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Why are you listening to this show?

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I'm a little bit worried about whether or not I'm going to have the stamina for this season because football arrived last night and there were more games than I was expecting.

I got a bit jostled by the amount of games that were there, and then in the middle of it, you have a giant transaction, and now we head into a weekend of

insanity among college football games before we prepare for the, you know, when daddy gets home.

And

the thing that I wanted to not just skip past because we're going to get into the merriment of football soon enough, did you see the report on Jim Ursay?

Because it made me uncomfortable in a number of different ways.

Jim Ursay obviously is gone.

And the reports that were basically verified in the statement by the family after his death is that he was having a number of relapses, drug relapses, before he died.

And it felt wrong to me to report that after his death, but it's not wrong to report that after his death.

It just made me queasy and uncomfortable because he's already dead and reporting sort of family embarrassments to me just land on the living.

So I had an uncomfortable feeling with the reporting, but I can't really be mad about the reporting because these are what the facts are, and the family confirms it in the statement.

But the thing that I wanted to ask you guys, because I don't think this is sort of known or talked about enough, the Colts were being run by a drug addict like the entire time and he was recovering, but he had an assortment of issues.

I don't say that as disparagement.

I do not say.

Well, it's just weird considering the preamble.

But I'm not saying, no, I want to actually discuss the difficult parts of this because the man in charge had a problem that often leaked out into into public, but those weren't the only times there were the problems.

So this gives you license now that it's out there to talk about it like this.

I'm going to talk about it through the honesty of what my feelings were as I received it.

Jim Ursai to me, I'm not judging the drug addiction.

This is a plague.

Like, we are addicted as Americans and the globe's addicted to all sorts of things.

But I wanted to have the conversation of what do you do or how do you do it when the man at the very top of the entire power chain has all manner of erratic behaviors that are tied up in what he admitted to while living was a constant drug and drinking problem because of wherever the addictions were as someone who climbed through the organization with no real expertise other than he was a ball boy once, inherited everything, and then the top of the Colts was being run by somebody who had the instabilities that you would associate with addiction.

And what I'm asking you is, what do you do when the power structure at the very top, like how does all that get managed in private?

Never mind when it would spill out into public so we would all find out about it.

How do you manage that as an organization, as a league, and everything else when the very top of your pyramid in power has a problem that he cannot correct?

I think they managed it pretty effectively.

They won while he was there.

To your earlier Jerry Jones point, Jim Ursa did it.

Look, there are plenty of examples.

Metal arcs should know well when someone at the top of the

top of the executive chain is dealing with something.

You can do this effectively.

You can be functional.

You can be uber successful.

And that's what the Indianapolis Colts were by the way.

But it's not what Jim Ursa was, not in public.

Jim Ursa had messes that you did not associate with any other NFL owner.

Well, what is the NFL owner's job?

To increase the value of his franchise and have success on the field.

And I understand there are other jobs that go there, run a good organization.

I don't know anything about the inner workings of the Indianapolis Colts organization, but I also know there haven't been exposés on that franchise the way that they have been with others.

So I think he was effective in his job, functional for the problems that he had.

I'm sure this was a nightmare to deal with with the family.

And to your earlier point, I actually do think the media did a really good job in respecting the privacy because it was painfully obvious to everyone what happened there during the NBA finals.

Oh, but it can be painfully obvious and yet still we have not talked enough about an NFL team was being run the entire time by somebody who could not manage an addiction.

And I say that not at all as a disparagement.

I really don't.

When I say drug addict, I'm just stating a matter of facts that the family would tell you about Jim Ursa.

I just can't imagine, this wasn't, I will not identify this as functional drug addiction.

Like

he had a problem that ended up in all manner of headlines, and I just can't imagine how much they kept out of the headlines.

I don't think there's anything special about the Indianapolis Colt situation.

I look at what's going on with X and Tesla.

You can be...

effective in making money and securing government contracts and have a noticeable problem.

And I would say maybe it's not always noticeable.

When you look at addiction numbers with the very top-line wealthy, it probably stands to reason that there are other owners dealing with similar problems, not just in their family, but they themselves, that have been able to keep it private and no one ever has any suspicion because we're none the wiser because the train keeps moving along.

I would be really curious though, okay, and let me make it just slightly more personal

because I have told you before that the nightmare of my brother's last few years had some stuff in it that I simply didn't recognize, okay?

So lest you think I'm just raining down judgment on the dead, I'm telling you that I had the emotional reaction to that headline of like, ooh, don't love that for the family, having all that in public.

Because I remember standing in like two o'clock in the morning, the police all around me and being like, I hope this doesn't end up in public, because I'm like, that would be terrible.

And I just was wondering, I legitimately was asking the question of the audience because I don't think it's thought about.

What do you imagine the practical difficulties were of having somebody

in charge of your organization at the very top of power who had a problem that he could not control that ended up in all manner of family pain and recklessness.

I can't imagine, like, Peyton Manning was covering up a lot of stuff there, but Bill Pollion must have been covering, I'm not saying covering up crimes, I'm saying

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it seems to me practically very hard to have that being doing the decision-making when it can't be trusted to not be erratic.

I don't feel like I have enough information on what the dynamic was in terms of decision-making.

Yes, he's at the very top of the chain, but he also empowered other people to make decisions too.

And I don't know what they ran into.

It was very clear from erratic behavior and what's been reported out there.

This was not easy to deal with, certainly for his family.

I'm sure some of that bled over professionally.

The Indianapolis Colts organization seemed to have navigated it pretty well from everything that I can tell.

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Don Lebatard.

That's how it's going to end.

The mailing it in the end of the retirement Chris, go get me this is just going to be him coming out and hitting the one or two notes notes of that kind of thing, and you know it, and then just giving us finger guns and leaving.

Baby.

You should listen to the Great Cody Show podcast because that's all we do for 55 minutes a week is just say catchphrases.

We even make songs about them.

And you know it is a song for crying out loud.

That's great.

Hopefully, that's a SUI nominee for best song.

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

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All right, let me segue into something else here that has to do with how things are kept public and private when you are wildly famous.

Okay, let's make this about Michael Jordan and a story that's not being covered very much presently.

And I figured that all things that got you real Michael Jordan honesty, I figured that that would be big news in this day and age, but evidently not if it's in NASCAR.

Like, you think the last dance showed you Michael Jordan's real personality?

Eh, eh.

NASCAR lawsuit, you might see a little more of Michael Jordan's personality.

I can make the argument that what Mike Ryan is about to read here has more real and honest Michael Jordan than we've seen just about anywhere outside of his Hall of Fame speech when he just sat over the microphone.

microphone and spit at everyone in the crowd that he wasn't that happy and he'd annihilate them all over again if he could.

If we were to guess some of the most powerful people in sports, people would certainly guess Michael Jordan before the Franz family that runs NASCAR.

However, Michael Jordan has repeatedly run into L after L

after L after L in the courts, challenging the Franz family, NASCAR, and their charter system.

For the uninitiated, Charters in NASCAR are essentially franchise fees.

You have a big buy-in at the start of the season to allow yourself to basically bypass qualification and be guaranteed slots in every race.

They don't hand them out to everybody.

There are plenty of race teams that still have to earn their keep and earn these charters.

Mike, if I can just stop you for a second, Tony, can you get the gearhead, please?

Because we never talk this much NASCAR without having

properly adorned accompaniments because we're a big network and all that.

The argument that Front Row Motorsports and 2311, the racing team owned, co-owned by Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin, and some other investors would argue is this is really unfair.

The revenue split is not justified.

And now NASCAR would say out of the other side of their mouth, what, we have a 50-50 revenue split for the available revenue.

While that is true, the bulk of the revenue that NASCAR gets goes to the tracks.

And NASCAR owns many of the tracks, especially the big money makers.

And Penske owns a massive track.

So you're never going to get them to cross one of the picket lines.

And that was the trouble that Michael Jordan, of all people, ran into.

He could not get buy-in from Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing, Penske, because the current dynamic with the Franz family works for those legacy motor clubs.

You're having trouble with the hat.

You're having trouble with the helmet.

It's the headphones underneath.

It's not really true.

Can you read some of the stuff that is being alleged in lawsuits?

So

private text messages came out.

And you have to keep in mind here, Denny Hamlin is in an awkward awkward situation.

He co-owns 2311, but he races for Joe Gibbs racing.

And Michael Jordan is really upset that Joe Gibbs decided to not join him in this fight because the only shot that they have against the France family that runs NASCAR is all the teams holding the line.

And that line quickly got broken.

So,

Jordan, this is a private text message.

Gibbs signed.

with NASCAR and their charter agreement.

Teams are going going to regret not supporting us.

And then he likened the losses that he had in this lawsuit and with NASCAR to casino-level losses.

So Michael Jordan is here playing a game now, and you have competitor Michael Jordan.

And Denny Hamlin, in the very awkward situation, who's been pretty public about his dislike for NASCAR,

is employed by the guy that he co-owns his business with, but like he's employed by Joe Gibbs Racing, and his co-owner is calling him a

okay but there's better the you skipped over michael jordan's text saying i've lost that in a casino no i didn't see morton also no i'm saying give the no i know you said it but i want the context for it when we're talking about the amount of money because yes he said that but i don't think people know the amount of money that you're talking about when he says i've lost that in a casino i've lost that on the financial risk of hiring a driver i've lost that in a casino let's do it.

Also, adding, this is just a hobby.

I can only play so much golf.

And the internal text that leaked from NASCAR liken it to, let's get back to the old days, good old redneck racing.

This is an ugly, ugly fight.

And the France family is very well politically connected.

They make some of the largest political contributions there is.

So Michael Jordan is actually running up against real power.

Michael Jordan, famously not political, made a big deal of the one political type of donation that he made.

He's running into people that have the stroke politically, and he is catching L after L.

And NASCAR loved having Michael Jordan in the family, brought extra eyes.

Didn't think that they would run into somebody with bleep you money and a bleep you attitude, and it still hasn't mattered because NASCAR keeps winning.

I wish, though, that we got some honest look, some honest look.

Wright Thompson has written some stories, but

at Michael Jordan, how he feels about the fact that once he got to power, like real power, like Tom Brady has now and stuff, that all he did was lose.

Like he won money.

Like however it is you do the measurements, I don't think he's doing the measurements the same way we're doing the measurements.

Like he wants to win money, but he just is addicted to winning.

We were talking about before the idea of the gambling, competitiveness.

Michael Jordan, however it is that he's trying to fill, whatever it is that it was being Michael Jordan, would be fighting with others over money, but always losing?

Like, because since he left the power of having the power on the court, I told you he had to pack up his boxes and was an employee at the end.

Abe Poland, one of the worst basketball owners in the league, get the bleep out of here.

I profited off of your last tour.

Get out of here.

Has taken nothing but losses from owners since in every way.

Has no meaningful ownership win as Tom Brady now gets into the game to fight on.

No, I'd like to compete up here too with Peyton Manning on what ownership looks like he crossed the threshold of having bleep you money that he can lose money not really feel it yeah ever and so he's here for the fight and it's actually pretty funny because michael jordan doesn't really want to show us a lot of his personality the competitor and the joy in in competing comes out in nascar it doesn't come out in any of his other interviews since he played even when he played he wasn't this emotional when bubba wallace won at the brickyard michael jordan was elated because there was a run where Denny won, where Bubba won, where they were winning after all these things became public in this lawsuit.

And he's going to keep trying.

They're actively competing in this season.

And to be great, they have two playoff drivers in Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace.

And if Denny Hamlin wins, that's also a big bleep you to the system.

They're doing this as a bleep you, not even to make money because they understand they're not going to win money.

They're doing this to compete and go up against the power.

And it's pretty cool for Michael Jordan at this stage in his life to be an underdog.

Those private texts are the most I've heard from Michael Jordan in a decade.

Right?

Like he said effers and the P-word.

And I'm like, oh, there's Michael Jordan.

Until this year.

What the hell is he going to say on NBA?

I like the idea of him like throwing down his phone after he texts that.

And his wife from Kendall looks at him and was like, what's wrong, Sweden?

He's like,

NASCAR.

And then they go out on the yacht and they just jump back into the ocean and live their luxurious lives again and forget about it five minutes later.

He's right about that.

She was from Kendall.

I know know that he's probably right about most of that, but I remember thinking to myself as I've told you guys that

when you've been a symbol for youth and vitality, it must be hard to just age, right?

Like as he has been, just whatever he feels like at 60, when he was the symbol on earth for youth and vitality, when you're always a winner.

Always a winner, and you're addicted to competition, I wonder if jumping off of that yacht into the ocean, Michael Jordan still feels like a winner when he loses in every boardroom.

Like, I understand.

I think he's fine.

I think he's doing just fine.

I would turns around and looks at his wife.

He goes to his own private golf course where drones deliver your food and he's like, yeah, I'm good.

It may be ridiculous to say.

And I would love to ask him, but given that he's been.

I don't think we're going to get the chance.

He's so separated from

the two three Petes, right?

He's run into real adversity here in NASCAR.

I think he might admit, given his passion for this sport, which it seems from the interviews he's given, he likes NASCAR more than he likes basketball.

If he wins this cup championship this year, I think he may say this is the most rewarding achievement I've ever had in sports.

That's insane.

Because a France family is trying Michael Jordan in ways that he hasn't been tried.

And again, he's been chasing that since the 90s.

He hasn't been winning.

In fact, everything he's done outside of the shoe business, but in sports, has largely been viewed as an embarrassment.

The comeback with the Wizards, he missed the playoffs.

The ownership with Charlotte, disastrous.

Didn't make nearly enough money when you see these valuations.

I wonder how much he doubts himself somewhere inside of all of this, because it's kind of why I was asking you what I was asking you the other day about Andrew Luck.

Because people think that some people just have it figured out because they got money and power.

And then all of of a sudden they're walking into boardrooms all over the place and oh my god I'm getting my ass kicked everywhere.

I just I'd be curious for an honest answer on where do you have doubt over the last 20 years on like I don't really belong here.

I've got a bit of imposter syndrome.

I would love for our guest bookers to try to have a go at Denny Hamlin.

Now there's certain things that he can't say because this is presently tied up in litigation, but Denny doesn't really pull punches.

He has his own podcast.

He's supremely outspoken and he has to be political and navigating.

He's part of the old guard with Joe Gibbs racing, racing for another team, but understands the underdog nature of trying to be one of the other teams.

There's talk that they would take on private equity and try to secure other racetracks to come up with a circuit that competes with NASCAR.

NASCAR is a big-time television property, huge.

Dwarfs the size of the contract that Formula One just got with Netflix or Apple, I'm sorry.

They're really big

and they are really politically plugged in.

This would be a massive upset.

And again, just fascinating to see Michael Jordan at this stage in his career go up against so much adversity, be at the bottom of a mountain and try to win an underdog battle.

I am ashamed of myself for going this far into the show without mentioning that Kyle Schwarber hit four home runs last night.

I feel like we should just stop whatever it is that we're doing whenever that happens and just sort of genuflect as a show, you know, square guy hits four home runs in a night.

We should treat it with more respect than talking about this stuff before we get to that.

But that's enough about that because I've got to get to the boldest take here.

And there's

a lot of show we're going to stuff here into the last 13 minutes of what we're doing here.

So let's go to boldest take first.

Here, are these calls getting any better?

Because it has not been consistent.

I'm not feeling good about it.

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They're 9% good.

It's 24% good.

91% bad.

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I've been a fan for a long time, but Dan, my hot take is you were so far out of line with what you did to Greg Cody, stealing his laptop and pushing the man that if he would pull Chris Everett on you, I would have been just fine.

Jim Rome Learn, you need some smoke sometimes, Dan.

That was too far.

They're clearly purple.

So, why do we call them red onions?

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This wasn't very funny.

Hey, this is Mark on a sat phone.

David Sampson looks like the kid you had to have a play date with after his mother called your mother.

That was a good impression of you, Dan.

96% bad on that particular batch, and I'm giving you generosity with the 4% good.

The Cody draft last night, the much talked about, much threatened Cody draft.

I cannot tell you that we will have a funnier moment this month than

Greg Cody becoming enraged with us because we were going to leak that his rankings of the Dolphins this season were 14 instead of 17.

The amount of content that we got out of his rage, the fact that

your father, a man of words, a man who's made his living on words,

cannot express to you the indignance and seriousness of the most serious things in his life without saying it's going to be his life, it's going to be his granddaughter's life, and it's going to be he's going to take away the draft, that the greatest punishment that he can rain down upon you as you're looking at him and saying, this threat doesn't mean anything.

Like, I can go and I can do the draft at someone else's house.

Your threat.

Oh, I got to go to Twin Peaks now.

Chris, like, he was yelling at you as if he thought it was the greatest of threats that he could hit you with.

And it was an empty.

Only he cares about it that way.

You don't care about it that way.

Right.

There were four other houses we could have had it at.

We we could have gone to a bar it was not the threat he thought it was but last night we had the draft the running joke last night was my dad not knowing what position anyone plays in a sport that he covers like a guy will be drafted david njoku at a tight end he'll just be like he's like he's looking to cross off his list and he has the position so he's always like what position is he he won't like that from you he won't he's an expert and he's he won't like that you just did that that was an undercut that's not i mean it was a running joke it's like everyone's like he's asked drake may

you're saying you're beginning the football season by accusing your dad of faking knowledge about football.

It's not that he's even faking.

I think he knows what position a lot of these guys play, but he just gets into this mode of, I'm not thinking about the NFL.

I'm looking at a list of names and I need to know where to look.

Like his brain turns off from what I actually know about football and it just goes to, I don't see him where what position?

And Joe, like he gets panicked.

And it's like, David Njoku, think for a second.

You know who this guy is.

He's a tight end dad.

I would classify him as weapon.

My mind is also geared towards the NFL, Chris, especially that week four matchup between the Packers and the Cowboys.

We talked a lot about what this means for the Cowboys.

We haven't talked at all about what this means for the Packers, and I'm sitting pretty on the ticket that had the Packers as NFC champions, and I'm pretty happy about that.

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A little detail from this Micah Parsons extension with the Packers.

$136 guaranteed.

That was kind of not that surprising.

$120 at signing.

That's right.

Is he literally just going to get a wire for $120 million?

Dan, how does that work?

They just wire you the money?

They'll take the taxes out of it.

I don't think that guaranteed money gets there as Gary.

I think it runs through a system of they start tracking intermediately on that stuff.

That's the most I've ever seen in terms of like right at the front.

That's crazy.

Yeah, I don't think I've let me run a Google.

I don't think I've seen that much money

as a as a signing.

So do they like, is it like an HOA?

for the Packers since they're like owned by everybody.

So like, you know, like we're gonna re you know, finish the parking lot.

Now we're gonna need, you know, 40 grand from everyone.

It's like, oh, guys, Micah Parsons, $120 million.

We're gonna need

going to need about $7 million from each of you now.

And I think it's cute being team owner.

Time to cash in.

I don't know how any of that works, but I really would like an understanding of how it's any different.

Like game one, there's a collection basket going around.

Like Lambo feeling like, oh, it's made it up.

Do you think most people know?

Do you think most people listening to this know that the Packers are owned by the surrounding community?

Like, do you think the majority of people listening to this know this?

Like, my dad is a quote-unquote owner of a horse, and he yearly has to send in like 500 bucks to throw for medical stuff.

No, it's not that.

I know it's not that with the Packers, but I'd actually be curious.

No, I know it might not be.

You should get the Packers owner on an ass bench.

It's literally one of like 80,000 people we could talk to.

You know a Packers owner?

I know a Packers owner.

Can you get him on in six minutes?

Poner.

Let me ask Lewis.

There's like thousands of Packers owners.

Vlad Guerrero Jr.

got a $325 million signing bonus.

Wow.

Does he play for free?

Yeah.

How does that work?

Well, I don't know.

The signing bonus is extra, right?

Is this deferred?

No, this is hard.

What do you mean the signing bonus extra?

No, you sign, you get that money.

You get a, that, that, again, though, I, I,

I believe that goes through a transaction state where the government does take it before wherever it is, like whatever you think, that signing bonus isn't going to end up being $120 million.

That's not taxable.

Prior to this, the biggest record signing bonus in NFL history was a Packers teammate of Michael Parsons.

Jordan Love got $75 million.

As a signing bonus, it's a bonus.

It's not for work that you've completed, right?

So let's say, you know, you go to like the BVI to sign your signing bonus.

What's to say if it just all of a sudden ends up, you know, at a P.O.

box or whatever?

You know?

Cayman's.

Yeah.

Billy, how do you imagine this would all work since you're hypothesizing that we can move 120 mil quietly?

But since that's the 920 years, people move 120 mil like this all the time.

Harlands used to be registered at a P.O.

box.

Andy Slater scooped us on that.

Look at the $1.1 billion in wire transfers, please.

Mike Ryan mentioned the idea of analyzing this from the Packers side of this.

But, Chris, was there anything else from your father's draft last night worth recapping?

I am sure our audience wants any information that is worth having on the Lobos and the Greg Cody family extravaganza that he cares so much about that he puts it in the same place that he puts his life, your daughter's life, and

I mean, but that's the priority, isn't it?

Yeah, it's life.

So

what came from last night that was worth talking about?

I would say, I'm getting told in my ear that we can have a Green Bay owner on the phone in two minutes if we want.

We want that.

But I would say outside of his lack of knowledge being a running joke his like just the way he announces every pick the lobos would welcome to the team like you know most people just say a name like terry mclaurin but my dad is the lobos welcome to the family i heard behind you here billy okay now billy you're you're billy you just did uh i heard you say do we want that now that we got the packers owner on the line and you're the one who said let's get a packers owner on the line like you're the one who said he wants it i provide it.

I know, but this is, this is the billing conundrum.

Earlier this week, he said he didn't want to be married to takes.

Yeah.

Doesn't do consequences.

But he doesn't do consequences, but he says, I'm the friend who just said shit when he told Tony, get a Packers owner.

You just say, oh, we should get a Packers owner.

I got one for it.

But I told you, I always got a guy.

You always say, oh, you don't have a guy.

I got a guy.

What do you want?

You want that?

I got you here.

So are we going to talk to Lewis's friend?

That is the moving.

you just almost literally moved the goalpost.

Like,

what you're saying,

your words have stopped meaning anything when you go from saying, Tony, get a Packers owner, we get him in two minutes, and then the next thing I hear behind Chris Cody is, do we even want that?

You're helping produce the show.

You produce those two minutes, and then I get those two minutes.

Tony produces the show, and you're like, I don't want it that way.

I'm just saying, do we want?

It's, I mean, Lewis has confirmed in my ear, he's an actual owner.

Okay, so great bring him on the air but for the record i said should we do i don't want to i don't want

you're the one pushing this guy now i don't want to talk to you

or whatever his name is his name is anthony

i want to know how it

i know i want to know how it really works to own the packers but this person's not going to know he's a sweetheart he's not sending in a bunch of money he's not he's not going to have any answers to any good questions dan he's got a plaque that says he's an owner he's a quack so you said?

No, that's you.

I said he's got a plaque.

All right, so which would you guys prefer here?

I'm going to do Fridays throughout the football season.

Which would you prefer here?

You guys make the decision because I don't want to kill the vibe around here.

Well,

just an update, Cam Newton is indeed wearing a poncho.

Oh,

were there halftimes in the draft yesterday?

No, that's another thing.

Oh, I stopped that.

Would you prefer two minutes of us breaking down this Michael Parsons trade from the Packers?

Michael Parsons.

We've really normalized how Cam Newton looks.

It's ridiculous.

Or would you prefer to put on Lewis' friend, possibly Peppett, to ask him to get a Packers owner restraint?

He's landing an owner.

I mean, that's

big.

Okay, the day after the trade?

Yeah.

All right.

Well, you guys go ahead.

Packers owner Anthony joins this show to break down the big trade.

All right.

I will be back.

Fine.

You guys break down.

How do you feel about Michael Parson?

Go ahead.

All right.

Get him on.

Who is it?

Fine.

Instead of breaking down the trade from the Packers' perspective.

Michael Parson.

You guys want to talk to one of the eight.

There are more than 80,000 Packers.

You've got to undercut it.

I got him in a second, Dan.

Here you go.

You ready?

You got him.

I got him.

I got him.

All right, all right.

So find out how this.

Find out how to get out of here.

Thank you, Dan.

I got the phone and stuff.

Thank you, Dan.

All right.

Twero, what's up, buddy?

Good to see you.

Anthony Tuero.

He's a Packers owner right now.

Very excited.

Obviously, he's got the cheese heads going.

He's got the 12 jersey, which is an interesting choice.

But the point being, now you're the proud, I wouldn't say owner, but you have Michael Parsons on your team as the owner of the Packers.

How do you feel?

Michael Parsons.

Yeah, I'm excited, man.

I mean, Super Bowl.

Right?

Like, that's, we are, we have to be up there with the Super Bowl favorites.

I mean, we jumped to the top of the NFC North.

The Lions are no longer

the ones that they're expecting to win the division.

Now it's us.

So we're Super Bowl bound.

I mean, come on.

Anthony, I have a question.

What was it like dealing with Jerry Jones to make this trade happen?

It was rough, guys.

It was rough.

If you heard what he told Michael Parsons telling him, hey, it's either a fifth-year option or you leave, you're done.

I mean,

it was very difficult dealing with a guy like Jerry Jones.

Let me tell you.

Get the plaque that you have there that says you're a Packers owner.

Where is it?

That's actually at my shop, at my business.

I don't have any proof.

I just got a guy in a Packers jersey with cheese on his head.

I don't have a second job.

I don't have a proof that this guy's an owner.

Come on, man.

Shareholder since 2019.

What does that mean?

What's it cost you per year?

What does that mean?

What does that mean?

So it literally means that I can just say I'm a shareholder.

That's all it says.

That's all I can do with it.

Do you have to pitch?

Do you have to pitch in money for the $120 million signing bonus?

So I pitched in $385.

See?

Wow.

Damn.

Yep.

It's a type.

Exactly.

That's what it was.

So, how does that work?

What is that?

What is that money?

So that was basically.

So to buy in, to get one share, it was like $330 plus tax and fees or whatever.

And then we get no dividends.

We get nothing.

I get to be a part of the shareholders' meeting, though, every year.

That's pretty cool.

Big call, right?

It's a very big call.

You ever speak up?

You ever speak up in there?

I was the one that told Brian, hey, Brian, let's go get this guy, man.

And he listened.

He listened.

Congratulations.

This is going to make news.

Congratulations.

We're very happy for you.

It's such power.

What a get.

It's so great to have the fans have this power where they can just say, hey, get me Micah Parsons.

And then they get to.

Not fan.

He's

told Brian.

My daughter get him.

Your thoughts on Jim Mersey.

We've got best musical performance here to put at the end of this segment.

It's the most anticipated SUE category we do every year.

And you were clapping back there, Chris.

Clapping?

It's that good of a year.

Because it's over.

The Sueys are over.

Oh, that's

just clapping.

I actually,

the SUIs make me feel good about what we do around here.

Sometimes you can get lost in the grind.

Wow.

And I just, it makes me feel like we did some good work this year.

It makes it feel like we have a good show.

Every year I'm always fascinated to learn what the strongest category is because it shifts.

Now, it may very well be the one that you're about to play.

I don't know what it says about us, but I think it's clearly the best mistake category that we played in.

Worst mistake was.

That was.

It's big year for mistakes.

Did you guys have a winner?

Did you guys come away with a consensus winner on big mistake?

Because we didn't talk very much.

We keep saying the categories are loaded, but anytime I asked a question of, hey, what was the best in that category?

I never all week got an answer from anybody that said this one thing was the best thing in that category.

So what do you nominate on worst mistake?

I have to re-listen to it.

You made zero sense when speaking to ron mcgill one time that was funny chris anytime christmas speaks is funny i i like the mean trying to say not my first rodeo that one fool by the horns or whatever he said yeah well yeah he got caught up in the air at the end of that greg talking over diana rousin yeah that was strong dan's beastie boys larsa pisson funny

yeah i was wincing a lot during that one john skipper saying any nba star could walk in and he'd recognize them and then mispronouncing all three of their names i got wimba yamu

I nailed Wimbañanya.

We're going to get

one.

That was a good one.

So we're at the owner of the Packers, huh?

That was a great idea, Billy.

Good consequence.

That is right, huh?

I don't feel like I have any more answers to my questions.

It's really easy.

Shareholder, you tell Brian, hey, get Micah Parsons.

He gets them.

You're happy.

Yeah,

I guess everybody.

You want to make it simple?

You want to make it difficult?

Everybody.

We could have broken down that trade very easily that way.

Hey, there's a player.

Every team would love to have him and every team would

lose him.

They'd hate to lose him.

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We end here with best musical performance.

I want to thank Yeti Blanc on the front end because the music that we started every show this week is an original song that he did.

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It's a banger.

Tune in next week.

We might have a football theme song for Greg.

That's a little tease.

But we have best musical performance, all the great songs from the year.

It's a doozy, and it's why it's the last category.

Let's do it.

Best musical performance.

And now, the SUI nominees for best musical performance, Jeremy Tashay, the day journalism died.

I can't remember if he cried when he told us with his face so wide that all his morals were a lie.

The day

journalism

died.

So Dan was saying

oh my how I love to eat pie Oh but if it adds some gluten then I think I may die

I'll shoot my integrity straight into the sky Banging Panther's drums as a Cuban born guy

Panther's drums as a Cuban born guy

Dominique Foxworth diamonds look like pee-pee

So he keeps lashing

so he can stop sharing.

Diamonds look like pee-pee.

Good range today from you, Dominique.

Yeti Blanc.

Why am I stuck in the middle?

When I asked him if he played the guitar,

he looked at me like I'm something bizarre.

These new shorts are running kind of small.

I hope this camera isn't showing my balls.

Two is to the left of me.

God says on the right.

Why am I stuck in the middle of you?

Why am I stuck?

Chris Cody, sunlight in your eye.

Sunlight in your eye.

CD Lamb asks why.

Cowboy fans cry

to Mike McCarthy.

We say bye.

That's it.

Beautiful.

It is.

Thank you.

Jeremy Tashay, Tetas.

No problem.

Español.

But I know it's a terrible thing.

Tetas isn't how you say it.

Unless you're embarrassingly white like David

Taylor Vipolis, John Olrood.

Saturday morning, woke up for the game

and put on my M's hat.

Got in my car and raced to the park.

A season to remember.

Garcia and Moyer, best staff in the land.

Boone's bat brought the heat.

Panela just got ejected again.

Yeah.

Cameron's in the outfield, no balls hit the ground.

Kasahiro Sasaki in for the safe.

Ichiroa's on the bases, yeah, he's flying around.

Edgar Martinez is a fan.

Faye,

at first, it's Sean Ola Rude.

Wearing a helmet in the field, too.

At first, it's Sean Ola Rude.

We'll lose to the Yankees anyway.

Loose to the Yankees.

Lose to them anyway.

Loose to the Yankees.

Yeah, no matter where we play.

Lose to the Yankees.

Damn, this is blasphemy.

At first, a channel

rude.

Andrew Strater, Missoula isn't good.

Because he clearly isn't good.

It makes me wonder how they're supposed to think Marzula's good.

It's like these people all forget.

He just sit here and eat those dudes.

I was Fred Stevens would come back.

Unknown listener, Golden Kane.

I have to hire you, Mario Castleball.

I am the reason players get paid.

I only wanna see

Jose

Jose.

I am a golden cane,

golden cane,

golden cane.

My name is Michael Ryan Roe with I'm a golden cane

Jeremy Tashay, quarterback I'm playing quarterback

If I'm that guy, I won't be taking sacks

I'm making special throws behind my back

Cause I'm that guy so I pick up your slack

what about this?

If I'm just a guy,

won't recognize a blitz when it's disguised.

I'm throwing pics when we're in overtime.

That's just what happens if I'm just a guy.

I got some questions.

Sam Donald, back you'll be throwing it.

Rock Purdy, back you'll be throwing it.

Callum Marie, back you be throwing it.

Andrew Streeter, Zaz gets to see Pearl Jam.

Who cares if the heat gets wet by the cares?

Zaz gets to see Pearl Jam.

He lies and says they've got a chance to win.

Zaz gets to see Pearl Jam.

The heat already games below 500, but Zaz gets to see Pearl Jam.

Yeti Blanc, Kid Bob.

My fear attack is my hate projects.

Fill my bank account and let me cash some checks.

And my focus group said to hate Hollywood.

I resemble Dr.

Phil with a wig and a hood.

Remember when I had the fake Senate run?

Call me Bob, my name's Rubber James.

Jeremy Tashay, all LeBron things.

All the

brawn themes.

he is

our king.

He and

Lakers,

Cleveland Cavaliers.

Always

we know

he'll put on the show.

Shooting and dunking.

La Boogie is winning.

Say ain't so.

He cannot go.

Never retire.

We love him so much.

LeBron, the front, the

Chris Cody, Miami Hurricanes

Mario Cristobal

dropped the ball

Couldn't see with his crystal ball

Cam Ward ends with D

and so too Mike Miami

Andrew Streeter, you're still McOverrated.

Oh, it's the same story as one year ago.

Connor McOverrated.

Hope you enjoyed that long flight home.

Connor McGoverated.

Your contract might have been for a hundred million bucks.

But none of that can add a less you hoist the cup.

Just listen to Grant Cody because that guy knows puck.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

You're still me gloried.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

You're still me gloridated.

Fort Stanley staying in South Florida.

Jeremy Tashay, the final nightgown.

We're starting collections

from the movies we love.

And maybe we'll keep them

until our last breath.

They're sunglasses in boxes today.

Putting my bed in the hospital,

ending our lives all the same.

It's the final night gown.

Taylor Ripolis, New York has Jalen Brunson.

I come back from a garden night.

My mother asked that the Knicks must have lost right.

Oh, mother dear, we're now the fortune it wants.

New York has Jalen Brunson.

Oh, New York really has.

He's all we really want.

Brunson

will win the game when it is done.

Because New York has Jalen Brunson.

New York has Jalen Brunson,

Jeremy Tashay, I have a new wife.

Well, Dan, a fight we had led us to a divorce.

But that's okay, cause how could you know that, of course?

Me and Bianca didn't make it this time.

But that's okay, Dan, because I have a new wife.

I didn't come here here to discuss my divorce, but that's fine.

Now you know that I have a new wife.

Andrew Streeter, Sleep Fartin.

He does a good job

of eating for his blood type.

He loves cheese fries,

but he can't have them now.

He's got a good wife

stuck in his Dutch oven.

He's got them bad boys

ripping all night.

Getting sleeping.

Sleep for you.

Sleep for the Lord.

Yeah, you sleep.

Sleep farther.

Amino Hesson, the candyman can.

Who can take the sunrise,

sprinkle it with dew,

cover it with chocolate and a miracle or so?

The Candyman, oh, the Candyman can.

Candyman.

Jeremy Tashay, Arizona.

I know

what all you want to say,

but I think you'd attend my funeral if I died in LA.

And I wonder

if there is a place where nobody would show up for me when I pass away

Oh,

what if I die in a Cleveland sports bar or a Boston hot tub or Tampa?

I'll make sure I'm done, not in Maine or Mobile

Because I belong dying in Arizona

Everyone will be there for me Arizona

I'm gonna make sure that I'm back from West Hollywood.

I'm gonna make sure that I die in Arizona,

Arizona

Yeti Blanc, McCover rated

taught him how to sing.

He grades with no exemption.

You're not a king without a crown.

He sees McJesus skating by

another year with hopes degraded.

The

cup evaded.

He's writing down the corners.

McOverated, Leonardo titled, they are gone.

Greg was right, read what he writes.

You know he knew it all along.

The Panthers clawed.

They own the Stanley Cup so well.

You'll be reading Greg's headlines.

The things you should have thought yourself.

Up hope

taught him how

Mystery Crate crew, we go together from Greece.

That's the way it should be.

I didn't watch this.

I hate you, Chris.

Oh, yeah, my back to that.

Andrew Strater, just not the heat.

Jimmy Buckets ain't just gonna stand there in the corner.

Says he'd play for Atlanta.

Just not the heat.

Sell his coffee as a clipper.

Just not the heat.

Maybe a buck or a blazer.

Just not the heat.

Says he'll play anywhere.

Just not the heat.

Rams defensive tackle Kobe Turner sings his original song Home.

Thinking of you every time I'm born,

listening

on these nights and all.

They say home is where your heart is.

Mine's been yours since when you came on your way.

From that day, I knew you'd been my light.

No, I loves not like those movies.

We've got ups and downs and places.

But I can see light at the end when I look in the stats.

Yeti Blanc, I'll take Eberflus.

I'll take Eberflus.

Yeah, he's got the juice.

Get the defense right, glory hole is in sight.

I'll take Eberflus.

But if we still lose,

then it's here to since throw time at Doctor School.

I'll take him.

Jeremy Tashay, Glory Holes.

I had a friend who was a bad football player

back in high school.

Couldn't run that football fire.

So he bought a team called the Cowboys.

Saw him the other night in this fathom stall.

I was walking in, he was walking out.

He came up to me and explained.

He has a few kinks.

And all he kept talking about

Glorios.

Ever just about five.

Glorios.

Careful where you put your eyes.

Glorios.

Glorios

Andrew Strader, Ristrepo.

Now we're running the league 8 and Osn that's sweet, you bet so.

Top five team, baby, you know, Miami's Ristrepo.

EA Sports, ranked him too low.

You should be like one hundo.

This is his team, everyone knows.

He is him, Ristrepo.

You know the ex gonna give it to you.

Wide open, even when he's covered.

These kings are gonna win it all, yeah.

Cause he's doing his thing, racking up dubs.

He a dairy strepo.

All ACC, baby, you know he is Henry Streppo.

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Rose with the spray.

Ooh, she sounded like a goose was stepped on with heels, yeah.

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