Jessica Critiques Dan's Dog Behavior | Hour 3

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: The Dan Le Batard Show
Episode: Jessica Critiques Dan's Dog Behavior | Hour 3
Date: August 5, 2026
Location: Live from The Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Main Voices: Dan Le Batard (Host), Jessica Smetana, Greg Cody, Amin Elhassan, Tony, others

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Episode Overview

This hour of The Dan Le Batard Show is a lively, freewheeling mix of sports, pop culture, and the show’s signature comedic banter—live from Miami. The episode focuses on Dan’s dog drama, eccentric pet ownership, the wild world of animal escape in high-rise apartments, amusing generational fashion and age revelations, bad sports slogans, WNBA expansion team names, and favorite nicknames for strangers. It’s an hour packed with warmth, irreverence, and the hilarious chaos of the Le Batard universe.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Bizarre TV Sports Quotes & "People Looked Older Back Then"

• [01:07] Dan reacts to Josh Allen’s cliché quote:
  • “If you knock enough on the door, it's going to open at some point. That's not true...sometimes you can just keep knocking and there'll never be anybody home.” — Dan Le Batard
  • Jessica offers the biblical “Knock and the door shall be opened,” as a response.
  • [01:40] The crew is amazed at how young sitcom stars were when playing “old” characters.
    • Kelsey Grammer was 29 on Cheers, Jason Alexander was 30 at the start of Seinfeld, Archie Bunker was 46.
    • Greg Cody: “I think everyone looks younger now as they get older versus 30 years ago.”
    • Theory is floated: better modern health, less cigarette smoke.

2. Dan’s Escaping Dog: A Miami Apartment Epic

• [02:59–09:54]
  • Dan tells a harrowing and ridiculous story: his dog, left collarless and “nude” (no leash, no collar), escaped during apartment chaos (a flooding situation, doors and sensors failing).
  • Greg Cody is incredulous: “Only you could lose your dog in an apartment building.”
  • Amin presses Dan: Why is his dog “free-range”?
  • Dan explains the complex, elevator-based floor plan—emphasizing that this should have been impossible.
  • Everyone debates whether a stranger in the elevator should’ve intervened more aggressively. Amin: “Why is it colorless?” Greg: “Our dog’s nude at home too, but...the thought of my dog ending up all the way in the street is unfathomable.”
  • Crew laughs at rich dog jokes (“This dog knows what he’s doing... going to get a Miami Vice smoothie.” — Greg, [07:24])
  • The situation escalates: the dog is eventually found, post-potato buffet in a restaurant.
  • Dan: “He is not a good boy. He crossed several streets and ended up at a restaurant kitchen eating potatoes.” ([06:36])
  • Amin exclaims at Dan’s blame shifting: “This dude is throwing everyone under the bus. The man in the elevator, my wife, everybody.”
  • Tony: “Le Batard shirks responsibility for dog’s evacuation?”
  • Dan is adamant: “I wasn’t home when the dog escaped. It can’t be me. It’s not allowed to be me.” ([08:28])
  • Greg: “He was wearing dress pants...that makes it so much worse!”
  • The whole ordeal blends farce, anxiety, and comedic self-deprecation.

3. The Miami Nude Steakhouse & "Nude Food"

• [09:34]
  • Jessica is introduced as someone who eats steak with her hands.
  • Discussion of a real-life nude steakhouse open only one day a month in Hollywood, FL:
    • “Single man: $250, Single woman: $150, Couple: $300. Dinner, all you can have...but you're nude.”
    • Greg: “If I’m eating steak nude, it’s in my home and I’m not telling people about it.”
  • Restaurant inspires a later running joke with Tony and Jessica "nude eating segment", culminating in visual gags (see below).

4. Sports Slogans and Camp Stories: The Mike McCarthy "Tempered" Debacle

• [10:21]
  • Discussion of “tempered” as a motivational slogan (Mike McCarthy, NFL) and the confusion it breeds.
    • Greg: “You also temper eggs, if you want to cook them really slowly. That’s besides the point, though, Dan.” ([11:02]).
    • Tony jokes: “Tempurpedic mattress” as the association, not steel.
    • “Indication of a bad inspirational slogan when you have to explain it to this degree.” — Tony ([12:45])

5. The Chicago (WGN) Kyle Shanahan AI Meme Mix-up

• [16:29]
  • WGN TV in Chicago mistakenly runs an AI image of 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan as Mitch McConnell.
  • Jessica: “He made his first public comment since a car crash two weeks ago...the team didn’t announce it for 11 days.”
  • Dan jokes about whether Mitch McConnell is even alive: “Do we have any proof that Mitch McConnell is still alive?” ([18:12])

6. Akron University’s Bizarre Football Promotion

• [18:33]
  • Akron is holding a lottery where a season ticket holder can help “design the opening drive” for their home football opener against Robert Morris.
  • Panel imagines the chaos:
    • “If you win this...they just give a random guy a headset and the playbook?”
    • Dan: “Everyone would call a trick play, right?”
    • “Annexation of Puerto Rico!” and “flea flicker!” as obligatory joke selections.

7. Cleveland’s New WNBA Team Name: The Sirens

• [21:50–25:23]
  • Jessica breaks down the naming process and trademark drama surrounding the new Cleveland team.
  • She explains the mythological angle and why she loves the “Sirens” motif.
    • Jessica: “We are in a total mythology maxing vibe right now this summer, and... I love it.”
  • Tony objects: “For everyone who hears ‘sirens’ and thinks of the mythology, there’s a 100 who hear it and think emergency vehicles.”
  • Etymology and Reddit confusion ensue. Jessica defends the Great Lakes’ “creepy” legacy: “That logo is pretty appropriately named ‘Erie.’”

8. Name Mistake Fines and Sports Team Talk

• [20:46] Fine debates: Greg Cody says “Indians” instead of “Guardians.”
  • Replay and judgment. “What kind of fine does he deserve for that particular mistake?”
  • The group’s list of escalating “fines” becomes a running joke.

9. Top Five List: Recent “Whoppers” Heard in Sports

• [37:23]
  • Tony presents his “Top Five Whoppers in Sports” in reaction to Travis Hunter claiming he’s both heavier and quicker this year:
    1. “These are only 10 milligrams, bro.” (Cannabis gummies always lie.)
    2. Tony Romo making up family visits.
    3. “Shohei Ohtani didn’t know English.” (Jessica: “Let’s be very clear there...he’s talking English. Come on!” [37:54])
    4. “Is everything okay?” from your wife. “Yes.” (Never true.)
    5. Cuban day laborers who claim they were doctors in Cuba. Jessica: “You’re cutting the grass. You cannot be a doctor and a gardener at the same time.”

10. Spanish Nicknames for Strangers: Tony’s Dad’s Top Five

• [39:53–44:19]
  • Tony recounts his Cuban father’s go-to names when he doesn’t remember someone’s real name.
    • Outliers: “Macho,” “Jefe” (Boss).
    • Top 5:
      1. Colonel (“Coronel”)
      2. Baron of God (from Christian circles)
      3. Doctor
      4. Monstro (Monster—big guys get this)
      5. Estrella (“Star”/“Super Estrella” for favorites)
  • English analogs: “Chief,” “Boss Man,” “Big Guy,” with Amin providing a Sudanese Arabic “Captain.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On TV Age Reveal:
  • “I just think everyone kind of looks a little bit younger now...back then probably from the cigarette stand. I don’t know. Modern medicine, what the deal is.” — Greg Cody ([02:38])
• On Dan’s Dog Escape:
  • “Only you could lose your dog in an apartment building.” — Greg Cody ([03:52])
  • “He crossed several streets and ended up at a restaurant kitchen eating potatoes.” — Dan Le Batard ([06:36])
  • “This dude is throwing everyone under the bus. The man in the elevator, my wife, everybody.” — Amin Elhassan ([08:23])
  • “I was wearing dress pants...that makes it so much worse!” — Greg Cody ([09:11])
• On "Nude Food":
  • “If I’m eating steak nude, it’s in the privacy of my home and I’m not telling people about it. And it’s usually once or twice a month.” — Greg Cody ([10:13])
  • Tony, eating nude: “Let me...it’s a beautiful croissant sandwich...Some divine eggs here...I had to put the couch cushion in front, Dan. I didn’t want it to be full frontal.” ([27:12–27:39])
• On WNBA Team Names:
  • “We are in a total mythology maxing vibe right now this summer, and...I love it.” — Jessica ([22:38])
  • “For everyone who hears the word ‘sirens’ and thinks mythology, there’s a hundred who think emergency vehicles.” — Tony ([24:09])
• On Fines:
  • “Cleveland: the new name for its WNBA team. How we feeling about this?” — Dan
  • “Oh, come on.” — Jessica, on “Mets at Indians” ([21:37])
  • “What kind of fine does he deserve for that particular mistake?” — Dan ([21:04])
• On Nicknames:
  • “My dad doesn’t know your name, but he sees you in some sort of stature...Coronel, which means colonel.” — Tony ([41:56])
  • “Calling someone Colonel is crazy.” — Jessica ([44:55])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:07–02:59]: TV aging, “knock on the door” bit
• [02:59–09:54]: Dan’s dog escapes, chaos, blame shifting
• [09:34–10:13]: Nude steakhouse and “nude eating” running joke
• [10:21–12:52]: Mike McCarthy’s “tempered” slogan
• [16:29–18:24]: WGN’s Shanahan AI mix-up, Mitch McConnell jokes
• [18:33–20:21]: Akron football fan “call a play” lottery
• [21:50–25:46]: Cleveland WNBA “Sirens” name breakdown and debate
• [20:46–21:21]: Naming mistake fines ("Indians" instead of "Guardians")
• [37:23–38:54]: Tony’s “Top Five Whoppers” in sports
• [39:53–44:19]: Tony’s dad’s Spanish nicknames for strangers

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Tone and Style Highlights

• Relaxed, improvisational, and quick-witted; deep Miami/Latino vibe with jokes and warm ribbing.
• Jessica as cultural and sports encyclopedia; Greg Cody delivers wry, folksy wisdom; Dan is the bemused ringleader.
• The show moves seamlessly from local humor to broader sports and pop culture.

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Conclusion

This hour delivers classic Le Batard Show energy: sports debates that morph into comedic set pieces, delightfully absurd banter, and authentic personal stories (ranging from embarrassing pet mishaps to cultural traditions). The chemistry between the hosts, their willingness to poke fun at each other, and their embrace of Miami’s unique cultural blend make for an engaging, laughter-filled episode even when the conversation drifts from the world of sports into the quirks of everyday life.

Transcript

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[Jessica]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Have a number of things that I want to get to here with Jessica. There's a quote all over my televisions here from Josh Allen that doesn't understand some very basic principles. He says, quote, if you knock enough on the door, it's going to open at some point. That's not true in any way. That's just simply not factually true.

[Jessica]

Knock on the door shall be open.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, sometimes you can just keep knocking and there'll never be anybody home. There's never anybody home.

Especially nowadays. A lot of that.

[Jessica]

Unless you're a sweat team, then you gotta use that.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah. How hard are you knocking?

[Dan Le Batard]

Jessica? Among the examples that we've had around here for somebody who looked old prematurely, which of these is the most shocking from among all of these names that Kelsey Grammer was 29 when he was on Cheers? Cliff in Cheers, John Ratzenberger was 35. Jason Alexander was 30 at the beginning of Seinfeld. Archie Bunker was 46 on All in the Family. That might be too far before your time. Which of those is most shocking to you?

[Greg Cody]

I think the first one with kelsey grammer, because 29 is. I mean, you're. You're in your 20s. That is. That is youthful. And if you go back to early Seinfeld episodes, Jason Alexander actually doesn't look that old in the first season. Like, you can see the youthfulness. He just doesn't have a lot of hair.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jeremy and Amin both making sour faces at you right there. Questioning your take on Jason Alexander.

[Amin Elhassan]

Full youthful.

[Greg Cody]

I don't think he looks that old in like the first couple seasons. I just, I don't. I mean, I think in general, everyone looks younger now as they get older versus 30 years ago. I think younger people looked older back then, probably from the cigarette stand. I don't know. I mean, who knows modern medicine, what the deal is, but I just think everyone kind of looks a little bit younger now.

[Dan Le Batard]

Put these on the poll, please. Are you shocked that Jason Alexander was 30 at the beginning of Seinfeld? Are you shocked that Kelsey Grammer was 29 at the beginning of Cheers? Are you shocked that Archie Bunker was 46 on All in the Family? All of those are shocking to me. The question I wanted to ask you, bringing you in from something that we were doing earlier in the week, you are a fellow dog lover with me. And so I'm curious because I felt very alone here at the number of people who thought that it was okay for my, the people in my building to just allow my dog to escape, even though there are all sorts of sensors and doors that have to be opened in order for that dog to escape. What were your thoughts on what happened to me when I felt the full blown panic of the McRib being released?

[Greg Cody]

My first and only thought, Dan was only you, only you could lose your dog in an apartment building. Like, this is just something that could only happen to you.

[Amin Elhassan]

I mean, like, you live somewhere where it's like, hey, if I want to leave this place, I could just leave. I just got to wait for these doors open. I could just leave. So I got to ask, man, what are you doing to make sure your dog is hemmed up or is it just a free range dog?

[Dan Le Batard]

The dog has never been out in that elevator without a human being because that elevator is rarely opening on our floor for any reason. And furthermore, the, the elevator is separate from the apartment and the doors to the apartment are usually closed unless there's a sprinkler system going off, flooding the apartment that has my wife running around with buckets and garbage cans and she's in a panic.

[Greg Cody]

I love that you have to specify that there is an elevator that is outside of your apartment because you are so rich that I was assuming the elevator just went straight into your apartment. And that would have also kind of explained it a little bit better. But that is a great detail from you, Dan, but again, this could only happen to you. And if I'm that guy on that elevator. Unless this dog is under 20 pounds. Unless it's like, one of those dogs you could just scoop up and, like, put in your pocket. I'm not messing with this dog. I am just letting it mind its own business. I'm minding my own business because I don't know if this dog's going to bite me. I don't know if it's going to get mad and do something crazy to me. I'm just going to let it be Jess.

[Amin Elhassan]

The dog, by the way, has no collar because apparently Dan lets the dog, after a long day at work, loosen up and just take it off. Why is it colorless?

[Greg Cody]

Totally new dog.

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[Greg Cody]

Our dog's nude at home, too. I mean, but we also have a door between our apartment in the hallway, and then there's elevators, and then there's more doors. And the thought of my dog somehow ending up all the way out on the street in New York is unfathomable to me. So many things would have to go wrong for that to happen.

[Dan Le Batard]

The only thing that I think this guy did wrong is, is you have to. When you get into that bottom floor and get out of the elevator, I am making sure somebody who works at this building knows that I found a dog alone. Like, I'm not just going to keep about my day. You have to say something to someone at that building that there's a dog here.

[Greg Cody]

I thought you were going to say the only thing that guy did wrong was he didn't say, sup? Like, when he got on the elevator, like, what's up, dog? Because I thought that was a little rude. Like, he could have been, like, so, yeah, unfriendly. What's going on?

[Dan Le Batard]

What I'm going to tell all of you is, is that isn't the only thing that guy did wrong. What he did wrong is open the door that has sensors on it and let my dog into traffic.

[Greg Cody]

It's still your fault and it only could happen to you.

[Tony]

Is the dog okay? That's the first thing to ask.

[Dan Le Batard]

We already did this show on Monday.

He's a good boy, though. We all agree.

[Tony]

Good boy.

[Dan Le Batard]

He is not a good boy. He was. He crossed several streets and ended up at a restaurant kitchen eating potatoes. He is not a good boy. How'd you find them running around in a panic did this show.

[Amin Elhassan]

I know, but, like, I get it, but I'm just saying, like, the idea of a Collarless dog. Guess what?

[Dan Le Batard]

That's why I was panicked. And the reason the collarless dog is collarless and totally nude. Beyond that, the dog prefers to be free. And I like for the dog to be free. Is there's no chance of that happening. There's no circumstance under which that can happen.

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[Tony]

There is. Apparently there is, Tone, but you can't

[Dan Le Batard]

let my dog into the street. It's a busy, trafficked street. You can't just open the door when there are locks and sensors on the door.

[Greg Cody]

This guy thought, like Chris said, this is a rich dog. This dog's probably going to pura Vita. Gonna get a Miami Vice smoothie and chill. Maybe some oatmeal chocolate bites. Like, this dog knows what he's doing.

[Dan Le Batard]

What time of day was this? What time of day was this?

2:00'?

[Tony]

Clock? 3:00am Just. Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know why that matters.

Just felt like asking your dad. Just wanted to make a 3am joke like that. Just.

[Tony]

Where's the leash?

[Dan Le Batard]

No leash law for no reason. He made it 3am even though.

[Greg Cody]

Also, imagine if this guy.

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If.

[Greg Cody]

If it is in the middle of the night, like, this guy. Who knows? Maybe he's drunk and he's just like, what's the.

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What's.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's not the middle of the night. It's 2pm I thought we'd established that.

[Tony]

I heard of 3am3am so. Me too, Dan.

[Amin Elhassan]

So the dog came in and, like, knocked on your door one day, Like, Dan, can I talk to you for a second? Like, I'm really not liking the dress code. I just feel freer when I don't have a single on my neck. Come on, we're in Miami, man, And you're like, you know what? I'm going to allow it. Is that how that conversation.

[Dan Le Batard]

Valerie. Valerie likes that all of the animals be as free as possible.

[Amin Elhassan]

This dude is throwing everyone under the bus. The man in the elevator, my wife, everybody.

[Dan Le Batard]

The dog sure as shit wasn't me. I wasn't home when the dog escape. Like, it can't be me. It's not allowed to be me.

[Tony]

Levitar shirks responsibility for dog's evacuation.

[Amin Elhassan]

Question mark. You gotta put a question mark at the end of it, Greg.

[Tony]

Yeah, that's true.

[Greg Cody]

I think what's worse, Dan, is if your dog had escaped, but then got out on the wrong floor and was just trapped on someone else's floor and you couldn't find him for a really long time, that would have been scary, too.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I couldn't find him for a really long time. I was running around in a sprint, running around all of the stairs early and running through the floors. And I was wearing dress pants. Like, I'm sprinting through the streets trying to find the.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, my God, you guys. He was wearing dress pants. That makes it so much worse.

[Tony]

You had to be sweating like a pig, huh?

[Amin Elhassan]

I like the idea of you running around, just yelling early and early. Some other guy said, see, honey, not just me.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, my God.

[Amin Elhassan]

Oh, you missed. You missed. You missed the nude food segment. Jess, you would have loved it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jessica eats steak with her hands. And one of the things we were talking about before you came on here is that there is a restaurant that is open on Mondays, one day a month, first Monday of the month, in Hollywood, Florida, where diners eat steak nude. And it's a real thing, and it's legal. And I just didn't think that that's something.

[Jessica]

Well, it's whatever you want, Dan. It's not just steak. It's a steakhouse. But they have all different types of foods on the menu. So, Jessica, you got, for a single man, 250 bucks. Single woman, 150 bucks. Couple. You get 300 bucks. Basically, the dinner served, all you can have, but you're nude.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, if I'm eating steak nude, it's in the privacy of my home, and I'm not telling people about it. And it's usually once or twice a month.

[Dan Le Batard]

How did you feel about the Steelers opening up camp and Aaron Rodgers and Pat McAfee starting camp? By

[Greg Cody]

Put me out of my misery. Okay. There was a story in ESPN yesterday from Brook prior about Mike McCarthy's motto for the season and the T shirts that he handed out to the team. Dan, what do you think of when you hear the term tempered? Like, what is being tempered when you

[Dan Le Batard]

hear that term tempered? Someone's passion, someone's rage, someone's. What is being tempered? What do you think of as being tempered?

[Tony]

Tempurpedic mattress,

[Greg Cody]

Greg. That's exactly where I was going with this.

[Tony]

That's a bad slogan. Are we in agreement?

[Greg Cody]

I was gonna say tempered expectations. That's something I think about being tempered. But he went with tempered, I think to reinforce the making of steel. You temper steel to, like, harden it and to toughen it. You also temper eggs, if you want to cook them really slowly. That's besides the point, though, Dan. But I think of tempering something like, I'm gonna temper my expectations for this season because the. The slogan is tempered. And it's. It's just not sitting right with me.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's terrible.

What if it is a bad. It's a bad slogan.

[Amin Elhassan]

What if he's sincere, though? Hey, guys, like, let's temporary expectations. Our quarterback is 50 years old and he thinks Anthony Fauci is a fraud.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, my expectations could not be more tempered actually for this season because of Aaron Rodgers. So I guess it is really fitting for Mike McCarthy.

[Dan Le Batard]

So tempering steel, I don't. I'm not even totally sure what that means. Don't you sharpen steel like, isn't.

[Greg Cody]

Isn't you tempering is like. I think it's like heating something up. So like when you're tempering eggs, if you're making like a pudding or something like that, or like a custard, you're pouring something hot into it while you're whisking it so it cooks it without it curdling and becoming like scrambled eggs. And I think it's probably the same process with steel. However, you know, unfortunately my grandfather, who was a Pittsburgh, lifelong Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is not alive. So I can't call him and ask him the intricacies of making and tempering steel Dan anymore. But that is, I guess, how a process in which steel is made harder.

[Jessica]

Yeah, Temperance steel. That's how you make the steel stronger so you don't break it.

[Tony]

Indication. Indication of a bad inspirational slogan when you have to explain it to this degree.

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[Tony]

dan dan levitar I heard that as a woman faking pain I I didn't think that sounded real. I really didn't you know?

[Dan Le Batard]

It was not fake. It was in no way fake.

[Greg Cody]

You can spot a woman faking it.

[Jessica]

Great, Cody.

[Tony]

Yes, I can, Jess. I've been married 40 years.

[Jessica]

This is the Dan Levatar Show.

[Dan Le Batard]

Put it on the poll at LeBatard show. When you think of Mike McCarthy, do you think of eggs and custard? The Kyle Shanahan story. Jessica, what are your thoughts on everything happening around Kyle Shanahan?

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, my thoughts are that this news story from Chicago in which WGN accidentally, it appears, put up a AI photo of Kyle Shanahan as Mitch McConnell with former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is the funniest thing to come out of this.

[Tony]

Oh, no.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, we have a video.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is something that is actually a. So wait, WGN is not exactly small WGN Superstation.

[Amin Elhassan]

It's literally in the title.

[Greg Cody]

How about those Cubs, by the way, Dan? They did beat the Dodgers last night. Skubal's debut with the Dodgers.

[Tony]

What a bum.

[Dan Le Batard]

They.

[Greg Cody]

This. This picture is. Someone made this picture and put it online. And because there are all these conspiracy, conspiracy theories flying about Shanahan and the accident. And so they photoshopped or aied him over Mitch McConnell with Mitch McConnell's wife, and this ended up on the news. Not good.

[Jessica]

And not sure how much you've been following this story about Niners coach Kyle Shanahan. Yesterday he made his first public comment since a car crash two weeks ago that left him in some really bad shape. The team didn't announce it until last Saturday, 11 days after it happened.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah, I don't know why there's a laugh track in there either. I've been trying to figure that out for the last, like, 12 hours. I was like, maybe this was part of some sort of, like, local news sketch, but it's very strange. But shout out to wgn. How about my Cubbies

[Amin Elhassan]

may contain errors.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do we have any proof that Mitch McConnell is still alive? Do we have.

[Tony]

That's good.

[Dan Le Batard]

Other than the picture, do we have any actual proof that Mitch McConnell is alive?

[DraftKings/Gambling Announcer]

What do you need?

[Jessica]

What else do you need? Dan's got the picture. I've actually seen the Galaxy brain picture of Kyle Shanahan sitting next to Mitch McConnell sitting next to his wife. All three of them in the same bed.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jessica, have you heard about this Akron football season ticket giveaway? Akron football. It's a little bit hard perhaps, to keep up with the big schools when you are Akron football. So they have to get creative. Maybe on a Monday night, serve some steak in the nude or. Or allow or Allow a fan perhaps to, you know, call.

[Tony]

Call.

[Dan Le Batard]

Place.

[Greg Cody]

Yeah. So they have this lottery going right now. It says, make history and be the lucky season ticket holder to design the opening drive of the home opener when Zips football host Robert Morris. Robert Morris is an FCS team. So, like, it's the opener against a team that's not a D1 FBS team. They're a D1 FCS team. So, like, okay, that's, you know, maybe. Maybe you let your fans have a couple plays in that game. I'm assuming if you win this, you are just, like, sitting in a. On a call or in a meeting the week before the game and, like, talking to the staff and then you're scripting it together. But the, like, real crazy person in me is thinking, wow, what if they are just giving a random guy, like, a headset on the sideline and handing him the playbook and saying, like, go for it. Because I. Dan, I thought about it flea flicker. Flea flicker. And then on third and 10, I'm gonna do some sort of screen pass, like, make the defense think that we're gonna punt and then fake punt on fourth down.

[Dan Le Batard]

If you were to have a single play that you were allowed to call in any kind of football game, everyone's going with a trick play. Right.

Gotta go. Hijinks.

There's just. There's no one. If you're only allowed to call one play in a game, A, there's no one who's calling a running play. Correct.

I might call it double reverse right

[Amin Elhassan]

up the A gap.

[Dan Le Batard]

But it's final play from. Remember the Titans.

It's. It's going. Someone is going to try some gimmickry. It's never. It's never going to be just a common play. Correct.

[Amin Elhassan]

There.

[Dan Le Batard]

You.

Annexation of Puerto Rico.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

I'm. I'm so excited to watch this first drive against Robert Morris. Now, like, I'm. I'm locked in on this.

[Dan Le Batard]

I want your thoughts here. Jessica, before we talk about Cleveland and its new nickname for its WNBA team, I want to play for you a mistake that Greg Cody made at the end of yesterday's show. And just get your ruling on this, please.

[Tony]

Mets at Indians. You couldn't find. You could. Guardians or. Guardians. Oh, boy.

[Sponsor/Quince Announcer]

Oh, come on.

[Tony]

Okay. All right, my bad.

[Dan Le Batard]

So I'm taking from your head, dropping into your hands, that Greg's mistake there. What kind of fine does he deserve for that particular mistake?

[Tony]

Oh, boy.

[Greg Cody]

$5. $10.

[Tony]

Oh, boy. I said oh, boy.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah. He took responsibility.

[Tony]

Yeah. And oh, boy.

[Dan Le Batard]

But when I get in there with guardians, you hear a very dismissive like,

[Tony]

oh, okay, bad nickname. My bad.

[Greg Cody]

Okay, then maybe 50 for that.

[Tony]

50.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's play it back for her again. Just dissect it real quick and see, because I thought there was genuine shame there. I didn't think he was actually missing

[Tony]

kind of Mets at Indians. You couldn't find. You could. Guardians or guardians. Oh, boy.

[Jessica]

Oh, come on.

[Tony]

Okay.

[Jessica]

Oh, come on.

[Tony]

All right, my bad.

[Greg Cody]

Oh, no, that was. That was problematic. Zagaki saying, oh, come on. I'm back down to 10.

[Tony]

My bad.

[Amin Elhassan]

It's an accountability. He took an accountability on him.

[Tony]

Thank you. Amazing. Maybe two.

[Dan Le Batard]

Cleveland, the new name for its WNBA team. How we feeling about this?

[DraftKings/Gambling Announcer]

I like it.

[Greg Cody]

It's the Sirens, Dan. Okay, so this is something I read about yesterday in the Detroit Free Press. Apparently there's this guy in Detroit who owns a bunch of lapsed trademarks for old WNBA team names. So Cleveland used to have a team back in the, like, late 90s when the WNBA started and it folded in 2003. And they were the Cleveland Rockers. And it was like rock and roll themed. That was their logo. Very cool. Everything looks cool again from the. From the 90s. Like, this looks so cool to me anyways. But this guy apparently has a. Some sort of women's basketball. It's unclear, like, what level of competition it is, but he has the rights to the Detroit Shock, which the Detroit is a new expansion team that has not announced what their new name is going to be yet. But he also apparently has the Cleveland Rockers name. So part of this whole lead up into this announcement was, are they going to go back to being the Cleveland Rockers? The Cleveland Rockers, not sort of the same as the Detroit Shock. The Detroit Shock won championships and they were like a pretty, like, iconic successful team. The Rockers. Not quite as much, but it's like, okay, are they gonna go back to the Rockers? Are they gonna do something different? They've filed a bunch of trademarks for other names, like the. Actually, I can't even remember what they were. But other things besides the Sirens that were not the Rockers over the last, like, few months ultimately went with the Sirens, which I love because we are in a total mythology maxing vibe right now this summer, and with the Golden State Valkyries as one of the new expansion teams in the wnba. And I love it. I like that we're doing something different. We're not just doing animal names. But I want to know what's going to happen with this new Detroit team now. And if this guy is going to sell the trademark or how. I actually don't even really know how any of that works. I'm not a. I'm not a trademark attorney, Dan. I don't know if you know that about me.

[Dan Le Batard]

I do know that about you.

[Greg Cody]

It would be kind of shocking, no pun intended, if Detroit doesn't take the old name back.

[Tony]

I think I have to tell you why I hate the nickname Sirens. It's because the mythology, like half bird, half woman. I think for everyone who hears the word sirens and thinks of the mythology, there's a hundred people who hear the word sirens and think of, you're in an emergency situation, the cops are coming, you just called an ambulance. Sirens to me is something you don't want to hear.

[Dan Le Batard]

And so for that, this is a tempered situation.

[Tony]

I think it's a. Yeah, it could be. I think it's a bad nickname. Well, Rockers I think is good. Cleveland Rockers. That's great.

[Jessica]

They do have a siren mythology siren in the logo.

[Tony]

I know, I saw it. I saw it.

[Greg Cody]

Does the word siren for loud beeping noise come from the Greek mythology siren?

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

I assume that that's the etymology for that. So, Greg, I hear you. I think maybe it could be a double entendre, perhaps. There is a PWHL team called the Sirens in New York that I think theirs is like the hockey siren and also the mythology sire. And so maybe perhaps they will incorporate that into here. I think one of the issues with this name, which I like personally and I like the logo and the branding, is that I have found through the Internet over the last 24 hours, namely on Reddit, that a lot of people don't associate Cleveland with water or the Great Lakes mistake, by the way, which is kind of surprising to me. And so they're like, I don't get it. The sirens are like a. You know, they lure sailors into their cave and kill them. And I'm like, yeah, well, Lake Erie's pretty creepy. That logo is pretty appropriately named Erie.

[Dan Le Batard]

I really like that logo, Jess.

[Amin Elhassan]

First of all, there's a huge opportunity here for the sirens that if they're up going into the fourth quarter of a game, to play the. Well, not just that sound, Jimmy, but to play the clip of the old man saying, call an ambulance. Call an ambulance. But not for me. Oh, we gonna kick him up. But I had a serious question for you, Jess. Is the guy who owns all these trademarks, is it the same guy who owned the Comets cuz that happened to The Comets, too, when they're like, they're moving back to Houston, they're moving to Connecticut sun to Houston, and, like, the Comets are coming back. And they're like, hold on, we don't own the Comets name.

[Greg Cody]

I don't actually know if it's the same guy or not. I don't know that Amin. I was reading this in the Detroit Free Press, and it only mentioned Cleveland and Detroit. So I guess we will find out what the deal is there.

[Dan Le Batard]

Check out her weekly Notre Dame podcast, the Echoes with Mike Golick Jr. You'll be happy to know WGN has told TMZ. On Wednesday's WGN morning news show sports segment, we mistakenly aired a photo of Kyle Shanahan, coach of the San Francisco 49ers. The photo was an Internet meme and not authentic. And we apologize for making the error. It was not intentional. So we're glad that all the laugh track. Yeah.

[Greg Cody]

Was the laugh track. What was the deal with that?

[Dan Le Batard]

We're gonna have to ask more questions there, but Tony wants to on the way out. Tony has something for you here. Let's go out to Tony and find out what it is that he would like to talk to Jessica about. Let's go out to Tony, please, Jess.

[Jessica]

Hey. Yeah, no, it's a beautiful spread we got here. They actually allowed me to have a little sneak preview. A beautiful croissant sandwich with some. Some divine eggs here and take a little bite.

[Dan Le Batard]

Gonna take the toothpick out of that.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yeah, No, I did. I did.

[Jessica]

It's a choking hazard. Luckily, I don't.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, there it is. Let's pixelate those nipples there, please.

[Jessica]

I had to put the couch cushion in front, Dan. I didn't want it to be full frontal, you know?

[Tony]

Thank you.

[Amin Elhassan]

Right on the crouch.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

Yeah.

[Tony]

Chardonnay looks good.

[Jessica]

Let me. I'll give you a little. So hold on.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Sponsor/Quince Announcer]

Getting some good ASWM here.

[Jessica]

Oh, beautiful.

[Greg Cody]

Why is Tony naked?

[Jessica]

French in nature. You know, just like Cody.

[Dan Le Batard]

We do that every Wednesday. Every Wednesday.

[Tony]

Oh, boy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you, Jessica. Good cold in there.

[Jessica]

It is.

[Greg Cody]

Bye.

[Jessica]

Can I come back now, Dan, or do you want me to spend the rest of time.

[Tony]

Come on back.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a great visual joke for the audio audience that cannot see that naked. That Tony is naked and eating a croissant that's been there for three hours as part of still good eating area experience.

[Tony]

I'm glad.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm glad we did that with Jess.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Sponsor/Quince Announcer]

Glad we have HR here.

[Jessica]

I mean.

[Tony]

Oh, boy.

[Dan Le Batard]

What do you mean? She's just we're talking about a nude restaurant.

[Amin Elhassan]

Hey, Jess, we got something for you.

[Sponsor/Quince Announcer]

He's having cut to Tony, something specifically for you. Jessica, Tony's got something for you.

[Tony]

Here's naked Tony, the boner in ribeye.

[Amin Elhassan]

Now here's. Here's how you get navigate this situation. Daniel, you say, jessica, we have something for you. Question mark. And now you're safe. The question mark does all the work. Everything.

[Jessica]

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[Jessica]

Dan Levitar is there.

[Dan Le Batard]

Back in my day.

[Tony]

There is actually. What?

[Jessica]

Are you not gonna tell anyone?

[Dan Le Batard]

Wait a minute, you gu second guys, it's a Tuesday.

[Jessica]

Greg Cody, here's your guy. Greg Cody with Back in my Day.

[Tony]

Okay, here it is. Sorry, adultery.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're waiting for this one.

[Jessica]

This is the D. Levatar show.

[Dan Le Batard]

We should have had a question mark just over Tony's private parts there just a single question mark just covering the nether regions of Tony. I still can't believe that I. I am now telling you guys that I feel like just as a content play, I have to go on one first Monday of the month to that restaurant. Like, well, well. And I think we need to have a company dinner there.

[Jessica]

Wow.

[Amin Elhassan]

Okay, now you cross over to.

[Dan Le Batard]

I've heard worse ideas.

[Tony]

Yeah, just you and Valerie. I think that'd be good.

[Dan Le Batard]

Now you and early, can I update you? Dan, we have on our video from yesterday updated what? It says it no longer says ESPN is dead question mark. No, that video says ESPN is dead, but there's a line crossing it out and right underneath it says ESPN forever exclamation point. So we'll see what happens.

[Amin Elhassan]

Now see exclamation point. That's a Statement. Yeah, that's like, unequivocal. My opinion is that ESPN forever versus ESPN forever, question mark. Now it's back in. Yeah. And then the sirens are going.

[Dan Le Batard]

Because you guys are excited about football, because you guys were watching Hard Knocks and it signals the potential return of football. I think we may have shocked some people by telling them there's a game tomorrow night. Put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Did you know that there was an NFL football game tomorrow night? No, I didn't think that most people knew that. I have a handful of football stories and I want you guys to choose from among them. So I've been trying to get to this for two days, but we've had too much good stuff to get to any of this. So now I'm finally getting to it. The offerings are the following. Okay. Jalynn Polk has retired from the Saints very early in his career. He's only 24 years old. He was the 37th pick in the draft a couple of years ago. He has a total of 87 yards and two touchdowns in his career.

[Amin Elhassan]

What was that first name for Polk?

[Dan Le Batard]

Jalen.

[Sponsor/Quince Announcer]

It's Jalen.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, it's got an apostrophe.

[Tony]

It's a fine. Five bucks.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's got an apostrophe.

[Jessica]

I'm quick with that, Greg.

[Dan Le Batard]

But it's got an apostrophe.

[Sponsor/Quince Announcer]

Jalen spelled like a thousand different ways. If it was J apostrophe, L, Y, N, N, then Jalyn, but J, a

[Dan Le Batard]

apostrophe, L, Y, N, N. Clearly just

[Sponsor/Quince Announcer]

going for a unique way of doing Jalen.

[Tony]

Right. Ten bucks.

[Amin Elhassan]

Yes. For fighting it.

[Tony]

Right.

[Dan Le Batard]

The maximum fine is $5.

[Tony]

Me maximum here.

[Dan Le Batard]

The. The maximum fine is $5. So that's one story that you have for an offering. Another story that you have as an offering to Davion Clowney, joining the Texans, who already have two of the top 10 pass rushers in the league, and Danielle Hunter and Will Anderson. That's another story that I think is interesting. Debo Samuel, a one year deal with the 49ers for $7 million. What are you shaking your head about, Amit?

[Amin Elhassan]

What does this Debo guy want, man? Honestly, like, what's happening? He forced his way out, right? And then he goes over there. He doesn't fit in. He comes back. You can't come back, can you?

[Dan Le Batard]

You can't come back.

[Sponsor/Quince Announcer]

That one's pronounced Debo.

[Dan Le Batard]

At LeBatard show. You can't come back, can you? At LeBatard show. Also, Travis Hunter says that he's heavier but quicker. And I don't know if that is physically possible, but he says he's 10 pounds heavier and he's moving around like he's lighter. And then the fifth story in this five pack of stories is Justin Herbert behaving on the field in a way that I rarely see a quarterback behave on a football field being amorous and lovey dovey with. With his fiance. Let's go out to Tony here in the other room where he is eating a stale croissant from four hours ago in the nude. Tony, which of those stories are you most interested in?

[Tony]

Are you the only one in the restaurant?

[Jessica]

Yeah, I'm, I'm the early bird special here, Dan. I'm waiting for everybody to get over Greg. Dan. I have both. I want to talk about the. The Justin Herbert Madison beer one, But I also want to talk about the Whopper. Okay. That Travis Hunter put on. I got heavier, but I'm also faster. I've heard a lot of Whoppers in my day. Then I have a five pack, a total. A top five of Whoppers I've heard since that article.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, we've got a new, the rarest of things.

[Jessica]

A new top five.

[Dan Le Batard]

New top five.

Yes. A new new top five.

[Jessica]

Sip from the whites and Fidel here for a second.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, so also another story for your perusal is Zay flowers getting a four year, 140 million dollar exchange extension that makes him the fourth highest paid wide receiver in football. A lot of people are questioning that contract, but Mina Kimes is saying the contract makes sense. She says that since he's been drafted the last. The last three years, he ranks fifth league wide among all wide receivers in target shares. He's the focal point of that offense.

[Tony]

Yeah, he's a lobo. So we've vetted him. He's. He's good.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, Tony, get us started here. This is top five Whoppers in sports.

[Jessica]

Yeah. Top top five of the Whoppers I've heard lately. I was thinking about the article. I was like, man, this feels like a bit of a Whopper. Number five. Yeah. These are only 10 milligrams, bro. They're never 10 milligrams. They're always higher than 10 milligrams. Number four, Tony Romo, saying he was gonna go visit grandma and grandpa.

[Dan Le Batard]

Please pixelate his nipple.

[Jessica]

Hold on, I think I can move. Oh, this one's out now. Okay, how about that?

[Dan Le Batard]

There we go.

[Jessica]

That's better.

[Tony]

Talk about a Whopper.

[Jessica]

And you know it's number three when they Told the Shohei Ohtani didn't know English. I saw him with. With Cameron Brink in the. In the box. He had her smiling and laughing. He's not talking in Japanese. Let's be. Let's be very clear there. I mean, can you back me up on that?

[Amin Elhassan]

100 back you up on that.

[Jessica]

She's not laughing at anime. She's not laughing at Japanese stuff like, he's talking English. Come on. What are we doing? All right, number two. After an argument, when you ask your wife if everything is okay, and she says, yes, Whopper. Things are not okay. Things are never okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

Day number one.

[Jessica]

And this one. Dan, I feel like you have heard also Cuban day laborers telling you that when they were in Cuba, they were doctors. You're like, no, you were not, dude. You're laying tile. There is no chance in hell that you were a doctor whatsoever.

[Dan Le Batard]

Dentist, any sort of thing.

[Jessica]

You needed a degree and you went to school for. That is not true. You're cutting the grass. You cannot be a doctor at the same time because you would have been a doctor here if you were a doctor over there. What are we doing?

[Dan Le Batard]

It is not. It is not always a lie, but it is often a lie. It is more often than not a lie. But since you mentioned Cubans, that's a nice sound of you drinking the white zinfandel while nude. You were spending time with your dad last night. And I sort of want to explain to the group here, I mean, do you know. Do you know Tony's father? Because Tony's father came up with all of us and is a. Is sort of the original Cuban sports radio gas bag in this market, English market media. His father's an entertaining personality, was very good at radio, and it must be fun spending time with him because he's also extraordinarily chummy. He's affable, and people really like him. People.

Tony works hard.

People like that. He slaps them on the back, and he's just a lovable character. What did you glean here, Tony, from your recent time spent with your father?

[Jessica]

So we went out to a dinner where he noticed somebody from a thousand years ago, whether it was like Coral park in high school or like, sometime in the early 90s. And he's like, I don't really remember this guy's name, but I have to go say hi to him because he definitely sees me and knows who I am. So I don't remember his name, but I gotta go say hi to him. And then he said something that made me laugh because Much like Chris and Greg Cody, my dad has these go to phrases. When he knows somebody by face but not by name, he'll call them a certain nickname. And he has about five or seven of them that I put together on a top five list of. Of things that my dad who, when he doesn't know somebody, what he calls them. So are you ready for this?

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, this? Yeah. This is a game. We've played versions of this game, but we haven't played the Spanish version. Like we've never. And I. I've got. I'm gonna write a couple of these down because I. I think I've got a good one here. I think I've got number one. Okay, I'm gonna write it down.

[Jessica]

Ooh, you think you have number? Number one is an easy one, but it's. But I don't know.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, let's see. I think I've got number one and I'm gonna show it to Greg Cody. Can you see that on the piece of paper?

Don't say it out loud.

Don't say it.

[Sponsor/Quince Announcer]

You.

[Amin Elhassan]

A hundred people rushed to a microphone and let Greg say, don't say it out loud.

[Tony]

I know. What do you think I am?

[Dan Le Batard]

Anyway, how. Any oli.

[Jessica]

We've got two OLIs and then the five. So Oli will run through really quick. The first one is Macho. Macho. Yeah, Just, just.

[Dan Le Batard]

Man, I've also got another one. I'm going to write another one here for you that I don't think is number one. But you will. You will see, I think he's going

to say don't say it out loud.

[DraftKings/Gambling Announcer]

Oh, yeah. All right.

[Jessica]

Second Oli.

[Tony]

He.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, wow. That was my number one. Hefe was my number one.

[Jessica]

Hef is a great one. Hefe bemiso. Hefe.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, you didn't think it was that great, Tony.

[Jessica]

You put it all. No, but it's all a li. But it's something that my dad says.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was a great one.

[Jessica]

But the thing is, I've got five better.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's jefe is boss in Spanish. Go ahead. Number five.

[Jessica]

Number five, Coronel.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's awesome.

[Amin Elhassan]

Your dad calls you.

[Dan Le Batard]

If my dad.

[Jessica]

Dad doesn't know your name, but he sees you in some sort of stature, like I know this guy from somewhere and he's important. Coronel, which means colonel.

[DraftKings/Gambling Announcer]

I don't know.

[Dan Le Batard]

Strange. It's strange that he's giving him a military ranking, but not the greatest of the military rankings.

[Jessica]

Coronel, that's number five. Number four. And this one's Funny, because he's done a lot of stuff in the Hispanic Christian radio community also. And this one, I've heard it throughout my childhood, which translates to Baron of God. Inexplicably.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. I might be in trouble here with my other one if we've gone to. I did not have either of these in the.

[Jessica]

No, these are. No, these are out. These are outliers, Dan.

[DraftKings/Gambling Announcer]

This is.

[Jessica]

That's why my dad is so unique, because he doesn't just follow the path. He does the path, but then does his own thing.

[Amin Elhassan]

I didn't even know God had barons.

[Tony]

Yeah.

[Jessica]

Love Baron.

[DraftKings/Gambling Announcer]

Right.

[Jessica]

Number three, Doctor. No medical title needed. It's just if, you know, if you've seen my dad, you know him, and he doesn't know your name, he might call you a colonel. He might call you a doctor.

[Dan Le Batard]

So you're saying that it's a number one whopper, that a Cuban person who came from Cuba says that he's a doctor, but if your dad doesn't know his name, he is saying that he is indeed a doctor or a colonel or a baron from God.

[Jessica]

Yes, Baron of God.

[Dan Le Batard]

Excuse me. Number two.

[Jessica]

Monstro.

[Sponsor/Quince Announcer]

That.

[Jessica]

This is one where it's specifically. If I have friends that are bigger in stature, my dad will call them monstro, which means monster in English. So it's up, mimontro. And he gives him, like, a big handshake, and it's always to the side. Like, my dad goes in the sideways handshake like that.

[Amin Elhassan]

Like he's shooting someone.

[Dan Le Batard]

Exactly. Right.

[Jessica]

Like it's, like, right here. And then he switches it at the end of. And then gives a good grip and calls a monster. And number one. And this one could have two. This one could have, like, a. Like an extra additive. Like, you want the cheese, but no, no, I'm. Add a pepperoni on top. All right, Number one is etreia. Number one is star. He calls them star. But this is the additive. Super Etreia. If my dad really likes you, he doesn't know your name. Super Treya. And then he gives you the. The handshake. That's to the side.

[Dan Le Batard]

So I got this wrong. Here, Cody, give what I thought was going to end up on his list. List.

[Tony]

Primo.

[Jessica]

Oh, Primo's a good one.

[Dan Le Batard]

I thought Primo's a good one, too.

[Jessica]

Primo's a good one, too.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tony. An excellent list. Thank you. Make sure that those nipples get warmed up.

[Amin Elhassan]

I. I remember watching Scarface the first time. Went around calling everyone Primo, Primo, Primo.

[Dan Le Batard]

You did that That's Scarface in college.

Oh, yeah, man.

What are some of the ones you use in English? What are some of the Chief.

Big guy.

[Tony]

Yeah, Boss.

[Dan Le Batard]

Big guy.

[Tony]

Boss man.

[Dan Le Batard]

Big guy's good. Good.

[Amin Elhassan]

I'll give you one from Sudanese Arabic, Captain, which is kind of like.

[Jessica]

Like champion is a good one too. Greg.

[Dan Le Batard]

Colonel is like fourth place finisher.

[Jessica]

But Dan, imagine the. The just insanity of calling somebody Colonel. It's crazy.

[Dan Le Batard]

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