The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Misogynist Bane Returns (feat. Jessica Smetana)
Thu, 05 Jun 2025
Meadowlark Media's aviation expert Jessica Smetana joins the crew to chat about The Rehearsal, French Open, Women's College World Series, and Xenon gas. And when she leaves, the show immediately says a bunch of stuff that would have been made fun of by Jess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the story behind tequila?
Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here? Cuervo.
Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
Cuervo.
Cuervo.
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
Jessica negotiated a very difficult deal in order to get to New York and have in her contract something that said that at any time that we were talking about aviation, she gets an alert and gets to just drop into the show and talk about aviation as our aviation expert and the one who just is fascinated by flying, is tracking flights in her spare time, and must be, I would assume, fascinated by the show we were just talking about.
with Nathan Fielder. Mike is right that the awkward comedians, it's Ali G, it's Norm MacDonald, it's Andy Kaufman, but Nathan Fielder wants to take his place among the all-time greats with awkward because what he's doing, the curse is also great. I'm telling you, it's not just this. the rehearsal that's great on Max. I just can't believe the freedom this guy's getting. So Jessica, thank you.
It's nice to see you again. I want all of your thoughts on the rehearsal because I'm assuming you're just fascinated by all things Nathan Fielder. And I just can't believe he's using his comedy this way to actually affect change. He's going to actually do good with what his show is attempting to do. Nice to see you.
Hi, Dan.
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Chapter 2: Why is Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal so impactful?
I heard there was another dog in the studio last week. What happened with that?
It's Ethan's dog.
Yeah. Not nearly as cute.
I never want to be the dog after the dog.
There are certain words, certain phrases that get Stugatz to stir. There aren't many of them. Roland Garros. Ah, the red clay. Yeah.
is is something that i see i i see a fire go off in my partner uh that that springs to life whenever it is roland garros it's not even the french open it's just roland garros does something to him uh it's perfect and we have such a great men's semi-final and women's semi-final like the matches the competitors left at the french open i gotta tell you something i mock the french open all the time because it seems like a different major in fact i have said that it shouldn't be a major
But when you have chalk get through to the semifinals at Roland Garros on the red clay, you have yourself a tournament, Dan. That's what we have. We have Alcaraz. We have Djokovic. We have Sinner. I mean, what a final we're going to have both on the men's side and the women's side. It's going to be fantastic. A great weekend of tennis. I love Roland Garros.
If you had to rank these shows, you've got to rank these from bottom to top, Jessica. I'm going to give you four shows here that most of us are watching. Watch. The rehearsal. the studio, hacks, and gemstones. If you have to rank those four, three, two, one, how would you rank those?
That's difficult because gemstones just ended. The series finale came out like a month ago. I love, love, love gemstones. I think they Danny McBride is so funny and man, just, it's such a funny show. They're satirizing, you know, Christian mega churches in the south. Um, so it's sort of right up my alley a little bit. Um, I love gemstones hacks. I.
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Chapter 3: What are Jessica Smetana's thoughts on The Rehearsal?
Yeah, my bad there. Oh. Oh. So you went the Roastmaster General is what you did. That's the most boring comedian name to say. All right, fun comedian name. Two minutes. Stumbling.
Get out. Get out.
Thank you. Gary Owen, good guess. Not great name, though, in terms of fun to say. No, but great black comedian.
We needed to ask more follow-up questions. He didn't really answer how many black comedians he was competing against when he won Best Black Comedian in San Diego as a white comedian.
He just offered up, look, man, it's not like it was in New York.
He said, yeah, it's not Brooklyn, but he didn't. When I said, what were the contestants like? He's like, they were all right. And I'm like, I wasn't asking for the comedy competition. I was like, were they white or black? Who were you competing against?
Your question said Gary Owen had trouble getting off the ground.
He helped us anyway, despite my deficiencies. Jessica, nice seeing you. We'll talk to you again next week.
Tell Mike sure I'm sorry.
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