The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Biggest Florida Panthers Podcast in America

Episode Date: June 11, 2025

The biggest Florida Panthers podcast in America is here to correct a giant mistake from yesterday's analysis... of soups. Also, Chris is producing the show very well and with good judgment, which has thrown everyone off.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I don't know if the rest of you have noticed Dominique, I don't know if you've seen this Mike Ryan before. Greg Cody certainly has and has some issues with this Mike Ryan. Mike Ryan, who is not allowed to speak into a microphone after the Panthers win like that and Marshand does that and Ethan's echoing, eat shit Mike Ryan has been around for three days, makes for an aggressive Mike Ryan and he was just screaming and yelling about something that ended with him ranting at you and me yeah soup you guys started with soup yesterday and then Jeremy jumps in giant omission yesterday in the soup category my voice has rarely been

missed on this show but never been missed more than yesterday. That's good executive producing right there. Motsubou soup, okay? Right there. It was blatant antisemitism. That is how you do executive producing. He always starts with the broadcaster, he slow jogs sing song of transition.

He got your ass. That's how you EP. Hey Jeremy, I like it. A little foreplay, warm it up. That's how you EP. Hey, Jeremy, I like it. A little foreplay, warm it up. Get us right, man. Foreplay guy. Get us in the mood. He gets mad at us in the middle of that

and accuses us of anti-semitism. I mean, you're going to leave matzah ball soup off the list, Dan? Not thick enough. Not thick enough. Never had it. The matzah itself is great. Wait a second, chicken noodles.

How am I falling into this trap? It's a good conversation. It is, and I know we did the whole show after a Super Bowl where we didn't talk about the Super Bowl, but people do come to us for Panther Talk, right? And I know you got this thing where you're like, the audience is, you know, always gotta push back against hockey.

Those people left, dog. They left, we've been talking to hockey for years around these parts. So, yeah, after the Panthersthers win game three, six to one, and everyone's fighting and Jonah Gadjiewicz becomes a superstar with his reactions? Maybe. Maybe. Just maybe that day.

Nope. You guys respect hockey too much and you did this with McGregor. You denied me the billboards and I'm not going to let you keep winning. Oh, McDavid, that's a fine. Your team can keep winning. Your team can keep winning. He said McGregor Connor I'll pay the fine

Don't start the show yet. I'll pay the fine I Was back here complaining about it and Chris was like you're a chilly guy. Yes, which I am. It's early a chilly guy Wendy's Chilly especially look No, that's a shame. I mean especially look oh that's a shame I mean ridiculous was on but we started topics aren't up and now my mic okay listen don't start the show yet that I can't do a show with this Mike Ryan and old matzah balls over here I can't I can't do it this way this is the Don LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Three good questions just asked in ratatatat fire between Greg Cody and Dominique Foxworth.

Is jambalaya a soup? No. Is gumbo a soup? This might be the stew category. Oh, sir. Is chili, is chili, can chili be a soup? This might be the stew category. Is chili, can chili be a soup? Hold on, he said stew, where the stew fit? Is stew separate, or like a separate phylum altogether? Or is stew underneath the soup?

Like is stew a version of soup? Stew is more hearty. Yeah, thicker, eats like a meal. So none of those are soups? Well, Jambalaya is not even close. I mean, that's not even the same category. It could be made soupy. I guess it'd be poorly if it was made soupy.

But gumbo feels like a soup. It feels pretty close to a seafood soup. Depends on where you get it. Sometimes it's mostly rice. But I guess I'm not sure if a stew is a soup. I guess also, just a rule of'm not sure if a stew is a soup. I guess also just a rule of thumb, never trust a stew. How have you never had matzo ball soup? That's true and when you say stews in a separate category and it's hard, it's at

God Bless Football. And you should check out that channel right now. It's new and it's great. He's got a new studio and the only reason that he's not here is because he's working hard for football season so that God Bless Football could be a larger business than it presently is. You just said Stugatz and the words working hard in the same sentence. That's impressive. Well, he's got something that's his now. He owns something that's his and he's building it out. You should check out and subscribe to his channels because it's Stugatz and it's God Bless Football and he's growing both of them with his own studios. Mike, have you seen those studios? I've, I've been up.

Yeah, they're very, they're very nice, very pristine. I don't know where that is. Is that closer to his home? It's in Jacksonville, yeah. Yeah. So Stugat will be back soon, but in the interim we've got Dominique's Foxworth here, ruining the show by starting with Supes when,

Mike, if you want to have at the microphones, I'm going to have to try and pull you in on a Leash because you're crazy Because you're two games from the cup and it's an insane time and you weren't on the show yesterday and you got fresh You had a lot of critiques about the show yesterday that were aggressive Well give the people what they want look, you know me on air and I've kind of toned it down because people don't like that If they're excited about a sport, I don't wanna just be a one trick pony and take the air out of it.

So when game one of the NBA finals happens, I bone up on it. Tyrese Halliburton hit a game winning shot, I gotta come with stats, I'm hosting, I gotta get the people what they want. Game three of the Stanley Cup finals, an excellent Stanley Cup final, I might add, you give the people what they want.

You become a destination program for people either wanting to learn about this or locals wanting Panther coverage and some of these people might not be wise to the shtick of this show so you don't push them away with five minutes of soup talk. This is where I disagree with you and this is where you're becoming the thing that we used to rail against. I always want to start with soup and I don't care what's happening in sports but you respect this sport more than most. You care about this team more than most your connection to the personality of this team I've only seen now with like UM basketball because of your investment you started your career with this team and you're frustrated that this show

Only talks about it with McDavid's overrated, right? Well, it's bad though We are limited in scope, but I would say that we are probably identified as the biggest Florida Panthers podcast in terms of talking about them the most. We are a pro Panthers program, and there are a lot of people curious. There's a lot of abuelas and abuelos that may not be into podcasts or may not even be into hockey,

but this is captivating, a market that realizes this team's been to three straight Stanley Cup finals, and after game three, when people are excited, maybe, just maybe, give the people what they want. If you don't wanna start with soup, would you prefer to start with salad? It depends on the taste. Mozzarella sticks or?

Oh, mozzie sticks, I'm down. I'm also not a big soup guy when it's this hot. It's not even soup season. It wasn't an odd time of year for us to start saying. When is soup season in South Florida? Is there a South Florida soup season? Yeah, when it becomes warm. Right now it's hotter than the Elzebub's ball sack, but like when it's just warm that soup season. Soup season is when you get sick and your abuela goes to Sergio's or la carreta and gets you sopita de pollo, which is also top tier soup. I got it from my wife yesterday.

She wasn't feeling well, got her sopita de pollo, all of a sudden locked in. Also, it's why the anti-Semitism claim is valid. Because you just went at matzo ball soup for not being thick enough, but probably the most famous soup is chicken noodle soup and that is not thick. I was not willing to put chicken soup in the category of meal,

the way lobster bisque and clam chowder and even French onion soup. I had regrets. I have regrets after shows and normally I flush them. It's one of the biggest regrets. I'm not going to be able to sleep for a long time that I allowed you guys to disparage the king of soups. Chicken noodle? It's the king of soups, man. Chicken noodles? No, boring. What?

Yeah. Boring chicken noodle. And also, like Jeremy, on behalf of Italians. Where's Italian wedding? Yeah. Yeah, come on. You're getting close. The best soup ever is sausage and lentil which is in the In the neighborhood with the cheese. No, i'm with my dad on this You're saying that chicken noodle soup is bland you're

You're appalled by what he's alleging here at lebatard show is chicken noodle soup the king of all the soups. No Sausage and lentil, what is that? You guys don't know good soup. What am I, a horse? If you hear me slop? You guys are showing your ass right now. If you're mocking that soup, you guys are dumb. I don't doubt that.

I don't doubt that Greg's sausage and lentil soup is amazing. Thank you. But I think if you, a hundred people surveyed, family feud style, I don't think sausage and lentil is making the board. They haven't had it. They haven't eaten my sausage and lentil soup.

You are 0 and 3 in cooking competitions around here. I will never eat your sausage nor your lentil, sir. Wow. But remember when he had his Thanksgiving leftover soup? And that wasn't a competition. That was one of the more delicious things I've ever had. I can make some soup. I'm sorry. You're an anti-Semite. You've never had matzo ball soup. I haven't. I haven't. I apologize. We're going to change that today.

But Jeremy's raw, aren't we? All right, let's get him some. Give me some Monson Balsam. It's good. There's gotta be a deli around the corner. It is good, but you will- In Miami? You will say, I believe, that this is not, it does not rise to the level that we're talking about

of a creamy, decadent soup. I will not, because I've already been accused of anti-Semitism. I can tell you right now that no matter what this soup tastes like, I'm gonna say it's delicious. Okay, so the thing that I'm getting stuck on is, I guess the distinction I'm making is,

in order for a soup to be a meal, it doesn't really come with broth. It's gotta be a cream. It's gotta be, unless I'm going French onion, in which case I'm slathering a bunch of stuff in there, including giant gobs of cheese But see this is why matzo ball soup is perfect for you Dan because you get all of the joys of chicken noodle soup But that matzo ball gives you that thickness that you're looking for that turns it into a full meal because now

Not only are you getting the protein of the chicken, but you're getting the carbs with the matzo ball It doesn't rise to anything. I've never seen Chris Cody so indignant as to call you dumb to your face because you did not respect. No, no, no, no. You looked right in his eyes. I'll accept it. You looked right. But Tony hit the white guy, that offended me too.

He hit the white guy's sounder feet. I also said, well, I'm not a horse, I'm not gonna eat whatever that slop is. It was mainly at Tom. I may have been looking at Tom, but it was really Tony. I felt it, I felt it. I saw your side eye and I thought it was going at Dom but it wasn't it was wrapping around your head and I know good food so like I will just not sit here and let you guys well this

is the end game much this what happened there was the indignance is I've never seen a more confident you you you stepped in with my wheelhouse no one will speak ill of the sausage and lentil it was handed down from my father sausages delightful with it was handed down from my father sausages delightful It was handed down from my father who does cook a good sausage. I will give him that. Thank you But somebody said here nominated for an Italian soup something other than minestrone. I thought minutes Italian wedding wedding Yeah, okay, so meatballs so you guys but so as Italian soup, you like the Italian wedding more than minestrone on behalf of the Italians? I'm the only Italian here, right? I'll speak for

Italians. I prefer Italian wedding. Good soup. Thank you, Greg. Is it a meal? Yeah, it's pretty hearty. Yeah, it can be. You take all the leftover macaroni, the thickness to it. But you are just nominating right now. we closed the category yesterday with three soups that were allowed to be a meal and a lot of people were saying French onion had to get out of there that the only meals you could go with were clam chowder and lobster bisque as meals well then what do you do with pho oh yeah that's a meal going to the agent's who's Tom Young that's good too we like that wasn Fah wasn't even nominated yesterday. Well you could have used me. Tell you what a bad idea this was. Well you're you're pissed off because

this is what's... See look at us a day removed from game three now we can talk soup. There's plenty of time for us to decide when we talk soup around here. Got NBA finals tonight, big game tonight. We're doing three shows in 24 hours. Yeah we are. We are we are going to be here so less people complain they're not getting enough of us. I also have Kane's insight today for the people that want to talk super regional. Also it's got to do Alley Oop after that. That's right. What we're doing tonight with Mero at 8 p.m. we are doing is pre-game show to Alley Oop so there's a lot over the next 24 hours it's going to be more content from the show that anytime since Freedomoop. So there's a lot over the next 24 hours, it's gonna be more content from the show

than anytime since Freedom, I think. And it's because we're celebrating everything that's happening around here, including the NHL final, which has been majestic. But Mike, when you say we did a disservice to the audience, I'm promising you, promising you, that while many people are here, new found, for the coverage of the Panthers who are champions and are enduring kind of excellent,

there are many people being put off by how much this show suddenly talks about hockey when this has never been a hockey show. In the last 30 years, it's never been a hockey show. Right. And you, I think you're, excuse me, that's a fine, programmed by doing radio in this market where Panthers legitimately was a tune out. We've been doing this, and it's not just the three years of the cup run. They won the President's Trophy before that. They were in the playoffs a year before that.

I think maybe our ESPN time period was the period where we talked the least amount of hockey. When we were local, we'd end every show with Randy Moeller and we'd do goal calls. We talk hockey on this show. It is... Panther hockey is synonymous with the show to a lot of people and I understand speaking for an audience and there's always going to be those commenters there but if they haven't left by now they ain't leaving and the people that threatened to leave they actually did because this has been

several years in the making. I mean you beat the drum at a Panthers game how can this not be identified as a Panthers game? Come on man we're talking a lot of Panthers hockey. They're in the finals. Not enough. But not enough. I would argue we either. Five shows. I would argue let's either talk soup or let's talk Panthers let's not talk about us talking about Panthers. Great. You're. You're EP. Locked in. That is good leadership. Locked in. So Chris Cody, tell us what's the show missing as an ingredient? This is your soup. This is your soup. When you ask me where is the soup, every time Canada and hockey comes to South Florida, the trophy gets stuck in our swampy soup. Where's the soup? What's soup season in South Florida? It's always,

it's sweating from my forearms. It's soupy down here. And it's where the cup resides. How would you like to talk about the Florida Panthers? How would you like to celebrate? We don't do pre-game shows and they don't play another game until tomorrow night. That's dumb. No, I like that.

I don't like that the biggest break is when they're all in Florida. Shouldn't the biggest break be when they're commuting from to and from? That's good though, get them out there on the beach. Important question. Have a nice off day. Have a nice off day in Miami.

That is brutal that they're going from Thursday in sunrise to Saturday in Edmonton. That's brutal. Preach, brother. I mean, seriously, that should not be allowed. That's when you need a two day break. But I'm bringing together the two sides here by speculating on what is Brad Marchand's favorite soup. I think that's what we need to talk about. I think the real debate is how do you pronounce his last name? Marchand. We can't agree. Marchand. I've heard Marchand more from

Canadians in the know. I've thought it's Marchand because it feels like it should have a French flourish underneath it. I, he is Canadian. Eh, I don't think, I mean, based on the stereotypes of the French, I feel like Marchand does not give off French, gives off physical. Also, Greg, do they give pronunciations, is it Lusterinan or Lusterinan? I've heard both. I think Lusterinan, no? That's all over. Well, this is good coverage, I think, to check in with the champions and figure out how to

pronounce their names in game four of the final. I have a question that will bring everyone together. It'll bring the soups and the hockey's into one place. If you had the Stanley Cup for one night, what soup would you eat out of? Let me see what soups have been eaten out of it. Isn't that the same game as what's your favorite soup? Shh, I was tricking him. Come on, you are too much on your game today, baby.

You are too much on your game. You guys, the boys are the audience. I don't like what. Come on. You're too much on your game today, baby You're too much on your game You guys are the only ones I don't like what's going on over here This is good EPing by you You're a bumbling producer That's your role We don't know what to do with you getting in there urgently with good judgement We're genuinely confused by it

Throwing me Get my man a gummy Don LeBretard My wife says this is a sexy voice. It really is yeah, I'm hard. Thank you Wow Stugats so am I actually I don't know why this is the Don LeBattard show with the Stugats I want to get to what is happening with USA Soccer because this, you know, locally we do care about soccer, but we probably don't talk about that seriously enough either for Mike's liking. I think we meet the moment when it's World Cup time.

Our show does a good job with that. Well, World Cup is approaching and we're about to get embarrassed in Miami by what's happening with this FIFA. They're promising a sold-out stadium and there's just no way that they understand what Miami is if they think that on a night where you're gonna have championship Panthers that you're going to have a situation where they get a Inter Miami, and you guys, who bet? What is the name of this other club?

Forgive my ignorance here. Al Ali, they're the most decorated club in the history of world football. They've won more trophies than any other club, more than Real Madrid, they are titans from the African continent, they are Egyptian royalty, basically, they just don't lose. Inter Miami is a club with big branding. They got obviously the most famous player in the world, Leo Messi, and

they usually play 15 minutes from Boca in a small stadium. This is really ambitious, but the entire tournament is ambitious, and I think the tournament's going to be great. Johnny Infantino, the head of FIFA, has made a lot of promises, promising that this will be a sellout at Hard Rock Stadium. A team that can occasionally sell out MLS games in a much smaller venue is now being put at Hard Rock Stadium against an Egyptian team. Most people don't have any connective tissue, too. Most people here, most people regionally.

When you think of South Florida and what would attract people to play against inter Miami It would not be African culture It would be Hispanic culture in terms of an allegiance here in town right now this may turn into four nations where we see this expanded Edition of the Club World Cup what a tremendous idea what passion but they're they're really swinging big here It's on there's plenty of reasons why this would fail. It's the first year of the tournament of this kind. It's on Dazon. Not many of the games are on Turner. There's only 24 of the games on Turner's sports. So it's a big ambitious swing and it's probably going to take a couple

additions for this tournament to really gain traction. Another thing that's kind of looming all over this is the Department of Homeland Security and ICE have already announced that they will have a presence at this game. And I don't know if you've seen the tourism numbers for America. Not great, Bob. So you're counting, a lot of this business model is counting on people traveling to the United States. They don't want to mess with this. They're watching the coverage. What, I'm going to be detained? There are all sorts of concerns right now about going to these games. I happen to know. Oh wait a minute. Happen to know. Wait a minute there's a happen to know. Happen to know from. No that's not a set. I thought we were

gonna get imaging for when Mike's reporting happened to know. Happen to know from a great friend of mine that is a great reporter. I don't know if he's run with this so I'm not gonna put his name out, but he told me that FIFA employees are giving tickets away that are not part of the ticket office. And there were FIFA officials and salespeople seen at Miami Dade College promising, hey, $20 tickets, but you also get four additional complimentary passes.

They are, Johnny Infantino really cares about optics. So they are gonna give away as many tickets to this stadium, and if it is indeed packed, bet your bottom dollar that more than half that stadium did not pay to get in. Whoa! That's a happen to know report? It's just going to be busing in a bunch of children, school buses of children. It's going to be like when Marlins fill their stadium with 10,000 kids on school day. So it looks like there are people there. It's a weird, I understand why Inter Miami is opening the tournament, but opening the tournament against a club no matter how prestigious they are in Egypt it's not really known

here. If you're counting on Miami which is a gateway to the Americas a great soccer market to be drawn to go beyond just what they usually do for Messi you gotta need a big marquee opponent to kick things off and that's not what they're doing so it was a weird Judgment call I think the problem there though is that in and the Egyptian opponent is like you say they're good But nobody knows who they are and you don't think of Egypt when you think of world Soccer, but they had to give my they wanted to give inter Miami a match that they could win You don't want to start Inter Miami off against Real Madrid.

And I don't think they're going to win it. This is a good club. Leo Messi was playing a rock fight of a match against Colombia yesterday, played the entire game. And Inter Miami's got a lot of people leaving for international duty. They're coming in here. Meanwhile, this Egyptian club has been in South Florida for a while, acclimating. It's going to be very difficult. I think this competition is going to be more cagey than people anticipate because of so many different calendars. Mike, you going bottom dollar betting and cagey in your analysis of the grit of caring about soccer in this town. Cody, you've loved, you covered the original Fort Lauderdale Strikers, okay? You know what they're trying to build here. The idea that that stadium is going up near the airport

is an asinine construction that Messe, I doubt, will ever get to, and wow, what a ripoff that'll end up being if all that happened here makes for a stadium near the airport where they keep trying to grow an MLS thing that will be harder to grow without Messe, because they were trying to grow it in Boko. How many seats do they have in that stadium? You're talking about going 10 times the size, 8 times the

size if you're trying to fill this stadium. What's the difference? What's the capacity? The soccer seating at Hard Rock Stadium I think is just around 70. Is it that high? Around. Okay, I was going to say 64. Around 70. Okay. And while Messi is out of contract

at the end of the MLAs season, teammates have extended. The expectation is that he does see Miami Freedom Park open next season. We'll see. It has the potential to be a calamity, okay? Giving a lot of public land to a soccer franchise when soccer has never worked successfully in the market.

And this is the most giant of swings that's ever been taken it's messy it's trying to bring the world in the World Cup to South Florida with a watch party that Mike you're saying is gonna be filled with a bunch of people who aren't actually caring about the event they're at no no I think this watch party you must care you have to care about soccer super if you're gonna show up at grails and thanks to boost mobile for partner Partnering up with DraftKings to bring this event there if you're going to grails this Saturday to watch the Club World Cup You love soccer. This is a market that I'd venture to say more people love soccer than hockey keeping my grails as a sports bar I imagine there's gonna be a TV with the local hockey team

playing a major game there. All of this is a big swing for FIFA. It is a big revenue cash grab, and it replaced the Confederations Cup, which was just the Confederations champion matching up to another with one another, and what it represented was not just a competition, but a practice round, a dress rehearsal

if you will, for the following year in the host nation. Let's make sure we have everything in order and where the United States really flourishes compared to other countries that may not have the infrastructure and the venues, they need those dress rehearsals. United States doesn't. However, if you look at what happened in the Copa America final a couple years ago, let's have that one back. Now I will say the security will be different, not just because of what happened, but that was coming to ball running security

and South Florida really dropped the ball in allowing them to dictate things. If you've ever been to a FIFA event, they have far more security. Now this is going to be awkward with ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. Good times. Yeah, so it's not just a dress rehearsal for the facility,

it's also a dress rehearsal to see how this is gonna look in a year because I don't think this immigration stuff's going away and Infantino and Donald Trump seem to be very close. Infantino's gone to the White House several times, Donald Trump calls him Johnny Soccer, and I think one of the concessions that he made was, yeah, absolutely, you can have ice and Homeland Security at these venues. I think one

element of them struggling to sell out Hard Rock Stadium for this game is a little bit of lenal messy fatigue in Miami. I don't know whether you agree with that or not but when Miami flames out in the first round of the playoffs like they did last year when they lose in the semi-finals of another big tournament just recently I think there's an expectation of what Messi was gonna bring to Inter Miami that he has not brought in terms of on-field Trophies and and I think that's an element, you know that look Inter Miami doesn't they struggle to sell out some home games Like they're not hear that noise you got the layout breaking news wait Greg Cody is looking

around the room he's confused by that sound as if it's in here what do you know what this is or you don't know what you're saying no I know now you think you got a hard network out yes that's what I thought first time you've heard that's right that's the first time possible I had to see the spoon hitting a pan is that did Maury Povich is that associated with more chung he's married to Connie Chung and I thought it's hard copy right that's not a hard copy sound no I think hard copy was more like this this is a current affair oh yeah wait Maury Povich is on with us today this is his sound no? No, it's Connie Chung's. But he's married to Connie Chung.

Okay, we'll ask him. Women are not property. B.C.V. dude. Okay, well thank you. Thank you for that clarification. And a current affair is not for a copy. I appreciate it in these difficult times. What's the damn breaking news? Thank you. A good point by you. The Cody's are dialed. I have. The Cody's are dialed. Yes, the Cody's are dialed. Sir Tuesday baby. Another one. I mean, breaking news is something yes, the Cody's is a tear. Sir Tuesday, baby, another one. Breaking news is something you normally get to right away. How often do we do breaking news? You interrupted his thought.

What's the news? Okay, sorry, sorry. We don't have Roy here to tell us the news, though. Miles Garrett on Aaron Rodgers, quote, I think it's a good opportunity to put him in the graveyard. Oh, wow. Oh, wow.

We out here talking about Socky, and hockey is Socky, and we got football. We got Socky? We got a little Socky. Graveyard. I'm thirsty. We got a graveyard.

Yeah, but, Sons context, people think that he wants to kill Aaron Rodgers. Now he may actually want to kill Aaron Rodgers, We got a graveyard. Yeah, but, in San's context, people think that he wants to kill Aaron Rodgers. Now, he may actually want to kill Aaron Rodgers, but every Halloween, Miles Garrett has a graveyard in front of his house with all the... Did you not know that, Dan? Well, I was just starved for June news.

It didn't matter. I wanted to have exciting football time. I'm not sure. I think... Damn it, I missed that one I Think that possibly you're right, but given miles Garrett's history with current Steelers quarterbacks Maybe he actually wants to kill him a lot of people were revisiting that old Mason Rudolph thing You are on your game today, Chris Cody. You are flawless in this game.

A lot of people saying Sacred Heart has diarrhea. You know, I love you as a bumbling idiot, but I can get used to this guy. You have been in control, Chris. I don't know what to do with what has happened today. And here, we're gonna increase the degree of difficulty on you, executive producer, because now, these are the hardest of lessons.

We detour now into what is happening with immigration, ICE and California. Oh, what's happening in LA? Yeah, I mean- No, hold on a second. I'm putting this in Chris's lap before we take this detour because as you say, Mike, you've been placating the audience with we

don't do soup anymore we're hockey coverage well not a lot of race or politics talk around here in the last six months and it's been nice around here to not be talking about this stuff as I've also enjoyed the relief of just sort of pushing away from what's obvious encroaching fascism and how these things began in Nazi Germany and just the general heartbreak of watching this country while arguing about politics or arguing about transgender and all its disguises allows to happen daily. Something that a minority show that comes from minorities who are wildly, wildly grateful to be in this country and to have the opportunities of this country

to be turned into the other with rubber bullets and National Guard being sent politically to a left state so that you could rubber bullet protesters who are just like trying to get home through 2,000 National Guardsmen because this is what we're doing and not noticing that it's encroaching fascism? Chris, what are your thoughts on this? Don Bataar. I hit cannonball.

I swear I hit the cannonball sound and that's what played. He's back! I mean, that cannonball would have slapped there Cannonball would have slapped there I've got some breaking news G2's fired Cannonball! Now I needed the breaking news

I needed the kachung Where'd that come from? Chris is looking so- I thought someone in the back How is it that I got one Cody in here looking around for the kachung sound and another one in there saying where did this come from? All the good work I did. I'm going to the pedaling box.

Breaking news, I have the soups that have been eaten out of Lord Stanley's cup. Okay, so the famous story we have around here is Madonna telling us that he was eating What was it like linguine with heavy metal bands for three days and a weekend out of a tariff it was, Texas Yeah, I think that we have that story somewhere in our files. Yeah, but we lost our AP there a bit Okay, hold on a second though. He was penalized for something He just dismissed himself, and I don't even know what the penalty is here. Now, okay. Miner penalty, two minutes for adding nothing.

In 2022, Wade Klippenstein of the Colorado Avalanche ate borscht. Whoa, that's not a soup either, because that's cold. No, wait a minute, borscht is not soup. It's beet soup. Soup can't be cold. It's beet soup.

Soup cannot be cold. Clam chowder, but it has not been assigned to anyone. This is something, I assume it's when the Bruins won, but the player that did this, his name has not been released. Clam chowder has been eaten out of Lord Stanley and a Finnish salmon soup was eaten by Anton Lundell, a white Anton just 10 months ago. Never heard of borscht before. What is borscht?

Russian beet soup. No I hate it. I don't even need to know what it is. I don't like it. If you want a cold soup you gotta go Gus Potso. No there's not cold soup. Who's Gus? Soup's gotta be warm. People sometimes pair it with root beer floats. Borscht. Yep.

Soup's gotta be warm. Nobody's rule but yours. Gestapo. We discussed this yesterday. That's a totally different thing, Dave. I don't know what's going on. That's what's happening right now. We've talked about a lot of different things.

Jeremy, I want to apologize for what's going on in this studio today. What a hilarious mistake. That's right. You should go. Just let it sit. No, I'm not going to go. That was a bad mistake. Agreed. Agre You just let it sit. I'm not gonna go. That was a bad mistake agreed

Agree, you're not allowed to go not a soup. Gaspacho is not a soup, but also Gestapo is not a soup No soup for you. Gaspacho is absolutely a soup. It's not a soup a soup can't be cold this we discussed this yesterday It's what Mike Ryan's pissed today. It's where we started the show today's the day to do it What if you're eating split pea soup. That's a good soup. And you leave it out and it gets cold. Is that a cold soup? That is a cold soup. Thank you.

Soup. The defense rests. But it's just a cold soup that's been left out. Does it cease being soup? Does it cease being soup because you left it out? It's cease being soup, I'll eat. I'm not gonna eat it cold. So that's a barometer now.

So I mean it's like saying you have a ball of dough and you want to call it bread. It's like all the ingredients are the same but it's very cold. I think that because once the soup goes cold it's still a soup but the intention is not for you to eat that soup cold. It can remain a soup but it's not a soup I'm going to eat which puts it in a different category. You're picky. I'm not being picky here. Put it on the poll.

Will you eat split pea soup cold? Would you? Would you eat split pea soup cold? Yes, absolutely. You would? Is cereal soup then? Yes, it's a breakfast soup. No.

We've covered this. No. Breakfast soup. It's not a... What a made up phrase. It's a breakfast soup. Pasha. We were talking pasha? Breakfast soup. It's not a- What a made up phrase. That is not- It's a breakfast soup. Peshaw. We were talking Peshaw?

Yes. That's a proper response. Thank you. Peshaw? Of course, yeah. I have not heard somebody utter Peshaw. Hold on a second. Bring it back, Jack.

Guys, please look up the formal definition, Tony, right now of the word- What is that? Okay, it's P-I-S-H-A-W. I have not heard that phrase since the 60s. Chris Cody, please give me the back in my day music. I need to introduce the audience to Peshaw. Peshaw is a phrase of disgust

that is old even for Greg Cody's parents. I can't believe what he just said. That word has not been said by anyone in this country in 50 years. Look at Tony's face, he can't even what he just said. That word has not been said by anyone in this country in 50 years. Look at Tony's face, he can't even figure it out. No, no, no, we've got breaking news. We've got breaking news in the NBA.

Play the sounder. Play the cannonball. Chris. Dan, the breaking news, it never stops. According to Shamsharani of ESPN, the Knicks requested permission to speak with Jason Kidd and given firm rejection from the Mavericks. Ooh, Peshaw.

The Wolves and the Rockets also declined. So... Yeah, man, the Knicks not understand what a contract is? What is this? Get your own damn coach. Oh, New York is full of itself right now. They just fired Thibodeau and they're one of the best teams in the league and we get who we want.

I say that from a market that stole their head coach 35 years ago and it's never looked back. That's correct. New York is in the market for a coach and they have to do better than Thibodeau. They gotta get their fan base excited because their fan base is already excited. If you're gonna make this move, it's not-

How about Phil Jackson? They should try that over there. Greg, I'm so sorry that your thought got interrupted. I don't think it's messy fatigue. I just think it's a huge, giantstep that they're opening the this Club World Cup with two relatively small clubs compared to what's available They could open with Real Madrid and they'd get a guaranteed packed house I know but but but they're opening with Lino Messi in Miami well open with me with a much bigger opponent because as a

Brand the club that they're going up against is not even a bigger brand than Houston Dynamo. Okay but I guess what I would say to you have you heard what is true of the reports that they're giving away tickets on campuses and that there I know for a fact they were giving away no for a fact is different than I happen to know yeah yeah I know people plugged in on this it's there isn't first off in this market if you're a sports fan on Saturday I think your attention's on the ice even if you like soccer more just because of the stakes and yes There are stakes for the Club World Cup, but this is the first of its kind We really don't know what we're getting into here over time. It may become a big deal

We'll see what kind of spectacle they come up with and maybe this will serve as proof of concept and the rest of the Tournament which will have some very compelling matchups later on might actually be a draw and this might be a thing to excite people but out the gates I don't think you can come to Miami with inter Miami understand that's a brand and that's normal logic I get what that is but to pair them against an Egyptian club that's you're hoping for host nation World Cup type atmosphere when that's not the case you're creating something out of nothing and you got to come out the gate strong, I think.

One thing that's clear is that there was a huge miscalculation of the attraction of this opening game at Hard Rock Stadium. FIFA has already lowered prices like three times to the point where the face value now is a shell of what it used to be. Okay, so we're looking at embarrassment here. Last time soccer came here we had brown people climbing through the pipes at the stadium because we're looking at embarrassment here. Last time soccer came here, we had brown people climbing through the pipes at the stadium because we couldn't secure it correctly. I was there too.

So we're gonna have immigration issues now. All of this shit's gonna come to the World Cup. Sports is not gonna be free of this crap. No, and like I said, this competition, when it was a Confederations Cup, was a dress rehearsal. And I don't think we're gonna put our best foot forward here. A lot of people are nervous about traveling to the United States.

You may be on one side or the other. You may, look, I think most people are generally against illegal immigration. There is a common misnomer that people think that, well, you're progressive, you just want illegal immigrants here. That's not the case. It is a general consensus on these things.

But people want to be comfortable. Armed guards don't make people feel comfortable in this country. Anytime you go traveling over to Europe and you see assault rifles over there in the, in check-ins, you're like, Whoa, what is this? This is not a normal part of American life. And you're bringing it to a sporting event. That's just not a chill vibe. That's not the atmosphere that I'm going to for a celebration of sport. So I think they got a problem on their hands and I hope this serves as a

reason to soften this presence at games. This sounds like predicting embarrassment. This sounds like that's where we're headed. Well Infantino will not rest until like every seat is filled and he's gonna give plenty of tickets away, Greg. Right, even if he does though, I don't think it's gonna be filled. Is Infantino a super?