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[13] This is the Dan Levatore show with the Stugats podcast.
[14] Genuinely thrilled to have a Miami Herald, legend, and icon in the building.
[15] Izzy Gutierrez.
[16] Also, Greg Cody, in with us today on a Tuesday.
[17] Very excited to have all of this journalistic firepower in here, Juju and Jessica are here, and we begin with Greg Cody being infuriated at the universe, I'm sorry, the United States men's gymnastics team.
[18] Yeah.
[19] I mean, microphone.
[20] It's on.
[21] Hello.
[22] Hi.
[23] Hi.
[24] Glad to be here.
[25] Yes.
[26] Infuriated me maybe a little bit strong a word, but I'm watching last night, and I'm seeing the bear hugs, enthusiastic high fives.
[27] Fispa bear hugs, they won bronze.
[28] Yeah.
[29] Okay?
[30] Nice.
[31] Look, I get it.
[32] I get it.
[33] The last time the U .S. men, gymnasts, won a medal of any kind.
[34] It was 2008.
[35] I know it's been a minute, but still, I thought it was a little bit overboard for bronze.
[36] This is infuriating to me. As hard as these people work to get on a medal stand and to not have the country be able to do it and for you to not celebrate third place achievement, because your American God -given entitlement is that it's got to be first place or bleep off.
[37] Yeah, well, you're putting words in my mouth.
[38] I'm celebrating, I'm happy that they won bronze, okay?
[39] You know, I'm going to watch them on the medal stand.
[40] You should be happier, though.
[41] Just like you criticize their happiness for being too happy, you need to be happier about them winning bronze.
[42] I love you legislating how happy I should be about something.
[43] I love you legislating how happy they should be about something.
[44] Right.
[45] Greg, you are the king of nostalgia, right?
[46] What was the old address?
[47] 1440?
[48] So to me, this hurts my heart to hear you say this, because this brings me back to when I was seven years old in 1984.
[49] Man, I dated myself.
[50] 1984 with my sister and we're watching Mary Louretton.
[51] And that was just a seminal moment for me as a sports fan.
[52] And this one yesterday, in the middle of the day, a bunch of kids out of school probably watching that.
[53] Like, that's one of those that might stick for a while, whether it's gold, silver, or bronze.
[54] The big difference is in 84, Mary Lou won the gold.
[55] The men's team won the gold.
[56] That's some of the best gymnastics we have ever seen ever, all time.
[57] Also the best Olympic games of all time.
[58] Greg is right.
[59] These Olympians are setting a bad example for our kids.
[60] No one celebrates third place.
[61] You don't do it.
[62] What are you talking?
[63] Yes, I do.
[64] Everyone celebrates when you get a medal in the Olympics.
[65] Consulate.
[66] What?
[67] It's a team event.
[68] It's points based.
[69] In team tournaments.
[70] They didn't play for it.
[71] You have the top seed versus the second seed, and then you have, you know, the third seed, play the fourth seed for a consolation game, for the bronze medal, essentially.
[72] Let me tell you how it works, okay?
[73] Christopher and I are doing the Father's Son Olympics on the Greg Cody Show podcast, okay?
[74] And in the last event, I got my ass kicked in marshmallow expectoration, okay?
[75] I'm not celebrating second place.
[76] I'm pissed at myself for not winning, okay?
[77] You celebrate optimum celebration like I saw last night.
[78] should be reserved for gold medal winners.
[79] If I win the silver, my first thought is, damn, I didn't win the gold.
[80] I came that close.
[81] If I win the bronze, you know, I'm happy to have a medal, but it is the low -ranking medal.
[82] I'm not denigrating what they did.
[83] They should be happy.
[84] You are.
[85] They were way happy.
[86] He is selling celebrate appropriately.
[87] That's all he's saying.
[88] I think you've been there before.
[89] Getting on the medal stand is an achievement.
[90] There are teams that got very close.
[91] that did not get a medal, that did not get to stand up there, that we will not remember.
[92] We will remember this team because getting a bronze, there was a drought since 2008 where this men's gymnastics team did not meddle at all at the Olympics, and they finally were able to do it this year, and they were appropriately very excited to bring home hardware.
[93] I was listening to the Women's Game podcast with Sam U .S., who was on the U .S. Women's National Team during the Tokyo Olympics.
[94] They lost the semifinal against Canada, and she said that the leadership on their soccer team, told them, we know this is devastating because now we won't play in the gold medal match, but we need to win the bronze medal because going home with nothing is going to feel much worse than going home with a bronze medal and being able to stand on the podium and bring that medal home and say that you are an Olympic medalist.
[95] And so that is why competing for a bronze medal matters because there are so many athletes that go to these games that come home with nothing.
[96] And they were able to stand up there on that podium, excited, appropriately.
[97] for how meaningful it is to bring home a medal in this Olympics for the men's gymnastics team.
[98] And the margins in gymnastics, as somebody who's been watching since 1984, are razor thin these days.
[99] These teams and these athletes are so good.
[100] You can't make any mistakes, Greg.
[101] If you watch that, you have to nail every single performance just to get a bronze.
[102] If you fall, if you trip, if you hit the knee to the ground, you are out.
[103] And that was a heck of a performance.
[104] I wanted to crush my dad when I first heard this take.
[105] And I'm like, you know what?
[106] I know how I'm going to get them.
[107] I'm going to look up the odds and see how low down USA was and see that they should be celebrating to get third.
[108] And then I looked at the odds.
[109] Japan and China, huge favorites.
[110] So you knew they were getting gold and silver.
[111] It's just a two -team race, basically, based off these odds for bronze, between Great Britain and USA.
[112] Oh, so we won again.
[113] I'm just saying, like, to my dad's point, we beat the Brits.
[114] They were basically, it was a two -horse race for bronze.
[115] You say it's a two -horse race, but I assume the code.
[116] podcast Olympics are also a two -horse race.
[117] That's true.
[118] On marshmallow expectoration.
[119] We call it marshmallow hawk towing.
[120] Well, I don't.
[121] But, yes, it's a two -man race, so I'm not going to celebrate finish second.
[122] Yes, but the competition, again, is not international, it is not worldwide.
[123] It's you and your son on spitting out marshmallows.
[124] And my dad has asthma, and it was his idea to do it.
[125] It has to be the underdog.
[126] I mean, one of my favorite things in all of this stupid genre is the hair splitting on appropriateness of celebration, where Jessica's arguing that was an appropriate celebration, and Greg Cody is arguing a little excessive.
[127] Okay.
[128] Here's a point I would make.
[129] Here's a point I would make.
[130] In no other sporting event, more than the Olympics, are there three obvious levels of celebration, gold, silver, and bronze.
[131] That's what I'm saying.
[132] And here's an example I would use for you.
[133] In World Cup soccer, okay, they have a championship game, and they have a consolation game.
[134] If you win the consolation game, you have won what is tantamount to a bronze medal.
[135] Nobody is acting like U .S. men's gymnastics when they win the consolation game of the World Cup for third place.
[136] At the risk of alienating the audio audience, Juju, would you mind just coming in here for a second?
[137] I'd like Greg Cody to reenact what would have been the appropriate celebration after winning in gymnastics with his teammate Judeo.
[138] Congrats, Judeo.
[139] You guys won the bronze medal.
[140] I'd like for you guys to show us what that should have looked like if indeed you found it excessive.
[141] I feel like it's a fist bump and that's about it.
[142] Like you can't hug each other.
[143] Just, you know, a couple of fist bumps.
[144] Good job, good job.
[145] Let's go to the podium.
[146] Let's listen to Japan's national anthem.
[147] Okay, we're going to...
[148] Okay, here's what we're going to do.
[149] We're going to do a little high five, right?
[150] So Greg is walking up to juju, he gives a high five.
[151] It's a bit much.
[152] A hug, a casual hug.
[153] And then we're going like this because, all right, we're happy.
[154] You disgust me. Why do you guys even like sports?
[155] I mean, come on.
[156] Really?
[157] I believe that Jessica leads our world in being enthusiastic about what it is she's watching because it's just amazing sports and cubes.
[158] It's like, make me care about these people in nine minutes based on what they're wearing, give me their story, make me care about this in nine minutes, and Peacock is doing a hell of a job of that.
[159] Dan, the Olympics gets me all the time, because I never get, like, emotional leading up to it.
[160] But when I'm watching, forget it.
[161] It brings me right back to my childhood yesterday, about 3 p .m., I was pacing in my living room, butterflies in my stomach, nervous as all get out.
[162] The women's volleyball team was against China.
[163] That's the last two gold medal winners.
[164] They were going to a fifth set.
[165] You've got the men's gymnastics team have to hit on every routine.
[166] And then you've got the last guy, Billy Gill with like a Jack Billy Gill over there.
[167] Steve Netterozyk, the pommel horse specialist comes in.
[168] And it comes down to the last event.
[169] And he pommels the shit out of that horse.
[170] The definition of you had one job.
[171] This man was being like, they were looking at him.
[172] They were telling him exactly how long until his event.
[173] And he had to nail it.
[174] One job, he nailed it.
[175] the amount of pressure on these people, as somebody who can tell you, I've been in some circumstances recently just playing games with people where there's information that I know and then the pressure is ratcheted up because we're just playing a game in front of five people and all of a sudden my mind doesn't work as well as I know it should work.
[176] The fact that these people are competing at this level, caring this much about this, and they can't fold it up when you're talking about the amount of expertise and the margin for error in this sport because of how good the rest of the world is, I don't envy these people being in this position and that celebration feels like a bit of relief to me on top of everything else.
[177] I'm more interested in your game night.
[178] Yeah, me too.
[179] What are you doing there?
[180] You're nervous.
[181] charades, I mean...
[182] I was sitting there just yesterday in front of Taylor and Thomas are putting together like a bunch of 2 ,000 lineups.
[183] Oh, I love this game.
[184] Yeah, and it's like I'm looking at a 2002.
[185] I can't decide whether it's a Royals lineup or an A's lineup.
[186] And just playing in front of them, I'm more nervous than I would be if I was just doing it right by myself.
[187] So when I, I know that Stugats, none of this ails you because you're incapable of shame.
[188] No, it actually does.
[189] The first time we went to Lake Tahoe and we had to tee off in front of people, I was a nervous wreck.
[190] You shanked it.
[191] I did shank it.
[192] I did shank it.
[193] I remember that.
[194] There were like 26 people there watching us, and I was nervous.
[195] Yeah, I was.
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[203] Don Lebertard.
[204] He has been great.
[205] He's made great hires.
[206] I said all.
[207] We've said all of this.
[208] Everyone is said everything.
[209] First I heard any of this great.
[210] Everything you're saying.
[211] It's all been said.
[212] Okay, you've got to understand one thing.
[213] Stugats.
[214] Me maximum.
[215] That's right.
[216] Until I say it, it hasn't been said.
[217] Boom.
[218] Okay, understand that.
[219] You're the mayor.
[220] Until I say it hasn't been said.
[221] Me, Max.
[222] Me maximum, me maximum.
[223] This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats.
[224] I think that we're all chokers.
[225] I think here we would find a lot of chokers.
[226] If anything was ratcheted up to a fraction of the pressure that these people are facing in the elements that they're facing.
[227] I mean, you talk about pressure and the agony of defeat and narrow defeat.
[228] I lost Olympic towel folding by two -tenths of a second to Christopher.
[229] Okay, so I've been there.
[230] But you're going to have to trust us because my dad screwed up recording that portion of the Olympics.
[231] Well, that's true.
[232] So we don't have a clip up there.
[233] Greg, if you got a $15 ,000 payout for finishing second in Olympic towel folding with Chris, would you have celebrated more?
[234] If I had a payout for second place?
[235] $15 ,000.
[236] You probably would have celebrated.
[237] No, I don't think so.
[238] I think you would have celebrated.
[239] Stu Goss and I are alone on an island here.
[240] Neither one of us is saying it isn't good for them getting a bronze medal for the first time since 2008.
[241] But it ain't gold and it ain't silver.
[242] And the way they celebrated just seemed a little over the top for me. I think the way that Jessica looks at the two of you is what's happening in this room.
[243] I believe that Stugats and Greg Cody, because of the amount of time they have spent around sports and in this industry, there's a bit of numbness around stuff in sports that feels good to people who really love sports.
[244] Like you guys have been eating McDonald's fries for 50 years and you've been working at McDonald's for 50 years and now you hate the McDonald's fries and everyone that eats them because you don't care about this the way that some, like Jessica's watching this, it feels like, I'm consuming just her social media commentary.
[245] Her enthusiasm is off the charts for some of the things that she's watching because there's discovery in it and wonder and awe and you two are, you're in your phone right now, you're swinging from your drink.
[246] You want a bronze.
[247] You guys don't care that much about anything.
[248] You only care about, how can I come over and criticize it?
[249] It is funny too, though.
[250] I was watching the U .S. celebrate and then you watched China just devastated because they choked away the gold and yet they're a spot higher than the U .S. That was a little bit weird.
[251] You go to the Olympics to win gold, not to win silvers, not to win bronzes.
[252] You go to win a gold.
[253] That's what you go for.
[254] Bronze was the only thing they could win, though.
[255] Now I'm back on the other side.
[256] You guys are idiots.
[257] There were two teams that could win gold and silver.
[258] Right.
[259] There was bronze.
[260] Why do they give out the bronze medal then, Stugatz?
[261] Why do they give it out?
[262] It's a hundred percent an expectations thing too, because like Izzy said, China was very disappointed because they had a couple big mistakes and missed out on the gold medal barely by like less than a point.
[263] And so their expectations were we want to win gold.
[264] We have one of the best gymnasts in the world on our team.
[265] Like, we should be winning gold in this team event.
[266] And so their expectations were to win, and they didn't do it.
[267] So they were disappointed.
[268] The U .S. expectations were, we just need to get a medal.
[269] Like, we haven't meddled in this sport in so long, and to be the first team to meddle since 2008 would be huge.
[270] People will remember our names.
[271] People remember our performances.
[272] And that's exactly what happened, and they were rightfully super excited to be up there.
[273] Let's give out a fourth place medal, made out of ten.
[274] Let's give out a fifth place medal.
[275] Let's give everybody a medal, okay?
[276] Here's another, is Stu Goss and I are the only ones with a proper perspective here on this.
[277] And here's another example I would give you.
[278] Okay, Miami Dolphins haven't won a playoff game in 23 years.
[279] If they finally win one this season, it's going to be a huge deal, and they're going to be rightfully celebrating.
[280] But it ain't the Super Bowl, okay?
[281] You celebrate that.
[282] How are they going to celebrate the AFC championship win?
[283] Just a casual handshake like you and junior?
[284] No, no. They're going to be happier than winning the wild card playoff game.
[285] But they're not going to be Super Bowl happy.
[286] And you don't get gold happy by winning a bronze.
[287] That's all I'm saying.
[288] I think the important thing to remember here is that there are brothers on this team who will make a legacy now for their family.
[289] Some people be the first person from your family to graduate high school.
[290] I was the first person in my family to go to college.
[291] So was I. So this is going to be a monumental accomplishment for those brothers on the team.
[292] Their name is going to be in the history books now.
[293] They're celebrating that as well as the journey, all the broken toes, the broken ankles that it took to get here.
[294] So I understand what you're saying, but this is different than the NFL.
[295] This is for your country, and they got to represent it.
[296] I think they should take pride in not meddling.
[297] I think they should take pride and just participate.
[298] Just being there, huh?
[299] Yeah.
[300] Greg, there is a third person who agrees with me and you.
[301] That person is hurt Brooks.
[302] If you remember, Dan, after the United States hockey team, 1980, Lake Placid, they beat the Russians.
[303] That was the semi -final game.
[304] And everyone was celebrating like we won the gold medal.
[305] Everyone except for Her Brooks, who told his team, if we don't beat Finland, okay?
[306] In the finals, gold medal game, what we did against Russia means nothing.
[307] It means nothing.
[308] Put it on the poll, please, Juju, a couple of different questions.
[309] Is this show the world's leader in talking about the 1980s Olympics?
[310] Yes.
[311] And also put on the poll, should there be a fourth place medal made out of tin?
[312] There you go.
[313] And by the way, to quote the great Ricky Bobby.
[314] if you ain't first, you'll last.
[315] Yep, well said.
[316] I believe that that's the best representation of America.
[317] There could possibly be Talladega Nights and Ricky Bobby.
[318] I think that's what we're going for as a country.
[319] Just gluttonous stupidity.
[320] I mean, I went Her Brooks, an American legend.
[321] To follow up on Juju's point, Greg, there was a gymnast, Paul Judah, and he continually led off in almost every event.
[322] And the pressure to lead off is tremendous, because, again, every routine counts.
[323] His parents are from Poland.
[324] He's a first generation American, and for him to win a bronze, and this country, again, hasn't won a team medal since 2008, that is a huge accomplishment.
[325] That's a life story.
[326] Those are the types of stories that you see with, like, slowed down music, and Tom Rinaldi speaking in the background in an NFL game.
[327] Like, that was incredible his story.
[328] And did you see his TikTok dance afterward?
[329] Oh, my goodness.
[330] The kid is going to be a star.
[331] Juju and Jessica seem to embody.
[332] the spirit of the Olympics, root for America, see if America can make you proud, but don't be cruel to the American athletes and offer them a medal made of tin if somebody screws up on the pommel horse.
[333] Nothing wrong with tin.
[334] What do you mean there's nothing wrong with tin?
[335] Is there a place on the stand for tin?
[336] I mean?
[337] Yeah, they...
[338] Or are you off to the side a little bit.
[339] Yeah, you're in the shadows.
[340] You're in the shadows.
[341] But tin foil is probably the most valuable, utensil in my kitchen.
[342] I use tin foil There is a funny randomness in this in that we do make it the top three finishers and I for many years since the 80s have wondered how much it hurts to be the person who works for four years and finishes in fourth place by one one hundredth of a second in a race like what kind of haunting that is and if we just made it so that there were a fourth medal made of maybe not the insulting tin but something else bronze is pretty random.
[343] I'm not sure why we do three instead of five.
[344] I'm not sure why it's accepted three instead of four, but I have often wondered, you work for four years and you lose by a tenth of a second.
[345] My God, that has to hurt to get back into training next week when you arrived back in the States.
[346] I think I heard in one of the opening ceremony segments on NBC that it used to be two medals, and then they added a third medal like 100 years ago or something like that.
[347] And there were a few swimmers.
[348] There was one swimmer that finished in fourth place in Tokyo.
[349] I can't remember which swimmer it was.
[350] But she said that, like, that was crushing to her.
[351] Like, finishing in fourth and losing out on a medal by, like, a hundredth of a second, probably feels in some ways worse than finishing in, like, sixth or seventh and being like, all right, I just wasn't good enough.
[352] But some of these races, especially in swimming, come down to, like, the mill of, mill a second.
[353] And it's like a race to just touch the wall quicker.
[354] and that is what keeps you off the metal stand.
[355] And I think it's insane, but just hearing athletes talk about how crushing it is to finish off the podium in fourth place and how motivating it is to try to get back and just get on the metal stand, I think speaks to how big of a deal winning a bronze or a silver is.
[356] I watched a women's swimming event last night.
[357] I'm pretty sure it was a 100 -meter breaststroke.
[358] And the top six finishers were all within one second.
[359] It was insane.
[360] Even they showed the replay.
[361] It was like watching a horse race where six horses are within a nose of each other.
[362] It was the most exciting thing I've ever seen in the race, and it was just the 100 meter.
[363] And Lily King got fourth in that.
[364] I think so.
[365] From the U .S., yeah.
[366] So she should get a medal?
[367] She should be disappointed.
[368] Right, exactly.
[369] But if she finished third, she should be celebrating like what?
[370] Celebrating.
[371] Okay.
[372] Her name will be in the history books.
[373] Her family name will be.
[374] She just made her father as proud as she can make him.
[375] I'm not quite as proud as she could.
[376] Right.
[377] Not quite as proud.
[378] You weren't she proud when a gold.
[379] She made her father the third happiest he could possibly be.
[380] There were two other fathers who were happier.
[381] Seriously.
[382] I have two questions.
[383] Is tinfoil a utensil?
[384] And I'm surprised to hear that it's the most used utensil in your kitchen.
[385] For me, it's a fork.
[386] It's not a utensil.
[387] He called it a utensil.
[388] The definition of utensil is broader than I thought.
[389] I thought utensils was just, basically.
[390] Basically, the definition of utensil is pretty broad.
[391] It's like anything used in the kitchen.
[392] Well, one of the brother words of utensil is utility.
[393] And little in the kitchen has more utility use than tin foil.
[394] You can wrap up, you can use it to heat stuff in the oven.
[395] You can wrap up leftover pizza, throw it in the fridge.
[396] There's all kinds.
[397] You can make a beautiful hat out of tin foil.
[398] You know, there's just a myriad of things you can do with it.
[399] Put it on the poll, please, Juju.
[400] Is tin foil a utensil?
[401] I'm with Chris Cody and Stugantz on this.
[402] I believe that a utensil has to be something that you can hold in your hand that kind of has a handle, right?
[403] I don't think of, like, parchment paper as a utensil.
[404] Just because you can make a tool out of the aluminum foil, it does not make it itself.
[405] Or a utility, right?
[406] But by definition, does it?
[407] You keep mentioning the tinfoil hat.
[408] He has fun with tinfoil.
[409] I have a definition right here.
[410] Give me some tinfoil, I'll make a hat.
[411] Definition of tinfoil.
[412] of utensil is an implement, instrument, or vessel used in a household or especially a kitchen.
[413] So Tupperware?
[414] Yes, Tupperware is a utensil.
[415] Really?
[416] Oh, yeah.
[417] Is there a distinction between tin and aluminum?
[418] Or is that pretty much the same thing?
[419] Because I get aluminum foil.
[420] It's a good question that you're asking there.
[421] Put it on the poll as well.
[422] Excellent.
[423] Our aluminum foil and tinfoil synonyms.
[424] But I am thinking for some reason that this metal that Cody is making for fourth place, it's worse than aluminum.
[425] If I gave it, aluminum, that'd be bad enough, but tin feels like something out of the 1800s that they were using before they invented aluminum.
[426] It sounds, and I don't even know the distinction between them, but I think that, I think tin is more insulting as a fork metal.
[427] It always sounds insulting.
[428] Something sounding tin -y sounds insulting, right?
[429] Not when you make it into a hat, I mean.
[430] That's true.
[431] Then it takes on a whole new life.
[432] And you're the quarterback of the Jets.
[433] And the fifth place metal would be made out of styrofoam, I was trying to figure out who to make the joke, a tinfoil hat at whose expense.
[434] I use this because the tinfoil hat is used only to talk to the aliens, correct?
[435] That's the only thing that a tinfoil hat is used is to represent your nuts, correct?
[436] Or to attract a lightning strike.
[437] Why would you be wanting to do that to your head?
[438] No, I'm saying that would be a use for a tinfoil hat.
[439] For science.
[440] Right?
[441] No. Greg, I want to put a pin in this.
[442] with you.
[443] No one is arguing that it wouldn't be better to win a gold or a silver than a bronze.
[444] Seems like you were.
[445] No. Obviously being the best is the best option.
[446] What we are simply saying is don't yuck their yum.
[447] They're very happy they won the bronze and they deserved it and it was a deserved and appropriate reaction to making history.
[448] That's all.
[449] Based on expectations.
[450] Based on everything.
[451] Based on the team's history, based on their individual performances and coming together and everything that they did.
[452] very appropriately happy for the bronze medal.
[453] We are all going to take a break now, and when we return, we will see how well Greg Cody has made a tinfoil hat.
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[469] Don Lebatard.
[470] This is the Dan Lebatardtard.
[471] This is the Dan Lebatar show.
[472] We're not sure.
[473] No, no, no, no, no stupid photos.
[474] Stugats.
[475] No falsehood.
[476] Every cup game.
[477] And at what?
[478] This is the Dan Lebatar show with a it is a bit hard for me to explain to the audience an audience i imagine that does not care about what the technical difficulties are in doing this show it's a little hard for me to explain to the audience when i've got a number of different things crackling in my ear and i'm not totally sure whether i'm hearing that zoom voice tell me that something is recording because I'm actually hearing it or because it's happening behind the scenes and didn't actually go out on air.
[479] So there are a number of times in the first 24 minutes of doing this where something was going wrong.
[480] So I wasn't able to play whack -a -mole with my two co -hosts here and get all the facts right on no. A tinfoil hat does not get lure lightning.
[481] It prevents you from having lightning in your life.
[482] And Greg Cody is going to continue to try and make this tin hat all week.
[483] learned by scouring the internet is that tin is heavier than aluminum, which suggests to me if I made a fourth place metal out of aluminum, it's more insulting than if I do it out of tin.
[484] If I'm giving you a heavier metal that is made of tin, I still don't know the difference between the two things, though.
[485] Do any of you know the difference?
[486] No, but I was thinking maybe we just bump everything down and add a platinum metal.
[487] So first place gets platinum, because platinum's the heaviest metal, right?
[488] Like that's the most, if I want platinum jewelry, I know.
[489] No, that shit's going to cost me, all right?
[490] And then there's gold, silver, bronze, maybe 10 for 50s.
[491] Don't forget about diamond.
[492] You should get a diamond medal, too, so hey.
[493] Ooh.
[494] Can albums be aluminum?
[495] My album went aluminum.
[496] No?
[497] You're willing to put platinum and diamonds ahead of gold?
[498] Well, you can move anything ahead because in the first Olympics, the winners got an olive branch and a silver medal, and then they upgraded to gold.
[499] So, yeah, we can go platinum.
[500] And we can bump gold down a little bit.
[501] Which has the higher status, the platinum MX or the gold MX?
[502] Platinum, right?
[503] Platinum, for sure.
[504] Well, but the black does.
[505] It should be a black metal, yeah.
[506] That's very controversial.
[507] What do you mean?
[508] Making black better than all of the other medals, you're asking for an Olympics that is a little political.
[509] Right on, brother.
[510] Right on.
[511] Greg Cody is very busy trying to make what he...
[512] Yeah, we can hear it.
[513] It's an unmistakable sound of aluminum foil being moved around.
[514] You can't do it silently.
[515] I mean, it's impossible.
[516] It is impossible.
[517] The worst, like, late at night when you're trying to, like, get a thing of leftovers that's covered with some aluminum fall and you're trying to quietly open it so your wife doesn't hear it.
[518] It was a half second where I'm wondering what in the world are you doing with aluminum foil at three in the morning?
[519] You know what I'm doing, brother.
[520] I should have realized it right away, my fault.
[521] That is the lament of a fat man shame eating in the middle of the night.
[522] You're trying to be.
[523] Everything is so loud at night.
[524] You ever try to open a moment?
[525] microwave door.
[526] Every kid who has ever snuck out and come back home with the munchies knows how loud it is.
[527] At noon.
[528] You don't hear it.
[529] I can open that microwave as hard as I want at noon.
[530] But if it's at 1 a .m., crack like nobody's business at 1 in the morning.
[531] 1 p .m. silent.
[532] Everyone can hear it.
[533] You get mad, though, at your wife, because you're like, hey, how about saran rap?
[534] I mean, can I open this thing in silence?
[535] What's noisier?
[536] Put it on the poll, Juju at Lebitard show the 3 a .m. Aluminum or the 3 a .m. opening of the bag of chips.
[537] Oh, God.
[538] I just don't do that anymore.
[539] It's embarrassing when the wife just pokes her head out of the door at 3 a .m. I'm like, what are you doing?
[540] It's that noisy.
[541] It's your rummage, your late night rummage.
[542] This has to do with the drinking, though, right?
[543] You have less grace late at night.
[544] Yeah, a lot of it.
[545] It has to do with a lot, Dan.
[546] There's a lot to unpack here.
[547] I'm a little bit of an overnight eater sometimes.
[548] I sleep a, like three or four hour segments.
[549] The best part about it is when you sleep next to a snorer, you don't have to worry about knowing if they're awake or not.
[550] That's snoring, it's going to be asleep.
[551] I'm good.
[552] I got at least an hour.
[553] This is a saddest hat I've ever seen.
[554] I love it.
[555] I love that on the damn aluminum beret.
[556] It's not great.
[557] It's not a great look.
[558] You've spent a lot of time working on the aluminum hat.
[559] And as a payoff, it just molded it to your head.
[560] It's not, it doesn't look much like a hat.
[561] No, it's stylish.
[562] It really is.
[563] I needed to use more tin foil.
[564] Okay, if I have a second opportunity, it's going to be like this, but deeper and better.
[565] Okay, you've got plenty of time.
[566] You got another crack at it.
[567] Go ahead, because the first...
[568] Leave that one on while you work on it.
[569] I'm not satisfied with that.
[570] It's a flat hat.
[571] It's not great.
[572] Again, at the risk of alienating the audio audience, I do want to go to some video here of our dangerous streets in Miami.
[573] Many of you have seen this.
[574] I wish that I had waited until right now to show this video to Jessica so that you could have heard the cackle that we heard before the show when she learned of this video for the first time.
[575] Our streets in Miami, as I've said, very dangerous.
[576] And this is right outside the Elsword, the viral video of a man at an intersection, leaving his car, and while enraged because a woman threw some sort of drinking thing at him, he runs over to where she is, jumps up in the air, and karate chops her rearview mirror on the side of her car.
[577] It's very impressive.
[578] It's unbelievable.
[579] I'm trying to reach this man because it is, he's like a superhero.
[580] The fact that he knows he's going to destroy that rearview mirror.
[581] Did he know?
[582] He must have.
[583] It felt like he just jumped in the air and then decided what he was going to do.
[584] do then.
[585] Oh, it's so good.
[586] It's actually at the very beginning, you think it's, oh, no, this is not good.
[587] It's a guy attacking a lady and you're like, oh my God, this is going to be bad.
[588] And then he just like decides to like atomic bomb elbow drop.
[589] Oh, man. He must have hurt his wrist.
[590] Do you think he gets back in his car there and it's just like my wrist?
[591] There's definitely a bruise.
[592] It's probably a slight fracture.
[593] And now that woman is a worse driver because she does not have a side view mirror.
[594] I think the way that works, you get back in the car, you have the adrenaline go and you get back in the car like five to seven seconds later, you start looking at your wrist, you're like, ow, man, you start shaking.
[595] Wait, I don't want to move away from this just yet.
[596] What I want to ask all of you, okay, is all of you, have any of you ever had the combination of rage and confidence to jump up in the air like Thor himself and bring down from the heavens a righteous confidence that is going to destroy a rearview mirror that you know is going to destroy it as you jump up?
[597] but you weren't sure whether you could destroy it without jumping up that way and having the full force momentum.
[598] I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but do that to a man in the car, it's my opinion.
[599] Because I don't give a damn like, this ain't funny to me. Bro, you say, if that's my little sister in the car and a man walking up to the car at all, bro, you're getting self -defense.
[600] As soon as you take a step towards my car, self -defense.
[601] So you do this shit to a lady, bro.
[602] That's embarrassing.
[603] I don't like this, bro.
[604] Don't have this brother on the show with me on the show.
[605] because that's embarrassing.
[606] That's a lady, man. Come on, I don't give a damn about no mirror.
[607] You better watch your ass out, bro.
[608] Juju, you're right.
[609] But I think if you roll back the video from the beginning, I think the lady threw something.
[610] Yeah, I don't give a damn.
[611] That's a lady.
[612] That's a lady.
[613] That's a lady.
[614] Hard stop.
[615] It's a lady.
[616] Every car is she really.
[617] Hard stop.
[618] I don't think it matters.
[619] I get what you're saying, but like it shouldn't even matter who's in the car.
[620] Like, this is an absurd overreaction to someone throwing a styrofoam cup at you.
[621] I wish somebody would do my girl car like that.
[622] Boy, you're getting bused.
[623] On camera, on film.
[624] At the risk of discarding the wet blanket and still just isolating the performance after the inappropriateness of the level of the rate.
[625] Let's say this person isn't doing it to a woman, isn't doing it to anybody.
[626] He's just jumping up in the air in a way.
[627] I want to freeze frame him in the air.
[628] It's a self -driving car, Dan.
[629] That's right.
[630] It's a Tesla.
[631] Thank you.
[632] Well, then he might be justified.
[633] because those things suck.
[634] Well, that thing might explode.
[635] One of our self -driving cars might explode and actually win the fight.
[636] The absurdity of this reaction, since we're spending the entirety of the first hour of this show, gauging whether emotions on people winning bronze medals run too high or whether they run too high here in the street.
[637] Juju, of course you are right that the reaction to that should not be that.
[638] But I will say that my wife has rarely been more disappointed than in me. than when she has to hold me by the chest because I want to get out of the car and do that to somebody in a South Florida I'd love to see you try.
[639] Man, that would be a great video.
[640] That increasingly, I mean, we could have that video.
[641] It's happened.
[642] I've never seen my wife more disappointed in me than not being able to hold me back by the chest as I'm going off into South Florida where someone can shoot me and get away with it.
[643] It's the height of stupidity.
[644] I deserve the disdain in her eyes.
[645] It's not something that I can control not the way rage works.
[646] First of all, if you freeze frame that the way we did, it looks like he just won a bronze medal with the U .S. men's gymnastics team.
[647] That's what it looks like.
[648] He's celebrating.
[649] But secondly, I think road rage is probably where you feel the most embarrassed right after.
[650] Like the things that you do, the things that your wife is telling you, when you are going nuts, you probably feel five minutes later and it's just like, God, I was so stupid.
[651] Over what?
[652] He made me flinch.
[653] Oh.
[654] Yeah.
[655] Having a kid has kind of shown me that because I'll just sometimes forget my daughter's in the back seat and I'll just be like, oh, what the bleep or something?
[656] And she'll just be like, Daddy, what's wrong?
[657] And I'm just be like, you know what?
[658] I overreacted there.
[659] You're right.
[660] I'm sorry.
[661] There was a guy who cut me off coming out of a parking lot, okay?
[662] Just blatant, just saw me coming and decided to just jump out right in front, had me slam on my brakes to the point where it just started to shake a little bit, right?
[663] And then he pulls over to make a left turn near me still and I'm swearing on my.
[664] my life.
[665] I was the only one in the car so nobody can believe me. He did a white power sign, like right by his head.
[666] I nearly lost my mind.
[667] Like, you want to talk about normal road rage?
[668] I followed this dude for two miles.
[669] And I stood next to him, staring at him for every single light until he was man enough to turn and look at me. Never looked at me. It was a mile in and I was already embarrassed, but I continued.
[670] And by the end, I just failed because he ran a red light and I wasn't willing to.
[671] That's what I was saying, bro.
[672] You never know you dealing with out here in these streets, bro.
[673] You run around karate chopping cars, but I would have caught you mid -air.
[674] I'm not going to play with you, bro.
[675] I got heat for people like, you cuss.
[676] Like, you did.
[677] Like, you're not going to run up on a car that I'm in.
[678] Like, that's just, that's 100 % goofy, man. But if you do.
[679] We should not celebrate this brother at all.
[680] Boot his man, when you see him, ladies and gentlemen of the audience.
[681] I'm just laughing.
[682] I mean, get it laughing.
[683] The stubborn pride of masculinity is a special kind of stupidity to behold.
[684] And when you know your inner.
[685] it when you're in your rage and you cannot control it because I ate the middle finger the guy gave me. It's when he started cursing me under his breath but loud enough for me to hear than that my wife was go time.
[686] Well, it's stupid.
[687] I'm not bragging about it.
[688] It's really dumb.
[689] It's an ignorant thing to do and yet I couldn't control myself from doing it even though I knew I was doing something that was ignorant.
[690] Rage bypassing ignorance consciously is a bit of a mind bleep.
[691] Yeah, it's one of the easiest things to me to sort of let go of, and the thing that makes people that have road rage the angriest is when you just smile or laugh at them.
[692] They get so angry when you do that.
[693] It seems like it just ratchets it's up.
[694] Ratchets up a little bit more.
[695] What is going on with this hats?
[696] How are you feeling, Greg, now speaking to the microphone.
[697] We've lost you for two segments with this stupid hat idea, and I don't think we're going to a payoff.
[698] It doesn't seem like there's going to be a payoff of any kind.
[699] It looks a lot like the first hat so far.
[700] No, no, this will properly fit my dome.
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