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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Adnan Virk Takes Out David Samson (feat. Adnan Virk & Lucy Rohden)
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Dan Le Batard
You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network.
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Stugotz
Folks.
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Lucy
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Billy
This is the Dan Levator show with the ST Podcast.
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Stugotz
What's up everybody?
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Adnan Virk
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Stugotz
We we're back.
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Mike Ryan
Let's go.
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Lucy
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Stugotz
Yesterday I was lamenting why it is that Chris Sims Chris Simms Unbuttoned that Chris Sims can't be on NBC exactly the same person he is on God Bless Football or roaming around Earth in a way that makes me feel like Chris Sims should be allowed to smoke a cigarette on television if he indeed smokes, because he's hiding his real self from us and only shows it to us on Chris Sims Unbuttoned. Adnan Vir is a similar creature. I really like Adnan Vir. I've liked him for a long time. But the real Adnan Vir is a hell of a lot more interesting than the guy who hosts Amazon Prime Monday Night Hockey. But I don't get the real Adnan Vir on television. I get great at television. Adnan Vir, Amazon Prime Monday Night Hockey hoes. I know everything about hockey. I'm charming. I'll do television. But my secret side. Oh, you'd love that, my dark underbelly. God, the comedic timings I have. If I could free that man on television, I'd be a free man artistically and not be the slave to the slave to the sports gods of broadcasting. Do I have anything wrong here, Adnan Burke? Because this is why I'm bummed. I'll tell you why I'm bummed. Okay. It's not just that I have not been able to unleash the real you on the American public in a way that would be appalling and delightful. It's that I've tried to combine you with David Sampson to talk movies, and kids don't want to hear about you guys talking about Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield in 1986. And so I haven't been able to make you Siskel and Ebert. But I just heard you being onboarded by Chris Cody, and you told. And I just heard David Sampson is pissed. And it's all I heard. And I don't know what he's pissed about. I don't know what's happening with you and David Sampson, but I've been trying to combine you for a while, at least in part because I think that that Oscars party that you guys did one night was. I mean, that is one of the best things Metal Arc has done. I had so much fun around what you guys made of content. I want to be something that covers the Golden Globe.
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Greg Cody
We're out of time with Adnan.
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Stugotz
Thank you for stopping by because it.
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Greg Cody
Hasn'T spoken in three minutes.
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Stugotz
All right, so all of that.
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Greg Cody
I really want to show the people your personality, so I'm going to talk for five straight minutes.
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Stugotz
That's like Bill Maher. That's how he does it on Club Random. The narcissism gets so good sometimes that you end up talking over your guest. Adnan, what's happening with our Oscar party, and why is Sampson pissed?
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Amin Elhassan
So, Dan, great to see you, as always. By the way, I look forward to the south beach sessions with Andy Garcia. I hope he did not bite your ear. There's a dated reference to Joey Zaza and Godfather 3 with regards to David Sampson. Listen, I'm going to be as candid as possible, and I'm doing this because we're friends. We're genuine friends. And I love you and I love me and Cody and Mike the entire show. Here's the issue with Samson. It's come to light that he basically is a reason Cinephile no longer exists. So I respect David Sampson. Like, I really do. Like, I think he's. He's done a lot of great things, his career, but I can't respect him. What he did to my podcast, I did 336 episodes of my podcast. It came out of my heart. It was a deep love and passion they have for cinema. And because he's small and diminutive and he couldn't take that. He went behind my back to John Skipper and to Bimmel, and he got the podcast canceled. I don't know how he did it, but it was Machiavellian and it was Samsonian. And I'm probably giving him too much credit by giving his own adjective, because again, I give him credit. He got it done. He wanted me out, and he got me out. So congratulations, David. You did it. You got my podcast canceled, and nothing personal survives. But I know what you did to me. And let's just say chickens come home to roost. I'll leave it at that. Wow.
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Stugotz
Well, wait a minute. That is the greatest threat. Shannon Sharpe does it his way to Kirk Herb street and does it his way. Firing about like that is a. That is company on company crime right there. I have not heard any of that.
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Mike Ryan
Hold on, then. And I'm gonna say this because Adnan is a cinephile. I know. He's quoting Malcolm X. Yeah. Spike Lee movie Malcolm X. What are you talking about? The JFK assassination.
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Stugotz
That's fine. Yes. He sounds ridiculous saying it. It's a. Oh, you don't see the difference between Malcolm X saying it and Adnan Burke saying it to David Sampson?
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Mike Ryan
Denzel Washington as well.
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Amin Elhassan
Exactly. To a means point. I'm not really calling Malcolm X according Denzel doing Malcolm X, but go ahead.
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Stugotz
No, it's fine. Just. I want to do a Golden Globes recap with you. I want to talk to you about Mad Dog and his desperate begging to meet Timothy Chalamet ending up in him meeting Timothy Chalamet in a way that all the corporate entities work together to make. Chris Russo stugots like you get to just get to the top and start asking for things and they'll start happening for you because you're shameless.
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Amin Elhassan
So I texted Mad Dog, who's a colleague, of course, at MLB Network prior to the film being out, because at the winter meetings in Dallas, look at me. They're appropriate. But I did text Mad Dog and I said, hey, listen, I don't want to burst your bubble. I've seen a complete unknown, and I understand you're raving about it like this is the greatest films in Citizen Game, but it's not. And he writes back, what do you mean? I said, timothy Shalom is fantastic. He's a superb young actor. He can make films for art house audiences and also for big box office. So he can do Dune 2, but he can also do Call me by your name. And he's excellent as Bob Dylan, particularly the fact he sings his own music, which James Mangle, the director with Walk the Line, also had Waken Phoenix sing as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash. Reese Witherspoon on Oscar. So I give him credit, but the film itself, I got to be honest with you, man. It's a fairly conventional musical biopic. And I said, going into that film, I didn't know a whole lot about Bob Dylan, aside from the fact he's enigmatic, he's moody and kind of a prick. And I came out of the movie and I said, yep, still all the things that I thought, I. I understand what the really, the purpose of the film is. And he's. He's very angry. He hasn't seen the film. And I can tell, like, bad dog, you keep talking. This is like, December 4th. You haven't seen the movie. You don't get the screeners like I do. You're not a member of the Critics Choice Association. You're just loving this movie.
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Stugotz
That's what cheapened it by not. That's. That's where it's deserved.
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Jessica
That's where.
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Mike Ryan
That's exactly.
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Stugotz
Like, what are your credentials? Go ahead, please tell me again your credentials. Tell them. Go ahead, say that.
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Amin Elhassan
As a member of the Critics Choice Association, I've said 85 films throughout the year, but prior to the release, I get to see these films. Matter of fact, I get the Brutalist DVD sent to me, which is one of my favorite. I get the screenplay to challengers, which, as you guys know, because I'm a tennis guy, I quite enjoy the film. Seeing tennis on the big screen. I mean, I get, like, vinyl. Like, Mike Ryan would love this. I got Conclave, the album. Like, it's just these things get sent to me because of the position which I hold. Okay, so Mad Dog. But again, I give him credit. Much like David Sampson, Mad Dog figured it out. He's like, I will just bloviate about this film as if it is the greatest musical biopic ever. And I will just. I will worship at the altar of Timothy Chalamet, who is having a moment and is now apparently dating Kylie Jenner, who saw at the Golden Globes. So, again, hats off Mad Dog. At the London premiere, it was. It was surreal to see him there. He's dapping up Chalamet and hugging himself. It's awesome. It's great for him. Movie's not that great. And Chalamet is not going to win the Oscar, no matter what Mad Dog says.
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Mike Ryan
Adnan, I have a question for you, because you said it's not that great. What is an example of a great biopic, particularly of a musician? Because I feel like you're right. They're all kind of blah. I remember when Rami Malek won for.
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Amin Elhassan
The Bohumian Rhapsody, a joke.
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Mike Ryan
And I was like, this movie is basically so a bunch of people who grew up listening to Queen could relive those songs. It was so, like, distorted. It was like some of, like, the situation, like, hey, we will rock you. That's a song. And then that's not how it happened. None of that happened like that. But it just allowed people the nostalgia of, like, I remember that song when I was in high school or middle school or whatever. And they sang it. So what? Because you've watched so many of these, what is an example of. Oh, this is actually really good.
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Amin Elhassan
Yeah, great question. So that movie particularly. You're right. The problem is it was so sanitized. People that know Queen go, this is not the Freddie Mercury. Like, there's none of the bisexuality. There's none of the sex and the drugs. It's just the rock and roll. So, like, why are we doing this? So at least I give Elton John credit with Rocket Man. That film with Sartor and Edgerton, that was a warts at all biopic. I didn't think entirely successful, but at least it was more authentic to the. To the story. I'll give you two. I think Ray's a really good biopic. Taylor Hackford's a good director. I thought Jamie Foxx was immersive in the performance. And I thought I learned about Ray. I learned. And I got to see again the warts and all depiction, the womanizing, the bad behavior in addition to the musical genius. And I also think Mangold, who directed A Complete unknown, did a much better job with Walk the Line. Like I thought, that was a genuinely stirring musical biopic. Johnny Cash is a fascinating character. It was once said of him, he walked with God, but party with Satan. And I thought he was able to nail that dichotomy in the movie. That Cash is a guy who is a believer but also had a serious drug problem. And that Reese Witherspoon playing June Carter Cash really was saintly in terms of bringing about his rehabilitation. I think sometimes what happens, I mean, you have these, as they call it, cradles of the grave biopics, meaning you have to show when the person's born and go right till their death. Doesn't always happen. And with a complete unknown, they're not doing that. They're showing four Years of Dylan's life when he's making these critical hits and then apparently sells up by going electric. It's a different approach, but I just didn't think it was that successful, given.
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Stugotz
The degree of difficulty. I asked this question sincerely. In the history of made movies like this that a main actor would take and try to Hollywood up, is there a biopic creature less likely to have any interest in this being done on him than Bob Dylan? In the history of cinema and art and music and everything else, wouldn't Bob Dylan be the most likely reputationally to absolutely hate in the history of human being celebrity that this movie is being made about him?
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Amin Elhassan
The only one I could think of, Dan, if we're just going to like any discipline of creative arts, might be J.D. salinger and catcher in the Rye. Famously a guy who is anonymously inclusive.
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Stugotz
No, but no, no. A famed recluse. This. This is a. This is purpose. Look. This. This misremembers history so much to have this actor try this role for an artist who would think this the most despicable thing in the history of capitalism and commerce. Like. Like he. What would Bob Dylan say? Honestly, he really feels about the doing of all this.
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Greg Cody
I've seen his. Well, you can parse whether or not he was being honest, but I seen him praise the performance.
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Amin Elhassan
Correct. Mike's right, he hasn't. I didn't say anything with the movie, but he did say Chalamet did a hell of a job. So I don't know if he's just being genuine and kind to Timothy, but yeah, I can't imagine sitting through the film enjoying it. No Direction Home, which is a brilliant Scorsese documentary about Bob Dylan. Again, you get the sense that he's so reluctant and so recalcitrant to have any sort of examination of his life. He doesn't want to talk about. He doesn't care about it. And you're right, he's on the short list of people who I just think have zero interest in this adulation. Spoiler alert. The film ends with the fact mentioned that Dylan got, you know, a series of awards and never bothered to show up for the ceremony. Like he's gotten like, the Congressional Medal of Honor is a cap. I'm good. He has zero interest in these types of topics and I guess that makes him true to his art. But again, I just don't understand why he needs to be so gruff about it.
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Mike Ryan
Dylan praising Chalamet's performance. This is Dwyane Wade liking the statue. Right?
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Stugotz
Right.
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Mike Ryan
That's. That's what they.
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Stugotz
I just don't, I don't understand how any of it is allowed to exist by America. Like Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan's supposed to represent art and would find all of this offensive. Just all of I would think. Or am I just attaching what people.
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Greg Cody
He's really good at having people assume that about him.
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Amin Elhassan
Yes.
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Stugotz
Because they create a mythology or because it's so.
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Greg Cody
Well, because he's quiet. People build a mythology around him.
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Mike Ryan
Like Kawhi Leonard.
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Greg Cody
Yeah, exactly.
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Mike Ryan
It's exactly like quite time.
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Greg Cody
Apple time.
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Stugotz
Yep. He's the host of Amazon Prime Monday Night Hockey and I really, I feel a bit of shame that I'm not out here talking more about Spencer Knight being a God and the Panthers and the Bruins playing amazing hockey there. The sport is moving very fast for the regular season. It needs to slow down. I It just all of it needs to slow down. I need to have a life. I cannot care about why it is that Winnipeg's power play is so good or Connor McDavid is slightly less than what I thought he was.
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Greg Cody
Dan, don't worry. We'll slow down for two weeks. In which USA and Canada finally play with NHL players for like the first time in a decade during the Four Nations Challenge.
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Amin Elhassan
I love the fact Mike Ryan is going to be at the Four Nations. I that is fantastic. Mike Ryan, special correspondent Mike knows I'm not working at frameson. I might just go to Montreal. You know what, honestly, I think it's going to be an incredible tournament to see the best on best with the and by the way, for all my American friends out here, USA is favored. They have the better team certainly in goal. Connor Hellebuck not only is going to win his third best, he might win the heart trophy this year. Like he's been incredible. He's got more shutouts than losses and the fact that he's standing tall in the US net, I think it's going to be a hell of a tournament. Canada still has a ton of offensive firepower. Speaking of the Florida Panthers specifically Dan, one of my favorite moments this year on Amazon prime is getting to interview Paul Maurice who is as he's the anti Bob Dylan. He is as good a quote as you'll meet. He's self deprecating, he's funny, he's charming. One of my favorite people in sports. Mo's the best.
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Stugotz
Adnan, before you get out of here, Golden Globes, do you want to give me as much information as you can? Let's speed the music up on him as well. You know what? We did this to Diana Rossini.
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Mike Ryan
Yeah.
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Lucy
He doesn't talk fast enough.
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Stugotz
No. So this. Well, this is the thing. Here's the thing. I don't know what exactly are the inner workings of him and Samson. I will have to find out the details.
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Amin Elhassan
How much more apparent can I make this clear to you? Then he gets to the file. Canceled. Now he's not showing up as a baby.
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Stugotz
Well, what happened? Showing up? What, did he not show up for you?
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Amin Elhassan
Listen, you're on the text and you asked him to come on, but I.
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Stugotz
Haven'T seen my phone because I've been busy talking at you.
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Amin Elhassan
Okay, well, the text literally says, I'm not coming on the show today. You can read it right now.
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Greg Cody
That's a trademark bedside manner that we love so much about David.
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Stugotz
Let me get.
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Amin Elhassan
By the way, I'd still love to do the Oscar show with or without Sampson. We have plenty of capable people here. Mike Ryan's great, Amin el Hassan, et cetera. I don't know why we need David Sampson's authority to do an Oscars show, for the record.
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Stugotz
Well, okay, because he's gotten near the money. Which part of this do you guys not understand?
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Greg Cody
Keyword there is money.
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Stugotz
Oh, no.
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Mike Ryan
What are we.
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Amin Elhassan
I'll give him that.
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Stugotz
He's got the money. What do you mean? What have we done? We. I needed this. Up with the money. We're arguing over T shirts. I asked you people to handle all of this for me.
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Mike Ryan
We put a wolf in charge of.
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Greg Cody
The hen house music.
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Amin Elhassan
Bob Dylan would be disgusted by this conversation.
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Stugotz
Adnan Ver, Golden Globes recap. As much information as you can give us as fast as you could give it. Because the real Adnan Ver cares about this. Spoiler alert. More than hockey. Don't ever say that. And more than tennis. And he loves those things. No, you love the arts. You love getting those little gifts from Scorsese.
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Greg Cody
Actually, actually, guys, I have to bring the the fun down. But I do want Adnan to weigh on, weigh in on this. And it actually ties two of his passions together. Cinema and baseball. Just came across a wire. Bob Euchre has passed away.
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Amin Elhassan
Oh, man.
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Mike Ryan
Yeah.
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Amin Elhassan
That's devastating news, Mike. He's like an all time legend, man. You know, it's funny for a generation of people, they'll know him just because of major League. And he's brilliant in the movie. And he ad libbed everything in that film. Bob Costas has told me that. Who's of course a friend of the show and a dear friend of Bob's. But Bob Euchre, if you didn't know Major League, you didn't know Mr. Belvedere, which was on the show as well. If you just listen to him as a baseball guy, he was absolutely brilliant. Like, he actually gets way too much credit for how funny he is and how entertaining a personality he is and not enough credit for what a great baseball announcer he was. And he was still calling Milwaukee brewers games. And you know, even after this past season when Craig Counsel went to the Cubs, they thought Milwaukee would go down the step. No, they're still in the playoffs and Bob Euchre was calling playoff games and still bringing it. And was was such a joy to listen to. Oh, man, that is. That's a tough blow for baseball fans, man. Nuke was, was. I mean, you can have Tim Kirchen on. Tim can tell you stories for years. He said the greatest master ceremonies ever was Bob Euchre. He's just so funny and so charming and that, that's a big loss for the sport of baseball.
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Greg Cody
D you go.
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Amin Elhassan
Meantime, Demi Moore wins her first Golden Globe. That that's her first major award in 45 years of being an actress. And again, I'm not the one to say that she should have been lauded with laurels for A Few Good Men. She was Oscar nominated for Ghost GI Jane, of course, is a big box box of a head strip. Te is less successful, but give Mike Ryan credit. He was the first one that texted me. And Samson goes, you guys got to watch the substance. I was like, eh, horror movie, gonzo filmmaking, let's give it a shot. And both of us, all three of us, matter of fact, enjoyed it a lot more than probably should have. And it's not a film that would normally get awards type consideration because it's too gruesome, too gory, but it's audacious, it's challenging, it's got heavy themes to hit on when it comes to women's issues. And Demi Moore does give a go for book performance. I see the Golden Globes recognizing her. Although I'd love to see Mikey Madison still win the Oscar for A Nora, which is one of my favorite films of the year. And also credit to the Brutalist. Again. Adrien Brody might go down in history as the worst two time best actor winner ever. Think about this. He won best actor for the Penis at the age of 29. He was the youngest ever best actor winner. He's now the favorite to win for the Brutalist again. I will show the DVD here again. And I Love the film. Brady Corbett might win best director. He's the favorite guy. Pierce is sensational. He's gonna get an honor for best sporting actor. But. But Adrian Brody. If I said to you guys, give me five iconic Adrian Brody performances, you're not going to be able to do so. And you could throw up Pat Riley and, you know, playing a Lakers coach in Showtime Predators. Honestly, he's. Yeah, King Kong. This is what we're doing. Adrian Brody. And he's going to win two Oscars. It's crazy to think about. Robert De Niro has won best actor Oscar ever for Raging Bull. Asian Brody's about to win his second.
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Greg Cody
Nero could never be in Predators. It shifted the paradigm. Instead of the Predator coming to Earth, he took a bunch of earthlings to his planet.
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Mike Ryan
Also, he was in Fool's Paradise. He did a good job in that.
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Amin Elhassan
Give me Brody on his way to an Oscar.
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Stugotz
Give me the joy that you get in your life. Any kind. And being able to wave at us that I get this DVD because of my movie credentials.
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Amin Elhassan
That's not what it is. I'm just trying to establish credentials, Dan, because people say, who is this loudmouth? Who do you think you are that you get to opine about films? You're just some sportscaster, MLB Network. You're a hack, dammit. And I said, no, no, I'm not a hack. I'm a guy who gets sent the screenplay to challengers.
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Mike Ryan
Dan, you're often worried about the show aging out. How many of our listeners know what a DVD is?
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Stugotz
I just. I can't believe that he's just waving it around. And what is the. Give me.
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Amin Elhassan
You flush it, I flaunt it. That's a difference.
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Stugotz
No, I'm just asking you that. What. What I want to know is if I give Adnan Burke the moment that he can show America what his credentials are and he could hold up in front of America. Let me show you, America, how credentialed I am. Somebody sent me this, and it's Robert De Niro's sock or whatever it is like, would you sniff daily as part of your morning mantra? What would the thing be? What would the one thing be?
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Amin Elhassan
I have an unbelievable picture of Martin Scorsese in a director's chair on the set of the Irishman. And it's a gorgeous shot. I'm a big fan of that photographic look. Imagine Lebbetard in repose, staring out at South Beach. But I don't get to see her face. I get to see you from behind. It's a Gorgeous shot, black and white. Scorsese in the director's chair. Simply says director on the side of the Irishman. It's immaculate.
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Mike Ryan
I thought it was going to be a laserdisc of Casino.
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Amin Elhassan
Actually, add that I do have some great criterion DVDs. It means right about that.
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Stugotz
Adnan, good seeing you. He's the host of Amazon Prime, Monday Night Hockey. If you want to do fast 30 seconds of baseball, we can do it through a lot of speed. He can do it on. You saw what just happened. I thought. I'm a bit offended that we just eulogized Bob Uecker with that music playing right before you started.
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Greg Cody
Yeah, but we faded it down. Chris was on it. And Adnan, I mean, man, was he ready for that.
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Billy
A pro.
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Stugotz
A pro.
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Greg Cody
What a great obit. Dan, we're still waiting for your words on it. I do have one more movie question, because Nosferatu is a huge box office hit, but it's a little polarizing. And the polarization basically comes down to one thing. Count Warlock has a mustache. And a lot of people, they kept it secret. And the reveal was kind of stunning. And I basically boiled it down to the people that didn't like Nosferatu didn't like the mustache. Was it, in retrospect, a mistake to put a mustache, a historically accurate mustache, on Ken Warlock?
- [23:20]
Amin Elhassan
Well, there's no question movies been polarizing. You're right, Mike. It's made a ton of money, which is a great sign for Robert Eggers, who you and I both appreciate as an independent director. He's a visionary. His films haven't made a ton of money, whether it's the Witch, the Lighthouse, or the Northman. But this one's got people talking, and I'm afraid of friends. And he goes, how come Bill Skarskar is not getting Oscar consideration? I said, well, maybe the fact that, you know, he's the monster. He goes, hang on a second. The awards, they love when they transform themselves. Yes. Demi Moore transforms herself. Timothy Chalamet transforms himself into Bob Dylan. So why does this guy not get credit for transforming himself into a monster into Nosferatu? I said, all right, it's a fair point. I love the film, especially the cinematography. I'm a little mystified. It's been virtually ignored by all the major branches in terms of the acting categories. Lily Rose Depp, I thought, was terrific. Especially, as I said, the look of the film is amazing. Is the mustache the issue? Perhaps. But Eggers brings it. There's no question about it.
- [24:09]
Stugotz
Mike, I will take you up on your challenge as Adnan Vir leaves us. But I will ask Adnan Virg to tell me if I have anything wrong here, because Tim Kirchen and Adnan Virg are very good gatekeepers for baseball. Baseball's history and the things about it that are special. And yes, when someone dies at 90 now, yeah, long life, we will not remember them correctly. But as it relates to Bob Uecker as a player, wherever the trilogy resides, he was fine as a player, a known player. But the career that he had 50 years after that was being a clown prince, face and voice for baseball that was almost eternally lovable everywhere it arrived in public. And also Milwaukee can tell you a lovely dark undercurrent of a baseball man who lived with all of the insane bitternesses that come with traveling on the road for 50 years, following a ball team around, and was great as a human being in a way that ties him regionally to something, but nationally, through the movies as well, to being a voice, face and time for baseball that was allowed to age lovingly on radio, of all places. On radio, Right. Like it's a specific thing in a specific market with a specific relationship with the ears of a regional audience. Milwaukee is crushed today that this man, a historic clown, prince of representation to America through the movies and through baseball, a historic figure in the region that transcended sports.
- [25:48]
Amin Elhassan
Yeah, there's always something special about baseball on the radio, Dan. And again, it's part of a bygone era for some. But Tom Hammond's being inducted in the Baseball hall of Fame and he's been the voice of the Cleveland Indians now guardians, for decades. And like, you'll go back and listen to his calls, the Rajah Davis home run, 2016, or any number of moments in the 90s Indians, you're like, yeah, that, that, that really speaks to that locale and that generation. And similarly, as you said for Milwaukee, this is small market team, right, in terms of attendance and payroll. They're in the 20s of a 30 team baseball league. And yet Uke is the voice of summer for so many Wisconsinites. We know how tough the weather can be in Milwaukee, but they get up to the lake in the summer and they're listening to Bob Euker call Brewers baseball. And if they had 1982, they've had some good runs, obviously made the playoffs, been successful. But Bob Uecker's voice, it will be inextricably linked to baseball for those people there. And again, on a national level, people at least heard him enough on NBC broadcasts They know major league, just a bit outside and all the one liners. It's. At the age of 90, it was truly a life well lived. And I'm telling you, this is not just because when people die, people say these things. A fundamentally humane and decent human being.
- [26:50]
Stugotz
I've got a photo here of you guys blocking David Sampson out of the zoom, not allowing him in the personal meeting room. On my text here. What is happening here? I'm just looking at this and then. What are you doing, David Samson? Why am I being sent. What is happening? Oh, you guys invited him and he says I'm not coming on today. He just threw it.
- [27:12]
Amin Elhassan
That's what I told you. Correct. I said we're gonna go on and talk movies. Even though, you know, I get stuff sent to me and I'm an actual critic and you're not. We'll still come on and do a bit. He said. He said I'm not coming on today. I'm like, really? You're just gonna take your ball and go home? Like, okay, that's fine. Nothing.
- [27:27]
Stugotz
Perfect.
- [27:28]
Amin Elhassan
Hashtag wait to see.
- [27:29]
Stugotz
All right, well, we'll put you on next week. Thank you, Adnan.
- [27:32]
Amin Elhassan
Appreciate the time, guys. Love you guys.
- [27:34]
Adnan Virk
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- [28:19]
Stugotz
Billy.
- [28:20]
Billy
Yes.
- [28:21]
Jessica
You know what we've been talking about all season long?
- [28:23]
Billy
Smeared off. Yeah.
- [28:25]
Jessica
How'd you guess?
- [28:25]
Billy
I knew it. I'm a good guesser.
- [28:28]
Jessica
You are. They are the official sponsor of the Dan Leitard show with two guys. So you already know that it's an official vodka partner of the NFL and Super Bowl 59. We're going to be there.
- [28:37]
Billy
Oh, yes. I can't believe we're by 59 already. Yeah, time flies.
- [28:41]
Jessica
It does?
- [28:41]
Stugotz
Yes.
- [28:42]
Billy
We're old.
- [28:43]
Mike Ryan
I'm old.
- [28:44]
Billy
Hey, you know what, you guys, I was thinking.
- [28:46]
Amin Elhassan
Yes.
- [28:46]
Billy
Since football season's winding down, super bowl is coming up. Super Bowl 59. We've been celebrating football all year. I have an idea.
- [28:53]
Mike Ryan
What?
- [28:54]
Billy
Let's do a toast.
- [28:55]
Jessica
Okay.
- [28:56]
Billy
Wow. To football.
- [28:57]
Jessica
Really?
- [28:57]
Billy
Yeah. Me and you. Let's toast football.
- [28:59]
Jessica
So, just a toast. So we're. We're raising our glasses of Smirnoff Vodka.
- [29:03]
Billy
Glasses up. Yeah. All right.
- [29:04]
Jessica
And we are toasting. To football.
- [29:06]
Billy
To football.
- [29:07]
Jessica
To football, everyone. What we love about Smirnoff is that you can get the world's number one vodka without breaking the bank. This feeling is what the good folks over at Smirnoff call. Billy, you want to take a stab at this?
- [29:17]
Billy
Yes. Smirnoff Strawdinary.
- [29:19]
Mike Ryan
Nailed it.
- [29:21]
Billy
I told you. I'm a good guesser.
- [29:22]
Jessica
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- [29:46]
Billy
These Smirnoff strawdinary items. Oh, look at us. What's the website?
- [29:52]
Jessica
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- [30:13]
Billy
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- [30:42]
Stugotz
Don Lebatard.
- [30:44]
Dan Le Batard
He seems like a not nice guy, and he's always been a not nice guy. I don't care for him, and I hope he has the day he deserves.
- [30:51]
Lucy
Oh, let's see.
- [30:54]
Stugotz
Stugats. I hope he has the day he deserves.
- [30:59]
Dan Le Batard
That's how I get people when they're really mean to me. I'm not like, go f yourself. I'm like, I hope you have the day you deserve.
- [31:06]
Amin Elhassan
It's a great kind.
- [31:07]
Stugotz
It's a great kind. Insult. Yes, it's beautiful. It's leaving it to the cosmos to sort it out.
- [31:16]
Amin Elhassan
That's a less Southern. Bless your heart.
- [31:18]
Billy
This is the Dan lebatar show with the Stugach.
- [31:24]
Stugotz
I've got a bit of a corporate problem on my hands. I've got a renegade star diva rising up the ranks of the media elite. She's getting on the field with the help of Ricky Williams. She's breaking rules. She's clawing her way to stardom, and she thinks she doesn't have to pay fines around here. And I got into corporate trouble trying to sort of like, send an email to everybody. I was trying to be democratic. Let me send this to 13 random employees. Hey, Lucy killed somebody on the air. That's a $50 fine. She refused to pay it. I've never had anybody who just refuses to pay. Can we take it out of her paycheck? Somebody vote. And then everybody ran scared. Oh, no, you can't take it out of her paycheck. It's $50. And so then what she does is she kills the person and the company having fun. Because I want to take her money and she should pay the fine, but she's too big a star to control anymore. And so now I have to get Venmo involved, the corporate sponsor, and they're controlling the fine bucket, and we have to respect the fine bucket. And she still hasn't paid the $50. So, Lucy, where are we? I never saw you answer the email that I sent. I sent it to 13 people. Amin agreed that I did. Amin agreed that you should have it taken out of your paycheck. Fine.
- [32:37]
Mike Ryan
I would say that she should willingly, voluntarily present it, because that's the ethos of what we do here. But yes, should she disagree, take it out of her check.
- [32:50]
Stugotz
But what was the democratic process? Lucy, did you see that email chain? You didn't respond. You ignored the entire thing.
- [32:56]
Dan Le Batard
Dan, do you really think I'm a star? That's so nice.
- [33:01]
Mike Ryan
Someone said they were close to me.
- [33:03]
Dan Le Batard
That's really cool. I didn't hear anything else you said. I stopped listening after star.
- [33:08]
Stugotz
Well, you have risen to stardom, and you are evidently going to go to the biggest of games.
- [33:14]
Lucy
Well, she wants to.
- [33:15]
Stugotz
No, no, I wasn't talking about the Super Bowl. I'm talking about Notre Dame. Are you not going to be around Notre Dame, Ohio State? I would assume you are you not?
- [33:22]
Amin Elhassan
No, I'm going.
- [33:24]
Stugotz
There you go.
- [33:25]
Lucy
Why did I got my big games?
- [33:26]
Stugotz
Why did you think the biggest of games was the Super Bowl?
- [33:28]
Lucy
I mean, that's.
- [33:29]
Dan Le Batard
I'm going to both big games.
- [33:31]
Stugotz
You're going to. You're going to the Super Bowl?
- [33:33]
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, I will. I'm a star. I get to go to both big games.
- [33:36]
Stugotz
Well, you got to pay fines, though. Stars have to pay fines. Like you got. You might as well come on reading a book and be A.J. brown. Like, you got to pay the fines.
- [33:42]
Mike Ryan
Jimmy Butler.
- [33:44]
Stugotz
You got to pay the fines. It's now sponsored. We have to respect the sponsors. I understand. You don't respect the boss. You don't respect the company. You have to respect the sponsors. Jeremy, were you on this email chain? I asked.
- [33:55]
Amin Elhassan
Well, no, you didn't put me on the email chain. You don't care what I think.
- [33:57]
Stugotz
Okay, but I asked. It was 13 random people, and I got how many answers.
- [34:02]
Greg Cody
And one very purposeful omission.
- [34:04]
Amin Elhassan
Yeah, that's right.
- [34:05]
Stugotz
It wasn't one. Jessica, did you have a vote here?
- [34:09]
Dan Le Batard
I don't remember. Specific incident.
- [34:13]
Greg Cody
Yeah. Did that come in on a Saturday? Because I saw it.
- [34:15]
Dan Le Batard
I was like, florida doesn't have same day registration, so I don't think I was eligible for a vote.
- [34:20]
Greg Cody
But we brought in a corporate partner that is literally made to make the fine system even more convenient, which they have. And yet this is a culture problem. And she's just saying she's going to the Super Bowl. That's subject to corporate approval. So challenge at least. Challenge.
- [34:37]
Mike Ryan
Let me ask the HR heads in the world. Is quid pro quo bad?
- [34:41]
Lucy
I do love a challenge. I don't know what the challenge is going to be.
- [34:44]
Dan Le Batard
You keep the flag in your sock.
- [34:45]
Amin Elhassan
Ooh, I have.
- [34:48]
Stugotz
What do you mean, a challenge?
- [34:49]
Mike Ryan
Like the Red Haver?
- [34:50]
Greg Cody
Pay off the fine through unconventional means.
- [34:53]
Dan Le Batard
You can't ask an employee to give you part of their paycheck.
- [34:56]
Billy
Yep, that's right.
- [34:57]
Greg Cody
But you can ask them to eat something really bad for them or do something that was, like, really physical.
- [35:04]
Lucy
And if she does that, then she can go to the Super Bowl.
- [35:07]
Amin Elhassan
Yes.
- [35:07]
Greg Cody
Our company has a long, checkered history with forcing people to do these things.
- [35:11]
Lucy
I'll call it the Lucy Super Bowl Challenge.
- [35:14]
Mike Ryan
Oh, can we get a sponsor?
- [35:15]
Lucy
Venmo.
- [35:16]
Greg Cody
Venmo.
- [35:16]
Stugotz
There you go. There it is.
- [35:18]
Lucy
Well, what's the challenge and what's the ven.
- [35:20]
Stugotz
Is anyone gonna tell Venmo?
- [35:22]
Lucy
Like, Ah, they know.
- [35:23]
Greg Cody
They know.
- [35:23]
Lucy
Ven knows.
- [35:24]
Amin Elhassan
They listen.
- [35:25]
Stugotz
Okay, Venmo. Ven knows. What are the challenges? Because, yes, we've got a dirty history here. When we did freedom, there was a whole pepper thing. So what. What, we're going to really ask her what the challenges should be? No, we have to present her with challenges.
- [35:38]
Lucy
Let the audience pick.
- [35:39]
Stugotz
That's a good one. Oh, no, that's a good one. Yes, yes, that's a good one. That's. That's exactly the.
- [35:45]
Lucy
At least submit submissions and then we will choose one of those.
- [35:48]
Stugotz
The audience selects with a hashtag. Ven knows.
- [35:51]
Greg Cody
Can you dress up like Jim Harbaugh as the Michigan coach and interview Buckeyes fans?
- [35:55]
Dan Le Batard
Oh, yeah, I'll do that. Oh, can you dress up as Jim Harbaugh after he was taken by the dirty bubble in the wild card playoff game this weekend?
- [36:02]
Stugotz
You are obsessed with.
- [36:03]
Dan Le Batard
I'll do that as well. It was like the. I think it was the greatest thing I've ever seen in my whole life. I just loved it so much.
- [36:08]
Greg Cody
Changed the game.
- [36:09]
Amin Elhassan
Change the game.
- [36:09]
Dan Le Batard
We should petition, maybe have the audience petition to get TikTok banned to punish Lucy.
- [36:16]
Stugotz
Well, you laugh at her, but I feel like this is a very real pain. We're taking away a sugary addiction for her. Why Lucy? It must not feel very good.
- [36:22]
Dan Le Batard
Also a stream of income. That's the big one.
- [36:26]
Stugotz
It must not feel very good to have everyone laughing at the idea that you've lost your TikTok.
- [36:33]
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, well, I've also lost a huge portion of my income as well, and that's the part that really, really sucks. TikTok's creator program actually does pay decently well. But for me, like, TikTok has been what I've used to sort of one, get this job. Every job I've had has because I posted on TikTok and grew a following that way. It's how we get brand deals. Like, it is a huge chunk of my income that is lost because the government doesn't want someone stealing our data. Even though if I were to go to another based app, they're also stealing my data.
- [37:06]
Mike Ryan
Different.
- [37:06]
Dan Le Batard
It really. It really, really sucks because, like, it's not just going to, like, impact me financially. It's going to impact so many people, so many small businesses, so many people who have made their living as creators. It really does actually suck. And I will miss my scrolling time too.
- [37:23]
Stugotz
I want to get to the college football of the moment, but just to explain to people what Metal Arc is trying to do in the Modern age, the media is under siege, information is under siege. The rich people who things want to spend how many billion on Twitter? So you can be where you are now as Elon Musk taking over newspapers and even staring down Bezos with, yeah, you're gonna not have your newspaper say anything bad about Trump because the rich people are gonna be in charge of the money and the media.
- [37:52]
Greg Cody
This is about college football. Yeah.
- [37:53]
Stugotz
I hate that TikTok has taken a form of income from her that now makes me have to present challenges so that we can pay in this modern media age to send her to the super bowl because her income has been harmed and she doesn't pay and I can't take them out of her check.
- [38:09]
Mike Ryan
Well, I have a question, Lucy. Have you explored using RedNote? Now you may need to learn Mandarin, but apparently they pay well over there.
- [38:17]
Dan Le Batard
I have not used it yet, but I have seen lots of videos of people using it yet. One, they're teaching college football there. So I think I could be really, really good at that. I think it's a little bit funny that everyone got together and they were like, fine, you're going to take our app. We're going to go to the even more Chinese app, the one that is like, like, specifically meant for like the citizens of China. We're gonna use that. Please take my data. Like, and you can't read the terms and conditions cause it's all in Chinese. So you're like, fine, got it. Well, it's not like we have my data. I don't care.
- [38:50]
Greg Cody
I'm always usually so good about reading those too, in a language that I understand.
- [38:55]
Mike Ryan
That's my favorite thing about this whole thing is like TikTok is stealing our secrets. And I'm like. And so like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, those are the people we're supposed to trust with our data. Like, no, no, now it's safe.
- [39:07]
Amin Elhassan
Steve Martin.
- [39:08]
Mike Ryan
Also, did you talk about Elon Musk buying, perhaps buying TikTok?
- [39:12]
Amin Elhassan
Yeah, we did that yesterday.
- [39:13]
Dan Le Batard
And we talked about how Pablo was smart enough to live at the time of Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard, but not smart enough to A, invest in Facebook or B, stop him from ruining the world?
- [39:22]
Mike Ryan
Didn't he say he was like one of the first hundred people to sign up for 199the Facebook, as it was.
- [39:27]
Lucy
Called, to rate one drop the the Justin Timberlake great note.
- [39:31]
Mike Ryan
He's the guy who invented Napster. That's my favorite part. It's like, yo, some of you young people don't remember this? Napster was the first. Like, this is how we get music for free. And it was glorious.
- [39:44]
Greg Cody
It was awesome, dude.
- [39:45]
Mike Ryan
There were no bugs. There were no. There was no viruses. Everything came down pure and clean. I was a king. I was a bootlegging king. Do you guys know that about my life?
- [39:55]
Amin Elhassan
I used to bootleg king.
- [39:56]
Greg Cody
Yeah, the CD burners.
- [39:57]
Mike Ryan
Yeah, man, CD burners. Walking around, man. I was selling them five bucks a pop, three for 20.
- [40:02]
Lucy
I used to have a guy come to my old job and, like, with just a binder, it's like, what movies you want here? What do you want?
- [40:07]
Mike Ryan
Well, I wasn't. Movies. Movies was later in my life. Yeah, early on.
- [40:10]
Greg Cody
Unless you wanted to spend seven days downloading signs.
- [40:13]
Mike Ryan
Also, blank DVD writables were a lot more expensive back then. But yeah, man, Napster was such a thing. And so it's crazy because now as I think of it all, it all is one continuous thread, Dan. Right? You start with Napster, which wasn't even social media. It was just like, hey, how we got music? And then the guy who invented Napster is basically advising Mark Zuckerberg, who created Facebook. And Facebook turns into Instagram, and Instagram is this thing in TikTok. And here we are where Lucy is learning Chinese, literally, so that she can supplement her paycheck.
- [40:46]
Greg Cody
Ooh, that could be a challenge. Learn Chinese.
- [40:48]
Dan Le Batard
I'll do it. I'll need it.
- [40:50]
Stugotz
I'd like that. You will have to say something in Chinese.
- [40:53]
Greg Cody
Yes, you will have to learn film a TikTok. Totally in Mandarin.
- [40:57]
Lucy
If you would like to submit a potential challenge for Lucy, tweet us at the Levitard show with the hashtag Lucy challenge.
- [41:03]
Stugotz
You ripping the Chinese government in Chinese for whatever.
- [41:07]
Greg Cody
Don't make it worse.
- [41:08]
Stugotz
Okay, very good. I'm glad we got do a TikTok.
- [41:11]
Greg Cody
Dance and then, you know, pull soliloquy and Mandarin and that's a good challenge.
- [41:15]
Stugotz
That's. That is a good challenge. We will find out what the hashtag should be for this challenge. To send Lucy to the super bowl because Tick tock has affected her income. But she's still not paying the fines, and I still don't need those $50. So where are.
- [41:26]
Dan Le Batard
Well, I can't. I don't have income anymore.
- [41:28]
Stugotz
For TikTok, where that's $51 if you don't have the amount of money that the fine is. So now it's $51 that we should.
- [41:36]
Dan Le Batard
What are you, a credit card company? The US Government should pay that. They took that from me.
- [41:40]
Stugotz
No, there's a multiple fine. There's a $1 fine for not paying or not having the fine. Should it be incremental? Like, I need help from Venmo on figuring out how we're doing all this. We need to please the corporate sponsor in these difficult media times.
- [41:53]
Mike Ryan
Do we have that sheet that has all the fines listed? Because I believe that's the new fine system, Dan. So what you're referring to is the old fine system where you would have to be fined when you didn't have the fine money. Now that we have Venmo, and thank you, Venmo, we have a new fine system. It's on the screen for the people watching on YouTube and elsewhere. It's $1 for a mistake, $2 for coughing into the mic or having phlegm, $3 for pestering. Which Dan. $5 for tone. Dan, also, you're not really great on that. $1. $7 for not listening. That's one for me. $10 for phone interruption and $50 for death. Fines are doubled on Tuesdays when Greg Cody's here.
- [42:28]
Stugotz
All right, speed up the music, Lucy. Give us the best that you have on all college football things as we head into the biggest game of the biggest games. As I try to cancel Martin Luther King Day to get Jessica to work on Monday and celebrate Notre Dame football on Tuesday, are we going to be celebrating Notre Dame football on Tuesday?
- [42:46]
Dan Le Batard
I think there's a better chance than people realize right now that the line is what Ohio State -8 and a half. I actually think that this game only goes two ways. Ohio State wins by 21. They're a very good team. And when they're playing like not even their best, but just 75% of their best, they're pretty much impossible to beat. But you've seen this season multiple times that Michigan game Will Howard has not played well up until the postseason. He's been electric in the postseason. But if Ohio State fumbles, if Notre Dame is able to put them in a position where they're. They're stuck in third downs and Ohio. Ohio State is terrible on third down. I really do think Notre Dame has a chance to win this game. If it's close, I think Notre Dame will win through their defense. If it's not close, it's not going to go well. I think I did pretty decent.
- [43:31]
Greg Cody
There's reports that the transfer portal opening up is going to actually be pushed to after bowl season. This was an obvious thing that was under everybody's noses. I don't know why it took so long. But this should make everything easier, right, Lucy?
- [43:43]
Dan Le Batard
Yeah. I. I believe there's going to be a 10 day period after bowl season. All the coaches voted yes on this, so it's probably going to move forward. I think this is just going to make things so much easier. Specifically, you look at what happened with Penn State. They had to play the postseason without their backup quarterback because he needed to enter the portal. He's at Mizzou now and it like makes sense for both him to want to be able to continue to play for Penn State in the postseason, in the playoff, but also know, hey, you're not going to have a starting job next year. It's probably a good idea to move on. You had the incident with Marshall where they couldn't field the team because so many players transferred. This is going to eliminate a lot.
- [44:19]
Mike Ryan
Of that Marcus Freeman hair. Real or Beijing?
- [44:24]
Greg Cody
Both.
- [44:25]
Dan Le Batard
I don't want to.
- [44:26]
Greg Cody
I don't want to say the hairline's beach.
- [44:28]
Mike Ryan
Is that why they beat Penn State? Was because Penn State was making. The coach was making jokes about the hair.
- [44:34]
Jessica
It ended.
- [44:35]
Dan Le Batard
It's. I think James Franklin was instigating. I think he was being difficult to be difficult. And he hasn't earned that right yet. But yeah, the hair, it. It just sort of appeared and he didn't need it. He was so handsome. And he was so handsome.
- [44:47]
Stugotz
Lucy. Thank you. $51. Thank you. Billy.
- [44:53]
Billy
Yes.
- [44:53]
Jessica
You know what we've been talking about all season long?
- [44:56]
Billy
Smirnoff. Yeah.
- [44:57]
Jessica
How'd you guess?
- [44:58]
Billy
I knew it. I'm a good guesser.
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Jessica
You are. They are the official sponsor of the Dan lebatar show with Stugat Soap. You already know that. It's an official vodka partner. The NFL and Super Bowl 59. We're going to be there.
- [45:10]
Billy
Oh, yes. I can't believe we're by 59 already. Yeah, time flies.
- [45:13]
Jessica
It does.
- [45:14]
Stugotz
Yes.
- [45:14]
Billy
We're old.
- [45:16]
Mike Ryan
I'm old.
- [45:16]
Billy
Hey, you know what I was thinking?
- [45:18]
Amin Elhassan
Yes.
- [45:19]
Billy
Since football season's winding down, super bowl is coming up. Super Bowl 59. We've been celebrating football all year. I have an idea.
- [45:26]
Mike Ryan
What?
- [45:26]
Billy
Let's do a toast.
- [45:28]
Jessica
Okay.
- [45:28]
Billy
Oh, wow. To football.
- [45:29]
Jessica
Really?
- [45:30]
Billy
Yeah. Me and you. Let's toast football.
- [45:32]
Jessica
So, just a toast. So we're. We're raising our glasses of Smirnoff vodka.
- [45:36]
Billy
Glasses up. Yeah.
- [45:37]
Amin Elhassan
All right.
- [45:37]
Jessica
And we are toasting. To football.
- [45:39]
Billy
To football.
- [45:39]
Jessica
To football, everyone. What we love about Smirnoff is that you can get the world's number one vodka without breaking the bank. This feeling is what the good folks over at Smirnoff. Call Billy, you want to take a stab at this?
- [45:50]
Billy
Yes. Smirnoff Strawdinary.
- [45:52]
Mike Ryan
Nailed it.
- [45:53]
Billy
I told you I'm a good guesser.
- [45:56]
Jessica
And right now, Smirnoff has partnered with Complex Last, letting fans get their hands on some amazing items handpicked by celebrities, including NFL legend and super bowl champion Vernon Davis, for the unbelievable price of $12.99. Just like a bottle of Smirnoff. So head on over to smirnoffdrops.com to check out upcoming drops. And check out. Oh, Billy, you want to take a guess again?
- [46:19]
Billy
These Smirnoff Strawdinary items. Oh, look at us. What's the website?
- [46:25]
Jessica
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- [46:45]
Amin Elhassan
All set for your flight? Yep.
- [46:47]
Stugotz
I've got everything I need. Eye mask, neck pillow, T Mobile. Headphones.
- [46:51]
Amin Elhassan
Wait.
- [46:51]
Stugotz
T Mobile? You bet. Free in flight. Wi Fi. 15 off all Hilton brands. I never go anywhere without T Mobile. Same goes from a water bottle, chewing gum, nail clippers. Okay, I'm gonna leave you to it.
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Jessica
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Amin Elhassan
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Lucy
Deposit and Hilton honors membership required for 15.
- [47:13]
Stugotz
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