The Big Suey: David's Gift (feat. David Samson)

Summary

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Podcast Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: The Big Suey: David's Gift (feat. David Samson)
Date: October 16, 2025

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Main Theme

In this episode, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the crew are joined by David Samson, who shares personal updates about his family's hardship and the way he's both coping and connecting with his audience and colleagues. The team navigates heartfelt stories, awkward gift-giving, baseball playoff commentary, college football takes, and a few signature comedic segments, all in the show’s typical unscripted, irreverent, and emotionally honest style.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. David Samson’s Personal Challenge and Coping Mechanisms

• Timestamp: 02:54 – 05:19

David shares how his daughter's illness has upended his sense of control, yet he’s determined to keep producing his podcast, “Nothing Personal,” even during such a traumatic period.

“I missed the feeling of, of trying to be normal, of trying to control stuff. And the thing about having someone who's sick with my daughter is that I can't plan anything.” — David Samson (03:03)

• He talks about how hospital life leaves you powerless—medical appointments trump his schedule and can change at any moment.
• The show acknowledges the emotional toll and extends support to David.

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2. The “David’s Gift” Saga & Office Dynamics

• Timestamp: 04:44 – 14:45

Billy and Dan discuss the emotional impact of a unique gift that David sent to select colleagues: framed, game-used lineup cards and tickets from Ichiro Suzuki’s 3,000th hit game, personally signed by Ichiro and Don Mattingly.

• The gift is initially treasured as a sign of personal thoughtfulness, until it’s revealed multiple people received the same thing, unintentionally diluting the emotional weight.
• Roy notes he didn’t get one, prompting banter about favoritism and office relationships.

“One of the coolest things I've ever received.” — Dan Le Batard (05:37)

• David explains his process:
  He’d had 18 lineup cards from Ichiro’s achievement in 2016, authenticated and saved for years, only recently framed and gifted as a way to regain a sense of control following his daughter’s illness.
• Emotional vulnerability meets classic Le Batard show ribbing.

“After my daughter got sick, I started trying to control those things I could control. So I started doing things that I had not done, one of which was to get these framed…” — David Samson (08:26)

• Discussion turns to who was omitted from the gift list and why—David humorously says he considered taking one back from his daughter, who doesn’t even like baseball.
• The segment ends with Billy and others trading mock outrage and admiration, blending pathos and comedy.

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3. Baseball Playoff Musings & the Unpredictability of the Game

• Timestamp: 18:05 – 22:08

David offers analysis of the MLB playoffs, marveling at the unprecedented pitching talent and the volatility of postseason baseball:

“Anytime you think that you've got baseball figured out and that you're looking at a lineup or that a pitching staff that you think is the right one that will get you through October, the truth is as executives we don't know that much more than you do.” — David Samson (18:33)

• The crew jokes about Greg Cody’s improbable bet to walk to Seattle if the Mariners and Dodgers don’t make the World Series, poking fun at his physical condition and the logistics of such a stunt.

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4. Montreal Expos Documentary & Revisiting History

• Timestamp: 22:08 – 24:51

David discusses his prominent role in an upcoming Netflix documentary about the Expos’ move to Washington, clarifying that the villainy often ascribed to him is misdirected.

• He jokes that he blames Derek Jeter for the Expos leaving Montreal—a tongue-in-cheek shot.

“Let's just say that the trailer that Netflix cut ... it's not exactly how the movie goes, I'll say. But I am certainly in it as a featured interview, sort of like the narrator that carries the… the story forward.” — David Samson (22:22)

• The show affectionately teases Samson for his knack for deflecting blame.

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5. Signature Le Batard Show Chaos: The “Dentech Bucket” Football Picks

• Timestamp: 28:43 – 35:31

The crew conducts their weekly NFL “bucket” segment in which participants randomly draw teams for a betting challenge, sparking lighthearted rivalry and side bets.

• David is invited to pick, old punishments are recalled, and Billy celebrates improbably lucky draws.
• The camaraderie—and competitive needling—is on full display.

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6. Cultural and Sports Digressions: The Pope as a Cubs Fan and College Football Chatter

• Timestamp: 35:44 – 44:44

Billy introduces a viral clip of the Pope expressing disappointment about the Cubs losing, delighting the hosts with the idea of a sports-fanatic pontiff.

“He lost. Says the Pope just dismissively, just like they lost in flawless English. I cannot explain to you how disorienting that is.” — Dan Le Batard (36:46)

• The conversation segues into Notre Dame’s Catholic identity and whether they should play a game at the Vatican.
• Mike, Billy, and Dan banter about which college football teams are “actually good,” with Miami’s validity debated via transitive property and personal observation.

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Notable Quotes

David Samson on coping with control:

“I missed the audience. I missed the feeling of trying to be normal, of trying to control stuff.” (03:03)

Dan Le Batard on David’s gift:

“One of the coolest things I’ve ever received.” (05:37)

Billy on the surprise element of the gift:

“All of you guys were deeply touched that David sent you a gift, until you started talking and realized he had sent you all the same gift.” (04:56)

David Samson on making tough choices:

“I had allocated in my head that it would be for ev. My three children would get one. And people I've worked with who have a relationship with baseball or with Ichiro...” (09:50)

Dan joking about Ichiro lineup cards:

“Is this David potentially showing in my face... I’m sending you this lineup card so you never forget what I did to you, you son of a —” (08:09)

On Expos documentary blame:

“I make it clear that it is all Derek Jeter’s fault, obviously… I didn’t kill the Expos, Dan. At all.” — David Samson (22:22, 24:51)

On what makes teams “good” in football:

“If I ask you who’s good, college and pro, you’re gonna have a hard time giving me 10 teams, like total 10 teams that you know to be good.” — Billy (41:14)

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Important Timestamps

• 02:54: David Samson describes juggling podcasting with his daughter’s illness
• 04:44 – 14:45: The “David’s Gift” saga and emotional office dynamics
• 18:05: Samson’s insights on MLB playoff unpredictability
• 22:08: Discussion of the Montreal Expos documentary
• 28:43: Start of the “Dentech Bucket” football pick segment
• 35:44: The Pope’s hot Cubs take goes viral; the hosts discuss sports, Catholicism, and Notre Dame
• 41:14: Debating which college football teams are genuinely good

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Memorable Moments

• The heartfelt yet comically derailed discussion of David’s Ichiro memento gift and the confusion it bred among colleagues
• David’s self-deprecating and transparent storytelling about how crisis has altered his priorities and behaviors
• The show’s blend of compassion, personal ribbing, and classic sports goofiness (e.g., joking about walking to Seattle or the Pope's fandom)
• Billy’s deadpan proposal for Notre Dame to play at the Vatican
• The hosts’ honest struggle—and competitive banter—about what makes a college football team “actually good” in a parity-heavy season

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Tone

True to form, the episode mixes irreverence, poignant vulnerability, and group therapy-adjacent candor. Personal hardship is met with comic deflection. No one is spared from playful mockery, but the affection and loyalty among the cast is ever present.

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[Billy]

The Crown is yours, David Sampson. Somehow, and I don't really understand how he's doing this, and I'm about to ask him why he's doing it. Continues to trudge through and do nothing personal every day because he has a special relationship with his audience. He appreciates his audience. I assume that's a big part of the answer. But what he's going through at home is true horror. And I won't delve into too many of the details here you can catch up on. Nothing personal if you want to know, but one of the details I did want to ask him about is someone who cares about him and knows about him because he's got a sick child daughter in the hospital is he seems particularly ill equipped to be trapped in a hospital as someone who likes his control and you know, he's a bit of a control freak and he's in a situation that leaves him pretty powerless.

[Mike Ryan]

So.

[Billy]

David, thank you for joining us. And before we get to the sports of this day, why are you still working at a time that it must be very, very hard to work?

[David Sampson]

Well, I'm only doing three shows this week and I did, I took two weeks after this happened and I wanted to get back because I missed the audience. I missed the feeling of, of trying to be normal, of trying to control stuff. And the thing about having someone who's sick with my daughter is that I can't plan anything. So during today's this morning's show, two things have happened. Is that an appointment? Doctors don't care about my schedule. When an appointment changes, like in the middle of a live show, sometimes I just have to go because I don't get asked to. For whether. Are you free on this day at this time there's no, it's not mutual at all. And then you wait 45 minutes. So what I'm, what, what I'm trying to say is that we had a 9:40 today and it's not 9:40 or whatever time. You're listening to this and I get a lovely text saying hey, sorry, are you okay? 15 minutes late. Cody couldn't get himself together and I can't stay long today because I was supposed to be gone but then it changed.

[Billy]

That's Greg. Anyway, Dan, it's all, that's all Greg Cody's fault. It's very low on your list of problems and complaints at the moment. But blame Cody.

[David Sampson]

No, I just understand if you told Cody I didn't know I spoke to Billy last night. If I could say that Billy. And you can and I, and I was happy to talk to you and thankful. I don't know if I'm allowed to say, say that I don't know what I'm going to say anymore.

[Billy]

Well, David doesn't know how to be a human being and I'm going to betray him now by expressing one of the ways that he tries to be a human being but fails.

[Dan Le Batard]

While you cannot express that either.

[Billy]

No, I'm going to.

[Dan Le Batard]

No rules for anyone.

[Billy]

I Have to now just where's this lying. But all of you guys. All of you guys were deeply touched that David sent you a gift until you started talking and realized he had sent you all the same gift. And. And then Roy realized that he hadn't gotten the same gift that you guys. And so what was a very thoughtful gesture by David ends up in disaster.

[Dan Le Batard]

Still actively. Is I not want to do this. Very nice that we all said don't do it on air. Is a place on my wall waiting for that. Yes.

[David Sampson]

Let me tell you how offended I am, Dan. That. That's just. Now that's just wrong what you're doing. That's just wrong.

[Billy]

What was the gift?

[Dan Le Batard]

One of the coolest things I've ever received.

[David Sampson]

Absolutely genuinely, if you can't figure out why certain people in the company got that specific gift. And Roy, if you're listening, it wasn't a Panthers gift. It was a Marlins related gift.

[Mike Ryan]

He loves baseball. I know about it. Oh, we know that he's the only.

[Billy]

One here who hit a home run at the old Marlins Park.

[Dan Le Batard]

I saw it. Went right over my head.

[David Sampson]

It was very impressive. Metal bat, Dan. That. Listen, if you guys are really pissed, then I have nothing to say to any of you. Like, if that's really how I feel, then.

[Billy]

I didn't say they were pissed.

[David Sampson]

No.

[Billy]

Whoa. I didn't say they were pissed, but I said that. I said they were touched. They were all touched. And then they started talking and they realized they got in the same gift. And then Roy realized he hadn't gotten a gift because they all talked about how thoughtful your gift was. That's how it happened. I'm not saying that they were pissed. They were not pissed. They all thought it was thoughtful. So thoughtful that they mentioned what a great gift it was. And that's how the cat left the previously aforementioned bag.

[Mike Ryan]

I didn't mention it at all.

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

And I heard.

[David Sampson]

Are all the notes the same?

[Mike Ryan]

Well, we didn't compare. I kept it to myself because they're not. I assumed you sent me a nice personal gift. And then just a couple of minutes ago, when the three of them were talking about a gift they received, my heart sank.

[David Sampson]

I only didn't tell Billy just because I was like, wow, Billy would love.

[Dan Le Batard]

This more than anyone. Okay, so if you must know, and this is a bit of a spoiler alert for upcoming episode of Mystery Crate. Yesterday we were talking on Mystery Crate, and I was saying how, like, you know, just how kind of this happened in a timeline, whatever. And I was like, you know, And I had a conversation with Dan last Monday. It was, like, a really emotional day, whatever. And then I get home, and I see this giant box on my doorstep, and it's from David Sampson. And how, like, it was such an emotional day, and, like, forever I'll remember that. The day that I came in and had this conversation, said, I'm gonna be leaving, whatever. I opened this really thoughtful gift from David Sampson with this nice note, whatever. And then Chris is like, got the same gift. And I was like, whoa. Like, what happened here? I had this memory. I was like, what a sweet man. He sent me this thing. It's a difficult time, obviously, for him as well, and I'm never gonna forget that on this hard day for me. It ended with this very thoughtful gift. And he's, like, not as thoughtful. I got one, too. So that Jeremy's like, me, too.

[David Sampson]

It's not any less sweet to me.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm sorry. That note really made me cry. It did. I mean, crocodile.

[David Sampson]

Let me tell you guys. It's. It's so.

[Dan Le Batard]

I also. David was wondering. Wind makes you. We were talking, and I was also wondering, David, I said, you know, what is this? Is this David potentially showing in my face? You weren't at this game, and you will never have been at this game. I'm sending you this lineup card so you never forget what I did to you. You son of a.

[David Sampson]

So I'll give you the background, because now you've done it, Dan, and it's so wildly inappropriate of you, but that's your choice. It's your show. It's your name on the show. I'm happy for you. It's really nice. So the background is that I was lucky enough to be at ichiro's game in 2016 when he hit his 3,000 PIT in Colorado. And I had the foresight at the time to get lineup cards from that game and have them done and authenticated as the lineup cards from the game. And I asked Don Mattingly and managers sign line of cards, and I asked Ichiro to sign the lineup card, because he started that game, and it had been a big thing. Would he play that day and get his 3,000 head on the road or not? Then I got game tickets from that day, and I asked Ichiro to sign those. And I had them for 10 years. This happened in 16, nine years. And I said, after my daughter got sick, I started trying to control those things I could control. So I started doing things that I had not done, one of which was to get these framed and it was no small thing. I got them framed and I had a certain number of them and I had to make decisions on who would get them. And now if you want to feel badly enough, I will tell you. Well, I'm not even.

[Dan Le Batard]

Go on.

[David Sampson]

No. Okay. I will. When you go through and you make a list of who you think would. Would enjoy it, who would be meaningful to. And I had allocated in my head that it would be for ev. My. My three children would get one. And people I've worked with who have a relationship with baseball or with Ichiro, including someone else in our company who got one. Dan. And. And I. I forgot about a name. And so I took one away from my sick daughter thinking, A, she doesn't like baseball. B, will she not even know if I. She doesn't have one.

[Billy]

Cheap trick he just played on us because I didn't.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

Once.

[Billy]

It's all one of the names. It's an elaborate dance. It's an elaborate dance he just did.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm sure. Happy Dan.

[Billy]

This is.

[Dan Le Batard]

You must feel like a real dance.

[Billy]

This is what he just did.

[Dan Le Batard]

This. He and you should.

[Billy]

He just checkmated me because he made his list. He makes a lot of little lists. He made his list and Roy wasn't on it. And look at how he just did it. This is why he's the grand negotiator that he is. That was sophisticated what he just did to me. It was very good. It was very well done. Fine. I put my sword down. That's the reason you didn't get Roy one.

[David Sampson]

So that's it. Thank you. I'm not giving anything else you want to talk about today.

[Mike Ryan]

Roy can have mine. Now that the emotional aspect of this.

[Dan Le Batard]

Has been so diluted, I will say this like it was a replica. And at the time. At the time.

[David Sampson]

Replica. Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

Signed. No, it is signed. I'm saying it wasn't the one that was in the dugout. It doesn't matter. It. None of that matters. I know they weren't plastered all over the dugout. Maybe there were. It would be funny if it's like wallpaper on the dugout that day.

[Mike Ryan]

Billy is right. It doesn't matter.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, it doesn't matter. I will say this though, because they do like they do sell replicas of this thing. But these are not the replicas that they sell. These are like hand marked by Don Mattingly with all of the changes in the game. So whether or not it's the one that was in the dugout in the day, it's not like one that you just buy. He went in there and it changed the lineup. Who came in to pinch hit, what the pitching change. Like, all of that is marked, which is not something that's available to the public.

[David Sampson]

So, Billy, the way we do that is when something special happens, we will ask. And you have to ask Major League Baseball and the umpires and the other team, you. Because there's one official lineup card, and when. And everything's authenticated, there's a sticker on your lineup card. So it's actually authenticated. You can ask for permission to get more lineup cards, just like you can ask to change bases in a big game. You can ask to change bases more often so you have more things to give or to sell or to give to charity or to just have in your collection. And so this was a game where we had a thought that he's going to get the four at bats. He's going to get the 3,000th hit. So we asked for more lineup cards, and I had a total of 18 of them made, and I've had them with me all this time, and I just now got them all framed and was able to FedEx them with. With notes to people. That is true of how that genuinely. David, one of the coolest things I ever got. Genuinely.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you. Like, yeah, Dan, apologize. You ruined this moment.

[Billy]

Well, I'm not going to apologize. And furthermore, he just claimed he sent me one, and his daughter can have the one that he sent me because I have not seen the one he.

[David Sampson]

Claims I didn't send you one. You were cut from the list.

[Billy]

Oh, okay.

[David Sampson]

But it's because the last time I sent you something that you just don't. Your. Your place is cluttered. You have no attachment to it. I thought there'd be no meaning for you to have it. And I thought that Pablo would actually want one. And so Pablo got one.

[Dan Le Batard]

See?

[David Sampson]

And you did not.

[Dan Le Batard]

I knew that you thought that that was him saying he also sent one to you. He was scolding you by saying your name. He wasn't saying he also sent one to Dan. Neil was saying, I sent another one. Dan. Don't take it personally, David. One year, I remember, is, like, one of my first years on the show. Like, I got Dan a Christmas gift, and I wrote, like, a nice. What I thought was a nice, like, handwritten Christmas card. And then we came back from the break, like, two weeks later, and so I was still on the desk, and I was like, all right, I'm throwing this in the trash.

[Billy]

So it's not just I was repressed back then. I wasn't somebody.

[Dan Le Batard]

You more than made up for it.

[Mike Ryan]

I miss that guy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Lewis always tells Dan when he leaves, I love you.

[David Sampson]

And Louis just goes, thank you, Louis.

[Mike Ryan]

Thank you.

[Billy]

The I had the same relationship with my father. This is a true story. My father, my brother and I would say I'm saying this as more than 30 years, not joking. Me and my brother, dad, when we say I love you to you, you say I love you back now. Yeah, that's and so I just became my father. I was repressed, but not anymore. I love you Billy. I love you David and but not Louis.

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Billy]

Don LeBatard, you were that kind of sad this morning, taking the barrage of anger from stug you hadn't booked him enough interviews. I the only reason I keep bringing this up is because you not are throwing a big party on Thursday. You're doing it and I want people to support what you're doing because St. Gaz has not made this easy.

[Dan Le Batard]

St. Well, you know, I well, yeah, you know, this is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Billy]

So the thing I wanted to talk about with David because he's having some trouble finding, you know, the importance in things that used to be important. Baseball. You care about it deeply. These playoffs have been great. The, the, the level of play is absurd. It's a totally absurd level of play. You've gotten used to it because it's been like this for about six or seven years. Pitching overwhelming. What have been your big baseball takeaways? What have been the things that have reached you?

[David Sampson]

I just can't believe everyone throws 98. It just at any point in the bullpen, every starter and, and it turns out like last night's game with George Kirby when the Mariners got off to the two nothing lead and you're thinking my God, are the Mariners going to go to their first World Series? This is Hollywood stuff like Mike sure stuff. Ichiro goes into the hall of Fame, his number is going to be is retired. There's going to be a statue and he's they're going to get a World Series appearance and then maybe even a World Series victory if anyone can beat the Dodgers. And everything's going great. You got Kirby on the mound and all Of a sudden Vladimir Guerrero says, okay, I think we're going to win this game. And the Blue jays put a 13 spot and Kirby had a wear like seven or eight runs and you realize that A, the Blue Jays are just a way better team than the Yankees, which is something that we can talk about. But B, anytime you think that you've got baseball figured out and that you're looking at a lineup or that a pitching staff that you think is the right one that will get you through October, the truth is as executives we don't know that much more than you do. We just say that we do because it makes us feel better.

[Billy]

Oh, but Cody, Cody, Cody, we know he's a boob, but Cody yesterday, as if he doesn't know what monster mashers Toronto is even without Bichette, Cody is, Cody is at risk of having to walk from here to Seattle on that knee because he thinks that it's, he thought at 202-0 that it was guaranteed that it's going to be Mariners, Dodgers, and that's foolhardy in this Sport.

[David Sampson]

Well, it's 11%, Cody. There's 11% chance when a home team loses the first two games of a seven game series that that team will go on and win the series. The Yankees did it in 96, the Mets did it in 86 and one other team did it, but that's it. But clearly it's, it's not over if you are Toronto, I think the Dodger Milwaukee Series, and I hate to say this for my friends in Milwaukee who I love in the city I love, and for Yellich who I want to get a ring, but it is, I think you're going to see the Dodgers again from the National League, but in the American League, the Blue Jays. Think about the game tonight. I mean, Max Scherzer has no business pitching a postseason game. He's a number nine starter right now with the number one starter's mouth. That's what he is. And you're looking at Luis Castillo, not the Marlins second baseman, but the Marlins pitcher who we traded five times. He's going for the Mariners and they have the clear advantage if they go up three one, you got to believe, but even then Toronto can do three in a row without a real big issue. So this series is up in the air.

[Billy]

Chris, we know we have to get you out of here. It's not Chris Cody, it's Greg Cody that's got to walk to Seattle.

[David Sampson]

Oh, excuse me. How can Greg Cody walk?

[Dan Le Batard]

I'll probably end up doing it. For him. He said 58 days it'll take him. So it's going to do it.

[David Sampson]

You think it takes 58 days to walk from Florida to Seattle? It takes that long to fly to Seattle.

[Dan Le Batard]

It takes 60 days. But Greg said he could do it in 58. Now, he also has an appointment tomorrow at the doctor because he has a trick knee right now that he has to have possibly surgery on, so it may be delayed. This walk of his, this is worse.

[David Sampson]

Than the onion trick. It's worse than any pepper that could be eaten. You can't make Greg Cody. I've done some races like this. You'll kill him. You'll kill him. Guys, he can't walk across country.

[Billy]

He made the bet. He's the one who said it. He shocked me when he volunteered it. He said with the Mariners up to. Oh, and with the Dodgers up to. If it's not Mariners, Dodgers, he will walk to Seattle.

[David Sampson]

You. But that. He didn't mean that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, he didn't say what he means?

[David Sampson]

No, he. He obviously didn't. The question is, what will you make him do? I would make him fly to Seattle. It's just as bad for Miami.

[Billy]

I want to get to your movie review for a second, but I also want to talk again about the Expos Documentary that you are in. When is that out? You are featured in the trailer. I assumed you'd be the star and a star villain of this film. You have now seen it.

[David Sampson]

Yes, yes. Netflix. It's amazing what happens when you have a sick daughter. All sorts of ills can be passed over. So Netflix contacted me. They want to be a part of the premiere in Montreal, which was my plan. I was going to do a live nothing personal with old Expos players and all sorts of things. And of course, I. I didn't go to Montreal, but Netflix said, well, we'd like. We'd like you to watch the movie. And I said, okay, do you need my address? And I'm such an idiot. I thought they'd send like a screener so I could pretend I was Adnan Vir. Instead, they were just like, hey, give me your email. And I said, fine. I don't like giving people email, but you can have it. And all of a sudden I turn on Netflix and the movie is there. I had to do a code and all sorts of weird stuff. So I watched the movie and it comes out October 21st. And let's just say that the trailer that Netflix cut, the people who made the movie, I'd like it asked your Hollywood people This. The people who made the movie didn't cut the trailer. Netflix cut the trailer. And it's not exactly how the movie goes, I'll say. But I am certainly in it as a featured interview, sort of like the narrator that carries the. The story forward. And I make it clear that it is all Derek Jeter's fault, obviously, that. I'm sorry, the local Canadian partner's fault that the Expos left.

[Billy]

Wow, that was something interesting that just happened with your short surfing, your brain chemistry that wasn't on. No, he just instantaneously blamed Jeter.

[David Sampson]

I blame Jeter for. Like, I was going to call Jeter and blame him for my daughter's this, but I thought that I wouldn't do that.

[Dan Le Batard]

That seems a bit much.

[Billy]

No.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did you send Jeter the ERO card?

[David Sampson]

No.

[Mike Ryan]

No.

[David Sampson]

I definitely cheated. He wasn't on any list. No. I'd like to know where the pictures are of us from the 03 world championship that he had removed from Arlens park now that he's been fired. I was going to speak to Bruce Sherman and see if we can get those back somehow, even if he doesn't want to put them up. Maybe they could just send them so I could have them, but they're all gone from the ballpark. No. Obviously, Derek had nothing to do, nor would he even wish this. I haven't heard from him. I've heard from a lot of people, but I've not heard from Derek Jeter. And I'm appreciative of everyone I've heard from, but I don't keep track except on a list. But it is. It is amazing. But no, I didn't kill the Expos Dan. At all. And you'll watch the movie and you'll discover that it was Canadian people who killed the Expos, not me.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm someone that's constantly adding stuff to different carts on random websites. Like, there's a teal marlins hat that's been calling to me for, like, two and a half years that I'm constantly getting advertisements for is something eventually I'll purchase because I keep those things in the cart. Then I see it. That beautiful, glowing purple shop pay button.

[Mike Ryan]

Boom.

[Dan Le Batard]

Checkout's done. I don't even have to get up and find my wallet. That, my friends, is Shopify magic. That little purple button means that the store is powered by Shopify, which doesn't just make it easy to buy, but ridiculously easy to start and run your own business, too. Whether you're a giant, like Mattel or Gymshark or, you know, just launching something weird from your garage. Shopify has your back. Let's be real. If we can run a show with this much chaos, you can run a business with Shopify. With hundreds of beautiful templates, tools for payments, inventory analytics, marketing. It goes on and on and it's all in one place. If you want to see less carts being abandoned, it's time for you to head over to Shopify. Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com batard go to shopify.com batard shopify.com batard.

[Mike Ryan]

Hey, audience, I got a special treat for you because I want to talk to you about Miller Lite. But I want to talk to you about Miller Lite with my good friend Rose. Hey, Rose.

[Billy]

Hi, everybod.

[Mike Ryan]

When we hang out and we hang out often, we're friends. I consider us friends.

[David Sampson]

Yeah, me too.

[Mike Ryan]

We're often toasting the good times. And what am I toasting with?

[David Sampson]

With Miller Lite.

[Mike Ryan]

That's right. Miller Lite. Whether you're hanging out with your dear friend Rose or at game day, it just hits different when you got a Miller Lite in your hand. From jaw dropping touchdowns to fantasy heartbreaks, it's a beer that has been there for every moment. 50 years of great taste, simple ingredients, and that iconic golden color that you can spot across the room. And it's just not the color of the the beer, which is brilliant. That beautiful white can. How beautiful is that? Is that you doing the sound of a can opening? Is that your favorite sound?

[Dan Le Batard]

No, it is a horsey.

[Mike Ryan]

A horsey. All right, we'll stop doing that. And here's a kicker. Miller Lite is just. 96 calories, 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. The original light beer since 1975. That's right. And still hitting different five decades later. You're so good at this, Rose.

[David Sampson]

I know.

[Mike Ryan]

So whatever your game day looks like, remember, Miller time is always a good time. Look at us. We're a great tag team. High five again. Can you do that beer sound one more time? And the horse sound one more time. I regret asking you about that one, but the Miller Lite sound is good. Miller Lite, great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com shan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsively. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sin 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounce ounces. No, it says oh says.

[David Sampson]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[David Sampson]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[David Sampson]

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[Dan Le Batard]

From the first kickoff to the final.

[David Sampson]

Whistle, Hampton Farms Peanuts keeps your energy high and your taste buds happy. Join the celebration of college football with every delicious crunch. Purchase for sharing with friends, tailgating outside the stadium or cheering from the couch.

[Dan Le Batard]

Grab a bag from the produce aisle.

[David Sampson]

Of your local grocery store and savor the game one peanut at a time. Don Levatar I kind of agree this.

[Mike Ryan]

Is a trap game. Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

I kind of do too, but I.

[David Sampson]

Wanted to pick the Dolphins against the spread.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Billy]

Nothing Personal is the name of the podcast. I urge you to listen to it. He is doing an extraordinary thing because of his connection with his audience. He should not be doing that podcast right now, given all of the stuff going on with his life. But the audience is helping him and it helps him in some way to have a couple of hours a day, I would assume where he's thinking about something else. We're running out of time and he's got to go. So let's combine two two things here. First, his his movie review, but also let's have the bucket come in here and let's have him also select from the Dentech bucket so that he can suffer the punishment if he loses. Give us your review while we're doing the bucket here, David, and we'll just say in the what it is that has been selected.

[David Sampson]

I've had enough punishments, but I'm happy to do it again. But I'm reviewing a movie that I thought would be the perfect movie for me to watch during this time and it's called the Threesome. How do you watch a movie called the Threesome and not think of Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Baldwin?

[Dan Le Batard]

Great movie.

[David Sampson]

How do you not think that you are about to watch something in the middle of the night that's gonna actually give you a distraction? And it turns out the Threesome is about a threesome that happens where they don't show anything. Zoe Deutsch, nothing. And then all of a sudden she's pregnant. That's what the movie's about. It's about in a threesome when both of the girls get pregnant and what happens after that. It is the most mistitled, mislabeled mistake movie. Wasted time Time that I don't have. And I kept hoping, is there going to be like a pregnancy threesome? Is there going to be something else that will draw my interest? And it was about, like, abortion. It was about all of these other political topics.

[Dan Le Batard]

Were you hoping it was gonna be porn?

[David Sampson]

Yes.

[Billy]

Jeremy, what did you select?

[David Sampson]

It's called the threesome.

[Mike Ryan]

I took the Bengals, but I'm putting it back.

[Billy]

Okay, what are you getting now here? Let's see what we're doing here.

[Dan Le Batard]

David, you could have just watched porn. I got the Giants.

[Billy]

Hey.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Bucket is presented by Dentek's ultimate fantasy football punishment. Learn more and sign up your [e-mail] Bad pick, Jeremy.

[Billy]

The Giants are at Denver. They're a 7.5 point.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know how I put that. Minus five and her. Plus five and a half and got something worse.

[Billy]

Mike Ryan is going now. Have you ever been to the Bucket, David?

[David Sampson]

Yes, except you didn't make me serve the punishment, which I thought was weird because you make people serve punishments, but you didn't make me.

[Billy]

You have to serve the punishment. It's just because Billy's been running the punishments and now Udonis Haslam is running the punishment. So we're gonna fix that.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have a plus one credit. I'll apply to David on that one.

[Billy]

Mike, what did you get there?

[Mike Ryan]

Got the Seattle Seahawks against the Texans. I will be keeping that.

[Billy]

All right, what are they?

[David Sampson]

I'd like to pick.

[Billy]

We're going to do that and we're going to get your punishment. Thank you for volunteering that. You had one. What is the point spread in that game?

[Mike Ryan]

They're playing the Texans. Foul. I'm good. All right.

[David Sampson]

Three and a half.

[Mike Ryan]

It's all right.

[Billy]

Yeah, you're super cocky. Be cocky about the results.

[Mike Ryan]

I had the Cowboys last week. I was the only guy that lost.

[Billy]

That'll serve you.

[Mike Ryan]

Now I have to dress like a cowboy cowboy.

[Billy]

Go ahead, Billy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Final rummage.

[David Sampson]

Give it a good rummage and then Billy, could you pick for me in honor of your departure?

[Billy]

Is this for you? Is this for you?

[Dan Le Batard]

No, this for me. I got a good. This is a Billy rummage. I got a rummage in here. I got slop. Oh, are you kidding me?

[Billy]

He's gonna be. That's like one of the best things.

[Dan Le Batard]

Swapperoo there. You can put it back. All right, See here. Come on, get a rummage. Get a good one. Oh, I got the Dentech golden helmet of me.

[Billy]

He got both of the best.

[Dan Le Batard]

I do have that swap if I want to swap with someone.

[Mike Ryan]

Can you gift me with it.

[David Sampson]

The.

[Mike Ryan]

Helmet of life?

[Billy]

All right.

[Dan Le Batard]

I got the Lions Monday Night Football against the Bucks.

[Billy]

The first into the double header, five and a half point favorite. You want that? You got to keep that enticing helmet.

[Dan Le Batard]

For someone who may have a swamp.

[Billy]

I can't believe how well, that's the best. That is the. On. On your final trip to the Dentek Bucket. You just did better than anyone's ever done at the bucket.

[David Sampson]

David wanted him to pick for him, but. Ah, look at that.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's back, Jack.

[Billy]

All right, pick for David here, David.

[Dan Le Batard]

The good ones here that you might want are Buffalo, Baltimore, they're on a buy. You have one put back, David.

[David Sampson]

So you get to decide here.

[Dan Le Batard]

We got the Patriots. Do you want the Patriots?

[David Sampson]

They are a 7 1/2 point favorite at the Titans.

[Mike Ryan]

Rabel's return. You're gonna want to keep that, pal.

[David Sampson]

I will keep the Patriots, please.

[Billy]

Okay, so you have to pay the other punishment, though, that you. That we forgot about. So we'll figure out how to do that.

[Dan Le Batard]

We'll stay on top of it.

[David Sampson]

That was two years ago, Dan.

[Billy]

Wow.

[David Sampson]

No, it expired.

[Billy]

That's the metal arc way. No, no, no. Stugat still owes like, a freestyle from the Clevelander that he's got to do on the stage at the Clevelander from seven years ago.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, he's got to come in first.

[Billy]

Yeah, well, that too.

[Dan Le Batard]

I got the Browns.

[Mike Ryan]

Got the Dolphins.

[Billy]

Yeah. Browns, two and a half point favorite at home against the Dolphins.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, I can't be against the Dolphins.

[Billy]

What's the matter?

[Mike Ryan]

It's an emotional head.

[Billy]

You've been yelling and screaming that they got to fire everybody and now you're afraid of them. I root for the Dolphins. You're a coward. No, I want to root for them.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's not that I'm afraid.

[Billy]

You're. You're a coward.

[Mike Ryan]

Steelers, Thursday night football against the Bengals tonight. Tonight.

[Dan Le Batard]

Tonight. I like it upgraded.

[Billy]

I got the Raiders. The Raiders.

[David Sampson]

Raiders are at the Chiefs, 12 and.

[Dan Le Batard]

A half point underdog. Keep it.

[Billy]

Keep it.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're so anti cheese. My swap.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah, and you got the Brown.

[Billy]

All right. The Browns at home against the Dolphins.

[Dan Le Batard]

You can swap, though.

[Billy]

Well, it's up to. I can't swap with the teams.

[Dan Le Batard]

Browns, what do you get? Steelers. Chris, you want to do business with me? Lions. Lions. What do you have over here?

[Mike Ryan]

I got the Giants.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Giants. Jackson dart.

[David Sampson]

I got the Pats.

[Dan Le Batard]

Pats are a good favorite. I'll switch it. David. I'll take the Patriots.

[Mike Ryan]

Wow.

[Dan Le Batard]

David gets the golden helmet of life.

[Billy]

Congratulations.

[David Sampson]

Yeah.

[Billy]

That's stunning. David, congratulations. A little gift from Billy there because he hates the rest of us. Thank you, Billy, for just really making that worse than it needed to be. As always, thank you, David. Bye, David.

[Dan Le Batard]

Love you, David.

[David Sampson]

No, you don't.

[Billy]

We do love you. We do love you. That's not true. We do love you.

[David Sampson]

And the beard is a good look, by the way.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, my God. Stunning.

[David Sampson]

My daughter loves it. That's why I have it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Great, dude.

[David Sampson]

I hope to grow it to be Letterman size.

[Billy]

Thank you, David. Big hug from over here. Zaz is going to be in South Bend this weekend. I want to get to some college football stuff. But first I want to go to the Vatican, because I can say in the history of Catholicism, in the history of religion, in the history of God, him or herself, that you have a situation with the Pope that has never before been possible where the Pope is a Cubs fan. And I have not seen this video, I've not heard this audio, and obviously I can't translate Italian. So I hope that this all speaks for itself. They lost. Go Cubs. Go Cubs. They lost. Says the Pope just dismissively, just like they lost in flawless English. I cannot explain to you how disorienting that is. I also can't explain to you how much closer to God it brings me.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, he also before, like, either screamed they lost in either Latin or Italian or something at the first, and then he said they lost in translation. I love a troll pope. I gotta be honest with you. A pope that's out there giving sports hot takes. I mean, we thought we had the Pope and Francesa, but now we have a pope. Pope that's talking sports like, this is great. And, Dan, I was thinking this. I don't know what you guys feel about this. You're going to South Bend this weekend, Zaz, right?

[Billy]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know if you've heard this, but Notre Dame, very Catholic. I know. I heard about that. You know about that touchdown Jesus. I've heard. And then there's also that statue that I think you put, like, gum on or something that we found out. No, Jessica was confused. Just someone put gum on someone's finger that one time, and she's been telling people all these years that's what they do, which is not what they do. So don't put gum on statues. Now, Dan, Notre Dame has played in Ireland a number of times because they're Irish, but again, they're also Catholic. So I'm proposing Notre Dame play a Game of Vatican City. You have a Chicago Pope. You have a Catholic team. Could you imagine a game at the Vatican? We already saw a concert there, like, two weeks ago.

[Billy]

We're about to see an MMA match on the White House lawn. Yes, go ahead and play. The Pope again, talking about Cubs baseball.

[David Sampson]

Does he first say it in Italian? They lost.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's awesome. Then he translates himself. Do you think he's ever doing, like, Pope duties and he's just in a bad mood because the Cubs lost?

[Billy]

What I think is there are a whole lot of people there next to the Cubs fan wanting to get closer to God and have some acknowledgment and being like, really? Like, that's what happened. Like, I want a blessing from the beyond. And the Pope's sitting here doing a sports talk radio show while he's in the Pope mobile.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, he's a White Sox fan, so I think part of it is, like, do your research.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I put a letter in a note in the Wailing Wall, you know.

[David Sampson]

You put notes in it? It's very religious place in Jerusalem.

[Dan Le Batard]

I put a note in the Wailing Wall, hoping that the Dolphins would win the Super Bowl. What a waste. That really does seem like a waste. Hasn't happened yet. Wasting wall, dork.

[Billy]

Mike mentioned something. I meant to bring this up.

[Dan Le Batard]

How old were you when you did that? That wasn't, like, now. What? Right. I was 18.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, okay. 18.

[Dan Le Batard]

And you know what? 58 now, 40 years ago. That's some bullshit. Take that back.

[Mike Ryan]

You look good for 58.

[Dan Le Batard]

He does. You, too. That's some bullshit. A couple bullshits right there.

[Billy]

How old are you since you did that? The Dolphins haven't won a playoff game.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I put it in Marino's last year.

[Mike Ryan]

Marina, I genuinely don't know how old you are. It's because you wear this backwards hat that keeps you so young looking.

[David Sampson]

Thanks, man.

[Dan Le Batard]

I appreciate that. And I shaved my beard so I look like a kid again. I got, like, a Benjamin Buttons thing going on here. And he writes a skateboard to work.

[Billy]

I think you put an S on button, and that's what old people do. Yeah, that's what I do. I put S's where they don't belong. That's exactly how that happens. But Mike enjoys calling other people dorks. And one of the things that he did earlier this week is he said, no, I've never scored a baseball game because I'm an adult who has sex. But there are many parents who have sex who score baseball games, including Greg Cody, because they have children and they score baseball games.

[Mike Ryan]

People that score, they do have sex.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, sex is cool. But have you ever written 6, 4, 3 on a scorecard?

[Billy]

Trust me, they have sex. Not four play. 6, 4, 3 play the words. Put it on the poll. Sex at Le Batard. Show the backwards cave.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's looking who's.

[Billy]

Who's cooler, Person who has sex or person who keeps score of a baseball game.

[Mike Ryan]

Can't wait to see the results when.

[Dan Le Batard]

They bat around the order and you have to figure out, well, what am.

[Billy]

I going to do next at the next inning? What are you looking forward to in South Bend? Because it does really appear, I do think if we're not doing any rankings, if we're not doing anything other than just watching football, I think most of the people listening to this would say that two loss. Notre Dame is one of the better teams in the country because they played with Miami and Texas A and M even though they lost to Miami and Texas A and M. I said to you yesterday that there are not a lot of teams in the country that would be like Miami is a two touchdown favorite against Louisville. I think Notre Dame might be one of them. I don't think. I don't think I can name five teams in the country that the money would say. I've watched football this year and I believe that team to be a two touchdown favorite against Louisville. I think everybody would be scared of Louisville's. Louisville.

[Dan Le Batard]

Louisville. I think Mike is saying it properly.

[Mike Ryan]

That's right.

[Billy]

Okay. Name the teams that you guys believe would be two touchdown favorites against.

[Mike Ryan]

Ohio State.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, I think that's it.

[Mike Ryan]

Miami is, you know, 13 and a half now.

[Billy]

I think Notre Dame might also be favored like that. I think Texas A and M might also be favored like that. Depends on where.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, Oregon at home, maybe USF if you put them in Alabama uniforms.

[Billy]

I don't think that Oregon at home would be that kind of favorite after what happened with Indiana.

[Mike Ryan]

They might be bad.

[Billy]

Well, I'm here to tell you, yes, Oregon might be bad given what happened against Penn State and given everything we've seen that's happened around Penn State. But I remind you, sportsbook, you can.

[Mike Ryan]

Get Oregon to miss the playoffs north of plus 200.

[Billy]

I remind you though, as we do transitive property of trying to figure out, not just in college football, pro football, like I think a lot of people. It's a crazy thing to say after this many games, but it happens with the randomness of injuries and kids. Who's good? Who's good? You got like I ask you, you're watching an awful lot of football. And if I ask you who's good, college and pro, you're gonna have a hard time giving me 10 teams, like total 10 teams that you know to be good.

[Mike Ryan]

That's an issue with us too, because good football teams are like nine win teams. Ten win teams are a real good football team. But we've made good, like championship good or bust.

[Billy]

And what happens with Louisville and Miami? I think the money is doing this for. For this reason, when I say again and again, and it's not something I've done before, when I. It isn't over the last 20 years, you will not find me saying that Randy Shannon beating Oklahoma at home makes Miami good. You will not find me saying that after two wins against Notre Dame, the only top 10 wins that Miami has since 2017, that Miami is back in good. But this is why I'm willing to say it. It's not even the victories against Notre Dame, Florida or Florida State. It's not any of those victories that make me say it. Although in the cumulative, I do think they can beat you a ton of ways. 16 play drive at the start of the third quarter against Notre Dame, just hold the football game the way they've won Florida State, Florida and Notre Dame games are one, kind of impressive, but those games look close on the scoreboard, even though they weren't that close. The one that makes me know that Miami is good is the win over South Florida, because I know South Florida is good and I know no one else in the country thinks this. I'm telling you South Florida is good. And they dragged them the whole game the way they could have to Florida, Florida State or Notre Dame. But they let their foot off the gas against South Florida. What they did is they dragged a team that I believe could be in the playoffs. Good. I'm not even kidding when I tell you that the South Florida team, if I put it in an Auburn uniform, you guys would be saying, if I put it in an Alabama uniform, you guys would be saying that's a top 10 team because the athletes on that team are really good athletes.

[Dan Le Batard]

I've been saying all season on ESPN Radio, I think USF's a playoff team. And this is the team, by the way, that's given up an average of 31 points the last two weeks to Charlotte and North Texas.

[Billy]

They are not good at defense. They are good at offense.

[Dan Le Batard]

Just confirming.

[Billy]

And those athletes are really good.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like they're going to be the fifth conference champion. They're going to win the American and they're going to make the playoffs.

[Billy]

It can be a flawed team, Jeremy, or even half a team and make the playoffs. There are so many half a teams out there where they've got one good unit and those are going to be in the playoffs.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean the fifth conference champion. Yeah.

[Billy]

No, there's a.

[Dan Le Batard]

There's always a group of five team that will make it now with, with the new. They're going to be that team.

[Billy]

Of course South Florida was slowed by Florida and Miami because Florida and Miami have playoff good defenses. South Florida is not going to get slowed by many people. South Florida should be respected the same way we're respected because has done it longer and is going to get respect for offense and big game surprises. But that South Florida team, I'm absolutely telling you, if you. Jeremy, if you watched. I did watch that Charlotte game. They were up 23 nothing in the first quarter and they dropped six passes right in their chest against Charlotte. That game was not in any way close. But yes, their defense is flawed. Absolutely flawed. But their offense is not. It only got slowed by playoff worthy defenses.

[Mike Ryan]

Hey, audience, I got a special treat for you because I want to talk to you about Miller Lite. But I want to talk to you about Miller Lite with my good friend Rose. Hey, Rose.

[Billy]

Hi everybody.

[Mike Ryan]

When we hang out and we hang out often, we're friends. I consider us friends.

[David Sampson]

Yeah, me too.

[Mike Ryan]

We're off and toasting the good times. And what am I toasting with?

[David Sampson]

With Miller Lite.

[Mike Ryan]

That's right, Miller Lite. Whether you're hanging out with your dear friend Rose, Rhett came. It just hits different when you got a Miller Lite in your hand. From jaw dropping touchdowns to fantasy heartbreaks, it's a beer that has been there for every moment. 50 years of great taste, simple ingredients and that iconic golden color that you can spot across the room. And it's just not the color of the beer, which is brilliant. That beautiful white can. How beautiful is that? Is that you doing the sound of a can opening? Is that your favorite sound?

[Dan Le Batard]

No, it is a horsey.

[Mike Ryan]

A horsey. All right, we'll stop doing that. And here's a kicker. Miller Light is just. Just 96 calories, 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. The original light beer since 1975. That's right. And still hitting different five decades later. You're so good at this, Rose.

[David Sampson]

I know.

[Mike Ryan]

So whatever your game day looks like, remember Miller time is always a good time. Look at us. We're a great tag team. High five again. Can you do that beer sound one more time? And the horse sound one more time? I regret asking you about that one, but the Miller Light sound is good. Miller lights light grape taste, 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com in to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsively. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounce ounces. No, it says, oh, sesame.