Local Hour: 28 Nuggets

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Local Hour: 28 Nuggets

Date: November 5, 2025

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Main Theme & Purpose

Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, the Local Hour is equal parts sports talk, South Florida flavor, and zany group banter. Today’s episode centers around a studio challenge: Chris Cody’s attempt to eat 99 chicken nuggets live on the air—a premise that quickly becomes a metaphor for both endurance and committee-based judgment, while also fueling an extended riff session on sports (especially Miami Hurricanes and CFP rankings), personal quirks, and the oddities of modern group decision-making. The group’s signature blend of inside jokes and local color threads through discussions of food, college football, and nostalgic pop-culture references.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The 99 Nuggets Challenge

Segment Start: [00:00]

• Setup:

  • Chris Cody must eat 99 chicken nuggets by the end of the show.
  • Due to a delivery mishap, he ends up with an excess of grilled nuggets instead of his preferred fried ones.
  • Much discussion over which type of nugget is optimal for consumption, with Chris sampling his first grilled nugget on air ([00:39]).

• Concerns & Health Warnings:

  • Chris candidly shares anxieties about his dad’s surgery happening simultaneously and comments on his mother and wife being worried about his health.
  • “Why did you agree to this?... I actually had a lot of options. I picked it.” – Chris Cody ([01:28])

• Strategy and Tactics:

  • Multiple dipping sauces are debated. Chris laments the lack of Polynesian sauce, settling for ranch ([03:30]).
  • Mike suggests hot dog eating contest strategies, like dunking in water – a bridge too far for Chris ([16:12]).
  • Chris tries to weigh the value of pacing vs. sprinting early (i.e. going “ham” on the challenge), but the crew is skeptical about his chances if he tapers off ([18:41]).

• Committee Judgment:

  • The group discusses how to determine a “successful attempt” if Chris doesn’t reach 99, oscillating between requiring 51, 60, or even 69 nuggets. Multiple rounds of anonymous voting occur, with Chris lobbying for sympathy from the more lenient panelists ([24:13]–[42:59]).
  • The process mirrors debates over College Football Playoff (CFP) criteria, emphasizing fair effort and “eye test” over raw numbers.
  • “This is a committee right here…if we get to a place where the committee decides that an acceptable effort has been made...then I think you’re good.” – Mike Ryan ([20:59])
  • The votes are read out, leading to a median/average “passing grade” of about 60–69 nuggets ([40:00]–[42:59]).

• Physical Tolls:

  • As the challenge progresses, Chris’s energy flags. The group comments on his watering eyes, sunglasses, and deteriorating posture ([16:02], [35:49]).
  • “I’m already knowing that I’m going to hate all of today.” – Chris Cody ([16:04])
  • Comic asides, including search for the smallest nuggets and details of Chris’s covert car snacking (“His caloric intake inside the car is astronomical.” – Mike Ryan, [02:55]).

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2. Miami College Football & Playoff Rankings

Segment Start: [05:07], [16:54], [17:52]

• Local Angle:

  • Mike gives a breakdown of Miami’s ranking in the new CFP polls, noting that while Miami lags behind Notre Dame despite a head-to-head win, he sees a path for the Hurricanes if they finish strong.
  • “If Miami doesn’t go 4-0, they don’t belong in the discussion. Period. Full stop.” – Mike ([05:39])
  • The group discusses scenarios (rooting for Pitt, head-to-head impacts, etc.) and the paradox of being subject to “committee logic.”
  • Skepticism and cynicism toward CFP consistency, SEC and Big Ten “propaganda,” and the general fairness of the process.

• CFP Parallels to the Nugget Challenge:

  • The crew builds on the running metaphor of Miami’s need to “win out” matching Chris’s nugget quest ([21:38]).
  • “Chris, you’re Miami Hurricanes football right now…The only thing you can do is win out, and hope the committee sees kindly on your most recent escapades.” – Dan Le Batard ([21:38])

• Judging Effort vs. Output:

  • The group jokes about criteria for judging, matching CFP murkiness, and pokes fun at the “hat rack” of decision-makers (a nod to the CFP committee).
  • “We get the extremists out. We get the extremists out.” – Dan Le Batard on throwing out high/low scores, [41:53].

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3. Top Five Jobs Where You Can Smoke on the Job

Segment Start: [27:01]
Lighthearted nostalgia creeps in as Tony delivers his “Top 5” ranking:

1. Long Haul Trucker ([31:03])
2. Line Cook ([31:23])
3. Bar Security/Bouncer ([32:12])
4. Radio Producer ([32:50])
5. Construction Worker ([33:32])

• Discussed with affection for the bygone “cigarette break culture.” Honorable mentions include “police detective” and “bartender.”
• “You used to go into a bar and you open that door and it was just like a fog…How many girls? How many guys? Like, you couldn’t tell because the smoke made everything mysterious.” – Dan Le Batard ([34:28])

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4. Pop-Culture & Reference Gaps

Segment Start: [36:34]

• Bulls Game Call Reference:
  • The group plays a Bulls broadcast call (“Elizabeth! I’m coming! It’s the big one, Elizabeth!”), referencing 1970s sitcom Sanford and Son.
  • Some in the crew, including Jeremy, miss the reference, prompting a debate about the perils of old pop culture shoutouts for younger listeners.
  • “I think there’s a risk in making references, particularly older references to where you can end up sounding like…I just did.” – Gino Fuentes ([38:22])

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5. Intermittent Fasting and Aging

Segment Start: [30:24]; [43:25]

• Fasting trends are briefly discussed in context of weight and performance, with Mike confirming his own use of intermittent fasting and low-carb diets ([30:39]).
• The group then drifts into classic Local Hour territory, riffing on how getting older means less ability to stay up late and keep up with West Coast NBA/NHL games ([43:25]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Chris Cody’s candor:

  • “I'm cooking right now. 14 in.” ([15:59])
  • “I do all my real eating and hiding.” ([02:49])

• Mike on CFP logic:

  • “It’s pointless right now to have these conversations about comparing resume. Not pointless. I mean, it’s good water cooler talk…”
  • “This is a committee right here. If we get to a place where the committee decides that an acceptable effort has been made...then I think you’re good.” ([20:59])

• Voting & committee hilarity:

  • “Hat rack in here?” ([20:59])
  • “We get the extremists out. We get the extremists out.” ([41:53])

• On nostalgia for smoking culture:

  • "Now I open the door. Boom, I see everything. The mystery has been removed." – Dan Le Batard ([34:28])

• Comic asides:

  • “Chris’s car has a whole fast food service thing, like Richie Rich. It’s like, hello, Mr. Cody! What do you have today? The usual.” – Dan Le Batard ([03:15])
  • "You are your father's son." – Mike, ribbing Stugotz's lowball nugget vote ([25:47])
  • “I’m just searching for like, the smallest nuggets.” ([23:03])

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Important Timestamps

• 00:39 – Chris tries the first grilled nugget on air.
• 01:28 – Chris explains why his family is worried.
• 03:30 – The group debates dipping sauces.
• 15:59 – Chris's status update: "14 in."
• 16:12 – Discussion of hot dog contest eating strategies.
• 20:59 – First committee ruling & CSP parallels.
• 24:13–42:59 – Voting rounds, dancing numbers, and crowd-sourced standards for nugget challenge.
• 27:01 – "Top Five Jobs You Can Smoke a Cigarette At" segment.
• 36:34 – Bulls call / classic TV reference debate.
• 43:25 – Discussion on aging and late night sports fandom.

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Summary & Takeaways

This Local Hour exemplifies the Le Batard show’s unique blend: a ridiculous, yet compelling, in-studio eating challenge serves as the springboard for broader commentary on sports, decision-makers, nostalgia, and group psychology. The real-time antics around Chris’s struggle make for great radio, but the real “meat” comes from how the crew lampoons and illuminates the way arbitrary committees—whether CFP or chicken nugget judges—operate. As always, sports segues seamlessly into workplace humor and generational jokes, and the group’s rapport keeps things energetic—even as Chris’s energy flags.

If you missed this episode, you missed:

• Live coverage of a food challenge gone semi-wrong (and semi-right)
• Thoughtful (and funny) breakdowns of college football ranking drama
• Vivid, affectionate nostalgia for Miami and for odd lost rituals
• Incentive to be wary if your lunch is in the workplace fridge
• Several meta-jokes about committees—both athletic and culinary

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For further listening, check out the "Big Suey" or one of the classic Local Hours for even more sports absurdity and Miami flavor.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

Chris, you, you got a challenge ahead of you today.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, of course. The way we go around here, it's not exactly going how as I planned, but I have to eat a shit ton of nuggets.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do you have a strategy?

[Chris Cody]

Well, the plan was to have fried ones.

[Stugotz]

Uh huh.

[Chris Cody]

And I guess I think those are.

[Tony]

On the way by the way. So we have ones are on the way.

[Chris Cody]

What happened was, is there was delivery issue with the fried ones. So I have more grilled nuggets than I could ever want.

[Dan Le Batard]

Who orders grilled nuggets?

[Chris Cody]

I've never had one.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't think I even know what a grilled nugget looks.

[Chris Cody]

And as I hold one they're just.

[Tony]

I thought you see everything.

[Chris Cody]

It looks like little chicken breasts cut up into pieces.

[Dan Le Batard]

So are they good?

[Mike]

I'll tell you.

[Chris Cody]

Want me to take my first bite right now in the shadowshare.

[Dan Le Batard]

Not bad. Why not?

[Chris Cody]

All right, one down the hatch.

[Dan Le Batard]

Here we go.

[Mike]

That is a big nugget.

[Dan Le Batard]

That was a big one. Bigger than I expect from Chick Fil. Oop. Honestly, a certain chicken establishment.

[Chris Cody]

Honestly decent.

[Mike Ryan]

Did you get to pick where like the kind nugget you wanted?

[Chris Cody]

I got some options.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

I thought this one would be the easiest. I think of them as the smallest.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

I think of them as. I don't know what I'm doing here but I think of them as lightly. It just feels like a more genuine breading.

[Dan Le Batard]

The breading is not as thick like the McDonald's one is like almost like a shield of armor. Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

So I'm not excited. And I was at my parents house last night. My dad going under the knife right about now. I'm glad this is what I'm doing. While my dad is having a very serious procedure done.

[Tony]

Serious.

[Mike]

Can I text him to knee to support?

[Chris Cody]

I was at. You can.

[Tony]

Yes.

[Chris Cody]

I was at my parents house last night and my mom, my wife not happy with this. They're like, this doesn't seem healthy. Why did you agree to this? Why? And I'm like, I actually had a lot of options. I picked it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Juju put on the poll. Who's more likely to die today, Chris or Greg?

[Stugotz]

This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugach podcast.

[Dan Le Batard]

Today feels like a fun day. I know it's been fun all week but today especially feels like a fun day. We have a challenge happening right now. Number two, Chris Cody's gotta eat 99 chicken nuggets before the end of the show.

[Chris Cody]

Has to, has to attempt to. It's a gray Line.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, how do we judge attempting right now?

[Chris Cody]

You're looking at it.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's doing it.

[Gino Fuentes]

If it's an authentic effort, like, we'll see. We don't want Chris throwing off on camera. It's an effort.

[Tony]

What does this come to?

[Gino Fuentes]

Well, we will.

[Tony]

What does this come to? Billy ate an onion and went to the hospital for three days.

[Gino Fuentes]

Well, that's where attempt time is.

[Mike]

Couldn't get worse.

[Tony]

It's Zoron's Miami. Christ almighty.

[Dan Le Batard]

Respectfully, roughly speaking, Billy didn't want to eat the onion.

[Tony]

He was forced to, which is the point.

[Gino Fuentes]

He needs to be forced to.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do you think you gotta force him.

[Gino Fuentes]

To have a Cody counter, by the way, up in the corner.

[Tony]

But here's the thing about Chris. I know this about Chris, okay? I've spent a lot of time with Chris. Me and him have broken a lot of bread together. He's a big guy. Okay. But he doesn't eat that much for real. He's a guy that eats very, very small.

[Chris Cody]

I do all my real eating and hiding.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah. Like when I'm in drive through, I'm.

[Chris Cody]

In public, you look at me, you're like, that's a normal.

[Mike]

He eats normal. His caloric intake inside the car is astronomical.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, man, it's gross. You should see the in between my seat.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, yeah, the little. The fry. Fried carcasses.

[Mike]

I was. I took a ride with him. There was an entire cheesy gordita.

[Chris Cody]

Every once in a while I'll just do a gander down there.

[Dan Le Batard]

And it's just a Chris's.

[Chris Cody]

That's when I know I need my car clean.

[Dan Le Batard]

Chris's car has a whole fast food service thing like. Like Richie Rich. It's like just right there in the car, like, hello, Mr. Cody. What do you have today? The usual.

[Mike]

I reached back to get the seatbelt and it was just a Mountain Dew Baja blast.

[Mike Ryan]

Are you doing any dipping?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, starting with ranch. They don't have Polynesian. We are not prepared for that.

[Tony]

What?

[Dan Le Batard]

Wow.

[Chris Cody]

We can't. Where we can get that for. I can't work like. I can't work like this.

[Mike]

Tariffs.

[Dan Le Batard]

I want to point out something that probably isn't going to tickle that many people, but it tickles us. So yesterday there were actually nuggets in the building to, hey, pack these up and save them for Chris for tomorrow for his big challenge. And as they put them in the fridge, there was a conversation. Should there be a note placed upon it saying, gino, do not eat these because Gino Fuentes Is notorious.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, he's a. He's a fridge thief.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's notorious. Notorious at lunch whenever the lunch isn't finished. You ever wonder why there aren't any leftovers in the fridge?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, I do wonder. Like, who takes the leftovers?

[Dan Le Batard]

Gino Fuentes.

[Tony]

While you're outing my boy.

[Gino Fuentes]

Have you?

[Dan Le Batard]

I am. I am. But I'm here to defend him because of course no nut was left. And of course the nuggets were eaten. And everyone said gino. And I said, nope. This is like saying there was a shark attack. You guys went in the water. Shark.

[Tony]

You knew what it was when you went in.

[Dan Le Batard]

Shark did shark things.

[Gino Fuentes]

Look, Billy said watch out for Geno for a reason.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, certainly around food. That's a. That's a non negotiable one right there. You have to watch out around Geno when it comes to.

[Chris Cody]

I'm happy now. I got my fried nuggets here. I got some chick. Okay, no, no.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is.

[Chris Cody]

This is not Polynesian. This is chick fil A. So I can't work like this.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I know.

[Tony]

Chris doesn't like chick fil A sauce.

[Chris Cody]

I don't.

[Dan Le Batard]

Neither do I. Who does?

[Tony]

It's.

[Gino Fuentes]

I. I do.

[Mike]

It's okay.

[Chris Cody]

To me, it's combining two unnecessary condiments. I'm not a big honey mustard guy. Not a big barbecue guy.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, honey mustard. Come on.

[Chris Cody]

Not for me. Flav.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, Throwback Mike. Thoughts on the revelation of the College Football playoff rankings version 1.0.

[Mike]

Do you want the national perspective or the homerific Miami one?

[Dan Le Batard]

It's local hour, baby. You know what I want.

[Mike]

So the. I'm actually fine with where Miami is ranked. Although in the top 25, you have a handful of teams that have the same record as another team that they played head to head. And in every case but one, the team that won the head to head matchup was ranked over the team that lost.

[Dan Le Batard]

What was the one?

[Stugotz]

Miami.

[Mike]

Notre Dame. Oh, now I actually think that there's. There was encouraging messaging from the committee. They said that they need to see a more consistent Miami. The good news for Miami is there's a month left in the season and they can't lose another game. It's pointless right now to have these conversations about comparing resume. Not pointless. I mean, it's good water cooler talk, but if Miami doesn't go four and. Oh, they don't belong in the discussion. Period. Full stop. That being said, it's a little confusing, but I do think that if Miami puts together clean football for a month, they'll be in that discussion right now over the last month because you got to include a bi week there. Miami has played well for two quarters. That's, that's what the CFP has seen recently. And they're taking the recent stuff into account.

[Mike Ryan]

Let me ask you something. If the Canes win their final four games, does that jump you seven spots? That's what the Canes need. They need to jump seven spots.

[Mike]

College football is wacky, but I do think that. Do you see Notre Dame falling in the rankings? No, I only see them climbing.

[Mike Ryan]

Only climbing.

[Mike]

I mean, they have a tough game against Pitt, a common opponent that Miami will close the season with.

[Dan Le Batard]

And they. Pitt plays Georgia Tech as well.

[Mike]

That's a huge thing.

[Dan Le Batard]

Three straight weeks, Pitt is playing against teams that are Georgia Tech.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah. I think Pitt's got three ranked opponents to close the year. Georgia Tech has a couple of big games. 1.

[Mike Ryan]

So as a Canes fan, you're rooting for Pit here.

[Mike]

I actually think Notre Dame winning isn't all that bad. If Notre Dame wins out, they're going to be.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no. I mean, like you're rooting for Pitt to get wins. You want them to knock off Georgia Tech. You want them, you want the Canes to eventually beat Pitt in the final game. It's like, okay, there's a good win.

[Mike]

I think the committee has told you they actually value head to head matchups. The one example is Miami. But if Miami puts together a month of clean football in which they have a good solid point differential, I think they'll be in that discussion. I really do. They were in that discussion last year without the resume that they have this year, without the defense that they have this year.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, but like, what were the Canes going into that last week where they lost to Syracuse? What were they ranked?

[Mike]

I think they were. They were certainly in CFP position.

[Mike Ryan]

Right? So, I mean, that's a major difference.

[Mike]

Yeah, but look, they're 18 right now. You need to get inside the top 11. I think that that can happen. People, look what happened with Texas. I told you guys on the air a month and a half ago, they're already pouring dirt on Texas grave. Watch this sec.

[Mike Ryan]

If you're going to lose, lose early.

[Mike]

Watch this SEC work. They're talking out of both sides of their mouth too, because it matters what you've done recently. Now Texas hasn't lost recently, but they went to overtime against Mississippi State. They barely got over the line against Kentucky. They, they almost blew it against Vanderbilt. They're going to help these SEC teams and we'll fight that propaganda fight. But Mario and company need to do their job. I feel pretty good about Miami's argument once it gets to that point. Also, national perspective don't understand the Oregon thing. Their best one is against Northwestern. They're doing the exact same shit that they did last year with Mizzou. In ranking Tennessee. Tennessee's best win is against Mississippi State. They have no business being ranked. They are only ranked number 25. So three teams can say they have a ranked victory and it's Tennessee. This is how it works. But I am encouraged because a lot of people, I love the national narrative and I love the discourse. A lot of people are seizing on, hey, this doesn't make sense. These two teams played. That should matter. So you got a month to play good football. I like where Miami's at.

[Tony]

I think the tough part for Canes fans that you don't control your own destiny. Right? You're hoping that things happen ahead of you and you're like, oh, man, hoping.

[Gino Fuentes]

A lot of things.

[Tony]

Hopefully Pitt can beat somebody. Hopefully the Canes can beat Pitt. Hopefully Virginia Tech can upset somebody somewhere. And it's like, I think that'll work out.

[Mike]

I think it'll all work out. It's college football.

[Gino Fuentes]

What's pretty funny is like, what happens if Pitt just wins all those games? Because then they'd be a two loss team with wins over Notre Dame, Georgia Tech and Miami in their last three weeks.

[Mike]

Well, what happens is if they win.

[Mike Ryan]

All those games, they'd play Virginia in the AC Championship.

[Mike]

Right? Well, Bellas, Miami closes the season with Pitt.

[Mike Ryan]

No, but I'm saying, I'm saying if.

[Gino Fuentes]

They win three games left and they're all not their Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Miami, if they somehow pull off an upset of all three, like we're rooting for Pitt right now, but they might just be the team that's sort of the sleeping giant in this entire scenario. They only have two losses and one of them is an overtime.

[Mike]

And the CFP argument would be they're a totally different team after they made the quarterback change too.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know. I don't know, man. I don't know. Like, do we want Notre Dame to lose to Pitt?

[Mike]

I. There is. I think the argument to be made is you want Notre Dame to keep winning. And I know I'm in the minority. A lot of people think that you want Pitt to keep winning to set up a big important game at the end of the season. I think you call checkmate on the CFP committee And they've kind of tipped their hand with how they value head to heads everywhere else. And their own words is they need to see a more consistent Miami. Thankfully, you have a month to show them. So you put yourself in that position and you dare them to do what they did a month, a month prior, which is ranked Notre Dame ahead of Miami.

[Mike Ryan]

So if we're talking about how much they value head to heads. All right, how much does head to head? Way up against what you look like in the beginning of the season versus what you look like now.

[Mike]

But now is not what the end of the season looks like. Look at what a month did to Texas. They were dead in the water at a national punchline. They didn't even have to look good in these games. They beat an injured John Mattier and barely made it out against the likes of historical punchlines in the sec. Kentucky, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt.

[Mike Ryan]

They almost yo Mississippi State. Sneaky, decent.

[Mike]

Yeah, well, Georgia's going to find out. Georgia's going to find out and travel in stark Vegas this this week. No, Mississippi State is a tough team. It's not easy, but they're not a blue blood in the sec. I think a lot can happen in a month. A month is a very long time. November is historically wacky in this sport. I think if Miami puts itself in position to go 40 look good in those games, they'll be undeniable if Notre Dame keeps winning. And I know more people think that Pitt keeping on winning and setting up a clash against Miami will matter and then we'll do that whole thing where Miami's win against Pittsburgh isn't that impressive because they'll drag Pittsburgh down. So I don't even want to be in that scenario. I think your best path is Notre Dame looking like the best team in the country and you having that win under your cap.

[Gino Fuentes]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Dan Lerd.

[Chris Cody]

Cheaters never prosper.

[Dan Le Batard]

St I ain't cheating.

[Mike Ryan]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the stage. Chris don't look so hot right now.

[Chris Cody]

I'm not gonna lie. I thought these nuggets were gonna be smaller.

[Tony]

You should go two at a time.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I thought he was going to.

[Chris Cody]

That was my plan.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

In my mind, these nuggets were half these size.

[Dan Le Batard]

If you weren't listening to the local during the. Excuse me. During the shadow show.

[Mike Ryan]

He is not looking good.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, Chris. Chris said his wife and his mom both expressed concern about this challenge.

[Chris Cody]

I'm cooking right now. 14 in.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's a pretty good.

[Mike Ryan]

You have like, your eyes are watering.

[Chris Cody]

I'm already knowing that I'm going to hate all of today.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did they get you the Polynesian sauce?

[Chris Cody]

No, but I don't even know if I want it at this point. I think I'm about to ditch the ranch.

[Mike Ryan]

Have you considered, you know, doing the, the, you know, the Nathan's hot dog eating move where you dunk it, dunk.

[Mike]

It in the water.

[Tony]

Don't do that. Don't do that.

[Chris Cody]

I'm not there yet.

[Tony]

We're not that desperate.

[Dan Le Batard]

And also, that's more about speed more than number. That's about like I need to get all of these in now in the shortest amount of time rather than.

[Chris Cody]

Also, I see filling up here with. It should be a group effort with everyone in the room.

[Dan Le Batard]

I would. I mean, it's his. It's his punishment.

[Chris Cody]

I see. It's like comment after comment.

[Gino Fuentes]

It's like he does not have the YouTube channel.

[Stugotz]

Don't get me wrong, liar.

[Dan Le Batard]

I would.

[Chris Cody]

Get some comment after comment. I'm looking at it right here.

[Dan Le Batard]

I would love to partake, but I don't want to ruin the integrity of the challenge here.

[Stugotz]

No trusted Udai.

[Chris Cody]

All right, we'll keep going here.

[Mike]

Here are all the head to head matchups inside the CFP where the committee got it right. Alabama is number four. They're ahead of number five, Georgia. Why? Because they beat Georgia. Number five, Georgia is ahead of number six, Ole Miss. Why? Because they beat Ole Miss. Number 11, Texas is ahead of number 12, Oklahoma. Why they beat Oklahoma? USC, number 19 ahead of number 21, Michigan. They have a head to head victory. Michigan is ahead of Washington because they beat Washington. Miami is eight spots behind Notre Dame. They are the lone outlier.

[Mike Ryan]

Look, I'm for Miami, okay? Like, I want them in. Let's, let's make that abundantly clear. But all of those examples you just gave, like Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, and the team that won is ahead of them. Those teams are all playing well right now. Notre Dame's playing well. The Canes are not.

[Mike]

Exactly.

[Mike Ryan]

And hence their eight spots.

[Mike]

Which is why Miami needs to play well for a month to be in this argument. Because I think Miami is properly ranked right now.

[Mike Ryan]

I think so too.

[Mike]

If this is the end of the season, you can throw your arms up and say, why doesn't the head to head matter? It's what you're going off right now. The committee themselves said they need to see a more consistent Miami for us to entertain that discussion. Give them that reason to entertain that discussion. They'll be fine. The hardest thing that Miami has in front of them, because we can talk about permutations and how the propaganda machine works for the Big Ten and the sec and how the hell is Oregon ranked number nine? None of that shit matters. The hardest thing for Miami to do is bounce back from the loss at SMU and run the table the rest of the way. If they do that, I feel good. That is a huge mountain for them to climb.

[Dan Le Batard]

And we know we can trust the committee because they took off their hats and put on that hat rack.

[Mike]

Yes, Their crispy white hats that they were given as they walked into the facility just for the photo.

[Dan Le Batard]

Somebody asked yesterday, how do you know whose hat is who? Because they're not taking any of those hats home. The hat stayed on the rack. They left.

[Chris Cody]

What do you guys think about this strategy? I go ham on the chicken. Oh, for this first local hour, like actual ham. I take big Sui.

[Dan Le Batard]

What I was thinking off.

[Tony]

You can't take off.

[Chris Cody]

And I would have won. We go back at it.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, what would go in ham? Like, what would your goal then be by the end?

[Gino Fuentes]

I get the local hour 30. I got 22 minutes.

[Mike Ryan]

So then you have to do. Okay, so then you're saying you did 30 the first half of the day and then you want to do 60 the second half. You have no chance.

[Chris Cody]

You know, I'm just trying to put a good effort.

[Mike]

Your pace.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, your pace. You're doing good you're doing good, but.

[Chris Cody]

I don't know if I can keep this pace.

[Dan Le Batard]

Why not?

[Gino Fuentes]

We have to figure out at some point in this show what will qualify as completing the challenge. 40. 99.

[Mike]

No, no.

[Tony]

99. That's the punishment. It's not. It's not like, have Chris eat lunch early. It's a punishment for losing at the Dentech Bucket.

[Stugotz]

It needs to be 51% at least.

[Dan Le Batard]

I gotta ask this question.

[Mike Ryan]

That's such an outfit.

[Tony]

It's a weak effort.

[Mike Ryan]

That is weak.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let me ask the question. Sucker. Braun Strowman.

[Tony]

That would make him a sucker, right?

[Dan Le Batard]

Hold on. Braun Strowman. Yesterday we asked him, do you have any advice for Chris? And he talked about fasting and he talked about drinking water.

[Chris Cody]

I did drink a bunch of water this morning.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Chris Cody]

And then I peed. When I got in, I felt like my stomach was wide open.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did. Did you fast at all yesterday? Now you had dinner.

[Chris Cody]

I heard that the fasting thing was not like I saw in the comments.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I don't think that helps the comments. As a guy who's doing it, Michael Jordan is giving you insights to excellence, and you're going to say no. Let me listen to so many times.

[Chris Cody]

In my life, I'm always like, I am so hungry. I'm going to eat a house. And then you eat. Like, when you're that hungry, you don't eat as much.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Tony]

Why are we doing 99, by the way?

[Gino Fuentes]

It's because of Joey Chestnut. This all came from. Joey Chestnut ate 99 nuggets, I believe, at a baseball game in the span of 10 minutes. And so we added the Joey Chestnut challenge. But it's a challenge. Like, this is where we will all need to determine where. I like. I actually like our ruling on 51. Gets him to 51 nuggets over the.

[Mike Ryan]

Course of only doing half of the.

[Chris Cody]

It's a ridiculous challenge that nobody could do.

[Gino Fuentes]

The whole point is that nobody can do.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, Joey test.

[Tony]

Yeah, but he's doing just 10 minutes.

[Mike Ryan]

I'll tell you. I think I have the answer. All right? And I think it's. The timing is appropriate here. This is a committee right here. This. This is a committee.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hold on. Can we get a hat rack in here?

[Mike Ryan]

This is a committee. And if we get to a place where the committee decides that an acceptable effort has been made to achieve the goal, then I think you're good.

[Gino Fuentes]

An update on the. On the challenge for Joey Chestnut. So he was challenged to do a 99 in nine. So 99 nuggets. In nine innings?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Gino Fuentes]

He ate 275.

[Chris Cody]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

What a show off.

[Mike]

Damn.

[Tony]

99 and 10 minutes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Damn.

[Chris Cody]

I just. You guys are making me have less energy for this. If I. If I think that if I don't, if I put in a great effort, I eat 65.

[Tony]

Okay, but you're telling me I got 61.

[Chris Cody]

You're telling me I got to do the Chris next week. Like, that's horse.

[Dan Le Batard]

Chris, you're Miami Hurricanes football right now, right?

[Chris Cody]

Horseshit.

[Dan Le Batard]

The only thing you can do is win out. That's horse. And hope. And hope the committee sees kindly on your most recent escapades. But complaining about it, like certain people, that ain't gonna help. You just gotta go out there and win, baby. By the way, have we ever had the 999 challenge as one of the.

[Tony]

We should do that as a punishment.

[Dan Le Batard]

I wanted to do it, man.

[Mike Ryan]

What is that?

[Dan Le Batard]

You go to a baseball game and you have nine hot dogs.

[Mike Ryan]

Baseball's not happening right now.

[Tony]

When it was happening. I see everything.

[Dan Le Batard]

Nine hot dogs, winter ball, and nine beers.

[Mike]

Oof.

[Dan Le Batard]

Over the course of nine years.

[Chris Cody]

No way.

[Dan Le Batard]

So it's a dog and a beer, a dog and a 99 Nuggets. This morning, no one said it's got to be the Tall Boy beer, right? No one's got to say it's got to be a Dodger dog, a regular hot dog, and a regular beer.

[Mike Ryan]

One automatic vomit.

[Dan Le Batard]

How many innings you think you get into?

[Mike Ryan]

So essentially, one per inning, one of each printing.

[Dan Le Batard]

How many innings?

[Tony]

Four.

[Gino Fuentes]

Four.

[Dan Le Batard]

Come on.

[Tony]

You're going four beers. Four dogs.

[Gino Fuentes]

Beer.

[Mike Ryan]

Beer, like, sits in my stomach really heavy for me. That's why I drink the brown stuff. Oh, it's hair on my chest, my man.

[Mike]

You got hair on that chest?

[Mike Ryan]

No, I got hair on this chest. I'll show you later.

[Dan Le Batard]

I. I love. I love the way we improv here, man.

[Mike]

It's a coat rack, but look.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, it'll work. Yeah, that works.

[Chris Cody]

It'll work.

[Mike Ryan]

You get four hats on that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, I'll let.

[Stugotz]

You had to spit it, man.

[Chris Cody]

I am just searching this for, like, the smallest nuggets.

[Tony]

Chris, what you need to do. A little advice. You need to swap, right? You need to go one fried nugget, one grilled nugget. One fried nugget. One grilled nugget. Two fried nuggets. One grilled nugget.

[Chris Cody]

Okay.

[Tony]

Bounce off the palate.

[Gino Fuentes]

Yeah. Make it. Enjoy what you're eating.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, yeah. Enjoy it.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, guys, Enjoy these. Everyone come put your hats on this thing.

[Chris Cody]

I don't take my hat off.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, you're. You're not because you're. You're Miami.

[Mike Ryan]

Why doesn't he take his hat off?

[Dan Le Batard]

He can't. He can't.

[Gino Fuentes]

He's.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's not.

[Chris Cody]

The belly button in my hat. Yeah, that's not coming off.

[Mike Ryan]

What?

[Dan Le Batard]

That's the thing. There's two things I never give up. My belly button and my hat.

[Chris Cody]

I'll show you anything else.

[Dan Le Batard]

Everyone put your hats in. Come on. Go ahead. We are. We're gonna be impartial with this.

[Chris Cody]

Oh.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the show that we're going to judge you.

[Chris Cody]

Who are my guys I can trust here? Jeremy's in. In my.

[Gino Fuentes]

Hold on.

[Dan Le Batard]

Are you turning it to your dad? I need your.

[Chris Cody]

Jeremy's in my pocket for sure.

[Gino Fuentes]

Roy.

[Chris Cody]

I feel like will have pity on me. So I just need one more vote. I need three.

[Dan Le Batard]

They got one, two, three, four, five, six. Six. Six hats here. Six votes.

[Chris Cody]

So I need three. If I tie, I win.

[Mike]

Probably should have a four to not go to the right.

[Chris Cody]

I need four to go against me to lose.

[Stugotz]

It should be an odd number. Should be seven.

[Tony]

Says you're bald.

[Mike Ryan]

You're bald.

[Stugotz]

Yes, I'm bald. I choose to be balder.

[Dan Le Batard]

What?

[Chris Cody]

Really nice out there. So Kristen can vote also?

[Tony]

No, it's this room right here. It's got to be someone at four, six, seven people. That's who you're voting on right now.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, no. If we give him a vote, then he's going to vote for himself.

[Tony]

Well, there's a dog.

[Chris Cody]

There's dogs in here. That's why I said she has a dog.

[Dan Le Batard]

Doesn't have a hat. You got to have a hat. How else will we know you're impartial? We've got to find some. A seventh person with a hat. Maybe it's Gino. We get. You can't trust Gino.

[Tony]

That's like the hamburglar nugget burglar.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is what I want to do. We're going to do this secret ballot style. But not one vote. We're going to do multiple rounds of this. So I want everybody to write on a piece of paper. Not you, Chris. How many constitutes Chris completing the I.

[Chris Cody]

Should get a vote. I'm in this room.

[Dan Le Batard]

You don't get a vote. You don't get a vote. You're not in the room.

[Mike]

You want to vote. You take off the hat.

[Dan Le Batard]

Take off the hat.

[Mike Ryan]

And will we then average it out based on what everyone writes down?

[Chris Cody]

I like that. Jeremy, Roy, help me out, let's go.

[Dan Le Batard]

We don't average it out. We go one round and then we have a discussion and then we have another round of like a committee? Yes, like a committee.

[Gino Fuentes]

Or should it be like whichever number gets the most votes. So if people duplicate a number.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, that's tough.

[Tony]

From there, I think the average is probably better.

[Dan Le Batard]

I like talking it out and then having a final vote after that. So for now just give me a number. Don't confer with one another. What number you're going to put on that?

[Stugotz]

14.

[Dan Le Batard]

What? Was that so bad? Just put it on.

[Mike]

You are your father's son.

[Dan Le Batard]

Fold it up and bring it on back.

[Chris Cody]

Nuggets are so big. I swear they're messing with me here. They double double battered them or something?

[Dan Le Batard]

No, double battered. No, they're not that. Whenever you can see the flesh.

[Mike]

If I take a.

[Chris Cody]

Never mind. I was going to say if I bite it in half, does that count as two?

[Stugotz]

That's how this counts as half.

[Dan Le Batard]

Smoke. Smoking reduces appetite, Right?

[Gino Fuentes]

It doesn't going to be 21 cigarettes.

[Tony]

Yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that's. Yeah, cigarettes.

[Tony]

Black and mild cigarettes. Anything like that.

[Dan Le Batard]

That, that'll make you eat less. Right?

[Stugotz]

Well, we were talking about fasting. Like the trick is to expand your.

[Gino Fuentes]

Stomach actively averaging a nugget a minute.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's a pretty good.

[Chris Cody]

Pretty good already.

[Gino Fuentes]

That's what I'm saying. That, that'll fall off a cliff pretty quickly.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, you just got to stay in that mode.

[Mike Ryan]

He just said he wants to take all of Big Sui off.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that would be a bad strategy if you do that. That's horrible strategy.

[Chris Cody]

I can take a step outside, you know, do we have those large batteries?

[Mike]

Can someone want me to collect ballots?

[Dan Le Batard]

Can someone from outside the room come collect the ballots? So to ensure the security. Ernst and Young over here.

[Gino Fuentes]

The case is making me want to change.

[Mike]

Remember, these are anonymous.

[Chris Cody]

I love how small this is. Found a small arm.

[Dan Le Batard]

Beautiful. Speaking of smoking cigarettes, Tony, you got a top five jobs you can smoke a cigarette at.

[Tony]

Oh, guys at the Flanagans. It made me think of a great, a great pastime of being able to smoke wherever you wanted. Right.

[Chris Cody]

Because a cig break.

[Tony]

A cig break, right. Used to be able to just go light up wherever you wanted.

[Dan Le Batard]

Didn't matter. It used to be in the break room. You go to where the coffee and the, and the fridges and you just light up right there, just a haze of smoke. Then they change the rules. You got to go outside. So it turned right outside the front door of the building. That's where everyone was at.

[Tony]

And now they got a smoking section.

[Dan Le Batard]

Further down, further away because people were complaining. I walked through the door and it's smoking here. Now it's all the way over there.

[Mike]

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[Tony]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don LeBatard.

[Chris Cody]

And finally, abstaining from food for 16 to 18 hours a day could be key to treating a variety of health conditions like stabilizing blood sugar levels and increasing resistance to stress stugats. Mike, are you doing something like this right now?

[Mike]

I lost a lot of weight doing intermittent fasting and low carb. So now I'm getting back to it.

[Chris Cody]

But how much in that six to eight hour window, how much can you eat unlimited? I could just eat unlimited.

[Tony]

I'd do that.

[Chris Cody]

That'd be fun. For six to eight hours. You can't eat unlimited. Try me.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, no.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean this is the Dan lebatar.

[Dan Le Batard]

Show with the Stugach.

[Tony]

You ready?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I'm ready.

[Tony]

Number five, long haul trucker.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh yeah.

[Chris Cody]

You on that guy's just smoking in the car.

[Tony]

That's what I'm saying.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, he doesn't. They don't.

[Tony]

They got a great job. You just put the window down, light.

[Dan Le Batard]

Up and just cruise, baby cab.

[Chris Cody]

That's not a cigarette break gotta put on because he's working.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know.

[Tony]

The, the top five is. Top five jobs. You can smoke a cigarette.

[Gino Fuentes]

Oh. While doing.

[Chris Cody]

Okay, sorry.

[Tony]

So long haul trucker. Number five. Number four, line cook.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's disgusting. That's how you know.

[Tony]

Disgusting.

[Stugotz]

The bear.

[Tony]

It's not happening.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's made with love.

[Chris Cody]

They step outside. They don't. Right outside that. I've worked at these restaurants. Gu. It's the back door.

[Mike]

It's always kind of.

[Chris Cody]

It stays open, but it has one of those like. What's the thing?

[Dan Le Batard]

You know, a door.

[Tony]

A door at the restaurants. Like a saloon door at the restaurant.

[Chris Cody]

It's like the plastic that like covers the doorway that they can.

[Gino Fuentes]

Like the sheet.

[Tony]

Like the sheets of plastic that you can.

[Chris Cody]

You guys haven't worked at restaurants. You guys haven't worked.

[Mike]

I have a sneaking suspicion Chris is trying to overcome two different obstacles.

[Gino Fuentes]

Maybe performance enhancers.

[Chris Cody]

You guys. You guys haven't worked at restaurant. You Guys haven't worked at restaurant.

[Dan Le Batard]

Number three, Tony.

[Mike]

Shit's kicking in, huh, buddy?

[Mike Ryan]

That's why the eyes were watering.

[Stugotz]

More water for him.

[Dan Le Batard]

Two is too much, man.

[Tony]

Number three, about a security guard at a bar. Like a security guard? Some sort of like, doorman, bouncer. Just rip a sig no matter what. Just be out there. It's your id. Let me see. Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, no, I'm with it. I've seen it.

[Tony]

Little 20 underneath the idea.

[Dan Le Batard]

There you go. You're good.

[Tony]

What happened at Moe's back in the grove? Rip Moe's, by the way?

[Mike]

Moose juice. It's a different again.

[Tony]

Broward guys don't get it.

[Mike]

Lauderdale county, possibly.

[Stugotz]

I apologize.

[Dan Le Batard]

Number two, Tony. Number two, Ray Charles over here.

[Tony]

Radio producer.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, smoke break with my.

[Mike]

You gotta go out and take a smoke break. No, it's not.

[Dan Le Batard]

What? Cause back in the day, you can't.

[Mike]

Smoke in these studios.

[Tony]

Back in the day, you could.

[Mike]

Do you know how flammable the reels were Back in the day, you couldn't.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, cooks are not smoking over the food.

[Mike Ryan]

Mikey C produces my campus tour show.

[Dan Le Batard]

Does he does. Let's go.

[Stugotz]

That man has a pinch.

[Chris Cody]

I will break.

[Mike]

He loves everything still working out.

[Mike Ryan]

He loves everybody here.

[Tony]

He looked good for a while.

[Gino Fuentes]

I don't know.

[Mike Ryan]

He's in Bristol. I'm where I am. I don't know.

[Mike]

Does he still have that lump on his head?

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know.

[Dan Le Batard]

Doesn't seem.

[Mike Ryan]

I haven't asked him about the lump, but he runs the board for me every Saturday morning.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tony, the number one job. You can smoke a cig.

[Tony]

Construction worker. Oh, you're just out there plowing away.

[Dan Le Batard]

With the jackhammer, but you got it.

[Tony]

Outside and it's like also ashing the cigarette as you hit the jackhammer.

[Dan Le Batard]

Question for you. Missing from your list. Police detective show up on the scene. Oh, my God. Another third one this week. Shouldn't it light it up?

[Tony]

You're right.

[Dan Le Batard]

I also Typing up the reports too.

[Tony]

Doctor too.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, doctor.

[Tony]

Doctors. How many times you see at the hospital, you pass by and there's doctors smoking outside.

[Mike]

That's a break, though. Not while they're.

[Dan Le Batard]

Doctor used to be smoking in the office. When you sit down, it's like it's terminal cancer. Exactly. Why do you not get it?

[Mike]

What could it be? No clue.

[Tony]

Above my prayer guide. I gotta put you on a specialist.

[Dan Le Batard]

I gotta send you to the specialist. I love it, man. Nah, man, it is. It's funny. I don't smoke. I've never smoked. And yet there Is a nostalgia that I feel about, like the haze of the haze. You used to go into a bar.

[Mike Ryan]

Did you feel you were missing out? When everyone's like, hey, you wanna go get a cig?

[Dan Le Batard]

No. Well, not really, but it was more so zaz. I remember when you go to a bar and you open that door and it was just like a fog and you really couldn't see. Are there a lot of people in here? Not so many people. How many girls? How many guys? Like, you couldn't tell because the smoke made everything mysterious. And then you got to the bar, and then you turned around like, oh, didn't know you were there. And you strike up a conversation. Now I open the door. Boom, I see everything. The mystery has been removed.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't know, man. I don't remember walking into places and I couldn't see anyone because of the cigarettes.

[Tony]

You weren't at the right place.

[Dan Le Batard]

Come on, man.

[Tony]

Oh, well, I. Bartender back in the day.

[Dan Le Batard]

Bartender? Yeah. Love a bartender.

[Tony]

What do you want?

[Chris Cody]

Mm, that never happened.

[Tony]

Like a bartender smoking a cigarette.

[Chris Cody]

They might take a cigarette. They're not at the, like, what bar are you guys going to where they're like, what can I get you?

[Stugotz]

Ash and your drinks?

[Gino Fuentes]

How about a guy playing slide guitar for a band at a bar?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yep. Good answer. Show me slide guitar player.

[Chris Cody]

Thank you, by the way. Going back to grilled mistake. I'm done with these grills. Once you get into the fried, you.

[Tony]

Can'T be done with them, though. You need them because there's not enough fried ones.

[Chris Cody]

I just ate one. I just ate one. Where I had the feeling of, is this fully cooked?

[Gino Fuentes]

Gino's gonna have to pay for more nuggets, right, guys?

[Mike]

Chris' definitely slowing down. His posture has changed.

[Chris Cody]

I don't like.

[Mike]

And he's got sunglasses on.

[Dan Le Batard]

Guys, I have five votes in front of me, even though there should have been six plus mine. Oh, you didn't give me your vote.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, yeah. You want me to write it down or.

[Dan Le Batard]

Write it down?

[Chris Cody]

Please just say it.

[Mike Ryan]

Give me something.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, no, no, no. This we're doing. We're doing this the right way. What are you. What are you doing? Just say it. He said we're going to delay the update on the vote for a second because I do want to talk to Jeremy.

[Chris Cody]

How many Chris's do we need on video? Guys? We got it again. That's the preview.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. That's why you got the sunglasses.

[Mike]

Oh, boy. How many mgs?

[Stugotz]

Be real.

[Mike]

20.

[Dan Le Batard]

You got two of those.

[Chris Cody]

Wow. Fuentes was like, just one. I'm like, get out of here, you child.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, my God. Tony. All Star weekend.

[Tony]

It happens, buddy.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm having flashbacks. So, Jeremy, I want to talk to you about yesterday's Bulls vs Sixers game. Great game. Came down to the wire. Nicola Vucevich hits a game winner right from the corner. And Russian, we get this. Yeah, Russian, we get the call from Stacy King, who does a great job with Adam Amin on the local call for the Bulls. But on the call, Stacy King to Express. Oh, do we have it? Oh, yeah. Let's hear it again. The grizzled veteran steps up and hits the biggest shot of the season. Oh, my good. Elizabeth. I'm coming again, Elizabeth. Oh, Lord. It's the big one, Elizabeth. The Cardiac Bulls.

[Stugotz]

I'm sorry, he was doing what?

[Dan Le Batard]

That call. That's Stacy King. Roy, are you. Wait, hold on. Because Jeremy did not get the reference.

[Chris Cody]

I didn't want the reference.

[Stugotz]

San Franisun.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes.

[Stugotz]

It's just that there's a couple of words missing.

[Chris Cody]

You think Roy is not going to get a reference?

[Gino Fuentes]

I like that. I like that he doesn't get the reference because it's not a perfect reference with every single word.

[Dan Le Batard]

You never.

[Gino Fuentes]

I didn't know that reference.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did you know Sanford and Son existed?

[Gino Fuentes]

Yeah, of course.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

But I did not watch Sanford Son.

[Gino Fuentes]

No.

[Stugotz]

What you know about that Red Fox.

[Gino Fuentes]

So I didn't know the reference. And so when I first heard the audio, I realized once he said the Cardiac Bulls, that clearly this was a reference to something, I guess having a heart attack. But when you first listen to that sound, if you are a young person or someone who did not keep up with pop culture in your time, you don't know what it is that he's talking about when he's yelling, I'm coming, Elizabeth.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, Lord, that in the club.

[Gino Fuentes]

Yeah, I was. I think there's a risk in making references, particularly older references to where you can end up sounding like, I just did.

[Dan Le Batard]

Look to me. Because Stacy King does this a lot. Whenever they have a clutch shot or a big moment. He does do the Red Fox reference.

[Stugotz]

But he's old enough to know the reference, though.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ah, he's not gonna. I'm not. I don't wanna.

[Gino Fuentes]

Stacey King or he is.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stacy, can that sign.

[Gino Fuentes]

He can know the reference.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's not the premise. Stacy gets a reference.

[Gino Fuentes]

What about the audience? What about the people watching? I think that's my concern. Watching NBA League Pass. Who are like 22 years old and are just hearing the announcer yell, no.

[Stugotz]

No, no, no, no. He's old enough to get it correct.

[Mike]

Which he did not.

[Gino Fuentes]

Roy has taken this to another level.

[Dan Le Batard]

Execution. I don't expect Stacy King to get any quote right, man. I'm just happy he got it in the general vicinity. Now the thing is, Jeremy, cuz he's been doing it for years, my expectation will be, at least for the local Bulls fan, they know. They may not even know what the reference is from, but they know what he's referring to versus like you parachuting in or maybe the Internet or whatever. It is a funny quote though, to say the way he is. Guys, I'm really concerned about Chris and I'm not concerned about the Nuggets.

[Mike Ryan]

He's in bad shape, man.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's not about the Nuggets.

[Chris Cody]

Everyone's an eating expert in here.

[Dan Le Batard]

They're like, stand up.

[Tony]

I told him he's got to stand up. Let the food digest go all the way down.

[Chris Cody]

Mike got me warm water. Everyone's an expert.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, here we go, guys. Time to update vote number one for Chris to this is to claim he's completed the challenge.

[Chris Cody]

Amount of nuggets.

[Dan Le Batard]

The challenge is 99 nuggets. Vote number one says 69.

[Tony]

What are you, butthead?

[Dan Le Batard]

Vote number two. It's a sticky note.

[Stugotz]

Hold on.

[Dan Le Batard]

60 Vote number three. Oh, a lot of sticky notes. You guys got excited. 51.

[Gino Fuentes]

Oh, please.

[Tony]

Come on.

[Mike Ryan]

Where's my Jeremy?

[Tony]

That was it right there.

[Chris Cody]

That was Jeremy. I needed.

[Dan Le Batard]

And this is an Anonymous vote. 99. The refs cheated in Miami vs SMU.

[Mike]

Oh yeah, that was Jeremy.

[Gino Fuentes]

I wonder who that was.

[Mike]

Jeremy.

[Stugotz]

UCF.

[Dan Le Batard]

98.

[Stugotz]

Wow.

[Chris Cody]

Jerk Zazzle.

[Dan Le Batard]

99 problems. And then the final one is 60, so.

[Chris Cody]

All right, so we got 260s.

[Stugotz]

Hold on.

[Mike]

What if that's upside down?

[Gino Fuentes]

Hold on.

[Stugotz]

Oh yeah, that'll be nine.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wait, no, no, no.

[Gino Fuentes]

I mean, you said 69. 60, 51, 99, 98, 99 and 60, which is seven votes. There are six people here.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, Gino is the seven, Gene.

[Gino Fuentes]

Oh, Gino. What?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, we put his hat right here.

[Gino Fuentes]

That's crazy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, well, we gotta have seven votes, man. It has to be. Can't have an even number. You don't know what he voted. He might have rolled 51.

[Mike]

He could have said that refs cheated in Dallas.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, it's true.

[Mike]

He's been saying it all week.

[Dan Le Batard]

I kind of feel like 51 is way too low.

[Chris Cody]

Let's average him out. Average him out.

[Dan Le Batard]

51 is too low. I'm also going to say.

[Mike Ryan]

Look, guys, Averaging it out would not.

[Dan Le Batard]

Go well as much as. Because, you know, they do this, by the way.

[Chris Cody]

The average.

[Gino Fuentes]

Yeah, the average is 77. It's 76.5. Let's go 60.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, but how do you do it in a government? You need a super majority.

[Dan Le Batard]

Right. Well, this is how some voting systems work.

[Tony]

This is not the.

[Dan Le Batard]

They throw out the low and they throw out the high, and we take the middles.

[Stugotz]

The mode.

[Dan Le Batard]

We get the extremists out. We get the extremists out.

[Mike Ryan]

I think that would go even worse.

[Chris Cody]

Whatever percentage the guy from New York got last night, that's the percentage of the 99 Nuggets. I have to eat.

[Mike]

I forgot which one the mode is.

[Dan Le Batard]

The mode is the one that appears the most.

[Mike]

So it's a mean.

[Gino Fuentes]

Is the average.

[Dan Le Batard]

Median is the one that's right in the middle.

[Gino Fuentes]

Yes, that's right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Median is the one that's right in the middle. The median is in the middle.

[Mike]

Me Nel Hassan.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yesterday. Yesterday. English today, math.

[Gino Fuentes]

So for what it's worth, if we're.

[Chris Cody]

Looking for, it's not gonna matter a grade.

[Gino Fuentes]

Right. If we're talking about what would be a passing grade, do we count that as a D or a C?

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, so.

[Gino Fuentes]

Because if it's a C and we're going at 70%.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Gino Fuentes]

That's 69 nuggets. That's also the median of this group.

[Dan Le Batard]

Right. The problem, Jeremy, is I went to school at Georgia Tech and we had a class called CS 1501. We called it the Widowmaker. And your goal in that class was just to get a D? Because as I said, at Georgia Tech, D is for done. So I would be inclined to say 60%. 60% is what we're looking for.

[Stugotz]

Super majority.

[Gino Fuentes]

So that's going to be 59 nuggets.

[Dan Le Batard]

Deal.

[Gino Fuentes]

59.4.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I'm comfortable with that. We got to do another round of voting, Chris. We're going to update it later in the show, but we'll do another round of conclave. In the meantime, you got to keep eating. You can't stop. If you stop, you're just going to screw yourself over.

[Chris Cody]

You think I want to stop?

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, I do. I think you want.

[Tony]

What kind of question is that?

[Dan Le Batard]

Said it breathlessly. You think I want to stop? Oh, man. So local hour hockey's back.

[Mike Ryan]

Jack, I did not like my wake up this morning. Man. This is how, especially recently, you make all jokes you want about me looking older. I don't care. I think I got a bunch of Benjamin Buttons thing Going on. But whatever. That's neither here nor there.

[Mike]

I.

[Mike Ryan]

My, my. I've noticed recently the most clear cut sign of getting old. I'm fading for these late games. I can't stay up anymore for these games. Like the heater on a west coast trip right now. The Panthers are on a west coast trip right now. I used to just be like, nice. Got something cool to watch late nights. And now it's. Yeah, I got no chance staying up for that game. I fell asleep last night mid first period of the Panther game. And so the first thing I did when I woke up this morning, I see the score, seven three. I'm like, damn it. Like, I hate not being able to see my team play. I'm getting old. I mean, I don't know if you know that.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's hard, man. Like this wet east coast living. I can't do it, man. I fell asleep last night again trying to watch these games.

[Mike Ryan]

Yep.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know how y' all do it, man. It's. That's why the west coast is the best coast. Everything's done nice and early, man.

[Mike Ryan]

You know by that Lord's time zone, it's right here.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Lord need to move.

[Gino Fuentes]

That's horse.

[Mike]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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