The Big Suey: Adele Dazeem

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

The Big Suey: “Adele Dazeem” (November 21, 2025)

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Overview

Broadcast from The Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, this episode of “The Big Suey” dives into the show's signature chaotic blend of sports analysis, pop-culture riffing, and relentless self-mockery. The highlight is a hilarious and cringe-filled segment about Tony's mortifying on-air struggle to pronounce “Ali Abdelaziz” during an interview with MMA journalism icon Ariel Helwani—a stumble that morphs into a John Travolta “Adele Dazeem” moment, which the crew never lets him forget. Other major topics include Lane Kiffin’s unprecedented coaching drama and a surprisingly nuanced debate over the legacy and fallout for the Buss family as they are reportedly ousted from the Lakers’ basketball operations.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Tony’s Pronunciation Nightmare: The “Adele Dazeem” Moment

• Tony’s Verbal Mishap: Tony shares his extreme embarrassment after repeatedly butchering the name “Ali Abdelaziz” in front of his industry hero, Ariel Helwani.
  • Quote: “So you think there's a little bit of home cooking with Abdel? Abdel Adel. It's a tough name.” — Tony (03:34)
• Show-wide Roasting: The team mercilessly rib Tony, likening his gaffe to John Travolta’s infamous "Adele Dazeem" Oscars flub.
  • Quote: “That's basically what I said to Ariel Helwani.” — Tony (05:49)
  • Quote: “The cyclone of regret isn't merely that the name was botched this amazingly... The regret is also it was going to be the last words that he spoke to Ariel Helwani...” — Dan (03:19)
• The “Famous Sounds” Hall of Fame: Dan and Stugotz suggest this would be a "team" in their tournament of show’s iconic sounds.
  • Quote: “If we do famous sounds in the show's history... this will be a team in the tournament.” — Stugotz (05:33)

Notable Segment

• Tony’s Recurring Nightmare: [02:45-06:14]; [27:27-31:05]
  • The botched name becomes a running joke, topped only as the team reminisces about their own most embarrassing on-air moments.

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2. Lane Kiffin’s Wild Coaching Carousel

• Mike Ryan’s Scoop: Lane Kiffin has made verbal agreements with both LSU and Florida, creating unprecedented drama as Ole Miss faces a historic football moment with their coach possibly defecting.
  • Quote: "He's made a verbal agreement on the deal points with both schools... I don't know if he's going to be coaching this Egg Bowl, Dan.” — Mike Ryan (06:38)
  • Quote: “I have not heard that ever, as a report that someone has a verbal arrangement with two schools. It's the first time I've heard a report of that kind...” — Stugotz (14:59)
• Sympathy and Cynicism about Ole Miss: Dan and Stugotz discuss how the school is justifiably furious but ultimately “did this to themselves” by getting into the “business of marriage with the exotic dancer” (i.e., Kiffin’s mercenary reputation).
  • Quote: “You got into business of marriage with the exotic dancer like this guy represents. In this sport, it's business first and business is the only thing that matters.” — Stugotz (07:13)
• Broader Commentary on NCAA Coaching: The crew reflects on the mercenary nature of college football—a business where loyalty is a myth and coaches only stay as long as a better opportunity doesn’t come up.
  • Quote: “Rest assured, it is no longer that. If it ever was, it was better disguised before.” — Dan (13:24)
  • Quote: “It ain't boxing, but it's coming close to boxing...” — Dan (13:24)

Notable Segment

• Coaching Chaos & Industry Trends: [06:16-19:08]
  • The crew breaks down the monetary arms race, buyouts, and why fans should expect constant churn at programs like Ole Miss.

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3. The Lakers, “Nepo Babies,” and Buss Family Drama

• Newest NBA Nepotism Fallout: Discussion of Jeanie Buss reportedly firing her brothers from the Lakers’ front office, with a thoughtful lens on money, family, and identity in sports dynasties.
  • Quote: “...the Buss family hasn't been rich the way that other sports owners have... The Lakers have been... a mom and pop business.” — Dan (22:09)
  • Quote: “Any power those kids, those boys have in Los Angeles is born of having that last name. And that last name is being diluted right now by, 'Please leave. We don't want you around.'” — Stugotz (23:33)
• Are the Buss Boys Victims?: The group riffs on wealth not being a blanket for feelings of inadequacy or family dysfunction, using plenty of humor but also some genuine reflection.
  • Quote: "There are a sheer number of unhappy rich people I know... The idea that Jeannie's the famous one... leaves marks." — Stugotz (24:42, 26:31)
  • Quote: “...Their heads got chopped off by their sister early on. They never cared about this franchise the way she did.” — Dan (24:14)

Notable Segment

• Family Dysfunction & Wealth: [21:43-27:46]
  • The conversation veers between sympathy, mockery, and pop-culture riffing (Buss boys as Ed Hardy/Von Dutch-wearing “busboys”).

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4. More Show Shenanigans and Self-Deprecation

• Cheaters Never Prosper: Tony retells a moment of being accused of cheating—delivered with exaggerated gravity and comic timing.
  • Quote: “Cheaters never prospered. This guy yelled as angry as he could, ‘I ain't cheating!’” — Tony (11:30)
• Yellow Jackets/Golden State Mix-Up: The crew revisits another infamous on-air blunder, comparing it to Tony’s debacle.
  • Quote: “It is a mark that has been left on me that stings and hurts just like leaving peanut shells in the staircase.” — Stugotz (28:04)

Notable Segment

• On-Air Flub Olympics: [27:46-29:23]
  • Extended riffing on their own worst mistakes and debating which flub was most embarrassing.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• “The cyclone of regret isn't merely that the name was botched this amazingly... The regret is also it was going to be the last words that he spoke to Ariel Helwani.” — Dan (03:19)
• “So you think there's a little bit of home cooking with Abdel? Abdel Adel. It’s a tough name.” — Tony (03:34)
• “That's basically what I said to Ariel Helwani.” — Tony (05:49)
• "He's made a verbal agreement on the deal points with both schools..." — Mike Ryan (06:38)
• “You got into business of marriage with the exotic dancer like this guy represents.” — Stugotz (07:13)
• “There are a sheer number of unhappy rich people I know... The idea that Jeannie's the famous one... leaves marks.” — Stugotz (24:42, 26:31)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Time | Topic | |-------------|------------------------------------------| | 02:45-06:14 | Tony’s pronunciation disaster, crew’s roasting | | 06:16-19:08 | Lane Kiffin’s coaching carousel and NCAA commentary | | 21:43-27:46 | Buss family/Lakers debate, “Nepo babies” riff | | 27:27-31:05 | Recurring roasting of Tony, on-air flubs |

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Tone and Style

The energy is classic Le Batard Show: fast-paced, multi-voiced, irreverent, and self-mocking. Every topic—whether mortifying career moments, the ruthless nature of college sports, or the woes of billionaire nepo babies—is delivered with equal parts silliness, snark, and smart analysis.

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For Listeners Who Missed It

This episode is a perfect capsule of what makes “The Big Suey” unique: hilarious group therapy for public embarrassment, inside-baseball sports media gossip, and an empathetic-but-sarcastic take on the bigger business and human stories underlying headline news. Whether it’s Tony’s “Adele Dazeem” moment, Lane Kiffin’s wild ride, or the Buss family coup, the crew never lets each other—or their subjects—off the hook.

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Skip the ads, but don’t skip the flubs: If you love the Le Batard crew at their most unfiltered—and surrounded by friends who know how to keep the teasing going—this episode is a must.

Transcript

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[Jeremy]

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[Stugotz]

I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys.

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[Stugotz]

Tony is broken. And he has described Chris Cody as radiant because someone made a mistake, made a verbal mistake, made a pronunciation mistake worse than any Chris Cody has made. The worst part about it. The worst part about it. Look, this is a real cyclone of regret and embarrassment here. Jeremy also happy at Tony's misery. The cyclone of regret isn't merely that the name was botched this amazingly. The regret is also. It was going to be the last words that he spoke to Ariel Helwani, a king in this business who, if he doesn't want to earn his respect or show him how much he knows, he, at the very least doesn't want to embarrass himself in front of Ariel.

[Tony]

So you think there's a little bit of home cooking with Abdel? Abdel Adel.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a tough name.

[Stugotz]

Wow.

[Jeremy]

If you would have said to me.

[Tony]

Before today, who in media does Tony.

[Stugotz]

Most want to be?

[Tony]

Yeah, I might have said Ariel Helwani.

[Stugotz]

The. The majesty of everything that's happening there is that Tony never did get it right. He just bailed on it. And there was never actually the satisfaction of getting the name right.

[Tony]

So you think there's a little bit of home cooking with. Absolutely. Abd. Abdel Adel. It's a tough name.

[Jeremy]

Wow.

[Stugotz]

Mike Fuentes was consoling and comforting Tony, and these times, they don't have comfort in them. So I just walked by Fuentes saying to Tony, it is a tough name. And it wasn't reaching Tony. Like, it wasn't helping Tony. It. Tony after heard him say to Jerry.

[Tony]

Jeremy, look up the name. No, I'm serious.

[Jeremy]

Look up.

[Stugotz]

You look at how it's spelled.

[Jeremy]

It's tough. It's not three names. It is just two names.

[Dan Le Batard]

But they're tough.

[Jeremy]

Two names.

[Stugotz]

It is indisputably a tough name to.

[Jeremy]

Say Aliyah De Lazeez.

[Stugotz]

But it is especially hurtful to try and say it in front of one of your heroes, the man you most want to be like in the industry.

[Tony]

Do you think there's a little bit of home cooking with Abdel? Abdel Adel?

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a tough name.

[Tony]

Funny thing is Ariel answered his question. Yeah, the question was a good one.

[Stugotz]

Absolutely.

[Tony]

Like, midway through, you hear his answer. Yes, the question was home cooking with Abdel Abdel Adel.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a tough name.

[Jeremy]

Whoa.

[Stugotz]

I also enjoyed that he just hit the Adele Azine at the end there. John Travolta. Who was John Travolta trying to introduce.

[Dan Le Batard]

When Jeremy knows Idina Menzel.

[Stugotz]

Let's go ahead and find. As the alarm goes off here, the sound of John Travolta.

[Dan Le Batard]

I sent the alarm off.

[Stugotz]

Famously. Famously trying.

[Tony]

I set it off.

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[Stugotz]

Sorry.

[Tony]

I pulled the fire alarm. I had to get out of this somehow.

[Stugotz]

I think when we do this tournament of most famous sounds in the show's history, I believe that one of the. This will be a team in the tournament if we do famous sounds in the show's history. Right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Please welcome the wickedly talented one and only.

[Tony]

That's basically what I said to Ariel Helwani. Basically what I said.

[Stugotz]

Well, at the end you did say.

[Tony]

Because I had to pull the bungee cord somehow dying in there.

[Jeremy]

And that's the.

[Tony]

So he was talking about how a guy in Islam's camp and Islam's camp doesn't like him. That's his manager, Ali Abdelaziz, also managing Kamaru Abdel. Abdel Adel.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a tough name.

[Stugotz]

Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

Come on.

[Stugotz]

I also think that Mike Ryan, you tell me if you're reporting something there that I am unlikely to see reported anywhere else before you've reported it. Which is the rare and perfectly symbolic distinction that Lane Kiffin has right now at the height of being wanted, where he makes an oral commitment to two screws.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's made a verbal agreement on the deal points with both schools right now. And I think one of the more interesting parts about this and one of the more sympathetic deals here with this story is Ole Miss position. They are rightfully furious. This is a majestic season for Ole Miss. These opportunities don't come around often for this school. And from where I'm sitting right now, given the hostility, that's warranted. I understand. Even though I also think Lane Kiffin does deserve this opportunity, too. I don't know if he's going to be coaching this egg bowl, Dan. And that has implications, especially if Ole Miss loses that game.

[Stugotz]

You say that Mississippi has righteous anger, earned anger. And under normal circumstances, with almost any place in sports, I would agree with you. The one diluter I would offer here is you got into business of marriage with the exotic dancer like this guy represents. In this sport, it's business first and business is the only thing that matters. And if career opportunity is the only thing that matters. Lane Kiffin is only at Mississippi, so that this opportunity presents itself. It's the only reason he's going there. He was slumming by going there. The fact that he has achieved or overachieved beyond anyone's expectations to make him the most coveted coach going at a time. It's a good time to be a coveted coach. You've done this to yourself with the marriage that you got into and this is the business that you're in now. The business has changed since you got Lane Kiffin and this is how it's changed since Lane Kiffin has been in play. How many years has he been at Mississippi now where he feels like sick?

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[Tony]

Don LeBatard for five minutes I was watching everyone just like nope, not letting you in, not letting you in. So when I got up there I had to say something and I said it. Cheaters never prosper. Stugach my buddy was saying not today.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, but you're not today.

[Jeremy]

I think that was what he was adding.

[Tony]

Yeah, I'm telling you response I got from this guy. What I said was amazing.

[Jeremy]

Cheaters never prospered.

[Tony]

This guy yelled as angry as he could. I ain't cheating.

[Stugotz]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. The reason I'm saying overachievement is because Mississippi playing or being in play for the national championship, championship and the playoffs is not something that I had expected. And so when Lane Kiffin been there for six years and we saw that FAU team here, he made that FAU program matter. And it was fascinating actually when we went out there with the Cody's to see a FAU team, high school players, they look like. No, it's not even high school players. It looked like peewee players. I was, I was so small. The players on the field were so small and he had that being a 9 and 10 win FAU program. But, but here's what's changed in these six years since you got into business with Lane Kiffin. Everything Brian Kelly in those six years gets bought from Notre Dame by lsu, flames out. The landscape changes so much at Florida that Florida can afford like a lot of other schools the buyout mid season of get the hell out of here. We've got to keep up right now. We've got to get a better coach when the getting is good. And I really ask you Legitimately, Mike, as you are enmeshed in the business of just really ugly, ugly finance and currency, it ain't boxing, but it's coming close to boxing. And just because it's been sis boom bah and amateurism and it's about the kids in the way that it's been framed, rest assured, it is no longer that. If it ever was, it was better disguised before. But now what it is, is if you're Mississippi, you are only a stepping stone for the next coach who wants a career opportunity that's better than the one in Mississippi. That's what you are as a program because you've never won anything. The only reason Lane Kiffin is there after FAU is because that's what you exist as as a program. So you're only allowed to be so mad. And I get why they're mad. Of course they're emotional and they've never had this kind of hope. But this is the deal you made with the exotic dancer when decided to marry him.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know the details surrounding their anger other than the obvious. All I know is that they are pissed. Like, I. I heard from source that they want to fire Lane Kiffin right now. That's how toxic it is. I think the unfortunate part about all of this is the timing. And could Lane have handled this a little bit better? Could he have had this commitment and made sure he was all right with Ole Miss? Maybe we have to. We can't ignore history here. With Lane Kiffin, you would think that he would learn from it a little bit. I don't think this is quite as ugly as Tennessee, because I was really ugly. But he did this 20 years ago, Dan. Burning mattresses in his wake. He left for a better opportunity. And Tennessee is like one of the top 10 jobs in the nation. And he left for USC. Tennessee is wondering, like, what makes that job so much better? This one's a little bit more obvious. He has an interesting decision to make. I think if he wants, like, the best job, it's LSU for what they're promising. But he's been going back and forth with Florida for quite some time.

[Stugotz]

You made a correction of me when I said that he had made an oral commitment to both schools. You said that he's got, in principle, a verbal array, a financial setup with both schools. I have not heard that, not just about Lane Kiffin. I have not heard that ever, as a report that someone has a verbal arrangement with two schools. It's the first time I've heard a report of that kind and you've got that locked down.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's got. He's got a verbal agreement with both schools. This is not about money anymore. This is about what does Lane want to do here. And I think Lane understands he needs to make a decision soon because we have. I think we've surpassed critical mass here. Florida did institute a deadline last night, and Lane Kiffin laughed at that. I think we find out today on Lane Kiffin. If he doesn't, I don't know what college football is going to look like tomorrow. Because you got three big programs here, and all of them are starting to get heated. And you have one of the biggest personalities in the sport. It's just. It's on. It's unsustainable for this to continue going the way that it is. It's Lane's decision right now. The family aspect is not something that you can ignore. Florida would properly be pissed, too, because they have felt for a while now that Lane Kiffin was going to be their next coach. And I, And I said it earlier, but let me revisit it again. LSU does have skepticism here. They do think that they're being used as a pawn a little bit, but they know that they have a path to Lane's heart, which is Lane's son. And the general thinking is Lane's son wants lsu.

[Stugotz]

How does it rub you? I haven't quite seen what's in front of us before. And I'm trying to think. I'm going through the data bank, the library, trying to think of a situation that looks exactly like this one. When I think of coveted coach possibly.

[Dan Le Batard]

Who doesn't recruit, and the deal points around this. Bake that into the deal. Dan, we know you don't want to recruit. So who do you want on your staff that will recruit and how much nil do you need?

[Stugotz]

I am used to coaches upgrading. I am used to coaches leaving schools before bowl games. I am not used to a team with a championship chance thinking about firing its coach, giving the consideration to firing its coach before we've even gotten to the playoff portion of this before. A championship chance like, that's. That's not something I don't even know. I'm trying to think of what's comparable to a coach. This isn't. I've seen coaches leave before the bowl game. I've seen coaches leave before December or at the beginning of December. I have not seen a coach throw away an alleged championship chance, their biggest rival, next Saturday.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a huge. It's the biggest game in program history. To solidify at the very least a first round bye.

[Stugotz]

You've got one loss in an SEC where Alabama and Texas and a whole bunch of other schools are looking up at you in the rankings.

[Dan Le Batard]

Another thing I want to revisit is this will indeed be a record setting salary for a head coach. It will far surpass that of Kirby Smart parts.

[Stugotz]

Good spot to be in. If you're Lane Kiffin. No one can tell you anything about anything. They can't set timelines for you. You don't have to respect anything that anyone is giving you in the way of timelines. Not Mississippi, not Florida, not lsu. You have all of the power here for as long as you're willing to endure this part of it. And I think he's willing to endure this part of it. Because I will tell you, no matter how much we do this optically, this is never and has never been about the kids. It's not about education. It's not about any Than how do the coaches get to the next spot that is better than the spot they already are so that they can have a lifetime of security for their family?

[Dan Le Batard]

At least the kids aren't victims the way that they used to be, Dan, because they're. I understand your point, but they're less victims now than they've ever been. It is a lot about the kids. Well, it's the Jerry's and Joe's.

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[Tony]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Stugats.

[Stugotz]

I ain't cheating. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. Let's go ahead and talk about some other quote unquote kids that nobody is going to feel bad for today. But I did think it was interesting yesterday when the headlines started coming out that the Lakers were firing both of the Bus kids from their scouting departments and I just wanted I know that Nepo babies are not viewed they work hard by the majority of the public as victims. However, the story of the Lakers, as much as it's been told, the part that goes unnoticed often, and it's weird that it goes unnoticed, is that the Buss family hasn't been rich the way that other sports owners have been rich where they make their money elsewhere and then the ownership of the team is a plaything on the side, a hobby, a money making vehicle that is just a different oil well in their portfolio. The Lakers have been and you've heard Me say this before a mom and pop business. For a long time, I cannot imagine the heartbreak and the hurt and all of the dysfunction in the family of the bus kids. Wherever it is that people fight over money and power inside of families, for the bus kids to realize that the end of everything they've done with their father's business is. You're fired. The new people don't want you. You're gone. Get out of here.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hold on. Are you doing this?

[Tony]

It's one in particular, right? Jeanie Buss is the one that's kind of been chopping heads across the family. And when they did the sale, I was listening to Brian Winhorse earlier today that each kid got about a hair less than a billion dollars each. So it's not like they're cutting and be like, damn, where am I gonna go eat? They got a hundred, you know, $100 million.

[Stugotz]

Oh, no, no, no. Wait a minute. What do you mean I can't do this? I am looking at this. I'm not looking. And I get why most people would simply look at the money. Yes. Those kids have been fighting Jeanie Bush. Those boys have been fighting Jeanie Buss the entirety of their tenures. Jeanie Buss has. I'm just talking about family dysfunction here and what it means to be cut out of your dad's thing when you care about the basketball portion of this. The Buss family is only associated with basketball. Any power those kids, those boys have in Los Angeles is born of having that last name. And that last name is being diluted right now by, Please leave. We don't want you around anything that's basketball related.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, now the power will come from having a billion dollars each.

[Stugotz]

Understood.

[Dan Le Batard]

But they still have the last name. Their name is still good, and Tony mentioned it. Their heads got chopped off by their sister early on. They never cared about this franchise the way that she did. Everybody's been handsomely rewarded. They are not victims here. They are great. They are doing so good. J. Moore is the richest comedian in the history of standup. Do you understand that?

[Stugotz]

You guys always do this with money. And the thing that I think that you ignore because of just the sheer number of unhappy rich people I know is where it is that people get their identity and their name identity on things. Yeah. My rich friends, yes. They are not my weather friends and they are not my math friends. They're just my money friends.

[Dan Le Batard]

Right? But the narrative around the brothers was that they never really cared about this anyways. And that's why Jeannie ascended to Power.

[Stugotz]

That's not true.

[Tony]

It's not true. Dan's correct in the sense where Jeannie was the one that. So there's always been a vote divided by the five bus kids on selling the team or not selling the team. Jeannie was always on the not sell the team part, but then was able to move over to the sell the team part when she got guarantees that she was gonna be the governor for the team in a way that cuts everybody else out of the deal.

[Stugotz]

So, Mike, while I understand that the audience in general is going to side with you on this, the part that I was actually interested in examining as a dynamic because family problem or family problems and whether they're money or something else, the idea that Jeannie's the famous one, the idea that Jeannie's the competent one, the idea that Jeannie's the powerful one and she decides what it is, gets done with the money, and that the boys who run that scouting department are in reality and optically her inferior, less competent. And you just casually said, ah, they don't care about basketball. While kids who had money didn't have to be working for a living.

[Dan Le Batard]

Remember the interview that they gave everyone's like, who's this joke?

[Stugotz]

They didn't want to be jokes, though. The bus boys didn't want to be jokes.

[Dan Le Batard]

He was wearing an Ed Hardy shirt. The bus boys von Dutch bedazzled hat.

[Jeremy]

Poor guys are gonna have to work as busboys because they only got a billion dollars.

[Dan Le Batard]

They were looking like Criss angel, the mind freak.

[Stugotz]

That is true. The busboys are going to make for very poor martyrs. The part that I was more interested in examining is no matter how much money you or your family have, your sister being better than you at everything always is something that leaves marks. And you as a family, always fighting over the money and power so that you don't like your sister, you don't get along with your sister, and your sister is always the one making the decisions on things. I know nobody's going to feel bad for the busboys because of $1 billion, but I just was saying to you how embarrassing it must be for your late father to have cared about something that way. And the punctuation on your career there is not unlike Tony's punctuation when talking to Ariel Hawani. Just a avalanche.

[Tony]

Gratuitous Abdullah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Who?

[Tony]

It is Abdel Adel.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a tough name.

[Jeremy]

Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's not lost on me.

[Tony]

From the top rope from you, by the way.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're referring to them as bus boys. It couldn't be further from the truth in terms of an occupation and the reality. They're all Billy Madison squirting sunblock on their nipples.

[Stugotz]

But they are nudie magazine day.

[Tony]

And you, Golden State, Golden Yellowjacket guy over there.

[Dan Le Batard]

Hey, Penguin.

[Ad]

Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

What are you doing here?

[Tony]

Why don't we pull up that sound, huh?

[Stugotz]

You think that gold.

[Tony]

You think they have a pickle race?

[Stugotz]

You think that Golden State, Golden State Golden Jackets is as bad as.

[Tony]

That was a bad one.

[Stugotz]

It was possibly worse. Agreed.

[Jeremy]

Possibly worse.

[Stugotz]

Agreed. It was a bad one. I cannot dispute that it was a bad one. You got that exactly right. I did that very poorly. I'm embarrassed by it. It is a mark that has been left on me that stings and hurts just like leaving peanut shells in the staircase. A shame I've carried with me for 24 hours means golden State, Golden State gold Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

[Tony]

Worse.

[Stugotz]

Worse, Worse.

[Tony]

Sorry.

[Stugotz]

Put him. Put him next to each other.

[Tony]

Where's Judge Zaslow?

[Dan Le Batard]

Where is he?

[Stugotz]

Certainly mine. Mine was easier.

[Tony]

You're just saying the wrong thing.

[Jeremy]

Like, he's just, like, struggling to say.

[Tony]

He'S saying the right thing but saying it.

[Stugotz]

But he never says it. He never gets it right.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, both you guys have Chris Cody on your side. It is clear.

[Tony]

Abdel. Abdel. Adele.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a tough name.

[Tony]

Jeremy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Whoa.

[Tony]

In the background. Jeremy, please.

[Dan Le Batard]

I just couldn't believe it.

[Tony]

Do a hip thrust with confidence.

[Ad]

Damn it. Me.

[Dan Le Batard]

He has two Emmys.

[Tony]

That doesn't matter.

[Stugotz]

Can he hip thrust, please. Put Dave Danishek in the picture. In picture as he gets ready for his football America hit. To talk football. He is trying to be a gemstone here. And he is waiting to come on. I don't want to hear from him yet. He's going to begin yammering when we get to his segment, but I simply want visually for people to say him because see him dressed as Dan Orlovsky.

[Tony]

On get up right now.

[Stugotz]

Well, I just saw him. Just saw his mouth. And he was having a lot of trouble with his teeth. Like, he was. His teeth were moving around in his mouth in a way that suggested that his teeth were not in any way real. And so Football America has another new episode today. It goes out on Mondays and Fridays. And it is a fun show. It is a weird show. It is an entertaining show. It is an informative show. And Damascek is going to join us here to talk about football in a moment, serving one of his punishments as a gemstone. So we're looking forward to that. Tony, are you doing okay? Because that one hurts. You work hard, you hustle. But in my imagination, I'm honestly having trouble imagining something more professionally nightmarish for you than Ariel Helwani. The standard in your business. You were talking very fast, and you were saying a lot of names that are hard to pronounce, and you did so on a slalom course of great excellence, right up until you got to the last one.

[Tony]

Abdel. Abdel Adel.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a tough name.

[Jeremy]

Wow.

[Stugotz]

Didn't feel great in the imagination, though. If I were to give you a nightmare of, like, what can I create for you professionally and publicly, that would be more. More damaging than trying to say a name correctly and then never getting it right as the last words you say to Ariel Helwani, in town for 24 hours before he leaves.

[Tony]

I mean, it wasn't great.

[Dan Le Batard]

You know what I mean?

[Tony]

Like, it wasn't great and feel the best when it came out. But I understand that he knows what I was going for. Obviously, you guys are a pack of hyenas, so it's tough to get anything past you, but, like, I feel like he understood me. Was it greatly embarrassing?

[Stugotz]

Yes. You're not gonna answer my question?

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

What are you doing here, Cuervo?

[Stugotz]

Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I do know that to be true. But even during ad reads like Cuervo, I think he could lay out, especially for one of our great partners.

[Stugotz]

Sweet, delicious Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

Since then, Cuervo has stayed true to its roots. The same family, the same land, the same passion.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

So enjoy the tequila that started it all. Cuervo.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.

[Dan Le Batard]

The tequila that invented tequila. Broximo. Cuervo. Com. Please drink responsibly.

[Stugotz]

Cuervo.