The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: THE TURK OFF GOES TO A VOTE

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

Greg and Roy's turkeys are officially done... They spend some time slicing turkey in the eating area for Dan, Stu, Mike, Lucy, Billy and Chris to taste and cast their votes on which turkey is the best. Who will win? Will the 6 votes result in a tie? Can Roy pull off the upset? Will Greg's fried turkey prevail? Will Matthew Kugler need to step in? Plus, Stugotz predicts the Clippers will win the title, the Demontae Kazee suspension, and dog double dutch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don Lebertar Show with this Tougat Spatcast. I don't understand, given all the money, that metal-arc media spends on a variety of different things, why it is that both Roy and Greg Cody cannot have microphones in the eating I don't understand given all the money that metal arc media spends on a variety of different things Why it is that both Roy and Greg Cody cannot have microphones in the eating area But I am told that we are going now to Greg Cody and Roy and that Greg Cody is gonna be the one responsible for putting the microphone in Roy's face What it's Roy's turn to talk so can you do that now Greg? I have some questions for Roy. I've not been able to interview him and we have no proof no proof no visual proof anywhere that he has a turkey that he cooked a turkey

That a turkey was taken out of an oven. We put a lot of video cameras around him so we could get video proof of Roy has done Something but now I am told that he has in front of him what is perhaps a ham? I'm hoping Like Billy is that is is perhaps a ham. I'm hoping like Billy is that is, it's a ham. Roy, where are you in the proceedings? How confident are you? You're about to beat Greg Cody because we saw what Greg Cody did and it's gonna be hard to beat. I am now officially up to 85% on my success feeling right now.

I really want to open this thing up in Harvard because it's done resting. All right, go ahead. Go ahead and start doing that. Do you have the utensils necessary? Can we see the bird? We don't have proof you cook that and you didn't just pick it up somewhere. Like we don't.

No electric knife for all. Okay. Good. Those are good utensils. You're feeling good about your ability to beat him. Let's see how brown your turkey is because his turkey was pretty good. Wow. That's pretty good too.

That is a nice looking turkey. Yeah. That looks pretty good too. Amazing. Oh, wow, from Greg, the first concession we've heard so far that Greg might be a little bit scared. How are you feeling, Greg, about what Roy's put together there? I'm feeling confident, but you know, when Roy described what he was making, it sounded great. And and visually it's stunning. It's astounding to the eye. Can we see yours as well, just to see who is winning visually? Can you take yours apart?

Because yours looked great coming out of the fryer, but man, I'm telling you, Roy's looks better. Yours looked shriveled up. Yes. Yours looks a little dry, I gotta say. Oh wow. You know what, yours looks a little dry, I gotta say. Oh wow. You know what, the first time I made a deep fried Cajun bird, it looked dry, and I also thought

because of the cooking process that it would be oily, but it's neither. If cooked properly, it's not dry in the least, and it's not oily, it's just nothing but delicious. Well, this is all important data for us as judges. Can I get a different angle, not unlike the Eagle Seahawks interception in the game? I'm gonna need to see that different angle right there.

Roy's looks better. Roy's. The Cajun bird does look a lot better though from that angle. I think my dad's looking better. Keep in mind, this is a Cajun bird, so it's supposed to look a little bit drier. And it's supposed to look fried because he fried it. So it's a big, big store bought.

Yes. You guys think that the the fried bird looks visually better than twenty percent sure roises actually a cake Roy can you can you go ahead and start cutting that's seasoning out a little more rolloa go ahead and start your cutting and when are we gonna my mouth is watering when are we gonna do some of this tasting here because uh... roya said he's now eighty five percent confident roya it came out the way that you wanted it to like now that you're cutting it everything feels

micim dad uh... the way that it should uh... Greg hold the microphone in front of his mouth thank you uh... i feel like it's a bit over on the temperature but better over the under because i'm definitely not going to serve this thing undercut and that's a damn good cut. It is not a cake. It is indeed a turkey. That is a good cut.

Oh, really juicy. It looks great. For the moment, Greg, can you cut an initial cut so we can judge these, these birds based off of the first cut? Yeah. Normally, Christopher does my cutting, but I'm willing to try this. Alright. Someone want to come in between them and like hold a mic.

Go ahead, you go do it. You go do it and you also bring back a couple of pieces here so that I can taste them and... In the name of data. And I can, I'm just, all I'm doing there is making sure that we get results that are tasty and accurate. I will give you an initial vote. Sorry, nice of you. do you have a prediction here? Stugans do you have a prediction on what you think is gonna happen here? Like which one's gonna be better because if you just tell me fried turkey almost always I'm gonna say anything fried is gonna be better

I've had fried turkey. I have it every single year and so I know what it tastes like if Greg did it correctly I believe his will taste better than Roy's, but Roy's looks fantastic. It really does. Oh, it disaster when it comes to plating the first cut. I feel like Dan needs to be blindfolded when tasting these so he doesn't have any bias whatsoever because if he looks at the outside,

he'll know which is which. I think we should put both on a plate and if you want you could close your eyes, so we don't have to figure out a blindfold. It's going to need a palette cleanser as well between bites. Okay I will not look I will do what we're doing now with my eyes closed but that means that I will need you guys to guide me over the last six minutes to defeat you. Yeah we're going to get you some coffee grounds in between turkeys so you can have a fully cleanse palette. You had the turkey and christus walked away with it,

which is not great. You could open your eyes again. Open your eyes. It's the sound of the power saw. Yes, it does sound like Greg Cody has a buzz saw of some sort, whereas Roy just went with a primitive utensil. Is this performance enhancing? We didn't say that like an electric saw was okay,

but we didn't say it was banned. I need a knife, otherwise it's my fingers. So you're gonna. And then it becomes sausage in turkey becomes the meal when you talk about sausage link fingers the all of which are the same size. Yeah. Alright. Lewis is brought in the coffee grounds for your in between bite. Now Chris needs to bring you the turkey. No, I you the turkey.

No, I have the turkey. Oh, you have the turkey? Yes. Yeah, both birds. I have both. All right. You hand feed just to make sure Dan's not looking. You hand feed Dan the first turkey.

OK. My eyes are closed. Here's the first turkey Dan. You're going to have to record which one this is. It's coming closer to your mouth as we speak. Let me move my mic a little bit. Sue, do you know which bird that is? Don't say that.

I know which I know which bird this is. Yes't say that. I know which, I know which bird this is, yes. All right. I think. There you go. I don't. Taste that Turk of. Tasty, not terribly juicy. Doesn't seem like it's the fried one.

No way to know. Yeah. I feel like there is a way to know I bring it taste bring it back around the circle Turk Yeah, you ready. Yeah, I think okay, we're always talking number two That's better. Oh wow the second one's better That was Greg. Oh wow the second one's better That was Greg's turkey. Wow Just one vote though. That's just my vote. Yes, we're gonna have to circle Turk this Later on though. It is delicious though, and now you're going you're going to do you have the coffee grounds in between I did not Oh, you should We gotta do it again. Yeah, that's why we did that. That's eat more turkish.

Because you may be attributing parts of the first bird to that flavor profile. The first one didn't have the flavor. There was an explosion of flavor in the second. Maybe it's just a composite of both. I just used the same fork as you did. Are you okay? I'm just making sure you're sick.

You feelin' like, you know, flu coming on or anything? I'm fine. Okay, I'm not, I didn't do a COVID test this morning. But you guys are watching what you're eating. You guys are looking at exactly what it is. Yeah, yeah. We're going to be honest now. We were watching what you were eating.

I just want to do the blind taste test because it was a funny visual. Is it totally disgusting to make a bunch of chewing sounds in a lot? I mean, we got two million plus downloads a week and now we're just chewing on air. I'm having Royce Bird right now. That is a juicy bird. I gotta tell you they're both delicious. They really are. That's true. Yes. But I thought the first one. I thought Royce was a little bit planer than the second one. The second one really

had a burst of flavor, but I may be contaminating the jury pool right here. Are we gonna go around the room and vote? Because this is a big deal if it's gonna be, if it's gonna be six of us, and we need four people to break a tie at least. So I'm so data collecting right now. I've had one bird going in for my second. This is Greg's Cajun-Fried Bird. How do you feel about the one you already had? The Roy.

Oh, yeah. Oh, hell. Different, yeah. Definitely tastes the flavor in Roy's though. It is good. No, Roy's is delicious. No doubt. Yeah. I like both of these. Mm-hmm. Oh, I mean. That's gonna be tough. I'm gonna have to keep eating some. Pick a sod. All right, so Lucy, are you ready? Do you feel like you're you've got greasy fingers? You are in the proper mode to be a turkey, a turk off voter? I think I like Roy's better. Woo!

I'm vote for my dad. I'm sorry Roy, like I wanted to kind of like, zag here because I know you think I'm gonna go with my dad. So juicy. I go with my dad. I just don't know. Billy, are you ready to vote here? Is that a little bit of fish?

Why would there be fish in there? I'm gonna go with it. That was the parking garage. Yeah, a little hint of fish. I taste a little foot in mine. Yeah, I'm gonna getting like that was the parking garage. Yeah, little hint of fish. Rex feet. I tested a little foot mine. Yeah, sound like it's not on the table. Billy, who are you voting for? Because we've got a two to one so far in favor of one Greg Cody. I think I like Roy's better. They're both really good.

But I think I like Roy's. Still got to I'm not going to let you cast the deciding vote because you will foul everything up So go ahead and you will be the foul voter Very funny. Go ahead and pick which turkey you believe to be best. I got to tell you I'm impressed with both They both taste great Roy did a nice job, but Greg's is just better. I am voting Greg Cody Okay, so Mike Ryan is the deciding vote and this is this is very dramatic because if he selects Greg do you need any more testing? Do you need any

more data? Who's our seventh? I'm gonna have I'm gonna have I'm gonna have one more of Greg's. It's Cougs. Okay, we will go to the other room get Cougs in there between Greg and Roy get Cougs in there to see if we have to cast the deciding vote because Mike Ryan is now eating a brontosaurus turkey leg though the way Fred Flintstone would that is obviously a Greg Cody production there right that's the fried one that's great from Epcot I mean it's good it's a good turkey yeah but I'm gonna have to go with the roise. Woo! We've got a tie that is going to be decided by KOOOUSNEEX!

Don Libbittard! Who I'm thinking of is Lauren Green? We all remember Lauren Green. Who could forget? Bonanza. Lauren Dorn. Am I right? There's a cookie named Lorna Dune or something like that. It's my favorite cookie. It's number one of my top five cookie lists, yes. You and nobody else.

But Lauren Green played the head cowboy in Bonanza. Thank you. You're so old. Thank you. Yeah. The stumbling on his word, the precise manner of it was as old as you've ever sounded It's two gods also. Why did you say thank you at the end of that? Oh because I'm I'm enlightening people people out there Notting like Boba has going. Yeah. Yeah, Lauren green, Benanza. I remember you're welcome

Well, I mean, Benanza and gunsmoke were like big rivals on TV. It was must see TV. We'd watch them at 1440 on a black and white and magnavox every week. Oh, there's time. Not mine. My grandma used to watch those shows every day, right? Damn right.

She would have been 90 this year. Hello. Good for her. She had good taste in TV. Low and green. This is the Don Limita show with Estugas. It's hard to explain to people back when we were in the last days of the Cleveland era and they were tearing up plumbing and piping to build us a kitchen before we came

to these studios because we never had an eating area before. The new metal-arc employees who watched during the breaks when our crew would come out to eat with a kitchen for the first time because they didn't have a kitchen for eight years. It was as if Wolverines were ransacking an area when the fridge got open. This was not the behavior of human beings. This was not the behavior of human beings. It was not the behavior of trained children. It was wild animals descending on the kitchen.

And I was reminded of it moments ago because people were stacked on top of each other, complementing Roy for how good his turkey is. Evidently, they expected the fried turkey to be good already already but everyone virtually insulted Roy by telling him again and again in a really sincere heartfelt way you don't hear around here very often because the compliments are pretty begrudging around here

people were stunned that Roy produced such a good turkey imagine he had the turkey he wanted i mean his turkey you know the go to turkey wow that's even considered that, right? I'm ready to make this proclamation. Roy, Turkey is the best turkey I've ever had in my entire life. It was great.

Greg Cody said it's the best oven roasted turkey he's ever seen. It was a begrudging compliment. Greg did not, Greg's here to win. Greg was not here to tie. Greg was not here to be rivaled in the Turkov. He did say it. I witnessed it. It's the kind of thing you say say though, Dan, when you know your turkey tastes better. I mean, but you think it's false flattery. I do not. Greg Cody wanted to whoop that ass and he did not.

It's very close. It's three three. And so we've brought in the producer of South Beach session. Keep in mind that this old Turkov started when everyone just assumed Greg had the best turkey and Roy was a lone dissenting voice and I got to tell you that confidence was warranted. Everyone here agrees there is not a dissenter that Roy's turkey is great, but we've got a tie right now and it is being settled by the producer, the soft spoken producer of South Beach sessions. That's what he does. Juice in the levels way up here.

Yeah, you're going to have to get the microphone to be quite loud. Couglar, where are you in the proceedings? How are you feeling about everything? Which is the first turkey that you're going to have? He's talking. All right, go ahead and try Roy's. Let's see what we've got here. Let's see.

Couglar is quite the deadpan artist. here let's see here is it's uh Cougler is quite the deadpan artist we're gonna deliver it to there yeah he's generally deliberate not he's notting yeah not great is this a second bite of the first turn in for a second bite is this the second bite what are you doing great good okay pretty good pretty good all right that's what we've got here is this the same turkey or bite number two? This is big right here hold on a second. Hold on a second. That's so Roy's Still Roy's okay. All right. Get the Greg's you get to the other one this is a It's very dramatic. I think cleanses palette great

Greg Cody continues to shovel face. Oh Wow Great Cody continues to shovel face. Oh, they do it. Wow. What is that face name? It's like he's called a fark. Is it dry? Oh, he's going to have a little extra here. Okay, this is, hold on, this is very dramatic. Let's see what.

Kugler, the next word out of your mouth is the winner. You say one name and only one name. Seems easy. Give us the winner. I'm gonna have to give it to Roy. Wow! I'm set. I'm the leader of the... Oh!

Oh! Oh my God! Stunning upset. Oh my God! You are dead to Greco-Degro. Oh! Oh! Oh!

It's turkey. Damn good turkey, Roy. Wow. Holy shit! I shoot underdog! Oh my God! damn good turkey Roy. Wow holy shit underdog Captain Turk way to go and in honor of Roy the champion I imagine what he would have done with his own bird Imagine what he would have done if he had had more time than a single week I don't think my palate could have taken him having say eight days to prepare. It's like Andy Reed after a buy. That's a huge upset. That's a huge road win.

Like that was that no one expected that such a built in abandoned advantage to be the fried turkey in that situation. In honor of Roy's victory, Stugots is now going to give you the top five athletes ever who can note Turkey. Are you ready, Stugots? I am ready, Dan. Any outside looking in? Are we just starting with number five? I have five, Dan. Number five. Irving Fryer. Number four. Jimmy Gobble. Number three three Turk Wendell Love that guy you love that guy who doesn't love that guy look up his superstitions Chris Cody I believe he brushed his teeth and the dugout between innings and couldn't stop eating licorice number two Jalen Waddle

Because of turkey waddles. Yep. Number one, Tim McArver. I want to get to the football story of the day. Are you ready to get to the football story of the day? We have spent two hours on turkey. You nailed it. He jumped over the foul line. He brushes teeth in between innings.

He slammed the rosin bag on the mound before facing batters, and he chewed black liquorish. So he jumped over the line, makes me think of a video I saw of in-game entertainment that I would like the video staff to get me quickly, which is a dog jumping rope, double dutch, that is not something that I have seen before. I did not know that dogs could be trained to do such a thing, but in a Pacer's game yesterday and incidentally when I speak of the Pacers the Clippers look really good and James Harden looks really good.

Goi Leonard looks relieved to have someone else doing the usage rate stuff. I have a bold NBA statement to make. The Clippers are going to win the NBA championship. It took him a brief second, but they do look damn good. Yes, I mean James Harden looks special and they are counting on three guys that always get hurt. And Kawaii Leonard looks happy to have James Harden around and you say they are counting on three guys who are hurt, but when they only have two of them, they're still pretty good because those two are really good. I thought it was going to be hard for all three of them to get theirs, but it has not been.

And they figured, now the Pacers play a pace that is perfect for the Clippers, but they've won eight straight. If this dog wants to impress me, jump rope by yourself. Well, it's jumping rope with two other dogs. How do you, you just want the dog to be able to jump rope the way humans do, even though they don't have arms that work that way. This thing's just looking at a treat. It is double-dutch jumping though there.

It is doing that successfully. There's other dogs holding the other end of the rope also. Not impressed. You're not impressed, okay? You're hard to impress. What impresses you? What do you do that's so impressive? Roy's turkey.

Roy's turkey impressed him. You're not impressed by this video. This video's red. The dogs holding the ropes are the real stars because they're turning their heads as it's going on, nothing. This dog for the audio audience is jumping 30 times over double-dutch ropes being held by two other dogs.

It's impressive that dogs have been trained that way. Chris Cody hard to impress. You can see why when he comes from such a long lineage of distinguished father, it would be hard to reach the standard of where it is his dad places excellence. How upset is Greg Cody right now? I mean seriously. Well, let's get him in here because he's been out of the show and we haven't had enough Greg Cody today and I want to get him in on this football discussion, but he's too busy eating. Chris Cody has just told me he's got to be despondent. He didn't think that anyone's turkey was better than his turkey. And that's an enormous upset. I did not have that happening.

I wanted to talk about Tom Brady's tweet and the suspension for the rest of the years to got of Demonte Casey because Tom Brady writes, nobody likes seeing players get hurt, but hard hits happen. QB should not be throwing the ball in areas where they are exposing their own teammates to these types of hits. Coaches need to coach better. Quarterbacks need to read coverages and throw the ball to the right places and defenders should aim for the right hitting areas to put the blame on the defensive player all the

time is just flat out wrong. Need better quarterback play. It's not okay quarterbacks to get your wide receivers hits because of your bad decisions. I believe last night's games do guts while a bit of a surprise and a produced nice drew lock moment for us emotional moment. Yes. Last night's game feels to me like where we are on NFL standards right now and it's why Aaron Rogers and Tom Brady say it's a mediocre product.

2017 is about what I'm expecting from just about every game. That's where I am right now toward the end of the season, broken parts, backup quarterbacks. I'm not gonna get a lot better than 20 to 17 on average on what I'm expecting. But this particular hits to God's, at any point in my lifetime before recently, has been a wonderful football hit.

And I am now at the point where they have changed the way that I view football, where anytime I feel out, that seems too violent, I'm now expecting a flag. I'm expecting a flag for what just used to be football. And this was to suspend someone for three games. And the playoffs, Dan, if they make it, I mean, to, I understand it. It's where we are with the new rules, even Tomlund's like, yeah, I get it, but I don't understand how you can play defense

well in that sport. If you have to start governing that stuff because you're worried about losing several weeks of paycheck for making a decision in a split second that at any other time in the pipeline, living football, that's the hit you want to make in that situation because the wide receiver is exposed and you don't want him to have the football. It's interesting because I know the NFL wants to clean up the sport and they should clean up

the sport the best they can. But their sport is a violent sport by nature. It's, there's a lot of violence in that sport. And there's a lot of world class athletes, as you pointed out, Dan, moving its speeds and body angles, where I don't know what you're supposed to do in that spot if you're a defensive back. I saw the hit, I saw it live, I said to myself,

ooh, that doesn't look good, you want to suspend them for a game to make a point, that's fine. But you suspend him for the entire season. No, but it's not the first time. Like, it's not. Dan, I know. I know. Well, but it matters to God's.

It matters if you're a serial offender, the only way to stop the serial offence is to make the new rules happen to him. Like, it's the only way to actually change this. And I'm not sure you can change it anyway. But I like where Tom Brady is coming from where he says there's more than one person in this equation. There's the coach, there's the quarterback, and I'm not sure you can change it anyway. But I like where Tom Brady is coming from where he says there's more than one person in this equation. There's the coach, there's the quarterback,

and I'm here for that. Like Tom Brady blasting quarterbacks is a lot of fun because if they question Tom Brady, he holds up six rings. That's right. What are you gonna do? His words and that tweet carries a lot of weight. Also, Tom Brady made a living throwing to Wes Wilker

in dangerous positions. Wes Wilker got lit up plenty of times. Unfortunately, it's a sport with a lot of variables going over there. And sometimes you're not really realizing when you release in the ball that that place is dangerous, but it's on a football field. Every place is dangerous. But it seems like Brady is saying,

hey, the quarterbacks at fall two, which I love. I understand. So I would love it. If Brady can influence a new rule with a quarterback, gets the penalty for putting his wide receiver in a compromising position, that would be awesome. Brady's unique for several reasons and that he played in an era that predated them adopting rules to protect him and he excelled in both. So when he who was there for the sea change and how the game was called weighs in on this, you should always respect it.

It's a no win situation for the NFL because there continues to be too many concussions. Hold on a second. It's a no win situation for the NFL is what you were saying because without realizing that your microphone wasn't working. Okay. I didn't know. I thought someone else controlled my microphone. Someone else's.

It's okay. But you can hear whether it's working or not. I did. Yeah. It wasn't working. Right. You can't go. Um, it's okay. $5 because it's a no win situation. This is new, I don't have a home.

I live in a show with the Stugas. Gamble on by draft Kings. Don Lebertard. Hey everybody. Not here. Okay, come to the phone. See, doesn't I sound better? It does not sound better.

It sounds. He is absolutely slurring. Hey, everybody. By the way, not surprising at all that he would answer the phone and think just everybody. It's only one person calling. It's everybody. Still gots. He's performing baby everybody everybody he was 19 Miller lights deep we were sorry everyone calling everybody he's doing

a little show a little show everything is good content. It's like it's like he's a true Greg Cody. Hi everybody. VCs the down lebertar show with his two guards. Greg Cody is now officially mad at us. Yeah. Didn't feel right to head. I got to be he got his ass kicked. I can't even look at.

He is not in a good mood right now. And he is snipping at me in the break because we've cut him off a lot today. I mean, he knows where the clocks are and they're in the same place every time, but I am being blamed for his microphone not being... Well, he's just very distrustful right now. He's just saying was all of that me being set up to perfectly comedically clip me with one second left and I'm like no, it was just general incompetence until we got to your close to the time limit. But we brought in here to find out what is the real reason for your rage, which is you've lost the turk off, you didn't think that was possible.

You didn't think there was a circumstance under which you were losing that, correct? No, that's not true. When I talked to Roy beforehand about what had gone into his turkey, the ingredients he used, the manner in which he used them, it sounded wonderful and it tasted just as good. Honestly, I think it was a just decision. I'm glad it was close, but Roy's bird was the best I have ever tasted coming out of an oven.

It was super juicy. No turkey's perfect, but it was excellent. I was wrong with his turkey. You know, if I had to critique it, I would say it was a little bit on the salty side. Nevertheless, it was excellent. I probably ate more of Roy's turkey than I ate of my own. The turkey was salty.

You do love salt. I do. I really do. It's not the was sold. You do love salt. I do. I really do. It's not the Turkey that's salty. It's you right now. Okay, well, I would know. I would have voted for Roy's Turkey. Whoa.

I would have. I thought that's a lie. Clashing and defeat. Really, it's a lie. Well, I think it's the fact that Roy has like, yours is a cheat code. Like dipping in an oil is kind of just like, it's hard to screw that up.

Where Roy and an oven, that is, most just like, it's hard to screw that up where Roy and an oven, that is, most people agree, it's hard to get that great. It's usually just fine and Roy's was great. There was more that went into Roy's. It not only does it take much, much longer in an oven, but he put so many ingredients into his. All I do is dry rub mine and let the oil do the rest. Having said that, it was a big challenge to cook

my bird perfectly because of the oil temperature situation. We had to bring it down, then we had to keep controlling the amount of flame to keep it in the green zone. So it was a challenge. Excuse me. And I thought it turned out very well, but Roy's was exceptionally good. It feels like a post game presser. Dan, before the questions. Before the show, I learned from Greg that he's the only one that knows what's in his dry rub. He hasn't trusted anyone in his family with that. And then I asked him when you go or you're going to leave that to someone and he said no,

I'm taking it with me. He's not going to tell anyone that he was dry. You should leave Roy's recipe with Chris. Actually Roy was kind enough to share his recipe with me. And I will try to replicate Roy's recipe because it was by far the best oven. Part of the reason I started cooking a deep fried Cajun bird is that I was never satisfied with oven turkey.

I thought it was very pedestrian. Until now. Until now. Stephen Bono versus Forest Grip and they would just become the best of friends with oven turkey. I thought it was very pedestrian. Until now. Until now. Yeah, like Stephen Bonner versus Forest Grip and they were just become the best of friends after going through that combat. Roy makes an effort to get the taste he got there.

I mean, I want to see the list of all his ingredients because that's a lot that goes into his turkey. He's also like injecting flavor, right? Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Which I've never been an injector, but now I gotta rethink that. He was a cheating right i mean i love it you know that's a lot of it feels feels like enhancement uh... roi earned the victory mic ryan made uh... the analogy of fighters becoming

friends for going through the fire i was thinking more uh... i believe it was christie brinkley got into a helicopter crash with someone and then married him seven days later I believe the there's some trauma bonding that goes on. I was thinking Rocky and Apollo. I believe that Roy and It's like the good morning America anchors. It started dating the rumors are circulating that their ex lovers have found each other through this Roy and Greg have been through the fire Roy are circulating that their ex lovers have found each other through this. Roy and Greg have been through the fire. Roy, I don't think you've had a better victory around here than this one. I believe this is your proudest day in nearly 20 years around this show where you meant you you raised the expectations to an unreasonable start it terribly.

And yeah, I couldn't have been worse. The way we got there could not have gone worse. We had a weed. Our live line was Roy plus 1300 at that point. It really dropped because... Win probability means. We've been here for two and a half hours. And somehow, even though we are now also a video company, there's no proof that Emerald Legosik didn't make that turkey and bring it to Roy. Like, we don't have video accompaniment that shows that Roy didn't cheat.

This is there is the possibility that was it Rosie Ruiz who like took the subway for 19 of the miles to win the Boston marathon. That's a heavy play, man. But Roy, is this your proudest day? I am. I'm really surprised that everybody thought that this was going to suck, but that's suck, but you know, suck but pale and so be Greg be to fried turkey No, I don't think anyone thought it was gonna suck We just didn't think Greg would be conceited look if anyone in the audience had sportsmen like Greg saying I didn't lose

No, and he is still chasing after Jessica you didn't carve a better pumpkin than me. That's true. That's true. That's right. He used a stencil, not that I still Harvard. Yeah, regret it. All the details, right? stencil.

I've never heard my dad admit defeat the way he told. Or that he's wrong about anything. Like this, I don't believe you understand what a compliment it is for this man to not only lose gracefully But say it's the best turkey. He's ever tasted coming out of an oven It's like he can't give a better compliment than that. No, it is, you know other than being a little salty for my palate It was almost perfect

He's actually right because it was brined already and then I brined it again So that's what all the salt case you tumble brined The flavor was divine. And I tell the truth at all times, if I thought my turkey was better, I would be the first one to say it and shout it from the rooftop. Roy made an excellent turkey.

It was juicy, the injector really did its thing. It was just great on every level. The steroids help out theness, but that's fine too. This is it. You know what, I've never been a guy who injects, so I'm not privy to exactly what that does other than add juiciness, but the flavor it adds as well was just great.

How do you feel about Cougs? I mean, if I'm being a little bit critical, I don't believe he took the skin to appreciate a deep fried Cajun bird you have to eat eat it with skin Agreed because the meat itself now or after it comes out the meat itself is flavorful but not Flavorful enough to compete with that but when you add the unique flavor of the skin of a cajun bird deep fried That's when you get the full package and I'm not sure of google or taste of the skin is a terrific breakdown honestly i'm learning so much

i am told that luis is about to find for us video proof that roi did indeed uh... cook that turkey proof that we don't have in two and a half hours of video in him i did see a boss in market receipt uh... drop out of the point i'm just saying, I'm just getting worried. But while they get us that video, we will wait for it. Go ahead and make the point you were going to make that

pissed you off, that we cut you off on. You're going to come the off again. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we do have the video ready of Royale having the process. Because it has audio or is it just be rowing? All right, let's go ahead and listen to that and watch that now of Roy actually doing this and getting the proof we need here. All right, I'm here for the big trick off,

the turkey cookoff, between me and Greg Cody. I've been up since 3 a.m. Freppin' is Turkey right here and Ashley's been three days worth of prepping a Brian to turkey already as you can see this morning I put the herb better on top of it I also injected it with my marinate and now as you can see fresh fruit got the the garlic got some got some shallots there and some fresh herbs and I'm going to fill the cavity of the turkey with and then it's going in the oven.

350 for about three hours. So we'll see who the winner's gonna be. The customary broadcasting energy that Roy brings to all the facilities. I actually have more doubts than he cooked this turkey. Simply bored by the time. I'm with my father. I actually, the whole time thought he cooked the turkey until now. I want to apologize to Roy. I feel like I owe him an apology.

It appears to be a turkey that tastes like it takes about a week to prepare. Like it was not a quick thing. Why did you act like you didn't prepare, though? You just said in that clip that you had three, like you were doing this for three days, and then we got you on, you're like, I don't know any of this. The bird quality? The't prepare, though. You just said in that clip that you had three, like you were doing this for three days, and then we got you on, you're like, I don't know any of this.

The bird quality? The bird quality, yes. Not a perfect bird. BQ, he's very precise about his poultry. Cougler, do you understand what it's like to finish in first place around here in lack of broadcasting energy? I salute you, Cougler, for being able to have

supplanted Roy in this regard. But Greg, please give me your thoughts on what we were talking about, which is it's really hard to play football and defense in that league. When you're moving in a high rate of speed, it's hard to cover these people and you've got to hit them and get them down, but not too hard or you're going to lose the rest of your season and a lot of money. You stopped that because. Well, that's why I say it's a no-win situation for the NFL. They can't do the right thing here because if they let it go and if we have, and the flags are killing it, any time there's a big play in the NFL, I hold my breath expecting a flag.

It's terrible for the game. But if they don't call all these flags, you see quarterback, you see a third of the starting quarterbacks in the league out for at least two games this season. You see too many concussions are still happening, including at the quarterback position. So they have to literally air on the side of caution, which is what they're doing.

Too many penalties, you know, they're coddling the quarterbacks, but they have no choice but to do that. It can actually be changed, correct? It's not, you can penalize it as much as you want, make as many examples and symbols of everybody. It's still gonna happen. But I'm just saying, it cannot be eliminated or lessened, correct?

I think it can be because you see it sometimes on a sack where, you know, one of the rules is you can't, follow in a quarterback with your full weight, you have to like go off to the side or something. And time after time, I see big defensive tackles doing exactly that. That's correct. I'm saying this one though.

I'm not saying you're right. They have been able, and they doesn't keep the quarterbacks any healthier, but you do see defenders letting go of quarterbacks who continue the play because they're afraid to hit them. But then you're talking about bang, bang plays, right? Like that's different. I'm talking about this one. I'm talking about how Kazee ends up not playing anymore games this season because of a decision that was made in a fraction of a second

and a high rate of speed. Was it pitman that he hit? Like it was just just a totally exposed receiver, which is something that corner backs have always dreamed of. They dream of that hit and I don't, I don't know while wanting the game to be safer, I don't know how future generations prevent that hit unless you change the rules even more. That you have to, that you just simply never allow that hit under any circumstances or the ability for someone like me to explain it away as like how are you supposed to do that in a fraction of a second or make the penalties harsher I guess I mean this is pretty hard but it's harsh because he's a previous this is a new and improved and never thought of a show with a stugas gamble on by draft kings

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