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Stugotz
We're going to do the bucket here in a little bit and I'd like to involve the kid Marrow in our bucket of punishments. Have him involved in the football picks and have him have to be punished by costume or something else if he loses when we go to the bucket at the end of this, we're going to do refrain del dia with him. I don't know why he's so proudly Yankee today. He's still got yeah, he's got don't yeah me. You got Derek Jeter behind you. The captain is ashamed of what happened to the Yankees Worst postseason era ever in the history of baseball. Our most historic game because Vladimir Guerrero clubbed you guys in a way that's like truly embarrassing. But before we get to that, before we get to the friend El Dia, can you tell me whether or not your kissing greeting has been neutered by the pandemic and the modern age. Can you walk up by way of Hispanic greeting and still just kiss somebody entering? Or do you have more trepidation about that than you used to because of where we are today?
Dan Le Batard
No, I still I Damn, you just sparked that in my brain. I did not even Think about that. Like, I have been operating like a Latino male, you know what I'm saying? Dominicano soy I've been operating that since I was exited the womb. So I'm kissing every DT that I come across. Like, it has not changed, you know what I'm saying? Like, my approach is still the same. I still do the dap. Come in for the hug. If you are. If you resist, you're not a dab hugger. That's cool. We just stop it at the dap, you know what I'm saying? But like Titus and Deals and Diaz and like elders, I'm like, ah. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, very, you know, keep the tradition.
Mero
Not elders, though. Miro. Like, I was talking more so before. Like. So, like, I'm Cuban, but I don't know what's appropriate to say hello to someone when it's not special. Specifically, like in professional settings, like, there's a conflict. You grow up in a Cuban community, everyone's Cuban. Like, okay, you kiss everybody hello, and then you get out of the bubble into the real world, it's like, oh, you don't just go up and kiss people. Like, that is weird.
Dan Le Batard
Yo, listen, so the context matters. Yes. You don't want to be cuomo, you know what I'm saying? Where you just be like, hey, I'm not. Like, I'm not a weird guy. And it's a. It's a cultural thing. That's what we do. We just kiss people on the mouth. We touch their cans a little bit. That's what. That's what we do. We're just Italian. It's traditional. That's that. No, no, do not do that. Do not do that. So thank you for the.
Stugotz
Thank you for the visual aid on the touching of the cans, by the way.
Tony
Some people don't know Dan. Some people don't.
Dan Le Batard
Sometimes you gotta test, see what's up with them. You know, it's like Tom Brady with the footballs. You gotta check the PSI on the kids. Anyway, having that context, like I said, kind of is important in a professional setting now. You don't just jump out and kiss somebody. Even though he's not saying professional, though.
Stugotz
He's just saying someone outside of culture by way of greeting. You're meeting someone.
Dan Le Batard
It'S like, it really is like game time decision, you know what I'm saying? It's like, like a bang bang play. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, if you feel the energy and they are A kiss receiver, and you're a kiss giver, and you just feel it, you know, you can feel it. Like, it's the same thing with the dap hug combo. Like, what if. If somebody resists the dap? There's a lot of guys, you know, listen, I'm in Jersey now, y', all, and, like, there's a lot of guys that I coach with that do the dap hug combo, and they bring it in, and a lot of them are members of law enforcement, and they do. They give me, like, a firm. Like, they stop the gap. They interrupted that and turn it into, like, a regular, like, you know, like, hey, buddy, handshake. Because they're not even trying to do the dap because they got. So there's an energy in greeting somebody that you feel automatically. So, you know, if they're a kisser, hugger, dapper, you know, I'm saying, like, the karate, like, real quick, like, yo, what's up, bro? Like, or if they're like a hey, how are you, buddy? For a handshake guy, you know, but you got this.
Mero
You got to meet their energy is the thing. Like, you can't be the one that tries to set the tone because that's where you end up getting yourself in trouble. Like, it's better to kind of do, like, the key appeal where you, like, insult them. Like, assuming, like, this is what it is, and, like, I'd rather you be insulted than I crossed the line.
Dan Le Batard
Exactly. Don't follow yourself. You know what I mean? Go in there with a hey, buddy. And if it goes beyond that, you know, saying if the energy is right for a hug or an embrace, a warm embrace. Every time I see Dan, I gave him a kiss on the cheek. The odd. And I give him a warm hug, you know. You know, Mike as well, you know, we. We. We do the double kiss, you know, Mafioso, you know, I was gonna say Pat Riley. I thought Pat Riley was actually in the studio with you guys.
Stugotz
Put it on the poll, please. Juju at Lebiton show. Do you trust the guy who won't correctly do the dap hug combo with you? We're going to get to refrain del dia. We' get to Tony's top 25 reggaeton artists.
Mike Ryan
I want to ask. I want to ask Mero about what's going on in pop culture right now surrounding Bad Bunny. And we just came to the realization that the complaints from certain people saying, I don't understand what he is saying is valid because we kind of speak Spanish. Understand Spanish, and we don't know what he's saying either.
Dan Le Batard
Listen, all he has to say is, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it.
Tony
Bye, Bonnie, baby.
Dan Le Batard
You know what I'm saying? Like, we could.
Tony
I know.
Stugotz
What do you make of the reaction, though? Because he's a very popular pick with people who are monitoring popularity, but there is Fox out there, and a whole lot of people are mad about Bad Bunny being the halftime show.
Dan Le Batard
Like, so. Two things. First of all, you're an idiot. This is the most popular artists on the planet right now. Like, period. End of story. Why not? Like, this is. This is business, guys. This is business. NFL playing games in Brazil, they're playing games in London. They're trying to globalize American football. And what better way to do it than by being like, hey, guys, look, we're going to have a Puerto Rican guy do the halftime show. You know what I'm saying? And he's going to say. He's going to do all of it in Spanish. You know what I'm saying? And we're. And we're expanding. We're opening the doors of the NFL, y'. All, like, welcome. Everybody can be here and, like, be a part of this. Also, shout out to my guy, Eddie Wong. He gave me a crazy take that I think is kind of accurate. What does the NFL need to function? Black and brown bodies, you know what I'm saying? And how do you get black and brown bodies interested in the game of football then? By putting an artist out there that represents them. You got a lot of Dominican baseball players that came to the major leagues because it was just cheaper, you know what I'm saying? So on a business, this could be a psyop, you know what I'm saying? Like, it could be. It could be something crazy. But for the guy that's walking out of the bass pro shop complaining. Shut the up, bro. This is not about you. This is about the NFL and growing the game. And what better way to grow the game than having the literal, most popular international.
Stugotz
You keep doing that. You keep doing that. You're biased, okay? Taylor Swift is bigger.
Tony
Stop, Dan, stop that.
Stugotz
Taylor Swift is bigger than.
Dan Le Batard
He doesn't get it.
Mero
He doesn't get it.
Dan Le Batard
You can't turn up to. Taylor Swift does that. I've never been at a club. And listen, maybe I'm at the wrong clubs. I've never been.
Tony
You're at the right club. You're at the right club.
Dan Le Batard
At a dance. Thank you, Tony. A party, anything where anybody's been, like, yo, throwing that Taylor Swift. She doesn't have, like, bangers. You know what I mean? Like, she doesn't have a sapphire. No, you're having ale.
Stugotz
You're. You're biased because you and. You and Deezus called Taylor Swift long back on Fallon a while ago. You've been tearing down Taylor Swift for a while. You. You personally.
Dan Le Batard
No, hey, listen, don't do that, because then the Fed's gonna call me again. Listen, the. The thing with Taylor Swift is that it's just not for me. It's not for me. And when I say it's not for me, I mean that it's not for most people like me. You know what I'm saying? Like, it means you're not a 14.
Mero
Year old white girl.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, right, exactly. Thank you. You know what I'm saying? Like, I didn't want to say that because it could have been isolated and uses a sound bite against me, but that's what it is, bro. This is like. This is like. Like teeny popper. Like, I'm gonna take my daughter to a Taylor Swift show in like five years, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's not for me. Like, it's for them. And, like, they are not watching football. Like, like, otherwise she'd be doing it every year.
Tony
What's the cut off on taking your. Your daughter to a bad bunny show?
Dan Le Batard
We could go whenever. Like, there's no age limit for that. Like, I don't care.
Tony
Friends and family, everybody included. All family affair.
Dan Le Batard
It's a family affair, bro.
Mero
I don't even care.
Dan Le Batard
Like, you'll cover your ears. Where he says, like, discovery is, he opens with that.
Tony
And that's the first line. So are they going to. Here's Mara. All right, here. Here's a question I've had. So obviously there's a lot of Hispanic and Spanish curse words that people don't understand. Are they going to bleep the Hispanic Spanish curse words on the Super Bowl?
Dan Le Batard
Hopefully not. Hopefully. The NFL is so American and so, like, Anglo that they're like, yeah, whatever. He's just saying, you know how they sometimes did it? Last time it was just like singing in non English.
Tony
Yes.
Dan Le Batard
Like, speaking in non English. Just do that and let him go crazy.
Stugotz
One of my great joys growing up in Miami is that the FCC doesn't listen to Spanish radio because they don't understand the words. So I'm like, how the hell are they getting away with all of this? And it's just because it's a different somewhere. No, it's not a straight Co owners. No, it's there. No one's governing Spanish language radio. There is no governance of it is. There is nobody who understands what's being said on Spanish language radio. Governing Spanish language.
Mero
Spanish curses are different, though, than like, English curse. I know that. That's like, a ridiculous thing to say. Like, in Spanish, you don't get as easily offended by like. Yeah, profanities is like. And also, like, a curse word could also mean something. Like, this is really endearing, actually. You know what I mean? So, like, it's hard to be offended by something that's also a compliment half the time.
Dan Le Batard
That's what I'm saying. Also, the etho. The. The etho suffix makes everything, like, less offensive.
Tony
Softens it, like.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, softens the blow. You know what I'm saying? And like, also, like, Spanish essentially is like a. It's like a more.
Stugotz
It's a Roman.
Dan Le Batard
It's a romance language. So you can say something like, God, and it lands different, you know, I'm saying, let me be like again.
Stugotz
It's just because the FCC doesn't have anybody who knows what the words are that are being said.
Mero
Like, I mean, what are you doing here? You like what? You want censorship? You want the market saying, like, what's going on here?
Stugotz
You think Mike Lombardi and his. And his typewriter are going to learn Spanish in order to govern me?
Dan Le Batard
There's pro fcc. This is crazy. Wow.
Stugotz
You should listen to the Kid Marrow. Victory Light with the Kid Marrow, it's iHeartRadio. New episodes twice a week. Wherever it is you get your podcast. You should also watch him on his YouTube channel at. According to the kid, we're going to get to Refron del Dia. We're going to get to 25 rigaton artists, top 25 of all time. But I need to make fun of your Yankees for a second. So let me do this in a number of different ways. First of all, play for him. John Sterling being hit by a foul ball. Now the three, two, swung on, a.
Dan Le Batard
Pop foul back here. Ow, ow, ow. It really hit her.
Stugotz
I didn't know it was coming back that far.
Dan Le Batard
That. That hurt.
Stugotz
That hurt me.
Dan Le Batard
Yo, you hear that, old man? That's a old man. That's the old man. That's like, yo, you took. You take Papy to a Marlins game and he catches the foul ball to the neck, bro. Like, that's. That's old man pain, bro. That's a different type of pain. Because old men don't feel pain. So when they get hurt, it's like, yo, this. That shit really hurt. So. And the ow, bro. It wasn't even like a ugh. It wasn't like a manly like, ugh. He was like, ow. That means that he got caught off guard and he got really hurt. The voice of the Yankees, Sean Sterling.
Mike Ryan
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Stugotz
Hey, Mike.
Mike Ryan
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Tony
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Tony
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Dan Le Batard
What's that?
Mike Ryan
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Tony
I still can't believe that we say it every week.
Mero
I can't believe it.
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Dan Le Batard
Don Libertard. I'm just here to say one thing. The Knicks are back.
Stugotz
Stugats.
Dan Le Batard
Tyree Salibraton six points.
Mero
Fraud.
Dan Le Batard
Everybody was like, yo, he's better than Jalen Brunson.
Stugotz
He's better than Janik.
Dan Le Batard
Should attracted him.
Tony
Fraud.
Dan Le Batard
This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.
Mike Ryan
Dan, I have to stop you real quick. It's reggaeton.
Tony
You're making it a noodle.
Stugotz
Ow can you play Vladimir?
Dan Le Batard
I was gonna say, why didn't he call a rigatoni?
Tony
We're all fighting our battles here, Mero.
Dan Le Batard
Yo. I was like, well, I like a Bolognese. I like it with vodka sauce. I like a little rigatoni carbonara sometimes, you know, throw the egg in the. Ow.
Stugotz
We're making fun of him here. Not me. Today, let's play Vladimir Guerrero enjoying making fun of the Yankees.
Mike Ryan
That sounds so Dominican.
Tony
He's torn right now. He's torn right now to say something. He loves Vladdy, though.
Dan Le Batard
Let me tell you something. Also Vladimir. Yo, Vladi Jr. Yo, my bro. Like, like, suave. My suave bro. You play for the Toronto Blue Jays, gang. Remember that? You play for the Toronto Blue Jays. That's fine. But we will be right back here next year. You will not. Okay? We had a bad stretch in the summer that would have changed everything. By the way, we demolished the Boston Red Sox.
Mike Ryan
Who.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, okay. That's fine, papi. You invented that phrase. You coined that phrase. Your team also got smoked by a kid named Cam Schlitler. Okay, Yankee lose. That's fine. The guys are blowing it. The women are doing great. My God, the Gotham FC is doing great. Shot to Mitch Purse. You know what I'm saying? We're doing good. New York sponsors, we're up. Okay, Knicks about to kick it off. We're looking phenomenal. 7pm is about to come back. Come back out. You know what I'm saying?
Stugotz
You.
Dan Le Batard
New York Sports is in a great place. Jackson Dart is our starting quarterback. I'm going there tonight. You listen to me. Who y' all got? DraftKings. Who's your. Who's your.
Stugotz
Yeah, it's only DraftKings. DraftKings is the only thing that matters.
Dan Le Batard
DraftKings, everybody that's putting a bet in tonight. 24, 21. New York Giants over the Philadelphia Eagles tonight, Thursday night. I'm in the building.
Stugotz
He knows so little English.
Tony
He knows what he needs to know.
Stugotz
That is the perfect accent from someone who basically doesn't know very much English, but knows how to make fun of the Yankees in English.
Dan Le Batard
That's it. Yankee Lou. You know, people are like, yo, do you speak Spanish? And they're like, yeah, I know. Like, some bad words. Like, that's popping with English. Like, he's like, yo, do you speak English? He's like, yeah, I know how to, like, make slander the Yankees.
Tony
The great part about that sound is that there's no S's on here. Yankee or loses Yankees, there's nothing.
Dan Le Batard
Lose. Yankee. Yankee. Lou the Yankee.
Mero
Lou.
Dan Le Batard
The Yankee. Look at me, Louie the Yankee Lou. No, that's a G Louie right there. Someone talking about Lou Gehrig.
Mike Ryan
Someone Talking about Lou gehrig in the 1960s.
Dan Le Batard
The Yankee Lou getting disease.
Stugotz
He doesn't. He doesn't know enough English to put the S at the end of Yankees or everything is a Z in there. He doesn't have the English facility to say this correctly.
Dan Le Batard
Let me tell you something. This is important. This is important fact to know about Dominicans. Dominicans don't believe in S's in Spanish or in English. We do not believe in the letter S. The letter S does not exist for us in Spanish or in English.
Stugotz
Let's play the Toronto manager. You know his name? Mero. Do you know John Schneider?
Dan Le Batard
Schneider.
Tony
Schneider.
Stugotz
Here's Schneider making fun of your Yankee Lou.
Dan Le Batard
Every single one of you.
Stugotz
Bullpen, game.
Dan Le Batard
Nathan Lucas, Miles Straw.
Tony
All you.
Dan Le Batard
It takes everybody, every day. Start spreading the news.
Stugotz
We're going.
Dan Le Batard
You know, you don't.
Stugotz
You know what?
Dan Le Batard
You know what? Hustle. Listen, I'm.
Stugotz
I'm.
Dan Le Batard
I'm truly, truly unbothered by this. But what bothers me is that every other fan base makes it. This is your championship. I said this about the paces, bro. Like, this is your championship, bro. Like, beating New York is your championship. For every fan base across America. It's sad. You have pride in your own teams. Guys have pride in winning and just winning. Like, yo, we're going to the alcs, something we haven't done in that long because we suck. We're the Toronto Blue Jays. We absolutely suck. Vladimir Guerrero is wasting his career playing here. We're not going to win anything of any. You know, I'm saying we're never going to win a ring. You're not going to do that. You're not going to win a World Series. Have fun. Enjoy it. Enjoy beating the Yankees, you know what I'm saying? Who brought in Camilo Doval, you know what I'm saying? And you know, to shore up the bullpen, you know what I'm saying? Like, hey, enjoy, enjoy, you know what I'm saying? Because you know what? It's never gonna happen again. It's not gonna happen again.
Mike Ryan
How does baseball keep getting away with this? Where you have a champagne celebration just for.
Dan Le Batard
We got out of the second round?
Mike Ryan
Like, this is the dumbest thing. Outside of the Minnesota Timberwolves at one time, I don't see any other professional North American sports behave this way for just merely advancing past the first round.
Dan Le Batard
It's because baseball is such a slog. The entire season is. There's 10, 35 games and you're playing every single day. You're going, you're flying to Detroit 20 times a year. So it's just like, you know, like when. When it's over, you're like, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like. Like, yo, it's almost over. I think they're not celebrating the fact that they made it to next step. They're celebrating the fact that they're closer to the end, you know what I'm saying? That's what I think.
Tony
Mero Complex came out with the top 25 reggaeton artists of all time. I'm not going to give all 25 reggaeton.
Dan Le Batard
There you go.
Tony
You know. All right, I'm going to give you. I think I agree with the top 10. I'll give you the top 10 in a second. But from the notables, from the top 25, 23.
Dan Le Batard
De la Ghetto Low for me, but that's fine.
Tony
There's some OGs in this, like, back half. Nyengo flow at 22.
Dan Le Batard
Okay.
Tony
Nicky jam at 18, which I thought was a little low as well.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, she probably should be top 10.
Tony
Hector y Tito at 17. Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
Dan Le Batard
That's crazy. That's blasphemous, bro. I'm Dominican. I know. And that's blasphemous.
Tony
I know. Hector Eto is 17, is low. Calletres at 16, Anuel at 15, and Zion and Lennox at 11.
Dan Le Batard
What? Yeah, yo, Zion and Lennox is top five. First of all. Let me stop, like, yo, first of all, Nicky Jam, like, musically should be in the top 10 as a dude. He's a very hot girl. It's very hot.
Stugotz
Look at Mickey.
Dan Le Batard
So hot. She's so hot. Nicky Jam, that's probably what bumped him down. But listen, if you were a reggae tone duo and you had an ampersand in your name, you're in the top 10.
Tony
It was hot, whatever it was.
Dan Le Batard
It was Hotel.
Tony
Not even on the list.
Dan Le Batard
Not on the list.
Tony
The list.
Dan Le Batard
All right, well, hold on.
Stugotz
Come up with your own top five list. He'll get. He'll give us his top 10 here or the list stuff 10, but let's do yours. Off the top of your head. You're gonna go 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. And let's see how close your list is to Tony's list. No, Li, just give us number five from you five.
Dan Le Batard
Number five, Jolly Randy. Okay, Number four, Al Gang Hill. Number three, Daddy Yankee.
Stugotz
Number two.
Dan Le Batard
And number one. Wow.
Mero
A lot of.
Tony
A lot of people from that top.
Dan Le Batard
Five make the list.
Tony
Okay, so Joel Randy is at 12 in. In the complex list. We'll start with 11. So 11 is Zioni Lennox, and then 10 is Carol G. Oh, okay.
Dan Le Batard
Shout to Cal G. 10.
Tony
10 feels high.
Mike Ryan
Coachella. Right?
Tony
Okay.
Dan Le Batard
If you. If you're going to put that needs to be Evie Queen in there.
Tony
Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Number nine. Number nine, number nine.
Dan Le Batard
Okay, good.
Tony
It should be a little lower. Number eight.
Dan Le Batard
Okay. Okay, I'll take it.
Tony
Number seven, Osuna.
Dan Le Batard
Oh.
Tony
Which I think was a little.
Dan Le Batard
A little low, right?
Tony
It's a little high, but a little low. If. Whichever way you're looking at it, I think he should be further. I think it should be further back in the list. If it's. If you're talking about.
Dan Le Batard
I think it's Recency Bias.
Tony
Number six, J. Balvin. You didn't like that one?
Stugotz
Recency Bias. What's the matter?
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, I think that's like. He did a Pokemon. Think of Thong Song, bro. That's. I think that's just like going through.
Tony
Slaps Oasis with him. And Bad Bunny was. Was a great album fight.
Dan Le Batard
But see, but that's like. That's like.
Tony
That's like Bad Bunny doing a lot of the heavy lifting. That.
Dan Le Batard
Thank you.
Tony
I know Ball, buddy. I know Ball.
Mike Ryan
Where's Henfasis? Where's Henfasis? We need Lento.
Tony
Not.
Dan Le Batard
Not on the list.
Tony
All right, starting off at number five, Tego Caderon. So at least a top five for Tayo.
Dan Le Batard
Legend.
Tony
Legend.
Dan Le Batard
Legend.
Tony
Number four.
Dan Le Batard
The Rakim of reggaeton.
Tony
Yes. Number four, Dono Mad.
Dan Le Batard
Good. We're good. We're going good.
Tony
You like Donna Ford?
Dan Le Batard
Yeah. Somebody. Somebody on Complex. Got a Puerto Rican titi. That's.
Stugotz
They got some health care.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, yeah. They got some help. They was. They got a TT that was at Club Exit in 1999. Wow. You know what I'm saying?
Tony
The heydays, they would have heard. They would have heard this next duo. Number three. We seen Yandel at number three. They had a run. They had a crazy run. I was looking. I was going back into the Wikipedia and look at some of their discographies. They had a massive run of banger after banger after banger after banger.
Dan Le Batard
Massive. You hear me?
Tony
Number two. Number two. Dy. You didn't have Daddy in your. In your top five.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, because it's like. It's like saying, like, Jay Z is in your top five.
Tony
It's too OG to even.
Stugotz
It's too og.
Dan Le Batard
It's like, you know, if I was. It's like being like, yo, DJ playero, like, bro, he started the whole thing.
Tony
Like, you know, number one, biggest artist on the planet, Bad Bunny.
Stugotz
You guys are already doing that. You guys are already doing that. You're saying he's the best there's ever been.
Tony
100 Dan. There's nobody that has been able to put out one, two to six albums that every single one of them has been a banger with rarely a skip on it. No artist has been ever able to do something like that. Think of any rap artist, any rock band, any pop artist. Nobody has an album from top to bottom that has zero skips. Bad Bunny has six of them.
Dan Le Batard
You know what I'm saying?
Mero
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Stugotz
In its natural habitat, helping people customize their car insurance and save hundreds with Liberty Mutual. Fascinating.
Dan Le Batard
It's accompanied by his natural ally, Doug. Limu is that guy with the binoculars watching us.
Stugotz
Cut the camera.
Dan Le Batard
They see us. Only pay for what you need@libertymutual.com Liberty Liberty Liberty Liberty Savings. Very underwriting by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company affiliates excludes Massachusetts. Don LeBatard. And he was doing all kind of wild stuff. When he threw the ball off the glass to himself and yammed it. I was like, wow, that's crazy.
Stugotz
You're on Perks.
Mike Ryan
Stugats.
Stugotz
You know what I mean? That.
Dan Le Batard
Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly.
Stugotz
Allegedly.
Dan Le Batard
This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.
Stugotz
Billy doesn't agree. I heard a stray. What? There. He's scared.
Tony
That's fine. He doesn't have.
Dan Le Batard
He's scared.
Mero
You're gonna get so crushed for that.
Tony
How am I gonna get so crushed for that?
Mero
History of music had more hits than bad, but nobody a wild nobody.
Stugotz
Well, Drake.
Tony
Drake.
Stugotz
Well, Drake has had more hits than Bad Bunny. That's already. That's factually so.
Dan Le Batard
Quantifiable. Yes.
Stugotz
So, Billy, what happened? Why?
Mero
Jackson was pretty big at his time.
Dan Le Batard
Michael Jackson was pretty big.
Tony
You don't get it.
Dan Le Batard
You ever hear about this guy named Michael Jackson? Some people like the Beatles, maybe.
Mero
Not for you.
Tony
Not for me. Definitely.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah.
Stugotz
Let's not straight. Let's not stray too far from why it is Mero is here. Please.
Dan Le Batard
You know what you'll never hear? Marlins win.
Stugotz
What?
Mike Ryan
Hey, it's Marlin. It's Marlin.
Stugotz
I think the Marling have won as many championships as the Yankees this century. Like, I think I. I think I have that right. Pretty close. The last 20 years.
Mike Ryan
Last turn of the century.
Stugotz
Last 15 years.
Tony
Maybe.
Stugotz
I got to do some creative math to get there.
Mike Ryan
Let's go. Last 24 years.
Dan Le Batard
You're doing stat news, math. Dan, don't be like that. You do it within the last two and a half years and weeks and months. Well, do that.
Stugotz
How about this, though?
Dan Le Batard
We got one in 2009. 2009 is recent enough.
Stugotz
Okay? There have now been 110 combined consecutive seasons. Rangers, Islanders, Knicks, Nets, Yankees, Mets, Jets, Giants. That New York hasn't won a championship since the Giants won the Super bowl in 2012.
Dan Le Batard
Well, listen, that's. That's. That's being very misogynistic because we're not talking about the women and the women's games.
Stugotz
The Liberty.
Dan Le Batard
You know what I'm saying?
Stugotz
You're right.
Dan Le Batard
You hear me? We got Gotham at 23. Liberty also.
Tony
You know what I'm saying?
Stugotz
Cooking. Yeah.
Dan Le Batard
You know, so let's. Let's give it.
Stugotz
You really got me there. You did. You cornered me. You made me forget about the Liberty. You really did corner me on that one. I thought I had you. And I. I did. I got exposed There. I'm embarrassed. Let's do refran before we make everybody go to the bucket.
Tony
Thank you. Thank you. The return of Ronda Dia.
Dan Le Batard
Hit it, hit it, hit it, hit it.
Tony
Yeah, exactly right. We have the kid marrow in the building. We've got me. We've got the wheel. Spin it.
Stugotz
What are our choices on the wheel? I don't think Roy was ready.
Tony
Roy knows the segment that has a wheel.
Stugotz
Roy doesn't know. I think Roy is unprepared for the wheel for refron. And in general, I think Roy has been confused by the last five minutes of language. He doesn't understand anything that was said around here.
Tony
You're right. All right, we got our. But I found the D. Roy, can you hit the music for me?
Stugotz
We're already in the music.
Tony
A little louder. I want it a little louder, though, for the vibes. I want it a little louder.
Dan Le Batard
Do you just follow a script?
Tony
No, listen. I want the music a little bit louder. Like you guys want to turn up to Taylor Swift. I want to turn up to my culture.
Mero
Thank you're a teleprompter guy.
Tony
No, I'm not a teleprompter. Nothing here is teleprompted. All right?
Dan Le Batard
His name is actually Roy Royce, but since we do not pronounce sounds, that's why you call him Roy all the time.
Tony
Prince Royce. Prince Royce is missing from that list as well. Prince Royce. Real, real ones know, by the way. All right, today's is good.
Stugotz
You're good. You're good. You sound like me with reggaeton.
Tony
Translates from Spanish to English as made of yogurt or a maid of yogurt made of yogurt.
Stugotz
It sounds like you surprised Mero.
Tony
It's a very human Mero.
Stugotz
Didn't even understand your refrain.
Tony
Yeah, today's a teaching refunded. Usually there's cross cultures that understand the same ones. This one is a uniquely Cuban saying that means echo or means made of yogurt.
Mero
Yeah, but that's one of those things incorporated English, Spanish. Like that could also be something dirty.
Tony
Exactly right. But the reason why I'm at you right now is because my daughter has me up at night. She was kicking me this morning. I didn't sleep at all. I made nothing. I made just a bland substance of nothing. Right now I'm exhausted. My life is a wreck right now. That's another. That's another synonym. Exactly right. Exactly right. Synonym for.
Stugotz
You can't say. You can't say that out loud on the airwaves.
Mero
Oh, here we go. Fcc.
Tony
You're going to call the FCC on that money when he says that?
Mero
This guy was celebrating when Jimmy Kimmel got taken off the air.
Dan Le Batard
I knew he was hyped.
Tony
Thank you.
Dan Le Batard
It's about dangerous. I knew you were an ally. He said, good for him.
Stugotz
Go ahead and do refrand El Dionado. Please.
Mike Ryan
Go ahead.
Stugotz
Please, please.
Tony
That's a. That's a hall of famer, by the way, that your dad was a part of. And he put his head in his hands because he didn't want to answer.
Stugotz
No, because of course. Say that out loud.
Dan Le Batard
No balls.
Tony
Have no balls. A unic. Somebody with no testicles. They are sans testicles. They are decojo now.
Dan Le Batard
You have no testicular fortitude.
Tony
None.
Stugotz
Are you familiar with the Dentek bucket? I need the Dentek mouthpieces in here. Does everyone have their mouthpieces? Are they ready to go to the bucket? Because I don't think that the kid Marrow knows what it is that we're doing here. But if you get a bad football team here, Marrow, you're going to be stuck in a situation where you have to pay a punishment. I don't have the lines in front of me. Do you guys have the lines in front of you as we got all.
Mike Ryan
These at the top of the dome? Because I know ball.
Stugotz
Okay, we're going to do the Dentek bucket here with Mero and let's see what we have here. You get to. Let's give him the rules in a second on what it is that we're doing here because he's not done this with us. But he's going to have to pay a penalty here if he gets a losing team. You get one pick in the bucket and if you don't like that pick, you get another pick. But the second pick stands. It's fairly self explanatory. All right, Tony, you go first.
Dan Le Batard
I started off here on the bucket sponsor of our dte.
Tony
The Carolina Panthers. I don't.
Stugotz
You don't want that ever. Unless it's a buy.
Mero
They are playing against the Cowboys. Cowboys are three point favorites.
Tony
Yeah, I'm going to put that one.
Mike Ryan
You're going to put that one.
Stugotz
Okay.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah. Cowboys are going to roll.
Tony
Cowboys are going to roll.
Dan Le Batard
All right, here we go.
Mike Ryan
All right.
Tony
The Packers.
Mike Ryan
Packers are playing Joe Flacco.
Tony
Oh, no.
Dan Le Batard
Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco. I'm kind of nervous about that.
Tony
If you want to be honest.
Stugotz
You shouldn't be. What? They're big favorite.
Mike Ryan
They're 14 minus 14.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, but you guys don't know, Joe.
Tony
Flacco gets to a new team, all.
Dan Le Batard
Of a sudden he's going to play well.
Mike Ryan
Joe Flacco's already 10 against the Packers.
Stugotz
Exactly right.
Dan Le Batard
Thank you, Mike.
Stugotz
He knows how to beat him.
Dan Le Batard
He's got that number.
Mike Ryan
Is this the first time a quarterback has played a non division team twice? Something to ponder.
Tony
Good point.
Dan Le Batard
Here we go.
Stugotz
I know.
Dan Le Batard
Ball. The Dallas Cowboys. Yeah. I keep this.
Stugotz
You want that? Okay.
Dan Le Batard
I like the Cowboys.
Stugotz
They're on the road as a three point favorite.
Mike Ryan
We almost die.
Stugotz
The Cowboys, three and a half point favorite. Billy's going to go now.
Mero
I got the Steelers.
Mike Ryan
Steelers are off the ball.
Stugotz
You know, they're playing in Cleveland and they're five and a half point favorite.
Mero
I'm going to keep this too.
Mike Ryan
Go on, Paul.
Mero
I'm going to keep this too loose.
Stugotz
That's going to be Gabriel as your quarterback, throwing the ball six yards at a time.
Mero
All right.
Mike Ryan
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Mike Ryan
Where'S your mouthpiece, buddy?
Dan Le Batard
Oh, I have it right here.
Mero
Yes.
Stugotz
That's supposed to be taken out.
Dan Le Batard
Zaz has that.
Stugotz
That's not supposed to be in there.
Dan Le Batard
It's never been again.
Mike Ryan
Let's not do this.
Stugotz
Congratulations, Roy. Thank you, Roy. You need to play the sound that goes with the golden helmet of life.
Tony
Dan, are you gonna pull for Merrill or.
Mike Ryan
I can't.
Dan Le Batard
I can't physically pull.
Tony
Yeah, you gotta pull for marrow, Dan.
Stugotz
All right. This pick is for marrow right here. He's got the swapped helmet helmet.
Tony
Oh, wow.
Dan Le Batard
You gotta pull another one, Dan.
Stugotz
The swap helmet means you get to take anyone else's helmet that you want. Mero, you get to any helmet that you want around here. The golden helmet of life is the best thing that you can get. The other pick is for the Texan. So you have the Texan. You got two good helmets, no penalties for you.
Mike Ryan
So you could either be satisfied that you're safe on the one time, maybe all season, that you'll pick this, or just be mean to Roy and give him just one week of safety as opposed to three.
Tony
You know what?
Dan Le Batard
Y' all have been saying, Royce, incorrectly, so I'm willing to take the buy. Safety. No one's happy about that because I got mad love for Roy, you know what I'm saying? He's just up there doing his damn thing every day. First one in, last one out. You know what I'm saying? Real studio rat. Not today.
Stugotz
You know what I'm saying, that's very nice of you. I took the Chargers. I got the Chargers. They're seven. They're. They're a seven and a half point favorite at Baltimore.
Dan Le Batard
Big Justin Herbert, guy.
Stugotz
I'll keep that.
Tony
No Chargers for the Dolphins.
Mero
Yeah, I don't know what you're looking at.
Mike Ryan
You're still good.
Mero
There's still four and a half favorites against the Dolphins.
Dan Le Batard
Keep that. Keep that.
Mike Ryan
You're still fine.
Dan Le Batard
You're looking at the Rams.
Mike Ryan
I was looking at the Ravens.
Mero
Where's the cheaters, man?
Tony
Rams tough.
Dan Le Batard
You got Rams online.
Stugotz
Merrill, good seeing you. Victory light with the kid. Meryl from iheartradio. New episodes twice a week. Wherever it is, you get your podcast. You also got his YouTube channel at. According to the kid. Hit him one more time with the Vladimir Guerrero before Billy. Before Billy buries Tony here.
Mero
It's not a Berry. It just, you know, we had some people do some research in the back on top in. In regards to Billboard number one hits.
Dan Le Batard
You said that.
Tony
That's where I already know your argument is flawed because you're going to the Billboard mainstream artist and seeing like, oh, yeah, what a billboard say. I don't give a what Billboard says. How about that one?
Mero
The most hits ever. I'm just gonna. I'm just gonna read you the top.
Tony
What I. What I said was. What I said. Just to clarify really quick, before you read the top five, what I said was his albums have no skips. Yeah, that's what I said. And this is just hits. No album. He's got every album has no skips in it. That's what I said.
Mero
This is just these. Billboard ranks number one song. All right. Number five on the list, Drake with 13 number one songs.
Tony
More hits in the Beatles. Yes, we know that.
Mero
Tied with Drake, but at number four, Michael Jackson, 13 number one songs. At number three, Rihanna has 14 number one songs. Damn good for her number number two. This one might be a surprise to you guys. Number two. Mariah Carey has 19 number one songs of all time.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, number one. Let me tell you something. Yeah, before you drop the number one, let me tell you something. We'll open your third eye to calcify your pineal gland. It's a manufactured with stream farms nowadays. Think about it.
Tony
Thank you.
Mero
I saw a thing where Akon was talking about how he just make ringtone music because he realized you could get 4.99 per ringtone or 199 per stream and he's like, I'm just making ringtones. I don't give A crap.
Tony
Soulja boy did the same thing.
Mero
Soldier boy was the original number one. The Beatles with 20. If you're wondering where Bad Bunny is, the biggest artist of all time, according to Tony, more hits than anyone.
Tony
1.
Mero
He has one number one hit of all time. And if you're wondering what that song was, it's I like it. Which is really cardi B And J. Balvin and Bad Bunnies kind of tossed on there.
Dan Le Batard
Wow. Tossed on there. He made like he's just the parsley on the stage. Wow.
Mero
I listen to that song in the middle of the Caribbean on a cruise, and man, that hit.
Dan Le Batard
Of course, when you're walking on the.
Mero
Lido deck while that song's played.
Tony
He made my point already. We made my point.
Dan Le Batard
That's it. I watched Tony's a vibe. Lord.
Tony
Thank you.
Dan Le Batard
You know what I'm saying? It's all about the vibes. It's not about numbers. It's about the eye test.
Mike Ryan
Hey, Jeremy, old buddy, old pal.
Tony
Hey, Mike.
Mike Ryan
I want to talk to you about Miller Lite. You and I have bonded over these last few weeks talking about our shared love of Miller Lite.
Tony
That's right.
Mike Ryan
A great partner of our show for practically its entire existence.
Tony
It's been a partner of this show since I was 10 years old old.
Mike Ryan
And it's been around for 50 years, and they've been a part of our show for almost 20. We're approaching incredible partner status with Miller Lite.
Tony
I mean, to think that people were celebrating at my bar mitzvah with Miller Lite as they were a partner of this show is pretty incredible.
Mike Ryan
You're talking about the moments that are made better by making those times, those special times. Miller time. Jeremy, there's nothing like cracking open Miller Lite with your crew this football season. It's especially true whether it's a touchdown you didn't see come or just arguing about fantasy lineups you already know you're gonna lose. Miller Lite has been the taste you can depend on for 50 years. Brewed for flavor with simple ingredients, rich toffee notes that iconic golden color. And here's a kicker. Jeremy.
Dan Le Batard
What's that?
Mike Ryan
It's just 96 calories.
Tony
I still can't believe that we say it every week.
Mero
I can't believe it.
Mike Ryan
It's just 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. It's the original light beer since 1975 and still hitting different five decades later. Miller Lite, great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere. Beer It's Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Date: October 9, 2025
Featuring: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Tony, Mike Ryan, and special guest The Kid Mero
Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Miami, Dan, Stugotz, and the crew welcome The Kid Mero for a lively, irreverent hour covering sports, Hispanic culture, pop music, and football picks—with frequent diversions into reggaeton debates, Yankees misery, and the nuances of cultural greetings. The tone remains loose, hilarious, and insightfully chaotic throughout.
Context: The Kid Mero is asked whether COVID shifted his approach to greeting people (the traditional Hispanic kiss and dap).
This episode perfectly encapsulates the unique energy of the Le Batard Show—chaotic, bilingual, sports-obsessed but never too serious, always attuned to social dynamics and music, and unafraid to chase any tangent.
Recommended as a must-listen for fans of sports, Hispanic culture, reggaeton, and comedy.