Hour 2: I Can Feel Your Enthusiasm (feat. Amin Elhassan)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Hour 2: I Can Feel Your Enthusiasm (feat. Amin Elhassan)
Date: November 17, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this lively hour, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Amin Elhassan, and the crew broadcast from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami. They tackle a mix of topical issues—from the latest, government-acknowledged developments in the search for extraterrestrial life to South Florida sports, Amin’s signature “Weekend Observations,” quirky side debates, and poignant moments invested in sports nostalgia. The usual irreverence and sharply comedic asides abound, especially as the team debates aliens, odd documentaries, bread superiority, and Miami legends.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Aliens and the New Age of Disclosure

• The Team Discusses the U.S. Government’s UFO/UAP Disclosures
  • Greg Cody insists the “alien question” deserves more attention amid credible governmental and military admissions.
  • Dan brings up the Age of Disclosure documentary (Amazon Prime) touting unprecedented, reputable testimony from military and intelligence sources—including Marco Rubio—on a secret international contest to weaponize alien tech.
• Debate Over Proof and Skepticism
  • Mike Ryan continues to doubt, equating most evidence to “grainy Bigfoot” footage.
  • Quote: “Until I get clear proof...I’m a skeptic.” — Mike Ryan (04:29)
  • Le Batard stresses that “UFOs exist; it’s not just crazy speculation anymore” (04:48), but whether that equals “little green men” is another matter.
• Cultural Depictions & The Alien Body Debate
  • Joking turns to the body types of hypothetical aliens and human-centric depictions:
    • “Do you think any aliens are grossly overweight?” — Greg Cody (06:27)
    • Amin Elhassan pushes back: “You guys said there are no fat aliens. What about Jabba the Hutt? …You guys are just stuck in this 1950s, oh, they all work out…BS” (06:54).
• Origins and Possibilities
  • Dan muses about the mystery of deep oceans as possible extraterrestrial origins (“they’re coming from the oceans,” 06:44).
  • Amin wonders if UFOs themselves could be the aliens (“the UFO itself is the alien...What if it just flew over here? Like the Silver Surfer,” 08:21).
  • Octopus gets labeled an “alien” due to its bizarre, unique nature: “When I look at an octopus, tell me that ain't an alien” — Amin (08:34).
• Humor and Stereotypes
  • Spirited riffs on how pop culture shapes perceptions, skepticism toward “Breatharians” (humans who claim to live without food or drink), and Chris Cody’s infamous “kook meter” that apparently scared away prior guest Jeremy Corbell (03:39).

Notable Quotes

• “UFOs, UAPs, like, they are verified to be real. Now, whether you think there’s a little green man in the cockpit, that is open to debate…” — Dan Le Batard (04:29)
• “Octopus…that thing’s an alien.” — Amin Elhassan (08:41)
• “What if the UFO itself is the alien?” — Amin Elhassan (08:21)

2. Amin’s Weekend Observations (15:26–27:57)

Amin Elhassan shares humorous, rapid-fire sports notes full of riffs and player/coach jabs.

Sports Highlights & Zingers

• College & NFL Football
  • The “Shador Plan” for Browns QB succession falters; Dolphins-Commanders game likened to international revenge for the USS Maine.
  • Dolphins’ resurgence: “The Dolphins are back. Greg Cody V stands for Voice of Reason.” — Amin (17:05)
  • Ongoing Chiefs skepticism and the agony of wrong sports picks.
• Miami & The ACC
  • Complicated Miami and Georgia Tech routes to the ACC championship; lists statistical oddities and improbable outcomes.
  • “If I told you at the beginning of the season the Dolphins would be a game behind the Chiefs…you’d have a load in your pants.” — Amin (17:52)
• Random Sports Fun
  • Jokes about South Carolina’s “cocks” mascot and the perils of unexpected contact.
  • Brief Adam McKay/Climate Science crossover with NBA player Jalen Johnson.
  • Shai Gilgeous-Alexander makes an “alien” shot over Wemby.
  • Kevin James on mute = Charlie Chaplin? (22:25)

Name Pronunciation Rant (23:21–25:54)

Amin lists the “Top 5 names people mess up” and includes a shocker:

• “It’s pronounced Kelce, not Kelsey,” referring to NFL star Travis Kelce — Amin (24:41)
• #1: “Denzel Washington…it’s not Denzel. It’s Denzel.” — Amin (25:54)

Memorable Moment

• Sports Gambler berating Jimmy Butler in public for not scoring 30:
  • “You bet that Jimmy Butler would score over 30 in a November game. I want to gamble with that guy. I got a poker game for you.” — Amin (27:37)

Notable Quotes

• “You were supposed to go over!” — Fan to Jimmy Butler, replayed by Dan & Amin (38:10)
• “Josh Allen…must think he Haines King or something.” — Amin (21:00)

3. Bread Wars (32:11–33:43)

• Discussion springs from Dolphins' Madrid trip and coach Mike McDaniel’s celebration of Spanish bread:
  • “France has better bread.” — Mike Ryan (32:43)
  • “Cubans do. It’s very simple. Cubans have the best bread.” — Dan (32:48)
• Dan shares his double-bag trick to keep Cuban bread fresh (33:12).
• The conversation evolves into an informal “poll” for the best type of bread: French, Spanish, or Cuban.

4. Bill Belichick & The Handshake Snub (34:16–35:15)

• Wake Forest coach honored to meet Bill Belichick postgame, but Belichick brushes off the handshake.

  • “You have to realize…this coach is excited for this moment. You can’t be a jerk like that just because you’re having a bad year.” — Dan (34:42)
  • “He should have been a big man and congratulated the guy…Bill Belichick crapped all over the moment.” — Mike Ryan (34:50)

• Discussion of Belichick’s job prospects and the rumor mill around college and NFL jobs; Lane Kiffin and Jeff Brohm considered for Giants.

5. Jimmy Butler Gambler Confrontation (Playful or Crossing the Line?) (37:42–39:13)

• The show debates whether a fan was out of line confronting Butler about a failed prop bet.
  • Amin: “Anyone would tolerate it as harsh ribbing up until you call him a [bleep]. At that point…you’ve betrayed yourself” (38:32).

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6. Poignant Segment: Bernie Kosar’s Health Update (41:17–45:29)

• Greg and Dan reflect somberly on Bernie Kosar—a “forever hero” in Miami and Cleveland—who is undergoing surgery for a liver transplant, compounded by Parkinson’s and early dementia.
  • “He is beloved to this day in Cleveland…for leading what used to be a bad Browns team to three AFC Championships.” — Mike Ryan (42:12)
  • “When I say it scared me, I can’t help but see something like that happen and feel my own mortality.” — Dan (41:35)

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Additional Noteworthy Quotes & Moments

• On “Back in My Day”:

  • “Stugots, here’s your guy Greg Cody with Back in My Day.” — Dan (14:33)

• On the quick scheduling of Kosar’s surgery:

  • “It shows you how dire it is…hours later, ‘hey, we’re doing this.’” — Dan (43:29)

• On Aliens among us:

  • “Watch this documentary and find out!” — Dan (07:39)

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Important Timestamps

• Alien/UFO disclosure discussion: 01:44–10:55
• Amin’s Weekend Observations: 15:26–27:57
• Bread wars (Cuban vs French vs Spanish): 32:11–33:43
• Bill Belichick handshake incident: 34:16–35:15
• Jimmy Butler bet confrontation debate: 37:42–39:13
• Bernie Kosar health update: 41:17–45:29

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Tone & Style

• Fast-paced, irreverent, rife with in-jokes, pop culture sidebars, and playful insults
• Friendly, occasionally poignant, underpinned by sports nostalgia
• Characteristic South Florida flair and skepticism, especially from the likes of Mike Ryan

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For New Listeners

This episode is a quintessential slice of the Le Batard universe: at turns goofy and sincere, nervous about government honesty, ready for sports gambling tales, and loyal to Miami legends. It juggles the outrageous (aliens, documentary skepticism) and the sentimental (Bernie Kosar), all while keeping the listener entertained with banter you’d hear at a bar—if your bar was filled with deeply sports-mad, culturally savvy misfits.

Transcript

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Greg Cody]

Amin is here. We will get to his weekend observations in a second. But I'm surprised we've gone this far into the show, this far into the week, this far into the year without talking more about a story that I believe should be getting a lot more attention. One of the great fascinations of my lifetime that is not covered well enough, but a whole lot of people care about in really stupefying numbers is are there aliens? Have there been other forms of life that exist other than human life? And this week is an enormous week where the government is basically saying with credibility, yeah, there's all sorts, yes, what.

[Dan LeBatard]

Wemby did to Draymond. No, it's not what Steph did. The Wemby.

[Greg Cody]

It's not just the existence of Wemby. It is now verifiable. This is Isn't this Disclosure week?

[Dan LeBatard]

Isn't this new age of disclosure is upon us documentary that is being released this week On Amazon prime. And it has a bunch of military Active and retired by Marco Rubio is in this documentary and it presents. It is supposed to present the most compelling argument ever for people that have actually even seen alien life forms, all of them reputable sources talking on the record about this secret war among nations to take all this advanced alien technology and weaponize it for their own gain. It is. It is talked about widely. And now the age of disaster. Tony, did I talk to you? No. But one thing I will say for guys like Chris Cody, who run up this kook meter thing, which is absolute bullshit, he did that to a very good guest of ours that has never come back, by the way. Okay? Jeremy Corbell, who's on the front lines of this stuff with the rest of.

[Greg Cody]

Us trying to make things happened video in the history of this show, is that guy and people wanting. People wanting information.

[Dan LeBatard]

And Chris did the kook meter on him, ran him off the show. We could never get. No, it wasn't. He was a straight up guy. We don't know that. That's why he hasn'. Come back. We know you did the kook meter one too many times. But the biggest. The guy responsible for the biggest video in the history of this show is like, I'm not gonna be called a kook on that. Exactly right. Exactly right. So now what about all the people that have said I have seen aliens at this point?

[Greg Cody]

Well, what do I have to put in front of you, Greg? What do I have to put in front of you in the way of proof for you to say that is the most viable proof I have ever heard on something that is one of life's great mysteries?

[Mike Ryan]

Well, I haven't seen the documentary, so I can't comment on what is conveyed there. All you hear to this point is just, you know, grainy footage and it's almost like a Bigfoot sight. Okay. Until I get clear proof.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hold on, hold on. UFOs, UAPs, like, they are verified to be real. Now, whether you think there's a little green man in the cockpit that is open to debate and whatever, okay.

[Mike Ryan]

But The U in UFOs stands for what?

[Dan LeBatard]

Unidentified.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay. All right, so let's. Go. Let's. But let's identify it.

[Dan LeBatard]

But they. They have, like the government has said on the record, UFOs exist.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Okay.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is not. This is not.

[Mike Ryan]

Government says it. Then it must be true.

[Greg Cody]

So what do I have to put in front of you in the way of proof for you? Like a documentary is not sufficient credible people certainly Marco Rubio is not working for you as credible, but there will be an assortment of fighter pilots and whatnot in this saying. Yeah, absolutely. I saw something that moves faster, doesn't move like anything I've ever seen move.

[Mike Ryan]

I look forward to the documentary. I'm a skeptic right now. I'm not somebody who's unwilling to make an acknowledgment. If I see sufficient proof.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's not just people seeing UAPs. It's also people that have seen aliens. They saw the little green man. Don't do that. Well, don't do what? Don't do that. We all know that's a sucker move. Don't do that. We all know aliens, if they exist, they're not little green men. All right, you're. Don't put that out there. You're a sucker.

[Mike Ryan]

They're all thin and wiry.

[Dan LeBatard]

Look, nobody wants. That's closer. We all know nobody wants to have these conversations because it wiry. It really calls everything that people believe in into question. I mean, we're talking about deities that fall. Some would say you're a sucker for believing this garbage. So me somewhat. You calling me a sucker for someone say it's awfully convenient for the government to actually embrace the fact that they're UFOs, because the truth is far more scary.

[Greg Cody]

Well, Greg. Greg is correct, though, when he says thin and wiry. Because nobody, wherever it is, that you're imagining what aliens look like, you're not having one be 100 pounds overweight.

[Dan LeBatard]

There's no buffets on other planets.

[Greg Cody]

You're not having one be sloppy and like 45 pounds body fat.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, we're the aliens.

[Amin Elhassan]

Hello.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, body fat aliens.

[Greg Cody]

Do you have any thought? Put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Do you think any aliens are grossly overweight? I mean, do you have any thoughts on this as subject matter? Mike has been saying for a while, we keep getting government information on this that is verifiable and credible.

[Dan LeBatard]

They're coming from the oceans, the deep seas. You know, we haven't explored that. We've explored more of space than we have in the deep ocean. We know more about deep space and our deep ocean. They're coming from the oceans.

[Greg Cody]

Amin, do you have any thoughts here?

[Amin Elhassan]

You guys said there are no fat aliens. What about Jabba the Hutt? What about lure from Omicron? Percy i8 there's so many fat aliens all across popular culture and media, but you guys are just stuck in this 1950s. Oh, they all work out. They're all on the treadmill all the time. Bs.

[Dan LeBatard]

No, they don't work out. They just don't eat a lot.

[Mike Ryan]

You kidding me?

[Amin Elhassan]

No, they eat a lot. Trust me.

[Mike Ryan]

What do they eat? Aliens.

[Amin Elhassan]

They.

[Mike Ryan]

They can subside on nothing at all.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, they're so evolved, Greg, that they don't eat anything.

[Mike Ryan]

Right.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's why they don't have, like, barely have mounts. Little slit for mounts.

[Mike Ryan]

The only question worth asking is, are the aliens friendly to us, or do they want to gobble up our entire solar system?

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, if they've been here, Greg, then they haven't ended us just yet. Maybe it's a long play.

[Mike Ryan]

Are there aliens among us?

[Dan LeBatard]

Watch this documentary and find out. I mean, I can't believe I'm having that. Do you know we're not.

[Amin Elhassan]

Then the other part is, think of this. The. The hubris, the. The narcissism of humans to think that aliens are basically going to look like us. Two eyes, a mouth, and, like, says who?

[Dan LeBatard]

Said little green man. Stop it.

[Amin Elhassan]

I'm just saying, like, every. Every depiction, or most depictions of aliens are humanoid in some version. Like, they look different and weird, but they follow kind of what we generally accept as what life looks like. Two eyes, a mouth.

[Mike Ryan]

Correct.

[Amin Elhassan]

Two legs, and two arms and hands. No, man.

[Greg Cody]

In shape.

[Amin Elhassan]

They might be.

[Mike Ryan]

Might be an alien.

[Amin Elhassan]

Energy fields. It might be. We talk about the UFOs as the shuttles that carry them. What if the UFO itself is the alien he just flew over here? Like the Silver Surfer. There's so many million different interpretations of what aliens are. And by the way, I had to find you. When I look at an octopus and tell me that ain't an alien.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's an alien.

[Amin Elhassan]

That thing's an alien.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's an alien.

[Greg Cody]

Nothing.

[Dan LeBatard]

Nothing like its genetic makeup. You telling me that it can fit itself in a jar and get itself out? Are you kidding me?

[Amin Elhassan]

It could change the texture of its skin. You guys know this?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes.

[Amin Elhassan]

Like, if it's like, oh, I got to hide against something bumpy, it can make its skin bumpy.

[Dan LeBatard]

But isn't the definition of an alien. It's a creature that does not live on this planet. They came here, though. They weren't originally octopi.

[Mike Ryan]

They're among us.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, they flew over in their whatevers and they got over here and they're like, I like this ocean. This is cool now. Just going to chill, Mike.

[Amin Elhassan]

It's okay. If they came here legally, though, like, if they went through the proper channels and protocols, we have no problem with that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Gold card.

[Mike Ryan]

That's who ICE should be tracking down, not the immigrants.

[Greg Cody]

I'm pretty sure that Zaslo would believe that there could be found a little green man in a spaceship shaped like an octopus like that. The vehicle that the little green man exists inside.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's like the aliens in the Simpsons. Amin's point is a great one, in that you don't know what an alien actually looks like. You just know a Hollywood representation of it. It could very well be this vessel. I mean. I mean, this is. This is a huge week for us. We'll tackle UFOs this week, and then next week we'll talk about Garth Brooks.

[Greg Cody]

What is the name of the documentary? Because one of you mentioned something. My wife was watching this yesterday. I only caught a piece of it. Breatharians. A documentary about people who exist. Human beings who exist on no food and no liquids. Like, they just meditate all day. Somebody listen 110 years.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. That's bullshit then. I'm sorry.

[Greg Cody]

It's not bullshit.

[Dan LeBatard]

I believe aliens before breath areas. Give me a break.

[Greg Cody]

Look it. Look it up. Breatharian.

[Dan LeBatard]

They don't eat.

[Greg Cody]

Don't eat or drink. Don't drink.

[Dan LeBatard]

No. That's like, essential to life.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't want to be one of them.

[Greg Cody]

Go ahead and. Go ahead. Just go ahead.

[Dan LeBatard]

You ain't lying.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, I thought the same thing. I mean, I thought the same thing. But there is a documentary. I think it's also on Amazon Prime. So what?

[Dan LeBatard]

No food, water, or. Or exertion.

[Amin Elhassan]

Someone. Someone commissioned a camera crew and just interviewed people saying whatever the fuck they wanted. Well, then it must be true.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, if it'. Documentary, Chris.

[Amin Elhassan]

Documentary.

[Greg Cody]

Please give me more.

[Dan LeBatard]

Indian guy that lived to be 70 years old without food or water. It's.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, okay.

[Amin Elhassan]

Chris.

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[Greg Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

There is actually.

[Dan LeBatard]

What? 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.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, here it is. Sorry, adultery.

[Dan LeBatard]

For this one. This is the Dan Levatar show with the stug.

[Greg Cody]

Go ahead and give me the name of the documentary that is appearing on prime this week. Mike. About the aliens.

[Dan LeBatard]

Age of Disclosure.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, are you ready Amin for your weekend observations? Let's get going.

[Dan LeBatard]

It is time for. I mean, to share his game notes. No one in the media will tell.

[Greg Cody]

You what happened better than my boy Amin.

[Amin Elhassan]

Weekend observations is presented by Miller Light. Then. Is everybody okay?

[Greg Cody]

Yep.

[Amin Elhassan]

I'm. I'm genuinely asking, is everyone okay in the shipping container?

[Greg Cody]

Because they lost yesterday. The less the loss of. Yeah, five grand.

[Dan LeBatard]

We're still. We're still hurting. Jeremy's to blame.

[Amin Elhassan]

Brad Williams is real happy, though. I just want to put that out.

[Greg Cody]

All right.

[Amin Elhassan]

The Shador plan was going perfectly. As detailed on Aug. 27, the Browns will suck. Flacco gets bench. Gabriel plays but sucks. Shedeur saves the day. During the first half of that game, fans broke out a we want Shador chant. Booed after multiple Aaron Gabriel passes. But there was something I didn't take into account. People get hurt playing football. So Gabriel gets dinged up. Shador gets in, and he gets his shot a little prematurely. Although when he completed the first two, I got really excited. I thought it was happening. And then the rest of the game happened and he lost. He blew. Steelers somehow survived. Joe Flacco somewhere. Dave Damaschek is yammering. In 1898, the USS Maine was attacked and sunk by Spain in Havana Harbor. 127 years later, we got our revenge by sending them Commanders versus Dolphins. Wolf.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

So bad.

[Amin Elhassan]

Oh, my God, Greg. I told you to stay strong. I said diamond hands. The Dolphins are back. Greg Cody V stands for voice of reason. Dan.

[Greg Cody]

I wish I'd stayed strong on the Chiefs.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, wow.

[Amin Elhassan]

You would have been doing a hell of a victory lap. You know what happened, Dan? You didn't ask yourself the question Are you trying to win or be ballsy? A good question.

[Greg Cody]

I managed to be wrong twice.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah. Chief's gonna miss the playoffs right now.

[Greg Cody]

If they started today, they play the Colts next. Colts coming off a buy.

[Amin Elhassan]

So, Dan, if I told you at the beginning of the season that the Dolphins would be a game behind the Chiefs, you'd have a load in your pants. Especially if I told you Mahomes doesn't get hurt. Like he's healthy, right? Oh, you might have two loads in your pants. Matthew Berry made me money on a parlay. Shout out to Matthew Berry. Matthew Berry. Matthew Berry. Matthew Berry.

[Greg Cody]

Matthew Berry.

[Amin Elhassan]

Matthew Berry. Matthew Berry. Me and Mike Ryan doing the office handshake meme. You know the one where Steve Carell has the fanny pack on about Vanderbilt. Who'da thunk it? Two of us. How about that?

[Dan LeBatard]

One of us beat NC State, though.

[Greg Cody]

That was that. You wheezing to a victory over BC over Boston College this weekend? I don't know. Yes, wheezing.

[Amin Elhassan]

We'll get. We'll get to it. But also, Mike, I'm gonna just skip to this part. Georgia Tech reaches the ACC championship game if they beat Pitt. Miami reaches the ACC championship game if they beat Virginia Tech. And Pitt. Virginia beats Virginia Tech. Pitt beats Georgia Tech. Duke beats North Carolina. SMU beats Louisville. Cal beats smu. Wake Forest beats Duke.

[Greg Cody]

That's a lot that has to happen.

[Amin Elhassan]

But you be NC State, so congrats. South Carolina robbed me of the perfect joke. Man, I was so ready. Notre Dame almost beating Texas A M is more impressive than South Carolina actually beating Texas A M. I had it written at halftime. I was like, oh, I can't wait to drop that one cop at the Texas A M game.

[Dan LeBatard]

What do you do?

[Amin Elhassan]

Got mad after he bumped into an SC receiver. I get. Wouldn't be mad about an unexpected cock on the shoulder. They're called the cocks.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Amin Elhassan]

South Carolina is. The cock hit him in the shoulder. Yeah. And I think most people would be like, hey, I didn't expect a cock on my shoulder. But they get mad.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think he hit the cock in the shoulder.

[Amin Elhassan]

His shoulder hit the cock, you're saying?

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah.

[Amin Elhassan]

He went shoulder first into the cock.

[Mike Ryan]

Yep.

[Amin Elhassan]

That changes the story.

[Dan LeBatard]

Who among us at the barbershop? Right?

[Amin Elhassan]

I mean, inadvertently. Inadvertently.

[Dan LeBatard]

But nonetheless happens.

[Amin Elhassan]

It's happened. I can't watch Jalen Johnson of the Hawks without thinking about Adam McKay's podcast concept of bringing climate scientists and NBA players together. Release the tape, dad.

[Greg Cody]

It was a good pilot episode. It was a good.

[Amin Elhassan]

You gotta release it, you gotta release it simply because Jalen Johnson's playing great and Adam McKay deserves his flowers for that. Also, the world is ending and he deserves his flowers for that one, too. Josh Allen, rushing for three touchdowns and passing for three touchdowns. Must think he Haines King or something. Speaking of Haynes King, you want to talk about wheezing? Dan led the 69 yard march down the field for the winning score, through for 25 yards and rushed for 27 on that drive. Haynes King. More like Heisman.

[Greg Cody]

D.C. lost to UConn.

[Dan LeBatard]

Okay.

[Amin Elhassan]

And Texas lost to Florida. What you want from me?

[Greg Cody]

Texas is good.

[Amin Elhassan]

They're swooning over them. There's a order. Should be in the playoffs. Me and Mike, we're aligned on this.

[Dan LeBatard]

Insane losses. Razor thin losses to ACC teams are bad, but not bad. If you get totally dominated by a 2 and 5 ACC team, Texas isn't any good.

[Amin Elhassan]

Steph Curry scored 95 points versus the spurs last week, then scored 11 versus New Orleans last night. It's got to be frustrating for your Pelicans fan. I'm saying, like, did you see the shy hit over Wemby Dan?

[Dan LeBatard]

Insane.

[Greg Cody]

Yes. Yeah.

[Amin Elhassan]

And he stared at him. He couldn't see the rim. So I was like, where am I gonna look? I guess I'll just look at him. You want to talk about aliens? Number 30 is an alien. This week on Cinephobe. Paul Bart, Mall Cop, a movie that cost $26 million to make and gross almost $190 million. How during filming, Kevin James real life wife and kids went shopping at the mall. They shot the movie at why Hath God Forsaken Me? Cinephobe. Wherever you get podcasts, it's one of.

[Dan LeBatard]

The worst movies I've ever seen.

[Amin Elhassan]

It's pretty terrible. Pretty terrible. Although Zach Harper has a theory that if you watch a Kevin James movie on mute, it's like watching Charlie Chaplin put it on. He's like, he's incredible.

[Greg Cody]

If you watch a Kevin James movie on mute, is it like watching Charlie Chaplin?

[Amin Elhassan]

People always up Dirk Nowitzki's name, but no one ever messes up Max Strus.

[Dan LeBatard]

How?

[Amin Elhassan]

Why did everyone get that one right immediately? Like you said, Max Strawson says actually Struse. And then forever, everyone else know it's Max Truth. And yeah, I still help people hear people say Dirk Nowitzki. One guy is top 75 all time greatest player of all time, and the other guy, I don't know what's he hit? A couple threes for the Heat.

[Greg Cody]

A lot of threes.

[Amin Elhassan]

Top Five names. People mess up. Even though it should be pretty established by now. Got some more lives for you, Dan. Oli, Modi, Moses. Moses Modi Oli. AJ DeBonsa. You don't know that name now. You will soon. Olai. Tyron Lou. People keep saying Tehran Lou. No, it's a reason. His name is Ty Lue. It's Tyron Lou. Holy. Goran Dragic. It's like a dragon with an itch. That's what I've been saying since 2008 and people still say Dragic Oli, Travis Kelce. That's how you pronounce the name. See, I know I'm a good friend, a friend of the Kels family, but people don't know. They keep saying Kelsey. It's Kelsey. Number five. Dirk Nowitzky.

[Dan LeBatard]

Number four.

[Amin Elhassan]

I can't hear any sound.

[Dan LeBatard]

There was no sound.

[Greg Cody]

None played there. That's why.

[Amin Elhassan]

Got it.

[Dan LeBatard]

He's juggling a couple things. It was an off mic. F word.

[Greg Cody]

And. And. And Cody doesn't believe you on Travis Kelce. You're breaking news there. A lot of people listening to this don't know that what you're saying is true.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah, it's pronounced Kelce.

[Mike Ryan]

I've never heard that before.

[Amin Elhassan]

Greg, you can ask Travis. You can ask their father. It's Kelce.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, Travis said that in Tahoe when he was talking to the crew in Tahoe.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's Kels on air production meeting. We need to make this bed longer. This has been a thing for like, is this. Is this just the Dick Van Dyke ottoman for us? I know you get that reference.

[Mike Ryan]

I do. Thank you.

[Dan LeBatard]

Where we're just gonna always have this bed run out for us. It's easy. Just copy paste. Love an ottoman trip.

[Amin Elhassan]

Number five, Dirk Nowitzki. Number four, Monica Selish. Number three, Lindsay Lohan. Not Lohan. Yep, Lohan. Number two, Nikola Jokic. They don't go hard J with the Js in. In the Serbian language. And the number one name that people mess up despite it should be pretty well established by now. Denzel Washington.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yep.

[Amin Elhassan]

It's not Denzel.

[Dan LeBatard]

Denzel.

[Amin Elhassan]

It's Denzel. Denzel Washington.

[Greg Cody]

That's a good list. I mean, good job by you.

[Amin Elhassan]

Thank you. I can feel your enthusiasm. Blake Griffin is everywhere.

[Dan LeBatard]

You guys notice this?

[Amin Elhassan]

He's got more ads now than when he was playing. Shout out to Stephen from Cameo.

[Dan LeBatard]

What are you saying?

[Amin Elhassan]

He's got a call coming on the Boost Mobile Boulders take line. It's about being a Cubs fan. I myself am a White Sox fan. As are Michelle, Sasha, Malia Oklahoma broke Alabama's 17 game home winning streak. It was bound to happen. As it turns out, it was sooners than expected. Oh, it's crazy that Bill Clinton's hog is part of two American presidential legacies. Shout out to Miami comedian Amanda Vasco. She wrote that joke.

[Dan LeBatard]

Bubba.

[Amin Elhassan]

After the Dolphins game, Tua was asked where he'd like to play next. After playing in Frankfurt and Madrid, Tua said Jerusalem. Hey Tua, do you watch the news?

[Dan LeBatard]

Did you see what Kenny Stills tweeted about that? Dan Kenny Stills tweeted this guy is clueless in every aspect of life.

[Amin Elhassan]

Zaz yeah, I keep telling y' all every week man. Scrambled eggs, man potatoes. That's what's upstairs for him. It's no longer functioning in any way other than just the verb Bare minimum mechanics.

[Greg Cody]

It functions on the bubble screen.

[Amin Elhassan]

Bare minimum mechanics Gambler calls out Jimmy Butler because he lost his bet. His bet was that Jimmy would score 30 plus you bet that Jimmy Butler would score over 30 in a November game. I want to gamble with that guy. I got a poker game for you.

[Mike Ryan]

Palace.

[Amin Elhassan]

Whale hunting. What the hell. Speaking of hell, Art Briles and those are the weekend observations. What does Zyn give you? Not just smoke free nicotine satisfaction, but real freedom.

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Amin Elhassan]

For premium tech outdoor gear and gift cards to your favorite retailer.

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Amin Elhassan]

Don LeBatard.

[Mike Ryan]

What do we got here? I got a Magnum condom. We won't get that out.

[Greg Cody]

That's shocking.

[Dan LeBatard]

Stugats.

[Mike Ryan]

Here's a picture of Christopher when he was like three years old.

[Greg Cody]

Right next to the condo.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amin Elhassan]

Never, ever had.

[Dan LeBatard]

Never forget. This is the Dan Ler show with the st.

[Greg Cody]

Can you guys get for me? I want to play this sound for a mean. I did actually think for all the complaints I had about Commander's Dolphins. It is a majestic achievement that the NFL continues to go overseas and fill these stadiums with crowds that are enormous and understand American football and show an enthusiasm for American football that feels bigger than what you see in NFL stadiums. Given the rarity of it, given the amount of people in costumes like, it really is an achievement that the NFL goes overseas and gets every time sold out stadiums. But Mike McDaniel in Madrid also, the players did a good job celebrating the culture there by dancing salsa merengue on celebrations, by, you know, doing the Ronaldo celebration as part of what it is that they were celebrating. And Mike McDaniel has an appreciation for the bread in Madrid. In Spain. Let's listen to McDaniel who's back as the quipster, the eccentric no longer looks broken and downtrodden. All it took was a couple of victories and now McDaniel is back to having a lot of opinions.

[Amin Elhassan]

Finally able to get out into the city a little bit on Friday and just overwhelmed with the culture.

[Mike Ryan]

I've never been in a city this.

[Amin Elhassan]

Big and this clean before.

[Mike Ryan]

And you want to talk about some. Some good bread? Any. Anywhere I go, there's awesome bread.

[Dan LeBatard]

It makes it bread makes me want to go.

[Greg Cody]

It's good bread. No, he's absolutely right.

[Dan LeBatard]

I want to fight for that. Coach.

[Mike Ryan]

France has better bread.

[Dan LeBatard]

France has better bread.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

The French have the best bread on Earth.

[Amin Elhassan]

Correct.

[Dan LeBatard]

Cubans do. It's very simple. Cubans have the best bread. On the Cuban bread is you have to eat it immediately because if you leave it out just for two days, it becomes the strongest the French bread on the planet. Yeah, French bread is incredibly good. French bread's got a few days in it. You know about that French.

[Mike Ryan]

I love French bread. It doesn't last that long around me.

[Greg Cody]

But if you leave this bread out, you could absolutely beat a man to death.

[Dan LeBatard]

Play baseball with it.

[Greg Cody]

With the bread, if you leave it out for. You gotta eat it right away. It's gotta be soft, it's gotta be buttered, and you can't leave it out.

[Dan LeBatard]

By the way, I have a little trick for those of you at home getting Cuban bread. Here's the trick. You ready? You take the bread. Obviously, it comes in that big paper bag, right?

[Amin Elhassan]

You roll it up.

[Dan LeBatard]

Once you're done, you put it into a. Like a publix bag. Bag, like a plastic bag. Put that bag into another bag and tie it up. Double bag. Publix bag. It stays together for like a week, maybe longer, maybe longer.

[Greg Cody]

Put it on the poll, please. At Lebitage show best of the breads. French, Spanish or Cuban.

[Amin Elhassan]

That's the second best double bag advice.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is it not pretty common knowledge that when you seal something, it stays fresh? No. What are we doing? No. Chris doesn't get it. Again with the coop meter. Dude, I just drive me crazy. I hate this guy.

[Greg Cody]

I feel like a Ziploc.

[Dan LeBatard]

Him and Jeremy. You guys don't get it. You haven't spoken in a while, so you're good.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. Let's get finally to this video.

[Amin Elhassan]

You save the bread.

[Dan LeBatard]

You don't get. Have you ever bought. And it stays. Have you ever bought a Cuban bread? Yes or no, have you ever bought it? Look at me bought.

[Greg Cody]

Let's get to that video I was promising earlier. Now you have Wake Forest Coach Jake Dickard is very excited to have beaten Bill Belichick and to shake hands with Bill Belichick. Takes his hat off in respect.

[Dan LeBatard]

Just a man jogging over. Like I am. So, like, this is one of the best coaches of all time. I want to show respect to this guy. And Belichick just big times him. Doesn't even give him a. Doesn't stop for a split second when he's walking over. He's got his arms folded. Just. Dude, you have to realize when you're Bill Belichick that, like, this coach is excited for this moment. You just can be a jerk like that. Just because you're having a bad year. Bad luck.

[Greg Cody]

Greg Cody, you got any thoughts on this?

[Mike Ryan]

I think Bill Belichick does himself a disservice so often in so many ways in the past year. And what he did to that Wake Forest coach. He should have been a big man and congratulated the guy and created a special moment for this coach who honored him by removing that cap out of respect. And Bill Belichick crapped all over the moment. Awful.

[Dan LeBatard]

How about that phony statement that Jordan put out for him over the weekend, taking his name out of the running for the New York Giants? There's no way the New York Giants were ever considering Bill Belichick. No NFL team is considering Bill Belichick. No one wants him. There's no need for him to come out with any kind of statement of any kind saying I'm committed to unc. Onto Wake Forest. By the way, onto Wake Forest doesn't hit quite as well as like onto Buffalo. I mean, I hear your point, but I happen to know something. He happens to know. Great Scott. He happens to know. He happens to know. Gather everyone, get the children. He happens to know. So wise. The plan for Bill Belichick was always let me get back to the NFL and I pray that it's a New York Giants. That's the job that he wanted. His plan entering this season was I'll just kick it around here in college and obviously I'll dominate so much. The NFL will come call and I'll get the so far this is all true. Yep. But then he made everything such a circus that you are actually right now in that it's a circus like statement. Because why would the NFL actually consider Bill Belichick given what they've seen from him over the last few months. But Bill was more than angling for this job. He had his sights set on that. Another happen to know that my subs. Oh my God. He knows. Come everyone come and listen. He happens to know.

[Amin Elhassan]

Well informed.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's a nice treat for the video.

[Greg Cody]

It is.

[Amin Elhassan]

The video is great.

[Dan LeBatard]

The Giants feel good about their young quarterback and Jackson Dart developing that quarterback is hugely important. We mentioned last week that I happen to know that they were taking a look at Lane Kiffin.

[Greg Cody]

Wait a minute.

[Dan LeBatard]

A third. Third hand we mentioned that last one but.

[Greg Cody]

That's right. Let's do it.

[Dan LeBatard]

A new name also from the college game to keep an eye on that the he happens to know. Great Scott. He happens to know. He happens to know Gather everyone. Get the children. He happens to know so wise. Name to keep an eye on as it pertains to the Giants is they've bandied about Jeff Braum internally. Louisville head coach.

[Greg Cody]

Internal bantied around.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Yeah. I haven't confirmed if they've made the overtures, but Jeff Braum is being considered there.

[Greg Cody]

Do you banty it around or do you bat it around? Which is.

[Mike Ryan]

I think banty is appropriate.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, Amin, can you settle something that we were talking about earlier in the show? Be the judge and arbiter on something we were arguing about. You mentioned it during weekend observations. Play the video here of Jimmy Butler and you tell us whether this fan playful or crossing the line.

[Dan LeBatard]

Green apple looking at stupid big ass Tim's on Jimmy Butler. Man, they don't give a. You're in that city.

[Mike Ryan]

Look at him.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes, bro.

[Mike Ryan]

I put 3, 000 to win 30.

[Dan LeBatard]

Why do we have 30 perks, Jimmy? Butt luck. Why you did not have a 30 perks?

[Amin Elhassan]

You were supposed to go over.

[Dan LeBatard]

You work for Vegas. You work for Vegas.

[Amin Elhassan]

I like the way he pronounces points. There's an R in there.

[Greg Cody]

He sounds like Dave Chappelle's Rick James is what he sounds like.

[Dan LeBatard]

Why you didn't have a 30 perks?

[Amin Elhassan]

It's a very thick New Orleans accent. I think, like, anyone would tolerate it as like a little harsh ribbing up until you call him a. At that point, it's like, all right, man. Like.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't know.

[Amin Elhassan]

I just feel like that at that point, even if you are playing around, you've betrayed yourself. But also, again, you bet that Jimmy Butler would score 30 points in a regular season game.

[Dan LeBatard]

All right. I think he had 28 that night, though.

[Amin Elhassan]

Well, like, just saying, like, how much Jimmy Butler are you watching? Like, we were like, there's a reason why they're paying those kind of odds. Yeah. No, it's because he doesn't do it.

[Dan LeBatard]

Why you did not have a 30 pump 30p.

[Greg Cody]

I mean. Thank you. Good stuff today. Appreciate your time, sir.

[Amin Elhassan]

See you tomorrow.

[Greg Cody]

Good. Looking forward to it. I wanted to. Before we get out of here on this hour, I feel like it's kind of empty and a little bit hollow to say thoughts and prayers on things that you don't quite know how to talk about. David Cross, you know, makes the joke about thoughts and prayers. He's like, why don't you just go casting spells and chanting? I'm casting spells and chanting while I'm thinking about this person. But Bernie Kozar mentioned earlier in the show who for me, will forever be a symbol of youth. Because when I was just becoming a teenager in 1983, he's the first person who made the University of Miami field championship good as a freshman. He was a freshman quarterback. And after losing to Florida in the first game of the season, getting blown out by Florida, they then pull off a giant upset at the end of the season, beat Tom Osborne's undefeated Nebraska team, and won the Miami Hurricanes their first championship. He revealed yesterday while in a hospital bed. And he's had it pretty tough physically. Right. Because comes from a different time in football where the rules were not different for the quarterback, where Lawrence Taylor was sacking you on AstroTurf in and, you know, just broke his body in a million different ways. And it needs a new liver as well. I think he is. I think he's talked about some issues with alcohol before. Oh, yeah. And so needs a new liver. And was going in for surgery on a new liver. And it just scared me. Like after what happened with Nick Mangold, to have people who represent youth and vitality in my childhood memories, who introduced me to sports things, when I say it scared me, I can't help but see something like that happen and feel my own mortality. Like it just. It touches a little closer to home because of specifically what he represents for me, which is I am 15 years old. Right. I'm. I'm just getting into sports fandom. The Orange bowl is a magical place to me because of that person, because that person helped make it a magical place. Right after they were giving away a bunch of University of Miami tickets at Burger King's all over the city because they're just trying to get somebody to go to the stadium. And so to see that happen to beyond being sad, it frightens. And my thoughts and honestly, my heartfelt feelings go out to Bernie Kosar, who will always have a special place for me.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. He'll be 62 later this month and needed a new liver to perhaps even get that far. He had been very close to getting a new liver very recently, and it was disqualified for being infected and he had to wait again. He's in surgery as we speak. He was scheduled to have surgery beginning at 5am this morning. That surgery takes 10 to 12 hours. And I, I spoke to him over the weekend for a story in the Herald, and he sounded in great spirits. He's. He's got a fighter spirit. His words and, and, and hopefully he gets through it all. And yeah, I mean, he's a forever hero in Miami for the reasons you mentioned. He is beloved to this day in Cleveland for leading what used to be a bad Browns team to three AFC championships. So there's a lot of people wishing him the best and. And we're hoping for him.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, I mean, bluff down here also, of course. And I think it was like this time yesterday, he sent out a post that he's still looking for a liver. And clearly something came through last night.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

I got. I got the text from. From somebody associated with him at 9:08pm finally come through. And the fact that it came through last night and it was immediately scheduled.

[Dan LeBatard]

For five shows you how dire it is.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah. Like hours later. Hey, we're doing this. So. Yeah, just. I really hope everything works out for Bernie today. Bernie is one of the kindest people I'd ever met. I was really young when I got into this business, and he was really good to me for many years. I used to be in touch with him a lot. I've lost touch with him over the years, but like I said, just so kind and so generous and. Yeah, I hope this all works out for you.

[Greg Cody]

When you guys say. Because I think he's more beloved in Cleveland than he is here. And obviously here he's remembered for something that's singular because it started all of the University of Miami's winning. Is he the best Mike Cleveland quarterback ever? Is it Brian Seip, like, who's considered the greatest. The greatest Cleveland quarterback there's been.

[Dan LeBatard]

He's the most beloved, certainly, that I had seen around there, and most people will. He's considered the gold standard for the living fan base that's there.

[Greg Cody]

It makes no sense that he would be that good when you think of arm strength, when you think of athleticism.

[Dan LeBatard]

Super smart.

[Greg Cody]

But it makes. Yes, that's what it was. But it makes no sense that he would be in the discussion of greatest Cleveland quarterbacks ever, given that if he went to a combine, he would flunk. It's not even that he wouldn't impress anybody. He would not do anything well physically, including not throw the ball particularly hard.

[Dan LeBatard]

Right.

[Mike Ryan]

But yet he had a wonderful career. He won a Super bowl with Dallas. He finished his career as Dan Marino's backup for three years with the Dolphins when I got to know him really well. And, man, he's fighting hard to extend his own life and wish him all the best.

[Dan LeBatard]

I believe he also has Parkinson's.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, he does. And he told me when I spoke to him Saturday that he has early dementia as well.

[Dan LeBatard]

And I'll bet he was in, like, super great spirits, too.

[Mike Ryan]

He was.

[Dan LeBatard]

He's like just a really kind man who's all. Who always seems to be looking at the bright side of things.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, no, we. I hadn't talked to him in a while, and we shared a couple of stories, and he's just. He's a joy to talk to, especially in the context of he's calling me from a hospital bed where he's praying at that time that he'll get the transplant that he narrowly missed not too long ago. So hopefully it's really working out for him for the best.

[Dan LeBatard]

Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here, Cuervo?

[Greg Cody]

Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, I do know that to be true. But even during ad reads like Cuervo, I think he could lay out, especially for one of our great partners.

[Greg Cody]

Sweet, delicious Cuervo.

[Dan LeBatard]

Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots. The same family, the same land, the same passion.

[Greg Cody]

Cuervo.

[Dan LeBatard]

So enjoy the tequila that started it all. Cuervo. Cuervo, the tequila that invented tequila. Proximo. Cuervo.com, please drink responsibly.

[Greg Cody]

Cuervo.