Hour 2: Happy Birthday To Me From Me (feat. Jessica Smetana)

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We're going to have trouble with our voice the rest of the way.

I have still the delight of spice in my mouth.

Billy, you had good critique during the break when I thought you spoke correct criticism.

No, not criticism.

I was praising both.

I said, Greg's soup tastes like home.

Mike's soup tastes like vacation.

Greg was really mad during the break.

Oh my god, he was so mad.

Like, really mad.

That's your computer, Greg.

You own $10 now over the course of the show.

It's his computer.

He's really mad.

And Jessica, I'm going to need a ruling from Jessica here on whether he's right to be mad or not because during the break, no one came in here.

He didn't leave the room.

And I went into the other room and I asked some people, Did you have both soups?

Did you like the soups?

And Mike's is gone and Greg's isn't gone.

Well, Greg did better planning.

Greg planned for the masses.

Mike just planned for fewer people.

I think could be what happened.

No, Mike added water, he said.

Mike also added a little lime zest to the soup, which really kind of

you guys didn't even have the best on-air bite because I spent 40 minutes zesting limes like a madman this morning.

But you know, it was like I was running in.

I was like, Kevin, from the office.

I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, who needs what?

And then I forgot I had all this lime zest lying around.

So I hope you liked it.

Greg's mad.

He's mad.

Yep.

Sure.

Why wouldn't I be?

I think it was an unjust award.

It's a fair competition.

Yeah.

Was it fair?

I will say.

Your food, Lamar Jackson.

I will say, having eaten a lot of Thai chicken soup,

that

that failed to

bring forward coconut, which is a major flavor, should be a major flavor in that soup.

And Mike used a lot of coconut milk, and it did not have a coconut flavor that was discernible.

It was classless.

Which is a major negative for that soup.

It was tasty.

He a sportsman.

It was tasty.

Lamar has two MVP awards, to be fair.

This is really sad.

Yeah,

you're a great chef, Lamar Jackson, great quarterback, but you're having trouble winning the big one.

Yeah.

Could have been three.

Okay.

It's all right, Owen.

Classless?

No.

Go ahead.

Owen four.

Okay.

Owen four.

One of those four, I lost fair and square.

Okay, Roy's turkey beat mine.

You lost to Jessica fair and square.

No,

Jessica,

I don't feel like I did.

She was using you were a lot classier to her in defeat.

Okay.

You know, that, because

that wasn't a food cook-off.

That was an ancillary

kitchen.

What?

It had food in it.

Well, Greg, I was going to come in here and defend you,

and there's a reason for that, Mike.

The reason is that the last time that we made the soup that you made today, Lehman...

had COVID and like threw it up everywhere.

So I can never eat that soup again.

Like it brings up really bad memories.

So I was going to give Greg my vote, but now Greg's kind of turning on me because of the carve-off.

And I'm like,

I don't know if he deserves that.

Okay.

All right.

No, I mean, I don't consider that a cooking competition.

So I'm 0 for 3.

It was 3.

You're right.

I'm 0 for 3.

And popcorn really isn't.

0 for 4 in food-related competitions.

0 for 4.

The popcorn, I agree, the popcorn was a little

bit of

a pop.

Everyone was afraid of Dan.

I lost fair and square.

Now they're afraid of Mike.

Yeah.

That's true.

That soup was exceptional.

You would have liked it, Jessica.

You would have liked both soups, actually.

But

I haven't seen Greg that mad.

I don't, Zazzle, you've been here only a short time.

He didn't even look up from his computer afterward.

We all get up to stretch, have a little bit more.

He was seething.

He wouldn't even get up or look up at anyone's.

I think it was like a week and a half ago.

He was more mad about the laptop.

No, no.

No, that was public.

This was a private seething.

He was

smoldering in here.

No, Chris, you got that bad publicly.

We left the room.

He sat in here steaming the entire time.

Like, I'm not making that up.

I was more scared of him this time.

You guys don't understand this man that you work with.

He's intensely prideful.

He cooks really well.

He's embarrassed that Mike beat him, and he's embarrassed that we let it happen.

And you just don't know how prideful he is about this thing.

Are you embarrassed?

He's really good at this.

No, I'm not embarrassed, and I'm far more disappointed than I am angry.

I thought it was an unjust decision.

I don't think it should have been close.

And I feel cheated.

And I think it was done just for the sake of comedy.

I don't think it was a legitimate verdict.

You can't fake what those pots look like.

I made more soup than you.

Yes, I made more soup.

I made them more soup.

All right.

And more of the soup is gone.

You made less soup.

I'm going to go have some more soup because it's almost gone and I made them more soup.

Please do.

Greg, here you go.

I know you don't like the beating you've taken here, but happy birthday, buddy.

We are thrilled that we get to work with you.

All rise for Greg Couty.

A birthday for me is a birthday for you.

The sound of my voice is a dream come true.

The greatest of gifts that could be.

Happy birthday from me to me.

A birthday for me is a time full of love

A present bestowed as I fell from above To make all the world full of glee

Happy birthday from me to me

Happy birthday

from me

to

me

He's not happy.

Not even a song about himself on his birthday.

Sung by himself.

Sung by himself.

He's steamed throughout it.

You guys think I'm fooling around.

He's really mad.

Can we revote, maybe?

I'd like to revote.

And like, let's not count it 0-4.

Let's revote it.

He doesn't want a pity vote.

I know everybody who voted against me.

That will never be forgotten.

There's only two of them.

That will never be forgotten.

Saslo, you trampled him threatening me.

Like, you just trampled him saying it'll never be forgotten that I voted against him.

And you, threatening you, too, by the way.

We can revote.

There's plenty of Greg's soup left if you guys want to try it.

I really like Greg.

I'm really sad that I made him sad.

I didn't mean his soup is really good, too.

That's the thing.

Okay.

It's delicious.

Greg, is this a worse betrayal than Christopher taking your laptop a couple weeks back?

Um, remember, I voted for you.

Different category.

Also, in retrospect, where the dolphins kind of laid an egg, it seemed as though it wasn't as big, you know.

It wasn't as big.

So, me losing that vote wasn't wasn't as big as the Dolphins losing that vote.

That's still your phone.

Another $5, please.

You owe $15 on your birthday.

It's people wishing me happy birthday.

Jessica is hosting a live show on Saturday for the Notre Dame, Texas A ⁇ M game at 3.30 with Kyle Rudolph and Aaron Banks.

We will tell you more about where you can get that in a moment.

But Jessica is saying something that I have not heard anyone else in the sports media saying anywhere in the interwebs.

You liked week two better than week one.

Yeah, I mean, real ball knowers know Dan.

Week one, there were a lot of flashy matchups, but then not a lot of meat underneath them.

Week two, a lot of meat on those bones.

We had some,

I mean, I heard Zaz talking about the border war yesterday.

SMU Baylor, Clemson struggling with Troy, Kansas State losing to Army, USF and Florida, of course.

There was a...

number of overtime games, Michigan State and Boston College.

There were more even matchups in week two than week one.

So like, well, I think the, the you know your typical fans like yeah i want to watch florida state and alabama those are some big sexy names i want to see the less sexy games i want to see

and ukon and overtime uh can you guys tell me where it is that you are on arch manning because we went from week one to week two with turbulence and texas what are you shaking your head about zazzlo you're just i i i i i don't i'm not anywhere with arch manning like there's nothing to take away from what we saw in week two And week one was what it was, although he was good in the fourth quarter, but whatever.

Like, it's a 60-minute game.

I'm not anywhere with Arch Manning.

Got to see it.

Jessica?

I agree.

I mean, he was largely inefficient last week, but it was not.

It was against San Jose State.

And like, they ended up winning by several touchdowns.

It didn't really matter.

They're not going to play another good defense for a few weeks.

I did think it was weird that Sark tried to defend him by saying that he pooped his pants.

I don't know if you guys heard that press conference sound.

Pooped his pants?

That's good description.

Anytime you say that there's a pooped your pants, that's a good description, but it's usually not an ally of a description.

Let's hear it.

Arch Manning seemed to be having some throwing pains by the face of the

Arch?

Arch said that to you?

No.

Oh, according to who?

It just looked like he was...

He doesn't have any.

Is there an explanation to why he was...

It looked like that?

I don't know.

I've never filmed any of you guys when you're using the bathroom, so I don't know what faces you make when you're doing that.

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Don Lebatard.

I heard that as a woman faking

pain.

I didn't think that sounded real.

I really didn't.

You know?

It was not fake.

It was in no way fake.

If you can spot a woman faking it, Stugats.

Yes, I can, Jess.

Expert.

I've been married 40 years.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

Big game that you're going to be across, Jess.

We'll talk to you about Texas AM and Notre Dame and what you're doing, the live show with the Echoes in a moment.

But I want to talk to you about Big Ten football too, because we all know about conference expansion and it means some interesting time zones and kickoff times.

We got USC and Michigan State.

Now, I think this is one of the cooler, more refreshing matchups when it comes to conference realignment, but it's kicking off at 11 p.m.

Saturday night.

You never see an 11 p.m.

start time.

You only see that stuff like in Hawaii.

Are college football fans going to be overwhelmed?

How is this going to rate?

Mike, I have so many thoughts.

Why is this a refreshing matchup?

Who's asking, who's clamoring for Michigan State and USC playing a conference game?

Let's just start there.

Who was like, we need conference realignment so we could say Michigan State and USC in conference games?

I'm in on this because I saw Michigan State play a later night game against Boston College, and I was surprised at how crisp their offense looks like.

If they can limit the mistakes, they look like they can bounce back a little bit.

And USC has spent a lot of money in this offseason.

So I get what you're saying, like historically, where's the appetite here?

But from what we've seen so far in this very small sample, this seems like an interesting matchup.

It's an interesting matchup.

My point is that, like, why does this have to be a conference game?

I'm still salty about all of this Big Ten realignment because this is so stupid that

this whole sport exists for fans, correct?

Like we do this to entertain fans.

And now if you're a Michigan State fan living in the Eastern time zone, your game's going to end at like 2 a.m.

Like, how is this good for anyone?

This is ridiculous.

It's an 8 o'clock local kickoff in LA and it's 11 p.m.

on the East Coast.

And I'm just mad because I like to fall asleep watching Hawaii.

They kick off at like 11:59, which is great.

But I don't want to fall asleep watching a Big Ten conference game.

That's ridiculous.

All of this stuff is going to start happening, though, right?

NBA games are going to be at 11 p.m.

This is all going to be the world's games, right?

I don't think I must.

I have nothing wrong with West Coast games being late.

This is, it's Michigan State and USC in a conference Big Ten game that I object to.

Just on principle, Dan.

Just on principle.

I object to this.

I defy it.

I rebuke it.

Well, Jess,

did you rise up against Fran Brown?

Because

Fran Brown has a lot of opinions.

I kind of like him.

He gets his teams juiced up, but sometimes he says too much and he tries too hard.

And this, I haven't seen this type of look-at-me-Louis display from a head coach since Sark tried to ice his own kicker.

He makes his own team run sprints after a lackluster performance.

Jess, we know that Fran Brown's got that arrow pointing up, but I'm cooling off on Fran Brown, the person.

Yeah, the bright side, and I know everyone's already made this joke, but at least I got to shower after this because they won, because winners get washed.

But yeah, this made me a little sad.

It is, first of all, the slowest set of sprints of all time.

And I mean that in the politest way possible because these guys just played like a five-quarter game.

This game went to overtime and they had to really dig deep to pull out this upset win after they were trailing to UConn.

I mean it was a bad game by Syracuse until the very end there.

And if anything, they should be like, wow, like this, we proved something about ourselves here.

We're resilient.

We're going to fight for our coach.

We're going to fight to get this win.

And instead, they're getting punished by running sprints in front of all these Syracuse J school students who are all filming and posting it on Twitter.

It made me feel a little sad for them.

What did you make of Caleb Williams' undershirt?

Because it's not exactly what what you see normally out of like a starting quarterback who's the face of your franchise.

That's like what Billy Gill wore when he played football.

Yeah, I mean,

I hated it, Billy.

I hated everything about it.

It was a terrible look.

It's too loose.

It's too gray.

Is he?

Why?

What's the point of that?

Is he going for a branding thing?

This wasn't his look last year.

I will say he looked more athletic, which the undershirt wouldn't necessarily say that.

I think he forgot he was wearing it.

Why would he do that on purpose?

I don't understand what he's going for there.

That being said, I wonder if you were impressed with his play because it was like a mixed bag.

Is it a mixed bag?

It was kind of

the same bag as last year, which is a problem.

But it is only week one.

I think, you know, it's too early to decide if Ben Johnson's fixed the Bears or not.

But it just, it wasn't something that I think would give you hope as a Bears fan.

You're probably just saying same old Bears, which is what I've been saying my whole life.

Every time everyone in the mainstream media tries to hype up the Bears.

Oh, they got a quarterback.

Oh, they got a head coach.

Oh, they got a wide receiver.

Oh, they have an offensive line this year.

I'll believe it when I see it, okay?

And I haven't seen it yet.

Jess, I was at Baylor SMU last week, and that game was on the CW.

This weekend, South Florida and Miami.

That's a good game.

Two top 20 teams are on the CW.

Jess, how are we feeling about football on the CW?

Big game.

Big game.

I mean, there's some insane advertisements that'll happen during those games.

There's a lot of times like the lead-in programming is like supernatural reruns.

But otherwise, it's been fantastic.

I don't know if you're aware of who is calling games on the CW.

Our buddy Tom Brennaman has been doing that for the last couple of years.

So that's interesting, too.

Yeah, there's been, Zaz, this is like the, I guess, the second year in a row.

There's been some big games on the CW.

And yeah, we just have to get used to that now.

This is just going to keep happening.

For those of you who do not remember Tom Brennaman, this is him making his return.

I didn't think there would be a return from this, the single funniest thing to happen at any point during the pandemic.

Castellano's to lead things off.

Jim Day is going to be taking us the rest of the way through this game as Holland takes over on the mound.

I made a comment earlier tonight that I guess

went out over the air that I am deeply

ashamed of.

If I have hurt anyone out there,

I can't can't tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart, I'm so very, very sorry.

I pride myself and think of myself as

a man of faith.

As there's a drive in a deep left field by Castellanos, it will be a home run.

And so that'll make it a 4-0 ball game.

I don't know if I'm going to be putting on this headset again.

I don't know if it's going to be for the Reds.

I don't know if it's going to be for my bosses at Fox.

I'm going to apologize for the people who signed my paycheck, for the Reds, for Fox Sports Ohio, for the people I work with,

for anybody that I've offended here tonight.

I can't begin to tell you how deeply sorry I am.

That is not who I am

and never has been.

And I'd like to think maybe I could have some people that

could back that up.

I am very, very sorry, and I beg for your forgiveness.

So we heard.

Jim Dale take you the rest of the way home.

How bad does he not want to have FSU on this game?

So last year, Thomas Caselanos was at BC, and I remember I was tuning in specifically to see how Brennaman would handle Thomas Casilanos.

And when he was doing his opening monologue, bringing in the color analyst, he was like, and Boston College is quarterback by Thomas.

Casilanos.

And he kind of gave like a side smile and laid out a little bit, acknowledging what the audience was anticipating.

He made it all the way back.

He's doing a top 20 game.

What do you mean?

CW.

And all the way back is you not playing that clip every time we say Tom Brennan.

Yeah.

He'll live with that following him forever, which is probably like, you know, not, probably not the worst thing, right?

Like he's got it.

He's gotten a second chance.

USF's not going to beat Miami this weekend.

I'm just going to say that.

Like this, maybe it could have been like a sneaky, like, oh, wow, like, you know, their passing attack is going to really put some pressure on Miami's defense.

But no, after they upset Florida, Miami is not going to be sleepwalking through that.

It's not going to happen.

Miami.

So I'm just going to camp that down right now.

Miami is big and strong, and that's where they have their advantages.

But I do like USF's defense.

Like, I like how athletic they are on defense.

So, like,

look, I'm not at the point yet where I'm going to say, yeah, Mario Christopher's got this one.

I'm not going to, I'm not going to.

No, he does.

Dan, he has this one.

I'm not saying they're going to go undefeated the whole season, but I think he has this one.

Oh, I think get you there.

I mean, it's not that long ago that they lost to Middle Tennessee State.

No, I'm with you, but what would get you there?

And I mean, this is no offense to Jess or Notre Dame.

It's really more ignorance on my end of when it comes to Notre Dame, what I saw them do within the limits of their offense and the limits of a first-time quarterback in an impossible spot.

I don't know how good CJ Carr is.

So

Miami looks good to me.

They look big.

They look strong and fast.

And I expect that Notre Dame is good and that Miami beat a good team.

But I just saw what USF did to Florida, and I don't think that it's impossible for them to stay close in a game against Miami and then make it difficult at the end of the year.

I didn't bring in Jess.

I'm not exactly sure what USF did to Florida.

I think that USF has played two-ranked teams that probably came in.

Look, I mean, Florida was a media fabrication.

They finished the year strong last year.

They lost a bunch of guys.

They didn't really add to the team.

They added to receivers.

But the problem with them is Lagway isn't super effective when he's out there, and it's because he's perpetually hurt.

So I'm with Jess here.

I think Miami handles this business.

These two teams did match up, and while the first half was tight, Miami showed that with depth and size, they can wear this team down.

And I think it's going to happen again.

Yeah, I like USF's quarterback a lot, Byron Brown.

He's been super impressive.

And I do think, like, I think there is a chance that USF really does test Miami and just, you know, vertical passing game just stretches them out really far.

And, you know, we already talked about Miami's defense having a lot of transfers and all of that.

So, like, it's a good test for them in that way.

But, like, Miami, it should be a weight class above USF and should just be able to like, you know out physical them now that they're on alert that this team is good.

I think that's the threat is that you get stuck in a trap game against like a good G5 team.

I don't think that's going to happen now that they just upset Florida.

That's my only point there.

I think Florida also beat themselves several times over and over and over again in this game.

I mean penalties, clock management, all of it.

And I think that that contributed to them losing what was a really tight game.

So yeah, if you're aware of the fact that like this team is talented and they can try to keep it close and and do something fun at the end, Dan, like you're afraid of, I think that you make sure that that doesn't happen.

Like that's how Notre Dame got trapped against Northern Illinois last year.

It's the same thing.

It's like they, Northern Illinois plays that style of football where they're like, we're going to, you know, try to keep this game.

really low scoring and then maybe we'll have one play where we can beat you.

And they tried to do that to Maryland last week too.

It's just I don't know why anyone schedules Northern Illinois.

Anyways, that's that's my my thoughts on USF and Miami.

But I also think like, aside from USF, I know everyone's talking about how great the resume is, and it is.

There's still a number of interesting G, group of six, I think we're calling it now, teams that are undefeated coming into this season, like Memphis and Tulane, who's got a big game against Ulmas.

So I am curious to see how those other teams do.

also who are not getting as much hype because they haven't had those big matchups yet.

She's hosting a live show Saturday for the Notre Dame, Texas A ⁇ M game at 3.30 with Kyle Rudolph and Aaron Banks.

Greg Cody has completely checked out here.

Wasn't listening to much of anything anyone has said over the last five minutes.

He's seething over here.

Perhaps we can cheer him up with a song that Jeremy has just made very quickly about soup.

Let's see if we can get Greg Cody back in the show because he's still pissed and he's seething and he doesn't, he's not listening to anything we're doing.

I am listening.

Yeah, that soup's delicious.

Top rude or lent all.

Yeah, that soup's delicious.

I really like soup.

Good song.

And now I get to eat soup.

Thanks to Greg Cody.

He thinks he can cook soup.

You better have my soup

Does he have my soup?

Does she have my soup?

Where is my soup?

Give me soup or give me death

Wow

It's poorly written

That might be your worst song ever.

I loved it.

That was unspeakably terrible.

Inspired lyrics.

Worse anti-comedy.

Worse lyrics than Kiss.

And

they're the worst lyrical writers there have ever been.

Jessica, your thoughts on Jessica rushing, on Jeremy rushing in with that song and ruining everything we're doing with it.

I really like Sue.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, Jessica.

Yeah, she's just speechless.

Greg Cody, it doesn't seem to have cheered you up.

Jessica, tell the people what you are doing specifically with what you're trying to do with Kyle Rudolph and Aaron Banks as part of a tailgate experience.

Yeah, we're doing a live show right off of Angela Boulevard in Notre Dame, like right behind Murphy's Ice Cream and O'Rourke's on Saturday at 3.30.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

And I don't know why my video cut out, but back and I'm really excited for it.

Thank you.

None of that will air.

We will just say goodbye to you and we will talk to you next week.

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Don Lebatard.

Is there back in my day?

There is actually.

Are you not going to tell anyone what?

Wait a minute.

You guys,

guys,

it's a Tuesday.

Stugats.

Here's your guy, Greg Cody.

With back in my day.

Okay, here it is.

Sorry.

Adultery.

We are back.

I waited for this one.

This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats.

That's $20, Greg.

You now own $20 because of the amount of birthday texts coming in here.

You continue to derail everything we're doing.

Can I have the money, please?

I don't have my wallet on me.

What's a man to do?

He's receiving birthday texts.

He can't control when other people reach out to him.

Seriously.

Greg, you don't pay the fines.

You don't pay the fines around here.

You don't respect the fines.

No,

I literally don't have my wallet on.

I know, but you owe $20 and you not being able to figure out how Venmo works.

You got that Venmo?

Like, you have.

Hello.

It's his birthday.

He shouldn't be paying for anything.

Thank you, Billy.

Zaz, you should treat.

You should cover his finesse.

I'll cover his fines.

I'll cover his fines.

It's all right.

Greg, I got you.

We are running the risk of infuriating Greg Cody even more than he's infuriated because he sat out most of the hour.

You've seen this, right, Zaszlo?

It's just, it's unprofessional.

Why can't it just be why can't it just be enough that

your patrons enjoyed the meal that you provided?

Why does it have to all be about the competition?

I loved your soup.

It was great soup.

He didn't vote.

Neither of them voted for it.

It was great, just as a reminder, Greg.

Neither one of them voted for it.

Yeah, but it wasn't as good.

I don't need reminding that.

It wasn't as good as Mike's soup.

Like, I am not to.

Wow.

I loved your soup.

This seems like a setup from the start, if I'm going to be honest with you, Greg.

Drag the old man in on his birthday, make him cook for us.

This is what had occurred in his face.

The thought had occurred.

It's all a scam.

I want to get to Jeremy.

He hasn't promoted your podcast once yet.

He did it himself.

Craig, he turned to me and he said, wow, that Lime Zest really changed it.

What about the coconut that was missing?

The key ingredients.

It'd be like me leaving a lot of people.

Can I just understand?

Can I understand something?

Are you also of the belief, because you haven't said this part, as someone who knows how to cook, as someone who I would say is a sophisticated cook, is very careful with gourmet flavors and where it is he puts things and how much of something he puts in it.

Did you think his soup was poorly made?

Like, did you think that

that doesn't respect the artistry of cooking the way that you wish it to be respected?

Because

he just slapped so many flavors on it.

Well,

before I ever knew, I asked Mike,

you have coconut in there, right?

And he said yes.

And once he said that, coconut in a Thai chicken soup is a major ingredient.

You have to taste the coconut.

Maybe I'm alone.

Maybe others of you.

No, it didn't taste that much like coconut.

It just tasted delicious.

It didn't taste that much like coconut.

This isn't your standard Tom Kai.

Like, this is a different thing that I was going for.

I didn't want to overpower people with coconut.

Why am I defending the merits of my soup?

You nailed it, dog.

You actually came underprepared.

You overlooked your opponent.

No.

All right.

You borrowed my salt.

You borrowed my pepper.

Let me ask you.

You borrowed my knife.

I was being a sportsman.

So putting all the coconut in there, you didn't intend it to have a coconut flavor?

It had a hint of coconut.

Did it?

Yeah.

It had a hint.

It had a subtle hint.

Yes, I don't want to overpower people.

Why do I have to defend the merits of my championship winning soup?

Greg, this is stupid.

You know what I would liken this to?

The Leaning Tower of Pisa.

You know?

They built that tower.

That tower wasn't supposed to lean.

That was supposed to be a straight building.

Right.

And then all of a sudden, it slightly leans because of failures on their part in terms of planning.

Because they couldn't have planned for that thing to be leaning sideways like that.

And now people look at it and say, that's an architectural marvel.

When really, it was a failure of design.

Somewhat like the soup.

The soup wasn't bad, but it wasn't as it was intended to be designed.

Great energy.

Which is all that Greg is saying.

Yeah, great.

It's exactly how it was intended, and it won.

What are we doing here?

Happy birthday, Greg.

I'll pull back.

All right, I'm starting to get a little worked up because you're not exactly being classy and defeat here.

I thought we were having fun.

We were in this together.

People on the same rope.

Over there, Chuck Todd's freaking us the hell out.

We're having a good old time.

I mean, this is a bonding moment for us.

It's all in the name of sport.

You didn't shake my hand after.

You didn't compliment the soup.

You told me what I was missing.

In fact, I think you're being pretty rotten right now, Greg Cody.

Okay.

You can believe that.

I know what I know.

I've had that soup tasting like it should taste.

You've never had that soup before in your life.

That's the first time anybody's had that soup.

No one puts faro in a Thai soup.

Have you ever had a Thai soup with Faro?

No.

You are over there telling me how I should cut the red bell peppers?

I didn't hear a single complaint about the red bell peppers.

In fact, some people said, love the bell peppers the way they were.

Thank you so much, Mike.

The bell peppers should have been cut in long strips, and you know it.

Faro does not go in that soup.

Does not go in a trip.

You don't know what soup this is.

I just blew your mind with a brand new soup.

I saw a lot of coconut milk being put in

apparently and I tasted no coconut.

That is a wonder of my chef's skills.

Major short.

You saw an entire can of coconut milk in there and yet it didn't overpower your palate because it had so much goddamn stuff going on.

It didn't power my palate at all.

I didn't taste it.

Well, there's plenty of your soup left, pal.

There's none of mine.

The gloves are off now.

I feel like you guys shouldn't even be bothering to try to pretend to compliment each other's soup.

What did you really think of Greg's soup and Greg's soup?

I thought it was a bit gamey.

It tasted like a soup made in a forest.

I didn't think it was a very good soup at all.

If you told me you were squirrel, I'd believe that more than it was sausage.

You make that squirrel soup?

I'm actually with him on that one.

Oh,

it was gamey.

Not the gaming part.

Not the gaming part.

You thought you were eating squirrel things?

It feels like it was made in a forest.

That the sausage, you could have tricked me if you had a sound.

Could have been venison.

It's not sausage, that it's something else.

In Chuck Todd's world, it'd be great for survival.

Brewed in a witch's cauldron,

put together on a hot plate.

That's what it tasted like.

Did you make me squirrel?

I did.

It did.

I tasted a hint of eye of newt as well.

It was a bit of a witch's cauldron.

Greg, did you like any of Mike's soup?

I thought it was very good, except for the absence of any coconut flavor.

Tell you what, if I want to make a second-plate soup, I'll take your advice.

That would have authenticated the kind of soup you were making.

I need to move the show along because we've probably spent too much time on Mike Ryan's delicious.

He's doing it.

I'm trying to be classy.

Greg Cody's less delicious soup.

He's mad, and he says he will never forgive me and Zaz for making the result go that way.

Jeremy.

I'll remember.

I didn't say I'd never forgive.

What I said was I'll never forget.

Don't mistake those two things.

What does that mean?

It means what it means.

No, I don't.

So what does it mean, though?

I'll never forgive it, but I'll never forget it.

Fate will tell.

What?

Fate will tell.

He told you he'll forgive.

He just won't forget.

So wait, but if you don't forget.

Fate will tell.

Okay.

Sounds like a bit of a threat.

Jeremy, I'm sorry.

We're not going to pull him out of this.

He's seething and he might storm out of here on his birthday.

Where are we on your top fives?

You have multiple top fives?

You couldn't possibly have just one top five.

No, we have three top fives.

So it's based off of you yesterday saying that Debo Samuel doesn't look like he belongs on the Commanders.

Just doesn't look right.

We've got a top five players who look like they belong on the team they're on.

We've got a top five players who look like they belong on another team.

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Top five players who look like they belong on the team they're on.

Number five, Justin Herbert looks like he belongs on the Chargers.

Number four,

Max Crosby belongs on the Raiders.

You're gonna get Duke three better than that one.

Number three, Dan Quinn looks like a commander.

I love this.

Number two, Andrew Van Genkel belongs on the Vikings.

Dan Quinn also has the name of a commander as well.

Yeah, he does.

And number one, no one looks more like they belong on a team than Tyler Warren looks like an Indianapolis.

Guys are going to be good.

Now let's talk about guys who look like they belong on a different team.

So number five, Fred Warner looks like a Baltimore Raven.

I don't know.

Oh, what do you think?

A bad AI.

Baker Mayfield looks like a Dallas Cowboy.

Hollywood Brown looks like a Miami Dolphins receiver.

Deuce is like one, too.

Amon Ross St.

Brown, sort of a lion, looks more like a Carolina Panther.

Okay.

That's, I don't know what you're doing there.

Debo Samuel looks like the Pittsburgh Steelers.

That's the same color.

And for the Patriots, OLI, Alec Pierce.

Oh, because he's white.

OLI, Christian McCaffrey.

Nice.

Number five, Cooper Cup.

Okay.

Number four, Adam Thielen.

All right.

Number three, Cam Scataboo.

All right.

Number two, Lad McConkey.

Quite, guys.

Number one, Hunter Renfro.

You get it?

Commander Quinn.

Dan Quinn's a great commander name.

You're going to have a hard time doing better than Commander Dan Quinn.

He's going to need the stars on his chest.

Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan.

It's also NFL season.

Lots of big-time matchups.

You know your boy is an NFL free agent, so he's looking all across that NFL schedule for the very best games.

And when I do, my very first and only stop is the Game Time app because the Game Time app gives the advantage back to the fans.

It's a hack for unlocking amazing tickets and experiences in just a few taps.

It's incredibly easy to use and the Game Time Guarantee means that you can trust that you'll get 100% authentic tickets on time and at the very best price.

Plus, fees are always included.

So what you see is what you pay.

You have incredible features such as zone deals.

You get to save even more when you choose a section and let Game Time choose the seats.

You get panoramic seat views.

If you know nothing about the venue you're about to buy tickets for, this is a huge tool.

Take the guesswork out of buying NFL tickets with Game Time.

Download the Game Time app, create an account, and use code DAN for $20 off your first purchase.

Terms apply.

Again, create an account and redeem code DAN for $20 off.

Swipe, tap, ticket, go.

Download the Game Time app today.