Caitlin Clark Olympic Team Reaction, Ron Magill, & Weekend Observations | The Dan Le Batard Show

Ron Magill, resident animal apologist, is here to discuss the rodeo, chimp dialects, and other fascinating details of the animal kingdom. We kick things off with Stugotz’s Weekend Observations on a Tuesday! Then, Marcedes Lewis has been around a while, huh? Plus, Jessica and Dan lead our discussion on the media frenzy around Caitlin Clark that’s attempted to turn her into a divisive figure.

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Jessica just whispered to me moments ago now there’s a mustache because we were talking about mustaches and that mustache right there is about 50 years old that’s is that mustache indeed a half a century old Ron Mel it’s getting there it’s a 48 years old wow congrats we should have a celebration at 50 we should do a big celebration for the mustache are you happy that B that baseball and other sports have made the turn of the mustache something that makes you feel less alone now yeah I think so I God I remember the time you know remember when the Oakland A’s Raleigh fingers that whole team that that was was a big mustache time that was a great time uh it’s back though you know this right I just learned earlier in the show today that the mustache is back I’d seen them pop up throughout baseball and I was confused by it why are these young people who are very athletic and good wearing ridiculous mustaches but uh it’s here why are why are mustaches ridiculous Dan I mean they all look ridiculous uh not all mustaches but the baseball players I’m looking at they all look like they’re purposely going for ridiculous well some some of them really I don’t think have enough to grow a good mustache yet some of them are still too young but uh you know a mustache when properly grown properly filled in is is a a remarkable trait to be to be fair some of them are growing them ironically but Ron’s is very Earnest it is a very Earnest mustache his is ironic oh boy no not a I went back and checked those A’s teams he was right about Raleigh fingers I thought he got caught up in Raleigh fingers’ mustache and you know thought the whole team had mustaches but Ron was right and I was wrong Catfish Hunter Jean tennis they all had mustaches regie Jackson they all had they all had mustaches resplendant and now they’re back uh let’s talk about other things let me show you this video from the rodeo it’s out of Oregon I don’t know if you’ve seen this a oh I have that’s scary a bull named party bus was doing laps to God Bless the USA by Lee Lee Greenwood and it was the final bull ride of the night and then this ends up happening he jumped the barrier like a freaking show horse just went right over that fence go over the fence through the concession stand oh Lord have mercy there’s a lot of sphincter muscles that loosened up right there yeah out to the parking lot Jesus oh he tossed that lady like a piece of Styrofoam God yes oh Lord oh my God yes is she okay uh well three people were injured is what they say but it there are not enough details here and the professional Rodeo Cowboys Association says quote while Rodeo is a highly entertaining sport on very rare occasions it can also pose some risk and I don’t think I’ve ever asked you this why is rodeo still a thing you know I don’t know I think it comes from just the old Macho you know ranchers the guys who went out there and uh you know had had to work animals that way to work the ranch and it became kind of an a shoot of that and it’s part of a a culture really it’s part of a culture not necessar that I’m all fond of what I’m amazed that looking at that video those people didn’t even move did these people not see this thousand pound bull running at them they they just that woman who got flipped she never even flinched before she got flipped look at that video I don’t understand it I don’t understand how they didn’t move I don’t either like what is it better to just be completely boneless and like liquefied when you’re being hit by a bull or is it better to tense up hey bull it’s better to get the hell out of the way that’s the better thing to do you always tell us to stare the animals down you tell us to stare it down don’t that’s thear not a bull stugots it’s a bear how do we keep track of these things you know understand when you look at a bull guys what does a bull fighter do to get the bull come at him he waves the red thing right he’s making hey hey hey he’s going like hey bear but hey bull but this with the bull it means come get me and the bull does different animals I read that the woman who got flipped ended up getting released from the hospital and went back to the rodeo the next day wow wow Brave I did hear that nobody nobody had life-threatening injuries or any long-term injuries they just couple of bumps and bruises but those people are all very lucky because that that bull was on a roll how rare is the bull death the bull related human death um I think it’s pretty rare you know unless you get severely gour every now and then you hear the people running with the bulls in Spain there’s been a couple of deaths in history of those things um another you know reflection of humanity being stupid um but you know they it’s rare that they’re killed by a bull but uh you know there have been people paralyzed there’ve been people gored it’s it’s there’s some really serious injuries that can happen from them oh God what why they they don’t even look it’s just stand there like bowling pins what is that 10 10 per year Dan okay thank you got uh uh Ron that’s not an attack right that’s just a panicked animal correct yeah that’s exactly that’s an animal running get out of my way that’s an animal running get out of my way is what that animal’s doing those people didn’t move I I still can’t believe I’ve looked at that video 20 times and those three people stood there like bowling pins like what you think the Bull’s going to run around you but when does a when does a bull want to fight though Ron because that is just all the all you’re telling me is that’s the behavior of a giant deadly animal that it doesn’t know it’s being Giant and deadly it’s it’s just scared um it’s it yeah it’s certainly scared but a scared animal can be dangerous animal uh don’t think that anytime an animal comes at you that’s always saying oh I’m Machu and I’m going to take you out because I know I can it’s it’s it’s a reflex of a defensive action is what is happening that bull is doing just that I don’t I don’t mean this as a joke question is there any significance of the fact that woman was wearing red yeah it could be it could be I mean we all know how the how the bull fighter wears the red cape to get that bull to come at him um um there’s a very interesting article on nature.com that reports that uh some animals calls are specific to individuals similar to a person’s name and the the headline is do elephants have names for each other yeah that just came out of National Geographic and they show that they do and this has especially been documented with mothers in their calves that mothers make sounds that basically relate to the name of the calf these sounds are so individualized that they are basically saying the name of the calf and uh you know I I wholeheartedly believe that we’ve talked many times about elephants how incredibly intelligent they are how incredibly social they are how they communicate with each other it’s a very social animal so um yeah doesn’t surprise me at all that they have names for each other and that they call them by the by their names I’d like you to meet and this is my other son that’s that’s a cow okay that’s a cow that’s a really bad bad cow there Chris that’s no elephants are much different Ron I saw a video of a drive-thru Safari in Texas where they were kind of taking taking a family or whatever and a a giraffe went and picked up a toddler out of the back of a pickup truck it looked like how uh how far was that going to go with that giraffe had the parent not intervened oh not far the giraffe was not doing that in an aggressive way at all the giraffe was looking for food she put the food close to her chest and the giraffe grabbed the T-shirt by accident and once he lifted the kid up the giraffe just dropped the K the draft did not drop the kid because anybody hit it or anybody attacked or anybody screamed draft realized oh this is is a lot heavier than that that you know whatever food I was trying to get and just dropped it that’s not an aggressive move by a giraffe giraffe aggression is done when they swing their head and neck like a baseball bat they don’t bite animals never do anything wrong to you guys I mean the bull wasn’t wrong in the last video the gff’s not wrong here about some accountability can the giraffe just be wrong let me ask you something let me ask you something Chris if somebody was um you know roping you and riding you with a cinch around your Avenue make it uncomfortable and you’re really working hard to get this person off because it’s so uncomfortable and Beyond uncomfortable sometimes even painful uh how are you going to feel towards that person in love sexy okay so you’re one of those mayy oh God so uh Ron can you I want to play something else for you here this is a biker I don’t know where this is exactly and he’s just riding a line on a bicycle and then what jumps oh the leopard gets him I saw that oh yes leopard what a leopard leard that’s a leopard I know but you’re saying yes you’re celebrating that a leopard jumped out from the jungle and attacked a man on a bicycle that’s a clean tackle you should have been biking in the bike lane Dan the animals never at fault and uh Ron what do you make of what happened here because uh I’m assuming that that was to eat leopard was attacking that to eat I don’t think it was to eat no I don’t I think that was pure aggression um that was experienced by that leopard by humans either you know stoning it or something like that in the past listen Dan in India especially there’s so much growth there’s so much population growth people are just you know moving into the the habitats of these animals and these animals are kind of starting to fight back so that is that is an unusual an unusual uh experience there but I have seen the thread on on social media channels you know showing several leopards coming at people usually in these urban areas um and that’s just because you know they’re being pushed to the limit so that was an attack if he wanted to consume that guy it would have grabbed him and bitten his neck and killed him right there and held on to him like it does with its normal prey but that was just coming out him bite scratch and get the hell out of Dodge it’s been nearly 20 years of this show and I’m just making this connection so Dan for years people accused you of being like an athlete apologist and we’re just now pointing together Ron’s an animal apologist and this may be why this marriage is working out correct that is correct but he’s not wrong no he’s Ron thank you Jessica wrong my guil ironic uh can you uh can you explain to me though when I the reason that I thought that it might be in an attack is only because I thought and you’re right obviously it would go for the neck but I thought that being out amongst cars and stuff would be such a panicking situation survival that the animal knows it’s got a kill on the first strike and it’s attacking a bicycle so it’s attacking something that’s unknown uh you’re just saying that’s an act of get out of my area yeah that that was an aggressive that was an aggressive attack um pure aggression and U my my suspicion is that that leopard has had a negative experience with humans prior to that there’s a there’s a whole there’s a whole thread of those leopard attacks you’ll see one actually trying to jump through the windshield of a truck trying to get after a guy okay these are animals that have been in one way or another uh negatively impacted by humans whether it’s people throwing sticks at them stones at them shooting at them whatever it is um listen animals remember things don’t think that they don’t remember things and don’t think that animals will not fight back they will uh the elephant you always mentioned as one of the smartest but when we talk about an elephant possibly relating to names calling its children names uh what is the next species you would think capable of that you always do elephant and dolphins with smart is there another species that might surprise me because you think they might have names for each other well you know like you said dolphins all the citations all the whales all of the citations I think their their their their language is so so diverse and so meticulous I mean I think uh citations probably have that of course elephants and we have seen in in some chimpanzee cultures certain different languages and I don’t want to say languages I should say dialects dialects because they’re kind of offshoots of the same language but just like we have dialects of different people you know you hear someone speak English sounds different than you know London or sounds different in Sweden than speaking English in the United States the accents or the dialects um can be different within the species and I think chimpanzees a lot of those primates have those same types of uh um varieties Ron I wanted to ask you about Gertrude the flamingo a 70-year-old Flamingo that I read Laden egg recently at a nature preserve is is that how unusual is that for a 70y old Flamingo 70y old Flamingo to lay an egg is very unusual for for there to be a 70-year-old Flamingo is not tremendously unusual though it’s certainly on the high end of their lifespan we have flamingos here at the zoo that were here during Hurricane Andrew which was you know what 30 something years ago so um you know and they were adults when Hurricane Andrew came through so they’re in their 40s and 50s uh so flamingos are Long Live Birds but having one lay an egg now I would be very surprised that that egg was fertile um so that that’s that that that would take it to another level but for her to produce an egg in and of itself at that age is pretty extraordinary but I highly doubt that it would be fur Ron I was going to ask you that do flamingo lay unfertilized eggs like chicken and if so what do they taste like Oh Billy um yeah any bird can lay an unfertilized egg um I’ve never tasted a flamingo egg um I don’t know what it would taste like um but you know I mean ostriches you know they make ostrich omelets all the time in southern Africa they have them on ostrich Farms um so all eggs have the ability to be eaten um some I would imagine taste different than others but they all have kind of the same contents you know the yolk the the egg white and they’re full of protein and people eat them no matter what I mean eggs are the fa favorite diet of so many different animals in the in the Wild Kingdom well I did read that Gertrude was flirting with a 37-year-old male named Gil so she’s living my grandma’s dra wow all right uh put put it on the poll please Juju do you know any gerud under 70 years old uh thank you Ron good talking to you always great guys have a great week time now for stugotz’s weekend observations what happen it is time for stats to share his game notes no one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy St weekend observations brought to you by Miller Light great taste just 96 calories available for delivery Den it’s my second favorite week on the sports calendar Pinehurst number two God’s country extra thick Fairways huge natural sand areas greens that run a 10 on the stimp meter the ghost of pay Stewart’s dramatic win in 1999 another major Champion will be crowned and Dan make no mistake about it just like that US Open week is back St God I’m sorry I was distracted during that because meter uh no just I just noticed that behind Billy they’ve put on the televisions The Clevelander window and so I just went uh flying into the past back there visually because that’s not a window I miss it uh that is not I I just got back I just got lost I drove by it the other day shaking yeah there was a video that The Clevelander put out of 50 Cent by himself there on Sunday like they had a whole section like roped off for him or whatever but it was just 50 I’m sorry I was distracted by that St guys I don’t know who did that but it’s brilliant it just brought me back in time I got legitimately more comfortable I just asked Billy a second ago how long has that been up there if you missed it by the way Dan US Open week is back yeah I don’t believe you on that that it’s your second favorite week of the year I don’t I don’t think any all of the foot weeks are more of a big week for you than think Masters and Super Bowl week Masters is number one US Open number two Super Bowl week number three you’re just I get sad during Super Bowl week I do it’s the end of football it’s bitter sweep speaking of back after flying across the country to record part two of his exclusive sit down with George Sedano Dan you that’s right are back I am back we were back yesterday yeah we didn’t get Sedano this time what happened I Ted dancing instead really Sam about that right name another character Ted dancing and C really I can’t really well he plays Ted danc was a good character yeah the good place I mean come Sam alone I mean most people of this generation don’t know Sam that’s what he said he said it’s terrible it’s the good place now it’s not cheers for him yeah it’s a good place how is his hair excellent always amazing people accuse him being fake does he smell good uh he does I bet he smells good he also could have been the dad in Poltergeist but the aforementioned Tom celic he was fighting him in Magnum PI and then they noticed uh Spielberg noticed he had a bald spot and he just didn’t make him the dad and polter guys really spoiler alert wow yeah don’t give it all away it was 90 minutes oh the Chicago blls plan to hire Billy Donovan III son of Billy on of it to coach their NBA g-league team apparently they used the new job search firm called nepotism decom he works he works hard hey London the Mets you can have them headline Flav of flave order the full Red Lobster menu in an attempt to save the cheddar bay biscuits following bankruptcy not all heroes wear capes Dan some wear clocks Paul SK throws a spinker hey baseball stop making up pitches is it a splitter or a sinker make up your mind make up your mind SK Jesus a spinker James Harden said he wants to be remembered as a winner hey James got some bad news for you it’s too late imagine hearing that that it’s too late on being a winner too bad for James rough day in the event you aren’t keeping score at home and if you are not you should be ashamed of yourselves Greg Cody has taken a commanding two nothing series lead over Mike Johnson a big week for Greg Cody a a big year for Greg Cody a late career Resurgence the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody climbing up your chart thank you Mike Johnson your serve the C in Greg Cody stands for KH Smite dad you know what that is it’s it’s a trophy you know MVP is that the MVP Con in con SM there you go you and me both Greg Connie hey Harden you want to know what would have helped with that whole remembered as a winner thing winning yeah there’s that yelling at him death taxes and swek on the red clay three straight she’s amazing Mets owner Steve Cohen said he likes the food better in London than in New York hey Steve on the first rule of owning a team in New York is never admitting another city does anything better than New York but that one’s ridiculous it’s absurd I mean that’s come on you can’t have every free agent signing be a bad one your team can’t be in a worse place now that was when you purchase the team and then you say that you can’t do it it’s a rule I feel like people can flate like British pub food with the food in London those are I would say two different things yeah you think he’s eating in the fanciest of uh restaurants there he’s not eating fish and chips which even I I’m a big fan it’s pretty good well shepherd’s pie oh I love shepherd’s pie blood sausages little game I like to call multiple choice you know what the s in Steve Cohen stands for Dan I do not is it a sell the team B stay in London C shut up or D all of the above yeah it’s all of the above yeah good it’s amazing what’s happened there he spent all the money and they’re the worst they’re rebuilding oh on a $326 million payroll that’s just unbelievable what a bad move all of that has been he has spent so much money to be the worst you don’t compound it that’s what I’m saying by saying London’s food is better than New York’s you don’t do it you one of the things we do all the time in this country is we think that the people who have money are smarter than everybody else and they’re not and the and the problem with that is that emboldens cheap spending teams like the Marlins to do what they’re doing mhm it’s not the worst part of that the worst part of that is there is a fool running the Mets yeah Mike McDaniel starts every meeting 24 minutes after the hour since it’s been 24 years since the Dolphins last won a playoff game hey Mike McDaniel get over yourself if they win a playoff game this year I can promise you it won’t be because your meeting started at 8:24 absurd get over yourself McDonald you dared to have meetings MCD exuse me yes that is a fine a big one dare to have a meeting at a time that I don’t approve of Mick overrated well said Thank you a belated happy 69 day to the entire granowski family athletes that canote 69ine day oi James Harden dick buckus Richie sexon number five Reggie tongue number four sixo Lano the whole list was for that number three Jeff Conan ner Niner number two dick Paul and number one oral Hershiser keep an eye on the Reds Cody loves that look at Cody look how delighted Cody is the love of a dick po you know what the C in Conor McDavid stands for it stands for couldn’t hold a candle to Wayne Gretzky you know what the e in Evan Rodriguez stands for it stands for everything Conor McDavid was supposed to be that’s where we are how South Florida is that Rodriguez is knocked off McDavid through two games Rodriguez can’t be stopped there’s a person in the Stanley Cup Final named Rodriguez who’s scoring more goals than anybody yep I love it how is that possible last week Greg Cody said he doesn’t like to gloat Greg Cody gloating for the remainder of time Collision Course the G and Greg Cody stands for gloat using metal bats never seemed fair to me I am scared for the first baseman the pitcher and the third baseman every time someone swings in college baseball everyone in college baseball is batting 345 because of those bats I hate the sound too it’s awful I don’t mind the sound do you like the sound of an aluminum bat at lebatard show uh put it on the poll I think most people like the sound of that Florida’s Joe kagon can Mash kags only SEC player ever to hit 30 plus homers in back-to-back Seasons Taylor I was going to say Ethan do anybody listening to this know who you’re talking about gags Taylor and Ethan the reference you’re making have you established have you established the characters of Taylor and Ethan or you’re just talking to each other it’s also Jack not Joe oh tomato tomato No that’s a fine for you you owe Jessica money here you that’s a fine for you really yes you’ve not been paying your fines Cody’s not been paying his fines Cody owed you a bunch of money Jessica I’m the only one around here paying his fines you guys owe all sorts of money to Jessica I’ve never been for that I mean I don’t have it you do have it we just saw it you got changed for a 20 got changed for a one theno you then Mo for everyone getting upset over the Caitlyn Clark snub do me a favor I Dare You Name another Olympic snub over the last 10 years anybody I don’t understand everyone’s getting upset Caitlyn Clark got snubbed from the Olympic team and everyone’s making a big deal about it and I’m just saying no one made a big deal when some others got snubbed from an Olympic team Candace Parker yeah okay so there’s I’m saying people who started paying attention to the sports over the last six months I get I get what you’re saying are you just going for easy Applause or I I wasn’t even an observation I didn’t even have it written down it was just a random I so confused I’m like where did that it’s not on the sheet W and live he just wanted some easy Applause he need he knows what the know that he has to hit to just get some easy Applause everyone cares but it was confusing cuz there was previously a big snub the only thing worse than losing a UFL bet is losing a UFL bet and having to listen to an AO called the entire game and acho yeah just one of the AO guys it was that annoying it was pretty annoying and I lost the bat compounded it you’re complaining about the broadcaster in a UFL game I had to lash out at somebody and AO got it Championship weekend this weekend oh wow how about that the reporter that thought she was talking to Vince Young but wasn’t it happens happened to you a year ago this month yeah with the quarterback of your football team in the New York Jets yeah was a country music singer that’s amazing we didn’t do enough with that it’s one of the funniest moments in my enre that he doesn’t know what the Jets quarterback looks like and he confuses him with Jake Owen had a hell of a year Mets Phillies in england got me thinking about people in sports who canote a European city or country Mark Portugal Alex English Paris Campbell number five Jim Rome number three Sarah Spain wait a minute what was number four number four Sarah Spain how do you not know how to do a top five list number three Brock Berlin number two Drake London and number one Jeff Ireland in this week’s edition of June David and joku said Ken dorsey’s offense is juicy what does that mean it sounds good I would like a juicy offense I’m not certain you could say you won the French Open if you didn’t have to play Nadal in the finals I’ll get back to you on this no jokovic no uh no Nadal that’s tough no Nadal that’s tough try saying that after 3 hours of speaking anyway where was I no Nadal H I’m just saying where you were no one’s saying that alcaraz isn’t good like he is really good you have to jic you have to I feel like you I’m not sure yet I’ll get back to you on it still thinking about it I don’t have a college baseball team but I want one just because of how awesome a Super Regional sounds oh God I want a Super Regional Darren Waller retiring after one season with the Giants The Biggest Loser in all of this us because now he has even more time to focus on his music Mercedes Lewis resign with the Bears as long as there’s an NFL there will be a spot on someone’s roster for Mercedes Lewis it’s 20 years now how I think it’s 19 are you kidding me I’m sure he’ll be Ferrari Lewis though Marlin’s reliever AJ Puck is 0 and seven this year with a 730 ER more like AJ suck 19,00 250 Panther fans at the bank on Monday Dan congratulations to the 18,000 who attended their first game that’s not fair Sunrise Florida hockey town this weekend the Yankees were selling a hat with one side being Aaron judge and the other show Otani and all I could Wonder was who the hell was that made for speaking of Hell or BRS Dan those are the weekend observations Juju put it on the poll please is Mercedes Lewis playing 18 NFL seasons one of the most amazing things you’ve ever heard at levitar show how many games is that because he doesn’t miss a lot of games either he’s always out there the stat is crazy because he has played over 18 years 268 career games what’s more mind-blowing LeBron James has played more playoff games in the NBA more playoff games than Mercedes Lewis has had games 268 it always does have to come back to LeBron how many good seasons though has Mercedes Lewis had I mean it feels like maybe two maybe well enough what’s a good season uh because enough to get rehired every season 4 18 Seasons when the entire position is different but not the one person who plays it because he’s been around long enough that they were a different size when he started wow never made a Pro Bowl right what are the odds literally what are the odds stum into one now someone doesn’t want to play so it’s either one of the most amazing things I’ve ever heard or Greg Cody and stug are here to tell you how it’s not amazing at all because he kind of stunk didn’t he he made it in 2010 all right good job dad and they can’t read the Internet it’s added bonus no I understand but it’s just doing the show with two of you on Tuesdays my dad like a dog with a bone on this keep he’s going to keep looking well he had 10 Tes he had 10 Tes 201 10 I mean that was 15 years pro year who could have seen the Mercedes Lewis show coming on a Tuesday you couldn’t have seen it coming from any angle uh one of the only on the levard show one of the funny things that just happened here uh that uh is behind the scenes a little bit Billy I don’t know if you’ve noticed this but I don’t know if there’s anyone around here in our entire world who enjoys stans’s weekend observations more than Greg Cody good friend Greg well but it’s not just a good friend like it’s not because he just loves you it’s because uh Greg Cody has a special appreciation for the oneliner he has been writing that as a Sunday column that you’ve never read stugots for about 25 years I think it’s one of Greg Cody’s most long-standing benchmarks uh do you want to take a guess stat what he names that column a column in the market that if you were reading Sports for the last 20 years and you were the friend that he is you might have read one time in 20 years uh weekend rap uh it is not the weekend rap uh it has got a strange name it’s a it’s something about a bird uh no it’s not it’s not an upset bird either that’s his weekly picks column that is on Thursday first of all Greg is this your most longstanding featured Landmark journalistic item this notes column okay I don’t want to embarrass you who obviously haven’t read it either for a long long time but I haven’t written the random evidence column in a long long time wow it used to be it used to be and and to your point I love a oneliner and that’s old school journalism like Edwin Pope wrote one of those Bernie linum all of these old Sports columnists who Bernie L who were my mentors Tim’s dad the the classic Sunday notes column used to be onliners like that the art of the uh piy headline also as newspapers and magazines now go by the wayside it’s it’s really a lost art Greg yeah no you’re right let’s bring it back Greg Bring It Back Jack me and you together Bring It Back Jack I like that I got to write down that phrase Bring It Back Jack you use it phrase oh yeah it is my phrase yeah you’re right I got so many I can’t keep track of them all um no it’s also Jack Buck’s book by the way Jack back book his autobiography all right Greg what’s that called Greg go sit in the BR back Jack way yeah Jack no no way that can’t be true Greg the show’s moving a little fast for you go sit in the Penalty Box for 2 minutes because uh you’re just you’re just shouting Rhymes in various directions I’m trying to complement his his uh go outside get out of here which which I’m aall it thank you Greg for all of your good work you have been a star for a couple of years you you only slept like two hours you can be forgiven uh for being terrible look at him look at him drinking vigorously from a cup not going to The Penalty Box in the other room he does what he wants Chris no but this is yes we’re going to get that dance he does soon where he like puts like one hand behind his back I can feel that coming uh Chris this is what I I genuinely want to uh go down this path with you you really know your father it’s one of the great Delights in listening to the Greg Cody Show featuring Greg not the Penalty Box he’s going he’s just leaving going home uh Chris I I really want for you to explain to the audience what a amazing both and pain in the ass it has been to be the producer on his podcast as all of it has gone to his head because he really does believe at this point that any syllable he says rhyme a word he believes everything coming out of his mouth is gold uh he has never had more popularity and success in his career than he’s having right now with this Resurgence and people get mad at me because I get frustrated with him and they tell me I’m too me what people say to you on this show that’s what I get on his show so I enjoy it but it’s little frustrating he’s having a moment let the man enjoy it I mean he’s having a great moment look at him what is he what moment is he having he’s not doing anything he just ran out of gas on the show in a way that he even acknowledged because all he had was Jack Buck Juck and then he just he just folded his cards he because at the end of three hours there’s nothing left in the tank he’s got he’s an old man and we are taking all of the fumes that he has left and we’re trying to make gold out of all of them and as an added bonus he thinks everything he does is Emmy worthy that he thinks that there’s no one better at this than he is no one’s funnier no one’s better off the cuff no one’s more important and no one deserves this stardom more than he does him maximum we should put him on the USA basketball team yeah in Greg’s defense some NASCARs run out of gas at the end of races so it’s important that you defend Greg in these circumstances it’s been a good career move for you Jessica I I want to ask you about something that I think is super unusual because over the last 10 days I have wanted to tell a lot of men uh and just a lot of people around Sports uh you know we can learn here because we’re not going to pretend like we’ve been paying attention to the WNBA and know how to actually break down the games because we have some expertise about the players involved we can listen to the people who have been there and not just try and create entertainment around this thing but when it comes to Caitlyn Clark I have found myself watching what’s happened over just the last 10 days and been interested in this part of it which is like okay we’re really going to do this we’re going to make her controversial even though there’s nothing controversial about her we’re just going to dump all of the symbolism on her and have the conversation about just her and we’re kind of going to be idiots about it so as these numbers all Skyrocket right because there was a game that was supposed to be played last week in a 4,000 uh seat Stadium they moved it and in a half hour they sold out a 20,000 seat Stadium as these numbers all Skyrocket and we see the discourse get Dumber because a lot of men are fumbling around trying to keep up on this what am I to do with just the smartest commentary you’ve heard on whether Caitlyn Clark was snubbed whether it’s good to market the sport because she’s super famous or if that’s a spot that needs to be earned on Olympic team to represent our country well I think first like what to do is to just like cover the games well and I think like we could really use this as an opportunity to get people like Monica mcnut and Andrea Carter and chenet gum on our show to like help us with that because I find that like me and Lucy and JuJu are probably the only three that are really watching the games religiously um so it’s obviously like it’s difficult to have a conversation with that that’s why we started the F1 minute right because like we’re not going to all sit and discuss F1 so I get a we’re doing it with hockey now and people are getting really mad at it if you don’t it now you’re never going to allow it yeah but at least like there’s multiple people here most of the time that watch hockey so there can be more of a conversation like with us like I find that no one wants to listen to me just like ramble about like the fever Sun game probably so it’s it kind of is tough because of that and I think that’s why there’s a great opportunity to like get players on and get reporters and journalists on and stuff like that that are really like well versed in it um to talk about the actual games because I think that there’s so much conversation about the conversation and so little about how the fever played last night how Caitlyn’s been playing uh D Carrington having a great season for the sun Alyssa Thomas having a great season the players that actually made the team uh are all extremely deserving of it and just because some people maybe haven’t heard of their names before doesn’t mean that they don’t have Olympic hopes and dreams too A lot of them are first timers and this is a career achievement for them um and if you’ve been following the USA Basketball uh camps and the reporting from the camps and things like that I think I think there was some surprise that she didn’t make it because of her uh season at Iowa this year and last year and like the way she played in college and sometimes the USA team does bring a rookie and a young player with them but they lost a lot of really good veteran Talent after Tokyo and so it seems like based off of the interviews I’ve heard from the selection committee um they really wanted to lean on experience for this cycle because they feel like the easiest way to win gold is to have players that have played together and have chemistry together and have played for their coach before in the camps to be on the team and so Caitlyn because the Iowa has been so good the last few seasons has missed a lot of the senior USA basketball camps um which is not her fault but she I think is probably the only one who’s actually handled it normally her quotes last week when she was asked about um you know how she felt finding out that she missed the team I thought we very poised and like what she answered very well she admitted like she was you know not disappointed but she understands how difficult it is to make the team um it’s just like you said it’s become more of a more than just a basketball conversation now like she’s become an avatar for a lot of people to be engaged in a conversation that they don’t really know a lot about or any way controversial she has not had a misstep correct she’s handled all of this very to be to be a polarizing figure you understand she’s doing nothing to contribute to that nothing yeah and I think now it’s gotten to the point where like I think some people want her to maybe say something to stop some of the hot takes that have been happening on her behalf but she hasn’t done that yet and I don’t know if that’s necessarily like a fair place to put a young athlete in because like you said she has really kind of said and done the right things and so the whole conversation happening around around her I think just kind of sucks and it it’d be better just to cover the sport and then when an announcement like that happens there’s not so much like shock and outrage because you understand that in the context of USA basketball and the WNBA and the players that are on that roster the players that they’re sending to Paris are all extremely deserving I’ve heard the argument that you add Caitlyn Clark to increase the ratings and boost the marketability and etc etc etc um but I think USA Basketball would would tell you they want to win a gold medal this is a opportunity for Diana terazzi to win her sixth gold medal which is something that is like almost incomprehensible in a team sport um it’s an opportunity for all of these players that have earned it by being in the camps and by playing exceptionally well there’s a lot there’s MVPs going there’s Allstars going there’s just veteran Excellence on this roster I don’t know who you take off to add Caitlyn Clark and would NBC probably get a little bit of a boost if she were on the team I’m sure she would but I don’t also think she would play that much because she is a young player and I think fans would then be outraged by that so like what what are we talking about here one of the narratives overstated I think has been the quote unquote resentment from other players in the league you don’t think that that would have been worse if they got gave her a spot on this roster just for Ratings like I’m not saying that the resentment is a real thing I think it has been overstated but this is helping that if people think that she’s being like resent like resented I don’t know how to speak she is being resented and it’s obvious that anybody who came in that position would be tested by the entire competitive ecosystem of do you know what these women have endured to get where they are on the backs of a lot of work and not a lot of attention for her to get all of it it would be normal human emotion to resent all of the attention that person was getting my favorite part of what’s happened over the last 10 days though is just the general presumption and arrogance of just everyone who just got here with snow dumb I don’t know anything but dumb Choice snub and and now you’re telling people who have real expertise excuse me you’re going to need to hear me on this dumb snub and like that’s what we’re doing because we want to get in the conversation that we’re late to I think the only loser here is NBC truly because it’s I’m not exaggerating when I think that Caitlyn Clark is to the WNBA right now the equivalent of lonel Messi lifting mls in America but I think not putting her on the roster is 100% justifiable and more than that I think it’s good for Caitlyn Clark okay she went straight from a long um NCAA career right into the N WNBA had a real aggressive rough start to that season I think emotionally and physically I imagine she can use the two- we rest I think this is good for all concerned except NBC with Cit Clark and you look at like when we talk about resentment she’s just a star coming into a competitive league if there’s any level of resentment that’s why you look back to when Michael Jordan you look back to Michael Jordan is a rookie right he comes into the league and at the All-Star Game he’s quote unquote Iced Out by the rest of the veterans in the league they won’t pass him the ball when LeBron James is coming into the league his own teammates in Cleveland being interviewed by local news stations saying yeah he can join our bandwagon we have guys at his position who are already better than him they were the worst team in the NBA when there’s someone who’s hyped up in your league and you’re a competitor that’s made it to the professional Heights of your sport of course there’s going to be a little bit of I want to shut that person down I don’t think that any of it has to do with like lifting up the sport or ratings or any of that it’s just competitors being competitive but why is the resentment so hard to understand of course athletes would have resentment when someone else comes in and gets all the glory they laid the foundation they laid down everything for Caitlyn Clark to be able to have this platform and so yeah at times they understand and they appreciate that Caitlyn Clark has brought a lot of eyeballs to the WNBA but of course they’re going to be resentful and why wouldn’t they and who cares if they are I mean seriously outrage is all good for the sport all of this is good for the sport we can welcome the idiots and have more in the tent I I I agree that like it’s good that there is a larger conversation happening around the league but I don’t know if it’s good for the sport for this to be for there to be this much pressure on one player like I would hope that if there are new eyeballs on the fever because of Caitlyn Clark they’re also then going to expand and be interested in the sport itself not just the player itself right and I don’t know like I don’t know how you gauge that or measure that or how you do that but I think that’s really the job of the WNBA and of the commissioner is to figure out like if there is this influx of new fans because she was a great player that everyone watched in college how do we get them to stick around and stay and if you’re having these constant conversations on ESPN largely uh and other networks just about Caitlyn Clark I don’t know if that is a great thing oh but it’s not just ESPN right so last night and this is a delight look man if you’ve not been watching what happens in sports media okay black women are at the end of the line in where it is that opportunities present themselves to see Monica mcnut on The Daily Show after saying of Stephen A Smith I thought we had a deep enough friendship that I could challenge you I could challenge my friends Monica mcnut has become a star here recently and there are a lot of people covering this Sport with expertise and personality that make the shows better and more informed than a great deal of what it is that you’re watching where you’re like oh these women had to be really good to get where they are they can’t do it the way the men have done it so easy and so you see Monica mcnut transition easily to arguing with Stephen A Smith after doing a lot of work for the Knicks after being on round the horn and now she’s on The Daily Show last night and she’s saying to John Stewart let’s be honest if not for Caitlyn Clark I’m not sitting here and he says no no no that’s not true and John Stewart it is true she would not have been on your show Monday if Caitlyn Clark weren’t an avatar for men now want to talk about this too and we just got here and we’re going to be the experts and we’re going to tell Monica mcnut what she doesn’t know because we just got here in C Clark dumb snub well she also likely wouldn’t have been on the show had she not challenged T A Smith yeah uh correct and this is what it looks like to have that sport bring power to everybody around it so you can now hear all the voices and often times those voices are going to make the old established men look and sound dumb because we just got here and we don’t know what we’re talking about any anything that passes for expertise on your television from most of the men talking about this is is Bluster and it’s whatever it is they can fill the content space because they need to talk about this thing not because for the for the most part I shouldn’t say this about everybody because it’s not true of everybody for most of us it’s true of me and I recognize it in my brethren when I find that they need something to talk about and they need to figure out how to do it on television yeah and I’m not sure if the traditional like yelling Sports take model really engages longtime fans of the WNBA and of women’s sports like I I just like I struggle to see how that is something that people that I know and that I’m friends with and that I connect with um how that like really relates to them and includes them so that that’s I think a misstep is just doing the same thing but worse for a new sport that they haven’t watched Greg you seem to want to get in there the whole time and now you’ve have nothing when I look at you okay because you look show with the stoats gamble on by draft kins five four three two one Greg do you realize that while I was counting Us in you just uh fumbled with your microphone in a way that uh suggested you had no earthly idea that I was counting Us in I heard counting in the background I thought a like a a rocket was about to take off at Cape canaval or something I wasn’t sure exactly what was being counted down are you a countown or a count up Guy Greg I’m a countdown guy I like a good okay you count up Billy I mean sometimes if you’re taking a photo of somebody are you a 1 two 3 or 32 1 3 21 you got go 3 it’s always a four count too because then is the photo 3 two one photo I don’t perk up until I hear the word one right really you don’t want to waste the smile that’s when you start taking things seriously cuz you were pounding on that keyboard right before Dan got you know what I’m trying to multitask you know I’m a man of many jobs download many hats no I was you know I don’t want to get in the weeds here but I was uh texting back a Miami Herald related text and you know it’s important stuff W little insight info yeah that kind of thing so for and so on you know yeah I wish we had your undivided attention I know you’re very great you do now I knowf said one you’re perfect just the way that you are but I do wish you concentrated on this job that we’re paying you for while you were here uh but I understand why you would take your work of the last 20 30 minutes or so and say no I nailed it I’m perfect at everything happening around here I don’t need need to get any better yeah but here’s the thing okay let me draw an analogy to uh to hockey okay when when the two guys are about to take a face off but the puck hasn’t been thrown down yet right the music is still playing why because the clock’s not running until the face off actually starts when I hear Dan counting down 5 4 3 2 the music’s still playing because the show hasn’t resumed when I hear one my rabbit ears perk up here I go face red light Cody when the red light goes on he starts coughing uh violently because he’s always ready for the moment hold on let’s let him let’s let him he’s we don’t want him to pass out here let just get it all out Greg yeah get it all out don’t hold your breath this might be the last one don’t hold your breath just get all of it out I’m good now I’ve been fighting uh I’m over medicated I’ve been fighting uh issues my bronchial issues are really when I have a cold on top of what I deal with every day it’s really tough for me and what a trooper I’ve been today you have been plus you took a Victory lap I mean yeah he’s got the asthma inhaler I was going to say dad in your defense he’s really hurting let’s let’s let’s let him have this out because he’s passed out a couple of times there have been a couple of times we we’ve worn out the Workhorse today Ed out all this we’re going to leave it all in including you fiddling with the microphone at the very beginning of it I apologize rabid were up though take your time Greg please stop panicking stop please take your time get the asthma inhaler do not pass out again because you’re coughing too much it’s happened twice already because you get self-conscious please just take it easy I was going to say hold on R like a don’t stifle it don’t try and stifle just let it out it’ll feel good yeah anyway to get off even at like 54 the guys for the face off before a hockey game they’re ready they’re in position thank you thank you helmets are on sticks are in is ready they’re ready at five yes they’re ready to play but Greg takes his time and takes the leisurely route and is so good at this again so perfect at it that he can wait till the very last second and then when the red light comes on he rabit ears he’s ready to go thank you Billy Billy knows but the last couple of days because we’ve had a fun couple of shows there have been a handful of topics that I really wanted to get to that I did not and so I will allow you guys to pick one of these it’s one of six things I’ve wanted to talk about one and only one one and only one now Jason Kelce uh says that he does not wash his feet and this is something uh all over culturally all over people are looking at Jason Kelce and they are questioning the hygiene of white people because of this this is different America so that is on the table I learned this weekend this is something I did not know Kiki Hernandez was wired for sound and made an error while wired for sound and they said do you regret that and he’s like no I like money he gets paid $10,000 for wearing that wire 15,000 during the postseason it’s not something that I knew until that moment I love wired for sound it’s real actual access to the players okay in Texas so Kiki wire is another option yes I’m going to give you six of them and I want you to choose one of them one and only oneel uh in Texas uh recruits are walking into the facility and they’re Lamborghinis everywhere and I just Delight in the fact that Johnny Manzel got in trouble for autograph sessions and now we’re at just Lamborghinis outside uh so I want to get to that but it’s up to you whether or not we get to that or not because there as I said there are a number of things that I wanted to talk about here the Savannah bananas sold out a game at Fenway Park the Resurgence of minor league baseball through this uniquely creative thing is something that I’m interested in but I don’t know if you’re interested in it at all JLo cancelling her tour wow I thought what what are you doing there oh I’m a JLo hater it’s Canon everyone hates JLo now I’ve been confused by I’ve been there for years no but a lot of people are there and I’m legitimately confused by it uh I don’t know if that interests you guys at all does it does it interest anyone find out we still have one more option four ticket Sal that’s five you said six it uh should we spin the wheel now I have Jason Kelce I have Kiki wire I have Texas Lambos I have Savannah bananas I have jayb and the other one was Eddie Hall the World’s Strongest Man uh had a fight in an octagon with two opponents and he won and the video I thought was amazing because he he’s fighting two guys at once in MMA he’s looked like me and Jeremy were trying to fight him he’s much bigger than both of them yes but The Knockout was still impressive these are fight these are professional fighters they are smaller than him but uh it went poorly for the both of them so uh those are the six topics you’re allowed to pick one one and only one who gets to pick do we discuss this like is there one that’s stuck out for you guys what do you think I vote for Greg to pick H well there’s a clear choice for me uh if I saw that guy at the beach I’d go have a salad will you but yet here he is the World’s Strongest Man have a salad is what you’d say you want your options again them and for for me it’s Kelsey’s feet you know without any question but Jason Kelsey definitely doesn’t get enough attention so that’s a good choice but I’m willing to to go anywhere you know no you can you can choose that you uh the Chris Chris Cody has been mocked by Roy and others because he doesn’t wash below uh below below the knees it’s just the water runs down there and that’s what’s taking care of it uh it’s foul for a number of different reason well if I like if I’m dirty if I like I just played golf and my ankles are like dirty I will but like on a normal shower if there’s no dirt down there yeah just let the water do you guys have different levels of shower like cuz all dependent on what my activity was for the day take a different level of care in the shower I think Chris just acknowledged that if he’s playing baseball he will bend down right but if there’s just like a day where like all right I showered the day before and all I’ve done is like run out to Publix and I was in air conditioning then I just won’t shower but if I you know hey I’m coming into work then next day or or something like that you know you want to take a shower but it’s like I’m not going to clean every crevice of my toes Chris Cody learned whatever was to be learned here learned poorly from uh at the feet of at the literal feet Fe at the unwashed feet of a man who literally washes his hair shampoos it in the pool because does not know not let me let me explain to you Jeremy how disgusting all of this is that so many people do not know how to clean themselves uh even if I’m of allowing you the liberty of uh choosing from time to time depending on your activities the person birthing this discussion is an offensive lineman what he’s doing daily is disgusting like his feet out of those socks must be a horror and the idea that that man does not clean his feet is an offense to hygiene everywhere he’s in pain man I mean it’s hard to bend for Jason Kelsey so you’re scrubbing your feet and ankles every shower no I did not if I were an offensive lineman I would did not say that he’s not an offensive he’s a podcaster which that’s also true his socks every day are disgusting every day socks right now after walk his point was he he washes the hot spots the between the toes is a hot spot when you’re an offensive lineman you’re a lebatard over here a spokesman for the soap industry where you where are your hotpots there’s only three areas you have to watch three areas yeah under one pit under the other Pit and the region it that’s all that’s a dis C of and quite frankly the crack of the ass don’t sleep on the crack of the ass oh no you got to the you have to very important the region I thought that was the so that’s four that’s four then guess that’s the other region quite frankly the crack of the ass but you know what I have gone 10 years without touching my toes in a shower we can tell I mean you know it’s unless I’m working Barefoot in the yard uh I don’t feel the need to soap do me a favor please put on the Juju lebatard show have you gone 10 years without touching your toes in the shower and also the episode description on this must have the phrase and the crack of your ass yeah you have to you know you keep the G clean oh God he’s right L say that in your ear he said it in m i rejected it Gucci man