Hour 1: Irish It Were True (feat. Jessica Smetana) - The Dan Le Batard Show

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[00:01]
Jessica
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[00:03]
Billy
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[00:30]
Dan
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are back in Disney's Freakier Friday.
[00:36]
Stugatz
Yes.
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Amin
Twinning. Yes.
[00:38]
Billy
On August 8th, we switched bodies.
[00:41]
Dan
I didn't want to be a part of this family and now I'm part.
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Jessica
Of some dodgy family curse.
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Amin
And I'm the eldest.
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Stugatz
The ultimate movie event of the summer arrives.
[00:49]
Billy
I think I just peed a little.
[00:51]
Stugatz
Disney's Freakier Friday in theaters August 8th.
[00:54]
Dan
Get tickets now.
[00:55]
Jessica
Oh, this is cool.
[00:57]
Amin
Let's do it.
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Stugatz
Rated PG for rental guidance suggested.
[01:01]
Jessica
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[01:30]
Amin
This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast. Hey, Jess.
[01:39]
Jessica
Hey, Billy.
[01:40]
Amin
How are you?
[01:42]
Jessica
Oh, I'm good. How are you?
[01:43]
Amin
I'm good. Welcome into Wild Billy Wednesday, as it's known around these parts.
[01:48]
Billy
Negotiated for.
[01:49]
Amin
I love that. Oh, I thought there was more. Okay, so anyway, so Amin is in, Zazzle's in, Tony's in here, Chris is in, Jeremy, Dan's in here, Roy's in, and we're having a good time. I don't know if you've been watching the show today, but we have a number of things to get to and a number of things that we've gotten to. So I don't know if you want us to throw you a topic, if you want to give us a topic, but I can catch you up on what we've talked about so far. We've talked about soda bodies, we've talked about flowers from grocery stores, we've talked about boy bands, and we've talked about the Miami Dolphins. So if you're kind of want to get in on any of that, we can get to that. Also, guys, everybody here this is breaking news that I'm reporting first here. Done some reporting, as Mike would say. And we have a new game that I want to play with Jessica and with all of you. And you guys can all participate in this game. Dan you included, Zaz Amin. Everyone can play. And the name of the game is called I Rish it were True.
[02:50]
Stugatz
What.
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Jessica
Is this, like, a Notre Dame pun?
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Amin
Let's just. We'll get to it when we get to it. We don't have to start with the game, but we can work our way up to the game. It's called I Rish it were True.
[03:01]
Stugatz
Okay.
[03:02]
Amin
Yeah. So I'm gonna throw out a topic, and then you guys say, I rish it were true, or I wish it weren't true. It's a fun game. We'll get to that a little bit later.
[03:12]
Stugatz
Okay.
[03:13]
Amin
So Jess, who in sports has a soda body?
[03:15]
Jessica
Ooh. Well, I call it pop, so.
[03:17]
Amin
Okay.
[03:18]
Jessica
Yeah, Yeah. I would also like to throw out another topic, Billy, if I am allowed to do that.
[03:22]
Amin
Yeah, just forget about all the stuff I said. It's fine.
[03:25]
Jessica
No, we'll get to all of that. Don't. I really want to talk about the Dolphins with you guys, but I don't. Have you guys mentioned Ozzy Osbourne dying yet?
[03:31]
Amin
No, we haven't mentioned Ozzy Osbourne dying.
[03:35]
Jessica
Okay. So I may not be the perfect person to eulogize Ozzy Osbourne because he's a little of an older generation than me. However, I do have a really odd Ozzy Osbourne sports connection, and I VH1 MTV era. So I did watch his reality show back in the early 2000s, the Osborne's.
[03:55]
Amin
That's honestly how I was introduced to Ozzy Osbourne. I didn't know anything about Ozzy Osbourne until I watched the Osbourne.
[04:00]
Jeremy
Really?
[04:01]
Amin
Yeah, like, at all. Because I was such a little kid. I didn't know about the Osbournes until I saw them. And I was such like a, you know, like such a little bubble. I was like, wow, they say a lot of bad words to their kids. Yeah, this is wild. That's not how my house is.
[04:14]
Jessica
That was exactly what my introduction was to Ozzy Osbourne also. And then my sister was like, yeah, he also ate a bat once. And I was like, what? But then Bill Osbourne show became super popular in, like, 2002. He was actually at a Cubs Dodgers game in August 2003 that I happened to attend and went down as one of the most infamous Take me out to the ball game, seventh inning stretch. Singing. Singing jobs of anyone in the history of. Of the seventh Inning stretch. And so my connection to Ozzy Osbourne has always been that I was there as a, I think, seven year old. This was like the height of my Cubs fandom a month before the Steve Bartman thing, which is where my blood feud with Miami started. And I saw Ozzy sing the seventh Inning Stretch live. And like, this was like, you know, pre social media, but, like, this seventh Inning stretch went viral. And I think we have sound from it, Roy, if people aren't familiar.
[05:13]
Dan
All right, Chicago, let's.
[05:16]
Stugatz
I want to hear a real, real.
[05:18]
Dan
Crazy crowd start singing with me.
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Stugatz
Are you ready? Are you ready?
[05:23]
Dan
O hear you. Are you ready? 1, 2, 3, now. Let's get some runs.
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Amin
Yeah, let's get some runs. Come on, don't mess around. Let's get some runs, guys.
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Jeremy
So let me just say right now, Beautiful, man.
[06:22]
Stugatz
When Jessica was setting up the clip, I'd never heard it before.
[06:25]
Jeremy
Really.
[06:26]
Stugatz
I want it to be funny. I said, oh, did it sound so. And I was like, the guy just died. I mean, don't make that joke. And it literally was exactly, exactly what was in my head.
[06:36]
Jeremy
So good. It's so good. I was bummed about Ozzy yesterday and this morning. I honestly, I spent the whole car ride in today listening to Ozzy and Black Sabbath. Like, I was into it. I was getting goosebumps listening to it because he. He performed this, this Back to the Beginning concert, which was like two weeks ago at Wembley Stadium in London, where all the heavy metal groups, they were there and paying tribute, and Ozzy and Black Sabbath. It was like a reunion, one final show back to the beginning. And you were able to see, like, he summed it up one final time. He was emotional during some of the songs. People in the crowd are crying. And he even said that leading up to the show to make sure that he could perform in the current state. Like he had Parkinson's. Okay? So he was suffering for a bit. And he even. He couldn't stand during the show. They brought him out on a throne. He performed on a throne he couldn't stand. And he said leading up to the show, he wasn't taking his medication anymore because he needed to make sure that he could focus and do it one final time. Like he was saying goodbye to all of us.
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Billy
It's so cool. I was showing my wife that last night. Can we name a celebrity that went out better than Ozzy?
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Jeremy
It really, it's like, that is like.
[07:44]
Billy
I don't want to say.
[07:44]
Jeremy
You're cool. But it was.
[07:46]
Billy
It was something beautiful, awesome that he got to do that.
[07:49]
Jeremy
He was saying goodbye to us.
[07:50]
Dan
Oh, be clear on this. That's one of the most music moving things I've ever seen or heard. I've told you guys before that seeing Led Zeppelin play at the Kennedy center, when Hart and a chorus is singing behind them, seeing them, their music played for them back to them is among the best television or moving music I've ever seen. What Zaslow said. A piece of this. Okay, the piece of it that Zaslo is hitting on is those bands showed up for 15 minutes, all of them, to do their very best, because they knew that guy was dying and they knew what he was. And Osbourne's reality show, that's one of the most amazing entertainment things of my lifetime. I saw a guy who the church thought was a Satanist, who was leading all children to hell, become a sitcom dad.
[08:36]
Jeremy
He became a TV dad.
[08:38]
Dan
That person. The story I know about Ozzy, that is the best story. Isn't him biting the head off a bat, a live bat on stage. It's that other bands, bands addicted to heroin, marveled that he would snort the line of ants on the way to the Popsicle stick on the floor. Because this dude, it's a miracle he made it to 76. And the music that was played was said to they. They know he should have been gone 25 years ago. Like, that dude was an insane person to see him go sitcom dad to. Then goodbye. I had a lot of fun. And everyone's like crying in the crowd because they know exactly what that means. Very few people get to go out like that.
[09:21]
Amin
And it's.
[09:22]
Jessica
And then the Cubs lost, even though Zambrano was pitching. Dan. It was a huge bummer.
[09:27]
Stugatz
Wow. This really, really soda body burnt that memory into your brain. Your seven year old brain.
[09:32]
Billy
So, Briano, great.
[09:33]
Amin
The Cubs fans also, by the way, like, let him get away with it because, like, they will boo the crap out of anyone that does that. And Ozzy's like, this was awesome. Like, Alex Cooper was there a couple weeks ago. They hated Alex Cooper singing Take Me out to the Ball Game, but they love this.
[09:47]
Stugatz
Alice.
[09:48]
Billy
Alex, the podcast host.
[09:50]
Stugatz
Oh, I thought, I'm like, oh, I thought we're like doing the Rock and Roll Guides. Oh, Alice Cooper was there. Wow.
[09:59]
Jessica
We can't play the video. But as soon as he starts singing, they cut to the bleacher seats and there's just a guy without a shirt on. And he just starts, like, he starts laughing and Then you hear the laugh from the crowd at the Cubs game. And so actually my. My dad. Someone invited my dad and like, all of us to sit in a club or like a box seat for that game. So we were like, right next to the TV booth. And that was like, a big deal because, you know, I never sat in a box before and they have a dessert cart. But the thing that I remember most was, like, we all went out into the hallway to see Ozzy and Sharon Osborne walk out from, like, the TV booth right after it happened. And that was like, the first time I'd ever seen a celebrity in person. I was like, this is the coolest day of my life. And then I actually, like a few years later in Chicago, saw Black Sabbath at Lollapalooza, I think. So I don't know. That was always my. My Ozzy Osbourne connection. You could look at me, Lucy, for that, too.
[10:49]
Billy
Hold on.
[10:49]
Stugatz
You said a few years later.
[10:52]
Jessica
Yeah, like, probably she went nine to 11 years later.
[10:55]
Stugatz
Okay, all right. I was like, you, like 10 Sabbath, 10 years old.
[11:01]
Jessica
So anyways, bummed. Bummed to hear that he passed away. He was like one of the first sitcom family dads.
[11:07]
Jeremy
That's amazing.
[11:08]
Jessica
You know, in my household, to be.
[11:09]
Jeremy
That, like, that's how you get turned on to who? Ozzy Osborne.
[11:14]
Dan
America. America feared him. The ch Saying that he was the most evil person in entertainment.
[11:19]
Amin
What was he like? Because, like, when I. You guys say that. But when I was, you know, turned on to him, he was a sitcom dad. And he was kind of like this guy. Like, obviously it's because of the years of drug loop, but he just seemed like this guy that was just like bumbling around a lot of the time. And I was like, how is this person the most feared person in America? And they think that this guy is going to, like, recruit me to a cult. Because if that Ozzy Osbourne showed up at my door is like, hey, you want to worship Satan? I'd be like, not think I'm good, but thank you. Like, you want to come in?
[11:47]
Jeremy
And like, I mean, it's because when we. When you think of heavy metal, you know, through the 70s and then the 80s, he. He was the guy. Like, he was the very, very top of the food chain when it comes to heavy metal stars. He was. He was just a titan. And for that guy to be the sweet man we saw bumbling around his home where, by the way, he's not in charge. The kids and the wife run the show and they tell him what to do. It was. It was really endearing. And he was like the Sweetest man.
[12:29]
Dan
Don LeBatard.
[12:30]
Jessica
I don't think I ever got that.
[12:32]
Amin
Many roses in my whole life.
[12:34]
Dan
Stugats.
[12:35]
Amin
Certainly not from your lovely grandfather.
[12:37]
Dan
God. May a soul rest in peace.
[12:39]
Amin
This is the Dan Lebo. Our show with the Stugach.
[12:46]
Stugatz
Did the church hate him because the band was called Black Sabbath? It was called.
[12:50]
Dan
Oh no, because. No, he was a Satanist. They did all they. They did Aleister Crowley. Like a song about like this. I cannot explain to you. I'm trying to think who could even. It's not. This is beyond Marilyn Manson. I guess sort of. Marilyn Manson was ripping off whatever it is that Ozzy was doing 30 years earlier with costumes. Ozzy Osbourne was thought by the church to be some to the devil's music.
[13:15]
Billy
He has denied being a Satanist, by the way. In the New York Times reported in 1992 that he was actually a practicing member of the Church of England. Prayed before each show.
[13:23]
Stugatz
The only song I know is Crazy Train. That's the only.
[13:27]
Jeremy
No, you know, you just don't know that. You know.
[13:29]
Stugatz
Give me some other examples.
[13:30]
Billy
Mama, I'm Coming Home.
[13:32]
Stugatz
Never heard that.
[13:32]
Jeremy
You've heard Iron Man.
[13:35]
Stugatz
What's that?
[13:40]
Jeremy
You've heard War Pigs before?
[13:41]
Stugatz
It's War Pigs.
[13:42]
Jeremy
You want me to sing it?
[13:43]
Stugatz
Yes, because I got karaoke.
[13:45]
Dan
You're confident? I don't think it's an unreasonable request.
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Amin
Soda Body. Did the church get together and have a meeting and say, this is the guy that we hate? Like, what does that mean? The church was so afraid of it. Like, they called like, you know, like in the papal conclave when. Like before, I guess John Paul was the Pope at the time. Like, okay, before we elect a new pope, though, let's go over pop culture and decide who we hate the most. And then they let out the smoke and it's like, Ozzy, I really don't know.
[14:08]
Dan
Let's think about this as give me somebody comparably that I can. That was at the height of whatever represented evil in America. Like this. This person, when he says he's a titan, it's four people who are like, I like that he's a wrestling character. And then the people who don't know that he's a wrestling character and that he's addicted to drugs and everything else and that he's musically great, that he's not. That he's acting and that he's a sitcom dad who gets bossed around by his wife. And Zaz is connecting with the music there. But he's also rebelling against whoever it is. Thinks this person needs to be banned.
[14:41]
Jeremy
I would. I think Howard Stern's in that territory. People thought he was, like, this awful person, when in reality, like, he wasn't that guy on the radio at all.
[14:50]
Billy
And people have flipped on him. Like, he's kind of on the other side of that now.
[14:53]
Amin
I feel like if you're the church, right? Like, that's the worst thing you want to do, right? Because, like, if you're like, a young impression, okay? It's like the church hates this guy. He's, like, way too hot. It's like, whoa, I like this guy. Right? Like, I feel like if the church wanted to. What they should do is like, this is Joel Osteen. God. I mean, he's. This guy does not represent the church at all. And then a bunch of people like, I gotta check out this Osteen guy, see what he's all about. The church hates him so much. You know, reverse psychology is. Just bring him into the church that way.
[15:20]
Dan
Every time Jessica just said Streisand effect. And I gotta be honest. I've heard that. I. I learned. I still. I can't remember what it is, but I heard it for the first time, like, three days ago, and I've heard it several times since. Yeah, I've never.
[15:32]
Jeremy
I don't think I've ever.
[15:33]
Dan
I've never heard of Jessica. What is the Streisand effect?
[15:36]
Jessica
It's like when you try to censor something, and then, like, by saying this is taboo, more people pay attention to it. Anyway, so time.
[15:44]
Stugatz
Every time.
[15:45]
Amin
What did Babs do that everybody was trying to start it with?
[15:47]
Dan
Barbra Streisand.
[15:48]
Amin
Yeah. What does she do?
[15:49]
Dan
Barbra Streisand was Trump. They're doing this, they're doing that.
[15:52]
Stugatz
So she was the one that was trying to censor somebody, right?
[15:56]
Jessica
Like a photo of her house or something. I don't.
[15:58]
Stugatz
Yeah, it was her. It was a picture of her house. She's like, stop taking pictures of my house. And all that happened.
[16:03]
Billy
Everybody's like, what, take pictures of your house More Exactly.
[16:05]
Amin
Okay.
[16:06]
Stugatz
Exactly how it went down, by the way. To answer your question. Who else? Madonna. Church hated Madonna. The Like a Prayer video. They did not like.
[16:14]
Dan
Oh, but wait a minute. They hated Madonna for sexuality. Osborne was like. Osborne. I don't think he was publicly against the church, but everyone thought he was the devil's child. Like, that's how he was being reacted to.
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Jeremy
He was literally like, the test case for you play the record backwards and you're going to hear the.
[16:29]
Dan
That's correct.
[16:30]
Stugatz
That's. That's correct. That comes.
[16:31]
Dan
Yes, that's where that starts. Yes. And play the Aleister Crowley song backwards. And.
[16:36]
Amin
And it sounds like a dentist.
[16:39]
Jessica
Oh, my gosh, you guys.
[16:40]
Stugatz
Crowley.
[16:40]
Amin
Dr. Crowley.
[16:41]
Dan
You know what? Please look up Aleister Crowley's history and let's see if we could scare Jessica because you say you guys know who.
[16:46]
Jessica
Alistair, Dan. Come on. I'm like. One of my favorite bands was Led Zeppelin growing up.
[16:50]
Amin
Yeah, she worshiped the devil as a child.
[16:52]
Stugatz
She went and saw Black Sabbath at 10 years old at Lalapalooza.
[16:55]
Jessica
My nanny was a psychic. She saw ghosts.
[16:58]
Stugatz
Really?
[16:58]
Amin
Yeah. Seeing.
[17:01]
Jessica
Well, according to her. I mean, my. Certainly scarred my sister for life, whether it was true or not.
[17:06]
Amin
Did you guys see this story just somewhat related to Ozzy. And maybe as an homage to. Ozzy mentioned biting the bat before. There's a law firm in New York where they had to fire an intern for biting people.
[17:15]
Jessica
Yes, Billy, I saw this. It was in the New York Post. This law. Big, big law firm intern. Apparently her first week was just going around biting people. And it wasn't like a little nibble, but it also wasn't like a ferocious, like, mean. She was just, I guess, biting people in the. In between, according to the Post. And so I think it was a woman, but maybe not. But anyways, they got fired or let go from their internship. And it's apparently been a big scandal around the big law industry.
[17:42]
Stugatz
Now that's one way to make your mark.
[17:46]
Dan
My. My brother bit Tatum o'. Neill. You were saying, Bill?
[17:49]
Stugatz
Really?
[17:50]
Amin
Wait, what? Why?
[17:53]
Dan
He had a hard time explaining it. Tatum o' Neill got mad at him, but they were both dancing at Fukata on Cayojo. And all I will say about the music and the drink and however it is that people get down there, got carried away, bit her on the shoulder. She got mad. I don't know why. He bit on the shoulder.
[18:10]
Amin
I shouldn't have gotten mad.
[18:11]
Stugatz
Dirty Dancing.
[18:12]
Dan
She shouldn't have gotten mad.
[18:14]
Amin
Why?
[18:14]
Dan
You know where you're at? You can't.
[18:18]
Amin
You know what the deal is. You guys want to play I wish it were true or you want to talk?
[18:22]
Dan
I don't understand the game. I don't understand. I wish it were true.
[18:25]
Stugatz
I want you to be very careful.
[18:27]
Amin
What do you mean?
[18:28]
Jeremy
Just dangerous, man.
[18:29]
Amin
Be careful how. What do you mean?
[18:31]
Stugatz
It's a dangerous.
[18:31]
Amin
Well, what do you. Let's.
[18:32]
Billy
Okay, you wish it's true.
[18:34]
Amin
Let's don't wish it's true. Listen, let's just. Let's voice our concerns now to make sure that I don't step in it. And I'm fine with this on air. What are we afraid that I'm gonna do here?
[18:43]
Stugatz
You know what? Full speed ahead.
[18:45]
Amin
No, no, no, no, no, no. He's my executive.
[18:47]
Billy
You're good now.
[18:48]
Amin
You're good. I want to make sure it's worse.
[18:50]
Billy
To explain what Amin is thinking than to do what you're doing.
[18:53]
Amin
Well, if I have thought about it, then I feel like it can't be coming from a bad place.
[18:57]
Stugatz
There you go.
[18:57]
Billy
That's correct.
[18:58]
Amin
Or been paying enough attention.
[19:00]
Dan
I don't know what you guys are doing.
[19:02]
Amin
We're going to play.
[19:03]
Jessica
I'm picking up what it means. Putting down. I think that let me just awkwardly segue into promoting my new podcast, the Echoes at the Echoes and Pod. Me and Michael Jr. Notre Dame podcast every week on Tuesdays. Please tune in. Today was our first episode. Although today is Wednesday, in the future, it'll be out on Tuesdays.
[19:21]
Stugatz
Did you guys talk about Rudy?
[19:22]
Jessica
No, we didn't talk about Rudy. But, I mean, thank you for your input. We can talk about Rudy on our next episode.
[19:27]
Stugatz
So did you guys know this? This is part of the exhaustive basketball Illuminati slash Pablotturi finds out episode we did on Malik Beasley. Do you guys know that Malik Beasley's like a family, is all actors, and his grandfather was played one of the coaches in Rudy. Like, I think he was the linebacker coach.
[19:45]
Amin
Yes, I heard that on the episode.
[19:47]
Stugatz
That's Malik Beasley's grandfather, John Beasley. Yep. And John Beasley. Big John Beasley.
[19:51]
Jeremy
He was in Rudy's Corner.
[19:52]
Stugatz
Yeah, he was. He was one of the guys who's like, coach, we need to play the kid. Yeah.
[19:56]
Amin
Both of his parents were actors, too. Learned that on the show as well.
[19:59]
Stugatz
Yep. So his. His father, Michael Beasley. Not that Michael Beasley was on. He's been in Two Guns. He's been in a bunch of movies, but I always remember him as the guy in Eastbound and Down. Dude, they're on the show with him and Kenny Powers doing a TV show. He's the. He's the former NFL player, dude.
[20:17]
Billy
John Beasley's not one of the coaches. He's like the guy in the stadium that, like, gives the guy, like. He's like the groundskeeper. Get what he's remembering. What he's remembering is in Little Big League, when they need to walk into the field, you're going to figure this out. It's fine. He's a coach in Rudy.
[20:36]
Stugatz
S. Dutton is the groundskeeper in Rudy.
[20:40]
Billy
It's okay. He's remembering Little Big League. He was. He was crucial in that moment. Because if you guys remember, in Little Big league, they run a trick play where they go to pick off Ken Griffey Jr. Down over at first base and he does a little hat tip and he says like, I got you. And so when they throw the ball over to first, they don't actually throw the ball. They hold onto it. It's a hidden ball trick. And then the Little Big League, he's the guy standing down the first bas and he's like, oh, my God, where'd the ball go? I gotta pick up my chair. The ball is clearly coming this direction.
[21:03]
Dan
I don't want to get in the way.
[21:04]
Billy
So Ken Griffey Jr. He runs from first to third, but he's kind of jogging. He's jogging, looking back and he's giving a smirk like, I'm the freaking best. I'm the best guy who's ever lived. But little did they know. Bowers on the mound, the relief pitcher throws it over to third base. Tag him out.
[21:17]
Jessica
Ballgame.
[21:18]
Billy
The real point I wanted to. This is like a well known actor.
[21:20]
Stugatz
Yes.
[21:20]
Billy
I've seen this guy in a bunch of shit.
[21:21]
Stugatz
All of his, like his whole family are not like bit actors. These are people who have been in stuff also. I don't know if there's a SUI category for best save, but goddamn, Jeremy, Tasha just saved your ass.
[21:33]
Dan
Yours too, Don LeBatard.
[21:35]
Jessica
Mr. Mr. Schurt, if I may say for a second, Miami, they were simulating the snap count the entire game. And they were clapping at the line of scrimmage. And the only thing I want to see clapping are them cheeks on Mrs. Meth in my face Max shirt. All right, so that's one thing. Stugats, they're a bunch of cheaters, Dan. And you know who should be cheating? Mrs. Met on Mr. Met. And he can watch if he wants.
[21:56]
Amin
This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats. Oh, I thought the bed was longer for Irish. It were true, but that's the open, so it's a new game called Irish. It were true.
[22:16]
Dan
Jessica, can I hear some of the other names you guys were thinking of? Because Echoes is great with you. And Mike Golick for all things Notre Dame. What were some of the other name choices you guys were going over?
[22:29]
Jessica
Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame. Wake up the echoes cheering her Name send a volley cheer on. That's where it comes from.
[22:36]
Dan
That's a long name.
[22:37]
Amin
I was gonna say it's a long podcast.
[22:38]
Stugatz
A real long podcast.
[22:39]
Jessica
That was the only title that was discussed. Dan. That was it. One and done.
[22:45]
Stugatz
That's not good. That's not a good brainstorming process. I'm just saying that the name's good, but that process not good.
[22:51]
Amin
Show your work kind of thing.
[22:52]
Stugatz
Yeah.
[22:53]
Amin
All right. Irish it were true. So this is how this game works. I'm gonna give you a fact about something that is Irish, and if it's false, you say irish, it were true. But if it's something that you think is true, you say irish it wasn't true because then you're saying that it's true.
[23:17]
Jeremy
Irish it wasn't Irish it were true.
[23:20]
Amin
Or Irish it weren't true.
[23:23]
Billy
I'm following my executive, ladies and gentlemen.
[23:25]
Dan
Like all the games that he plays on God bless football that are.
[23:28]
Amin
No, this one's different. This one's Irish.
[23:30]
Dan
Look, Billy has learned from the best. He interned at pti, and he knows you can make something big out of the same game if you dress it up in different ways.
[23:37]
Amin
This is a totally different game because it's called Irish it were true because Irish. And then these are facts related to Ireland. And if it's false, you say Irish it were true because it's false. So you wish it was true. Okay, if it's false, then you say Irish it were true.
[23:55]
Jessica
I'm just gonna say wish though Irish.
[23:58]
Amin
Because it's brought to you by the Echoes. Your podcast, Irish. It's not wish, it's Irish. It's one word, Irish, like Ireland. Okay, here's the first one. Colin Farrell quit smoking on his 34th birthday, May 31, 2010. He mentioned that he smoked an entire pack of cigarettes that day, paying close attention to every puff he took and even wrote a goodbye letter to cigarettes. He stubbed out his last cigarette 11:55pm that night and has been smoke free ever since.
[24:34]
Billy
This is a good game, guys.
[24:37]
Jessica
I wish it weren't.
[24:39]
Stugatz
No, that's not the game. That's not the game.
[24:42]
Dan
You're not playing it, right?
[24:44]
Jessica
You play. I mean, why don't you answer?
[24:47]
Stugatz
I don't have a podcast called the Echoes.
[24:49]
Amin
Oh, Dan.
[24:50]
Dan
Well, I am confused by the rules of the game, but I guess I would have to say because I'm confused by the rules of the game. I want that to be true, but I wish it weren't true.
[25:01]
Amin
So you think it is true?
[25:03]
Dan
Yeah, I Do think it's true, but I don't know how to say that.
[25:05]
Amin
I. Yeah, it's true. It's true. Irish. It weren't true because it is true. Yes. All right, here we go. On to the next one. Thank you, Roy. Liam Neeson once turned down playing James Bond in goldeneye because he didn't want to be in an action film.
[25:26]
Dan
That's good music, man.
[25:28]
Jessica
This is great music.
[25:29]
Dan
It's funny music.
[25:30]
Jessica
Oh, man. I'm nostalgic for my trip to Ireland two years ago. Now I feel like I'm at the.
[25:36]
Billy
Bottom of the Titanic dancing at Dan's wedding.
[25:41]
Stugatz
Hey.
[25:42]
Billy
Dear Roy.
[25:46]
Stugatz
That was us at Dan's wedding. Everyone else, Sarah Spade and Dan Patrick.
[25:50]
Amin
It was basically that. And then, like, Dan Patrick, look what I can do.
[25:53]
Billy
I juggled for him.
[25:54]
Amin
Yeah. It was so embarrassing.
[25:56]
Billy
He did juggle for him. Hit him in the balls with her, by the way. Y like, lost one of them and threw it, like, right at him. I think we have that video sooner.
[26:03]
Amin
I did.
[26:03]
Stugatz
I'll try to find I can answer this question that I know the answer, and the answer is Irish. It weren't true because it is true.
[26:13]
Amin
Anyone else have any guesses? Amin is right.
[26:19]
Jessica
That's what I was going to say.
[26:20]
Amin
Yeah, that was true.
[26:21]
Jessica
And actually, what Chris was just saying reminded me of an article I saw in the Cut the other day. Did you guys see the article about, like, summer long balls? Apparently when it gets really hot out, your balls become, like, really long.
[26:33]
Amin
Like, very long balls.
[26:35]
Stugatz
Larry.
[26:36]
Jessica
Yeah, I read a whole article about this.
[26:38]
Amin
There was a whole article in the cut about men's biology. I like that. What did the. What did the article say?
[26:45]
Jessica
It's. There was a lot of, like, medical language involving, like, the veins and the testicles and things of that nature.
[26:52]
Billy
What happens in the winter?
[26:53]
Amin
They go back up.
[26:54]
Stugatz
Shrink.
[26:55]
Jessica
Yeah, they go back up when they're cold, I guess.
[26:57]
Amin
Try to go far away from the balls and then try to go back up when it's cold.
[27:00]
Stugatz
The reason why the balls hang is because of the heat generated. So, like, this is an evolution thing. They hang to allow proper heat dissipation.
[27:09]
Billy
Thank you for the visual.
[27:10]
Amin
As an owner of testes, I can say Irish, it weren't true.
[27:14]
Stugatz
Hit the music.
[27:19]
Amin
Anticipation.
[27:20]
Dan
I don't want to.
[27:20]
Amin
Here's the next one. Irish Spring. Are you looking for naturally or natural fly repellent? Look no further than a bar of Irish Springs as it acts as a natural fly repellent.
[27:36]
Billy
That's just so random.
[27:38]
Amin
Irish it were true. Or Irish it weren't true.
[27:43]
Jeremy
Irish.
[27:44]
Jessica
Okay, yeah, I'm gonna go with that one.
[27:46]
Dan
But wait, that's. That's denying it, though.
[27:48]
Jeremy
I don't think it's true.
[27:49]
Dan
I think that is.
[27:50]
Amin
Irish weren't true means it is true, right?
[27:52]
Billy
Dan's got it.
[27:53]
Dan
I think it's true.
[27:54]
Jeremy
Irish it were true.
[27:56]
Amin
It's an Irish Spring, man. Right there. I can tell. Inconclusive. When you combine Irish Spring soap with water, it does kill insects. Soapy water is lethal for flies, and when their bodies are covered with it, they dry out. While this can be an effective homemade spray you can put into a bottle, it doesn't necessarily repel flies in the way you may want to. The evidence for the efficacy of this trick when it comes to repelling flies is anecdotal.
[28:27]
Stugatz
Wash your ass.
[28:30]
Dan
Wash your ass? Is that what you just said? Wash your ass?
[28:33]
Stugatz
That's like. Yeah, wash your ass to keep the flies away.
[28:36]
Jeremy
Not bad advice.
[28:37]
Amin
Okay, I have two. I have two more quick, quick ones for Irish it were true or Irish it were false.
[28:42]
Jessica
I have a top five Led Zeppelin songs, if anyone.
[28:45]
Amin
Yes, I'm. Really?
[28:46]
Dan
Yes.
[28:46]
Amin
Led Zeppelin boy band. Oh, yeah, I'm with you. Pearl Jam boy band.
[28:52]
Jessica
There's a rumor they're going to play at the World cup opening ceremony, Right? Or did I make that up?
[28:57]
Amin
Pearl Jam?
[28:58]
Jessica
No. Led Zeppelin.
[29:00]
Jeremy
Yeah, I think you're right about that.
[29:02]
Dan
Really?
[29:02]
Jeremy
I think so.
[29:03]
Amin
I think. I think.
[29:04]
Jeremy
I think I've heard that.
[29:04]
Dan
When's the last time Led Zeppelin played?
[29:06]
Jeremy
I mean, it's a long time ago.
[29:07]
Dan
What? Are you kidding me? That's a. That's a thing. That's real.
[29:11]
Stugatz
Last time they played is when they had Zeppelins.
[29:13]
Amin
I wish.
[29:13]
Jessica
I wish it weren't true.
[29:15]
Amin
Yeah. Waldo the Wizard, a helpful but scatterbrained magician, was created for a cereal that never hit the market and instead graced Lucky Charms boxes for only a matter of months when Lucky was thought to be not friendly enough.
[29:37]
Jessica
That has to be true.
[29:38]
Stugatz
I wish you guys saw the shrug. Jessica did.
[29:41]
Amin
Yes. All right. That's true. Okay, we'll just wrap this up because I don't know if this game's working.
[29:46]
Dan
It petered out. Well, it was working. The music was working. But, yeah, then it petered out with that. Well, I think once you go inconclusive, you sort of take the air out of your own.
[29:55]
Amin
I did. I'm not in control of the questions. In the early 1980s, kids could send away for Lucky's farm kit and grow their own crops. And while Lucky is primarily associated with St. Patrick's Day. For a couple of years in the 1990s, kids could send in their box tops for cartons with special edition green tree marshmallows and receive a free Christmas tree seedling.
[30:19]
Jessica
I mean, this.
[30:20]
Dan
It's probably not made up. You don't think that Billy's that creative. You don't think that Billy's got the. The creativity to write Christmas tree seedling as if he's not reading it straight from the Internet?
[30:33]
Amin
So that's your official guess?
[30:35]
Dan
That has to be true.
[30:36]
Jessica
Just. Yes.
[30:37]
Amin
No, no, no, no. Irish. Irish.
[30:41]
Jessica
Notre Dame. It were true.
[30:43]
Amin
Yeah.
[30:43]
Jessica
Weren't true.
[30:44]
Amin
That's true. Yeah. You guys are good at this game.
[30:46]
Billy
According to. According to social media posts and. And some websites, there were claims that Led Zeppelin would reunite at the FIFA Club World cup around their album release, but that didn't happen. There are no credible. There's no credible information that suggests they're going to perform at the World Cup.
[31:02]
Jessica
Darn.
[31:02]
Stugatz
According to Gemini or Chad. GPT.
[31:04]
Jessica
Yeah, I got Long Bald.
[31:06]
Dan
Album. Album. Album release. When was their last. I don't know. The last time that Led Zeppelin released music.
[31:13]
Jeremy
Mid 80s probably was their last album.
[31:15]
Amin
Yeah. Mid 80s.
[31:17]
Dan
Are you reading? When are you reading? What's. What. What is the time that you're. You're gonna say that Led Zeppelin has it? No, that can't be right.
[31:24]
Jessica
Well, Robert Plant has put out his. His own.
[31:26]
Jeremy
No, no, but as a band.
[31:28]
Jessica
But as a band. Yeah.
[31:29]
Billy
82 there, you can tell you.
[31:31]
Stugatz
82.
[31:32]
Dan
Wow.
[31:33]
Billy
That's the last full album they did release. A couple of, like, older, like, live BBC sessions they did. How.
[31:41]
Jeremy
How the west was that, Alan Coda. Was that the last one?
[31:44]
Billy
Coda was the last one.
[31:45]
Jeremy
Not. Not their best work. Just.
[31:47]
Stugatz
Cool name for an album, though.
[31:48]
Jessica
Nothing on the top five from that. Coolest.
[31:51]
Jeremy
I'm trying to hear this top five.
[31:52]
Amin
Yeah. What is it?
[31:53]
Dan
Well, I do want to hear the Jeremy top five of corrections from the entirety of the week, but I do want Jessica to make some rulings on some things that we've been talking about here. How do you feel if there is a booth for four people and there are only two of you, Lehman, sitting right next to you in the booth. How do we feel about that in a booth?
[32:12]
Jessica
It's a little awkward. I mean, especially because he's left handed, I'm right handed. We always sit on the wrong sides and then we bump elbows the whole time.
[32:19]
Dan
Is it romantic? Do you think your man is romantic if he sits next to you what? Needs to sit next to you instead of across from you.
[32:25]
Jessica
I don't want my head to be like this the whole time I'm eating dinner. I want to be able to, like, see you.
[32:30]
Stugatz
What does she know about romance?
[32:32]
Jeremy
If he did that on the first date, is there a second date?
[32:35]
Amin
Yeah.
[32:35]
Jessica
I mean, unless he, like, said something really effed up, too, and then I'd be like, that's two strikes.
[32:40]
Dan
What if. What if the first date was at a Pizza Hut?
[32:42]
Stugatz
Not. Hold on, you can't. The old school Pizza Hut. That was a restaurant. A sit down restaurant. Pizza Hut.
[32:47]
Dan
This is how Greg Cody, on a first date with what would become his wife at a Pizza Hut. He sat next to her and she thought it was creepy.
[32:58]
Jessica
Well, it worked out for both of them, didn't it? So, I mean, I guess you can't just. That's true. I guess it worked out.
[33:04]
Dan
It worked out. But is it romantic? It worked out.
[33:07]
Billy
But I wouldn't say romantic or creepy.
[33:08]
Stugatz
Creepy romance.
[33:09]
Jessica
It's the height of romance. But it's also. I mean, Pizza Hut used to be, like, a cool happening.
[33:16]
Stugatz
Yeah, look it up.
[33:18]
Dan
Did you know that Billy had body dysmorphia?
[33:20]
Jessica
We all do.
[33:21]
Amin
I mean, what do we do?
[33:23]
Dan
That's a good point. Well, no, the reason I want to ask her a question. Does Zaz have a soda drinker's body? And is saying someone has a soda drinker's body an insult?
[33:31]
Jessica
What is soda?
[33:32]
Dan
I'm sorry.
[33:32]
Stugatz
Pop Pop.
[33:33]
Dan
My bad.
[33:34]
Jessica
Oh, okay. Yes, I would say that is an insult to say that. And it's not nice.
[33:41]
Jeremy
It'd be tough to think that that's a compliment, right?
[33:44]
Amin
You had a pop body, you'd get upset about that.
[33:46]
Jeremy
Are you asking me?
[33:47]
Amin
Yeah. You don't want the pop body around here.
[33:49]
Jeremy
I know you're not talking to me.
[33:51]
Dan
Are you surprised? Jessica, that Zaslow does not drink any pop? Never. Doesn't drink it.
[33:57]
Jeremy
I don't drink soda. Not a soda. Family never grew up with soda. Right now, my kids. I don't know if my kids have ever tried soda. We don't do soda.
[34:04]
Jessica
I don't drink pop either. So. No, I think there's. There's dozens of us.
[34:09]
Stugatz
Hold on. But he drinks hi C. Which is basically just yo, that high C. Fruit.
[34:13]
Jeremy
Punch and lemonade at McDonald's.
[34:15]
Billy
So good. Jess, you're like Bert Kreischer starting your day with, like, a full gallon of lemonade.
[34:20]
Dan
Tim Kirkchen does it with a diet mountain dew at 5am so gross. That's Aggressive.
[34:25]
Stugatz
That's disgusting.
[34:26]
Dan
It is disgusting. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show is starting your day with a diet. Mountain dew disgusting at 5am I want to ask you about some things locally. You're always making fun of me about uniquely Miami things. Little tiny grocery stores that would have one employee and be a drive through and would be a bit of a shack. Have you seen any of those either in Miami or elsewhere? Are Laquitas the little farm stores that you drive through? Grocery store. Have you ever seen one? Or is that something that's only here?
[34:58]
Jessica
I've seen them, Dan.
[34:59]
Dan
And where are they? Where. Where have you seen one of these?
[35:03]
Jessica
Chicago, Long island, various places. I don't know.
[35:08]
Dan
And do you use it? How do you think about these things? Am I boring you?
[35:12]
Jessica
Yeah, a little bit.
[35:13]
Dan
Okay, we'll see you later. We'll talk to you next week. Let's get to Jeremy's top five here. The top five top five things that we've screwed up over the course of the last week.
[35:32]
Billy
Well, yesterday I was listening to the show and there were a few takeaways that I had. There were where there were six of them, so. Oh, I. You guys made the decision to talk about the Cavender twins getting a boob job not once, but twice.
[35:46]
Amin
Yeah.
[35:47]
Billy
Interesting.
[35:47]
Jeremy
Should have been three times.
[35:48]
Stugatz
Yeah. What the correction.
[35:49]
Amin
It was reporting there, though.
[35:50]
Dan
TMZ Sports reported it. We were making fun of Mike Ryan because he did. Because he. Because he got beat on that story and just.
[35:57]
Billy
Yeah, all right, that's fine.
[35:58]
Dan
Just saying you got beat on that story.
[36:00]
Billy
You know, major story journalism.
[36:01]
Stugatz
Look it up.
[36:02]
Billy
Not a correction post about it. Number five. I think the impressions we do of Zaslow are maybe the best thing we do on the show.
[36:09]
Dan
We didn't. Okay, but I thought the top five list was corrections.
[36:13]
Stugatz
It's like.
[36:13]
Dan
What is that?
[36:14]
Billy
It's observations from yesterday. It's five things I wanted to respond to. That's what I wrote on the board.
[36:18]
Stugatz
These are corrections. I was expecting corrections.
[36:20]
Dan
Like people have an expectation.
[36:22]
Billy
All of you, Number four, all of you were wrong about Chris's Vegas take.
[36:25]
Stugatz
Okay, now we're back.
[36:27]
Amin
I wish we got to Jess's list.
[36:29]
Billy
He loves love. Number three, what you guys did to Ethan yesterday, calling him horny. Ethan was insane. As someone who gets bullied here often, that's by far worse than anything you guys have ever done to me.
[36:45]
Stugatz
Well, they did ask the question miserable or horny.
[36:48]
Billy
And the it was miserable or happy. And then for Ethan, it was horny.
[36:52]
Amin
Yeah.
[36:53]
Billy
I think he had put him on the screen.
[36:55]
Dan
Miserable or not miserable. I apologized to him after that because I don't remember who was it yesterday that was waving me off on. That was it.
[37:03]
Amin
There was probably everyone. I was.
[37:05]
Billy
I didn't feel great. I would bet everybody, probably his grandma heard that.
[37:09]
Jeremy
No, I'm not gonna wave you off. Someone's horny I want to know about.
[37:12]
Dan
No, that was just in case. I apologize to him privately and I apologize to him publicly.
[37:18]
Billy
Number two. Man, I've never been more bored listening to the 50 year old dolphin talk yesterday. Pathetic franchise. They're the worst franchise here. They have been for the entire time I've been alive.
[37:31]
Stugatz
That's a good point.
[37:31]
Billy
Marlins have won two World Series.
[37:32]
Dan
No, they've used up all like. It has been fascinating, just like we're talking about Ozzy Osbourne and seeing like the generational difference what the Dolphins used up from the 70s, 80s and 90s when they weren't winning championships, but they felt like the Chiefs because they were the ones with the offense. Like, they used all of that shit up.
[37:49]
Stugatz
They blew a 31 lead.
[37:50]
Billy
Yeah, they're nobodies. I mean, they have been my whole life.
[37:53]
Amin
They'll get that back immediately as soon as they win a playoff game.
[37:56]
Billy
Maybe. If they ever do.
[37:57]
Dan
I was telling you about my. Well, we don't have time for it. But my small life includes my father sending me to school with all of the Dolphin autographs for the entire team. And all of them were exactly the same written by him. They were all fake.
[38:13]
Billy
Number one, the conversation about putting new kids on the block in the same category as Backstreet Boys and NSync. Insane. And also, Jess brought up something great via text, but since we made her go away, you know, we don't get to hear it. But that was One Direction blows all of them out of the water. It's nonsense. It's true.
[38:29]
Dan
I. I don't know the distinction you guys would be making between these and Jackson 5. Jackson 5 blows them all out of the water.
[38:35]
Billy
Well, yeah, but that's different. It's a family. They're not assembled. That's a fan.
[38:38]
Amin
Yeah. No addition. It's a different thing.
[38:40]
Dan
They did a fan.

Summary4 min read

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Irish It Were True (feat. Jessica Smetana)
Release Date: July 23, 2025
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz
Guest: Jessica Smetana

Introduction and New Game Launch

In the inaugural hour of "Irish It Were True," Dan Le Batard and Stugotz welcome guest Jessica Smetana alongside regular contributors Amin, Billy, and Jeremy. The episode kicks off with the introduction of a new interactive segment titled "I Rish it were True," a playful twist on the traditional true-or-false game, centered around Irish-related facts.

Notable Quote:
Amin [02:49]: "The name of the game is called I Rish it were True."

Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne

A significant portion of the episode pays homage to the legendary Ozzy Osbourne following his passing. The hosts delve deep into Ozzy's multifaceted legacy, reflecting on his impact on both the music industry and pop culture. Jessica shares a personal anecdote about witnessing Ozzy perform the iconic "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during a Cubs-Dodgers game in 2003, an event that went viral decades before the age of social media.

Notable Quotes:
Jessica [03:31]: "I saw Ozzy sing the seventh Inning Stretch live. And like, this was like the height of my Cubs fandom..."
Dan [07:36]: "That's one of the most moving things I've ever seen or heard."

The discussion highlights Ozzy's transformation from the wild frontman of Black Sabbath, often misconstrued as a Satanist by the church, to a relatable sitcom dad on "The Osbournes." The hosts explore the dichotomy between his public image and his genuine persona, emphasizing his resilience and heartfelt farewell during his final performances despite battling Parkinson's disease.

Notable Quote:
Amin [11:19]: "When you say he's the most feared person in America, but then you see him as a sitcom dad, it's a complete contrast."

"I Rish it were True" Game Segment

Amin leads the group into the new game segment, explaining the rules: participants are presented with statements related to Ireland, and they must determine their veracity. The segment features humorous attempts by the hosts to guess the truthfulness of various claims, though initial confusion around the rules adds to the comedic atmosphere.

Notable Interactions:
Amin [22:16]: "Irish. It weren't true because it is true."
Jessica [27:38]: "I wish it weren't true."

Despite some misunderstandings, the segment serves as an entertaining way to engage both the hosts and listeners with Irish trivia.

Promotion of Jessica's New Podcast

Midway through the episode, Jessica Smetana promotes her newly launched podcast, "Echoes at the Echoes and Pod," a weekly show focused on Notre Dame football and related topics. This promotion integrates smoothly into the conversation, highlighting Jessica's expanding role in the podcasting landscape.

Notable Quote:
Jessica [19:02]: "Me and Michael Jr. Notre Dame podcast every week on Tuesdays. Please tune in."

Local Sports Commentary: Dolphins and Marlins

Shifting gears, the hosts express their frustrations and critiques of Miami's sports franchises. Billy passionately derides the Miami Dolphins, branding them as the worst franchise in existence and lamenting their lack of success over the years. The conversation touches on past glories and infamous moments, such as the Dolphins' blown leads and the Marlins' sporadic World Series appearances.

Notable Quotes:
Billy [37:30]: "Pathetic franchise. They're the worst franchise here. They have been for the entire time I've been alive."
Dan [37:32]: "They've used up all that shit."

"Top Five" Corrections and Missteps

In a segment titled "Top Five," the hosts discuss the mistakes and missteps from the past week. This includes overreporting on the Cavender twins' breast surgeries, humorous impressions of Zaslow, and inappropriate comments directed at a listener named Ethan. The list culminates with criticism of categorizing new boy bands alongside legendary groups like Backstreet Boys and NSYNC, asserting that iconic families like the Jackson 5 far surpass these newer acts.

Notable Quote:
Billy [35:31]: "Number one, the conversation about putting new kids on the block in the same category as Backstreet Boys and NSync. Insane."

Humorous Banter and Anecdotes

Throughout the episode, the hosts engage in lighthearted banter and share amusing stories. Notably, they discuss a bizarre incident involving a law firm intern inspired by Ozzy Osbourne's infamous bat-biting stunt—a nod to Ozzy's wild antics. Additionally, they touch upon quirky facts like using Irish Spring soap as a natural fly repellent, blending humor with unexpected trivia.

Notable Quotes:
Stugatz [28:35]: "Wash your ass to keep the flies away."
Jessica [17:15]: "A law firm intern was fired for biting people."

Closing Thoughts

As the episode winds down, the hosts reflect on the day's discussions, acknowledging the blend of heartfelt tributes, engaging games, and spirited debates that characterize the show. They tease future segments and encourage listeners to stay tuned for more lively conversations.

Key Takeaways:

Ozzy Osbourne's Legacy: A heartfelt tribute highlighting his influence on music and pop culture, juxtaposed with personal memories from the hosts.
Interactive Engagement: Introduction of the "I Rish it were True" game adds an interactive and entertaining element to the show.
Local Sports Passion: Strong opinions and critiques of Miami's sports teams reflect the hosts' deep engagement with local sports narratives.
Humor and Anecdotes: The blend of humor, personal stories, and unexpected trivia keeps the conversation lively and relatable.

Overall, this episode of "The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz" offers a mix of emotional tributes, interactive segments, and spirited discussions, making it a compelling listen for both regular fans and newcomers alike.

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[00:01]
Jessica
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[00:03]
Billy
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[00:30]
Dan
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are back in Disney's Freakier Friday.
[00:36]
Stugatz
Yes.
[00:37]
Amin
Twinning. Yes.
[00:38]
Billy
On August 8th, we switched bodies.
[00:41]
Dan
I didn't want to be a part of this family and now I'm part.
[00:44]
Jessica
Of some dodgy family curse.
[00:45]
Amin
And I'm the eldest.
[00:47]
Stugatz
The ultimate movie event of the summer arrives.
[00:49]
Billy
I think I just peed a little.
[00:51]
Stugatz
Disney's Freakier Friday in theaters August 8th.
[00:54]
Dan
Get tickets now.
[00:55]
Jessica
Oh, this is cool.
[00:57]
Amin
Let's do it.
[00:58]
Stugatz
Rated PG for rental guidance suggested.
[01:01]
Jessica
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[01:30]
Amin
This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast. Hey, Jess.
[01:39]
Jessica
Hey, Billy.
[01:40]
Amin
How are you?
[01:42]
Jessica
Oh, I'm good. How are you?
[01:43]
Amin
I'm good. Welcome into Wild Billy Wednesday, as it's known around these parts.
[01:48]
Billy
Negotiated for.
[01:49]
Amin
I love that. Oh, I thought there was more. Okay, so anyway, so Amin is in, Zazzle's in, Tony's in here, Chris is in, Jeremy, Dan's in here, Roy's in, and we're having a good time. I don't know if you've been watching the show today, but we have a number of things to get to and a number of things that we've gotten to. So I don't know if you want us to throw you a topic, if you want to give us a topic, but I can catch you up on what we've talked about so far. We've talked about soda bodies, we've talked about flowers from grocery stores, we've talked about boy bands, and we've talked about the Miami Dolphins. So if you're kind of want to get in on any of that, we can get to that. Also, guys, everybody here this is breaking news that I'm reporting first here. Done some reporting, as Mike would say. And we have a new game that I want to play with Jessica and with all of you. And you guys can all participate in this game. Dan you included, Zaz Amin. Everyone can play. And the name of the game is called I Rish it were True.
[02:50]
Stugatz
What.
[02:53]
Jessica
Is this, like, a Notre Dame pun?
[02:54]
Amin
Let's just. We'll get to it when we get to it. We don't have to start with the game, but we can work our way up to the game. It's called I Rish it were True.
[03:01]
Stugatz
Okay.
[03:02]
Amin
Yeah. So I'm gonna throw out a topic, and then you guys say, I rish it were true, or I wish it weren't true. It's a fun game. We'll get to that a little bit later.
[03:12]
Stugatz
Okay.
[03:13]
Amin
So Jess, who in sports has a soda body?
[03:15]
Jessica
Ooh. Well, I call it pop, so.
[03:17]
Amin
Okay.
[03:18]
Jessica
Yeah, Yeah. I would also like to throw out another topic, Billy, if I am allowed to do that.
[03:22]
Amin
Yeah, just forget about all the stuff I said. It's fine.
[03:25]
Jessica
No, we'll get to all of that. Don't. I really want to talk about the Dolphins with you guys, but I don't. Have you guys mentioned Ozzy Osbourne dying yet?
[03:31]
Amin
No, we haven't mentioned Ozzy Osbourne dying.
[03:35]
Jessica
Okay. So I may not be the perfect person to eulogize Ozzy Osbourne because he's a little of an older generation than me. However, I do have a really odd Ozzy Osbourne sports connection, and I VH1 MTV era. So I did watch his reality show back in the early 2000s, the Osborne's.
[03:55]
Amin
That's honestly how I was introduced to Ozzy Osbourne. I didn't know anything about Ozzy Osbourne until I watched the Osbourne.
[04:00]
Jeremy
Really?
[04:01]
Amin
Yeah, like, at all. Because I was such a little kid. I didn't know about the Osbournes until I saw them. And I was such like a, you know, like such a little bubble. I was like, wow, they say a lot of bad words to their kids. Yeah, this is wild. That's not how my house is.
[04:14]
Jessica
That was exactly what my introduction was to Ozzy Osbourne also. And then my sister was like, yeah, he also ate a bat once. And I was like, what? But then Bill Osbourne show became super popular in, like, 2002. He was actually at a Cubs Dodgers game in August 2003 that I happened to attend and went down as one of the most infamous Take me out to the ball game, seventh inning stretch. Singing. Singing jobs of anyone in the history of. Of the seventh Inning stretch. And so my connection to Ozzy Osbourne has always been that I was there as a, I think, seven year old. This was like the height of my Cubs fandom a month before the Steve Bartman thing, which is where my blood feud with Miami started. And I saw Ozzy sing the seventh Inning Stretch live. And like, this was like, you know, pre social media, but, like, this seventh Inning stretch went viral. And I think we have sound from it, Roy, if people aren't familiar.
[05:13]
Dan
All right, Chicago, let's.
[05:16]
Stugatz
I want to hear a real, real.
[05:18]
Dan
Crazy crowd start singing with me.
[05:20]
Stugatz
Are you ready? Are you ready?
[05:23]
Dan
O hear you. Are you ready? 1, 2, 3, now. Let's get some runs.
[06:13]
Amin
Yeah, let's get some runs. Come on, don't mess around. Let's get some runs, guys.
[06:19]
Jeremy
So let me just say right now, Beautiful, man.
[06:22]
Stugatz
When Jessica was setting up the clip, I'd never heard it before.
[06:25]
Jeremy
Really.
[06:26]
Stugatz
I want it to be funny. I said, oh, did it sound so. And I was like, the guy just died. I mean, don't make that joke. And it literally was exactly, exactly what was in my head.
[06:36]
Jeremy
So good. It's so good. I was bummed about Ozzy yesterday and this morning. I honestly, I spent the whole car ride in today listening to Ozzy and Black Sabbath. Like, I was into it. I was getting goosebumps listening to it because he. He performed this, this Back to the Beginning concert, which was like two weeks ago at Wembley Stadium in London, where all the heavy metal groups, they were there and paying tribute, and Ozzy and Black Sabbath. It was like a reunion, one final show back to the beginning. And you were able to see, like, he summed it up one final time. He was emotional during some of the songs. People in the crowd are crying. And he even said that leading up to the show to make sure that he could perform in the current state. Like he had Parkinson's. Okay? So he was suffering for a bit. And he even. He couldn't stand during the show. They brought him out on a throne. He performed on a throne he couldn't stand. And he said leading up to the show, he wasn't taking his medication anymore because he needed to make sure that he could focus and do it one final time. Like he was saying goodbye to all of us.
[07:36]
Billy
It's so cool. I was showing my wife that last night. Can we name a celebrity that went out better than Ozzy?
[07:42]
Jeremy
It really, it's like, that is like.
[07:44]
Billy
I don't want to say.
[07:44]
Jeremy
You're cool. But it was.
[07:46]
Billy
It was something beautiful, awesome that he got to do that.
[07:49]
Jeremy
He was saying goodbye to us.
[07:50]
Dan
Oh, be clear on this. That's one of the most music moving things I've ever seen or heard. I've told you guys before that seeing Led Zeppelin play at the Kennedy center, when Hart and a chorus is singing behind them, seeing them, their music played for them back to them is among the best television or moving music I've ever seen. What Zaslow said. A piece of this. Okay, the piece of it that Zaslo is hitting on is those bands showed up for 15 minutes, all of them, to do their very best, because they knew that guy was dying and they knew what he was. And Osbourne's reality show, that's one of the most amazing entertainment things of my lifetime. I saw a guy who the church thought was a Satanist, who was leading all children to hell, become a sitcom dad.
[08:36]
Jeremy
He became a TV dad.
[08:38]
Dan
That person. The story I know about Ozzy, that is the best story. Isn't him biting the head off a bat, a live bat on stage. It's that other bands, bands addicted to heroin, marveled that he would snort the line of ants on the way to the Popsicle stick on the floor. Because this dude, it's a miracle he made it to 76. And the music that was played was said to they. They know he should have been gone 25 years ago. Like, that dude was an insane person to see him go sitcom dad to. Then goodbye. I had a lot of fun. And everyone's like crying in the crowd because they know exactly what that means. Very few people get to go out like that.
[09:21]
Amin
And it's.
[09:22]
Jessica
And then the Cubs lost, even though Zambrano was pitching. Dan. It was a huge bummer.
[09:27]
Stugatz
Wow. This really, really soda body burnt that memory into your brain. Your seven year old brain.
[09:32]
Billy
So, Briano, great.
[09:33]
Amin
The Cubs fans also, by the way, like, let him get away with it because, like, they will boo the crap out of anyone that does that. And Ozzy's like, this was awesome. Like, Alex Cooper was there a couple weeks ago. They hated Alex Cooper singing Take Me out to the Ball Game, but they love this.
[09:47]
Stugatz
Alice.
[09:48]
Billy
Alex, the podcast host.
[09:50]
Stugatz
Oh, I thought, I'm like, oh, I thought we're like doing the Rock and Roll Guides. Oh, Alice Cooper was there. Wow.
[09:59]
Jessica
We can't play the video. But as soon as he starts singing, they cut to the bleacher seats and there's just a guy without a shirt on. And he just starts, like, he starts laughing and Then you hear the laugh from the crowd at the Cubs game. And so actually my. My dad. Someone invited my dad and like, all of us to sit in a club or like a box seat for that game. So we were like, right next to the TV booth. And that was like, a big deal because, you know, I never sat in a box before and they have a dessert cart. But the thing that I remember most was, like, we all went out into the hallway to see Ozzy and Sharon Osborne walk out from, like, the TV booth right after it happened. And that was like, the first time I'd ever seen a celebrity in person. I was like, this is the coolest day of my life. And then I actually, like a few years later in Chicago, saw Black Sabbath at Lollapalooza, I think. So I don't know. That was always my. My Ozzy Osbourne connection. You could look at me, Lucy, for that, too.
[10:49]
Billy
Hold on.
[10:49]
Stugatz
You said a few years later.
[10:52]
Jessica
Yeah, like, probably she went nine to 11 years later.
[10:55]
Stugatz
Okay, all right. I was like, you, like 10 Sabbath, 10 years old.
[11:01]
Jessica
So anyways, bummed. Bummed to hear that he passed away. He was like one of the first sitcom family dads.
[11:07]
Jeremy
That's amazing.
[11:08]
Jessica
You know, in my household, to be.
[11:09]
Jeremy
That, like, that's how you get turned on to who? Ozzy Osborne.
[11:14]
Dan
America. America feared him. The ch Saying that he was the most evil person in entertainment.
[11:19]
Amin
What was he like? Because, like, when I. You guys say that. But when I was, you know, turned on to him, he was a sitcom dad. And he was kind of like this guy. Like, obviously it's because of the years of drug loop, but he just seemed like this guy that was just like bumbling around a lot of the time. And I was like, how is this person the most feared person in America? And they think that this guy is going to, like, recruit me to a cult. Because if that Ozzy Osbourne showed up at my door is like, hey, you want to worship Satan? I'd be like, not think I'm good, but thank you. Like, you want to come in?
[11:47]
Jeremy
And like, I mean, it's because when we. When you think of heavy metal, you know, through the 70s and then the 80s, he. He was the guy. Like, he was the very, very top of the food chain when it comes to heavy metal stars. He was. He was just a titan. And for that guy to be the sweet man we saw bumbling around his home where, by the way, he's not in charge. The kids and the wife run the show and they tell him what to do. It was. It was really endearing. And he was like the Sweetest man.
[12:29]
Dan
Don LeBatard.
[12:30]
Jessica
I don't think I ever got that.
[12:32]
Amin
Many roses in my whole life.
[12:34]
Dan
Stugats.
[12:35]
Amin
Certainly not from your lovely grandfather.
[12:37]
Dan
God. May a soul rest in peace.
[12:39]
Amin
This is the Dan Lebo. Our show with the Stugach.
[12:46]
Stugatz
Did the church hate him because the band was called Black Sabbath? It was called.
[12:50]
Dan
Oh no, because. No, he was a Satanist. They did all they. They did Aleister Crowley. Like a song about like this. I cannot explain to you. I'm trying to think who could even. It's not. This is beyond Marilyn Manson. I guess sort of. Marilyn Manson was ripping off whatever it is that Ozzy was doing 30 years earlier with costumes. Ozzy Osbourne was thought by the church to be some to the devil's music.
[13:15]
Billy
He has denied being a Satanist, by the way. In the New York Times reported in 1992 that he was actually a practicing member of the Church of England. Prayed before each show.
[13:23]
Stugatz
The only song I know is Crazy Train. That's the only.
[13:27]
Jeremy
No, you know, you just don't know that. You know.
[13:29]
Stugatz
Give me some other examples.
[13:30]
Billy
Mama, I'm Coming Home.
[13:32]
Stugatz
Never heard that.
[13:32]
Jeremy
You've heard Iron Man.
[13:35]
Stugatz
What's that?
[13:40]
Jeremy
You've heard War Pigs before?
[13:41]
Stugatz
It's War Pigs.
[13:42]
Jeremy
You want me to sing it?
[13:43]
Stugatz
Yes, because I got karaoke.
[13:45]
Dan
You're confident? I don't think it's an unreasonable request.
[13:48]
Amin
Soda Body. Did the church get together and have a meeting and say, this is the guy that we hate? Like, what does that mean? The church was so afraid of it. Like, they called like, you know, like in the papal conclave when. Like before, I guess John Paul was the Pope at the time. Like, okay, before we elect a new pope, though, let's go over pop culture and decide who we hate the most. And then they let out the smoke and it's like, Ozzy, I really don't know.
[14:08]
Dan
Let's think about this as give me somebody comparably that I can. That was at the height of whatever represented evil in America. Like this. This person, when he says he's a titan, it's four people who are like, I like that he's a wrestling character. And then the people who don't know that he's a wrestling character and that he's addicted to drugs and everything else and that he's musically great, that he's not. That he's acting and that he's a sitcom dad who gets bossed around by his wife. And Zaz is connecting with the music there. But he's also rebelling against whoever it is. Thinks this person needs to be banned.
[14:41]
Jeremy
I would. I think Howard Stern's in that territory. People thought he was, like, this awful person, when in reality, like, he wasn't that guy on the radio at all.
[14:50]
Billy
And people have flipped on him. Like, he's kind of on the other side of that now.
[14:53]
Amin
I feel like if you're the church, right? Like, that's the worst thing you want to do, right? Because, like, if you're like, a young impression, okay? It's like the church hates this guy. He's, like, way too hot. It's like, whoa, I like this guy. Right? Like, I feel like if the church wanted to. What they should do is like, this is Joel Osteen. God. I mean, he's. This guy does not represent the church at all. And then a bunch of people like, I gotta check out this Osteen guy, see what he's all about. The church hates him so much. You know, reverse psychology is. Just bring him into the church that way.
[15:20]
Dan
Every time Jessica just said Streisand effect. And I gotta be honest. I've heard that. I. I learned. I still. I can't remember what it is, but I heard it for the first time, like, three days ago, and I've heard it several times since. Yeah, I've never.
[15:32]
Jeremy
I don't think I've ever.
[15:33]
Dan
I've never heard of Jessica. What is the Streisand effect?
[15:36]
Jessica
It's like when you try to censor something, and then, like, by saying this is taboo, more people pay attention to it. Anyway, so time.
[15:44]
Stugatz
Every time.
[15:45]
Amin
What did Babs do that everybody was trying to start it with?
[15:47]
Dan
Barbra Streisand.
[15:48]
Amin
Yeah. What does she do?
[15:49]
Dan
Barbra Streisand was Trump. They're doing this, they're doing that.
[15:52]
Stugatz
So she was the one that was trying to censor somebody, right?
[15:56]
Jessica
Like a photo of her house or something. I don't.
[15:58]
Stugatz
Yeah, it was her. It was a picture of her house. She's like, stop taking pictures of my house. And all that happened.
[16:03]
Billy
Everybody's like, what, take pictures of your house More Exactly.
[16:05]
Amin
Okay.
[16:06]
Stugatz
Exactly how it went down, by the way. To answer your question. Who else? Madonna. Church hated Madonna. The Like a Prayer video. They did not like.
[16:14]
Dan
Oh, but wait a minute. They hated Madonna for sexuality. Osborne was like. Osborne. I don't think he was publicly against the church, but everyone thought he was the devil's child. Like, that's how he was being reacted to.
[16:25]
Jeremy
He was literally like, the test case for you play the record backwards and you're going to hear the.
[16:29]
Dan
That's correct.
[16:30]
Stugatz
That's. That's correct. That comes.
[16:31]
Dan
Yes, that's where that starts. Yes. And play the Aleister Crowley song backwards. And.
[16:36]
Amin
And it sounds like a dentist.
[16:39]
Jessica
Oh, my gosh, you guys.
[16:40]
Stugatz
Crowley.
[16:40]
Amin
Dr. Crowley.
[16:41]
Dan
You know what? Please look up Aleister Crowley's history and let's see if we could scare Jessica because you say you guys know who.
[16:46]
Jessica
Alistair, Dan. Come on. I'm like. One of my favorite bands was Led Zeppelin growing up.
[16:50]
Amin
Yeah, she worshiped the devil as a child.
[16:52]
Stugatz
She went and saw Black Sabbath at 10 years old at Lalapalooza.
[16:55]
Jessica
My nanny was a psychic. She saw ghosts.
[16:58]
Stugatz
Really?
[16:58]
Amin
Yeah. Seeing.
[17:01]
Jessica
Well, according to her. I mean, my. Certainly scarred my sister for life, whether it was true or not.
[17:06]
Amin
Did you guys see this story just somewhat related to Ozzy. And maybe as an homage to. Ozzy mentioned biting the bat before. There's a law firm in New York where they had to fire an intern for biting people.
[17:15]
Jessica
Yes, Billy, I saw this. It was in the New York Post. This law. Big, big law firm intern. Apparently her first week was just going around biting people. And it wasn't like a little nibble, but it also wasn't like a ferocious, like, mean. She was just, I guess, biting people in the. In between, according to the Post. And so I think it was a woman, but maybe not. But anyways, they got fired or let go from their internship. And it's apparently been a big scandal around the big law industry.
[17:42]
Stugatz
Now that's one way to make your mark.
[17:46]
Dan
My. My brother bit Tatum o'. Neill. You were saying, Bill?
[17:49]
Stugatz
Really?
[17:50]
Amin
Wait, what? Why?
[17:53]
Dan
He had a hard time explaining it. Tatum o' Neill got mad at him, but they were both dancing at Fukata on Cayojo. And all I will say about the music and the drink and however it is that people get down there, got carried away, bit her on the shoulder. She got mad. I don't know why. He bit on the shoulder.
[18:10]
Amin
I shouldn't have gotten mad.
[18:11]
Stugatz
Dirty Dancing.
[18:12]
Dan
She shouldn't have gotten mad.
[18:14]
Amin
Why?
[18:14]
Dan
You know where you're at? You can't.
[18:18]
Amin
You know what the deal is. You guys want to play I wish it were true or you want to talk?
[18:22]
Dan
I don't understand the game. I don't understand. I wish it were true.
[18:25]
Stugatz
I want you to be very careful.
[18:27]
Amin
What do you mean?
[18:28]
Jeremy
Just dangerous, man.
[18:29]
Amin
Be careful how. What do you mean?
[18:31]
Stugatz
It's a dangerous.
[18:31]
Amin
Well, what do you. Let's.
[18:32]
Billy
Okay, you wish it's true.
[18:34]
Amin
Let's don't wish it's true. Listen, let's just. Let's voice our concerns now to make sure that I don't step in it. And I'm fine with this on air. What are we afraid that I'm gonna do here?
[18:43]
Stugatz
You know what? Full speed ahead.
[18:45]
Amin
No, no, no, no, no, no. He's my executive.
[18:47]
Billy
You're good now.
[18:48]
Amin
You're good. I want to make sure it's worse.
[18:50]
Billy
To explain what Amin is thinking than to do what you're doing.
[18:53]
Amin
Well, if I have thought about it, then I feel like it can't be coming from a bad place.
[18:57]
Stugatz
There you go.
[18:57]
Billy
That's correct.
[18:58]
Amin
Or been paying enough attention.
[19:00]
Dan
I don't know what you guys are doing.
[19:02]
Amin
We're going to play.
[19:03]
Jessica
I'm picking up what it means. Putting down. I think that let me just awkwardly segue into promoting my new podcast, the Echoes at the Echoes and Pod. Me and Michael Jr. Notre Dame podcast every week on Tuesdays. Please tune in. Today was our first episode. Although today is Wednesday, in the future, it'll be out on Tuesdays.
[19:21]
Stugatz
Did you guys talk about Rudy?
[19:22]
Jessica
No, we didn't talk about Rudy. But, I mean, thank you for your input. We can talk about Rudy on our next episode.
[19:27]
Stugatz
So did you guys know this? This is part of the exhaustive basketball Illuminati slash Pablotturi finds out episode we did on Malik Beasley. Do you guys know that Malik Beasley's like a family, is all actors, and his grandfather was played one of the coaches in Rudy. Like, I think he was the linebacker coach.
[19:45]
Amin
Yes, I heard that on the episode.
[19:47]
Stugatz
That's Malik Beasley's grandfather, John Beasley. Yep. And John Beasley. Big John Beasley.
[19:51]
Jeremy
He was in Rudy's Corner.
[19:52]
Stugatz
Yeah, he was. He was one of the guys who's like, coach, we need to play the kid. Yeah.
[19:56]
Amin
Both of his parents were actors, too. Learned that on the show as well.
[19:59]
Stugatz
Yep. So his. His father, Michael Beasley. Not that Michael Beasley was on. He's been in Two Guns. He's been in a bunch of movies, but I always remember him as the guy in Eastbound and Down. Dude, they're on the show with him and Kenny Powers doing a TV show. He's the. He's the former NFL player, dude.
[20:17]
Billy
John Beasley's not one of the coaches. He's like the guy in the stadium that, like, gives the guy, like. He's like the groundskeeper. Get what he's remembering. What he's remembering is in Little Big League, when they need to walk into the field, you're going to figure this out. It's fine. He's a coach in Rudy.
[20:36]
Stugatz
S. Dutton is the groundskeeper in Rudy.
[20:40]
Billy
It's okay. He's remembering Little Big League. He was. He was crucial in that moment. Because if you guys remember, in Little Big league, they run a trick play where they go to pick off Ken Griffey Jr. Down over at first base and he does a little hat tip and he says like, I got you. And so when they throw the ball over to first, they don't actually throw the ball. They hold onto it. It's a hidden ball trick. And then the Little Big League, he's the guy standing down the first bas and he's like, oh, my God, where'd the ball go? I gotta pick up my chair. The ball is clearly coming this direction.
[21:03]
Dan
I don't want to get in the way.
[21:04]
Billy
So Ken Griffey Jr. He runs from first to third, but he's kind of jogging. He's jogging, looking back and he's giving a smirk like, I'm the freaking best. I'm the best guy who's ever lived. But little did they know. Bowers on the mound, the relief pitcher throws it over to third base. Tag him out.
[21:17]
Jessica
Ballgame.
[21:18]
Billy
The real point I wanted to. This is like a well known actor.
[21:20]
Stugatz
Yes.
[21:20]
Billy
I've seen this guy in a bunch of shit.
[21:21]
Stugatz
All of his, like his whole family are not like bit actors. These are people who have been in stuff also. I don't know if there's a SUI category for best save, but goddamn, Jeremy, Tasha just saved your ass.
[21:33]
Dan
Yours too, Don LeBatard.
[21:35]
Jessica
Mr. Mr. Schurt, if I may say for a second, Miami, they were simulating the snap count the entire game. And they were clapping at the line of scrimmage. And the only thing I want to see clapping are them cheeks on Mrs. Meth in my face Max shirt. All right, so that's one thing. Stugats, they're a bunch of cheaters, Dan. And you know who should be cheating? Mrs. Met on Mr. Met. And he can watch if he wants.
[21:56]
Amin
This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats. Oh, I thought the bed was longer for Irish. It were true, but that's the open, so it's a new game called Irish. It were true.
[22:16]
Dan
Jessica, can I hear some of the other names you guys were thinking of? Because Echoes is great with you. And Mike Golick for all things Notre Dame. What were some of the other name choices you guys were going over?
[22:29]
Jessica
Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame. Wake up the echoes cheering her Name send a volley cheer on. That's where it comes from.
[22:36]
Dan
That's a long name.
[22:37]
Amin
I was gonna say it's a long podcast.
[22:38]
Stugatz
A real long podcast.
[22:39]
Jessica
That was the only title that was discussed. Dan. That was it. One and done.
[22:45]
Stugatz
That's not good. That's not a good brainstorming process. I'm just saying that the name's good, but that process not good.
[22:51]
Amin
Show your work kind of thing.
[22:52]
Stugatz
Yeah.
[22:53]
Amin
All right. Irish it were true. So this is how this game works. I'm gonna give you a fact about something that is Irish, and if it's false, you say irish, it were true. But if it's something that you think is true, you say irish it wasn't true because then you're saying that it's true.
[23:17]
Jeremy
Irish it wasn't Irish it were true.
[23:20]
Amin
Or Irish it weren't true.
[23:23]
Billy
I'm following my executive, ladies and gentlemen.
[23:25]
Dan
Like all the games that he plays on God bless football that are.
[23:28]
Amin
No, this one's different. This one's Irish.
[23:30]
Dan
Look, Billy has learned from the best. He interned at pti, and he knows you can make something big out of the same game if you dress it up in different ways.
[23:37]
Amin
This is a totally different game because it's called Irish it were true because Irish. And then these are facts related to Ireland. And if it's false, you say Irish it were true because it's false. So you wish it was true. Okay, if it's false, then you say Irish it were true.
[23:55]
Jessica
I'm just gonna say wish though Irish.
[23:58]
Amin
Because it's brought to you by the Echoes. Your podcast, Irish. It's not wish, it's Irish. It's one word, Irish, like Ireland. Okay, here's the first one. Colin Farrell quit smoking on his 34th birthday, May 31, 2010. He mentioned that he smoked an entire pack of cigarettes that day, paying close attention to every puff he took and even wrote a goodbye letter to cigarettes. He stubbed out his last cigarette 11:55pm that night and has been smoke free ever since.
[24:34]
Billy
This is a good game, guys.
[24:37]
Jessica
I wish it weren't.
[24:39]
Stugatz
No, that's not the game. That's not the game.
[24:42]
Dan
You're not playing it, right?
[24:44]
Jessica
You play. I mean, why don't you answer?
[24:47]
Stugatz
I don't have a podcast called the Echoes.
[24:49]
Amin
Oh, Dan.
[24:50]
Dan
Well, I am confused by the rules of the game, but I guess I would have to say because I'm confused by the rules of the game. I want that to be true, but I wish it weren't true.
[25:01]
Amin
So you think it is true?
[25:03]
Dan
Yeah, I Do think it's true, but I don't know how to say that.
[25:05]
Amin
I. Yeah, it's true. It's true. Irish. It weren't true because it is true. Yes. All right, here we go. On to the next one. Thank you, Roy. Liam Neeson once turned down playing James Bond in goldeneye because he didn't want to be in an action film.
[25:26]
Dan
That's good music, man.
[25:28]
Jessica
This is great music.
[25:29]
Dan
It's funny music.
[25:30]
Jessica
Oh, man. I'm nostalgic for my trip to Ireland two years ago. Now I feel like I'm at the.
[25:36]
Billy
Bottom of the Titanic dancing at Dan's wedding.
[25:41]
Stugatz
Hey.
[25:42]
Billy
Dear Roy.
[25:46]
Stugatz
That was us at Dan's wedding. Everyone else, Sarah Spade and Dan Patrick.
[25:50]
Amin
It was basically that. And then, like, Dan Patrick, look what I can do.
[25:53]
Billy
I juggled for him.
[25:54]
Amin
Yeah. It was so embarrassing.
[25:56]
Billy
He did juggle for him. Hit him in the balls with her, by the way. Y like, lost one of them and threw it, like, right at him. I think we have that video sooner.
[26:03]
Amin
I did.
[26:03]
Stugatz
I'll try to find I can answer this question that I know the answer, and the answer is Irish. It weren't true because it is true.
[26:13]
Amin
Anyone else have any guesses? Amin is right.
[26:19]
Jessica
That's what I was going to say.
[26:20]
Amin
Yeah, that was true.
[26:21]
Jessica
And actually, what Chris was just saying reminded me of an article I saw in the Cut the other day. Did you guys see the article about, like, summer long balls? Apparently when it gets really hot out, your balls become, like, really long.
[26:33]
Amin
Like, very long balls.
[26:35]
Stugatz
Larry.
[26:36]
Jessica
Yeah, I read a whole article about this.
[26:38]
Amin
There was a whole article in the cut about men's biology. I like that. What did the. What did the article say?
[26:45]
Jessica
It's. There was a lot of, like, medical language involving, like, the veins and the testicles and things of that nature.
[26:52]
Billy
What happens in the winter?
[26:53]
Amin
They go back up.
[26:54]
Stugatz
Shrink.
[26:55]
Jessica
Yeah, they go back up when they're cold, I guess.
[26:57]
Amin
Try to go far away from the balls and then try to go back up when it's cold.
[27:00]
Stugatz
The reason why the balls hang is because of the heat generated. So, like, this is an evolution thing. They hang to allow proper heat dissipation.
[27:09]
Billy
Thank you for the visual.
[27:10]
Amin
As an owner of testes, I can say Irish, it weren't true.
[27:14]
Stugatz
Hit the music.
[27:19]
Amin
Anticipation.
[27:20]
Dan
I don't want to.
[27:20]
Amin
Here's the next one. Irish Spring. Are you looking for naturally or natural fly repellent? Look no further than a bar of Irish Springs as it acts as a natural fly repellent.
[27:36]
Billy
That's just so random.
[27:38]
Amin
Irish it were true. Or Irish it weren't true.
[27:43]
Jeremy
Irish.
[27:44]
Jessica
Okay, yeah, I'm gonna go with that one.
[27:46]
Dan
But wait, that's. That's denying it, though.
[27:48]
Jeremy
I don't think it's true.
[27:49]
Dan
I think that is.
[27:50]
Amin
Irish weren't true means it is true, right?
[27:52]
Billy
Dan's got it.
[27:53]
Dan
I think it's true.
[27:54]
Jeremy
Irish it were true.
[27:56]
Amin
It's an Irish Spring, man. Right there. I can tell. Inconclusive. When you combine Irish Spring soap with water, it does kill insects. Soapy water is lethal for flies, and when their bodies are covered with it, they dry out. While this can be an effective homemade spray you can put into a bottle, it doesn't necessarily repel flies in the way you may want to. The evidence for the efficacy of this trick when it comes to repelling flies is anecdotal.
[28:27]
Stugatz
Wash your ass.
[28:30]
Dan
Wash your ass? Is that what you just said? Wash your ass?
[28:33]
Stugatz
That's like. Yeah, wash your ass to keep the flies away.
[28:36]
Jeremy
Not bad advice.
[28:37]
Amin
Okay, I have two. I have two more quick, quick ones for Irish it were true or Irish it were false.
[28:42]
Jessica
I have a top five Led Zeppelin songs, if anyone.
[28:45]
Amin
Yes, I'm. Really?
[28:46]
Dan
Yes.
[28:46]
Amin
Led Zeppelin boy band. Oh, yeah, I'm with you. Pearl Jam boy band.
[28:52]
Jessica
There's a rumor they're going to play at the World cup opening ceremony, Right? Or did I make that up?
[28:57]
Amin
Pearl Jam?
[28:58]
Jessica
No. Led Zeppelin.
[29:00]
Jeremy
Yeah, I think you're right about that.
[29:02]
Dan
Really?
[29:02]
Jeremy
I think so.
[29:03]
Amin
I think. I think.
[29:04]
Jeremy
I think I've heard that.
[29:04]
Dan
When's the last time Led Zeppelin played?
[29:06]
Jeremy
I mean, it's a long time ago.
[29:07]
Dan
What? Are you kidding me? That's a. That's a thing. That's real.
[29:11]
Stugatz
Last time they played is when they had Zeppelins.
[29:13]
Amin
I wish.
[29:13]
Jessica
I wish it weren't true.
[29:15]
Amin
Yeah. Waldo the Wizard, a helpful but scatterbrained magician, was created for a cereal that never hit the market and instead graced Lucky Charms boxes for only a matter of months when Lucky was thought to be not friendly enough.
[29:37]
Jessica
That has to be true.
[29:38]
Stugatz
I wish you guys saw the shrug. Jessica did.
[29:41]
Amin
Yes. All right. That's true. Okay, we'll just wrap this up because I don't know if this game's working.
[29:46]
Dan
It petered out. Well, it was working. The music was working. But, yeah, then it petered out with that. Well, I think once you go inconclusive, you sort of take the air out of your own.
[29:55]
Amin
I did. I'm not in control of the questions. In the early 1980s, kids could send away for Lucky's farm kit and grow their own crops. And while Lucky is primarily associated with St. Patrick's Day. For a couple of years in the 1990s, kids could send in their box tops for cartons with special edition green tree marshmallows and receive a free Christmas tree seedling.
[30:19]
Jessica
I mean, this.
[30:20]
Dan
It's probably not made up. You don't think that Billy's that creative. You don't think that Billy's got the. The creativity to write Christmas tree seedling as if he's not reading it straight from the Internet?
[30:33]
Amin
So that's your official guess?
[30:35]
Dan
That has to be true.
[30:36]
Jessica
Just. Yes.
[30:37]
Amin
No, no, no, no. Irish. Irish.
[30:41]
Jessica
Notre Dame. It were true.
[30:43]
Amin
Yeah.
[30:43]
Jessica
Weren't true.
[30:44]
Amin
That's true. Yeah. You guys are good at this game.
[30:46]
Billy
According to. According to social media posts and. And some websites, there were claims that Led Zeppelin would reunite at the FIFA Club World cup around their album release, but that didn't happen. There are no credible. There's no credible information that suggests they're going to perform at the World Cup.
[31:02]
Jessica
Darn.
[31:02]
Stugatz
According to Gemini or Chad. GPT.
[31:04]
Jessica
Yeah, I got Long Bald.
[31:06]
Dan
Album. Album. Album release. When was their last. I don't know. The last time that Led Zeppelin released music.
[31:13]
Jeremy
Mid 80s probably was their last album.
[31:15]
Amin
Yeah. Mid 80s.
[31:17]
Dan
Are you reading? When are you reading? What's. What. What is the time that you're. You're gonna say that Led Zeppelin has it? No, that can't be right.
[31:24]
Jessica
Well, Robert Plant has put out his. His own.
[31:26]
Jeremy
No, no, but as a band.
[31:28]
Jessica
But as a band. Yeah.
[31:29]
Billy
82 there, you can tell you.
[31:31]
Stugatz
82.
[31:32]
Dan
Wow.
[31:33]
Billy
That's the last full album they did release. A couple of, like, older, like, live BBC sessions they did. How.
[31:41]
Jeremy
How the west was that, Alan Coda. Was that the last one?
[31:44]
Billy
Coda was the last one.
[31:45]
Jeremy
Not. Not their best work. Just.
[31:47]
Stugatz
Cool name for an album, though.
[31:48]
Jessica
Nothing on the top five from that. Coolest.
[31:51]
Jeremy
I'm trying to hear this top five.
[31:52]
Amin
Yeah. What is it?
[31:53]
Dan
Well, I do want to hear the Jeremy top five of corrections from the entirety of the week, but I do want Jessica to make some rulings on some things that we've been talking about here. How do you feel if there is a booth for four people and there are only two of you, Lehman, sitting right next to you in the booth. How do we feel about that in a booth?
[32:12]
Jessica
It's a little awkward. I mean, especially because he's left handed, I'm right handed. We always sit on the wrong sides and then we bump elbows the whole time.
[32:19]
Dan
Is it romantic? Do you think your man is romantic if he sits next to you what? Needs to sit next to you instead of across from you.
[32:25]
Jessica
I don't want my head to be like this the whole time I'm eating dinner. I want to be able to, like, see you.
[32:30]
Stugatz
What does she know about romance?
[32:32]
Jeremy
If he did that on the first date, is there a second date?
[32:35]
Amin
Yeah.
[32:35]
Jessica
I mean, unless he, like, said something really effed up, too, and then I'd be like, that's two strikes.
[32:40]
Dan
What if. What if the first date was at a Pizza Hut?
[32:42]
Stugatz
Not. Hold on, you can't. The old school Pizza Hut. That was a restaurant. A sit down restaurant. Pizza Hut.
[32:47]
Dan
This is how Greg Cody, on a first date with what would become his wife at a Pizza Hut. He sat next to her and she thought it was creepy.
[32:58]
Jessica
Well, it worked out for both of them, didn't it? So, I mean, I guess you can't just. That's true. I guess it worked out.
[33:04]
Dan
It worked out. But is it romantic? It worked out.
[33:07]
Billy
But I wouldn't say romantic or creepy.
[33:08]
Stugatz
Creepy romance.
[33:09]
Jessica
It's the height of romance. But it's also. I mean, Pizza Hut used to be, like, a cool happening.
[33:16]
Stugatz
Yeah, look it up.
[33:18]
Dan
Did you know that Billy had body dysmorphia?
[33:20]
Jessica
We all do.
[33:21]
Amin
I mean, what do we do?
[33:23]
Dan
That's a good point. Well, no, the reason I want to ask her a question. Does Zaz have a soda drinker's body? And is saying someone has a soda drinker's body an insult?
[33:31]
Jessica
What is soda?
[33:32]
Dan
I'm sorry.
[33:32]
Stugatz
Pop Pop.
[33:33]
Dan
My bad.
[33:34]
Jessica
Oh, okay. Yes, I would say that is an insult to say that. And it's not nice.
[33:41]
Jeremy
It'd be tough to think that that's a compliment, right?
[33:44]
Amin
You had a pop body, you'd get upset about that.
[33:46]
Jeremy
Are you asking me?
[33:47]
Amin
Yeah. You don't want the pop body around here.
[33:49]
Jeremy
I know you're not talking to me.
[33:51]
Dan
Are you surprised? Jessica, that Zaslow does not drink any pop? Never. Doesn't drink it.
[33:57]
Jeremy
I don't drink soda. Not a soda. Family never grew up with soda. Right now, my kids. I don't know if my kids have ever tried soda. We don't do soda.
[34:04]
Jessica
I don't drink pop either. So. No, I think there's. There's dozens of us.
[34:09]
Stugatz
Hold on. But he drinks hi C. Which is basically just yo, that high C. Fruit.
[34:13]
Jeremy
Punch and lemonade at McDonald's.
[34:15]
Billy
So good. Jess, you're like Bert Kreischer starting your day with, like, a full gallon of lemonade.
[34:20]
Dan
Tim Kirkchen does it with a diet mountain dew at 5am so gross. That's Aggressive.
[34:25]
Stugatz
That's disgusting.
[34:26]
Dan
It is disgusting. Put it on the poll at Lebitard show is starting your day with a diet. Mountain dew disgusting at 5am I want to ask you about some things locally. You're always making fun of me about uniquely Miami things. Little tiny grocery stores that would have one employee and be a drive through and would be a bit of a shack. Have you seen any of those either in Miami or elsewhere? Are Laquitas the little farm stores that you drive through? Grocery store. Have you ever seen one? Or is that something that's only here?
[34:58]
Jessica
I've seen them, Dan.
[34:59]
Dan
And where are they? Where. Where have you seen one of these?
[35:03]
Jessica
Chicago, Long island, various places. I don't know.
[35:08]
Dan
And do you use it? How do you think about these things? Am I boring you?
[35:12]
Jessica
Yeah, a little bit.
[35:13]
Dan
Okay, we'll see you later. We'll talk to you next week. Let's get to Jeremy's top five here. The top five top five things that we've screwed up over the course of the last week.
[35:32]
Billy
Well, yesterday I was listening to the show and there were a few takeaways that I had. There were where there were six of them, so. Oh, I. You guys made the decision to talk about the Cavender twins getting a boob job not once, but twice.
[35:46]
Amin
Yeah.
[35:47]
Billy
Interesting.
[35:47]
Jeremy
Should have been three times.
[35:48]
Stugatz
Yeah. What the correction.
[35:49]
Amin
It was reporting there, though.
[35:50]
Dan
TMZ Sports reported it. We were making fun of Mike Ryan because he did. Because he. Because he got beat on that story and just.
[35:57]
Billy
Yeah, all right, that's fine.
[35:58]
Dan
Just saying you got beat on that story.
[36:00]
Billy
You know, major story journalism.
[36:01]
Stugatz
Look it up.
[36:02]
Billy
Not a correction post about it. Number five. I think the impressions we do of Zaslow are maybe the best thing we do on the show.
[36:09]
Dan
We didn't. Okay, but I thought the top five list was corrections.
[36:13]
Stugatz
It's like.
[36:13]
Dan
What is that?
[36:14]
Billy
It's observations from yesterday. It's five things I wanted to respond to. That's what I wrote on the board.
[36:18]
Stugatz
These are corrections. I was expecting corrections.
[36:20]
Dan
Like people have an expectation.
[36:22]
Billy
All of you, Number four, all of you were wrong about Chris's Vegas take.
[36:25]
Stugatz
Okay, now we're back.
[36:27]
Amin
I wish we got to Jess's list.
[36:29]
Billy
He loves love. Number three, what you guys did to Ethan yesterday, calling him horny. Ethan was insane. As someone who gets bullied here often, that's by far worse than anything you guys have ever done to me.
[36:45]
Stugatz
Well, they did ask the question miserable or horny.
[36:48]
Billy
And the it was miserable or happy. And then for Ethan, it was horny.
[36:52]
Amin
Yeah.
[36:53]
Billy
I think he had put him on the screen.
[36:55]
Dan
Miserable or not miserable. I apologized to him after that because I don't remember who was it yesterday that was waving me off on. That was it.
[37:03]
Amin
There was probably everyone. I was.
[37:05]
Billy
I didn't feel great. I would bet everybody, probably his grandma heard that.
[37:09]
Jeremy
No, I'm not gonna wave you off. Someone's horny I want to know about.
[37:12]
Dan
No, that was just in case. I apologize to him privately and I apologize to him publicly.
[37:18]
Billy
Number two. Man, I've never been more bored listening to the 50 year old dolphin talk yesterday. Pathetic franchise. They're the worst franchise here. They have been for the entire time I've been alive.
[37:31]
Stugatz
That's a good point.
[37:31]
Billy
Marlins have won two World Series.
[37:32]
Dan
No, they've used up all like. It has been fascinating, just like we're talking about Ozzy Osbourne and seeing like the generational difference what the Dolphins used up from the 70s, 80s and 90s when they weren't winning championships, but they felt like the Chiefs because they were the ones with the offense. Like, they used all of that shit up.
[37:49]
Stugatz
They blew a 31 lead.
[37:50]
Billy
Yeah, they're nobodies. I mean, they have been my whole life.
[37:53]
Amin
They'll get that back immediately as soon as they win a playoff game.
[37:56]
Billy
Maybe. If they ever do.
[37:57]
Dan
I was telling you about my. Well, we don't have time for it. But my small life includes my father sending me to school with all of the Dolphin autographs for the entire team. And all of them were exactly the same written by him. They were all fake.
[38:13]
Billy
Number one, the conversation about putting new kids on the block in the same category as Backstreet Boys and NSync. Insane. And also, Jess brought up something great via text, but since we made her go away, you know, we don't get to hear it. But that was One Direction blows all of them out of the water. It's nonsense. It's true.
[38:29]
Dan
I. I don't know the distinction you guys would be making between these and Jackson 5. Jackson 5 blows them all out of the water.
[38:35]
Billy
Well, yeah, but that's different. It's a family. They're not assembled. That's a fan.
[38:38]
Amin
Yeah. No addition. It's a different thing.
[38:40]
Dan
They did a fan.