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This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stukatz podcast.

I had a friend who was a bad football player back in high school.

Couldn't run that football by us, so bought a team called the Well, boys.

So on the other night in this bathroom stall, I was walking in, he was walking out.

He came up to me and explained he has a few ginks, and all he kept talking about.

Glorios, ever just about that.

Glorios, careful where you put your eyes. Glorios, Glorios. Stugat said, In my ear, I don't know if it was my ear, everyone's ears, that song will always make me move. And then he added, No matter how shitty the lyrics. That was good. I mean. Jeremy, a hell of an effort. I appreciate that you keep taking these big, giant hacks musically. It's very vulnerable, and you're doing it very quick. We've been arguing with each other during the break because Greg Cody says Bud Grant is a perfect football name, but he also says that Bud Grant is cheating because his real name is Harry Peter Grant, and no one would trust Harry Peter Grant as their football coach.

No. Yeah. When I was looking up his real name, I learned that Bud Grant, Hall of Fame NFL coach, used to play in the NBA. I never knew that.

But Bud Grant is a perfect football name. Yes.

It is, but he changed his name to Bud to make it- Harry A perfect football name.

Harry Peter Grant is an imperfect football name. Billy was saying during the break that he would go to a Dr. Mcdaniel.

Yeah. Everybody knows that.

General Dr..

General Pro Practitioner. That's a good question. I don't know if Dr. Mcdaniel is getting that.

So Abe Guibron played for the bears in the '50s, and then he coached for the bears in the '60s and the '70s, but he also coached for a team called the Chicago Wins, which was a WFL team. Greg, do you remember the WFL in 1975?

I do. Yeah. I think a young Donald Trump owned a team for a time.

Is that the USFL you're talking about?

It could be. Yeah, I mixed up all those FLs.

Okay, very good. Excellent work. That was definitely what you're talking about. That was an expertise you went back- It's a lot of FLs. You just baffled. Look, he's tired from Sunday night.

Too many FLs. It's 11: 20. It's true.

You think that Herschel Walker and Donald Trump were on the team?

Yeah, they were teammates.

Well, they tried to sign Joe Namath. That was like Chicago wins, claimed to Fame, and I guess he said no.

Trump and Hersha Walker being aligned is crazy to you.

Being aligned in the '50s and '60s is the crazy part to me.

Terrible name, by the way. Chicago Wind. Time for America.

At Lebitard Show is the Wind a terrible name for a sports team.

If you beat that team, you're breaking Wind. Winds.

Plural. It's like a Windy City thing.

Correct. I got that.

That's still a bad name. My God, I can't believe how low common denominator, Cody and Stugats have decided to make the last 15 minutes. What do you mean? What am I doing? What am I doing? You're breaking wind?

Yeah. Living a pet.

Nobody calls it either of those things.

He's right, though. Wait a minute. Breaking wind is a common expression. That is not common.

Yes, it is. People know what that means, but people aren't saying that. I just broke wind.

Everybody says he broke wind.

That's what my grandma used to say.

Thank you. That's what my parents said.

She also said sugar instead of diabetes.

Did she really? Yeah. Wow. See there? That's verification. Thank you. Thank you. No, thank you, Jess. I appreciate you I understand that.

Imagine calling a team the Chicago Toots. No one would do it.

The Pets, Chicago Pets. That should be a nickname for a sports team. Which one? What's more More popular in America than pets. Everybody has a dog and a cat. We love pets. No team has ever been named the pets.

For the uninitiated in the Cody household since Greg Cody was very young, a million years ago. The way they refer to their farts is not merely pets, but it's because it rimes someone in the house, let a pet. That is not breaking wind. That is just the rhyming let of a pet. Right. And it's only called a pet, so he can say that a let has been pet.

What?

Or a pet has been let. You're confusing.

A pet has been let.

Excuse me. I'm sorry. I got so confused by the rhythmic wonder that is, you've been saying this for how long in your life?

It's Venmo Fine, by the way. That misspeaked by you.

Double.

Okay. Why is it double?

It's Tuesday. You denigrated the pet.

Do you have a back in my day, by the way, Tuesday?

I don't know.

Well, he did Sunday. Well, he worked Sunday.

Today is really his Wednesday.

Cut him a break.

Greg, you mentioned that pets are very popular in America, and you're right, which makes me wonder why team names aren't pet names. We always go with a Bulldog or some vicious cat, right? We never have the Golden Doodle.

Yeah, the Dumbin Charlie.

Exactly. How about the Chicago Dogs?

Get it? Because it's two things. I like that. It's pets and... I think you're on to something.

Thank you.

That's good. Dog pound.

What? Yeah.

By the way, I want to hark back for just a second. We were talking about changing flat tires. I want to tell you a fact, and you're going to think I'm kidding.

Okay.

Queen Elizabeth II, who we just lost, I think she lived to be almost 100, didn't she? She could change a tire because she was a trained mechanic who drove a military truck in World War II. Wow. I just picture her changing a tire, and it's pretty neat.

You got her sliding from underneath the car.

Yes, right. Changing the oil pan.

Lizzie tires.

I want you guys to look something up for me because this was told to me the other day, and I didn't believe it, and I didn't look it up, but I think it might be fact, that there was a time in royalty where there were a queen's or royalties handlers, people who were employed to simply take the blame if the queen or princess let a pet. People who were under the employ of royalty of the government and that their job, I don't know what this job was, like what it was called or what it is that were the qualifications.

The Metalard Video Department.

But they were just- It's called Stugatz. They are just meant to absorb the farts. Can you guys find some more information on this for me, please? Because I'd like to be able to close the loop on this if this is what we're going to be talking about. But the letting of a pet, how long has this been said in the household since- Since I was a child. So it was, Hand me down through the family. It wasn't even yours. It was something that your parents said? Oh, yeah.

My parents used to say that.

Wild Bill?

Yeah, Wild Bill and Root.

Do we know if it goes back before them? This is the family heirloom in the Cody household? Because no one else says this, correct?

No, I'm trying to pass it along to my offspring, and Christopher refuses to indoctrinate my granddaughter in the use of the word pet.

But there's no one else who does this, When Billy says toots and whatnot, do we have an assortment of colorful language that other people in here have used around the kids for what this is? Or is letting a pet the exclusive domain of Greg Cody never to be used by anybody else? It's not a common phrase of any kind, correct?

I mean, it could be, but Christopher doesn't want to pass it.

He just killed it.

I've said pet to my daughter, but she's more... She says toot. Whenever she farts, she's a big... I just tooted.

Well, you got to try harder with the pet thing. I will. Pet works on a different A couple of different levels. Quick example. If I let a pet in the house and Irlene's like, Greg, I'm like, Charlie did that. Jumping Charlie. Because Charlie is a pet letter like a lot of dogs, and it's very noticeable. It's a pungent smell. And so I am free to blame the dog for what I have discreetly done.

What does that have to do with it being called a pet, though?

You're letting the pet take the blame. Yes.

Thank you.

That's exactly it. That's what I You could let a tooth.

You can blame a tooth on a dog, too. You're acting like calling it a pet is now I can blame my dog on it because I call it a pet.

Because pets let pets. Pets let pets, and my wife knows that. Sometimes she'll remark how Charlie just made a big smell.

Do you ever let a pet and then blame the dog instantly?

Put it on the poll, Choo Choo at Lebitard Show. I did, I'm like, Fitty. At Lebitard Show, have you ever blamed a bodily odor on one of your animals at Lebitard Show?

I can't find the story that you were talking about, Dan, regarding royalty and blaming farts on others. But there is a story of Queen Elizabeth, apparently farting and then blaming the horses.

Yeah. I'm with her. Lizzie tires. So she The same theory. Classic.

Has your dog ever farted, Greg, and your wife doesn't believe that it wasn't you?

All the time. Every time. Yeah, all the time.

Has mom ever blamed a pet on the pet?

Women don't fart. You know that? Yeah.

Mine He does.

Whoa.

Oh, boy.

You're going to hear about that.

She doesn't listen.

Are you? Okay, thank God.

That's going to get back to her. Yeah, we'll get back to her.

By the way, as a racehorse owner, I'm going to testify, horses are very flatulent. Really? Yeah. Very, very flatulent.

Put it on the poll at Lebitard Show. Do you know that horses are very flatulent at Lebitard Show?

I saw a thing, Greg, the other day talking about transporting horses, and it said that they do enjoy the Expressway.

Oh, so we finally got to-Thank you. You said the opposite. No, he said that. That was me. I was the one questioning whether or not horses like things. Reader's Digest. We were talking about, though, generally horse racing because Greg also maintains that they like being whipped so that they run fast.

No, I've never said that. But there's a way to crop the horse that is humane. They have tough hide. Keep that in mind. It's like jumping Charlie. I and gently and for fun, I'll crack Charlie right on the ass. What? He loves that. Dogs love that. They like to be needed on the hind quarters.

I have the animals who fart the most. Cows, number one. Horses, are number three. Termites, an upset, number two. What?

No way. Talk about a small pet.

Small termites.

Do you think it If horses let a pet while they're racing, it helps them?

I think they do it all the time.

Move faster, a little turbo boost.

All right. You know what? The conversation wasn't dumb enough before. You had to add that plume of smoke to it.

It's like a net neutral because I feel like the three seconds before the fart, they like, I got something. But then when they fart, they catch up to whatever they lost.

They speed up. That's why they call it gas.

Yeah, like Mario Kart.

Press the gas. Exactly. Is that Termites?

Termites is what I was going to say. Termite is an upset. It's just, it really is. All of us. How do you measure that? You want a bad job. What do you do for a living? I think, I measured termite pets.

Imagine you're an exterminator the first time you hear one. Like, what? Was that you?

I need more information on this. Ron McGill doesn't know that. If I ask Ron McGill, Hey, Ron, termite, gassy? He doesn't know this, right?

He probably does, yeah. The exterminator's wife, Chris, is probably like, No fucking way. I know that was you.

You're blaming the term. Honey, I swear. Jess, has this happened around Willow? Does Willow get blamed for pets in the house?

Oh, all the time. But she has a very clean diet, except for the days when she comes to work and people feed her Chick-fil-A fries, and then all pets are off.

Yeah, you got to be careful. No more of that.

Greg, termites would be a great name for a team, right? Toronto termites? Yes.

I love that.

It has to be a T-City.

What is the weakest of the animals? There's a team called the Banana Slugs. That's not an animal. But in terms of weak animals, when Greg Cody mentions that all mascots are ferocious in some form, obviously, Oregon ducks are not terribly ferocious. But what is the weakest of the sports nicknames that involves an animal that's wildly unimpressive?

I was going to go with the color Jacksonville jumbo shrimp.

A banana slug is an animal.

I mean, a cardinal.

Cardinal? Yeah. Cardinals are mean birds. Are they?

I would whip a cardinal.

You mean the color cardinal?

Cardinals and Blue Jays. Are known in the flying kingdom. How about a pelican? What do you mean? Yeah, pelicans are goopy-looking. Stanford tree.

Sort of goopy-looking.

Are they still named the Stanford tree? No way.

That's the name of their band mascot. It's like this little annoying tree that dances around and makes fun of everyone.

He's a little jerk. Cardinal, singular, is the color. Cardinal is the bird.

Pepperdine's mascot is a wave, but waves can be strong. No, not someone waving down.

That's what I thought you meant.

Well, Tampa Bay changed their team name to the Rays, but not the Devil Rays. It's just the ray of light. Yeah, ridiculous.

Come on. They got afraid of that. Somebody from a church said, Why are you glorifying the devil? And they change the name.

Probably someone that survived a plane crash. Exactly.

Zagak.

Zagak.

Purdue is just a guy named Pete.

He's creepy, though. He's killed a lot of people.

Turns out that termite farts contain methane, and termites, apparently, produce 1-3% of all of our methane gas emissions. So termite farts are causing climate change.

You should ask Dr. Bendo for the next time you go about this, Greg.

I'm going to. Wow.

That's interesting. Purdue Pete is creepy. He really is. Why is that? How is it that you've created a mascot? There aren't a lot of other mascots that are creepy, right? That you would describe as- Friar.

He's creepy. So creepy. Pete's definitely got bodies in the closet. He's got witty vibes.

Who else in the mascot industry gives off creep?

It's Keely McBeam.

That's a good one. I always thought him as cartoonish.

Was a big baby the Pelicans had for a little Yeah.

King Baby Cake.

Yeah.

That was a little creepy. See, that was creepy. That baby was creepy. That's a good selection right there. We can't come up with five creepy mascots, can we? If we go history of sports.

The Oregon Duck's mascot is very creepy.

That's Donald Duck. How have they gotten away with that?

They had to get copyright, I think.

Permission, Billy. Really? I saw a whole TikTok about this recently.

I'm sure they did. Ohio State's mascot is very creepy. Brutus. Yeah, very creepy. With a big wide head. Very, very creepy.

I've never heard of Ohio State.

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Don Levatard.

Did you get lost on the way to Home Depot today, Dan? What's going on with the plants?

I've never seen. Get his ass, Mina. Stugatz.

You look like you're about to ask me to check the oil on my car or come over and look around and point things in my house that need to be fixed.

This is the Dan Levatard show with The Stugats.

Happy to see Mina Kimes here. We've got to get maximum information out of her. Everybody wants some football information. Also, I need to tell people that she's got a live show in February in which she is raising funds. All of the money is going to help people in the Palisades. So we will talk to her about that as well. But before we get started here, Mina, the question that we were talking about before you came on in Greg Cody's household, when he or someone else has farted since going back to his parents, they call it the letting of a pet. The letting of a pet. Has your family decided how they're going to handle this around and with your child?

Why is it called the letting of a pet?

I think it's a gentle way to say fart. My mother would go, Who let a pet?

Oh, like the sound, maybe? I'm just trying to understand the- Don't try to make sense of it.

Just try and bring it in your own household and give us anything good you've got there. Because Billy was arguing vigorously on behalf of the toot, the toot around children. Just call it a toot. Toot. Yeah, the toot. I didn't know whether anything in your household had a name.

No, it is just farts, but we have a little bit... We don't have any real husband and I parenting disagreements yet. Our child is too young to make difficult decisions around when it comes to actually discipline and things like that. But he does do something that is concerning to me, and I fear will breed bad habits, which is whenever my kid farts, my husband just applauds. I think now he thinks it's something... Because at this point, it's just all Pavlovian. Everything he thinks is just in response to what reaction it engenders. I'm worried he's going to come away thinking this is a good thing.

It is. I mean, you got to get it out.

No, but I think that might be some bad dadding. There might be some formative scars there on all of a sudden you've got a fourth grader that can't stop farting in the classroom because dad used to applaud it.

He's not a guy you want to take into a crowded Theater with a lot of applause.

I wanted to ask you, Mina, Osiris Torrance was quoted as saying on the last fourth and five play of the Chiefs, they set it up. It was like they were waiting to get in that situation all game to bring that one pressure. To hear that from the Bills locker room? I winced on behalf of the Bills on that one, the center just giving it up. Yeah, in a game where the Chiefs have won 17 times by one score, that's how they do it.

Yeah, it was so crazy busy when that happened, too, because Steve Spagnola, the Chief Defense Coordinator, we always talk about how great he is, right? But I also think, and it manifestsates itself in the creativity and timing and strangeness of some of these pressures, but I also think that he almost sequences them like an offensive coordinator, like how we think of Kyle Shanaher. He's calling this run to set up this play action pass later, and then he's going to use the same formation. And I think Spagnola does similar things because on that drive, the previous play, they zero blitz them. The Bills had the right call as a screen to Amari Cooper. Just unfortunately, he tripped and didn't get the first down. It really looked like they were going to zero him again. I think Alan thought he would have the shallow cross, and they just looked totally unprepared for what ended up happening. It was a reminder that the Chiefs Defensive Coordinator not becoming a head coach has been such a pivotal part of this dynasty.

We were talking before you came on about how to do the measurements on which of these coaches are actually going to be able to bring leadership in a league where McCarthy is still coveted somehow, and I wouldn't have thought that McCarthy would be coveted anymore, not with the young kids coming up. Which are the hires that you're looking at that you're excited by because you think those people are bringing something that other people can't bring?

I am really excited about the Ben Johnson hire in Chicago because I don't think, and Dominic and I disagree about this sometimes, I don't think it's like a knee jerk, you got to hire the hot young coordinator with the best offense. I understand that sometimes that doesn't work. Sometimes you want more of a CEO type coach or defensive-minded head coach. But watching that offense in Detroit the last couple of years and then watching what Caleb had to deal with this year, I'm really interested in seeing a more quarterback friendly offense for him, and I think it's going to be really successful.

Counterpoint, it's the bears.

How many teams can you say that? When people are like, Hey, I'm really hopeful this Jags coach is going to really get the most edge chart for the list, and people go, Excuse me, it's the Jaguars. What percentage of teams can you actually pull that for? Because I feel like it's happening.

I can answer that. You could say for 40 years. I've been saying it for 40 years with the Jets.

The Jets, the Jaguars, the bears, those ones for sure. The dolphins.

The dolphins. Steve, I like your coach higher, Aaron One. So do I.

Yeah, so do I. Just because he wants to be there. I mean, that's a good starting point. I know.

He came out in that press conference. He was like, Buckle up your seatbelts. I was like, All right, a little bit of a strange image because you're a jet, and is it countering turbulence if you have the seatbelts? Out. But then he was like, This is Jets football. And I'm like, Aaron, You know what Jets football connotes, right? And he said it like it was a good thing.

Mina-new York Jets. Were the Raiders desperate or smart to make Pete Carroll the oldest coach in history?

I think smart in a lot of ways. With a lot of these coaches, when they're hired, I always give this cowardly caveat. I don't know if he's going to be a good leader, but it's true. We really don't know with a lot of these guys if they're going to be the next John McVay or insert Urban Meyer. Well, we knew about Urban Meyer. But I think with Carroll, the advantage you have is we already know. The guy is an unbelievable leader. He is beloved by players. I also think he has a proven track record with the young quarterback. He's very, very smart at coaching defense. The only concern I would have is if you're the Raiders and you're drafting a young quarterback, how long is he going to be the head coach? But other than that, I thought it was a pretty good hire.

Are the Raiders one of those teams, too? I feel that you can just be like,.

People do that. How many times can you not do that? I guess the four remaining playoff teams.

I'll make a list. I'll get back to you.

Let's play for Mina, Jerry Jones talking here. Mina, what is your reaction to this sound right here?

There's a very low percentage of this that is smiles and glory holds. Very low. What is that?

Let's Let's play the longer version for Mina here so that she could fully sink into it.

For me, it's a reminder. I, too, have been here 23 years.

It is a reminder.

I've been here when it was glory Hole days, and I've been here when it wasn't. Having said that, I want me some glory Hole. The rough times that you have with sport, everybody has it. Everybody, you can't really play unless you have some hard times. But it is the absolute glory hole to have that elusive win to be the champion.

Mina, do you believe that Jerry Jones is brilliant?

Well, is that the question? I think he's very old, and maybe there's an old-timey definition of that term. This is It's actually happened with Jerry Jones before, where he's used a term and everyone was like, Wait, what? And then it turned out to be something that was retired in the 1930s.

No, that's what it is. It's gold or drilling or something. It's something. But that's not how anybody received it.

It meant something different when he was a kid.

Even Greg Cody, yes, who is 70. Even Greg Cody knew better than to use that. Whatever information Jerry Jones has on that word, we called the cowboys. We asked them, Has someone told Jerry this? And they're like, No, they're all too afraid to tell.

What's great, though, microcosm of the Dallas Cowboys in general. Stuck in the past and two people are too afraid to tell the owner.

What do you find to be most interesting about this Super Bowl?

I think, first of all, the coaching matchup is really fascinating. Remember in the previous, there were a couple of questions ago when I I can't wait to see this young, brilliant offensive mind, Ben Johnson. And I really do think that that's going to work out. But then you look at the Super Bowl and it's like a bunch of old dogs. I mean, it minus Kelen Moore, it's Andy Reid, Vic Fangio, Steve Spagnolo, old, brilliant coaches. And I think that that's cool. I think the battle between Reid and Fangio in particular is really intriguing to me. I think you got one team with the best quarterback, and then you have one team that clearly has a better team in the Philadelphia Eagles. That's interesting to me because it always tests the importance of the quarterback position. Not that Patrick Mahomes is his team, that he has good players. But I'm just saying the Eagles are on paper the better team. But I suspect a lot of people are going to pick the Chiefs just because they have a better quarterback.

I'd say that teams you can offhandedly dismiss are the bears, the raiders, the jets, the browns, the jags, Carolina, the dolphins, and the giants.

It's a good list. It is.

Teams you can't dismiss anymore, commanders Bucks, Lions.

But People don't do that with the giants. When someone says, Oh, it seems like the sugar standard is going to be great there. People aren't like, Excuse me, sir. It's the Giants. You have to imagine, Can somebody use that voice?

I live with a Giants fan who dismisses every positive thought I've ever tried to offer him about the Giants. I'm like, Oh, but they should have said, Oh, this Malik Naibar is really good. He's like, No, you're wrong. They're terrible. They've always been bad. Even the Super Bowl teams were bad. They were the worst team ever. I'm like, Okay, fine. You're right.

He missed the glory I mean. Glory Hole.

Thank you.

Glory Hole would be a great name for... Well, I'm sure that there are bars named after it, but like a stadium, like a college football stadium. Come to the city.

The Glory Hole.

The Hole. Glory Hole, where legends are made. Glory Hole.

Come on by.

You never know what's on the other side. Glory Hole.

Do you want to keep going? No, please do. You're all done? Okay, excellent. The I asked this question of Diana Rusini before poorly, but how many offensive Eagles are better at their jobs than Jalen Hertz is at his job? How many people, and I don't even mean this as a slight on Jalen Hertz. It's just to illustrate- It feels like a slide to me. No, but it's just to illustrate how loaded a team that it is. I'm really asking Mina, how many people do for the Eagles on offense their jobs better than Jalen does, meaning no insult to Jalen.

Well, the way you phrased it is insulting to him the Anyway, I think the actual intent of the question is, how many people rank higher in their positions across the league than you would rank Jalen Hertz, a quarterback? And it is not actually about Jalen because I think everyone sees at minimum a top 15 quarterback, it's really about the Eagles being an all-star team, which is what you're alluding to, right? Multiple positions on the offensive line. They have some top one, but top five players. Aj Brown is top five receiver. Dallas Goddard Maybe top five, tight-end. He's a little bit out of it. At this point, Saquon Barkley top one or two running back. That's ridiculous. So you're looking at least four or five players, Dan, who are all pro-Pro Bowl level at their positions.

Mina, let me try it this way because Greg and I were having this discussion about Jalen Hertz. In a weird world, if the Eagles could decide to play in the Super Bowl and they had to choose one of these guys to sit, Jalen Hertz or Saquon Barkley, which guy would they choose?

That's such a good...

You're so good at this. That's a good question. How has first take never done that?

It hurts.

I think they go... Well, Mina, look. The answer's a good one. I just saw what happened to the Dolphins, okay? This has been an amazing thing to watch happen in my lifetime. I just saw what happened to the Dolphins when they had to go to their backup quarterback. The fact that this Eagles's team in a previous incarnation with a different coach beat Tom braided and thumped him the head with Super Bowl MVP backup quarterback, nick Foles. The fact that this team can win Super Bowl's while hiding their quarterback.

The comparison to Miami is so great because it shows you it's not Lee Lee about the quarterbacks. The fact that the Miami Dolphins offense fell apart without Tua doesn't mean that, Oh, my God, Tua's worth every penny. Although I think you certainly see his value to the offense in some ways, it shows you how horribly constructed the offense is, right? I mean, you watch that offense. I've seen Tyler Hunt have success with the Baltimore Ravens as a backup quarterback. He almost made this in the since the happy bagels that one year. But you watch him in the Miami offense and you realize, Man, Miami. Did I say Dolphins? Dolphins offense. It's so fragile. It's so reliant on the fact that the quarterback throws the ball quickly. That's not a good thing. It's great that the quarterback does, but you don't want an offense that completely falls apart if you can't have a quarterback who throws the ball in less than two and a half seconds.

Just to be clear, because I think Stugatz, you confused maybe yourself and the audience, you made it sound like if you had to bench one of the other, you said the obvious answer is Saquon.

It is the obvious answer.

You would bench Saquon?

Yeah, I would want to play the Super Bowl with Jalen Hertz.

He wants Hertz and Will Shipply instead of Saquon and Kenny Picket.

Will Shipply had four carries for 77 yards. Anyone could run behind that line. Sorry, Saquon.

I think you're right. I'm going to walk back. I think you would go with Hertz, but I don't think anyone could do what Saquon is doing behind that offensive line.

I want to play a new game with Mina based on yesterday, where all of us were confused for some reason between an assortment of bills named Dallas, Dawson, and Dalton. So time for a new game here with Mina. It is Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson is what we're going to do here because we... Oh, wow. Yes. Bill's white people that have run around, and we confused whether they're Dallas, Dawson, or Dalton.

Can I get the choices again? I got to write this down.

Yes, we're going to put up some pictures for a second. I think Mina is going to play this game better than everybody else. I appreciate that we're playing this game.

I don't know their faces that well.

For those keeping track, it's called Dalton, Dallas or Dawson.

That's right. Is it Dallas Clark? Is it Dalton Kincae? Don't give hints.

All right, let's look at the first picture. Put it up, guys. Here we go.

Very game show hosty.

All right,Mina, sorry for the audio audience. Who is that?

That's Dawson Nox.

I think. That is Dawson Nox. Good job, Mina.

Yes, Mina, way to go.

For the audio audience, Mina just saw a picture of Dawson Knox.

Let's see the next one. Go ahead, Mina. This is easy because it's the same team.

Yeah, that would be Dalton Kincaid. All right.

Good job, video team. Probably should have gone with another one.

Let's do the next one. The audio audience. Mina just saw a photo of Dalton Kincaid, the Bill's logo on his head.

Jersey.

It's got to be Dallas. All right, Mina, who's that?

I don't need to do it.

I don't know who this man is.

That's Dallas Clark.

What? And former Colts. What a Colts uniform she would use.

He looks like Tim Allen. I was going to say the same thing.

Yes, that was the era of Colts football where we were always asking if Peyton Manning could get a shopping cart with a mannequin arm into the Hall of Fame. All All right, let's do the next one with Mina.

Mina, who's that?

That's James Van der Beek.

What was his famous character? No. Dawson. No, that's Dawson.

Mina, that's not the way the game is played. You don't play that. Is it Dalton, Dallas, or Dawson? That's James Van der Beek.

For the audio audience, Mina just saw a picture of a man named James.

All right, our final one. Show Mina.

Oh, wow. Yes. Mina, you don't know these movies, do you, Mina? I do.

I know the actors.

Right. Mina?

You don't know the actors. Is this Roadhouse? Yeah.

Yes.

Dallas something would be my guess.

That's a good guess. Understandable, but that's Dalton. That's a Dalton.

I've never seen Roadhouse.

Good game.

That was fine.

All right. Excellent work.

She does that thing where she lies about telling you she's seeing a movie just because she wants to be part of the conversation. I know.

I mean, do you really have to see Roadhouse to guess what Roadhouse is about?

Do you believe Mina? We were talking about this yesterday. Are you believing the statistical or it's a statistical fact that CBS can accurately promote Kathy Bates in Matlock as America's new favorite television show? Can they accurately do that? Do you believe the ratings that that can be America's new favorite game show or a new favorite television show?

I think you could make a poll. You could pull three people in an office and say that it's a representative sample of America. I was thinking about this, though. Who was it? I think it was Jim Brown, so it must have been CBS, who was thrown into some new show they had with Morris Chesnut, and he was like, Fox. Watson. He won't believe it. He's a doctor. And I'm like, But he's also a detective. And I was just thinking to myself, God, I'm going to miss hearing these guys throw to these new network shows so much.

I think it's a Sherlock spinoff. It's like a Sir Arthur, Connen Doyle, Dr. Watson spinoff. He's a lawyer. But?

He's He doesn't play by the rules.

Would you go to an ENT named Iberflus?

Dr. Iberfluce.

Yes.

Yeah.

But not a podiatrist.

Would you go to a podiatrist Chris named Eber Fluss.

Yeah. Why not? I don't know.

Just don't want him in the lower half of the body.

Mina, should the dolphins play in Finland? That's what Greg said earlier. Great question.

Why? Because just because Finn?

Yeah. You get it.

Reason enough. Andy doesn't want to go to Spain. He says it's 4,000 miles away. He doesn't want to-I think it's pretty clear the dolphins shouldn't be anywhere near cold weather.

It's a good point.

This generation of-When's that game in Spain, Mina?

If you've heard of the Hubbub around in the lead. That's what we're planning to do. We're trying to plan out this trip, but they're really waiting until the last minute.

You're trying to get- Prices are going up. The show to send you to Spain to cover- No, we're going to visit my wife's family.

Wink, wink.

We will get to the bottom of the reporting on that Dolphins to Spain story. We will let you go on that note, Mina, unless you have any more super secret, important Super Bowl thoughts that we need to hear before you leave.

No, I just wanted to thank you guys again for mentioning my show. If you're in Los Angeles, it's next Monday. We still have some tickets available. Double your tickets will be donated to charity. It's minapodlive. Com to get tickets for details. We got merch. I'm excited to meet you, hang out a little bit. So, Tom, it's going to be fun.

Tell people who's going to be there, too, because you're geeking out. This is football family for you.

A couple of my favorite pod/friends will be there with me. Greg Rosenthal and Jordan Regg from NFL Daily, and then my friends who are Eagles fans, Chris, so we'll see how this goes. Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald, pardon me, from the Ringer. A hundred % of proceeds go to Wildfire Relief here in Los Angeles.

I want to play for you here before you get out of here. I will remind people again that the mean Time Show featuring Lenny is a very popular podcast where you can get a ton of football information and other things because she doesn't always geek out, though mostly geeks out on football. Let's play for her this sound and get her thinking on this.

That's what this is about.

Oh, no. Jacksonville. I can't watch it.

No, I can't. The community.

No, I can't watch it. Dubal.

How do we do this together? It's creepy. She feels bad. It's hard to watch.

I think he's going to be a good coach, but yeah, it's a tough watch. Dubal. Oh, the second... Oh, stop it.

Dubal. No, no.

It is creepy.

Willies.

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