Hour 1: 85 Out of 100 (feat. Jerry Bruckheimer)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz – Hour 1: 85 Out of 100 (feat. Jerry Bruckheimer)
Release Date: July 3, 2025
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and Crew
Guest: Jerry Bruckheimer, Renowned Hollywood Producer

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1. Opening Banter and Street Racing in Chicago ([00:55] - [02:30])

The episode kicks off with Dan Le Batard welcoming listeners to the show. Chris Cody announces an upcoming Ultimate Street Race party in Chicago, expressing his enthusiasm despite it possibly being the “final Chicago street race”. He praises NASCAR's ability to infuse a festive, music-festival-like atmosphere into traditional racing events.

Notable Quote:
Chris Cody ([01:02]): “NASCAR has done a really good job getting people excited for a traditional return back to Chicagoland Motor Speedway.”

2. Anecdotes on Catching Fly Balls ([02:30] - [07:14])

The conversation shifts to a humorous debate about catching fly balls with bare hands. Jon Weiner recounts a legendary MLB catch by Kevin Mitchell, describing it as “the greatest catch in major league history” despite Mitchell’s poor defensive skills.

Notable Quote:
Jon Weiner ([03:02]): “Perhaps the greatest catch in major league history was absolutely the result of a clumsy Kevin Mitchell.”

Chris Cody confidently claims an “85 out of 100” success rate in catching fly balls bare-handed, leading to a lighthearted challenge among the hosts.

Notable Quote:
Chris Cody ([05:54]): “If I gave you 100 chances at that, I'd say 85. Yeah, I pulled down 85.”

3. Sports Loyalty and Family Dynamics ([07:14] - [16:48])

The hosts delve into discussions about sports loyalty, particularly focusing on Damian Lillard's trade to the Bucks and Carmelo Anthony's criticism of it. Mike Ryan criticizes Carmelo’s stance, arguing that the Bucks demonstrated loyalty by accommodating Lillard’s desires.

Notable Quote:
Mike Ryan ([09:56]): “The Bucks, with the way they treated Damian Lillard, they're the most loyal employer in the history of sports.”

A humorous yet speculative conversation emerges about Bronny James living at home amidst potential trades involving his father, LeBron James. The hosts jest about Bronny’s living arrangements and his awareness of his father’s professional moves.

Notable Quote:
Dan Le Batard ([14:11]): “If LeBron leaves and Bronnie is living at home, does he now have to find a new home?”

4. Interview with Jerry Bruckheimer ([16:48] - [47:12])

Introduction of Guest:
Jon Weiner introduces Jerry Bruckheimer as a pivotal figure in Hollywood, responsible for blockbuster films like Top Gun and the latest hit, F1.

a. Discussion on the Movie F1 ([29:27] - [37:43])

Jerry Bruckheimer shares insights into his newest project, F1, highlighting its authentic portrayal of racing. He discusses the collaboration with actors Brad Pitt and Damson Idris, emphasizing the rigorous training they underwent to realistically drive F1 cars.

Notable Quote:
Jerry Bruckheimer ([30:17]): “Brad Pitt is a movie star. He's great in the movie.”

Bruckheimer elaborates on the technological advancements used in filming, such as “15 camera positions on our car” and cooperation with F1 teams to ensure realism.

Notable Quote:
Jeremy ([34:10]): “We had 15 camera positions on our car. We used four at a time.”

b. Comparison with Days of Thunder and Filmmaking Philosophy ([34:43] - [39:42])

When comparing F1 to his earlier work like Days of Thunder, Bruckheimer underscores the evolution in film technology and storytelling. He reflects on audience reactions and the unpredictable nature of movie success, citing Dangerous Minds as an example of a surprising turnaround.

Notable Quote:
Jeremy ([39:42]): “If we get that, and we're getting this on F1, it's a family movie. It's for everybody.”

c. Future Projects and Industry Insights ([39:42] - [47:12])

Bruckheimer discusses potential future projects, including a Days of Thunder sequel and another Top Gun film. He shares his cautious optimism about sequels and the importance of audience reception in determining a movie’s success.

Notable Quote:
Jeremy ([35:12]): “It is in the works. We are talking to various writers and talking to Tom and McHugh.”

He also touches upon his love for making movies that transport audiences and honor underrepresented stories, highlighting films like Remember the Titans and Black Hawk Down.

Notable Quote:
Jeremy ([44:41]): “I do it for the thrill of watching people line up and have a blast doing what we do.”

d. Closing the Interview ([47:12] - [47:59])

The interview concludes with light-hearted banter and playful jabs at Bruckheimer’s rigorous standards and the hosts’ attempts to engage him in humorous challenges.

Notable Quote:
Dave Bata (#47:12): “You rejected our love, Jerry. You rejected my love.”

5. Final Interactions and Closing Remarks ([47:59] - [48:58])

As the episode winds down, the hosts continue their playful interactions, expressing admiration and jest towards Bruckheimer. The segment culminates with thanksgiving for Bruckheimer’s participation and humorous reflections on his influence in their lives.

Notable Quote:
Jon Weiner ([48:15]): “What do you love most about making movies? It may be what you're talking about. We've got less than a minute left.”

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Key Takeaways:

• Street Racing Scene: Hosts express nostalgia and excitement for Chicago's evolving street racing events, highlighting NASCAR's role in revitalizing traditional races with a festive atmosphere.

• Sports Anecdotes: Engaging and humorous discussions about unconventional moments in sports, such as catching fly balls bare-handed and injuries during celebrations, add a light-hearted touch to the episode.

• Sports Loyalty Debate: A thoughtful debate unfolds on the concept of loyalty in sports, centered around Damian Lillard's trade and its implications for player-employer relationships.

• In-Depth Interview with Jerry Bruckheimer: The highlight of the episode is an extensive interview with Jerry Bruckheimer, offering listeners exclusive insights into his latest film F1, his filmmaking philosophy, and future projects. Bruckheimer’s discussion underscores the blend of technology and storytelling in modern blockbuster filmmaking.

• Humorous Host Interactions: The hosts maintain a playful and engaging dynamic throughout the episode, balancing serious discussions with humor and camaraderie.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Chris Cody ([01:02]): “NASCAR has done a really good job getting people excited for a traditional return back to Chicagoland Motor Speedway.”
• Jon Weiner ([03:02]): “Perhaps the greatest catch in major league history was absolutely the result of a clumsy Kevin Mitchell.”
• Mike Ryan ([09:56]): “The Bucks, with the way they treated Damian Lillard, they're the most loyal employer in the history of sports.”
• Jerry Bruckheimer ([30:17]): “Brad Pitt is a movie star. He's great in the movie.”
• Jeremy ([34:10]): “We had 15 camera positions on our car. We used four at a time.”
• Dan Le Batard ([14:11]): “If LeBron leaves and Bronnie is living at home, does he now have to find a new home?”
• Jeremy ([44:41]): “I do it for the thrill of watching people line up and have a blast doing what we do.”

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This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz offers a rich blend of sports anecdotes, playful debates on loyalty, and an exclusive deep dive into the filmmaking world with Jerry Bruckheimer. Listeners gain a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a blockbuster movie while enjoying the hosts' signature humor and engaging discussions.

Transcript

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[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.

[Chris Cody]

DraftKings. Cuervo and myself are gonna be teaming up for the Ultimate Street Race party at Joy District 112 West Hubbard street this Saturday, July 5th from 11:00am to 3:00pm Come through for drinks, racing vibes and giveaways. I am sad to report that this may seem to be the the final Chicago street race. NASCAR has done a really good job getting people excited for a traditional return back to Chicagoland Motor Speedway. Your traditional mile and a half oval that's getting people excited. But I love the festive atmosphere. It doesn't actually feel like a NASCAR race. It feels like part music festival, part NASCAR race over there. So if this is the last hoorah in beautiful downtown Chicago with an incredible skyline, I will be there rocking it with NASCAR DraftKings and Cuervo.

[Jon Weiner]

Chicago during the summer is lovely. Didn't you get married or didn't you get proposed in Chicago?

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, Trump Tower. Didn't see that one coming.

[Jon Weiner]

I believe that as part of our fourth of July celebration. Best of we're off tomorrow. I believe we're playing all our Trump interviews to celebrate America hosted by Jeremy.

[Mike Ryan]

Gosh, I remember that. I remember when you guys used to have him on the local show.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah, that was Pablo Torre finds out's first show was him re airing some of our Trump interviews in a way that embarrassed me.

[Chris Cody]

He loved us. He really did. He said we had the best show in America.

[Billy Gill]

I listen a lot.

[Chris Cody]

I listen a lot. I listen. You guys do a great job.

[Mike Ryan]

He was a great radio guest back in the day.

[Jon Weiner]

Jerry Bruckheimer is going to join us here in a second. He's the biggest Hollywood producer. Correct.

[Mike Ryan]

Spielberg.

[Chris Cody]

Harvey Weinstein.

[Jon Weiner]

F1 is the number one movie in America. I did see it. It's Giant. It's just big. It's not surprising that it would be big if it's Jerry Bruckheimer and F1. But it just looks expensive.

[Mike Ryan]

Realistic.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah, I mean, it looks expensive. It's obviously realistic. They had the cooperation of F1.

[Mike Ryan]

My movies have to be realistic.

[Jon Weiner]

One of the things that I wanted to talk about with you guys, we will have all the baseball you want in hour two or all the baseball you don't want in hour two. When we do pitch clock and Jason Benetti in the second hour. We're also going to open up the club for the weekend. But before I go any further, I should say that perhaps the greatest catch in major league history was absolutely the result of a clumsy Kevin Mitchell, who should have been playing left field with a chainsaw instead of a glove. Like, he was a terrible outfielder. And what happens here, though, defies all reason and physics where if I say to you, do you believe that you could catch a fly ball with your bare hand? Yes or no? Now, he should have put up his glove and caught the ball if he were somebody who was a good defensive outfielder. But instead he didn't put up his.

[Chris Cody]

He totally misplaced backhanded.

[Jon Weiner]

No, he just. But he caught the ball with his bare hand. And I just don't think that any of us could catch a fly ball with our bare hand. Do you think if I gave put it on the poll at Lebatard show, if I gave you 100 chances to catch a fly ball, could you catch one with your bare hand?

[Chris Cody]

I'm sad to report. I. Well, proud to report. I'd do that more often than not.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm going, yes, three times.

[Chris Cody]

I'm really good at catching things with one hand.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Chris Cody]

I went to the Miami Open. Coco Goth saw my daughter hit a tennis ball right to her. I had a champagne flute in one hand, full extension, cash. Everybody around me oohed and awed. I'm like, I do this routinely.

[Mike Ryan]

You got to go much shorter than 100 times. Like, if I give you two times.

[Billy Gill]

Everyone oohed and odd.

[Chris Cody]

Everyone did. I am like, did they hem and ha. Also low key elit catching things with one hand.

[Jon Weiner]

Guys, this wasn't even a fly ball. It was more like a line drive.

[Chris Cody]

No, no, this looks lazy. It was in foul territory too. So not a risk reward.

[Billy Gill]

It's deep. Like, this is not a shit. Like, this is a lot by the.

[Mike Ryan]

I just like that he got to a point where it's like, yeah, this isn't even worth me trying with the glove anymore. I'm just going straight for the bare hand. That's how bad I've opened.

[Chris Cody]

Give me 100 chances at that. I'd say 85. Yeah, I pulled down 85. 85 I pulled down. Get a jugs machine or something like that. Because I think what we're going to be concerned about is your ability to hit it consistently to this spot. But if it's in that spot and I'm tracking it the same way Mitchell is.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

From that distance.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Billy Gill]

Like, if you're from 10ft away, I think you could catch a bunch of baskets.

[Chris Cody]

I'm more likely to catch that with my bare hand than I am with a glove.

[Jon Weiner]

Kevin Mitchell is 300ft. He's 100 yards. He's a football field away from where that ball was hit.

[Chris Cody]

Again, he totally misread that.

[Jon Weiner]

Agreed. It was a clumsy, poorly played ball, but also the greatest catch in major league history.

[Mike Ryan]

And warning track. I feel like if I was out there trying to catch a fly ball, even just on my glove, the change.

[Chris Cody]

In terrain is tricky.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

The warning track. I'd be so scared. Like, once I start to feel the warning track on. Oh, my God. I'm gonna run to the warning.

[Chris Cody]

Appropriately named Greatest Catch Ever is Gary Matthews Jr. Do you think they had.

[Billy Gill]

Other names for the warning track? They're like, what do we call this thing?

[Jon Weiner]

It's a great name. You're absolutely right. I had never considered before now two things that have come up in the show, which is think about the time period when baseball's people got together and said, you know how the umpire needs to tell the official scorer that the game's under protest?

[Mike Ryan]

What did he mean?

[Jon Weiner]

Just do a pantomime. Pee with your test with your.

[Billy Gill]

I don't know what you're saying.

[Jeremy]

Protest. Oh, protest. Okay.

[Mike Ryan]

Thank you. One of my favorite things in all.

[Chris Cody]

Of sports, even Coco Gauff gave me a little salute after I pulled that thing down.

[Dan Le Batard]

That.

[Mike Ryan]

So 85 out of 100.

[Jeremy]

Huh?

[Chris Cody]

85 out of 100. I swear to God, I'm really good at that.

[Jon Weiner]

One of the more impressive things I've seen Booge Schombi do is catch a screaming fly ball with his bare hand. But it's also because he has something that's an oven mitt for a right hand. It's a much larger hand than the normal human hand, which is what feels like what Kevin Mitchell has.

[Chris Cody]

Brother, I got massive hands.

[Jon Weiner]

I wanted massive.

[Billy Gill]

You're stretching out those Hands right now.

[Chris Cody]

Well, that's part of it. Remember we did the Johnny Bench challenge, right? We did this on the show back in the Clevelander days, and they said only Johnny Bench could have, like, seven baseballs in their hand. I matched it. Johnny Bench even commented saying my form or something wasn't the exact same, but he was lying.

[Jon Weiner]

Go ahead and get, please. The video of Johnny Bench holding. I believe it was seven baseballs in a hand. I also am tempted to send you out to Jeremy right now to see if we could get you to test this. I don't believe you'd catch a one. I believe. I also think another thing that I would like to do. Jeremy couldn't even get on the field as a show. One of the things that I would like to do is one day try to see if any of us could catch a punt, because I believe we would all drop a punt. I think it's much harder than we think it is.

[Billy Gill]

Hundred chances.

[Jon Weiner]

Well, I think you've got a better chance of catching. Put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Which do you have better odds on catching an NFL punt or catching a fly ball with your hands?

[Mike Ryan]

Tony, 100 times is too many. You got to say, like, out of.

[Jon Weiner]

Two times, I got what you're doing with the math. I'm saying that after two times, we will have two drops and we will have to have more chances because I think you guys are underestimating how hard it would be to catch with your bare hand. He's running. It's not even just a popup or a fly ball. He's in full sprint. Like, it's not even. You guys are making it. I guess I'm making it sound like you're just stationing yourself under a fly. Positioning yourself under a fly ball.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, he just said catch of pop up on the run. Lazy, lazy fly, foul ball in 1972.

[Mike Ryan]

And what was the score in the game like? Was there any pressure in that moment?

[Jon Weiner]

No, no pressure. But it wasn't 1972. Kevin Mitchell played in the 90s, played in the late 80s.

[Chris Cody]

I'm gonna find you a photo. We put up the Johnny Bench thing. I replicated this, too. So I'm gonna find this. I'm like a dog with a bone.

[Jon Weiner]

He did question your form on this because you didn't hold the seven baseballs as well as Johnny Bench did. Can. Can we put up on the screen, please, some Carmelo Anthony tweets his reaction to Damian Lillard being waived by the Bucks. Carmelo Anthony with three Exclamation points and all capital letters says, no loyalty in sports. That's got 1,302 likes. We've got business per usual. We got an SMH as well. Carmelo Anthony from over a couple of minutes was really upset about Damian Lillard being waived. And no loyalty in sports.

[Mike Ryan]

It's one. It's one of the dumbest takes I've seen in a long time from an athlete. It really is. I mean, no loyalty in sports. Damian Lillard, if you would. If the Bucs would have sat down Damian Lillard before this transaction and said, damien, if you could have anything you want right now from us as your employer, okay, if you could have anything you want, what would it be? What? His answer not be, give me all of my money and allow me to do whatever I want. No loyalty. What is Carmelo talking about?

[Billy Gill]

Do you think that Damian Lillard text Carmelo, hey, but, hey, I'm good. This is good. I'm happy about this.

[Mike Ryan]

I just. I don't know. Loyalty in sports. I'm going to tell you something. The Bucks, with the way they treated Damian Lillard, they're the most loyal employer in the history of sports. Here's all of your money. Do whatever you want.

[Jon Weiner]

Well, I believe what Carmelo is doing, as we often do, as many of us do, no one more than Greg Cody is. He's looking at this through his own prism on where loyalty fell apart for him or where he would have liked to have possibly been with one team his entire career. So he might not be act actually saying that of the Bucks. He may be delivering that to the idea that Lillard's career is ending this way, where he doesn't get to, you know, continue to allow to blossom the relationship that Luca had with Dallas or that he had with Portland.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, I feel like he's a little bit late to that party then. I mean, Lillard was traded two years ago and, you know, of his own wanting. It's ridiculous to me.

[Jon Weiner]

Mike, this is not the photo I am seeing of you holding seven baseballs. You're holding them differently than your holding them like you would hold sort of a pizza dough when you're making it. You're sort of using gravity and physics to allow the balls to lean against your wrist and whatnot, as opposed to Johnny Bench, who was just holding the seven balls and could turn it upside down and be still holding the seven balls in his hand.

[Chris Cody]

It feels like a semantics argument, but I think you're giving voice to what Johnny Bench himself said that I Have to hold it up. And I'm just genuinely confused by it because there I am, clear as day. You're holding it up.

[Billy Gill]

I would say you're holding it sideways. He's essentially holding it facing down. Like palming a basketball. Yeah, that's what he's doing. I could do what you're doing.

[Chris Cody]

Hey, Johnny, I did this live on television, all right? I did. I did this live in front of people. I have a still image from God knows when, and I'm supposed to just take your word for it? How do I know those balls didn't just fall right out of your hand? Johnny Bench, you're the liar. You can't do what I did.

[Mike Ryan]

Wow.

[Jon Weiner]

All right, since we're calling people liars, anyone want to go after Browning?

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, this. I mean, I'm not going to call him a liar. All right, that's not nice. But I'm going to straight up tell you he's not telling the truth.

[Dan Le Batard]

What do you say?

[Jon Weiner]

I mean, let's play the sound for Zazlo and let's get him. Let's get him agitated by just playing the brawny sound. When you've talked about team stuff with them, this is a weird thing, right? Your teammates, addition to that.

[Jeremy]

What do you guys have talked about? The franchise and stuff like that.

[Jon Weiner]

Have you gotten the sense that this is where he wants to be? No, we don't really talk about much.

[Jeremy]

But I think when stuff like that does come up, he just tells me.

[Dan Le Batard]

To not worry about it, not even.

[Jeremy]

Pay attention to it. Just laughing into what you have going on right now.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm going to Stan Van out. There is no way Bronny James. They're at home for dinner. It's the biggest story in sports right now. Is LeBron going to get traded from the Lakers and Bronnie's just sitting at the dinner table eating his Brussels sprouts. He doesn't say, yo, dad, what's going on? Are you going to play for the. Oh, by the way, who am I going to play for next year? Am I going to be traded with you? What are we thinking as a family? No, I'm just going about my business. We don't really talk about that kind of stuff.

[Jon Weiner]

No, we don't really talk about much.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay. Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

You think he lives at home?

[Mike Ryan]

Okay, yeah, definitely.

[Dan Le Batard]

Really?

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

Why not?

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, because he's an NBA player. I feel like he probably would want to go out on his own, have his own place.

[Mike Ryan]

Nah, it's at home. Like, you get meals, laundry. You don't pay rent.

[Dan Le Batard]

When he went to usc, did he live at home?

[Jeremy]

Oh, no.

[Dan Le Batard]

Because I wonder, like, is he like that he went away to college and now it's like, oh, I guess I have to move back into mom and dad's house.

[Jon Weiner]

You're not calling him a liar, though? Because it sounds like you're calling him.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm not calling a liar, but I will say definitely not telling the truth.

[Jon Weiner]

Wait a minute.

[Dan Le Batard]

Has your child ever confronted you about work situations at the dinner table?

[Mike Ryan]

If it was the biggest story in sports media, probably would ask. Would probably be curious. You know, dad's a free agent. He's being courted by a bunch of different media entities for millions of dollars. Hey, might have to move. Might have to go live somewhere else. My son's friends ask him at school, hey, what's your dagger? Do I talk about that kind of stuff?

[Dan Le Batard]

If LeBron leaves and Bronnie is living at home, does he now have to find a new home? Like, do you think they sell the house? Like, Bronnie, now you're on your own? Or you think they say, like, okay, you can.

[Jon Weiner]

I don't think living at home. I don't.

[Dan Le Batard]

I know he is Stan Van in on that.

[Jon Weiner]

I know, but free meals. I'm stand van out on the idea.

[Dan Le Batard]

Really?

[Jon Weiner]

Bronnie's living.

[Dan Le Batard]

You don't think he's living at home?

[Jon Weiner]

I don't think so.

[Dan Le Batard]

You think he goes down from like, you know, the James Manor and he's like, in a one one on a rookie deal?

[Jon Weiner]

No, I think he often goes back home and sleeps there, too. But he lives somewhere else in a.

[Dan Le Batard]

One one on a rookie deal.

[Jon Weiner]

Keep doing that.

[Dan Le Batard]

But D league.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know why you think he's living off the D league salary.

[Jon Weiner]

He's studio apartment. He got a multimillion dollar deal as a second round.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, but you don't know if there's going to be another deal. You don't want to blow that all on, you know, indulgences now.

[Mike Ryan]

And Ronnie's home with his family is definitely so much nicer than whatever place he would be in by himself.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's what I'm wondering. Is there like a brawny wing that he has?

[Jon Weiner]

I'm sure wherever Bronny lays his head to rest is luxurious, but he's not.

[Mike Ryan]

Looking for an update on his or his father's future.

[Jon Weiner]

That part seems ridiculous, Right? The Lakers got deandre Ayton for two years after he was boug. And that is just to do Alley oop dunks from Luca, I would assume. I'm assuming that the rest of you assume that Rich Paul, coming out after LeBron James again opted in 50 plus million dollars, has a no trade, can control everything about his future. It felt to me like Rich Paul's statement to ESPN was also. And be aware that we might ask for a trade very soon into the season because Luke is the future and we are obviously not the. Because LeBron's the oldest player.

[Mike Ryan]

And now since that's been like a week ago, a few days, whatever it was, we can admit it feels like something weird is going on around the Lakers.

[Jon Weiner]

Well, the part that's weird is that they're both on the same team together. One of them is 25 and the other's 40.

[Chris Cody]

And they did just get sold to the Lakers and.

[Jon Weiner]

Yes, and they got sold for $10 billion. What does that make the Cowboys worth? Incidentally, if the lakers are worth $10 billion, what the hell are the Cowboys worth?

[Chris Cody]

I don't know, but isn't it crazy that Jay Moore is the most successful comedian ever?

[Dan Le Batard]

I have a way to close this loop for those who are won. So in 2024, Sports Illustrated wrote an article that said Bronny still lives in LeBron James massive LA compound as Lakers course.

[Jon Weiner]

Okay, I stand corrected.

[Chris Cody]

Can't wait to talk myself into. You got to be able to trade Highsmith for LeBron.

[Jon Weiner]

You got to.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, wait, hold on. Update here. Bronny James finally departs $39 million family property as Lakers rookie fulfills LeBron's ultimate rule.

[Jon Weiner]

So I don't stand correct.

[Mike Ryan]

What's his ultimate rule?

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know. These headlines are like very. Seems as though this was five months ago.

[Jon Weiner]

The shoes are on the stand van outside of the house. Can we put up back on the screen here, Johnny Bench and Mike Ryan and see if they're doing the same thing? Do we believe those two people are doing the same thing?

[Billy Gill]

The answer is no, but I'm still impressed with what Mike's doing.

[Jon Weiner]

Thank you.

[Billy Gill]

Can that be yes?

[Chris Cody]

That's a. That's a sufficient answer. Also, we have less doubt about the validity of mine, given that I was live on the air and this is a grainy black and white photo source. Just take my word for it, bro.

[Jon Weiner]

I do believe, though, there's a bit of cheating going on, at least a little bit with. With Johnny Bench here, because. Is that a middle finger? Is that a finger in the middle of the baseballs? That is in there? I know Mike seems to have a bit Of a digit in there.

[Billy Gill]

How's that cheating?

[Jon Weiner]

Well, because it seems like I don't even know how he's holding that top baseball. If the top of his hand. Look at the top baseball and look where his top finger is. Like, how is he even doing that?

[Chris Cody]

So he's holding it straight up. And that top one, I think is just balanced on top of the other baseballs. You look at the two images. The way that I'm doing it seems to be the more difficult of the two paths.

[Jon Weiner]

I don't believe I can endorse what you're presently.

[Chris Cody]

I'm not holding it straight up where one of the baseballs can just rest up top, just willy nilly like that. I'm holding it in an angle that I actually have to grip it.

[Mike Ryan]

Can you reenact this if you had.

[Chris Cody]

To give me seven baseballs? Let's see. Let's try.

[Jon Weiner]

Well, I want to. For at some point this summer, I want you to catch punts and try and catch a baseball hand.

[Mike Ryan]

You see, there's two tries for the.

[Dan Le Batard]

Punt or for the catch up.

[Chris Cody]

Like nobody's business.

[Jon Weiner]

Okay, again with nobody's business. I still don't understand that expression.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm making my business.

[Jon Weiner]

I'd like metal like you.

[Chris Cody]

I'd like to see that.

[Jon Weiner]

I'd like metal arts business to become testing whether people can catch things with a bare hand or not. Because I don't believe that you guys are properly respecting how hard it is to do basic athletic things in professional sports.

[Chris Cody]

I don't think you're respecting me. I'm a 6 foot 3, 210 pound dude with huge digits.

[Jon Weiner]

You do not look in this photo.

[Chris Cody]

Like I don't have huge digits.

[Jon Weiner]

Like you are doing what Johnny Bench is doing.

[Chris Cody]

You're right. I'm doing something better. He's got a ball resting atop of six baseballs. I'm out there holding it up on live television for the world to see.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah, Billy, since you got in there with that. Yeah. Can you tell me why it is the other day that you and I.

[Chris Cody]

Have been locked in? We both said cobbler at the exact same cobbler.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that was off air, I think.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah, it was.

[Chris Cody]

But we're dialed.

[Jon Weiner]

I'm glad that you guys have found.

[Dan Le Batard]

We'Re bringing it today? Dan, I know what a lot of people in the audience are thinking because the thought did cross some of our minds. You know what? Metalworks hired so many people. So many people. How lucky are we that we got most of the originals the day before the 4th of July while all of the new people seemingly giving themselves an extended vacation and all the people that we hired for, you know, relief are really the ones getting all the rest while we're in here working. That's what the fans are saying. So you know what fans, we're here for you. And I'm here to support Mike today. And we're locked in. Mike. Mike has ping pong balls here that he can hold.

[Chris Cody]

I just caught three simultaneously, one hand only.

[Dan Le Batard]

Let's just throw things at Mike and.

[Chris Cody]

See if you catch three wiffle balls.

[Jon Weiner]

All right? So in the interim while you guys are doing this, you guys can do it for the last five minutes but in the interim, Chris, Cody, can you please put together quickly a list for me a top five list of injuries that happen during otherwise happy things. The way that Red Panda just got hurt. She's out.

[Dan Le Batard]

Spoiler alert.

[Jon Weiner]

She might be. Well, she's got a broken wrist. It's reported that she. Yeah, she fell down. Billy, are you done now tossing him things. I was hoping we would do that for five minutes.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, we. I want you. You had questions. It felt like. I felt like it was distracted.

[Jon Weiner]

I don't. I could go without hearing from you again until after the holidays. I could be totally fine with that. They're scissors.

[Dan Le Batard]

That seems see that seeing catch. This guy can catch.

[Jon Weiner]

Can you give me top five things injuries that have happened during happy things? Chris Cody, number five.

[Billy Gill]

Dan, is Bill Gramatica celebrating a made kick game winning kick and injuring his leg.

[Jon Weiner]

That's a good one. You think that you have four better than that? That that is one. That is the moment that I associate with the Grammaticas a first quarter injuring for your team the fact they no longer have a kicker because you clearly tore your knee as a grammatica being too happy. That's in the first quarter again. The Cardinals lost their kicker for the.

[Mike Ryan]

Rest of the game and that was their thing. Like they got both of them excited. They got so excited over any made kick.

[Jon Weiner]

Number four.

[Billy Gill]

Number four, Red Panda. What happened to her? Celebrating. Nice halftime show. And she fell and she broke her wrist. I don't know if she broke her. As she hurt her wrist.

[Jon Weiner]

I think she broke her wrist.

[Mike Ryan]

It was a. It was a re aggravating of a previous wrist injury.

[Billy Gill]

She went out on a wheelchair after hurting her wrist which was a little odd.

[Jon Weiner]

Oh, that's from high up. That was a brutal fall.

[Billy Gill]

So that's number four. Number three, Kendry, Morales.

[Dan Le Batard]

Ah. Kendrick.

[Billy Gill]

Snapping his phone. Snapping his leg. I need my Phone. That's where the list is.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, thank you.

[Billy Gill]

Your phone and my celebrating game winning home run. Jumped at home plate. His team around him, like, snapped his leg out for a year. I don't think he was ever the same after that. Really sad.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Jon Weiner]

Number two.

[Billy Gill]

I'm sorry. These guys are distracting me.

[Jon Weiner]

I know they are. While you guys are busy distracting Chris here before the July 4th holiday, can you guys do me the favor of getting for me the video of how the Mariners celebrated their victory yesterday? Because they have a dorky celebration where five or six of their guys sort of line dance together while dosy doeing.

[Billy Gill]

He caught a phone.

[Jon Weiner]

Yeah. A rotary phone, no less. Where did we get a rotary phone?

[Mike Ryan]

Landline.

[Jon Weiner]

I mean, do people even know it? Put it on the pole.

[Dan Le Batard]

Kitchen sink.

[Chris Cody]

Can't believe Throw.

[Mike Ryan]

I dare you.

[Jon Weiner]

Put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Do you know what a rotary phone is? Yes or no?

[Mike Ryan]

If I handed that phone to my younger son, he'd have no idea what's going on.

[Billy Gill]

Number two, Tony Finau, snapping his ankle at the Masters par three. He hits a hole in one. The family day par three thing. And he starts running down the whole thing, like, celebrating, crowd going wild. And he hits like a slope and he dislocates his ankle.

[Jon Weiner]

Was he running down the fairway? What was.

[Billy Gill]

It was like the fairway, but it ended up being a little hill. So he like, on the down slope, he turned his ankle and he like popped up. And everyone's like, what's happening? And he literally pops his ankle back into place and then like just limps the rest of the way. It was really sad because it was such a happy time. Family day at The Masters Part 3. My favorite event at the Masters. Number one, accompanied by some sound here, Jonathan Pierre Paul celebrating 4th of July with fireworks. He lost fingers. Giants owner John Mara, who also today said he doesn't know how many fingers JPP has.

[Jon Weiner]

Does anybody. Does anybody still know how many fingers JPP has? Because he played for a long time with, like, a bit of a glove or a cast in order to disguise what he had done with an explosion.

[Mike Ryan]

Jonathan Pierre Paul.

[Jon Weiner]

Jason Pierre Paul. Sorry, brother.

[Billy Gill]

My bad.

[Jon Weiner]

Jason Pierre Paul.

[Mike Ryan]

Brother's name. Jonathan Pierre Paul.

[Jon Weiner]

Do you guys know if. How many fingers. What's the answer to the question? How many what? What's your best guess? I'm going to guess three and a half. What is your best guess on how many finger fingers Jason Pierre Paul has?

[Billy Gill]

I would guess eight and a half.

[Jeremy]

Yeah.

[Jon Weiner]

Thank you. Thank you for that mathematical clarification. I was doing one hand.

[Mike Ryan]

He has one finger on each hand.

[Billy Gill]

I'm seeing here. AI tells me he has nine fingers. He lost a portion of his index finger. Oh. And some of his middle. So if you combine.

[Dan Le Batard]

So you lose two halves.

[Billy Gill]

So that's a full.

[Chris Cody]

That does make a hole.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yep.

[Chris Cody]

Two halves make a hole.

[Billy Gill]

So he has nine fingers.

[Chris Cody]

Chat GPT won't tell you that.

[Mike Ryan]

Two.

[Jon Weiner]

You know what?

[Billy Gill]

It's hard to say. How am I going to say no.

[Jon Weiner]

But you surprised me.

[Billy Gill]

He has seven and two halves. Eight and two halves.

[Jon Weiner]

You surprised me because I believe as a riddle, if we told people someone has nine fingers, they're not going to halves on two of the fingers.

[Mike Ryan]

I'll bet Jonathan Pierre Paul is all 10.

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[Jon Weiner]

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[Tony]

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[Billy Gill]

That is a top five sequence of events that you can possibly go through.

[Chris Cody]

I'm just serenity now. When I just imagine that first sip of Miller Light.

[Billy Gill]

Just thinking about it, it's making me happy.

[Chris Cody]

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[Jon Weiner]

Don LeBatard. The Hoy is Captain Slappy Stugats is this Chum Bucket.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is the Don lebatar Show with the Stugats.

[Jon Weiner]

This man right here is responsible for saving the movies, saving the movie theaters. It is not Tom Cruise. It's Mr. Blockbuster. He's done Top Gun. He's done Bad Boys, Beverly Hills Cops. He's got the number one movie in America and everywhere right now, F1. What was the second title, Jerry Bruckheimer with us that you guys were gonna go with? That wasn't F1 as the title to this movie because it's very simple. It's Brad Pitt, F1. That's the way to do it. Was there any other secondary choice for what this movie was gonna be named other than just F1?

[Jeremy]

Always F1. Never. Never anything else. But because Le Mans, all the other great movies about racing were about the Sport itself. And F1 is a phenomenal sport all around the world, you know, we're F1, the movie.

[Dan Le Batard]

If there's a sequel, is it F2 or is it F1 2? Then is there confusion that it's F12? Like, what do we do here, Jerry?

[Jeremy]

Let's get lucky and hope they want a sequel. That's the. That's the key. The key is to get the audience to come and show up. And so far, they've been showing up in droves. So we're really lucky.

[Jon Weiner]

And you're unsurprised by that. Correct. Because this movie is big and loud. You knew it was going to be successful. Correct.

[Jeremy]

We knew it was going to be successful after we had the previews. Any producer or somebody who works on a movie says they have a big hit before it comes out. They're lying. Nobody knows. The audience is much smarter than we are, and they'll tell us if they want. If they want to go see it or not. And so far, they're. They're lining up to see it. And that's great because it's a terrific movie. It's emotional, it's funny. It's everything we go to the movies for. It's exciting. Brad Pitt's a movie star. He's great in the movie. Javier Bardem, Damson, Idris, who's going to be a big star off of this Movie. It's real. Brad and Damson trained for four months to be able to drive these cars. They started an open wheel car, then a road car, then they went to an F4 car, then an F3 and F2. And then they got in our car, which is. They were doing over 180 miles an hour on the straights, breaking down into 50. When you watch the movie and you see them in the car, it's actually them driving the other thing. Apple, who financed the movie, took two of their iPhone cameras and enhanced it so you could do IMAX and put it in two cars in every race in the actual F1 races. So some of those point of views, they're going 220 miles an hour. But that's. We know how to do that really well. But it's the emotional story that gets you, and that's why women love the movie. It's funny and you want that kind of experience. It's exciting. It really envelops you. It's really something you got to see in a theater. And the bigger the screen, the better.

[Jon Weiner]

Would you be kind enough to give us all the times and the names of movies that you've tried to get Brad Pitt to do for you that he has refused to do for you before?

[Jeremy]

This one, I think this is the first one, to be honest with you. He's one of those working actors. He's always busy. And we have this thing where when we have a script, we want to make it, we want to make it. And so we go after actors who are actually available.

[Jon Weiner]

But this is the first time that he said yes. What has he said no to of yours?

[Jeremy]

He hasn't. We haven't given him anything else. So this is it.

[Jon Weiner]

Okay, so you hadn't been trying to work with Brad Pitt before this?

[Jeremy]

We'd love to have, but he just was never available when we needed him. I mean, he's one of those actors who actually works. He goes from one movie to the next, which is great. We want those kind of actors. Some actors take time off in between movies, and those are the actors we can attach quickly.

[Jon Weiner]

This movie is impossible to make without F1's assistance. Correct. Literally impossible. You cannot make it.

[Jeremy]

Correct. Correct. So it took us a year to get F1 and all the teams to come and join us. And F1 is a really interesting sport. There are 10 teams, two drivers to each team. And it's the only sport where your teammate is your competitor. Because every driver wants to be the number one driver on their team. And that makes drama for us. And that's what we base the story on. But the other teams didn't realize that. So Red Bull. Mercedes built our car. And Red Bull and Mercedes were having this real duel in the season we were filming. And Red Bull was for sure going to be the villain in their minds. That took a year to get them to calm down and say, not true. It's between our two drivers. And we had a screening in Monaco about three or four weeks ago and showed it to all the drivers, and they were very excited about it. They said it's the first time they've seen a movie where it actually feel how. How it looks when you're in a car like that.

[Jon Weiner]

You did days of thunder 35 years ago. Can you explain to us the differences between the cars then and the cars now, the differences between making that movie and making this one?

[Jeremy]

Well, it's the technology that's changed so much. We had 15 camera positions on our car. We used four at a time. The cameras are tiny now. We had everything hidden in the car. All you had was basically the lens in. In the car and around the car. So that's changed. We had a camera that remotely panned, which we couldn't do years ago. We put antennas all around the track, and the camera pans from our driver to the car passing him or him passing another car. That is. Makes it even more immersive and exciting.

[Mike Ryan]

Jerry, when you're. When one of your movies is done, it's wrapped. How do you watch it for the first time? What's. What's that process like for you?

[Jeremy]

It's sitting on pins and needles, you scared to death. You have no idea what you're going to see. And usually you're terribly depressed because the movies are usually look too way too long. And it doesn't have a point of view. It takes, you know, months to, you hone it down and get it to something that you're really proud of.

[Jon Weiner]

Can you confirm that a Days of Thunder sequel is in the works?

[Jeremy]

It is in the works. We are talking to various writers and talking to Tom and McHugh, who works with Tom and working on. We're also working on another Top Gun, which is actually being written right now.

[Jon Weiner]

Okay, so you've got two Tom Cruise projects that are as solid as can be.

[Jeremy]

Well, nothing solid in our business until it's in the theaters. So you hope you get there.

[Jon Weiner]

Now, you're not talking about Tom Cruise with Brad Pitt in a Days of Thunder sequel, Right? It's just Tom Cruise.

[Jeremy]

Correct? Correct. That would Be wild if we could do that. But that would be really difficult to get those deals done.

[Jon Weiner]

What else can you tell us about a Days of Thunder sequel that would get people excited?

[Jeremy]

Not yet. I mean, we're a little bit away to get you really excited. All I know is Tom can't wait to get in that car again. And he sees all the technology that we used in F1, and that even amps his excitement.

[Jon Weiner]

Do you have an obsession of some sort with speed or racing on the screen?

[Jeremy]

Yes, but not personally. Not a very good driver myself. So I have to rely on other people. Well, you know, people, they ask me, jerry, did you get in that car? I said, are you kidding me? They mold the seat to your body. An F2 driver takes a week to figure out how to drive an F1 car. That's how complicated they are.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's a sequel.

[Jon Weiner]

Why is it that you are someone who likes the idea of speed on the big screen?

[Jeremy]

I think it excites people. I think people love it. It's exhilarating. It's something that we all love. We all like, most of us. Most guys like fast cars. And look at. I can't wait for audience to see this movie because it's something that makes you feel better when you walk out of the theater. It's a great ride.

[Jon Weiner]

Are you old school like Scorsese? And you say, it is not a film unless I see it in a movie theater. A film is not something that is streamed.

[Jeremy]

Look at. I love making movies for. For theaters because I think it's the great. We all have kitchens in our homes, but we all like to go out to eat because you want to experience something good. But I do both. We do streaming movies, and we do big theatrical movies. Some movies really don't deserve to be or shouldn't be in a theater. It's better to have them on a small screen at home.

[Jon Weiner]

This has to be on a big screen.

[Jeremy]

It does. And that's why we made it with Apple. They guaranteed us it would be in the theaters as long as people were showing up. It's going to be there. And so far, they, you know, we're the number one movie in the world right now.

[Mike Ryan]

Jerry, how long did it take to make Top Gun Maverick from, like, the start of conversation? Hey, we have an idea. Maybe there's a start of a script out there to actually finishing the project.

[Jeremy]

Well, it's 35 years since we. Since the first ones, we weren't very good at it, but I think finally, when we really locked in and had a story. And Joe Kaczynski, who directed Top Gun, Maverick and also directed F1, kind of came in with a really good idea for a story. And from that point on, I think it was about three years.

[Jon Weiner]

What is the most wrong Jerry Bruckheimer has ever been about what he thought a movie was going to be versus what it ended up being?

[Jeremy]

I'll tell you what. I always expect the worst and hope for the best, so I'm never really wrong. Because if they don't work, you know, that's what I thought. But. But fortunately for me, I've had a lot of pictures that have worked.

[Dan Le Batard]

How much tinkering do you do after a movie is. Is allegedly complete? Because, like, Top Gun, for example, was supposed to come out in 2020. Then because of COVID it didn't come out for, like, two years later. So did you leave it as it was for those two years, or did you say, you know what? I can adjust this, I can adjust that? And it just kind of drove you crazy with just tinkering over those years?

[Jeremy]

No, it was. It was about a year. We finished the movie and we put it on the shelf for a year. Nobody touched it. We knew we had a really good movie. We tested it. It tested really high. And we're just waiting for the pandemic to get away from us.

[Jon Weiner]

How did you come upon this life principle of I'm going to expect the worst every single time, therefore I won't be disappointed?

[Dan Le Batard]

I love it.

[Jeremy]

I think that you never know. Like I said, you never know what you got. You really don't when an audience looks at. And I've been shocked, too. I've done movies where audiences go nuts and nobody shows up. So you don't know. I've made movies where we tested the movie and there were four people in the audience left. And then we worked on it for a year and became a hit. You just don't know. You just gotta keep working them and beating them until you get something you feel is gonna be something audiences wanna sit through.

[Jon Weiner]

So take us through the shock of one of these times, then name one of the movies where you just were despondent about, this is simply not going to work. And then all of a sudden it's in theaters and you're like, I can't believe it. This is so much better than I thought.

[Jeremy]

We think Dangerous Minds with Michelle Pfeiffer. We made that movie, and I'm telling you, we previewed and there was. There was nobody left in the theater. And we, like we worked on it for a year, made some big changes, found this song by Coolio, Gangster's paradise, and put it everywhere in the movie. And that just amped it up and it became a sizable hit.

[Jon Weiner]

Have you ever had the reverse happen? Have you ever dared to be positive and have giant expectations and then you're despondent because it's a big mountain of.

[Jeremy]

No, I'll tell you, there are movies that we've made that have tested really highly but don't find an audience. But they'll find an audience on streaming. We did a movie with Daisy Ridley, Young Woman in the Sea, which tested really high. And we put it out in some theaters and people weren't interested in watching a movie about the first American to swim the English Channel or the first woman to swim the English Channel. But on streaming, it's very successful.

[Dan Le Batard]

In 2009, you produced a movie called G Force. And for those who don't remember, the premise is a specially trained squad of guinea pigs is dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire from taking over the world.

[Jon Weiner]

That's good.

[Dan Le Batard]

What were the expectations for that?

[Jeremy]

It was a kids movie, and expectations weren't as high as when you make a movie like F1 or Days of Thunder. So it did. It did well for what it was. And it's a success for Disney because kids watch it. They'll keep watching it forever.

[Jon Weiner]

Is there a director that Jerry Bruckheimer would be willing to admit publicly? That person's work and talent is something that I envy.

[Jeremy]

Well, I think most of the people that I work with. I mean, Chris, Nolan, Scorsese, there's so many Spielberg, there's so many great directors that you would love to work with. But again, they're busy all the time too, so it's hard to wrangle them. Joe Kaczynski, we're very fortunate because he did an amazing job on. On Top Gun. And then he comes back and does. Makes a big hit movie out of F1. So that's. It was his idea, it was his story. And he really. What brought it together is once he had the idea, he had met Lewis Hamilton because Lewis wanted to be in Top Gun. And when Joe met with him, Joe said, well, we need you for three months. And Lewis said, hey, I got a day job. I can't do that. So he joined us to produce the movie. So when we had Louis, Joe went to Brad and Brad said, yes, because of the team we had, we had a good story with the same writer, Aaron Kruger, who did Top Gun. And then we had Lewis Hamilton to make sure we were honest and could make a really serious racing movie that wouldn't embarrass the sport or embarrass him. And look at it, the kind of technology and the things that we did that Lewis was involved in. I'll give you an example. When we were in Silverstone, we're going into turn five, right? And he's watching what we're filming. And he said, wait a second, the sound's wrong. You're in gear three. I'd be in gear two. So we make changes. He said, in turn five, you can't pass on turn five. If you do, you'll have an accident. We used that. We had an accident on turn five. I mean, all those little things. We tried to be honest to the sport, but you know what? It's not a documentary. So what? The things that Brad does in the movie a driver might do over two or three seasons, we'll do it in one race.

[Billy Gill]

What did Lewis. What did Lewis Hamilton want to do in Top Gun?

[Jeremy]

I guess he wanted to be one of the pilots.

[Chris Cody]

Wow.

[Mike Ryan]

Jerry, which one of your films, for pleasure have you seen the most?

[Jeremy]

You know what? Once they're in the theaters, I never look at them out of the theaters. I never look at them again. And I'll tell you why. Because I look at him and I say, oh, we should have changed this, we should have changed that. And you can't change them. So once they're. What I love doing is like, I'll go tonight or tomorrow to the theater and stand back there and watch the audience really enjoy it. That's what I really love. That's my satisfaction. Obviously, I've made enough money, but it's entertaining audiences getting into emote. Watch them applaud, watch them laugh, see tears in their eyes. I've won. If we get that, and we're getting this on F1, it's a family movie. It's for everybody.

[Mike Ryan]

When you do that, do you buy a ticket or you tell, like the ticket taker, hey, I'm Jerry Bruckheimer.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, that's what I do. I go in and say, I just want to stand in the back. I'm not going to take a seat.

[Jon Weiner]

But do you say, I'm Jerry Bruckheimer or do you pay for a ticket?

[Jeremy]

I don't pay for a ticket.

[Jon Weiner]

Wow, Power move. What do you. What do you.

[Jeremy]

I should. From now on, I should support the industry.

[Mike Ryan]

Jerry made enough.

[Dan Le Batard]

Jerry, you're a billionaire.

[Jon Weiner]

If I ask you, and I know this isn't fair. But you have to pick one that you regard one movie, not your favorite, but that you regard as the source of your. Your greatest pride. And that answer can take you anywhere. Are you able to do that? Are you able to summon just one?

[Jeremy]

Yeah, it's always the next one.

[Jon Weiner]

It's a good answer. You're insatiable. Does that get in the way of joy?

[Jeremy]

Look it, I. I enjoy everything that we do. Some of them don't work, and I enjoy them too. Maybe an audience doesn't like them, but I love them. I love the process. I love making movies. I love entertaining audiences. And that's why I do it. I do it for the thrill of watching people line up and have a blast doing what we do. Take them away from the world we're living in and, you know, give them two hours or two and a half hours of real joy. You know, I'm in the transportation business. I transport you to another place, another time. And in F1, we're giving you an inside look into a world that you'll never be a part of or maybe never be a part of. It's a process movie. You know, we did that with CSI and television. We've done it. I did it with, with Black Hawk Down. I. I do it a lot. I love those kind of movies. I also like making sports movies where I didn't Remember the Titans and Glory Road people that should be remembered, that won't be remembered unless we make a film about them. And I mean, they thanked me after. It's same thing with Black Hawk down. All those, those 18 soldiers, their parents came up to me and thank you so much for making this movie. My sons will never be forgotten.

[Jon Weiner]

I loved Remember the Titans. That ending was ridiculous. No way that state champion coach is going to get fooled by that play at the end. Jerry. That's not something that's going to. That play's not going to fool him for 80 yards. What you may feel like you've already answered this question. We've got less than a minute left. But what do you love most about making movies? It may be what you're talking about. The joy of others. And what is the most frustrating thing in the industry about making movies right now?

[Jeremy]

The fact that we can't shoot as many movies in this country as we'd like to, period. Because, you know, get such great tax credits elsewhere. Much rather stay in the States. Obviously couldn't do that with F1 because we traveled to. To 10 different tracks around the world, but we got to do it twice. Which was great.

[Jon Weiner]

I feel like you need to go ahead and clear your throat. You fought through it. You powered through, and I'm proud of you. It was. It was very strong. Yes. And you love most about the movies. 30 seconds are left. So we get you out on time. The thing that you love most, watching.

[Jeremy]

An audience enjoy what we do. That's it.

[Jon Weiner]

Jerry, we enjoyed doing this with you. Thank you for the time. F1, the movie. Another number one movie here and all around the world. Thank you, Jerry, for being on with us.

[Jeremy]

Appreciate it. Thank you for having me, really.

[Billy Gill]

Thank you, Jerry.

[Jon Weiner]

Billy, you tried. You tried to bother Jerry.

[Dan Le Batard]

I would never. I don't bother Jerry.

[Jeremy]

Don't.

[Jon Weiner]

You don't want to bother Jerry.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't want to bother Jerry. No one wants to bother Jerry. Listen, Jerry, I didn't ask her about Kangaroo Jack, okay?

[Jon Weiner]

See, you could. It was a hit.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was. I. I enjoyed it. I loved it. Rotten Tomatoes had another thing. I also have a bone of pig with cherry.

[Jeremy]

Kids loved it.

[Billy Gill]

He's gotta go.

[Jon Weiner]

He's gotta go.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have a bone to pick with Jerry.

[Chris Cody]

He's.

[Dan Le Batard]

He's responsible for all of these great moments and joys in my life. But also, I applied for Amazing Race, and they said no. And it crushed me because it was the day after my.

[Jeremy]

You can always come back.

[Dan Le Batard]

You know what? I'm gonna tell them next interview that Jerry said that I'm in. What do you think?

[Jeremy]

You know what? It might have been the person you were gonna go do it with.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, she's my wife. I hope it's not that. It's a day after we got married. J. Between our wedding and our honeymoon, we said, you know what? We need to make time for Amazing Race here and audition.

[Jon Weiner]

He's got to go. He's got to go.

[Dan Le Batard]

You rejected our love, Jerry. You rejected my love.

[Jeremy]

We make mistakes all the time.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, I accept your apology.

[Jon Weiner]

He is the rejector of love. He is Jerry Bruckheimer. And he has officially apologized to Billy Gill. Thank you, Jerry.

[Jeremy]

Thanks, Billy. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it.

[Mike Ryan]

F2.

[Jon Weiner]

Good question.

[Chris Cody]

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[Billy Gill]

That is a top five sequence of events that you can possibly go through.

[Chris Cody]

I'm just serenity now. When I just imagine that first sip of Miller Lite just thinking about it.

[Dan Le Batard]

It'S making me happy.

[Chris Cody]

Dude, the sun is out. It's nice. You have your friends showing up. You got your family there. You just had your first sip of Miller Light. And you know what? You're happy. You're blissful, you're fulfilled. I've been stocking my cooler with Miller Lite four years and for good reason. It's brewed for taste only. 96 calories and 3.2 grams of carbs. This year, Miller Lite turns 50. That is five decades of cookouts, laughs, and ice cold moments that never miss. It's the original light beer and it's still my Go to Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Cheers to 50 years of Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.