The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Wienie 500

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

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which is the show, the rehearsal, has made me fretful of over-aviation. Yesterday on my flight, in the middle of the flight, you know how the flight attendants will put the cart in front so you can't come to the captain's about to come out, and the first officer came out and he was kind of just like small talking with the flight attendants. I hate that. Well, I hate it.

Go to the bathroom. No, he wasn't going to the bathroom. He was just there to small talk. And I looked at him and I realized I'd never thought about this until I started watching the rehearsal. This guy's young. He's like in his 20s. Like that's who I'm trusting in case something goes wrong with the pilot to speak up to the pilot and let them know that like,

hey, maybe I should get controlled. You know me guys, I never get afraid on flights because I know I'm gonna die. But yesterday was the first time it hit me like, oh, maybe I don't make it out of a flight because, and it's all because of that damn show. If I had never watched that show, I would have never thought about it, but it's terrifying to think about you gotta have a middle-aged pilot Yeah, someone with a little grit right? I don't want somebody my age, but I don't want somebody in their 20s white

You gotta have a middle-aged. You don't want a hot shot. No Someone a little alcohol on his breath to calm his nerves Yeah, maybe a little sexist yeah well with a drawl gonna have a sudden draw draw yeah, yeah very inappropriate That's what you that's what you want. That was a yeah followed by no Maybe tell the line and it's called the cockpit. Yeah Mm-hmm. Yeah, maybe till the line and it's called the cockpit. Yeah Because cocks are in there. That's right all cocks in there. Yeah, it's a pit. It's a pit of cocks It's a cockpit. What do you guys do if a celebrity follows you on Instagram follow back? Yeah, that's number one Well follow back unless everyone knows I was already following unless it's like Tate Diggs and they follow like a million people

It was like John Cena. I was like, oh, John Cena's following me, but then he follows everybody. Who decided to follow you, Billy? No, I mean, no one's following me, but there's a lot of hubbub going around in the office. You know me, I'm not a gossip, but there's hubbub going on in the office and someone was followed here by a celebrity

and then someone else is jealous of said celebrity following the other person. Can we get the name of the celebrity? Well, if I tell you the name, you're not gonna think it's a celebrity, so. That's a big flaw in all this. So then that kind of ruins. Puts me in a position to brag about Keith Eandle

following me on IG, which is not something that I wanted on the air, but sure. I didn't say you or his name. No, you didn't. You volunteered that information. You didn't, yeah. You just put something out there that now I have to jump in with.

You don't have to. Who's Keith Eandle? Exactly, now this is what's happening. Who's Keith Eandle's happening now I have to jump in with. You don't have to. It could have been. Exactly. Now this is what's happening. It could have been Jeremy. Keith Yandle's happening now. It could have been me. Yeah, it could have been me talking about Adonis Velez

following me. Do I keep getting scheduled on Wednesdays? How? Why am I scheduled on Wednesdays? I'm just asking a question what you do, because Roy's very jealous of the Yandle situation. He's a Panther. I said, oh, I just casually said, Keith Yandle followed me on IG.

That's pretty cool. And Roy said, that's bullshit. Like he meet, like his reaction to it was like immediately there's an odd reaction. And it's because he's been trying to get keyed the handle on the hockey show. I'm like, well, I can't help you. I'm not going to my first act after he follows head help him. No, you don't want to bother Keith.'m not gonna DM Keith Yandle like moments after the follow, I'm gonna be like, hey, Twitter by Keith Yandle. Why? I find it unfair that he hasn't yet. You've said a lot of bad things about Keith Yandle.

I have not said bad. No I haven't. Once he's on the show, once he's on the show, that's where the whole, see that's where you unfollow and then re-follow to get his attention right there. That's definitely how you Yandle it. I would say this, I don't want to be followed by Keith Yandle.

So Keith Yandle, if you're listening, don't follow me buddy, because I don't because I don't want you to follow me. I'm not gonna make you a close friend. You're not gonna see anything about my life. Please don't follow me. I'm not interested. Keith has played for a lot of teams. He was famously an Ironman in the NHL. Ladder part of his career, spent here in Florida. Now, Florida has been making these deeper runs for the last few years. Keith, I think, was playing for one of them. Last year, he couldn't have had the opportunity to seize a Turner, because he's a part of their broadcast occasionally, to be the pro Panther guy. And he didn't take it last year.

But this year, with Biz and the Panthers playing Biz's favorite Maple Leaf team, Keith seized this opportunity. And now, like this, he's become the Panther guy in media. Keith is an unfortunate name. Is it? Yeah, because you can't have a nickname for Keith. Keithy. What's a nickname for Keith?

Wow, wow, it's a good point. In hockey, they call him Yans. Yans? Did you go Keithy? Keithy. Yeah. Keithy. To Billy's point, it's an unfortunate name. Yans. Yans? Did you go Keith-y? What? Keith-y? Yeah. Keith-y?

To Billy's point, it's an unfortunate name. You want a name to give you a nickname, right? Yeah. Most names you can have a nickname. What's Greg a nickname for? Gregory. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah.

G. What's a nickname for Jeremy? Jerry? Jerry Bear, people call him Jerry Bear. Hold on a second. Who calls you G? People have always done that for sure. Who calls you G? They also call him annoying. A couple of people. second, who calls you G? People have always done that for sure. Who calls you G?

They also call him annoying. A couple of people. What if someone has a ridiculous name that sounds like a nickname, but is actually a full legal name? Like what? We mentioned the Indianapolis 500, there is a dude in the IndyCar series

whose name is actually Stingray Robb. Oh, get out of here. That's a good name. That's a good name. That's the guy from C name is actually Stingray Rob. Oh, get out of here. That's a good name. Yeah. That's a good name. That's the guy from Cobra Kai, Stingray. But I don't believe, I believe it's first name Sting, middle name Ray.

Awesome. Last name Rob with two Bs. Double B Rob, yeah. Wow. And to top it all off, the car that he's driving at Indy is painted in the US Constitution. Can we play a game called Guess where Stingray Rob was born? America.

I'm ashamed that I know about this. Guess what state and city Stingray Bob was born in? Kentucky. Stingray Bob is a different person. Oh, Rob, whatever his name is. Well, that's his big name. Memphis, that's a good guess. I'm gonna go with St. Louis, Missouri.

Okay. Texahawacana. The answer's actually kind of shocking. South Dakota. Well, Boise, takes all canna the the answers are actually kind of shocking yeah, South Dakota well boys Yeah, yeah There's no aquarium over there if your name stingray Rob stingray Bob could be a nickname for you Yeah, right cuz it's short for Rob Bob, but what do you call him as a nickname stinger? Yeah, stingers a good nickname Yeah, yeah, I know getting jetty. He's he has two kids. He's about to have twins

crazy situation speaking of Indy500 NASCAR whatever I have to point out that this desk is starting to look like a NASCAR car like How many plugs is happening here? What's happening? I can't even I can't even see the monitor because there's so much product placement happening. Get the wide shot please, the three shots so that people can see. All that's left is a Pennzoil decal on it. We got both great Cody books.

Wide shot, three shot, three shot guys. It's a gene wide shot. I'm sorry to be promoting my two books, The Pride of a Lion and Back in My Day. And then Stu Gutz, what are you promoting? God Bless Football. I'm just asking people to subscribe to the podcast because if they don't, my kids won't eat.

College. What about Billy's kids? Where's your book, by the way? It's around. Did you stop promoting that? Did you just hit goals or whatever? We haven't heard about that book in a long time. There's something in the works we can't talk about.

There's something in the works. I'll have news for you hopefully tomorrow. Oh my gosh. Okay, well here's the question. Will we get news from Stugats tomorrow before we get news of who the NBA MVP is? Because Jesus Christ NBA, what are we doing? What are we waiting for?

What are we waiting for? Zach Harper did a study. This is the latest, the MVP has been named since 1998. We're coming up on 30 years if we haven't had an MVP named this late. And for what? Is it Shay? Give it to them already.

It's so crazy, especially considering the series that you had in front of you last series where it was between both MVP candidates. That's the ultimate narrative that you want. Release that either right before or during that series. Create some sort of storyline, whether it's Jokic, whether it's Shay, it doesn't make a difference. What possible reason would they have

to withhold this information? The Athletics said, their sources say that today is the day that hopefully we're going to get the MVP award announced. But after game one of the Western Conference final, it doesn't make any sense to me that they held it back this long. Why wait? It should be right after the regular season. No, final, it doesn't make any sense to me that they held it back this long. Why wait?

It should be right after the regular season. No, no, no, no, no. If they're not gonna include the playoffs, which they should, I think. No, no, no, no. I agree with you. The votes are tallied the day after the regular, or the votes, excuse me, submission,

the deadline is the day after regular season, right? They tally them within like 48 hours, so they already know. I like the slow rollout, rookie of the year, six man of the year, coach of the year. But like the idea that we got the last award two weeks ago and then they just wasted an entire seven game series

where they could have, like Jeremy said, it was a seven game series between the top two guys. Why wouldn't they just do it right then? And then, okay, they didn't want to tip the scales, right? All right right game one what what what the game to this why well the obvious answers at the nba still in the process of reading the election

that is the obvious answer i do like including the playoffs like if oklahoma city played the next in the finals and then it's one that series i could see jaylen brunson winning the m MVP. But they have an award for that. They have a conference finals MVP. Yeah, but a conference finals. And then a finals MVP. It should be a full season award in my opinion. The Bidens Cup.

Is it a full season award in any other sport? It doesn't matter, let's break ground. Okay, fair enough. Fair enough. I guess the Ballon d'Or takes into account what you do. Ah, the Ballon d'Or. In all competitions. Who could forget the Ballon d'Or. In all competitions. Who could forget the Ballon d'Or?

Takes into account all, including international competition. Because it's the year thing, right? Francisco Lindor. It's like man of the year? Yeah. Robb Brindamore? Ballon d'Or? Rodney.

Rodney. It's Jack Adams. Stingray Robb. Stingray Robb. Full circle. It is, I found another reason why it's the greatest weekend in motorsports. Oh, Jesus.

Inaugural. Uh, we have six Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles racing on Friday at the Brake Yard. Really? Yeah, it's the first time. You want to talk about celebrities that follow me? The Oscar Mayer Wiener car. Oh, right.

Congratulations. Wienermobile does not follow you. It follows me on Instagram. No, that's bull crap. Good, check it out. Why? Look it up. Why? Because I does not follow you. It follows me on Instagram. No, that's bull crap. Good, check it out. Why? Look it up. Why?

Because I'm a cool guy. Yeah, Wienermobile, if you're listening, I don't want you to follow me either. Why is it Wienermobile? Can I tell you something? The Wienermobile's one of those things. I don't want to know there's six of them. Wow, really?

Yeah, that is true. I'd like to think there's one Wienermobile, and when I see it, it's a special thing. If there's six of them, I don't need to know there's six. Same thing with Goodyear Blimp, I don't know how many there are. I wanna think there's one of them. And if I see it, wow, this is a big game,

the Goodyear Blimp is here. They're flying all around the country, I don't need to know that. That's a fleet. Yeah, exactly right. Not fleet, we get out of here. This feels dangerous. TYFYS, by the way.

Six Oscar-Meyer Wienermobiles racing at top speed around the brick road. What is the bank situation too? Because like those things are tall. Yeah. We can have a thing where wieners are toppling over. I don't think the bank at the Brigade is that that crazy. What is the top speed for the Wienermobile?

It's got to be 30, 40 miles an hour, no? That fast? Yeah, I would think so. Can't be any faster. I would bet it's faster than that. Yeah, not very aerodynamic. I've been misspelling Oscar Meyer this whole. I would bet it's faster than that. Yeah, not very aerodynamic. Misspelling Oscar Mayer this whole time. Yeah, it's the whole thing.

Really? It's Oscar Mayer. They literally sing the song for you. My baloney has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R. My baloney has a second name, it's M-A-Y-E-R. I'm familiar. I barely remember that, I was very young. AI overview.

70 miles per hour, by the way. Yeah, but that's probably wrong. It's AI overview, I'll find the actual answer. Google doesn't know anything anymore. Man, Google's gotten a lot worse since Gemini showed up. It's genuinely so bad. Gemini just lies. ChatGPT as well confirms the 75 MPH.

Yeah, also wrong. I absolutely know. They had a baseball player that was white as a black man. Wrong about everything. Rockaroo? 75 on a ray shock looks really, really slow. Really slow. It's gonna look so slow.

On a race track, so slow. At certain tracks, there's a minimum speed that you have to maintain to be able to handle those banks without falling off. When NASCAR came in for Homestead, they had like a media day thing that I went to and like I drove a car and then they give you like a print out of like your speed because they're taking things.

And I did like 144. Did it feel like 144? No. When I watched back the video, I'm like, this looks like I'm driving through a school zone because of how big the track is and how high the banks are. It doesn't seem like you're going very fast. How does it feel?

It didn't, I mean, at no point did I think I was gonna crash into the wall or anything. It just felt like you had plenty of space. Well, they have a restrictor plate or something on that you can't go over a certain amount anyways, right? So they have it toned down so the max I think you could go if you're really going all out is maybe 150, but even that, if you start going over close to it,

they shut you down and you can't go any further. What do you mean they shut you down? Well, they make you come in, there's like a whole thing. Honestly I saw that there was a switch on the side and I looked at it and I was like, I don't know if I'm supposed to notice this but if I switch this thing. Was it a red button?

No, it was like a switch. Was it red? It was like one of the switch exactly, like a NAS switch. It wasn't like a light switch, it was like a switch that has like a protective covering that you lift it up and then you switch. Oh wow, that's important. That's the switch covering that you lift it up and then you switch. That's the switch, that's the switch.

That's the switch, man. It's got that clear plastic, right? And you open it up and then you hit the button and then the nukes fly. That's what I was, yeah, it went through my mind. What if this is the nuclear football here in this, you know, old Eminem's car at Homestead Miami Speedway. It turns out it was.

Wow, Billy Wednesday. Woo hoo! Per Frankscarsinthehood.com that spent time at home some Miami Speedway. It turns out it wasn't. Wow, Lily Wednesday. Woo hoo! Pfft! Tch! Per Frankscarsinthehood.com that spent time finding out all of the metrics of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, the published top speed is 110 miles per hour. Jeez! Oh, I don't believe that.

That can't be right either. There's a lot here that can't be right. It can't be 75 and it can't be 110. Zero to 60 in 24 seconds. But the published top speed is 110. That's bullshit. What was it, website? Frankscarsinthehood.com.

Now, when you say Frank's cars, is it a guy named Frank who's into cars or is this about cars that are shaped like Frank's? I will find out right now because that's a really good question. That's my question, I mean, that's why you hosted. And in the hood, are we talking about what's under the hood or are we talking like,

right here? I had the same question. In the hood, yeah. My assumption, based off the front of the website and all of the classic cars here with the front lifted up, my assumption is we're talking about the hood of a car and we're talking about all different cars, unfortunately not just cars shaped like Frank's. Yeah, it's a dude named Frank.

It'd be weird if it was just like hot dog shaped cars in one neighborhood. Because it seems like not a website that would get a dude named Frank. It'd be weird if it was just like hot dog shaped cars in one neighborhood. Because it seems like not a website that would get a lot of traffic. It also appears that you're followed by Oscar Mayer, not the Wienermobile itself. Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry.

Yeah, that sucks. You want the Wienermobile. I'm sorry that I'm followed by the brand that made sliced deli meat a thing in America. Well, I would follow an IG account dedicated to the Wienermobile, but there appears to not be one. It's just the Oscar Mayer Wiener IG handles all the promotional purposes for the Wienermobile.

There you go. Wienermobiles, as we found out, there are more than one. There's at least six that are gonna be reaching top speeds at the brickyard. What if they all have their own social media accounts? Does that make it better or worse? Do Goodyear blimps? Because there's many.

Do they have individual ones? I don't know. How many blimps are there? Not many. I think there's three, no? No, there's more. Really? More than three?

The look to me to confirm your report? I mean, Billy just said there's a fleet of them. I mean. Fleet week. Yeah. Fleetwood Mac. I'll find out. I think there's only three. There's currently four, Fleet Week, yep. Fleetwood Mac. I'll find out. I think there's only three.

There's currently four Goodyear blimps in the world. Told ya, I said three. Where they stationed? One is based in Germany. What? Yeah. You would think that they would get over the blimps. A blimp, right?

They're like, no, not for us, no please. So Greg is partially right, there's three in the US. There you go. Ohio, Florida, California, and then there's the one in Germany. I saw the one in California. I'd like I drove past it It was on the ground is weird. I wonder if the ground a grounded blimp Yeah, not a cool thing the one in Florida is grounded in Pompano Beach. Yeah, Howard County Yeah, I've driven past it as well. What it do pop on a beach We're seeing a blimp on the ground, you're right.

Out of a Taliban. Unnatural. Unnatural is a great way to put it. You know, Greg, we didn't spend enough time with you yesterday asking about this. We skipped right by it because of all of your different modern slang, but you were talking about the Delray Garlic Festival,

and I wanted to know your thoughts on that. I love it. I mean, I've only been twice, but we go. What is it like? What do you get at a garlic festival? There's all kind of food trucks and restaurants and, you know, just garlic-related dishes and I don't know. Sounds great. Yeah, it does sound, I wish I went. No, it's fantastic. And it's a fallacy, by the way, that garlic gives you terrible breath. I don't know where that came from vampires yeah I mean exactly the vampires

you should not have garlic you'll blow your breath oh yeah exactly you'll never go on date you're killing me that's the stereotype but I'm here to tell you garlic is good for you mm-hmm it's very helpful yes as a food and it's a wonderful festival do you think vampires make fun of our accents? Yes. Bleh, this is how they talk. Like, hi guys, my name is John. Bleh.

Howdy, partner. What's that all about? Bleh. I'd like some French fries and some Oscar Mayer Goodyear blimps. And put some extra garlic on it. Bleh, these guys, what else? What is? Is that a white Rodney?

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["The Stugats Show Theme"] I have to take umbrage with this show, by the way. You wanna talk about things that happened yesterday? The Stugats, I'm most disappointed in you. I wasn't here yesterday. He's got an alibi. That's why I was disappointed in you. You weren't here to defend the honor of a motion

picture called The Fan. Guys, the fans, Roy wasn't here either. Disappointed in you two. Foul. Should have been. The fans starring Wesley Snipes and Robert De Niro. First of all, the thing that he says, he's not saying let's go, Bobby.

He says, out of the way, Bobby! That's what he says. Get the quote right, number one. Number two, Dan was like, it's a movie about an umpire who stabs somebody. It's not about that at all. It's about a super fan who's so obsessed with this player played by Wesley Snipes that he goes as far as to murder

his rival who plays on the same team played by young Benicio del Toro. It is an excellent movie. And it's a movie that's been reviewed on Cinephobe. What Cinephobe, you ask movie that's a movie has been reviewed on cynical what's involved you ask it's a podcast was that harper and i watch movies that are poorly rated on rotten tomatoes and try to ascertain whether they're accurately rated or maybe didn't get a fair shake it's a little bit where the podcast and it's produced by anthony mays and we did the fan we had a ball

doing that movie now that was thirty eight percent rotten tomatoes is why as a cinema expert? Why do you think it was not as well received by the public as that should have been? Well? I think there's a there's a couple of things number one I think there is of sports movies in general if they don't follow kind of like a Happy like oh, and then they the scrappy team came up, and they won it all remember the Titans Yeah, if it's not that, most critics don't like it. They don't like those movies.

And the reason for that is because a lot of those critics don't know sports. So sports is kind of like, well, we have to watch this sports ball movie. And then they watch it and they're like, I don't get it. So they're always looking for that kind of Disney ending. The other thing I think is just ahead of its time. It's a little bit ahead of its time talking about fans being obsessed with how much players make and like the effort and all that stuff,

like the stuff that is the fodder of modern day sports talk radio. Like back then I think people were just like, did we win or lose? And that was about it. I just think it's surprising that you could have a movie with Stingray Rob De Niro and not end up with a good review.

I mean, there's plenty of those. His career is literally... That's true. He has so many movies... Awful. ...that he's made that it's like, there are as many terrible movies as good ones, right? Yes. If not maybe more?

Way more. Way more. Good band average. Because he's prolific. He's saying yes to everything. Killing Season, you ever seen that one? But The Good Ones are some of the greatest movies of all time. Oh, of course. Yeah. Taxi Driver, but you know, it's crazy still gots I begin to think like is this a case where it's like we crowned them a little too early and it's like

Is this the real Robert De Niro that we've seen over the last 30 years or so and like he just had a heart start to His career, you know There's some of these guys that came out the bat For all star appearances in their first like six, and then I had a 20-year career and the rest of their career was nothing. Surrounded by talent. Surrounded by talent, for sure. Is he a grifter off a good coach?

Passport Sazy. Silver Linings playbook was slated in his career. Oh, good movie. There you go. But he had a supporting cast. Yeah, like again, it's not him. Oh, he was a part of a supporting cast. It's not him.

It's J-Law, it's Bradley Cooper, it's Dave Chappelle, right? Like those are people. Same thing, Goodfellas, Goodfellas. Well, it's not him. It's P Chappelle, right? Like those are people same thing good fellows good fellows. It's not him It's Pessy. It's Ray Liotta. It's uh, it's dr. Melfi from the Sopranos dirty grandpa Yeah, those it's a cap on it's a cap on I like dirty grandpa. Well, cuz it's a cap from he's carrying it Oh, I'll be fine. There you go. So like when's the last movie that Robert De Niro carried? That's a good question. Yeah, the Irishman Yeah, that's the last movie that Robert De Niro carried? That's a good question. Yeah. The Irishman? Yeah. That's an ensemble though.

No, hold on. I understand it's an ensemble, but he was top name. It wasn't good. He was the title character. It was long. No, it was bad. It was slow. I didn't like it.

Ronan. Ronan. Ronan. He did win an Emmy for playing Bernie Madoff in a HBO movie, The Wizard of Oz. He did do a good job on that. 2017 though, eight years ago. Because the voters were all scammed.

They're trying to get it back at Bernie. But also TV movie doesn't count. That's right. Sorry. Be theatrical if you want me to to respect you. That's a bad take, dude. Be theatrical if you want me to. Because television series have become basically cinematic. Yes.

I'm talking about carrying the program, carrying the vehicle. OK. Oh my. Yep. Where do you, did you watch True Detective season one and you're like, wow, this is not at all impressive by Matthew McConaughey.

I enjoyed it, but it's not. I am not at all impressed by this. I enjoyed it but it's not the same as being a movie star man. I know they want to say this oh it's the golden age of TV. But the reality is if you're a movie star man still a different level. Like Chalamet is not doing that because he's making great TV shows. Chalamet is doing that shit. Wasn't that part of the advice that he got? Don't make TV shows? Yeah. Tom Cruise hasn't done it. Straight up, Tom Cruise is like, I'm a movie star.

I get TV offers all the time. I'm not doing it. I'm Tom Cruise. And by the way, you were right. He did bring back movies. He saved movies. He saved movies. He saved movies.

Yes. Top Gun saved movies. It's not a joke. It was on very fragile ground. You're right. The movie theater industry as a whole, it was already in a downward spiral and then COVID happened. A lot of streamers, a lot of these studios were just,

they were beta testing. Do we just release everything on streaming services and that's it? Movies will become a boutique thing. The fact that a movie theater is gonna be super accessible to you might be a bygone era and Top Gun Maverick Reinforced that there is still a place in this world in middle America in Suburbia for your neighborhood movie theater to get you out there

Is it crazy for me to be like, you know what Tom Cruise you want me back over man? I'm ready to have this conversation. Did he lose you? Yeah He lost a lot of people. Going clear really significantly hurt his brand. But even before that, before that it was already like, this guy's a little unhinged when he went on Oprah, jumping on the thing. Scientology.

That was like 20 years ago. Yeah, I mean it was like early 2000s. And it felt like a death nail. Yeah, and it was like, it's a wrap for this guy. And somehow he pulled himself out that wreckage and he's come back stronger than ever. And I'm like, you know what? This guy's a cool guy. I like you, Tom Cruz. I like him a lot. And like, you talk to people that have talked to him and he's

super cool. He takes care of people. Yes, he takes care of folks, gives them advice, gives them gifts. Like he seems pretty awesome. When they were filming the dead reckoning, they were like, hey, it was like the COVID restrictions. He was yelling at people for not like... Yeah, be professional. You've restrictions, he was yelling at people for not like. Yeah, be professional, you gotta be responsible. The lives are at stake, we're trying to save movies here. Always respectful, by the way. You see in the video where he gets water splashed on him

by some prank asshole, and he's like, why would, he don't even freak out, he's just like, why would you do that? He's honestly like the archetype for how you want a movie star to be outside of that one, that one little thing. That whole thing, that whole little thing. By the way, like, come on, who among us doesn't have like, weird beliefs?

We all have kooky beliefs. Come on, man. We're all talking in a real high voice. What was that thing? Yeah, I remember, but what was that thing? I don't eat from sunup to sundown for 30 days. That's kind of kooky to some people, you know? Some people don't get that.

God damn it. I get it. I get it. I support you. It's all kooky from a certain point of view. Eisner. Eisner. I could read that book and say, wow, this is awesome. Let's all cookie from a certain point of view. Eyes there. Eyes there. I could read that book and say, wow, this is awesome.

Let's build a deity. Did you see the video of him, Mike, walking into a theater? I think it was yesterday. And seeing a guy. You know my algo? My algo is all Tom Cruise walking in the movie theater. So he walks into this movie theater, and he turns to a guy sitting in the front row and goes,

oh man, you ate all your popcorn already. And all I could think was that that would be your absolute worst nightmare of an interaction with Tom Cruise. Yeah, it would be awful. Because I just don't want anybody, including Tom Cruise, to talk to me in public. Right.

I'd shush him. I'm trying to watch Dead Red to find a reckoning. I'm trying to watch a movie here. And also, with celebrities, I'm like mad weird. I don't, cause I know. You? Yeah, well cause I'm weird to some in that I totally kind of leave them be.

Yeah, like you do that weird dance or it's like they probably get inundated. So I'm going to do the thing to kind of like not push up on them too much. But then they get like weirded out by saying like, wait a second, why don't you want to talk to me? I'm like, oh no, it's not that I don't want to talk to you just I want them to respect my favorite musician is Jack White my

friends opened up on tour for Jack White I they were they did a big like tour the southeast and went to multiple shows I was hanging out backstage I'm literally right next to Jack White yeah I said like two words to him the entire time hi hi bye yeah kind of like I didn't even have the words to him the entire time. Hi. It was like, hi. Bye. Yeah, kind of like, I didn't even have the opportunity to do the one thing that, which is like, if I'm in a relaxed environment with someone that I admire that has created art that I look up to,

I'll say, hey man, just thank you for doing that, thank you for creating that. I thought you were gonna say the thing you would have said if you were in a relaxed environment, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Yeah. Boom, boom, boom. So, no, I just don't, I don't boom. You know the boom, boom, boom song?

No, I just don't, I don't wanna bother people. Well, were you starstruck? With Jack? Yeah. I never get starstruck, and around Jack, I don't think I was, but he had a presence about him that I just like, I'm not even gonna bother this guy. And also, if you're familiar with like, how he acts backstage before a show, it's very intense.

How does he act? Jack White has like a crazy process. Okay. To get ready for shows. Get me there. So like the best experience that I had with it was in Atlanta because the venue had walls that didn't go all the way up to the ceiling.

So I was with my friends, the Jacuzzi boys. They were in the dressing room next door. Shout out to the Jacuzzi boys. Yeah, great local garage rock band. Oh, I thought I was just a group of friends that you called the Jacuzzi boys. No, no, no, no, no, it's a great group chat. Yeah, because they like to hang out in Jacuzzi's and just like chop it up. No, no, so, no, it's a great group chat. Yeah, they like to hang on Jacuzzi's and just like chop it up.

No, no. So they were opening up for the Rack on Tours and that's Jack. Jack has this thing where he has like an at the time it was still like a dated iPod shuffle. This was like 2019 and it was still like an, you know, an ancient artifact and he takes over the aux cord and he's in control of the music and it's all over the place. He's a very eclectic individual. Kind of like you.

Yeah, like you'll hear gangster rap, then you'll hear death metal, then you hear old timey blues. Yeah, you'll hear it all. He'll run the gamut. But also he has stages of instruments set up like in his dressing room because he can play

everything so he'll be pounding away their dressing room had a piano so he was pounding away at the grand piano then he'll pick up the the drums and he'll start banging on the drums and the entire time the craziest part about it because it's like you can feel the energy you can feel him on the other side of the wall like circling all these things is he's getting his voice ready and he screeches a lot so he he is screeching, I'm telling you, like it's the entire time. It's wild, like you're there having a conversation, you're having beers with your friends,

you're making your time a Miller time, and you're just supposed to ignore Jack White screeching at the top of his lungs for 90 consecutive minutes. We have to follow Billy's face here because he is doubting every single word that you're saying. No, I just, uh, faux eccentric is what it sounds like to me. Like, let me just act wild. Performative.

People think, oh, I need to work. Jack White's voice. And just go out there and play Seven Nation Army. Let's call it a day. He doesn't have this great voice, right? Oh, Billy White's voice. No, does he have a great voice that you need to spend an hour working on your voice?

I mean, you want him to deliver on the screeches, no doubt, but he's not known for his voice. He's known for his guitar playing and the Rack Untour's aren't gonna play Seven Nation Army. That's a White Stripes song. Run around like a crazy person. Listen to me. So it's a Rack that's on tour?

Hold on a second. If I'm paying money to see Jack White perform, I don't care if it's Jack White and the Stingray Bobs or whatever it's called. You're playing Seven Nation Army and that's that. He did not. He did not. No.

He's on the hell he gonna stay. So what do I get? Jack White and some other band and then some Jacuzzi boys. What am I paying money for here? So you get to, if you see Jack White, you pay a ticket to see Jack White on tour, you're 100% getting Seven Nation Army, even though that's a White Stripes song.

He's on stage Seven Nation Army. The White Stripes aren't around, so he's not gonna play that with's a white stripes song. He's on stage seven nation army But the white stripes aren't around so he's not gonna play that with me Yeah, but if he's on stage what Billy is saying with any group of people he has to sing that song. Thank you We're gonna shut out with my Anxiety if the white stripes are on tour I might get it if if Jack White is on tour I might get it, but if the rack is on tour, I won't get it. The Rack on tour is, it's not. What are they saying? The band's not called The Rack.

They're The Rack on tour. Oh, The Rack on tour. Yeah, Brendan Benson is the melodic genius of that band, by the way. Well, you're friends. Yeah. Oh, is this? I'm just saying, an impartial comment.

An impartial comment. What's up? He's friends with Brendan Benson's dad. For real? There's a great photo, I'll send it to the video department, of Greg Cody with Jack White at a White Stripes show. Yeah, it was a great show. And the plug there was Brendan Benson's dad.

So he's in the Rack, Brendan. The Rack and Tours, yeah. That's it, they're on tour. The Rack is on tour. Well, the Rack and Tours don't tour anymore. The Rack is back. So if it's called the Rack and Tours, and they and the rack tour would it be the rack and tours on tours? But did they break up? They're not touring well

they're doing the rack on tours are temporarily broken up because Jack White demands such a Bear share of the overall revenue that the other three guys including Brent's this is journalism I don't even play the songs that we've been here rock and roll man. So what's Brendan up to? He's, you know, he's an independent artist. He's put out five or six solo albums. Hard times though. It's got a plug and play, right? That's great music. I didn't really get starstruck around him. I just respected his presence. It sounded like you did, and I know that would be uncharacteristic of you. Yeah, I don't really do that, but he's got a presence to him, and yeah, you wanna say it's faux eccentricities,

like probably, like I don't know, it's put on, but he- Were you nervous? It seems like you were nervous. I was nervous to talk to him because he's got a very intense process to ramp up. It's like, I don't wanna talk to him beforehand, and afterwards, it's such an intense thing that he does on stage that he's kind of like winding down.

I don't want to bother this guy. He's also taller than I expected originally. Yeah, he's tall. What if he's just making noise because no one's talking to him. Everyone thinks like, oh, we got to leave Jack alone. He's like, I just want attention here. So he starts banging on shit, hoping to get attention.

Don't look at Jack, don't look at this process. He's like, no, what do I have to do for people to talk to me? Robert De Niro has two different grandpa movies? Yeah. The War with Grandpa and Dirty Grandpa and that's not a franchise. There's just two movies. Dirty Grandpa.

Where he's a grandpa. Billy, are you saying it's a cry for help? Possibly, maybe. I mean, Stephen Colbert did this thing with Jack White in Nashville, where he's like It's kind of you're kind of like a Batman villain in that you create like these HQs and everyone that you hire dresses like you and tries to act like you

Yeah, no he his third man record label. It kind of feels cold. Wow. Hold on. How old is this picture? It's very old I still have hair. I mean Jackson White stripes. So that's what he was I still have hair. I mean, Jax in the white stripes. That's why he was back in the old. That's who calls him G. That's gotta be 20 years old. Do you still own that shirt? Is that shirt still in the closet?

No, that has been retired, that shirt. As has Jax, I would imagine. Maybe not. He doesn't wear red anymore. That's exclusively the white stripes. Oh, really? Yeah, every act that he has has a dedicated color scheme to it. What if he goes to a Cardinals game?

Or a Bulls game? No, no, no, like casually, I don't know, but when he's on stage, when he's on stage with the white stripes, it's red and white and black is part of that color scheme. When you watch Jack White, the solo artist, it's black, white, and blue. What about the rack?

The rack on tour is green and black. Only on tour. Yeah, or if you watch the dead weather, sometimes they lean into yellow. You know what, I'm with Billy. This guy seems like a real life, sometimes they lean into yellow. You know what, I'm with Billy. This guy seems like a real light over himself. Sometimes they lean into yellow. Performative.

They haven't performed in quite a while. Also it's like, I like the dead weather, but I wanna watch Jack play the guitar. Sounds like this guy can't keep a job. For real. He keeps bouncing from band to band. Yeah, no, that's what that sounds like. But Greg just told us why,

because apparently he's a little greedy when it comes to how this thing gets split up. So guys get tired of him, they kick him out of the band, he goes start the new band. Just burning bridges left and right. Left and right. It's all plug and play anyway. I'm coming back next time.

Seven band army, it sounds like, for Jack. Next one say, I am off. I'm just letting that be known. Why? We're just talking. Talking Puck, talking Yandel. Jacuzzi boys out here, man. Blimps, Weeners, you know.

Just some Jacuzzi boys here enjoying a Wednesday. Yeah, Wild Billy Wednesday. Yeah, it's just Wednesday. Okay. There was a time when it was Wild Willy Wednesday. Wild Willy Wednesday. Wild Billy Wednesday. Good timing.

It's like D. Reynolds. Dan messed up and then didn't want to let it go for a couple weeks Just made a mistake I love that. I love that about it was imaging I love the commitment to the bit where like he'll mess something up and then he'll just try to convince us He didn't mess up at all. He meant to do that and then he'll stick with it for days on end huge news What's that been doing some research Our partnership DraftKings, have a free to play contest on the Oscar Mayer Weenie 500.

Oh wow. Who's the favorite? Which Weener? I'm getting to it. John. Okay. It was Cape Fear by the way. Nick Nolte.

He was good in that. Yeah he was. He was good in that. Yeah, he was. He's always carried by a supporting cast, man. Does he still act? Nick Nolte? Nick Nolte? Yeah.

He'll say yes to a job. Well, I mean, he was in... Tropic Thunder, but that was some time ago. No, no, he was in one of those non-Marvel Spider-Man movies recently. And one of the Sonys? Yeah. Not Craven. What was it, man? He was in Hulk as well. Oh, you know what he was in? He was in Angel Has Fallen, which is five years ago.

I could be. I confuse him and Gary Busey. Yeah, all the time. Cause the hair, it's that mugshot. And Chris, Chris Toffeson. No. They look the same. You're just doing old white guys. I heard old white guys. All right, pay up. Willie Nelson as well. Mugshot and Chris Chris follows Topherson. No Old white guys Willie Nelson as well. All right Pete George went by the way

Well, all right peace too soon way too soon Not even 24 hours body still come awkward and Chris Kristoff on that one