Are Any Of Us Invited To Jessica's Wedding? | Hour 3

Summary

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: “Are Any Of Us Invited To Jessica's Wedding? | Hour 3”

Date: May 6, 2026

Episode Overview

Live from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the crew deliver their signature blend of sports banter, pop-culture riffs, and personal anecdotes. The hour’s main thread is Jessica Smetana’s upcoming wedding, sparking playful speculation about whom from the show will be invited. The group spirals off into lively discussions about wedding planning priorities, the rise and fall of LIV Golf, Miami’s evolving F1 Grand Prix, viral cruise ship news, bizarre internet trends, celebrity sightings, and ridiculous hypothetical situations.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Love Doctor & Wedding Talk

• Greg Cote returns as the “Love Doctor,” dishing comedic, occasionally off-color relationship and wedding advice.
  • On breakfast in bed:
    “It doesn't matter. You may get some crumbs in the heck. It really doesn't matter that much because here's why. You've heard of eggs Benedict. Try eggs with Benedict. Try your eggs on Benedict. And here's the thing… nothing says love like warm and sticky.” (Greg Cote, 02:08)
  • Cote suggests “matinee and nocturnal meandering” for Jess’s honeymoon before being redirected to recommend actual travel spots, like Montana or Lawrence, Massachusetts (03:26).
  • Uncomfortable moment: The hosts corner Jess about her wedding invite list.
    “When do we do the show where we make Jess feel really uncomfortable by asking her who from the show is invited to her wedding?” (Mike Golick Jr., 04:15)
  • Jess on wedding stress:
    “There's such a… an apparatus around this entire thing that neither of us love, but it's, you know. Yeah, it’s probably going to happen.” (Jessica Smetana, 05:08)

Timestamps

• Love Doctor Segment: 01:38–03:55
• Wedding Invite Debate & Planning: 04:15–07:14

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2. Wedding Planning: Real Priorities

• Debate over what really matters at a wedding:
  • Jess: “We want people to eat and eat well and drink a lot and have an open bar… We don’t need to splurge on flowers… or a dress.” (05:46)
  • Consensus among the group: food, music, and alcohol are key; everything else is secondary.
  • “The most important thing for me, food wise… is the hors d’oeuvres are great. By the main meal I’m just trying to drink anyway.” (Amin Elhassan, 07:26)
  • Memorable exchange about bad wedding food and open bar experiences.
  • “I’ve been to a zillion weddings. I swear to God, I cannot remember one dish, one hors d’oeuvre I ate at any.” (Ira Winderman, 07:38)
  • Jess recalls exceptional sushi hors d'oeuvres at a recent wedding, reinforcing her priorities.

Timestamps

• Wedding Food & Music Debate: 05:46–08:13

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3. The Pros and Cons of Wedding Guest Competitions

• Hilarious hypothetical: Wedding Guest Tryouts
  • “You should have, like, a designated two slots for people from the Metalarc environment. And then you make everybody compete for it in a series of challenges.” (Ira Winderman, 18:15)
  • Jess expands: “You have to be able to dance, you have to have good vibes, you have to be funny. I have to be able to stick you at any table at my wedding.” (Jessica Smetana, 18:48)
  • Joking about wedding invite etiquette — gifting, attendance, and how Dan Le Batard (allegedly) doesn’t send wedding checks.

Timestamps

• Wedding Guest Tryouts: 18:15–20:06

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4. LIV Golf’s Decline & Athletes’ Regret

• Jess’s vindication over her early skepticism of LIV Golf:
  • “This seems like a bad idea. This seems like something that maybe, maybe the golfers that join aren’t going to regret it because of the monetary reward… from a relevancy and a golf standpoint, I don’t know how this is going to work.” (Jessica Smetana, 20:19)
  • Greg Cote goes hardline: “I have no sympathy for the traitors who left the PGA Tour for LIV golf… They accepted the blood money, and now… the PGA Tour should make it a hard path back.” (Greg Cote, 22:47)

Timestamps

• LIV Golf Discussion: 20:08–24:04

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5. Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix: Growing Pains to Excitement

• Jess analyzes how rule tweaks and hybrid car engines boosted the Miami Grand Prix’s quality:
  • “There’s been quite a lot of drama this season because they changed the cars… now they have more electric power and combustible power… a lot of drivers, specifically Max Verstappen, have complained about it…” (Jessica Smetana, 24:31)
  • Details on race adjustments, unique Miami F1 visuals, and what a new champion could mean for the sport.

Timestamps

• F1 Miami Discussion: 24:04–26:15

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6. Cruise Ship Virus Outbreak: News, Jokes, and Fears

• Breakdown of a real-life quarantine drama:
  • Jess recounts the outbreak of a mysterious, deadly virus on a cruise ship where passengers can’t disembark (09:02–10:47).
  • “Three people have died… this cruise ship is supposed to park in the Canary Islands at some point. And Spain’s government is like, we’re not so sure if we want that to happen… looking kind of scary.” (Jessica Smetana, 09:02)
  • The conversation detours into jokes about dangerous bodily gases and the weird pride some might take in their toxicity.

Timestamps

• Cruise Ship Virus Discussion: 08:41–11:24

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7. Viral Internet Phenomena: Speedrunning the Church of Scientology

• Jess’s Internet Minute dives into the latest bizarre online trend:
  • People “speedrunning” (storming, then posting videos of dashes through) Church of Scientology buildings across the world.
  • Minions costumes, heightened security, and even door handle removals to keep pranksters out (33:37–35:31).
  • “This is the latest Internet phenomenon. The Minions video was quite funny… they have upped their security. They are not happy about this.” (Jessica Smetana, 35:04)
  • Extended riff about a dwarf “rush” at the Church and tangential football hypotheticals about Brad Williams as a goal-line back.

Timestamps

• Internet Minute / Scientology Speedruns: 33:31–35:53
• Dwarf Football Hypotheticals: 36:41–39:41

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8. Pop Culture, Sports, and Style Sidelights

• Joe Burrow’s new role as a “celebrity at all celebrity-based events”—Kentucky Derby, Miami Grand Prix, Met Gala (32:00–33:24).
• Streaming/TV talk: “DTF St. Louis” – Jess and Dave debate its themes and flaws, especially Jason Bateman’s overlooked infidelities (41:15–42:05).
• Awkward admissions: “Chris Cody… will conjure thoughts of his wife’s twin sister” for arousal, sparking a quick exit from Jess (42:05–42:43).
• “Ric Flair tweets angrily at Luka Doncic for not playing,” analyzed for style (“Every individual word capitalized… there always needs to be five O’s in ‘woo’”) and content (43:13–44:23).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I started dating his ex, my mom. Now, don’t get it wrong. For the most part, we kept it platonic.” (Greg Cote, on dating your dad’s ex/girlfriend — 17:07)
• “Have you considered making people compete for your wedding invites?” (Ira Winderman, 18:15)
• “We want people to eat and eat well and drink a lot and have an open bar and everything else… I’m not gonna splurge on flowers… or a dress.” (Jessica Smetana, 05:46)
• “I have no sympathy for the traitors who left the PGA Tour for LIV golf… They accepted the blood money.” (Greg Cote, 22:47)
• “People are doing this — it’s called speedrunning — but at the Church of Scientology and they’re posting videos of it online… they have removed the door handles from some of their buildings.” (Jessica Smetana, 35:04)

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The Show’s Tone & Flow

Reflective of the Le Batard universe: irreverent, quick-witted, occasionally veering from sports into the patently absurd. Whether riffing on wedding anxieties, the politics of golf, or whether a dwarf could score a goal-line touchdown if thrown, the energy is playful, teasing, and self-aware. Jessica Smetana is repeatedly thrust into the role of both subject and straight-woman, giving the episode an organizing, comedic anchor around her wedding plans.

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Useful Timestamps for Main Segments

| Segment | Timestamps | |----------------------------------------|---------------| | Love Doctor & Wedding Questions | 01:38–03:55 | | Who’s Invited? Wedding Planning | 04:15–07:14 | | Wedding Food, Music, Guest Priorities | 05:46–08:13 | | LIV Golf Implosion | 20:08–24:04 | | Miami F1 Grand Prix & Rule Changes | 24:04–26:15 | | Cruise Ship Virus Outbreak | 08:41–11:24 | | Internet Minute: Scientology Speedruns | 33:31–35:53 | | Dwarf Football Hypothetical | 36:41–39:41 | | TV Talk: DTF St. Louis | 41:15–42:05 | | Ric Flair's Luka Tweets | 43:13–44:23 |

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Transcript

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[Dan LeBatard]

This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

You can check out her weekly Notre Dame podcast, the Echoes with Mike Golick Jr. She is Jessica Smittena. Jess, have you seen this week's episode of Euphoria yet?

[Jessica Smittena]

No, I was waiting for you to tell me about it.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

I was reading. Yet I've never seen the show, so I haven't seen this week's episode yet. But I'll let you know when I get up to speed on everything happening, though. Although I can tell Rue's in a lot of trouble. She got arrested because she's like a drug runner now. Yeah, Ru's got some issues. Mike, you know about drug running?

[Dan LeBatard]

I do, yeah, I do.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Didn't expect a yes on that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I mean, I watch the cable news.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

All right, me too, Jess. Let's bring in the Love Doctor here for a moment. It is Mother's Day coming up this weekend and the Love Doctor has patience who have questions. Let's hear another.

[Jessica Smittena]

Hi, this message is for the Love Doctor. I wanted to know what he thought

[Dave]

about breakfast in bed.

[Jessica Smittena]

Is it romantic or is it a crumb filled disaster?

[Greg Cote]

It's definitely romantic. I mean, nothing is more romantic. It doesn't matter. You may get some crumbs in the heck. It really doesn't matter that much because here's why. You've heard of eggs Benedict. Try eggs with Benedict. Try your eggs on Benedict. And here's the thing, okay? Bring out the maple syrup because nothing says love like warm and sticky. Thank you. Thank you very much.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Eggs Benedict was right there for us.

[Greg Cote]

That's how it was back in my day. Damn right. Different bit, and you know it.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

All right, can we. Can we hear from another patient who needs advice this weekend?

[Dave]

How do you know it's not Jess? She's engaged. She may have some questions.

[Amin Elhassan]

Jess, do you have a question for the love doctor?

[Jessica Smittena]

I guess. Greg, do you have any ideas for potential honeymoon for me and Lehman next year?

[Greg Cote]

I do have one idea. Triple play.

[Jessica Smittena]

Right.

[Greg Cote]

On the. On the. On the reg.

[Jessica Smittena]

I meant places.

[Greg Cote]

Turn Lehman into a morning man. Enjoy a matinee. Do a little nocturnal meandering.

[Dave]

What now?

[Jessica Smittena]

I meant locations.

[Greg Cote]

Oh.

[Jessica Smittena]

Travel.

[Greg Cote]

Ah. You know what?

[Ira Winderman]

Yeah. Or the butt.

[Greg Cote]

Hawaii is overrated. Rule that out instantly. Unless you're a beach freak. Then it's worth going to the Big Island. But otherwise, I would. I would probably go to the Montana, somewhere like that.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Or.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah, or Lawrence, Massachusetts. You know, near the. Near the Merrimack River.

[Dave]

Fly fishing for your honeymoon.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah. Go to 9 Merrimack View Court. Knock on. Knock on the linozole door. Tell them, Greg. Okay.

[Jessica Smittena]

I hate this segment.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

When do we. When do we do the show where we make Jess feel really uncomfortable by asking her who from the show is invited to her wedding? When do we. Because, like, that's, like, it's going to be a thing, right? When do we do that show?

[Ira Winderman]

I see the look in her eyes, and that's. You guys think you're going to the wedding.

[Jessica Smittena]

Nobody ready to have that conversation. It's a. It's a difficult conversation, but I'm glad that we're going to have it.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

When is the wedding?

[Jessica Smittena]

Next year.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Okay. Still ways away. All right, but how, like, routinely, how you do, like a save the date? What, like eight months, maybe?

[Jessica Smittena]

Says, they told us you had 12 months. And then I was like, what if it's more like 10 months? At this rate, we'll be lucky if it's before 9. I don't. I don't understand how people do this stuff so far in advance.

[Ira Winderman]

Jess, are you fighting back against big wedding?

[Jessica Smittena]

I think, like, in our. In our hearts, we wanted to do that, but I don't know if that's possible. Like, it's just. So there's such a. An apparatus around this entire thing that neither of us love, but it's, you know. Yeah, it's probably going to happen.

[Ira Winderman]

I didn't mean a big wedding. I mean big wedding. The industry.

[Jessica Smittena]

No, I know exactly what you meant.

[Ira Winderman]

Created to just exploit people. The number one tip is when you call for a venue, don't tell them it's for a Wedding.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Really?

[Jessica Smittena]

Yeah.

[Ira Winderman]

You don't tell them it's for a wedding.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

What's the rationale there?

[Ira Winderman]

They ratchet up the prices. If you tell them I'm doing a wedding reception, like, oh, these are the wedding reception prices. These are the reception prices.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Interesting.

[Ira Winderman]

Completely different.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Did you know that, Jess?

[Jessica Smittena]

Yeah, I don't know if that's true. At least the places that we were interested in. I think the issue is that no matter how you spin it, it costs a lot to feed and liquor people up, and that's the two most important things to us for our wedding. We want people to eat and eat well and drink a lot and have an open bar and everything else. Like, we. We don't need to splurge on. Really. I'm not gonna splurge on flowers. I don't really give a shit about flowers. I'm not gonna splurge on a dress. I don't really give a. To dress.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

The food and the music are the two most important things. Food and music's not.

[Ira Winderman]

That's insane. He said food and music. Yep. No, Jess, you're right. Food on food and alcohol.

[Jessica Smittena]

Alcohol. Food. Yeah, those. But, like, the rest of it's, like, not. That's the most expensive thing for our wedding.

[Amin Elhassan]

I might go music. I might go music over.

[Ira Winderman]

You guys are nuts.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Food and music's the most important thing.

[Dave]

Music, no alcohol.

[Jessica Smittena]

Music.

[Ira Winderman]

I can do the music off my phone. I can't do.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right, well, just make sure there's music.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Amin Elhassan]

Make sure it's good music.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Jessica Smittena]

Well, Louis just said in my ear. Photos and video. Yes, that's important, but that's Lewis looking for a work. Lehman. Lehman and I are lucky because we have friends in the industry that are going to, like, we're going to work with, so that. That isn't that hard for us to figure out. But that's a. That's not. That's an us thing. That's not an everyone thing. But, yes, the photos are very important. I. I just. I. I've been to so many weddings, and when you have memorably bad food.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Yep.

[Jessica Smittena]

Like, you think about it for a while. Like, I'm talking, like, food that is inedible. It's happened a few times, and that includes people.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

That includes the cocktail hour, too. Just like hors d'. Oeuvres. Gotta have great.

[Amin Elhassan]

The most important thing for me, food wise, if the. If the hors d' oeuvres are gone, the hors d' oeuvres are great. I. I don't really by that Point of the main meal. I'm just trying to drink. Anyways, I'm not that I don't care that much about the main course. Just give me the fire hors d'.

[Dave]

Oeuvres.

[Ira Winderman]

I've been to a zillion weddings. I swear to God, I cannot remember one dish, one hors d' oeuvre I ate at any.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Oh, you're in the minority.

[Amin Elhassan]

You've had that. Pigs in the blanket.

[Ira Winderman]

No.

[Dave]

Wow.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Yeah, you're in the minority.

[Jessica Smittena]

I had really good wedding hors d' oeuvres at a wedding we went to a month ago. It was all hand rolls. It was like tuna hand rolls. It was sushi. It was all amazing. Really?

[Dave]

Yeah. Especially with your podcast partner, Mike Golic. He's probably going to post videos of him critiquing the hors d', oeuvres, right?

[Jessica Smittena]

That would be terrible.

[Jeremy]

I hope not.

[Dave]

He should go live, actually, from the reception, critiquing the stuff that he could.

[Jessica Smittena]

He could do, like a cookie table taste test.

[Dave]

Yeah, that's a good idea.

[Ira Winderman]

Just, when is his wedding? Are you guys going to have dueling weddings? Well, I have to make a decision.

[Jessica Smittena]

Which wedding I go to should, or. Yeah, maybe his wedding should happen. Like, it should start, like, 10 seconds after mine so that our wedding is our echoing. There's, like, an echo at the wedding because, like, his wedding's happening while our wedding's happening and everyone's talking, but slightly delayed.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Jess, have you seen. Have you seen this? Okay, so I'm aware of these kind of happenings because my family, we go on cruises. All right? We actually got a matter of fact, a couple of days ago, we booked a cruise. We're going on a cruise at the end of the summer.

[Kenny]

Get your refund.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

We like going on cruises, but there's, like, this. This virus outbreak on one of these cruises, right?

[Jessica Smittena]

You see, I have seen this. I have been slightly concerned about this. Do you remember when Gene Hackman and his wife passed away last year? It was from a very rare virus that you can contract from inhaling mouse droppings. And up until now, I had thought that this virus was only contracted through inhaling mice droppings, but apparently the people on this cruise, which embarked from Argentina about a month ago, have a strain of this virus which can possibly be transmitted from human to human. And so far, three people have died, including one woman whose husband passed away, who was able to disembark and then fly, was trying to fly back to the Netherlands, and ended up passing away before she even made it home. And so now there are more people who are sick on board. There are other people that have been evacuated, including, I believe I read this morning, the cruise ship's doctor, which is very scary. And the latest zaz is that this boat, this cruise ship is supposed to park in the Canary Islands at some point. And Spain's government is like, we're not so sure if we want that to happen. So these people are still stuck out at sea. They've been on this cruise for a month, and it's. It's looking kind of scary.

[Kenny]

Yeah. Canary Islands have denied them, so they're actually just floating out at sea with no real port to go to, and they're going across the entire ocean for somebody to try and find a port for them to dock. But everybody's like, yeah, yeah, I think we're good right now. And now it begs the question, like, what do we do with this ship that has this terrifying virus that fills your lungs full of liquid with no cure? And we're looking at, you know, another repeat of something else that happened a couple years ago. It's like, do we. How do we stop this?

[Dave]

It's interesting that human beings can do this. I know some.

[Kenny]

Were we ahead of ourselves last time or.

[Dave]

Who would be very proud that their gas could kill another human being. Right. I mean, do. I think we all know people who would use that as a. As a real point of pride, a real feather in their life.

[Jessica Smittena]

Wait, I like. I like Tony being like, we should have locked down sooner guy, because that's not what. I know.

[Kenny]

Not locked down sooner, just, like, maybe probably taking it a little bit more serious.

[Jessica Smittena]

I feel like a lot of people did try to take it seriously.

[Jeremy]

What?

[Jessica Smittena]

Wait a second, Dave. I don't know anyone who would say that their parts can kill people.

[Dave]

We know different people.

[Jessica Smittena]

Okay, let's. Where are you going with this? I would love to know.

[Dave]

I just recently had the opportunity to visit head coach of Pitt, Pat Narduzzi, and I was talking with you. Okay. I love this segue so far about do's and don'ts. About. Well, you were just talking about where you're gonna feed your wedding attendees, apparently none of whom will be from the Lebatard universe if I'm picking up what you were laying out.

[Jessica Smittena]

I didn't say that.

[Dave]

Well, I was reading between the lines there.

[Jessica Smittena]

I asked obnoxious farts. Pat Narduz. Yes.

[Dave]

I would never. I wouldn't want to be a college coach because I wouldn't want to have to go to people's Houses, and I, like, sit down with them and then, like, whatever finger foods they point out. Put out what finger food? If you were a top recruit or your progeny was, what food would you put out? What would be appropriate and what would be inappropriate?

[Jessica Smittena]

That's a great question. I mean, there's a very famous story from when Brian Kelly was being offered the LSU job when he was at a recruit's house and the recruit's dad made burnt ends, and Brian Kelly ate like three plates of burnt ends while he was in the process of accepting the job and knew that he wasn't actually going to coach that kid once he committed to Notre Dame. So I, I think if you're really good at barbecue, it's a. I mean, it's a no brainer. But are they coming to my apartment in New York or do I live in, like a house somewhere with a smoker and a grill?

[Dave]

They're going to find you where you are. You know, it's your home. Yes. You could get out on the pod.

[Jessica Smittena]

A little limited with our options here. I'll have Lehman whip up a stir fry in the wok.

[Dave]

It'll be a little bit messy for a conversation about this young man's future.

[Jessica Smittena]

Okay, well, what do you suggest then?

[Dave]

Well, listen, I'm turning to you. You're the college football expert in this conversation, so I thought you might have some insights for me.

[Jessica Smittena]

But no matter what I serve, if the coach is trying to get my child's recruitment, they're going to have to act like they like it. So it doesn't even really matter.

[Dave]

I go with a neat charcuterie. You know, I get the Cornish pickles. I get some, some. A variety of meats and some cheeses from across the seven seas.

[Jessica Smittena]

I can tell that you guys are pretty hungry right now.

[Ira Winderman]

We're starving.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah.

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[Dan LeBatard]

Hey, Roy, buddy, you know that energy shift when the game gets good and everybody all together in unison knows to stand up on their feet? Oh, absolutely, Mike.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

You've been at many big time sporting events. You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip of Cuervo.

[Greg Cote]

Oh, delicious.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's the signal that says, we're not checking the time anymore, pal. It's when small talk turns into stories. Cuervo, man. It's that high five. A random stranger effect.

[Mike]

That's right.

[Dan LeBatard]

The game is popping. You're hugging people you never met before. That's the kind of energy that Cuervo brings. It's so smooth, so delicious. That's the Cuervo effect. Keep it Cuervo.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Don LeBatard.

[Greg Cote]

Quiet, man.

[Kenny]

Yes.

[Greg Cote]

You know, I'm a married man. I don't cheat on my wife. Despite that gratuitous line in back in my stug. I wish you were here. My wife, I really miss her. No, I don't. That's the thing about being married, you know, you're not allowed to say, I don't miss my wife. I've been gone two days. I haven't been gone long enough to miss my wife. I'm sorry. I call her. I'm on the phone with her for 30 seconds. You know, what am I?

[Kenny]

Hello?

[Greg Cote]

All right. All right. We'll see you. All right. And then, you know, I'm gonna see her in Two days I was jumping Charlie. Good.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats. Jess. Let's. Let's check back in with the love doctor as he has another patient who is waiting to get some advice. Let's hear. Go ahead. Hey, love guru.

[Jessica Smittena]

I recently found out my dad is

[Mike Golick Jr.]

dating my ex girlfriend.

[Jessica Smittena]

Does this mean I have to get her a Mother's day present now?

[Greg Cote]

Absolutely not. You do not, sir. The same situation happened to me once back in the day. I found a way to get back at dad. I started dating his ex, my mom. Now, don't get it wrong. For the most part, we kept it platonic.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

For the most part.

[Greg Cote]

Give that a try. And you know it.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

I don't know it.

[Ira Winderman]

Even the inner monologue is speechless right now.

[Dave]

And these are people you don't want at your wedding?

[Jessica Smittena]

Jess, I never said that.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Unbelievable.

[Dave]

Could set up a booth for the attendees at the reception. Dr. Love is sitting off on the side to handle any questions they might.

[Greg Cote]

There you go.

[Jessica Smittena]

This feels like a Valentine's Day themed thing, not a Mother's Day themed.

[Amin Elhassan]

Well, it's Mother's Day.

[Jessica Smittena]

Okay, go ahead, Amin.

[Ira Winderman]

The time for romance is every day, Jess. Which leads me to my suggestion of what you should do at your wedding. Watch this.

[Jessica Smittena]

Okay.

[Ira Winderman]

You should have, like, a designated two slots for people from the metal arc environment. And then you make everybody compete for it in a series of challenges.

[Mike]

I like that.

[Jessica Smittena]

Oh, okay.

[Ira Winderman]

So only two remain, and those are the ones that get to go.

[Mike]

Finally, we have the stakes we've needed

[Dave]

to have the Regular guide decathlon first event, 50 yard dash second event. Who can throw a football the furthest event, number three free throw shooting contest and so on.

[Kenny]

Seems like I'm going.

[Jessica Smittena]

I know. This is a. This is a wedding guest tryout, though. You have to be able to dance, you have to have good vibes, you have to be funny. I have to be able to stick you at any table at my wedding. And you can hang in a conversation, not be weird.

[Amin Elhassan]

Feel like you're painting a picture of me right now.

[Jessica Smittena]

You have to, you know, have some. Some manners.

[Dave]

Oh, damn.

[Jessica Smittena]

Some social decorum. I think this kind of rules out the whole. Pretty much everyone except for the two people I was gonna invite anyways.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

And is it taking place in New York?

[Jessica Smittena]

That's a need to know basis. Whoa.

[Ira Winderman]

Chicago, Pittsburgh, Somewhere in between.

[Amin Elhassan]

You gotta go, Dan.

[Dave]

Right?

[Amin Elhassan]

Just for gift purposes.

[Jessica Smittena]

I've heard from. I won't name names. Someone who invited Dan to their wedding thinking he's never going to show up, but he will send me a check. And not only did he not show up, he also did not send a check.

[Greg Cote]

Whoa.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

It's not me. Dan came to my wedding, showed up late to mine.

[Jessica Smittena]

Did he give you a check?

[Amin Elhassan]

He, like, he did this thing where he, like, bought up everything left on my registry, which was kind of annoying in hindsight.

[Ira Winderman]

I don't need this blender.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Jess.

[Jessica Smittena]

Yep.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Tell me what's going on here with LIV Golf. And I know that, I know that Greg wants to get into this a little bit as well, but tell me what's going on here, Jess, with LIV Golf.

[Jessica Smittena]

Okay. I feel like this is the one of the few times in my life that I've been vindicated where I was like, hey, this was what, only like four years ago? I was like, hey, this seems like a bad idea. This seems like something that maybe, maybe the golfers that join aren't going to regret it because of the monetary reward that they got. But, like, from a relevancy and a golf standpoint, I don't know how this is going to work and kind of feels like I've been taking a mental victory lap over this for the last few weeks because the golfers who are now trying to exit are sort of stuck. They don't know what to do. I haven't been following, like, the specifics of the different PGA Tour, what the PGA Tour has said to some of them yet, and, like, what they need to be able to rejoin the Tour. But I saw Today that Bryson DeChambeau had some comments about how he's going to just do his YouTube channel now and play in the majors. And that feels like a terrible outcome for someone who was a very exciting player to watch five years ago. It still is, you know, at times in the majors, obviously, the Masters, he didn't.

[Dave]

Are they play political scientists now? Are these live golfers the canaries in the coal mine of what people should anticipate six months or two years from now as they try to reenter general society after they dabbled in some extreme political views?

[Jessica Smittena]

What do you. Oh, interesting. Sure. We'll go with, yes, I think I see what you're putting down. I think there's an aspect of this where people said to some of these golfers, like, okay, you, yes, you're being offered like hundreds of millions of dollars. But most of these big name guys were already making tens of millions of dollars at least. So for anyone who is like, well, you have to take the money, it kind of feels like there's a really interesting question to be asked for players like Jon Rahm and Bryson and you know, Brooks Koepka who, who has, you know, made his way back. Now, did that make you happy? Like, was it.

[Dave]

Well, he bailed. Well, he bailed on it. And so I do wonder if Brooks Koepka then shows the path. Well, side by side. He bailed early enough. And yeah, you know, I mean there, there are people out there now who suddenly have found Jesus and yeah. Now realize the, the error in their ways.

[Amin Elhassan]

The doctor wants in on this.

[Dave]

Sorry, go ahead.

[Greg Cote]

I have no sympathy for the traders who, who left the PGA Tour for LIV golf. They. Saudi Arabia leads the world in sports washing. These guys accepted the blood money and now that LIV golf is collapsing under them, they should. The PGA Tour should make it a hard path back to the PGA Tour for these guys. I have no sympathy for them. I think there should be punitive measures. I think initially they shouldn't be allowed to play in majors or they shouldn't be allowed to do this, that or the other, and eventually have to earn their way back onto the PGA Tour, in my opinion.

[Jessica Smittena]

Yeah, I mean, that sounds like what may happen for, for a lot of these players. But I, I mean, I agree with you. It just, you. There was so much like bullshit that people were saying when this initially started going on. And if I had heard from enough of the players, like, actually we're, you know, this is a, this is so much money, we can't say no. At least it would have been honest. But all along it's been like, this is going to grow the game. This is going to make, you know, this will make the PGA Tour better. Like, we have to do this. And it just like, yeah, it rings completely hollow. And a lot of people saw through it from the beginning and here we are now and it has been a big failure.

[Dan LeBatard]

Jess. Formula one, the Grand Prix in Miami early on had mixed results. I mean, it was a place to CNB scene and hobnob. But now the races have actually become increasingly better. I don't know what kind of tweaks they've made to this, but the last race was pretty exciting. What's your takeaway of what's become Antonelli, a 19 year old who can't even, can't even enjoy the champagne that they're spraying on.

[Jessica Smittena]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

What do you make of the race getting better over time?

[Jessica Smittena]

Well, there's been quite a lot of drama this season because they changed the cars and now they have more electric power and combustible power. It's like 50, 50 in the engines. And so a lot of drivers, specifically Max Verstappen have complained about it and said that this isn't the type of driving they want to do. It's too much like battery management and they've had to tweak the rules. And so this past weekend was like the first big rule tweak. Here is a beautiful view of the corner like right before the straightaway I believe on the Miami Grand Prix track, like towards the end of the circuit that you can see from a turnpike camera on the Miami Turnpike which. Or the Florida Turnpike, which I love. That is so American. You can't get that any other race really on this, on this circuit. But anyways, yeah, so there's been rule tweaks, there's been car tweaks. And so I think like Toto Wolff said after the race, like he attributes the excitingness of this, the excitement of this race to those tweaks. There was also, you know, the weather was so terrible over the weekend they had to move the race up and there was a lot of question about how these cars would do in the rain. So there's a lot of, a lot going on at the circuit, Mike. But it was really exciting. I think that it would be, you know, having after Max Verstappen won several championships in a row, having two different young drivers win back to back seasons. If Antonelli is sort of the, the clubhouse leader through the first half of the season, which there's only been a few races so far because they did have to cancel the Saudi Arabian and the Bahrain Grand Prix because of the US's bombing of Iran. So if you were to lead the series and win the championship, I think that would be exciting. You would see like a different champion for the first time in back to back seasons for a long time.

[Dave]

Jess, speaking of races, who do you think will win the race? Aaron Rodgers or August, which comes first to the Pittsburgh Steelers?

[Jessica Smittena]

Do the Steelers want Aaron Rodgers back?

[Dave]

It's very interesting. And the money issue that I thought was probably not really motivating things now makes me think that maybe it is a factor because allegedly the Arizona Cardinals have expressed interest. Except the Arizona Cardinals deny any interest in it. Which makes me think that obviously this is Aaron Rodgers ginning up interest in him that doesn't actually exist anywhere outside the banks of the Three Rivers and may if the.

[Jessica Smittena]

If, if that even. I saw a picture of him wearing a Jets shirt the other day that

[Dave]

was, that was going around. I think that was from three years ago.

[Jessica Smittena]

Okay. Like that. That would have been an awesome troll. I also saw a picture of Joe Burrow at the Kentucky Derby. Not sure if you guys saw what he was wearing.

[Dave]

I did see that, and I didn't care. Oh, I saw him in a tank top. Wait, did he change?

[Jessica Smittena]

That was after the Met. I think that was after the Met. Gala. Gala. Gala. I don't know. That's a question for Greg.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's a hell of a three.

[Jessica Smittena]

He was wearing. Yeah, he was wearing this fedora. He had, like a. Some sort of pink pants with a brown belt and a gray shirt and like a tennis necklace. Really? The egregious part is the fedora. So it made me wonder what was worse, Joe Burrow at the Kentucky Derby or Dan LeBatard at the Miami Grand Prix three years ago.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Who's in the middle there?

[Dan LeBatard]

Aaron Jones. Well, it's crazy. Is like the most famous guy pictured is off to the right. He's an active SNL cast member. Yeah. Who is it?

[Amin Elhassan]

It's not Daniel Taj on to the other side. We thought it was. It's not.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's not.

[Dave]

No.

[Jessica Smittena]

That's the Red Bull guy.

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[Jessica Smittena]

Don LeBatard Greg, how's your birthday going so far?

[Greg Cote]

I invented it. It's going fantastic. My wife and I are staying home tonight. We're watching the debate on tv. We're going to do something special for baby. It's a. It's a nice day for me so far.

[Dan LeBatard]

Stugats.

[Jessica Smittena]

That sounds like a. Not a super nice night. The debate.

[Dan LeBatard]

Old people love that shit. Yeah,

[Greg Cote]

that's exactly right. Yeah, that's exactly right. Old people do love that shit. And I'm old now. I can't deny it anymore.

[Dan LeBatard]

Now this is Levatar show with the stugats. I mean that was quite the Three days for Joe Burrow consecutively. He, he went to the Kentucky Derby. He was at the Miami Grand Prix. Then he did the Met. It's wild.

[Jessica Smittena]

Oh wow. He was at the Grand. Oh, now I need to see what he wore to the Miami Grand Prix.

[Dan LeBatard]

I was standing next to him. It was like a linen white and with like some purple glasses and his signature Macaulay Culkin haircut.

[Dave]

I don't know how he's pulled it off. I guess it's cuz he's a handsome devil. But he is neatly slid into just, you know, garden variety celebrity who attends all celebrity based events.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well liked by everybody, but more like

[Jessica Smittena]

he is because he's handsome.

[Dave]

Well, 10 years or so ago it was weird to me. Odell Beckham. If you talk to social media types and all of that, they would say oh no. Odell Beckham by far and away, forget Patrick Mahomes or any other name you would invoke. The biggest name in football is Odell Beckham. I kind of feel like Joe Burrow is now the most recognizable celebrity in football. You don't see Lamar Jackson out of those things or Josh Allen and he's married to.

[Jessica Smittena]

I think he was. I think you would have seen Josh Allen at these events. But he just had a baby. Famous. Well, they had a baby.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

There you go, Jess. Do we have a both of them together? Just. We have an Internet minute this week.

[Jessica Smittena]

We do. Time to get in it.

[Greg Cote]

It's Jessica's Internet minute.

[Jessica Smittena]

Do you guys remember probably four years ago when people were like we're gonna storm area 51 and like a bunch of people gathered at area 51. Yeah, we tried to get Tony over there. We're like. It was like this whole Internet phenomenon where everyone's like, we're just gonna. We're just gonna run up on air.

[Kenny]

We're just buying time right now. There's still stuff going on over there. You hear the earthquake that happened under Area 51? We'll talk about that later.

[Jessica Smittena]

I want to hear about the earthquake, actually.

[Kenny]

Are they testing something down there? We don't know.

[Jessica Smittena]

Okay. There's a version of this where people are doing this. Like, it's called speedrunning. People are doing this, but at the Church of Scientology, and they're posting videos of it online. So they're, like, sprinting into the Church of Scientology lobby, I guess. Like, there's a recruit open to the public recruitment area in these buildings. And then they're, like, taking their phone and, like, filming until they get kicked out. And it's escalated to the point. I watched the local news on Sunday after whatever sporting event. I think it was Game seven of whatever series that was. And apparently people did this at the Church of Scientology in Times Square, and people also did this at the Church of Scientology in Vancouver. And then there was a video of people dressed as Minions at the one in la, and they have upped. The Church of Scientology has upped their security. They are not happy about this. They have apparently removed the door handles from the front doors of some of their buildings so people can't open the door and run inside. And this is. This is the latest. The latest Internet phenomenon. The Minions video was. Was quite funny because the Minions and. And their leader grew, did no harm. But people have said, why the Church of Scientology? I'm not sure if there's a specific reason other than people are. It started with people being like, let's see how secretive this is. We're gonna go inside and try to take video and post it. And now it's just like a repeating thing, because it is the Church of Scientology.

[Ira Winderman]

Jess. Brad Williams posted one where they rushed it, and it was all Dwarves. Did you see that one?

[Dave]

I didn't know.

[Ira Winderman]

How did they get so many dwarves all in one place? I don't know. Brad wasn't in it, so apparently he didn't get the newsletter. But, yeah, it's been pretty insane to watch these people just run around. And the poor security people are like, wait, no, you can't.

[Kenny]

That's the best part, though. It's people that are, like, working the desk, not even security. Like, people, like, signing People up and they're like. They're like trying to, like, sidestep to try to stop.

[Ira Winderman]

If 100 dwarves ran in here right now and just started running around like it.

[Kenny]

Stop them.

[Ira Winderman]

It's just so confusing. It's like, what's happening.

[Kenny]

Low center of gravity.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

We're still allowed to make fun of the Church of Scientology, right? Because you're not supposed to make fun of religion. But dwarves, that's the one religion we're allowed to make fun of still, right? We can make fun of scientists.

[Kenny]

Cabbage. His wife, by the way.

[Jessica Smittena]

Yeah, I don't think anyone's going to stop you, Zaz. I think because of how unpopular it is and because of the. Over the past decade or so, that is also a reason why young people on the Internet have fixated on it as the place where they want to do this speedrunning thing.

[Dave]

If we put Brad Williams in the Broncos backfield and you handed it off to him at the one, does he

[Ira Winderman]

score well, he pitched this. He pitched this to Roger Goodell that they should allow for a designated dwarf. That on short yardage situation.

[Dave]

Brad did this?

[Jessica Smittena]

Yeah.

[Kenny]

Over the top.

[Ira Winderman]

Just pick you up.

[Amin Elhassan]

Pick him up and throw him and

[Ira Winderman]

toss him with the ball. He holds the ball and you throw him over the line of scrimmage.

[Dave]

I mean, Brad knows this better than I, but you know that, you know, Brad Williams is probably heavier than you think he is to pick him up.

[Ira Winderman]

This is his idea.

[Mike]

I'm just. Well, listen, what do you got? That's the rules to do that.

[Dave]

I think what you could do.

[Kenny]

You're not throwing them over Dave. You're what, 5, 10, 145 pounds?

[Dave]

I'm about 6, 3, 45. He's a thin guy.

[Kenny]

He's a thin guy.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

What are you, Dave, a child?

[Ira Winderman]

Slender.

[Amin Elhassan]

I bet Brad weighs like 160.

[Jessica Smittena]

No way.

[Dave]

One, six.

[Dan LeBatard]

No way.

[Dave]

I weigh 180 pounds.

[Kenny]

That a boy.

[Dave]

Do you think that. Do you think Brad Williams weighs 20 pounds less than I? I do think he would be heavy to try to pick up. But anyway, back to my original important question. If you handed the ball off to Brad Williams, given that you would, you know, you always hear about Maurice Jones, Drew. Boy, he could really hide behind that offensive line. You didn't see a little bowling ball. What happens?

[Dan LeBatard]

We've talked about this on the show. We're simply going to throw him.

[Kenny]

He's got to go over the top.

[Mike]

I know, but that's against the existing rules. You can't do that.

[Amin Elhassan]

Is it polite to ask the Dwarf.

[Dan LeBatard]

How much he weighs I'm not sure of.

[Jessica Smittena]

Was it polite to say Dave weighs 145?

[Ira Winderman]

Very polite.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

You guessed that Brad weighs 160.

[Amin Elhassan]

The more I think about it, 145 is where I'm.

[Jessica Smittena]

You're nuts.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

145.

[Amin Elhassan]

100.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Yeah, I do.

[Amin Elhassan]

Dude, my daughter weighs a. My daughter weighs 100 pounds.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

No, I go 100. Yeah.

[Dave]

He doesn't weigh 100.

[Mike]

What?

[Dave]

How tall is Brad Williams? He's four.

[Ira Winderman]

Text him.

[Dave]

Four, two. I'm going to guess I have.

[Amin Elhassan]

I just texted him I have his weight. I was. I was a little high.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

I bet I'm right on.

[Jessica Smittena]

What is it?

[Mike Golick Jr.]

100.

[Dave]

He weighs 125. Okay.

[Ira Winderman]

He says about big boy, that means

[Mike]

ask him if he could score, which means it's 135. I've done the whole thing before. Not some muscle bound guy playing hero

[Dave]

and throwing him over like he's a prop.

[Mike]

He's a human being who might be

[Dave]

able to find a score.

[Mike]

Who might be right. He might be able to find the

[Kenny]

king proctor in the backfield and toss him over.

[Mike]

I don't want that. I don't want that. Stop patronizing Brad Williams. He wasn't proctor to do it.

[Ira Winderman]

He said to do it.

[Mike]

He said, I want Brad Williams to have enough self esteem to believe he can score on his own with the pig skin betwixt his arms.

[Dave]

Toting that, that would be my biggest concern.

[Amin Elhassan]

Put it up, guys.

[Dave]

Can he hold that pig skin with

[Mike Golick Jr.]

both of those arms?

[Dave]

Secure it and also nose his way

[Mike Golick Jr.]

into the end zone?

[Mike]

I think he could sign.

[Amin Elhassan]

Is just unnecessary.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Small player, big play.

[Jessica Smittena]

Why doesn't he have a helmet on?

[Dan LeBatard]

Why is he being thrown from out of bounds into the end zone and

[Mike Golick Jr.]

why are they throwing him if there's no defenders? Just let him walk in.

[Dan LeBatard]

This just looks like a celebration. Perhaps after he has already scored. That's the only way I can make an AI generated image.

[Ira Winderman]

He's wearing Emmett Smith's number.

[Dave]

Disrespectful to make him a Viking though. Hasn't he made it clear he wears the orange?

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Check out our weekly Notre Dame podcast, the Echoes. He's got more.

[Ira Winderman]

What are you doing?

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Sorry.

[Jessica Smittena]

I wanted to ask you guys before I left, have you seen that show DTF St. Louis with Jason Bateman and

[Dave]

I have seen it. I saw the whole thing and I found it captivating and was really intrigued. I'm a passive viewer of TV and movies. I do not like to solve. I don't participate in. What do you think this is? Who do you think the killer was? All of that kind of stuff. I'll let the storyteller tell. Tell it to me. I am here to receive what they want to tell me so you don't

[Mike Golick Jr.]

sit there wondering what could happen next.

[Dave]

I repress that. I am passively watching this. I am not a part. Like I already told you. I told you a week ago, I am resentful. I went to see the Blue man back in the 90s, and I was resentful that they would start going around

[Mike]

like, hey, we're gonna pull you up onto the stage. I didn't sign up to be a part of your show. I thought I bought a ticket to watch you do a show. Don't bring me into it.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Did you just see One Blue man or was it the group?

[Dave]

I saw all of them. Yeah, I saw all three of them. I think is how many there were. But, Jess, your thoughts on the resolution of what went down in St. Louis?

[Jessica Smittena]

Weird show.

[Dave]

What was the message as you perceived it, at least? What were we supposed to take away?

[Jessica Smittena]

Oh, man. Well, how much time do I have? I thought the message was that people are very lonely and even though they were besties, it wasn't enough for David Harbour to overcome his loneliness. I suppose. But I also have some issues with some of the writing in it, but we'll leave it at that. I'll just give one example for one. Jason Bateman is just, like, cheating on his wife. And we just never talk about that. It's not part of the show.

[Dave]

They completely eliminate the role of the.

[Jessica Smittena]

No one gives a shit about him.

[Dave]

Right.

[Jessica Smittena]

You're supposed to, like, empathize with him. It's like, well, he's kind of just blew up his family. So.

[Dave]

Anyways, interesting point about that. Yes. By the way, speaking of weird familial stuff, I don't know if you heard, Chris Cody, sometimes, when he isn't feeling terribly aroused, will conjure thoughts of his wife's twin sister. Your thoughts? Flattering. I think this, in a way, for. For the wife, though, that it's like she's not thinking about, you know, a brunette, you know, because I'm blonde. Like, he's thinking. Like, when he's not thinking of me, he's thinking of what I look like. Exactly.

[Jessica Smittena]

I think my segment just ran a little long, so I gotta. I gotta go.

[Kenny]

Still got a minute left if you got a minute.

[Greg Cote]

Yeah.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

The Echoes with Mike Golick Jr. Notre Dame podcast. Check it out every week. Thanks, Jesse.

[Ira Winderman]

Dueling Piano Weddings.

[Amin Elhassan]

I Have some. I have some regrets about today's show.

[Dan LeBatard]

No kidding.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Mike, did you see during the Laker game last night that Ric Flair. Ric Flair took to Twitter?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, he's calling out Luca.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

He was not happy about Luca not playing. Here's the tweet, and there's a follow up that just came out.

[Dan LeBatard]

So Ric Flair last night was every individual word capitalized?

[Mike Golick Jr.]

Yeah. Do you think he does that by himself, or is it like a program that does it and he just types away?

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't know, but it's his thing. Every noxious, every first letter needs to be capitalized, and there always needs to be five O's and woo.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

So Ric Flair last night tweets out during the game at Luca Doncic, Please get in the game, take a shot of cortisone, and deal with the pain. They are paying you $50 million a year and you're not there. WTF? I hope Genie Buss trades you next year. Nobody wants a lame duck on their team.

[Mike]

Whoo.

[Mike Golick Jr.]

And about an hour ago, Ric Flair followed it up. FYI, obviously, they're not going to trade Luka. He's their future. He's their franchise. But do the Math. He averages 33 points a game. If he has 20, LeBron is 27, and the rest of the team, they win. I would have said the same thing about Tatum on the Celtics, but I'm not a Boston fan. For $46 million a year, I think you could play. Everyone is allowed to have their opinion, and this is mine.

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