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John Tesh
This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.
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Dan Le Batard
Oh, look at him. He's in studio. The ultimate renaissance man is joining us. He's a six time Emmy award winner. He's a two time Grammy nominee. He gives us free music. He just makes so much music that he just gives away the rights to stuff. And after more than 20 years away from releasing original music, he has returned with a new album. Mike, you're going to love this. You know what's in what the title of the album is?
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Jeremy
No, Tell me Sports.
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John Tesh
Whoa. Just, just, just Sports.
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Dan Le Batard
He sounds like sports.
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Jeremy
Yeah. That Huey Lewis lawsuit is coming.
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Dan Le Batard
This album features two versions of Round Ball Rock. I can't get enough versions of Round Ball Rock. I don't know if he'll give us both versions because he just gave away the last time. He's been on with us a couple of times and he just called his answering machine one time when feeling left the sound and then it becomes something that's enduring. So thank you, John Tesh, for joining us as NBC returns to basketball. Basketball returns to NBC after how many days has it been? About 9,000 days. Thank you for joining us from your studio. This suggests to me that we're going to get a lot. This. What an honor this is. Are you shitting me. Are we going to get a live version of you giving us both versions of Round Ball Rock? Are we going to hear just stuff from sports right now?
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John Tesh
Whatever you want. Whatever you want. And the thank you is to you guys, because when we did that, when you debuted the shredded version, it blew up everywhere on X and every. It was crazy. And so I appreciate you guys and we appreciate you.
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Dan Le Batard
So which of these versions do you like best? Are you allowed to have a favorite here or do you just make the stuff and let other people decide?
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John Tesh
I just make the stuff and let Rick Cordella over at NBC decide. And it was like a year ago that we started talking about this. Do you realize that?
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Dan Le Batard
It's crazy. Well, we have now. We now have a. Feels like. How long, Roy, do you know how long our relationship with John Tesh has gone here? Because it feels like we have been talking about this with him for the better part of 10 years.
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Jeremy
Yeah. Back when we were at ESPN.
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John Tesh
Yeah, yeah. Long time.
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Jeremy
He gave us rights forever.
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John Tesh
You have the rights. You have the rights. Well, you know, and the most amazing thing to me is when you look back, it's been 35 years since the song was written. So all I can say is Supernatural and the fans did it, not me.
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Jeremy
You know, Jon, when it's basketball season, there are two things that come out. Your original performance where you have a very blousy shirt on and Jason Sudeikis and Tim Robinson's version of Ba ba ba ba ba Basketball. And I'm curious if this happens to you every time Basketball is about to tip off. Do you see those two videos all the time?
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John Tesh
Yeah, all the time. And you know, I used to be on Entertainment Tonight for 10 years. For people who don't remember that because it was so long ago, but I used to, when I would walk through air airports, I would hear people go, and now it's definitely bubba Bubba basketball. And when it was announced that the theme was coming back, a lot of folks said, no, I prefer the lyrics first version. So if folks haven't seen that, it's on. Yeah, it's definitely on YouTube. The only thing you need, by the way, I'm going to teach you guys how to play a sports theme. Are you ready?
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Dan Le Batard
Yes.
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John Tesh
Okay. The only thing you need is this sound right here. Okay. And this is a sound from the 9th 1980s blended with a little bit of piano. And it's this sound like you're.
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Jeremy
Sports goosies.
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John Tesh
That's all you need. That's all you got. Just do any. Do anything. And It's a sports theme.
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Dan Le Batard
I have so many questions for him, and I can't wait to go on this magical musical journey with him. But do you prefer. If you have to have a preference, do you prefer to be recognized as the. The host of Entertainment Tonight or the guy who wrote the NBA on NBC theme?
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John Tesh
Yeah, I'll take them both. I'll take them both, definitely. But, I mean, my.
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Tony
Not how the game.
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John Tesh
The whole music thing. For me, it exists only because of Al Michaels brother, David Michaels, producer at CBS Sports, when I was hired there in 1982, and the two of us were hired to cover the Tour de France bike race. And David said, hey, I know you're a musician. Why don't we ship all of your stuff over here to France and you can do the music while I edit the footage? And so it was a lot of stuff, like. And this is a song called Legendary, which is. Which is on the record. But. But it's. It was for, you know, Greg Lamont, that is, you know, it's with like a, you know, heroic march, you know, So a lot of that stuff was what I started with, and in the middle of a Tour de France coverage was when Raoul Ball Rock was written.
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Tony
Have you ever done video game music? I feel like you'd kill it with, like, video games from, like, the 1990s.
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John Tesh
Yeah, I would love to. I would love to. Well, I mean, there's a song called Let Me Make a Call. There's a song called Chasing Gold which goes like this. And then in the middle of it, it breaks down, and the song sounds like this. So it's just, you know, like galloping. And that sound that I'm gonna send.
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Dan Le Batard
You, that thing, that studio is magical. How often do you just go down there to blow, to blow off steam?
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John Tesh
Oh, I'm. This is where I do the. My radio show, too. I never leave this position. I can move over there, and I love it. It's a. It's. It's my space. But, you know, my wife Connie, you don't. You know. Connie. Connie Celica.
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Tony
Yeah.
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John Tesh
She. It's really funny because her office is right next to us in the house here. My house. And she'll. When I was working on sports, she would walk by and she. She'd hear. You know, she'd hear, like. You know, and she'd go, football. Then I'd be playing, you know, and I hear hockey. And then I'd do something else, and she'd go, nope.
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Dan Le Batard
My wife hates how operatic all the football music is. She thinks it's.
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John Tesh
Oh, come on, you gotta. It has to be so big, you know, so that's really what this. Just a shameless plug here. That's really what this record is. It's just, it's 11 new themes. And what I did, guys, was while I was writing them, I'd get like halfway through and I'd go in the backyard and get the battle ropes out and see if the tempos were right. So it really is a workout record.
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Jeremy
I mean, this is technically unbelievable. Not only is he doing an interview with us, not only is he playing his own music, he's also in charge of his own graphics.
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John Tesh
Well, I wasn't sure if you had the album cover.
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Dan Le Batard
He's a one man show. He knows how to make a lot of different kinds of things. Why is it that you decided after 20 years to do sports as your re. Entry point on musical inspiration?
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John Tesh
It really was. I mean, you guys were a part of it with me when NBC decided to bring the theme back and my son Gib, who was great, great musician and an actor and he just said, I'm a grandpa. So he calls me Pop Pop. He said Pop Pop. You know, I never see you happier than when you're in that studio or when you're on stage. And we took a 20 year break. I took a 20 year break from writing music because we were touring all the time. And then when all the excitement happened with Round Ball Rock, I just said that's what I love most to write is sports music. And so I got back in the studio, worked with, wrote a bunch of songs, worked with my friend Timothy Heinz, who's another great composer. And you know, the shredded version, all of that is really from Andrew Sinewick. He's this kid who is really Hendrix reborn, you know. And so we just got in there and so it's not. None of this could be produced by AI. You know, a lot of people talk about, oh, music, we can make music with AI. It's all live musicians, you know, just a great drummer. Tim Landers, the great bass player who's also played with Jethro Tull and, and so there's a. When you listen to the record, there's a lot of stuff that comes back to my. That quotes a lot of my favorites, which is, you know, yes, Emerson Lake and Palmer Rush, you know, all of that stuff. This is not an album that you can relax to. This is an album that you guys can pick up your guitars and play to.
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Dan Le Batard
We're going to get both versions, but the NBA returns to NBC after it's exactly 8,532 days. It's a doubleheader. Rockets at Thunder and Warriors at Lakers. Are you to be playing Round Ball Rock live anywhere during this unleashing?
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John Tesh
Oh, yeah. Yes, we are. We'll be on the Today show on October 21, the day that the theme comes back. I would love to play the game if we haven't worked that out yet, but that would be a lot of fun.
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Dan Le Batard
Well, Billy will put in a call. We need to do that for awesome.
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Tony
And I got plugs at the NBA. As you can see, I'm wearing my Billie Eilish NBA Connection here. Complex, they sent me this. So I'll make a call to Complex, the NBA or Mickey Harrison across the street. We'll get you on that court, John. Don't you worry.
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John Tesh
That's cool. I don't have the OG version loaded up here, but I have the shredded version, which I know you guys love. Let's do that.
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Dan Le Batard
We're going to do it.
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John Tesh
But I have to tell you, too, if you have a second. When I heard the theme was coming back, Remember, we've talked about this and I said, hey, I want to freshen it up, right? Do that thing. So we went to Nashville to where this great recording studio, Oceanway, with a full orchestra, and we did the orchestral version of the song, mixed it all up, and then we put it on Instagram and everything. And people are like, nope, no, we want the OG version. So the version you're going to hear come back on October 21st is actually the demo that was done in 1989. You know, the whole story where I did it on the answering machine. Not that. Not gig gig gang, Gig gig gang. But the first version that we did.
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Jeremy
Ba ba ba ba ba Basketball.
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John Tesh
That's what you were doing.
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Dan Le Batard
For those who don't remember the original story, you were in Europe, I think, right? And you called your own answering machine.
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John Tesh
Yeah, I was. Yeah.
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Jeremy
Good.
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John Tesh
Good memory. I was in Magev, France, covering the tour, and I heard through the sports grapevine that, you know, that NBC had taken the coverage away from cbs, who had had it for years. Same thing that's happened just now, you know, except it's a bigger, bigger deal now that they made with the NBA, obviously. And so I thought, what would that sound like? Yeah, what a sports theme. And nobody knew me as a musician. I thought if I could just get something like this, I'd be talking to Dan Lebatar. And so I. I got the idea in the middle of the night. And I didn't have a keyboard. I didn't have a computer, nothing. A computer, nothing. And so I called my answering machine. Yeah. Anyway, and then. And then, you know, it hung up on me, the answering machine. And I call back, here's the rest of it, you know. And two weeks later, I came home to New York and I checked my messages as usual. I only had two because I was that popular. And I put it on the piano and I went, let's see, you know, first message, you know, King, king, king, king, king, king, king, king, king, king, king, king, king, king. And, you know, the real key in this song is this section, because that's when Marv can go today, you know. And then at the end of the song, it's just pads so they can go. Brought to you by Geico Macy's. And, you know, and I think knowing that, knowing all of the sections, a bit of sports section had to have and having it fully formed and sending it to Terry o' Neill and Tommy Roy and Dick Eberstol and all those guys, they were able to actually see it and understand that that. That's where all those. Those sections, all those announcing sections would. Would go. So it's really. I mean, the key of the. Of the song is really only like 8 notes that people don't remember.
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Jeremy
Don Libertard if all the raindrops were lemon drops and gumdrops oh what a rain that would be Stugarts Standing outside.
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John Tesh
With my mouth open wide Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah if all the raindrops were lemon drops and gumdrops oh what?
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Jeremy
This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.
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Tony
John, do you miss organs at sporting events? I don't know what happened to them. They just kind of disappeared slowly.
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John Tesh
They're not around anymore. I didn't even know that.
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Tony
No, some of them, it's just like pre recorded things that got rid of the organist. Now we have like, you know, races in between.
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Dan Le Batard
Yankee Stadium doesn't have an organ. Yankee Stadium doesn't have an organist anymore. They canceled all of that. I feel like they they still do that there. Do you have a matchup that comes to mind when you hear Round Ball Rock playing, Jon?
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John Tesh
Well, it was in the first game in 1990, and it was San Antonio, and I think they were playing the Lakers. But I knew that the. It's a great question because the story is hilarious. I knew the song was. I was on the road somewhere, and I knew the song was going to play for the very first time on television. So I found a sports bar and I was by myself on the road, went in the sports bar with all the, the TV TVs, you know, tiny TVs back then, and the bar is full and people are watching. All of a sudden, you know, it's. It had the. It was. It had like the big, the big opening, you know, that comes up with the, with the, with the peacock. And it was great, you know, and I'm just dying there. And then the song. And the song comes in, right? And then it keeps going and it plays after a couple of different breaks going commercial. And I finally couldn't take it anymore. And I said to the bartender, I, I said, hey, do you hear that song? You know? And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I go, I. I wrote that song like, Like a jerk, right? And he goes, that's great. You want another beer? I was expecting like a trophy or something, I don't know. But it was just so sad, you know, I was like, okay, so you're the guy that wrote the song. That's fantastic. You know, I'm watching. I'm watching basketball. Can you let me alone? And I'm a bartender.
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Dan Le Batard
Well, a bartender has heard so like that. That aren't true from people.
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John Tesh
I finally have the answer. Thank God. I had no idea.
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Dan Le Batard
Do you have a. Give me a number to this question. The number of times in your life that you have called your answering machine and done something like that with Round Ball.
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John Tesh
Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it's now, you know, it's now. It's now this, of course, but before this, before the phone came out. Yeah, I mean, I've got stuff that's so bad on there, you know, it's like nothing. Like, nothing like, was definitely encouragement to keep doing that.
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Dan Le Batard
Do you have a favorite sports theme that's not yours that you say? God, I wish I had done that.
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John Tesh
Yeah. And I'll bet it's yours, too. Monday Night Football. It's a good one. I love that thing. Yeah, I really. And you know, do you know the story about that, that. That was actually in, In A. Do you remember production CDs where they would. You would buy a collection of like a musician, composer, would write a whole bunch of songs. Then we'd go into this production set and you'd buy it for like a thousand dol. Editing studios, production houses, and. And the music was free as long as. As long as they paid for that, you know, for the original price. And NBC found that cut and they put it on Monday Night Football and it became. It's called Heavy Action and it became that theme, you know, Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum.
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Dan Le Batard
Back then they had just one Monday night game. Now they're throwing two out there and they've cheapened the whole product by throwing two of these. There was one song, one game Now.
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John Tesh
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like. I like the Fox football team theme too. I think that's good. Yeah.
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Dan Le Batard
Which is your favorite of the other songs on the new album, Sports. And I know I keep asking you for preferences because you didn't answer my question on which you like better being associated with Entertainment Tonight if I forced.
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John Tesh
You to choose one or music for Music. For sure. Yeah, yeah. Music. I mean, there's. And live. Live music. There's nothing like being on a. On a stage with an orchestra with. No, not, you know, no way to fix anything.
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Dan Le Batard
You're going to do something for us live right now that. That escalates to crescendo. All the things that we've built in our relationship with you that, that makes this song the monster that it is, because you are you. You have to be honored that this has the echoing, enduring staying power to be brought back to life again. Like, you must be excited about what NBC is about to do with you and this song.
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John Tesh
I just, I got excited just now just listening to your great vocabulary.
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Dan Le Batard
It's just cool, man. Like, it's you you're talking about. Said to us, like your fame as someone who was a part of a very big television show in America was confining compared to you being able to celebrate your biggest inspirations here, which is to be moved musically, I would think, artistically.
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John Tesh
Yeah, it's definitely a different feeling. And especially when you think about the fact that a song can be created 35 years ago, go on the shelf, and then YouTube picks it back up, people learn how to play it right. Jason Sudeikis and the guys at Saturday Night Live do the spoof and it comes back. You know, I think I may have told you the story where when they did that spoof, I was in Los Angeles and SNL Day came on with that. That bit, and I didn't know what was going on. I was just getting texts from all my friends. Are you okay with this? Are you okay with this? Oh, my gosh. Are you gonna sue? Oh, my gosh. Are you okay with this? Oh, I can't believe this. And I'm thinking, what? And so they go watch Saturday Night Live. So my wife Connie and I watch the bit, and she turns to me and she goes, it's the best thing that's ever happened to you. She was right.
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Dan Le Batard
Were you unsure how to feel about it at that point, or were you still in any way confused?
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John Tesh
No, I thought it was great. The best thing for me. And I ran into Vince Vaughn out here in Los Angeles in a buffet line like 20 years after that. And he thought it was hilarious, too. But no, because they were dressed exactly like me, had the same vest that I had at Avalon when it was. When it was recorded, and also same hairdo, you know, all of it. And even Snakeis was doing my voice. Here's a song that I wrote on my sewing machine back in the day. So. No, it was great.
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Dan Le Batard
I want to play what the video just showed there, which is Tony and Louis rocking out to the last time John Tesh was on with us. I don't know. Does this have an audio accompaniment, or should we just play this? Wild John Tesh. All right, let's just run that while John Tesh Tesh does his version. We're going to do the shredded version here that is on sports. And I just wanted to get an answer to my question. Is there a second place song on this album that is your favorite next to the shredded Round ball rock version?
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John Tesh
Yeah, I would say the one that I was doing, you know. You know, legendary. You know, legendary. That thing, you know, which. Which, when it's fully formed, it sounds like this, you know. Okay, get ready. Key change.
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Jeremy
Right.
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John Tesh
So big, so wonderful.
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Jeremy
Good.
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Dan Le Batard
Yeah. Unabrupt end.
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Jeremy
Is that how it goes on the track? Sorry.
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John Tesh
Oh, no. Jamming, man. It wasn't sure.
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Jeremy
I'm a producer. You should fade that puppy down.
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John Tesh
I wasn't sure how much time you have.
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Dan Le Batard
We were. We were getting moved. We were starting to physically move with you, but now is the time. Let's. Let's break out. What? NBC is going to break out again. This is the shredded version. It is one of two versions. I'm going to say it's the best version because it's our version, the one that he shared with us. So John Tesh what an honor to have you do this for us.
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John Tesh
Oh, thank you.
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Dan Le Batard
Yes. That is peak October Peacocktober. Peacocktober October 21st, a doubleheader. The NBC is back on NBC and Peacock. Check out the John Tesh podcast and more@tesh.com it is really nice that you keep doing this for us, wasting your time. And we hope that the sports album is a monster hit. Thank you, John, for being on with us.
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John Tesh
We love you guys. Thank you so much. Appreciate you.
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Dan Le Batard
Look at how happy the group is. He brings just energy with him here. You guys should find for me, I remember being introduced to. You have to realize how shocking this was to me. I know him only as the Entertainment Tonight host, and then suddenly I see a video of him performing live on stage and he's a rock star and he's ball of energy, but I had only seen him sort of polished on television, and so I didn't even know this part of his personality existed.
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Jeremy
Yeah, you and I had the same experience with that. But it's an insulting question to a musician. Like what. What do you. What are you prouder of being known for Entertainment Tonight or. Or the music? He's got bona fides. He also does overnight DJing, nationally syndicated show. The music was a pathway to all the other things. I'm sure he gets a little insulted by your question.
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Jeremy
What are you prouder to be known for?
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Ad Read Announcer
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Dan Le Batard
I think if I can only give Jeremy one. If I can only give. Hey, you get to do only one for the. The foreseeable future. Broadcasting or music.
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Ad Read Announcer
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Jeremy
It's really not that hard when you give it thought.
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Tony
Yeah, but one he hasn't accomplished. I mean, I'd say he's a failure on radio because he's one. I get paid for suey.
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Jeremy
We gotta. We'll figure that one out.
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Dan Le Batard
Can you guys find for me the video before we go to Tony? I just want you to see what I saw because I'm assuming much of the audience doesn't know John Tesh's musical career. He's 73 years old. I'm guessing a whole lot of people don't know what he is as a musician. But I want to point out to the audience how shocking it was to see the guy I only knew as this is the host of Entertainment Tonight, which at the time. Guys, I don't know how. Jeremy, help me quantify what this man's career was just on television because I didn't know he was a musician. So to me, this was as comically absurd as suddenly seeing, I don't know, Al Michaels can really go and play the piano in a way that, you know, he's wearing a vest and he is just going to make you very excited with how much energy he has. It was just a weird thing to witness John Tesh be great at controlling a crowd on his finger with the piano, given that I just knew him. Was he with Mary Hart? Was Entertainment Tonight was one of the most popular programs in Americ at the time. I don't know how you'd quantify it.
- [30:13]
Jeremy
How about that time in the 90s where we're like, we gotta do something about these neckties. We need to normalize buttons, being fashionable neckwear, and just anything that doesn't go all the way down. Like a little bow tie without the bows. How about that? Hey, audience, I got a special treat for you because I want to talk to you about Miller Lite, but I want to talk to you about Miller Lite with my good friend Rose. Hey, Rose.
- [30:33]
Dan Le Batard
Hi, everybody.
- [30:34]
Jeremy
When we hang out and we hang out often, we're friends. I consider us friends.
- [30:38]
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, me too.
- [30:38]
Jeremy
We're off and toasting the good times. And what am I toasting with?
- [30:41]
Dan Le Batard
With Miller Lite.
- [30:42]
Jeremy
That's right. Miller Lite. Whether you're hanging out with your dear friend Rose or at game day, it just hits different when you got a Miller Lite in your hand. From jaw dropping touchdowns to fantasy heartbreaks, it's a beer that has been there for every moment. 50 years of great taste, simple ingredients, and that iconic golden color that you can spot across the room. And it's just not the color of the beer, which is brilliant. That beautiful white can. How beautiful is that? Is that you doing the sound of a can opening? Is that your favorite sound?
- [31:08]
Dan Le Batard
No, it is a horsey.
- [31:09]
Jeremy
A horsey. All right, we'll stop doing that. And here's a kicker. Miller light is just 96 calories, 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. The original light beer since 1975. That's right. And still hitting different five decades later. You're so good at this, Rose.
- [31:23]
Ad Read Announcer
I know.
- [31:24]
Jeremy
So whatever your game day looks like, remember, Miller Time is always a good Time. Look at us. We're a great tag team. I can you do that? That beer sound one more time? And the horse sound one more time. I regret asking you about that one, but the Miller Light sound is good. Miller Lite, great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com sin to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsively. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounce ounces. No, it says oh sess Don LeBatard to US residents.
- [32:03]
Dan Le Batard
Oh, wow.
- [32:04]
John Tesh
It's in there. Think I haven't been practicing stugats?
- [32:10]
Dan Le Batard
I didn't realize we had a substitute. Complicated legacy brought to by headquarter Toyota, huh?
- [32:15]
Jeremy
441 Power Line Road. Second down to nine.
- [32:19]
John Tesh
This is the Dan Levatar show with the stugats.
- [32:32]
Dan Le Batard
Get me some information on Entertainment Tonight at your leisure. Let's go out to Tony here. Tony has been waiting patiently for more than an hour to get to his hurry.
- [32:41]
Jeremy
Get him information on Entertainment Tonight at your leisure.
- [32:46]
Tony
I always confused him with the actor that played the butler in American Wedding. I'll send a picture.
- [32:52]
Jeremy
Is that the information you're gathering on Entertainment Tonight?
- [32:55]
Ad Read Announcer
Well, he also, John Tesh. He also won an Associated Press award for investigative journalism. So there's that side before Entertainment.
- [33:02]
Jeremy
What was the wait for which show?
- [33:04]
Ad Read Announcer
I'll get to that in a second.
- [33:06]
Dan Le Batard
He's a journalist. Tony is dressed up and ready for his top five. He looks a little bored. He looks like he might be mad at us because he's been waiting for an hour. Tony, tell us where you are, what you're doing, and what we have in store for us right now.
- [33:22]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
Dan, we have the top five in store. I'm not bored. I'm just here listening to the show, not mad at all whatsoever. I'm actually very relaxed. We just finished a nice therapy session with Genesis and about to get into the hot tub here at the elser, which is the first time that we do Tony's top five from the elser hot tub, which is going to be very exciting. Hold this for a second.
- [33:39]
Dan Le Batard
Oh, beefcake, we got a shirt. Oh, look, he ripped it off Hulk Hogan style.
- [33:43]
Ad Read Announcer
While he does that, let me tell the people this Tony Top 5 is.
- [33:45]
Dan Le Batard
Presented by Smirnoff, the official vodka sponsor.
- [33:48]
Ad Read Announcer
Of the national Football Football League. Smirnoff, Please drink responsibly. The Smirnoff Company, New York, N.Y. 40 alcohol by volume.
- [33:54]
Dan Le Batard
Roy why are you shaking your head at Tony right now?
- [33:56]
John Tesh
What are you doing, man?
- [33:57]
Jeremy
Why are we ripping off the shirt? For what? Just take the shirt off.
- [34:01]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
What do you mean? All right, Dan. I was going to start in the Oli. I was going to start in the Oli, but I actually wanted to dedicate the entire Oli to Benoit Blanc. Again, no Oli, I'm going to just talk about. Benoit Blanc is the greatest detective of all time. And if you remember in Glass Onion, when he goes over to Miles Braun's house, Miles Braun, obviously the eccentric billionaire who, spoiler alert, we find out is a fool. He finds the dinner party mystery, finds it out in, like, 10 seconds. He's like, yeah, this is what happened. You got killed by this arrow and this, that, and the other, and then ends up solving the other mystery, too. So Benjamin Block, probably the best detective of all time. That's my Oli.
- [34:41]
Dan Le Batard
But that's not what we were doing.
- [34:42]
John Tesh
We were doing.
- [34:43]
Dan Le Batard
Doing top five.
- [34:43]
Ad Read Announcer
No, that's fine.
- [34:44]
Dan Le Batard
He did great football observations. That's your Oli, number five.
- [34:48]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
That's fine. But that's my Oli, because number five, honestly, are there any good teams in the NFL? Just asking. Are there any good teams? I feel like there's no. I feel like everybody's back. Especially after the Bills performance yesterday.
- [35:01]
John Tesh
It's like.
- [35:02]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
But we thought the Bills were good.
- [35:05]
Jeremy
What do you mean?
- [35:05]
Ad Read Announcer
Where have I been?
- [35:06]
Dan Le Batard
Billy? Jacuzzi. Billy doesn't like your first one. He made a face.
- [35:09]
Jeremy
Great dis cd half an hour ago.
- [35:13]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
My bad. I've been. I've been here for two hours waiting, so maybe I didn't hear that part.
- [35:16]
Dan Le Batard
I told you he was pissed off. I told you he pretended like he wasn't. I told you he was pissed off.
- [35:21]
Tony
Two hours doing nothing. You could step into the studio, help.
- [35:23]
John Tesh
Out a little bit. JB doesn't have to come in on his day off.
- [35:25]
Jeremy
You know what I mean?
- [35:26]
Tony
Hanging out in a hot tub all day.
- [35:28]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
I gotta stand on my mark. This is actually the first time I jump into the hot tub, by the way. I've been. I've been outside of it, waiting.
- [35:36]
Dan Le Batard
Number four.
- [35:38]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
At this point, I just feel bad for Kyle Shanahan.
- [35:41]
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, I'm with him on this.
- [35:43]
John Tesh
Racini did that one, too.
- [35:44]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
What else can he do? Did Diana Rossini talk about that, too? Billy, did you feel bad about Kyle Shanahan earlier?
- [35:50]
John Tesh
I did, actually. It was weird.
- [35:53]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
Okay.
- [35:54]
Jeremy
All right.
- [35:55]
Dan Le Batard
Number three.
- [35:56]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
Touche. Number three. Just like we had it through a third of the NFL season, the third The Seahawks and the Colts are the best team in football. Somebody's got to be good, Dan. And it seems to be the Seahawks and the Colts, which.
- [36:09]
Dan Le Batard
Wait a minute. What does that make? The Bucks, who won at Seattle.
- [36:14]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
Makes them also good. But I think the Seahawks may be better even though they lost. Again, quality loss. Better than a good win. Jeremy Tache.
- [36:21]
Jeremy
This is not college football.
- [36:22]
Ad Read Announcer
This guy gets it.
- [36:24]
Dan Le Batard
Thank you, Number two.
- [36:28]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
Number two, Dan Kyler Murray. Fans, cover your ears. Jacoby Brissette threw for 320 yards and two touchdowns on Sunday. The last time Kyler Murray did that was 34 games ago, three years ago, week eight, 20. 22. And that's according to Pat Thorman. So the last time Kyler Murray threw for 320 yards and two touchdowns was 34 games ago. Three years ago.
- [36:53]
John Tesh
That was good.
- [36:53]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
In 2022, Jacoby Brissette was off the couch and threw for three.
- [36:58]
Jeremy
20.
- [36:58]
Dan Le Batard
That's a good one. And put it on the poll, please. At LeBatard show. Is Jacoby Brissett always going to be available for one last job? Yes or no? And number one, Tony.
- [37:12]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
Number one, Dan. The Chiefs are kind of MF and back. We talked about them being a dink and dunk offense. We talked about them being an offense that didn't mirror the offenses of Chiefs lore. And I got another little stat here for you through week six. So the first third of the season, they're at a 10.5% explosive play rate through the first six weeks. So 10.5%. The packers are the leaders with 14%. So as you can see, they're starting to climb up the rankings in explosive play rate. So it feels like they're mistaken. Effing back, Dan. And that's Tony's top five. I'm gonna chill here in the pool for a little bit longer. Can I skip the meeting or do I have to go down to that?
- [37:51]
Dan Le Batard
It looks pretty good. It looks like you're pretty comfortable. You're also more confident in your nipples than I would be.
- [37:59]
Tony
Okay, then you would be with your nipples or you would be with Tony's nipples. With whose nipples, Dan? Yeah.
- [38:04]
Dan Le Batard
Thank you, Tony. We appreciate it. I want to leave that up for interpretation.
- [38:08]
Ad Read Announcer
Wait a second.
- [38:08]
Jeremy
Answer.
- [38:09]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
Wait a second. Answer the question.
- [38:11]
Dan Le Batard
I just. You're very happy. Happy to be showing a lot of nipple. You ripped off your shirt and you confidently showed a lot of nipple. And I was surprised at how confident you were about that. That's all. Because your nipples. The last time I saw nipples like that, Mike Ryan Was accused of pepperoni nipples and then never again talked about or showed his nipples on the program.
- [38:32]
Tony (Top 5 Segment)
Okay, well, again, to each his own. If Mike feels a certain way, he feels a certain way. This is how God made me, baby. What do you want me to do?
- [38:37]
Dan Le Batard
Okay.
- [38:38]
John Tesh
Out of this. Okay.
- [38:39]
Dan Le Batard
Thank you, Tony. I appreciate it. We appreciate it. The two plays that from last night's game, I wanted to talk about because I don't know what to do with that Chicago Washington game, although Washington would have won it if they could have just executed a handoff like that part. The margins in these games are so absurd because Washington's an eh today on their good team. Right. Washington, you're going to do the EH on. They're a good team. And it's because they couldn't execute a handoff in that game and then allowed Chicago field goal position at the end of the game when all Chicago could do in that game was score with field goals.
- [39:16]
Jeremy
Terry, scary Terry is a big part of their offense. Debo came into that game hurt, but Debo's also entered games hurt for five years.
- [39:24]
Dan Le Batard
You say came into games hurt, man, we can't do the measurements on any of these people. Halfway through the scene, you've seen the quality of football drop like it's dropped because you're. You're seeing a bunch of backups everywhere. Now, maybe not in Tampa, where somehow they keep doing it, but San Francisco is a lesser team and available to be slaughtered like that by Tampa because that's not a recognizable 49ers team. That is not the 49ers team that got to a Super bowl with Garoppolo. That is not the 49ers team that can do anything with any quarterback. When you can't sustain that many injuries and be a replica of yourself.
- [39:55]
Jeremy
The backup quarterback's injured, very injured, visibly injured. The funny thing about this season, as Jennings gets hurt seemingly every play, as Kittle's out, as Bose is out, as now Fred Warner is out, is Christian McCaffrey is going to get north of 400 touches on offense this year.
- [40:10]
Dan Le Batard
I cannot imagine how all of those 49ers feel physically or who feels worse when that game is running through them as if you're throwing them in the wood chipper in Fargo like it's just running through their bodies. But the. The game I wanted to talk about because Juju told us before anybody, hey, my Bills are a fraud. They haven't beaten anybody. The teams they've beaten that they're four. No against are combined three and 20 and they barely won that one against Baltimore.
- [40:38]
Ad Read Announcer
And the Dolphins game was sneaky close.
- [40:40]
Dan Le Batard
And the Saints game was close. Like they they have not actually shown you much of anything and last night to me was particularly alarming because their quarterback can't look like who I've the MVP when his wide receivers seem limited and are also injured because they have injuries all over the field.
- [41:01]
Jeremy
One last note, Juwan Jennings, who got hurt every play in that game and has been hurt all year, he felt like he need because of all the injuries. I didn't highlight Ricky Piersol. Here's what Juwan Jennings was playing with. According to Juwan Jennings himself, this is.
- [41:14]
John Tesh
What he told reporters.
- [41:15]
Jeremy
He was playing with five broken ribs, a high ankle sprain and a low ankle sprain.
- [41:21]
Dan Le Batard
So that's just an ankle sprain.
- [41:23]
John Tesh
Right.
- [41:24]
Dan Le Batard
At some point the inability to that is it. So if it's a high ankle, what.
- [41:30]
Jeremy
If they're on different feet? Then it's a Howard Bryant situation.
- [41:32]
John Tesh
Oh, that's true.
- [41:34]
Dan Le Batard
Well, it's not a high ankle sprain and a low ankle sprain on the same foot. Right. It's a high ankle sprain on one foot.
- [41:39]
Jeremy
Shefton never clarified. So I think one ankle's a high the other ankle's a low. Five broken ribs. Oh geez. No.
- [41:47]
Dan Le Batard
We're not even halfway through the season. A bunch of the teams are broken. We don't know who's any good. We don't. And it's impossible to do the measurements this way. And everyone's ready to go ahead and make the Chiefs good again. After two games. Even though we made the Bills good.
- [42:01]
Jeremy
After two games, you're not ready. You killed them.
- [42:03]
Dan Le Batard
We made the Eagles. Good afternoon. Two games.
- [42:06]
Jeremy
No, the super bowl made the Eagles.
- [42:07]
Dan Le Batard
Good, but the last two games they're now bad. The last two games they are dysfunctional. They have all sorts of problems with A.J. brown and Saquon Barkley and they can't generate offense. In the last two games they they've got more three and outs than everyone in the league. But going back to last night's game again, Bijan Robinson, the physics of that defied me on the 81 year old 81 yard run where defenders got an angle, defender has the sideline, defender cannot knock him off his track because his lower body is too strong. But also Drake London in that game, Drake London's exceptional. He's a legitimate number one receiver in a way that surprises me. The end of that first half where they've got six seconds left and Drake London has to make a decision between can I get to the end zone or am I going to lose the chance to get a field goal? They could have lost the game. In fact, I would say the Bills came. I would say the Bills could have won that game if simply Pennix made the throw that should have been returned 80 yards for a touchdown and the linebacker just dropped it like it would have been a clean path. Pick six ties the game 21 21. And we would have been talking about whether Drake London did the right thing at the at the end of the first half where he cost him a field goal because he couldn't get to the end zone by half a yard.
- [43:17]
Jeremy
Fowler was brilliant on that call too. That was a lot of information he had to share with the audience so they knew the situation and it made it super captivating to see. Despite me wishing Chris Fowler would occasionally say no to one of these Come on, dude, it's so gravelly.
- [43:31]
Dan Le Batard
His voice hasn't gotten better in two weeks, huh?
- [43:33]
Jeremy
Because he's doing seven games a week.
- [43:35]
Tony
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