Hour 1: 66 Nuggets (feat. Jessica Smetana)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz – "66 Nuggets" (feat. Jessica Smetana) – Hour 1
Air date: November 5, 2025
Broadcast from the Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami

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Episode Overview

This lively episode serves up the signature blend of sports discussion, absurdity, and rapid-fire banter for which "The Dan Le Batard Show" is known. The main throughline is an ongoing challenge where Chris Cody attempts to eat 99 chicken nuggets in one show—a feat which inspires debate, concern, and comic relief throughout. Jessica Smetana joins to break down the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season, while the crew also dives into college football officiating, New York City politics, and their usual offbeat takes on sports and pop culture headlines.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Chris Cody’s Nugget-Eating Challenge

• Premise: Chris Cody is tasked with eating 99 chicken nuggets during the show (“He’s up to 49 right now, which is actually great pace.” – Dan Le Batard, 02:18).
• Debate on ‘Passing Grade’:
  • Jessica Smetana expresses concern for Chris’s health and questions if 99 nuggets is punitive or just a free lunch. She suggests a lower target (75) might suffice (04:22).
  • The crew debates the dangers of sodium intake and the logistics of eating so many nuggets (03:41–05:05).
• Comic Updates:
  • Chris describes eating progress: “The first 25, I was cooking... The last 25 have been a struggle.” (03:15)
  • As the show progresses, Chris’s physical and emotional decline is vividly narrated and lampooned by the crew: “His face is getting rounder. He looks like a nugget with sunglasses.” (34:11)
  • Concern mounts over use of ‘performance enhancing drugs’ (THC gummies) (32:46).
  • The challenge is ultimately ‘corrupted’ by bribes: “Chris went back there and gave $20 to the studio team, and now the graphic says 99 nuggets.” (43:22)
  • Memorable quote: “If you lay him on his side, he won’t choke.” – Amin Elhassan (33:00)

2. College Football Playoff Rankings (w/ Jessica Smetana)

• Who Feels Snubbed?
  • Jessica predicts Miami fans will feel aggrieved (05:18), citing a poorly timed loss and bad officiating.
  • Discussion of officiating controversies involving Miami, Wake Forest, Auburn, and others (05:49–06:25).
• Miami’s Path:
  • Mike Ryan notes that Miami simply hasn’t performed well and their complaints are limited if they don’t win out (07:05–07:47).
  • Amin points out that for Miami to make the playoff, a highly improbable scenario (3 ACC teams getting in) would have to unfold (07:47).
• Committee and Conference Structure:
  • Critique of ‘mega conferences’ and unbalanced schedules; Jessica calls 17-team, divisionless conferences “stupid” (12:20).
  • The gang discusses how conference scheduling can hide flaws and artificially boost certain teams, particularly Oregon in the Big Ten (10:00–11:36).
• Notable Quote:
  • “The mega conferences are stupid … we are seeing just the evidence of that, second year in a row.” – Jessica Smetana (12:20)

3. Officiating and Accountability

• Controversies:
  • Dabo Swinney’s post-game comments after a Clemson loss lead to a group discussion about referee accountability and the impact of legalized sports betting (24:51–29:01).
  • Jessica: “It feels like the coordinator hires are definitely not working out ... it’s just been a mess there.” (26:44)
  • Mike Ryan laments: “If they told me this game was rigged five years from now, I’d totally believe it.” (28:09)
• Solutions and Fan Service:
  • Calls for full-time officials in high-stakes games (26:49).

4. New York City Politics and the Mayoral Election

• The End of Eric Adams’ Mayorship:
  • Jessica reports the celebratory mood (“The vibe was definitely celebratory. I stayed up late to watch the Zoran Mamdani speech...” – 20:34) and discusses memes and online reactions.
  • Curtis Sliwa, one of the more colorful third-party candidates, is discussed in the context of New York’s history of quirky political figures (22:32–23:47).

5. Sports and Pop Culture Silliness

• Chicken Nuggets Taxonomy:

  • What differentiates a nugget from a tenders or popcorn chicken? Length, width, and shape, per Dan and Jessica (18:52–19:29).

• NBA Rapid Fire with Amin (‘You Know About That?’ Segment):

  • Quick takes on the Sixers, Zion Williamson, Oklahoma City Thunder, Boston Celtics, and Orlando Magic.
  • Dan’s take on Embiid era: “He doesn’t look good … what good is it to keep trotting him out for 20 minutes at a time?” (35:56)
  • Zion-Greg Cody comparison for style and availability (36:41).
  • Fun, fast banter underscored by the show’s new theme music for this bit (35:23–43:14).

• Red Panda’s Comeback:

  • Legendary halftime performer Red Panda’s return is debated. Dan is worried about her legacy (“I don’t want her career to end on a sour note…” – 42:55) while Jessica is optimistic (“I don’t think there’s anything she could do to ruin her legacy at this point.” – 42:43).

6. Miscellaneous Banter

• Pet Antics:
  • Percy the dog is present and becomes involved in several bits, including threats to eat Chris Cody if he expires from nugget overload (32:32).
• Shoes and Hygiene:
  • Ethan inadvertently tracks dog waste into the studio (“he walked upstairs and then realizing that and washed his shoes in the bathroom after the fact”). (39:12)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

The Nugget Challenge

• “I’m concerned... the salt could kill him. I don’t want this to be an onion situation.”
  – Jessica Smetana (03:46)
• “His face is getting rounder. He looks like a nugget with sunglasses.”
  – Dan Le Batard (34:11)
• “Performance enhancing drugs.”
  – Chris Cody (32:49)

College Football Playoff & Officiating

• “The officiating across the board in college football this year has been pretty bad.”
  – Jessica Smetana (05:49)
• “You gotta handle your business. There’s not going to be anything more difficult than winning four games.”
  – Mike Ryan (07:47)

NBA Roundup

• “If Jaylen Brown’s your best player, your team may not be that good.”
  – Amin Elhassan (38:19)

Red Panda

• “I don’t want her career to end on a sour note, right? Because she got, God forbid, an injury worse than what the last one was.”
  – Dan Le Batard (42:55)
• “I don’t think there’s anything she could do to ruin her legacy at this point.”
  – Jessica Smetana (42:43)

Absurdity & Pet Antics

• “If Chris expired right now, Percy would eat him.”
  – Jessica Smetana (32:32)
• “Don’t bring your dog to work. That’s disrespectful.”
  – Jessica Smetana (39:16)

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Notable Timestamps

• [02:18] – Nugget challenge progress and logistics; Jessica weighs in.
• [05:18] – Who feels most slighted by CFB rankings? Jessica on Miami.
• [05:49–06:25] – Officiating controversies in college football.
• [07:47] – How Miami could (improbably) make the playoffs.
• [12:20] – Jessica critiques mega conferences.
• [18:52] – What makes a nugget a nugget?
• [32:46] – Chris Cody’s performance-enhancing drug confession.
• [34:11] – Chris reaches 62 nuggets, described as “a nugget with sunglasses.”
• [35:23–43:14] – NBA rapid-fire “You Know About That?” segment.
• [42:43–42:55] – Debate over Red Panda’s legacy and comeback.

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Summary

In classic Le Batard Show style, this episode weaves together sports analysis, hijinks, and irreverence. Chris Cody’s cartoonish nugget challenge is both a physical ordeal and a through-line for comedic banter, while Jessica Smetana elevates the sports discourse with sharp insights on college football’s playoff picture and its officiating woes. NBA talk is fast and fun, New York City’s political chaos is lampooned, and even halftime legends like Red Panda are given thoughtful (if tongue-in-cheek) scrutiny. There’s no better snapshot of the show’s ability to oscillate from absurdity to insight—and back—often within the same breath.

Transcript

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[Producer Ethan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Greg Doyle]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Jessica Smith]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Another great batch. I can attest coughing while peeing is not not a fun dangerous game. The most dangerous game, some people say. Speaking of dangerous games, we bring in Jessica Spata. Yeah, Jessica. Before we get into the College Football playoff rankings, version 1.0, we're having a discussion all show long about how many nuggets consists of an appropriate level of punishment for one Christopher Cody. He's supposed to eat 99 during the show. He's up to 49 right now, which is actually great pace.

[Chris Cody]

50 down the hatch.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, there it is. Y.

[Mike Ryan]

That one had crunch. The air fryer.

[Dan Le Batard]

The air fryer. But Jessica, so The question is, does he have to do all 99 for us to consider the punishment complete, or is there like a. A passing grade somewhere at some point?

[Jessica Smith]

Or is 99 actually you're just giving him a free lunch for the day? Is that also up for debate here?

[Dan Le Batard]

That's what I thought, but apparently he says he doesn't eat that much in general, so.

[Jessica Smith]

Well, I guess it depends on the temperature of the nuggets. I think colder nuggets is more of a punishment than hot, crispy nuggets. I think it depends on if he's allowed to use various sauces.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's allowed to use sauces.

[Lewis]

He's just gone dry. He hasn't used barely any sauce. We just warmed up the nuggets. So those are hot and crispy. Both grilled and crispy are both warm.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jess.

[Chris Cody]

The first 25, I was cooking, I was cooking with gas. I was confident. The last 25 have been a struggle.

[Jessica Smith]

Is it safe to eat this many nuggets? Have we involved?

[Lewis]

We're good.

[Jessica Smith]

We're good regulatory work bodies. Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

We also don't have that.

[Jessica Smith]

Yeah, yeah. It's Florida. It just seems like a lot of sodium.

[Chris Cody]

Yes, it does.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's.

[Jessica Smith]

I mean that I'm concerned.

[Dan Le Batard]

They all be fine.

[Chris Cody]

It sounds like Jess thinks I'm good. 50, like I made a valiant effort.

[Dan Le Batard]

It sounds like just saying that. 99 is the number. I need your support, please.

[Jessica Smith]

I don't want to be the arbiter of how many nuggets is too many nuggets for Chris because I am slightly concerned that the salt could kill him. I don't want this to be an onion situation.

[Amin Elhassan]

Kill him.

[Dan Le Batard]

To be fair to you.

[Chris Cody]

Let me look this up.

[Dan Le Batard]

To be fair to you, Jessica, I don't know if you can see it behind me. We've got our hat rack here.

[Amin Elhassan]

When's the last time salt killed someone?

[Dan Le Batard]

Everyone hung their hats up. This is a committee. We're making an unbiased decision about these nuggets and the nugget count. So don't feel like you are the arbiter. This is a committee. We all have our hats off here. So having said that, your vote would be for what?

[Jessica Smith]

75.

[Dan Le Batard]

75. There you go. That's. Listen higher than some of the other.

[Mike Ryan]

Votes that came to the way there. Then, Chris.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Jessica Smith]

You're almost done.

[Mike Ryan]

Let's get it in motion.

[Jessica Smith]

He has to do it by the end of the show.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm looking up by the end of the show.

[Jessica Smith]

I'm looking at how much in One.

[Chris Cody]

Day can kill me.

[Amin Elhassan]

When's the last time salt hurt somebody?

[Chris Cody]

Pretty often, I think.

[Jessica Smith]

Yeah. But in one day, though it's generally not good for your bloodstream.

[Mike Ryan]

Doctors tend to ask, what do they ask? How much salt you having?

[Dan Le Batard]

What do you answer?

[Mike Ryan]

A fair amount.

[Chris Cody]

I'm always like salt. Slightly above average. The lethal dose of table Salt is roughly 0.5 to 1 gram per kilogram of body weight.

[Dan Le Batard]

You got plenty of time? So much.

[Mike Ryan]

I have no idea what that means.

[Dan Le Batard]

Plenty of time.

[Mike Ryan]

It seems like it's.

[Chris Cody]

I just feel like I'm good.

[Producer Ethan]

What you know about that?

[Mike Ryan]

High blood pressure.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's my gimmick.

[Mike Ryan]

That hyper apologize.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jessica, who should feel most slighted by version 1.0 of the College Football Playoff rankings?

[Jessica Smith]

Oh, man, that's a good question. I, to be honest, was kind of afraid I was going to get on the Zoom today and everyone was going to yell at me. So I. I guess I assumed Miami fans would feel that way. To answer your question, why is that?

[Dan Le Batard]

Why would you say that?

[Jessica Smith]

Because they're all the way down at 18. I think that SMU loss was not the kind of loss they could afford to have. I think had they waited to lose to Pitt at the end of the season, it might have been a different story.

[Chris Cody]

Well, and don't forget, Gino thinks the ref stole that game.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, they.

[Jessica Smith]

You know what? Let me just say this. I saw a lot of the complaining about the officiating in the Miami SMU game, and I understand. I think the officiating across the board in college football this year has been pretty bad. There's been a number of. I mean, Wake Forest got totally screwed in their game against Georgia Tech earlier this season. There's been so many calls this season. I mean, the Auburn Georgia game, game we. Did you guys talk about the Kirby Smart timeout thing, the clapping. I mean, that was quite a charade.

[Mike Ryan]

Auburn, Oklahoma was a shit show. I know Dabo is accusing refs of betting on games. After the PI in Clemson, Duke officiating is bad everywhere.

[Jessica Smith]

It's bad everywhere. And I don't think that, you know, I think that Miami fans have a point. I kind of see where the refs were going with the specific roughing the passer call with after the whistle. He did hit him really hard. But that being said, it is bad everywhere. It does affect everyone. How your head coach handles it. Whether or not he blames the refs in the post game or takes the high road, you know, that matters too, I think, to the teams that they are able to not feel like they were cheated by it and can stay focused, etc. But I do think that there's significant complaints that can be made this season on college football officiate.

[Mike Ryan]

I do disagree that losing the last game this season would have been better for Miami because we have an example of that just last year where they lost.

[Jessica Smith]

Yeah, I know, you're right.

[Mike Ryan]

Last game. I'm actually encouraged that they have a month to work because the committee already kind of tipped their hand in that they need to see more consistency from Miami. Every other example in the top 25 when there was a head to head matchup where teams had the same ranking, all the teams that won the game were ranked were ranked higher than the loser except for one instance, Miami. But I do not blame them. Miami has played one good half in the last month. If Miami goes four and oh, they will have a solid argument. College football is nutty in November. We'll see then. But right now Miami is zero to complain about. They got to handle their business. There's not going to be anything more difficult than winning four games.

[Amin Elhassan]

And if I could just jump in real quick here too, Jess. All right, so let's say Miami finishes 40 and they look good in the process. You want Miami to then be included in the College Football Playoff. But then you also have to give in to the idea that the only way they're going to get into the College Football Playoff then would be if three ACC teams winds up making the College Football Playoff because then we're talking about the loser of the title game. And based on the current landscape, how could anyone make the case that three ACC teams are going to get in?

[Jessica Smith]

Well, okay, let's say Georgia Tech goes undefeated the rest of the season. That means they beat Georgia and then they lose the ACC title game to, I guess, who would they be playing against in that scenario?

[Mike Ryan]

Maybe Louisville is probably a tricky one for Miami because if you have three teams with the same record, if Notre Dame, Louisville, Miami have the same record, then Louisville has the win over Miami. Who has a win over Notre Dame?

[Amin Elhassan]

Transitive theory.

[Mike Ryan]

That could be tricky.

[Jessica Smith]

But then do they have a loss to Georgia Tech in the title game or do they have a win over Georgia Tech in the title game? Like I think to Mike's point, last year when the rankings came out, we were all screaming about Alabama and South Carolina and all these ICC teams. And then it turned out Alabama lost to Oklahoma in a historic and embarrassing fashion at the end of the season, which no one saw coming. So it is the beginning of November. I think my I was being a little sarcastic about the loss at the end of the season but I think that my, my bigger point is losing the weekend before the first ranking comes out is definitely like one of the worst times to lose I think.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jessica Smith]

Especially to a conference opponent that has three losses already including two, two Big 12 teams that are not even in the Big 12 race right now. TCU and Baylor. So I think yeah it was, it was bad timing for, for Miami loss. But also to Mike's point, they have not been playing well lately and they need to win out and get very, very lucky just like you know, a lot of the other teams in that teens range.

[Mike Ryan]

I've got loads of questions for you. A month ago everyone said Texas was done in the CFP and they win against a her chamateer edge out Ken need overtime to beat Mississippi State Almost.

[Amin Elhassan]

Collapsed Mississippi State Sneaky decent no I.

[Mike Ryan]

Know and Georgia's got to find out Stark Vegas but Texas is back in there. I think the most interesting thing for me is the lack of discussion when it comes to the Big Ten and how bad the bottom third of that conference is. When you look at these spreads, a lot of good teams are getting fat off the bottom of this conference and you have a team like Oregon who's only favored by six and a half in a very tricky spot against Iowa. You have them in the top 10. They lost their only ranked game, their only game against a now ranked opponent by double digits at home. Their best win is against Northwestern. I don't really understand this one. This feels like a reputation Big Ten propaganda machine and I wonder how much.

[Jessica Smith]

The Penn State win in overtime on the road is still counting towards Oregon's resume even though Penn State has now been a much worse team since then. Although they also lost their starting quarterback who threw the game losing interception in that game. Mike, your point about Oregon though is well taken. So this season they have beaten Oklahoma State, terrible team. Oregon State, terrible team. Rutgers, Wisconsin. It's. It's just they haven't had to play very many tough teams. But this is where I also think that in a lot of ways the end of the season these things kind of will take care of themselves and especially with Texas too. Texas still has to play Texas A and M. Texas A and M is the number three team in the country. That's going to be obviously very important game. They also still have to play Georgia. They still have to play Arkansas. Arkansas with their interim Bobby Petrino head coach has still given teams a really Tough time in the sec. Oregon still has to play usc who is still ranked. They still have to play Iowa like you said, they play Washington who is ranked. There's still like a lot of these teams have the hardest part of their schedule still coming up. So I think, you know, the first week of the rankings you consider where the committee is putting the teams now and it's informative of where things will head. But there still could be massive shakeups in all of this as these teams still have to play really hard conference teams down the stretch. The other thing is that I think the mega conferences are stupid. I think that like this was, it was a mistake to have divisionless 17 team conferences and we are seeing a just the evidence of that second year in a row.

[Amin Elhassan]

Why do you say that? Why do you say that?

[Jessica Smith]

Because there's, if you want to compare like Big Ten teams and common opponents just within the conference, a lot of these teams just don't have to play that difficult of a. Like Mike said, like there's a lot of this Oregon schedule specifically, there's a lot of bad teams in the bottom half of this conference and you get lucky this year that you don't have to play Ohio State. Ohio State is another team. Mike. Let's say that they went out beat Michigan, which is a big if given their history. What is, what is their best win? I guess it's Washington on the road.

[Mike Ryan]

I guess it all depends on what happens with Texas right now. That was such a marquee game. I don't think people can disassociate that. That was one versus two at the time. It's weird because those are two big propaganda machines going there. But to answer Zaz's question too and supplement your point, last year Indiana didn't really play. Anybody found a way in the CFP just because the conference they're in. Oregon's in that position right now. We have two straight years in the ACC where Miami is Oli and they don't have the opportunity to play Georgia Tech. They don't have the opportunity to play Virginia. They do have, they did have the opportunity against Louisville this year. Last year all the teams in that mix didn't play one another. I do think it gets mitigated some next year with a lot of these conferences moving to a nine game schedule though, right Jaz?

[Jessica Smith]

I think it actually makes it a little bit harder if the conferences are not willing to play hard out of conference teams. Like if you look at a team like Oregon specifically, I mean they're out of conference this year was pretty easy.

[Mike Ryan]

Oregon State, why play anybody at a conference? Miami played everybody at a conference and it doesn't matter.

[Jessica Smith]

I agree. I understand the argument against it, but I think the argument for it is that like if you do lose a couple games, it does. Having one of those wins is going to get you into the playoff. But I think that it makes it harder for the committee and for fans if you there's no common power for opponents between any of these teams. But I understand your point. If like you think head to head doesn't matter, I would say head to head still matters. But Miami just couldn't afford to lose to a three loss SMU team.

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don Lebatard.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, they used to call me Chris.

[Mike Ryan]

Karaoke stugats.

[Chris Cody]

K.

[Greg Doyle]

That back row is bringing it today.

[Amin Elhassan]

This is the Don Levitar show with his two gods.

[Chris Cody]

Chris, you okay? That was the roughest bite yet. You going two nuggets at a time.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, we have an update, by the way. A text message allegedly from Chris Cody sent that kind of outlines some of the fraudulence. There you go. Cut those big fried ones in half.

[Jessica Smith]

Hold on.

[Lewis]

Who sent that who sent that?

[Dan Le Batard]

Chris Cody?

[Jessica Smith]

I don't think that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Whom. I'm not going. I'm not going to reveal my sources.

[Chris Cody]

Would never have 200.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yo, why don't you check some of your unread messages?

[Dan Le Batard]

Big fried ones in half.

[Greg Doyle]

You.

[Dan Le Batard]

You basically. Yeah. You not only announced it on air, but you. You also announced the strategy behind.

[Chris Cody]

I mean that's actually.

[Jessica Smith]

This brings up a question. What's the proper size of a nugget to make it a nugget and not a tendee?

[Chris Cody]

Thank you, Jeff.

[Jessica Smith]

Like, is it. Is it 2 inches? Is it 3 inches? What are we.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think once you are standardizing the size, once you start getting. Once you start getting elongated, then it becomes a tendy. If it's mostly circular, oval in shape, that's a nugget. If it's mostly breading and air, then that's popcorn chicken.

[Jessica Smith]

I think it has to be. Yeah, I think it has to have equal length and width to be a nugget. Or at least slightly irregular. I can't have a much longer length than width.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Producer Ethan]

Wait a minute.

[Mike Ryan]

Did you say elongate it?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, it can't be elongated. The more elongated.

[Jessica Smith]

Can't be a grower.

[Chris Cody]

That has to be somebody who's in a group text with Mike Ryan because you don't have that kind of.

[Jessica Smith]

That could be anyone. He's in so many group texts. As we. As we all know.

[Dan Le Batard]

He just got re. Added into the chat because I mean, we took fireworks today.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. I needed a guest pass. A one day guest pass to the shit chat. I got to see what. I got to see how this all comes out.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's the Admiral's Club.

[Lewis]

It might roll over to tomorrow.

[Amin Elhassan]

Roll over for like a week.

[Jessica Smith]

I was gonna tell you actually, I was gonna ask you if you liked my shirt. In honor of the end of Eric Adams mayorship of New York City, his lasting legacy. The rats don't run the city. We do. The rats are sadly quietly resigned. I saw the rats are. Which is unfortunate. But I don't know if they will be making a comeback now.

[Mike Ryan]

They're moving to Miami. They're all moving to Miami with the rest of them that are upset with how he.

[Jessica Smith]

The rats.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, we were. Congrats too. I don't like that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jessica, what was the mood in New York City last night?

[Jessica Smith]

The vibe was definitely celebratory. I stayed up late to watch the Zoran Mamdani speech, which was the latest that I've stayed up in a really long time. The time change. The older I get, the more it kicks my ass. Guys, I went to bed at 8:30 the other night. Helps that I can't watch Monday night Football, but it was definitely celebratory. I don't live in the quote unquote communist corner, Commie corner as they're calling it, but even where I live it was a stronghold for Mamdani. So very excited people out and about.

[Dan Le Batard]

One of the perhaps most childish, petty, dumbest things I've seen on the Internet today was the legit literal White House Twitter account putting out a photoshop of the Knicks logo. Instead of it saying New York Knicks, it says Trump is still your president. If that ain't loser mentality, just you go to hell.

[Mike Ryan]

The Dems reposted with comment with the the two Knicks fans with yellow on their court.

[Jessica Smith]

I mean the Dems are shitposting again. Guys, are we back?

[Chris Cody]

I mean woke is back. I don't know if you guys know this woke is back. Put it was a long genders in your bio.

[Mike Ryan]

Enjoy it for now. Rude awakening coming next year.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jessica, you're missing it. He's. He's gonna be speaking across the street from us here.

[Producer Ethan]

Who?

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, you know who.

[Jessica Smith]

Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

That'Ll be awesome. 45, we're coming here next with Sharia law.

[Amin Elhassan]

Look at how they've closed off the road.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I don't know how anyone's getting home today.

[Chris Cody]

All those cars are stuck there.

[Lewis]

For now, public transportation is how we're getting home.

[Mike Ryan]

All this for Rafael Nadal.

[Jessica Smith]

There was a very interesting thing that was happening in this mayoral election where I, Andrew Cuomo is obviously such a detestable human being and many New Yorkers hate him, Republican and Democrat alike, because of his horrible governorship.

[Dan Le Batard]

But because he was molesting.

[Chris Cody]

Right.

[Jessica Smith]

He was a sexual harassment.

[Greg Doyle]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

I thought he was just Italian.

[Jessica Smith]

Well, that's what he. I almost wore my Italian's shirt, but I didn't want that to come across as support. Anyways, I'm Italian, I can make Italian jokes. So the third candidate in the race, Curtis Lewa, who if this were, if this were a Miami race, I know the show would have had a lot.

[Dan Le Batard]

Of fun with, but we, we kind of let that guy slide.

[Jessica Smith]

People were not stanning him, I would say, but they were starting to just enjoy, enjoy him being around. His debate answers were very funny. And that's for a politician whose policies are fairly anti Democratic at least. Democratic Party Democratic at least. It was a very unique and interesting thing that was happening. I mean I think it was a very popular Halloween costume this year as well because of his signature red beret.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like in another time, like in the era of the rent is to a damn high guy.

[Jessica Smith]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Curtis Levo was around. Oh, my God. We would have had SNL things about him. It would have been the joke of the summer, basically, of the year. It's just now things seem to be like, everything that we joke about ends up being in charge of everything.

[Jessica Smith]

Yeah, right. It's like, oh, that's so funny. What if we accidentally elected him as president?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I could see funny.

[Jessica Smith]

Weird guy from New York, Chris Cody.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is in the kitchen right now.

[Amin Elhassan]

He's kneeled. He's kneeling over by the garbage can.

[Chris Cody]

I don't think this is bit either.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think so either.

[Chris Cody]

Actually struggling.

[Jessica Smith]

He pays himself a little bit more. Well, because he can wait, like, at least an hour until he has to finish it. 39 more close to the end of the show.

[Dan Le Batard]

You got 39 more, and he's got probably about an hour to go in.

[Mike Ryan]

Show just adjusted his belt.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yep.

[Jessica Smith]

How dog is that?

[Producer Ethan]

Oh, the belt's gone.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, that's Percy.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's Ethan. Oh, it's Percy.

[Jessica Smith]

Is he.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, yeah. No, he's following people around and. And Ethan's stepping in shit walking.

[Jessica Smith]

I know you're thrilled.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, oh, my God, I miss Willow. This is how bad it is.

[Jessica Smith]

I'll let her know. She voted for Cuomo, unfortunately.

[Mike Ryan]

Jess, I want to play some video here for you. Do you think this qualifies as a dabo crash out and this is not going the right way. I'm curious your thoughts on how this dabo thing ends at the end of the season. Here we go.

[Greg Doyle]

I'm not criticizing. I'm just. I can't. You know, I can't tell you. I ain't going to tell you the game. I'm not going to say the game, but we're only allowed to turn in. You know, there's a system of accountability, but y' all don't know anything about it. It's behind a curtain. How dare we have accountability in the meantime? We got gambling issues going on, people being suspended, all that kind of stuff, right?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yep.

[Greg Doyle]

I mean, refs are people, too. It ain't just coaches and players. And if they're a part of the game, then, by God, they ought to be a part of the game, and they ought to be a part of the accountability, and they ought to be a part of the consequences, not just behind some shadowy curtain like. No, they ought to have to answer for it. And listen, there's judgment calls and all that and I mean we can, we just have to disagree to disagree. But there's also absolute flat out misses. Yeah, but you ain't no public, there's no public accountability. Ain't none of that. So that's the system. The system needs to change. It needs to be changed. There needs to be challenge opportunity and we need full time officials if you're gonna have this type of stakes. Needs to be full time officials and everybody should have consequences.

[Dan Le Batard]

Shout out to who I think is Greg Doyle in the background typing, because I know that typing anywhere.

[Jessica Smith]

Jesus.

[Mike Ryan]

Clemson's a weird landing spot for him. Jess, your thoughts for context, there was a very controversial defensive pass interference which the replay appeared like it actually might have been opi. In fact, everyone in attendance thought that Duke ends up winning the game by one point.

[Jessica Smith]

Yeah, I, I think he's honestly maybe doing a little bit of fan service there. Like, I think his, his fans are starting to check out on this. This is the worst Clemson team in, I don't know, 20 years since, at least since he took over at Clemson. I was trying to quickly look up their, their FEI ratings, but yeah, fifth in the preseason.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, it sounds right.

[Jessica Smith]

Yeah, it's, it's really bad. And it's neither side of the ball right now. It feels like there's this talent evaluations. It feels like the coordinator hires are definitely not working out. They were supposed to have this like, you know, Tom Allen come in as the defensive coordinator this year. It's just been a mess there and I feel like he's trying to speak to the fans and try to get them behind him and make them feel like he still cares. Make them at least let them know he still cares and is still fighting for this team. But I also think he has, he has some good points. I mean, if you're going to have legalized sports team betting, this level of officiating, to me, sometimes when game outcomes are coming down to some, some really bad calls and like the ACC is even one of those leagues that's getting a lot of credit for the, the re review room, Mike, which I know you've, you've seen this season. So I think they're trying to be more transparent to at least give them a little bit of credit here.

[Mike Ryan]

Let us show you how bad we are.

[Jessica Smith]

Yeah, I guess I just.

[Mike Ryan]

There have been a handful of games.

[Jessica Smith]

I understand his point. I think he's saying what a lot of fans are thinking.

[Mike Ryan]

No doubt. I mean, I looked at my friend after it was like seven horrendous calls in Dallas. Again, Miami put themselves in that position where it was a one score game and the refs had that much influence. Although again it was seven. It might have been a one score game because of all the missed calls where I'm like if they told me.

[Jessica Smith]

Pepsid, I mean come on, if they.

[Mike Ryan]

Told me this game was rigged for five years from now, I totally believe it. Like what else does it look like? Like that's what it looks like.

[Jessica Smith]

Yeah, it's just. But it's also like not a college football specific issue which I think comes down like what he's saying about like full time officials I think is what a lot of people are thinking. Right? Like we make this a full time job so that it's something that the people can like help the refs out. Like it's something they can focus on. I mean I know you've done 100 podcasts about basketball officiating too, so you can speak to it. It's obviously a humongous issue in the WNBA women's college baske. I'm sure men's college basketball, which I don't watch quite as much of, has a fair share of controversy as well. So I don't know what the right answer is, but I think he's definitely speaking to his fans and trying to trying to show that he still cares about this team that is waffling right now. And down the stretch.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Jessica Smith]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don Le our Panther group chat.

[Chris Cody]

We're confident against the lighting. This is a different team.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're a Panther group chat.

[Chris Cody]

No, no, I think no. But dude, you're. You're so wrong on that. We've been terrified of this team forever and I think there's a different energy where the Panthers, they want the lightning st.

[Dan Le Batard]

I want T shirts made for this Panther run. What could be this Panther run?

[Greg Doyle]

Our Panther group chat.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're not afraid of the lightning.

[Mike Ryan]

That's a Tagline for World Raw 3.

[Amin Elhassan]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, I'm sorry, Jessica. I've been laughing.

[Jessica Smith]

It's okay.

[Amin Elhassan]

In such rough shape.

[Jessica Smith]

He looks terrible on the couch.

[Dan Le Batard]

They just threw Pepto Bismol at him.

[Jessica Smith]

I think if Chris expired right now, Percy would eat him.

[Mike Ryan]

I gotta tell you, he would look.

[Jessica Smith]

Him like a little salami roll.

[Mike Ryan]

This may not be the 60 count. It might be the 20 milligrams.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, for sure.

[Mike Ryan]

Absolutely.

[Dan Le Batard]

For sure.

[Jessica Smith]

Hang on a second.

[Mike Ryan]

He gummied up.

[Chris Cody]

Performance enhancing drugs.

[Dan Le Batard]

Pedis.

[Jessica Smith]

Oh, God. He must feel awful.

[Amin Elhassan]

Awful.

[Jessica Smith]

Just take a nap, Chris.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know if he's gonna be able to take a nap.

[Chris Cody]

He might choke on his originally. Talk about 60.

[Amin Elhassan]

If you lay him on his side, he won't.

[Chris Cody]

60 was. Was the mode on the list. Yeah, we said that. That would have passed by the 59. That was originally a passing grade of A. We're close. Look, there's still. What?

[Dan Le Batard]

He's got an hour?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, he's got an hour.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think he can get to the 99.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, man.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm at a point now where. Chris, you got this, man. It looks like.

[Chris Cody]

I think the smell of nuggets will make him cry.

[Dan Le Batard]

He just threw up.

[Chris Cody]

Double Mike is bringing the nuggets out to him now, and I kind of think that might be the thing that sends.

[Amin Elhassan]

Back to work, player.

[Lewis]

Yeah, back to work, exactly right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Throws the Pepto Bizzle.

[Chris Cody]

There's one.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's going right to the face. He just.

[Chris Cody]

That's another one. It's 61 now.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's like a feedback.

[Jessica Smith]

He just stuck his.

[Dan Le Batard]

His face of the plate just to.

[Chris Cody]

Paint a visual for the audio audience. Chris is currently laying down on his side on the couch. We have handed him a plate of nuggets, which he is slowly eating. It's. It's rested next to his face as if almost like a telephone. And now he's just slowly eating. He's now at 62 Nuggets.

[Jessica Smith]

I'm concerned.

[Chris Cody]

This is disgusting.

[Dan Le Batard]

His face is getting rounder. He looks like a nugget with sunglasses.

[Jessica Smith]

He looks like he's doing the Chris Reply guy meme again with the sunglasses and the hat. You know what I'm talking about?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. Oh, my gosh.

[Jessica Smith]

Good stuff.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's called the Echoes, her podcast. She does it with Michael Jr.

[Jessica Smith]

I didn't even send you guys my topics today. I was going to talk about Red Panda being back.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Amin Elhassan]

Oh, don't worry. We're gonna get.

[Jessica Smith]

Yeah, well, you could do it now.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, let's do it now. Let's. You know what? Yeah, let's do it now. What do you got on Red Panda coming back? Who, by the way, I'm one of the people say, you had a great career. You're doing yourself a disservice. Just stay retired.

[Lewis]

You come back wearing the 4 5, though.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, my God.

[Jessica Smith]

Like, you can't go out like that. She's had a prolific career, and I think wants To. This is her livelihood. Right.

[Dan Le Batard]

She wanted to get her out.

[Jessica Smith]

You can't go out. But she did, and she came back. I think it's a great story. She performed last night at the Bulls game for those. The Bulls 76. Yeah. Billy Donovan and them boys. What do you know about them, Amin?

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, man, I love everything they're doing. I love the way they play.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's my gimmick.

[Jessica Smith]

You're absolutely right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, wait. Speaking of gimmicks, I've never heard this music before.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's. That's right. We got imaging now, Amin, you ready for this? You ready for another edition of you know about that?

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, yeah, no, we got imaging. Okay, let's do it.

[Amin Elhassan]

All right, here we go. I mean, the Philadelphia 76ers, last night, they lost at the Bulls. Joel Embiid was 1 for 10, which is 2 points in the second half. You know about that?

[Dan Le Batard]

I do know about that. Not a great showing by Joel Embiid. He's still on the minutes restriction. He's trying. Last week, we talked about how the Sixers for the first time look like they have a positivity beyond the Joel Embiid era. The problem is we are still in the Joel Embiid era. And he doesn't look good. He doesn't look healthy, but I don't know what good it is to keep trotting him out there for 20 minutes at a time.

[Amin Elhassan]

All right, you know. You know about those Sixers, all right. I mean, the New Orleans Pelicans, they finally won their first game last night.

[Dan Le Batard]

God bless the Hornets.

[Amin Elhassan]

They beat the Hornets. No Zion. No Lamelo either. So we're in mid season for both these teams. You know about that?

[Dan Le Batard]

I know about that. Yesterday, Jessica, we were trying to figure out who Greg Cody is. There were some disrespectful people who called him the Adonis Haslam of this show. Oh, wow. I said he's Zion Williamson because when he plays and he's healthy, he's amazing. Problem is, he's rarely healthy as he's under surgery.

[Jessica Smith]

We talk about his shoes. Wait, too much.

[Dan Le Batard]

That too, yes. So Zion being out again, hamstring issue. He's doing the great Cody, man. And at some point, you just kind of have to accept that this is kind of the. The submission you're going to get from him from night in, the night out again. Shout out to Greg. Cody went under the knife today. We hope he's okay.

[Amin Elhassan]

A. All right, Amin, you know about those Pelicans, Clearly, Amin. The Oklahoma City Thunder, we Didn't even.

[Dan Le Batard]

Talk about Derek Queen, by the way, yesterday, big fourth quarter.

[Amin Elhassan]

Oh, Joe Dumars won that trade. The Oklahoma City Thunder. They moved to 8 and O for the first time in franchise history. They won at the Clippers last night. I mean, you know about them Thunder.

[Dan Le Batard]

I know all about them Thunder. They're amazing. They're incredible. They're deep. The MVP still playing like an mvp. We got new guy.

[Amin Elhassan]

Jaylen Williams hasn't even played yet.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, Jalen Williams has not played. He's recovering from that wrist injury. We got A.J. mitchell, who has stolen the hearts and minds of a lot of basketball heads like Tony Isaiah.

[Lewis]

Joe too, by the way.

[Dan Le Batard]

Shooter. God, Shooter. I love. I love that his. His job is just everyone else on that roster. The 10 shoot him. I just shoot. That's all. I do love the Thunder.

[Amin Elhassan]

All right, you know about them Thunder. Amin the Boston Celtics.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, man.

[Amin Elhassan]

Lots of complaining the other night from Jaylen Brown. What a shocker. That if Jaylen Brown's your best player, your team may not be that good. The Celtics drop to 3 and 5. They host the Wizards tonight. You know about them Celtics.

[Dan Le Batard]

I know about them Celtics. 3 and 5 doesn't begin to describe how bad it is. How bad is it? They lost to the Utah Jazz at home and they blew a big lead. And I know Utah's playing better this year, but not that much better for Boston is having these problems. Meanwhile, Chris Cody is knocked out on the ground. The dog is staring at him. Remember Chris Cody, Ethan walked his shit shoes all over that ground yesterday.

[Jessica Smith]

Why are they shit shoes?

[Dan Le Batard]

Because he stepped in shit when he was walking his dog shoes. And then he. Yes, and then he walked upstairs and then realizing that and washed his shoes in the bathroom after the fact.

[Mike Ryan]

What?

[Dan Le Batard]

But he had already walked all over our floors, man.

[Jessica Smith]

That's disgusting. And don't bring your dog to work. That's disrespectful.

[Producer Ethan]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you.

[Jessica Smith]

Can I just say really quick how different this segment's gone than how I expected it to go?

[Amin Elhassan]

What do you expect?

[Jessica Smith]

I thought you were gonna yell at me. Nah, I thought you were all gonna be really mad.

[Amin Elhassan]

I mean, it's only the first week, Mike. Right, at the college football play. This is week one.

[Jessica Smith]

This is a sports media show. People are rational.

[Mike Ryan]

I'll yell at you a month from now.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, a lot of football to be played.

[Jessica Smith]

And you know what? I will also say Notre Dame, who everyone's going to be mad at because they're number 10. They still have to win out and they still have to play Pitt and Pitt is a good football team.

[Mike Ryan]

Let's remember that the final week of the season, please. Let's. Let's remember that we all called Pitt a good football team the final week of the season.

[Jessica Smith]

Well, if Notre Dame beats them by too many points, then they won't be a good football.

[Mike Ryan]

And also if Miami beats them, they're also not good, right?

[Jessica Smith]

Well, yeah, then they have four losses and they lost to West Virginia, Mike. I mean, come on.

[Mike Ryan]

They have to somehow beat Pitt, but have Pitt maintain their record and then they're in.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think the dog is starting to eat Chris Cody. I'm seeing it chew and Chris is just kind of laying there.

[Amin Elhassan]

All right. I mean, last night the Orlando Magic dropped a 3 and 5 after losing to the Hawks. Desmond Bain, who they gave up four first round picks for and pick swap is averaging career lows across the board. He was ejected from the game last night. You know about the Orlando Magic?

[Dan Le Batard]

I know about the.

[Jessica Smith]

Because a woman ref injected him. Shame on him for Bane. I actually don't know if a woman repped that game.

[Mike Ryan]

I just assumed it was safe assumption. It's part of the problem.

[Dan Le Batard]

They lost to the trae younglist Atlanta Hawks, by the way. We gotta point that out. That's Desmond Bayne, career lows. But I think the biggest One is the three point shooting. He's a career 40 plus percent three point shooter. He's been at 38 or higher pretty much every year of his career. This year he's shooting 28.6%. Folks. They brought him in because they have shooting problems if the shooter can't shoot. This is the second year in a row they went out and got a shooter and that guy forgot to shoot at some point. When is it Orlando's fault? Maybe they're doing something wrong.

[Jessica Smith]

I say that to men all the time. Shoot or shoot. All right.

[Amin Elhassan]

I mean, you know about Desmond Bane. Finally got one more for your ass here. As Jessica mentioned a few moments ago, Red Panda made her debut. She broke her rich, she fell. Last year she made her return in Chicago at halftime. You know about that Red Panda.

[Dan Le Batard]

I know about that Red Panda. I worry about that Red Panda. She's had such a great, illustrious hall of Fame career. She's defied the odds and, and defied death and all these things. And then last year she got. She actually came back from retirement last year and that's when she got hurt. And I said, you know what, man, you were on top. Well, now you're just kind of Extending it feels very Michael Jordan Washington.

[Amin Elhassan]

She's a little bit of a compiler on a compiler.

[Dan Le Batard]

Just like, you gotta learn when to say, enough's enough.

[Jessica Smith]

Yeah, but, like, if Michael Jordan scored 50 points last night, you wouldn't be like, why did he come back? No, no, she still did a routine.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, I, I, I. Sure. Yes, she was awesome last night, but we're not talking about how she did last night. We're talking about. I'm worried about her. I want her legacy to remain stellar. I don't want. What if she gets hurt again? Then what we're gonna say?

[Jessica Smith]

I don't think there's anything she could do to ruin her legacy at this point.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think there's a couple of things.

[Jessica Smith]

Well, okay, I guess, I guess technically.

[Dan Le Batard]

Within the context of what she does for a living, yes, I don't think she could ruin her legacy. But I do think, like, I don't want her career to end on a sour note, right? Because she, she got, God forbid, an injury worse than what the last one was.

[Amin Elhassan]

I mean, you clearly know about that rep. Oh, man.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Amin Elhassan]

Good job. Excellent work.

[Dan Le Batard]

And thank you to Jessica Smithana. Again. The Echoes is the name of podcast. You get it wherever you get.

[Chris Cody]

Hold on a minute.

[Dan Le Batard]

What?

[Chris Cody]

Chris went back there and gave 20 bucks to the studio team, and now the graphic says 99 nuggets.

[Producer Ethan]

What the hell is going on here?

[Chris Cody]

This is ridiculous. I told you, this is acc. Ref.

[Dan Le Batard]

Level of corruption. This place is riddled with corruption up and down. It's not just the Fuentes family. All five families in here, they're all corrupt. Sick of it.

[Lewis]

There's 100 bucks there. Lewis had a hundo.

[Dan Le Batard]

A hundo?

[Mike Ryan]

Chris.

[Dan Le Batard]

Damn, Chris. You could have just came to me, man. I would have done 20. I would have.

[Chris Cody]

This would have been easy. Yeah.

[Jessica Smith]

Is Dan here? Where'd that hundo come from?

[Mike Ryan]

Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo, what are you doing here?

[Greg Doyle]

Cuervo. Anytime you someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, I do know that to be true. But even during ad reads like Cuervo, I think you could lay out especially for one of our great partners.

[Greg Doyle]

Sweet, delicious Cuervo.

[Mike Ryan]

Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots. The same family, the same land, the same passion.

[Dan Le Batard]

Cuervo.

[Mike Ryan]

So enjoy the tequila that started it all.

[Producer Ethan]

Cuervo.

[Mike Ryan]

Cuervo, the tequila that invented tequila.

[Producer Ethan]

Proximo.

[Mike Ryan]

Cuervo.com. please drink responsibly, Cuervo.