The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The CVS Playlist

Episode Date: July 28, 2025

"I got an ad on Instagram for a shirt that says 'why is Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry always playing in CVS?'" Does Nikola Jokic care more about his horses than basketball? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get to Toronto's main venues like Budweiser Stage and the new Rogers Stadium with Go Transit. Thanks to Go Transit's special online e-ticket fairs, a $10 one-day weekend pass offers unlimited travel on any weekend day or holiday, anywhere along the Go network. And the weekday group passes offer the same weekday travel flexibility across the network, starting at $30 for two people and up to $60 for a group of five. Buy your online GoPass ahead of the show at Gotransit.com slash tickets. This is the Don Leventor Show with the Stugarts Podcast. So CVS. What a start. Yeah, that's a nice, dry entry point to. This could go anywhere.

Yeah, CVS, the popular pharmacy chain. Where one might purchase such things as contact lens solution. If you can find what aisle it's in, you're going up and down. You ever have this at CVS? You're walking up and down the aisles, trying to find something that you know they have.

I'm picturing people hitting the skip ahead button, thinking this is an ad. Yeah, contraception. No, I always know where that is. No, but it's like something that you know, like vitamins or whatever, and you're like, you're walking up there. Where the hell is this section?

Where's this exact cough medicine that my wife wants for my daughter? I see seven other ones that are just like it that I could get, but I don't see the exact one she sent me a photo of. I'm getting the CVS version. You get, you get antsy, you get angry, you get worked up, right Chris? But then something calms you down. Something soothes you. You hear something.

It's a song playing over the music and it's like, you know what? Like maybe. All of a sudden I'm frustrated but I'm tapping my foot. Exactly, it's almost like a pressure point massage from Genesis, all of a sudden the stress relieves and it goes away and I have to think to myself, there's someone whose job it is at CVS corporate who has to curate the playlist that they play at every location across

the nation perhaps a global no cvs is international not that's going to make people like chris and i just want to start out with the worst of the stuff that's going to be people not want to snap and lose their freaking my and so when i say to you, a CVS type song, we're not talking about generic music instrumentals. I'm talking about actual songs that you might hear

on some radio stations, you might hear like on TikTok, I guess this is how I feel. Is this a different list than a supermarket playlist? Yeah, it's like at Publix. Publix I feel like has their own mix album. Alright, I want to play the game. I have a song. Uh huh. I saw the sign, and it opened my eyes. Two upbeat.

Is that? Ace of Base classic. Ace of Base, yeah, I saw the sign. Per capita, greatest country when it comes to music. Sweden, right? How do they do it? ABBA? Well, they fund the arts quite aggressively. So I played that poorly.

That's no CVS. No, I just don't. Yeah, I don't think you play poorly. That's a good start. Hey, hit me straight. I appreciate the chance that you took there. I'm the authority on this. I don't appreciate it.

I have a very popular, wild playlist right now that's sweeping the nation. You made a playlist? Yeah, CVS Jams. Yes! Oh, okay! Wait, you made a playlist? I made a playlist.

We started talking about this three minutes ago, you already have a playlist? Inspiration came to me yesterday and I spent three hours just putting together a playlist. I know what number ones could be, I'll tell you that. Well, we'll see. This list is so important that we just couldn't do a top five. Oh yeah, top 10? We had to do a top 10.

Whoa! Two top fives. Can I make a suggestion? You know this song, I don't know what it's called or who's singing it. I'm just a little bit caught in the middle. Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na. Nah, I don't see that at CVS.

Really? The CVS songs, they, it's like- I feel like it's Sara Bareilles songs or CVS songs. Sara Bareilles. That's a good one, that's a good one. Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah singing it in the aisle maybe a little bit, but the real catch is hours later, you're still singing that tune in your head. That's where the CVS song fits in. If it's a good CVS song, you don't even realize you heard it at CVS. Exactly. That's right. Like three hours later, you're just like,

Where did I hear this song? I want something else to get me through this. Third Eye Blind, absolutely on there. You ever wonder like, how do I know this Andy Grammer song? I don't listen to Andy Grammer. I've never sought him out on my streamer, and yet I'm singing along at the CVS. Baby, it's fine by me.

I'm not going to write you a love song. Yes, yes. That's her. Yes. Is that her? These are songs that you yourself won't, you very rarely go to Spotify or Apple Music and just search out, yet you somehow know all the words. Adult contemporary music from the 80s, 90s, and today.

And that's what this list is. This dates back to the Eckerds days too. It's almost never too. Oh, Eckerd drugs, great store. Well, Eckerd was merged with Walgreens though, right? No, no, no, Eckerds became CBS. CBS, oh, god. I had one closed by my house that now they turned into,

it was a Spirit Halloween obviously for like two months. But now it's just like, it was a Spirit Halloween obviously for like two months. But now it's just like, it's called like RV World, or no, like RC World or something like that. It's like a remote control car track that you go to and drive remote control. No chance it lasts long. That can't be a successful business model.

I'm looking at, and it has like weird hours, like sometimes you go by and it's like, this should probably be open and it's just like, the shutters are like weird hours like sometimes you go by and it's like this should probably open and it's Just like the shutters are down and then other times you go by and there's like 80 people in there of racing remote control Car and I'm kind of like I don't know how this is gonna drugs in the Something going on there. There's also an Eckerd College in Florida completely unaffiliated. Yeah your

Everyone to me when I close my eyes, it's you I see. Oh, Michelle Branch is on the playlist, no doubt. So you ever wonder how, down here in South Florida, a CVS is always next to a Publix? Because CVS used to be Echards, and there was like a co-location strategy driven by real estate partnerships between Echards and Publix back in the day.

So that's why you're seeing a little bit more standalone CVSs, but down here the CVSs that were once Eckerds, they're usually right next to a Publix grocery store. Now I think that model is out the window because they have Publix pharmacies. Yeah, like, you're talking about, there's a wall, right?

It's not like you wander in. Right, but they would, down here in a lot of mini-malls, a CVS is usually right next to a Publix. Now they're inside of Targets. Yeah, that's a good co-branding. Do you ever forget which one you're in? Which Target I'm in? No, which CVS, whether you're in CVS or Walgreens.

I don't remember where I am. CVS has carpet, right? I can tell by the soundtrack the playlist really We should do a bit where one of us goes around here take like an Indescript picture from one and you guess whether it's a CVS or a walk-in I think you could tell I think that CVS also has shorter shelves. I don't think so. Here's a here's a good example This is an Oli. It's a top ten with two Oli's too Okay, but here's a here's a great example of a song that you know almost exclusively from being

at a CVS because you yourself never bought this album you never sought this song out on a streamer. Eric Clapton's changed the world. Wow. Phenomenon. I'm gonna say no yeah I'm gonna say from Phenomenon. No Phenomenon or Michael? I thought it was Michael. No it was Phenomenon. Phenomenon? You sound very confident. Can you give me a little taste? So I'm gonna say no yeah, I'm gonna say from phenomena no phenomena or Michael I those Michael my phenomenon Which is the one where he was an angel Phenomenon was about like he like he has superpowers like he's. He can heal people or he could read the future, some shit like that. I don't know.

That's about it. Yeah. Also OLA. That's an OLA. It was Phenomenon. Thank you. Wow, Roy is correct. I didn't want to go against Roy.

I'm always right. He was very confident. Roy's always first round pick in trivia night. Wow. A lot of people think Amy Grant was a one-hit wonder. She wasn't. She's a gospel music institution. But she did have a pop hit, Baby Baby. Baby Baby.

Baby Baby. Yeah, that is a CVS ass song for sure. Is that O.L.I. still? Top 10. Here we go. Number 10. Two top fives. Train, Drops of Jupiter.

Oh yeah. Wow. How's that go? That's just number 10 sing it Mike thats absolutely i just had to tell you two words she's back in the atmosphere

my head is overrated tell me never heard that song anywhere other than the series never heard that song no you heard it tell me so far I've had these No, I go to pharmacies That song I never heard okay number nine number nine now this was really tough because

She might be the quintessential CBS artist, but she had so many songs to choose from Nailing just one from her catalog as a CBS song proved to be pretty difficult. Oh, who's the artist? Give me the artist first. Celine Dion. Oh, you're right. Too big of a catalog. I'm going with Because You Love Me as her CBS song.

There you go. I didn't want you to go. I thought you might fly too close to the sun, Icarus. Some of her songs are too big for CBS. They're just big songs. But it's got to be a song that's big in CBS, Because You Love Me, definitely. Chris Cody just said off the mic,

I don't think I know that one, and then once I just sang two words. Sing the two words. You were my, I'm back. Three words. Number eight, the fray, You Found Me. Again, I'm gonna need. You found me, you found me.

Lost and insecure. You found me, you found me. Lost and insecure. You found me, you found me. You found me, you found me. You found me, you found me. You found me, you found me. You found me, you found me. You found me, you found me. You found me, you found me.

You found me, you found me. You found me, you found me. You found me, you found me. You found me, you found me. to nail just one of the phrase song. Did you know the phrase is still touring and they're just fooling people? Like the bald headed singer guy is not in the band anymore. The funny thing is I didn't know what song it was when you started singing, but then you got to the part that I knew. It's that part.

Surrounded, surrounded. Number seven. Edwin McCain, I'll Be. Ah, yeah. So Edwin McCain is a guy I know strictly from I Love the 90s, I Love the 2000s. I don't know.

I love those guys. Special place in my heart any time I see Henry Rollins or Hal Sparks. That's one of the greatest things ever in cable television. Lonnie Love. The I Love thing. Michael E. and Black. Michael E. and Black, Lonnie Love.

This would be top three for me, this one. But I don't. I'll be. Almost my wedding song. Say it again. Say it again. Sing it again. The greatest man of your life. Your crying shoulder.

I'll be loved. Don't want to say that word because it could be triggering. I'm gonna say this. Edwin McCain, I know who you are. I don't know your song. Better when I'm older. I think you would know this one. One day wonder, right?

We're just not doing it. Yeah. I think you would know this one. You'll know it. Roy's nodding his head. I heard that song. We're just not doing it yet. I think you would know this one. You'll know it. Roy's nodding his head. Roy knows it, so. By the way, Roy. That's your jam? No, it's not my jam.

I just heard it before. Roy knows Drops of Jupiter. I'm not going to let him do that. He does. He does. Now she's back from the atmosphere. Drops of Jupiter. Take it away, Roy.

There's a lot of piano in it. What exactly is a Drop of Jupiter? Tell me, did the wind sweep you off your feet? You're up, Roy. I got it. I But you've gone into a hockey show. You've gone, yeah. For you to say, I've been to hockey games at that arena for a good 20 years, all they did was play all the small things. All the small things. Come on, Roy. Take it away, Roy.

I didn't think you were pretending. Folks, nothing says summer like long days, clutch plays and firing off a few bets on the game. All with Draft King Sportsbook. Never bet baseball before? Hey, it's easy. Pick a guy to go yard, hammer some live odds mid-game, or just ride with your squad and hope for the best.

No spreadsheets, just vibes and dingers. Here is something special for first timers. New DraftKings customers. Bet $5 and get 150 in-bonus bets instantly. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app. Use code DAN. That's code DAN for new customers to get $150 in bonus bets instantly when you bet just five bucks. Only on DraftKings. The crown is

yours. 789 7777 or visit CCPG org please play responsibly on behalf of Boothill Casino in Resorting, Kansas 21 and over agent eligibility varies by jurisdiction void in Ontario bonus bets expire seven days after issuance for additional terms and responsible gaming resources See DK ng co-slash audio Don LeBataard. Can I tell you something? I don't know maybe like a month ago and I decided to watch pitch clock Clock, and I told Jeremy, Stugats! This is a good show you're doing! This is the Dunlavatar Show with the Stugats! Number six.

Number six, now, I actually got a targeted ad that, for a t-shirt, that said, I can't stop thinking about how Save Tonight by Eagle Eye Cherry is always playing at CBS that's just the t-shirt it has that message and a picture of a CBS and it's true because Eagle Eye Cherry's Save Tonight right now in America anywhere there has got to be a location where We're safe tonight is my role. We're gonna be gone say tonight fight the break Wow, it's amazing the parts that resonate because you guys say like three or four bars I don't know this song

I've heard of you glad cherry, but then you get that boy that tonight It's right when I'm getting about vitamin water from the fridge tonight And I think I don't oh, here we go. All right, boys, this is top five. This is top five. Now I'm into it. These are bangers only. Come on.

Number five is Vertical Horizon, Everything You Want. Wow. The only place in the world where I hear that song is in the CBS. He's everything you need. He's everything inside of you. Take it away, Roy. And you wish you should be. I heard that one.

He says all the right things at exactly the right time, but he means nothing to you and you don't know why. It sounds like a Christian rock song. It does kind of, Vertical Horizon. And also they had a bald singer with a soul patch, so that usually means Christian rock. Now, this is actually a great example of songwriting because the entire song, he's singing about someone else,

like he's player hating from the sideline. And then, by the end of the song, he's like, I am everything you want, I am everything you need. Goosebumps, legit goosebumps. Peace, peace. I am everything inside of you. And he's like, but I mean nothing to you. And I don't know why.

I'm the man of your dreams. Why do I mean nothing to you? I mean, that is songwriting. That's in cell songwriting. Makes me want to go to a CVS right now. Yes. Let's all go there. Let's just order a bunch of beers and sing out loud.

We want to order. They have beers at CVS. Yeah, we'll order the beers. We'll go to checkout. And we'll also get some lawn chairs. No order, they have beers at CVS. Yes, yeah, we'll order the beers, we'll go to checkout and we'll also get some lawn chairs and we'll sing for the horizon. No, but they have beers at CVS. Yes, perfect. Just picture us in like the cooler aisle, just like.

Zazz is really upset that you were gonna order the drinks from somewhere else. No, the beers are there. Why would you order beers when they have beers there? We'll go to checkout, let's not seize on this, so like one word. We'll go to a checkout, let's not seize on this, like one word. We'll just go pick up some beautiful white cans of Miller Lite, go to the checkout express

and wait for the annoying thing where someone has to check our ID and then pick up some lawn chairs. They can check your ID. Do you have a phone number with us? No, I'm not gonna have a phone number. No, I don't wanna do that. And I don't want like the four foot long receipt. I'm so glad I've aged to the point where

they don't even ask, they just walk up and just scan the thing like, beep, like all right, go ahead. I'm not here to get carded, I'm here to listen to aged to the point where they don't even ask, they just walk up and just scan the thing. Like, beep! All right, go ahead. I'm not here to get carded. I'm here to listen to who best sings the best song. 111980, that's what they put every single time. Number four. Number four.

Vanessa Williams saved the best for last. You're going to have to hum some of that. Yeah, go for it. I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. Oh, OK.

Sometimes the sun goes round and round. I don't know why I didn't go that far back. Sometimes the snow falls down in June. Fresh Prince. That's an obvious one, I'm sorry. Okay, Fresh Prince, he played a sports writer, right? Yep. Yeah.

Had a baby in a limo. I'm not gonna lie, that's more supermarket song for me than CBS. Yes, very supermarket vibes. Also, I'm ashamed to admit this, in college, we had to do a group presentation, and we were the last group to present, and while we were setting up,

we played this song over the thing, and I'm like, now they go, like, so corny. Oh, what? Number three, Fastball, The Way. Ah, wait. Would have been my number one. How's it go? They made up their mind,

and then got to talking. They left before the sun came up that day An exit to eternal summer slacking Where were they going without ever knowing the way Anyone can see the road that they walk on Oh yeah, there they go Never let me anyone can see the road that they walk on Take it away Roy You got in see their shadows wandering off somewhere you guys buried the lead. That's the part you're supposed to get there

I didn't know what the hell you were talking about the first 20 seconds. Number two, this was really difficult. This honestly should be, this has got a great argument for number one, as most number twos do. Yeah? Uncle Cracker, Drift Away.

Oh. Uh. Now this is also Dentist's Office. Hold on. Give me Uncle Cracker, Drift Away. Give me the beat boys. Beat my soul. Oh yeah.

And I'm gonna have to rock and roll and drift. But the Uncle Cracker Drift. Give me the beat boys. Beat my soul. Yeah, I'm gonna have a lot of fun. Rock and roll and drift. But the Uncle Cracker one. Hold on. Isn't that a cover? No, this is an important detail. It has to be the Uncle Cracker version. Wait, I definitely want to leave this.

There's someone else who sings that song? Yeah. It's a cover song. Wait, Uncle Cracker covered that song? Yeah. But it's Uncle Cracker's song. You know what, who originally sang it? Not the Cracker.

Who? Really? It was appropriated. Can I tell you, I was, you know, I host College Football Tailgate for ESPN Radio. We're starting next month. We're on the road each week at the big games. Look at me, Louie.

Drift Away by Doeby Gray. And one of our stops last year was in Nashville for Texas at Vanderbilt. I had never been to Nashville before. And I'd heard it's amazing, go to Broadway, they got all the bars. And I mean, I'll skip ahead real quick, I loved Nashville, I had such a good time. And the bar that I went to, I was recommended, like, hey, this is the bar that you'll like, is the Kid Rock Bar, okay?

It's all the kind of music that I like, you know? And they got cover band there, you know, playing all there, playing all the 90s and 2000s rock jams, and then all of a sudden, Uncle Cracker jumped on stage. Uncle Cracker jumped on stage. It's not a band? You know, he used to be Kid Rock's DJ. Oh, is that right? That's how we got to start.

He jumped on stage and he played that song, he played a bunch, like, Uncle Cracker! Actually, he didn't play a bunch of songs. One of the best days of Zazz's life. I've referenced this show that I went to with Chris Whittingham one time, where I went to a Smash Mouth concert, original lineup, and a riot started,

and people were getting arrested and thrown into cop cars. That was actually a part of a pop 2K bill that had many of the bands featured on this list. Uncle Cracker was on it, Fastball was on it, Spin Doctors were on it, and Smash Mouth. Spin Doctors, is that Two Princes? Yeah, of course.

Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da. That's what I say now. Surprised it didn't make the O.L. Shibidip, shibidip, didip, didip. People don't scat anymore. No. All right, number one. Number one is so obvious.

Scat back. Number one, everyone obvious cat back number one Everyone has to know number one now common misconception people call this band by the wrong name all the time Their name is the goo goo dolls. It's not good. It's not good. It's the goo goo dolls It's cleaner is iris Boy what was the soundtrack? City of Angels First round of rap

Nicholas Cage, Andre Brauer, and Meg Ryan I like the acoustic version of the song First off, a lot of people think that they can sing this song And then they realize, man, Johnny Resnick had some pipes on him Also, you would think that this would be a bigger song on The karaoke circuit, but there's basically a two-minute instrumental that yeah Against the karaoke rules by the way another alternate Google dolls or the Google dolls song slide One iris easily no easily but Mike

their website Yes Google dolls dot-com It's cleaner. I'm I I don't know what happens with the Google dolls. Let's see where it takes me takes you to the base The Grammys is Google dolls. Oh Yeah, already can't open page server can't be found. Oh, no I'm with you their name name is goo goo dolls. Not the goo goo doll I think it's goo goo dolls, but if you look them up on streamers, it's the goo goo dolls

I'm telling I think they've talked about this like no we're the goo goo dolls. I'm like no the hell you are Make their way Says look look at me go Even even the banner says goo goo dolls Mike. I'm gonna take exactly you exactly what happened. Justin Timberlake showed up and said, lose the duh, it's cleaner. Did you see the videos from Justin Timberlake performance where he looks like really, really bored and hungover? Concerning, I would say.

Not concerning. He's letting the crowd, like there's a time where he just like, yeah. More than one stop, he's done this. He's earned it, guys. He's earned that right to do this and you sing the song I saw that performance. I'm like I can't put can't fight the feeling not the trolls song No, yeah do with a bigger hit now when you can like lose people

Let me tell you he should be thinking his lucky stars Max Martin came around and gave him that troll song Otherwise we'd be talking about how this dude fell the f off Continuing to insist he has to work with Timbaland after future sex love sounds My dude fell both off the only hits he has are those trolls How close do you think we are to him being like all right? It's time in sync on Apple music I feel like we're less than like three or four days away from him being like all right. It's back to insane My man's gonna need it soon They're already doing rumblings. No, but if you see any of those guys they interviewed,

they're always just like, we're waiting on one guy. Like Lance Bass is just like, I've been trying to do this for 10 years. The rumblings are happening, it's gonna happen. It's like, it's in, look. He's never needed the PR. Now he kinda like, it's getting to a point where he needs it.

Yeah, it's been a rough year. I don't wanna be the news breaker two times on the same day, but I'm telling you, it's gonna happen. On Apple Music, they go by The Goo Goo Doll goo dolls if you look at a couple of their set albums one of them says the goo goo dolls Dizzy up the girl one of them just says good dolls a boy named goo boy figure out who you are Seriously a boy named. Are you with the or are you not a boy named boy named goo? Just want you to know who I am. Slide is a great CVS song.

Slide is great. Why don't you sign? It's also like a VH1 All-Star. Oh yeah. Because remember VH1 went soft to rock. Yeah. Broadway is dark tonight. Introducing TurboTax Business.

A brand new way to file your own T2 return, all while getting help from an expert who actually knows small businesses. Got a tattoo studio? Toy store? Tiny but mighty taco stand? We've got someone who gets small business taxes inside and out. Experts are standing by to help and review while you file, so you know your return's done right. Intuit TurboTax business.

New from TurboTax Canada. Some regional exclusions apply. Learn more at TurboTax.ca business tax Don LeBataard if Daniel Day-Lewis did it you'd be jerking off all over yourself. Oh come on Yeah, I would be aggressive description. I mean, what is it? What is that? I'm just saying I see that photo of Daniel Day-Lewis looking like Lincoln before he's about to start filming Lincoln, and you know what I do? I mean, Stugats. I jerk off all over myself. That's what I do. Lincoln who you outed the other day?

Don't make this a rejoin. This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats. A lot of symmetry by the way. We started with a song about an angel and we ended with a song from a movie about angels. No, it wasn't an angel. It was Phenomenon Shift. City of Angels. No, yeah. But that was a weird sub genre of the 90s it was like kind of hey we have to have two asteroid movies come out at the same time we have to have two

ways no one remembers deep impact I prefer deep impact I do too good movie you know how many times in my life I said which one was Armageddon and which one was deep impact like those are the lot of people don't Armageddon has a lot better memory for whatever reason, terrible movie by the way. Oh, no, no, no, we have to talk about, we talked about Armageddon because another CBS jam, Don't Wanna Miss a Thing, from the Armageddon soundtrack

was playing before this show, and you and I got to talking about the famous Ben Affleck DVD commentary, and you said something that I hadn't really considered, which is lost art art form the DVD commentary I asked Michael why it was easier to train Oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers And he told me to shut up so that was the end of that talk

You know Ben just shut up, okay? You know this is real plan alright I was like you mean it's a real plan at NASA to train oil drillers? He was like, just shut your mouth! See, here's where we demonstrate that because Bruce is going to tell the guys that they did a bad job of building the drill tank. He did a pissy, he's a salt of the earth guy. And the NASA nerdanauts don't understand his salt of the earth ways his rough and tumble ways yeah that's right well that's because your cans are like

somehow they can build rocket ships but they don't understand like what makes a good tranny the Michael is a different type the Michael he's talking about is Michael Bay the director of the film you don don't think sending Steve Buscemi to save the world to space was a good idea? Well, they sent him to the strip club first. But that's happening while the movie's happening. So you're watching the movie, the dialogue is happening, and you just get a voiceover of somebody from...

DVD commentary. So you would buy a DVD for the younger fans. Yeah, remember that now. All right, so the younger fans, DVDs were this thing. We used to watch, so you couldn't just download movies and stream them. You had to buy something. Can I tell you, I have a DVD player still hooked up

to my main TV in my family room. Of course, I, Blu-ray is the future. I went to, laser disc is the future. So pop the DVD in, and when it comes up, there's a menu. Menu, number one is play the movie, of course. Number two is like, play the trailer, if you wanna do that. Number three is bonus scenes deleted scenes and then number four would be

DVD comment or well that's a bonus slice deleted scenes Yeah, then you get to the DVD commentary DVD commentary would be the same runtime as the movie But instead of just watching the movie you would hear different people sometimes they would do picture-in-picture Where the guy sitting there so it would be stars of the movie the director of the movie you would hear different people sometimes into picture picture where the guys sitting there so the stars of the movie the director of the movies sometimes a producer they would just give you insights in behind the scenes kinda info almost like a vh1 pop-up video which now i realize is not a great analogy because that also

is an old thing that people don't remember either way i've watched so much shit like that. I would watch them, I remember watching Starsky and Hutch, and that was the first time I realized, oh, there are scenes in here that are not rehearsed. Like, this is just Will Ferrell going off on some improv tangent, and Owen Wilson,

and Ben Stiller are like, yeah, let's do it, and they just keep going. And so all of that came from watching DVD commentaries and with the death of the DVD we don't have the DVD comment That's actually a great idea for streamers. Yeah, we watch just rewatch it with the you know, the DVD or DVD the bonus Commentary ending I'll watch that's right Endings to my own leg later to like the hero from the first movie was actually in the movie originally what I mean Yeah, I am legend remember. There's a version where he doesn't die. That's right

Yeah, man that we used to have these things right I tell you what I would watch happy Gilmore 2 with DVD commentary on it, but you haven't even watched the original yet I was happy no one happy you want to you haven't even watched the original yet. I watched Happy Gilmore. No, and Happy Gilmore 2, you haven't watched the original Happy Gilmore 2 yet. You just wanna watch Happy Gilmore 2 for the first time with commentary? Yeah. Why not?

Because I wanna know how little they gave a shit when making it. Can I tell you one of my pet peeves with movies now is specifically with documentaries. Like, and I feel like this is news, somebody correct me if I'm wrong. Why do they feel like they have to give you an entire preview of the documentary in the first minute of the damn documentary?

Get to the movie. Like, I don't need spoiler alerts. If I wanted to watch, first of all, it's a documentary. If you're turning on a documentary about a subject, it's because you want to learn more about that subject. You kind of know what the damn movie's about, right? Izzy, you're my buddy. I gotta hard disagree with you honestly. I just don't like, I'm with Izzy because every doc does it. I can hard disagree with you honestly. I'm with Izzy because just every doc does it. I can play a trailer if I want to have that. If every third doc did it, I'd be like, okay, this is-

You know why they do that? It's so predictable. It's so rinse repeat. I'm not gonna like the reason. Yeah, the reason is because it's studies show people are more willing to sit there and watch when they see something interesting and they'll wait for that interesting moment

to happen later in the documentary than it is for them to be surprised by it later. Do you know how many quality documentaries you just start with one nugget, just one little detail and you've got me hooked. It doesn't have to be the entire story. It's like watching the trailer for a movie at the beginning of the movie. I don't want to know that because I'm probably going to get some spoilers that maybe I forgot if I'd seen the trailer already.

It drives me up a wall. Like I just fast forward through the first five minutes of a doc usually. I don't know why everybody got together and decided they needed to do this. I'm telling them that what they're thinking, this whole, it's stupid. Nobody's floating through documentaries saying,

let me watch the first five minutes and see if I like this subject. You're either gonna turn in for the subject or you're not. I'm telling you that you are a minority in this in every sense of the word, right? They have the metrics, particularly Netflix. They know what makes people turn on. Netflix has it down to a science where it's like,

hey, you gotta have some shit happen within some amount of minutes of episode one for someone to give me that In the thing that just plays when you have it on in the background Don't give it to me at the beginning of the movie. I've already decided to watch the movie I don't need spoilers why don't need spoilers these dumbasses that watch this shit These are the same people you think they want the same things in an actual movie Hey, like let me see what the end, tease the end for me.

That's what a trailer is. That's not why I turned on the movie, not to watch the trailer. I already saw the trailer. How many movies start with, I guess you're wondering how I ended up here, right? Like, it's like, oh, the world's ended, and the guy's like, out of breath, and all dusty and stuff.

That is setting the premise. It is not giving away spoilers for the entire movie. It gave away that the world ended, and this guy's all beaten up and stuff. And they do it poorly, like they give you information you just shouldn't know. It's like two or three episodes in or an hour into it. I hate it. Does Nikola Jokic care more about horses than basketball?

Clearly. Did you guys see this video? We finally have that answer. He clearly does. Dog, this whole time. Not even joking. This whole time I've been like, guys, he has like a hobby, he likes the horses. That's very, I mean, everyone's passing

about something that's not their main job. That's not a big deal. Of course he cares about the NBA. Of course he cares about winning championships. Not as much as horses. Dog, I saw this video, I'm like, man, this man may actually retire due to horses. This is him, his horse won a race.

Wait, he was happy there? Happy. Yeah, he's hysterically crying. He's crying, he's weeping. It's the greatest moment of his life. This is the greatest moment of his life. He's weeping. Look at me, he's hysterical, crying. His horse won, and look how emotional he is.

I watched this without context initially, and I thought he was crazy disappointed. Like I thought was like oh my gosh MPJ while you take that shot again. He was crying happy tears. Happy tears look at this embrace. He didn't hug a single nugget like that after they won the title. Jamal Murray wishes he knew what this felt like. That's a tall jockey. It is. They're harness racing so you don't have to be short. Look at him, he's thanking God. Ed Garland too. It's amazing.

And like, I spent three years defending this guy. Look at this. He didn't like, do you remember him with the champagne? No. He wasn't even close to this, like just this vibrant when he won a championship. I can relate to this though.

Like the other day, if you would have saw me beat my daughter in Yahtzee. Wow, that's crazy. You would have thought that I was. Took a minute to get there. I am, wow. Or the Yahtzee was on a delayed flight. Or was it a sentence that I said pretty quickly.

Defeated. Yeah. Go with defeated next time. I was victorious over my daughter in Yahtzee. When I defeated my daughter in Yahtzee. That's better, yeah. I acted like that. Works more important to me than that Yahtzee, I acted like that. Works more important to me than that Yahtzee game,

but there's just some things that just get ya. This is one of his things. I told yahtzee that- Is the Yahtzee just a game of luck? You're just rolling dice and hoping that it's a- But when you get the Yahtzee. Oh my God. You guys haven't played Yahtzee?

I've played Yahtzee. I thought Yahtzee would be a very dull game. You know what I like? Family game. Scategories. Scategories. There you go. I like tab, I love taboo. Remember when we played taboo? I like family game you know I like categories there you go I like tab I love taboo remember we play taboo like trouble trouble trouble is the one where like pop the thing like the dice and then you move around

phrase is the best because it's got a physical thing right it's got like a timer on it and you're supposed to have the person on your people on your team guess it and then you pass the thing before it blows up people's tendencies is that just want to throw that I get it goes, ah, I got out of my hand. It's very dangerous. Do we have catchphrase here? I would love to play catchphrase. Yeah, let's play catchphrase on Wednesday.

Catchphrase Wednesdays, let's make it a thing. Every Wednesday we'll play catchphrase. Game day? Is that a game night? Ah, game day. Game day. Yeah, there you go. Brought to you by Home Depot.

Friday, game day. Oh, wait, hold on, that's someone else. It's a different game day. It's built by Home Depot. That's right. It's built by Home Depot. That's right. It's built. Do you guys have a problem with your kids crying? Like that and more.

Why, guys? Why, why, why, why, why? It's the difference between being proud of yourself and being proud for, I guess, another species. Are you saying to me, if he were a coach? I'm saying to you it's kind of his version of a kid. Like you know he's raising a kid, he's so proud of his kid and you know

this kid just wanna raise. This is something he got to choose. I feel like basketball chose Yoko. It's funny, I read the biography about him and it was like it's almost exactly this. It's like, in order to get him to practice, they had to have the practice like right by a horse stable. It's the craziest shit in the world, man. I don't think there's no problem with him caring more about or being more emotional about his horse winning

as opposed to winning the title in the NBA I think all this does is it just confirms what we all were guessing or joking about it He clearly cares more about other things than the NBA. That's wild like he's like like a baby Yeah crying like staring up at the sky He was emotionless after they won the NBA title and it's not even like game five where they won the title is a blowout So we got to like enjoy it throughout the game. No that game came down to the final minute Yeah, it was a very close game Jordan Jordan had golf right like that would be his equivalent to this I think his was just winning yeah like his but I bet you could we could find him Celebrating a golf win you're like whoa

It was celebrating throwing a quarter against the wall and shit man. Like the guy was gambler Yeah, maybe that was his real passion outside of us No, I mean there's nothing to get any more emotional than him winning after his father died Like there is no card game or dice game is gonna make him that a moment LeBron side passion Like we didn't see him in Vegas after that championship. So whatever that looked like his LeBron's like movies being like a Hollywood guy I'm just trying to find like other great stars. Do they have other passions? I want to talk about a LeBron passion on the other side of this break Which is suing people for the dumbest of reasons. You don't want to miss this right here on the Dan Levittar show