The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Stugotz's Rental Car Deal

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

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This is the Don Leventor Show with the Stugatz Podcast. This is the Don Leventor Show with the Stugatz Podcast. I want to get to Stugatz's travels. He told us before leaving that he was partaking in Operation Blooming Onion. I don't know what that was exactly. It was going to Australia on a flight that he was complaining about. All he told me when I told him Sydney, Australia is a place that I could live, he was saying too far away. I do not like flights that are 16 hours. Basically all he told me about his travels is how little he enjoyed the flight

there and the flight back. I mean, it's a long flight. It's 18 hours. Then you, you know, you get off in New Zealand and you wait an hour or so, and then you take a three hour burn over to Sydney, Australia. And I got to tell you, Dan, once you've made the flight from the United States to New Zealand or Australia, you laugh at all of their flights. I mean, I get on a flight now from L.A. to Miami. I laugh the entire five hours. I do. I'm like, ha, five hours.

Get out of here. I just spent 18 hours on a bird. But Australia's great and everyone should try to get there once in their lifetime. I know Dan said he wants to live there, I would not live there. I didn't say I wanted to live there, I'm saying I could.

I said I could live there, it's one of the cities that I've been to that are foreign that I could live in. But why would you say that if you had no interest in it? Only because having been there, there are very few places that I visit that I say that of. There are very-

Could versus would. Is that the big difference? Yes, yes, could versus would. It's the same. One of the things that happened to me- It's not the same. Well, it kinda is the same, yes. It's an odd distinction to make of like,

who, why would I say I would live there? You literally could live anywhere. You wouldn't just die from living in Raleigh. I could live there, but I would not live there. Like which part of this are you guys not understanding that I could see myself living there and also I would not live there? Well then you can't see yourself living there.

Would you just die? You'd get off the 18 hours and just plot right there. Shrivel up. Which part of this are you guys not understanding? We're all confused. Very clearly all of us. If it's all of us. You wanna live there or not?

Dango. No, I don't want to live there, but I could. Yeah, that's a disconnect for me. What other places are on this list? Of the could but wouldn't. Oh, that's a great question. I was living there, but you would never live there. London. You could or's a great question. I would see yourself living there, but you would never live there.

London. You could or you would live there. You could see yourself living in London? I could, but I would not. That place makes me sad. You have to look right. It's very dangerous. Are there any places you would, but couldn't see yourself?

Exactly. Yeah, the places that you would, but couldn't. Yeah, that's a good question, Chris. Well, I haven't finished the other list yet. I haven't finished, I thought you guys wanted more there from the list of places. Yeah, but places that you would but couldn't. Yeah, that's a good question, Chris. Well, I haven't finished the other list yet. I haven't finished, I thought you guys wanted more there from the list of places. Yeah, but it's gonna help us get the whole thing because I think there's still like a disconnect

on the campus. Costa Rica is another place. Is he gonna say I would live on Mars? I couldn't. But you can't. Well, I wouldn't either. That's a good one. I wouldn't either. I can't even see myself living on Mars.

Cannot, right? I would do so poorly there. All people would. It's not inhabitable in any real way, no matter what Elon Musk thinks about what he's gonna do to Earth so that him and his seven friends that are billionaires could live there.

Incidentally, by the way, I'm curious about this. In all of the Elon Musk talk that there is, does anyone think it particularly despicable that the world's richest man would make it so difficult for the mothers of his children to get any money from him? In terms of despicable, there's a list of things that we can assign to Elon Musk that are despicable, but women who have had his babies that he therefore after that doesn't actually want to give any money Even though money doesn't mean anything to him given the amount he has

Do you want a top ten list of athletes and actors and rich people who don't take care of kids after impregnating women? Understood, but he's doing this a lot with a lot of women and I like that All those athletes are not as rich as Elon Musk What is it? It's over the numbers over 12, right? And occasionally some of these things spill into social media and then it's usually an effective move because Elon Musk Replies and says to the world and the person tweeting at them or posting at them. I guess that's what it's called these days Exactly how much money he's going to be giving them Yeah, these NDAs probably got to be pretty fascinating

I'm a dick van patten guy. I think it is enough I know where that was going. He doesn't know I think he should have stopped at eight and there's a way you can stop it You just get snipped clipped. It's one way you're free to roam the country what you long like, but I don't think these are mistakes No, he's big on repopulating the world. I think he wants his bloodline out there. But then why wouldn't he give money to support the kids? That part is a bit cruel to me. You gotta want to earn.

Well, he could, but he wouldn't. Pull yourself up out of bootstrap. Teaching him lessons. He does, but sometimes people aren't satisfied with it. I don't know. It seems as though, from what I've deduced on social media behavior, that he is paying for these children.

Sometimes the means in which some of these mothers need to go about doing it are really bad optics. That's really the point to listen to. There's a difference between supporting people. There's like Warren Buffett. He doesn't plan on giving any of his estate to any of his heirs. None of it.

You'd think growing up in Warren's house, hey, I got a good shot here. I'm gonna be loaded. There's a bunch of rich people who decide that they're gonna let their kids do it the hard way, the way they had to do it. Bill Gates. So Elon Musk, why can't he just have enough,

give enough money for them not to would live on the street? They could live in a mansion, but they can't live in it. Because it's an asshole's move, that's why. Because you loved these women at one time and they are the mother of your children. Oh, I think you're making an awfully big assumption there. Like maybe some of them, but like a lot of these appear. You cared about them enough to procreate with them

and have whatever that relationship entails after that and then you're not willing to do very, you're willing to pay more in NDAs than you are in child support. Well, the nature of some of these things seem pretty transactional. Like, he is, for whatever reason, really on the train that we gotta repopulate the Earth.

He's not a charmer? No, like, I know he was, maybe Grimes, there was some romance there, but again, these NDAs are pretty airtight. But a lot of these, it doesn't seem like there's a lot of romance. It seems like, as far as the public knows, like three DMs that we got to see.

But is there romance with Hill, the Dolphins player? Is there romance there when he's having a bunch of kids with a bunch of people? I can't speak for it. Or Anthony Edwards, I think. I don't know. You don't know, we're not there. I don't know.

Yeah, why do we need romance? I don't know, with Elon, we have a little bit more. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I was not saying romance, first of there. I don't know. Yeah, why do we need romance? I don't know, with Elon we have a little bit more. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I was not saying romance, first of all. I did mistakenly say love, and in some of these instances there may not be love, but if- You're talking about an obligation?

I'm just talking about if money to you is nothing other than toilet paper, because it's not real. You have more than anyone in the world. I'm guessing that all of these women are not being unspeakably unreasonable about what it is that they think that his child might deserve in terms of support, given that he decided to have that child.

It's disappointing you're making us defend Musk, but I have to at this point, because all the extortion, all of the examples where people would just ask for amounts that are just not reasonable. Just because you can afford something doesn't mean you should afford something. So the last three that we've known about

that have played out in the public space with social media postings, Grimes saying that I don't usually do this, I cannot reach my child, Elon get a hold of me, they have multiple children, that we'll put that one off to the side, that bubbles up occasionally, but a hold of me. They have multiple children that, we'll put that one off to the side, that bubbles up occasionally but then it dies down. There was a Fox News contributor that went out publicly. Elon never really

denied that this was his child. She was posturing after it became known for perhaps more support and Elon at something to the effect of on social media said that that was granted. And this one he actually did not know if this child was his so that's a bit of a difference between the most recent one but he said regardless I'm giving her something to the tune of a half a million dollars. It is interesting that David always views things through the prism of how do you protect the money instead of the person. No, and thank you for putting me in that saddle.

I didn't put you in that saddle. You put that saddle right on that horse yourself. You try to make yourself out as this person, except when people try to extort you or try to take something from you, you stand up and you buck like a bronco saying, hey, when did I become the teeth that everyone sucks off? Well, now do it. That is not what I do,

and I'm not the world's richest man either. I'm not the world's richest man either. You do it for 12 relatives. Second? No. I do have dollars falling in my backyard wherever it is that I stay. Only ones, though. Which part of Costa Rica would you stay in or live in?

The plumbing situation is great. Could you see yourself in, yes. You gotta be careful with the plot of land that you get in Costa Rica. Make stay in or live in? The plumbing situation is great. Could you seat yourself in, yes. You gotta be careful with the plot of land that you get in Costa Rica. Make sure that they have plumbing. You can add plumbing. No, I understand, well. It's hard.

The beach side is a lot nicer too. I could see Dan living there. I could see Dan on the beach side of Costa Rica. There's a lot of wildlife in the jungle side. I could see him on a rainforest, like a giant tree house mansion type thing, with an infinity pool. He could do that, but he wouldn't.

When you have this many children, this many women, and this much money, and so much of the complaint is that you're not taking care of your kids, when it's this many women, it's not one or two. It suggests something that is on the cusp of cruel. What's the amount? 100 million per kid? Again, again, again.

What is the amount if you have a closet filled with toilet paper and somebody needs some toilet paper? Like the money doesn't mean, the money's not real to him. David, it doesn't, the money doesn't matter to him. He's got so much of it that giving it to anybody doesn't the money doesn't matter to him he's got so much of it that giving it to anybody doesn't cost him anything it doesn't cost him anything well I'm just asking for you to give me a number should every woman who

has a child with him get 200 million then everyone who has sex with him but doesn't have a child that's 50 million because he took the time I mean David he's talking about supporting kids that he had I mean and he has unlimited amounts of cash It has nothing to do with the limits of cash. There is an amount of money I'm simply asking and you're not willing to give me a number you say he uses money as toilet paper Is it a billion dollars? Cuz he's got enough. Is that what they're asking for David? Are they are they asking for a billion dollars? I'll play your game five million a kid five million a kid seems fair. That is a very reasonable number plus education Yeah, like just five million and I'll be here for support

College education guys today and David to Dan's point though. He could do that very easily. How do you know he's not that's you don't I'm trying. I'm trying to play the game we don't know You guys Tom Wams Gams on succession, that's a real name said That's the characters name Tom Wams Gams on succession says that five million dollars is the worst kind of rich to be because you're That you're not again. This comes from the most this comes on from the most growth you're rich be because you're not, you're not, again, this comes from the most, this comes from the most grotesque. You're rich, but you're not rich? Let me finish.

The most grotesque of wealth is looking down on the people who only, the most grotesque of wealth, which is where Elon Musk exists, look down on the people who only have $5 million as the least of the rich people. Do you? I do not. Oh.

No. But I do think that- You don't look down or you don't have $5 million? Well, he's looking up at the hills because the money's coming down. Yeah. That's a terrible Airbnb outrage. Do you have any theories as to what those dollars

were doing in the pool and the bushes? Do you have any theory as to why dollars were just falling from the mountainside through the clouds? I believe they were Monopoly dollars. No, they were real dollars. Do you know that for sure? Yes, I do know. Did you touch them?

Did you hold it up to a light? Yes, I had them. Did you do the marker thing? I took them and put them, I did not do the marker thing. I did not hold them up to a light. So you're not sure? I am sure, they were, they may have been. You haven't seen the fakes now, Dan.

They may have been. I start sweating when that marker comes out. Oh yeah. I never know, They were, they may have been. You haven't seen the fakes now, Dan. They may have been. I start sweating when that marker comes out. Oh yeah. I never know, what if I got a fake one by accident? That's the same way. Is that a toxic trait? I'm like, well this might be the time they get me, even though I'm well-intentioned.

No, I've been gotten there by not my counterfeit dollars. Really? That's so embarrassing. What do you say? I've never met anyone. Somebody took $100 from me in a grocery store because they did all of that stuff and it wasn't a real $100 bill.

Do they have your child? Or they just fooled me and told me it wasn't a real $100. That's what I would do. That's what I'm thinking. There's a good marker gag here. A job at Publix. Did they have your child is what you decided was the good joke to use there.

That's what you decided. You wouldn't give them the money? You decided that that was the good joke there. Did they, to ask me the question, did they have your child? It was a call back to Elon. I'm, thank you, that's. Well you didn't answer, and David's the first.

Yeah, I tend not to when he or Billy asks those kinds of questions. What do I have to do with this? That's your specialty. Your specialty is asking a question that you don't actually want to hear the answer to. It's just a question that's a joke for you to enjoy with the audience on how clever you are.

I have lots of questions. It's not something you want an answer for. I have lots of questions I want to answer for. For example, if you could or would live in London, would you adopt an accent at some point in time? Oh, there's no doubt. There's no doubt. I think after like three years, you'd have one.

I saw a video of Lindsay Lohan. She had a Middle Eastern accent because she lived out there for two years. When she went over there, it was Lohan. When she was here, it was Lohan. See? I went to Australia. I started calling everyone mate.

I mean. It happened to Hilaria. It happened to Chris Whittingham. She was Hillary. But not when you're back. You're done with that. No, I stopped, yeah. I stopped.

Can you tell us about your travels? How did the searching for marijuana go? Dan, I gotta tell you, I missed a good search for marijuana. Too easy? Yeah, it's too easy now. I walk into stores, there are cops there, there are drug sniffing dogs there, I have no idea why, it's legal, I'm buying marijuana. I go to Zenleaf in Evanston, I go to all these different places, and it's easy. And I figured Australia would be easy. Bondi Beach, a bunch of surfers, that there would be pot everywhere. There was none. It's not legal there.

It's very difficult to get. And I was frustrated because I thought it would be easier until I started my search. And what I missed was this. Asking the local bouncers, hey, where can I score a dime bag? Where can I get an eighth? Asking the local surfers if they had any, walking by Surfers Row, they live in vans there on Bondi Beach, they're just waiting for waves, okay?

And they're all smoking dope and it's coming out of their vans. And you know, I asked a few of them and they're very greedy with their weed, by the way. They didn't give me any, but I asked. And then I started- You seem like such a cop though. I do, I just-

Norc, it's just Pappas going up to all these different groups of servers. Band to band, yes. Hey, you have any weed? But here's what happened. I asked a local bouncer and he told me about this guy, Kiwi, and Kiwi met me in an alley. Of course. And I gave him a hundred bucks and he gave me some

great weed, Dan. It was exciting from this standpoint. I had to look around to see who was watching. If I'm about to get arrested or they're cops here. And I got to tell you, the weed game, the cannabis game has become too easy. I miss going to places like the Tide door, where I would go to Queens, New York. I would drive 45 minutes. He would open a little slot on his door. He would stick his hand out. His hand had herb in it. I would stick my hand in. My hand had money in it.

And I gotta tell you, I never saw the guy's face. And it was delightful. And I felt like I was on the cusp of getting arrested. And I missed the rush of scoring marijuana in a place where it's illegal. I'm going back to Australia. I can see myself living there. Maybe not anymore after this segment.

And Kiwi is a good mate. I mean, my best mate. How good was the quality down under? It wasn't as good as I thought it would be. Pencil shavings. Yeah. Had it. But I missed a chase for drugs.

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I mean, that's where she... I didn't have an answer. This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. I have not gotten used to, I don't know if the rest of you have been in New York since people are just walking through the streets smoking weed. It's disorienting to me. I don't know when that started. That's the last five years.

Is that post pandemic that people in New York are just walking through the streets smoking weed? Well, the politicians there made it so it's not even a petty crime. You can do whatever you want. You're not gonna get stopped. The police were told specifically let it go So that was the when I was growing up in New York and you went to the park or you got delivered by the chief Is how that would work not Robert Parrish, but it could have been now everything's out in the open Never went to the TIDOR, huh? No, no too scared

Yeah If you're if you're staying at a New York hotel not that that I've done this, but I've heard people that have done this, and you type in dispensary, they like pop up like all over. Everywhere, yeah. Like you could walk, from every hotel you can walk through a dispensary. Oh, but I'm not even talking about that part.

That part I've gotten used to in a lot of different places in America. What I haven't gotten used to is just the walking straight through the streets of New York. I gotta think that some of the people listening to this are surprised by that a little bit, just walking around smoking outdoors

the way that you would cigarettes. It's now cigarettes in New York. That's the change. It is. But even cigarettes are something that if you're smoking, people will look at you with more judgment now than if you're smoking weed. You ain't kidding.

It's a bit strange. And I'm not in any way accustomed to it, but you're saying that there are rigidities in Australia. And this tracks for Stu Gotts. It's not legal. He doesn't feel as alive unless the authorities feel like they're closing in. For example, there's another rental car

that he's using today that is like the 7,000 another rental car that he's using today that is like the 7,000th rental car that he's used and I don't know what's going on in his life even though we've asked him several times on why the rental cars are always different. It's like it's never the same thing. He has he has been for more than I'm gonna say years now just renting cars all the time. Today is the actual car. I mean, I was gone long enough where my car is finally fixed, so I actually.

Okay, so that's the car? That's the car, yes. I don't recognize what is your actual car because it looked like a new rental car because I'm so used to you just driving rental cars all the time. That's the car for now, mates. That dealership must hate you. They must despise you.

What, the Audi dealership? Just like every week, I need another loaner buddy. Listen, I know I said last week was the last one, but Rachel, Emma, I need another loaner buddy. I'll pay you next week. So Mike is questioning my five. I have an Audi for me, for my wife, and I have one for each kid.

So that's four. Well, you said five. You're an empty nester right now. So you held onto the cars? What just happened to the math there? I don't believe him. I happened to math then. Yeah, so what is true?

I think you have four. I think you have three cars for four people. I have four cars for four people. That's not, that can't be true, so gosh, you're always in rental. Well, listen, the drive down here and I regretted it. I mean, the second I got my car and it's at two and a half hours to the Elser Hotel, oh, did, the drive down here and I regretted it. I mean, the second I got my car and it's at two and a half hours to the Elstor Hotel,

oh, did I regret my decision? But I am telling you, 95, Dan, is where cars go to die. I'm serious. You drive, the amount that I drive on I-95, North and South, you are bringing your car to the shop often, very often. So you've decided that your plan is whenever you're in Miami, extra car, you have not the four outies,

but you get the fifth rental car and you drive the rental car down and back. Yes, just on 95. Do you guys have a good grip on how many cars Stugats has? No. What is the truth here? Like, what do you guys believe to be the truth here? What just reassert take all of the words that Stu gots just spit in the room run him through your Stu

Gotts is always lying translator and give back to me what you believe is happening in the Stu gots driveway right now I believe they have four cars But I also think that he has a relationship with somebody at that dealership where he is often just going in and getting a loaner Probably not even having to pay for it. It's fair. His name's Brett I try to take inventory of them So from what I gathered even though he's an empty nest or presently he still has At least one of his daughter's cars and he uses that occasionally I guess it's a mile situation when she's not in town. He drives that here

But often there's a courtesy vehicle decal on the cars too to which I agree with Chris He's got some sort of shady deal going That sounds plausible he's been working in radios crevices to take advantage of things from along to for a long time and Radio and card dealerships have a symbiotic relationship that is of great profit to people like Stu Gott. Love you Brett, tell them Stu Gott sent you. So this is it, this is the moment when it happened because he's gone this whole career with you he hasn't yelled out to Howdy until today. I think they finally said dude you got to mention my name

from time to time. It's been a one way relationship. I told you guys the last time I came from Los Angeles that I saw a ton of those robots delivering food in a way that was super confusing to me because I just don't understand how any of that happens. But also what I saw in Los Angeles, which seems a little more technologically advanced in this realm than Miami is a

lot of self-driving cars, which I would never get into because of the aforementioned love of fear that I have and And can't see yourself in one of those adherence to fear I saw a number of people in cars that weren't being driven by the people in those cars, and that's not something that I'm, I think the technology is too dangerous and too primitive at this point to trust it. What are you laughing about, Samson? I'm laughing because were you in London,

where you often think that no one's in the driver's seat but they're driving on the other side? I saw somebody drive that today, right here, in South Florida, he was driving a BMW on the right side of the car. I was like, what going on here? We're like the wrong side man does that Would you guys do this would you guys if I had faith in it if I know but that's Sounds like the dream like to hop in a car and not have to worry about talking to anybody that sounds great It's the reality the last time I was in LA my rideshare driver did get into an accident with me in the car.

I didn't stick around for the question. Do you feel safer in a car driven by a random Uber stranger in Miami, which can be its own adventure, than you would in a self-driving automated car? Which do you feel safer in? Self-driving automated car every day. I want someone driving my car, taking me where I need to go. Did you see their drivers results test?

Do you see that? I don't care put it on the pole at LeBattard show, please Which do you feel safer in a car that someone's driving or a self-driving car because I am curious the people listening to this Billy Yeah, you are the one that most resembles me as a fear-based creature you would embrace getting into a self-driving car no no I was worried I was worried about the fact that the car would just decide where it is that I need to go whether I wanted to go there or not and we were talking about this the other day how I tell the car take me to McDonald's they take me to LA Fitness and then I get upset that the car was judging my body now guys sharks I have a business proposition to propose to you guys. Maybe metal arcs newest venture and I'll stand

For this because this is a serious one. You guys heard of Waymo. We're kind of talking about it right now It's like a self-driving type uber uber situation, right? Not like a propeller on the back. That's what I was on the top I was seeing a lot of these those are helicopters. No, these were not helicopters, these were cars. Aren't those like sensors and cameras for the self-driving part? There was something spinning on this vehicle, I did not know what it was. Could've been a satellite, maybe.

So, this is what I'm thinking, and let's keep this hush hush amongst us. I think if we pick the right cities, we just invest in these self-driving cars, but we rebrand them as ghosts are driving you around town. So you look at haunted cities like New Orleans, Savannah, and you say ghost tour? How about a driven ghost tour by Edward Whatever the 15th, the great Duke of Whatever. And it's really just self-driving cars, but we tell people it's ghosts.

Is spooky sounds in the car? $10 billion for 3%. Please don't quit your game. $5 million, I know, I know, it's the hardest millionaire to be. I'll take five. Can you negotiate with some estates, get the rights to Elvis's ghost?

Ooh, a celebrity ghost tours. Michael, Ryan Ruiz. I want a 5% stake. I want a 5% say. I believe that you have found a scenario that's even scarier to me than a car that is self driven. Especially if they died in car accidents. That would be weird.

Ghosts, I don't think that, I think this is not just false advertising and a crime. I also think you've created a scenario where I feel even less safe on the road than all of the scenarios that I presently can feel unsafe on the road about. When you were flying back from LA, did you think there was someone flying your plane?

Yes. You did. But there's not. Do you know what they were doing in the cockpit? I know. They were watching adolescents. Right, but there are two of them in there. Just in case.

No, in the event that the machine doesn't work, there are two of them in there in the event Just in case. No, in the event that the machine doesn't work, there are two human beings in there. If you want to put the driver in the trunk of the car, and he pops out and drives it right before we get into an accident, there I'd feel safer. But there are pilots on those planes. They're not just self-flying in a way that if something goes wrong, the pilots don't step in. And there are two of them like even on the Smallest plane I've been on and I've been on some terrifying small small planes They put they put two pilots on there They put two pilots in the event that one of them goes down

Well, technically in the self-driving car there is a driver available should something go wrong It's you just hop to the front seat and take over. But I don't believe that, I don't. Tony was there, he'd drive that car, I'll tell you that right now. I don't believe that that's actually how that works, that you're gonna be able to just grab the steering wheel and drive the car the way a normal car would drive. And you have Dan just hopping into the front seat,

like it's so easy. While it's hitting a wall, no clutch. I don't think you answered the question though, Billy. You decided to stand up and go off elsewhere and bring ghosts. I gave you a billion dollar idea. Yes, but you didn't answer the question. What was the question?

Wouldn't it hit the same if he sat? The amount that you fear or would fear if a car pulled up and was going to take you somewhere and didn't have a driver. No, I don't like it. They could potentially just choose my destination, lock me in, I go to open it, the child lock on all the No, I don't like it. They could potentially just choose my destination, lock me in. I go to open it.

They have the child lock on all the doors. I can't go in. And then I have to go to the gym and work out. I think there's a movie coming out or has come out now that is exclusively in a car where someone tries to steal a car and then it's a horror movie and then gets trapped in the car and can't get out of the car. And for two hours, there's whatever is a very slow death in the car. I'm there.

Speaking of movies, incidentally, there were a handful of them I wanted to ask you about because I want to see which one you guys are most excited about in terms of what I've heard over the last 10 days is either going to be remade or is going to be totally new. So here are your choices. David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino are teaming up to do, I believe, a prequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

So these are two monster directors. I can't, I don't think two directors of this ilk have ever collaborated on a project together. When you have two directors, Dan, you have none. Okay. Oh, pass. Yeah, pass. Tarantino has made his final movie 50 times already. Exactly, finally someone's saying that. Like the Elton John tour. No, that's not an, he's got his final movie 50 times already. Thank you, finally someone said that.

John Torp. No, that's not an, he's got his final movie coming out and I don't believe this is the final one because now he's- That's impossible then. His final movie's never coming out unless he dies. He's got bills to pay. Maybe, maybe. David Fincher, for those of you who don't know,

that's seven, he's done a lot of great stuff. Roadhouse 2 with Guy Ritchie is gonna be made, I assume that Gillinghall and Connor McGregor are gonna be in that one again. Naked Gun is being rebooted with Liam Neeson. What a great trailer, that one. Seth MacFarlane's like the perfect guy for that. I don't know, did you see the trailer?

They made OJ Simpson canon, which is great. You didn't want that, Stugat? You're objecting to that? No, I mean, it was good the first time around. It was perfect, dare I say, the first time around. It wasn't just the first time, there was a second time and a 33rd and a third time. So it's been like 30 years

since we've seen a naked gun movie. And quite honestly, that entire genre, that spoofy type of genre has kind of died with that specific type of humor. And it was warm nostalgia. Airplane, the greatest ever of that genre. So Liam Neeson replaces Leslie Nielsen. I have trouble with these two names

the same way I do with Jack Nicholas and Jack Nicholson. Sometimes I get, I was surprised with these two names the same way I do with Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicholson. Sometimes I get... I was surprised with Liam Neeson as the character to remake Naked Gun. He's been doing nothing but bringing back his children and daughter from icy roads and trains and foreign countries and now all of a sudden he's going comedy. Trying to show that range. And he's norm... He's about 70, is he not?

Like I don't think of him in any way It's a comedic and comedic actor. Do you guys I mean it's like what Leslie Nielsen did with airplane He was a dramatic actor before he did that movie Also in play ice cube has written and will star in last Friday. He's bringing that back and also nobody to with Bob Odenkirk, where he is a- It's a good movie. I love Nobody.

Me too. So which of those are you guys most excited about? You can pick only one and I give you your choice. Which are you picking? I went with Nobody, cause I love Odenkirk and I miss Better Call Saul. More than Tarantino and Fincher. Cause I think they have a chance to botch it. Too many people involved. I read the book that Tarantino and Fincher. Cause I think they have a chance to botch it.

Too many people involved. I read the book that Tarantino put out around Once Upon a Time in Hollywood that really delved into Clint Booth's history. And it was just like uber nerdy, not at all what he came out as in the movie where he was like this man's man. He had all sorts of opinions on cinema

and all sorts of influences. So I hope that they change it up. I also like that Tarantino was like, this is not a fit for me to direct because contrary to Sugata's take, Tarantino is trying to be ultra selective with what will be his final film. He's been rumored to be attached to films

and he's decided, no, that's not gonna be my last picture. I wonder if this even qualifies for him as his last film because I think it's just for Netflix. And I think people like him and Scorsese don't view movies made for Netflix or the streamers as the same as they would movies that are in theaters. Scorsese certainly takes a check. And so that cash is just, yeah.

Cash is like the money. No, I think for him it's, did I write and direct this film? Is it a true written and directed by Quentin Tarantino picture? The story is Tarantino is like, I just don't think this works, but Brad Pitt really loved the script. In fact, it came out in a Deadline story

where Deadline reassured everybody, it wasn't an April Fool's Day story, that Brad having worked with David Fincher on movies like Seven and Fight Club, convinced David Fincher to apparently take this project on. Let me ask Sampson this question as a movie fellow because I'm surprised by his answer and I'm surprised that he would think that two genius collaborators that he would just surmise, ah, Ego will wreck that even though both of those guys are almost fundamentally incapable of making an

uninteresting movie, the two of them. So why would you assume if they got together and are willing to get together and are willing to challenge themselves with whatever would be a first time type of collaboration, why would you immediately arrive at thinking that would be failure? And if you are arriving immediately at that being failure, who are you putting together that wouldn't be failure

if those two particular people, two of the best there's ever been, working together, you think it's too much ego? You know what happens when two people have equal footing and they get together and form a partnership and there's no clear person who has final cut, final edit, final decision on shot or what happens? You got a problem. And so if you're telling me that Tarantino and Fincher are actually gonna have someone in charge One of those two things they're the alpha dog and you can't have two alpha dogs

Yeah, it won't work right when you have to Dan I think you guys are over blowing it Steven Spielberg is executive produced several big-time directors, but he doesn't get involved executive bullshit There's a great story about a film I think it was Twitter where was going on over budget and he just landed on the tarmac and reamed out the director without stepping off the plane. He gets super involved. This is co-directing though. No, it's not co-directing. David Fincher is directing this film. Tarantino just wrote the script.

Oh, Fincher thinks that. Wait a minute. So that's true romance then. Hold on. And by the way, Tarantino has co-directed pictures in a sense in that the Grindhouse film with Robert Rodriguez He made a film Robert Rodriguez made a film and it came out in one standalone release You can have people who direct chapters of a film that happens all the time I thought what you said it was like a Cone Brothers situation Or the Fairly Brothers situation. No Tarantino is this it's not true romance though. This is his problem

It's once upon a time. It's the prequel to once upon a time in Hollywood. It's his it's Terrence You know they're both directed, but it's Tarantino's movie being done by Fincher It's Tarantino giving over his baby to a director that he considers someone. He doesn't consider many close to his equal This is one he considers It's basically him and Paul Thomas Anderson that he looks at and says these people are my equal But what Fincher does something with the movie that Tarantino doesn't like what's gonna happen then what do you think? What do you imagine what happened that sounds like Tarantino could make this film, but wouldn't The one time that Tarantino did this as you mentioned with Rodriguez

It was a disaster. It's the worst thing on Tarantino did this, as you mentioned, with Rodriguez, it was a disaster. It's the worst thing on Tarantino's resume. There- There's planet terror and death proof that together, I actually didn't mind death proof. Well, you don't have to, but you don't have to mind it. It's widely regarded as the worst thing Tarantino has made. And there's not a lot of bad stuff that Tarantino has made,

but that would be the least popular of all of the things that Tarantino has been involved in. Does that count? I don't even think that counts in his... This guy. What counts and what doesn't count? It seems like if it's good it counts if it's bad it doesn't. Yep. Mm-hmm. Is it on his IMDB page and is it there under director? Because they put it in a category. Did he direct it or not? You're making a distinction and I will have to look up and do more reporting on this. You're making a distinction that I don't think is relevant because if Tarantino has written something that he is then going to put out into the world, I don't think he's gonna be hands-off about letting

someone else do that without any opinions given no matter how much he trusts that person. I'm assuming that these two people are collaborating on something and I'm surprised by your two people are collaborating on something. And I'm surprised by your appraisal that they cannot do it successfully when both of them are choosing it out of admiration for each other. You can collaborate,

but someone has to have the final say. I'd be curious to see how Tarantino's ego has aged with time because it's not the first time that he's written a script and another director has done it, Tony Scott. He did some work on Crimson Tide. Other directors. True romance as well, but this one is different

just because it's, but it's his. This is a prequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. This is something that he has already curated, taken care of, what are you making faces about? It's gonna fail. If there's no set person in charge, if it's not, if they're tied, what are they? Who's gonna break the tie?

Goes to the runner-in-ing. I think Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt. By the story on it that I read, it seems as though this is Tarantino giving this project over to Brad Pitt, and Brad Pitt convinced David Fincher. I'm not really sure what the connection points are

between Fincher and Tarantino. I'm sure there are some, being that they were in Hollywood excelling at a high rate, but this is really a Brad Pitt thing. Dan said that the collaboration is it's the only one he respects. Tarantino along with PTA, that's it.

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