Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Episode: Hour 1: Nobody Wants To Eat a Wet Banana
Release Date: January 13, 2025

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1. Utah vs Brooklyn Basketball Showdown

Timestamp: 01:24 - 02:57

The episode opens with Greg Cody dissecting the Utah vs. Brooklyn basketball game, highlighting Utah's struggles in the final minutes. Greg laments, “Utah's obviously terrible. Brooklyn's terrible” (01:24) but acknowledges that the game was tied late primarily because Utah couldn't secure good shots under pressure. He humorously details how Utah’s players Sexton and Collier argued over ball possession, leading to an eight-second violation and ultimately giving Brooklyn the advantage (02:44). Stugatz chimes in with disbelief at the Jazz’s performance, reinforcing the notion that both teams were underwhelming (02:00).

2. Dolphins' Lamar Smith Follow-Up

Timestamp: 03:09 - 04:14

Jessica provides a detailed update on Lamar Smith’s performance in the Dolphins' last playoff win against the Oakland Raiders. Initially reported to have eight carries for five yards, Mike Ryan corrects this with Taylor's data, revealing Smith actually had an 11-yard run, meaning the other seven carries resulted in a negative six yards (03:22). Greg acknowledges the significance of this performance, calling it one of the great Dolphin highlights of the century (03:35).

3. Unveiling of the Elser Hotel Statue

Timestamp: 04:14 - 05:02

The hosts discuss the long-anticipated unveiling of a statue at the Elser Hotel. Originally intended to be a bronze statue pointing toward the Pat Riley arena, they humorously reveal it’s actually an inflatable carrot (04:14). Dan LeBatard quips, “It does look more like him than the Dwayne Wade statue” (04:53), and the team shares a laugh over the unexpected design choice, emphasizing the playful nature of the event (05:02).

4. Stat of the Day: Mike Vrabel vs Marcus Freeman

Timestamp: 05:18 - 07:11

Greg Cody introduces the "Stat of the Day," featuring Mike Vrabel’s impressive record of ten career receptions, all touchdowns (05:24). Stugatz counters with Marcus Freeman's coaching achievements, noting, “Marcus Freeman has more wins against top five teams in the last 10 days than James Franklin has in 14 years” (06:30). The hosts engage in a spirited debate, ultimately declaring it a tie but acknowledging both statistics as “exceptionally good” (06:51).

5. NFL Network’s Scheduling Faux Pas

Timestamp: 07:11 - 09:20

Billy Gill expresses frustration with the NFL Network for airing old games alongside current ones, causing confusion among viewers (07:21). Greg echoes this sentiment, sharing his own confusion over conflicting game schedules (07:33). Dan adds humor by reminiscing about iconic games like the 2009 Steelers-Ravens playoff clash (08:43). The discussion broadens to the quality of recent games, with Jessica noting that despite some competitive matchups, there were puzzling low-scoring outcomes (08:58).

6. Broadcasting Preferences: Single Games vs. Red Zone

Timestamp: 09:20 - 14:17

A significant portion of the episode delves into the debate between watching single games versus the nonstop action of ESPN’s Red Zone. Chris Cody expresses a preference for immersive, single-game experiences, valuing the detailed flow of each play: “I want to see every play, even the bad plays” (13:03). Stugatz agrees, emphasizing the importance of understanding game nuances and momentum shifts (13:17). The hosts discuss the merits and drawbacks of Red Zone’s rapid-fire coverage, with Billy Gill playfully suggesting they start their own network devoted to game minutiae (14:10).

7. Listener Poll: To Eat or Throw Away a Wet Banana

Timestamp: 16:22 - 22:43

Greg Cody introduces a quirky listener poll about handling a banana dropped on the kitchen floor. The discussion evolves into a humorous debate about food safety and the infamous “five-second rule.” Chris Cody shares his grandmother Nellie Doogie’s saying, “You gotta eat a peck of dirt before you die” (18:22), linking it to the everyday dilemma of consuming fallen food. The conversation becomes a lighthearted exchange about household habits, pet safety, and maintaining cleanliness, culminating in the absurdity of eating a wet banana (19:37).

8. Valet Parking Garage Incident

Timestamp: 27:56 - 29:47

The hosts recount an incident where two valet drivers crashed in the parking garage, described as a significant fender bender caused by tight corners and possibly excessive speed. Stugatz remarks, “I'm not surprised by it” (28:20), highlighting the frequent mishaps in confined spaces. Billy Gill humorously critiques the reliability of parking garage cameras, stating, “They never work when you need them” (28:59). The discussion underscores the unpredictability and occasional chaos of valet services.

9. Nick Sirianni and the Eagles' Performance

Timestamp: 31:19 - 39:39

A heated debate unfolds around Nick Sirianni’s role as the Eagles' coach. Stugatz passionately defends Sirianni, proclaiming him “the greatest coach in Eagles history” (33:07), while Greg Cody questions whether Sirianni deserves full credit for the team’s success. The conversation touches on the Eagles' consistent playoff appearances, Sirianni's comparison to coaches like Andy Reid and Dick Vermeil, and the fluctuating sentiments of Philadelphia fans. The hosts scrutinize the NFL playoff system, particularly the challenges faced by the Minnesota Vikings in a tough division, arguing that winning a division should inherently grant a playoff spot rather than being subject to point differentials and scheduling quirks (39:09).

10. Podcast Awards and Listener Engagement

Timestamp: 40:27 - 42:32

As the episode nears its conclusion, Billy Gill urges listeners to participate in the Sports Podcast Awards by voting for their show (40:50). The hosts engage in playful banter about participating in the listener league and the mechanics of voting deadlines, emphasizing the importance of immediate action due to time zone differences (41:07). The segment concludes with a humorous pinky promise ritual, highlighting the camaraderie and light-hearted nature of the show’s community (42:31).

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Notable Quotes:

• Greg Cody (01:24): “Utah's obviously terrible. Brooklyn's terrible.”
• Greg Cody (03:35): “That Registers is one of the great Dolphin highlights of this century.”
• Stugatz (06:30): “Marcus Freeman has more wins against top five teams in the last 10 days than James Franklin has in 14 years.”
• Chris Cody (13:03): “I want to see every play, even the bad plays.”
• Chris Cody (18:22): “Nobody wants to eat a wet banana.”

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This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz offers a blend of sports analysis, humorous banter, and engaging discussions on broadcasting preferences and team performances. From dissecting basketball games to debating NFL playoff structures, the hosts provide insightful and entertaining commentary for sports enthusiasts.

Transcript

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Stugatz]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Billy Gill]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Greg Cody]

I came very close last night to having an incredible bad beat story because I'm chasing at the the end of the day, and I'm having the general sadness of Good God. You got to be kidding me. I'm watching the Utah Brooklyn basketball game, but the. The game is tied late. I don't know. Did you guys see this? Utah's obviously terrible. Brooklyn's terrible. Although inexplicably, Brooklyn on a west coast road trip earlier this year, like one at Sacramento, Golden State, and Phoenix.

[Stugatz]

That's when you thought they were good, right?

[Greg Cody]

I remember that was last year that I thought they were good. When they weren't good, you learn, yes, they are not good. They are decidedly not good. But at the end of that game yesterday, you've got a tie game. And it's only tied because Utah doesn't have any good players and their lead is leaking because they can't get any good shots the last two minutes of the game because they don't have anybody who can get good shots when the game tightens up at the end of the game. And they've got the ball. Tie game, 26 seconds left. Okay, 26. So you're not going to lose this game in regulation. You've got the ball. You're inbounding with 26 seconds left. Shot clocks 24.

[Stugatz]

Thank you.

[Greg Cody]

But you're. Well, I'm just laying it out there.

[Stugatz]

I got it.

[Greg Cody]

All of them. Here's what happens though. Sexton and Collier are arguing as they come up the court about who should bring the ball up the court. And they do it so slowly that they get an eight second violation.

[Chris Cody]

Wow.

[Greg Cody]

They give the ball back to Brooklyn.

[Stugatz]

That's the Jazz because.

[Greg Cody]

Because they're walking down the court and they're like they're not agreeing on who should bring it up.

[Jessica]

We have an update on the Lamar Smith follow up game to that 200 yarder, the last dolphins playoff win. We gave you the stats from his performance against the Oakland Raiders at the time. But there is a great detail.

[Mike Ryan]

So he had eight carries for five yards in that game. I've now learned thanks to Taylor out there crunching the numbers. He had an 11 yard run in that game. Which means the other seven carries were for negative six years.

[Stugatz]

Just a little detail.

[Mike Ryan]

A little update there.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you. I do appreciate it. That Registers is one of the great Dolphin highlights of this century. We've got a number of things to get to. Stugatz's weekend observations are going to be at some point in the next two hours. We've got to unveil finally our statue. We said we were going to make a statue here at the elser. Put it on the roof. Something that pointed down at the arena of Pat Riley. To reverse course on my criticism from early in the week where I was saying that we got it done. Riley had failed and all metal arc resources have been poured into pointing.

[Stugatz]

Look.

[Mike Ryan]

If you look right now.

[Greg Cody]

What are we doing?

[Jessica]

I. I told them I finally closing a loop.

[Billy Gill]

This is the big unveiling. Not even the roof.

[Chris Cody]

We did. It looks like a carrot.

[Mike Ryan]

You can see this. The arena right behind him. It's a great shot.

[Greg Cody]

Were we not allowed on the roof? Is that what happened? We weren't. We just stopped halfway to the roof and just put one of those car sale inflatable men.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wacky inflatable arm man.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you.

[Jessica]

The technical term plus the Gus when he had that high up. It's just totally unsafe.

[Mike Ryan]

What a tape job. Because it's really windy up there.

[Chris Cody]

Really? So that's not a bronze statue then?

[Jessica]

No.

[Chris Cody]

Is that what I'm understanding? Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

It does look more like him than the Dwayne Wade statue.

[Billy Gill]

It really does.

[Stugatz]

That is true. Nailed the face.

[Jessica]

Nail the face.

[Chris Cody]

Good color on them.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Let's play the stat of the day music here, please. Start of the day, start of the day it is the start of the day Start of the day Start of the day it is the start of the day Start of the day Start.

[Billy Gill]

Of the day it is the start of the day Start of the day Start of the day it is the.

[Greg Cody]

Start of the day this is from Barstool Sports. I knew it, but I didn't remember it and I had to be reminded of it yesterday. Mike Vrabel has 10. He's a. He was a linebacker. Ten career receptions, all of them for touchdowns. Wow.

[Chris Cody]

Wow.

[Greg Cody]

It's a good stat.

[Stugatz]

It's a great.

[Chris Cody]

Crazy.

[Stugatz]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

That's insane.

[Stugatz]

10 for 10.

[Greg Cody]

My guess is that you can find some decent players on offense that don't have 10 touchdowns. I just saw McBride have like 100 catches for Arizona and it took him till the last two weeks of the season to get his first. First touchdown. Do you have a dueling stat of the day that you think can beat that stat of the day, Stu?

[Stugatz]

Guys, I do. Do you want the imaging again or do we just.

[Jessica]

Right here.

[Greg Cody]

Right here is fine.

[Stugatz]

Marcus Freeman has more wins against top five teams in the last 10 days than James Franklin has in 14 years.

[Dan LeBatard]

Which is a conference.

[Greg Cody]

Which is the better stat, Greg? Which. Who won today's stat of the day off?

[Chris Cody]

That's a tie.

[Stugatz]

Really?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. They're both exceptionally good. They're both exceptionally good.

[Mike Ryan]

Thanks for nothing, stats.

[Chris Cody]

No, the last 10 days, they're both exceptional.

[Jessica]

More. Smith.

[Stugatz]

Agreed.

[Greg Cody]

Craig, you gotta pick a side. You can't. It's. I can't be a tie. What's the point of doing that? What's the point of being an arbiter if you're just gonna sit there and have no judgment?

[Chris Cody]

Okay, then the winning stat is Marcus Freeman versus Pence.

[Greg Cody]

You're just lashing out at me for making you do it.

[Billy Gill]

You did that? Yes.

[Jessica]

Hey, except the consequences.

[Chris Cody]

Sore loser.

[Jessica]

Take the results, move on.

[Chris Cody]

Really?

[Greg Cody]

Billy, why are you mad at the NFL Network?

[Billy Gill]

Mad is harsh, but they played a dirty trick on everybody yesterday. I don't know if you guys saw.

[Greg Cody]

Put it on the poll. Juju, do you get mad at dirty tricks?

[Billy Gill]

I mean, it was a little bit of a dirty trick, but. So when I go to watch tv, you see the games that are on, right? And they continued yesterday just to play opposite new games, old games of the teams that were coming up later in the day. So I would go and I would. I would be confused because I was like, wait a minute, the commanders aren't supposed to be playing the Bucks right now, but I don't want to watch that game. What? What am I missing? Did I look at the schedule wrong? Like, what happened here? And I kept going back to the NFL Network at the wrong times because they were playing games between when the teams previously played at the times that the current games are going on. And I wonder how many people didn't see like in a little corner that it said like 2023 or 2024 and watch the wrong games thinking they were watching the right playoff game because they were like at a bar and just someone, Otto, like, oh, put on the game. They put on the wrong game because NFL Network spent the entire day playing games opposite the present games. They were just old and wrong games between the same teams.

[Jessica]

Now that week one matchup I believe was in the afternoon, which if you're still confused at that point, you got bigger problems.

[Dan LeBatard]

I wish I was watching the 2009 Steelers Ravens playoff game.

[Stugatz]

Much more entertaining.

[Dan LeBatard]

Where's Troy Palabalo when you need him?

[Greg Cody]

The games were bad, but the palate cleanser is the way the last one ends. It's not even that that game was that great, but the ending of it tonight.

[Jessica]

Yeah, I think the way that they scheduled these out, the two primetime games were always going to be the most competitive. Last night lived up, I thought that was a real good game. Looking at the box score, I'm a little confused as to how more points weren't scored because it's not like I know that there were timely stops, especially on fourth down, but it was a little confusing. And tonight is a really interesting game for a lot of different reasons.

[Greg Cody]

That one happens to me all the time though. Look at Russell Wilson's box score and tell me how it is they only scored 14 points and why he's being run out of the league. It's because every guy in the league can go 20 for 29 for 250 yards and score 14 points.

[Billy Gill]

Well, they also only had the ball for 20 minutes the entire game where the Ravens had it for 39. Like they just didn't have the ball.

[Greg Cody]

That'll do it.

[Jessica]

Yep.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Also, like I think fans, we need to reset our expectations of football games. They can't. If they all were one or two point games where you're watching someone kick a game winning field goal or lead a late drive, then those games wouldn't be as special and as meaningful to us. We need to embrace close games when they happen and when blowouts happen. Just understand that that's Part of the sport. Not every game's going to be a one possession game.

[Greg Cody]

You say this, but because of what the sport gives us in the witching hour every week, even if it's Jacksonville and Carolina, I've come to expect that all the games are going to be closed. I'm surprised by the blowouts because every time I'm watching football on Sunday, they give me eight games and they sort of distort it. They fool me exact.

[Dan LeBatard]

Because four or five of them bias.

[Greg Cody]

Four or five of them are amazing.

[Dan LeBatard]

Same with college football. You remember like, wow, that was a crazy game that went into six overtimes. And you just forget the fact that there were 45 other games on at the same time that ended with a 21 point difference.

[Greg Cody]

I think though, one of the things that's absolutely happening to the consumer as this thing continues to get larger and larger is it wasn't enough football for me this weekend. Watching one game at a time is not enough for me. If that game's a blowout like the 4 o'clock window. This is how spoiled we've gotten when that 4 o'clock window has three games and two of them aren't close. I'm bored because I need the stimulation. I need, I need. Give me nine games, give me stakes, and now the spot. I'm not. These are playoff games, but I'm.

[Stugatz]

I understand what you're saying.

[Greg Cody]

Tell me that this isn't happening to the rest of you. One game on at a time doesn't feel like enough. Tell me it's not happening. Tell me I'm wrong about this.

[Dan LeBatard]

I disagree. Because championship weekend is my favorite weekend in the NFL when it's AFC Championship, NFC championship. It's the best two and the best two playing against each other, watching one at a time. That is the best Sunday of the NFL year. It's better than Super Bowl Sunday. It's better than wild card weekend. It's just simply the best. So this weekend was, I mean, it was good.

[Jessica]

Like this coming. This coming weekend is pretty good.

[Stugatz]

This Guppy's weekend is the best.

[Dan LeBatard]

I was gonna say this past weekend it was like Thursday night we got the Orange Bowl. Friday night we got the Cotton Bowl. Saturday, all day Sunday, all day. And now we get one more game tonight. Like, I, I know some of the games, like, yeah, you're not locked into every possession. You, you knew like the Ravens game was over by halftime. But I don't know, like, it's not. Every single football game is going to end in a one possession squad.

[Greg Cody]

All the games were bad except the last one.

[Chris Cody]

They were, yeah.

[Jessica]

But I, I like where Jess is coming from. This sport out of like the non combat sports lends itself to. If you have an advantage tactically or, or just talent wise given the physical nature of the sport, the goal on that, on that final spread is going to be larger than basketball or hockey or even baseball. So I think we should actually spin this and cherish the close games that we do get. When you get to this level, we.

[Mike Ryan]

Don'T thank this sport enough.

[Dan LeBatard]

I agree with Chris, Cody and Dan. You're going to complain ourselves into a 32 team NCAA tournament style NFL playoff and then it's going to be like a 40 week season and the quality is going to get worse and we're all going to be like, well now we have too much football. Just like we did with the first round of the college football playoffs. The system, I actually preferred the old NFL playoff system before they changed it most recently. But I may be in the minority there. But like I think it's fine. We don't need, we don't need more.

[Jessica]

We get one more game, we get a Monday nighter.

[Chris Cody]

I enjoy watching one game at a time. Okay. I'm anti Red zone.

[Stugatz]

An isolated game.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

I mean my wife's watching Red zone. It's like a flurry of, it's overload of information going from one game to the next and then back to here and back to there. Red zone's playing, showing plays aren't even in the red zone. It's a, it's a misnamed network.

[Stugatz]

You got to get a feel for the game, the subtle little nuances that happen during the game, the momentum changes, all of that stuff. You don't get that on the red.

[Chris Cody]

I want to slip into the rhythm of a game. I want to see every play, even the bad plays.

[Stugatz]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

I want to see a guy take a knee. I want to see a timeout. I want to see a motion penalty. I want all the minutiae of a game, not just highlights.

[Dan LeBatard]

But didn't you like when Red zone would show you non red zone plays?

[Chris Cody]

You know what it was? It was a breath of fresh air. I will admit that. I think Red zone should show you the worst plays as well.

[Mike Ryan]

Confusing Red Zone.

[Jessica]

You like all the commercial outside the red zone, Greg?

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. I have a good idea for you, Greg. We should start our own network called all the Other Plays.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know, all the Minutia.

[Mike Ryan]

I want to be in the 40s.

[Chris Cody]

I want a network that shows me the shank.

[Billy Gill]

Shunts.

[Chris Cody]

Yes.

[Billy Gill]

Careful.

[Dan LeBatard]

All punts.

[Chris Cody]

That would be a good the all punt. Why not the APN One Step would.

[Greg Cody]

Be addicted to it.

[Chris Cody]

He would be.

[Billy Gill]

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[Greg Cody]

Don LeBatard.

[Chris Cody]

Quiet, man.

[Stugatz]

Yes.

[Chris Cody]

You know I'm a married man. I don't cheat on my wife. Despite that gratuitous line in back in my stugats. I wish you were here. My wife. I really miss her. No, I don't. That's the thing about being married, you know, you're not allowed to say, I don't miss my wife. I've been gone two days. I haven't been gone long enough to miss my wife. I'm sorry. I call her. I'm on 30 seconds. You know, what am I. Hello? All right. All right, we'll see ya. All right. And then, you know, I'm gonna see her in two days. I was jumping Charlie.

[Billy Gill]

Good. This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Greg Cody]

Can I ask Chris Cody a question here? I thought of you yesterday, Greg, because. Or, Chris, I'm sorry. I thought of you because something happened to me. I am Peeling a banana in the kitchen. And I'm about to throw away the peel. And as I do so I drop the rest of the banana on the floor. What do you do?

[Mike Ryan]

This is your home kitchen?

[Greg Cody]

Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is a Three Stooges skit.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm picking it up and I'm giving it the old once over and I'm looking at it and if it passes the eye test, I'm eating it.

[Billy Gill]

Are you a shoe household?

[Mike Ryan]

That's just very important.

[Greg Cody]

I don't wear shoes in the house. No.

[Billy Gill]

Do you wash your feet?

[Greg Cody]

Yes.

[Billy Gill]

Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

Dear cats.

[Greg Cody]

Well, this is the thing. I threw away the banana because I have pets. Oh.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

And I. But my floors are cleaned twice a week. So like this is not twice a week. This is not. It's not a dirty floor. But I felt guilt about throwing away the banana because it's a perfectly good banana and it's fallen on the floor. But my instinct was to try and catch it. And my first thought was, I'm just going to eat this. And then I had to have the second thought of. This is by a garbage can and it's near where the pets eat.

[Dan LeBatard]

But do the cats wear shoes? You didn't answer the question.

[Greg Cody]

Cats do not wear shoes.

[Mike Ryan]

Monday, Thursday or Monday, Friday. Cleaning day. What's the deal?

[Chris Cody]

Right?

[Stugatz]

You're breaking out the mop two times a week.

[Greg Cody]

Friday and Monday.

[Jessica]

So cute when they have shoes on. It's like I don't.

[Greg Cody]

I walk.

[Chris Cody]

I know. Sweater on a cat. Come on, get out of here.

[Mike Ryan]

Unless. Unless I'm in like a really disgusting place. I have a. It shouldn't surprise people. My taller. I'm not. I don't get afraid of a little like, you know, I'm gonna say dirt, but I will eat things if it. If it passes the eye test.

[Billy Gill]

Pack of dirt before you die.

[Chris Cody]

That's exactly right.

[Mike Ryan]

I follow the five second rule.

[Chris Cody]

No.

[Jessica]

I knew you were gonna get immediate.

[Chris Cody]

Buy in Nana Doogie. I mean, come on. God rest her soul. But the banana is sticky. Okay. The banana is gonna pick up lint and dirt in a way that you're right. That hard shell.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right.

[Chris Cody]

Exactly. So what you do here is you pick up the banana, you give it a rinse under the faucet, then you roll it very carefully, gingerly in. In paper towels.

[Mike Ryan]

You can't rinse a banana.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, you can, but then you try it. You gotta dry it.

[Stugatz]

It's his banana.

[Mike Ryan]

It feels like it's got a sponge material.

[Chris Cody]

You don't want to eat a wet banana.

[Billy Gill]

No.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, Nobody wants to eat a wet banana.

[Mike Ryan]

What if there's. What if it's like one little peck of dirt on it? Do you give it a little.

[Chris Cody]

You can. You can. Yeah, I've done that. Peck of dirt before you die is a real thing, you know, and a peck's a big vessel as well, so shockingly, people worry too much about. About germs and everything, you know. I'm not the guy wiping off my thing at the cart.

[Mike Ryan]

Do you clean your fruit?

[Chris Cody]

Not always. No. No.

[Dan LeBatard]

So you're blowing on a wet banana, Greg.

[Chris Cody]

I wouldn't blow on a wet banana. I would wrap it in a paper towel to dry it.

[Greg Cody]

Put it on the pole, please. Juju at Lebatard show. Would you eat a we banana and also put on the poll at Lebatard show. You've dropped a banana outside of the peel on the floor. Do you eat it or do you throw it away?

[Stugatz]

It's a wordy poll.

[Chris Cody]

It really is.

[Billy Gill]

You have to put on there. The cats don't wear shoes. Also.

[Jessica]

Also, do you gotta eat a pick of dirt before you.

[Greg Cody]

Well, this is the thing that I wanted to get to because the fact that Greg Cody and Billy just did the musical dance of Billy Goes. I just imagine someone listening for the first time and Billy says, peck of dirt before you die. And Greg Cody's like, exactly.

[Chris Cody]

I mean.

[Dan LeBatard]

What about a peck of norovirus?

[Stugatz]

No one's ever responded that way to a peck of dirt.

[Greg Cody]

Well, because he was gonna say it and Billy said it first because they have such rhythm between them. Usually on Tuesdays, but today we're getting lucky on a Monday. It's a beautiful thing where Billy is quicker thinking of. Greg was gonna say it. He had it loaded up. I. He had it loaded up and loaded it. Will you explain? You want to explain to the audience again, for those who do not know what a peck of dirt and Nelly Doogie, what the whole thing is, so that. So that those who might not have understood the back and forth that you guys had for just yourselves, right?

[Chris Cody]

That was my grandmother on my mother's side, Nellie Doogie, God rest her soul. She'd been gone a long time. She died in, like, the late 60s, I think. I barely remember her. Big heavy woman. And one of her sayings was, you gotta eat. You gotta eat a peck of dirt before you die.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is she a chainsmoker, Craig?

[Mike Ryan]

I thought a peck was more. Honestly, it seems like it's only two gallons.

[Billy Gill]

Well, still, that's a lot.

[Greg Cody]

That's a lot of dirt.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, but no, she died. She went to her grave referring to it as sugar diabetes. Everybody now just calls it diabetes. But she was a woman who never went to a doctor. It was a sad story because she died fairly young. She was in her early mid-60s, like 63ish. But peck of dirt before you die didn't serve her particularly well. But as a general life rule, I think it's something.

[Greg Cody]

So hold on a second. So I just want to be clear. The person who advised you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die died early because she ate a peck of dirt?

[Billy Gill]

Well, no, she ate sugar. A lot of sugar.

[Chris Cody]

Sugar. Diabetes.

[Stugatz]

I never went to the doctor.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, and here's the other more served eating dirt.

[Chris Cody]

Honestly, I. I don't. It sounds like I'm bragging when I say this, but in effect, her coining the phrase eat a peck of dirt before you die was the forerunner of what we all know now as the three second rule. So in effect, just like my mother invented the handheld fan, my grandmother invented the three second rule.

[Billy Gill]

What's your mother's name, by the way? It's escaping.

[Stugatz]

Ruth.

[Chris Cody]

Ruth Doogie.

[Greg Cody]

What? Put it on the poll.

[Chris Cody]

No middle name either.

[Greg Cody]

Juju, are we?

[Billy Gill]

I don't like that.

[Greg Cody]

Still making Ruth's. What don't you like? No middle name.

[Billy Gill]

I like commitment. Let's get a middle name. My wife doesn't have a middle name. Why can't we decide?

[Greg Cody]

Well, do you guys know that Zayn Gonzalez Zane can't be his name, Right? Like, it's not his name. There are.

[Billy Gill]

It's in Zane.

[Greg Cody]

There are not Zayns and Gonzalez's. That can't be.

[Chris Cody]

The Old west was full of Zanes.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wait, if Zayn is his name. Dan. Billy Zane for your game. First name, last name.

[Billy Gill]

His name's Holden.

[Stugatz]

Yep. I'd go with Zane Holden Gonzalez, but.

[Dan LeBatard]

He'S not the Holder.

[Stugatz]

No.

[Greg Cody]

Lewis is telling me in my ear that his middle name is Fortunado.

[Stugatz]

Confirmed.

[Billy Gill]

He was yesterday.

[Stugatz]

I was afraid to say it.

[Greg Cody]

Is that what happened? You looked it up? You looked it up and didn't know how to say it?

[Stugatz]

I was intimidated. Yeah.

[Jessica]

He said it like Count Orlon.

[Chris Cody]

He did? Yeah. Scary the way he said it.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

You will obey.

[Stugatz]

Zayn's a lot easier.

[Greg Cody]

It is. I don't know how Holden Fortunato became Zane. How did. How did that happen?

[Billy Gill]

I know how he goes by the name Zane as a result of his father, Joseph, discovering the name in the movie Maverick, where James Garner's character was named Zane, that's a great flame.

[Stugatz]

Great movie.

[Chris Cody]

Old West.

[Jessica]

Name the chemistry from Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson, just. It bubbles off the screen.

[Stugatz]

And James Garner is a classic.

[Jessica]

Well, wasn't he. Was he in the original Maverick? The source material. And that was kind of like a callback among generations.

[Greg Cody]

I think it was. Yes. Wow, what a flick. I got a call on late Saturday night that I was not expecting after receiving a text that I was not expecting that I believe to be the only text of this kind that has ever been sent ever in the history of people texting. My mother late Saturday night about 11pm Writes me, are you watching Colombo?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

There's evidently a marathon from 8 to midnight that her and my father watch every Saturday of Colombo.

[Chris Cody]

So good.

[Dan LeBatard]

Do you know what episode it was?

[Greg Cody]

I do not.

[Stugatz]

Do you watched?

[Greg Cody]

It was Chili con Carne. There was. There was some. There were some updates, but it was four hours. It wasn't an episode. It was. It was many episodes. There cannot have been another person in 2025 writing or receiving the text. Are you watching 70s detective show Columbo?

[Dan LeBatard]

I literally texted my boyfriend like two days ago. It's Colombo time.

[Jessica]

Wow.

[Stugatz]

Wow.

[Billy Gill]

That what you guys call it?

[Greg Cody]

What, What. What is Colombo time? Do you. Do you do this Saturday night marathon as well?

[Dan LeBatard]

Unfortunately, I was watching the Steelers game, but no, it's on streaming now. I can just turn on Columbo whenever I want. Pop on any old port in a storm. What a great episode. Put on my little jammies. My boyfriend's mom got me these really comfy cozy socks for Christmas. Oh, put those on. Get under the covers. Pop open my iPad. Do some online shopping while I watch Columbo. That's Columbo.

[Jessica]

Fast channels are the best. I love fast channels and I know they're growing on popularity. We're available on quite a few of them. But now you have fast channels that are just. It's Walker, Texas Ranger, 24 7. Get your fill. And you can just put it on in the background and be entranced by these things.

[Chris Cody]

What's a fast channel?

[Jessica]

Fast channel is essentially. So they live on streaming platforms. We're available on the NBC fast channel. We're available obviously on dkn, which is a fast channel. You go to a smart TV or. Or a streaming platform piece of hardware and you. They. Many of these, like Roku, has their own fast channels. They present their own lists of. It's basically we're going back to cable television within the streamers, but it's devoted to usually because they can have like hundreds and hundreds of fast channels that they provide. It's usually devoted to a certain genre. So you have like a thriller channel or you have a straight up Baywatch channel that's just Baywatch all day, every day. You have Walker, Texas Ranger all day, every day. You get jag all day, every day.

[Chris Cody]

The Greg Cody show needs a fast channel.

[Billy Gill]

I was thinking, Greg, you and I are so aligned today. I was thinking just that. Don't you guys have video from all your episodes? You should sell your library to a streaming service and just have 24 hours of Greg.

[Chris Cody]

Christopher, get on that. Make a call. Do something about it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Dan, you reminded me.

[Greg Cody]

I.

[Dan LeBatard]

Speaking of Columbo, Steven Spielberg directed the first ever episode of Columbo. I happened to be walking down the street last week. Two weeks ago in New York, I saw Steven Spielberg walking his dog. How funny is that? And then I was in Whole Foods later and I saw Michael Imperioli. Oh, what a Saturday in New York. All the stars were out.

[Chris Cody]

That's great. Did you go up to them and say, hello, what a cute dog?

[Dan LeBatard]

Of course not. I'm playing it so cool. I see Steven Spielberg. I'm walking past him and then I'm going, that's Steven Spielberg.

[Stugatz]

The dog does give you an in, though.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, it does. Oh, yeah. That's the ultimate conversation starter, right? You know, if you're trying to pick up a woman or a man and they're walking a dog with a beautiful dog and then you're in. Yeah, yeah, that's it.

[Billy Gill]

It's just trying to pick up Steven Spielberg.

[Chris Cody]

People loved your dog to be complimented. You know what I'm saying? You think my dog, they're my best.

[Billy Gill]

Friend, Went home and told whoever's there, I saw Jess today when I was walking.

[Chris Cody]

That's right.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, probably.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Greg Cody, today hasn't been the same. Stugats. I don't know if you saw him. He came in a bit disheveled. He came in a bit discombobulated, disoriented, because better than a new shirt in our parking garage here, two valet guys crashed into each other.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, my God.

[Stugatz]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

You're acting as if you're surprised by it. You're the one who told me.

[Chris Cody]

I'm. Oh, my God. I'm at the memory because it was not just a little fender bender. It was bam. It was one of these metal on metal. And I would guess that both of them were going like 20 miles an hour, which is pretty quick.

[Greg Cody]

That can't be right.

[Stugatz]

No, no, Dan, in This parking lot. Is it bad that I'm not surprised by this news? In fact, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.

[Dan LeBatard]

Was it on the ramp?

[Chris Cody]

It was on a corner. Yeah. It was taking a corner.

[Dan LeBatard]

You know how I know Carson Beck will be fine in Miami? Because he has a Lamborghini. He probably doesn't know how to drive either.

[Chris Cody]

He'll fit right in a Lamborghini.

[Stugatz]

But you were surprised to hear that, Dan. Like two valets getting in an accident in this garage. The corners are tight. They usually honk when they're coming around the corners. And I appreciate that because they're letting me know that they're coming. But I'm not surprised by it.

[Greg Cody]

There are mirrors there to help you, and they are the valets. It is their primary responsibility to not crash those cars. It's their job.

[Stugatz]

Valets love to take a good joy ride, man.

[Billy Gill]

Valet's primary job is to see what this thing can do.

[Mike Ryan]

How do you play this? Do you wait till the person comes back for their car to tell them? Or do you try to reach out to them? Or you just put it.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think you just are like, I don't know how that happened.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

So weird.

[Mike Ryan]

Hope they don't notice.

[Billy Gill]

No. You come out and you're like, that was there.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hey, there's cameras everywhere, right?

[Billy Gill]

Cameras. Can I tell you something about cameras? They never work when you need them. There's never a camera who you would benefit from functioning that is actually functioning. Or they'll just tell you that camera doesn't work anytime. I've been in peril and I've needed camera to support that, I was a victim of said peril. The camera was disconnected. It wasn't working. It was pointing in the wrong direction. That camera doesn't record. It's only a live feed. The cameras never work when you need them.

[Dan LeBatard]

Same within Colombo.

[Billy Gill]

Mm.

[Jessica]

From fireside conversations to football Sundays, winter means more moments with the coolest people in your life. Make these moments even better. With Miller Lite. I know I do the grape tasting light beer. For people who love beer, a new year is a perfect time for friends, family, and great tasting light beer. Tastes like Miller time. Recently, I had family over. And while everyone's palate is different, I knew they all like beer and they all look like people who want to drink beer that actually tastes like beer. So I brought out a nice little silver platter of Miller Lite. That beautiful white can was an instant winner. Trust me. Learn from my experience. Set that bad boy out and you will be making people happy left and right. Because Miller Lite is brewed for taste, it hits different than other light beers. The original light beer since 1975 and still the very best one. 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 they sell beer. Beer tastes like Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.

[Chris Cody]

Don LeBatard I heard that as a woman faking pain I I didn't think that sounded real. I really didn't.

[Greg Cody]

You know, it was not fake. It was in no way fake.

[Dan LeBatard]

You can spot a woman faking it.

[Greg Cody]

Stugats.

[Chris Cody]

Yes I can. Jess Expert. I've been married 40 years.

[Billy Gill]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Greg Cody]

Put it on the poll please. Juju at Lebatard show is the valet's primary responsibility. Just to see what this thing can do at LeBatard show. Yesterday during the game, during the Philadelphia game and I was a little surprised to see the packers not be able to do anything. But I suppose given how injured they are, they're the youngest team in the league and they didn't beat anybody good this year. And so they get to the playoffs.

[Dan LeBatard]

Would like a word.

[Greg Cody]

And they get to Philadelphia and Philadelphia rolls them during the game after Juju gave you the three leg parlay of McConkey over four and a half catches, Pickens over three and a half catches and A.J. brown over.

[Chris Cody]

Ouch.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, he didn't get it on A.J. brown but A.J. brown during the game. I imagine Philadelphia is tired of AJ Brown. It's been a little bit confus to see AJ Brown not be super dominant.

[Stugatz]

I don't care what Philadelphia is tired of. I'm tired of their fan base. How does that sound? They wanted to fire Nick Sirianni like a month or two ago and now they're all celebrating. Nick Sirianni. He is the greatest coach in Eagles history. I said it better than Andy Reid, better than Dick Vermeil. This is the fourth consecutive season he has led this team to the playoffs. He's the only Eagles coach in Eagles history to do that. For first four seasons going to the playoffs, he was a play away from beating Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes in a Super Bowl. I don't care about what Philadelphia fans think about anything. And I'm talking to you Spike Eskin and I'm talking to you, Angelo Cataldi. I don't care what you have to say. You wanted to fire Nick Sirianni 35 days ago and I'm not going to allow you to celebrate Nick Sirianni moving forward. How about that?

[Greg Cody]

Wow. It's been announced.

[Stugatz]

I don't even know if Cataldi still on the air. I have no idea.

[Greg Cody]

I don't think Spike Eskin is there.

[Stugatz]

Spike Eskin is there. He went from wfan. I was going to take his job as the program director and now he's doing afternoon, afternoon drive. How about that? Howard Eskin, the Spike Eskin. No nepotism there. I mean, nothing to see.

[Dan LeBatard]

Bert Bell was pretty good stugats, pretty good Eagles coach. He loved the Eagles so much he had a heart attack because he couldn't stay away. His doctor was like, stop going to Eagles games. You're gonna die. And then he couldn't stop and he died.

[Stugatz]

But there is something pretty ridiculous about seeing Eagle fans now celebrate Nick Sirianni when two months ago they wanted him fired. They did. They were yelling at him at home games.

[Greg Cody]

I know, but Stugots the sports fan is that sports fan emotional and not rational. Not shackled to consistency or. Or the rigidities of having to stay on the same path all the time.

[Stugatz]

You know what I would give for Nick Siri to be my coach? You know what I would give for the last four seasons of the Eagles? Anything. Anything like a finger.

[Greg Cody]

Does Stugach have it right when he says that Sirianni is better than Andy Reid? Because I don't think that's accurate. Justin Herbert has more passing yards than any quarterback ever through five seasons, hasn't won a playoff game, has the same number of playoff wins as TUA does. And I look at Justin Herbert and I say that winning is not a quarterback stat. I look at Justin Herbert and I think that him having more passing yards than any quarterback ever through five seasons means that he's a good quarterback. But I would not proclaim him based on that statistic. What Harbaugh is saying of him then? That Justin Herbert is already an all timer in terms of skill set. When you say Sirianni, the criticism seemed fair to me of Sirianni. He's got a loaded team. He's got. He's got a team that all of us.

[Stugatz]

48 and 20 with that team.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. And should be because.

[Stugatz]

But he is.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. And he. He has gotten to a place where he has put the standard at. Everyone knows how good that team is. It is one of the six good Teams, Right. Like, we're all, we all know who the six good teams are. Correct. We'd all, we'd all have the same list for that. And whoever's seven would be after, like, a good distance from what it is that we know. It's pretty rare for us to know this like this. It's pretty rare to have a bunch of teams that only have two or three or four losses. It's, it's not a, it's not a normal thing to see the packers in that division not be able to beat anyone. Good. And when they go into Philadelphia, you're like, yeah, that's how that's going to go. They surprised me on the road at Dallas, but I know Philadelphia is good. I wasn't sure about Dallas even, even with Dak Prescott and them having 13 wins that season. We all could have seen them losing at, losing at home or whatever it was, whether they had 12 wins or 13 wins that season. Everyone listening to this knows Philadelphia is good and knows Philadelphia has been good for four years. And furthermore, don't give Sirianni the credit for that.

[Chris Cody]

Right.

[Greg Cody]

Like, don't look at that team and say, that's because of Sirianni.

[Stugatz]

When you say six good teams, and we all know it, you're talking Chiefs, Ravens, Bills, Eagles, Lions, Bengals, Vikings. I'm not certain if the Vikings.

[Mike Ryan]

It was the sixth. I was, like, saying that back here. I was, I assume it's five.

[Stugatz]

Definitive, right?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

The Texans would be that, like, who is that?

[Greg Cody]

16.

[Stugatz]

So it would be the Vikings.

[Greg Cody]

So you guys are not buying on the Vikings? Like, you're not, not with those other.

[Billy Gill]

No, we'll see.

[Mike Ryan]

I'll let you know after tonight.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, fine. You don't. That's fine. I, I, I've done the same thing all season. I'm like, Sam Darnold's gonna lose at the end. Fine. But they have been good all season. Like, there's no there, there's not any disputing of that. The couple of times they've played the, they've played the, the, the teams that we think are good, they've played with them, except they, the Detroit game at the end, I guess, probably changes your mind on the vibe.

[Stugatz]

I mean, they're 14 and 3.

[Mike Ryan]

No, I think they're good. I just don't know if they're in that group of five.

[Jessica]

Very good. But, I mean, it's a little bit different now that the game's been relocated to Arizona. But losing a road game to Sean McVay and the Rams like, is there a great deal of shame in that? This is what everybody was kind of afraid of if Sean McVay got into.

[Dan LeBatard]

The postseason, which is why I would have voted for him to get in. If they didn't make it, if I was given the chance, I would have kicked out the Vikings and just been like, ah, Darnold, not the Bengals.

[Chris Cody]

Wow. Oh, you're kicking out a 152 team. Or were the Vikings 14.

[Greg Cody]

14 and 3.

[Chris Cody]

Really, really good team. Their record in one run games was fantastic.

[Greg Cody]

Run game, one score game one one.

[Chris Cody]

What? Did I say one?

[Jessica]

I know what you meant.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah.

[Stugatz]

The record overall was 14 3. So it stands to reason, right?

[Chris Cody]

Well, that's true, but no, the point is they didn't win that many routes. I don't think they played a lot of close games, but won them. That means something.

[Greg Cody]

What was Minnesota's point differential? Can you give me the. Can you give me the teams? Obviously it's going to be those five that have point differential, but is Minnesota in there with those five in terms of having won games by big margins? What are the point differentials? The Bills have the biggest one.

[Stugatz]

Correct.

[Greg Cody]

Or is it the Lions?

[Stugatz]

The Vikings were plus 100. The packers, just to put that into perspective, The packers were plus 1. 22.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm seeing Bills and Ravens both plus 1.

[Stugatz]

57 and the Lions plus 2. 22. So that's ridiculous.

[Jessica]

You read the reports, Ed. Cause it's unfortunate that Minnesota has to. To go against the Sean McVeigh team on. On the road. The NFL's finally looking at this asinine rule that if you win a division, you host a playoff.

[Chris Cody]

Whoa.

[Dan LeBatard]

Asinine.

[Jessica]

Hated about the NFL. Hated about the NFL.

[Chris Cody]

All.

[Jessica]

It should guarantee all. Winning a division should guarantee you as a playoff spot. Home field advantage is so immense in that sport that I really hate it. For a team like Minnesota has been really good, but they just so happen to occupy the same division as the Lions that they have to go through this impossible path that I disagree.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think the division that. This is why the division rivalries are so good. Because winning your division gives you a reward that you wouldn't otherwise get.

[Jessica]

I know, but it's a reward still. It's just like, no, no more home games for you.

[Chris Cody]

But if you're Tampa Bay playing in a weak division, you have a leg up before the season even starts, as opposed to Minnesota playing in arguably the toughest division.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think, like, there's such an obsession with trying to, like, even the playing field. Just like the system's Fine. Like it's fine. It. It's good. But Greg, in fairness, trying to adjust things constantly, right?

[Stugatz]

In fairness, no one headed into the season. Everyone thought Lions, packers in that division. It was not the Vikings. The Vikings were supposed to.

[Dan LeBatard]

Bears were going to make the playoffs before the season.

[Stugatz]

I had the Bears making the Super Bowl. I said that in Kansas.

[Jessica]

I'm very staunchly in the camp that you should only get a playoff spot, not host. But just be warned, this means for worse playoffs because the better teams are going to get home field advantage. And that usually, you know, evens things out a little bit. I am pro. More blowouts, I guess.

[Greg Cody]

Billy, can you please update me on a couple of things, Both your listener league and how the voting is going for the sports podcast awards that everyone in our audience should help God Bless Football win. Because God Bless Football should win with or without your help. But you should help Billy and Stugat win with God Bless Football, which is already award winning.

[Billy Gill]

Just us. You can also help Pablo. You can also help David. There's a number of shows that are up for sports podcast award. And guys, today's the deadline. So if you're listening to this tomorrow, it's too late. But I appreciate the effort. But if you're listening to this today, vote and vote right now. Don't put it off because these awards are held across the board.

[Greg Cody]

They're always listening to the thing.

[Billy Gill]

They're over there in England, right? And here's the thing. I don't know what time time zones we all know are. Tricky situation there. I don't know what time the polls closed. They closed today. But is it England time or is it America time? I don't know. Just vote now. Just try to get. Be sure to get your vote in. So vote for us. Go to sports podcast group dot com. Now you ask about the listener league. Dan, how'd you do this week?

[Greg Cody]

I didn't participate.

[Stugatz]

What do you mean?

[Billy Gill]

Why not? It's so much fun. I really think you would like fantasy. Especially this fantasy. It's not like a commitment. Every week is a new roster. So you don't have to worry about it.

[Mike Ryan]

You can dress up if you want.

[Billy Gill]

That's true. You can. It has nothing to do with it at all. But if you want, you can dress.

[Stugatz]

Up, make it more fun.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah. Let's make a pact. All of us together, we're all gonna participate next week. Packed, packed.

[Jessica]

Dan, pinky promise.

[Billy Gill]

Pinky promise. My pinky promise. Dan, put your pinky around sue guys's pinky.

[Mike Ryan]

When's the last time you pinky promised, Dan. Yeah, legitimate one.

[Jessica]

Are you shocked that it's the same size as all the other fingers?

[Billy Gill]

Really?

[Stugatz]

Before your pinky touches my pinky, make sure you want to do this. You're committed to it.

[Greg Cody]

I've never before pinky promised.

[Billy Gill]

Now you have to kiss your the hand.

[Mike Ryan]

And you're married.

[Jessica]

You have to do this.

[Mike Ryan]

My wife kiss.

[Billy Gill]

Exactly.

[Jessica]

You kiss your thumb.

[Billy Gill]

Yeah, dude. You have to kiss. Okay now. And now you kiss lips.

[Mike Ryan]

Be the same time. Yeah, Dan, lean in.

[Chris Cody]

Now you guys are same time.

[Jessica]

Give the Internet that image.

[Billy Gill]

Now you're married.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, there you go.

[Billy Gill]

There you go.

[Jessica]

For that, you're going to regret that immediately.

[Stugatz]

Already do.

[Jessica]

From fireside conversations to football Sundays, winter means more moments with the coolest people in your life. Make these moments even better with Miller Light. I know I do the grape tasting light beer for people who love beer. A new year is a perfect time for friends, family, and great tasting like beer. Tastes like Miller Time. Recently I had family over and while everyone's palate is different, I knew they all like beer and they all look like people who want to drink beer that actually tastes like beer. So I brought out a nice little silver platter of Miller Lite. That beautiful white can was an instant winner. Trust me. Learn from my experience. Set that bad boy out and you will be making people happy left and right. Because Miller Lite is brewed for taste, it hits different than other light beers. The original light beer since 1975 and still the very best one 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 they sell. Beer tastes like Miller Time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.