Joe Rogan - Jeff Novitzky Reacts to His Nickname "The Golden Snitch"

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Dr. Alan Levinovitz is an author and Associate Professor of Religion at James Madison University. His latest book Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science is available now. Also look for his podcast SHIFT available on Spotify.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Jeff Nowitzki. How are you buddy? What's up Joe? Doing good. I have to ask you, do you mind the nickname, the Golden Snitch? The first thing I was going to bring up with you. This Golden Snitch bullshit. I just want to say it's not my nickname. It's Brendan Jobs. He came up with it 100% on his own. I was going to ask you. It's all good though. It's okay. It's all good. It's all good. So a couple of funny stories about that. When did he come up with this? About a year ago? At least. Yeah. So people in the office started coming up to me saying, hey Golden Snitch, what the hell is that? I do a little research. I see something about Harry Potter or some character named there. I'm like, what the hell does this have to do with me? So about a month ago, somebody lets me know, hey, check out Wikipedia. So for whatever reason, there's a Jeff Nowitzki Wikipedia page. You go to that page now, it says actually my formal name, Jeffrey John Nowitzki, aka the Golden Snitch. So last week, Donna Marcellini, you know Donna, long 15 year employee of the UFC now works with me and talk about her a little later. She's a great asset to what we're doing. She sends me a text. She says, check this out. So she's got one of those Amazon echoes. Alexa, I think. So she says, Alexa, who's Jeff Nowitzki and Alexa's name says Jeffrey John Nowitzki, aka the Golden Snitch. So thanks a lot, Shaab. Oh, Shaab, what have you done? That's hilarious. I love Donna. She's amazing. She's awesome. Great that she's over there. She's so good. Yeah. I mean, you know about kind of her history. She's one of the five original employees of the UFC, was Dana's assistant to start out with, went on to become VP of event operations. So basically, you know, she got everybody to the event, set up hotel at the event, ran the crew, you know, the blue shirts backstage that run the event. I think after doing it for many years, she got a little burnout on it. So went to Dana mid summer and says, look, I don't think I want to do this anymore. But I'd really love to do something else. And I've seen kind of what Jeff's doing in his program. I really like to go over there and work with him and kind of learn, you know, what he's doing. And so Dana pulled me into the office and said, hey, what do you think about this idea? And it took me literally a half second to say 100 percent on board. This woman, as you probably know, is about his attention to detail and passionate about her work as anybody. And really, my positioning, unlike the name, the Golden Snitch, is an advocate to our athletes to make sure our athletes are successful under the program, not that they fail under the program. It's definitely the wrong nickname. It's just catchy. It is. It's unfortunately catchy. Again, I'm all good with it. I'm going to roll off my back. But the real Golden Snitch is Victor Conti. He's the Golden Snitch, right? Yeah. I can see that. I can see that. Because he was a guy who was giving guys steroids. You were a guy that was always catching people. Correct. So it's the wrong moniker. Yeah, correct. Giving them steroids and then talking about it after, right? Snitching. Yeah. That's a Snitch. That's the Golden Snitch. Not you, man. But it's all good. I was hoping to shop with you here. Call them up. I don't know what I would do. I'm not going to call them up later in the show. Not that I could do anything to them, but it'd be interesting to look at them in the face. I'm sorry, bro. Sorry. It's all good.