The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: I Happen to Have Heard (feat. Jessica Smetana)
22 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What fantasy football challenges are discussed at the start of the episode?
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Yes, but I'm really talking about the game day fit. The style's got to match the vibe. Smirnoff! All right, here's the deal. Game day is everything. And that's exactly why your fit has to match the occasion. Smirnoff!
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Here's the kicker. One lucky fan will take home the grand prize, a trip to the biggest game of the offseason. Plus, one fan will win Alaylee May's one-of-one game day jacket. Wow. The merch will be dropped on select dates from December to January 21, and it's all courtesy of what brand?
Smirnoff!
That's right, Chris. Fans 21 and over can head to Smirnoff Socials to learn how to sign up. And don't forget to grab a bottle of Smirnoff vodka, number 21, at your local retail. Smirnoff. Please drink responsibly. Smirnoff. Number 21 vodka distilled from grain, 40% alcohol by volume. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. Please do not share with anybody under legal drinking age.
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Chapter 2: How does the conversation shift to discussing Smirnoff and game day attire?
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Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right? Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is won when it hasn't hit triple zero. Always drink your Jägermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion. Everything else? Everything else. Wearing clean underwear every day? Well, that's just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth?
Obviously smart, but not a rule. Never pee-pee on an electric fence.
Okay, maybe there are two rules, but the one that is 100% that I insist on completely, Jagermeister, must be drank ice cold. Or don't drink it at all. Damn, that's cold.
Exactly. You're finally starting to get it. Drink responsibly. Jagermeister liqueur, 35% alcohol by volume, imported by Mass Jagermeister U.S., White Plains, New York.
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Jessica thinks Zazz is a liar. Zazz thinks LeBron is a liar. We'll get to the lies in a second. But I just want to tell you guys a quick story I heard Sean Penn tell the other day. A funny story. What did he say? As he was training for the movie Cops. Sean Penn was going out on, you know, he was going out on drives with officers. He was training.
He actually ends up in a drug bust where he's doing some of the things that he's learned, where he's got a gun out, he's got it on his hand. What is that that you're doing? I think it's like this. You're talking about having the flashlight and the gun so people can see stuff. Yes, that's what I'm doing. I'm doing the flashlight and the gun.
And he's been trained to also do the quick peek around the corner. And it's a quick peek. And if you see a gun, you shout gun. But the way that you can do the quick peek, nobody's reflexes are fast enough to shoot somebody who's doing a quick peek. We're talking about childhood friend of Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn? Yeah. Sean Penn, yes. Okay, got it.
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Chapter 3: What funny story does Jessica share about Sean Penn's training?
It makes sense. If you don't want to rent your own car at O'Hare and drive yourself there, or if you don't want to, I guess, just get on another plane because the flight from O'Hare to South Bend is around 25 minutes. No, I do. I want to get on another plane. I really do. I don't get surprising, folks. It's amazing.
Dan, here's my boarding pass. I still have it. Chicago, South Bend. Is that a symbol of an airplane or a bus? Put it on the poll at Levitard Show because I don't know the difference between an airplane and a bus. At Levitard Show, put it on the poll. Have you ever bought a flight and ended up on a bus?
Dan's like, this is not a first class ticket. I cannot read this. I got where you were going, Chris.
The only way your story could have been funnier is if the guy next to you was selling shower curtain rings. The problem, or one of the problems with Zaslow's story is that is a first class flight. He is, that is, you just can't end up on a bus when you've got a first class flight. That doesn't make any sense. There was no in-flight service either.
There was no like... They used to call them stewardess. What is it now?
Attendant. Flight attendant.
Yeah, flight attendant.
Did your tray have to be in the upright position?
They still love money, though.
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Chapter 4: How does Amin's misunderstanding about texting Jessica unfold?
Was Ralph Cramden driving the bus?
Reference. I got it. I mean, that bus driver... It's not online.
They have Wi-Fi and outlets.
That's a Honeymooners reference. That bus driver... That's not a, no. Just because you don't get the reference doesn't mean it's a bad, I got it. But it's 1950s bus driver on television, Jackie Gleason joke. And it was rebooted with Cedric the Entertainer in 2005. Ralph Cramden, not Jackie Gleason. He's right. He's not right.
Yeah, Jackie Gleason played Ralph Cramden in The Honeymooners, a television show that ran from when to when so that we can just have live back in my days with him talking about the origins of television. Dan, I'm not sure you're familiar with how acting works. See, the actor isn't actually a bus driver. He's portraying a character who is the bus driver. So Ralph Cramden is the answer there.
Jackie Gleason was just a guy who worked there.
Originally aired from 55 to 56. Well, originally, but it went into the 60s.
Syndication. Jessica, college football and all things college football are something that's an area of expertise for you. But I wanted to talk about what happened with Russell Wilson and Sean Payton before we get into the meat of the college football talk. It hasn't been often that Russell Wilson calls someone classless in public. I think a lot of people sided with Russell Wilson on this one.
Rare win for Russell Wilson publicly.
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Chapter 5: Why is Zaslow considered a liar in the context of travel stories?
Where are you, Jessica, on Mike's contention that Notre Dame fans don't like hearing very much that the Notre Dame job might be a stepping stone job for Marcus Freeman?
Well, that's how they're processing it. I'm not applying that.
I don't think that's true.
I'm not applying that even though it happened with Brian Kelly, where he left them for an SEC. And I understand why fan bases get bothered, especially a program so tradition-rich like Notre Dame and a team that literally just competed for a national title. I find it flattering that the NFL is interested in Marcus Freeman, that the Florida Gators and Penn State, two big programs.
Our dream number one candidate is Marcus Freeman. What Diana said is right, by the way. When we had Diana earlier, Jess, and we asked her specifically about the Chicago Bears' interest is,
marcus freeman's a bit different than all these other coaches that are a little dirtier when it comes to these things he is about his team when he is with his team if they are in it and they the problem last year with the bears was marcus freeman kept winning in the college football playoff and he was like keep that away it does although it work in line with what i'm hearing that if notre dame does lose another game this season if that happens to happen then it's kind of a green light for his agents to take some of these conversations a little bit more seriously
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I'm not plugged into that world. A lot of it is also posturing to get raises. So, I mean, I hope he doesn't leave Notre Dame, but we'll see. I don't know what you want me to say.
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Chapter 6: How does the conversation address the impact of coaching on college football?
This was a macroplastic. This is the kind of plastic you have to get removed by a surgeon because it's lodged into your core.
Probably better, right, than the micro? That's why I lost $6 on the valuation. No extra charge.
I don't think scientists are sure what the microplastics are doing yet.
I can guarantee they're not good because they're not supposed to be there.
Says who? Says me.
Guaranteed by Tony.
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Chapter 7: What are the specifics of Russell Wilson's recent public comments?
I can guarantee microplastics in my balls? Bad. I think they're great.
Ivermectin.
Can we do Tony's top five health-related opinions?
We could.
It'd be a great list.
Check out her weekly Notre Dame podcast. The Democratic shutdown stops. Finally, the guy. The Echoes with Mike Golick Jr. Again, weekly Notre Dame podcast. Jessica, thank you. Bye.
Bye.
Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right? Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is won when it hasn't hit triple zero. Always drink your Jägermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion. Everything else? Everything else. Wearing clean underwear every day? Well, that's just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth?
Obviously smart, but not a rule. Never pee-pee on an electric fence.
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