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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 Marshawn 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. 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. Right there. Right there. It was blatant anti-Semitism. That is how you do executive producing. He always starts with the broadcastry slow jog sing song. He got your ass, Jeremy. He got your ass. That's how you EP. Hey, Jeremy. I like that.

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 matzo ball soup off the list, Dan? Not thick enough. Never had it. Not thick enough. Never had it. The matzo 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 going to push back against hockey. Those people left, dog. They left. We've been talking hockey for years around these parts. So, yeah, after the Panthers win game three, 6-1, and everyone's fighting and Jonah Gajevich 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. McDavid, that's a fine. 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 chili guy, I guess. Which I am. Totally a chili guy. Wendy's chili, especially. Look, we're... Oh, that's a shame. I mean, ridiculous. It was on, but we started the show. Topics aren't up and now my mic's not on. Okay, listen. Don't start the show yet. I can't do a show with this Mike Ryan and old matzo balls over here. I can't do it this way.

This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Three good questions just asked in rat-a-tat-tat fire between Greg Cody and Dominique Foxworth. Is jambalaya a soup?

No. Is gumbo a soup? This might be the stew category. Is chili, can chili be a soup? Hold on. He said stew. Where does 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 thumb, never trust a stew.

How have you never had matzo ball soup? That's true. And when you say stew's in a separate category and it's apart, 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 stew gots 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 Stugat and it's God Bless Football. And he's growing both of them with his own studios. Mike, have you seen those studios? Yeah, they're very nice, very pristine. I don't know where that is. Is that closer to his home? It's in Jacksonville, yeah.

So Stugatz will be back soon. But in the interim, we've got Dominique Foxworth here ruining the show by starting with soups. 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 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 want to just be a one-trick pony and take the air out of it. So when Game 1 of the NBA Finals happens, I bone up on it. Tyrese Halliburton hit a game-winning shot. I got to come with stats. I'm hosting. I got to get the people what they want. Game 1.

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. 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 want to start with soup, would you prefer to start with salad? Hey.

It depends on the taste. Mozzarella sticks? 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 soup. 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 Beelzebub'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 for 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. Yeah.

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 were. 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 noodle.

No, boring. What? Yeah. Boring. Chicken noodle. And also, like Jeremy, on behalf of Italians, where's Italian wedding? You're getting close. The best soup ever is sausage and lentil, which is in the neighborhood. No, I'm with my dad on this. You're saying that chicken noodle soup is bland. You're appalled by what he's alleging here. At Levitard Show, is chicken noodle soup the king of all the soups? Sausage and lentil? What?

What is it? 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 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.

eating my sausage and lentil soup. You are 0-3 in cooking competitions around here. I will never eat your sausage nor your lentil, sir. Remember when he had his Thanksgiving leftover soup? 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 apologize. We're going to change that today. Jeremy's raw. Let's get him some. Give me some matzo ball soup. There's got to be a deli around the corner. 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 going to say it's f***ing 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 got to be a cream. It's got to 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 in the chicken, but you're

getting the carbs with the matzo ball. It doesn't rise to anything. It's matzo. I've never seen Chris Cody so indignant as to call you dumb to your face because you did not respect. 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. I also said, well, I'm not a horse. I'm not going to eat whatever that slop is. I may have been looking at Dom, 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. It's just a good soup.

And I know good food, so I will just not sit here and let you guys smirch. Well, this is the indignance. What happened there was the indignance. I've never seen a more confident you. You stepped in with my wheelhouse. No one will speak ill of the sausage and lentil. It was handed down from my father. Those little 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. Italian wedding. Wedding, yeah. Little meatballs. So as an 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. Yeah, you take all the leftover macaroni. Yeah, a little thickness to it. 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. Oh.

Now that's a meal. If we're going to the Asian suits, Tom Young. That's good, too. We like that. Fah wasn't even nominated yesterday. Well, you could have used me. What a bad idea this was.

Well, you're pissed off because this is what... See, look at us. A day removed from Game 3, now we can talk soup. There's plenty of time for us to decide when we talk soup around here. Got NBA Finals tonight, too. Big game tonight. We're doing three shows in 24 hours. Yeah, we are. We are going to be here, so less people complain they're not getting enough of us. I have Kane's insight today for the...

People that want to talk Super Regional. Also, it's got to do with Ali Oop after that. That's right. What we're doing tonight with Mero at 8 p.m., we are doing his pregame show to Ali Oop. So there's a lot. Over the next 24 hours, it's going to be more content from the show than any time 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, newfound for the coverage of the Panthers who are champions and are enduring kind of excellence.

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 program 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 the 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? Come on, man. We're talking a lot of Panthers hockey. They're in the final. Not enough. Not enough.

But not enough. I would argue either. It's like five shows. I would argue let's either talk soup or let's talk Panthers. Let's not talk about us talking about Panthers. You're 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 in 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 pregame 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 to and from? That's good, though. Get them out there on the beach. 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. 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. Yeah, he is Canadian. 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 of it. 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 finals. I have a question that will bring everyone together. It'll bring the soups and the hockeys into one place. If you had the Stanley Cup for one night, what soup would you eat out of? Ooh.

Let me see what soups have been eaten. Isn't that the same game as what's your favorite soup? I was tricking him. Come on. You are too much on your game today, baby. You are too much on your game. 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 judgment. We're genuinely confused by it. He's throwing me. Get my man a gummy.

Dan Levitard. My wife says this is a sexy voice. It really is. Yeah. I'm hard. Thank you. Wow. Stugatz. So am I, actually. I don't know why. This is the Dan Levitard Show with the Stugatz. I want to get to what is happening with USA Soccer because this, you know, locally we do care about soccer.

Though 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 going to have championship Panthers...

that you're going to have a situation where they get a inner Miami and you guys, who bet? What is the name of this other club? Forgive my ignorance here. - Alali, 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 in 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 to. 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 population

of the Club World Cup. What a tremendous idea. What passion. But they're really swinging big here. There's plenty of reasons why this would fail. It's the first year of the tournament of this kind. It's on DAZN. Not many of the games are on Turner. There's only 24 of the games on Turner Sports. So it's a big ambitious swing and it's probably going to take a couple of additions for this tournament to really gain traction

Another thing that's kind of looming all over this is 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 there.

right now about going to these games. I happen to know. - Uh oh, wait a minute. - Happen to know. - Wait a minute, there's a happen to know. - Happen to know from. - Mike, do we, no, that's not a, I thought we were gonna get imaging for when Mike's reporting happen 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 going to put his name out there, 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. Johnny Infantino really cares about optics. So they are going to 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. And 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're going to 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 the Egyptian opponent, 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 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's been in South Florida for a while, acclimating. It's going to be very difficult. I think this competition's 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 Messi, I doubt, will ever get to. And wow, what a ripoff that'll end up being if all of us

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 Messi because they were trying to grow it in Boca. How many seats do they have in that stadium? You're talking about going ten times the size? Eight 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. Around. I was going to say 64. Around 70. And while Messi is out of contract at the end of the MLS 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 and the World Cup to South Florida with a watch party that, Mike, you're saying is going to be filled with a bunch of people who aren't actually caring about the event they're at. No, no, no. I think this watch party, you must care. You have to care about soccer. We're going to be super caring about it. If you're going to show up at Grails and thanks to Boost Mobile for 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. Keep in mind, Grails is a sports bar. I imagine there's going to 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 a

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 the united states doesn't

However, if you look at what happened in the Copa America final a couple of 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 and 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 going to 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 has 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. Johnny Soccer.

I think one element of them struggling to sell out Hard Rock Stadium for this game is a little bit of Lionel Messi 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 semifinals of another big tournament just recently, I think there's an expectation of what Messi was going to bring to Inter-Miami that he has not brought in terms of on-field trophies. And I think that's an element. Look, Inter-Miami doesn't... They struggle to sell out some home games. Like, they're not...

When you hear that noise, you got to lay out. Breaking news. Wait, wait. Greg Cody is looking around the room. He's confused by that sound as if it's in here. Do you know what this is or you don't know what just happened? Yeah, I know. I know now. Did you think you got a hard network out? Yes, I did. That's what I thought. Greg, I thought I did. Is that the first time you've heard that sound? Greg, that's the first time. That's impossible. No, I've heard it before.

I had to see the spoon hitting a pan before I realized. Did Maury Povich, is that associated with Maury Povich? He's married to Connie Chung. And I thought it was hard copy, right? That's not a hard copy sound? No, I think hard copy was more like, this is a current affair. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. People confuse those. Wait, Maury Povich is on with us today. This is his sound? No, it's Connie's.

Connie Chung's. But he's married to Connie Chung. Okay, we'll ask about it. Women are not property. Vis-a-vis, Dan. Okay, well, thank you. Thank you for that clarification. An inferred affair is not for a copy. What's the damn breaking news? Thank you. A good point by you. The Codys are dialed. I have. The Codys are. Yes, the Codys as a team. Sir Tuesday, baby. Another one. I mean, breaking news is something you normally get to right away. Yes, yes, yes. 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. We out here talking about sake and hockey and sake. And we got football. We got sake? We got a little sake. Graveyard. I'm thirsty. We got a graveyard.

Yeah, but sans 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? 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...

But he actually wants to kill him. A lot of people were revisiting that old Mason Rudolph thing. A lot of people saying Sacred Heart has diarrhea. You are on your game today, Chris Cody. You are flawless. 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 going to 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 L.A.? 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 covers. 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

and 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 can rubber bullet protesters who are just like trying to get home from

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't look hard. I hit cannonball. I swear I hit the cannonball sound and that's what played I've got some breaking news fired

Now I needed the breaking news. I needed the ka-chung. Where'd that come from? I thought someone in the back. How is it that I got one Cody in here looking around for the ka-chung sound and another one in there saying where did this come from? All the good work I did. I'm going to the penalty 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 the cup. Probably Pantera if it was Texas. Yeah, I think we have that story somewhere in our files. Yeah, but we lost our AP. Okay, hold on a second. He was penalized for something. He just dismissed himself, and I don't even know what the penalty is here. Now, okay. Minor penalty, two minutes for adding nothing.

In 2022, Wade Klippenstein of the Colorado Avalanche, 8-4-6.

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 finished 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've got to go Gus Poncho. No, there's not cold soups. Soup's got to be warm. People sometimes pair it with root beer floats. Borscht. Yep.

Soup's got to be warm. Nobody's rule but yours. Gestapo. We discussed this yesterday. That's a totally different thing, man. I don't know what's going on there. That's what's happening right now. We've talked about a lot of different things. Hey, Jeremy, I want to apologize for what's going on in his studio today. What a hilarious mistake. That's right. Just let it sit.

That was a bad mistake. Agreed? Agreed. You're not allowed to go. That's also not a soup. Gazpacho is not a soup, but also Gestapo is not a soup. No soup for you. Gazpacho is absolutely a soup. It's not a soup. A soup can't be cold. We discussed this yesterday. It's why Mike Ryan's pissed today. It's where we started the show. Today's the day to do it, though. 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. The defense rests.

But it's just a cold soup that's been left out. It's a cold soup. Does it cease being soup because you left it out?

It ceased being soup I'll eat. I'm not going to eat it cold. Oh, 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. You'll...

Put it on the poll. Would you eat split pea soup cold? 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. Breakfast soup. What a made up phrase. It's a breakfast soup.

Pasha. We were talking pasha? Yes. That's a proper response. Pasha? Of course. I have not heard somebody utter pasha. Hold on a second. 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 Pasha. Pasha is a phrase of disgust that is old even for Greg Cody's parents. Right. I can't.

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 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. Ah, Dan, the breaking news. It never stops. According to Shamshirani of ESPN, the Knicks requested permission to speak with Jason Kidd and given firm rejection from the Mavericks. Peshaw.

The Wolves and the Rockets also declined. So... Yeah, man. Does 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 now. I say that from a market that stole their head coach 35 years ago and has never looked back. That's correct.

New York is in the market for a coach, and they have to do better than Thibodeau. They've got to get their fan base excited because their fan base is already excited. If you're going to 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, giant misstep 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 leonel messi in miami well open 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 what 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 they're i i know for a fact they were

giving away tickets on campus. No for a fact is different than I happen to know. Yeah. I know people plugged in on this. 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...

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've 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 this year.

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 couldn't secure it correctly. I was there, too. So we're going to have immigration issues now. All of this shit's going to come to the World Cup sports.

sports is not going to 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 going to 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. Look, I think most people are generally against illegal immigration. There's 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 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 every seat is filled, and he's going to give plenty of tickets away, Greg. Right. Even if he does, though, I don't think it's going to be filled. Is Infantino a soup?