Hour 2: The Sous Chef

Summary

Summary of "Hour 2: The Sous Chef" from The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Release Date: July 7, 2025

In the second hour of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz delve into a variety of engaging topics ranging from climate change and sports analytics to cultural phenomena like Fourth of July traditions and the enduring legacy of shark movies. The episode features insightful discussions, humorous banter, and interactive segments that capture the essence of South Florida's vibrant scene.

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Climate Change and Central Texas Disaster

The episode opens with a poignant discussion on the catastrophic events in Central Texas, highlighting the severe impact of unexpected weather patterns exacerbated by climate change.

Stugotz (04:19):

"Where you go from a death count that starts at 20, that ends up over 80 when we're talking about it now, but they still are looking for children."

Billy Gil (04:19):

"This is unimaginable... these weather catastrophes become more and more common, weather forecasting and meteorology should be something that we prioritize as a public safety."

Stugotz (04:49): Reflects on the lack of adequate warning systems due to budget cuts in meteorological services, emphasizing the tragic consequences of insufficient preparation for natural disasters.

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Football Focus: Alexander Madison's Performance and Nickname

The hosts shift gears to discuss Major League Baseball, specifically analyzing player performances and delving into the curious case of Alexander Madison's nickname, "sous chef."

Stugotz (07:03):

"Alexander Madison had nine rushes inside the five-yard line last season... zero touchdowns. It's negative seven yards."

The conversation humorously critiques Madison's underwhelming statistics, leading to a playful debate over the legitimacy of his nickname.

Stugotz (08:27):

"Put it on the poll at Lebatard Show: Alexander Madison negative 7 yards inside the 5-yard line or sign the Declaration of Independence."

The segment exemplifies the hosts' knack for blending sports analysis with lighthearted humor, engaging listeners with relatable content.

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Economic Insights: Wealth and Paycheck-to-Paycheck Living

A surprising revelation sparks a deep conversation about economic disparities, even among high earners.

Stugotz (11:17):

"Bloomberg is saying that more than a third of Americans making a quarter million dollars a year as a household are living paycheck to paycheck. That's... that surprised me that I can't fathom."

Billy Gil (12:21):

"It seems to me that if that's the case, you must be living over your means... the average guy making 80, 60,000 a year can't fathom that."

This discussion sheds light on the complexities of financial stability, challenging preconceived notions about wealth and economic security.

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Fireworks Filming and Fourth of July Traditions

The hosts explore modern Fourth of July habits, particularly the trend of recording fireworks, leading to a humorous exchange about the authenticity of live experiences.

Stugotz (14:49):

"They're recording the fireworks... it's to show everyone that at that moment, you're watching fireworks with what's going on around the world."

Chris Cody (15:24):

"I want to make sure everyone knows I'm having a better fourth of July than them."

The segment humorously critiques the tendency to document rather than experience moments in real-time, reflecting on the social media influence on traditional festivities.

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Shark Movies and Cultural Impact

A deep dive into the legacy of shark movies, focusing on the seminal impact of Jaws and its lasting influence on pop culture and horror genres.

Stugotz (29:20):

"There's something about a stupid movie involving sharks that will make me stop on trailers for shark movies... Jaws remains the best one."

Dan LeBatard (34:03):

"I think it's rating and money because it's interesting, because number two here is Let the Right One In, which is at 98%. Jaws is at 97%."

The hosts discuss the evolution of shark movies, their box office performances, and their classification within the horror genre, debating whether films like Silence of the Lambs align more with horror or thriller categories.

Billy Gil (36:49):

"Jaws is widely considered a horror movie, despite also being classified as a thriller and an adventure film."

This conversation highlights the enduring fascination with shark narratives and their role in shaping cinematic trends.

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Behind the Bit: Interactive Segment with John Amici

The episode features a nostalgic segment honoring the late John Amici, a former NBA player and friend of Dan Le Batard. Through a game designed to showcase Stugotz's humorous mispronunciations, the hosts reminisce about Amici's intellect and their enduring camaraderie.

Stugotz (23:08):

"John Amici is so smart. The idea of him trying to guess what language it is I'm speaking... it's such a great idea."

Greg Cody (25:27):

"We needed to do something to dress it up... tracking the mispronunciations as they would happen."

The segment serves as both a tribute and a testament to the show's creative dynamics, blending humor with heartfelt memories.

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Key Takeaways and Conclusions

"Hour 2: The Sous Chef" masterfully balances serious discussions with entertaining segments, offering listeners a multifaceted experience. From the urgent discourse on climate-related disasters to the playful banter over sports performance and cultural critiques, the episode encapsulates the show’s signature blend of depth and levity. Notably, the tribute to John Amici adds a personal touch, reinforcing the community feel of the podcast.

Listeners are left with a nuanced understanding of current events, economic challenges, and cultural trends, all delivered with the engaging and authentic style that defines The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz.

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Notable Quotes:

• Stugotz (04:19): "We just have no ability to... you must have some sort of warning that if you're sending your kids to sleepaway camp, you're going to get them back."

• Stugotz (07:03): "Alexander Madison had nine rushes inside the five-yard line... it's negative seven yards. That's kind of amazing, is it not?"

• Stugotz (14:49): "Not watching... It's to show everyone that at that moment, you're watching fireworks."

• Stugotz (29:20): "It's the greatest horror movie of all time, is it not? If you classify it as a horror..."

• Billy Gil (36:49): "Jaws is widely considered a horror movie, despite also being classified as a thriller and an adventure film."

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This comprehensive summary encapsulates the essence of "Hour 2: The Sous Chef," providing readers with a clear and engaging overview of the episode's key discussions and themes.

Transcript

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[Stugotz]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Greg Cody]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Stugotz]

Against the Spread against the Spread against.

[Chris Cody]

The Spread all we're going to go to Major League Baseball. I was good last week. Remember Trevor Rogers. Terrible advice by me. Follow me this week. I was bad last week. Going to be good this week against the spread Arizona Diamondbacks against the Spread at Padres against the spread You Darvish on the mound for the Padres against Zach Allen. Zach Allen a five something era.

[Dan LeBatard]

He's lost it.

[Chris Cody]

I'm going with the Padres minus one and a half against spread. Gans is great.

[Stugotz]

Very happy music there. Yes Trevor Trevor Rogers again threw a bunch of scoreless in again yesterday after we said that all he does is have an ERA of 5. There are a handful of things that I need to get to before the end of the show. Do not let me forget I need to publicly apologize for something that embarrassed me last week. Do not let me forget to make sure that I do that before I get out of here because I've spent enough time today not doing it. I don't know how you guys absorbed the news this weekend and I know many of you have been tired of the way that I talk about climate change, but what happened in Central Texas is not something that we have seen a whole lot of. Where you go from a death count that starts at 20, that ends up over 80 when we're talking about it now, but they still are looking for children. When you get four months or six, it was four months of rain in six hours. And you get no warning whatsoever when you're sending your kids to one of 18 sleepaway camps around there that there's any possibility that you're dropping your kids off for the last time because the water is going to sweep them away. Because we just have no ability to. The way that some of these weather forecasts have been cut through some of the budget cuts to warn people about stuff that, that doesn't have a precedent and doesn't feel like it has a warning, but you must have some sort of warning that if you're sending your kids to sleepaway camp, you're going to get them back. And the idea that the water could rise to levels that are between 24 and 30ft and the Guadalupe river would get to a point so fast that the thing that measures it breaks that. It's a record breaking amount of height on a river where you get your family just swept away in an area or a region where no one expected it. It feels like we're playing like the world's most negative lottery with natural disasters where you just don't know where it is that you can put people that you love and have them be safe.

[Billy Gil]

This is unimaginable. We live in South Florida where we are subject to hurricanes, but we're almost lucky in that we get four or five days of gradual notice when a hurricane is advancing and whether or not it's going to hit us directly. This was just out of nowhere, seemingly. And as. As these weather catastrophes become more and more common, weather forecasting and meteorology should be something that we prioritize as a public safety.

[Stugotz]

You say that we have warning for hurricanes, but I wonder when things like this happen, what these kinds of cuts to budget cuts to our forec will mean in terms of the accuracy of any and all of these things. Given that I'm next to certain that none of those people had any sort of idea that that would even be possible, that you would get four months of rain in six hours. I need some sort of palate cleanser, some sort of sorbet to allow me to segue from the lack of safety of the moment to something happier. So can you get me the stead of the day Music, please. Start of the day Start of the.

[Chris Cody]

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

[Stugotz]

Of the day.

[Chris Cody]

Stat of the Day.

[Greg Cody]

Is presented by Miller Lites.

[Stugotz]

This is from Warren Sharp. And I feel bad for Warren Sharp because now I associate him with coming on our show. Me saying endlessly what an expert he is at football, how great his information is. And then he had his worst week ever giving information to an audience and offered all of our listeners a refund because he went like 1 in 11 or oh, and 12 or something. But this stat's amazing. Alexander Madison had nine rushes inside the five yard line last season. You want to guess what his numbers were? Nine rushes inside of the five yard line.

[Chris Cody]

Nine yards.

[Stugotz]

Well, zero yards. It's actually worse than zero yards. It's zero touchdowns. It's negative seven yards.

[Billy Gil]

Wow.

[Stugotz]

That is the worst anybody's been in 25 years carrying the ball inside the five yard line. Most people, when they have that many carries, get at least a total of 2 yards. Most people get at least a total of negative 2 yards. He gets negative 7 yards. That's kind of amazing, is it not? You go home at night as a running back and you have someone print that and you're mad at that person. Correct. You. You have someone put that information in the public and it embarrasses you. I believe his isn't his nickname. The sous chef is. It was wasn't his name because he played behind Dalvin Cook.

[Chris Cody]

Do you remember there was that one game where Jerome Bettis had five carries for one yard and three touchdowns?

[Stugotz]

Was that a Super Bowl?

[Chris Cody]

According to Google, Alexander Madison's nickname is Deuce.

[Stugotz]

So close, I'm pretty sure. Go look up nicknames sous chef and see if you find anything without seeing it written down.

[Chris Cody]

Just hearing the name Alexander Madison, I would say, yeah, he signed the Declaration of Independence.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, it's a good question. Put it on the poll at Lebatard. Show Alexander Madison negative 7 yards inside the 5 yard line or sign the Declaration of Independence.

[Chris Cody]

When you see it written though, you know, running back, when you hear it, you say, yeah, he signed that thing.

[Stugotz]

I want you to look up for me the nickname sous chef and I want to see if you guys have to take it back because I wouldn't make up that I didn't make it up. It's Dalvin Cook was the running back. He cooks. And so when you need somebody behind him to get you negative seven yards on nine carries from inside the five yard line, zero touchdowns, you would agree, Greg Cody, that that's damn near impossible to do.

[Billy Gil]

I think that if you put me in a uniform and handed me the ball and I fell forward to where the quarterback is, I would have about those same stats for nine carries.

[Stugotz]

I think you would. I think Greg is actually right. Zaslow, you're sitting here laughing, but I do believe that if. If Craig just took the ball and curled up in the fetal position near the quarterback's legs, he would have about negative 7 yards.

[Chris Cody]

I just feel like he would have such a hard time getting up.

[Billy Gil]

Well, I mean, me at my age, I don't even mean me in my 20s, I could do that now. That's almost impossible to be that athletic and that big and have those stats.

[Stugotz]

Well, he's very athletic. I wouldn't say he's that big. And I see that my entire team is now looking, searching the entire Internet for sous chef, but I'm not convinced that Chris knows how to spell Sue.

[Billy Gil]

Right. I got there, I was thinking the same thing.

[Chris Cody]

I did stumble upon a random tweet. A random person who tweeted, quote, no one calls Alexander Madison a sous chef randomly, but somebody must have said it.

[Stugotz]

Someone for him.

[Chris Cody]

For someone to tweet.

[Stugotz]

No one calls them that. The reason I know it is because they said it on the red zone. It's the only. The only reason that I know that is because I'm like, oh, that's clever. The. Because I didn't know what a sous chef was. It's how actually, Alexander Madison is the one who taught me what a sous chef was because I did not know or understand the nickname and had to go look it up.

[Chris Cody]

You haven't seen, like, cooking movies?

[Stugotz]

I know nothing about cooking. You wouldn't know it from looking at my swollen face.

[Chris Cody]

Ratatouille popcorn.

[Stugotz]

I don't know anything about cooking. Thank you, Billy, for that fake sincerity.

[Chris Cody]

I found a chef Paul Madison. Is that helpful? This tweet that I found was on Sunday at 1:33pm so that means he must have also heard this. No, it was in 2021, but it was on a Sunday at 1:33pm and they he tweeted. No one calls him sous chef, so he must have been called sous chef on Red Zone. This checks out for me.

[Stugotz]

Close enough. Thank you.

[Chris Cody]

What date was it? Let's see if he was playing at that time.

[Stugotz]

I appreciate.

[Chris Cody]

October 17, 2021. All right, I'm on it.

[Stugotz]

Appreciate the support. Billy, I don't appreciate anything that you're doing right now. Do you?

[Chris Cody]

Fact checking. I'm sorry, are we not in the industry of truths?

[Stugotz]

We are.

[Chris Cody]

I guess we're not. I don't know. October 17 what now?

[Stugotz]

I read. Thank you for looking up all those facts. I also read and I don't know whether or not you guys would find this surprising at all because I know how many people all across America are feeling the difference between wealthy people and people who are not wealthy. And in general the feelings of inflation that seem overwhelming at times. But Bloomberg is saying that more then a third of Americans making 250 grand a year are living paycheck to paycheck. And I thought that was stunning. I thought, even understanding that there are very few frustrations that anyone listening to this has that are going to be larger than I can't pay my bills or I can't. There's nothing that I can do with my finances or my work to get out ahead of the rising price of things. Bloomberg saying that more than a third of Americans making a quarter million dollars a year as a household are living paycheck to paycheck. That's. That surprised me that I can't fathom.

[Billy Gil]

It because it seems to me that if that's the case, you must be living over your means. In other words, you must be living like millionaires when you're not a millionaire. You know what I mean? Like, how else would somebody get in that situation making that kind of money? People, the average guy making 80, 60,000 a year can't fathom that. It's.

[Stugotz]

It seems that those numbers seem impossible. And I know a lot of people are confused at all times by the economy, but especially confused now by the economy. Why are you and your son having a private conversation? He's reprimanding you about the microphone and you're mouthing back at him the word sorry, I know.

[Chris Cody]

As if he has his microphone pointed.

[Stugotz]

Away from him as if I can't see you.

[Billy Gil]

He's like mimicking with the microphone, microphone.

[Chris Cody]

And I'm just like, God, just. Do you not hear the difference?

[Greg Cody]

No, I fixed this microphone two hours ago.

[Billy Gil]

Roy, you did everything you could.

[Stugotz]

There is no accounting for his general reckless incompetence. Roy, there's no containing it. It will just spill over whatever your boundaries are.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, at least, at least this time he didn't say the microphone should.

[Billy Gil]

Be following him, but theoretically it should.

[Chris Cody]

10-17-2021. The Vikings played in Carolina at 1pm oh, so Madison. Alexander. Madison had three carries for 10 yards, and the Vikings won 3,428. In one of those carries.

[Billy Gil]

The shoe set.

[Stugotz]

Before Zaslo gets out of here for a very important ESPN radio hit that he has to do, I just want to get his general thoughts on fireworks and people filming fireworks.

[Chris Cody]

Dan, you got to be kidding me. All right, you want to enjoy your fireworks? Fine. Can we live in the now? Can you enjoy the moment? These people who are recording on their iPhone, all of a sudden they're photographers or cameramen, they're recording the fireworks. Are you telling me that a couple days go by and you're just sitting around with your family? Hey, gang, gather round. Let's watch the fireworks video I recorded. Nobody does that. Nobody records the fireworks, then goes back and watches it later on. Why are you recording your fireworks? What about recording my daughter watching fireworks? Good.

[Billy Gil]

That's cute.

[Chris Cody]

Well, are you gonna go back and watch your daughter watching fireworks? Doing it right now, actually. Okay, fine.

[Stugotz]

All right, fine. At least you.

[Chris Cody]

You're focused on your daughter. There's. But recording the fireworks for what you're going to.

[Stugotz]

You're going to.

[Chris Cody]

You're going to cast it on your. On your tv, in your family room. Everybody, it's Saturday night. Let's watch the fireworks.

[Stugotz]

I believe. Isn't it something that they're doing to show all their friends that right then, that moment. They're posting that immediately? It's not to look at it later. It's to show everyone that at that moment, you're watching fire. I have going on around the world.

[Chris Cody]

Everyone's watching fireworks. You should post a video.

[Stugotz]

Not watching.

[Chris Cody]

I want to make sure everyone knows I'm having a better fourth of July than them. But everyone's doing the same thing. But mine's as. Mine's not as. Mine's better. I want a video of someone staring at the wall on the 4th of July.

[Stugotz]

Well, look at that guy.

[Chris Cody]

He's doing something different.

[Stugotz]

That's low. All right. Get out of here. Fourth of July with your rage. Get out of here. Jog out of here. And you've never looked more alive than when you jog away right now from a. From a fuse on a firework. That is Chris Cody's greatest contribution to our show, saying that he's never felt more alive than when he is jogging lightly away from a fuse. That has been l. It is a vibrant time. Behind the bit is John Amici. This time, we stump him. All the time with Stugac. He's never won this game. Let's go behind the bit with John Amici trying to figure out what it is that stug his latest mispronuncification is.

[Dan LeBatard]

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[Stugotz]

Stugats.

[Chris Cody]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. This is behind the bit.

[Greg Cody]

This is behind the.

[Chris Cody]

This is behind the bit. For the past 20 years, you've seen and heard bits on the Dan Lebatar Show.

[Greg Cody]

You may have wondered to yourself, what are these bits? What's wrong with these people?

[Chris Cody]

Who is John Amici? John Amici was a former NBA player and just a very intellectual man who I don't want to say doesn't have a sense of humor because I don't think that's fair to John. But John takes himself more seriously than we would take ourselves, I would say. And John Amici is someone who would probably not be hanging out in the same circles. As stugots per se. So he's a very well read man. He's. He was, he wasn't knighted officially, but he has like a British royal title of sorts and just is into very smart things that go above the head of all of us.

[Greg Cody]

Levy scored the first ever points at the Miami Heat's newer arena. He was a close friend of Dan's. He made headlines once he retired when he penned a book where he came out to the nation. John Amici had a really strong relationship with Dan. They were good friends and he was someone that was always so, so intelligent and wonderful to have them weigh in on big important societal topics on our show. You can never have enough smart people surround your show, especially when you have stugats there weighing the median average down. John, when he met Dan, took him to a gay bar and dance, didn't.

[Chris Cody]

Did not know that he was gay.

[Greg Cody]

Despite bringing him to a gay bar. He didn't suspect that like this is.

[Chris Cody]

A place to go. Like okay, but yeah, that was pretty.

[Greg Cody]

Funny thinking about that. But yeah, like John is just like Bomani, one of the most intelligent people I've ever met.

[Chris Cody]

He's a constant ally and we are.

[Greg Cody]

Ally of him and just all around good man.

[Chris Cody]

So we thought let's play a game and waste John's time and have him try to figure out what it is that Stugatz who's not well, read what he's trying to say mid sentence, mid thought. Sometimes he just ejects in the middle of the word, sometimes he just mispronounces words. So what we would do is we would save a bunch of clips of stugots just not saying words the right way and then horrify John Amici who speaks perfect English. And Jon was terrible at this game and I think he was frustrated because, you know, as an NBA player, as someone who's a successful businessman, he has succeeded at many things in life. And this is just one that we knew he was not going to succeed at. And I think it drove him nuts that this dumb game always got the best of him and it was really unfair. I mean some of the words that we would play for him are four or five syllable words that stugats would condense down into one syllable and then move on to his next train of thought. So John never really stood a chance in this game.

[Stugotz]

What is the first mispronuncification from stugat?

[Greg Cody]

Dallas or analysis? See, I think it's Dallas, but that's too simple.

[Stugotz]

Analysis. That's what I would have guessed. Wow.

[Chris Cody]

Spot on.

[Stugotz]

That would have been my guess.

[Chris Cody]

Formula.

[Greg Cody]

It's either formula. But having said that, I can't imagine a context in which Stugots would have to say that word. Formidable.

[Stugotz]

All right, you are overthinking this.

[Greg Cody]

I think it's formidable. Despite Dan trying to help you out, it is formula.

[Stugotz]

Oh, no.

[Chris Cody]

Draw. Oh, come on now.

[Greg Cody]

I've absolutely got nothing. Drawer.

[Chris Cody]

That is a tragedy right there.

[Stugotz]

Hermaphrodite. Oh.

[Billy Gil]

Hermaphrodites.

[Greg Cody]

Hermaphrodite.

[Stugotz]

Yes, of course.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, there we go.

[Stugotz]

Of course. What do you mean? Oh, God.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, I hate you so much right now.

[Billy Gil]

Most.

[Greg Cody]

Is it most or is it.

[Stugotz]

That's not my final answer.

[Greg Cody]

I'm going to go with mist. It's most.

[Stugotz]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Holy.

[Greg Cody]

I was robbed.

[Stugotz]

You were not robbed. You made your own decisions.

[Chris Cody]

I'm sorry.

[Stugotz]

That was robbed. You made your own life choices. You had victory in your hands and you let it go. How did this one start? Stugot just pronounces things very poorly for broadcast. And John Amici is so smart. So the idea of him trying to guess what language it is I'm speaking. Yes. And what words are coming out of my mouth. It's funny. It's such a great idea because all it is is us taking things that have been said in the natural flow of ST Gods broadcasting as ST Gods. And he doesn't finish all of his words, and he tries to get to the next thought a little faster before he's finished the other one.

[Chris Cody]

Small windows.

[Stugotz]

Both words get jumbled up. And so we had an endless library of things that Stugats had mispronounced. What I always loved about that segment is Mike would give him an easy one, like a fastball right down the middle just so he can gain some confidence.

[Chris Cody]

I think this is the time I'm going to win the game. Meech has never won the game. Did he win once?

[Stugotz]

He claims he won. The only times he's won is when we've made terrible mistakes somehow. Right. It's not because he ever deserves to win, but Mike would groove. The first one or two win, and then the next three, change ups, curveballs, everything. And Meech is swinging. That's rattling and falling to the ground. He can win. He can't win that. He always wins. Dan and Stew talked about it being like a palate cleanser. Did you create this bit, Mike?

[Greg Cody]

I just knew that we needed a device. Our show is really good at getting people in the tent and with nonsense, and then while they're in the tent, we'll have an important discussion, and. And you're gonna be sitting there not really understanding what you're sitting through, because we've already put it in your head that we're just going from laugh to laugh, and there's gonna be important societal discussions along the way, but you're gonna enjoy the journey. So we knew that we needed to do something to dress it up. We had come up with games to play with guests. There was this game that we had called Douche or no Douche that we had in our back pocket anytime we needed to spruce up an interview or we weren't exactly sure where to take the interview. And I really liked having that as a device. And I knew, given how strong Dan and John's relationship was and knowing how playful John was and how much he liked our show and liked Sue Gotts as a character, I knew he'd be down for this. So it was all about tracking the mispronunciations as they would happen. And we started building up quite the arsenal. I'm proud of that. Of that folder. Roy had a very good ear for it. We'd all kind of mark it, like, anytime. Sugatz misspoke put that in the Sumtha Meech file. And we had to immediately write down what we thought Sugats was trying to say, because absent context, there was no way that we were going to figure out what Stugatz was going to say. I mean, some of these clips were really ridiculous.

[Stugotz]

I mean, after 20 minutes of super.

[Chris Cody]

Serious conversation with Dan. You need something?

[Stugotz]

Yes, we would. A little. It's a little bit of sorbet. A little bit of sorbet at the end of a societal conversation that makes your head hurt.

[Chris Cody]

It was like a treat for a dog.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, a little bit. Thank you for giving us 20 minutes of serious. Here's two gods.

[Tony]

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[Stugotz]

Offer.

[Tony]

That's simplisafe.com DLB there's no safe like Simplisafe.

[Greg Cody]

Jeremy, you know something about me, right? You know when I'm grilling outside and it's summertime? You know how I supplement my summertime?

[Dan LeBatard]

Of course I do.

[Greg Cody]

I make it Miller time. Of course. That beautiful white can. Oh, when it's so hot outside, I just. I just put it right to my forehead right there and just roll it sometimes right on the forehead, cool my body down and then I crack it open. Instant relief. And then that first sip brought mother does that first hit.

[Dan LeBatard]

That is a top five sequence of events that you can possibly go through.

[Greg Cody]

I'm just serenity now. When I just imagine that first sip of Miller Light.

[Dan LeBatard]

Just thinking about it, it's making me happy.

[Greg Cody]

Dude, the sun is out. It's nice. You have your friends showing up. You got your family there. You just had your first sip of Miller Light. And you know what? You're happy. You're blissful. You're fulfilled. I've been stocking my cooler with Miller Light four years and for good reason. It's brewed for taste only. 96 calories and 3.2 grams of carbs. This year, Miller Lite turns 50. That is five decades of cookouts, laughs, and ice cold moments that never miss. It's the original light beer and it's still my go to Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you or you can pick up some Miller Lite. Pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Cheers to 50 years of Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 to carbs per 12 ounces.

[Billy Gil]

Don LeBatard a woman who was out swimming with her friends is believed to have been swallowed whole by a 13 foot shark without any of her friends noticing. That's the weirdest part about that story. You're swimming with friends, you're having a good time and then all of a sudden people are looking around going, where's Shelly? Like nobody screamed.

[Chris Cody]

Every friend group has a Shelly though, that if they go missing because a shark ate them whole, you wouldn't notice. Classic Shelly. Exactly right.

[Billy Gil]

St she went quietly. Apparently. If I'm swallowed whole by a shark, you're gonna know it.

[Chris Cody]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.

[Stugotz]

I don't know about the rest of you, but there is something about a stupid movie involving sharks that will make me stop on trailers for shark movies that are made at a really truly surprising to me rate still. Because it's been 50 years, 50 years this year since Jaws. And I am now stuck in an algorithm that keeps giving me information about the movie Jaws just because of how often I will get sucked into a Meg 2 trailer for no reason. Just because there are so many shark movies that I find it legitimately surprising that so many of them are still being made, given that the most famous one and the best one, I'm going to say remains the first one. It started as a horror movie. It basically created ushered in the idea of the summer blockbuster. It ended. The idea of the peaceful midnight swim, like just ended the movie ended. The idea that you would just go into the ocean and not fear that you were going to be attacked by a shark. But it doesn't get made very well. You'd agree these movies must do well. They must, because they keep getting made. But I can't imagine them doing well because why would anybody want to watch any of these shark movies given that it Was done best 50 years ago?

[Chris Cody]

Meg 2 the trenches budget was 129 to 139 million dollars. Box office for Meg to the trench, 397.8 million dollars.

[Stugotz]

That's the second one. And the first one. So there'll be a third one that. Right.

[Chris Cody]

I don't know how long before the next edition, Right? It's been a while since MEG2, hasn't it?

[Stugotz]

Well, 2023, if MEG2 made $200 million. And it's just great fun to see Jason Statham riding a jet ski away from the. That we've gotten more and more red. Ridiculous. Just riding a jet ski barely away from the. The Meg's mouth running on a dock as the dock gets destroyed behind him. Like, it's just more asinine.

[Chris Cody]

So the mag, the first one, the budget was between 130 and $178 million, which is a lot of missing. Accountable. Accountable money there. $48 million is missing. The box office was $529 million. So it's trending in the. In the wrong direction, but it's still making a boatload of money.

[Billy Gil]

It sounds like a comedy. That scene you described. Is it a comedy? I don't know movies.

[Stugotz]

It is not a comedy, but it is him running on a dock. It's Jason Statham running on a dock and each of the steps behind him exploding because the shark is getting closer.

[Billy Gil]

He's funny.

[Chris Cody]

That's funny.

[Stugotz]

But not as funny as him like, surfing on a wave right in front of the giant breaching shark. Sharks, a mouth. I don't. Have you guys ever. This was something I stopped on the other day. Again, it's a. It's a famous shark photographer who films. I think the. The title has flying shark in it, but great whites breaching. Have you guys ever seen a great white breach completely from the water? Not slightly to get us a seal, but completely from the water where you see its tail come out? I saw one of those in slow motion the other day on this documentary. And I just. I understand why it is that we're terrified of these animals, but I think I have it right when I say that the midnight swim was not something that people feared before the movie Jaws made them fear it. And I don't think there were summer blockbusters before that movie either. It qualifies as a horror. Right? You guys. You guys wouldn't think of it as a horror necessarily, but it's a horror movie, correct?

[Chris Cody]

Oh, absolutely.

[Stugotz]

It's the greatest horror movie of all time, is it not? If you classify it as a horror, does it not then have to be the greatest horror movie of all time, if that's the class that you're putting it in?

[Chris Cody]

Oh, no. There's the Exorcist. I mean, you got that Silence of the Lambs is. I would call it a horror, but.

[Greg Cody]

It'S necessarily a thriller.

[Chris Cody]

But, yeah, it's in that pantheon.

[Stugotz]

The Silence of the Lambs classify as a horror movie. Like, obviously, cannibalism. You would think that serial killing would. But I don't know if it. I don't even know how you classify horror movies.

[Dan LeBatard]

If Jaws classifies as a horror on Rotten Tomatoes. Silence of the Lambs is number six on the list of best horror movies of all time. Number one, Jaws.

[Stugotz]

Wow. So Jaws. And that is what in terms of money or rating?

[Dan LeBatard]

Rating.

[Stugotz]

It's just.

[Dan LeBatard]

I think it's rating and money because it's interesting, because number two here is Let the Right One in, which is at 98%. Jaws is at 97%. I can try to figure out where this all comes from, but I guess they just. Just recently went through and went between rating and also how much money it made. But I will tell you, Dan, the Jaws ride at Universal, which is like, you know, was rinky dink and did not look like any sort of real sharks, scared me so much as a child that I would not go in the ocean for, I think, three years.

[Chris Cody]

This list factors in the tomatometer. Jeremy just scrolled away from what I'm saying, and the listener, the audience driven. So there you go. They're combined. Combining the two with this rating.

[Dan LeBatard]

That's my bad. I scrolled away.

[Stugotz]

I know, but Billy, just laughing off Mike, not helpful. Just laughing at your pain and just in general, just laughing at you as things go wrong.

[Chris Cody]

I was there for like two minutes.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm like, he won't move it.

[Chris Cody]

And as soon as I started talking, yeah, that's on me, man.

[Stugotz]

Steven Spielberg was in his 20s when he made that movie. And it was filled with an enormous number of overruns because no one had actually considered how hard it would be to do all that stuff, stuff on the water.

[Chris Cody]

And because he's 20, I mean, what does he know how much it's going to cost to make a movie? You know what I mean? Like, how much things. $40,000. Like, okay, you got yourself. He's like, whoa, this is like $8 billion. I really underestimated that.

[Stugotz]

That would stink. If you were in your 20s, you're Steven Spielberg. You can't get the jaws, the 1975 jaws mouth to work, right? Because you don't have. You don't have the CGI that you need. So you're trying to do it all with some sort of. Some sort of thing made of ceramic that you're trying to pull up with.

[Chris Cody]

Out of the water puppet while doing that in, you know, when Was this? Like, 1970. Whatever. Jaws is like 50 years. You think at some point they're like, man, this is really hard. Like. And someone had a conversation, like, how much do you think an actual shark is going to cost. And let's just kind of record the shark doing these things.

[Stugotz]

I don't believe that that's how you.

[Chris Cody]

Don'T think anyone at any point said, maybe let's just use a shark for some of these shots.

[Stugotz]

I have way too much information on all of this stuff. No, I don't believe they said, let's use a great white for any of these shots. And, and also the. I think the person who wrote and, and acted in the film got all of $13,000, got a total of $13,000 for everything that he did for. For the movie. Now, Greg, surely you've seen Jaws as somebody who doesn't watch very many movies.

[Billy Gil]

I saw Jaws in the theater when it came out. I was in my very early twenties at the time. I have since seen it on. On tv. I love the movie. I never considered it a horror movie. So out of curiosity, I googled, was Jaws a horror movie? And for what it's worth, AI says yes. Jaws is widely considered a horror movie, despite also being classified as a thriller and an adventure film.

[Stugotz]

I want to find out how it is that people broadly define horror because I tend to think of supernatural as opposed to natural types of death. Right. I tend to think of the supernatural being involved with the horror genre, but I don't think I necessarily have this right. If Silence of the Lambs classifies as a horror when I would think of that as a thriller. But it's probably not a thriller, right? It's probably closer to horror. Put it on the poll at lebatard show. Juju, Silence of the Lambs, closer to thriller or horror.

[Chris Cody]

I would call it a psychological horror movie.

[Greg Cody]

Considering Hannibal Lecter was, I guess, a.

[Billy Gil]

Therapist, I think of a horror movie as Halloween. Freddy Krueger, that kind of film.

[Stugotz]

Well, that's. That's death and not supernatural. So you're talking about psychological thriller. Is that a genre? Does that count as a genre?

[Dan LeBatard]

The definition for horror film is a film genre that seeks to elicit physical or psychological fear in its view viewers. So horror films often explore dark subject matter, may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements of the genre include monsters, apocalyptic events and or religious or folk beliefs.

[Stugotz]

Exorcist is the one that I think of when I think of Supernatural. But the second best shark movie is.

[Dan LeBatard]

Deep Blue Sea Casino.

[Stugotz]

Is that is. Is. It's just. Is it Deep Blue Sea or Deep Blue? Is that the one that Deep Blue Sea.

[Greg Cody]

Deep Blue is a chess computer.

[Stugotz]

So Deep Blue Sea is. Which One, because I told you that I let out a horror movie scream in my living room at a movie I thought was called Deep Blue. And a spoiler alert here, even though it's not a spoiler alert Wednesday. I've told you this story before. It was a horror movie screen alone, 4am sitting on my couch. And I wouldn't have screamed louder if the great white shark had appeared from behind my couch to eat me at that moment. I was so surprised. Ten minutes in, spoiler alert. Samuel Jackson getting eaten with a breaching shark that ate him. That's deep blue sea.

[Chris Cody]

Yes, sir. That is deep blue sea. Samuel L. Jackson is in that movie. Yeah.

[Dan LeBatard]

Deep Blue is rated G. It has a picture of a penguin on the COVID Okay.

[Stugotz]

Two very different movies.

[Chris Cody]

Samuel L. Jackson also sounds like. Like Declaration of Independence.

[Billy Gil]

It does. Good call, Billy.

[Stugotz]

Billy, if you want to just do this for the rest of the show, I think you've. You have found a lane here.

[Chris Cody]

It's just a cheap cheat code, right? If it's an Alexander's probably on there. Billy Hamilton Jackson.

[Stugotz]

Yes, yes. Billy Hamilton.

[Chris Cody]

His friends called him Billy. He went by William, though. On the official signing, the signature was William Hamilton, but not Denzel Washington. What about Ron Washington?

[Greg Cody]

Ronald Washington? Yes.

[Billy Gil]

Thomas Jefferson.

[Stugotz]

What is that?

[Chris Cody]

I know.

[Billy Gil]

I'm intentionally not playing the game, right?

[Dan LeBatard]

Richard Jefferson.

[Chris Cody]

Why Richard Jefferson Washington?

[Billy Gil]

I don't know.

[Stugotz]

But yes, you guys can do this with. The reason Alexander Madison was good is because the last name wouldn't be on the Declaration of Independence, but the Madison felt like the right syllable.

[Dan LeBatard]

Somehow Hank Blaylock feels like it counts.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I could see that.

[Billy Gil]

Hank.

[Chris Cody]

Hank Blaylock.

[Dan LeBatard]

Henry.

[Chris Cody]

Henry Blaylock for sure.

[Dan LeBatard]

Henry Blaylock the Fourth.

[Stugotz]

His friends called him Hank, though, right?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Thomas Hank.

[Stugotz]

Forgot the S. Do you guys.

[Chris Cody]

I remembered right at the last minute.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, yeah. Do you?

[Chris Cody]

Tom Hanks, the actor? Yeah. Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Thank you. Billy wasn't annoying enough. You had to go a little extra. Little extra.

[Chris Cody]

Chet Hanks doesn't sound like he saw the Declaration of Independence. Chester Hanks closer. Oh, his name's Thomas Jeffrey Hanks for sure. Signed. Yeah. Back to you.

[Stugotz]

You guys are doing Samuel L. Jackson only because of the L, right? It's not the Samuel or the Jackson.

[Billy Gil]

Samuel Fitz.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Billy Gil]

And Jackson fits.

[Chris Cody]

Stephen Adams.

[Billy Gil]

Yeah. Stephen Adams, but not.

[Stugotz]

But you guys are now just doing presidential Stephen A. Smith again. Alexander Madison works because it's the last name that.

[Dan LeBatard]

Stephen Morris.

[Stugotz]

Stephen Morris.

[Billy Gil]

Borderline.

[Stugotz]

I feel like you need either more of a syllable count. You guys are cheating. When you do joke. Just the President's names. Like when you do Washington and Jefferson, like.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, that's the game. Like JB Biggerstaff. Doesn't sound like he signed the Declaration of Independence, but he has the initials at the beginning.

[Stugotz]

We have a president that was named Alexander. Right.

[Dan LeBatard]

But Jason Taylor.

[Stugotz]

I feel like we need more Jason. We need more syllables than that Jason. There's not a. I don't know if Herb Dean. There's no way. Are we sure that there was a Jason in 1776?

[Chris Cody]

I don't think there was. That's a great point.

[Dan LeBatard]

I'm about to look up the Orig.

[Greg Cody]

It's a biblical name.

[Chris Cody]

Jason feels like a newer name.

[Billy Gil]

I can't see Jason in the Bible.

[Dan LeBatard]

Well, there it's settled.

[Stugotz]

J. I think they're calling him Jay in Leviticus.

[Dan LeBatard]

It was born in Greek mythology.

[Billy Gil]

No, Brace, it was.

[Dan LeBatard]

Turns out.

[Greg Cody]

Any Argonauts?

[Chris Cody]

Some time off at all or.

[Billy Gil]

No.

[Chris Cody]

Like fashion. Cyclical maybe. Jason was popular, then disappeared and then came back.

[Stugotz]

Jack, you're telling me the Greek gods, like Zeus, looked at Jay and called him Jason? There's no way. Put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Was there a Jason in Greek mythology?

[Greg Cody]

Jeremy, you know something about me, right? You know when I'm grilling outside and it's summertime? You know how I supplement my summertime?

[Dan LeBatard]

Of course I do.

[Greg Cody]

I make it Miller time Time. Of course. That beautiful white can. Oh, when it's so hot outside, I just. I just put it right to my forehead right there. And I just roll it sometimes right on the forehead, cool my body down. And then I crack it open. Instant relief. And then that first sip, brother, does that first hit.

[Dan LeBatard]

That is a top five sequence of events that you can possibly go through.

[Greg Cody]

I'm just serenity now. When I just imagine that first sip of Miller Life, just thinking about it.

[Chris Cody]

It'S making me happy.

[Greg Cody]

Dude, the sun is out. It's nice. You have your friends showing up. You got your family there. You just had your first sip of Miller Lite and you know what? You're happy. You're blissful. You're fulfilled. I've been stocking my cooler with Miller Lite four years, and for good reason. It's brewed for taste only. 96 calories and 3.2 grams of carbs. This year, Miller Lite turns 50. That is five decades of cookouts, laughs, and ice cold moments that never miss. It's the original light beer air and it's still my go to Miller light. 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. Cheers to 50 years of Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.