The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Ear Flushing

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

"Is Sinners M-F or... what is it?" The World Baseball Classic is back tonight, Zaslow gets racist (again) about the movies, and Mike tells a story of developing superpowers at a doctor's appointment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stucats podcast. Against the Spread is brought to you by Draft Kings. Draft Kings. The Crown is yours. Roy, what do we got? All right, we got Kings and Islanders tonight. The Islanders have failed to cover the puck line against the Pacific Division in the last six games. And the Kings have covered the puck line as underdogs in the semi-street games against

the Metro Division, but looking at the stats, the kings just do not score. And the Islanders are 7-3-0 in the last 10. So I'm going to go with the Islanders as the favorites at a goal and a half against the spread. Tony, a lot of analytics and numbers there from Roy. We're going to the vibes portion of against the spread, La Republica Dominicana, just like you saw in the video of me going around town at the World Baseball Classic and hyping up all the Dominicans, Dominican Republic, minus 4. four and a half on the run line against South Korea.

Bamahamaite, oh, Mundo, that's what they told me. So, I'm taking the Dominican Republic, the lineup in the Dominican Republic. Tatis. Good pick. Manny.

Keep going. Mani? Mani? David Ortiz. There's one manny. There's one man. Soto. Miguel Tahada.

He's not there anymore. A bunch of guys in this lineup. Big Bopi. We saw him. Not that big. Didn't out a little bit. I saw Southern on social of like that lineup, the Dominican lineup.

And like, I think, was it 16th? or something, man, fire lineup. It's crazy. They're just hitting home run after home run after home run. Vladdy. Like, Catele Marte. Who's one of the most underrated players in baseball because he's in Arizona and not as many people are paying attention to him.

He's amazing. The fact that you've got tonight, and this is here in Miami. O'Neill Cruz doesn't even play. Right. O'Neill Cruz has not been a starter for them for the majority of this one. Chris, where are they hiding this guy? He's huge. It's crazy that you've got the DR and that team that may very well win it all.

the way they're playing probably will. This should be a wild atmosphere tonight, right? It's going to be nuts. You have DR playing in an elimination game as they're going against Korea. And then tomorrow night, it's Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the World Series MVP, starting for Japan against Venezuela. That's also a great team. That's tomorrow night. And those are both here in Miami.

It's pretty cool to have this type of atmosphere here. I'm looking at the prices because I checked out the prices the other day. And I guess maybe, because I'd like to go, actually. And I've been to the WBC before, like, years ago, and it's an atmosphere, all right. But I checked recently, and I guess it was because the matchup, the tickets were very expensive. But looking at tonight, tickets are pretty affordable. Yeah, because you don't have that second team that's being so many people. Obviously, it's a long trip from South Korea to Miami, where Venezuela, you have West and you have Dural and everybody's here.

You're going to have a ton of Japanese media that shows up for tomorrow night's game. We already start seeing them on Wednesday night. will be there, like all the droves of, preemptively. Like preemptively coming here and getting settled because I remember like last year during that championship game, I mean, there must have been like 200 media members alone, let alone fans that came over here because simply for Shohei, let alone the fact that now Yamamoto just won the World Series MVP. So the fact that you have those two guys playing together tomorrow night and that Venezuela is

great. Venezuela could have won that game. They had an opportunity late. That's a team that if they lose here, like, What a disappointment. It's the way it's set up in your bracket, but to then have a matchup where you'll have Japan against DR and likely for a chance to square up against the United States in a championship game here in Miami. Like no matter who wins, you either get a rematch of USA in Japan. You could get DR against USA, which happened a few years back, which would be electric. Like, it's really cool that Miami gets a chance to have this type of moment here before the season even.

starts. As you said, you're probably looking at the DR Venezuela game, which was 500 bucks a ticket basically. I think the cheapest ticket was 400 to get in. Yeah, it's insane. But we were able to go to different games. We went to the game in Nicaragua. We went to the game against Ikarawa. We went to the game against Israel, which was Monday, and then Wednesday against Venezuela. And it was like, the Dominican showed out every single time. They were just packed that place. It was incredible. So anytime you can go to Dominican, that's why. I'm thinking a, I'm thinking of going tonight. For my package, I decided to follow the Dominican team because their fans are so amazing. They're so loud. They're so fun.

that that's the atmosphere you want to see. So if you can get to a Dominican game, head out there. Jeremy, can you... Go ahead, Dave. Can I just say very quickly on the WBC? I feel like MLB should be embarrassed. I see them on social media celebrating the events

at the world... The bat flips and everything else. It's the antithesis of everything Major League Baseball stands for at this point. Shouldn't they adopt what we're seeing in the World Baseball Classic a little bit more? I mean, it really kind of, to me, stands as

black eye for what awaits us now in the regular season, which is more like mute your emotions. Stop, stop acting like a human being might. And when it's on display here, it's joyous and a marvelous watch. And I couldn't give a crap about who wins the WBC, but it's still electric. There's something about it that really it stems down to the youth level. Like what we've seen from Team USA, right, where Team USA has more guys playing. this time around than in years past, like they took it more seriously from that perspective, but we saw the way they went into their game, not knowing it was necessarily an elimination game,

no matter what they try to say now. The vibes around the team where it's very muted as opposed to the joyous euphoria that you see. I mean, the way that the stadium would erupt at a walk, at a single the other way during that game the other night, was amazing. and the players and the joy that they're playing with. And this is, Dave, like a construct of the fact that with Team USA, you have these kids playing showcase baseball from the time they're 12, 13 years old. The way that works if you're a pitcher is you show up, you throw as hard as you can for two innings,

you leave and don't even finish the game, and you come back the next time you're pitching. Like, that's where we're at. And it's not as much of a team atmosphere caring about winning and losing. they only get to the winning and losing stage, really when they get to the major leagues. Because in the minors, it's also just about personal development

if you're that excellent of a player. And so that versus what you get at the younger ages where you have these kids, you know, clawing out of whatever position they're in, not to sound like Dan talking about the NFL, but like you have these kids coming from these other countries. From third world countries where they have nothing. Sandy Alcantra came from absolutely nothing.

There's a reason that he's turning around and saying, I am available for whatever you need in the championship game, whether it's as a starter or a reliever, and you have guys, even like Matthew Boyd, leaving Team USA, be like, no, I got to get back to spring training. It's just a different mentality, and I really hope that what Team USA is seeing and what some of these stars are seeing

playing against these teams and having a chance to witness it starts to break down that barrier a little bit. It's better than it was when guys like Brian McCann were in the league, but it can still continue to get better from here. Yeah, or Carlton Fisk, but then the other example out there looming beyond the world baseball classic is the Savannah Bananas. I mean, that weirdness is more popular than the Major League Baseball version of what baseball is now. But you're absolutely right. It sort of has the vibe of like, we chose for our 10-year-old instead of golf to focus on that baseball.

And it has that sort of proper vibe to it. It lacks a certain emotion. Jeremy, to that point, too, really quick, Zaz, I'm sorry. The juxtaposition of what you were talking about with the guys going to spring training and how David talked about yesterday, everything has already been negotiated, everything has already been finalized with the club. Hey, you've got ex-person for seven at bats. You've got this pitcher for four in a third inning.

Like, that's all you have them for. And then you have Sandy saying, like, I'll burn my arm out to try and win a WBC. And he could do it on his home mound. How cool would it be? Because he knows he plays for the Marlins. If Sandy pitched on Tuesday. But that's it. But that's anybody there.

They're this team this year. I know. I'm excited about this. I'm supposed to start on opening day. I'm as excited about this Marlin team as any team. I'm just going for them. But how crazy is that though, right? Because if he pitches on Tuesday, like he's supposed to turn around and start on opening day for them on Friday. So it does put him.

But he's like, I'm out there and the Marlins are right there encouraging it. On Friday of next week. What? Of the week after that. Oh, hold on. 27. It's the 27th. Yamamoto is going to pitch his final start and then stick around to provide emotional support for the team. And it's fascinating because I was just in Little Tokyo here in Los Angeles. And the national pride for Showy and Yamamoto, it's all over the place with Dodgers, Dodgers stuff, but specifically those guys. But now Yamamoto is that going to create like we talked about with, um, you know, Sidney Crosby trying to play for Canada instead of playing for the NHL,

does that create some fraud emotions for Dodgers fans and for fans of guys that are clearly prioritizing the World Baseball Classic over their major league team that's paying the millions of dollars. You got USA Canada tonight, guys. It'd be pretty funny if USA beat Canada in hockey, but then Canada eliminated the USA in baseball. Hella Buck throwing out the first pitch. That's a good question. It's in Houston.

So this Sunday, we have Select Your Sunday. You can catch on the YouTube channel. 5.45 p.m. Eastern Time. Dave is going to be here. You're getting on the bird? You're coming in? Oh, no, no. All right.

Good job out of me right there. So select your Sunday. 545 p.m. Eastern Time. We have it's Selection Sunday. We have Red Carpet with the Oscars. It's a whole Shabend. All right. Adnan and Samson and all of us. It's going to be a lot of fun. But I look at, I want to talk a little bit about the movies here. All right. I look at the best picture. And what happened to when we had four, maybe five nominees for Best Picture, where I can realistically watch the show. And I'm like, yeah, I got opinion on all these movies because, you know, it's only five movies. we got 10

best picture nominees. I'm sorry. Like when they're doing the voting process, Dave, whichever one of these movies finishes with the 10th most votes, it didn't need to be nominated for Best Picture then if you finish 10th. Like you need 10 nominees.

Like, Dave, I've only seen three of these movies that are Best Picture out of the 10. Like, do you have any of how many you've seen? Well, I mean, so an hour ago, Chris Cody was lamenting having to watch sports. too much and now we have Zaz upset about having to watch too much movies. No, but maybe I don't want to see all these

movies. There's not 10 movies. You have to watch them for work. You have to. It's for work. They were getting so much criticism about just having like the movies that no one ever watches so they wanted to expand it so they could have the popular movies and the artsy movies. It was a straw man.

No one was complaining really like Star Wars wasn't nominated that this is a marketing ploy by the movie industry. Hey, Formula One was, you know, F1 was nominated for Best Picture. Right. We have to go see this now because if you're nominated for Best Picture, that means you're an amazing movie. It's all marketing to get more people to do movies. Like I haven't seen F1. It looks cool. Maybe I'll watch it this weekend so that I could talk intelligently about it on Sunday night. It looks like a fun movie, but you're telling me that if F1 was not nominated for Best Picture, people would be like,

oh my God, I can't believe F1's not nominated. No, no, nobody would have minded that at all. But It's also a very political process too. You have producers with a lot of stroke in Hollywood, Brad Pitt and Jerry Bruckheimer behind it. So let's bring back Tenpool box office, summer smashes, and let's incentivize like, hey, if you're one of those that help buoy the theater industry, you're going to get some love come award season.

Hey, Roy, buddy. You know that energy shift when the game gets good, and everybody, altogether in unison, knows to stand up. on their feet. Oh, absolutely, Mike. Yeah, you've been at many big time sporting events. You know that moment quite well. That's what it's like when you take your first sip

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You think you're big time? But you're going to die. Big time. It is on my infamous scale of 1 to 10. That's a 7.6. Solid. Good job, Dan. Good job.

That's a sui nominee right there. This is the Dan Lebert. our show with these two gods. How many of these movies have you seen, Mike? I've seen seven. So if you've seen three, I'm only needing to get around to three. Which are the ones you need to get around to? I need to watch the Secret Agent, which I got to see. I will be seeing that before Select Your Sunday. Train Dreams, I've heard mixed reviews on. I haven't heard of them. I haven't seen that. And sentimental value I am hoping to get to before

our Sunday. Those are the three that I'm missing. But most people assume One battle after another is going to win this year. I love that movie. Of the seven films that I've seen, it's a great year for movies in that. I don't think there's like a clear lead dog for me. If a gun to my head, I think my favorite movie of these was Marty Supreme.

I've rewatched Bologna. I love the performances there. Man, begonia, I just saw that one. Borgoneo, I really loved. I still have Marty Supreme just a tick over it. I loved one battle after another. Probably need to watch it again. Hamnet, I get it.

Hamnet was... Tony, you know about that hamlet? I don't know shit about that hamlet. Hamnet, it'll get you in the fields. It'll get you in the fields. Okay. And this is a film that Jesse Buckley's going to win for best actress.

This is a film that is built on the power of performance drawing emotion out of you. It's kind of meta that way because you're watching a performance of a performance. And I loved Hamnet. It's a movie that really, really stays with you

depending on some of the life experience that you had. Hamnet is about William Shakespeare that he had a son No spoilers No, no no no this is like But I don't know what the hell it's about, Dave He's got Hamlet I've never heard of that word of my life

I don't want the plot Yeah I don't think if you want to know nothing at all about Hamnet Shut your ears for the next five seconds Who goes into a movie knowing nothing? I just want the plot Well like I mean part of this is also like history Yeah so wait starting now William Shakespeare's son dies

And he writes Hamlet as an ode to his soul and his memory, and William Shakespeare's wife watches this performance for the first time and goes through a whole range of emotions. But it's really about William Shakespeare's wife. Well, why is it called Hamnet? That's what I'm saying. So, like, they actually explained it at the very beginning of the movie.

There's, like, apparently no difference between Hamlet and Hamlet. Is that different to happen? I know you're going to say there's an N and an L. Yeah, N and L are different. Yeah, apparently it's the same way. I don't know what language you're talking about. It's apparently the same thing. But Hamlet was incredible.

I'm with Mike. I think, though, that this has been, in our cynical world, you have to express what you don't like about everything. I think this has been a banner movie year. And in fact, the best movie year we've seen in at least the last decade. You know, I think it's in contention for the best movie year that we've had this century. Have you seen all these movies nominated? Yes. And Mike, you didn't mention Sinner.

which also makes the winners I saw sinners. Ultimately for me it's one battle after an, it was all right. You didn't think No, it's all right. I liked it. Careful. I liked it. Careful. I liked it. I liked it. You can't say it's all right. That's all right. Oh, I thought it was great. I thought F1 was only okay. Chris Cody's wife was like F1, I'd be more intuitive if it was

F2 or three, but okay. FF1. Zaz, you know about that FF1? Yeah. Is it a sequel called F2 even though it's a Formula One-based movie because they're definitely going to do a sequel, especially now that it's nominated for Best Picture. I'm super pumped about this. I think this year, more than any other year, I'm not even that into the competition of Best Picture. I love the Best Picture nominees from last year. I kind of rated them a little bit more than this year.

Who won last year? That's a great. Who did? Oh. Who did that? We looked this up on Football America we were talking about this. Anora. Yeah, Anora. Anora was great. That was one of the times. I'm like, yes, my favorite movie actually won best picture. Anatomy of the fall last year, I think, was nominated.

No, that was two years ago. I loved that movie. That movie was incredible. Last year was Amelia Perez, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Nickel Boys, Wicked, Dune Part Two, The Substance. I'm Still Here, Anora and The Brutalist. Yeah, last year was weak. But Anora was, if Enora was slotted in this year's Best Picture nominees, I think I'd still rate Anora the best.

Two years ago, I thought that those were bangers. Anatomy of the Fall is one of my favorite movies of the last five years. But I think this year it's really performance-based. You have Jesse Buckley, you have Sean Penn. Sean Penn is reportedly not going to appear at the Oscars, which is a bummer because everybody kind of wants to see how that speech goes, given everything that's going on. Is he like he's going to win?

Yeah, he's a heavy odds. I know he was great. Dave, I took a look at DK predictions, and I got, I have some money on Benicio del Toro because I think he was just unbelievable and efficient. But it's going to be hard because he's not the best supporting actor in his own movie. I don't think they're going to split the votes at all. But Benicio del Toro in terms of laughs per second and just knocking the assignment out of the park, if it weren't for Sean Penn in his very same movie, for me it's Benio,

but Sean Penn's going to run away with this thing. Yeah, that's why I keep saying one battle after another is boogie nights for anarchy. You know, it's really the pleasure, those two movies, it's the pleasure of the journey more than it is the destination. And once you understand that, sort of like the Big Lebowski, too, the beginning, middle and end are take a back seat to the people you meet along the way. And yeah, so I think Benicio del Toro is great. John Penn maybe a tick better there. It's funny, too, in the same way we talk about QB draft classes, like Cam Ward is great, but he would only be the fourth or fifth quarterback in the draft prior to that.

Begonia, which is an afterthought in this best picture race, would have won last year, but it's not even in the top three or four probably in 2026, right? Yeah, I think it's neck and neck. with Anora, but certainly, I mean, it is a distant underdog this year, whereas last year, a thinner year for great films. 2024 was a banger of a year. I think 2024, top to bottom, was better than this year. But Sinners is actually getting a lot of traction in the prediction market space, Zaz, because

Michael B. Jordan ended up winning the actors award. And Timothy Chalamay's got like this whole weird moment in pop culture. Ultra right now where he's gone from universally liked to people like form in a negative opinion about. Why? I like Salome. Because of the opera thing? Because of the opera thing?

There's no way. There's no way. There's already head in that direction a little bit. Do I remind everyone that opera sucks? People don't get that. It's such an easy concept. People cape it up for the opera like they've ever been to one. Give me a point.

Don't look all disappointed like that, Jeremy. Whatever, man. She took out the ballet too and opera. I'm not here keeping up for the other. When was the last time somebody went to an opera in here? Please tell me. Not me? I've never been to the opera.

I don't, it doesn't appeal to me. Okay. It doesn't appeal to me. Why is he getting tarnished because of an opera? I don't know. Because he took out an entire field of 17 people. No, see, that's the, that's the part of it, right? People are keeping up for the opera, Jeremy, that nobody has gone to.

That's not the point. The point, it was people within the industry, but more than anything, it's the idea, this is not. Have we given the full context here? This is the straw that broke the camel's back for people. So, Timothy Shalomey, we talked about it with, Jess on Wednesday, but he was saying that he didn't want to be part of an industry like the opera or I think it was ballet that nobody cares about. That was his quote.

But that was the part of the quote. But without the context of the full interview where he's saying, hey, the movie industry is headed in a strange direction. I don't want to have to be one of the people that puts it on my back to keep it afloat. I want people going to the movies. I don't want what has happened to the opera and ballet with so few people going to it as compared to 50 years ago or 100 years ago. Well, this is why a lot of people are saying sinners has a real chance here. If there is an underdog to make a play on, it's sinners because there's a lot of growing momentum.

I saw sinners. And the school of thought behind sinners winning, much to the point of like having a larger 10-pole box office smash like F1, be nominated for Best Picture, Sinners was huge for the box office. And there is a notion bubbling that if you reward a picture like sinners, you get more movies made like sinners. And that's a rising tide that lifts all boats. Like I don't know how much like the industry will benefit from, you know, the secret agent winning, right? But the industry is, does stand to benefit from a fact. film that had crossover pop culture appeal like sinners winning because most people have seen it and most people enjoyed it. The irony is that Marty Supreme would kind of qualify in the same way,

no? Because Timothy Chalomey was such a big star in the marketing campaign. Yeah, but first of all, I don't know the timing on the voting. Are they pulling their votes for Timothy Chalomey? I suspect a lot of people have already cast their ballots at this point. So I don't know how they would retract them because of his opera-based statements. But I feel like Marty's Supreme, Chalame, and that is just based on his sort of particular intrinsic charisma, whereas it feels like if you look at the history of who wins Academy Awards, Michael B. Jordan is much more in line with like, he played two guys. It wasn't just one guy. He was twins. It seems like that's the sort of shiny object that that voters would react to.

I'm surprised Michael B. Jordan isn't assumed to be the best actor this year. Is there like an all-time, again, 5.45 p.m. Eastern on the YouTube channel, we're going live with Select Your Sunday, Red Carpet, and of course, the selection show for the tournament. Is there like an actor or actress, although I can't think of an actress, but is there an actor or actress who is known as the best performance when they played two characters? when you play twins. Lindsay Lohan. Parent trap.

Multiplicity. She touched my pappy, Steve. Michael Keaton played like 20 dudes. No, no. He says he's the same dude, man. Well, they're clones, but the clones aren't like... Well, it's the same guy. They got dumber.

Each clone got dumber. Yeah, and that's why she touched my pappy, Steve. It's like Mickey 17 with Robert Pattinson. That movie is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Oh, yeah. Super entertaining? Really terrible. Really disappointing.

Really disappointing. opportunity. Follow up. Fun performance. Terrible movie. Yeah, bad movie. Don Lebertard. Always good to see everybody despite the fact that everyone appears to hate me.

Stugats. I love you, Woody. That's on you. I don't know you that well. Yeah, they said that you both suck ass and were bitten in the ass. So those are both things that you were accused of during this. You're a rough day for my ass situation. This is the Don Lebertar show with the Stugats.

Zaz, I've seen your takes on sinners. And number one, let me thank you for your courage. My takes like they're out there. Oh, my God. Well, let me thank you for your courage. Yeah. Don't look at me like that, Roy. You've got to turn around once during the show until now.

Yeah. Well, I mean, Roy turning around actually kind of plays into this because, look, Roy, I'm an ally. Me too, Roy. And I like sinners. Okay. I like sinners. There's a butt somewhere in here. I thought it was, you know, when compared.

Chris Cody's wife's ears perked up. There's a button here somewhere. I think it's in the bottom half of movies that are nominated, and I'm saying this very carefully. You've seen three of them. I don't mean to offend at all, but I just thought it was all right. It was good. Yeah, solid.

Okay. Here's where I stand on sinners. It's good, and I enjoyed it. I'm going to turn around too. Better than all right. You know what? It was all right. It was good.

I'll look. one in this room in the eye. All right? I don't care. Zaz, I'm with you. I'll see you on my chest out. I can't be skirt. I'll say it right in your face. I'll look right in your eyes, Roy, while I'll say it too.

I'm right here. I like sinners. It's a good movie. Here's the part that I object to. Before I saw sinners, I was made out to feel that this is the greatest movie of all time.

Like, I went into watching it. A lot of people feel that way. This movie is apparently going to change my life based on what I'm hearing about this movie. So it was built up very, very, very high. And then I watched Sinners and it's like, all right, it's a good movie. That's it. It's good. My life didn't change.

Everybody stopped grilling me. Tony, say something. Pretty bad take. Yeah, I thought it was right. Whoa. Oh, God. That's not the ally you want. You got the whole point about the cultural appropriation, though, and everything, right?

I mean, it works on two levels. It's a thrilling horror vampire movie with a valuable message. Is Sinners MF? What is it? Again, let me reiterate. Which part did I say I didn't like it and it was not good? I did like it and it's a good movie. Did you not like the musical? part? Is that what bothered you?

I'll be perfectly honest. I know there's a very deep meaning with the musical parts. You like the blues? But like I didn't understand. You know, I know there is a deep meaning. He didn't understand that the banjo music wasn't the good music in the movie. He's like, wait, wait, they're the bad guys,

but this banjo is delightful. The little trio that comes to the front door of, uh... I didn't like them. They were nasty. I didn't like them. They were bad. I really did like that. like Jack O'Connell's performance in it

as the villain. Which one was he? The main... He was the white guy. Ah. Yeah. So, like, he was... His name is Jack O'Connell. Yeah, he was the guy singing like the little sea shanty. And I'll, you know what? I'll also be honest with you. When I went into Sea Sinners, I had this

impression that Haley Steinfeld apparently had the raunchiest of raunchy sex scenes. It wasn't sexy enough. Get out of here. It wasn't a normal... That wasn't sexy enough for you. It was a normal sex scene. All I've heard about the movie. It was pretty hot.

It was, but like Josh Allen is supposed to be embarrassed now? Come on. My favorite. My favorite... My actual favorite movie that I've seen over the last few months, including award season, is a Jack O'Connell vehicle, but it is not sinners. It was actually the Bone Temple. Like, for me, I like Bone Temple more than I like any of the other nominated films.

My wife's read that. Yeah, I bet you. Yeah, I bet you did. And that. Now, Bone Temple's not for anybody, and you do. need to see the previous sequel that came out 28 years later.

But Bone Temple and Ray Fines' performance was incredible and Jack O'Connell was unreal in that movie. Again, I liked sinners. I think it's really good. That's it. That's it.

A good movie. A good movie. Racist, I think. What's the worst? We did this on Football America coming up in a matter of minutes into your in your YouTube and audio feed and into your heart soon after.

What is the worst best picture that you can think of? Crash. Crash is, I think, the correct answer. That's always the one for me whenever I hear this. When you look at the movie, it's terrible. But now I can't think of the answer that we came up with. Oh, the worst movie, the most overrated movie that people still probably. up as being good is dances with wolves.

That movie does not hold up, and I will argue with anybody who tries to say otherwise. Another reheated turd from Football America? You're GD. right. Your G.D. right. The truth is the truth. It carries. Does he even dance with the wolf? It dances with wolves.

Kind of. Dances with wolves. That's that movie that ripped off Avatar, right? It's true. Avatar. Here's my hot. take on avatar you always read about oh biggest business biggest box office in the history of people then how come i have never met a soul who has seen any of those avatar movies i don't know anybody who's

seen them i've never heard anybody invoke them brother in pop culture what okay maybe i've known a dozen or so people who've seen them and they're like yeah it's neat to look at i've never heard anybody reference it they have nothing to do in pop culture i mean people make Star Wars references 50 years after the fact. Nobody ever talks about Avatar. Something ain't right. Something's fishy here. Keep in mind that dances with rules won the best picture Oscar over Goodfellas.

For ripping off Avatar? That's what I'm thinking of. That's right. That's right. That's right. It beat out Goodfellas. Shame the devil. What movie is that?

Dances with, I've never heard of this movie in my entire life. You never heard of Dance. It's Avatar, but not with Blue People. It's what's a point. It's the other way around. And that beat Goodfellas? Yes.

What year was that? Never heard of dances with wolves? Never heard of dances with wolves ever. Wow. Yeah. I am one of those people that has seen every avatar and I've seen them all in the movie theater. Wow. I like Avatar.

I kind of do it as... Do you do the 3D? I have. I kind of do it as a rib. I do it as a rib because I don't really like the avatar. Although the second one wasn't bad. Second one was pretty solid. But I saw the third one, 20 milligrams in college station before the CFP game, and I fell asleep.

It's bad. The third one, straight up bad. The gummy could have. And the bottle of red wine that I had to myself also may have played a rule. What do you mean? Oh, my God. That's what's putting you to sleep. It was the movie.

Sounds like a damn perfect evening. It was a great night. The thing is, it wasn't an evening. It was an afternoon. It was 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I was killing time before I hit the town in College Station telling everybody that we were going to kill them. And we did to the tune of 10 to 3. Yeah, he did.

Gail Force wins out there. It was so windy. Bryce Fitzgerald, thank you. Thank you. We missed field goals. Thank you. Can I just say again real quick? Sure.

I just want to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the Miami Hurricanes on a really great. All right, Roy cut them off. I mean, you came up a little short. All right. It was the 1991 Oscars for the movies that came out in 1990. Dance Football was won. It beat out Awakening. things Ghost, the Godfather Part 3, and Goodfellers.

I can't believe Godfather 3. Godfather 3 was nominated? A legacy fan. Ghost. Hey, what? You don't like ghosts? You're nuts. You're like ghosts.

You're a nuts, man. I didn't say I don't like ghosts. I said it's a good movie. I said it's a good movie. I can't do a Zazzo like you guys can't. Mike Ryan has. You know about that pottery? Whether or not he intends to or not, he is done.

He talks like Zaslo. You know who really talks like Zaslo? Dan Lebitard. I don't think he realizes how the influence that Zaslo has had on his patois. But yes, I mean, listen, that's the worst. Maybe what be, oh, Chariots of Fire beat out E.T. That was bad. Star Wars not winning against anything is crazy, given its cultural impact. Who did Shakespeare and Love also beat out some really good movies when it won? Shakespeare and Love. out saving Private Ryan.

Yeah, which was an abomination. Straight up. Crazy, but if I, pretentious Dave will tell you that, that sometimes, not every time I sit down to watch a war picture, thin red line, that same year might be a superior war movie. Really? The statement it makes about the taking of life and all of that. Like I say, now, I'm not so pretentious that if you said you have two

and a half hours to kill. I'll take saving private Ryan. That's a heavy lift, too. But I find that movie is confused. I think Steven Spielberg, may I say, you know, he's a writer. I'm a writer. We're people, both of us, I can say this. I think Spielberg says one thing in the first 20 or 25 minutes of the movie and then says something very different and kind of contradicts the first 20 or 25 minutes of the movie the rest of the way with saving private Ryan. I just can't believe in 07 that The Departed beat high school musical. It's departed. I mean, the departed.

Talk about an overrated movie. The departed. Sheesh. I mean, there was one reason and one reason only why Shakespeare and loved won that Oscar for best pictures. It's because of Harvey Weinstein and the political pressure you put on the academy. Whoa. Really? Yes.

He was a producer on that movie. Famously. Weinstein had a lot of... But why did he put pressure on the Academy for that movie in particular? Because that was his movie. That was his novel. No, I understand. Everybody had lots of movies.

Yeah, but that was the movie that had the best opportunity to win best picture. Is that the only time one of his movies won? No. Harvey Weinstein? Well, that's why I'm asking. Harvey Weinstein, the film producer? That's what, like, why so much pressure for that movie? I just really wanted to win.

Okay. I mean, I don't know. Like, it works. It was a dumb selection. Yeah, he gets what he wants. So, select your Sunday. This was a big organic Oscar conversation that we had. I enjoyed this.

I didn't enjoy when everyone was. looking and staring at me more of that to come this sunday i didn't enjoy i didn't enjoy in the departed that the criminal mastermind jack nicholson couldn't figure out in his crew of five people all of them were with him for 20 plus years but the new guy who used to be a cop like i i don't think he's the guy i don't think he's the guy who's working against i must be one of the other guys who i've known for 25 years his hand doesn't shake guy so stupid Select your Sunday. Yeah, join us.

Join us. 545 Sunday where we'll be talking this and the college basketball selection. Yay, yay. We will be filling out brackets. When West Jet first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion. Inline skates were everywhere. And two out of three women rocked, the Rachel.

While those things stayed in the 90s, one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when West Jet welcomes you on board. Here's to West Jetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at Westjet.com slash 30 years. Don Lebatard. I went in the margins. I'm like, you're a money ball of sex? I'm basically Scott Hatterberg for fucking.

Stugats. A lot of walks, but I'm on base. When it comes to sex with Scott Hattberg. Other dudes, they can be Giami. You know your role you play well? I know my role. This is the Don Lebatar show with the Stugats. You were in a pretty good mood this morning.

I know you had a doctor's visit yesterday. Everything checked out okay? Yeah, I mean, there was one thing. I have like a blister on my lung that apparently hasn't grown since 2023, which was news to me because I didn't even know I had a blister on my lung. How does that even happen? Apparently, I got a scan for something different. Something showed up on my lung in the other skin.

They just never told me. But I'll be okay. It could pop at any moment, but I'll be all right. And just a little collapsed lung. They come back from that in the NFL all the time. So I should be all right. But all the blood work, everything else was good. But this is the headline.

I had my ear drained. Oh, oh. I had my ear flushed out. Like in one of those commercials where the stuff comes out and water. The ear gets flushed out. Yeah. So like, but I had a professional do this because. What's the like, what position are you in?

So I had both my ears checked out. Downward dog. I had both my ears checked out. I did not need to do it to the right ear because my. My right ear was totally clean. Why is that? Because if you've watched this show for the several years that we've done it, I wear one headphone.

That way the other ear, that way the other ear can pick up on the other conversations that are being had in the studio. And the ear that gets the headphone really backed up with wax. Oh, my left ear now. So I had this thing flushed out, and there was like a nickel-sized, not a nickel-sized, not nickel-sized stone of real-old? Really? I'm picturing downward dog with your head.

Yeah, to the side. They put in hydrogen peroxide at first, and then you hear it all fizzing, and then they put, like, this windex bottle filled with, like, some sort of solution. Yeah, that's like in the commercial. Yeah, a long hose that this nurse just squeezes into your ear until everything falls out of it. And this thing kind of fell out of my ear. It was huge. It was disgusting.

And also, like, an amazing job by her. She must love her job. I'm like, this is very satisfying. Amazing job that she didn't barf. No, it is a little gross. Look, it's one. Oh yeah, the video. Don't take that.

We're good. Take that down. Let the record show that that is not my ear. Oh. I think that was... That looked like your ear. I never said this before, but you shouldn't be watching us today. That was not my ear.

That was supplementary stuff. But, and not even the procedure that I had done. But this thing fell out of my ear, and I immediately had an incredible experience with it because I pushed the elevator down and I go down and I park my car. I parked my car next to a construction site. And it was like the scene where Spider-Man discovers he has powers for the first time. Everything was heightened. I heard everything in this construction site.

I sit down in my car. I put my seatbelt on and I hear the fibers of the seatbelt brushing against my shoulder. I'm like, these are all sounds that I haven't heard. Now I want this. And I'm in my car. Fellas playing. And I'm just like, this hi-hat, am I a jazz guy? now? I think I get jazz because I just had my ear flushed out. Dave, you got to do this.

Oh, I definitely do. Congratulations on becoming daredevil. Man, that's a revelation. I've seen, here's a name drop for you. You know who used to be obsessed with this was Sarah Silverman, who used to be with Jimmy Kimmel. And she used to love doing that in his dressing room before and after the show to people who would let let let let let let let do it which was flushed their ear and some of the stuff that she pulled out really was like zaslo says vomitous i mean like really gross stuff made me think less of people that that's what was residing inside their head