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Shh. Yes, yes. John is out this week. As you can tell, Coley Hoi is in John Lee right back next week.
So we have a substitute. Coley Hoi is a good friend of mine. Cody, how are you doing today? Pretty good.
Pretty good. Pretty good. So for those of the listeners that don't know you, let's learn about you, Cody. So what year are you here at NC State and what's your major?
Well, I'm a senior and I'm a rock star man in geology. Wow. Perhaps on the pond I like it. I like it.
Okay. So I know Cody from mutual friends and improv as well. So Cody is hilarious when he does that. And he is a specialist in fighting.
Cody has multiple times threatened to beat me up. And that's fine. You know what? That may or may not involve a white guy on the show today.
But we're gonna talk about a lot today. We're gonna talk about rifle, swimming and diving, wrestling. At the end of the show, we're gonna talk about what Cody's specialty is and that's baseball. And we're gonna talk about, um, uh, and as well as MMA fighting and WWE.
That's what Cody's passionate about. We're also gonna talk about women's basketball, still undefeated boy and the men's basketball team. He suffered an unfortunate loss last night, but that's no worries as we will talk about later in the program. So Cody, where are you from?
By the way, exactly. I'm from Kesar, North Carolina. It's in the middle of everywhere, also known as the middle of nowhere. So it's in the mountains.
That's right. Okay. I actually forgot. So we're gonna start off today's program by talking about swimming and diving.
So we had a meet against UNC Chapel Hill and we beat them, handily, in both the men's and the women's side of the pool, the ninth ranked women's team won 197 to 97 over the 24th ranked Tar Heels and the number six in the country, the men's team won 193 to 101. And this was the fourth sweep in a row of us beating UNC in both the men's and women's in swimming. We own the pool when we play the UNC Tar Heels. So in the first meet of her young career at NC State, Kylie Ilanz earned a team of best three individual first place finishes for the Wolfpack in the 200 yard butterfly.
She had a time of 157.94, just 0.3 seconds short of tying a program record and she is just a freshman. She also placed first in the 100 yard freestyle with a time of 49 seconds flat and the 100 yard butterfly was 53.63. Other Wolfpack women to win multiple events were Emma Muzzy as she won the 100 and 200 yard backstroke, Angelia Pool won the 200 yard freestyle and 200 yard individual medley. So the Wolfpack women also saw two new pool records over the weekend.
Muzzy brought down her personal record in the 100 yard backstroke and she had the 53.1 that was a pool record as well as Kylie Perry reset her own pool record in the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 22.27. For distance NC State's distance swimmers both won men's and women's in the 1000 yard freestyle races. Tamilaholup led the Wolfpack with a time of 953.65, what's followed by Anna Johns and Summer Finky in the top three. Johns also got first place finished in the 500 yard freestyle with a time of 454.93.
Cody, have you ever had to swim 500 yards? Oh, I never had to go that far, man. Well, when I life guarded at the city pool, they had us swim a 500 every pay period. So we had to get a super like just someone to sign off that they watched this one just so we would stay in shape.
And I'm not lying to you. When I rushed myself, it took me 15 minutes to swim 500 yards. And that's rushing myself. And um, Jains over here got 454.93.
These these swimmers are insane. So what happened on the men's side, Cody? Well, Jack McIntyre, Gil Heisler, and Danny Erlen, Erlamire, they rounded out the 1000 yard freestyle podium and they swept all the individual first individual events of the afternoon. And the senior captain, uh, Andreas Visaios.
Visaios. He's Greek, by the way. You got a pair of first place finishes and the 100 yard backstroke and 47 53 and the 200 yard individual mentally at a minute 46.03. You don't know this as much because you don't follow swimming as much, but Andreas Visaios is one of the best swimmers in the country and will most certainly be in the Olympics competing for his home nation of Greece and the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
By the way, class 2020 is best class. Cody, don't say anything about that. Moving on diving in her first home meet of the season, freshman Taylor Bennett finished on the top two on both the one meter and the three meter boards as she started her outing placing second in the three meter board with a two 68 point 35 as her score and she won the one meter board with a score of 270 point nine and that was also a personal best in a zone qualifying mark, which is due with postseason qualifications. Madeline Klein also picked up a pair of top two finishes at the one meter and three meters, so they kind of switched off there for the women's diving.
What happened on the men's side of the diving? Cody, James Brady and Holt Gray both traded first place finishes between them. Gary picking up the win in the three meter and Brad Brady picking up first in the one meter board. Yeah.
And so in the replay, both the men's and women's got first in the 200 yard medley relay to open them. And for those of you who don't know NC State relay, that's our shtick. That's what we do. We have won multiple national championships in, I think it's the 800 free in the 400 free over the last few years.
And so that's not going to change anytime soon, especially when we're playing at school as, you know, like frankly, as bad as UNC is in the pool and I'm not even going to sugarcoat that Cody. Elias Han, Sophie Hanson, Serena Rowe and Kylie Perry, where the, I guess I forgot the word for four people because it's trio if it's three. You know the word for quartet a quartet? They were the quartet that had a time of 138 point oh seven for the women and for the men and Drayis Visayo, Daniel, Gregor, Justin, rest and Kobe, Gary, Kobe Garcia followed suit with a time of one 27 point 35.
Kylie, Aaron's and Madeline Klein and Andreas Visayo's were all named ACC performers of the week for their efforts against UNC. So not only did we spank UNC, which is always a positive, we've got some individual recognition for our athletes as well. Top 25 in the was released after this meet. Well, since this meet before the show, the college swimming and diving coaches Association of America or if you're cool, the CSA the CSCAA has released its latest top 25 poll and both the men's in women's team moved up men moved from six to five and the women moved from nine all the way up to six.
So a program where both the men's and women's are in the top six nationally is really, really phenomenal. So up next we will have our second and also sadly our final home meet of the year that's tomorrow in the Aquatics Center on campus and we're hosting the Cavaliers of Virginia. And hopefully they won't be as good as UNC. So we'll even beat them by even more.
So sadly that is the last dual meet of the season where dual as in but the men's in women's will compete in the same meet and then it's also the last home meet of the year. So this is your last chance to go see NC State's absolutely phenomenal swimming and diving team. What do we got next Cody? Well in the rifle competition Emily Fisher and Claire Spina set career high marks against Navy who's number eight in the nation but sadly Navy they're number eight for a reason.
460 46, 44 to 46, 45 on Saturday at the Nebraska rifle range. Yeah, so only a 19 point differential quick math for the rifle and again with 48 points being the match score 19 points is actually a very, very close match. Mitch had a score of 22, 99 in small bore and 23 45 in air rifle compared to NC State's 22 88 and 23 37. So we were out scored by 11 in small bore and by seven in air rifle.
So just barely. So very, very even match for both teams. Yeah. And with that NC State moves to three wins, five losses on the year and two and five in great American rifle conference matches on Navy currently is eight and four and four and two in conference matches.
Yeah. So some notes about the match. Spina let all shooters in small bore competition with a career best of 583 points again. For those of you who are may not be familiar, that's out of 600 points for individual.
You get 100 points for how you compete in the in the in the weapon. So you have three positions of prone, which is on your stomach kneeling and standing and it's 100 points each of those and you do each of those twice. So that's your 600 points. And so she had a 583 out of 600.
She had two perfect series in the prone position and a 98 in her first series in kneeling. So right there in three of the six, she had 298 points out of 300. So a really good showing from Claire Spina, our best shooter on the rifle team. Fisher tally, the next high smart for NC State rifle with a career high mark of 574 and she's just a freshman from Fairfax, Virginia.
Yeah, she got a perfect first series in the prone and then a 99 in the second series. Yeah, so our best two shooters on the day really killed in the prone position there for the rifle team. Will Mersenach not score for the men of five. Let's go and I don't know why I said for the men, it's coed in rifle, which is pretty cool.
I think you get a score of 566. Well, Aaron Tinter finished right behind him with a score of 565. Well, Claire Zonti had a perfect second series in prone and earned a 564 with Zach Eisenberg rounding up the lineup of a score of 560. Yeah, so that's all we have for a small war moving on an air rifle.
Spina also led the way for the Wolfpack with a score of 587 and finished third overall in the competition. Fisher took fifth overall in the competition. Only two points behind you with 585. Thanks to a score of 99 on her first third and fifth series.
Marciniac and Eisenberg both got both individually got 583 and 582 respectively with Tinter earning a 576 and Zonti getting a 570. And so aggregate notes totals, Spino is the top individual former in the match with aggregate score of 1,170 out of a possible 1200 and that's a personal record for the senior and Fisher match for career high as a freshman with 1,159 and she finished fourth in the individual standings. So that wasn't enough against Navy and unfortunately our next match of the double header was against the host Nebraska and that one we also came up short and losing 4,627 to 4,606. So again, the last two matches losing by an average of 20 points out of 4800.
So two really close losses for the NC State Rifle team. We had a team score of 2,281 in small bore and 2,325 air rifle for our aggregate total. And then Nebraska actually had 2,288 in small bore and 2,339 in air rifle. And with that the pack felled at 3 and 6 and in the Great American Rifle Conference 2 and 6, the corn huskers 6 and 5 and 4 and 3 against their conference opponents.
Yeah, so after covering this for a while, me and John have come to realize the reason that you know we're 3 and 6 on the year, but still ranked is because not a lot of teams actually have rifle teams, not a lot of colleges anyway. So pretty much the Greater American Rifle Conference is just basically everyone that has like a Division 1 rifle team because we lost there and up next we're going to the Citadel and that's going to be on Saturday February 2nd. So the day before the Super Bowl and that's going to be in Charleston, South Carolina, of course where the Citadel is located. Beautiful city, Charleston.
Even there? No, stay down to aircraft carrier and the harbor. Wait, what? You were on an aircraft carrier?
Yeah, they got a whole aircraft carrier parked in the harbor in like a submarine. Yeah, I camped out on it. Wait, so what was this with? Like, did you pay or is this with like Boy Scouts or something?
There's a Boy Scouts but also out of pay. So it's the best of both worlds. So how long did you get to stay on the carrier? That was like 2 nights, 3 days.
What do they have on that? Well, they got like, they have the capsule from one of the Apollo missions from where it returned from the moon. Wait, the successful one Apollo 11? Well, there was 13 that Apollo 11 was made the movie on, but 13 was the one that actually did it if you believe in that.
No, it was Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 were successful and Apollo 13 was the one that did not land on the moon, but they made the movie Apollo 13 on. Wait, so Apollo, wait, wait, hold up. I'm pretty sure he was Apollo 11 that they made the movie on the newest movie. The first man was about Apollo 11.
The movie Apollo 13 is one of Tom Hanks where he doesn't know. Okay, I was confused there. It's not the first time I've been confused on the show. That's pretty cool.
I never got to stay on the aircraft carrier in the submarine. Wait, did you actually get to go? Like, did they go in the submarine? There, it was just, they had to float it in on airbags and then they like removed all the air from the airbags and it sunk down.
So actually the submarine is about 10 foot deep in mud, but you can like climb in it, but you can't stay on it overnight, but you wouldn't want to. You have to be average height. It's like five foot seven and all that like ceiling. You have to be pretty short.
Wait, wait, if you're taller than six foot, the Navy doesn't even put you on a submarine. Wow, I didn't even realize I couldn't even go on a submarine if I wanted to. Subtle flex right there above six feet, guys. Anyway, moving on, we have gymnastics and we have an upcoming match.
We don't have scores. I know that scores is how you guys, but we did have an upcoming match against UNC. That's going to be Friday. That's today.
That's going to be at UNC Chapel Hill. So you guys could drive to Chapel Hill at seven o'clock today. You know, watch the gymnastics and another note about NC State gymnastics as Drew Grantham was named the Eagle Gymnast of the Week for the second consecutive week after claiming the all-around title in a quad meet at Townsend William and Mary Cornell last Friday. There you go with gymnastics.
Now a little closer to Cody's extra two-use. We have wrestling up next. We had a match against Trexel, which we won 25 to 16. Yep.
And the winners of all their bouts are Xerik Storm, Jamal Morris, Hayden Heidley, Justin Oliver, Daniel Bullard, and Malik McDonald. Yeah. Up next for wrestling, they will have a four-match homestand next weekend, started ACC Action, which is actually this weekend, which is starting tonight at 7 p.m. in Reynolds Coliseum as they will host Duke.
That's a seven o'clock. So actually, I might go to that. We'll see. We'll see.
That's all we have for the first section of the program where we talk about non- nervous sports. We're going to take a song break and this song was selected by Cody. So when we come back, we'll talk about men's and women's basketball. Cody, what's this song?
What's the synopsis on this? This is the get higher song. Oh, paper tongues, local band out of Charlotte. I live near Charlotte.
This thing's a banger. We'll be right back. Hi, guys. It's the Haggis Life Sports Show.
Cody Hoyle, substituting for John. I'm here too. Benjamin is here as well. That was get higher by the paper tongues.
That was Cody's selection. We're going to play one of my songs later and then we might play one of Cody's other ones. And of course, mine's going to be better because normally John's the one that has the good music on the show, Cody, but now that you're on the show, which means I get to have good music because, you know, we all know your taste and music is just terrible. And with that, we'll go to women's basketball.
All right. I'm sorry, Cody. I'm just kidding. Women's basketball is still undefeated.
19 and 0 record after close wins against VTech and Clemson against Virginia beat the Hokies 70 to 61 to remain the lone undefeated D1 women's basketball team in America. Also, men's basketball team as well because there's no men's team that is undefeated. Me and John went to this game Reynolds Coliseum gets rocking. The pack were led from 25 points from Charlie Leslie and 20 from Aislin Konyk.
Kony did not come off the floor in 45 minute over time thriller and Leslie only sat out one minute. Just took over the game, you know, we led most of the second half and then we were down. We kind of blew it a little bit 58 to 57 with 89 seconds left in regulation after the Hokies scored. And then we immediately answered because you could kind of feel the momentum swing in the building a little bit because we had led the entire game just about.
But then Diddy Rogers, the senior came down and scored a layup to give us the lead for good 59 to 58 with 62 seconds left. We forced a miss from Virginia Tech because their best player, Emery, was having a really off night like Chica ball. You could tell Chica ball, but she was missing everything. She was like one for eight down the stretch.
She didn't make anything, but she kept taking shots, which I was glad because Virginia Tech felt like they could have beat us. So Emery steals the inbound pass. We were undefeated and we almost blew this. She stole the inbound pass and drove to the basket and we found her with six seconds to go.
Listen, this Cody undefeated. We put someone on the foul line up one, shooting two with six seconds to go after having the ball. We had no right to still win this game. No right at all.
Lucky for us. Emery was not shooting well because she made the first but missed the second. We immediately called time out got the ball at half court because apparently that's a ruling women's basketball, which is not men's college basketball, which I kind of like. I wish the men's college game did that as well as well as having the quarters.
That was actually really cool to have quarters because the men's game has five breaks, like under 16, under 12, under eight, under four, so four breaks, I guess. But the women's have the quarters. There's a break in the quarters, of course, and then under five minutes left. There's a break.
So I think there's one less commercial break, which is probably why we won't see it in the men's game. But I actually like it way better having a four quarter system. Of course, when we were we had the ball tied five seconds left, we kind of ran a screen because conic and Leslie had just had just slaughtered Virginia Tech the whole game got 45 out of our 59 points at that point. So Virginia Tech was shutting them down and end up with Rogers looking for both of them.
We couldn't find either. And so she just drove to the basket and took an offbound shot, went to overtime and we outscored them 11 to two shutting down in the second part of overtime, scoring nine to nothing down the stretch. That was a lot. I was super excited to go to that game.
That was the Virginia Tech game, 18 and 0 to that point on the year and we remained undefeated. Next game against Clemson. We also, I think this was earlier this week, we won another close game, 54 to 51. And this was a really a good game because that featured four times and 11 lead changes and the Wolfpack had a 50 to 39 lead with eight minutes to go in the contest before going cold from the field.
Clemson had a 12 nothing run over the next three minutes and 37 seconds and took the lead. So once again, same thing as a Virginia Tech game, we saw we had the lead and then Clemson the other team comes back and takes the lead very, very briefly to make us get our act together. But from that point on man, our defense rallied man, forcing the Tigers to go 0 and 10 from the field for the rest of the game. Yeah, so NC State reclaimed lead, 145 remaining in Ace Coney and scored a layup on and then on an air castle assist and extended that advantage to 54, 51, and Leslie scored on the great pass from Coney with 47 seconds to go.
It was just a matter we had it inbound with five seconds left up three. So they needed to steal and we got the ball in and that's how we put the game away. Didi Rogers led the Wolfpack with her first career double double, 11 points, 15 rebounds. Getting the work in in the paint, man.
You got to love it. You got to love it. But she wasn't the only one with double figure points that night. Kyrie Leslie, 13 points, Elisa.
Good name. Good name. 11 points and Erica Cassell. 10 points.
You said Kyrie, that's funny. I'm just I'm just poking a little bit. It's Kyara, but like it's like Kyrie, like Kyrie Irving. I'm just giving you, I'm just giving you stuff.
That was good. That was good. I'm just giving you stuff and I'm telling you something. I don't talk about your game.
That's good. That was fuckin fun. But I'm actually giving you stuff, I'm gonna be…" erman, would you think. No, I'm not.
Or would you think that's good? I'm like, the guy who knows. I'm like, you know what I'm saying. It's okay.
There's a lot of some people who are new. There's a lot of people who know, I'm just, I'm just giving you stuff. I'm only stalking you. I'm just giving you stuff.
That's good. I'm just giving you stuff. I'm sending you stuff, I'm just giving you stuff. Like just doing a lot of good things with the game.
I'm just looking for something. Okay. to Paul George and he's much better with the player comparison than I am, but this team is super exciting to watch and again undefeated know the team in college basketball and division one across the entire nation is undefeated that's all we have for women's basketball but here we go to men's basketball last night we went up against Louisville but we lost 84 to 77 but we were against the top 25 team Benjamin what are your thoughts on the Louisville game well first of all it's not that bad of a loss we had over 20 turnovers in the game I watched it so that was not good Louisville was points off of our turnovers it became really obvious to me we also were without Mark out Johnson once again as he remains out and day to day we really really missed Mark out because a lot of this game was NC State was moving the ball very well and scoring when we needed basket CJ Brice stepped up Devin Daniels stepped up DJ Funderberg stepped up on defense so that we had to deal with a lot of foul trouble and a very very rocious but Rockets cloud crowd I don't know why but I've always thought the word rocus was rocus and it wasn't it wasn't until I was on this show I said rocus and John made fun of me apparently it's rocus you know similar problem is me English is both my first second and third language oh same we have that in common code anyway don't lose don't lose it don't just because the sky's not falling in guys don't lose your head over a loss on the road to another top 25 team Louisville is 5-1 in the league so well on their way to probably getting that double buying the ACC tournament but again pregame road trip losing losing at Louisville is not that big a deal in and of itself especially considering minus Mark out Johnson and we played admirably down the stretch it wasn't until the very end when we needed buckets we needed a guy to say all right I'm gonna get buckets which is what Mark L does we didn't have that no one stepped up riding crunch time C.J. Bryce had a three to pull us within 69 to 70 and that was as close as we got down the stretch and had a couple of dumb turnovers on offense.
Bryce and Beverly had a pass to Bryce that just Bryce was boxing out the guy I have court and then the ball just dribbled right out of bounds is he just miscommunication the offense just wasn't running smoothly and again credit to Louisville they're a very good defensive team they're a good team they're a good home crowd their bigs could shoot which really threw us off I think because White Walker doesn't defend the pick and roll that amazing he doesn't really roll that well and our bigs aren't usually used to guarding other other teams bigs that far out on the court besides we only have to anyway to begin with so up next we have a home game against Clemson I think that's tomorrow at two o'clock if I'm not mistaken if I am it's too bad you guys can google it that's right do you watch basketball that much Cody I'll be honest man basketball college basketball I watch it in March watch from ACC tournament and I watch the NCAA tournament but do you do the bracket pools I do the NCAA brackets yeah I usually do the ESPN one have you ever won one no normally well to put back what Florida Gulf Coast used to make a run pretty far into the tournament I'd always put them just because I was there for the memes they are repeat of Florida Gulf Coast they're still not bad they're still not bad right now but like we'll see we'll see we're gonna take another song break and this one is a song selected by me so you guys will obviously know that it's gonna be better than the song Cody selected but when we get back we're gonna get something talk about something much more in Cody's wheelhouse with MMA UFC baseball what's going on with Bryce Harper so you guys come right on back this is Summer Sun Pack is Life Sports Show Benjamin Denton Cody Hoyle coming at your live on 88.1 WKNC you can follow the show on Twitter at Pack is Life NCSU support the show if you know me or code you can always text us and we'll check our phones during the commercial break shout out to my boy Jeremy really digging the paper tongues through me a shout out for that yo there's a back out to you thanks for listening Jeremy also Evan like my song so shout out to Alex okay let's just shout out to everybody everybody we know but all right so for you guys familiar with the show this last segment is when we get to talk about whatever we want to talk about and since Cody is the local expert on MMA and fighting and all anything fighting first of all Cody let me ask you something I already know what you're gonna say but I want to ask anyway you and me one v one in like a in like um any kind of like any kind of fighting who would you take me you got to believe in yourself okay I also would take you as well I would take you very easily um that's fine so we'll move on from that I would lose very badly to Cody he may or may not have threatened me to get on the show it's fine so MMA and UFC so what's the latest on that Cody well UFC signed a new deal to the show on ESPN and their first show ever on ESPN did record breaking numbers for regular TV MMA uh in the pre-limbs the main event was Alexander Hernandez versus the people's champ a man tougher than a two dollar stake the cowboy Donald Seroni but welcome back to him because he may be the biggest winner this whole event so why is it is it a big deal that it's our ESPN on regular TV well it was on Fox and Fox Sports 1 but ESPN distorted ESPN plus streaming service so looking for content they picked it up I believe they paid around four billion dollars for a what I want to say four billion dollars for a four-year contract it was a large amount of money it was more than more than Fox was paying them so so their banking ESPN is banking on that UFC is going to be a lot more mainstream than it is right now they're trying to like get it up and coming as a mainstream sport than Americans watch well it's already mainstream they're just trying to take it to the next level I think it did reach about the level it could get with Fox it put into the mainstream we're trying to get this put even further into the mainstream where it's being talked about on the street by everybody so who's the guy that's tougher than a two dollar stake oh cowboy Donald Seroni man perhaps the best fighter in UFC history to not be a champion so who all right so you say to not be a champion so when you say UFC fighter first guy that comes to my mind is Conor Gregor so he was a champion Conor lost to Khabib Nurembergov but Conor McGregor is challenging Donald Seroni to a match after Donald Seroni's wonderful preliminary main event win but that was even the biggest fight of this card the main event a super fight champion versus champion TJ Dilishoff 135 pound champion Henry Quato 125 pound champion rumors saying the 125 division might be axed those guys left to go get a job elsewhere or gain weight or gain weight but TJ dropped 10 pounds to fight the champion he said he was going to take the title that weight cut took off more than 10 pounds from him he didn't have much fighting under the fight knocked out I believe in the first round what yeah took a nasty head kick so what's it when when fighter change weight classes is it a rule that the heavier guy has to come down or can the can a lighter guy go up to his weight class no a lighter guy can come up which I'm glad you brought that up because Henry Quato is saying he's going to move up to 135 to have another champion versus champion fighting his TJ to take TJ's title but in that case if he wants to 135 title to 125 divisions gone so it's just another example of this division is gone either way oh okay so what happened was because they fought 125 it was over the 125 belt yes and if he moves up to 135 TJ even though he got his butt kicked he still has that title in my personal opinion TJ would knock Henry out cold at 135 TJ's a monster at 135 big 135 pounder so why so 10 pounds and fighting why is that that much of a difference okay well first of all the weight cut TJ Dilishaw weighs 135 come again to weigh in but when he comes to fight the next day he might walk in at 155 he'll hydrate 20 pounds waterway overnight there's a science to it like Conor McGregor he walks around on the street around 180 when he goes to the octagon he fights at 155 he'll cut 30 pounds of weight to get down to fight but he'll come back in into the like the octagon 175 to fight like you cut weight and then rehydrate come back in the idea is to lose as much weight as possible to have as much power as possible without cutting your cardio and power oh and so since you're already cutting like 20 25 pounds on weigh in to drop down a weight class you're actually losing power when you drop in the extra 10 pounds because you're already getting the bare minimum at 135 yeah Dilishaw he's normally really jet dude distinctive lats and traps he came in he looked he looked like a man who had drank glass of water about a week it looks like you Cody oh roasted i'm just playing Cody don't come across the table and beat me up yeah so it's pretty pretty good fight so what about what about ronda rousie and the ww i've been seeing some headlines about her so what's what's the latest ronda rousie the current rumor in the rumor mill is after wrestle mania in new Orleans i believe it's a new york city i believe ronda rousie will be out of pro-resc so what is she gonna do after that probably go back and acting she wasn't i believe expendable three but then uh after she lost she kind of went downhill she had to some mental health problems that she had to solve okay yeah because i remember she was undefeated for a long time and kind of what goes into whether fighter gets mainstream is not necessarily not always how good they are it's it kind of i think and correct me if i'm wrong it kind of is a factor of also how good they are but how entertaining are they oh just why the face of ufc is kind of a gregor even though he's like his last two fights he's gotten beaten uh he lost two of his last three two of his last three yeah like konam gregor is he the best fighter no but he's the fighter people want to pay money to see so he's put on the face of the video game same as ronda rousie she put women's mma from obscure middle of nowhere fighting in high school james to selling out entire arenas just to see her fight just one name just one named ronda rousie wow so what has she done in the ww i believe she's currently the ww women's champion so she did a pretty good transfer over from from a real sport to entertainment oh okay so this is a good question i have you're you're someone who's very passionate about ww and following along all those storylines if i say to you that's not a sport what is your reply to that you're right it's not a sport like but what was we going to talk about it's athletes doing athletic endeavors in a form of theater we couldn't talk about this like we're not going to put pro wrestling did you know what's fake yes i guess i i know it's predetermined it's a form of theater but are we going to talk about the pro wrestling on a show about ballet or we want to talk about pro wrestling on a sport about boxing or something you gotta if it's in more with mma even though it is a form of entertainment yeah that's something that once i realized we like i didn't enjoy watching it at all because i'm like this the outcome's already predetermined but if you think about it as a genre of theater not unlike improv which both kodi and i do genre theater but if you think about it as a genre of theater our performance then it's actually really amazing oh they're very athletic they like if they combine hollywood stuntmen acrobatics theater and they do get hurt fairly often uh world power i believe he was a strong man bronze strowman he recently had his peck tore off his chest had to go get surgery about that he's about to return back to w we have believe he has returned actually like minus the peck or did he get it back oh he got reattached today i thought that joke was probably bad tape all right all right so moving on something else that we were going to talk about since you're knowledgeable on it something you're never talking about before the show is that the government the government shutdown could affect something in sports well i i i not really a sport it could affect new japan pro wrestling so what is new japan pro wrestling well if wb is number one then new japan's number two in the world but they were beginning to do a u.s expansion right however they're split their roster into two touring groups so while people in america weren't expecting large names such as kazishku okada or nido we were expecting some lower names such as will osprey best british wrestler life today and a guy named ishi but neither one of them can get their visas solved right now so it's kind of a local problem i thought about going to their charlotte show they sold out i believe a six thousand seed arena in about an hour in charlotte first time new japan has came back to america since it's renaissance on the east coast i thought about buying a ticket and driving down to charlotte glad i didn't because i just saw the card and fans are disappointed there is no major names on this card oh so you're having to have you pay for your ticket thinking you get big names you're still getting the event so you can't ask for a refund yes but now your ticket is nowhere near as valuable as what you pay for it so you can't even resell it yeah like i didn't buy a ticket but the people who did they're very ain't they weren't expecting the number one or number two guy but they were expecting you know four or five no they're getting about like nine or ten on the list of people who they want to see so they're kind of disappointed it may hurt their u.s expansion actually they just opened up a new training facility in los angeles but i don't know if they'll be able to tour the east coast if this is the quality they're going to bring so do you think that um this new japan pro wrestling could see a similar growth rate to like mma saw with when you have names in the business well i believe personally there's another company that just opened up has got funding from the jack some bill jaguars owner it's called all elite wrestling they're shopping for a tv deal right now it's ran by the largest wrestler these are wrestlers who make millions of dollars a year not wrestling and w.e wrestling on their own terms and doing their own thing uh the young bucks man that jackson and kody rodes are all started a company funding from jackson bill jaguars owner they're looking for a tv deal i think they're going to eat any market new japan could have had in america anywhere new japan could have had a business i believe all elite wrestling is already going to move in there and set up shop and get that market share wow get that big boy books learning we're getting the latest scoop on all of this thanks to uh kody hoyl uh guest from the show selling in for john hinton so now you're more knowledgeable than you were when you do not listen so what's why you should listen every week and also we appreciate you guys listening and taking time out of your week to listen follow us on twitter appc is like ncsu so you also in addition to fighting you do follow the washington nationals and i don't care about the nationals and i don't think any of our listeners care about the nationals but what we do care about is brice harper so what's the latest with brice harper well people last year brice harper signed a one-year extension for the 2018 season with the nationals believe us 40 million dollars for one year works people he's getting like we said big boy bucks put a baseball in your kid's hands guys baseball and a baseball bat well after this you might not want to because there was discussion that he wanted a 400 million dollar eight-year deal what 50 million dollars a year highest paid contract in baseball history but the problem is when he went to free agency nobody's buying it looks like we might have reached a bubble on free agency salaries right now so like a critical mass like cuz in nfl quarterbacks keep getting paid more and more and pretty soon we're gonna realize all the high-speed quarterbacks miss the playoffs because they couldn't build good teams around them and so that's happening already in baseball we're not gonna pay so much for our star player that we can't build a good team around them that's right it just comes down to economics if you can you can spend 400 million dollars on brice harper and you get terrific player but he played outfielders or a diamond dozen just being honest and while he does bring good batting in oh this is nothing he refused to play the Yankee said we could put you on first or third base and he said i want to play outfield there's just no room for him the outfield's already fit with people who have more power and better batting averages than brice put up in the last season but it isn't just brice many michado is also up for free agency and no one has got his contract so but i agree with him why would you spend 400 million dollars on one player if i could get two or three great players or maybe expand like this always up to your pitching def you could spend money on pitchers or brice harper i'd rather have those pitchers yeah and i don't even know a lot about baseball but i would also rather have pitchers because you say so kody but there you go that's the latest scoop on what's happening in baseball free agency uh spring training starts up in about a month so we'll hear more about that when it gets closer to it finally when that last home stretch of the show and we're going to talk about the super bowl next week with john but since kody's here this week i want to talk about the super bowl everyone's talking about it so kody who is going to win the super bowl well i hate i hate to say it it does bring my heart i believe the Patriots will win the super bowl who you're going to be pulling for you know out of spite i'll pull for the Patriots because everyone why do why kody dude it pays to be the bad guy no it doesn't yes it does it's it's it's the Patriots i don't know kody it's just sad you're a great guy and you just you just bring yourself down by my pulling for the Patriots why choose to associate yourself with a legacy of cheating and greatness i pull for a winner america loves a winner no america hates the the Patriots but you're just you're just pulling for the Patriots to watch the world burn that's right all right well i'm really gonna be pulling for the Rams and i think the Rams are gonna win i also got like all the games wrong in the division around because i just picked you i wanted to win so i'm not even i'm not an expert on that i got a question for you what's your favorite super bowl ad off the top of your head i would probably say the one where a large man in a mouse costume bust through a wall to get into burrito oh the Doritos commercial yeah i love just the picture of a large man in a orange mouse costume running through a sheet of drywall it's hard to beat that oh yeah like cool amen anyway i like the um i like the dog collar Doritos commercial so you guys speak if you want Doritos so i'm looking forward to see what they got on this year last year's ads i mean they seem to get pretty good every year i think last year was terrible they had the tide pod ads it was on the guy from stranger things those were amazing it's a tide ad those were amazing no last year everyone ran emotional ads i don't want to have like a nice storybook ad going on if like this person was sad and then they got a on day sinatra i don't want to see that i want to see like i'll tell you what if it was a hundrais natra i would buy it then was sad and then he got a hunday sinatra you know it's a sinata right dude i just said english is my first second and third language i would buy the sinatra that'd be actually really cool hunday velocity or in what all right all right another question if you were a baseball player what's your walkout song you're walking up to the bat at bat i would probably choose a raining blood by slayer or i would choose carollus rex by the power metal band sebaton i don't know either of those songs should i know those songs well probably raining blood sebaton that's a that's a power they're pretty obscure wow flexing on me with your obscure music you don't even care what my walk-up song would be benjamin if you were an mlb player what would your walk-off song it's got to be bell bottoms the opener that we play for the show i don't think anything would get me more pumped than the opener for the show the song that we play no comments on that cody are you about to hate on bell bottoms because if you hate on bell bottoms you're never ever coming on this show and i don't care how much you threatened to beat me up it was decent it was decent okay all right cody all right now that's fine well it's about that time y'all i really appreciate you guys listening and cody i appreciate you for summing in for john this week so i didn't have to talk to you all by myself thanks for having me ben yeah and thank i'm glad you won't beat me up because i let you on the show that's always good i like to say in good physical health oh update by the way i did actually go to the doctor for my ankle and john is definitely part of that so i appreciate how much john really actually cared about how whether i was heard or not and i did actually get a high-income spraying and foot contusion so i partially uh ripped the ligament off of the bone just like very slightly so i'm wearing a bracelet the next couple weeks i saw this man's ankle and let me tell you i think his purple is grimace like the dude from the mid-dollins commercials anyone else remember that i don't actually oh okay i see what you did there cody i see what you did there i actually i like that i like that but it was actually a quite purple ankle anyway thank you guys so much for listening this has been pack as like sports show you can follow us on twitter at pack as life ncsu i'm benjamin dinton i'm cody oil bye y'all