Local Hour: The Biggest Florida Panthers Podcast in America

Summary

Summary of "Local Hour: The Biggest Florida Panthers Podcast in America" – The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Release Date: June 11, 2025
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, Greg Cody, Dominique Foxworth, Chris Cody, Mike Ryan, Jeremy

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Introduction

In this lively episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, recorded from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz engage in their signature blend of sports commentary, pop culture discussions, and humorous banter. The episode, titled "Local Hour: The Biggest Florida Panthers Podcast in America," delves into a spirited debate on the culinary classification of soups, extensive coverage of the Florida Panthers, and a critical analysis of the upcoming Club World Cup in Miami. The hosts also sprinkle in humorous interludes and offbeat conversations, maintaining an engaging atmosphere for both regular listeners and newcomers.

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Soup vs. Meal Debate

The episode kicks off with an animated discussion centered around whether certain soups can be classified as meals. This lighthearted debate serves as a metaphor for broader conversations about content focus and audience expectations.

• Dan Le Batard opens the topic by mocking a previous show’s omission of matzo ball soup, leading to accusations of anti-Semitism:

  “How have you never had matzo ball soup? That's true. And when you say stews in a separate category and it's apart, it's at God bless Football...” (00:56)

• Greg Cody expresses disdain for the exclusion of robust soups:

  “But cuz, when you say stews in a separate category and it's apart, it's at God bless Football...” (01:15)

• The hosts debate the nature of various soups, with Mike Ryan asserting that:

  “Chicken noodles. How am I falling into this trap?” (01:23)
  and
  “Is cereal soup then?” (32:53)
  highlighting the playful tone of the conversation.

• Dominique Foxworth humorously commits to embracing chicken noodle soup despite criticism:

  “I will never eat your sausage nor your lentil, sir.” (07:24)

This segment not only entertains but also underscores the hosts' chemistry and ability to blend humor with light-hearted debates.

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Florida Panthers Coverage

As the episode progresses, the conversation shifts towards the show's identity as the premier Florida Panthers podcast.

• Mike Ryan defends the show's extensive coverage of the Panthers, emphasizing their commitment:

  “We are probably identified as the biggest Florida Panthers podcast in terms of talking about them the most.” (06:01)

• Dan Le Batard acknowledges the depth of Mike's investment in the team:

  “Your connection to the personality of this team, I've only seen now with like, um, basketball.” (05:35)

The hosts discuss the significance of the Panthers' performance, their presence in the local sports scene, and how the show's focus has evolved alongside the team's success. This dedication reinforces the podcast's standing within the Florida sports community.

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Club World Cup in Miami

A substantial portion of the episode is dedicated to critiquing FIFA's decision to host the Club World Cup in Miami, focusing on logistical and cultural missteps.

• Mike Ryan voices concerns about ticket distribution and cultural alignment:

  “Johnny Infantino really cares about optics. So they are going to give away as many tickets to this stadium and if it is indeed packed, bet your bottom dollar that more than half that stadium did not pay to get in.” (17:59)

• Dan Le Batard expresses skepticism about Miami's suitability for such a high-profile event:

  “It has the potential to be a calamity.” (22:14)

• The hosts discuss security issues, the choice of opening matches, and the overall strategy behind FIFA's plans, with Mike Ryan highlighting the mismatch of pairing Inter Miami with an obscure Egyptian club:

  “To pair them against an Egyptian club, that's you're hoping for host nation, World cup type atmosphere.” (35:05)

This segment provides a critical lens on international sports events hosted in Miami, reflecting concerns about execution and community impact.

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Humorous Interludes and Breaking News

Throughout the episode, the hosts incorporate humorous interruptions and faux "breaking news" segments to maintain an entertaining flow.

• A recurring joke involves confusion over breaking news sounds, leading to playful banter:

  Dan Le Batard: “Wait, wait. Greg Cody is looking around the room. He's confused by that sound...” (25:07)
  Mike Ryan: “The codies are dialed.” (25:44)
  These moments showcase the hosts' improvisational skills and the show's informal, comedic vibe.

• Chris Cody humorously questions the nature of certain soups in the debate:

  “Is cereal soup then?” (32:53)
  adding to the lighthearted atmosphere.

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Miscellaneous Topics

The episode also touches upon various other subjects, including:

• USA Soccer and Inter Miami's Future:
  Discussion on the World Cup's impact on Miami, ticket giveaways, and the challenges of integrating soccer into the local sports landscape.

  Mike Ryan: “They are the most decorated club in the history of world football. They've won more trophies than any other club, more than Real Madrid.” (17:59)

• NFL and NHL Highlights:
  Brief mentions of ongoing football and hockey events, maintaining the show's sports-centric focus.

• Cultural References and Jokes:
  The hosts engage in playful teasing and cultural references, adding depth to their interactions.

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Conclusion

The episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz successfully blends humor, sports analysis, and engaging discussions to create an entertaining experience for listeners. From the whimsical debate on the classification of soups to the critical examination of the Florida Panthers' coverage and Miami's hosting of the Club World Cup, the hosts demonstrate their adeptness at balancing lighthearted banter with insightful commentary. Notable quotes such as Dominique Foxworth's commitment to chicken noodle soup (07:24) and Mike Ryan's critique of FIFA's ticketing strategies (17:59) highlight the show's dynamic range. Overall, this episode reaffirms the podcast's reputation as a leading voice in the Florida sports community, catering to both hardcore fans and casual listeners alike.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Dan Le Batard:

  “I have never seen Chris Cody so indignant as to call you dumb to your face because you did not respect me.” (09:42)

• Dominique Foxworth:

  “I will never eat your sausage nor your lentil, sir.” (07:24)

• Mike Ryan:

  “Chicken noodles. How am I falling into this trap?” (01:23)
  “Johnny Infantino really cares about optics. So they are going to give away as many tickets to this stadium...” (17:59)

• Greg Cody:

  “Is cereal soup then?” (32:53)

• Chris Cody:

  “Is Garbiao't a soup...” (31:40)

These quotes encapsulate the episode's humor, critical insights, and the hosts' vibrant personalities.

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Note: This summary omits non-content segments such as advertisements, intros, outros, and filler noises to focus on the core discussions and key moments of the episode.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know if the rest of you have noticed. Dominique, I don't know if you've seen this Mike Ryan before. Greg Cody certainly has and has some issues with this Mike Ryan. Mike Ryan, who is not allowed to speak into a microphone after the Panthers win like that. And Marchand does that. And Ethan's echoing, eat shit. Mike Ryan has been around for three days. Makes for an aggressive Mike Ryan. And he was just screaming and yelling about something that ended with him ranting at you and me. Yeah, soup. You guys started with soup yesterday. And then Jeremy jumps in. Giant omission yesterday in the soup category.

[Greg Cody]

My voice has rarely been missed on this show, but never been missed more than yesterday.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's good executive producing right there. Matzo ball soup.

[Chris Cody]

Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

With blatant anti Semitism. How you do executive producing? He always starts with the broad podcast. Three slow jog, sing song, you got your ass. That's how you ep.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Hey, Jeremy.

[Dan Le Batard]

I like.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I like it. A little foreplay, Warm it up. Let's get us right, man. Just play guy, get us in the mood.

[Dan Le Batard]

He gets mad at us in the middle of that and accuses us of anti Semitism.

[Greg Cody]

I mean, you're gonna leave matzo ball soup off the list.

[Dan Le Batard]

Not thick enough. Not thick enough.

[Greg Cody]

Never had it.

[Dan Le Batard]

The matzah itself.

[Mike Ryan]

Wait a second. Chicken noodles. How am I falling into this trap?

[Dominique Foxworth]

It's a good conversation.

[Mike Ryan]

It is. And I know we did the whole show after a Super bowl where we didn't talk about the super bowl, but people do come to us for Panther talk, right? And I know you got this thing where you're like, the audience is, you know, always going to push back against hockey. Those people left, dog. They left. We've been talking to hockey for years around these parts. So, yeah, after the Panthers win game three, six one, and everyone's fighting and Jonah Gadjevich becomes a superstar with his reactions, maybe, maybe, just maybe, that day.

[Dan Le Batard]

Nope. You guys respect hockey too much. And you did this with McGregor. You denied me the billboards, and I'm not going to let you keep winning.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, David, that's a fine.

[Dan Le Batard]

Your team, David, your team can keep.

[Mike Ryan]

He said, McGregor.

[Dan Le Batard]

Conor, I'll pay the fine. Don't start the show yet. I'll pay the fine.

[Mike Ryan]

I was back here complaining about it, and Chris was like, you're a chili guy. I guess. Which I am clearly a chili guy. Wendy's chili especially.

[Chris Cody]

Look, my mic's not on.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, that's a shame.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, ridiculous.

[Stugotz]

It was on, but we started the.

[Chris Cody]

Show topics aren't up. And now my mic.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, listen, don't start the show yet. I can't do a show with this Mike Ryan and old matzo balls over here. I can't. I can't do it this way.

[Mike Ryan]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stu Guts podcast.

[Dan Le Batard]

Three good questions just asked in rat a tat tat fire between Greg Cody and Dominique Foxworth. Is jambalaya a soup?

[Chris Cody]

No.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is gumbo. Is gumbo a soup?

[Mike Ryan]

This might be the stew category.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, sir.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is it? Is chili? Is chili. Can chili be a soup?

[Dominique Foxworth]

Hold on. He said stew. Where the stew fit. Is stew separate or like a separate phylum altogether? Or is stew underneath the soup? Like, is stew a version of soup?

[Mike Ryan]

Stew is more hearty.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. Thicker, eats like a meal.

[Dan Le Batard]

So none of those are soups.

[Chris Cody]

Well, jambalaya is not even close. I mean, that's not.

[Dan Le Batard]

It can be made soupy. I guess it'd be poorly if it was made soupy. But gumbo feels like a soup. It feels pretty close to a seafood soup.

[Mike Ryan]

Depends on where you get it. Sometimes it's mostly rice, but I guess.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I'm not sure if a stew is a soup. I guess also just a rule of thumb, never trust a stew.

[Dan Le Batard]

How have you never had matzo ball soup? That's true. And when you say stews in a separate category and it's apart, it's at God bless Football, and you should check out that channel right now. It's new, and it's great. He's got a new studio, and the only reason that he's not here is because he's working hard for football season. So that God bless football could be a larger business than it presently is.

[Chris Cody]

You just said Stu Gatz and the words working hard in the same sentence. That's impressive.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, he's got something that's his now he owns something that's his, and he's building it out. You should check out and subscribe to his channels because it's Stugat and it's God bless Football and he's growing both of them with his own studios. Mike, have you seen those studios?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, they're very, very nice. Very pristine.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know where that is. Is that closer to his home?

[Mike Ryan]

It's in Jacksonville.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

So Stugats will be back soon, but in the interim, we've got Dominique Foxworth here ruining the show by starting with Supes when? Mike, if you want to have at the microphones, I'm going to have to try and pull you in on a leash because you're crazy. Because you're two games from the cup and it's an insane time. And you weren't on the show yesterday and you got frightened. You had a lot of critiques about the show yesterday that were aggressive.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, give the people what they want. Look, you know me on and I've kind of toned it down because people don't like that if they're excited about a sport. I don't want to just be a one trick pony and take the air out of it. So when game one of the NBA Finals happens, I bone up on it. Tyrese Halliburton hit a game winning shot. I got to come with stats. I'm hosting. I got to get the people what they want. Game three of the Stanley cup finals, an excellent Stanley cup final, I might add. You give the people what they want, you become a destination program for people either wanting to learn about this or locals or wanting Panther coverage. And some of these people might not be wise to the shtick of this show, so you don't push them away with five minutes of soup talk.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is where I disagree with you, and this is where you're becoming the thing that we used to rail against. I always want to start with soup, and I don't care what's happening in sports. But you respect this sport more than most. You care about this team more than most. Your connection to the personality of this team, I've only seen now with like, um, basketball. Because of your investment. You started your career with this team and you're frustrated that this show only talks about it with McDavid's overrated, right?

[Mike Ryan]

Well, it's bad. We are limited in scope, but I would say that we are probably identified as the biggest Florida Panthers podcast in terms of talking about them the most. We are a pro Panthers program and there are a lot of people curious. There's a lot of abuelas and abuelos that may not be into podcasts or may not even be into hockey, but this is captivating a market that realizes this team's been to three straight Stanley Cups finals. And after game three, when people are excited, maybe, just maybe, give the people what they want.

[Dominique Foxworth]

If you don't want to start with soup, would you prefer to start with salad?

[Stugotz]

Depends on mozzarella sticks or.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, mozzi sticks. I'm down. I'm also not a big soup guy. When it's this hot, it's not even soup season. I'm having this discussion.

[Stugotz]

Odd time of year for us to start Soup.

[Dominique Foxworth]

When is soup season in South Florida? Is there a South Florida soup season?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, when it becomes warm. Right now it's hotter than Beelzebub's ball sack. But like when it's just warm. That soup season.

[Jeremy]

Soup season is when you get sick and your abuela goes to Sergio's or La Carreta and gets you sopita de pollo, which is also top tier soup. I got it for my wife yesterday. She wasn't feeling well, got her sopita de pollo all of a sudden locked in.

[Mike Ryan]

So it's why. It's why the anti Semitism claim is valid. Because you just went at matzo ball soup for not being thick enough. But probably the most famous soup is chicken noodle soup.

[Dan Le Batard]

I didn't know that I was not willing to put chicken soup in the category of meal. The way lobster bisque and clam chowder and even French onion soup.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I had regrets. I have regrets after shows and I normally flush them. It's one of the biggest regrets. I'm not going to be able to sleep for a long time. That I allowed you guys to disparage the king of soups. Chicken noodle. It's the king of soups, man.

[Mike Ryan]

Goaded.

[Chris Cody]

No, Boring. Yeah, boring. Chicken noodle.

[Mike Ryan]

And also, like Jeremy Vanilla on behalf of Italians. Where's Italian wedding?

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

Come on.

[Chris Cody]

You're getting close. The best soup ever is sausage and lentil, which is in the strong. In the neighborhood with the.

[Mike Ryan]

No, I'm with my dad on this.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're saying that chicken noodle soup is bland. You're. You're appalled by what he's alleging here at Lebatard show is chicken noodle soup. The king of all the soups is a little.

[Dominique Foxworth]

What is it?

[Stugotz]

You guys don't know Good soup?

[Mike Ryan]

If you're me.

[Dan Le Batard]

Slop.

[Stugotz]

You guys are showing your ass right now. You're mocking that soup. You guys are dumb.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't doubt. I don't doubt that Greg's sausage and lentil soup is amazing.

[Chris Cody]

Thank you.

[Mike Ryan]

But I think if you 100 people surveyed family Feud style. I don't think sausage and lentils making the board.

[Chris Cody]

They haven't had it. They haven't eaten my sausage. Lentil soup.

[Dan Le Batard]

I understand you are owing three in cooking competition competitions.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, but who's counting?

[Dominique Foxworth]

I will never eat your sausage nor your lentil, sir.

[Chris Cody]

Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

But remember when he had his Thanksgiving leftover soup and that wasn't a competition. That was one of the more delicious things.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah. I can make some soup.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I'm Sorry.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're an anti Semite. You've never had matzo balls. Haven't.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I haven't. I apologize. We're gonna change that today.

[Dan Le Batard]

But Jeremy's wrong. All right, let's get him some.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Give me some. Give me some matzo balls.

[Chris Cody]

It's good.

[Greg Cody]

There's got to be a deli around.

[Dan Le Batard]

It is good. But you will, Miami, you will say, I believe that this is not. It does not rise to the level that we're talking about of a creamy, decadent soup.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I will not. Because I've already been accused of anti Semitism. I can tell you right now that no matter what this soup tastes like, I'm gonna say it's delicious.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay? So the thing that I'm getting stuck on is I. I guess the distinction I'm making is, in order for a soup to be a meal, it doesn't really come with broth. It's gotta be a cream. It's gotta be. Unless I'm going French onion, in which case I'm slathering a bunch of stuff in there, including giant gobs of cheese.

[Greg Cody]

But see, this is why matzo ball soup is perfect for you. You get all of the joys of chicken noodle soup, but that matzo ball gives you that thickness that you're looking for that turns it into a full meal. Because now not only are you getting the protein in the chicken, but you're getting the carbs with the matzo ball, and it doesn't rise to anything. It's matza.

[Dan Le Batard]

I've never seen Chris Cody so indignant as to call you dumb to your face because you did not respect me. You looked right in his eyes.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I'll accept it.

[Dan Le Batard]

You looked right. You.

[Stugotz]

But Tony hit the white guy. That offended me, too. He hit the white guy. Sounder.

[Jeremy]

I also said, well, I'm not a horse. I'm not gonna eat whatever that slop is.

[Stugotz]

It was mainly. I may have been looking at Dom, but it was really Tony.

[Mike Ryan]

I felt it. I felt it.

[Dan Le Batard]

I saw your side eye, and I thought it was going at Dom, but it wasn't. It was wrapping around.

[Stugotz]

And I know good food. So, like, I will just not sit here and let you guys.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, this is the indigenous. This. What happened there was the indignant is. I've never seen a more confident you. You. You stepped in with my wheelhouse. No one will speak ill of the sausage and lentil. It was handed down from my father.

[Stugotz]

Sausages delightful with.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was handed down from my. Who does cook a good sausage? I will give him that.

[Chris Cody]

Thank you.

[Dan Le Batard]

But somebody said here, nominated for an Italian soup, something other than minestrone.

[Mike Ryan]

I thought Minnesota Italian wedding.

[Chris Cody]

Wedding. Yeah. Okay, so meatballs.

[Dan Le Batard]

So you guys. But so as an Italian soup, you like the Italian wedding more than minestrone? On behalf of the Italians.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm the only Italian here, Right. I'll speak for Italians. I prefer Italian weddings.

[Chris Cody]

Good soup.

[Mike Ryan]

Thank you, Greg.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is it a meal?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, it's pretty hearty.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, it can be.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. You take all the leftover macaroni, the.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thickness to it, but you are just nominating right now. We closed the category yesterday with three soups that were allowed to be a meal. And a lot of people were saying French onion had to get out of there, that the only meals you could go with were clam chowder and lobster bisque as meals.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, then what do you do with pho?

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh.

[Chris Cody]

Oh, yeah, that'd be a meal.

[Jeremy]

Well, if we're going to the Asian suits. Tom Young, that's good, too.

[Chris Cody]

We like that.

[Dan Le Batard]

FA wasn't even nominated yesterday.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, you could have used me.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's.

[Mike Ryan]

What a bad idea this was.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, you're. You're pissed off because this is.

[Mike Ryan]

Look at us. A day removed from game three. Now we can talk soup.

[Dan Le Batard]

There's plenty of time for us to decide when we talk soup around here.

[Jeremy]

Got NBA finals tonight, too. Big game tonight.

[Dan Le Batard]

We're doing three shows in 24 hours.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, we are.

[Dan Le Batard]

We are. We are going to be here so less people complain. They're not getting enough of us.

[Mike Ryan]

I have Keen's insight today for people that want to talk super regional.

[Jeremy]

Also, it's got to do Alley oop after that.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's right. What we're doing tonight with Mero at 8pm we are doing his pregame show to Alley Oop. So there's a lot over the next 24 hours. It's going to be more content from the show than any time since freedom, I think. And it's because we're celebrating everything that's happening around here, including the. The NHL final, which has been majestic. But, Mike, when you say we did a disservice to the audience, I'm promising you. Promising you that while many people are here newfound for the coverage of the Panthers, who are champions and are enduring kind of excellent. There are many people being put off by how much this show suddenly talks about hockey when this has never been a hockey show. In the last 30 years, it's never been a hockey show.

[Mike Ryan]

Right. And you. I think you're. Excuse me, That's A fine program by doing radio in this market where Panthers legitimately was a tune out. We've been doing this and it's not just the three years of the cup run. They won the President's Trophy. Before that they were in the playoffs. Year before that. I think maybe our ESPN time period was the period where we talked the least amount of hockey. When we were local, we'd end every show with Randy Moeller and we'd do gold calls. We talk hockey on this show. Panther hockey is synonymous with this show to a lot of people. And I understand speaking for an audience and there's always going to be those commenters there, but if they haven't left by now, they ain't leaving. And the people that threatened to leave, they actually did because this has been several years in the making.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, you beat the drum at a Panthers game. How can this not be identified as a Panthers man?

[Dan Le Batard]

We're talking a lot of Panthers hockey.

[Mike Ryan]

They're in the finals.

[Chris Cody]

Not enough.

[Dan Le Batard]

But not enough.

[Stugotz]

I would argue either like five shows. I would argue let's either talk soup or let's talk Panthers. But let's not talk about us talking about Panthers.

[Mike Ryan]

Great. You're.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're ep.

[Mike Ryan]

That is good leadership locked in.

[Dan Le Batard]

So Chris Cody, tell us, what's the show missing as an ingredient? This is your soup. This is your soup. When you ask me where is the soup? Every time Canada and hockey comes to South Florida, the trophy gets stuck in our swampy soup. Where's the soup? What soup season in South Florida, it's always, it's sweating from my forearms. It's soupy down here and it's where the cup resides. How would you like to talk about the Florida Panthers? How would you like to celebrate? We don't do pregame shows and they don't play another game until tomorrow night.

[Mike Ryan]

That's dumb.

[Chris Cody]

No, I like that.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't like that. The biggest break is when they're all in Florida. Shouldn't the biggest break be when they're commuting from to and from?

[Stugotz]

That's good though, you know, get them out then.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Important question, guys.

[Stugotz]

Have a nice off day. Have a nice off day in Miami.

[Chris Cody]

That is brutal. That they're going from Thursday in Sunrise to Saturday in Edmonton. That's brutal.

[Mike Ryan]

Preach, brother.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, seriously, that should not be allowed. That's when you need a two day.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Definitely break.

[Chris Cody]

But I'm bringing together the two sides here by speculating on what is Brad Marchand's favorite soup. I think that's what we need. To talk about.

[Stugotz]

I think the real debate is how do you pronounce his last name?

[Chris Cody]

Marchand.

[Dominique Foxworth]

We can't agree Sand.

[Mike Ryan]

I've heard Marshand more from Canadians in the know.

[Dan Le Batard]

I've thought it's Marchand because it feels like it should have a French flourish underneath it.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, he is Canadian.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I don't think. I mean, based on the stereotypes of the French, I feel like Marchand does not give off French. Gives off physical.

[Mike Ryan]

Also, Greg, do they give pronunciations? Is it loose to Rinen or Lusterinan? I've heard both.

[Chris Cody]

I think Lusterinan. No, that's all of her.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, this is good coverage, I think, to check in with the champions and figure out how to pronounce their names in game four.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I have, I have a question that will bring everyone together. It'll bring the supes and the hockeys into one place. If you had the Stanley cup for one night, what soup would you eat out of?

[Mike Ryan]

Ooh, let me see what soups have been eaten out of.

[Stugotz]

Isn't that the same game as. What's your favorite soup?

[Mike Ryan]

Shh.

[Dan Le Batard]

I was tricking them.

[Chris Cody]

Come on.

[Dominique Foxworth]

You. You are too much on your game today, baby.

[Dan Le Batard]

You are too much on your game.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't like what's going on over here.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is good. Ep.

[Mike Ryan]

You're a bumbling producer. That's your role.

[Dan Le Batard]

We don't know what to do with you getting in there urgently with good judgment. We're genuinely confused by it.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Throwing me.

[Mike Ryan]

Get my man a gummy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Don LeBatard.

[Chris Cody]

My wife says this is a sexy voice.

[Stugotz]

It really is.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, I'm hard. Thank you. Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stugats.

[Chris Cody]

So am I, actually. I don't know why.

[Mike Ryan]

This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

I want to get to what is happening with USA Soccer because this, you know, locally we do care about soccer. Though we probably don't talk about that seriously enough either for Mike's liking.

[Mike Ryan]

I think we meet the moment when it's World cup time. Our show does a good job with that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, World Cup. World cup is approaching and we're about to get embarrassed in Miami by what's happening with this. FIFA, this. They're. They're promising a sold out stadium and there's just no way that they understand what Miami is. If they think that on a night where you're going to have championship Panthers that you're going to have a situation where they get a Inter Miami and you guys who bet. What is the name of this other club? Forgive my idiot.

[Mike Ryan]

They're the most decorated club in the history of world football. They've won more trophies than any other club, more than Real Madrid. They are titans from the African continent. They are Egyptian royalty, basically. They just don't lose. Inter Miami is a club with big branding. They got obviously the most famous player in the world in Leo Messi, and they usually play 15 minutes from Boca in a small stadium. This is really ambitious, but the entire tournament is ambitious. And I think the tournament's going to be great. Johnny Infantino, the head of FIFA, has made a lot of promises, promising that this will be a sellout at Hard Rock Stadium. A team that can occasionally sell out MLS games in a much smaller venue is now being put at Hard Rock Stadium against an Egyptian team. Most people don't have any connective tissue.

[Dan Le Batard]

Most people here, most people regionally. When you think of South Florida and what would attract people to play against Inter Miami, it would not be African culture, it would be Hispanic culture. In terms of an allegiance here in.

[Mike Ryan]

Town right now, this may turn into four nations where we see this expanded edition of the Club World Cup. What a tremendous idea. What passion. But they're really swinging big here. There's plenty of reasons why this would fail. It's the first year of a tournament of this kind. It's on Dazn. Not many of the games are on Turner. There's only 24 of the games on Turner Sports. So it's a big, ambitious swing and it's probably going to take a couple additions for this tournament to really gain traction. Another thing that's kind of looming all over this is Department of Homeland Security and ICE have already announced that they will have a presence at this game. And I don't know if you've seen the tourism numbers for America. Not great, Bob. So you're counting. A lot of this business model is counting on people traveling to the United States. They don't want to mess with this. They're watching the coverage. What? I'm gonna be detained. There are all sorts of concerns right now about going to these games. I happen to know, uh.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, wait a minute.

[Mike Ryan]

Happen to know.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wait a minute. There's a. Happen to know.

[Mike Ryan]

Happen to know from.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do we. No, that's not a. I thought we were gonna get imaging for when Mike's reporting. Happened to know.

[Mike Ryan]

Happen to know from a great friend of mine that is a great reporter. I don't know if he's run with this, so I'm not gonna put his name out there, but he told me that FIFA employees are giving Tickets away that are not part of the ticket office. And there were FIFA officials and salespeople seen at Miami Dade College Promising Hey, $20 tickets. But you also get four additional complimentary passes. They are. Johnny Infantino really cares about optics. So they are going to give away as many tickets to this stadium and if it is indeed packed, bet your bottom dollar that more than half that stadium did not pay to get in.

[Dan Le Batard]

Whoa, that's a happen to know report. It's just going to be busing in a bunch of children, school buses of children. It's going to be like when Marlins fill their stadium with 10,000 kids on school day. So it look people there.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a weird. I understand why Inter Miami is opening the tournament, but opening the tournament against a club, no matter how prestigious they are in Egypt, it's not really known here. If you're counting on Miami, which is a gateway to the Americas, a great soccer market to be drawn to go beyond just what they usually do for Messi, you're going to need a big marquee opponent to kick things off. And that's not what they're doing. So it was a weird judgment call.

[Chris Cody]

I think the problem there though is that and the Egyptian opponent, like you say, they're good, but nobody knows who they are. And you don't think of Egypt when you think of world soccer. But they had to give my. They wanted to give Inter Miami a match that they could win. You don't want to start Inter Miami off against Real Madrid and I don't.

[Mike Ryan]

Think they're going to win it. This is a good club. Leo Messi was playing a rock fight of a match against Colombia yesterday. Played the entire game. And Inter Miami's got a lot of people leaving for international duty. They're coming in here. Meanwhile, this Egyptian club's been in South Florida for a while acclimating. It's gonna be very difficult. I think this competition's gonna be more cagey than people anticipate because of so many different calendars.

[Dan Le Batard]

Mike, you going bottom dollar betting in cagey and your analysis of the grit of caring about soccer in this town. Cody, you've loved. You covered the original Fort Lauderdale Strikers, okay. You know what they're trying to build here. The idea that that stadium is going up near the airport is an asinine construct. I doubt we'll ever get to. And wow, what a ripoff that'll end up being if all that happened here makes for a stadium near the airport where they keep trying to grow an MLS thing that will be harder to grow without Messi because they were trying to grow it in Boca. How many seats do they have in that stadium that you're Talking about going 10 times the size, 8 times the size? If you're trying to fill this stadium, what's the difference? What's the difference?

[Mike Ryan]

The soccer seating at Hard Rock Stadium, I think, is just around 70. Around. Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

Around 64.

[Mike Ryan]

Around 70. And while Messi is out of contract at the end of the MLS season, teammates have extended. The expectation is that he does see Miami Freedom park open next season. We'll see. I haven't done that.

[Dan Le Batard]

It has the potential to be a calamity. Okay. Giving a lot of public land to a soccer franchise when soccer has never worked successfully in the market. And this is the most giant of swings that's ever been taken. It's messy. It's. It's trying to bring the world in the World cup to South Florida with a watch party that Mike, you're saying is gonna be filled with a bunch of people who aren't actually caring about the event they're at.

[Mike Ryan]

No, no, no. I think this watch party, you must care. You have to care about soccer. You're super caring about it if you're gonna show up at Grails. And thanks to Boost Mobile for partnering up with DraftKings to bring this event there. If you're going to Grails this Saturday to watch the club World cup, you love soccer. This is a market that I'd venture to say more people love soccer than hockey. Keep in mind, Grails is a sports bar. I imagine there's going to be a TV with the local hockey team playing a major game there. All of this is a big swing for FIFA. It is a big revenue cash grab. And it replaced the Confederations cup, which was just the confederations champion matching up to another with one another. And what it represented was not just a competition, but. But a practice round, a dress rehearsal, if you will, for the following year in the host nation. Let's make sure we have everything in order and where the United States really flourishes compared to other countries that may not have the infrastructure and the venues. They need those dress rehearsals. United States doesn't. However, if you look at what happened in the Copa America final a couple of years ago.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, we need that one.

[Mike Ryan]

Let's have that one back. Now. I will say the security will be different, not just because of what happened, but that was coming at ball, running security. And South Florida really dropped the ball in allowing them to dictate Things. If you've ever been to a FIFA event, they have far more security now. This is going to be awkward with ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.

[Dan Le Batard]

Good times.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. So it's not just a dress rehearsal for the facility. It's also a dress rehearsal to see how this is gonna look in a year. Because I don't think this immigration stuff's going away. And Infantino and Donald Trump seem to be very close. Infantino has gone to the White House several times. Donald Trump calls him Johnny Soccer. And I think one of the concessions that he made was, yeah, absolutely, you can have ICE and Homeland Security at these venues.

[Chris Cody]

I think one element of them struggling to sell out Hard Rock Stadium for this game is a little bit of Lionel Messi fatigue in Miami. I don't know whether you agree with that or not, but when Miami flames out in the first round of the playoffs like they did last year when they lose in the semifinals of another big tournament just recently, I think there's an expectation of what Messi was going to bring to Inter Miami that he has not brought in terms of on field trophies. And I think that's an element. You know, look, Inter Miami doesn't they struggle to sell out some home games like they're not.

[Stugotz]

When you hear that noise, you got.

[Mike Ryan]

To lay out breaking news.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wait, wait. Greg Cody is looking around the room. He's confused by that sound, as if it's in here. Do you know what this is or you don't know what just happened?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, no, I know.

[Stugotz]

Now, did you think you got Hard Network out? Yes, that's what I thought, Craig.

[Chris Cody]

I thought that.

[Mike Ryan]

The first time you've heard that sound, Craig.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's the first time possible.

[Chris Cody]

No, I've heard it before. I had to see the spoon hitting a pan before.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did Maury Povich. Is that associated with Maury Chung?

[Mike Ryan]

He's married to Connie Chung.

[Dominique Foxworth]

And I thought it was Hard Copy. Right? That's not a Hard Copy sound.

[Mike Ryan]

No, I think Hard Copy was more like this is a Current Affair.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

People confuse those.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wait, Maury Povich is on with us today. This is his sound?

[Mike Ryan]

No, it's Connie Chung's. But he's married to Connie Chung.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, we'll ask.

[Mike Ryan]

Women are not property vis a vis.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, well, thank you. Thank you for that clarification appreciated in these difficult times.

[Chris Cody]

What's the damn breaking news?

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you. A good point by you.

[Mike Ryan]

The codies are dialed.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have the Cody.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Cody says it's Tuesday, baby.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Another one.

[Chris Cody]

I mean, Breaking News is something you normally get to.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes.

[Stugotz]

How often do we do break.

[Mike Ryan]

All right, you interrupted his thought. What's the news?

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry.

[Dominique Foxworth]

We don't have Roy here to tell us the news, though.

[Dan Le Batard]

Miles Garrett on Aaron Rodgers, quote. I think it's a good opportunity to put him in the graveyard.

[Dominique Foxworth]

We out here talking about saki and hockey and sake and we got football, we got sake, we got little sake.

[Dan Le Batard]

Graveyard.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I'm thirsty.

[Dan Le Batard]

We got a graveyard.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah. But sans context, people think that he wants to kill Aaron Rodgers. Now, he may actually want to kill Aaron Rodgers, but every Halloween, Myles Garrett has a graveyard in front of his house with all the.

[Jeremy]

Did you not know that, Dan?

[Dan Le Batard]

I was just starved for June news. It didn't matter. I wanted to have exciting football.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I'm not sure. I think.

[Stugotz]

Damn it, I missed that one.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I think that possibly you're right, but given Myles Garrett's history with current Steelers quarterbacks, maybe he actually wants to kill him.

[Mike Ryan]

A lot of people were revisiting that old Mason Rudolph thing. Yeah.

[Stugotz]

Sacred Heart has diarrhea.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

You are on your game today, Chris Cody. You are.

[Stugotz]

A lot of people saying, Sacred Heart has diarrhea.

[Mike Ryan]

You know, I love you as a bumbling idiot, but I can get used to this guy.

[Dan Le Batard]

You have been in control, Chris. I don't know what to do. Has happened today. And here we're going to increase the degree of difficulty on you, executive producer, because now this is the. These is. These are the hardest of lessons. We detour now into what is happening with immigration, ICE and California.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, what's happening in la. Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, no, hold on a second. I'm putting this in Chris's lap before we take this detour, because as you say, Mike, you've been placating the audience with, we don't do soup anymore. We're hockey covers. Well, not a lot of race or politics talk around here in the last six months. And it's been nice around here to not be talking about this stuff, as I've also enjoyed the relief of just sort of pushing away from what's obvious, encroaching fascism and how these things began in Nazi Germany and just the general heartbreak of watching this country while arguing about politics or arguing about transgender and all its disguises allows to happen daily. Something that a minority show that comes from minorities who are wildly, wildly grateful to be in this country and to have the opportunities of this country to be turned into the other with rubber bullets and National Guard being sent politically to a left state so that you could rubber bullet protesters who were just, like, trying to get home through 2,000 National Guardsmen. Because this is what we're doing and not noticing that it's encroaching fascism. Chris, what are your thoughts on this? Don Libatar?

[Stugotz]

I hit cannonball. I swear I hit the cannonball sound. And that's what played.

[Mike Ryan]

He's back.

[Stugotz]

I mean, Cannonball would have slapped there. Cannonball would have slapped there.

[Mike Ryan]

I've got some breaking news.

[Stugotz]

GQ's fired cannonball.

[Mike Ryan]

Now, I needed the breaking news. I needed the Kachung.

[Dan Le Batard]

Where'd that come from?

[Dominique Foxworth]

I thought someone in the back.

[Dan Le Batard]

How is it that I got one Cody in here looking around for the Kachung sound and another one in there.

[Stugotz]

Thought it was delayed or something.

[Dan Le Batard]

Where did this come from?

[Stugotz]

All the good work I did.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm going to the penalty breaking news. I have the soups that have been eaten out of Lord Stanley's cup.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, so the famous story we have around here is Madonna telling us that he was eating. What was it like? Linguine with heavy metal bands for three days in a weekend out of.

[Mike Ryan]

Probably Pantera if it was Texas.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I think we have that story somewhere in our files.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, but we lost our ap.

[Dan Le Batard]

There have been. Okay, hold on a second, though. He was penalized for something. He just dismissed himself. And I don't even know what the penalty is here now. Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

Minor penalty, two minutes for adding nothing. In 2022, Wade Klippenstein of the Colorado Avalanche ate borscht.

[Dan Le Batard]

Whoa. That's not a soup either. Because that's cold soup. No, wait a minute. Borscht is not soup.

[Mike Ryan]

It's beet soup.

[Dan Le Batard]

Soup can't be cold.

[Mike Ryan]

It's beet soup.

[Dan Le Batard]

Soup cannot be cold.

[Mike Ryan]

Clam chowder. But it has not been assigned to anyone. This is something. I assume it's when the Bruins won. But the player that did this, his name has not been released. Claimed chowder has been eaten out of Lord Stanley. And a finished salmon soup was eaten by Anton Lundell, a white Anton just 10 months ago.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Never heard of borscht before. What is borscht?

[Dan Le Batard]

Russian beet soup.

[Jeremy]

No, I hate it. I don't even need to know what it is. I don't like it.

[Chris Cody]

If you want a cold soup, you gotta go. Gus. Sponsor.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, they're not cold soups. Soaps. Gotta be warm.

[Mike Ryan]

You know, sometimes pair it with root beer floats. Borscht.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yep. Soups got to be warm.

[Chris Cody]

Nobody's rule but yours.

[Dan Le Batard]

Gestapo. We discussed this.

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, that's a Totally different. I don't know what's going on.

[Greg Cody]

That's what's happening right now.

[Mike Ryan]

We've talked about a lot of different things.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Jeremy, I want to apologize for what's going on in this studio today.

[Mike Ryan]

What a hilarious mistake. That's right.

[Dan Le Batard]

You just let it sit. No, I'm not going to go.

[Mike Ryan]

That was a bad mistake.

[Dan Le Batard]

Agreed, Agreed.

[Dominique Foxworth]

You're not alone.

[Mike Ryan]

Not a soup.

[Dan Le Batard]

Gazpacho is not a soup. But also Gestapo is not a soup.

[Greg Cody]

No soup for you.

[Chris Cody]

Gazpacho is absolutely, absolutely a soup.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's not a soup. A soup can't be cold. We discussed this yesterday. It's why Mike Ryan's pissed today. It's where we started the show.

[Mike Ryan]

Today's the day to do it, though.

[Chris Cody]

What if you're eating split pea soup.

[Dan Le Batard]

That'S a good soup, and you leave.

[Chris Cody]

It out and it gets cold? Is that a cold soup?

[Dan Le Batard]

That is a cold thank you soup.

[Chris Cody]

The defense rests.

[Dan Le Batard]

But it's just a cold soup that's been left out.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a cold soup. Does it cease being soup because you left it out? Out.

[Dan Le Batard]

It cease being soup. I'll eat. I'm not going to eat it cold.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, so that's a barometer now.

[Dominique Foxworth]

So I mean, it's like saying you have a ball of dough and you want to call it bread. It's like all the ingredients are the same, but it's very cold. I think that because this, once the soup goes cold, it's still a soup. But the intention is not for you to eat that soup cold.

[Dan Le Batard]

It can remain a soup, but it's not a soup I'm going to eat. Which puts it in a different category.

[Chris Cody]

You're picky.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm not being picky. Here. You'll put it on the pole. Would you eat split pea soup cold?

[Chris Cody]

Would you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Would you eat split pea soup cold?

[Chris Cody]

Yes, absolutely.

[Dan Le Batard]

You would?

[Greg Cody]

Is cereal soup then?

[Mike Ryan]

Yes, it's a breakfast soup. No, we've covered this.

[Chris Cody]

Breakfast soup. What a made up phrase.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is not.

[Mike Ryan]

It's a breakfast soup.

[Chris Cody]

Pshaw.

[Dan Le Batard]

We were talking pshaw.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Yes, As a proper response.

[Chris Cody]

Thank you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Pshaw. I have not heard somebody utter pshaw. Hold on a second, guys. Please look up the formal definition, Tony, right now of the. What is that? Okay, It's H A W. I have not heard that phrase since the 60s. Chris Cody, please give me the back in my day music. I need to introduce the audience to Pshaw. Pshaw is a phrase of disgust that is old even for Greg Cody's parents.

[Chris Cody]

Right.

[Dan Le Batard]

I can't believe what he just said. That word has not been said by anyone in this country in 50 years.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Look at Tony's face. He can't even figure it out.

[Chris Cody]

No, no, no.

[Jeremy]

We've got breaking news.

[Mike Ryan]

We got breaking news in the NBA.

[Jeremy]

Play the Sounder.

[Mike Ryan]

Play the Cannonball. Chris.

[Jeremy]

Ah, Dan.

[Mike Ryan]

The breaking news.

[Jeremy]

It never stops. According to Shamshirani vsn, the Knicks requested permission to speak with Jason Kidd. And given firm rejection from the Mavericks.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ooh, Pishaw. The Wolves and the Rockets also declined.

[Mike Ryan]

So, I mean, the Knicks not understand what a contract is. What is this? Get your own damn coach.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, New York is full of itself right now. They just fired Thibodeau and they're one of the best teams in the league and we get who we want.

[Mike Ryan]

I say that from a market that stole their head coach 35 years ago and never looked back.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's correct. New York is in the market for a coach, and they have to do better than Thibodeau. They got to get their fan base excited because their fan base is already excited. If you're going to make this move.

[Mike Ryan]

How about Phil Jackson? They should try that over there. Greg, I'm so sorry that your thought got interrupted. I don't think it's messy fatigue. I just think it's a huge giant misstep that they're opening this Club World cup with two relatively small clubs compared to what's available. They could open with Real Madrid and they'd get a guaranteed Pack Palace.

[Chris Cody]

I know, but. But. But they're opening with Lionel Messi in Miami.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, open with Lionel Messi with a much bigger opponent because as a brand, the club that they're going up against is not even a bigger brand than Houston Dynamo here.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, but what I guess what I would say to you. Have you heard what is true of the reports that they're giving away tickets and that they're.

[Mike Ryan]

I know for a fact they were giving away tickets.

[Dan Le Batard]

Know for a fact is different than I happen to know.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, yeah. I'm. That's a. I know people plugged in on this. There isn't. First off, in this market, if you're a sports fan on Saturday, I think your attention's on the ice, even if you like soccer more just because of the stakes. And yes, there are stakes for the Club World cup, but this is the first of its kind. We really don't know what we're getting into here. Over time, it may become a big deal. We'll see what kind of spectacle they come up with and maybe this will serve as proof of concept. And the rest of the tournament, which will have some very compelling matchups later on, might actually be a draw. And this might be a thing to excite people, but out the gates, I don't think you can come to Miami with Inter Miami. Understand that's a brand and that's normal logic. I get what that is. But to pair them against an Egyptian club, that's you're hoping for host nation, World cup type atmosphere. When that's not the case, you're creating something out of nothing and you got to come out the gate strong.

[Chris Cody]

I think one thing that's clear is that there was a huge miscalculation of the attraction of this opening game at Hard Rock Stadium. FIFA has already lowered prices like three times to the point where the face value now is a shell of what.

[Mike Ryan]

It used to be.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, so we're looking at embarrassment here. Last time soccer came here, we had brown people climbing through the pipes at the stadium because we couldn't secure it correctly.

[Stugotz]

I was there too.

[Dan Le Batard]

So we're going to have immigration issues now. All of this shit's going to come to the World Cup. Sports, Sports is not going to be free of this crap.

[Mike Ryan]

No. And like I said, this competition, when it was a confederations cup, was a dress rehearsal. And I don't think we're gonna put our best foot forward here. A lot of people are nervous about traveling to the United States. You may be on one side or the other, you may look. I think most people are generally against illegal immigration. There's a common misnomer that people think that, well, you're progressive, you just want illegal immigrants here. That's not the case. It is general consensus on these things, but people want to be comfortable. Armed guards don't make people feel comfortable in this country. Anytime you go traveling over to Europe and you see assault rifles over there in the in check ins, you're like, whoa, what is this? This is not a normal part of American life. And you're bringing it to a sporting event that's just not a chill vibe. That's not the atmosphere that I'm going to for a celebration of sport. So I think they got a problem on their hands and I hope this serves as a reason to soften.

[Dan Le Batard]

This sounds like predicting embarrassment. This sounds like that's where we're headed.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, Infantino will not rest until like every seat is filled. And he's going to give plenty of tickets away, Greg.

[Chris Cody]

Right. Even if he does, though, I don't think it's going to be filled.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Is Infantino a soup?