Love a Good Money Grab
Stugotz and Company
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Stugotz is joined by former super agent Hughes Norton who wrote a book detailing how he was able to sign Tiger Woods and how he felt he was betrayed by how Tiger ultimately fired him as his agent. Hughes shares the story of getting into the sports agent business almost by serendipity. Plus he recalls meeting a young Tiger Woods for the first time, and how a Hall of Famer was responsible for being let go.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to stupidity, home of the greatest media mind ever to walk the planet. |
| 0:08.0 | I'll tell you what, man. He's a literal titan across the entire media landscape. |
| 0:13.0 | Okay, so here's a deal. He's a true icon in every sense of the word. |
| 0:18.0 | He's loved and feared more than any being to grace this planet. |
| 0:23.3 | There's too, gosh, a man with a voice that sounds like Barry White and Beyonce has a Jewish baby. |
| 0:31.8 | God himself would pay $39.99 for a cameo. |
| 0:36.3 | Fact of the matter is, you are about to embark on a transcented |
| 0:40.9 | experience that can only be described as psychological nudity. This is Stugas, and this is |
| 0:47.7 | Stuponty. Here we go, Jim. Tony! So Billy and Mikey A. have left me to my own devices here on Stuponity, which I both love |
| 0:58.6 | and hate. |
| 0:59.9 | And I am very excited for our guest who is coming up. |
| 1:03.0 | Because the one thing I've been consistent about over the 20 years of doing this show with |
| 1:06.5 | Lebitard is that Masters Week is my favorite week on the sports calendar, and we are just days away |
| 1:12.7 | from Masters Week beginning, starts on Monday, and we are just about a week away from the opening |
| 1:18.1 | round at Augusta, and I could not be more excited. So I want to bring a guest on. His name is |
| 1:24.2 | Hughes Norton. He is a former agent. He is now an author. He has a new book out. |
| 1:29.1 | It's called Rainmaker, Super Agent, Use Norton, and the money grab explosion of golf from Tiger |
| 1:34.9 | to live and beyond. I wanted to have him on because this is Tiger Woods' original agent. This is the guy |
| 1:42.4 | who saw something in Tiger. He was his original agent. |
| 1:46.6 | He helped build what we now see with Tiger Woods, the marketing, all of it. And he has some |
| 1:52.1 | great stories. And again, he has a new book out. Rainmaker. Super agent used Norton and the |
| 1:59.0 | money grab explosion of golf from Tiger to Live and beyond. |
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