Chapter 1: What is the main topic of The Great Soup Cook-Off of 2025?
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Mike Ryan is in position. Greg Cody is indignant that he's never won one of these. Greg Cody is also very confident about being able to beat Mike Ryan in the soup off Mike Ryan. And I should say this more often than I do. The Elser has been a really spectacular sponsor and partner on everything we do here. And Mike Ryan is presently in one of their rooms, which has a kitchen.
This place is always sold out with people coming from all over the world because they want to see the views off the bay. And right now, Jeremy Taché is in the kitchen with Mike. But, Billy, why are you making faces?
Well, I mean, we're having a competition, and it seems as though one competitor may have an advantage, at least in terms of time, because I see the other competitors still sitting here. So I don't know if the fix is in or what's going on here. But one person seems to be cooking while the other one seems to be here cooking. which would appear to the untrained eye as a disadvantage to one.
Well, Billy, indignant on behalf of Greg Cody.
How is it a disadvantage for Greg?
I mean, have you ever watched a cooking show, a baking show? Do they say, you know what, contestant number two, you go sit over here in the corner for a second while we give someone else a head start? Have you watched a race? Have you heard of the Olympics? Does someone get a head start in the Olympics? No.
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Chapter 2: How do the competitors feel about their chances in the soup cook-off?
And that's an advantage for Greg. Let me ask you something. You like hockey when the Panthers are good, right? What does that have to do with cooking? I'm just... You have a simple mind, so I'm trying to explain it in terms you understand. Go on. You like hockey when the Panthers are good.
Have you ever seen a hockey game where the Panthers are still on the bench and they give the puck to the other team and they say, you go and you play around with it a little bit first?
Okay, you know hockey has a clock, right?
This is actually a great advantage for the Panthers because they get to see what the devils are doing.
You know hockey has a clock, right?
Yeah. Is there a clock in the soup competition we're doing? A stove has a clock. You put something in, you say 400 degrees, 25 minutes. How are you alive?
Let me know where the clock is. clock is.
Billy ain't wrong. Thank you, Greg. Billy ain't wrong. Mike has an appreciable head start here. But you know what?
My confidence is supreme like Diana Ross. My confidence is supreme. So I'm not worried about it. But Billy ain't wrong.
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Chapter 3: What unique strategies are being used in the soup competition?
That's right. Because there are dangers in doing it live. But go ahead, Greg, I don't need you anymore. I did want to have a dolphin discussion with you that I think is the last remaining one that is interesting that takes this all one notch further. Yeah. Go ahead.
Well, Billy has been making fun of me, okay, because, and he's been making fun of me for now years about this, because the Tua thing with the head stuff is so unprecedented.
Troy Aikman just did the documentary here where he says he doesn't remember playing in the NFC Championship game because we were so primitive at one time that he had four concussions in 14 months and he just doesn't even remember playing in the game. The thing that this game has that none of the other games have, on top of laughing stock and, hey, you thought the Patriots looked bad.
Yeah, they did. But the Dolphins are the one that everyone's laughing at. This is what is being said. I became a doctor on television. Like, I'm interviewing. The thing that Billy's been making fun of me about is that we immediately got out of bed in the middle of the night, and I'm live interviewing the doctor. Summer.
Oh, Chris Nowinski?
Yeah. Oh, my God. This guy sits around and waits to pounce on head injuries.
Guys, honestly, hoping for head injuries so someone can go talk to him.
That's what it seems like.
If we're honest, he's hoping for concussions. He watches sports hoping for head injuries. Exactly right. Yes, he does. As soon as someone goes down, he goes... And he starts doing that thing with the little fingers that he goes like this. Zaz is right. He does this thing or he does the thing with his pinkies like this.
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Chapter 4: What challenges are the competitors facing in the kitchen?
I envision him doing this. Like Gargamel.
Another one for me.
Okay, totally unfair to him. I like him, but Billy's been making fun of me.
Yeah, you would.
I got to talk to him now and bring him on so we can ask him all these questions. No, you don't. Why do you have to? Because I was supposed to make – it's a long story.
I owe him one because I – WrestleMania tickets or something? Look, the head injury stuff. Can Mike not open a microwave? The head injury stuff. Oh, he's setting a timer. What's that? A clock in a kitchen? Is that cheating with a microwave?
That's not cheating on a soup.
Oh, my God. He's taking a shortcut.
Let's go to Jeremy here.
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Chapter 5: How does the competition's format affect the cooking process?
Are you sure? Yes. Go do the soup thing.
Jeremy, talk to us. What's going on here with Mike and this microwave? We are on site at the great soup cook-off of 2025. Mike Ryan here getting everything situated. Mike Ryan, can you walk us a little bit through your process here?
Yeah, my process is to challenge the palate, make you think differently about soup, and also get the hell out of my kitchen. Get out of the way.
Get out of the way. All right, so there's a little bit of frustration by the man here. He's looking to be the soup superstar. Rose is in the way.
Rose is in the way as well.
This is not good. Yes, chef. too many cooks in the kitchen the camera angles are jeremy yeah like everyone you're you're surrounded by people who are having trouble getting the right camera angles all right he's at work i have no control over the camera angles jeremy i just heard mike say i think greg was right about the peppers so maybe there's something going on there
Jeremy, go ahead and just give me whatever update I need on. He's doing this live now. When is this all going to be ready? How soon can we go to people tasting soup? Are we going to be able to do that soon?
I would assume we'll be able to get to it soon, but I'll ask Mike Ryan here. Mike, I don't want to be too many cooks in the kitchen here, but I will ask you, about what time are we going to be able to taste here during this cook-off?
Typically, I like to have my soup settle for about two days.
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Chapter 6: What are the judges looking for in the soup tasting?
We have the challenger. We have the initial competitor. This is the great soup cook-off. All right, we can fade him now.
Stop talking.
Palate.
You can't give him a microphone. It's such douchey lingo. It's the worst. How do we break him of the habit of being sideline broadcaster guy who uses 70 words where he could use seven? How do we do it? How do we do it? Help me do it.
I don't think we can. I think me and Zazz are more complaining about just cooking lingo in general. It's so much.
I like the flavor on the palate.
The top of my tongue.
Just talk normal. Taste. It's called taste.
I let my soup sit for two days. Yo, two-day-old food is gross. Let me taste it.
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Chapter 7: How do the competitors react to each other's cooking styles?
Yeah. The shipping container as a whole could have the third vote, or we could break it down Billy, me, and Jeremy, and that's five of us. So do you guys think it should be five people voting, or the shipping container is one, and then you guys, so it's best at three? How do we think we should do this? The problem is we know whose soup is what because they told us what they were cooking.
So we know we already have prejudice, as Zaz would say. We kind of knew with the popcorn and the turkey. We've kind of always known all this stuff. No, turkey was blind. We just knew they're both cooking turkey. This one, one of them is doing something with coconut.
I don't think we did it blind. The other one is doing something brown. Regardless, you guys can argue about this off-air.
Blind in the sense that you didn't know whose was what.
Understood, but again, we're down some manpower because you did this, Billy. I didn't say let's cook today.
You think I was on a digital whatever computer making that soup thing?
You're talking about unfair advantages, and now all of a sudden there's two of us in here when there should have been three. How about you take a little ownership?
Do I do the scheduling around these parts?
No. I'm just saying, how about you take a little ownership?
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Chapter 8: What lessons can be learned from the soup cook-off experience?
He's frustrated. He doesn't have the type of heat he's looking for. Great, Cody. What are your thoughts on the panic that you're seeing from the other man in the kitchen? I mean, he's not disguising it. He is panicked.
Does he have to be here?
He is panicked. He says the heat's not out enough. He's got a burner on high by the look of it. He's panicking me. Well, he's certainly feeling the heat up here Dan Mike Ryan What do you say to the accusations that you have an unfair advantage from beginner? It's either super hot or super cool.
I don't understand what's going on with this so Super hot super cold Does Mike have a pack of cigs rolled up on his sleeve he cannot help
And throw it back to me in a pukey broadcaster joke way. Like, what? Guys, how do we break him?
Billy! He needs to do, like, morning TV, honestly. Like, Jeremy would be, like, good as, like, a morning... Like GMA? Not even news, because I think he'd cry because his news would be too sad for him to report. He needs to do the local Miami whatever it would be.
We have to break him of these habits. He gets into broadcaster man guy and just forgets that Billy's doing FIU games.
Pause up. Oh, big week. Shula Bowl week, Dan. We can get to that later. Pippo was tweeting about it. I mean, when Pippo's tweeting about it, you know there's a shift in energy. That 35-0 loss reinvigorated this fan base, I'll tell you what. 34-0.
We will go back to the Elser kitchen in a second, but the point that I was trying to... Why is Greg in the same kitchen as Mike?
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