Hour 1: The Thanksgiving Leftover Sandwich

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz – Episode Summary
Episode Title: Hour 1: The Thanksgiving Leftover Sandwich
Release Date: December 5, 2024

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Introduction to Thanksgiving Leftovers

The episode kicks off with the hosts delving into the perennial topic of Thanksgiving leftovers. Stugotz shares his unconventional approach to reheating leftover turkey, which sparks a lively debate on the best methods to preserve Thanksgiving flavors.

Stugotz (07:16):
"This year, I decided to make a Thanksgiving sub using every leftover dish. It started with mashed potatoes as the base, green bean casserole for the veggies, and cornbread to sweeten things up."

The Thanksgiving Sandwich Debate

The conversation intensifies as each host describes their unique leftover sandwiches. Stugotz’s elaborate creation includes layers of mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, cornbread, turkey, and gravy, which he proudly presents as "Food Network quality."

Chris Cody (08:39):
"This isn’t just a turkey sandwich; it’s a layered masterpiece of Thanksgiving goodness. Though, honestly, the mushy texture could use some improvement."

Dan Le Batard offers a simpler take, emphasizing cranberry sauce and turkey without the excessive layering, highlighting personal preferences in leftover consumption.

Dan Le Batard (11:01):
"For me, it's always about a good balance: cranberry sauce, turkey, maybe some gravy. I like keeping it straightforward without adding too many layers of mush."

Navigating Sports Updates and Picks

Transitioning from culinary creations, the hosts shift focus to the latest sports updates, particularly NFL games and betting picks. Stugotz discusses his predictions for the Buffalo Bills versus the Los Angeles Rams, ultimately choosing the Bills to clinch the AFC East.

Stugotz (15:36):
"The Bills are clinching the AFC East, and I believe they're a stronger bet than the Rams at minus four. It’s time to back the Bills."

Chris Cody analyzes recent performances, mentioning quarterback Mac Jones and expressing confidence in his own winning streak despite challenges.

Chris Cody (16:14):
"I've got a great streak going this season, and even with the naysayers, I haven't lost yet this year."

Behind the Bit: The Speedo Incident with Charles Barkley

A standout segment of the episode is the "Behind the Bit" segment, where the hosts reminisce about a memorable radio bit involving Dan LeBatard and Charles Barkley. The bit featured Dan wearing a Speedo with a picture of Barkley, culminating in a humorous and somewhat uncomfortable interaction.

Jessica (31:30):
"Charles, you ready to do this? Watching Dan in that Speedo was one of the most fun things I've ever done, even though it left me feeling wildly uncomfortable."

Dan Le Batard (35:37):
"I felt unusually confident during that bit, but looking back, I was really scared being in front of everyone like that."

The segment is lauded by co-host Mike Ryan for its execution and the vivid imagery it painted, making it a memorable moment for both the audience and the hosts.

Mike Ryan (33:54):
"That moment with Charles Barkley pointing at Dan's backside in a Speedo was pure gold. It perfectly encapsulates the fun and unpredictable nature of our show."

Upcoming Events and Community Engagement

Towards the end of the episode, the hosts discuss upcoming events, including a toy drive tied to their live event at Kasatiki. They encourage listeners to bring toys to support local children, fostering community spirit during the holiday season.

Chris Cody (22:05):
"We're hosting a toy drive this December. Bring a toy to our event at Kasatiki and help make some kids happy while enjoying great company and football."

Tony (21:18):
"Join us at Kasatiki live at 10 PM on Saturday. It’s the best-themed Christmas bar in Miami, and your toy donations will make a real difference."

Final Thoughts and Listener Engagement

The episode wraps up with a recap of the day's discussions and a reminder of the show's community initiatives. The hosts invite listeners to participate in their events and engage with the show through various platforms.

Chris Cody (23:34):
"Don't forget to tune in to our Thursday Thunder and join our weekend activities. Your participation helps us continue providing great content and supporting our community."

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Notable Quotes:

• Stugotz (07:16): "This year, I decided to make a Thanksgiving sub using every leftover dish... it was so delightful."
• Chris Cody (08:39): "This isn’t just a turkey sandwich; it’s a layered masterpiece of Thanksgiving goodness."
• Dan Le Batard (11:01): "For me, it's always about a good balance: cranberry sauce, turkey, maybe some gravy."
• Stugotz (15:36): "The Bills are clinching the AFC East, and I believe they're a stronger bet than the Rams at minus four."
• Jessica (31:30): "Watching Dan in that Speedo was one of the most fun things I've ever done."
• Mike Ryan (33:54): "That moment with Charles Barkley... was pure gold."
• Chris Cody (22:05): "We're hosting a toy drive this December. Bring a toy to our event at Kasatiki."

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This episode of "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz" seamlessly blends humor, personal anecdotes, and sports analysis, providing listeners with an engaging and entertaining experience. From innovative Thanksgiving sandwich recipes to memorable radio bits and community-focused initiatives, the hosts deliver a mix of content that resonates with both sports enthusiasts and casual listeners alike.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

You're listening to DraftKings Network.

[Stugotz]

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[Chris Cody]

CD tails.

[Stugotz]

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[Tony]

This is the Dan Levator show with the Stuttgarts podcast.

[Chris Cody]

The show has been moving too fast this week with all of just the, like, the college football thing, the virus, the thing that infected the show. And so there are a number of things I haven't gotten to yet. The useless sound montage that's a always popular wonder. And we get to it later and later every week. It needs to be earlier in the week. I'm going to start cracking the whip around here after the holidays. Are you still allowed to use that expression? Cracking the whip judges all along. Siren thank you in the proper tone. I saw Samson stop dead in his track on Stewardess. He got scared. He got panicked.

[Stugotz]

I saw it on his face too.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, it swept over him.

[Stugotz]

Which rarely happens, Dan.

[Chris Cody]

I know, but. Well, he getting old and he's an old white man and can be dangerous for them at the moment too. That's why they voted the way they did. That's how that happened. Just so you know, like, they've always been in power and they're like, no, no power for women. No power for any of you.

[Stugotz]

Power all ours.

[Jessica]

We'll give it to our biggest orange.

[Chris Cody]

Crook and let him run everything.

[Stugotz]

So useless.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, useless sound. It's like what I've been shouting for four years into the wind as anarchy comes my way. My useless sound. I'm the sponsor of Useless Sou Lad's a gift from the football gods, you know, so is Tarhib and Joe Alt and Cam and Marcus May.

[Mike Ryan]

How about that?

[Chris Cody]

Just a beautiful thing.

[Mike Ryan]

I got hit in the not so funny bone. You know, we'll have to take a.

[Chris Cody]

Look at the film, see where we can get better and improve. Can't say enough about the efforts of the guys in their locker room. The Splash play, making playoffs, I mean, furthest thing from my mind, you know, you never know what can happen. So like I said, I'm just going to keep putting one foot in front of the other, try to be the best player that I can be for the rest of this season. And week in and week out, day in and day out, trying to be the best that I can be. Our guys fought hard, did a lot of good things. Too many mistakes. We got to clean that up if.

[Jessica]

We want to get to where we want to go.

[Chris Cody]

We wanted to come out and attack because we knew what they would give us. You know, that's what I mean about the depths of these waters, man, these divisional relationships. It is not checkers, it's chess. Resilient team. Done a lot of different things. We were so determined team. I think that was noticeable all week of how determined this football team is. It's a good win. I mean, you find a way to get the W and that's, that's ultimately what, what we did. Small cats will steal your soul. Never have them around.

[Jessica]

If it's a house cat that'll steal your soul.

[Chris Cody]

What it means is that we did a great job today. It gives us a lot of momentum.

[Stugotz]

And everything else, but we got to.

[Chris Cody]

Use it for good. You know, we got to be able to respond. We got to be better next week. Mike's a grown ass man. The naysayers will, you know, you prove them right. They'll be louder. So that's part of the territory. You have to. You carry that until you.

[Tony]

Until you do something. And unfortunately we didn't.

[Chris Cody]

Tonight it was Thanksgiving. Pat's girlfriend Jill, she made this fire ass little banana thing and I had too much. So I guess that I didn't know it affected me until that first drive. Thought we did a great job at weathering the storm. We gotta make better decisions. In some cases, we can't turn the ball over. You know what? I have never met Captain Andrew Luck. I hope they continue to tweet. My mama just told me that she just cussed me out. So, like, I'm mad. So, like, we gonna get after it. I ain't gonna lie to you. We gonna get after it. I can't wait to this bot Get. Get on. Well, the thing I was doing in the theater was I was singing along, so I kind of. I was waiting for my wife to nudge me to stop doing that. But, you know, when Elphaba goes into the wizard and I. It's hard not to. And then defying gravity, it's hard not to. I know I'm better than this. I know. Like, I'm just praying for the Lord to deliver me.

[Mike Ryan]

Aren't we all?

[Chris Cody]

It is such a good quote at the end of that. The Jameis experience continues to echo. None of us want it on our football team, but we just wanted around football. Can we get Najee Harris's actual, like, injury on the report? Because he said he ate a fire ass little banana thing that got his stomach all messed up. And I want to see that on the injury report. That has to happen routinely on Thanksgiving dinner nights in the NFL where some guy just ate poorly during the day and blew it. Right? They're not all nutritious hounds who know the clinical science of what it is that every Sunday or Thursday requires, right?

[Dan Le Batard]

I. Yes, I think. I think that the Thanksgiving diet is a specific one. Not just in so that it's, you know, food you don't normally eat, but it's the amount of food that you probably don't normally eat. I was watching the AFC North Hard Knocks episode, and my favorite moment involving Thanksgiving was they went to the Hayward house. So Cam Hayward and his brother Connor, who are both on the Steelers, and Cam was like, hey, did you see the end of the Lions Bears game? It was crazy. And I love that even NFL players are watching Matt Eberflue screw that up. And they're talking about it at their Thanksgiving dinner.

[Stugotz]

You mentioned Thanksgiving. I had my most epic Thanksgiving leftovers ever this year. I did. I did it differently usually. I've always just been a real boring leftovers guy. Put it all on a plate, zap it, and eat it the way you did. Not boring sex of Thanksgiving. Like the boring sex. Just give me the same style of plate.

[Tony]

Just zap it up.

[Stugotz]

But you know what? The old zap.

[Chris Cody]

Wait a minute. You just judge the sensuality of Chris.

[Tony]

You just like, all right, let's do it.

[Stugotz]

Well, zapping implies microwave, and that is very sad. At least I did. I would air fry it, at least.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, most people microwave the leftovers. No, like, not.

[Stugotz]

Not nowadays. I'm. If I can air fry it, I air fry it. If it's me. If there's meat involved. Meat gets very rubbery. Depends on how Lazy. You want to be all microwave. So this. So this year, I was like, all that, like, you know, the social media algorithms. I saw people making, like, Thanksgiving egg rolls. I was like, I want to do something fun. My dad makes a soup. I was like, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get a hoagie. Like, it's just a. Like a 12 inch roll, and I'm going to just. Look, I'm gonna have a Thanksgiving sub.

[Dan Le Batard]

You made a sandwich, But I'm telling.

[Stugotz]

You, it's not just a turkey sandwich. This is every single thing you would have on your plate in this roll. It was so delightful. I cut it in half. My wife's like, I'm not eating that. I'm like, all right, I'll have both.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, well, now you have to just tell us, go dish by dish. What did you put in the sandwich? This is not a novel concept.

[Stugotz]

We started with a base of mashed potatoes. Already off to about right as options. That's the base.

[Chris Cody]

Okay. But that's your mayo on top.

[Stugotz]

I was lathering it like it was mayo, actually.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, so wait a minute. You're gonna go even fatter than the average fat Thanksgiving.

[Stugotz]

So, like, it was like a schmear.

[Chris Cody]

So the mayo on your carbs is mashed potatoes.

[Stugotz]

Right. And then we go with a little green bean casserole.

[Chris Cody]

That's. That's your salad with your lettuce, which.

[Stugotz]

At this point is just mush. You know what I mean? Like, she got mush on top of mush. Yeah, mushy mush.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did have the crunchy casserole is an affront to God.

[Stugotz]

It had the green, it had the crunchies on it, but those aren't crunchy anymore. So now it's just mush.

[Dan Le Batard]

Crispy onions.

[Stugotz]

Slopping it in there with a spoon.

[Chris Cody]

So far, this is way more than.

[Stugotz]

Just a leftover sub.

[Chris Cody]

Chris is right.

[Stugotz]

And then that's your vegetable. Now you're thinking, this is a little rich. This is like, there's a lot of a little. You know what? We're gonna sweeten this up a little bit. Put a little cornbread in here. So now we're gonna put a little cornbread in the bread. The cornbread, like, dusting, I'd say almost like the way salt BAE does it. An innovator. I was like, chris, crumble it up. I was crumbling up my left cornbread shake.

[Dan Le Batard]

You should cut the cornbread in half and put something in between the layers of cornbread so you have a sandwich inside A sandwich.

[Chris Cody]

Sandwich ception.

[Stugotz]

And then on top, good old turkey. My dad's fried turkey. Cajun birds. Leftovers of that.

[Chris Cody]

It's good turkey.

[Stugotz]

Sprinkle that on top. So now the top, you see the meat? It looks like a good sandwich. All that mush underneath it. And then, of course, just gravy. Just gravy on top of it. So then I cut it in half, and I got this. I'm telling you, it looked like food network quality. It was. Just had the Mac.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did you take a pic?

[Stugotz]

You could see the layered. No, I don't think I did. You could see the layers of mashed potato. And I just bit in that thing. It was so mushy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Cranberry sauce.

[Stugotz]

It was so good. I didn't have cranberry sauce. I would have added that.

[Dan Le Batard]

I love cranberry sauce, but it was delightful. Sounds disgusting.

[Stugotz]

How'd you left over, Dan?

[Chris Cody]

I'm gonna get back to that in a second. Tony was sort of nodding his head, and I don't know whether he was disgusted or not.

[Jessica]

What?

[Stugotz]

Oh, come on.

[Tony]

I didn't like the sandwich choice.

[Stugotz]

You'd crush that sc.

[Tony]

No, no, I do. Every time that we have the Thanksgiving leftovers, the thing is, I do it differently, right. I get fresh on Black Friday, I go to my local bakery and I get uncuano rico perotach.

[Chris Cody]

Like this.

[Tony]

Right. And then I get it a Cuban bread.

[Stugotz]

Okay.

[Chris Cody]

Okay.

[Tony]

So I get a Cuban bread, right?

[Dan Le Batard]

The blue and the red stripe.

[Tony]

Yeah, of course.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Tony]

So he's never heard that.

[Chris Cody]

Dale, un pancuano.

[Stugotz]

You said it very fast.

[Tony]

Okay, So I get the Cuban bread, and then I cut about 17 inches. Yeah, right. So I get that.

[Stugotz]

Right, 17 inches.

[Tony]

Right in the middle. Right in the middle. Put that on. Then I get. Because we do. We do a couple different meats over at Thanksgiving where we got turkey, but we also have honey ham. Dan, I know you're a big fan of honey ham spiral and stuff.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Tony]

So I layered that first, Right.

[Chris Cody]

We get the turkey on top of ham and sugar it up. Sure.

[Tony]

And burnt crispy on top. Yes, exactly. And then I put the ham. And then on the top of the bread, I put sweet potato casserole with a little bit of marshmallow. That little bit of marshmallow right on top. Then I layer it with a Mac and cheese. Right. And then I close that up, and then I put it on la plancha. And then it goes.

[Chris Cody]

You are hitting that with some Latin sensuality, and it's making Jessica make a face. It doesn't seem Jessica seems to find more appetizing that monstrosity that Chris Cody described, which is a horror, by the way, because none of that stuff's holding up very good. And that casserole is dripping. Like you're not doing this cleanly. You're eating a sloppy sandwich.

[Stugotz]

It was like pouring out bite. It would like pour out of the back end of it.

[Dan Le Batard]

The description of it all as mush is what did it for me. So my sandwich is usually a layer of cranberry sauce, turkey, maybe some gravy, and then I'll add one side to it depending on what we have, like potatoes or something. Depending on what we have leftover. I'm not adding multiple layers of mush on top of it. Tony's intrigues me because you have the cheese element. That's sizzle, which I do think does add something.

[Chris Cody]

Cheese is not a Thanksgiving thing, though.

[Dan Le Batard]

Associate Mac and cheese.

[Tony]

Yeah, but it gives you the cheese of the sandwich. Every good sandwich needs cheese. Dan.

[Stugotz]

I've never really liked the idea of a sandwich with leftovers.

[Chris Cody]

It's just more carbs.

[Stugotz]

With the carbs that you're already.

[Jessica]

I'm not saying it's unhealthy.

[Chris Cody]

It just doesn't feel like it's that good. Put it on the poll, please. Does every sandwich need cheese? Dan AT Lerd show Absolutely. Every good sandwich.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think, Izzy. It's just that like, you get the turkey presented to you in such a way Thursday, that Friday, you want it done differently. So you're adding bread to it and you're eating it cold versus just reheating the same plate of Thanksgiving a second time in a row. Or third time if you're an early Thanksgiving person, because then you're having Thanksgiving and then Thanksgiving again at like 8 o'clock during the Packers Dolphins game. And then the next day you're having Thanksgiving again.

[Chris Cody]

I do enjoy several Thanksgivings in a row. Yes. Like, yes, it's pretty good. I don't feel great about it afterward. Monday's hard to come into work after four days of football. That's the holidays. It was slothy and gross, but delightful.

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[Stugotz]

Things I'm telling you, love Sugar Daddy get stuck in your teeth like you can't chew them. They're like impossible to chew. They are impossible every day.

[Tony]

St. Gats this is the Dan Levatar show with the St. Gu.

[Chris Cody]

I have not been able to get to all the things in the show over the last couple of days that I want to get to. So I'm just going to combine them all now. Okay. The Bucket of Death has to be in place, so let's get that going. Let's do Thursday Thunder as well. I have a number of different things that I need to get to behind the bit we need to get to. So let's just combine a bunch of things here. And let's start with the Bucket of Death, go around the room and we will combine that. You just made Chris so nervous right now.

[Stugotz]

Well, I was like, there's thunder music.

[Chris Cody]

There's death music. Yes, I know, I know you've got a lot of different music, but I need to get all of this out of here at the same time. Because it's too much. And this is like the sandwich you were just describing. We've just got this. We got this.

[Tony]

Where's La Plancha?

[Stugotz]

Which ingredient am I?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, well, here, this segment is the green bean casserole. It's spilling all over the place that I've hated for years. That shouldn't be in the sandwich. Shouldn't be in Thanksgiving.

[Stugotz]

I got the Buffalo Bills at the Rams. They're minus four. I think I'm gonna have to keep this one.

[Chris Cody]

Okay. Yes. The Bills.

[Stugotz]

Weird one.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like, long travel day.

[Stugotz]

Bills clinch the AFC East. I still think the Rams are good. What am I?

[Chris Cody]

Rams are 500. The Rams are probably pretty good, but the Bills are one of the.

[Stugotz]

I gotta take. I gotta take the Bills minus. But I have to. We've already moved on.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jaguars.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, I'm so sorry. At Titans. At Titans. Three and a half points.

[Tony]

Mac Jones.

[Chris Cody]

Three and a half point.

[Stugotz]

Turn to the. Mac.

[Dan Le Batard]

Got a face mask. 15 yards. Damn it. I haven't been here for grit of death in like two months. You guys, like, never do it when I'm in here, which is.

[Chris Cody]

Stugott's. Always skates on this.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Ravens. I have a. Bye.

[Chris Cody]

Congratulations.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you.

[Stugotz]

So happy for you.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Never happiness.

[Tony]

Reaper, come over here. I like doing with my right hand.

[Chris Cody]

I've got a great streak going, Chris. And because people aren't made happy by this, I have not lost yet this season.

[Stugotz]

You're not made happy by this.

[Chris Cody]

I'm not.

[Dan Le Batard]

I haven't lost this year either.

[Stugotz]

I am the only person.

[Tony]

I've got. The Pittsburgh Steelers.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ooh, Browns.

[Chris Cody]

I heard the commish was threatening me. You guys should all know she's bringing on an enforcer. And she's really mad that no one's paying their penalties. Are you taking that, Tony?

[Tony]

I think I'm gonna put it back. Reaper, look at the Jameis Winston experience.

[Jessica]

Wow.

[Tony]

It happened once, it could happen again.

[Chris Cody]

Why'd the Reaper get so short?

[Dan Le Batard]

I feel like the opposite of the Jameis Winston experience. Happened the first time they played Pittsburgh because he didn't throw two. Bone crushing.

[Tony]

I got the Bears in the fourth quarter, dog.

[Stugotz]

Bears.

[Chris Cody]

The Bears.

[Tony]

But you know what we already talked about? The Niners, window closed.

[Chris Cody]

A four point dog. The Bears at the post.

[Dan Le Batard]

Coach firing Spike, always good.

[Tony]

And TB at the offensive court as head coach now lost 22 pounds, by the way.

[Chris Cody]

Ooh, Patriots. Yikes. I'm throwing that right back.

[Stugotz]

They're on a buy. They're on a. It already went in.

[Chris Cody]

By the way. I Owed two penalties already. I've only done this twice. I've lost twice and you haven't paid any. Yeah, no. You'll fit right in around.

[Stugotz]

Ah, the wizard of Oz.

[Chris Cody]

I'd take the Tin Man. Thank you.

[Stugotz]

Lions. Bengals. We'll go back to you. You can decide in a second. So look at the Lions. Bengal, you know, you know how this works. I got the Jaguars. I used to say Jaguars, and now Mike Ryan called me out on it. So now I over. I go the other way. I'm like, jaguar, Jaguar. I'm putting that back. I don't even have to look what they're playing. I got the golden helmet of life.

[Chris Cody]

Congratulations. No one is happy for you. I'm looking to get the swap helmet. Take that from you. The golden helmet of life. The golden helmet of life.

[Jessica]

The golden helmet of life.

[Chris Cody]

I've got the Lions. I'll keep that. I don't know who they're playing. They're the Lions. They're three and a half point favorite tonight.

[Tony]

Who's who game day.

[Stugotz]

Best game of the week.

[Chris Cody]

You have mentioned it's a who's who game and it is the packers going to the Lions. I do not want to talk about that game. I do want to promote a couple of things that we've got coming up here. Is a Bengal a Tiger? Yes.

[Stugotz]

I will take the Cincinnati Bengals. Woof.

[Chris Cody]

At the Cowboys.

[Stugotz]

My Bengals are five and a half point favorites.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why did you have to ask us that?

[Chris Cody]

I wasn't sure. What did you think a Bengal was? I didn't really know the rules. If it had to be a Tiger.

[Stugotz]

Like, if it had to be a.

[Chris Cody]

Detroit Tiger, I would take Detroit Tigers.

[Stugotz]

Tarek Scuba on the bump.

[Dan Le Batard]

Opening day in April, I had a hot take because, as you mentioned, there's a NFL game tonight. I think last night was one of the underratedly worst days of the sports calendar. I got home from work and it was like there was 30 straight days of football prior to 50 straight days of football prior to Thanksgiving. And like Tuesday night there was like the ranking show. So I was still kind of buzzing from the weekend. But then Wednesday night happened and there was no football. There's no action. There's no cusa. There's nothing. There was nothing on last night for me. And I was really sad.

[Stugotz]

Jessica wasn't a nice break for you? Lakers, Jess?

[Chris Cody]

Well, this is this. But here's the thing. Jessica just articulated something that made me palpably sad last night on my television where I'm like, man, Lakers, LeBron Miami used to be something a little while ago. Where's my maxion? Like I'm. Cause I'm not interested in 10 and 10 Miami Heat season. That doesn't matter for 60 games.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like, it made me wish we could get the Maxion championship on a Tuesday or a Wednesday. Like if we could see Ohio and Miami play last night versus on Saturday, that would be. It's going to be an awesome game, I think between both of them, but I feel like it's going to be overshadowed by all the other games on Saturday. And I just wish for the sake of the Maxion warm and fuzzies, we could get it on a weeknight.

[Stugotz]

That's funny because you said Miami and championship game and I got really confused for a moment because that doesn't happen.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, But Florida Panthers can't even get on the show and they're the defending Stanley cup champions. We'll get to it, okay?

[Dan Le Batard]

Did they play last night?

[Chris Cody]

You say this, you say that we're going to get to it. And I've got to get to the Thursday Thunder. And I've also got to tell people what we've got going on this weekend because, Tony, you've got the MMA hangout, which has become very popular. Give people the information they need if they want to hang out with you on Saturday, because you really could spend the whole weekend with our show if you wanted to. And one of the things that I want to do over the coming month is I want to have a toy drive. So I don't know, Tony, if you can attach this to what you're doing, I know I'm going to attach it to what we're doing on Sunday. I want anybody who's coming out to bring toys, because every time we've done toy drives at this time of year, we are overwhelmed by our audience. And then you can make some kids happy, even though Jessica hates them.

[Tony]

Absolutely.

[Chris Cody]

Dan.

[Tony]

We're going to be at kasatiki live at 10pm and the cool thing about Kasatiki is that it's not only a tiki themed bar, but they do themes throughout the year. So right now it's probably the best Christmas bar on the planet. There is no place better, more decorated than Kasatiki. It's called the Miracle on Cayucho, Dan. You know, miracle on 34th street, miracle on Cayucho. If you go, it's going to be the best, coolest themed Christmas bar in Miami for sure. You can bring your toys. We'll set them up in the back. We'll make sure to bring them home, bring them back here. But if you want to hang out with us, UFC310, a banger of a card, front to back as usual. UFC doesn't mess with the. With these.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Tony]

Thank you. With these kind of cards. And we'll be there hanging out 10pm on Saturday. If you're not in Miami, check us out on YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, all the different places you can stream as part.

[Chris Cody]

Of what it is that I'd like to do over the month. Okay. Because I'm just thinking this out now as we talk, but the toy drive is something we are going to do in December. And so on Sunday, we also have a watch party. And while I'm always telling you how appreciative I am for your appreciation and how I'm always telling you that your support is the reason that we can do all of the things that we're doing, I'm asking you to bring in the form of appreciation, a toy as part of what it is we're doing. And we'll thank you and we will spend time with you watching these football games. It's what we're there to do. A lot of people get uncomfortable asking for photos, but it's what we're there to do. So we want to have this relationship with you, and we want that relationship to come with toys and we want it to be in a Miami party on Calle Ocho where toys and children usually aren't at a bar where this is not a child's play bar.

[Tony]

It is not.

[Chris Cody]

It's an adult gathering. Where are it's an adult gathering that you are having on Saturday night. And then you can spend time with us on Sunday, too. If you want to spend time with our show few Thursday Thunder. Chris Cody, that is good work by you. In a small window for inefficiencies and mistakes, rare are Thursday Thunder. Chris, I like the idea of people just coming up to Dan with a toy randomly and Blake here, can I talk to you now? That's how it's going to work. The exchange is going to be that transactional. Bring me a toy. I will talk.

[Tony]

Oh, you got a jumper. All right, what do you want to talk about?

[Chris Cody]

I'll give you a sports take in exchange for a toy.

[Stugotz]

Thursday Thunder, sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you hear all about what DraftKings has to offer all throughout the show. DraftKings. The Crown is yours, Tony. Give it to us.

[Tony]

Guys. I've been given the thank you Thursday Thunder by Mike Ryan. He has set this one up Four pick parlay. Because three picks are too easy, Dan, as you noticed, three pick parlay is easy.

[Chris Cody]

We haven't won one of these in a while.

[Tony]

I was close the other day.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, but I was close. Is the lamenter the loser?

[Tony]

You know, there was an asteroid that passed us very close, by the way. 1.37 million miles.

[Chris Cody]

Mike Ryan has had a good gambling year. If you've been behind his Twitter paywall or his X paywall.

[Tony]

All right, so the four pick parlay starts with an anytime touchdown by David Montgomery. Knuckles if you're paying attention at home. Second leg, Jordan Love. Over 225 passing points. This is where the parlay gets a little spooky. Dan, we already passed Halloween. We're onto Christmas now, but this is spooky. Over three and a half receptions for Sam Laporta.

[Chris Cody]

A big Laporta game. He wasn't good in the last one.

[Tony]

He's been. He's been a little streaky this year.

[Chris Cody]

I love betting tight end overs.

[Tony]

He's also the fourth leg of the parlay. 40 yards. Over 40 yards for Sam Laporte.

[Chris Cody]

Izzy, what are you smiling about? What are you laughing? That's a weird thing to really be locked in on tight end overs every single week. Well, this is part of what it is that we're selling around here for our sugar.

[Tony]

So three and a half receptions over 40 yards for Sam Laporta, David Montgomery, Anytime Tutty and Jordan Love. Over 225. That gives you a nice plus 415 if you're keeping tabs at home for Thursday.

[Chris Cody]

What happened, Chris? Why did you make a face?

[Stugotz]

The graphic on our screen says plus.

[Tony]

The lines have changed, Dano. Just like they do in real life. If you're in Vegas in the high.

[Stugotz]

Rollers room, it is real.

[Tony]

The odds change very quickly. That's plus 350.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, that just happened. There was a lot of planning that went into all of that.

[Tony]

My screenshot came in where to contract you.

[Chris Cody]

You guys gotta get this right. It's nailed it hard.

[Stugotz]

You mean sound effects?

[Chris Cody]

Chris, I would like for us to get to behind the bit, please. As part of our 20 year celebration. Nostalgic as it is. What is the topic matter on what it is we're presently doing here? Oh, Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley. All right. Good times. Oh, this was. I stuffed a tube sock in my. I'm revealing that for the first time. Wow. Yeah, it wasn't noticeable. Come on. Well, I just need small tube sock Terry Bradshaw story. Look, I'm coming out in a Speedo. There is not going to be an Internet imprint of anything happening down there that's going to hang very loosely over my head. Like that's not going to be something that I'm going to live with over the course of my life. So there was a tube sock. I'm admitting that for the first time.

[Jessica]

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[Chris Cody]

Don Le. While there's nothing official and conversations are still ongoing.

[Jessica]

Was that a fake shifter?

[Chris Cody]

Because it was pretty good.

[Jessica]

It was excellent.

[Stugotz]

I feel like there's legs.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I tried at the beginning, and then I lost confidence in it.

[Stugotz]

Good.

[Jessica]

It was good.

[Stugotz]

You got this.

[Chris Cody]

Nothing official.

[Jessica]

Yeah, it's so good.

[Chris Cody]

Conversations are still ongoing. Stugots. It is trending towards Nick Sirianni remaining the head coach of the Eagle.

[Tony]

This is the Dan Levatar show with these two gods.

[Jessica]

This is behind the bit. This is behind the bit.

[Chris Cody]

This is behind the bit.

[Jessica]

We take you back to a better time in the show's history, a time, at least for me, where I was happiest, because we were at espn. We are live at the Clevelander. The time has come. Dan lebertard is going to pay off his to Charles Barkley, who is going to disrobe Dan lebidard in just a second. Charles, what is going on here? We are staring at Dan LeBatard in a bathrobe, and he is about to take that off. I'm sorry. Charles Barkley is about to take that off. Dan, how do you feel right now? We can see the sweat. We're wondering. I'm playing sideline reporter here. How do you feel right now, Dan?

[Chris Cody]

I'm feeling unusually confident right now. I feel like I'm in a position of strength, and I'm going to be able to turn the tables here shortly on Mr. Barkley.

[Jessica]

All right, Charles, are you ready? This is a bet. One year in the making, and I get to see dad in a Speedo in all his shame. In all his shame right now.

[Chris Cody]

Hey, I want to apologize to South Florida right now.

[Jessica]

Charles, you ready to do this?

[Chris Cody]

I'm ready.

[Jessica]

All right, here we go. Charles Barkley is making his way over to Dan. He is slowly pulling over.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, boy. Whoa. Oh, this gets done. Hold on. I'm not done yet. Hold on. Hold on. I want to interview Charles Barkley. I've interviewed him a lot over the years. I want to interview him right now. Have I been fair to the heat? Charles? Have you been fair to the heat? No. Charles, is LeBron about to win more rings than you? Yes. Oh, Charles.

[Jessica]

Is putting it back on. I can't believe it. By the way, just to set the scene, Dan has a picture of Charles on the back of his Speedo and it's glorious. A picture of Barkley.

[Chris Cody]

This is one or the most fun things I've ever done. Hey, man, I love you to death. You know that There it is, right? Yes. Look how happy. That's as happy as you'll ever see. Stugott.

[Jessica]

Day of my life.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, that made me wildly uncomfortable.

[Stugotz]

Can you give us some context to that bit?

[Chris Cody]

I was really confident that LeBron would dominate JJ Barea in the post. I feel like I had a position of strength. I didn't think there was any circumstance under which the bet would end that way. I thought for sure the way that bet would end was with Charles Barkley never calling us back because he'd lost the bet and he wasn't going to do this.

[Jessica]

It was the 2012 NBA Finals, so I think they had a bet on that. And of course Dan took the heat. He was not going to take, you know, the Dallas Mavericks. And who would take the Mavericks 2010.

[Chris Cody]

I'm sorry. Yeah.

[Jessica]

To that first year. But now that I'm thinking about it, what a bold prediction by Barkley because everyone took the heat. Barkley took the Mavericks. He ended up winning. We all ended up winning and losing at the exact same time. But Dan was feeling really good about this. Game two, the heater up on like 20.

[Chris Cody]

So confident.

[Jessica]

Dwayne and LeBron are shadow boxing and they went on to lose that game. And then J.J. barea owned LeBron and.

[Chris Cody]

I don't think he got any of the facts right on the details of what happened in that series. The end result is that's the end result. And I didn't think I would ever be in that position. Yeah, I tried to erase that image out of my head for many years and now you just put it right back. So yeah, it's going to take another generation to get that out of there. Thank you.

[Mike Ryan]

An interesting part about that is that was in the Clevelander where our studios would later be built several years afterwards. The specific spot that Dan's doing that is pretty much the control room for everything that we ended up creating out of there. That was a year long bit, a payoff in the making. Dan and Charles had an NBA Finals bet and we basically had to wait till Charles was in town for the next DP playoff run so it could fit with his schedule. And that was a really good old timey radio bit spectacular in Its execution. It's always a good radio bit when you paint a vivid enough picture to have the audience wish that they were there. And I think most of the people listening that day remember it and also wish that they were there for it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Didn't he have Charles Barkley on his butt?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Yes, he did. Charles Barkley. He had a picture of Charles Barkley on Speedo facing in that direction. And yes, he was moving around to answer questions.

[Jessica]

Basically the whole interviewing Barkley but not Barkley interviewing your butt was totally unnecessary.

[Chris Cody]

The best I could do is have my brother paint me to cover up all of the places to distract a lot of optical illusions so that people wouldn't look at anything happening in my mid region. As a recollection, it looks like a lot of fun. I will tell you in all honesty, that's as scared as I've ever been. I didn't want to be in front of people in that way. And there were a lot of people there. And Stugatz delighted in my discomfort.

[Jessica]

Plus you left me alone with a microphone.

[Chris Cody]

Right. And you like that part.

[Jessica]

We were terrified about that.

[Chris Cody]

I remember you liked that part too.

[Mike Ryan]

Stugat had to be our play by play guy because Dan could only do so much. And Dan was being real showman with the presentation there, Stugat. We all enjoyed it.

[Chris Cody]

Stugatz's voice was completely different back then. Say that he was very young back then. Now he's old. Lungs filled with cigarette smoke. But yeah, he had a great time back then.

[Mike Ryan]

There's no bad story, nothing that went wrong during this bit. No nightmare, no issues with flights and getting talent there. All the memories of that event are good. I mean, look at it. It'd be ridiculous to remember anything other than a jovial time.

[Chris Cody]

Was there any preparation to get into that speedo?

[Dan Le Batard]

Was there a cleanse?

[Chris Cody]

There was some fasting involved, some juice cleansing. Yes, it didn't do enough good. But yes, I do think also, and this is something I'll only reveal here, pretty sure there's a tube sock in my. In my Speedo just to avoid any imprints.

[Jessica]

That's a heady play.

[Chris Cody]

Yes. According to sources.

[Jessica]

The old tube sock.

[Chris Cody]

Yes, a tube sock.

[Mike Ryan]

I think Dan appreciated the year long Runway to prepare his body for this. There was certainly some waxing.

[Chris Cody]

How into the bit did you think Barkley was?

[Jessica]

Greatest day of his life.

[Chris Cody]

He was pretty happy. Yeah, he was pretty happy in our. In our shame. But who doesn't like to be right? And usually when you get to be, you know, like he knew I Was not wanting to look like that. So I. I threw as much distraction as I could at the situation.

[Jessica]

You think you distracted us? We were all looking at the same.

[Chris Cody]

I know, I know. It was a tube sock, though. I don't think Charles. Do you think Charles would have paid that bet? I don't think Charles would have paid that.

[Jessica]

Are you saying he would have weasel that?

[Chris Cody]

I think he would have, yeah.

[Jessica]

I. I would have weaseled out of the bed. I don't know about Barkley. I think Barkley would have delivered on that bed. It was content on the front end, it was content on the back end, and it's still content today.

[Dan Le Batard]

How much did Charles Barkley enjoy the bit?

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, look at you. I mean, he's got one of those great smiles in all of entertainment, and he couldn't keep it from flashing over his face. I mean, the photos of this are pretty ridiculous. In a nutshell. If you were to encapsulate just a handful of images from our show. I'd like that one. I'd sack that one right up there to describe what it is that we're doing. Charles laughing as he's pointing to Dan's backside as he wears a Speedo with Barkley's face on it. That was great stuff.

[Jessica]

Dan is questioning whether or not he would do it.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I don't think he would have done.

[Jessica]

I'm not going to be the guy who says that. I'm not saying about that. Listen, I'm trying to get Charles back in our good graces. I don't think I've seen Charles since.

[Chris Cody]

We did that event.

[Jessica]

I don't know what's going on, but I'm not going to be the guy that says Charles would. Would, you know, ditch on on a bet. He wouldn't do that.

[Stugotz]

Speed O man. Speed O man. Barkley's picture right on his can. Packs it in nice and tight. I wish I lost my sight.

[Chris Cody]

Look out.

[Stugotz]

Dan is the Speedo man.

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