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Tony
Lamine Yamal steps into McDonald's, looks left,
Dan LeBatard
sees Pulisic, looks right, sees Jimenez, gives a nod to Ronaldinho in the corner
Greg Cody
with a FIFA World cup meal.
Dan LeBatard
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Greg Cody
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Dan LeBatard
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Greg Cody
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Greg Cody
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Dan LeBatard
Very curious to get the thoughts from last night from our favorite spurs correspondent and also our only spurs correspondent. Michelle Beadle is with us and I want all of her thoughts. But first I want her reaction to the criticisms in the first hour that Wemby is a dirty player who pushes off on all his picks to protect his junk and deserves a flagrant one for what he did to Jalen Brunson after elbowing Nas Reed in the face. Your thoughts on Wemby being a dirty player, Michelle, and welcome.
Michelle Beadle
Thank you for having me. If dirty means awesome, yeah, behind that 100%. Also, a room full of dudes angry that another dude protects his junk just feels weird to me, guys. I don't really love that for you. And if you don't like it, do something about it. I don't think he's a dirty player. I think he's learning the game. We're watching a man evolve in real time, ladies and gentlemen, and this is science, and I love every second of it. Also, Josh Hart, flagrant. He could have also been thrown out, so I don't know what we're talking
Zaz
about Luke Cornett almost killed him.
Michelle Beadle
Excuse me.
Tony
Luke Cornett was a heat seeking missile on Josh Hart knowing that he wasn't watching and completely ran through trying to stop. Trying to get this.
Mike
Then stop.
Michelle Beadle
New York Knicks fans, could you just whine more? Just cry harder. Let's see if we can cry harder and make this entire thing an absolute abomination. You guys are up 2:1. What are we even complaining about right now? This is like. This is going to be a tough battle. You can blame a lot of factors on why the Knicks lost last night. I think we all have our theories. I for one love it and hope it all gets repeated.
Greg Cody
4.
Michelle Beadle
I hope James Dolan invites all kinds of fun people to game four. Please, please do.
Dan LeBatard
Cornett is like a cruise ship. He doesn't come with breaks like he does he. The Cornet. When he starts moving, there's no chance that he's going to be able to stop.
Tony
Also, Josh Hart was on some. The ball was. The ball went through the basket. He just wanted to grab a board. He was feeding. There was no board.
Greg Cody
No.
Tony
It was clear. Like he started crashing after it went through the cylinder. He was just trying to feed off the audience and he was doing some bullshit. Are you on Cornet ran through him. I'm sports side.
Dan LeBatard
Are you on.
Tony
I'm playing both shites.
Dan LeBatard
How did you. How did you feel after the first two games? Because sure. Surely your confidence was shaken.
Michelle Beadle
It was. I've been. I've been sulking since Friday. I drank heavily on Saturday, which I don't do. And I thought that was the only way out of how. I was just angry. I was angry at everybody. I was bummed. Which means I'm basically a lying hypocrite because I went into this like, guys, whatever happens, it's going to be a great experience. Turns out I do not believe that at all. And going down O2 at home made me a worse person. So I feel a little better today. I feel like we have a series. I'm going to go to game five. Yeah, I'm just. It's a lot guys. It takes a. It takes years off of your life when your team is in something like this. I forgot. I forgot what this feels like. I like it, but I hate it. That's. That's where I am today.
Dan LeBatard
Were you confused by the first two games and the fact that Carl Anthony Towns looked like a better player than Wembanyama in the first two games?
Michelle Beadle
Yeah, I was very confused. I think everybody who's been Watching was probably confused by that cat is a very interesting dude, man. Like, when he's hot, he's. He's a reminder of how great he actually can be. And then he'll have these other games. You're like, oh, yeah, that's the. That's the cat that everybody rips on all the time. I kind of feel for the guy every once in a while, but to lose both, I think was painful. And obviously we've all ad nauseam discussed the. The way game two ended and the turnover and the. That was just. It was a welcome to the league moment for a very young Wemby. Every great star is going to have it. He should probably sit down and speak with LeBron on what it's like to go from the goat to the most hated overnight, because that's sort of what happens when you're great. But I hate. I didn't like it. I didn't like losing two at home. It just. Something about that made the whole thing feel like it was over. And I don't want to walk around with that feeling. So thank goodness for last night and hopefully tomorrow.
Zaz
Michelle, I missed it. What happened in the end of game two?
Michelle Beadle
You know what? Your shirt's stupid and I hate you, so whatever. What was your question?
Zaz
Well, your shirt's a grandma shirt.
Michelle Beadle
This shirt is fashionable. You don't know anything.
Tony
Toy Story, ass shirt.
Michelle Beadle
By the way, are we excited about World Cup? When are we going to do that? Can I be a representative for a nation?
Greg Cody
Yeah. What do you got?
Zaz
She's got Italy. How are they doing?
Michelle Beadle
Shut up, dude. I don't have Italy for this. We know that, how that works. I'll pick one. Let me get back to you on that. Probably like Belgium or something.
Dan LeBatard
So you want to be our World cup correspondent on one particular team? Okay, we'll allow it, but I won't
Michelle Beadle
go to any games. I'll just be okay.
Dan LeBatard
Let's play the sound for Michelle of Mike Brown after the game, complaining about the officiating opportunities for fouls to be
Chandler Parsons
called to at least try to even the free throws out. Now, we didn't play good. San Antonio played great. We could have played better. There was a lot of things that we didn't do that we've done that we did in game one and game two. But to go 24 free throw attempts in the second half, that's 48 for the game. If you think about it, the way that they called that second half compared to eight, all the shots we took, we got fouled four times. Roughly for eight free throw attempts. Again, I don't complain much. I never thought I'd see that in an NBA Finals game.
Mike
It's the most loser energy from a coach in NBA Finals I've ever heard.
Michelle Beadle
By the way. That was like the equivalent of analytically. Like he just threw an analytically. We didn't get enough free throws. I don't love it. I love Mike Brown. It's also weird on the same day that Sam Presti went off for like 100 minutes crying about stuff again. Cry harder, boys. Like, I don't. This is weird to me. I don't like the energy they're putting out there. It's weird that the spurs are involved in all of the whining in some capacity. I don't know. Maybe we're in people's heads. Call it what you want, but there's no. I, I checked the brochure for basketball. There's no rule that says both teams have to have equal amount of free throws. Like, that's not even a thing. Can we stop doing that? Just stop.
Dan LeBatard
As was wondering if there was a memo that he had missed.
Mike
I didn't get it.
Dan LeBatard
You're saying there is no such memo. There is not a handbook.
Zaz
The brochure. There is a brochure, but it's not in it.
Michelle Beadle
Yeah, it's not in it. There's no asterisk. There's no follow up to the brochure. Like an amendment was. No, that's just not a guarantee. I checked it. I've double checked it. I know my resources now. Yeah, there's nothing about that. So I don't get the complaint, but we will never stop hearing it. What is that? Is that the brochure? Oh, it's a sticker book. Oh, sticker book. See, I got you guys.
Dan LeBatard
It's a World cup sticker book. Is that what it is?
Tony
Yeah, like you don't know.
Dan LeBatard
Michelle, what were your observations from last night? What did you think was most interesting about what happened last night? Because I was saying that the three games in this series have just come down to the last three minutes. And Amin's been saying for a while that the spurs don't have playoff experience. And usually that shows up, up. And usually that'll show up in the last three minutes.
Michelle Beadle
I, I got to hate this. I actually agree with him. Froze to do.
Zaz
We clip that and then replay it like 100 times later.
Michelle Beadle
Clip it. I hate it. But he's right. It's right. And I think game two was a really big part of that. Because. Let's think about all three games. Spurs came out on top very quickly. A lot of points on the board. And that's why I got a little nervous last night. I was like, I've seen this movie before. I don't love this. But the difference was there was no letting up. I think Steph Castle is just an absolute gift, and I'm so happy he wears the uniform of the team I love. And he's right. I mean, if game two, those last three minutes isn't a pretty telling story on experience or lack thereof, and I hate to do that because I don't want to do that to them, but it's.
Greg Cody
It.
Michelle Beadle
They don't have any. I mean, this is. They're having it in real time. And I think last night they sort of. They didn't let go of the rope. And it was. I mean, you can't get a more hostile environment. Like, that was a crazy scene in New York City yesterday. And I'm sure today will be just allowed. So the experience is being earned slowly but surely. Whether they have enough time in this series to sort of make it all work together, I don't know yet. But it was nice to see last night.
Mike
What was the moment, Michelle, as a Spurs fan, that you were most excited about when it happened last night?
Michelle Beadle
I think this man. I think Steph. The. Steph Castle actually know what? No, the Deer and Fox shot. Because up until that point, I think we were all like. And I can vouch for my threads, like NBA Friends threads. People were so mad at Deer and Fox make $60 million. Like, you know what that one shot was worth? Like $58 million as far as I was last night. So that was a big moment as well.
Zaz
He still owes to.
Michelle Beadle
He owes to. That's right. He's got time. He's got time. The whole game of good. Dear Fox.
Dan LeBatard
Did. Did you. Or have you lost faith or trust in Dear and Fox? Because I. You've been watching them all year. And I. I have been, too. I've been telling people. This is not Dear and Fox. He looks slower. And this is. This is not the way he's played since he got there.
Michelle Beadle
No, he has these spurts and I don't.
Mike
I don't know.
Michelle Beadle
I'm. I'm sure he's not 100%. Nobody is. Love that cliche. Yeah, I've been. I've been off and on the train. I mean, since the beginning. Look, there were. There were periods of the regular season where the, the idea that you would trade him was very loud, like, to the point where I was like, maybe we should trade him. So I. He does sort of get that cat treatment in the hot and cold of it all. But then in game seven against okc, again, I thought he was. I thought he was vital to just kind of calm the room down. I'm not ready to give up on de' Aaron Fox yet. I do feel like, optimistically, well, okay, if that doesn't work out, there's a nice young man behind him and Dylan Harper that's ready to go. So we're in good hands in that regard. But not yet, because I do think he's still got experience. I'm going to kill everybody I work with right now.
Mike
Which celebrity did they show sitting on celebrity Row last night came across as the biggest front runner, too. And why was it DJ Khaled?
Michelle Beadle
Is he not? And correct me if I'm wrong, gentlemen, in Miami. Is he not Miami? Yeah, he was Miami.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Michelle Beadle
Also, is there anything more obnoxious than a Rolex handoff courtside where seats were costing a half a million bucks? Like, everything about that last night, it made me feel like I. I lived in Texas right now, and I hate the elites. I. That's how I felt. They were making me feel that. And I don't want to feel that. I want to be an elite, damn it. But last night I was like, put the celebrities away. I don't care anymore. I get it. Timothy Chalamet loves the Knicks. Like, the only people I want to see more of are Benson and Stabler sitting together courtside. And a matter of fact, Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan, those two pairings, yes. Everybody else, I don't care enough.
Dan LeBatard
We will talk a lot, and we always talk a lot about offense, but I thought the spurs won that game last night with defense, even though it was a higher scoring game than the previous two. And this is why I think the Knicks had 18 assists last night. And this is from Knicks film school. This was the fewest assists the Knicks have had this postseason. And they only had fewer assists once this regular season. Also their lowest assist to field goal ratio, both the regular and postseason. Of the 83 total games played so far this playoffs, the winning team has had 18 or fewer assists only three times. They were playing isoball last night. They were forced into isoball last night. And you know, Brunson in. In this series is, you know, he's turning the ball over at. At a rate that's. That's substantive.
Michelle Beadle
He's. It was. It was like old school. Like the old version of the Knicks where Brunson takes the 25 shots. And it's, it's not virtually impossible to win that way, but it's not what got them those 13 straight wins. So it was very interesting to see. Look, this is kind of what the spurs tried to figure out and did, I think a pretty good job with, with sga. Like, you can't shut them down. They're all time greats, but it's, they're focusing on him and they're frustrating him and they're kind of reverting back to what they used to do. God, you really hate to see it, you know, really hate to see it.
Dan LeBatard
Speaking of things you hate to see, whose side do you take in? Trump versus Stephen A. Smith.
Michelle Beadle
My God, it's literally like, would you rather die of asphyxiation or would you rather just be punched in the face till you die? Like, these are horrible, horrible choices I've never had. It's a Sophie's choice of epic proportions. These two gentlemen calling each other stupid and is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my entire. The irony is perfect.
Dan LeBatard
Put it on the poll. Worst way to die. Asphyxiation or being punched in the face until you're dead.
Greg Cody
So, Michelle, you have not embraced Trump as San Antonio's new good luck charm then. Am I hearing that correctly?
Michelle Beadle
I mean, he's welcome to come, but we didn't vote for him all either. So, like, go ahead, buddy. He's not as hated, though, because New York hate. New York's hated him since the 70s. Like, we can't compete.
Greg Cody
That's true, that's true. Two quick questions, Michelle. First, have at any point in your life have you been referred to for the nickname the fifth Beatle?
Michelle Beadle
No.
Greg Cody
Okay, let's start that. Let's start that. Because the Beatles used to be a very popular group in the 1960s. You're too young to remember they're litigious. There was a phrase, the fifth Beatle. That's right. Unlike the Monkeys. Second question. The winner of game with the Monkeys. The winner of game four wins the series, flat out. Yes or no?
Michelle Beadle
Yes. Okay, I'll go yes. God, why do I do that? Why do I do this? This is jinxing everything. I hate you guys for making me say that.
Zaz
Unless the spurs lose, in which case it's going to be no, right?
Michelle Beadle
Yeah, I'm free to make changes to my. Whatever. I can't even speak anymore.
Dan LeBatard
She's the host of the NBA show. Run it back with Chandler. Parsons and Lou Williams. She's our favorite spurs correspondent. Do you have anything else for your nemesis here? I mean.
Chandler Parsons
Yeah.
Zaz
When do you get in? Because we're going to hang out, right?
Michelle Beadle
Oh, yeah. You want to come over and swim? We have a swim party.
Dan LeBatard
Are you for real?
Michelle Beadle
Yeah, I'll be at my brother's. Air.
Dan LeBatard
Let's.
Michelle Beadle
Let's make this a thing.
Tony
I'm ready wearing your bathing suit, tail man.
Dan LeBatard
See you later. Michelle. Thank you for stopping by and congratulations.
Zaz
He looks like a fancy fish.
Tony
Synchronized swimmer.
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Greg Cody
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Dan LeBatard
Don LeBatard.
Greg Cody
He called me on my own podcast. He called me full of shit, claiming that I'm faking interest in the solar eclipse.
Dan LeBatard
Well, you do do this.
Junior Stugats
You love to just get excited about everything.
Greg Cody
Okay, Junior Stugats. I had to school you and explain
Dan LeBatard
to you he was going to take you to Augusta.
Greg Cody
I mean, when I was 17 years old, Alan, Sherry and I used to haunt the Bueller Planetarium. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the stugats.
Dan LeBatard
I want to delight Greg Cody here by playing something that we played yesterday that he has not hear. Jason Benetti gave us a bonus out of nowhere. Greg Cody catchphrase. Let's see if we get Greg Cody's catchphrases ready, because I want to update his top 75 catchphrases of all time. Are you ready for Jason Benetti? He used another one of yours. And let's hear your ranking and how you feel about this one. Let's see if you laugh so much that you cough.
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Tigers offense has started to cook here in Tampa.
Mike
They're going to leave going, what? Break a window on the way out.
Greg Cody
That's great. He did that. The cadence, the delivery was very good. I. It. It didn't seem to make much sense. I couldn't fit it into what he was talking about. But what do we Break a window was. The delivery was just pristine.
Mike
What? Break a window.
Greg Cody
Great job, Jason. Thank you for that.
Dan LeBatard
Love him like a pet.
Greg Cody
I do love him like a pet.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah. Your inner monologue just said that.
Greg Cody
That's why I said it, because I heard myself thinking, very good. Very good.
Dan LeBatard
Are you ready?
Greg Cody
Yeah.
Dan LeBatard
All right. Are we starting on number 60? Are we starting on number 50?
Greg Cody
Where are we starting on number 60 right now? For the time being. It's a top 60 countdown.
Junior Stugats
And remember, we've gotten to the point now when he rattles through these, he almost passes out. You can take a breath. Like, we don't want you to die, Right? Take a breath if you need to.
Dan LeBatard
Although, if he were to die, dummies would go up.
Zaz
That's the way to go up.
Dan LeBatard
Well, it's not.
Mike
That shit would be viral.
Dan LeBatard
Wait a minute.
Greg Cody
I'm dying on my podcast. Not this one.
Junior Stugats
Yeah, he said that many times.
Greg Cody
Okay.
Junior Stugats
He's also made me promise that the week after he passes, we release an
Dan LeBatard
episode before you die.
Greg Cody
I could dirt. That's right. Nana. Nana Doogie.
Dan LeBatard
I know that's right. I. I'm. You. You keep agreeing with your inner monologue.
Greg Cody
Yeah, you know, ain't no log in it.
Dan LeBatard
You're. You're. Save that. Save that. Your inner monologue is speaking on behalf of you. You don't have to agree with it.
Greg Cody
It's for sale.
Dan LeBatard
Room select. 50 cent
Greg Cody
drinks, hot in here.
Dan LeBatard
Put a Lobos mint under your pillow and dream big friendly reminder that Clark Spence is a horse murderer. He looks apart. If we were to set up a lineup of people that would shoot horses for fun. Cart Spencer, top of the heap number 60 grand Pascarelli up there too. I just. I do want to step back for a second here because Greg Cody said that he doesn't want to die on this podcast. He wants to die on his podcast.
Mike
You don't get to choose.
Dan LeBatard
That's correct. And no, you don't. You don't get to choose there. And your son has said that it would be good for numbers. That's not what I was going to say. Yeah, that is what you said. Put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Douche or no douche guy who calls numbers numbies. What I was saying though, is that as you go through this list on our show, it's not for ratings. I believe that your father, if I gave him his choice on preferred ways to go instead of asphyxiation or being punched in the face till his death, high on the list would be while reading his catchphrases to an international audience. Why are you shadow boxing?
Greg Cody
Seemed like the thing to do.
Zaz
Gotta stay on your toes.
Greg Cody
Gotta be on your toes business.
Dan LeBatard
You're sitting.
Greg Cody
I know, but I'm metaphorically on my toes.
Dan LeBatard
Number 60.
Greg Cody
Number 60. I'm fuller than Vern Fuller. 59. Where's my click click. 58. Hey, Butterfinger. 57. Punt. 56. Scranton. 55. I'm busy in a one arm paper hanger. 54. George up Georgia. 53. I'm the kind of guy that 52. Balling the jack. 51. Hey, hey, with the monkeys, baby. 50. Thank you, Billy. 49. I love him like a pet. 48. Who made it a salad? 47. We're rolling now, huh? 46. You're brain beating me. 45. Let's go state. 44. Driver comfort is paramount. 43. Dummy up, save up. 42 catches catch can. 41. Doesn't make it right. 40. So on and so forth. 39.
Dan LeBatard
Very good.
Greg Cody
38. The Little League Theory. 37. Nice hat, asshole. 36. The others, they all learn from me. 35. Don't go showering to try to please me. 34. Look at that jerk. 33. It's like a packing house in here. 32. Would you learn? 31.
Michelle Beadle
Hee Haw.
Dan LeBatard
3.
Greg Cody
BA Day up. 30. I'm not going to take a quiz. 29. Sassafras. 28. What do we make? A window. 27.
Dan LeBatard
Hello.
Greg Cody
26. Who won? 25. Trailers for sale or rent. 24. You gotta eat a peck of dirt before you die. 23. Three words. We are the Lobos. 22. You're gonna go to Buffalo with Bernie Parmalee 21. Rappy Cac 20. Another crisis solved. 19. Nice chatting with you. 18. He ain't heavy. He's my blank. 17. Hey, that's what I'm talking about. 16. Here we go, the two new ones now.
Junior Stugats
You almost gave it up.
Dan LeBatard
Hold on, hold on.
Tony
17 is great. Hey, that's what I'm talking about.
Mike
I don't appreciate it.
Dan LeBatard
It makes us furious every time. But it makes you. It makes Tony so happy. Tony is rarely as radiant as he is when. Right in Zaz's face. Cody with no knowledge. One of Zaz's signature phrases changes it. Co ops it makes it his own. And dare I say Tony thinks it's better.
Greg Cody
It's absolutely better.
Mike
It's not better.
Greg Cody
It's absolutely.
Mike
You can't just take the awesome things I say and throw hay in front of it.
Tony
You say them in your voice. He sings them.
Greg Cody
That's what I'm talking about.
Zaz
Zaz, let me tell you something. A great poet named Sean Carter once said, you made it a hotline. He made it a hot song.
Greg Cody
Wow. There you go.
Tony
What else he said.
Greg Cody
I agree with that. Hey, that's what I'm talking about. Yep, that's mine now.
Mike
Looks right at me when he says it. It's insulting.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, he stares you down in a way.
Greg Cody
And.
Dan LeBatard
And Tony, when I'm watching Tony, as it happens, it's not just that Cody is singing in your face. Yeah.
Mike
Because Tony can't fight his own battle, so he feels like Greg fighting his battles.
Tony
What are you talking about?
Mike
Putting me down.
Tony
I put you down every single time.
Mike
He's like, yeah, get him, Greg.
Tony
You haven't beat. Beaten me in a battle once.
Mike
Okay.
Zaz
Got cucked on a catchphrase.
Dan LeBatard
Greg Cody is serenading Zaz with a stolen song. That's insulting enough. But more insulting is the fact that the group thinks that he's bettered one of Zaz's signature catchphrases. Zaz has fewer. He doesn't go with 70 catchphrases. Zaz has maybe six or seven, and that's one of them. And it's high on the list. And Greg has stolen it and he sings it. And you guys like it better.
Tony
The way I see it is Greg Cody is posting up Zaz on the low block. He's posting him down, right? He's got him pinned. And I'm here dribbling the ball, and I'm like, I got to give the
Dan LeBatard
ball to Greg here.
Tony
So I feed him down low. Greg hits him with a drop step over like a wemby elbow and then slams it off.
Mike
The way I see it, Tony, is you're sitting on the end of the bench with your warm ups on because you never get in the game and you're rooting for someone else on your team to do the dirty work.
Greg Cody
I don't want to give away a secret, but I've also been told that Zaz's wife much prefers. Hey, that's what I'm talking about.
Dan LeBatard
The question I wanted to ask you, Cody, because I recognize all of the phrases. Sassafras I have never heard you use and I don't know the context for when it is you do use it. I don't know what sassafras means.
Greg Cody
Sassafras, I think it's a form of. It's got something to do with root beer. What? It's got something to do with it.
Dan LeBatard
You think
Junior Stugats
you use sassafras when you're doing something and you can't. Like if you're trying to open something.
Dan LeBatard
If something's locked, it's like, how is it that you can explain his catchphrase better than him? And he just confused sassafras with sarsaparilla.
Greg Cody
Right? Yeah.
Junior Stugats
Sassafras is like when he's exasperated, I can't do something.
Greg Cody
Like, it's exasperation. Sassafras.
Mike
When is the last sassafras? When is the last time you said, hey, that's what I'm talking about.
Dan LeBatard
Talking about.
Greg Cody
Oh, I say it all the time.
Junior Stugats
That's one of the things. He'll bust out on a cruise when the drink package is flowing. We'll be walking down those long hallways and just inexplicably. Hey, that's what I'm talking about.
Greg Cody
And it fits almost any occasion. It's an affirmative. It's an affirmative.
Dan LeBatard
Affirmative.
Greg Cody
When you sing. Hey, that's what I'm talking about. Life is good. Hey, that's what I'm talking about. Look at this. Look at a lot. They're bringing a lobster and a filet mignon. And that's what I'm talking about. Exactly. Thank you.
Dan LeBatard
Put it on the poll. Do you know what sarsaparilla is? Is sarsaparilla extinct? You can't go and order sas. When did sarsaparilla go? It must be extinct, right?
Zaz
No, it's still around. You just gotta go into a saloon
Greg Cody
with the swinging doors, the batwing doors.
Dan LeBatard
When did sarsaparilla go extinct? And I don't even know. I know what sarsaparilla is supposed to be. I don't know what it tastes like. It's got fizz.
Junior Stugats
I thought it was a music festival.
Greg Cody
Is root berry.
Dan LeBatard
Do you guys know what sarsaparilla tastes like?
Zaz
Sure.
Dan LeBatard
What does it taste like?
Zaz
Like root beer.
Greg Cody
Yeah. Trying to tell you. Yeah. There's fresh.
Dan LeBatard
But root beer tastes like root beer.
Greg Cody
So does sarsaparilla and sassafras.
Tony
Tony, you know that moment at a party or at a tailgate where everything just sort of clicks? I know it.
Junior Stugats
Well.
Tony
It's usually when I show up, everybody goes crazy. Yeah. You usually take all the credit for it, but. But it's because Tony usually walks in with Cuervo. Walking like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuervo is a thing that turns hanging out into this is the night. It has that effect on people. It does. You usually take the credit for it, but again, it's the Cuervo effect. It's like that moment in a big game where everyone in the crowd just starts standing up, hooting and hollering. Keep it Cuervo.
Greg Cody
Keep it Cuervo, baby.
Tony
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Dan LeBatard
That's how it's going to end. The mailing it in the end of the retirement. Chris, go get me. This is just going to be him coming out and hitting the one or two notes of that Kind of thing. And you know it. And then just giving us finger guns and leave it, baby.
Greg Cody
You should listen to the Great Cody show podcast because that's all we do for 55 minutes a week is just say catchphrases. We even make songs about them. And you know it is a song, for crying out loud. It's great. Hopefully that's a Suey nominee for best song. And you know it, baby and you know it.
Tony
Stugats.
Greg Cody
And you know it, baby and you know it. This is the Dan Levitar show with these two gods.
Tony
Sassafras is actually a plant.
Greg Cody
Dan. Thank you.
Zaz
That's what.
Dan LeBatard
Thank you.
Zaz
That's what they make root beer from.
Dan LeBatard
You're welcome.
Zaz
The root of a Sassafras.
Dan LeBatard
Number 16.
Greg Cody
Number 16. Who let a pet.
Tony
That's when someone farts, Right?
Greg Cody
Right. Yes. Harking back to my childhood.
Mike
I don't understand.
Junior Stugats
We've learned that pet is some sort of French version of fart.
Greg Cody
Right? To la de pet. And my ancestry is French French Canadian. So my dad, in my family growing up, if I did a sound that was regrettable, my dad would say, who led a pet?
Junior Stugats
And now my daughter says it.
Greg Cody
Yes.
Dan LeBatard
Put it on the poll. Did Wemby, the French Wemby let a pet the first two games of this series. I've never understood that phrase. The first time I heard him use it around the house, I asked him the question of, like, what does that mean? What is that? Why? And he couldn't explain it. It's just that let rhymes with pet. Right.
Greg Cody
It's a family tradition.
Dan LeBatard
But it doesn't make any sense.
Greg Cody
It does, because if. If. If you Google further away. If you Google French to English. Okay. French fart or English. The word fart in French is peter, like P E, T. Right? But R E. I believe it's spelled right.
Junior Stugats
But you learned that a week ago when Yeti looked it up. I learned for decades without knowing when.
Zaz
Correct.
Greg Cody
That's correct. I had never investigated the etymology. I never put two and two together.
Mike
It says here in French, the noun fart is un pet.
Greg Cody
Yeah, yeah. I ain't lying. Hey, that's what I'm talking about, guys.
Zaz
This is how inheritance works. I don't know if you guys know this. You don't question.
Greg Cody
Hey, dad.
Zaz
Hey, Grandpa. What is it that you just take it and say, I shall cherish it and use it as my own and pass it on to my progeny, who shall pass it on to their progeny afterward. That's how that works. Zaz. Maybe if you weren't getting beaten by your kids in wrestling or whatever the hell, you wouldn't have this problem.
Mike
Never lost.
Greg Cody
I mean, nailed it.
Dan LeBatard
Zaz. Is it pronounced in French, pet or pt? How is it pronounced?
Mike
Yeah, well, there's. There's several different ways. One is umpet. Another one is Pete, which is spelled like the word Peter.
Greg Cody
Oh, okay. I thought it was re, but it is er. Okay, number 15.
Dan LeBatard
I think you're both pronouncing it wrong. I think everyone here is pronouncing it wrong. What's number 15?
Greg Cody
Call up Wemby.
Dan LeBatard
I don't think it was PT, I'll tell you that.
Greg Cody
Number 15. Good on ya.
Tony
That's a classic.
Greg Cody
That is a classic.
Tony
Yeah, That's a strong second single off the album.
Junior Stugats
Good on Ya. Another one. He'll just say at any random time.
Dan LeBatard
The Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody, your exclusive home for the catchphrases. The breaking news of what the catchphrase revelations are.
Tony
Not so sure. You can keep calling it the exclusive home for the.
Dan LeBatard
It's the Revelation.
Tony
It's a flagship, but it's got a network.
Dan LeBatard
No, but none of. He never.
Tony
You're an affiliate.
Dan LeBatard
He never reveals anything here first. It's always revealed there first. It's the reason to listen to the Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody.
Tony
I maintain you don't know what exclusivity means.
Greg Cody
Well, I get his point.
Dan LeBatard
If you get the exclusive. If I report something exclusively now, and then it ends up on ESPN or Fox 10 hours from now. I had the exclusive.
Tony
There you go.
Greg Cody
Right? Yeah. You're aggravated, aggravating or aggregating what I have reported. Yes, that kind of thing.
Dan LeBatard
It seems to me that the Brendan Sorsby situation, if you do not know this situation, the Texas Tech quarterback, one of the best quarterbacks in the country. A legitimate project, a prospect who has NFL credentials. And Texas Tech has gotten good at all sports. They're spending money on all sports. And they were in the playoffs last year in football with perhaps the best team they've ever had. I know they had a team that beat Texas one time that Michael Crabtree was on, but I think that that's about as good. About as well as Texas Tech can play football last year. And they're trying to build off of the momentum of that. Sworesby has a gambling problem, and he gambled on previous teams and made thousands of bets and then went to rehab after it was uncovered, not beforehand. And so people wonder whether it was PR or whether he genuinely sought help because he Knew he needed help. The consensus is, when I can't get the consensus on just about anything, everyone in college football seems to be mad about this. And the only people that agree that Sorsby should be playing football next year for Texas Tech seem to be the judge who ruled in his favor and Sorsby. Everyone else is pissed off that the integrity of the sport can be smeared in a way that makes it so crazy that in 2026 you've arrived at gambling not only being normalized throughout our country and the world, but what has also been normalized is used to be that if a player did this, he never played again. Period. Like, if this is such an egregious crime that if you bet on sports this way, you are simply banned. And a judge ruled in his favor. And now you have the entire sport is clucking saying, how is this allowed?
Mike
Didn't Pete Rose lose his entire livelihood for this?
Greg Cody
That's what I was going to say. His entire livelihood for doing the exact same equivalent, the exact same thing in baseball. Pete Rose was shamed and ostracized and that followed him to the grave. And to this day he is not in the hall of Fame, the all time hits leader, not in the hall of Fame because of this very thing. And now this kid gets to continue playing because a judge, who by all accounts is a big Texas Tech fan, rules in his favor. It's absolutely, it's shameful. The Texas Tech red faced Raiders should be ashamed of themselves and this kid should not be playing college football ever again.
Mike
I'll be honest, and I'm not embarrassed to say it because this is the current state of college athletics. I don't understand how anything works. And what I mean by that is it just seems if you're not happy with something that the NCAA is ruling, you get to just go to court.
Greg Cody
Yeah.
Mike
And whatever the judge says is what? Like I'm not allowed to play college football for a ninth year? I'm gonna go see what this judge has. Yes, you could play a ninth year.
Dan LeBatard
The illusion of order. It's a toothless order.
Greg Cody
I don't understand.
Dan LeBatard
But it's a toothless organization. It always has been. For some reason, the institutions have decided to follow its rules, but it isn't any good at enfor enforcement and it doesn't have any power. And now that all the rules are changing, everything has caved in. Because of course, the court system, which is also flawed, by the way, the court system is more powerful than the ncaa, which is toothless.
Tony
Absolutely toothless. They don't win court cases. And if you lose, you appeal and you'll win that one. Josh Pate had a good take on this.
Mike
If I lose a game, by the way, can I go to court and appeal the game? And maybe the judge, like in the judge overturn games?
Tony
No. Oh, so far anyways. But Josh Pate's take on this was like. You feel like a dummy if you ever self reported any violations under the NCAA banner. Miami gave up an ACC championship game that would have been against fsu and they self reported during the whole Nevin Shapiro thing. I feel like a dope for doing any of that. This, this institution has always been toothless. They actually have no real power. This is a dark day, though, for the sport because there is one hard rule in athletics we haven't seen. Terry Rozier and he was, by the accounts, doing something knowingly, but not placing the bet himself.
Greg Cody
Right.
Tony
You do not alter bets when you're on your team. You don't place a bet on your team. You don't. You don't influence a game with gambling hanging over it. And that. That seems to be a pretty good rule. He placed plenty of bets when he was at Indiana. Plenty. And for him to be able to still play, what is he. He's going to miss a first two games.
Greg Cody
Two games? Yeah.
Tony
I mean, this is. Yeah. This isn't even. This is not allowed in the pro ranks. So in. In college, Dan, gambling was always just. I mean, you want beyond third rail and for. But this to go this way. That's why you're seeing all the schools react this way. Nebraska and Georgia and different conferences saying we're not gonna play them. There's legit talks about boycotting Texas Tech.
Zaz
Do we have the judge's decision? I'd love to read exactly his opinion, why he felt like Sorber should be allowed to play.
Dan LeBatard
There are a couple of things here that I wanted to get to because I don't believe when Mike says that, that in professional sports this is something that's a hard and fast rule. Yes. Because professional sports have governing bodies that can actually have teeth when they bite. The other thing, though, that Greg Cody said, Texas Tech should be ashamed of itself. Are you kidding me? They got a quarterback. What are you talking about? All that matters is do we have a quarterback? Do we have someone who gives us a chance to win games? Like get your moralities out of here. All of this.
Michelle Beadle
Them.
Dan LeBatard
This quarterback gives us a chance, a better chance than we would have without this quarterback. That's the standard there's no shame around that standard because this is a sort of amateurized professional football but with fewer rules that mean anything than professional football.
Mike
Well, I'll come to Greg's defense for a second in that regard. Like, okay, yes, the athletics department feels that way. They need a quarterback. But like, when does the university president step in and say, hey, hey, this can't be the way our school is represented?
Zaz
I hear you, Zaz, but I got a counter because I have the judge's opinion right here and he makes a pretty solid case. He said, quote, that Sorsby demonstrated that he will suffer a probable imminent and irreparable injury if he cannot play. The judge said Sorsby would miss out on the coaching camaraderie and training and wouldn't be able to build necessary skills to help himself and Texas text team if he didn't receive the injunction. How can you argue with that, Zaz?
Tony
I also think the third point that he brought up in his defense was that he turned to wagering as a means of medicating his own anxiety. Who among us that he didn't have anxiety from wagering, that wagering was his cure for his own anxiety. And Dan, you mentioned something about the other professional sports having governing bodies that have teeth. Why is that? Because they're collectively bargain sports. And the longer that the ncaa, the administrators, and all the business behind it continue to refuse to collectively bargain this sport, you're going to have things like this happen.
Dan LeBatard
Very good.
Episode: "We Enter The Top 15 Of Greg Cote's Catchphrase Countdown | Hour 1"
Date: June 9, 2026
Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and their lively crew (including Greg Cote, Tony, Mike, Zaz, and special Spurs correspondent Michelle Beadle) deliver their signature, irreverent blend of sports talk, pop culture banter, and inside jokes. This hour features in-depth NBA Playoffs discussion, New York Knicks/Spurs drama, celebrity antics at games, and the much-anticipated continuation of Greg Cote’s Catchphrase Countdown—cracking into the top 15.
As ever, the hour is raucous, irreverent, and built around flowing, semi-chaotic group chemistry, with zingers, interruptions, and playful attacks. The sports talk is insightful but never self-serious—pop culture quips and inside jokes mingle with legitimate analysis, from Michelle Beadle’s Spurs insights to deep-dive debates on the ever-eroding NCAA authority.
If you missed this episode, you missed a masterclass in sports-radio anarchy: Michelle Beadle brought NBA playoff fire and fan existentialism, Greg Cote delivered his unique "Catchphrase Countdown" with new revelations, and the crew tackled the chaos of college sports lawlessness—all punctuated by running, multi-generational inside jokes and the show’s trademark absurd comedy.