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Barguments w/ Dan Levy

Hammer + Nigel Show Podcast

September 11, 2026

This week's debate: “Most Memorable Commercial of All Time?” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Speakers: Dan Levy, Nigel Jason Hammer

Topics: News

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
You're listening to The Hammer and Nigel Show.

**Dan Levy** (0:02)
Barguments! Barguments!

**SPEAKER_1** (0:05)
Barguments!

**Dan Levy** (0:07)
Barguments!

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (0:09)
Barguments!

**Dan Levy** (0:14)
Hello, my name is Nigel Jason Hammer, right over there with a very special guest on the hotline for Barguments.

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (0:21)
From the Windy City, a man that probably hasn't touched a baseball in 35 years, but would still be the best reliever the Cubs have, Dan Base Levy. How are you?

**Dan Levy** (0:33)
Also take down any footlong hot dog you're going to throw me as well.

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (0:38)
So boys, so let's let's have a little fun here. It's kind of a somber day across the country. We're remembering what happened 25 years ago, and that's important. But we're Americans, man. We pick ourselves up. We make each other laugh. Let's do that today. Let's have a good old fashioned bargument. What is Barguments?

**Dan Levy** (1:00)
First of all, I love that I'm the captain of this toy department that you guys have, where you go from really serious 9-11 topics to what I'm about to throw at you.
Barguments is, yes, welcome. It is. Barguments is a simple, simple game. I've been into a podcast. It's the Would You Rather, The Greatest of All Times, Mount Rushmore's, all things that don't have real answers. I made a podcast out of it. You can download it anywhere you get your podcast. I've also have some YouTube videos up there and a really cool Facebook group that is active and alive all day, all hours of the night and day. And I like to come on here every Friday and launch a bargain at you guys just to make me laugh. You guys want to do one?

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (1:39)
Yeah, let's do it, brother. Rock and roll.

**Dan Levy** (1:41)
All right. Most Memorable Commercial of All Time.

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (1:45)
Oh, wow. That's that's going to be tough because there's a lot.

**Dan Levy** (1:50)
Wow.

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (1:51)
Most Memorable Commercial could be a jingle, could be a message. All right. Get us going, Dan.

**Dan Levy** (1:59)
For me, the bug stops at Where's the Beef?

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (2:03)
Oh, here we go.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:04)
It certainly is a big bun.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:06)
It's a very big bun.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:07)
Big fluffy bun. It's a very big fluffy bun. Where's the beef?

**SPEAKER_1** (2:13)
Some hamburger places give you a lot less beef on a lot of bun.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:17)
Where's the beef?

**SPEAKER_1** (2:17)
At Wendy's, we serve a hamburger we modestly call a single. And Wendy's single has more beef than the Whopper or Big Mac. At Wendy's, you get more beef and less bun.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:26)
Hey, where's the beef?

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (2:28)
That's just an old broad that wants some damn beef.

**Dan Levy** (2:30)
I was going to say, there's not a lot of flavor to that commercial, but for some reason, it has stood the test of time. And it was huge back then. I mean, like now we could quote it because it's iconic. But back then, it was just a giant.

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (2:49)
And I think it was like 80s.

**Dan Levy** (2:50)
And people will say it. And now my son has said it and he has no idea what he's talking about. And he has no idea the reference of it, but it still trickles down to him.

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (3:01)
So I believe it was Wendy's that had that commercial talking about how big their beef burgers were compared to McDonald's and things like that. And it still resonates. I'm serious, Dan, when we announced the topic, while you were gearing up to give us your pick, people were already in the YouTube chat going, where's the beef?

**Dan Levy** (3:23)
Because whenever you hear commercial, it comes right out. And it's hard to say what's a more memorable one than that. I look forward to your guys' picks. But for me, I sat there for 10 minutes going, what's an honest one that I can do? I'm like, I can't think of anyone more that's more popular and more famous to the test of time than that.

**Nigel Jason Hammer** (3:44)
OK, so Bass is coming to the table with that old broad that wants the beef. Nigel, what do you got?

**Dan Levy** (3:50)
I got another old broad for you right now. Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you. Let me remind you. Let me not hope you don't forget.

**SPEAKER_1** (4:01)
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