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Dan Le Batard
You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network.
Stugotz
Okay, check this. Deli boy's on Hulu. Two brothers, Raj and Mir, are living the high life, not a care in the world. When their old man dies, it all vanishes.
Chris Cody
Poof.
Stugotz
And they find out he didn't just own a deli, but he was a drug kingpin. And they're like, what the Throw in their ruthless aunt, some guys who want to kill them. And keeping Dad's drug business going sounds amazing, right? Deli Boys is now streaming on Hulu.
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Tony
This is the Dan Levator show with the Stugats podcast.
Greg Cody
This episode of the Dan LeBatard show with Stugots is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours video.
Billy Corben
Please put in the corner just that montage of Terry Rozier playing basketball very poorly. There are a number of mistakes being made here that are unusual for an NBA player. What, you feel bad for me doing that?
Chris Cody
I mean, we can't have bad games. You don't have bad days, Dan.
Billy Corben
Oh, but this is the worst player in the league, empirically.
Greg Cody
He just passed it to no one.
Billy Corben
Yes. He's doing things that are just super confusing out there, guys.
Chris Cody
Metaphorically. Have you not just Passed it to no one.
Amin Elhassan
The audience listening. Audience, I'm sorry. They're doing it again. It's Philip Seymour Hoffman now in a different scene with a lot more people. A lot more black people. That's weird. Philip Seymour Hoffman seems to be black himself.
Billy Corben
Speaking of the movies, Sean Baker, the director of Anora, I've been reading about him recently, and there are a couple of great stories that he was telling. One of them was on the making of Robocop, which, when he got the script, he threw it in the garbage can immediately. And his wife fished it out of the garbage can, and she's like, this is a lot smarter than you think it is. And now he thinks it's a masterpiece. He thinks it's a tale about American corporate greed and the sensationalism of the American media. But Honora wins Best Picture, and this director is now gonna get whatever opportunity he wants here because everyone fell in love with the story of. Is it a Russian oligarch's kid is basically falling and giving over his fortune to a lady of the night?
Dan Le Batard
Well, falling in love. Marrying a sex worker. And she's always very quick to correct people. And whether she's right or wrong in that regard is a running joke throughout it. Shawn Baker won four different Academy Awards.
Amin Elhassan
First time ever.
Dan Le Batard
It was incredible. I also read that Honora's budget was $6 million. They spent $18 million campaigning to win this award by sending Academy members gifts, goodies, all sorts of stuff.
Amin Elhassan
It's physical DVD screeners. At this day and age, everyone gets, like, a digital screener, which is basically. Here's the link. And it'll be around for 48 hours. Watch the movie, et cetera, et cetera. They sent physical DVDs because they thought that having the artwork and having something you can hold in your hand would be more impactful on the voters. And as Mike said, $6 million budget, $18 million spent on the marketing towards this campaign, specifically. Not the marketing for the movie. The marketing for the Oscar.
Dan Le Batard
The fyc. For your consideration.
Amin Elhassan
For your consideration. This is for a movie that made $41 million, Dan. Now, that's not the most amazing part. The most amazing part is the label, basically, that put this out. Neon Films. This is their second Oscar win in five years. Netflix hasn't done that. Disney hasn't done that. They also made Parasite. Parasite was an $11 million budget. They spent $20 million on that. Anatomy of a Fall was theirs as well. It was nominated. Did not win, but it did win Best Original Screenplay. This guy, Tom Quinn, over at Neon, he might be. You want to talk about go poaching somebody? Like, if I'm a big.
Chris Cody
What is. What is. What is the take here? Do we feel bad?
Billy Corben
No. Like, it sounds like you guys are saying that they're buying the award through their.
Dan Le Batard
Through their marketing. I actually kind of was wise to this after we made the musical, and I was like, this is pretty good for what it is. Like, you have TikTok musicals being talked about as Grammy nominees. So I'm like, how's the process? How do we get people to formally consider this? It was a commercial success. It was number one on iTunes. It's pretty good. We feel strongly about it. And then I was. My eyes were open to just the seedy underworld of how much money people spend to become Academy Award winners or Grammy winners.
Amin Elhassan
The idea here, Dan, is, to me, it's a triumph because Neon is not Netflix. It's not Apple, it's not Disney.
Dan Le Batard
It's not even a 24.
Amin Elhassan
Right? It's not even a 24. It started in 2017. They're not even 10 years old. They figured out the formula. Step one, the formula, you gotta make good movies, good, compelling movies with good.
Billy Corben
Stories, but spend three times the budget on marketing than you do on the art.
Amin Elhassan
Hold on. Step two is to be able to do these fiscally responsibly. Right? Because by doing it low budget, you allow for the other money to come in and do so. They've also got a couple other horror movies that did really well in the box office. $100 million long legs, I think, is one of them.
Dan Le Batard
No doubt.
Amin Elhassan
Right. But the idea here, Dan, is this is something that Hollywood, big Hollywood is going away from. They're like, hey, you need a big budget, you gotta spend $200 million. Hey, it's gotta have all types of CGI. And, oh, by the way, it has to be based on some existing IP somewhere else. And here is a small indie house that says, we're not going to spend a lot to make our movies. We're going to make good movies, original stories. And then the money that we do spend is going to be to get the things that are going to give.
Chris Cody
Us even that is underselling it. Because this is how every industry works. Like, you could be really good in any. Any industry. And if you don't spend the money to show the entire world outside of you being in a forest, in a tree falling, and no one's there to see it, nobody will know. And so in movies and entertainment in general, there's Two rules of thumb. You can either go really big name, you can put the rock on your movie, you could put Tom Cruise and everybody will naturally go and see it. And yeah, you put the marketing budget behind it as well. But even those movies are not just really good movies, they're incredible movies, right? And so they're like, hey, we can make this incredible movie, this incredible script with the perfect actors to bring it to life. And then you're picking exactly like this is incredible story. I know if anybody sees it, it will shoot to the top like Parasite. Like this film.
Dan Le Batard
It's more meta than just trying to get Parasite or Anora to win best pict. It's an investment on trying to become what miramax was, what a 24 is. Certainly more than Neon is right now, a tastemaking studio. If I see a 24 on the title card, I'm locked in. I trust his studio. They make good stuff. I want, I trust his studio. It's a tastemaker. Neon's not quite there yet, but now with the successful awards season, you're going to consider them as a tastemaking studio. And as soon as you see that Neon graphic on the trailer, you're like, I'm in no matter what.
Amin Elhassan
And Tom Quinn, the head of Neon, said, look, box offices and everything. Cuz Anora is one of the smallest box offices for an Oscar best picture winner ever, right? So he says. Box office is not the only revenue stream. Anora is number one across every entertainment platform. Amazon, Apple. That is massive. Again, that all fuels back into. Because people know about it and more people will know about it because of that Oscar.
Billy Corben
Well, let me, let me. What little I've learned of the movie industry over the last four years as a company that makes movies, it's been super interesting to see the streaming services make everything shake and rattle in Hollywood and this particular film being made cheaply. While you mentioned the Rock, the Rock is now going to team up with Scorsese and DiCaprio and Emily Blunt in a new movie that's coming out. So what's the formula now? What are we doing? Because we are at some point going to reach whether they run the writers off or the AI takes over, or we're just going to do superhero movies for the rest of time. We're going to run into a point here where we're going to have to make a choice between these things because everyone in Hollywood says that it's on the verge of collapse, that it's not going to exist the way that it's existed before. Given what the streaming services are doing. And given that Amazon and Netflix are basically running everything, I think we're in.
Dan Le Batard
The middle of the sea change right now. You're seeing more cost efficiency and you're actually seeing what people have been clamoring for. Because I think we did reach critical mass on IP and franchises. And a lot of that was the Marvel product just got so diluted. These were tentpoles that just kept the box office industry afloat, kept people employed in studios. And when the quality of those started getting diminished, people were like, what are we gonna do? And it's why I touted the horror genre so much, because those can be made for smaller budgets and you can tell really creative stories. And Neon is finding ways to do that beyond just the horror genre. And I think that this might be the new model.
Chris Cody
And I also think to your point, like, this is still entertainment. This shit has to be good. You know, I think the over saturation of just content in general, and it doesn't matter whether it's sports, movies, documentary, podcasts. It's like you have access to everything and the only cream that's gonna rise to the top is ones who are actually good. It doesn't matter how many big names are in it. That's why it's a quote, unquote collapse. Because typically with the finite amount of options you have, if we only put this in the box office because we paid and we've paid the biggest actors and the biggest directors, everyone's gonna rush to see it. That's not the. That's not the truth anymore. I could sit home and find a movie like Parasite and be like, yo, that's incredible. And I'd rather do that than to go to the box office and see the big names. Because I can guarantee it's. It's a lower barrier of, of entry to a really good, entertaining couple of hours.
Billy Corben
I just wonder, though, I really do wonder, in the shift away from all this stuff, if I give people the option, what's going to make you happier here? What's more successful? Parasite or Paradise? A TV show in eight parts that grabs somebody for legend. Somebody who grabs something that grabs you for eight episodes and takes eight hours of your time. Like, all I heard about the Brutalist, I heard more about the Brutalist being long than I did about it being good. And Adrien Brody. I don't know what just happened to Adrian Brody's reputation nationally and internationally, but I think he just caught more heat for being arrogant while making a speech than I've seen Adrien Brody catch for anything as he was feeling pretty good about himself.
Amin Elhassan
I heard y'all talk about Adrian Brody the other day.
Greg Cody
Man, you guys, he's still talking, actually.
Amin Elhassan
Look, it wasn't a great look to demand more time and then not know what to do.
Greg Cody
It was the opposite of that.
Amin Elhassan
Right. But I think where he was going and he kind of meandered his way through it, but clearly he was thrown off by the whole music thing, which was he wanted to talk about social issues. He wanted to talk about anti Semitism. He wanted to talk about, like just hatred overall of others, so to speak, in the world. And I think he had in his mind, oh, I'm gonna like punctuate this thing with this very profound speech for peace and love and all that stuff. And in between him being able to get to that point, you know, he gets cut off by the music and he got irritated and he's like, oh, don't do that to me.
Greg Cody
I've been here before. I know how this works.
Amin Elhassan
Yeah. So he's basically letting people know, like, I know that they're about to play the music. But having said that, I thought he wanted to say something poignant, but he got flustered and got thrown off and instead everyone just thinks, oh, he's just a jerk who wanted more time. Like you wanted more time for something. I think a little bit bigger than just thank mom and Dad.
Chris Cody
I didn't see the speech. Was it a good speech at least?
Dan Le Batard
No, he kind of rambled through.
Billy Corben
Very bad reaction.
Chris Cody
It was like, very bad.
Greg Cody
It sounds like it went on for three minutes. They played the music and then he's like, hey, stop the music. I swear I'm going somewhere with this. I'm about to land the plane. And then he went on for another three minutes and then they played the music again.
Dan Le Batard
That's not just what he did when he said, stop the music. I've done this before.
Chris Cody
He did it with Aaron reminding everybody.
Dan Le Batard
I'm a two time best actor, but.
Amin Elhassan
Also letting them know, like, guys, I get it, you guys, we're on a timer here. I'm going to get there, I promise.
Chris Cody
But I have something more important. I have something more than anybody else that wanted extra time.
Amin Elhassan
But then I got well, because everyone else is just thanking their mom and their cat and stuff like that because it's their first Oscar. But if I win my second Oscar, it's like, I. Okay, mom and dad, y'all get it. But like, more importantly, I want to talk about these social issues I've made.
Chris Cody
Out with Halle Berry twice. Can I have more time, please? Thank you. Did he.
Dan Le Batard
No, he did. On the Red. Adrian Brody.
Chris Cody
Yeah, he did.
Amin Elhassan
You thought I was.
Chris Cody
You thought I was breaking news.
Amin Elhassan
I was about to leave the show like Hawk. It's your show now. Sorry, Dan. It's the Andrew Hawkins Show.
Greg Cody
I think Adnan Ver called Brody the worst two time Academy Award winner ever.
Amin Elhassan
That's not true. I guarantee I can find.
Dan Le Batard
Two Time club is hard to get into.
Amin Elhassan
Adrian Brody's a good actor, but just good. I'm a fine.
Dan Le Batard
For me, it was cutting too close to the bone because I'm like, oh, no. Pat Riley's hanging onto something for too long.
Billy Corben
Gene Hackman, I think, won two of these. I heard a coroner talk the other day, and it's the most plausible theory I've heard so far from any angle. Coroner, they brought in some of the forensics people and they're like, the most likely event is that Gene Hackman had some sort of cardiac episode that his wife got scared, ran to the bathroom to get whatever it is that he needed for his cardiac episode. Tripped and fall, falls. And then the pills are found all over where she is. And she. She died in the going and getting of the pills. And then the dog died in the cage.
Dan Le Batard
And the space heater was just there because the space heater is weird like that. And what's in it for Travis Scott? Those are the two questions that are just like, plaguing my mind right now.
Stugotz
Okay, check this. Deli boys on Hulu. Two brothers, Raj and Nir, are living the high life, not a care in the world. When their old man dies, it all vanishes.
Chris Cody
Poof.
Stugotz
And they find out he didn't just own a deli, but he was a drug kingpin. And they're like, what the throw in their ruthless aunt? Some guys who want to kill them. And keeping dad's drug business going. Sounds amazing, right? Deli Boyz is now streaming on Hulu.
Chris Cody
Don Le Batard.
Greg Cody
For five minutes, I was watching everyone just like, like, nope, not letting you in. Not letting you in. So when I got up there, I had to say something and I said it. Cheaters never prosper.
Billy Corben
Stugats.
Greg Cody
My buddy was saying, not today. Yeah, but you're not today.
Billy Corben
Okay.
Greg Cody
I think that was what he was adding.
Amin Elhassan
Yeah.
Greg Cody
I'm telling you, the response I got from this guy, what I said was amazing.
Mike Ryan
He got him.
Greg Cody
Cheaters never prospered. This guy yelled as angry as he could.
Billy Corben
I ain't cheating.
Chris Cody
This is the Dan Levitar Show.
Tony
With these two gods.
Amin Elhassan
I'm telling you, I'm. Look, I just. I just opened the list and I'm already. I'm like overwhelmed by names. You want to tell me Adrien Brody's worse than Renee Zellweger?
Dan Le Batard
Yeah. Yeah.
Amin Elhassan
Preposterous.
Chris Cody
Yeah.
Dan Le Batard
No, he's way worse than Renee Zellweger.
Amin Elhassan
No way. No way. What about Dianne Wiest? The worst.
Dan Le Batard
Are you kidding?
Amin Elhassan
The worst DA in worst. Diane Aries, Soldier. The worst DA in the history of Law and Order.
Dan Le Batard
No, she, Diane and Weiss is better.
Amin Elhassan
No way.
Billy Corben
She's the Wes.
Amin Elhassan
Jane Fonda.
Greg Cody
Oh, come on.
Dan Le Batard
You have my vote.
Billy Corben
Jane Fonda.
Dan Le Batard
Jane.
Amin Elhassan
Come on. Better than. Better than Adrien Brody. Come on, man.
Billy Corben
I mean, Jane Fonda's legacy will be larger than Adrien Brody's, but I'm gonna have trouble finding the movies that. She was the Oscar winner.
Greg Cody
I'm not fond of her.
Amin Elhassan
Spencer. Spencer Tracy. You guys don't even know who that is.
Dan Le Batard
Don't know who that is.
Billy Corben
Wait a minute. That's a huge movie star. Spencer Tracy.
Amin Elhassan
He was in 1937.
Mike Ryan
What are we doing?
Dan Le Batard
Sorry, I don't know who that is.
Tony
Dan, how do you know that?
Amin Elhassan
That.
Chris Cody
Milwaukee.
Billy Corben
He's a famous team.
Amin Elhassan
He hangs out with Gret Cody.
Chris Cody
Spencer Tracy, Milwaukee legend. Local legend. According to Dan, two time Oscar winner.
Billy Corben
You guys are doing this wrong. You guys are making me sound like I'm against Tyler Lockett when I'm not against Tyler Lockett.
Amin Elhassan
You were very anti Lockett.
Chris Cody
It sounded anti locket.
Greg Cody
Tyler Lockett's not eating for free in Idaho. Okay. He's eating for free in Seattle.
Amin Elhassan
Give me the name of someone who's eating for free in Idaho that's not from Idaho.
Chris Cody
Yeah, especially someone black.
Mike Ryan
Kellen Moore.
Greg Cody
Travis Kelce.
Dan Le Batard
Genty.
Amin Elhassan
Travis Kelce is a music industry legend. That's why he's eating for free in Idaho. It's not because of his football travel.
Chris Cody
Ian.
Billy Corben
Travis Scott.
Dan Le Batard
What's in it for him? Free dinners in Idaho.
Billy Corben
Travis Kelce is the tight end.
Amin Elhassan
Yes.
Chris Cody
He's a Hall of Famer.
Amin Elhassan
Travis Kelce would eat for free in Idaho.
Chris Cody
Also an NFL legend, but he would.
Amin Elhassan
Eat for free in Idaho for music reasons.
Dan Le Batard
Do you think Ian Johnson would. He's the running back that had the game winning score for Boise and the Fiesta bowl and then proposed he would eat for free.
Chris Cody
Is he eating for free in Seattle? That's the question.
Dan Le Batard
No. Absolutely not.
Amin Elhassan
Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
Billy Corben
Tony, I teased earlier this week something that I never got to and then you weren't here the last couple of days and I was looking for you because I wanted to close the loop on a question that I asked you Monday, where you came in here with what I said was very bad judgment and announced to me that you had found another job.
Tony
No, no, no, no. I didn't say I found another job. I said I applied for another job. But again, a side gig won't take me away from here too much, but a side gig.
Billy Corben
And what is that side gig?
Tony
I'm glad that Mike's here. So I was on LinkedIn the other day, just, you know, moseying around. I'm a father now. LinkedIn seems like an important thing for father. For older people. You know, I don't know. I'm there on the computer, like, huh, I haven't checked LinkedIn in a while. Let me see what's going on there. And then I don't know, Dan. I don't know if you've ever been on LinkedIn before. It doesn't strike me as a LinkedIn kind of guy.
Chris Cody
National legend. Doesn't need to be.
Tony
Exactly. So they have, like, different things that pop up. Oh, you know, this person said this about the stock market. Who cares? Then it's like, oh, jobs to apply for. Usually I don't look at that tab. Obviously, Dan, I'm happily employed here.
Greg Cody
But on this day, but on this.
Tony
Day, something caught my eye.
Dan Le Batard
Weren't you so happily employed?
Tony
Something caught my eye and I said, I'm instantly applying. So obviously on LinkedIn they have easy applies where you just bam, a couple buttons, boom, boom, boom. All of a sudden I'm applied for this job. I need Mike Ryan's help because the job that I applied for was assistant head coach of the Miami football program, and it is in right now. I sent the application. So I'm awaiting possible head coach of the University of Miami. Assistant head coach.
Chris Cody
Assistant to the head coach.
Tony
No, no, no. Assistant head coach.
Dan Le Batard
Miami, Florida.
Tony
Like University of Miami. Like my hat says University of Miami Hurricanes need an assistant head coach. I applied on LinkedIn. So again, my, My pro. My, my papers are in there. I don't know if you can talk to whomever. You can talk to the front office.
Chris Cody
So many questions.
Tony
See if we can put my stack at least or my paper to the top of the stack.
Dan Le Batard
Top of the stack.
Tony
And then just have an interview. I can kind of give them a couple ideas of what I think we bring a camera.
Dan Le Batard
Well, links and jobs does get you the best, most qualified candidates. So I think you're not Gon survive the filter.
Chris Cody
But it. But it also. The algorithm pushed it to him.
Tony
The algorithm was like, wait a second.
Chris Cody
So there's something about ball dude.
Tony
And then I was like, yes, I do know.
Billy Corben
But you believe that that's a part time job, that you're going to be able to do both jobs, just be assistant head coach?
Chris Cody
Yes. Yes. Because it didn't have another position attached to it, which is the weird part for me. It didn't say offensive coordinator and assistant head coach. It didn't say receiver coach. It was just like just assistant head coach. Just nobody to really oversee.
Amin Elhassan
You're just around, see, coach says something and Tony just says, y'all heard. And he just like, it repeats what coach just said. That's what assistant head.
Tony
Are y'all listening?
Amin Elhassan
Yep. In the back.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, but it is hats off.
Chris Cody
Hats off. You know the rules.
Tony
No cleats inside.
Dan Le Batard
Come on. I don't think I've really seen that before. Someone that's just assistant head coach.
Greg Cody
A hype man.
Chris Cody
I kind of feel like it was assistant. I feel like it was head coach's assistant assistant. But I think he read it wrong. I'm not gonna accuse him.
Tony
I definitely did not. It was not assistant to the show.
Dan Le Batard
Me this job post.
Amin Elhassan
While you look that up, I just want to point out real quick, Meryl. Three. Three Oscars, 21 nominations. Adrien Brody, two for two. You know what I call? I call efficiency. Right there.
Mike Ryan
Eli Manning, 3 for 21. He's Eli Manning. He's the Florida Marlins.
Amin Elhassan
Wow.
Mike Ryan
You just every once in a while there's a good year, you win an award for it and everything else is mediocre.
Amin Elhassan
Guess what? Eli Manning is a hall of Famer. A legend.
Greg Cody
Not first.
Billy Corben
Not a hall of Famer.
Amin Elhassan
A legend.
Billy Corben
Not yet a hall of Famer. Assistant head coach I thought was a big job. I don't think assistant head coach is something you find on LinkedIn.
Dan Le Batard
I have to. I have to clear. It does not say assistant head coach.
Chris Cody
Okay.
Dan Le Batard
It just says assistant coach.
Chris Cody
Assistant.
Greg Cody
I love how Tony threw head in there.
Tony
I saw head.
Chris Cody
Yeah.
Tony
Mike, Mike. Is it not a real job post?
Chris Cody
This is a real murder. That's crazy.
Amin Elhassan
That's crazy.
Tony
Murder.
Chris Cody
That's crazy.
Amin Elhassan
He said he saw head.
Chris Cody
Hey, yo, that's wild, fam. Okay, so you just added a head coach in there.
Tony
It does. It does say employment type. Full time, but again, that's a full time.
Billy Corben
They couldn't get through lady dick the other day.
Greg Cody
You guys feel good about that? Good job, guys.
Dan Le Batard
I will say Though, like, while it's not the header, I'm reading the core job functions and it does say like, as well as the performance of all other duties customarily associated of a head coach of a major Division 1 intercollegiate sports program.
Tony
Saw head.
Amin Elhassan
There it is.
Dan Le Batard
There is head.
Billy Corben
I think it needs to be an assistant. I don't think that's an. I don't think there is that job even open. Assistant head coach to Mario Cristobal. Is that even open?
Tony
I just applied for it.
Dan Le Batard
About the job. The assistant coach of football, assist the head coach in directing management, all the assessments.
Amin Elhassan
That's exactly what I said. He stands up behind him and just repeats what he just said.
Chris Cody
That's the job description for every coach on the staff.
Greg Cody
Are you the guy that, like, tells like, oh, this is. You remind him who someone is. You're like his handler almost?
Tony
No, that would be handler. That's a different position.
Mike Ryan
Do not.
Tony
Do not minimize my position. Okay.
Dan Le Batard
This could be analyst.
Chris Cody
This analyst.
Dan Le Batard
This could be analyst.
Chris Cody
Hold on.
Amin Elhassan
No, no, no. I like this idea, Tony. This is what we're gonna do. We have a platform here that no other applicant has.
Tony
Exactly.
Amin Elhassan
We have a national, national, big show.
Tony
International, international, big show.
Amin Elhassan
And so you get the audition, I think, for this role right here. So. Okay, so let's role play. Let's role play. Who wants to be Mario Cristobal? Mike.
Chris Cody
Mike, Mike.
Amin Elhassan
You're Mario Cristobal.
Dan Le Batard
I'm still data mining.
Greg Cody
Hello.
Chris Cody
Okay.
Amin Elhassan
Okay. There you go. Chris, you're Mario Cristobal. Ed, walking position.
Billy Corben
I like the what leadership by you.
Dan Le Batard
Yes.
Billy Corben
And you stepped up, stepped right into the position.
Greg Cody
We're a hardworking team. We're going to do better this year.
Amin Elhassan
Andrew Hawkins, you are hot. New recruit, blue chip, five star legend. Legend in the making, right?
Chris Cody
Legend in the making.
Greg Cody
Damn good player that is right there.
Amin Elhassan
And I'll be the father. And now you guys are on a visit and you're recruiting.
Greg Cody
So nice to meet you.
Amin Elhassan
Hey, nice to meet you, coach. Thanks for coming by.
Greg Cody
Your son, great. Everything I see from him, better person than even a player. Love the guy.
Chris Cody
Big fact.
Greg Cody
Brought in my assistant coach here. He's going to just be with us, helping out a little bit today.
Amin Elhassan
Well, my son, as you know, is one of the most highly sought after recruits in the nation.
Greg Cody
Put it lightly.
Amin Elhassan
I said why? Why should. Why trust you to raise my son as a football player?
Greg Cody
I'm gonna let my assistant handle this one, guys.
Tony
Great to meet you, Andrew. Big fan of your stuff. Listen, Dad, I got. I got something for you. Okay? In this program, what we do is teach leadership. What we do is teach a community.
Chris Cody
Hey, dad, you see what Kaisernet posted?
Tony
What'd he post? Was he with Drewski?
Billy Corben
He.
Chris Cody
Was he with Drew? First connecting.
Tony
Was he with Drewski?
Amin Elhassan
Hey, Coach. Coach, with me here.
Greg Cody
I don't know these young kids, these whipper snappers.
Tony
So, Drew, ski.
Greg Cody
I know a brewski.
Stugotz
Am I right, dad?
Amin Elhassan
Keep going.
Dan Le Batard
You don't.
Tony
I kind of.
Greg Cody
I don't drink.
Chris Cody
I used to, though.
Greg Cody
But you could imagine if I drank, we'd have a brewski together.
Amin Elhassan
I'd like you to tell me why I should trust my son to be in Miami. It feels like a town with a lot of distractions.
Tony
There is a lot of distractions. But you know, what we do here, it's a family atmosphere, okay? We take care of our guys, we make sure we got eyes on them. We got an incredible staff, led by me, of course, that makes sure that everybody's doing what they gotta do to get to the next level, okay?
Amin Elhassan
So.
Chris Cody
Hey, dad, ask him about if I can go down to south beach and practice making a family.
Amin Elhassan
You can't do that. I told you about that. Stop playing like that. I'm not gonna have no grandbabies.
Greg Cody
These kids, man.
Amin Elhassan
Now, I'm glad you mentioned that, Andrew.
Tony
We can link offline.
Amin Elhassan
I'm glad you mentioned that, Coach, about taking care of family. How are you gonna take care of our family over here?
Tony
Me and you can talk. Me and you can talk.
Amin Elhassan
We talking right now.
Tony
I got something in the back of the trunk of the car. Deposit it. Depos deposited. Ocean bank, preferably. They're my people. You talk to Armando, make sure everything's good. He'll get you a card, okay?
Greg Cody
I don't know anything about any of this.
Tony
Coach, coach, Coach. I got you. I got you.
Dan Le Batard
You have to take an important form, Coach.
Tony
Me and you will go to south beach, okay? I'll show you the town.
Amin Elhassan
You know, Dad, I got you. My F150 has really been giving me problems.
Tony
25. You want a lightning one? That's. That's. Yes. Yo, you want a lightning one? That's the plug in.
Amin Elhassan
I done told you While playing that hippity hop. Andrew, cut that noise off.
Chris Cody
My bad.
Amin Elhassan
I'm trying to get a new car out of this.
Chris Cody
You get two future just dropped.
Amin Elhassan
Now, my wife, she recently got laid off from her job. Is there any.
Tony
I'm sorry about that.
Amin Elhassan
Any. Any opportunities, perhaps, within the organization?
Tony
We have incredible, incredible opportunities within the university. We can make Something happen.
Amin Elhassan
Now the fella over there tells us that. That my boy is going to be a top five overall first round pick. Can you guys guarantee that for us?
Tony
I like that.
Billy Corben
What's the job pay? What does this job pay?
Dan Le Batard
So I've been digging and this job, all right, pays $57,000.
Chris Cody
They ain't talk nil yet.
Tony
Side gig.
Chris Cody
Wait till my damn time.
Dan Le Batard
I don't think the assistant head football coach at Miami is getting $57,000.
Amin Elhassan
That's a nice little side.
Tony
Getting a little on a budget class.
Chris Cody
Let me hit you back, okay? Yeah. I'm going to Florida State after this, so I'm waiting for them to the point, but I hit you. I hit you right back.
Amin Elhassan
All right, The. The fella up there, I don't know if his name is Bobby Bowden or not.
Billy Corben
He's dead now.
Amin Elhassan
Okay, well, Bobby Bowden Jr. He let us know that he can take care of us, so. And that my boy's gonna go top five. So I think without a guarantee to at least. I don't know.
Tony
Name a number, dad.
Amin Elhassan
Andrew, what do you think?
Dan Le Batard
I got a number. Two wins.
Amin Elhassan
It'll be a five. About five a year.
Tony
How about six?
Amin Elhassan
Okay.
Billy Corben
Look at that.
Tony
How about. How about top three?
Dan Le Batard
We are not losing this kid to Florida State.
Tony
That's what I'm saying.
Dan Le Batard
You understand? Two wins.
Tony
That's what coach.
Dan Le Batard
And when he mentions Florida, you say 41. 17.
Tony
You idiot. That's not make it.
Chris Cody
I thought we was talking about for you, five for you.
Amin Elhassan
I was talking. That's what I was talking about.
Chris Cody
I didn't want to get into my numbers yet.
Dan Le Batard
No, he's got to get him in the league. Who's going to go to number one in the NFL draft this year?
Greg Cody
I'm a damn good recruiter.
Tony
Make them eight for both.
Greg Cody
This is how I do it.
Amin Elhassan
Eight for both.
Chris Cody
Y'all got a recording studio?
Tony
Yeah.
Chris Cody
Okay, so what kind of like who. Who had the best mixtape of everybody on the roster last year? I would like to also, you know, drop a mixtape during the season because, you know, that's what they say about the marketing of it all. It's like you got the most visibility at this part of the year. So I think it's important that we leverage that as a team. And I would like for all of the coaching staff to get behind the market, I reckon. Read. I read something recently about the marketing behind the. The film that won best best Picture at the Oscars. So I would. I would appreciate some kind of investment into making sure that, you know, come to Grammys or at least the. The streamies.
Tony
Let me answer this question real quick.
Amin Elhassan
Hold on. I see a lot of giggles and smiles over there, but I fell up in Florida State. Told us he got a feature with T Pain ready for us off the bat.
Tony
Okay.
Amin Elhassan
Cuz I got in Tallahassee.
Tony
Yes, you're right. Andrew, listen to this. You like DJ Khaled? His production work?
Chris Cody
No.
Tony
Okay, good. I don't like him either.
Billy Corben
Good pivot there. $57,000 a year. Doesn't sound very good.
Dan Le Batard
This is reading more like the job posting should say fall guy.
Tony
57 grand on fall head coach.
Chris Cody
Fall guy.
Billy Corben
Put it on the poll, please. Juju at LeBatard show. Is 57 grand enough to pay a fall guy? I want all of you to notice that Chris Cody, when he looked at who should be the assistant head coach and what the job referenced the movie Devil Wears Prada where Meryl Streep needed to know whose name was approaching of the guest that was coming. And therefore, what is the name of the woman who starred off as opposite Merle?
Amin Elhassan
Oh, Anne Hathaway.
Billy Corben
Thank you.
Amin Elhassan
Yes.
Billy Corben
Anne Hathaway has to come up with the correct name on who. That's what you think I was.
Greg Cody
Jonah Veep, the guy that like her assistant.
Billy Corben
Jonah.
Greg Cody
Yeah, Jonah, who's always like, oh, this is Greg Cody. You met him three times. Like giving all the info before you meet somebody.
Amin Elhassan
Jonah, who's a big fan of the Showboat. Well, his name's not Jonah, but Jonah from Beep. He's a fan of this show.
Chris Cody
That's a legit part of the job description, by the way. That is not a fake.
Mike Ryan
Also, that's really not Jonah.
Chris Cody
It's a real thing.
Amin Elhassan
You know how I learned about that being a job that someone does?
Chris Cody
Yeah.
Amin Elhassan
Is I remember telling someone. Yeah. Like, it was crazy. Mark Cuban knew who I was. And they're like, he does. There's someone who likes Brian.
Chris Cody
Knew who you were.
Greg Cody
Amino Hassan from Sports Nation and espn.
Chris Cody
Yeah.
Amin Elhassan
It's like. And it just shattered my world. Like, damn.
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Tony
Think I haven't been practicing St.
Billy Corben
I didn't realize we had a substitute. Complicated legacy brought to you by headquarters huh?
Tony
441 Power Line Road second down to.
Chris Cody
Nine this is the D Ler show with the St.
Billy Corben
Tony do you have some new father observations that you can run past Andrew Hawkins? Because since since your paternity leave and since you've come Back. We have not talked about how little you're sleeping. We have not talked about how your life has been turned totally upside down. And you are now many months into this experience.
Tony
Nine weeks. So she's two and some change. Months.
Amin Elhassan
All right.
Tony
So Amin and Andrew. Both fathers. Great fathers at that.
Chris Cody
He was a great dad to me on that Visit.
Amin Elhassan
My boy. 8 million a year for himself. Me too.
Tony
And you got two F100 lightning.
Chris Cody
Damn right.
Billy Corben
I was surprised that you hit him with that hippity hop. I thought you were playing a little older than I thought you were. They did.
Chris Cody
He doesn't know that. That that kid's dad is now 36 years old. He's not 60. He's. He's me either.
Billy Corben
Okay, that hippity sounded like.
Tony
Tony. To give you his new father observations.
Amin Elhassan
Nobody can.
Billy Corben
It's Chris. Cody, what are you doing?
Amin Elhassan
Tell Mario Crystal.
Tony
Don't play.
Billy Corben
Don't point at the computer. Blame AI When. When. When we're waiting on you for whatever the cue is.
Mike Ryan
There it is.
Dan Le Batard
Dan.
Tony
Nine months. That's what they told me. Nine months to prepare. Nine months to sleep. Nine months to read books. Nine months to get the nursery ready. Nine months to get my mind right.
Amin Elhassan
Get Mike away from there.
Tony
And yet, when the moment came, I was not prepared. Not even a little. Not for the waiting.
Billy Corben
Yeah.
Tony
Not for the screaming. Not for my wife turning into prime Ray Lewis when the contractions hit. Oh, yeah, they told me labor takes a while. They didn't tell me it's a hostage situation. Trapped in a tiny hospital room running on fumes, a nurse coming in every 15 minutes saying, not yet, dad. Almost there. But before I knew it, there she was. January 1, 2025, 2:09am El Rose Kaladiud was born. A moment so surreal, so powerful, so insanely bloody, that it can only be described as the super bowl of human existence.
Greg Cody
Blood's redder than you think.
Tony
It's like purple.
Billy Corben
Oh, my God.
Chris Cody
Dark red.
Tony
Except this time I'm not Jalen hurts. That was Jenny. She was the mvp. I'm not Nick Sirianni. That was Jenny's mom who coached her through. I'm not Vic fang. That was Dr. Miranda, who gave a master class on delivery. By the way. I was literally the oxygen guy. I was giving a little mask to the players on the sidelines who actually did something.
Billy Corben
The assistant head coach.
Tony
The assistant head coach.
Mike Ryan
Oh, there it is.
Tony
In all seriousness, everyone at South Miami Hospital was amazing. Nurses, doctors, all the staff. I may start doing reads for them on our network by the way they can send me the invoice and I'll make sure middle art gets their cut. 80, 20, my way. Of course, my kid. They also said sleep when the baby sleeps. Guess what? That's a lie.
Chris Cody
He doesn't sleep.
Greg Cody
That's video game time.
Tony
Because when the baby sleeps, you have a million things to do because your wife can't do them. Dishes, laundry, diaper runs, sterilizing bottles like you're running a CDC lab. Speaking of labs, let me not do that.
Billy Corben
Oh, really?
Tony
Go to the pediatrician for a checkup.
Greg Cody
I really want it now.
Chris Cody
Yeah.
Tony
What a scam. Wait for 48 minutes. 92nd appointment.
Amin Elhassan
Yep.
Tony
The doctor walks in, checks the pulse, looks her up and down, nods, says looking good, then hits you with a $300 bill.
Billy Corben
It's just bullshit.
Chris Cody
$4,000.
Amin Elhassan
Yep.
Tony
Love you, Dr. D. I'm just doing a thing I respect. The hustle. Speaking of hustle, Baby gear. Don't get me started.
Amin Elhassan
What a hustle.
Tony
Car seat, expensive stroller, expensive baby wipes, expensive anything. Frida, I don't know if new dad's here. Frida, that's the brand that you get. All the little things. Expensive diapers, expensive baby wipes are expensive.
Chris Cody
Everything is expensive.
Tony
Pacifiers, not that expensive. Actually, pretty cheap.
Dan Le Batard
Term price movements.
Tony
Everything I buy comes in 8,000 pieces. Everything I buy, build has three extra screws. Inexplicably, I used all the screws. Why are there so many extra screws? Everything they say the baby will love, she hates. And then the crying. Portumadre L. The crying. It's relentless. It's personal. It also doesn't happen when Mommy holds you. So sometimes during these crying fits, I find myself daydreaming about lazy NFL Sundays. Drifting off to sleep to the sound of Ian Eagle and Charles Davis calling a Broncos vs Raiders game at 4:25. Remember Sundays? Remember sitting on the couch for seven straight hours watching Red Zone?
Amin Elhassan
Yeah.
Tony
Those days, they're dead. Now I'm watching a different red zone. The one in Elle's diaper. My new life. Diapers, bottles, burp rags. A rotating lineup of onesies covered in mysterious stains.
Chris Cody
Blowouts, baby.
Tony
Every single day, the same schedule. Feed, change, sleep, cry, repeat the crying. Mostly from me. But it's fine. I love it. I'm obsessed with my little mommy.
Billy Corben
It doesn't sound like you.
Greg Cody
I'm tired, you know?
Tony
I haven't been to the gym or played basketball in six weeks. I smell like spit up and desi ting. And yet I wouldn't trade it for anything that's not true. I stare at her tiny face like Dan stares at the last croqueta in the box.
Chris Cody
It as in the baby.
Tony
I hold her and suddenly nothing else matters. I realize this is what it's all about. Fatherhood. It's exhausting. It's beautiful. It's a total disaster. And sometimes it's hell. Speaking of hell. Art brials. Dan. Those are the new father observations.
Billy Corben
Ladies and gentlemen, the new assistant head coach of the university.
Tony
Thank you, Mike.
Billy Corben
Mike, let's Talk for a $57,000 a year.
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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz: Hour 1 - Tony Applies To Be UM's Assistant Football Coach
Release Date: March 6, 2025
1. Introduction to Content and Streaming Highlights
The episode kicks off with Stugotz and Chris Cody promoting the Hulu series "Deli Boyz", a comedic drama about two brothers who discover their late father was a drug kingpin. Stugotz humorously summarizes the plot:
Stugotz [00:12]: "Deli Boyz is now streaming on Hulu. Two brothers, Raj and Mir, are living the high life, not a care in the world..."
2. Deep Dive into the Oscars and Film Marketing Strategies
A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to analyzing Neon Films and their strategic approach to securing Oscars. The hosts discuss how Neon, an indie studio founded in 2017, manages to win prestigious awards despite modest budgets. Billy Corben highlights director Sean Baker's transformation of "Robocop" into a commentary on American corporate greed:
Billy Corben [02:53]: "Sean Baker, the director of Anora, threw the Robocop script in the garbage can immediately. His wife fished it out and convinced him it was a masterpiece..."
Dan Le Batard adds depth to the conversation by detailing Neon's marketing prowess:
Dan Le Batard [03:56]: "Honora wins Best Picture, and this director is now gonna get whatever opportunity he wants here because everyone fell in love with the story..."
Amin Elhassan points out the financial strategy behind Neon's success:
Amin Elhassan [04:11]: "They spent $18 million on their Oscar campaign, not on the movie itself, which made $41 million..."
The hosts critique the industry's reliance on big budgets and franchises, advocating for Neon's model of low-budget, high-impact storytelling:
Dan Le Batard [07:05]: "Neon is finding ways to produce cost-efficient movies that resonate, moving away from the diluted Marvel franchises..."
3. The Changing Landscape of Hollywood
Chris Cody and Amin Elhassan engage in a spirited debate about Hollywood's evolution, emphasizing the shift towards quality content over big-name casts:
Chris Cody [07:51]: "The only cream that's gonna rise to the top is ones who are actually good, regardless of the marketing budget..."
Billy Corben raises concerns about the sustainability of this model amidst the dominance of streaming services:
Billy Corben [09:43]: "With Amazon and Netflix running everything, we're witnessing a fundamental shift in how movies are produced and consumed..."
Dan Le Batard concludes the segment by suggesting that Neon's success may signal a new industry standard:
Dan Le Batard [10:20]: "This might be the new model where smaller studios can triumph by focusing on compelling stories and efficient budgeting..."
4. Tony's Comedic Pursuit of an Assistant Head Coach Position
A standout segment features Tony hilariously announcing his spontaneous application for the Assistant Head Coach position at the University of Miami's football program. The segment blends humor with a mock interview, showcasing the camaraderie among the hosts.
Tony shares his excitement and dubious qualifications:
Tony [19:04]: "I need Mike Ryan's help because the job I applied for was Assistant Head Coach of the Miami football program..."
The hosts mock the ambiguity of the job posting, questioning the actual responsibilities and compensation:
Dan Le Batard [26:38]: "This is reading more like the job posting should say fall guy..."
Greg Cody emphasizes the unrealistic salary:
Greg Cody [26:30]: "This job pays $57,000. They ain't talk nil yet."
The comedic interplay reaches its peak as the hosts role-play a recruiting scenario, with Chris Cody portraying Mario Cristobal and Tony attempting to impress him with over-the-top promises:
Tony [24:17]: "We take care of our guys, we make sure we got eyes on them..."
The humor is further amplified when Tony transitions into a heartfelt yet exaggerated monologue about fatherhood:
Tony [34:07]: "I did not get prepared for the waiting... a moment so surreal, so powerful, it can only be described as the Super Bowl of human existence."
5. Fatherhood and Personal Anecdotes
Tony's narrative on becoming a father adds a personal touch to the episode, blending humor with relatable parenting challenges:
Tony [35:25]: "When the baby sleeps, you have a million things to do because your wife can't do them... dishes, laundry, diaper runs..."
The hosts engage in light-hearted banter about the exhaustion and joys of parenthood, with Chris Cody and Greg Cody chiming in on Tony's experiences.
6. Closing Remarks and Final Jokes
As the episode wraps up, the hosts continue their playful interactions, teasing Tony about his new role and salary. The camaraderie remains strong, leaving listeners with a sense of the show's signature humor and insightful discussions.
Notable Quotes:
Billy Corben [02:53]: "Sean Baker... his wife fished it out and convinced him it was a masterpiece..."
Dan Le Batard [04:11]: "Not just a film; it's an investment in tastemaking studios like Neon..."
Chris Cody [07:51]: "Only the cream that's gonna rise to the top is ones who are actually good..."
Greg Cody [26:30]: "This job pays $57,000. They ain't talk nil yet."
Tony [34:07]: "A moment so surreal, so powerful, it can only be described as the Super Bowl of human existence."
Conclusion
This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz masterfully balances insightful discussions on the evolving film industry with the show's characteristic humor and camaraderie. From dissecting Neon's Oscar-winning strategies to Tony's humorous foray into football coaching and fatherhood, listeners are treated to a rich and engaging experience that blends pop culture analysis with personal anecdotes.