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Stugatz Podcast. It is a good thing that Billy Gill is suffering the F1 punishment today because he is wearing an outfit that is flame-retardant. And the reason I bring it up is because the last thing that Greg Cody just said to me before the microphones came on, and I'm a little worried about just today in general, but this in particular. Greg Cody just said out loud, not 30 seconds before we started, Is anyone up there minding the oil? He's got bubbling oil upstairs on the 11th floor. And Billy's been worried that today's turkoff, it's a big day between Greg Cody. Greg Cody says he makes the best turkey. Roy Bellamy says he makes the best turkey. Roy Bellamy right now is standing over his oils and turkey. But Greg Cody is here, and there's no one on the 11th floor. I'm in a room floor with Greg Cody's bucket.

Of oil. In an enclosed garage, which is somehow someone approved this is where.

We're going to do this. Inclosed is debatable. I think there's a window somewhere in there. Greg, when you left the 11th floor, was anyone there tending to the oil? I don't.

Think so. Okay. Yeah, I set the oil on low, so it's probably not boiling and bubbling yet. But as soon as it does, as soon as it gets up to temp, I want to drop my bird. I don't know exactly when that is, because normally when I go through this process and cook Greg's deep fried cage and bird, I'm babysitting it the entire time. I'm watching the oil come up to temp. I'm constantly watching the bird. This is a little unusual, doing it remotely. I'm eight floors away from my oil right now, and I'm feeling a.

Little nervous. Is there anyone up there watching what could be bubbling oil? This seems irresponsible.

There is a fire martial on hand.

Like a real one or like, I'm a race car driver today?

There's a person that we're calling a fire marshall on hand.

All right, we're calling it.

It's.

Louis. Okay, so we don't have a fire marshall, but at least we have someone. So someone is minding the oil. You asked me that question. You wandered away from the without knowing if it had a minder.

I was told to be done. I do what I'm told.

Since when, Greg? Do you have a back in my day to day?

No, because my- It's a turnkoff. It's a turnkoff day. I contributed a brand new son. Yet and I contributed a brand new song to the show. I thought that was enough.

We haven't played.

That yet.

I've heard about that song. Mike, can you get that song for me now, please? And we will check in with Roy in a moment. I saw he appears to be in one of the lovely Elser Suites, where he is responsibly minding his oil. Greg Cody, we're going to have to send Greg Cody up to make sure everything's okay with his oil and probably send a cameraman with him.

Roy doesn't have oil, just.

So you know. Yeah, I was going to say, why do you keep referring to.

Roy's oil? He's doing the classic oven-roasted turkey.

Okay, my fault. I thought the turkough was fried turkeys against each other. I'm sorry for not knowing.

O versus O, oil versus oven.

Right, Roy?

Nice chatting with you.

You threw it to Roy.

You know, he was on the TV. I thought he was listening. Oven versus oil. O versus O. It's like that's a way to promote it.

The bait is old as time.

That's right. Thank you, Billy.

Roy, can you indeed hear us from that suite in that room that Greg Cody was not supposed to throw it to because he is not a professional broadcaster?

Old versus odd.

Roy?

You guys. I can hear you guys. You guys.

Are chopping right now, coming in and out, just like I.

Chopped the.

Shallots for my turkey. You're coming in and out right now. But we are halfway through the cooking process.

Right now.

If you want, I can show you.

Yeah, let's see this bad boy.

Before I base it. Well, hold on. There needs to be a little tease. For sure. Yeah, you don't want to go just straight to the turk off. You want to slow it down, lubricate the surroundings. Can you tell me, how confident you are that you're going to be able to defeat Greg Cody in this turk-off? Well, right now I'm at 70 % because I'm not using.

My.

Normal turkey. I'm using a store-bought turkey right now that.

Was already brine.

-so you're catching.

It yourself? -i'm catching my brine time in half. No, I did not catch it myself. No, I go to.

An actual.

Butcher for.

My actual turkey.

So fortunately, I wasn't.

Able to do that.

Why not? I tweaked the recipe.

A little bit.

-tweaked the recipe? -because it was last minute. You guys just thrusting me into.

The.

Turkough. I'm sorry. There's been a lot of excuses.

You had weeks.

I don't understand. Thanksgiving was like five.

Weeks ago. You had weeks. We talked about this weeks ago. Look, this is what I know, and I can say this without dilution. What I will say without dilution is since we first talked about the turk off to now, you had plenty of time to go to the butcher and get a turkey. No, first.

Of.

All, I must have missed those.

Meetings because I was told about this.

One week ago.

That's why I.

Was- That sounds like a week.

No, not.

Enough time. Not enough time to get a turkey in a week.

By the way, all of this is an answer to the.

Question now. What am I? A miracle worker? I can't get you a turkey in a week. I have.

That 70% right now. Put it on the poll, please, JuJu at Levitard show is one week enough time to get a single turkey. He said.

That like he.

Got you. Yeah, he really did. I didn't have multiple weeks. I had a.

Single week. Here's an impossible timeline. A week.

It seems like one day would be plenty of time.

No, this is like the equivalent of The Mission: Impossibleible Movies. When I think of how hard, the degree of difficulty. This is the hardest thing we've ever asked Roy to do. Get a turkey within a week.

In Roy's defense, we don't know where the butcher is.

He coaches the Knicks.

Hey. I can just imagine we're going to need to find a turkey in a week.

I got a guy. I want you guys to understand. It's going to cost you. I asked Roy the question how confident he was. That's what we got as an answer without ever getting, and I'm unconfident. No, the answer was 70%, Dan.

70%? Okay. 10% was the- It's a terrible answer. Here's Greg's song. I'm fading you down. A week to get a turkey.

His.

Name is Cooper, good at running curls. But when his hand he got a tear, he saw Pooca standing there. His blade diminished, hostile takeover. Nukua hopped into the car. Mcveigh has maybe found a star. And then that staffer threw him 25 and two. Oh, there's a brand new kid in town out of B-Y-U. They call him Puca. Puca. Puca, Nukua. His quarterback is not named to us. Yeah. And he is Puca. Puca.

Puca Nukua.

Fantasy Assassin is the time to cash in. Yeah, Puca.

His quarterback is not name, Tua.

Yeah, hymns with Nacua. What are you going to do? Toe tapper. Yeah, yeti Blank, by the way, a genius. How many takes did he have me do to get that song just right?

Especially-who are you asking?

-on B-Y-U alone. He's like, No, don't go B-Y-U. Go B-Y-U.

But you were asking us as if we knew.

You were there. You did it. I know. He's a perfectionist. Thank you, Yetty, for that.

You are clearly not. You are whatever the opposite of a perfection. You're an imperfectionist. I am. Let's put it on the pole, please, JuJu. Is Greg Cody an imperfectionist?

Yes, he is.

Go ahead and get out of here. Take the camera person with you and get us a shot of you and the boiling oil. How confident are you that you're going to be able to defeat Roy in the first annual turkoff?

Well, I heard a lot of excuses from my worthy challenger, and I don't play that. I don't play that game. I am 100 % confident.

We made a series of excuses before we.

Went to Roy. I've done this a million times. The bird, I have about a 95 % success rate with Greg's deep fried Cajun bird. We're going to jack it up to 96 % right now. Thank you.

Nice. Are you going to be barefoot.

When you do it? Yeah, it's a tradition. When I drop the oil, I will be.

The.

Bird in the oil. Yeah, just when I dropped the oil.

Right. Did you go to your butcher to get the turkey?

No, I grew my own. I raised it from a little tiny baby.

And I.

Killed it. Yeah, but mercifully. He came to you with a hatchet. Nothing. Welcome to Coo-Wo. This quarterback is not named to us.

So you beheaded a turkey.

Yeah. Mercifully. I'm just kidding. I bought it at an unnamed- It.

Was done for him.

Who are going to be the judges on the turkov? Our belly's. Everyone's belly's? Are we voting? We're going to vote for whoever it is, produce the best turkey. I'm not confident in Roy right now.

I'm confident.

Well, Roy is not confident in Roy.

Right now. The judging of this contest is going to be pretty straightforward. We didn't overthink that. We're going to watch two dudes turk off, and then afterwards we're going to taste it.

Now, there's only six of us here. There's a situation where it's three-three. Do we want to bring a seventh person? Who's our seventh taster if we're split after six.

We will figure that out as we go.

This.

Is a nightmare scenario that we discussed a week ago. Hopefully, it doesn't come to that, Chris. There really is no plan B.

If there's a tie. My dad threatened the will if I didn't vote for him, by.

The way. I did nothing of the kind. He does that a lot, doesn't he? I would.

Have if I thought of it. He does that a lot, doesn't he? Doesn't he threaten you with... Who are you going to give the inheritance to if not to Chris?

Charity.

Is she an exotic dancer?

All right.

Should I hit up? Yes, get out of here.

Tuckit. Chris Cody said his father looks cool today, which I've never heard anyone say of Greg.

Cody before. You know what? It could be the Team Valor, Calmly, Race Horse hat I'm wearing, which is by Steve Arduini and Lou from Cincinnati. So thank you two for sending me this hat.

You are gross. Thank you for the acceptance speech. Awesome. On your hat.

On your hat. On your hat.

On your hat.

His.

Quarterback is not named to us.

So good. It is.

Because it's so bad. It's Our Wheelhouse. I can't believe.

No one's.

Thought of that. Our wheelhouse is… How do we all care?

We gave a 16-week heads up on this, and I was so worried over the 16 weeks that someone would come up with this idea. But no, lucky for us.

This quarterback is not named Kua.

Don Lebertard.

I miss crank windows. Too many unnecessary conveniences now, cruise control. Please, I've got cruise control built in. It's called my right foot. It controls how fast the car goes. No button or steering wheel ever needed. Power steering. There's another one. Why do I don't want to give my power to the car? The power that I once had. The car is a ton of metal. I'm a damn college graduate.

Stugats.

Bluetooth, HD radio, satellite. I'll take AM, please, with Wolf Man Jack talking through the static, and I'll crank the windows down so everybody can hear. I'm Greg Cody, and that's how it was back in.

My day. This is the Dan Levator Show with.

The.

Stugats.

Lucy made Chris Cody laugh out loud before we started the show. She walked in, and by way of greeting, she told all of us, You're never going to guess who is in line to be the offensive coordinator at Iowa.

I.

Believe that everything.

In my life has led me to.

This moment. Going to the.

University of Iowa, now moving to Miami, and the front runner.

To be.

The Iowa OC.

Is Joe Philby.

That's just good comedy. You're screwing with me. I don't believe that. He looks like Iowa. Oh, my God. I'm picturing now this audition room. I know it's a head coaching job or offensive coordinator, but I'm picturing an L. A. Style movie, in the transition room, and it's just the saddest, most boring offensive minds in football.

Just waiting outside of the room to meet Kirk Ferris. I could talk to him.

Joe's just like, Okay, I guess it's my turn.

Well, I don't know about the rest of you. You made him more southern country than I imagine. John Skipper a little in there. A little.

Ranch hand. He's got some of that in him, though.

It's an old time in Northeastern, like the Plymouth Rock.

Well, this is what I think of. When I think of Joe Philby, I think of when he was the offensive coordinator of the Packers, easier to do when Aaron Rogers is in his prime as the MVP. I think of Joe Philby showing up and the team making fun of him because he showed up on either, well, it must have been Thanksgiving, showed up, not Halloween, dressed as a Pilgrim, and killed the part because he looks.

Like that. It was a motivational tactic to inspire his team to victory over the lions at the time. I assume they won.

If you're doing that, you have to wear a giant belt buckle, correct?

Yeah, on the hat and the shoes.

He looked a bit leprechaun-y, as I recall, but also- Tall. Yeah, but also tall enough to pass for a Pilgrim.

Yeah, like Nosferatu.

The Iowa offensive coordinator job has to be a good job, correct? Because you cannot do worse than has been done. I think it's a great job because Iowa fans.

I think, they're with me on this one. I don't really want a great offensive coordinator.

I'm fine with just an okay.

One at this point.

Because okay is just that's good enough. I'll take it. We're not getting Lincoln-Riley. I just.

Want 27.

Points a game.

Well, you're in luck because Joe Philby is okay.

What questions do you think Farrant is asking? Well, you're going in there and you're trying to impress a guy who doesn't want to get first down. It's third and four at your own 30. Well, what's your offensive philosophy? Three yards at a time. Run the ball. You're hired.

Fourth and inches. Who is my punner?

What do you.

Think about punning on.

Third down? Billy, how do you feel right now about both your F1 outfit? That helmet was too heavy and tight for me. I was supposed to do that one, and I had to train it out because the helmet doesn't fit, and I could not do a show where I wouldn't be able to hear you guys with a helmet that cannot fit. How are you feeling both about that and our turkoff right now?

I feel terrible about this decision, but as someone who rules with an iron fist, I saw punishment not being completed, so I took it upon myself to do it today. The helmet is very tight.

It looks like your head.

Is about to explode. It's horrible. I can't breathe very well. Had I known this, I probably would have contact lenses instead of glasses. I can't hear anything. My nose is stuffed, so I can't breathe through my nose. Also, as I told you guys last week, the universe was out to get me, and I haven't made amends yet, so my neck is still not in a good situation. I didn't think about the weight of the helmet and my neck. It's a bit of a struggle right now, but you know what? It's Death Cember, and punishments have to be paid off, so I'll do them if I have to.

Have you thought about going visor down?

No, I actually can't breathe with the visor down. I did try that and I couldn't breathe, and I thought, We're going to die in a fire anyways. Let me not be a corpse when the.

Fire-you'll put it down right as the fire starts just as like, This is.

How I want to go. Also, this protects me from absolutely no fire. I will be burned alive in this suit. It's just plastic. It will melt onto my face and probably make my body unrecognizable.

Maybe he should be the reporter out there with my dad.

Yeah, you should be the fire marshall.

Who approved deep frying a turkey in an enclosed garage?

Enclosed is debatable.

-it's not debatable.

This quarterback is not named to us.

To my knowledge, this is a smoke-free building, which Stugart's breaks every single break. -stugaz. -again, an enclosed.

Parking garage. -still standing.

-he's smoking. But this is supposed to be a smoke-free building, but we're going to deep fry a turkey in a garage filled with cars.

You sound Sinemae because it's squeezing your face.

I feel Sinemae.

The helmet is squeezing your face, and it's altering the way your voice sounds. Also, the acoustics from inside the helmet are making it known to the audio-only audience that you are clearly that is the visor going down.

Now the visor is down and the helmet is inside. Does this sound better.

Or worse? -it's worse.

-it's worse.

But better. Well, here's my fear also, is that the earpiece situation I have set up hurts. I want to take off this helmet in the breaks, but I don't think I'm going to be able to get it back on successfully.

It is very tight, and I simply couldn't do that because my face and my head are too big for that helmet. Thank you for ruling with an iron fist, and thank you for your contributions to trying to make this show better. I am also afraid that this turkov isn't going to go the way that it was planned. Do you think we're going to have a payoff when? At the end of the hour? At the end of.

The show? I don't think Roy's Turkey is going to be done until 6:00 PM.

Well, he started it around 7:00, and I think it takes three hours. We're looking at 11:00 AM, done time for Roy, and my dad's going to drop his about an hour after that.

His will be ready. Right. Would you guys be kind enough to, really, I'd like as a group here to have a team meeting. Can you explain to me how in Roy's head somewhere a week is not a long enough time on notice for him to be able to go get from a butcher.

A turkey. I mean, he's a busy guy. He has kids. He's got a family. He's got the hockey show. Sometimes.

I'd.

Like to talk for a moment about what Van Ginkgo did on Sunday: getting his nose broken in the first quarter and just playing the remainder of the game. I know we get used to in that sports, Dugats, I'm sure by this time you're used to gnarled fingers of former football players because they get their fingers caught between helmets. That has to be a thing that happens fairly often, and it seems like that would be pretty awful. You hear all the time in huddles, guys just help teammates popping their fingers back in.

It.

Makes me go, Oh. Yeah, it's a normal thing in that sport to you do not leave the field and stay out because your bone or your finger is in the wrong direction, dislocated. But I'm just asking all of you the practical effects of, as Billy tries to do the show with a helmet on, but it is too tight. What do you imagine playing an NFL football game is like if you break your nose in the.

First quarter? I can't imagine what it's like if you didn't break your nose.

It's an excellent point by you.

You have to just breathe out of your mouth the whole game now.

That's usually how it goes. Jj Watt played with a broken nose for three straight seasons at a Hall of Fame level. Ben Ginkgo has got some work to do.

Everyone here would take the show off if they broke their nose.

I think you're selling us short.

You're trying to kill death punishment, break a nose, finish the show.

I don't want to compare myself to a football player, but right now I'm doing my job with a helmet on and a stuffed nose, so I feel like it's fairly comparable.

It's just one step away from Ben Ginkgo.

Was your nose stuffed before you put on the helmet, or is it squeezing your face so that it's stuffed your nose? Did you have some sinus issues walking in this morning? Or are those all caused by the helmet?

I wake up every morning with a stuffy nose, and I have a technique that I use that's gross, and I'm also working on, I think, a proprietary fix to.

This solution.

Blowing your nose? No, it's better than blowing your nose, but it's gross. So if this is a judgment-free zone, I'd like to share.

With you guys. I'd like to get to it, but before we get to it, I just want to tell you guys, I don't know if this is the same thing. I remember where I was. Freddie Gonzalez was the third base coach for the Eary Saylers. The first time I ever saw anyone blow their nose without a napkin by just putting a finger on a single nostril and blowing out of one side.

A snot rocket.

Yeah, it's the first time I had ever.

Seen that.

Love doing that. I was just a young man, and I learned about life and discovery and wonder in eerie Pennsylvania in the third base box- From Freddie Gonzalez? -from Freddie Gonzalez before he was the illustrious Freddie Gonzalez. Before he was the illustrious Freddie Gonzalez, he taught me what the snot.

Rocket was. You either have that in you or you don't because you don't want to be the guy that's like, Oh, someone did that. That looks cool. Then you try it and then you end up with it all over your face. There are places, though, where it's appropriate. Golf course. A golf course, a baseball diamond. It's fine. No one looks at you weird. You could do it there. The shower. You could do it on the sidewalk. That's a different thing. -the shower, definitely. -when you're sick and you have a cold and you're in the shower, it is just I am clearing out.

Right now. Lucy, how do you feel in general about the snot rocket?

I love being a girl.

And not thinking about these things.

Then when you guys talk about them, I'm squeamish. I don't like any, like when you talked about broken nose, got a little light headed.

I don't like.

Any of it.

The girls don't have boogers?

No. What do you do? We don't. Billy?

Well, do you want to know how I clear up my nose? Again, judgment-free zone, even though Lucy is very clearly judging all of us at this moment. Always him. All right, so I get some toilet paper, some TPA, right? I thought about this because of a Q-tip in your ear. I'll get some toilet paper, I'll make it into a little column, and then I push it in, and I spin it around, give it two or three quick spins like you used to do the COVID testing around your nose, and it grabs everything, and you take it out, then you can rip off the tip of it, throw it in the toilet or whatever. Then you do another one of those with the bottom half of it, spin it around the other side, clearest.

You'll ever breathe. I think that's less gross than the snot rocket, isn't it? The snot rocket is pretty disgusting. I remember being taken aback. I don't know if you know Stugass the first time you saw it. But to arrive at Freddie Gonzalez and Discovery.

I don't.

I'm sorry. Okay, and to see just a stream of snot. Yes, come out of a man that casually, with some real expertise. I mean, he did it.

He did it with a- It's part of everyday life for Frank.

Yeah, it was.

With a flourish. If you're watching on Max or YouTube- This is horrific. -you can see just how troubling this setup is.

-we should not be doing this.

Part live. No, that propane tank, no, that scares me. Everything that this is not responsible.

-it's next to something that's fenced in.

Yeah, a larger propane tank.

At least he has his apron on.

I'm trying to think of something more horrifying that I could put dangerously next to Greg Cody than a can that says.

Gas next to it. There's also live wires right behind him encased in like mesh. None of this is safe.

Here, Greg Cody, are you ready? Are you ready up there? Can you hear us? Is he in position right now? Yeah, I can hear you. Tell us. Set up the scene.

Can you hear me?

Yes.

Okay, we've had a calamity here. I told you- This is.

A new and.

Unapproved Dan Levitard show with the Stugart. Gamble on by Krav Kins. Don't live a tort. That's how it's going to end. The mailing and then end of the retirement. Chris, go get me this. It's just going to be him coming out and hitting the one or two notes of that thing, and you know it and then just giving us finger guns and leaving.

Baby.

You should listen to the Greg Cody Show podcast because that's all we do for 55 minutes a week is just say catch phrases. We even make songs about them. And You Know It is a song for Crying out loud. That's great. Hopefully, that's a Suie nominee for best song. And you know it, baby. And you know it.

Stugats.

And you know it, baby. And you know it. And you know it, baby. And you know it, baby. And you know it, baby. And you know it. And you know it, baby.

And you know it. This is the Dan Levator Show with the Stugats.

I.

Got to be honest, this feels terrifying to me. I don't like seeing that flame near your father and a tank that reads gas on it.

The oil.

On the other side. None of this does not seem good.

We sent Billy up there to check if it was-He'll take care of it. Oh, boy. Oh, man.

Expert. No, this is not good. It doesn't seem clean.

None of this-Oh, is that going on the floor? Hold on.

Oh, my God.

Guys, it's going to be cleaned by the cooking process.

Chris, how do you feel about your father here? You're laughing, but you're also scared.

It is honestly a little terrifying. I am confident because he's done this so many times, but usually he has a kitchen.

But is the tank usually this close behind?

We're just looking at his ass. I'm going to tell you, he's carrying himself like an expert. Right now, he's dusting season right now. He knows what he's doing.

Have faith. This is live. This can go wrong. You guys are in agreement with me that the propane tank, Lucy, you're the responsible one here. Does it not seem like it's too close to the oil, to.

The fire? He's lifting it up. Oh, my God. This would be bad.

Right here. Oh, dear God.

Okay, we made it. He's sliding it now.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, I think we're good. No, Mitch?

Just foil on his hands? Are we sure? Wait, we should talk to him for this part. About to drop it. Hold on, dad. Greg, pause. Hold on, Greg. Oh, he's taking his shoes off.

He's going to take his.

Shoes off.

Mike.

Greg, Cody, can you.

Hear us? There we go. He's on the 11th floor of the garage. There are some remnants, some oil remnants. Same thing you would see in a home where someone was cooking crack and foil. Greg, Cody, can you hear us? And do you have a microphone? Can you talk to us at the same time? Uh-oh, yes, there is John Reed. Always professional. Thank you, John Reed. Hello?

Yeah, we can hear you.

Yes, Greg, go ahead and give us.

The- I am prepared. The bird is ready. Give us the play-by-play.

Go.

Ahead. I am ready for the ceremonial dropping of the bird. Now, Dad, first, let me just make sure you said before this that the oil was too hot when you left it there by itself. Are you sure the oil is not too hot now? Because that could be a problem. His headphones are off.

Okay, somebody help him. Billy, get in there.

And he's.

Frying a turkey. Billy, get in there and help him, please. Because confidence is not a strength under the best of circumstances with Cody. Billy, why don't you give us the play-by-play and perhaps interview him as he drops the turkey into the fryer and starts to compete with, of course, his headset doesn't work.

The headphones are breaking.

Yeah, we know.

Yes.

Okay, everything's all right. Can I.

Drop the bird? The oil is not too hot, correct?

We hope not. All right. The oil look, I don't want to be.

This close. Billy, get away.

From me. You have a helmet on, Billy.

I didn't tell you this, but it's on a tiny ledge, this turtle.

You can hear it.

-yes. -put the microphone close.

What a great sound. Nice and slow, Greg. I can't believe Billy is this close to this. That's the biggest upset here.

That casuela looks like it's lived. -that sound is so gross. I think we're good. That casuella has lived. That has cooked some things. There have been a lot of deaths inside of that.

Okay, we don't want the oil to go up much higher. I think we're going to be fine. The bird has dropped. Okay, we're getting a little residual. Is that okay? But we're good. We're fine.

How long will that stay in there, Greg?

We're starting the clock right now. It's going to take in the neighborhood of 35 minutes.

Okay, you sound winded.

It went in at 9:32.

I'm setting a give or take Timer on his phone right now.

It's a fairly exact science, so we're going to set it at- Well.

If it's give or take, it's not exact.

We're going to set it at 30, and then I'm going to look at it. That thing.

Yeah. This, Dan, to paint a picture is foam here that's very flammable right next.

To this. Yeah, we don't worry about that.

Okay, thank you for all of your.

Hard work. He does sound winded.

Yes. Was that from bending over, Greg?

Just movement.

Do you sound winded simply from bending over? Yes or no?

I have ruined a pair of Meta Lark earphones.

Yeah, he broke head. Did you see the ledge that it's on for some reason?

We're on a ledge right now.

All right, good work. Excellent broadcast at the end. Wait a Peter out. Didn't answer.

My- We're on a ledge. What did you ask? I'm sorry.

Never mind. It's not important.

Pablo.

Torre is there, but I'm not ready to go to Pablo Torre yet, so he's going to have.

To- I ruined the earphone. I'm not ready to be gone to you yet.

Let's wait for a second before we get to Pablo Torre. He's riveted. I want to read to you guys this report from Wesley Steinberg, who is a giant insider who seems credible because his avatar is a picture of Bill Parcells.

That's.

It.

I'm going to let you do this.

You think I'm being fooled by.

The internet? Well, the previous report on Wesley Steynberg's timeline is that Sean McDermott was arrested at the team facility for his comments on 9/11. So seems credible enough, it's got a blue.

Check rum with it. One of the problems I have with some of the DeVito information is that some of it seems like it is real and some of it seems like it is fake. This is not from Wesley Steinberg, what I am telling you now, which is that DeVito's agent is in a feud with a New Jersey pizzeria place, because evidently at the last minute, they doubled the appearance fee of Tommy DeVito, the giant's quarterback.

Yeah, so. I mean, Tommy DeVito has become a major star, and so this guy wants to cash in while he can, and so we double the fee. Big deal. I guarantee you, doubling the fee, they're also doubling the amount of people that are coming out to see Tommy DeVito at said pizza parlor. When did they agree to that fee, though? You can't just go back on. If it was set months ago, I mean, it's just, Sorry, Tommy.

But Stugatz is okay with lying and just filing it under business.

We don't know all the details. We have.

No idea. But you're siding with a doubling of the fee when the detail we do know is that the pizzeria feels ripped off by it. There is beef between, there's pepperoni between these two sides. There's a problem between the two sides.

I'm siding with Strike While the Iron is Hot. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm siding with because Tommy DeVito, this may be the best opportunity he has to cash in on his celebrity right now because it could go away at any moment. So his agent is doing what an agent does.

So what's that fake story you wanted to read?

This is why it sounds believable when I'm jumping from one to the other that he recently told the team's social media manager to quit it with all the Italian. I just want to play football before storming out of a room. It doesn't seem crazy. I don't know whether it's true or not.

No, it's believable. I got sent that in a group chat, and I'm like, Wow, we could use this for the show. Let me see if this person's real. Blue check. Okay, a good start. Nowhere in the bio does it say, Parity account, because allegedly that's how we were supposed to distinguish fake accounts. Then I did the last check, which is, Let's just see how full of this account is usually. The couple of first tweets that I saw seemed reputable. Then, Sean McDermott was arrested at the team facility, three tweets down. This is the future that we feared when the blue check policy changed.

It is here that future is here now. Since we are on max, obviously, this is just a silly sports thing that doesn't matter. But John Oliver, Stugart, who I believe, and I know a lot of people think that he's too woke because of where we've divided, but I don't think that John Oliver has moved politically in his 15 years on camera. He's always been about the same things. And most of what it is that he says or does on Sundays is enriched by facts, like just clear and obvious facts. He may be presenting them in a way that obviously leans a certain way, but what he's giving you again and again is fact-based. It's indisputable. He's got a team of 20 writers who work all week to produce a half-hour show, and they need weeks off because of how strenuous those weeks are to get someone in front of a camera to talk for 30 minutes straight and do that correctly, factually, with the subject matter they're covering. And he spent the 30 minutes taking out Elon Musk. And not surprisingly, Elon Musk's response to that was John Oliver was funny many years ago before he went full, woke, and is now humorless.

Woke is interesting as a word because it's gone from something that was used by black people. Stay woke, stay alert to racism. It's been co-opted to dismiss funny people. Elon Musk is many things. Funny is not one of them. He's simply not funny. I don't trust him to discern who else is funny. It's not something that's in his repertoire.

I've tried to follow some definitions because people have been asked several times to find woke, and they just go, Woke mind virus. But pretty much the description of woke just means progressive. I think that oftentimes people give credence to dismissing someone as woke by just regurgitating that word. It's progressive. It doesn't have a negative connotation. Neither does woke, by the way, but it's totally been co-opted. The way that fake news was co-opted by Trump earlier.

I love that show. I love Last Week Tonight. I like watching Bill Mars show as well. To me, it's just an easy download that's digestible on things going on in the world that can mix comedy and difficult subject matter that doesn't seem very funny. But what Musk is doing with what is now X, and he's getting mad that he has not been able to get people to stop calling it Twitter because everyone is still referring to it as Twitter, the idea that Elon Musk, Stugat, who seems like an overgrown high schooler trying like Zuckerberg, all of them trying to be popular because they weren't at one time and now trying to purchase that popularity. Him being taken down for 30 minutes, fact-based on Elon Musk, John Oliver taking him down, I would encourage everybody to watch what is there. I know Elon Musk now. A podcast about him and his history is top five in the United States, just covering who it is Elon Musk is because he's got an extraordinary amount of power and people don't totally know what he wishes to do.

With it. I've been calling Musk a phony and a fraud for years now on the show, but you're saying, And I did it without any facts behind me. I just threw it out there and we had some fun with it. You're saying that John Oliver has facts to back it up? On everything. What a powerful feeling that must be.

Yes, to have a team of writers putting together the facts for you so that you can be properly informed and nothing that you say is assailable, all of it is vetted and lawyer, so that you also cannot get sued. Yes, that would be wonderful if I could work with people like that. Instead, it's you and Cody on Tuesdays near a propane tank with a lot.

Of flame. But I was right about Musk. You were.

You were there before. You didn't need any facts. Can Greg Cody still hear me with his broken headphones? Is he still out there? Let's go to Greg and Cody. Cody, your opinions on how it's going. I think I.

Would want to.

Strain it. Oh, yeah, I want.

To talk to Greg.

I want to hear him in his natural elements.

Yes. Greg Cody. Yes. How is it going up there? Give us an update, sir.

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