Hour 2: OH, SCREW YOU GUYS! (feat. Senator Cory Booker and Jessica Smetana)

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Hour 2: OH, SCREW YOU GUYS!
Date: October 8, 2025
Special Guests: Senator Cory Booker, Jessica Smetana

Main Theme & Purpose

In this episode, the crew is live from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, where sports, pop culture, and chaos intermingle. Senator Cory Booker joins for a wide-ranging, humorous, and passionate discussion of sports misery (especially New York fandom), political leadership, and the intersection of sports, politics, and community. Jessica Smetana jumps in with sharp sports takes, college football talk, and the ever-important favorite movie debate.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Senator Cory Booker’s Arrival and New York Sports Misery

• Senator Booker’s teams are “suffering”:
  Booker laments the dismal state of New York sports (Yankees, Giants, Jets), reflecting on happier times growing up in North Jersey surrounded by legends.
  • Quote (Cory Booker, 27:27):
    "I grew up in the golden era to be a Jersey boy, northern Jersey boy with the Yankees... I grew up in the heyday of New York sports and now I'm in a constant state of depression."
• Stanford football woes:
  Cory’s alma mater, now in the ACC, is enduring a rebuilding year (“difficult” is putting it kindly).
• Greg Cody jabs:
  Presses Cory about which hurt more: a college game or his 25-hour Senate filibuster.
  • Quote (Booker, 28:51): "Dear God… The average middle aged man gets up five times in the night to go to the bathroom. I didn't go for 25 hours."

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2. Complaints, Clichés, and Useless Sound Montage

• The cast riff on sports clichés and poor coaching language (“eviscerates a 17 nothing lead?”).
• Mike Ryan champions “complementary football” and its importance.
  • Quote (Mike Ryan, 06:11):
    "I love complimentary football so much, it makes sense... That's how you get Reuben Bain playing 77 snaps."

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3. Jessica Smetana on College Football and the Arch Manning Debate

• Mike Ryan’s Arch Manning defense:
  Argues Manning is unfairly criticized due to O-line failures; Jessica disagrees, noting Manning hasn't excelled versus weaker defenses either.
  • Quote (Jessica, 08:11):
    "If he were really great, he would probably look better than he’s looked... it's not good enough. Like he's not playing well enough right now."
• Miami football cheating controversy:
  Jessica delivers the line of the segment:
  • Quote (Jessica, 11:41):
    "The only thing I want to see clapping are them cheeks on Mrs. Met in my face."

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4. Bill Belichick Drama & Documentary Cancellations

• Canceled projects:
  The Belichick Hulu docuseries is scrapped, likely due to Patriots' disastrous season and pettiness in the organization.
  • Jessica and Greg delve into the dysfunction – feuds, questionable hires, and insider reporting revealing a “disaster” scenario.
  • Memorable quote (Greg Cody, 15:38):
    "They refused to televise the public shaming of a legend unlike any we've ever seen in football before."

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5. Favorite Movies & Team Quizzes (and failures)

• Group movie trivia banter:
  • Lucy’s favorite movie is revealed as "Shrek," though no one else remembers.
  • Greg Cody’s: “The Wizard of Oz.”
  • Jessica’s picks: “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” “Caddyshack,” “Lady Bird.”
  • Classic Dan and crew self-deprecation about being “bad coworkers, bad friends.”
• Nostalgic laughs:
  • Quote (Billy, 22:08):
    “That was a historic movie that went from black and white to color. In the middle of the movie, Technicolor revealed itself alive back in my day!”

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6. Senator Cory Booker on Political & Social Issues

• MetLife turf controversy: Booker rails against artificial turf, recounting how much more brutal it was when he played.
  • Quote (Booker, 30:20):
    “I wanted to take the inventor of Astroturf and slam him on his Astroturf.”
• Leadership of the Democratic Party:
  • Booker argues there is no singular leader; the party must retake its identity as a defender of working people and lay out a positive vision.
  • Quote (Booker, 31:26):
    “The Democratic Party needs a reboot… We need to start talking about what we're for.”
• Respect for New Jersey teams:
  • Booker fiercely defends his right to respect the Giants and Jets, because they’re New Jersey teams.
  • Spirited back-and-forth with Greg Cody over whether the Jets merit respect.
  • Quote (Booker, 34:12):
    “Screw you guys. I live in New Jersey. Both of those teams... are my mishpocha. They're my family. I stand with my people.”
• Nets betrayal: Wishes the team would return to New Jersey.
• Stanford QBs Top 5, with a twist:
  • Booker's list:
    1. John Lynch
    2. John Brodie
    3. Jim Plunkett
    4. John Elway
    5. Andrew Luck (“#1” in attitude for coming home to Stanford)
  • Playful blasphemy by putting Luck over Elway.

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7. Serious Political Segment: On Trump, Shutdowns, & Democracy

• Booker on the federal worker crisis & health care:
  • Asserts Trump’s plans to withhold back pay are illegal, and rails against moves to gut Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, warning of an impending healthcare “tsunami.”
  • Quote (Booker, 39:59):
    “Donald Trump, I've never seen a guy that literally is telling us he wants to inflict maximum pain in this shutdown. Not on Democrats, on American people.”
• Can American democracy withstand this moment?
  • Booker invokes historical demagogues, American resilience, and emphasizes collective action and decency.
  • Quote (Booker, 43:37):
    “This isn't the first time in our history that demagogues and wannabe dictators have risen up... The thing that has pulled them back every single time is Americans saying enough is enough.”

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8. Booker’s Reflection on Sports as a Unifier

• As the conversation closes, Booker highlights sports' ability to unite Americans despite vast differences—contrasting political division with the locker-room unity he knew at Stanford.
  • Quote (Booker, 46:35):
    “We are one team in this country, and the division and the divide... the lines that divide us are nowhere near as strong as the ties that bind us.”

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• Booker on his glory days:
  "The older I get, the better I was. Every five years I add a catch." [28:26]
• On Jets and Giants:
  “I respect my teams. And you know what I don't respect is the Nets.” [35:34]
• Movie banter gold:
  "The only thing I want to see clapping are them cheeks on Mrs. Met in my face." – Jessica [11:41]
• Healthcare warning:
  "This is the worst tsunami coming towards Americans' health care, ever." – Booker [41:01]
• On American responsibility:
  “You can't love your country unless you love your fellow countrymen and women. And love means sacrifice.” [43:37]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Booker’s NY Sports Lament/Open: [27:01–28:39]
• Filibuster & Physical Pain Stories: [28:39–29:52]
• Democratic Party Leadership & Vision: [31:26–33:13]
• Jets/Giants Respect Debate: [33:13–35:59]
• Stanford QB Top 5 List: [36:23–38:28]
• Healthcare Policy & Trump: [39:59–43:05]
• On American resilience & unity: [43:37–46:27]
• Memorable Jessica Met banter: [11:35–11:55]
• Movie favorite debate: [17:40–23:04]

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Tone & Style

The episode maintains the show’s trademark combination of sharp sports analysis, banter, irreverence, and moments of surprisingly heartfelt social commentary. Senator Booker displays both humor and passion, Jessica is incisive and playful, and the cast’s camaraderie is on full display—even as they fail spectacularly at knowing each other’s favorite movies.

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Transcript

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Cory Booker]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Cory Booker]

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[Dan LeBatard]

This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.

[Greg Cody]

Senator Cory Booker is going to join us here later in the show.

[Billy]

Brooker.

[Greg Cody]

Brooker as Chris Cody called him yesterday.

[Dan LeBatard]

Damn it.

[Greg Cody]

But we let you slide on it. We didn't dine on you for an error of speech.

[Mike Ryan]

Dan, Dan, may I give you a recommendation?

[Cory Booker]

Uh oh.

[Mike Ryan]

This guy can talk.

[Cory Booker]

Missing clips.

[Mike Ryan]

Do not give him a Runway.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, so we've got to make let's do this correctly because he did speak for 25 straight hours filibustering on the floor. And I don't want him to just take over our show and mop us all over the place cuz we can't shut him up. But his New York sports stink and I want to make fun of him for that because it's a misery right now. The Yankees and Aaron Judge are saving grace on a miserable New York weekend.

[Mike Ryan]

If you think New York is bad now, wait till this mayoral race.

[Greg Cody]

And when the military take over New.

[Cory Booker]

York, well that's in their hands.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, thank you for nothing. Jessica's going to join us in a second, but before we do that, let's do the useless sound montage I've just been given. It's freshly baked. Billy just ran it in off the presses. Billy, did you handle the editing on this?

[Billy]

Yes.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yes.

[Greg Cody]

All right. How we doing?

[Cory Booker]

Sorry it took so long, guys. I blame eddie. I am 100 showing up.

[Dan LeBatard]

We thought that we, you know, were prepared for this, and clearly we weren't.

[Cory Booker]

Definitely.

[Dan LeBatard]

A lot of things happened.

[Greg Cody]

When you talk about game of inches, it's a game of inches.

[Cory Booker]

We can feel it. We know what it looks like. We know what it feels like. And so now we got to keep. Keep getting better. This is what an NFL season's about. You got to keep getting better, and more opportunities will come ahead of us. Look at the stats. The numbers don't lie.

[Billy]

Listen, I'm not throwing any more of these guys out.

[Cory Booker]

The only thing that we can do.

[Dan LeBatard]

Is go back to work.

[Cory Booker]

Yeah, I think we lost the game today.

[Greg Cody]

Our sense of urgency and our connectedness is always there. It obviously needs to increase because time's ticking.

[Dan LeBatard]

We believe we're going to be much better than this. We are a much better team than letting a 170 lead eviscerate.

[Cory Booker]

We got to figure this out, and we got to figure this out now. You know, like, this feeling sucks.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's not a good feeling.

[Cory Booker]

We're doing everything we can do to, you know, find solutions, not assign blame.

[Dan LeBatard]

Honestly, like, kind of zoned out. I was just trying to drink Gatorade.

[Cory Booker]

There's blood in the water, man. Our guys are starting to feel it, man.

[Dan LeBatard]

They want to be the next guy.

[Cory Booker]

Who gets the punch out of the strip or the interception. And we're hunting with the ball's in the air.

[Dan LeBatard]

We're going after it.

[Cory Booker]

Our goal this entire week, and it's cliche and coach speak and all that, but.

[Mike Ryan]

But it's.

[Cory Booker]

It's how you have to work when you're in these situations, is you're just trying to go one and O. We were saving that blitz for a rainy day, and we brought it out.

[Dan LeBatard]

Just guys executing, doing all the little things right.

[Cory Booker]

Hard to win when you turn the ball over five times, and it was five consecutive drives. It was nice to look around and see everybody dancing and turning up. We got to capitalize, and when we.

[Dan LeBatard]

Don'T, it's the NFL. We feel like there's diminishing returns every week, man.

[Cory Booker]

It's just a little never about one.

[Greg Cody]

Play, never about one phase. All of us collectively have to do a better job. I think we're already a tight group.

[Cory Booker]

But we got to get tighter as a group, and guys have got to lock in.

[Dan LeBatard]

I just thought it was a dog fight. And we were in the ring and can't point anywhere but directly at preparation and how we execute stuff.

[Cory Booker]

Not a winning formula right there. We needed that last drive because the.

[Greg Cody]

Defense was tired, because we were really.

[Cory Booker]

To start the second half on offense. And that's my fault. All the 49ers fans here in the.

[Dan LeBatard]

Stadium on a road game here in Los Angeles. Yeah, yeah, they are here.

[Greg Cody]

You can outstat them to death, but it doesn't matter. It's the score that matters.

[Cory Booker]

You never know which play is going to make a difference in the game through all four quarters. Oh, much, you know. Feels good, man. Feels good to get that first win.

[Dan LeBatard]

When Kyle talked to me before the game, I was like, it's time to go.

[Cory Booker]

So the mentality has to be, man, more TV time for us on defense.

[Greg Cody]

But we don't necessarily want to do that. We'd like to have 90 yard touchdowns, but until we do a better job, we're going to keep losing.

[Cory Booker]

See how we can do.

[Mike Ryan]

Next week, we'll start all over again.

[Dan LeBatard]

Once again, the best thing we did.

[Cory Booker]

We played complimentary football. In the end, it was complimentary football that won us a game. Just not enough complimentary football.

[Billy]

He's just one of them guys. He has the entire makeup and the entire package.

[Cory Booker]

Got to watch the film, and the film will tell the truth.

[Greg Cody]

These guys love playing football together. They believe in one another.

[Cory Booker]

We expect to play well.

[Greg Cody]

We don't always.

[Dan LeBatard]

Kyle, like, came up to me and he was pissed about it, so. He was pissed about it. I was like, yeah, I'm pissed. He's like, dude, I can't believe, like, they. They moved us like underdogs again or whatever more. And I'm like, I don't know what that means, really. But like, yeah, let's go kill him. You know, I get my days messed up because we had a short week, but, like, whatever. Our Wednesday was.

[Greg Cody]

What a magical batch of useless Billy Mac Jones. I mean, Mac Jones is a new star with his giggle, his laugh. Mike, why did you whisper to me that you're a big fan of complimentary football?

[Mike Ryan]

I love complimentary football so much, it makes sense. You got. Well, forget all three phases. I love all three phases. But complimentary football is like, I know it's a cliche, but you have an offense that complements the defense. You keep the defense fresh. That's how you get Reuben Bain playing 77 snaps. I mean, complimentary football's the best.

[Greg Cody]

I want to talk to Jessica about Miami. I do want to talk about Mike McDaniel saying eviscerates a 17 nothing lead. That must bother Greg Cody, as someone who just values words. Right. Your coach has to get the words right in the press conference.

[Billy]

I think so, yeah. Eviscerate, to me, sounds like you're disemboweling something.

[Greg Cody]

But evaporate is what he meant, right?

[Billy]

I think so.

[Greg Cody]

Did it bother you or. No. Like, he can't make a mistake like that. He can't make these little mistakes anymore. Right. We're not finding him cute anymore.

[Billy]

Well, he's not cute, and he's stammering. He's stumbling. His presentation has not been good. I don't know what's going on, but I think he's really feeling the weight right now.

[Greg Cody]

All right, let's get to Jess here. Mike, did you. Before we get started here, did you. You had very strong Arch Manning opinions before the show?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I actually want to run this by Jess. So, Jess, I'm buying all the Arch Manning stock. I heard a stat that against Florida and Ohio State, he's been pressured on about 38 of 75 drop backs. And I know that he missed some throws primarily because of the pressure that Florida's amazing defensive line applied, but he also made incredible throws. He evaded pressure in ways that certainly do not match that surname. And I think we've come out on the other side here that maybe he's a little underrated at the moment, and because of all the fanfare and hoopla that he got with the Heisman hype at the start of the season, people are incorrectly placing the blame on his shoulders. It's that offensive line. It's the fact that they don't. They're. They're the. They're the Texas Longhorns with unlimited resources, and they're not top 50 in the nation in rushing. This. This goes well beyond Arch Manning. He's probably the least of their issues.

[Jessica]

Well, I do think if he were really great, he would probably look better than he's looked, but, yes, I. I agree with your point. It's. He's not the only problem with Texas's offense. I think the things you pointed out are definitely true, Mike, but the problem is that they haven't. Like, he hasn't even looked amazing against, like, the bad defenses they've played. This was the test, right? The Florida defense was ranked, I think, top 25 before the season started in, like, defensive fei. And so after the Ohio State game, I was like, okay, well, let's see how in these next three games, because they're playing some, some truly like bottom tier defenses and, and like the offense still wasn't good and he still wasn't amazing. He wasn't showing this kind of thing you would expect from someone who is as old as he is now. I think like one thing Mike that no one's really wants to admit is that he's not a freshman. He's not even a redshirt freshman. Like he's, he played a couple games last year. He's been around the program long enough that like you kind of do expect better. And I agree like the expectations were absurd and that comes with the of the last name. But he's still like, even if you take the expectations away, just being a quarterback at Texas, it's not good enough. Like he's not playing well enough right now.

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[Jessica]

May say, for a second, Miami, they were simulating the snap count the entire game, and they were clapping at the line of scrimmage. And the only thing I want to see clapping are them cheeks on Mrs.

[Cory Booker]

Met in my face.

[Jessica]

Mike Scher. All right, so that's one thing.

[Mike Ryan]

Stugats.

[Jessica]

They're a bunch of cheaters, Dan. And you know who should be cheating? Mrs. Met on Mr. Met. And he can watch if he wants.

[Dan LeBatard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Greg Cody]

Greg, you had some Belichick opinions. The Hulu series got canceled. I guess this isn't surprising, right? Both documentary projects that Belichick was going to do have collapsed for different reasons. I think one can assume reasonably that the team is so bad that they wouldn't want any of this publicized. Get inside this. It would require disinfectant. That's how everyone's receiving this, I would imagine.

[Billy]

Yeah, Yeah, I think so. But Belichick involves himself so much in pettiness. And I don't, I don't want to blame his, his girlfriend, her influence. But the latest example is. No, no, the latest example is Belichick did not want UNC to air a video in praise of alum Drake May because he's doing so well with the Patriots. Belichick did not want that. And that just strikes me he's got so much on his plate right now, including a really bad team. Why are you involving yourself in ancillary stuff like that? Because you still have a feud with Robert Kraft. It seems ridiculous.

[Jessica]

Well, it's not even the only time that he, his Patriots feud has appeared this season, Greg. He confirmed earlier this year that Patriot scouts weren't allowed at North Carolina because he's not allowed in Foxborough. So the pettiness, I mean, it runs very deep. And Dan, the thing about the Hulu documentary series, from what I'm, what I'm guessing, is that the, the Hard Knocks series was scrapped because Hulu, this production company, came in and was like, well, we'll give you more money or whatever it was. So there must have been some sort of, like, bidding war. I'm purely speculating.

[Greg Cody]

Well, hold on a second. Let me Let me wait. Hold on, hold on.

[Jessica]

It's not important enough.

[Cory Booker]

Time to throw away dog journalistic credibility and get reckless.

[Billy]

Here is something we like to call reckless speculation.

[Mike Ryan]

You're good. Who's kicking dogs?

[Jessica]

What does that mean?

[Mike Ryan]

Jonathan Gannon in the previous. Yeah, I recklessly speculated big dog kicker energy.

[Jessica]

Oh, that's terrible. I don't know. I'm assuming, Dan, that the HBO thing didn't get scrapped for four reasons other than like a lot of companies probably wanted to film this historic UNC season. The problem is it's historic for all the wrong reasons. That article that came out in WR A link on Tuesday, I believe was very insightful, very interesting. There was a lot of takeaways from that. Belichick apparently having preferential treatment towards players that he brought into the team. Poor communication, dysfunctional environment, a lot of criticism of the staff that they put together and the lack of experience. And also, you know, the fact that there's several sons of Lombardi and Belichick on the staff.

[Dan LeBatard]

Work hard.

[Jessica]

The banning of the Patriot scouts. They also said that like Michael Lombardi, this is from the article that he was. No one likes him and that he's rude and nasty, which was pretty strong words. I thought that the travel roster is not allowed to dress for home games, which kind of Bucks tradition. And then there was more fallout after the fact. The cornerbacks coach, Armand Hawkins was suspended because of something that came up in the report involving like sideline passes for family members of. Of teammates. So I mean, just a huge disaster. And honestly, before the season I thought this could go. This could go two ways. This could be like a competent football team with a relatively easy ACC schedule. Surprises people. Or it could be a disaster. It has been such a disaster, like.

[Greg Cody]

Worse than any worse that. Worse than anyone could have imagined. Right? You're reading. Why is that story not getting more attention? Obviously the details here are fairly vigorously reported and. And we're getting a look inside. They were going to do a docu series on what they thought was going to be a success. Instead now they refused to televise the public shaming of a legend unlike any we've ever seen in football before. So they're not going to get to rewrite the story, are they? Like, they've befouled this program and they thought with their champion patriot arrogance that him and Lombardi would know better than these other people. And no, they don't.

[Jessica]

Here's another quote, Dan, that came from Bruce Feldman and Ralph Russo in the Athletic. This is from a story that Came out before the Clemson game this past weekend, I believe it says, quote, what I think they miscalculated is the way they were taking players in the portal and play and paying dudes. Said one group of five. Head coach granted anonymity to discuss his encounters with the Tar Heels in the offseason player acquisition cycle. Quote. It made me wonder, did they actually understand the landscape they were in? Did they understand that they're in the acc, not like Conference USA or the Sun Belt? Like, we got beat by North Carolina on a bunch of kids. I was like, why the F is North Carolina beating us on kids? When I keep running up against the same P4s over and over again in recruiting, I'm like, all right, they're going to suck. That's a crazy quote from the Athletic.

[Greg Cody]

That story is crazy. But I guess the insides. I mean, people aren't going to be their season's over. Is the experiment over? Like, are we going to.

[Jessica]

I mean, the experiment was over when Charlie Weiss got fired from Notre Dame. Like that. That was when we realized, okay, like, NFL coach comes in, thinks he can, like, recruit, which Charlie Wise to his credit, actually very good recruiter, but wasn't a good, couldn't run a college football program, clearly got paid a jillion dollars on his buyout and left. And then we did it again with the same, the same NFL franchise, the Patriots. We just did it with a different Patriots coach.

[Greg Cody]

Check out her weekly Notre Dame podcast, the echoes with Michael Jr. Unfortunately, the fighting Irish are going to be good again. And they're going to.

[Jessica]

I mean, well, we'll see. I. I did make a grave error this weekend in my off roading trip with Lucy. You guys all know what Lucy's favorite movie is, right?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, totally. But for those that don't know.

[Greg Cody]

I don't remember. I don't. I should know this. We should know which one was Lucy. We should.

[Jessica]

She talks about it all the time. Her favorite movie, Almost Famous, right?

[Greg Cody]

I don't remember.

[Jessica]

Oh, my God. Okay. It's Shrek. It's Shrek.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

And what I failed to mention to Lucy while we were at Notre Dame is that a bunch of Notre Dame people worked on the film Shrek and there's a bunch of Notre Dame Easter eggs in Shrek. And she would have really enjoyed that, I think. And I forgot to tell her that. And I didn't think about it until this morning somehow. And I just feel like the world's biggest asshole for not remembering that Shrek Notre Dame connection with Lucy.

[Greg Cody]

You had fun it seemed like you were really. It seemed like you were enjoying Lucy hadn't been before.

[Cory Booker]

Right.

[Greg Cody]

So she wouldn't actually understand how ridiculous the majesty of that place is when you've bought in on all of the Catholicism.

[Jessica]

Yes. Whatever that means. She definitely wouldn't understand that. No. We had a great time, Dan. My only complaint, it was like the hottest October football game in South Bend on record, which kind of alarming. It was really, really, really hot. But we. Yeah, we had a good time. I don't know. I think Notre Dame's defense is playing a lot better. But I do think NC State's got a fun offense. They play them on Saturday, kind of an awkward look ahead spot. And then they play usc, the following. Usc, obviously statistically the best offense currently in college football in EPA per play. So big test for the defense coming up for the Irish.

[Dan LeBatard]

I don't even know my own favorite movie.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I. I'm trying.

[Jessica]

Yes, you do.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm trying to think if I know anybody's favorite.

[Jessica]

Is this supposed to like, cover for the fact that you don't know?

[Greg Cody]

I'm embarrassed.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't. No one knows Lucy's.

[Greg Cody]

But I don't know anything. He just quizzed us on friendship and we all failed.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, but I really thought it was almost. What's Dan's favorite?

[Mike Ryan]

I've never heard her mention Shrek.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, my God.

[Jessica]

You've never heard her mention Shrek?

[Mike Ryan]

No, you haven't. You clearly have a very different.

[Jessica]

Into Lucy.

[Billy]

Favorite movie, Shrek. Greg, favorite movie.

[Dan LeBatard]

What's yours?

[Billy]

Who's your tune?

[Mike Ryan]

Who's your October Heisman?

[Jessica]

I got three people on the watch list currently. Mike, number one, Ahmad Hardy, Missouri running back, great leads. He leads college football and rushing right now. And he's playing against another nominee. Ty Simpson, who had a great game against Vanderbilt, threw an interception, but he had 340 yards on 74% completion for two touchdowns. So they're playing against each other this weekend. That's going to be a big SEC road game for Alabama. Going to. To Missouri. Gonna have to deal with that run game. But also I think if, if Alabama can get out to an early lead, it's. I think that's the recipe right there. Like, I think it's going to be hard for Missouri to come back in that case. And then Bear Bachmeyer, the BYU quarterback has also had a sneaky good fall so far and also had a great game Friday night against West Virginia. 350 yards, 72% completions, one touchdown, one interception. BYU is like currently in first place in the Big 12, they've only played two conference games. Texas Tech, also undefeated right now, lead the nation in stop rate on defense, which is huge. There's a lot of crazy.

[Dan LeBatard]

Everything okay going on?

[Jessica]

Yeah. Chris, I live in. You're going to hear sirens. I don't know what to tell you.

[Dan LeBatard]

Every.

[Jessica]

We can't. You can't.

[Mike Ryan]

Every time tanks rolling through town, we record in your hand.

[Jessica]

Anyways, I want to talk about two Big Ten games this weekend, Mike. Indiana at Oregon.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, put the kids to bed.

[Jessica]

Huge, huge game. I think it's. It's an early kickoff, isn't it? 3:30.

[Cory Booker]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, they should be in bed at 3:30.

[Jessica]

It might be at 7:30. And then Michigan at USC, which is the kind of perfect test for Lincoln. People wrote off USC after the Illinois loss. I get it. It was, it was a really ugly, really ugly loss for usc. But I do think if they, they can exercise some demons if they're able to beat Michigan this weekend because this is a typically a game that they struggle with. And Michigan's got a good run game, but it's a road game for Michigan. And of course long, long travel. We saw how that worked out for Penn State last weekend. So I'm gonna keep my eye on those two for sure.

[Greg Cody]

What's your favorite movie, Greg? I don't know you. I've been friends with you for years. I don't know what your favorite movie.

[Billy]

Everybody knows that.

[Greg Cody]

Is it Absence of Malice?

[Billy]

No. The wizard of Oz, baby.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh, come on.

[Greg Cody]

Everyone knows that.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

Like the original?

[Billy]

Yeah, of course the original.

[Jessica]

That's your favorite movie?

[Billy]

Hell yes. You ever watch it?

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Oh my.

[Billy]

That was an historic movie that went from black and white to color. In the middle of the movie, Technicolor.

[Greg Cody]

Revealed itself alive back in my day. Give him his back in my day. Music. We're gonna get alive back in my day.

[Billy]

Seriously. I mean, wizard of Oz, sure.

[Jessica]

Do you guys know my favorite movie?

[Billy]

Judy Garland. I mean.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, Shrek.

[Mike Ryan]

Right?

[Dan LeBatard]

He just told us.

[Jessica]

God, you guys are so like. You're just bad co workers. Thanks, Iowa.

[Mike Ryan]

What's my favorite movie? What's my favorite movie, Jess?

[Jessica]

What? That stupid point break one?

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, that's top three. But it's not number one. No, that's top ten. But that's not number one.

[Jessica]

Two of your top ten. That's better than you could do for me.

[Mike Ryan]

I said Rudy, that's got to be in your top 10.

[Dan LeBatard]

Dark Knight Rises.

[Billy]

What is yours, Jess? What is your favorite movie?

[Jessica]

The Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers, and also Caddyshack and Lady Bird. I would have taken any of those.

[Billy]

Can't have a tie.

[Jessica]

It's not a tie. I'm saying I would have given you some grace. Anyways, Dan already left, so this segment's over. Bye, guys.

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan LeBatard]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Cory Booker]

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[Dan LeBatard]

Don LeBatard did someone say conservative entity?

[Cory Booker]

Wow.

[Greg Cody]

No. Oh, see, this is why Stugats.

[Cory Booker]

Hers is better than mine. 5th Zagaki.

[Greg Cody]

How is the 5th Zagaki better than the 3rd and the 4th Zagaki already?

[Dan LeBatard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Greg Cody]

He's the former mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013. He's now the senior senator from New Jersey. Cory Booker with us. He's coming from a vote. There was a vote. And he's rushing in from a vote. And his sports team stink. All of them up and down. And the Yankees saved like you from terrible shame today. Right? Like you weren't going to come out in public given what your sports teams did this weekend.

[Cory Booker]

You know I grew up in the golden era to be a Jersey boy, northern Jersey boy with the Yankees. These were the days of Thurman Munson, Chris Chambliss with Reggie Jackson, Greg Nettles and then the Giants. I don't know why you didn't announce this in my bio, but you're Talking to the 1986 Giants Football High school football player of the year. So the Giants beat the Denver Broncos. Then it just. So I grew up in the heyday of New York sports and now I'm in a constant state of depression. And to make matters worse, my Stanford Cardinal, Stanford football team now in the acc, which is ridiculous. They too are getting there. They're having a difficult rebuilding year, let's say.

[Greg Cody]

Oh say it stronger than that. These are not polite times like you are in 1990. You were at the center of upsetting number one Notre Dame. You were the tight end on that. You were the tight end on that team. You had four catches for 40 something yards.

[Cory Booker]

First of all, how could you slander be like that? The older I get, the better I was. Every five years I add a catch. So you gotta put, you gotta stack a few more on there, man, come on, I'm an old man now. Let me have some glory days.

[Greg Cody]

Well, so answer me this actually in physical terms, which hurts the body more. Those four catches in that game are 25 hour filibuster where you feel like you're fighting on behalf of democracy and you're just stalling.

[Cory Booker]

Dear God. The average middle aged man gets up like five times in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I didn't go to the bathroom for 25 hours. That was so much harder than anything I did on the Stanford football field. So yeah, it was much more of a test for me. Out of shape in my middle aged years.

[Greg Cody]

Billy, why are you making faces? You don't believe the senator?

[Dan LeBatard]

I mean Corey, if you're getting up five times a night, I feel like you gotta see a doctor. That seems like a lot.

[Cory Booker]

Okay, a little exaggeration, but the truth of the matter is my aura rings that I walked 2000 steps just sort of swaying back and forth. My body was pretty sore. But everybody on this show, and frankly your listeners know that I may have stood 25 hours on the Senate floor, but a lot of Americans are out there standing for three shifts in a row. There are firefighters dropped into blazes that stand for 1820 hours facing the infernos of hell. America stands up for the fight that I was standing up for that night.

[Greg Cody]

Billy, why did you say here we go?

[Mike Ryan]

Are you happy with yourself? Way to speak truth to power. Well, listen, that's how we're going to hold a politician, politicians accountable. You don't go to the bathroom.

[Dan LeBatard]

If we're going to be honest here. You guys are tiptoeing around the senator here. You guys may be afraid to ask him the hard hitting questions. I mean, he has been in power in one of the more obviously infamous epidemics in our time. And I'm kind of wondering, what are you going to do about the turf at MetLife?

[Cory Booker]

Good. I again, I'm going to sound like the old man that used to play, you know what the turf was like when I was playing. I still remember going up to Oregon State to play them and it was like they just painted the concrete green and forget when I was hit, when I hit the, when I was tackled, the hit didn't hurt. Hitting the ground hurt. I mean, your joints were aching afterwards. So I understand this modern turf when I get out on is far different than what we were playing back in the days that I wanted to take the inventor of Astroturf and slam him on his astronaut turf. But the reality is our turf seems very unlucky at midnight. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. But now we got Saquon coming back to the turf that took him down. And I'm hoping that Thursday night we got two shots at the Eagles. And I believe in miracles. I'm a prisoner of hope.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, well then help us during these times because we've softened you up sufficiently with the silly question, who's the leader of the Democratic Party?

[Cory Booker]

There is no singular leader of the Democratic Party. And frankly, as I said during that 25 hours, I think the Democratic Party has to take a lot of responsibility right now for paving the road to the distort present we're in right now. Democratic Party has failed not just in elections, but in communicating to voters. My grandfather, who was a UAW worker, worked on assembly lines during World War II, was born a Republican, as most blacks were at that time. But he switched over the Democratic Party because he knew that they were fighting for people from farmers to union workers, for people's health care to their labor rights. He knew that the Democratic Party may not always agree with him. They were fighting for them. And right now, Americans don't believe either party is fighting for them. To be honest with you, we had two presidential candidates in the last election that Most Americans voted against. Donald Trump got 49.7%. Kamala Harris got 49.3%. The Democratic Party needs a reboot and needs to put forward a vision. Not about what they're against, but we need to start talking about what we're for. We're for workers, we're for families that are struggling to raise their kids right now. And we're for, frankly, an American dream that is under its worst assault, where 60% of Americans just don't believe that they can make it through an economic emergency, hitting $500 to their budget. It. We need a Democratic Party that can redeem the dream for America and be about Americans. And this place that I'm in right now, from politicians who trade stocks, which is so corrupt in my opinion, to the corporate money that flows down here. That's why I'm one of the few politicians, few senators that doesn't take corporate PACs. There's a lot of things here that are eroding Americans trust. And both parties are losing it and need to earn it again.

[Greg Cody]

Most embarrassing New York team this weekend.

[Cory Booker]

This past weekend.

[Greg Cody]

Yes.

[Cory Booker]

Coming up.

[Greg Cody]

I'm telling you right now, he's allowed 23 runs. They 20 unanswered in a series. And your jets exist.

[Cory Booker]

Yeah, I respect the jets, but I'm not a Jet fan. And what happened with the Giants game was the turnovers. Everything was just, just. It's just painful.

[Greg Cody]

Ask him the tough follow up.

[Dan LeBatard]

What on earth have the jets done to earn you?

[Cory Booker]

Why do you respect.

[Dan LeBatard]

Yeah, why would you respect them? Come on, you're not. Come on, you're not the mayor of Newark anymore.

[Greg Cody]

It's fine.

[Dan LeBatard]

Exactly.

[Cory Booker]

You know why I respect the Jets? Because I live in an area with a lot of Jet fans. We're not fair weather fans. They are Jets. Jets, Jets, Jets. I hear freaking break.

[Dan LeBatard]

Listen, there's no hope and change in the Jets. Jets, Jets, Jets. I'll tell you that right now.

[Greg Cody]

Cannot respect the Jets. You're lying to our faces. Senator, listen, you can't be trusted.

[Cory Booker]

Screw you guys. I live in New Jersey. Both of those teams, the jets and the Giants, are Jersey teams. They're my mishpocha. They're my family. I stand with my people. And you could diss them all you want. Look, I was the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, the most disrespected city. People always talk down to us. We had a chip on our shoulder. We had something to prove. Same way with Jersey. I mean, the fricking New Yorkers take all of our shy. They're trying to give you an example. The great song that they sang, New York, New York, that was the chairman of the board, Old Blue Eyes. He's a Jersey boy. He was born in Hoboken.

[Mike Ryan]

Newark.

[Greg Cody]

Newark.

[Cory Booker]

Before it was Newark. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. And I'm gonna tell you right now, Jersey is the place. Our patron saints, like Bon Jovi and Bruce, America loves them.

[Greg Cody]

You don't respect them. Senator, you're out here disrespecting me in my face. You're lying to my face as an American power broker. Tell. Telling me you respect the jets. You cannot. They're.05, 13 missed tackles in the first half, and the team that lost, the Dolphins down here. That's one of the worst football games I've ever seen played by something that's allegedly professional.

[Cory Booker]

You're a. So you. So when your friend. When your friend has a crappy time, makes mistakes, screws up, you give up on, you lose respect.

[Greg Cody]

The last three coaches are all three. It's not my friend. The friends aren't the problem. It's the team. Senator, you're lying to us.

[Cory Booker]

I'm sorry, brother. They bring literally millions of dollars of economic activity to the state of New Jersey. I am not going to disrespect the teams that play in my state, that fight for my state, from the Devils to the Giants. We are that region's. The greater Newark metropolitan area. We are that region's powerhouse. I respect my teams. And you know what I don't respect is the Nets.

[Mike Ryan]

But on the record, Pro Devils.

[Cory Booker]

The Nets need to come back to Jersey. They snuck in while I was mayor. They snuck in and stole my team and took it into obscurity over in New York. They need to come back to Jersey and be Jersey's team. They'll do a lot better. They'll perform a lot better being home.

[Greg Cody]

I'm told you have a top five list for us. This delights me. Thank you for honoring us by putting together a list during these busy, difficult times.

[Cory Booker]

Well, I want to throw a couple curve balls your way. So my top five is. Is the top five successful quarterbacks from Stanford University.

[Greg Cody]

And.

[Cory Booker]

And the first one. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Greg Cody]

But I got to play it right. We've got Andrew Luck. Yes. We've got Andrew Locke here with us. But the top five has to go from fifth to number one so that we get the big payoff at the end.

[Cory Booker]

I'm going to fifth number one. So number five quarterbacks from Stanford is A guy that played for Tampa Bay. His name is John Lynch. He came to Stanford as a quarterback. I caught passes from him before he was switched to defensive back to be the superstar he is. And then the next number one draft pick, way back in the 1950s when you just were a sparkle in your mama's eye, was a guy named John Brody. Extraordinary professional. Number.

[Billy]

Oh, yeah. 49er.

[Cory Booker]

Number three. Heisman Trophy, Lombardi Trophy winner. This is one of the greatest of all time greats, Jim Plunkett.

[Greg Cody]

Number.

[Cory Booker]

Number the next.

[Greg Cody]

These are two. These are the two big ones right here. Yeah, the big two. The big two.

[Cory Booker]

The number two is a person that you might have thought was number one. But number two is John Elwood.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, my God. Blasphemous senator. This blasphemous senator is gonna say that you ain't Andrew Lucker, the greatest Stanford quarterback he's ever seen.

[Cory Booker]

I'm going to tell you why I'm going to make my case here. I said most successful, not in the NFL. He was one of the top. Easily, unequivocally, unassailably, Andrew Luck was one of the top quarterbacks of all time in his playing days. But what Andrew Luck has just done is he brought Luck back to Stanford. He. He is the guy. He is the guy that comes back home. He could have done a lot of things, but he came back home to serve the greatest university on the planet. And with him, Stanford's gonna get Luck again. And we got winning days ahead of us. Beautiful list, Senator. And by the way, congratulations on your betrothal.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm so happy.

[Cory Booker]

Make a beautiful, beautiful couple.

[Mike Ryan]

You are my favorite Stanford tight end.

[Cory Booker]

Probably favorite tight end ever, outside of Jack Doyle. Thank you. Well, there were two tight ends that got engaged in that summer season. And the other guy, you probably didn't heard about it, Travis, but another tight end who in his own mind has similar tight end glory. So I appreciate that. Beautiful ring.

[Mike Ryan]

Family heirloom.

[Cory Booker]

You know, this is probably too much information. My fiance's gonna kill me. The ring I got her was sort of a play saver because I don't know anything about jewelry. So I said, let me get you a beautiful ring that I like as a placeholder. We are right now shopping for the actual permanent engagement ring.

[Mike Ryan]

I notice in your reflection you have quite the library, including one of those ladders that Belle had in Beauty and the Beast. Have you ever just tried to do the bell move and just go from one end to another with your arms extended?

[Cory Booker]

I could never neither confirm or Deny that. Can you do that for us?

[Mike Ryan]

Everyone does that when they have the bell ladder from Beauty and the Beast.

[Cory Booker]

I am telling you, zoom, it's one of my favorite features in this office is my ladder. So, yes, I have done things on that ladder that I do not want to make public.

[Greg Cody]

Hell yeah. Look at that. Can you give us more seriously your thoughts on the alarms of the day when I say that Trump yesterday is commenting that he's essentially backing a White House memo that some furloughed federal employees aren't entitled to back pay. Like, where does that rank on the alarms of the day? And what vote are you coming back from right now?

[Cory Booker]

So two things. One is that's illegal. He signed a bill that basically guaranteed, made it the law that people government workers is the Government Worker Protection Act, I think is the name of it is a government workers. My staff is just yelling at me. It's the Government Workers Fair Treatment act, they're saying. But the reality is it's the law. You have to give back pay. So Donald Trump, I've never seen a guy that literally is telling us he wants to inflict maximum pain in this shutdown. Not on Democrats, on American people. He is coming after departments. He's going to try to make as much pain happen to others in hopes that he can make us capitulate. But the pain that we're fighting to prevent is the twin tsunami of the health care crisis he's bringing about because one, by giving millionaires billions of dollars worth of tax cuts, he gutted Medicaid, so millions are going to lose health care there. And then, two, as he said in Project 2025, he wants to gut the Affordable Care act, so he's taking away the premium assistance, and that's going to spend another 10 to 20 million people off their health care. And overall, Americans in general are going to see their premiums skyrocket at a time that they're seeing their grocery prices, energy prices. So that tsunami is coming. It starts in 2006, in a couple months. And Democrats are just saying, do not hurt people like this because it's not going to just hurt the people who are losing their health care. It's not just going to hurt the millions of Americans who are going to have their premiums go up. About 20 million Americans see them more than double. It's going to hurt all of us because our health care institutions, our hospitals and clinics are going to see closures, going to see longer wait times, more crowded emergency rooms. This is the worst tsunami coming towards Americans health Care, ever. There's never been a point in American history where if we don't do something this many millions of Americans will lose their health care. So I'm sorry, this is where I get that are really angry because I just talked to a New Jersey, and yesterday she's a mom who had a great job making six figures, but she had an autistic child that needed really expensive care. So she left her job doing some consulting, making about $30,000 a year to take care of her special needs child. And she told me there's just no way when these premiums skyrocket, that she could afford health insurance and still pay rent. Well, repeat that story tens of thousands of more times up and down my state. I'm hearing them. And so this is a fight for New Jersey. And here's the crazy thing. Donald Trump controls the White House, the Senate, and. And the House of Representatives, who right now are on vacation. The speaker of the House hasn't even brought them back to sit at the table to negotiate. He said himself years ago that it is the President's responsibility to bring parties together to get a budget passed. But he doesn't want to negotiate. He doesn't want to do something in a bipartisan way that addresses people's pain. He right now is just doing nothing but threatening Americans, threatening to cause pain, threatening not to pay government workers who are in our military or who are working our veterans agencies. This is ridiculous. If there's anything that our leaders should do, screw the politics. Just try to help people deal with the pain that they're experiencing in their lives.

[Mike Ryan]

That's illegal. As a response that we often hear from Democrats. And yet the President keeps pushing on. In fact. In fact, very recently, he just called for the arrest of the governor of Illinois and Chicago's mayor. And it's a scary time. Most Americans would acknowledge, if you look at polling, that there is an abuse of power going on here. What guarantees can you give to the American people that the American republic will stand, that you can push back on some of these illegalities as people from the White House are talking about plenary power.

[Cory Booker]

Yeah. So this isn't the first time in our history that demagogues and wannabe dictators have risen up. I mean, dear God, you go Back to the McCarthy era. Go back to George Wallace from that high office of the governor's mansion saying he was gonna not obey the law. We are a nation that has seen dark moments and dangerous demagogues rise up. And the thing that has pulled them back every single time Is Americans saying enough is enough. I'm not going to allow this to happen. It is a violation of our decency, of our value, of our shared ideals. I'm sorry. What is going on in our country is outrageous and should outrage everyone. Making law firms and businesses and TV networks heal to the President's will. Making Americans who enjoy due process rights have them stripped away. Treating families, American children with one undocumented parent, having that parent dragged out of a school or courthouse who's done nothing wrong but be here in an undocumented manner. And yeah, the polls are going down. Donald Trump is underwater on his immigration enforcement, underwater on his handling the economy because he is craven, cruel and corrupt. But that is not, this is not about him. When things like this are happening, it's a test of us. How much will we tolerate? How much will we endure? The very idea of patriotism is not just love of country. You can't love your country unless you love your fellow countrymen and women. And love means sacrifice. And so, yeah, you may not be losing your health insurance, but your neighbor is. You may not be seeing your parent be dragged away and your American child being put in zip ties like they were doing in Chicago, but that's your neighbor. Every one of our faiths says love your neighbor. Well, how deep is your love? How strong is your love? What are you willing to do? This is a time to stand up and say enough is enough. And in his first term where he wasn't doing things this extreme, but he was still trying to gut the health care of tens of millions of Americans, Washington D.C. was full of folk who understood it's not just Congress, people and senators that have to stand up. I do, too. Little kids in wheelchairs with disabilities were rolling up to senators in nonviolent ways, making them look them in the eye and say, why are you doing this to Americans? And thank God John McCain and other Republicans like Susan Murkowski, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski didn't let Donald Trump take away health care from 20 plus million Americans. Well, the, this crop of Republicans, did they let him attack Medicaid like that? But now what's the response of us? This is an American test. Will you stand up for your neighbor? Will you stand up for our shared values? Will you stand up as he's arresting his enemies and weaponizing the Justice Department, violating our values? Will you stand? Well, I will stand up. And I'm hoping more and more people will stand with me and fight.

[Greg Cody]

You don't respect the Jets. I don't believe you. Thank you. We appreciate your time. Thank you for the work that you do, sir.

[Cory Booker]

I appreciate you all. Thank you. Hey, can I just say this? I told you that my parents come from the civil rights tradition. Well, sports was the one area that brought this country together. And even. Even folks, and I've talked to Bill Bradley about this. When it forces you. In my Stanford locker room, I had blacks folk, white folks. I had Republicans and Democrats. But when you sweat together and bleed together, you realize that the lines that divide us are nowhere near as strong as the ties that bind us. We are one team in this country, and the division and the divide. I used to know when we were going to score a touchdown, when I was in the offensive huddles. When I heard the defensive huddles attacking each other, putting players down, jumping on each other. When they started fighting amongst themselves, I knew we would score. We need folks that are going to remind us that we're one team. Sports is a venue that everybody listens. More people listen to a podcast like this than a political podcast. And I appreciate you guys.

[Greg Cody]

That's the way it should be.

[Cory Booker]

Platform where we can talk about our country and you reminding us that even though some of us respect the jets, we're still one country.

[Greg Cody]

You don't respect the Jets. You're lying to my people. Thank you. I appreciate your time, Senator.

[Cory Booker]

All right, thanks, everybody.

[Mike Ryan]

Hey, Jeremy, old buddy, old pal.

[Dan LeBatard]

Hey, Mike.

[Mike Ryan]

I want to talk to you about Miller Lite. You and I have bonded over these last few weeks talking about our shared love of Miller Lite.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's right.

[Mike Ryan]

A great partner of our show for practically its entire existence.

[Dan LeBatard]

It's been a partner of this show since I was 10 years old, and.

[Mike Ryan]

It'S been around for 50 years, and they've been a part of our show for almost 20. We're approaching incredible partner status with Miller Light.

[Dan LeBatard]

I mean, to think that people were celebrating at my bar mitzvah with Miller Lite as they were a partner of this show is pretty incredible.

[Mike Ryan]

You're talking about the moments that are made better by making those times, those special times. Miller time. Jeremy, there's nothing like cracking open Miller Lite with your crew this football season. It's especially true whether it's a touchdown you didn't see coming or just arguing about fantasy lineups you already know you're going to lose. Miller Lite has been the taste you can depend on for 50 years. Brewed for flavor, flavor with simple ingredients, rich toffee notes, that iconic golden color.

[Cory Booker]

And here's a kicker.

[Mike Ryan]

Jeremy what's that? It's just 96 calories.

[Dan LeBatard]

I still can't believe that we say it every week. I can't believe it.

[Mike Ryan]

It's just 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. It's the original light beer since 1975 and still hitting different five decades later. Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Light pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller Time. Celebration Rate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.