Hour 1: Domiñooooooo (feat. Domino & Jorge Sedano)

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Hour 1: Domiñooooooo (feat. Domino & Jorge Sedano)
Date: January 13, 2026

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Overview:

Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the crew dive into a raucous, distinctly Cuban hour. Sports blend with Miami culture and family dynamics as they debut a new Cuban-themed game show “Domino,” featuring wrestler Domino and longtime friend Jorge Sedano. The segment, packed with inside-jokes, playful generational clashes, and Miami nostalgia, ultimately devolves into spirited debate about the true meaning of being Cuban and community pride as the Hurricanes prepare for the National Championship.

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1. Launching a Cuban-Themed Game Show: “Domiñooooooo”

[00:38-14:50]

Key Points:

• Dan expresses chaos in the studio, with Sedano, his father, Domino, Theo Zaslo, and Greg Cody present.
• Domino is introduced as the host of a new Meadowlark Media “cheap, Cuban-themed” game show to determine “Quien es más cubano?” (“Who’s more Cuban?”).
• Two teams—The Le Batards (Dan & his father) vs. Sedano & Zaslo—compete in Cuban cultural trivia.

Notable Quotes & Moments:

• Dan, setting the stage:
  “Game shows, man. The media’s collapsed. Hollywood’s collapsed. It’s the same four businesses running everything... Game shows, those are cheap. Where’s there a game show?” (01:07)
• On the ‘signature tin’:
  Dan: “You go into your grandma's house, and you see that aluminum tin, blue, the cookies—the Royal Dansk cookies—what is actually stored in that?” (03:10)
  His dad answers “cookies”—wrong!
  Domino: "The right answer? Sewing supplies. Everyone knows this." (04:21)
• On Cuban punctuality:
  “If someone says ‘I’m five minutes away’ in Miami, what do they mean?”
  After phoning a friend:
  Tony: "I haven't even left yet." (07:04)
• What’s the scent of a Cuban baby?
  The answer: Agua de violetas, after confusion over translations and a hilarious “Talco” (baby powder) mix-up. (08:37)

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2. Family Dynamics: Generational Clashes and Banter

[09:35–15:01]

Key Points:

• Dan’s father, once known as the “most Cuban,” repeatedly botches answers—forgetting staples like “Fidel” or “Elian.”
• Frustration and amusement rise—Dan jokes his dad may have “textbook dementia.”

Notable Quotes & Moments:

• Dan, exasperated:
  “How are we losing this game with you? How are you the least Cuban?... How is it possible that you, the most Cuban among us, has forgotten Elian and Fidel?” (12:48)
• Team trash talk:
  "Even without J... Killed it... As the host of the show, Domino, thank you for your time. I want to play Domino again on Monday night." (14:25)
• On the answer to a Miami Hurricanes game day staple:
  “Croquetas. Mucha croquetas.” (13:58)

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3. "Degrees of Cuban": Community Hierarchy, Identity, and Playful Rivalry

[23:04–27:57]

Key Points:

• They dissect “degrees of Cuban”—Hialeah Cubans, Kendall Cubans, Miami private school rivalry, and more.
• Dan’s mother publicly roots for Cuban quarterback Fernando Mendoza (Indiana) over Miami, dividing the family CUBANICAMENTE and igniting playful accusations of cultural betrayal.
• Discussion on “repentido” (Cuban exile who has softened his stance) and who is “FAKE CUBAN.”

Notable Quotes & Moments:

• Dan’s mother, via Jeremy:
  “...He’s Cuban… the kind of a person he is, the kind of a believer that he is, how he's with his mom, and he's Cuban.” (24:53)
• Dan, to his mother:
  “You married a fake Cuban? We just saw it on the game show.” (25:35)
  “My mother... has betrayed me publicly and privately with even saying that her heart whiffs another direction because he's a good Cuban boy who believes in God. I don't want to say bleep off, mom, but we've got a problem now...” (27:05)

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4. Side Tangents: Adult Bookstores and Costume Shops in 2026 Miami

[37:03–38:21]

Key Points:

• Jokes about the persistence of adult bookstores and costume shops in Miami, even in 2026.
• Nostalgia for Miami institutions and playful disbelief that these businesses continue to thrive in an Amazon world.

Quotes:

• Dan:
  "I can't believe that a sex shop is still functioning in 2026. Don't we do all that by Amazon?" (37:07)
• On La Casa de los Trukos:
  "Just a costume shop on Calle Ocho... those are costumes that have been returned for 50 years." (38:07)

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5. Building Up the Miami Hurricanes Title Game – and the “Most Cuban Game Ever Played”

[35:20–43:25]

Key Points:

• Miami’s run to the championship is depicted as a collective community dream come true.
• Fernando Mendoza (Cuban QB at Indiana) is cast as the American Dream Avatar, but Miami is where all the longing, pride, and “Cuban myth” converge.
• Dan references Billy Corbin, Miami historian, as the ultimate authority to frame this cultural moment.
• Miami audience is hyperlocal and ready for the national party; meanwhile, the rest of the country may be rooting for the Indiana underdog and the “feel-good upset.”

Notable Quotes & Moments:

• Dan, mythologizing Mendoza:
  “...he is going to become the myth, avatar symbol for the American dream told through Cuba, representing freedom in Miami to be the best player in college football. It's going to be all harps, all strings, all beautiful...” (35:26)
• On the show's local focus:
  “This show's not seen as pro Miami. And I know how I alienate the national audience. Oh my God. We're on Tuesday. The audience wants us to talk about another thing... The audience would like for us to lose.” (41:25)

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6. Style Points, Catchphrases, and Signature Greg Cody Bits

[43:42–45:55]

Key Points:

• Long-time running bits continue: Greg Cody’s “catchphrase countdown.”
• Audience chatters, new inside-jokes ("Hey, Butterfinger"), and Rufus T-shirt ideas.

Quotes:

• Greg Cody catchphrase:
  “Number 48 is... Hey, Butterfinger.” (44:51)
  “That's a classic.” (44:55)

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Memorable/Notable Moments with Timestamps

• Game Show Introduction: “Welcome, bienvenidos to Domino, the game show that settles who is a real Cuban around here.” (02:14)
• The ‘Aluminum Cookie Tin’ Debate (Sewing Supplies vs. Cookies): (03:10–04:21)
• On Being ‘Five Minutes Away’ in Miami:
  Tony: “I haven’t even left yet.” (07:04)
• Family Betrayal Segment (Dan vs. his mom): (24:32–27:05)
• Billy Corbin’s Arrival and Banter:
  “Billy Corbin wants to get and deserves to be near this Miami hurricane flame. As the biggest historian in the history of the, UM program...” (38:47)

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Episode Tone & Style

The tone is loud, loving, and pugnacious—equal parts familial ribbing, Miami inside baseball, cultural affirmation, and sports-obsessed hype. The jokes and jabs are quick, the nostalgia real, and the local flavor unfiltered. Rivalries, generational divides, and Miami’s peculiarities all take center stage in a way only Le Batard and his crew can deliver.

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This episode is a wild, affectionate homage to Miami Cuban culture and its intersection with sports, family, and local folklore—anchored by the irreverent humor and loving chaos that define The Dan Le Batard Show.

Transcript

[A]

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[B]

I do not mean to make excuses. I was raised by a tough and proud Cuban man. But I want to apologize to Diana Rossini for fundamentally stinking as a producer of the last segment. That's all. My father is here. Well, I don't want to make excuses, but Sedano's here, my father's here, and Domino is here. And everything's moving too fast around here today. So I got Theo Zaslo next to Sedano, and I'm here with my father and Greg Cody. And I've asked Meadowlark Media to make a game show. Game shows, man. The media's collapsed. Hollywood's collapsed. It's the same four businesses that are running everything. Everything's collapsing around here. Game shows, those are cheap. Where's there a game show? And so Mike Ryan says, my hungry off is not good enough. I got a better idea. And so he produces whatever it is we're about to do here, which is Mike, because I've never met Domino before, but I want to tell the audience to Support Domino. Saturday, January 17th at CCW's Rumble in the Jungle. He can get tickets. You can get tickets@ccwtix tix.com what are we doing right now? You think you're going to pull off a game show in 10 minutes?

[A]

Well, you want to celebrate all things Cuban, So why don't we have a Cuban themed game show? Devise two teams. The Lebatards versus Sedano and to Zaz to find out. Quien es mascubano?

[B]

Okay, so, all right. So, so. So the game is how Cuban are you? Or who's more?

[A]

Yeah, but it's got a catchy little name and some imaging.

[B]

How Cuban?

[A]

No, it's called Dominion.

[B]

Welcome, MBN Benidos to Domino, the game show that settles who is a real Cuban around here. Here's your host, former CCW Southeastern heavywe. And current king of the territory, Domino. You left that out of the intro. How Cuban are you?

[A]

Okay, okay, I got that part.

[B]

All right, so I'm gonna go first. My father and I are one team. Tio. Tio is formidable.

[A]

He's got that look in his eye.

[B]

He looks like the guy.

[A]

Poppy and I beat a domino park that one day.

[B]

Oh, that's right. Yeah. This is legitimate. These credentials are legitimate. Sedano and my father won a legitimate Gallo domino tournament in the streets. Was, like, 15 years ago. That was a long time. All right, so, Poppy. The game is, Papi, is to find out how Cuban we are. So, first question, Domino. You go into your grandma's house, and you see I eat an aluminum can, all right? Aluminum tin, blue. The cookies. The royal dance cookies. What is stored aluminum thing? Oh, they put, A, A, sewing supplies. B, nuts and bolts. C, Galladiga. Una cookie or the una pila. Uno. Batteries. Cookies. Cookies. Always cookies. Now, dad. Bobby. Dad, no. There's no. There's cookies in there. No, no, the cookies are gone.

[A]

You already ate them.

[B]

They're sewing supplies.

[A]

Huge mistake. Domino, what is the right answer?

[B]

The right answer? Sewing supplies. Everyone knows this. My mind is set up on the cookies. That's it. Look, you guys.

[A]

You guys are struggling already, so let me tell you, you do have something at your disposal. You can phone a friend at any point in this game, and we have a Cuban expert on the line that can help you out. So just keep that in mind. We move on Domino.

[B]

Okay. Mir.

[A]

Guy came in hungry.

[B]

He was, like, chowing on bagels. Oh, yeah, that's you. Okay, if someone says Dalit, what are they saying? Okay. Go quoting pete.

[A]

Boom.

[B]

Is a 300 fight or all of the above? Oh, this one's easy.

[A]

You ready? Yeah, I'll just take it.

[B]

D, all of the above.

[A]

All the above.

[B]

Bobby. Okay, Next time, okay? They got the point. So. So that's the sound that accompanies when you get it correct. What was the sound? What was getting it incorrect? We got a new game show, man. And Metal Arc Media has a new cheap game show, okay, in Miami. And somebody says, I'm five minutes away. A, are they five minutes away? B, are they 10 minutes away? C, half an hour. D, I haven't left yet. Papi. No. De la repueta. Hold on a second, Papi. You're confident here? Because I don't trust you anymore. I'm telling you, I'm hot to trust. That's not an answer to my question.

[A]

Well, I would have Thought you got the first one.

[B]

Are you. I don't want. No, I want to. I want a phone friend. I want to phone a friend.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Tony is Tony the friend. But wait, is it going to be.

[A]

Him that answers it or just he's going to give you his expertise?

[B]

You can decide. I want Tony. I don't want Jeremy.

[A]

You got Tony.

[B]

If you're Cuban. What does I. I'm five minutes away mean in Miami? Five minutes? Ten minutes?

[A]

No, don't even tell me. Don't even tell me. I haven't even left yet. Are you going with that answer? Cool.

[B]

I already got the points. It seems to be.

[A]

I said that out loud for Chris Cody.

[B]

Okay, number four. What is a signature scent of a Cuban baby? A, taco, B, agua violeta, C, baby powder, or D, compota? What is the signature scent of a Cuban baby? A, Talco, B, agua violeta, C, baby powder, or D, compota? All right, that one's a tough one. Zaz.

[A]

I. I think we need to phone a friend here. Theo.

[B]

Zaz. All right, so who do we get? No. No.

[A]

Okay, so no. Come on.

[B]

Are you serious?

[A]

I'm trying to do the translations in my head, and I don't know what Talco is. Oh, Jesus. I think the second one is violet water. But water doesn't smell like anything. Obviously. Baby powder. Makes sense. Compota. Is that like the, like, raspberry compote they do on Great British Baking Show? I would say it'. I would say it's C. Baby powder.

[B]

Baby powder wasn't C, anyway. It wasn't C. That was one. That was one.

[A]

Wait, is Talco and baby powder the same thing?

[B]

Yes, you doofus. All right, what kind of Cuban are you?

[A]

You can choose to follow his advice. So what is your answer?

[B]

You're sticking with baby powder? No, no, we're gonna go with agua de violetas. Oh, look at the giggle. Look at. Dad knows. Now you know the answers to the questions I couldn't answer. You had your chance to answer. Yeah, la proxima. Okay, fill in the blank. Whose fault is it, Papi? No. Then you answer.

[A]

Greg, you answer.

[B]

Fidel is out of the equation. He died about 15 years ago.

[A]

I need you guys to lock in the answer. You're not on the same page.

[B]

What is the answer? What do you want to go with? The father's fault? Sure. It's always your father's fault. That's what your mother tell you. It's always, How are we losing this game with you? How are you the least Cuban. I forgot about Fidel.

[A]

We will never forget about Fidel.

[B]

On your behalf, Sedano. On your behalf. We'll never forget about Fidel. Out. Out of love for you. What do you mean you forgot about Fidel? I did. I. The guy died about 15 years ago.

[A]

Not the way that I expected it to go. Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Well, we've clinched.

[A]

Basically.

[B]

I'm a little distraught because, you see, I've lost the accent now. I was brooding for my fellow Cubans and I don't know what's happening. I'm Cuban. Bro here is too.

[A]

Jonathan.

[B]

I want to play with a Y. With a Y. I want to keep playing. Who would have more questions?

[A]

Style points here? We do.

[B]

All righty. All righty. That's not very Cuban. Someone spills a drink on your floor. Character there with the. Alrighty.

[A]

Keep K Favino. Kay.

[B]

All right. What are you reaching for? To clean. Mitoling. Oh, oh, hold on, hold on. I mean, it could either be mitoling or fabuloso.

[A]

No, Isn't that Pine Sol?

[B]

I'm gonna go with mitoling. Oh, my dad's judging you now. What's the correct answer, Papi? Fabuloso. That is correct.

[A]

Wow. We're going to count that as a steal.

[B]

Wait, what?

[A]

Yeah, we're just making rules up. That's a seal. And also added drama.

[B]

What's the answer?

[A]

It fabuloso. Wow. The Levitart Steel. I just made that rule up.

[B]

I know. That's as close as I've ever felt.

[A]

To my father being a soul. Huh?

[B]

Okay. I mean, that was a toss up.

[A]

It's close.

[B]

Next one. For those that don't understand, who said Elianco Saleh in the ocean. Oh, my God. Fill in the blank. Papa King Ricardo. Americana. No, he went off the board. I. I'm gonna go Dolphins.

[A]

Wait, wait. What's the. What's the official Lebator Day answer, Floppy?

[B]

The dolphins. No, the dolphins. Yeah. I didn't know that. Yeah.

[A]

Oh, Cuban lore.

[B]

Larry Zanka.

[A]

It was the dolphins.

[B]

Bobby, how are you getting all of these questions wrong? How is it possible that you, the most Cuban among us, has forgotten Elian and Fidel? Oh, Elian. Yeah, I forgot about Elian. He must be a man by now.

[A]

See?

[B]

No.

[A]

Yeah, we got. We got. Dolphins had saved him, but we would have accepted the not Odal Rimple. Is this the last one?

[B]

The last one. La Utima.

[A]

All right.

[B]

The grand finale. Okay, what food item will the Miami Hurricanes. Okay. In the day of the national championship at the tailgate. Oh, Jesus.

[A]

I know what it is. Say it.

[B]

Papi, do you know? Well, hold on. My father. My father does not know. And if you say it to my father's face, he's going to get disoriented, offended, and not allow you to say it.

[A]

Good.

[B]

On. On the papa. You think? You know. Oh, I got it. I got it. But it's our question. No, no, but he. Okay, but he's surely going to get it wrong.

[A]

Yeah, that's the way this game's been going.

[B]

He's going to get it wrong. Okay. Croquetas. Mucha croquetas.

[A]

Wow, this is really disappointing.

[B]

Ready, Papi? Watch this. Just watch what he's about to say here. What Indiana's about to get. Okay. Me mo.

[A]

We won. Good job.

[B]

Even without J.

[A]

With Jeremy's.

[B]

Sorry.

[A]

Killed it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Was great.

[B]

As the host of the show, Domino, thank you for your time. I will tell the people again to support the people who support us. Saturday, January 17th, CCW's Rumble in the Jungle. You get tickets@ccw ticks.com. i want to play Domino again on Monday night during the live stream. Can we get him back here?

[A]

He's working at Las Rosas.

[B]

My f. Father. My father. Really? I can't believe, Papi, you were not more Cuban than that.

[A]

Stage fright.

[B]

It's been a while, Domino.

[A]

You were great, pal.

[B]

Gracia, class of 06. Christopher Columbus, of course. Oh, wow, another Columbus guy.

[A]

Another one.

[B]

Yeah, whatever. Whatever. Sedano. Columbus is gloating right now. Listen, Sedano, you feel this as a lifelong. Thank you, Domino. I'm a Pace high school Opalaka to the.

[A]

To the core guy.

[B]

It's okay. So we know what the private school we went to. I went to the private school with, like, black people and, like, girls, you know, I mean, so that had girls sedano. So we did it in. We did it in Broward, but the private school Cubans in Miami, Columbus has been the most annoying. They never get to be this kind of best at everything. Yeah, never in Miami. Columbus doesn't get to be better than Northwestern at football. At basketball.

[A]

They said the boozer twins.

[B]

Yes. This is never. This is never in the history of Miami happened where you've got this absurdity at the top of this sport.

[A]

Have you seen the arms race, though? Belen's trying to keep up. Yeah. With Columbus in basketball.

[B]

Really interesting.

[A]

They have a good team.

[B]

My Pace high school was ahead of the curb because, you know, we.

[A]

We were the first to have, like.

[B]

I don't Know all the races in the one school now everybody else has.

[A]

Followed suit will do that. Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

Bobby. I can't believe what happened so bad. Bobby Game. Nobody can believe what an upset that was. Cody, what level of stunned are you that my father among us that deals as deals ass kicked Poppy's ass. I know.

[A]

I think it's the seat.

[B]

I think it's nice one on me a couple of times, that's all.

[A]

You're the Whiffer, buddy.

[B]

I'm the wifer. That's right. Do you remember the wifer? So this. Yes. My father would call Giancarlo Stanton the wifer when it was only the three of us on an elevator. But I will tell you. I will tell you a story from the other day that my father revealed to me that I was not aware of. That he rekindled a really funny childhood memory. Papi, what was the name of the double reverse with a pass that we ran for your office fence in the huddle? What would that play be called? The Coochie Coochie with the keys. That's also incorrect.

[A]

That would have been quite a name.

[B]

It's the hoochie Coochie with a kiss like Charo. It is not the Coochie Coochie with a kiss. I would never use you as a cultural approach appropriation to exploit your Cuban for my uses. I would never do that. Zaslo. Congratulations on you and Sedano winning the game show. Oye, oye, Papi. Pankong Pinga. You. You missed that. What happened? Pankon Timba. Papi might have aged out of Domino Banco Pinga. Oh, I thought that was the difference between pink and Timba.

[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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[B]

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[B]

Don LeBatard all these high paid analysts, I don't want to mention names. Tnt, espn, you know. Oh yeah, they are dead. They cannot. They're not going to make it. You know, even if they win in, if they lose in Miami. I need to calm you down. I need to calm down. That's right. They lose in Miami, they don't get a chance in Boston or they are going to have their ass. You know what, in Boston, you know, Stugats, they were wrong. Are they going to lose their job? No. Are they going to get a cutting? What are they going to do? Keep predicting. What is the obvious. They're going to say, oh, the Nuggets are going to win. Oh, Denver, the attitude. And you know what? The Heat are going to win it all. This is the Dan lebatar show with the Stugats. Theo Zaz, Theo Cody. I just had a genuine epiphany here and, and I was stunned to see it happen because I have not articulated very well some of the vision we have here for metal art media. But definitely cheap game shows are a way to go. And what I just saw morph in front of my eyes. And Tony, I don't mean this as sort of a having a meeting about your employee over the last five years, but Domino is the Cuban. I thought Tony was. And so I mean that as no insult. No, it's not that it's even tough to hear.

[A]

It's tough to hear. How about you play this? Chris, play this one more time. The packers winner. The Bear lose.

[B]

Bears lose.

[A]

How about that? Can Domino do that? Can Domino do that on the fly? Dan, let me know. I don't Know. You tell me. Okay, you were saying? Go ahead.

[B]

No, no, look, I don't even mean it. Look, this is. There's a spectrum of Cuban. This is not an insult. There's. This is absolutely. Degrees of Cuban, and you can be more Cuban than Tony. It's hard, though. It's. It's difficult. But wrestling pants help.

[A]

Wrestling pants do help. They do help. But also, you can see the different degrees, right? He's Hialeah Cuban. I'm Kendall Cuban. There's a different. There's a hierarchy in how things go. Whoa.

[B]

Hierarchy.

[A]

Not saying. Not saying that one's better than the other. It's just we talk a little bit differently, generally. A little bit differently.

[B]

Well, I think Domino is the greatest of the Cubans. Beneath. Beneath Mario Cristobal, the statue of Libertad y Revenge. But the problem we have here. And I saw in the studio. I saw in the. In the room over there. My mother and I really do. Jeremy, please get to the bottom of this, because I believe this is a family betrayal, a school betrayal. I believe the most traitorous of the Levito somehow is my mother, who is sitting here flatly saying that she's rooting for Fernando Mendoza in this game. He is the quarterback of Abuela's. I am as. I'm offended by this woman. I'm offended by her. This woman raised me. This woman taught that man how to be a man. This woman offends me at my core when she believes Fernando Mendoza should beat the University of Miami. So we go now to Jeremy with my mother. What do you got?

[A]

Jeremy, Dan is very, very frustrated with you for wanting to root for Fernando Mendoza.

[B]

Say I was gonna.

[A]

I say I didn't know. No, Mommy, I don't listen to my heart. That's what I said. So why does your heart tell you to root for Fernando Mendoza over the University of Miami? Because the kind of a person that he is, the kind of a believer that he is, how. He's with his mom, and he's Cuban. Yeah, he's the Cuban kid, right?

[B]

No, no, Mom.

[A]

The trophy.

[B]

Mom. The coach of the Hurricanes. To be proud of the coach of the Hurricanes. Mom is more Cuban than he is here, except you.

[A]

She says that he's more Cuban than everybody here except for Domino.

[B]

Mario Cristobal is more Cuban than Fernando Mendoza. We dispute this.

[A]

Dan says Mario Cristobal is more Cuban than Fernando Mendoza.

[B]

It's the same.

[A]

No, Mommy, Mario football with Fernando's father at Columbus High School. No one that went to Columbus High School is no Cuban. That's true, Dan. You can't dispute that you're no Cuban either. You're fake.

[B]

Whoa. You married a fake Cuban? We just saw it on the game show.

[A]

He says you married a fake Cuban. I marry a fake Cuban. Wow. She was really disappointed. He's a Mets fan. He's a Mets fan.

[B]

All right. All right. Thank you, Jeremy. I am offended. I'm not kidding. You like, what's my mother doing? This is.

[A]

This time is from all sides today, Dan, I tried telling you that. Generation loves Mendoza. This is very much a town divided.

[B]

It's a. But, you know, normally, you don't get. The University of Miami is us against the world, and it's even divided among Miami Cubans. Like, what? Is that what you're telling my? Miami is getting into the game as the giant underdog. And also, it's not just us against the world, and nobody believed in us, but also the Cuban community is divided on which team to root for because we actually care about baseball.

[A]

Yeah, there's been little, little, little effort about that. By Monday, you're going to think the game was invented in Havana. On my way out, she said, I came to this country for freedom. Dan's not going to take that away from me. Wait till they find. Yeah. Wait till they find out that the football is made of pigskin gas bag.

[B]

My mother. I got it all from her. Why are you trying to take freedom.

[A]

Away from your mother?

[B]

Look, man, I don't know during these difficult times, if you guys have had your families divided by political str. Cubans not being the same and Cubans not thinking the same, but my mother and I right now, not friends.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

Excommunicado. My mother. My mother has betrayed me publicly and privately with even saying that her heart whiffs another direction because he's a good Cuban boy who believes in God. I don't want to say bleep off, mom, but we've got a problem now, and I'm sorry, I have to say it publicly in front of everybody.

[A]

Mets, man. The best part is she's not even listening to you. Right. She's talking to Don.

[B]

She never does.

[A]

She's talking to Donald Trump.

[B]

My mother, you better be careful, because.

[A]

It goes Mendoza and then Domino, all right? She is infatuated.

[B]

Yeah, because. Because that's right. Because you got to be publicly humble, and you got to thank God you can't wear wrestling pants and have a ponytail. I want to give all the glory to God.

[A]

Like, no, it looks like she's feeling it now.

[B]

If Domino Were exactly like Fernando Mendoza. She would not like him. He would be too rebellious. Then. Then crystal ball would be the good Cuban boy.

[A]

Poppy better lay down some walls.

[B]

Did my father sound sane to you in the last segment?

[A]

No, no. It's been a weird show. Zaz has said three words since he slipped up. He's just putting a cigar because it's like, well, at least this is working. Just. Let's just a gap it.

[B]

So Zazlo, you have been a tremendous blessing over the last six months for being. I'm not used to you losing your confidence during the show because. Because again you had the analysis that I have heard anywhere about the accurate ending to the Packers Bears game.

[A]

The packers win or the bear lose.

[B]

Bears lose.

[A]

May that live in eternity.

[B]

Greg Cody, I have never seen you so happy. I've never.

[A]

I mean a two time champion broadcaster stumbling like that. How often do you get to witness that? Kind of just the opposite of eloquence.

[B]

It's crazy.

[A]

And by the way, how did you guys. How did you and Poppy not get fabuloso? That's the only answer I actually knew.

[B]

But I knew that I thought I got that right.

[A]

And my father Poppy thinking the cookies were still in the tin jar. Oh, sad, sad. I didn't like that. That's disappointing. Yeah. For the record, Greg Sedano and Zaz missed that one. And the Lebatards were there for the steal which we learned altogether was a part of the game.

[B]

Okay. My mother just accused me of not being Cuban, but I believe that I represented my family was undermined by trying to take advantage of what appears to be an old man senility. My father.

[A]

What did you do every Tuesday anyway?

[B]

Well, no, but my father not understanding pankompinga and forgetting fidelity. We would.

[A]

By the way, we would have accepted a lot of answers. Harold Kennedy Clinton, the Newsplex and Rich Janet Reno. We would have gotten anybody.

[B]

Do you understand? My father forgot Fidel and Elian. Like that's textbook dementia. Right on the realm of trumps. Which we should also talk about with my family. See where that goes.

[A]

Now let's bring them in. A couple of questions for mommy.

[B]

Patriots think of themselves as more American than Cuban and it's one of the reasons like I am.

[A]

We must have Greenland. We must.

[B]

I am.

[A]

Let's work on it.

[B]

So great. Cuba for the stupidity of this game because they've lured in an old woman who wants to check out the Indiana quarterback. It's like how the hell did we get here?

[A]

And Colombia, once we evac Andy Slater When I walked up she was playing an Instagram video that was just Indiana fans watching Fernando Mendoza Highlights to Fernando by Abba yes, she played that for me as well.

[B]

I look man, are you guys not amused by if you want a beautiful syrupy with harps storyline and I'm sure ESPN is going to give it to you this week and everyone else from Columbus High of what an unbelievable underdog story. The Cuban quarterback is best in the land and now he comes to slay Miami with a victory that will make him an all timer undefeated season, more games than anyone played, best player in the sport and also so eight touchdowns and five and five incompletions when it's mattered 85% passing completion rate and three touchdowns in six games. No college quarterback has done that this century. No pro quarterback has done that this century that's coming to represent Miami. How do I make the story more Cuban than it is? I say this genuinely to I think.

[A]

We'Ve done a good job. You're looking to make it more Cuban? You know, people keep asking me about my 2026 resolutions and yeah, I got the usual stuff. You know, watch more games, complain about foul play and pretend like my team's actually going to stay healthy.

[B]

Haha.

[A]

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[B]

It's better.

[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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[B]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[A]

We are the epicenter. Dan There is nobody more Cuban than what we've done brother transfers to. Look at me.

[B]

The point I guess I'm making on Mendoza, you do understand that he is going to become the myth, avatar symbol for the American dream told through Cuba, representing freedom in Miami to be the best player in college football. It's going to be all harps, all strings, all beautiful. I can root for this kid. He's humble and he thanks God.

[A]

And then violence. Never even to talk about him again after the canes take that ass. Are you. By the way, is ESPN having you do anything after what they just heard from you right now? Now I. I need to call somebody. Who's your supervisor? Like, we got him in a rhythm. We. We dumped it into him in the post. He said took that ass. And now you're trying to. Like, that's unfair.

[B]

No, I'm just asking, Tony. We threw him a little check down.

[A]

I sent a double team. Tried to weatherspoon working in the post. I sent a double team to him. You're mad he's got to beat the double team.

[B]

You're mad because Domino is more Cuban than.

[A]

How about we bring Domino in here then? We both are here. How about that?

[B]

Domino's also more Cuban than me. No.

[A]

That's obvious. I don't want to say anything.

[B]

Look, you guys continue to offend me here by putting me in Jeremy's camp. No, no, no. Look, I'm here for the joke. But Mike, I've. Okay, wait a minute. I've never seen Mike as mad as when they called him an arripantido. That's as angry as has ever seen Mike.

[A]

We had Mike in the middle of the vende.

[B]

No. And he's pleased with himself because he's doing his victory lap. Okay, I'll take all manner of else around here, including carrying around my delirious father. It doesn't know what punk compinge is, but the loss I will not take is. And he learned it from me, Dan. He learned it from me. Mike, Ryan's never been as more offended as when we. I called him a repentido. Don't say that to me anymore.

[A]

Don't you dare. I'm an exile. Well, my dad was.

[B]

You were. You were raised by Bird Bowl.

[A]

Yes, I was.

[B]

You were raised by that strip shop across the street.

[A]

We used to be a laser duck. Please.

[B]

I can't believe that a sex shop is still functioning in 2026. Don't we do all that by Amazon?

[A]

It's like half costume shop. Yeah, it was majority.

[B]

It lost my. I failed to mention yesterday that the idea of an adult bookstore seems like just. It seems wildly outdated.

[A]

Ironically looking like a member of Pussy Ridge Riot. Again, that's not a sexual thing.

[B]

But how do. I'm just saying, how do those stay in business? I thought Amazon is putting all of that out of business because you could just order whatever you want online.

[A]

Well, they seem to have found a different niche. Costumes. I mean, I know you perked up. They were 50% off too, by the way.

[B]

You guys are not surprised the industry's hurting. No. You guys think that the adult sex, they're killing it.

[A]

There's a couple. There's a couple tent poles around Miami. You know the one on us? One a little bit further down by the BrainSmart USA used to be in a weird place building. There's one there. I grew up by that one, so that's how I know you got playthings. There's a couple of ones that are out there, but again, it's. It's. It's. Sometimes people like to go and. And see and. And feel what. What they're. What they're looking at.

[B]

La Casa de los Trukos looks like that place. It's just a costume shop on Calle Cho.

[A]

It's.

[B]

Not a sec. No, but. But it's old costumes from. Look, those are costumes that have been returned and gags. Those are costumes that have been returned for 50 years. Yeah.

[A]

Fair. I did a Tony tonight there, and it was great. We had one guy who was like a magician in the back. Like an old Cuban guy was like a magician. He had one of those, like, shocker things to give a handshake to, and he got. Louis and Lewis got fried. How great is this? Look at all the fun we're having around a national title game that Miami is playing. And I mean, this is great, isn't it? This is a dream come true. It's literally a dream come true. I never thought it would happen to us again. This is great, man. It was so much fun. I'm just so happy. Ear to Earth Video.

[B]

Can you please put up in the other room somebody who's just arrived to see if we can take some of the smile off of Mike Ryan's face? Not Domino, not my father, not my mother. I was told that Billy Corbin has arrived. Billy Corbin wants to get and deserves to be near this Miami hurricane flame. As the biggest historian in the history of the, UM program, I've been told that by. Oh, there he is. Billy Corbin is here. He's a rock on tour.

[A]

He's saboteur. That guy sucks type. Hey, what's up? Go yourself, Billy.

[B]

All right. There it is. It started off okay.

[A]

Okay, Cody, suck it from the back, dog. Whoa.

[B]

Hey.

[A]

They had that personal foul.

[B]

White division and foul. Come on out of here. But Cody doesn't like Billy Corbin either. Cody? No, I mean, he's.

[A]

He's been critical of me, and, you.

[B]

Know, I. I don't respect anyone who doesn't respect me. You know, you got to play it even. So Billy Corbin is here now. Zaz, how do you feel about Billy Corbin? The only thing I think of when I think of Billy Corbin. Very few better things are made by anyone in the history of Miami artistically. Cocaine, cowboys and the U as movies. He's a great artist and he fights for the right things.

[A]

I'm fine with Billy. I. I grew up with his little brother. Good family. I like Billy.

[B]

Okay, this is gonna.

[A]

This guy sucks, dude. That sucks. This is Dan's happy place. Hold on a minute. Bunch of people I can pin up. Hold on a minute. Billy Corbin is our people.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

Where does he fall?

[B]

Our people.

[A]

Not our people. Not our people. Trust me, he's not Columbus. Billy Corbin. What do you mean those people? I don't like him saying that. He said those people. He pointed at me and said those people. Run it back.

[B]

Find the or people. What did you say? People or people.

[A]

He said those two. Very different side of my family doesn't like Billy Corbin. The other side of my family love Billy Corbin. He's a mensch.

[B]

So I am looking forward to wherever we end up here. Billy Corbin is here to celebrate University of Miami success. I want to apologize that we're pushing on the throttle this hard. Tuesday. It's very early. We haven't that we're building up to a live stream the national championship game, the most Cuban game ever played on Monday night. We are going to throw a party around to hear that. I'm looking forward to Roy. Why are you shaking your head no?

[A]

What are you apologizing for? The national championship. Thank you. Let's go. Voice of reason. Honorary Cuban. I just gave it to him.

[B]

No, because Mike Ryan says you're on charge. This show's not seen as pro Miami. And I know how I alienate the national audience. Oh, my God. We're on Tuesday. The audience wants us to talk about another thing.

[A]

Taxes and O's.

[B]

The audience wants us to Wait a minute. The audience would like for us to lose. You do understand that, right? You can't be what Mike Ryan has been the last last three years and the last three months and the last three weeks and the last three days and the last three minutes without pissing off the entire fan base of college football. Because really, Miami thinks it's all that and it's represented by this arrogant gas bag taking a victory lap on I told you Texas A and M wasn't that good. I told you we drag Ohio State. I told you Ole Miss wouldn't matter. Lane Kiffin or not. I told you. I told you. Make Miami an underdog at your own risk. Nine and a half point underdog against the defending champions. All right, bleep off Ryan Day. It's going to feel like Michigan on you because it's just going to be out physical and now Miami's here at the top playing for the biggest game. Biggest game in 20 years. Biggest game in 20.

[A]

Biggest game in 20 years. We're going to have to get him.

[B]

Hammered so I can get my father. I want you to get my father hammer. Swing it in the morning.

[A]

I'd swing.

[B]

It in the evening all over the.

[A]

Land if I had a hammer. Thank you. You know what?

[B]

You're right. The rest of the country is rooting Fernando Mendoza and the.

[A]

The uprising of downtrod Indiana is the feel good story here. We're not having that in south Florida.

[B]

But for the rest of the country.

[A]

That'S the feel good story. One of many reasons.

[B]

Chris Cody, what are you exhorting your father to do right now?

[A]

Let my boy cook.

[B]

Well, no, what I wanted from him was the rest of if I had a hammer. But he started running out of breath, got scared, stared at his cigar and if I had a yammer is what you should be saying.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Wow. I play on words there.

[A]

I get that little rhyme going. Well done. Look at you playing with it. And.

[B]

And the words. What's going on?

[A]

What's Mike's given to the business right now, which I like.

[B]

What's going on with your. What's going on with your catchphrases in the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody.

[A]

Big one.

[B]

We were on 40 and 47 and he's counting down two a week for the rest of time.

[A]

Now I say I will say, dad, I think we only give one away. Let's give them both the audience, like.

[B]

Send them over to go find out. Last week we got can I get a click click? And it caught on.

[A]

Where's my click Click is how it goes. There's my click click. I saw multiple tweets of people that have started doing that with their kids in the last week.

[B]

It needs to be a T shirt.

[A]

You made it a rap, Dan.

[B]

I'm sorry I did that. And what is now 48, number 50 of the greatest catchphrases of all time by Greg Cody, a historical catchphrase guy. Zazzle, you've been great just staring around and looking around with the cigar. You have been killing it for 90 minutes, selling the bit visually. And I thank you for staying in the game and fighting to the bitter end. Even though you are, you are remains of confidence right now. I salute you.

[A]

So, dad, number 48.

[B]

Number 48 is. Hey, Butterfinger.

[A]

That's a classic. Yeah. Thank you. Properly rated. It's what he says to my brother whenever he drops a ping pong ball.

[B]

And that's the one that segued into a song.

[A]

Thank you. Right, right now Billy Corbin's going.

[B]

That's why I've always hated him.

[A]

Okay, you piece of.