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Com. Sleep Number, the official sleep and wellness partner in the National Football League. See stores for details. Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. Draftkings, the Crown is yours. This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stugatz podcast. Do you like music that helps you reminisce until there's nothing left to reminisce about? Do you like listening to crooning old codgers who only show up to work one day a week? Hey, I resemble that remark. Then you're going to love Greg Cody and the Heeha 3. Greatest Tits album. If you love all your melodies with the elegance and flair of the Zagak pack from the waist up. But with lots of Super Party hits because you're all Miami from the waist down. Then the Greg Cody and the Heeha 3 Greatest Hits album is just for you. With songs that'll make your meema, I want to crank on that jukebox like Pukinakuwa. Back in my day. King of the road. Nelly's Diner. And we're wearing pants now. An original Brill Cream jingle. Baby, it's cold outside. Why didn't you tell me?

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It's Vegas, baby. That thing. And you know it. I love cruises. I used to be a morning man. I've got the Trade Dan Marino Blues. All 370 of these straight-up bangers can be yours for the very low price of... 79.99. Now, why 79.99, Greg? I figured it'll pay my cable bill. Either way, just send a self-adreff stamp envelope to Greg Cody, care of Chris Cody, care of the Dan Lebitard show, care of Metal Art Media, Miami, Florida. The first 200 customers get not only Greg Cody and the He-Haw 3's greatest hits, but also a VHS from my personal collection, including timeless classics such as... Swingvo, a league of Their Own. Freaky Friday, Remember the Titans. Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-off. Justice League. High School Musical's One, Two, and Three. From Justin to Kelly, The Rookey, The Rookey of the Year. Remember the Titans, and many more. Check Check one, two. Check one, two. Yo, Vegas. How you all feeling this morning? How the fuck you all feeling this morning, yo? Hey, check this out. You all don't know how excited I am right now. You know what I'm saying? I've been here 19 years. You know what I'm saying?

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I've been living here now for 19 years. You know what I'm saying? You know I know how crazy it is to me right now for where I live at here in Las Vegas to have a Super Bowl. We got the Super Bowl this year, and you know what? It's going to It's going to be crazy. It's going to be crazy this weekend. I know it's going to be crazy this weekend. You know what I'm saying? In the whole nine. Hey, yo, check this out. Are you all ready to rock? Are you all ready to rock? Hey, yo, check this out. When I say flavor, you say flavor. Flavor. Flavor. When I say flavor, you say flavor. Flavor. Flavor. When I say, yeah, you say boy, When I say, Loss, you say, Vegas. Loss. When I say, Den, you say, Leverthard. Den. Leverthard. Den. Leverthard. See, got you. Hey, yo, check this out. If you're feeling real good right now, let me hear you say, Oh. Say, Oh. Now, let me hear you say, Oh, we, oh. Come on, say, Oh, we, oh, we, oh. One more time, say, Oh, we, oh. Come on, say, Oh.

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Come on, let's say, Oh, we, oh, we, oh. Everybody say, Yeah. Say, Yeah, boy. Now, somebody, everybody in the mic, in this spot right now, scream. One time before we start this show, I got to hear this real loud. You all got to let me hear this real loud. Everybody over here, everybody all in the middle, everybody in the back, all over here, even all you all up there. I see you all back there. You know what? Come on, wave your hands in the air. Where you all at? I see you all back there. Everybody in place, throw your hands in the air. Wave them like you just don't care. If you want a rock shock, turn your mother out. Everybody say, Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, G, that's how we do it. Hey, you all, so check one, two. Welcome to the Dan Levatard show right here. You know what I'm saying? That the beautiful circa. One time, real quick, real loud. Everybody in the place, let me hear you all screaming this real loud. That means you say, Flavor, flavor. Flavor, There we go. Now, welcome to the Dane Lepetard show right here in Vegas.

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You know what I'm saying? With my man, Stukatz. You know what I'm saying? We're about to rock the house right now. You know what I'm saying? Check this out. We could not do this show without... Check this out, G on the strip. We got Greg Coat, and a He-Hore 3. Thank you, Play My Leg. We got Greg Coat and a He-Haw 3. Thank you, Play My Leg. Thank you, Play the Play, introducing the He-Haw 3. What a highlight of our long career. Nice match. We've been around since the '60s. Thank you all for being here today. To Viva Las Vegas and the Dan Show with Sue Gotts. Are you all ready for a show? Let's go. Let's introduce the cast. He has only two shows remaining in his tenure as executive producer and won't make it to the second one. If today goes as he dreads, he's Mike Ryan. She does PowerPoint presentations to find friends, cries from joy on football fields across America, and has an extra tooth, she's Lucy Rodine. He's the handsome nemesis of Billy Gill, a Cubanito meathead who is the object of lecherous desires. None of us news to God still had.

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He's 10-day Tony. She can do the nation's finest F1 minute in French, college football coverage in too much Irish, and has 494 favorite teams. She also has feet. She's Jessica Matana. He's a neppo, baby, worth $50 million, the fruit of my cobweb loins. I love him like a son, baby. It's Chris Cody. He's the father of Princess Claire and a hockey fan whose show might appear after some games on an occasional on Friday. He's King Roy Bellamy. He's a lighthouse of positivity with questionable taste in at least a couple of his tattoos. He's Juju Gatti. He's afraid of everything except anarchy. He's Billy Gill. He's a despicable scoundrel, stuffed with unending lies, but we all love him anyway. He's two gods.

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God bless football, Billy. God bless football, Mike Ryan. God bless football, Roy Bell. God bless football, Jessica. God bless football, Lucy. God bless football, Chris. God bless football. What are we got going on here, baby? Let's go. I feel like I'm about to talk about a Super Bowl, baby. What the fuck? You're supposed to God bless football back to me. Oh, my bad. God bless football, Steve. We gave Flava Flava two sentences of dialog. Oh, crushed it. It's why he's the best Hypeman in the game. Thank you, Greg Cope.It's unbelievable. All right, guys, we have a Super Bowl coming up in four days here in Las Vegas. A big time game with a lot of pressure. And that means it is time for my final pressure meter of the year. I will start with you, Billy Gill, co-host of God bless football. Who has the most pressure on him headed into the Super Bowl? Is this a top five? Just pick somebody, Billy. Well, this is your thing. You usually rank people with the most pressure. You've been doing it the whole season, and then every week you've been wrong, and then you just have to adjust.

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Yeah, well, I know, but I'm asking you who has the most pressure. We rehearsed this. We also rehearsed it with a working microphone. Did you really... Forget? Yeah. Did you really forget to use the signal's weak. That's about right. The smoke machine's written out of stuff. There he is. Making some noise for the big guy. Thank you. Thank you very much. We hear you now. We can hear you. I spent all this money so I could get the big noise. I wanted to get the big noise. Thank you. It was perfectly good pressure meter talk. Can we go back to it? We never finished it. A working microphone would have been exceptional there. Oh, man. So Patrick Mahomes, guys, for me, he's the most important. He has been the least pressure on him in Super Bowl history. What even the least amount of pressure? You don't want to lose. I'm with Shana had. Really? You don't want to lose to the last quarter, the last player selected in the NFL draft if you're trying to be of the all-time greats. You don't want to do it. Swifties. She said Taylor Swift. That's strong. They haven't dealt with loss.

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They haven't dealt with pain. If they lose this, they're going to go mad. You guys started with a pressure meter. You guys really did that. We were taking the two minutes that you weren't here. Let me thank a few people here as we get started because this is an exceptional day for us. We're very excited about this. I want to thank Flavor Flave for introducing us to the Super Bowl. That's a totally ridiculous sentence. I want to thank Greg Cody and his band, HeHaw 3, for introducing us. It's Greg Cody. That is also a ridiculous sentence. It's also a fun. You've got a situation with Greg Cody's HeHaw 3. He didn't know this, but it's only got two members. It's Greg Cody and HeHaw 3, and HeHaw 3 is only two. I was legitimately explaining it to him. It hadn't dawned on him. I want to thank circa Because we've got a better set up than anybody at the Super Bowl had. Lastly, and most importantly, I want to get up and help everybody thank you because everywhere we jump, we know you guys are going to catch us. It happens all the time. Unfortunately, Stugatz doesn't want to be here with us today.

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He wants to be at Radio Row where he dominates. Yeah. Listen, I was having sex with Radio Row, and I haven't had sex in months. What you did is you took me away from having sex. He smells like Peter King. I mean... It is. It's an orgy of clichés and hot dogs and talking to Rich Ganon. Media room buffets and all that good stuff. I wanted to ask you guys because we're at the Super Bowl. This is a giant thing for us. I don't go to the Super Bowl. I don't like the commercial excess that this event is as we throw a pool party in a great deal of cold here. What do you mean you don't like commercial excess? Billy, what's happening over here? You've been riding him because of his outfit here for a while. Oh, yeah? He just looks ridiculous, obviously. Ridiculous. We're in Las Vegas, Billy. Come here. Stand up. Do a spin for the crowd so everyone can see what it is that you're working with. Please do. Do an asshole. Fit check, fit check, fit check, fit check. Can I tell you something? So Tony lit a cigar before he came out, and then someone that works here.

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Yeah. Drink it in. Yeah, I am. This is the moment. I have to stop all of this affection and love for a second because no lie here, Mike Ryan was asked before we came out here, we've got a great guest list for you the next couple of days, but he was asked, who's his bucket list guest? Who's the one that he wants above all brothers? And he's here now. It's Wayne. What? He has played in Vegas for 65 years, more than 50,000 shows in front of more than 40 billion people. He's a copiler. I said that in your headset. Who would call him a copiler? Who said that? I can't believe Dan said that. He's recorded more than 165 albums, 165 of them, and he's still doing the damn thing at 81 years years old. You could catch his residency up close and personal at the Flamenco through June. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome an icon, the Midnight IDle, Mr. Las Vegas himself, Wayne Newton. Come on, make some noise for Wayne Newton. Wayne, it is lovely to see you. When I was reading about your career, it's comprehensive, it's thorough, I couldn't believe that your career started at 15 years old, a couple of blocks from here, that you started performing at 15 years old.

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Actually, I started here at 15 years old. I actually started performing when I was 40 years old. I'm originally from Virginia, and so I had a local radio show at five years old, a local television show in Phoenix, Arizona, when I was eight years old until I was 15. And then I came up here at 15. And what can you tell me about how much you've seen Vegas change over the years? Oh, it hasn't changed. It's changed tremendously. When I came here, there were 70,000 people living here. And now we're almost 2 million. The change has been interesting, though, because downtown, this area, because I started at the Fremont over here, 6 shows a day, 6 days a week, 40 minutes on, 20 minutes off, 40 minutes on, 20 minutes off. And because I was not 21, and they really held to that in those days, and this would have been in 1959, because I was not 21, between each show, six times a night, I had to go stand in the corner of Fremont Street. That's more shows than we do. Yeah. It marked me at first, but then I got out there and met some of the beautiful ladies working those corners.

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My man. Wayne. Let's go. Wayne, fist me. I didn't think we were going to talk about him now. Lucy's got a question for you, Wayne. Wayne Newton just fisted Chris Cody. That's crazy. Super Bowl week. Because Lucy's fascinated by the things you collect. Yeah, so I know that you collect a ton of artifacts, and I'm an estate sale girly. Do you ever go to estate sales and find stuff? Do you have any tips for me to get more cool weird things? Wayne Newton here. Yeah, that's the question I want to ask. I asked Dan ahead of time to make sure I could ask this question. He said, yes, now we're here. Wayne in an estate sale is buying an estate. I do go to some estate sales. Knew it. Great question, Chris. Edent. Wow, aggressive. I will. Generally speaking, I do most of the buying on Christie's or Sotheby's or those things, simply because of time. Now, truthfully speaking, it's so much better to go to what you do than those that I mentioned. What would be the most eccentric thing in a collection of yours? If you had to win a contest for eccentric things that Wayne Newton collects, what would you be showing off?

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Oh, my goodness. I was going to say my wife, but she's beautiful. She is really beautiful. But if I collect things like I have the canoe-Of course. That they use on the Golden Pan. I have Johnny Cash's Rolls-Royce. I have Steve McQueen's Rolls-Royce. Mostly cars. That's it? Wow. Look at his face next to you. Are you creeped out at the Radiant smile? Look at how happy Dude, he's here. Wayne Newton. It's Wayne Newton. It's crazy. It's the dream guest. I know. Wait, I have top five Wayne's for you in just a minute. Oh, wow. But I do have to ask you to understand. I hope you understand the person asking this question and the nature of my character. But of those 165 albums, which seems like a lot, how many of them were straight from the money graph? All of them. Yeah. I did this for so long. Fist me again, Wayne. That was great. Yeah, give me again. Yeah, my man. Let's let him go on Stugatz's top five Wayne. Let's celebrate top five Wayne in honor of Wayne Newton here. It's an odd top five, isn't it? It is an odd top five, but you promised it, so now we need the material.

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Number five, any outside looking in? No. Number five. Wayne Gretzky. Yeah, good Wayne. The great one. The great one. Yes, number four. John Wayne. The Duke. Number 3. Wayne Krebets. What? Just to start down. I mean, come on. Number 2. Wayne Duton. Oh, what? That's disrespectful. Number one, dude. Number one? Wayne Fontz. I like that list. No offense, Wayne. Wayne, it was a pleasure having you come through. It was a career moment for Mike Ryan. Get up for Wayne Newton, folks. Thank you, sir. Do you mind if Mike Ryan holds you? Do you mind if he just... Tony, do you mind if I hold you? Come on, sir. Thank you, Wayne. We know that you are very fancy. Thank you, Wayne. Thank you, Wayne. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, Wayne. My man. A Las Vegas ambassador. It smells delightful. We have around the corner here somewhere. Thank you, Wayne. It's a whole lot of Wu-Tang. We're going to give you a whole lot of Wu-Tang joining us next. I hope you're excited about that. We're starting our Vegas trip off strong here, man. Stay with us. We're going to be right back after this.

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Only at Sleep Number stores or sleepnumber. Com. Sleep Number, the official sleep and wellness partner in the National Football League. See stores for details. The Dan Leventard show with Stugatz is brought to you by Bayer Aspirant, the official sponsor of Man's Heart. Don Levatard. Well, Charlie sent... Charlie had this... Charlie, as far as I know, so just Charlie's title in my phone. Are you going to say anything? Stugatz. How familiar were you at the time with Chewbacca? Like, your upbringing had how much Chewbacca in it? This is the Don Levatard show with the Stugatz. Jets, Jets, Jets. K. M. Ray. Gang Green, baby. Gang Green all day. Dan has no idea he's surrounded by Jets. Oh, no, I know. I'm well aware. I'm well aware. He's a giant, man. He's a giant. That's all big. He chose wisely. He chose wisely. Rolling Stone has called them the best rap crew ever. Nice. I don't know that anyone would I agree with that. They're starting their Las Vegas residency at Virgin Hotels this Friday and Saturday, March 22nd and 23rd. I can't believe that's a thing that's happening. If I had asked Method Man 30 years ago whether Wu-Tang would be playing a Vegas residency.

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Look at his smile. They released their first new single in six years, and they have sold more than 11 million albums. We've got Method Man with us. We've got Rayquan with us. We've got Ghostface Killer. We've Inspector Death. We've got Master killer. We got You God. We got Mathematics. We've got the single strangest tribute that they have ever received by way of introduction. Gentlemen, I want you to look at that stage over there where Greg Poach and He-Haw 3 is going to welcome you in. He-haw 3. Uh-oh, uh-oh. Come on. Oh, baby, I like it Yeah, baby, I like it raw. I love it. Oh, baby, I like it raw. Yeah, baby, I like it raw. Thank you, OGB. Respect. Wutang clan. Instead of talking about music, let's talk Jets football for a second. I've never been surrounded by so many Jets fans. I don't know how they haven't broken your spirit. How many Jets fans? We got a Cowboys fan, and the rest are Jets fans? We got Giants fans. Ravens. Ravins on this side. Ravins on this side. All right. So, Mef, do you guys watch Jets games together? How mad were you at them this year?

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You know what? I wasn't totally upset because we had to take lemons and make lemonade. When your starting quarterback gets hurt four plays into the season. You can't factor that in. When you have a game plan that you work on for the whole summer and offseason and all that, and now that's all scrapped for whatever, whatever, you get a little bit disappointed, but you stand by your team, am I right? It's such a hard team to stand by, though. You guys agree with that? That's his philosophy. Did anyone bail on the Anyone? Yeah, I bailed on them. Did you really? Back in '83. I'm with the school client. The Sack Exchange. Oklahoma. New York Sack Exchange. Jack, can you explain to me How you guys have been friends for this long? You guys have known each other since childhood, since high school. I thought business tore that stuff apart over years, usually. I mean, a lot of us, our mothers and families knew each other before we even existed. So we come from a lot of parts of town that came and moved together. And this dude, I knew my little brother or my bigger brother since we were like, yay high.

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That goes the same for all of us. So we just look at each other as real brothers from different mothers. I think that's the biggest way to sum it up. Like you and Stu. Stu Gotts. Well, I don't know if a lot of people know this, but Met kicked Stu Gotts' asshole. That's according to Met. Port Washington. And La Crosse, they're serious. Believe it or not, they're They're the same age. Yes. Hempstead Tiger's La Crosse, Hempstead. Thank you, Long Island. It wasn't a rivalry because they cried a lot when they got hit, but they were gay. Port Washington is still around. They're good guys. Nassau County, guy. Nassau County, baby. If I'd come to you 30 years ago and said, what's the high end on what this is all going to be? What would your dreams have looked like? Have you guys exceeded them? I think right now we're still trying to get higher thoughts Especially, chef. One thing about us is that we're big dreamers. We've been dreaming since we were little kids, man. I'm talking about from... Like Dex said, we knew each other for 30 years, 35 years of friendship. We always feel like we want to do more.

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The fans, they really played a major part in making us want to go after our dreams, even. Hell, yeah. Yes. We didn't finish yet. You're emotional right now. You're emotional. Hello, man. Hello. That's that cold air. That's that cold air. That's that cold air, too. I thought that was me in my microphone. That's here, baby. Oh, nice. No, Ray is a swifty. He's happy that she's coming. He's very happy she's coming to this. What would you say is the key to keeping a lifelong friendship like this? Because these things get tested. Talking? Got to talk with your brothers. You have to. You have to build. Tough love. They're understanding. You have to have those tough conversations, too. Say the things that don't normally get said. To a point where someone came and told me something about one of these dudes, because I know them so well, I would absolutely tell them that is not true. I know my brother. He would never do that. Then I see it on TV, and then I'm like, Oh, my God, he did do it. You thought you knew your brother. Master, if I told you Vegas a long time ago, if I told you a residency in Vegas, Wutang, would that have made sense to you?

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Would that have seemed something? If I come to you 30 years ago and ask you that? Man, maybe not. But we're here now. You know, Wutang forever, baby. Would you, God, be kind enough to tell us when he looks at the entire landscape of hip hop, who the people are that he respects the most that he would put on the tier with Wu-Tang in terms of authenticity, credibility, durability? Who? You got to hear. Oh, I thought you got a here.. We're going to edit that, right? We're live? I'm glad we're live. I'm glad we're live. I'm sorry, I introduced you God before and I thought he was here. You know, Newton Wayne is coming up here later. Not Wayne Newton, but Newton Wayne will be here later. Everyone had me making that mistake. I cashed the bet just now, but I thought it was going to be still What was the bet you cashed? That Dan Woodrow cup. Get your money. That's my bet. I'm sorry. I thought he was here. But would you guys answer that question? What was the question? Well, Cap could answer it. I already told you, Ra Kim, Eric B, Run DMC, Biz Manky, Slick Rick.

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Yeah. Flavor Flave in that order. Yeah. I'll label Flave, of course. The Flave Public enemy for life. Yeah, Dan called him Chuck D, but it's fine. You don't see many hip hop collectives, especially the sheer mass of Wu-Tang Klan. On top of that, it's incomparable. The durability, the size of the collective. Why do you think? Is it marketability? Is it because there's too many interpersonal problems? The more chefs that you add in the kitchen? Why don't we see more hip hop collectives? Three words, strength in numbers. As far as the hip hop game goes, the unity factor, it has its places. There are different places where you see that unity, especially in the south. All of those guys, they roll together, they do records together, they make money together. But that is the thing that devises as well. Cash rules everything around me. Cash also ruined everything around me as well. When you see brothers as solid as us and we're still together years later, we hope to inspire the next generation of big crews, not the next generation of Wu-Tang, but collectives. That was pretty good. That was good. There's just nothing like Wu-Tang when you tap into the Asian film influence.

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It's never often imitated, never duplicated. No one's even tried imitating it. Because they can't F with us. They can't F with us. We're nasty. What do you think, Dec? I believe you. What he said. You got really killed this interview. You want this? You want this? You want this? Yeah. Yes, yes, Lord. And please come see us. We can here, we'll be here in March as well. If you guys catch the show, catch the show. I want you all to make some noise for the new Wutang members over here. With that dirty remix. If I like it raw, that was dope. I like that. Yeah. Always a pleasure, chopping it up with you guys. Call me any morning. This dude, he never does anything past 9:00 AM. It's always like 9:00 AM in the morning, 10:00 AM in the morning. But I appreciate the calls and the check-ins, Dan. I got love for you, brother. You too, Steve. Likewise, buddy.Thank you.Yes, sir.Deck, what are the greatest compliments you guys receive from other people that you respect in hip hop? What are some of the things that you are proud of because others notice it and tell you so?

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Oh, man. There's a lot, man. But for me, personally, I had a lot of my peers, a lot of dope dudes in the game give me compliments on Triumfverse, Creamverse, and they explained to me how-Best verse ever.those are some of their favorite Wutang verses ever. Stuff like that, it makes me feel like it was worth doing it. When you can speak your words out to the universe and it gravitate, people can gravitate to it and learn something from it. That's the best feeling for me being a poet like that. Yes, sir. I'm curious to ask you guys because you've lasted for so long and hip hop's changed a lot. I think we're in the middle of another sea change in hip hop right now. Did you guys ever face any industry pressures to go along? Because you guys have been authentic and you've been the same thing from your flow to how you present yourselves. You've never really separated yourselves from what made Wutang. Wutang. Did you guys face a lot of pressure the industry changed and went from Bling to certain Sonic styles. I think Chef could talk to that. I mean, one thing about our fans, they really diehard fans, and they love real hip hop.

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So you So as we've been in the business for so long, the game changes. We have children that don't listen to our music. Hey, it's different generations. I think that our fans, they They didn't want us to change because they know us from coming from a certain place. Because one thing about Wutang, we talk about reality music. We've never tried to force anybody to be something that they wasn't. We just wanted to bring real realities to the world and just express it through our music. If we start doing something that people feel is different, trust me, our social media is going to light up. You think Beyoncé's Beehive is something? Trying to kill a bee.Not ours. We got to kill a bee. They will be knocking on my door like, What are you doing? What are you doing, Jeff? I need to take a break. I'm going to go in the back and sob because of that Cugat mistake. I'm going to try and gather myself and we come back with Woodshang after this. Hello. Hell, yeah. The Dant Lebitard show with Stuguts is presented by 1-800-Flowers. Com. Draftkings' official flowers for Valentines. Dan Lebetard.

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Let's go to 80. His name is Bo. Wow. I think Billy typed an eight instead of a B. Fine. It's a clear as day. All right, $2. Stugats. Number eight. It's Chris Carter on the line. Cee Cee. Go ahead. This is the Don Levatard show with the Stugats. Bright light city, going to set my soul, going to set my soul on fire. Sin City banging like my Hall of Fame, so let's get those stakes up higher. Viva, Greg Cody. Viva, Greg Cody. A lady like pleasure going to smile on me. Keep those lovals rolling hot, I know. We're going to have more fun than the law allows, like an episode of The Greg Cody Show. Viva Greg Cody. Viva, Greg Cody. Oh, there's a black Jack table and a roulette wheel. A fortune to win with every spin. I'm going to conquer this city like it's P-F-E-I, so let's let the winning begin. Viva, Greg Cody. Viva, Greg Cody. Viva, We're so blessed to be alive. We're blessed to be at the Super Bowl. I'm going to throw this off my head because I can't hear with that on. So Mike Fuentez. Salute to Mike Fuentez, too, for helping me out.

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You feel me? What we got coming up for some questions, Mike? Oh, my God. My boy got on some... Salute, What's your name? R. J. R. J. Salute to you. And on Chuck Taylor's, brother. I love you. I got a couple of questions to see how big of a show fan you are. You dig? What sport is Tony most passionate about? You got damn right, he is. Clap it up for my dog. Don't just leave him out. You did. Hand him the mic. You feel me? We're going to get it together. Technical difficulties, got damn it. All right. Who on the show speaks French? You know this, my sister? Don't like her. Sorry as hell right now, too, by the way. You got the hat caught like TI in 2003. But who the... Damn,. Jeremy Taché. You got them wrong as hell, bro. He gave you the answer. Hey, I got another one for you, brother. Hold on, let me get a better one than that. All right. Who is the biggest heat homer on the damn show? Perikey Cortez. Hey, you got it right, brother. Clap it up for my dog. You all are terrible.

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You all hanging on my way. You're being misalued, my dog. Thank you for your time and your energy. Get a microphone. Hey, man, get them. You in Vegas, brother. Them Chuck Tellers have seen their day. What's up, my brother? What's your name? Chase. Yeah, Chase? You look cool as hell, bro. I receive. It's calling. Got your ankles out. Yeah, they are. It's all good, though. It's all good, brother. By the way, you look beautiful today, my man. Thank you so much, brother. I'm trying. When in Las Vegas. Keep spreading the love. Thank you, bro. Define O-L-I. What does it stand for? Outside Looking In. You got to know. Too easy for me. Too easy, man. What is Stu Gotz's real name? John Wiener. You got to know, man. Give him a boy one more time. Can you give him for this clean sleep like Killer Mike? What did Mike Ryan want to call Lucy and Jess's Football Show? Footgirls. What did you say? Footgirls. That's all right, brother. You the man. Clean sleep. Give it up for my dog. You dig it? We're going to throw it back over to the legends. Salute to the New York Jets.

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Get well soon. Salute to the shells. Oh, my goodness. I can't believe me in the same place. Salute, you all. How are you going to say that about the Jets? Get well soon. We never get well soon. That Blazer need to get well soon. One, two. Master, I've been told that you're the best chess player in the group. Does anyone dispute that? Does anyone-Chess was here, he would probably, but he's pretty nice on that chess board. Is it being disputed publicly? Yeah, I see you a little… Can I create some beef? I see some looks being shot back and forth. Looks being shot, right? There's some looks being shot back and forth on stage. I don't play chess. I know. I think Riz is a huge chess player because he teamed up with the dude from Interpol and they bonded. It's such a weird clash of Sonic styles, but they bonded over chess. Over chess. As they were playing chess, they said, We should make a really weird album together. Wow, I've done that with Call of Duty. You have Call of Duty friends in the industry? No. No. No, I don't even play anymore.

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But yeah, Call of Duty. You meet a lot great people on Call of Duty. They have colorful names for you, too. Have you ever... This question goes for everybody. When you're gaming, I don't know if you guys are gamers or anything like that, but you're playing online and someone goes at you, do you ever reveal who you are and come at them? Never. I've never done that because then they go harder. Then you got to think about your life choices after that. I have a couple more music nerd questions because I'm a huge fan of yours, and you don't see collectives like this last this long. I'm sure you guys have had your internal issues, and Lord knows you've had to overcome so much in your history. Tragedy, wild success. Individual individually, you've also had huge critical acclaim, huge chart-topping hits, Ghost, Meth, Raquan, like a critical darling. When you guys have these so projects and you satiate that creative urge to do something on your own, did that make it harder to go back to Wutang, or was Wutang always just your guiding light, and you knew no matter how much success you had individually or with collaboration albums that you guys would always go back to Wutang?

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Did individual success ever jeopardize Wutang? You would think it would, but honestly, outside of schedules, Getting in the way, nothing keeps us from getting back together, mostly, especially when it comes to the albums and a lot of the performances. It's just when you have something as organic as a Wutang, it's like, why wouldn't you want to stay close to that and dialed in? I like to keep myself grounded, and nothing's more grounded than these fellows I'm sitting with right now. So it's balanced for me. How does it come to be that you make your first single in six years? How does that end up happening? Just It's the timing, man. Everybody... You got to remember, when we came in the game, we were so authentic to the world because they never seen so many different personalities form as a group. We always had this thing that we said when we were younger that each one of us have a special power that the world is going to see individually. Sometimes when you conquer those pillars, it's like now we have our own individual fans, like how you go to a football game and you say, Yo, this is my guy, this is my guy.

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Each one of us has built our reputation to have our own light now. When it's time to come together, it's like it be tough sometimes, but we need to stay to get through and get it done. I think the average age of each member is like 53 or 54. How much is left in the tank? How long are you guys going to be doing? Still young men, I need 100 shows out here right now. I'll be 53 next month. Chef's birthday was last month in January. I'm the Big 5'4, you all. I'm the Big 5'4. Do you guys make fun of him and how every couple of weeks, the internet goes crazy just lusting after him as a sex symbol? Certainly, you've noticed that this is still happening to him in his 50th. They grew up with me. It been like that. He's the most reluctant sex symbol out there. You know what I mean? I got a second may, though. Hey. God wants to talk some football with you guys. I just called you a sex symbol on TV. My gosh. Glad Mike brought up pressure before meth. I'm going to start with you because this time of year, I like to do something I call the pressure meter.

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Okay? We have a big game coming up, the biggest of games. Chiefs 49ers. Who has the most amount of pressure to win this game? I'm going to tell you right off back, Taylor Swift. The team with the red uniform. This stuff writes itself. This stuff writes itself. Taylor Smith and the Swaxer. Right now, the most pressure, I would say, would be on, I would guess, San Francisco because Purdy has been hounded since he's been out here. The press has been on him. He's absolutely their guy. Not taking anything away from Mahomes because he's tried true. He's made his mark already. But this is the guy they're pushing right now. So not only do they have that on the line, but come on, The Shana hands, I mean, his dad has done it. He's been so close so many times. You want to see Mike get it, in my opinion. Will you guys go? Will any of you go? Give me some tickets. I'll go. There you go. Oh, that's That's not a slide against Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs. I love the Chiefs, but I just want to see... I'm one of those guys.

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I would love to see Mike with... I mean, Kyle. I said Mike. I don't want to jump down. I was hoping Dan would see that given how that text went on for him. He could have got me just down. Kyle, Shanaher, sorry. Kyle, get your ring, Kyle. You deserve it. What do you make of Taylor Swift's capture on the culture? It seems like she has taken over football in a way that makes a lot of people happy and some people uncomfortable. Don't say nothing bad about Taylor Swift, period. So a lot of tickets. Yeah. What, the NFL made what? 331 million? And what was she on a screen for? I mean, an average of 30 seconds 45 seconds at least. That's major. That is major. Regardless to how we feel about it, NFL loves it. You're just waiting for her to catch a pass. You're just waiting for them to catch a pass. You're just waiting for them to catch a pass. You're not ever do a halftime show, correct? Oh, us at halftime? You would have to put us with somebody else. I would love it if they can just pay homage to some of the guys that never really got to that point and let us all go up there and just rock the halftime show.

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It'll be something you guys have never seen before. I mean, it's not out of the realm of possibility because Jay is really involved now in the halftime programming. You can see that influence just this year with Usher, who probably wouldn't have gotten that chance. Just the association you've already seen with the streaming numbers, he's blown up. It's not the realm of possibility that Usher would have got that. I'm sorry. I disagree with that. Usher would have eventually got that. His residency was so high. He did the work. So not taking anything away from Jay Rock Nation and all that, but yeah, Usher would have got that. But Jay is bringing a lot to the table. What about Dre? It LA Super Bowl. Yeah. Congratulations to Jay Z, by the way, on the Grammy win. Very great speech he did, so that was pretty cool. Do you guys become crazy watching football? What would be watching football with Wutang? What would that look like? I'm the only one I think really- A lot of flowers. A lot of flowers being puff, drinking, arguing. Chef burnt up the burgers and all of that. How do I get an invite to this, man?

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I I don't think he's talking about 1,800 flowers. We're definitely not talking about 1,800 flowers. We're talking about the greatest flowers. By the way, guys, I'm opening up a big East Coast consumption Lounge dispensary, and I want you guys to come through. Any cooking? All right, I want to bring you an idea real quick. Okay? Burning burgers. He said it for 15 years on the show, and no one has seized on the opportunity. Stewpots. I want to show you. Stupot. No personal strength. Stupot? Stupot. 80/20 My Way, we good? We love that. We good. 80/20 My Way. 80/20 My Way. There you go. I love that. That's dope. Are we good now? This is how he always makes deals. I would imagine that you guys have had an interesting relationship with Fame and temptation and the way that things that come your way, how intoxicating they can be having been in the game. What are some of the things that you believe that you've learned that you would love to pass down to some younger artists so that they learn things not the hard way? I think we all got to answer for that. Killer.

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Oh, man. One more. Stay true. Stay true to yourself. Stay true to your art. Stay true to what you do. Don't be a follower. Be a leader. And save your money. Save your money. Save your money. My thing is that teamwork make the dream work. Without a strong team, you ain't going to make it. Sure. That's the foundation. Craft. Master your craft. Good craft. Never let nobody tell you can't be great. Master your craft. I would say own your material, own everything, ownership. Yeah, I would say dedication. Definitely got to stay dedicated to what you do, perseverance, and learn the business. I would say stay away from our material because we could fight.Very well.Pretty much. Don't fight. Every time I talk to Meth about this, he doesn't have anything critical to say about anybody. He's very classy, and he doesn't say anything about other rappers. It doesn't feel like that isn't positive. How do you guys feel about what young rappers are doing now in hip hop? Because you do hear a lot of the old heads complaining about what the young guys are doing. Everything evolves. Nothing stays the same. People are unique, and they do what they do.

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We do what we do. You know what I mean? We can't expect everybody to do what we do. What I've noticed, though, is that they are reading these comments and the opinions of some of the older cats, and they've been stepping up their bars lately. I've been hearing a lot of them trying to step their pin games up. They're focusing more on lyrics now. So that's good. That is good. I would like to think we had a hand in that. Beats, too. I'm hearing some nice beats. But the beats have always been there. That's what brings me. I'm hearing some more like... Like they say, the pastor brings them to the church, but the pimping keep them coming back. You know what I'm talking about? Yes, sir. When we grow on, you all. The beats going to be there. It's what you're saying on them. You're coming back part of my French. Before we get you out of here, the young rappers that impressed you, the ones that catch your eye and that you would night them as worthy of the Wutang nighting. I like Kendrick. I like Jay Cole. It's a couple of the guys that I- Joey Badr.

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That's a bunch. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's doing anything. That Griselda vibe. Yeah, Griselda. Nice. Killer. Hard. East Uncle Murda. Uncle Murda. He Brooklyn all day. He'll be back. We will tell you again, Rolling Stone has called them the best rap crew ever. If you're in Vegas this week, Friday and Saturday, Virgin Hotels, they're going to be back March 22nd and 23rd for March Madness. That'll be a zoo. Give it up for the best rap crew ever. Give it up for Dan for not thinking Siza was a member of the Blue Tech. Siza. That's the thing. He's performing just to prove that he exists. I am going to have such a hard time shaking that off of me. That's like an eternal mistake. I'll get a text about it later. I'll accept you guys' award on behalf of the blue tech. Thank you, fellows. Respect, you all. Thank you, guys. We appreciate it. Thanks, Dan. It's going to be back in like 15, but we got stuff for you. That's lovely. Okay. His name is Cooper, good at running in circles.

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But when his hammie got a tear, he saw Pukas standing there. His play diminished. Hostile takeover. Nakuah hopped into the car. Mcvay has maybe found a star. And then Matt Stafford threw him 25 and 2. Oh, there's a brand new kid in town, out of B-Y-U. They call him Pukah, Pukah Nakuwa. His quarterback is not named Tua. Yeah, he is Puka, Puka Nakuwa. It's fantasy assassin, it's the time to cash in. Yeah, it's Puka. Don't need the glove. Don't need the glove. Puka, Puka Nakuwa.