The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Great American Cities

Episode Date: February 10, 2025

It only took 3 years, but after last night's defeat at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles, Stugotz was finally right about the Kansas City Chiefs. Then, if Jimmy Johnson is going to have a whole feature dedicated to him and he's going to cry, he has to retire, right? Plus, Stugotz tells us about his experience at Radio Row and explains why he bailed on Billy and the rest of the Meadowlark crew Friday, and we learn how to properly wrap a coil. Also, Dan insists New Orleans is one of the great American cities and wants to determine the other Top 5 Great American Cities. In terms of qualifications, is it about their musical sound? Is it about their food? Is it about their ghosts? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is the Dan Leventor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. This episode of the Dan Lebatard Show with StuGuts is presented by Venmo. StuGuts is here and because he has had a week in Super Bowl heaven and these are his first words at the microphone for for the week we must treasure them this is uh... the mighty god of god bless football coming down from the mountain flying in emergency flying in in the morning so he can give you his freshest and hottest takes as god bless football puts the punctuation on an award-winning number

one football podcast in america season the draft is right around the corner dana i mean he's got his weekend observations ready but he's never number one football podcast in America season. The draft is right around the corner, Dan-o. He's got his weekend observations ready, but he's never flown in on a Monday, and first things he speaks into a mic are weekend observations. So we're going to give him a minute to gather himself, because I'm sure he's got something for the Chiefs. I guess I probably have to lift the moratorium on Stu Gott's getting to talk about the Chiefs, right?

Because now he... Because I was right, yes. Three years later, three years later at the very end, Stu Gott gets to be right after being spectacularly wrong. I don't think this qualifies as right, Stu Gott. What do you mean? Alex Smith wins that game. Thank you.

Put it on the poll at Levittime Show. Does Alex Smith win that game? We'll get to the weekend observations in a second. I want all of Billy's observations on a personal week spent with Stu Gott because I'm sure we've only gotten to part of the stories. I'm being told that Billy's flying back with Venus Williams, with Braxton Barrios, with Raheem Mostert, like he's celebrity hobnobbing. They're different flights, Dan. Right, Mostert was he's celebrity hobnobbing. They're different flights, Dan. Right, Mostert was on the one there, I believe. One there, some selects, another way with another.

I tried to orchestrate what I thought would have been one of our better social media posts, but then I cowered and backed down at the last minute. So our flight was at seven o'clock on Friday evening. Could have been sooner, but you know, that's a story for another day. So our flight was at seven o'clock on Friday evening. Could have been sooner, but you know, that's a story for another day. So our flight was at seven o'clock on Friday flying back. And you go and you sit down and it's just like a who's who

of like celebrities and football players. Almost to the point it was like, who is this who? Because someone was walking through with a giant bounty jacket on that they got when they were going around doing Radio Rome. We couldn't exactly place a name on who it was that was still wearing their bounty jacket on our flight. But like John New Smith was on our flight,

and David and Joke who was on our flight, and Venus William was on our flight, and there's a player from Unrivaled on our flight. All in first class I assume. No, there were so many people that they ran out of first class seats. Like I'm not even joking. I was shocked because I booked a flight like, I don't No, there were so many people that they ran out of first class seats. I'm not even joking. I was shocked because I booked a flight,

I don't know, a month and a half ago. So I got row two of normal people seating, so I was row nine or whatever, right? And when I'm seeing some of these people walk past me, and I'm like, this just does not feel right. I'm not supposed to be sitting further up on the airplane than these people. And we've discussed this a number of times

And I thought it on the way up because on the way up I saw Raheem most on my flight. We had an awkward exchange on the way up I had Raheem most on my flight and I said, you know what if Raheem's on my flight Nothing's gonna happen to this airplane. Yeah, like I thought that and no one will remember you were on that flight on that one Yes on that one. I on that one. On that one, yes, on that one, I on that one I would have been like on a note, you know what I mean? Surely you guys are actually treating this as less of a joke given recent aviation issues. I gotta tell you, Dan, nothing made me feel better than when I was flying to New Orleans and Jimmy Johnson was on my flight. A

ball coach. Because I feel better when I'm flying and there's a coach on the flight I Talk about Jimmy Johnson I'm excited to see him in the Xfinity series this year a lot happened yesterday He'll be Brown retires at 91 years old tip of the cap. I think Jimmy Johnson retired, but it's not totally clear It's I think he retired that was bull bullsh-t what Jimmy Johnson did. Don't play with my emotions. What'd he do? Did you guys not see this?

No. It was before Harry Connick Jr. allegedly spoke the first words. So they did, they used AI for this career retrospective of Jimmy Johnson. It was cool. He's like, you meet like 17 year old, Jimmy Johnson playing at Arkansas and AI Jimmy Johnson is literally walking the fields of his career and he's like I was a graduate assistant at Louisiana Tech where I recruited a quarterback named Terry

Bradshaw and AI Terry Bradshaw shows up and he's like we'll see each other later and now me obviously knowing where this is going I'm like all right show me Jimmy Johnson from the you you see Jimmy Johnson from the U. You see Jimmy Johnson from the U, you see the apex jacket and how about them Cowboys era? And it's actually pretty cool. At the end of it, everybody is on stage. Jake Glazer. That's how you know it's important. They bring the whole team together. They're all standing there around Jimmy. That is how you know. It is how you know it's important. Like Strahan and Brady were walking on Bourbon

Street to celebrate Lady Gaga and behind Jimmy Johnson was Jay Glazer and it gave me comfort to know I'm walking towards something large. He's been allowed to be the hood ornament on the biggest thing. So he's talking to you about his entire career you're like okay about halfway through you catch on wait a second is Jimmy Johnson about to? And you see Jay Glazer on the set and you're like, Jimmy Johnson's got to retire. And they go on and on and Jimmy's crying and he's saying like, this is the happiest he's ever been in his life. And there's all sorts of reporting out there about Terry Bradshaw retiring. We didn't see anything about Terry Bradshaw. So I'm like, wow, did they get it wrong? Or is that maybe in the future Terry Bradshaw retires?

I'm like, we're saying goodbye to Jimmy Johnson. This is a moment. Am I getting emotional? And then Kurt asked him at the very end, like, is this goodbye? And he's like, one day at a time. You can't do that. You can't know.

This was goodbye. I'm emotionally prepared for goodbye. This is like when Kirk Herbstree brought a second dog around that looked exactly like the first dog. Peter. Put it on the poll at LeBittard Show. Did Jimmy Johnson retire yesterday? Yes or no?

What is the point of not actually retiring? Don't tell me after a 15 minute segment you don't like big drawn out goodbyes. Don't cry unless you're retiring. If you're doing another year, that's it. My tears on you, done. Walk me through, okay, because old man tears are something that made an appearance over the last few days with a couple of local icons who I've greatly respected who were built very differently in the way that they did their jobs. Because it was leaked in a way that was dirty and interesting

their jobs because it was leaked in a way that was dirty and interesting that pat Riley wept when trying to convince crocodile Jimmy Butler to come back to Miami and it was meant to shame pat Riley the idea that you would get so so you can't cry Dan yeah that's the sign yeah if you're a man if my boss cried to me though I probably like that no understood so i want to talk about some of this stuff because i've actually gone through grief with both of these men and when you get older chris you know this your dad cries your dad i don't even know the person your dad is anymore in terms of what he used to be

in terms of all male repressions and how now, late in life, appreciating little things after going to hell and back on life and death, all of a sudden, your dad will cry and I don't even recognize it. Anything gets him nowadays. And so to shame- That Google commercial?

Hell and back. Yes, Greg Cody- I was also wondering. Yes, Greg Cody walked to the edge of hell, coughing the whole way, wheezing. He was just going to Buffalo. He was at Dania Highline or whatever. With Bernie Palm.

He coughed himself into a faint at Dania Highline. Yes, and I'm sorry. And we all said this is how he wants the girl. At Miami Highline. That's a fine. It is a fine. It's Magic City. It's a double fine. Wow.

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His name is Bo. Wow. I think Billy typed an 8 instead of a B. Fine. It's a clear as day by two dollars. Stugats. Number 80. It's Chris Corner on the line. This is the Don LeBatard show with the Stugats. I do want to talk about these two men in their tears because I want to ask you Stugats like let me take you through the journey of whatever it is that Jimmy Johnson did or didn't do. Well that's a great way to put it like whatever it was that he did because it was supposed to be a retirement right and he didn't actually say he was gonna retire. Maybe he forgot. He actually had an opportunity to, and he's like, now's not the time for that. When is the time, Jimmy?

One day at a time. Do you think they maybe wanted to test out the AI technology and they're like, what should we do with this? Let's make a tribute to Jimmy Johnson. Is he going to retire this year? I don't know, but we can play it anyways. Maybe he already did, but AI Jimmy didn't want to retire. And this was a fake Jimmy Johnson the entire time And they're like we can't have another season of fake Jimmy Johnson. They're gonna catch on to us eventually So then they had fake Jimmy Johnson needing to come out and retire to put an end because fake Jimmy Johnson has been doing this

For who knows how long a year maybe two years The real Jim it's unknown where the real Jimmy John. He may be fishing He may be somewhere else not for me to say but the question is maybe fake Jimmy Johnson was to finally supposed to retire because people were catching on to technology and now he has become aware and he's making decisions on his own and fake Jimmy Johnson didn't want to retire if I may you may Jimmy Johnson famously did the stuff that Nick Saban did testing his ego in the pros, and when he got to the Miami Dolphins, what he thought was his dream job, at the end of that, because of what it demanded of him, because of the emotions it unleashed when his mother died he shows

up at the funeral sobs in the arms of his sons for not being there for him or for them because football consumed him so much is this real Jimmy or fake Jimmy it's a good question one that was on your plane well which one was that it was drink I mean it was it was watching a Mormon show. Lizard. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Something fake. Jimmy would do. I P Jim Mandich for Jimmy Johnson to learn while staring over his mother's casket that he needed to leave football and for him to share with Wayne Huizenga, the late owner of the Dolphins, the idea of QTL, quality time left. Jimmy Johnson's been thinking about mortality for a long time, and every time I see him walking through,

after having to fly across the country at his age, done with this shit a long time ago, the only reason he's doing that is because he's friends with Bradshaw. That thing is the closest thing that we have on television in sports to a family outside of what's on uh... inside the nba uh... like it's the closest thing those those people truly care about each other

uh... they've walked each other through difficult parts of life and it represents an american icon in that jimmy johnson's been there since the beginning of Fox television. He helped build that entire media empire by being one of the first star media people who could carry a network. And so I wouldn't blame him if he was done, but you can't do it that way, Jimmy. It's cheating. Like either tell us or don't. Not one day at a time. I ain't cheating! No, you're cheating, Jimmy. Jimmy, you're cheating.

Like you either tell us you're retiring or you're not retiring so we can celebrate your career and give you the eulogy here while you're still alive Or you just tell Jay Glazer to stand back But when you bring them onto that set and he's there in Gronkstone Everyone's just sharing their favorite Jimmy Johnson. There honestly also glazes a chatty Kathy. He knows the truth about everything I mean, how about some professionalism and tell if he's retiring or not? All of a sudden, we're not gonna report a story we may know. Exactly right, Glaze.

I think it's Jimmy's retirement. Billy is right about this, not Jake Glazer's retirement. Well, that's to the opposite. Well, it's not his retirement. Why didn't he announce it there? He told us about the Jet stuff with Aaron Rodgers. Tell us if Jimmy's going or staying. Glaze, come on, man.

He would have good sources on the matter, I would think. you gots would replace himself with AI Stu gots and a heartbeat Can we do this? Yeah, are you actually? Give poke them See if your hand goes through AI su gods would not pull off the rare double of leaving work early Friday and coming in to work late on Monday Thank you, Mike. You are not here Stugat, so I don't want to make accusations while you're away that we do not make to your face. So can you guys play the video please for Stugat? All of

us were wondering before we get to the weekend observations if we can get an honest answer here. Chris, help me, how do we get an honest answer here now that we've already made whatever it is our accusations are about this video? Do you know what we're about to show here stugat i have no idea did you know radio row is turned into media it's like digital media row people are sticking telephones in my face i have no idea what i'm saying who i'm talking to i just say stuff alright so just for people don't know

i think i have this right because i was only there briefly but what happens at radio row is the entire modern media sort of jossels and it gets in the face of stew gots and asks him to very aggressively be stew gots at all time yeah he's not allowed to walk someplace and not be stew gots just some display now thankfully walking someplace in beings to got to just smoking a heater so he'll do that but he's getting jostled by the media demanding that he

be all week his maximum self correct it's always demanding performance of you yet sometimes i just want to take a nice little stroll around radio row when i can't do it because people are sticking telephones in my face they're asking me questions and i don't know who i'm speaking to and I'm just saying Okay well so thank you for that context because this will help me play this video but Billy what I want to ask you because Stu Gotts was delighted by this right? As Stu Gotts explained it to me it brought a radiant smile to my face on just all the things that Radio Row is has been for many years.

He was telling me the story of Stephen a smith walking through radio road which must be uproariously funny like it just has to be hundreds of people you guys make fun of me when i tell you the jim rome is that a bodyguard for years i imagine steven a needs multiple bodyguards here because it's not a rana around somewhat i imagine steven a walking through that convention center is a loud jostling. Stu Gotz was delighted that Stephen A paused

in the parade of Stephen Anis to see God bless football, see Stu Gotz and beeline for all the things that Stu Gotz represents to Stephen A Smith, a moment of like genuine jostling between media brothers. What are you shaking your head about? A beeline, the video I saw, it looked like they kind of like did a double, like a beeline would be like, holy that's Stu gots. I couldn't want to talk to anyone more.

This was kind of like left look left. Oh, is that Stu? I should go over there. Yeah, I should go over there. Right. Is that what happened? I thought it wasn't a beeline. I felt like it was a beeline.

I got to be honest. Me a beeline gives off like I'm going to say hi to this guy no matter what story though again I didn't see it It's two gods telling me the story and he was excited to tell me the story Stephen a was going from station to station He's done. He had a group of people around him He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw me and he beeline straight to me and gave me a big hug I will admit he did stop dead in his tracks not Not a beeline though. Okay, all right. Billy, any assessment here?

Were you there? Do you have a vote? I saw the video. He went and he went out of his way to say hi to us two guys. Like he was going to do something else and then kind of change directions to go say hi to us two guys.

I did see a video where Stephen A. interrupted a live interview to go say hello to Emmett Smith. It wasn't that. Okay. That's a beeline. Okay, so yes, thank you. He walked on a stage in the middle of the interview, said hello to Emmett Smith and kept walking.

So he said it well, went out of his way? Definitely, not a beeline. Okay, so a D plus line, like whatever it is, it's not A list, it's not B list, it's not C list, Emmett Smith, A list, Stugatz, all of it's a jostling. My larger point is that still got to sit a buzzing epicenter of just content makers burping any and colliding into each other and and so somebody

at draft kinks put a microphone in his face and they asked you got to remember any of this because i'd like to know what you guys think his answer is going to be i'd i don't know what his answer is going to be to what it is that he's trying to achieve here. I don't remember what my answer was. You don't have any idea what it is that this moment is. The question is about slot machines and what you would do if you won $50,000.

Do you remember this question? How much would you tip, Stugats? I do remember the question. I have no idea how I responded. But how would you tip? $50,000, how much would I tip who? Like someone in the... Well, that's the question. I have no idea how I responded. But how would you tip? If I were to say- $50,000, how much would I tip who? Like someone in the- Well, that's the question.

Right. You've won at the slot machine. But who do you tip? I'd like to think if I won $50,000, I'd give $5,000 to someone responsible. Someone, like just someone. I don't know, pit boss, someone. I'd like to think that, and that was his answer.

You do like to think that, but all of us don't have any evidence that you Ever act on anything other than just thinking that I'd like to think of myself as a guy if I won the jackpot On a slot machine. I'd just be handing out money It's just the way I am if I won 50k that person's definitely getting $5,000, right? $5,000 so I still met out $45,000. Jackpot. Yo, chicken thot!

I deserve it. Yes you do! The kind of person you are! The kind of person you are! It's just a single dollar to a single person. You are not that person! Christ, man! How is he so consistent with his lie though?

So the question we were asking is, who are you doing that for like what what do you do? What are you trying to present to whom is the is the question? I'm trying to present that if I'm a guy who kind of you know stumbled into some money that I would be free with My money I would hand it out. Why are you doing that? Who are you? the money like 15 years ago and I haven't handed any out. You don't give a lot of it away.

No, we don't have a lot of evidence here of the checks. How much does your watch cost, Stugatz? The watch. Can you guys walk me through just really quickly? You do have any theories? Is it just that Stugatz is on autopilot and it's like I've got to entertain when they turn on the cameras and I'm tired because I've been working seven hours That's my thought he's just this is like probably Thursday or Friday

This is just forgotten that he's supposed to be the character now. He's doing the interviews like they're real Blackjack where he's like oh, I play my own way your scrum like that's Monday or Tuesday So let me ask you this question Billy did Stugats I don't think Billy. I don't think Stugats has taken inventory of some of the places where all of this would be a real, real battering on somebody in the media age who, you know, shouldn't have to do 19 interviews in a day.

It's a little hard. People don't understand what it is to do 19 interviews a day. I know it's not construction work on the summer. Yeah. Tarring roofs, but at this point in his career, I'm going to say that Stu Gotz, and this is no indictment of Stu Gotz,

it would be of just about anybody his age, is gonna have a stamina problem in his 50s by Thursday if it's 19 interviews a day. Like, that any human being doing that might have a stamina issue. You were doing it right there with him. Yeah. Well, I'm confused. What?

He's asking about my stamina. His stamina? Well, I mean, Friday, Friday was a bit of an adventure for everyone involved because a lot of the people that we had scheduled disappeared because of, not the stamina, but because of flights and- Billy, what happened Friday?

I got a text message from someone that doesn't work here that was like, Stugatz baileded on radio row and I'm like how do you even know this I bailed on a few guests I'm not gonna lie to you guys I was I wanted to get out of there like I had a plane to catch my daughter's playing a lacrosse game over the weekend and we had done is to dance point I think 19 interviews a day and one day Billy wasn't there because he was ill Billy ill and he got there late So I was just tired. I wanted to get out of town

The big easy got to me. That's just on the front end of this because I see where this is going I arrived that day It's not going anywhere because of scheduling I missed one interview over zoom that I was scheduled to be there for so I missed one interview on zoom now the problem on Friday was is that we had a number of people guess and we played this game where nobody knew what time the flight was at.

So we were booking guests, but we didn't know up until like 10 o'clock at night the day before what time Stugatz actually had to leave by. So when we finally got that information, we had to cancel all of the guests for the next day because none of them were gonna line up with the time that he had to be out of there by. So we had to cancel all of the guests for the next day because none of them were gonna line up with the time that he had to be out of there by. So we had to cancel a number of guests.

Now the crew, and I don't wanna speak on behalf of the crew, but many in the crew were quite peeved at this situation because there was a flight five hours earlier that the entire crew could have been on. And as a result, we ended up going at 9 a.m. that day for us to interview Bomani which we could theoretically do at any point in time but we did it that day and then all of the guests that we had scheduled had disappeared now the crew I think is not happy because they apparently secretly

recorded something that was going on that Friday and this was a person after Stugatz had left the crew had to stick around and now they have to break down the set, which again, they could have done the day before, they could have done earlier in the day, had they known what time the flight was at, and gotten out of there at two instead of seven. So we had some help when we were breaking down the set,

and I was very bad at helping break down the set, but I was there pitching in, and then lo and behold, a friend of the show just decided, you know what, I'm gonna go and I'm gonna help pick up all of your equipment for us. And Dominic Foxworth decided, being the nice guy that he is, not to give away $5,000 if he won 50, but to literally break down and clean up

Stu Gatz's set after Stu Gatz was gone out of town. Even though we saw him like an hour later still just walking around radio row doing interviews. Had a plane to catch. Jessica, you're shaking your head in something. I don't know exactly how to read what it is that I'm reading there. Yes, Dominique Foxworth would understand

that we're a media outfit that's on our own and if we make a mess, all of us have to kind of clean it up because we're all we got. He doesn't work for us. He just saw us cleaning up his set. He said, you know what, I'm gonna help with this. Look at him, knowing how to coil. Oh, he was so good at coiling those cables.

I had to get, I was, I was, I'm not gonna name names, but I had some people here that very dismissively were condescending the way I was trying to help wrap up cables, and they're like, you're breaking the cables. I always thought you get the- You guys break things all the time. I thought you get the elbow involved when you're doing that.

No, no, no, no. He's doing it without the elbow. That breaks the cable. I always go elbow. You go all the time you get the elbow involved when you're doing no no no no without the elbow that break always go elbow you go with the thumb I always involve I always involve the elbow no elbow you gotta involve different cables no that's what they told me I thought elbow too no that's like extension cable yeah extension cord in your house different cables who knew I'm not even sure how you would do that without that without the elbow. Thank you. You don't need an elbow.

It's not. You got an elbow. You have to twist your wrist in a coil. It's how you keep it tight. You follow the bend of the coil. Yeah. And then it twists itself. Because I've never done it with anything

other than my elbow, I can't imagine any other way to do it than with the elbow. If I'm wrapping a garden hose or a coil, if that's the way I'm doing it, the most efficient, is that not the most efficient way to do it than with the elbow. If I'm wrapping a garden hose or a coil, if that's the way I'm doing it, the most efficient, is that not the most efficient way to do it? There might be the other, the other way might be a way. I'm considering this for the first time. That's not how I learned it.

And now Lewis is telling me in my ear that no elbow. No elbow. No elbow, that's what everybody said. Absolutely no. I tried elbow, I got judged. Don't need to hear from Lewis, got enough voices around. Don't, did not. Sorry, but we had a very good mystery crate last week

that Lewis was a part of, which everyone should listen to. It was a lot of fun. We talked about all the characters in McDonaldland. That's fine, didn't need to hear from him there. This is why I left, by the way. I mean, just everyone debating, elbow, no elbow. I was trying to help. No one would give me an answer, and so I left.

You were not trying to help. I did my job. You did parts of your job. I did all of my job Well, I mean, I'm not the last four Smith I mean I'm I'm taking Billy's word getting deep into the weeds on It sounds like you got very close to the finish line of correctly doing your job with maximum efficiency And then the car broke down at the end

for a number of understandable reasons, because the last four days had been crazy and Billy ill. You felt like you sideswiped him a little bit. That's not what I was doing. In fact, I told Billy if he doesn't feel good enough, he doesn't have to come, we'll be fine. I felt bad for Billy that he had to come. I did.

I actually did. But Dan, let's be honest. Who wants to hear from Donovan McNabb Super Bowl week That's the thing like on a Tuesday you're thrilled for that guest but on a Friday like Friday now I'm getting Eagles quarterback this if you want to hear from him radio, bro. This is the year on a Wednesday Here from Donovan McNabb. I see your guest list you want to hear about from people you had Rosh Chastain on your guest list at one point I don't know what happened that was canceled yeah the watermelon man was canceled I had nothing to do with it I would have stayed I would have stayed

because Mike was so excited for that guest I would have stayed but he was You can't defend me. I will not. I will not. For what I'm at right now. I will not give them $5,000 cash. That's a lot of heroes. Billy, what do you tell the bookers when you're canceling these guests? Like how, what is the level of shame and sadness that you feel? This year, Stugats until Friday was very well behaved. And I don't think we canceled any until Friday.

They tried like hell to cancel Funny Marco on Tuesday. You had Debo Samuel on Friday. Well we had. That's a Tuesday Wednesday guest. Where would you normally tier Donovan McNabb and Funny Marco? Listen before the week I would put you know if I had to Donovan McNabb would be like a top 10 guy I wanted. Funny Marco would not even be in the top 100. But now that I'm on with High Five. You guys had a nice conversation. Oh no, Funny Marco is a top ten guy I wanted. Funny Marco would not even be in the top 100. But now that I'm arm with hindsight. You guys had a nice conversation. Funny Marco is a top five guest of all time for me. There he is.

I never want to talk to Donovan McNabb again. I don't know what you're doing there. It's very strange. Funny Marco. Stugats. Look. He's funny. Hey folks, it's Mike Ryan. It is big game week. And I've got just the thing He's funny. Light Beer for people who love beer. A new year is a perfect time for friends, family and great tasting light beer.

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I don't know, Stugats, if you're aware of... Well, because, well, I could have stopped there. Yes. I don't know if you're aware the book because well i could stop it i don't know if you're aware but but but but but the curmudgeon in you that rises up when you no longer have time for a conversation with donovan mcnapp yeah seems to run against what i thought radio row was for you which is every donovan mc McNabb who's available, you want to talk to right up until you get tired of it

because you want to get on your flight on Friday. Had plenty of time for Donovan on Tuesday, plenty of time on Wednesday, had some time on Thursday, Friday is getaway day, Dana. This is why I'm telling you that's a stamina issue. This is why I'm asking you, Billy. I mean, we did a great hour, I thought, with me, Billy, Bomani, Diana Rossini jumped on,

Sarah Spain towards the end. I enjoyed that hour very, very much. I mean. It was the only thing we didn't have scheduled on Friday, but we did that. But that's also Bisselli's fault, Dan. We were gonna get the Bisselli hit. It's Bisselli's fault.

This is no Super Bowl without Tony Bisselli zooming in. Billy, finally, what were the, as we put punctuation on that's how do you feel about the entire experience you guys would not bite on at all on me saying i'd new orleans is a top five great american city i don't know how many you guys would name as great american city like i'm not just talking about big cities i'm talking about a place with character and history that you feel it when you're there it feels a little bit different

energetically than all the other cities because you know of the history that's there and you can see it in the bones and the structures of the things you're walking around like I don't know how many cities you put in the top five but this one has to be in the top five I obligate you well there have to be five great American cities vibes no you're right Dan I feel like the last five cities you've been to, you would put on that list. Because when you get back from New Orleans,

you're always like, wow, that was great. I had a great time. Except for if you're me after the sugar bowl. Is Las Vegas a great American city? That's a good question, because I was just thinking about that, because its history has some of the same things, but it's more antiseptic. It's more, like in terms of representing

its surrounding region. I thinkin would be there are a no no for me to know especially not only would it not be what's going on it used to be bingo it used to be austin used to be twenty five years ago and now it's popular that's not the same thing right that is not what i'm talking about something that you're driving down a uh... of can see something that's lived there for 150 years. It wasn't put there recently.

Anyway. Great American city. You guys didn't want to do that with me. There aren't many. San Francisco used to be one of them. It's no longer? No, I lied. Oh no, what happened?

You tell me. I've never been. You tell me what happened in San Francisco. How much time do you have? You tell me I've never been you tell me what happens You tell me what a couple theories look you've got I don't know if you guys saw this but Charles Barclay saying don't go to San Francisco for the the NBA All-Star games. It's very much an ally. It's rat invested is what Pretty good time it depends on where you are and some things have changed in the last five years. So when you say great American cities, are you talking about like Savannah?

Like what are we talking about here? Yeah, Charleston. Charleston. I love the place that Forrest Gump sat on. Jacksonville. Great American cities, huh? Chicago, like does that count? Yes, Chicago does.

I do think Chicago does. I think we're just naming New York, Chicago, New Orleans, and like LA and a couple others. I wouldn't put Key West in there as a cheap imitation of New Orleans for example. Wow! Cheap imitation? Oh boy! And I love Key West!

Doesn't sound like it. To pale to New Orleans as a great American city is not an insult to another American city. It's called a cheap imitation. Yes, it's a cheap imitation. How about Nashville? Is that a great American city? That's close. I feel like your criteria is just you like places that are really haunted. Yeah I don't know what it is. It's partially that but it's not just haunted it's when it is that you can read about the local history of a region and you can watch through aging what happens to it through Katrina as it represents something above sea level that has lived and breathed and overcome any number of things to still stand and be the best city that hosts Super Bowls, the best city

to host Super Bowls and I say that coming from Miami, which I also think is a great American city, or used to be. Above sea level. For now. Riders are strange sometimes. This represents something above sea level. It's just a city, man.

Oh, is it? Okay. No, it's a great American city. I like what Roy said. What are the great American cities, Stugats? What are they? I think Cincinnati is certainly one of the great American cities.

Yeah, I think Cincinnati. They have a great ballpark. They do. Great American ballpark. I mean, that's why it's there. Cincinnati is not. Have you ever been? But yes.

And it made me sad. Put it on the poll at Levin Star. Yes, Cincinnati makes me sad. What about Pittsburgh, man? Pittsburgh's a great American city. I Levitard Show. Yes, Cincinnati makes me sad. What's their altitude? Pittsburgh's a great American city. I like Pittsburgh. I like those yellow bridges. Posting the draft next year, I can't wait.

Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Is Cincinnati a great American city? It is not. Cincinnati's elevation is 742 feet. New Orleans is 6.5. Wow. Both above sea level though. We haven't really mentioned this yet.

Miami? I did mention it Oh, you did Steve Martin is Pittsburgh. Yes or no fine in it. What are we a cheap imitation of? What are we a cheap New York City New York Vegas like seven carbons here now, but that's the New Yorkers fault that's been done now That's been for a long time a lot of New York ends up. We are yes. We are cheap imitation the New Yorkers' fault. That's not now, that's been for a long time. A lot of New York ends up, we are, yes, we are a cheap imitation of New York, yes, that is correct. Wow, man. Oh man.

Clip that. That's a, I don't speak. Why is that? If we are not a cheap imitation of New York, Miami and New York kind of have this thing. Everyone that comes in here tries to tell us how much better the place that they actively left is, I don't like it. No no I'm just talking about the restaurants that come

down here I'm talking about Just Cuisine where it is that she's talking about Joe's Pizza on Wynwood. There have been like what has for 30 years what has happened down here is that something opens in New York for food and then comes down here. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about the overalls of the city. But flavor is part of what it is that a city is, and New York, I'm sorry, New Orleans is a great food city.

Anyway, you guys don't evidently want to be. No one wants to come out with an anti-New Orleans take. Right. Just want to be clear. This is not the time for it. It's hard to rank only five, Dan. There's so many great American cities. Well, it's just also if I need something else,

you'll be like, that's not a great American city when they have a great American ballpark. Some people, these are all subjective. I happen to really like Cincinnati. I supported your list, and then I come out with Cincinnati, you don't support me. Yeah, this land is your land, but it's also mine. California. You didn't support my list Yeah, this land is your land, but it's also mine. California?

You didn't support my list. You pretended to support my list, and then you said it's just the city of New Orleans. Ormego, Kansas. You don't remember any of the things that you said, because you just got back from Radio Row. Super Bowl Monday, Dan O'Hara. You're just getting badgered.

Memphis? Yes. Oh, Memphis. Memphis is a top five American city. Dan, come on. Yes. I think the list is expanding. It's more than five already.

Not even Jimmy Butler wanted to go to Memphis. Right. Play a little music there and Dan's in. He literally said, everywhere but Memphis. They have a pyramid bass pro shops. Yeah, that's not great. Oh no, that was in the pro column. It's the music thing.

Chris sees on it. No, it's- If they have like a sound. Well, that's good too, but it's It's a music thing. Chris sees on it. They have like a sound. Well, that's good too, but it's not just a sound, it's also a taste. It's ghosts, he likes ghosts, guys. And when I say above sea level, yeah, the cemetery's above ground. Detroit has a sound and it had RoboCop.

Yeah, Dan, Detroit. And its own type of pizza. Detroit. And Tim Robinson. Detroit is not Downtown you laugh there was a time where you said I couldn't pay you a billion dollars to live in Detroit It sounds nice now, but yes, they've changed. They actually changed the economy around the ballpark They actually are one of the cities that did that correctly Gentrifying.

You and Eugene Levy can go to all the little cities in the world, their world headquarters is there. Does having a good ballpark or a good sports venue have to be a criteria? Because I don't know if Miami's a great American city. Although I do wish Miami would try to copy New York's public transportation system. That would be a better thing than putting a fourth

Lucali somewhere in Sunset Harbor. So I have New Orleans, Nashville, Memphis, Savannah, and Cincinnati. Savannah and Cincinnati. When was the last time that you were in Savannah? Give me all the history of Savannah that you know. Tell me one thing, anything architecturally. No, I'm just saying I'm not denying that Savannah is a good city. I'm wondering why it's on his list. He's a big fan of the John Baron that the Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil book rights to guys Yeah, yeah Or just Savannah's got good bones, Dan. I mean Not better than New Orleans those bones the bone off

You know those bones belong to How about Chicago? Is that on America's Great Cities? We already said this. We already did Chicago. Was it on the list of the five we just did? It's not on the five. It's not on the five.

It's not on the five. They had a great fire, Billy, so they have a lot of ghosts. Chicago has to be on there, though, right? Perhaps Toronto. Vancouver, people say. That would be a great American city. I was on the plane up, on the plane up. Perhaps Toronto. Vancouver, people say. Would be a great American city. I was on the plane up, on the plane up.

Sioux Falls. To New Orleans on the plane. They said they were welcoming, they were talking about the Gulf of America, and I just, I couldn't help myself. I shouted, that's not a thing! But what about nuke Greenland? I'm a fan of using nukes if I must. It might be pronounced NUK but not anymore.

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