Hour 2: Happy Birthday To Me From Me (feat. Jessica Smetana)

Summary

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Hour 2: Happy Birthday To Me From Me (feat. Jessica Smetana)

Date: September 10, 2025
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Jessica Smetana, Mike Ryan, Greg Cody, Billy Gil, Chris, Jeremy, Zaz

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Episode Overview

This lively episode, recorded on Greg Cody’s birthday, is a quintessential slice of the Le Batard universe: an extended, hilarious, and sometimes contentious deep-dive into the team's annual soup cook-off, Greg Cody's birthday grievances, college football analysis, the absurdities of TV sports programming, and classic “Back In My Day” and top fives. With Jessica Smetana as a prominent guest, the crew oscillates between sports debates, workplace chaos, and lovingly relentless teasing of Cody, whose culinary pride is bruised, his mood seething, and his birthday (arguably) ruined.

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Key Topics & Discussion Segments

1. Soup Cook-Off Fallout & Greg Cody’s Birthday Meltdown

Timestamps: 02:46 – 09:00; 27:01 – 39:40

• The Cook-Off Results:
  The team holds an on-air soup-tasting competition between Greg Cody and Mike Ryan. Greg is devastated after losing yet again (now “0-for-4” in show food contests), and his disappointment manifests as quiet but palpable anger. Mike Ryan’s soup, enhanced with lime zest (“I spent 40 minutes zesting limes like a madman this morning,” Mike, 03:50), is a hit, while Cody’s homemade feel is appreciated but less popular.

• Greg’s Reaction:

  • Greg, visibly upset, considers the outcome unjust and claims the verdict was a comedy fix.

    “I thought it was an unjust decision. I don’t think it should have been close. And I feel cheated. And I think it was done just for the sake of comedy. I don’t think it was a legitimate verdict.” (Greg Cody, 07:14)

  • His colleagues try to cheer him up with a birthday song and a hastily written “soup song,” but Cody remains mostly unmoved and sullen throughout.
    • “He’s not happy. Not even a song about himself on his birthday, sung by himself. He steamed throughout it.” (Jessica, 08:54)
    • “I know everybody who voted against me. That will never be forgotten.” (Greg Cody, 09:06)

• Soup Analysis & Banter:

  • Cody takes issue with Mike’s lack of coconut flavor (“Did you think his soup was poorly made?” Jessica, 34:47).
  • The debate devolves into playful barbs over culinary technique and authenticity, with Mike defending his choices and Greg maintaining, “Farro does not go in that soup.” (Greg Cody, 37:00)
  • The gloves come off in the final verdict:

    “I thought it was a bit gamey. It tasted like a soup made in a forest. I didn't think it was a very good soup at all. If you told me you were squirrel, I'd believe that more than it was sausage.” (Mike Ryan, 38:04) “Did you make me squirrel?” (Billy Gil, 38:19)

2. CFB Talk: Week 2 Surprises, TV Schedules, & Coaching Antics

Timestamps: 09:58 – 27:01

• Jessica’s CFB Insights:
  • Jessica expresses a hot take that Week 2 of the college football season offered “more meat on the bones” than the flashy but thin Week 1. She cites overtime games and wild upsets: “There were more even matchups in week two than week one.” (Jessica, 10:18)
• Arch Manning, Poop-Gate, & QB Growing Pains:
  • The group laughs over a soundbite about Texas QB Arch Manning “pooping his pants” under pressure, with Jessica relishing the rare honesty and awkwardness.

    “Anytime you say that there’s a pooped your pants, that’s a good description, but it’s usually not an ally of a description.” (Jessica, 11:50)

• Big Ten Realignment & Late Kickoffs:
  • The panel lambastes new late-night conference games with USC vs. Michigan State kicking off at 11pm ET.

    “Who was like, we need conference realignment so we could say Michigan State and USC in conference? ... If you’re a Michigan State fan living in the eastern time zone, your game’s going to end at like 2am. How is this good for anyone?!” (Zaz, 16:50)

• Fran Brown & CFB Coaches as Characters:
  • Mike critiques Syracuse coach Fran Brown’s motivational tactics: “Sometimes he says too much and tries too hard. This is the most look-at-me-Louis display from a head coach since Sark tried to ice his own kicker.” (Mike Ryan, 17:48)

3. Sports TV Absurdities & Tom Brennaman Redux

Timestamps: 20:27 – 23:13

• College Football on The CW:
  • The team pokes fun at the spectacle of significant college football games airing on The CW, with campy lead-ins like “Supernatural” reruns, and the ongoing career of controversial announcer Tom Brennaman.

    “There’s been some big games on the CW … Our buddy Tom Brennaman has been doing it for the last couple years, so that’s interesting, too.” (Zaz, 20:35)

• Playing the Infamous Brennaman Apology/Castellanos Clip:
  • Jessica introduces the now-classic apology/home run interruption by Brennaman as “the single funniest thing to happen at any point during the pandemic.” (Jessica, 21:07)
    • The crew marvels that Brennaman is back calling big games, with Mike Ryan drily observing:

      “What do you see in all the way back is you not playing that clip every time we say Tom Brennaman?” (Mike Ryan, 23:13)

4. Back in My Day: Greg Cody Tackles Adultery

Timestamps: 31:55 – 32:22

• A brief moment of classic Cody, as he begins a signature “Back In My Day” segment—this time, on adultery. Details are light as he’s interrupted by the chaos of fines for his buzzing birthday phone and the crew’s continued riffing.

5. Top Five Lists: Players Who Look Like They Belong

Timestamps: 39:49 – 41:47

• Top Five Players Who Look Like They Belong on Their Team:
  • Justin Herbert (Chargers), Max Crosby (Raiders), Dan Quinn (Commanders), Andrew Van Ginkel (Vikings), Tyler Warren (Colts).
• Top Five Who Look Like They Belong Elsewhere:
  • Fred Warner (Ravens), Baker Mayfield (Cowboys), Hollywood Brown (Dolphins), Amon-Ra St. Brown (Panthers), Deebo Samuel (Steelers).
• Top Five Who Should Be New England Patriots:
  • “White guys.” (Jessica, 41:38) Cooper Kupp, Adam Thielen, Cam Scadaboo, Lad McConkey, Hunter Renfrow.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Greg Cody’s Disappointment:
  • “I’m far more disappointed than I am angry. I thought it was an unjust decision. I don’t think it should have been close. And I feel cheated. And I think it was done just for the sake of comedy.”
    (Greg Cody, 07:14)
• Jessica on Greg’s Mood:
  • “He was seething. He didn’t even look up from his computer ... He’s embarrassed that Mike beat him and he’s embarrassed that we let it happen.”
    (Jessica, 06:32)
• Mike Ryan’s Smack Talk:
  • “If I want to make a second place soup, I’ll take your advice.”
    (Mike Ryan, 38:53)
  • “No one puts farro in a Thai soup. Have you ever had a Thai soup with farro?”
    (Mike Ryan, 37:09)
• About Fines:
  • “Because of the amount of birthday texts coming in here, you continue to derail everything we’re doing. Can I have the money, please?”
    (Jessica, 32:36)
  • “He shouldn't be paying for anything!”
    (Dan Le Batard, 33:10)
• College Football on CW:
  • “There’s some insane advertisements ... The lead-in programming is like Supernatural reruns, but otherwise it’s been fantastic.”
    (Zaz, 20:35)
• Brennaman Apology:
  • “Castellanos to lead things off ... I made a comment earlier tonight that I guess went out over the air ... I can’t begin to tell you how deeply sorry I am. That is not who I am.”
    (Tom Brennaman, 21:18, clip)

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Show Atmosphere & Tone

• Chaotic, loving, and irreverent: Despite the sports talk, the true content is the group dynamic—teasing, rivalry, and the aftermath of micro-betrayals, all wrapped around genuine affection.
• Jessica and Zaz shine as insightful and comedic voices on college football and media oddities.
• Greg Cody is simultaneously the butt of humor, sympathetic everyman, and an unrepentant, old-school presence.

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Summary Timeline

| Timestamp | Segment/Theme | | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------ | | 02:46–09:00 | Soup cook-off fallout, Greg’s birthday blues | | 09:58–12:13 | CFB Week 2 takes, Arch Manning’s growing pains | | 16:12–17:48 | Big Ten realignment, late-night matchup furor | | 20:27–23:13 | CFB on The CW, Brennaman clip & meta-commentary | | 31:55–32:22 | “Back in My Day” (Adultery) starts (cut short) | | 39:49–41:47 | Three top fives—players/teams & Patriots cliches | | 34:47-39:14 | Soup cook-off post-mortem, raw assessments |

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Final Notes

• The hour is a character-driven tapestry: food as sport, sport as comedy, and old grievances as entertainment.
• Greg Cody’s birthday is rendered epic not by celebration but by soulful sulking and friendly undermining.
• For the sports-hungry, there are real and contrarian CFB insights from Jessica and Zaz.
• For the fans of Le Batard chaos, it’s classic gold—equal parts sports talk and comedy of personal dysfunction.

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For the full Le Batard Show vibe, listen for the performative grievances, the pointed kitchen criticism, and the ways even sports talk becomes wonderfully absurdist when filtered through this crew.

Transcript

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[Billy Gil]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Jessica]

We're going to have trouble with our voice the rest of the way. I have still the delight of spice in my mouth. Billy, you had good critique during the break when. When I thought you. You spoke correct. Criticism.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, not criticism. I was praising both. I said, greg's soup tastes like home. Mike's soup tastes like vacation.

[Jessica]

Greg was really mad during the break.

[Billy Gil]

Oh, my God, he was so mad.

[Jessica]

Like, really mad. That's your computer, greg. You own $10 now over the course of the show. It's his computer. He's really mad. And Jessica, I'm going to need a ruling from Jessica here on whether he's right to be mad or not, because during the break, no one came in here. He didn't leave the room. And I went into the other room and I asked some people, did you have both soups? Did you like the soups? And Mike's is gone, and Greg's isn't gone.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, Greg did better planning. Greg planned for the masses. Mike just planned for fewer people, I think could be what happened now.

[Billy Gil]

Mike added water, he said.

[Dan Le Batard]

Mike also added little lime zest to the soup, which really kind of.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, put it over. You guys didn't even have the best on air bite because I spent 40 minutes zesting limes like a madman this morning. But, you know, it was like I was running in. I was like, Kevin from the office. I was like, whoa, who needs what? And then I forgot I had all this lime zest lying around. So I hope you liked it.

[Jessica]

Greg's man, he's mad.

[Greg Cody]

Yep, sure. Why wouldn't I be? I think it was an unjust award.

[Jeremy]

A fair competition.

[Dan Le Batard]

Was it fair?

[Billy Gil]

I will say your food, Lamar Jackson.

[Greg Cody]

I will say having eaten a lot of Thai chicken soup that. That failed to bring forward coconut, which is a major flavor. Should be a major flavor in that soup. And Mike used a lot of coconut milk, and it did not have a coconut flavor that was discernible. This is classless, which is a major negative for that soup. It was tasty.

[Mike Ryan]

Be a sportsman.

[Greg Cody]

It was tasty.

[Dan Le Batard]

Lamar has two MVP awards, to be fair.

[Mike Ryan]

This is really sad.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, really.

[Billy Gil]

You're great chef, Lamar Jackson, great quarterback, but you're having trouble winning the big One.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Could have been three.

[Greg Cody]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

It's all right. Owen.

[Greg Cody]

Classless. No, go ahead, Owen. Four. Okay. Oh, and four. One of those four. I lost fair and square. Okay. Roy's turkey beat mine.

[Jessica]

You lost to Jessica fair and square.

[Greg Cody]

No, I don't. Jessica. I don't. I don't feel like I did.

[Dan Le Batard]

She was using.

[Mike Ryan]

You were a lot classier to her in defeat.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, you know that, because that wasn't. That wasn't a food cook off. That was an ancillary.

[Mike Ryan]

Whatever you say.

[Jessica]

What?

[Mike Ryan]

It had food?

[Zaz]

Well, Greg, I was gonna come in here and defend you, but. And there's a reason for that, Mike. The reason is that the last time that we made the soup that you made today, Lehman had Covid and, like, threw it up everywhere. So I can never eat that soup again. Like, it brings up really bad memories. So I was gonna give Greg my vote, but now Greg's kind of turning on me because of the carve off, and I'm like, I don't know if he deserves that.

[Greg Cody]

Okay. All right. No, I mean, I don't consider that a cooking competition. So I'm over.

[Zaz]

It was three. You're right.

[Greg Cody]

I'm over three. And popcorn really is 0 for 4.

[Jessica]

In food related competitions.

[Zaz]

The popcorn. I agree. The popcorn was a little.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, it was all.

[Zaz]

Everyone was afraid of Dan.

[Greg Cody]

I lost fair and square.

[Zaz]

Now they're afraid of Mike.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, that's true.

[Jessica]

That. That. That soup was exceptional. You would have liked it, Jessica. You would have liked both soups, actually. But I haven't seen. I haven't seen Greg that mad. I don't zazzle. You've been here only a short time.

[Billy Gil]

He didn't even look up from his computer. Afterward, we all get up to stretch, have a little bit more.

[Jessica]

He was seething.

[Billy Gil]

Would even get up or look up at anyone.

[Chris]

I think it was like a week.

[Jessica]

And a half ago. He was more mad. No. About the laptop. Oh, no, I know. That was public. This was a private seething. He was small, smoldering in here. No, Chris, you got that bad publicly. We left the room, he sat in here steaming the entire time. Like, I'm not making that up. I was. I was more scared of him this time. You guys don't understand. This man that you work with, he's intensely prideful. He cooks really well. He's embarrassed that Mike beat him, and he's embarrassed that we let it happen. And he. You just don't know how prideful he is about this thing. He's embarrassed. He's really good at this.

[Greg Cody]

No, I'm not embarrassed. And I'm. I'm far more disappointed than I am angry. I thought it was an unjust decision. I don't think it should have been close. And I feel cheated. And I think it was done just for the sake of comedy. I don't think it was a legitimate verdict.

[Mike Ryan]

You can't fake what those pots look like. I made more soup than you. Yes, I made more soup. All right. And more of the soup is gone.

[Greg Cody]

You made less soup.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm going to go have some more soup because it's almost gone. And I made a. More soup.

[Greg Cody]

Please do, Greg.

[Jessica]

Here you go. I know you don't like the beating you've taken here, but happy birthday, buddy. We are thrilled that we get to work with you. All rise. For Greg County.

[Greg Cody]

A birthday for me is a birthday for you the sound of my voice Is a dream come true the greatest of gifts that could be Happy birthday from me to me A birthday for me is a tithe full of love A present bestowed as I fell from above to make all the world full of glee Happy birthday from me to me Happy birthday from me to me.

[Jessica]

He'S not happy. Not even a song about himself on his birthday.

[Chris]

By himself.

[Jessica]

Sung by himself. He steamed throughout it. You guys think I'm fooling around? He's really mad.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can we revote?

[Chris]

Maybe I'd like to revote.

[Dan Le Batard]

And, like, let's not count it.

[Jeremy]

04.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's revote.

[Jessica]

He doesn't want a pity vote.

[Greg Cody]

I know. I know. Everybody who voted against me. That will never be.

[Billy Gil]

There's only two.

[Chris]

Breaking down.

[Mike Ryan]

Will never be forgotten.

[Jessica]

You trampled him. Threatening me like you just trampled him. Saying it'll never be forgotten that I voted against him. And you threatening you, too, by the way.

[Mike Ryan]

We can revote. There's plenty of Greg's soup left. If you guys like.

[Chris]

I really like Greg. I'm really sad that I made him sad. I didn't mean.

[Jessica]

His soup is really good, too. That's the thing. Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

It's delicious.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg, is this a worse betrayal than Christopher taking your laptop a couple weeks back?

[Jeremy]

Remember, I voted for you.

[Greg Cody]

Different categories.

[Dan Le Batard]

Also in retrospect, where the dolphins kind of laid an egg, it seemed as though it wasn't as big.

[Greg Cody]

You know, it wasn't as. So me losing that vote wasn't as big as the Dolphins losing.

[Jessica]

That's still your phone. Another $5, please. You owe $15 on your birthday.

[Mike Ryan]

It's people.

[Greg Cody]

It's people wishing me happy birthday.

[Jessica]

Jessica is hosting a live show on Saturday for the Notre Dame, Texas A and m game at 330 with Kyle Rudolph and Aaron Banks. We will tell you more about where you can get that in a moment, but Jessica is saying something that I have not heard anyone else in the sports media saying anywhere in the interwebs. You liked week two better than week one?

[Zaz]

Yeah, I mean real ball knowers. No, Dan, Week one there were a lot of flashy matchups, but then not a lot of meat underneath them. Week two, a lot of meat on those bones. We had some. I mean, I heard Zaz talking about the Border war yesterday. Smu, Baylor, Clemson struggling with Troy, Kansas State losing to Army, USF in Florida, of course there's an number of overtime games. Michigan State and Boston College, there were more even matchups in week two than week one. So like, well, I think the, you know, your typical fans like, yeah, I want to watch Florida State and Alabama. Those are some big sexy names. I want to see the less sexy games. I want to see use and UConn and overtime.

[Jessica]

Can you guys tell me where it is that you are on Arch Manning? Because we went from week one to week two with Turbulence and Texas. What are you shaking your head about? Zazzle? You've been.

[Billy Gil]

I'm not anywhere with Arch Manning. Like there's nothing to take away from what we saw in week two and week one was what it was. Although he was good in the fourth quarter, but whatever, like it's 60 minute game. I. I'm not anywhere with Arch Manning. Got to see it.

[Jessica]

Jessica.

[Zaz]

I agree. I mean he was largely inefficient last week, but it was not. It was against San Jose State and like they ended up winning by several touchdowns. It didn't really matter. They're not going to play another good defense for a few weeks. I did think it was weird that Scott Sark tried to defend him by saying that he pooped his pants. I don't know if you guys heard that press conference sound.

[Jessica]

Pooped his pants. That's good description. Anytime you say that there's a pooped your pants, that's a good description, but it's usually not an ally of a description. Let's hear it. Arch Manning seemed to be having some throwing pains by the.

[Billy Gil]

According to who?

[Jessica]

Arch.

[Billy Gil]

Arch said that to you?

[Jessica]

No.

[Billy Gil]

Oh, according to who?

[Chris]

It just looked like he was.

[Billy Gil]

He doesn't have any.

[Chris]

Is there an explanation to why he was.

[Jessica]

It looked like that?

[Greg Cody]

I don't know.

[Billy Gil]

I've never filmed any of you guys when you're using the bathroom, so I don't know what faces you make when you're doing that.

[Chris]

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[Jeremy]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Greg Cody]

Heard that as a woman faking pain. I, I, I didn't think that sounded real. I really didn't.

[Jessica]

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

[Zaz]

You can spot a woman faking it.

[Greg Cody]

Sts yes I can. Jess expert I've been married 40 years.

[Mike Ryan]

This is the Dan Ler show with.

[Greg Cody]

The ST.

[Mike Ryan]

Big game that you're going to be across. Jess, we'll talk to you about Texas A and M and Notre Dame and what you're doing the live show with the Echoes in a moment. But I want to talk to you about Big Ten football too, because we all know about conference expansion and it means some interesting time zones and kickoff times. We got USC and Michigan State. Now. I think this is one of the cooler, more refreshing matchups when it comes to conference realignment. But it's kicking off at 11pm Saturday night. You never see an 11pm Start time. You only see that stuff like in Hawaii. Are college football fans going to be overwhelmed? How is this going to rate?

[Zaz]

Mike, I have so many thoughts. Why? Why is this a refreshing matchup? Who's asking? Who's clamoring for Michigan State and USC playing a conference game I like? Let's just start there. Who was like, we need conference realignment so we could say Michigan State and USC and conference I'm in on, I'm.

[Mike Ryan]

In on this because I saw Michigan State play a later night game against Boston Colle and I was surprised at how crisp their offense looks like if they're, if they can limit the mistakes, they look like they can bounce back a little bit. And USC has spent a lot of money in this offseason. So I get what you're saying, like historically, where's the appetite here? But from what we've seen so far in this very small sample, this seems like an interesting matchup.

[Zaz]

It's an interesting matchup, but my, my point is that like, why does this have to be a conference game? I'm still Salty about all of this Big Ten realignment because this is so stupid that, like this whole sport exists for fans. Correct. Like, we do this to entertain fans. And now if you're a Michigan State fan living in the eastern time zone, your game's going to end at like 2am like, how is this good for anyone? This is ridiculous.

[Mike Ryan]

It's.

[Zaz]

It's an 8 o' clock local kickoff in L. A and it's 11pm on the east Coast. And I'm just mad because I like to. I like to fall asleep watching Hawaii. They kick off at like 11:59, which is great, but I don't want to fall asleep watching a Big Ten conference game. That's ridiculous.

[Jessica]

All of this stuff is going to start happening though, right? NBA games are going to be at 11pm this is all going to be the world's game.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't think I might.

[Zaz]

I have nothing wrong with west coast games being late. This is, It's Michigan State and USC in a conference Big Ten game that I object to. Just on principle, Dan. Just on principle. I object to this. I defy it. I rebuke it.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, Jess, did you, did you rise up against Fran Brown? Because Fran bound. Fran Brown has a lot of opinions. I kind of like him. He gets his teams juiced up, but sometimes he says too much and, and he tries too hard. And this, I haven't seen this type of look at me, Louie display from a head coach since Sark tried to ice his own kicker. He makes his own team run sprints after a lackluster performance. Jess, we know that Fran Brown's got that arrow pointing up, but I'm, I'm cooling off on Fran Brown, the person.

[Zaz]

Yeah, the bright side, and I know everyone's already made this joke, but at least they got to shower after this because they won because winners get washed. But yeah, this made me a little sad. It is, first of all, the slowest set of sprints of all time. And I mean that in the politest way possible because these guys just played like a five quarter game. This game went to overtime and they had to really dig deep to pull out this upset win after they were trailing to UConn. I mean, it was a bad game by Syracuse until the very end there. And if anything, they should be like, wow, like this. We, we proved something about ourselves here. We're resilient. We're going to fight for our coach. We're going to fight to get this win. And instead they're getting punished by running sports in front of all These Syracuse J School students who are all filming and posting it on Twitter made me feel a little sad for them.

[Dan Le Batard]

What'd you make of Caleb Williams undershirt? Because it's not exactly what you see normally out of, like a starting quarterback who's the face of your franchise. That's like what Billy Gill wore when he played football.

[Zaz]

Yeah, I mean, I hated it, Billy. I hated everything about it. It was a terrible look. It's too loose, it's too gray.

[Greg Cody]

Why?

[Zaz]

What's the point of that?

[Mike Ryan]

Is he going for a branding thing? This wasn't his look last year. I will say he looked athletic, which the undershirt wouldn't necessarily say that.

[Billy Gil]

I think he forgot he was wearing it. Why would he do that on purpose?

[Mike Ryan]

I don't understand what he's going for there. That being said, I wonder if you were impressed with his play because it was like a mixed bag.

[Zaz]

Is it a mixed bag? It was kind of the same bag as last year, which is a problem. But it is only week one. I think it's too early to decide if Ben Johnson's fix the Bears or not. But it just. It wasn't something that I think would give you hope. As a Bears fan, you're probably just saying, same old Bears, which is what I've been saying my whole life. Every time everyone in the mainstream media tries to hype up the Bears. Oh, they got a quarterback. Oh, they got a head coach. Oh, they got a wide receiver. Oh, they have an offensive line this year. I'll believe it when I see it. Okay. And it. It. I haven't seen it yet, Jess.

[Billy Gil]

I was at Baylor SMU last week and that game was on the CW this weekend. South Florida and Miami.

[Jessica]

That's a good game.

[Billy Gil]

Two top 20 teams are on the CW. Jess, how we feeling about football in the CW?

[Jessica]

Big game. Big game.

[Zaz]

I mean, there's some insane advertisements that'll happen during those games. There's a lot of times, like, the lead in programming is like Supernatural reruns, but otherwise it's been fantastic. I don't know if you're aware of who's calling games on the cw. Our buddy Tom Brennaman has been doing it for the last couple years, so that's interesting, too. Yeah, there's been, I guess the second year in a row, there's been some. Some big games on the cw and. Yeah, we just have to get used to that now. This is just going to keep happening.

[Jessica]

For those of you who do not remember Tom Brennaman, this is him. Making his return. I didn't think there would be a return from this. The single funniest thing to happen at any point during the pandemic.

[Jim Day]

Castellanos to lead things off. Jim Day is going to be taking us the rest of the way through this game as Holland takes over on the mound. I made a comment earlier tonight that I guess went out over the air that I am deeply ashamed of. If I have hurt anyone out there, I can't tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart, I'm so very, very sorry. I pride myself and think of myself as a, a man of faith. As there's a drive in a deep left field by Castellanos. It will be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4 nothing ball game. I don't know if I'll be putting on this headset again. I don't know if it's going to be for the Reds. I don't know if it's going to be for my bosses at Fox. I want to apologize for the people who signed my paycheck for the Reds, for Fox Sports Ohio, for the people I work with, for anybody that I've offended here tonight. I can't begin to tell you how deeply sorry I am. That is not who I am and never has been. And I'd like to thank. Maybe I could have some people that they could back that up. I am very, very sorry and I beg for your forgiveness. So we heard Jim Dale take you the rest of the way home.

[Billy Gil]

How bad does he not want to have FSU on the schedule?

[Mike Ryan]

So last year Thomas Castellanos was at bc and I remember I was tuning in specifically to see how Brennaman would handle Thomas Castellanos. And when he was doing his opening monologue, bringing in the color analyst, he was like, and Boston College is quarterback by Thomas Castellanos. And he kind of gave like a, a side smile and laid out a little bit acknowledging what the audience was anticipating.

[Jessica]

He made it all the way back. He's doing a top 20 game. What do you mean?

[Mike Ryan]

What do you see in all the Way back is you not playing that clip every time we say Tom Brennaman?

[Zaz]

Yeah, he'll live with. He'll live with that following him forever, which is probably like, you know, not. Probably not the worst thing. Right? Like, he's got a. He's gotten a second chance. USF's not going to beat Miami this weekend. I'm just going to say that like this. Maybe it could have been like a sneaky like oh wow. Like you know they're passing attack is going to really put some pressure on Miami's defense. But no, after they upset Florida, Miami is not going to be sleepwalking through that. It's not going to happen. I'm just going to Miami.

[Jessica]

Miami is big and strong and that's where they have their advantages. But I do like USF defense. Like I like how athletic they are on defense. So like I look, I'm not at the point yet where I'm going to say yeah, Mario crossed crystal balls, got this one. I'm not going to.

[Zaz]

I'm not. No, he does Dan, he has this one. I'm not saying he's going to. They're going to go undefeated the whole season. But I think he has this one.

[Billy Gil]

What get you there?

[Jessica]

I mean it's not that long ago that they lost a Middle Tennessee State.

[Billy Gil]

No, I'm with you but what would get you.

[Jessica]

And I mean this is no offense to Jess or Notre Dame. It's really more ignorance on my end of when it comes to Notre Dame what I saw them do within the limits of their offense and the limits of a first time quarterback in an impossible spot. I mean I don't know how good C.J. carr is. So I. Miami looks good to me. They look big, they look they strong and fast and I expect that Notre Dame is good and that Miami beat a good team. But I just saw what USF did to Florida and I don't think that it's impossible for them to stay close in a game against Miami and then make it difficult at the end.

[Mike Ryan]

Bring in Jess. I'm not exactly sure what USF did to Florida. I think that USF has played two ranked teams that probably came in. Look, I mean Florida was a media fabrication of they finished the year strong last year. They lost a bunch of guys. They didn't really add to the team, they added the receivers. But the problem with them is Lagway isn't super effective when he's out there and it's because he's perpetually hurt. So I'm with Jess here. I think Miami handles this business. These two teams did match up and while the first half was tight, Miami showed that with depth and size they can wear this team down. And I think it's going to happen again.

[Zaz]

Yeah, I like USF's quarterback a lot, Byron Brown. He's been super impressive and I do think like I think there is a chance that USF really does test Miami and just you know, vertical passing game just Stretches them out really far. And you know, we already talked about Miami's defense having a lot of transfers and all that. So like it's, it's a good test for them in that way. But like Miami, it should be a weight class above USF and should just be able to like, you know, out physical them now that they're on alert that this team is good. I think that's the threat is that you get stuck in a trap game against like a good G5 team. I don't think that's going to happen now that they just upset Florida. That's my, my only point there. I think Florida also beat themselves several times over and over and over again in this game. I mean penalties, clock, management, all of it. And I think that that contributed to them losing what was a really tight game. So yeah, if you're aware of the fact that like this team is talented and they can try to keep it close and do something fun at the end, Dan, like you're afraid of, I think that you make sure that that doesn't happen. Like that's how Notre Dame got trapped against Northern Illinois last year. It's the same thing. It's like they, Northern Illinois plays that style of football where they're like we're gonna, you know, try to keep this game really low scoring and then maybe we'll have one play where we can beat you. And they tried to do that to Maryland last week too. It's just I don't know why anyone schedules Northern Illinois anyways. That's, that's my, my thoughts on USF and Miami. But I also think like aside from usf, I know everyone's talking about how great the resume is and it is. There's still a number of interesting G group of six I think we're calling it now. Teams that are undefeated coming into this season like Memphis and Tulane who's got a big game against Ole Miss. So I am curious to see how those other teams do also who are not getting as much hype because they haven't had those big matchups yet.

[Jessica]

She's hosting a live show Saturday for the Notre Dame Texas A and m game at 3:30 with Kyle Rudolph and Aaron Banks. Greg Cody has completely checked out here. Wasn't listening to much of anything any anyone has said over the last five minutes. He's seething over here. Perhaps we can cheer him up with a song that Jeremy has just made very quickly about, about soup. Let's see if we can get Greg Cody back in the show because he's still pissed and he's seething and he doesn't. He's not listening to anything we're doing.

[Greg Cody]

I am listening.

[Jessica]

Yeah, that soup's delicious. Dark root or lentil?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, that soup's delicious.

[Chris]

I really like soup.

[Billy Gil]

Good song.

[Zaz]

And now I get to eat soup.

[Chris]

Thanks to great Cody.

[Jessica]

He thinks he can cook soup.

[Chris]

You better have my soup.

[Jessica]

Does he have my soup?

[Greg Cody]

Does she have my soup?

[Jessica]

Where is my soup? Give me soup.

[Zaz]

Oh, give me death.

[Jessica]

Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

It's poorly written. That might be your worst song ever.

[Dan Le Batard]

I loved it.

[Jessica]

That was unspeakably terrible anti comedy. Worse lyrics than Kiss. They're the worst lyrical writers there have ever been. Jessica, your thoughts on Jessica rushing on? Jeremy rushing in with that song and ruining everything we're doing with it.

[Chris]

I really like Sue.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, wow.

[Jessica]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jeremy]

She's just speechless.

[Jessica]

Greg, Cody, it doesn't seem to have cheered you up. Jessica, tell the people what you are doing specifically with what you're trying to do with Kyle Rudolph and Aaron Banks as part of a tailgate experience.

[Zaz]

Yeah. We're doing a live show right off of Angela Boulevard in Notre Dame right behind Murphy's ice cream in O' Rourke's on Saturday at 3:30. It's gonna be a lot of fun and I don't know why my video cut out but back and I'm really excited for it.

[Jessica]

Thank you. None of that will air. We will just say goodbye to you and we will talk to you next week.

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[Mike Ryan]

Tron Ares has arrived.

[Jim Day]

I would like you to meet Ares.

[Dan Le Batard]

The ultimate AI soldier.

[Mike Ryan]

He is biblically strong and super supremely intelligent.

[Jessica]

You think you're in control of this?

[Zaz]

You're not.

[Jessica]

On October 10th.

[Greg Cody]

What are you?

[Billy Gil]

My world is coming to destroy yours. But I can help you.

[Jessica]

The war for our world begins. In Imax.

[Mike Ryan]

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[Jessica]

Don LeBatard is there. Back in my day.

[Greg Cody]

There is, actually.

[Jessica]

What?

[Mike Ryan]

Were you not gonna tell anyone? Wait a minute, you guys. Guys, it's a Tuesday. Stugats. Here's your guy, Greg Cody with Back in My Day.

[Jessica]

Shit.

[Mike Ryan]

I can't help my.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, here it is. Sorry. Adultery.

[Mike Ryan]

We're waiting for this one. This is the Dan Levatar show with the stug.

[Jessica]

That's $20, Greg. You now own $20. Because of the amount of birthday texts coming in here, you continue to derail everything we're doing. Can I have the money, please?

[Greg Cody]

Like you, I don't have my wallet on me.

[Dan Le Batard]

What's a man to do? He's receiving birthday texts. I can't control when other people reach out to him.

[Jessica]

Seriously, Greg, you don't pay the fine. Birthday texts, you don't pay the fines around here. You don't respect the fines?

[Greg Cody]

No, I literally don't. I literally don't have my wallet.

[Jessica]

I know, but you owe $20. And you not being able to figure out how Venmo works.

[Billy Gil]

Got that?

[Jessica]

Venmo like you have.

[Greg Cody]

Hell, no.

[Jessica]

You.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's his birthday. He shouldn't be paying for anything.

[Greg Cody]

Thank you, Billy.

[Mike Ryan]

You should treat.

[Dan Le Batard]

You should cover his fines for the day.

[Mike Ryan]

I'll cover his fines. I'll cover his fines. It's all right, Greg. I got you on drugs.

[Jessica]

We're running the risk. We are running the risk. Of infuriating Greg Cody even more than he's infuriated because he sat out most of the hour. You've seen this, right? Dazzle. It's just. It's unprofessional.

[Billy Gil]

Why can't it just be. Why can't it just be enough that your. Your. Your patrons enjoyed the meal that you provided? Why does it have to all be about the competition? I loved your soup.

[Jessica]

It was great soup.

[Dan Le Batard]

He didn't vote. Neither of them.

[Chris]

It was great.

[Dan Le Batard]

Just as a reminder, Greg. Neither one of them.

[Greg Cody]

I don't need reminding.

[Jessica]

It wasn't as good as Mike's soup. Like, I.

[Billy Gil]

And not wow, I loved your soup.

[Dan Le Batard]

This seems like a setup from the start, if I'm gonna be honest with you, Greg.

[Greg Cody]

Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

Drag the old man in on his birthday. Make him cook for us. This is what face.

[Greg Cody]

The thought had occurred. It's all a scam.

[Jessica]

I want to get to.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeremy hasn't promoted your podcast once yet.

[Jessica]

He did it himself, Greg.

[Mike Ryan]

He turned to me and he said, wow, that lime zest really changed it.

[Greg Cody]

What about the coconut that was missing the key ingredient? It'd be like me leaving.

[Jessica]

Can I just understand? All right. Can I understand something? Are you also of the belief. Because you haven't said this part, as someone who knows how to cook, as someone who I would say is a sophisticated cook, is very careful with gourmet flavors and where it is he puts things and how much of something he puts in it. Did you think his soup was poorly made? Like, did you think that.

[Mike Ryan]

That.

[Jessica]

That. That doesn't respect the artistry of cooking the way that you wish it to be respected? Because he just. He just slapped so many flavors on it.

[Greg Cody]

Well, before I ever knew, I asked Mike, you're gonna. You have coconut in there, right? And he said yes. And once he said that coconut in a Thai chicken soup is a major ingredient. You have to taste the coconut. Maybe I'm alone. Maybe others of you taste the.

[Jessica]

No, it didn't taste that much like coconut. Just tasted delicious. It didn't taste that much like coconut.

[Mike Ryan]

This isn't your standard Tom Kha. Like, this is a different thing that I was going for. I didn't want to overpower people with coconut. Why am I defending the merits of my soup?

[Billy Gil]

I'm winner, baby.

[Mike Ryan]

You actually came under prepared. You overlooked your opponent. All right. You borrowed my salt. You borrowed my pepper.

[Greg Cody]

Let me ask you this.

[Mike Ryan]

You borrowed my knife. I was. I was being a sportsman.

[Greg Cody]

So putting all the coconut in there, you didn't intend it to have a coconut flavor.

[Mike Ryan]

It had a hint of coconut.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, it had a subtle hint.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes. I don't want to overpower people. Why do I have to defend the merits of my championship winning soup?

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg, this is stupid. You know what I would like in this to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. You know, they built that tower. That tower wasn't supposed to lean. That was supposed to be a straight building.

[Greg Cody]

Right.

[Dan Le Batard]

And then all of a sudden, it slightly leans because of failures on their part in terms of planning, because they couldn't have planned for that thing to be leaning sideways like that. And now people look at and say, that's an architectural marvel. When really it was a failure of design.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Somewhat like the soup. The soup wasn't bad, but it wasn't as it was intended to be designed greater, which is all that Greg is saying.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, that's exactly how it was intended. And it won. What are we doing here? Happy birthday, Greg. I'll pull back.

[Greg Cody]

All right.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm starting to get a little worked up because you're not exactly being classy in defeat here. I thought we were having fun. We were in this together. Pulling on the same rope over there. Chuck Todd's freaking us the hell out. We're having a good old time. I mean, this is a bonding moment for us. It's a. It's all in the name of sport. You didn't shake my hand after. You didn't compliment the soup. Yeah, you told me what I was missing. In fact, I think you're being pretty rotten right now, Greg. Cody.

[Greg Cody]

Okay? You can believe that. I know what I know. I've had that soup tasting like it should taste.

[Mike Ryan]

You've never had that soup before in your life. That's the first time anybody's had that soup. No one puts Farrou in a Thai soup. Have you ever had a Thai soup with Farroux?

[Greg Cody]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

You were over there telling me how I should cut the red bell peppers. I didn't hear a single complaint about the red bell peppers. In fact, some people said, love the bell peppers the way they were. Thank you so much, Mike.

[Greg Cody]

The bell peppers should have been cut in long strips, and you know it. Farreau does not go in that soup. Does not go in a toast soup.

[Mike Ryan]

You don't know what soup this is. I just blew your mind with a brand new soup.

[Greg Cody]

I saw a lot of coconut milk being put in there.

[Mike Ryan]

Not enough, apparently.

[Greg Cody]

And I tasted no coconut.

[Mike Ryan]

That is a wonder of my chef skills.

[Greg Cody]

Major shortcoming.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. You saw an entire can of coconut milk in There. And yet it didn't overpower your palate because it had so much goddamn stuff going on.

[Greg Cody]

It didn't power my palate at all. I didn't taste it.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, there's plenty of your soup left, pal. There's none of mine.

[Dan Le Batard]

The gloves are off now. I feel like you guys shouldn't even be bothering to try to pretend to compliment each other. What did you really think of Greg? Soup. And Greg?

[Mike Ryan]

I thought it was a bit gamey. It tasted like a soup made in a forest. I didn't think it was a very good soup at all. If you told me you were squirrel, I'd believe that more than it was sausage.

[Billy Gil]

You make that squirrel soup?

[Jessica]

I'm actually with him on that one.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, it was gamey.

[Jessica]

Not the gamey part. Not the gamey part.

[Dan Le Batard]

He thought you were eating squirrel.

[Chris]

Feels like it was made in a forest.

[Jessica]

That the sausage? You could have tricked me if you.

[Mike Ryan]

Could have been venison.

[Jessica]

It's not sausage. Then. It's something else.

[Dan Le Batard]

In Chuck Todd's world, it'd be great for survival.

[Mike Ryan]

Brewed in a witch's cauldron, put together on a hot plate. That's what it tasted like.

[Billy Gil]

Did you make me squirrel?

[Greg Cody]

I did.

[Jessica]

It did. I tasted a hint of eye of newt as well. It was a bit of a witch's cauldron.

[Dan Le Batard]

Greg, did you like any of Mike's soup?

[Greg Cody]

I thought it was very good, except for the absence of any coconut flavor.

[Mike Ryan]

Tell you what, if I want to make a second place soup, I'll take your advice.

[Greg Cody]

That would have authenticated the kind of soup you were making.

[Jessica]

I need to move the show along because we've probably spent too much time on Mike Ryan's delicious soup.

[Mike Ryan]

He's doing it. I'm trying to be classy.

[Jessica]

Greg Cody's less delicious soup. He's mad, and he says he will never forgive me and Zaz for making the result go that way. Jeremy, I remember.

[Greg Cody]

I didn't say I'd never forgive. What I said was I'll never forget. Don't mistake those two things.

[Jessica]

What is. What does that mean?

[Dan Le Batard]

It means what it means.

[Jessica]

No, I don't. So what does it mean, though? I'll never forgive it, but I'll never forget it.

[Greg Cody]

Fate will tell.

[Jessica]

What?

[Dan Le Batard]

Fate will tell. He told you he'll forgive. He just won't forget.

[Jessica]

So wait, but if he. If you don't forget, Fate will tell. Okay, sounds like a bit of a threat. Jeremy, I'm sorry. We're not going to pull him out of this. He's seething and he might storm out of here on his birthday. What? Where are we on your top fives? You have multiple top fives. You scored. Couldn't possibly have just one top five.

[Chris]

No, we have three top fives. So it's based off of you yesterday saying that Debo Samuel doesn't look like he belongs on the Commanders.

[Jessica]

Just doesn't look right.

[Chris]

We've got a top five players who look like they belong on the team they're on. We've got a top five players who look like they belong on another team. And we've got a top five players who look like they should be New England Patriots. Oh, I love this.

[Jeremy]

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[Billy Gil]

40% alcohol by volume.

[Chris]

So we start here. Top five players who look like they belong on the team they're on. Number five, Justin Herbert looks like he belongs on the Chargers. At number four, Max Crosby belongs on the Raiders.

[Jessica]

You're going to do three better than that one.

[Chris]

Number three, Dan Quinn looks like a commander.

[Mike Ryan]

I love this.

[Chris]

Number two, Andrew Van Genkle belongs on the Vikings.

[Jessica]

Dan Quinn also has the name of a commander as well.

[Chris]

Yeah, he does. And number one, no one looks more like they belong on a team than Tyler Warren looks like an Indianapolis Colt.

[Mike Ryan]

Guy's gonna be good.

[Chris]

Now let's talk about guys who look like they belong on a different team. So number five, Fred Warner looks like a Baltimore Raven. A bad AI Baker. Mayfield looks like a Dallas Cowboy. Hollywood Brown looks like a Miami Dolphins receiver.

[Mike Ryan]

Produces like one, too.

[Chris]

Amon Ross. St. Brown. Sort of a Lion. Looks more like a Carolina Panther.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, that's.

[Chris]

I don't know what you're doing. Debo Samuel looks like the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's the same color. And for the Patriots, Oli Alec Pierce.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, because he's white.

[Chris]

Oli Christian McCaffrey. Number five, Cooper Cup.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay.

[Chris]

Number four, Adam Thielen. All right, number three, Cam Scatterboo. All right, number two, Lad McConkey.

[Jessica]

White guys.

[Chris]

Number one, Hunter Renfro.

[Jessica]

White guys.

[Chris]

You get it.

[Billy Gil]

Commander Quinn.

[Jessica]

Dan Quinn's a great commander. Name how much? You're going to have a hard time doing better than Commander Dan Quinn.

[Mike Ryan]

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