald.

[553] Not all.

[554] I may have saved the good stuff.

[555] No, but he's reading that.

[556] Harold's not going to be happy, and we'll tell you that.

[557] May have saved some.

[558] May have saved the best.

[559] You guys don't know Greg Cody's priorities.

[560] In terms of what he wants to succeed the most, it's the podcast.

[561] But he's reverse engineering this.

[562] The thing he respects the most is the paper, so all the good shit's going in there.

[563] Most of it.

[564] Yeah.

[565] Not all.

[566] Not all.

[567] The debris, the remnant, after you flush the toilet and there's still stuff left in it, that's going in the podcast.

[568] Well, the problem is I couldn't record all of the podcast.

[569] This is a great story.

[570] Only about half of the Zoom.

[571] I recorded the whole thing for the Herald column.

[572] I wasn't there for this, and my dad's Zoom is not the...

[573] Pro?

[574] I had like 30 minutes.

[575] Free trial load.

[576] Let him finish.

[577] I had less than that.

[578] Let him finish.

[579] So you got all the audio.

[580] The Zoom crashed on you?

[581] He's using a temporary Zoom.

[582] He doesn't have a full rate.

[583] He doesn't have limitless zoom.

[584] He's got a half hour.

[585] And then Christopal's, the computerized voice is saying video is done now.

[586] I know.

[587] And it's shut off.

[588] Right.

[589] And so I called Mario.

[590] You stuck with the audio, though.

[591] You know, we did the last part of the interview by phone because the Zoom crapped out on me. But so the Zoom only is available in the podcast next week, that kind of thing.

[592] Zoom didn't crap out.

[593] You went cheap on Zoom.

[594] Well, I didn't realize that.

[595] Zoom did what it was supposed to.

[596] It just ran out of time for 30 minutes.

[597] How good was the after Zoom situation?

[598] It was good because he had some stuff he wanted to get off his chest and say.

[599] Easier on the phone.

[600] Good thing the podcast.

[601] He's the one who wanted to call me and finish the interview.

[602] Oh, wow.

[603] That kind of thing.

[604] Thank you with that, Mario, by the way.

[605] He knows I'm on his side, you know.

[606] Well, you're a homer.

[607] Everyone knows that you're a spectacular homer.

[608] Anytime a team is above average in the market, you think they're going to win it all.

[609] Oh, I don't think Miami's going to win at all.

[610] I do think they have a chance to play in the ACC title game, because I don't think Clemson is that good.

[611] And I think they have a chance to make the 12 -team playoff.

[612] I really do.

[613] So then why are you stopping there?

[614] The schedule is friendly, by the way.

[615] But why are you stopping there?

[616] Because Georgia, probably.

[617] Ohio State, probably.

[618] Let's do it.

[619] Oregon.

[620] I think they're that good.

[621] I don't know how Mike feels about it, the Golden Cain, but when I look at their schedule, I see an upside of 11 and 1.

[622] I see a downside almost of 10 and 2.

[623] Unless they start losing games that they should win.

[624] Two of their three most difficult games are at home.

[625] So Florida, let's just.

[626] Their favorite in the swamp.

[627] They are.

[628] W .L. Florida.

[629] Can we convince you that there will be a final 4 team, perhaps a national championship team?

[630] Can we push it that far?

[631] I won't go that far.

[632] I will.

[633] All right.

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[655] Don Lebertard.

[656] You are a fool.

[657] You're nobody.

[658] You are an infant.

[659] You have nobody to me. I literally put together a freaking stage for your toenail.

[660] I am your career right now, pal.

[661] Look at me. No. I am your career.

[662] No. Stugats.

[663] You have messed with me, David.

[664] And now you're messing with me. And I'm more dangerous, pal.

[665] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.

[666] Let's get some information from somebody who's actually informed here because what's been going on with John Ruiz recently is interesting.

[667] And I will tell people, as Mike has gotten into the fabrics of the business here.

[668] I thought you were going back to Greg.

[669] No, I'm going to get to.

[670] someone who's informed here as opposed to a homer and somebody who's just going to go to the position of taking win the championship.

[671] Someone had to do it.

[672] No, it's not necessary.

[673] Mike Ryan.

[674] How about how pressed on John Ruiz?

[675] Don't act like I don't know who it is.

[676] I know the controversy he's in.

[677] Well, he this is the thing about John Ruiz that Mike, please, I would like correction if I'm malinformed.

[678] But John Ruiz has been a typical cartoonishly caricature Cuban blowhard pretending that he's He's got more money than he has, more power than he has, and is representing as if he's running NIL because that serves him for Miami, but he's not actually.

[679] And so what's happening publicly with his company where a lot of people are laughing at Life Wallet, what's accurate there and what's not accurate?

[680] Well, the way that it's being reported by the Miami Herald and Sun Sentinel, I understand why he's a headline grabber and a lot of this is his own fault.

[681] but it's kind of being reported through the prism of his connections to Miami and everyone's reading an aggregated headline trying to deduce what that means for Miami.

[682] John Ruiz was with LifeWallet at the very beginning of NIL signing contracts.

[683] I think maybe that final four run in basketball doesn't happen without Life Wallet's contributions there, but he hasn't been really that involved with Miami's NIL for far longer than he was.

[684] He might contribute to the collective here or there.

[685] He's not a golden cane.

[686] John Ruiz is not what he himself projected himself to be.

[687] But I think if you pay attention to his socials, that's been really fewer and further between.

[688] Everyone still has this idea that he is the face of Miami's NIL and he is shaping all this stuff.

[689] It couldn't be further from the truth.

[690] And I'm not a financial expert, but I did ask other people.

[691] And while I am not personally bullish, I'm not making any predictions on life while its future or anything, that's a pretty standard disclosure that about 40 % of publicly traded companies have.

[692] You have to have working capital for 12 months.

[693] Not a lot of companies have that.

[694] So even that is overblown.

[695] I think it's a big nothing burger.

[696] And I was kind of, well, I'm confused as to why, because if you actually do the journalism on it, and Miami's not incentivized to come out and hold a press conference and say, like, you don't want to dissuade someone that was good to your program and continues to donate.

[697] So that's why.

[698] You still have this thing running out there.

[699] But it's just not fact.

[700] It's fantasy.

[701] Let me ask Greg and Stugats this, because the entire world has changed under their feet.

[702] They grew up in a time of cis boombaugh, Notre Dame.

[703] We're going to pretend it's all amateurism.

[704] When the conversation is Cristobal year three, yep, you better have bought all the good players.

[705] And the conversation is Miami made a Final Four run in basketball when John Ruiz and had that life wallet.

[706] And it was at the ready.

[707] I've never had any issue with all of this being out in the light.

[708] Show everybody.

[709] Yeah, it's just the purchase of players.

[710] Now it's just out in the open.

[711] I'm surprised that you two don't have an objection holding on to previous times the way that you do to see college football and college basketball, this brazen about the commerce, all of it in your face where it's like if Miami spends, they will have a top 12 program in basketball and football.

[712] And if they don't, they will not.

[713] I mean, I like it because I've always felt like the kids bring more value than the colleges were kind of giving off and the NCAA.

[714] So I'm good with the kids being able to make money to monetize their name, image, and likeness and, you know, really to be able to leave if the coach leaves.

[715] So, and if they don't have an opportunity, like you go in as a freshman and as a quarterback and you're a top 10 quarterback freshman year doesn't work out.

[716] They bring in two more quarterbacks and you feel threatened.

[717] Your job feels threatened.

[718] You can now go to a different school.

[719] It's like Syracuse has the Ohio State quarterback from last year.

[720] Syracuse never gets that quarterback.

[721] But it's more – they do now because they have the money.

[722] It's more professional football.

[723] I love it.

[724] Indisputedly.

[725] Yeah, but there are some things that aren't so professional.

[726] Darren Heitner went to social media.

[727] He is one of those guys that was there at the forefront of NIL and NIL reporting and says there are a lot of collectives that are coming up short and not honoring deals.

[728] I think across the board, there needs to be more transparency here for the kids and for the collectives themselves, because there are, in both directions, people breaking deals left and right.

[729] Thankfully, Miami is honored every single one of those life wallet deals with its collective.

[730] If the reporting is to be true around John Ruiz, you can see how he could struggle with some of those longer -term ones.

[731] Miami's collective slid in there, made sure that none of that reporting would come to light because you can't say that about Miami.

[732] They've honored their NIL deals.

[733] I don't celebrate the death of amateurism, but I'm resigned to it because it's not just colleges, it's the Olympics, and just about everything.

[734] else.

[735] The problem is the inequity of it.

[736] Okay.

[737] The start quarterback, he's getting his.

[738] How about the backup guard?

[739] Is he getting anything?

[740] You know, or is the swimmer?

[741] The average swimmer on the team, is she making money on NIL?

[742] I don't know how that works.

[743] More money is what you want.

[744] More money for more.

[745] I'm just saying, if you're going to pay, quote, pay college athletes, it shouldn't just be football.

[746] Yeah, but it's not fairness.

[747] They're still crowdfunding all of this money.

[748] This is not college football using its television dollars on the players.

[749] You were asking what Greg wants, and I was just telling you what Greg wanted.

[750] Well, what Greg wants is what the NCAA wants too, but it also caps people to really maximize their own value.