The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: 90 Minutes of THAT Shirt?

Episode Date: July 18, 2024

How has Inside the NFL changed since going to the CW? And what will Bill Belichick bring to the proceedings? Does Dan know shows change casts and networks sometimes? Does he know we did that? Then, Sam Morril is here not just to discuss his New York Knicks and the Jalen Brunson extension, but the way he continues to catch morning TV hosts off guard by just being himself. We also dive into his form of joke telling and how creating an hour long special works before Billy insults him. Plus, Thursday Thunder, NASCAR is back, and it's almost time to hammer the Steele. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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therefore graduating for the moment to a bandage of a broadcasting career how many places is Belichck going to work i think but do not know when people get tired of me talking about the sports media stuff that they may not know that one of the things that the crux of steven a smith wanting as much or more money than pat mcafee is that pat mcafee has a contract that pays him acts but also pays for erin rogers bellacheck that pat mcafee has a contract that pays him acts but also pays for erin rogers

bellacheck saban steven a doesn't have that not even help pays for the team first take though doesn't have that and so steven a wants the power of that bellacheck is going to be on with mcafee but he's going to be on in a bunch of different places, isn't he? He's going to be on the Manning cast, he's going to be on McAfee, he's going to be on

Inside the NFL and CW. The CW? Oh yeah, they're in the game. Don't dismiss them. What are they doing? They're coming for everybody's stuff. No they're doing it. The Ryan Clark show, it's a good one.

Yeah, they're actually performing quite well in terms of their sports coverage. It's something that we all snickered at at first, but it's a good show Well, not not just that that's always been a great show But the CW as a player in the sports space is a new thing that got laughed at but their numbers are doing well in Their coverage is actually pretty good I'm gonna need the help from all of you when you say the CW and that show. This is the former Showtime show that used to be old guys. The original HBO property even back then. It's the same property that HBO canceled, Showtime picked up, now it lives on the CW.

Home of One Tree Hill. And how has Belichick been with the broadcasting? Oh, he hasn't done anything yet. We're not in the pro football season yet. Yeah, he hasn't done anything yet. We're not in the pro football season yet Yeah, he hasn't done anything although, but he's a media darling early reports are he's gonna be a media darling camps are opening up this week I know I know it's it's here. It's right around the corner. I have 49 days 49 days away, Dan How did the Packers do it? Camps are opening up and God bless football will cover it with Stu gots doing shows next week for WFAN

With Billy not knowing that he was away. I didn't I didn't even know he's still here apparently doing something I don't know what he's do. I can't I can't I can't track this guy Billy you're the producer of that show and I fear for you being grandfathered into a situation that leaves Stugatz in charge of something that you're in charge of as the producer. Yeah. But you really do need to wrangle the portion of this that has you doing God bless football by yourself because your host doesn't show up or tell you. Or I take advantage and I build my own empire while he's not paying attention.

Learned well from the king. Learned well, learned well learned well learned well, let's see cats away. Yeah, I Think Lorenzo got on the show last week What Mr. Got suggestion? Belichick's Broadcasting career. What is that CW show now in its newest? reincarnation because you guys said it used to be, this is one of the original places, I saw that this was a conversation

that happened the other day between Pablo and Dominique where Pablo is saying he is done with the jargon of the sport and Dominique was saying to Pablo, you're just envious because you can't do some of the stuff that me and Orlovsky can do, where we're teaching people about football in condensed sound bites that are cubes. Belichick and Brady, their entire career,

have been terrible in front of microphones. Like epically, historically uninteresting people in front of microphones, and now they're getting broadcasting jobs that are the prime broadcasting jobs. So to answer your initial question, do you remember how the Dan Levitard show was on 790 and then on ESPN and then now with DraftKings?

Still the same show. It's always been the same show, just a different place. This happened to Scrubs. Scrubs was on NBC. NBC decides no longer a part of it, goes to ABC. You tune in to ABC thinking it's a different show, now it's the same exact show. The only thing with the CW is,

like when they do the wired for sound, you can't hear the F word. So Inside the NFL started, believe it or not, in 1977 on HBO through 2008, then it moved to Showtime, 2008 to 2021, then from 2021 to 2023, Paramount Plus. I was there for the Paramount days. Now it's found its home on the CWs. Ryan Clark, Chad Johnson, Chris Long's on there,

Bill Belichick's on there, Channing Crowder's on there sometimes. I think Jake Cutler was on there a couple times. Is he still on there? I don't see him listed. Mike, you're saying that it's the same as the Dan LePetard show goes from 790 to ESPN, but all those people you mentioned

have never been affiliated with that show until recently. Like that, the- Bring up Lynn Dawson. Okay. But Dan, like when it was on HBO, that sometimes there'd be new cast members. They cycle through.

Yeah, you cycle. The show's been around for a very long time. The show. Yeah, but sometimes you make an investment like, oh, okay, we signed Ray Lewis, he's gonna be amazing. We signed Jerry Rice, he's gonna be great at this. And then it, oh, we signed a two-year deal. Wish it was a longer deal, because they're not that good at those. Those guys said, let's gonna be amazing. We signed Jerry Rice, he's gonna be great at this. And then, oh, we signed a two year deal. Wish it was a one year deal,

because they're not that good at this. Let's get the new name. Who was the new name? Julian Edelman? Let's do that same thing. All right, maybe we have a different fit for it. Think like FBoy Island used to be on Max, then it went to the CW.

Or Scrubs, maybe Scrubs. Yeah, well he mentioned that. Yeah, Scrubs, yeah. American Idol used to be on Fox, now it's on Inaudity. How would that, huh? American Idol, burned out at Fox, and then there was a bidding war to get it back

just a year later, who would've thought? Family matters. What? Yeah, it went from ABC to CBS. Family does matter. Interesting. Again, the show you guys are describing, if you make all of the personalities be

Personalities who haven't been there for the last two years because they're all new It ceases to be the same show Well, how many of those people Chris long Ocho and Ryan Clark were on last year Yeah, check the only Cheney Crowder goes back if he's still around there like yeah Remember you could always count on Boomeris-Iason. Boomeris-Iason had a hell of a run on that show. Nick Bonacani, yeah.

What a run. Chris Collinsworth, I believe, was on there for a time. I'm old enough to remember those years. I think Dan Marino was on it. Yeah, he was. He was. Dion, I think, maybe briefly. What is the best version of that show?

Because again, the correction that you guys are making on me, you say some of these people were on a year ago, they're all new cast members. That doesn't become the same show just because it has the same name. Saturday Night Live doesn't have the original cast. Yeah, that's true. That's a good point.

I was literally just going there. Like when you were asking what's the best incarnation of the show, it's the cast that you grew up with. That you, because it taps into nostalgia. So like it's a crew that you grew up watching or have the fondest memories of. That's what you're gonna say is the best. It's a different show aesthetically.

There's a different graphics package. I do wish that they could just start it back up and I could just dial into the mid 90s HBO version of it But that's not how evolution works Daddy. Oh, Mike. I haven't sat back and thought oh man Remember the Brandon Marshall years of inside the NFL mmm Michael Irvin time Michael Irvin had a cup of coffee. Oh, yeah JB I want to see if I can find the sparks between Mike and Billy on what just happened with Lionel Messi, because I know that Billy and Greg Cody

have been opposite Mike Ryan for a while. Yeah, you were mocking the other day the fact that he got injured grotesquely with his ankle during Copa, which means he doesn't appreciate his Miami and MLS allegiances as much as he likes because he's out there playing for his country in a game that really matters as opposed to his MLS obligations.

Well, I mean, Mike and I, I think, found common ground. We were talking about this just this morning, and it seems as though Messi has finally got his head on straight and he's focusing on the big cup in the MLS. Yeah, Billy's been pretty consistent that the only competition that matters is not any of these invented side trophies that you would attribute a value to.

It's when he Googles Inner Miami and he Googles standings, that's the trophy that matters. And Messi, because he's not physically capable, he's forgoing this league's cup, it would appear. He's not gonna be able to play in this competition, which means the next time he plays, he's got a serious ankle injury, and the next time he plays,

it's gonna be in that MLS Cup pursuit, which is in part the only cup that matters because it might be the only cup they actually have a shot at. It's also been the one that's eluded him his entire career. Never won one. Never won one even though he's only played a half season. Copa he's won what, two Copas now?

He's got two Copas, he's got one World Cup, no MLS Cup. Now your takes would be somehow even hotter if you could seize on the fact that Inter-Miami and without Messi. Look like dog shit, sorry, pardon my French, not great. It got to the point, Dan, that the opposing crowds,

I don't know if you've seen this, are chanting, you need Messi. Have you seen that? What do you think about that? So you probably just saw that Cincinnati game. Not dog shit. Yeah, so. Well, I watch them all.

So there was like one loss in that part of the column where I was going at. Inter Miami without Messi? Pretty fricking good. Terrible. No. They're good? Amazing without them. No, that's not what I heard.

They're incredible. They just won last night, 3-1. I don't focus on the Ws and Ls. I look at the like, kind of morale. I think you literally just focus on an L. No, no, no. Which is the Cincinnati thing. You have to wonder.

You said flatly terrible when the record is, that was the only loss on it. But you have to wonder when this team's gonna revolt, right? He brought all of his Avenger friends over here to come play in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, drive PNK, formerly drive PNK Stadium, it's something else now, right? Chevron Stadium or something?

Whatever it's called. He brought all his friends here from all of their big Euroleagues and Euro teams, and now he's not even playing, and David Suarez is probably looking around, he's like, what am I doing? It's how soccer works at every club. It's also Luis Suarez.

That's the one. And his friends are kicking ass. Well, they're kicking ass now, but at a certain point, you think, you know what, I came here to play with my friend, Leo. And Leo's not playing, and now I have to carry all this weight. Should he even hoist the cup? Should we win it?

I don't know. I don't know. They're doing tremendous. They're going to get mad. I'm telling you you the resentment is coming and there's going to be some infighting. Resentment, he got them jobs. Trust me.

He got them jobs and then he's not doing his own. That's not how that works. You don't say, hey, come, let's hang out. I can't go to set a fare. I don't wanna do that. But he's doing what you asked him to do, which is just only care about the MLS. He's not even gonna attempt to play in this league's cup.

You're trying to trap me here. I don't think that you believe that that's what he's doing. I don't think that you believe that that's what he's doing. I'm not trying to trap you. I don't think that you think that he cares about Inter Miami. Billy's like Billy Joel playing Piano Man right now. That hits different on a Saturday night.

Billy's even bored with this. Billy's like just singing Piano Man right now. He literally called him David Suarez. Yeah, that's his name, isn't it? What's his name, Diego? What's his name? Are you mad at Messi? Am I mad at him?

Yeah, because he has not treated respectfully the only city you've ever loved. I just, I don't understand what he's doing. Why are we doing photo shoots with him wearing a jersey? Why are we doing photo shoots with him wearing a jersey he refuses to wear on the pitch? Who wear any jersey, but they say, oh, now they have this new Dolphins looking jersey for their team it's so cool looking he's never gonna

wear it, never. I want to go support this team I never know if he's gonna play or not. He doesn't know if he's gonna play, more often than not he doesn't play. I just respect the city man. We embrace you and no one else wanted you. Everybody wanted him. No, it was us in Qatar. Everybody would have wanted him. It's what he wanted. One of my very favorite summer traditions is finding a baseball park somewhere else in the country, not here in Miami, where I can go take in a game. It's something I've tried to do every year. I've gotten to see a ton of really cool ballparks all across the country. And this year, I'll be getting my tickets through the Game Time app. Because Game Time is an authorized ticket marketplace of Major League

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Tavi's celebrating, six points, fraud. Everybody was like, yo, he's better than J. LeBronston. He's better than the Knicks should have drafted him, fraud. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. ["The Stugats Show Theme Song"] He is our senior Knicks correspondent. He's the commissioner of fandom. He's here on official comedy business, though.

I just saw his special last night. It's great. He is a maximum professional. You've Changed is the name of it. It's great. He is a maximum professional. You've changed is the name of it Amazon Prime video He's also currently on tour Samorail.com for show and ticket info and I believe him to be The architect of the single best bit going on in comedy right now which is he appears on morning shows morning television shows all over the land and appears to clearly not want to be there and the whole thing blows up

around him because human beings don't know how to react to his awkwardness I thought he would only be brave enough to do it in Hawaii or with some of the local shows but he sabotaged Morning Joe the other day because he doesn't have respect for anything in morning television. So Sam, take me through what it is that you're doing there, how much you're enjoying it, and how mad these people are getting at you

because you're not respecting what they do for a living. Well, that one was weird because I had a publicist there with me who was like, do not burn Morning Joe to the ground. Dude, this is a big show, don't do it. And I was like, well, I think it'd be rude to treat Morning Joe any differently

than one of these local Hawaii shows, you know? But I go in there and, you know, he clearly hasn't seen the special, but I guess some Booker there did and liked it. So the Booker, producer, whatever, is feeding him questions for me. And all I did was he said, "'Oh, you compare guns and babies masterfully.'"

So in my head, I'm like, I know he hasn't seen this, but someone told him to say that. But he's kind of set me up to tell a guns and baby bit. And the punch of that bit was basically, you know, both will be in school soon. So I just saw his look go like. Like this is not my type of comedy, but he had, but it's just didn't make any sense because he pretended he loved it. But then he was like, oh, I don't like this guy.

So that just made it weird. And I just had to kind of go all in on it. And then I told Al Sharpton, I think he'd be a huge fan of mine. And you know, what's he gonna do? He's looking right at me. He's like, yeah, yeah, I think so. But it was just, you know, it was a mess.

So what do you say to your publicist after that? Because it didn't go well. It went well for you. It went well because you don't respect these things and it probably went well with your fans who like you to make things extra awkward, but what does your publicist say afterward? She was laughing.

Like, what else am I supposed to do? I didn't do anything that bad in that situation. I just kind of, I just told a joke from my special that I thought he was teeing me up for, so she wasn't really upset. I mean, yeah, sometimes those shows, those MSNBC shows are kind of humorless. So, you know, they or they'll like set you up for jokes and then just kind of like

I remember I went on Ari Melba once and he just would like kind of like set me up for jokes and then just like stare at me and be like, hmm. And you're like, yeah, what do you want me to do with this? There's just like this type of like elitism where they're just like, all right, dance clown. And then you do dance for them because it's TV and they're just like, nah. Take me through though the idea of it

because it's made me laugh every time I've seen you do it and you're not being disrespectful you're just sort of being yourself in environments that are kind of fraudulent You know that's that's the main thing right like these morning TV shows are not That's why I think people like them because they're like no one talks like this anymore like you worked in You worked in broadcasting forever Dan you never spoke like this anymore. Like you worked in broadcasting forever, Dan. You never spoke like this. You just speak like yourself.

So when you're watching a TV show and a guy's like, so tell me what you've done with her. It's like, well, that doesn't look like a real person. So it's already kind of funny to just speak like I speak. And yeah, I mean, we did one in Utah and the only times I really get booked on morning shows, none of my friends will do them. They're like, you're a psycho.

You wake up at 8 a.m. after doing night shows just to like ruin a TV show, and I'm like, yeah, I'll do that. And I was in Utah, and the only ones that really book me anymore for the most part are ones that are aware that I do this, and they're down to play along. But I guess the female anchor was down to play along and the guy was pissed that I was there.

So I'm in the green room with my friend Gary Veeder and we're just hanging. I made him come with me. I was like, I can't do these alone anymore because you know, it's like a bank robbery. You need a car waiting for you afterwards because it's awkward. It's awkward It's what I love about it. You're purposely descending into how uncomfortable can I make this for everyone? Including myself while everyone's watching Exactly and this one it's on YouTube I think it's I I'm in Utah and the anchor this guy's a good a good looking, looks like a good looking Mormon dude, comes in and he goes, oh, you're gonna mess with me? You're gonna mess with me on the show? Like not in a friendly way,

like he's like trying to like big dog me. And I look at Gary and I go, yeah. And he's just like, we'll see. Like he's trying to like big dog me. And I'm just like, all right, that was weird. It was like uncomfortable. We looked at each other like that was really uncomfortable but you know he shows live he can't really do anything when I go on so now I'm gonna take it a step

further I think I have to so I just keep it was like the week the P Diddy thing broke so I did so I bring up P Diddy immediately and and they're like we can't talk about that and I'm like cool P Diddy I just keep doing it. And he's just like getting really annoyed. But the woman is laughing, she's cracking up and the crew is laughing. And then at the end he was like, well, you'll never be allowed back here. And like I have to pretend to be like her.

I'm like, aw. I can't come back on good morning Salt Lake, this is crazy. So then the woman was like, no, we can have him. She was cool, she was in on it. And of course the second I get off, I had an Uber waiting, because I'm ready. I call the Uber before I go on, because I know what's coming.

And, but I had to stop. Did you establish a getaway car? I have to, I have to. You have to have a car ready. So as I'm leaving, the whole crew is stopping me for like selfies, because they're like, we hate ready so as I'm leaving The whole crew stop me for like selfies cuz they're like we hate him You the idea though and I'll get to other stuff in a second the idea for it comes from where because the first time you Did it you're now actively seeking stuff that is time you did it, you're now actively seeking stuff that is discomfort because this bit is so funny, but not unlike Ali G, you're finding it more difficult to find people who

you can blindside. Yeah, well, unlike Ali G, I'm just myself. Like, he didn't go on as Sacha Baron Cohen. You know, that's the thing. He's like, well, he's doing a character. People are like, man, Samaral's a piece of shit. That's what I get, you know? But yeah, it's that's the thing. He's like, well, he's doing a character. People are like, man, Samorals a piece of shit. That's what I get, you know? But yeah, it's getting a little harder.

It's getting harder to I did one recently that they didn't air. The hard thing is when it's not I told my PR person, like I'll only do it if it's live, because if they tape it, they'll just cut everything I do out. But she's like, we got you on a big one. It's not live, but you should do it. And if you're just like, if you do enough, they're gonna have to leave some of it in. I did like a seven minute interview,

it ended up airing like a minute 30, because they're just like, yeah, none of this, we're not allowing anything you do on TV. So you just have to awkwardly leave an ABC studio, like thank you, you know, but they're like, get the fuck out. Sammorel.com for show and ticket information and like I said, you've changed is the Amazon Prime video Your career has been interesting for a number of different reasons one of them being you took a YouTube

Possibility and turned it into something from risk into legitimate business What can you tell me about what you feel is different or done better as you've arrived at a place in your evolution where it makes you better than you've ever been? What just what do you mean? Like with you've changed with I was also confused with you've changed. How do the Packers do it? How do you feel about where you've arrived in your career and why this special would

be better or different than the others you've done. I like this one better than my last few for sure, just because I got to take time with it, I got to tour with it. I feel like I rushed a couple in a row. I did a rooftop COVID thing, which was cool to do, because nothing was open in New York, but I wasn't exactly in good comedy shape at the time. and then I did a Netflix one and I kind of rushed that one because I

had to have a new hour for a theater tour so I had to kind of rush a special out to tour on and this one I finally took a minute to really breathe and write and you know hit over 90 cities for this one to really make sure it was in it was tight and you know Australia, Europe, I took it all over. Let's make sure there's funny everywhere. And I think that's kind of what you have to do. Well, it's extraordinary. Like it's your efficiency with the joke telling.

There's just, I don't know how you do this part of it, but there's not a lot of fat in these. Yeah, well that comes from just like telling it again and again, and I hate doing this, but you know, I used to open for David Tell, and he would say like, you have to listen to your sets,

you have to like force yourself to the most miserable part of it, because like, I'm sick of me, but then I'm like, oh, I have to listen to me. But then you just kind of, you've learned to just fast forward through the set and listen to the part that the new jokes and you're like, let me just try to add on to the new jokes and the stories are the hardest because I'm not a natural storyteller.

I'm more of a joke writer. So but you need stories if you're doing an hour or it's going to be really hard to keep filling hours. You need to tell and you know, you listen, you're like, man, why doesn't, I kind of, hopefully you know the ending already and then you kind of fill in the blank, but sometimes you're telling it, you're like, how is this supposed to end?

I don't even know. So it's a lot of falling on your face, trial and error, like, let's see if this works. And that's why you have to tour. Like if I see a comic put out a special and it's loosey goosey and indulgent, I'm like, oh, this fucker took it to LA and New York and that's it.

You gotta hit, you better be going to Chattanooga and Knoxville and everywhere with your comedy to make sure you're cutting the fat and making it as good as possible. How do you settle on the outfit? The suit? Yeah, I didn't love the shirt, if I'm gonna be honest with you.

Oh, really? Yeah, I was going through and I was like, I don't watch this shirt if I'm gonna be honest with you oh really yeah I was going through and I was like I don't watch this but I don't know about this shirt I'm not a yeah what a hard person to sell there Jesus I don't like this guy's shirt I'm not gonna watch his comedy commit to 90 minutes of this shirt I don't know yeah I have to admit I'm interested now to see what the shirt is I'm gonna go go check it out See there we go. We got another viewer man, I didn't realize that the Levitard show is gonna be so fashion forward here But look at them look at everyone in this room

Criticizing a shirt that I didn't give a second thought to like what's wrong with the shirt? Everybody guess who did approve it mother or tan France from Queer Eye who? Yeah, I just dropped this name. Wow. Come on. Here's what happened. Here's what happened with the outfit. Nate Bargazzi's a comic that I've known forever and he's a dude that I you know he did an Amazon special so I kind of hit him up before just you know asking advice and trying to pick his brain. And he was like, go with Amazon this time, you know, mix it up. And he said, I want you to wear a suit.

I think it'd be really cool. And I was like, really? And he goes, yeah, I think it's like, he's like, you've done enough specials with, yeah. Yeah, you don't like the shirt though. I was expecting purple when he said that. It's just a white dress shirt. It's just got but Sam I don't It's a white dress shirt. I got a collar. It's a white dress shirt. I don't have any idea what It's a little off white. Yeah, I would have thought it was a Nick shirt

That's what I'm using Frank. Like I guess it's just jarring because it's different from what we've seen. Oh, by the way, congratulations on Jalen Brunson Had to wrap it. Discount. Yeah, I'm pumped about him. But yeah, I had never done an adult special and this was finally one where I had a budget to really play with, so that's where the backdrop, hopefully you don't hate that too, I thought look cool as f**k, tried to make it look like an old school film noir or something, like an alleyway.

And so it was the first special, I had a real budget, so I felt weird not dressing up if I'm dropping all this money on the backdrop. Sam, don't get distracted by them laughing at the background, he's purposely an anarchist asshole. Like, it's his role on the show. It couldn't be any more benign, it's a benign dress shirt. I think Billy cut Sam a little bit. I got him on his heels just a little bit.

I'm not second guessing it at all. I'm just talking. Did you, you're saying that you didn't second guess it. Now, when you were presented with it, where you're like, I don't know if this like fits people's perception of me. Yeah, of course. But I did, luckily I had Vegas like two weeks before, and it doesn't feel right to wear a suit in some places,

but I decided I'll throw a suit on for in a casino, it feels kind of natural. It was like pictures of Sinatra and everyone everywhere. So I was like, all right, I'll give it a shot. And it felt fine. I was like, this works. You look good, Sam, don't let him undercut you. You're too- That's fine.

I'm just curious, I'm just asking. Tell us more about how you felt about everything that happened with Brunson and it seems like, and I don't blame him, I'd do the same thing if I was in charge, it seems like this is all nefarious stuff to get around the salary cap. Well, why do you call it nefarious? Because you're working with your relationships

to get someone to take $113 million less than anybody else would take in the same situation i think look it's been over fifty years since the next of one of championships i think he knows what he's doing is trying to achieve new york in immortality he he wants to win he's a dude who clearly it's all about winning and now we got bridges and i think i think all these guys just want to win a championship in new york together like man how good is 30 for 30 going to be if these four guys win a ring in New

York after what they did at Villanova? I think it's awesome if they could do it. You would agree that Philadelphia is still ahead, correct? Or would you not agree with that? You think they have a better team? I don't know. I think it's pretty tight. Look, Darrell Moore did a great job.

I got to's pretty tight. I think, look, Darrell Moore did a great job. I gotta give him credit. I think he's a really good GM. And you brought in, you brought back Ubre, which was big. You lose to Bias Harris, which is also big. And then you pay a lot of money for Paul George. It's expensive, but no doubt he's a great player. And then who else, I mean, a big three, if you're healthy, of Maxie maxi George and Embiid is tough

as hell, but I Don't think the Knicks are done. I don't think you can be done I think you got it. You got to get a killer backup center, and I think it's a good series I don't know I think I I'm always gonna go with my heart which is a Knicks, but I think you got to put the Celtics first because they're defending champs and then I go with my heart which is the Knicks but I think you got to put the Celtics first because they're defending champs and then I think Philly and the Knicks are the next two best teams and then Milwaukee. So you don't get scared of what Philadelphia just did like obviously you were playing them two

against the seven all the games were close and Bede wasn't quite right you can't always trust in Bede's health but you add Paul George as the replacement to Tobias Harris, that is a pretty big upgrade. Yeah, obviously, yeah. But you know, PG and Embiid are, they're two dudes that are never really healthy, so I don't know, we added Mikhail Bridges and hopefully we bring in a killer backup center.

The Knicks are looking pretty good too, I think. But yeah, I hear you. Maxi's unbelievable. They're a tough team. You're gonna be down here performing several shows in August, then you go to Europe in September. You got Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, London. Do you have a city where you've been stunned

that they love you, that you can't believe that your reach extends to there? Yeah, I already sold out a show in Amsterdam and I'm like how the f**k is this possible? I you know I'm definitely I mean I can't say I'm like super pumped because I think like 21 year old me would be like I got a bang a prostitute but I'm 37 I'll probably go to the Anne Frank house or something you know. Why are you popular in Amsterdam? Do you have any idea? I don't know. I think they like comedy there a lot, I think. I think they have a big comedy audience.

Because your business, you have to be sophisticated about knowing what sells, do you not? You can't, I think a lot of people think that comics aren't quite as calculated as they have to be given that there's no safety net, no health benefits, and you're responsible for your funny pain for everything. Yeah, I think Europe surprises you.

Like, you know, I did Australia last year. I didn't think I'd sell tickets in Australia, but people came out and yeah, I mean, it's surprising to go to a new place and people are happier there. But look, there's some places like, shit, Sweden ain't selling well, you know? So you never know. right Sweden you've changed is the name of the special Amazon Amazon Prime video again he's a master of his craft it's

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Don libertar we didn't get to your guys's against the red. You're right. You're right. I don't have it against the spread Because I wasn't prepared for this segment You have actively played defense against me today in a way that has rarely been this undercutting. Stugats! Defense wins championships, baby. That's show business. This is the Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats! He was less enthusiastic about the Knicks and his energy level that I wanted to be and I think it's because Billy took him out.

I think Billy is a nice shirt it's because Billy took him out. I think Billy Nice shirt, it's really good. Can't ask a question. I Just don't understand why it's just a curiosity. I knew wonder about joke construction I wonder about fashion choices because these specials are gonna be out there forever. How do you choose what to wear? But when you said that I'm like man, this must be like like a bright color Disco sure I'm so interested and then blue and orange here it is and it's just like a little off-white basic suit that I've ever Right, I don't know about me, but look at videos of how he normally dresses. It's not like that. I'm just curious I just I'm just I'm sorry that this piqued my curiosity. Sorry. I have Wow this bread I'm sorry I have friends in hell. What's that? Wow. The spread.

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and not everyone does, but the WNBA All-Star game this year is the WNBA All-Stars against Team USA. And that's gonna be a really awesome matchup. Team USA minus 238, that's who we're choosing here. We're taking Team USA over the All-Stars. A giant favorite. Giant favorite. They'll be the first part. Baseball's back on Friday.

Juju's from Atlanta. The Atlanta Braves hosting the St. Louis Cardinals. We're taking the Braves minus 175. Giant favorite. And finally Mohammed Usman fighting against Thomas Peterson. We're taking Usman minus 130. How did those do while I was away? Did we win any of the Thursdays? Yes, just tell them yes, guys.

Yes, everything. Sure, yeah. Every single bet that we told people to take, it won. I took Team Chevy to win the NASCAR Street Race, it won. Oh. Did NASCAR, NASCAR straight race. They won. Oh. Did NASCAR, NASCAR did better ratings than Wimbledon? Look, I'd never thought I was ever an influencer, but NASCAR's pulling some dubs ever since I decided

to come along to the fray. So I can't, we can't rule out. We can't rule it out. We can't rule it out. Yeah, no, it dwarfed the size of the Wimbledon men's final. Now maybe some of that could have been because it wasn't a great final in that it was just three sets and it didn't last super long, It dwarfed the size of the Wimbledon men's final. Now maybe some of that could have been because it wasn't a great final in that it was just three sets

and it didn't last super long, but that's Djokovic, that's Alcaraz. This is the tricky triangle, poking though. This is really encouraging for NASCAR, especially as they're heading into New Deals, they have Amazon and whatnot. I'm telling you, this might be the first time in national history where a

sport used to be referred to as the fastest growing sport in America and totally blew that opportunity and then maybe 15 to 20 years later can once again be referred to as the fastest growing sport in America. Can I reach out to you as an ally here and a fellow seam head? Yesterday in... Gearhead. No, no, seam head. Yesterday, no. Gear head. No, no, seam head, this is where I'm going. Baseball? Baseball, yeah, seam head.

Go Ems. Yesterday I was telling everyone how great Justin Steel is and how she'd hammer the steel and no one wanted to buy and you were there in her thing. I was there. You watched it. Complete game. Hammer the steel. They call us the Masons, big Justin Steel fans, because we hammer the steel.

That dude works quick, big fan. Big fan of how fast it works. I'm telling you. Hammer the steel tomorrow. Also, I don't know if anyone's ever said this, Wrigley, great park. Yeah. No one's ever said that.

One of the few places I've ever been where I got goose bumps walking into the place. But I think that's a very controversial. What? You got gooseys. Yeah. Wow. I went, it was my first time. I had like tickets to Wrigley for Marlins game

when I was more into baseball. It was during my honeymoon and the game got rained out. Len Casper hooked it up via Boog. And now Boog, who I just casually ran into on the streets in Chicago when someone was just shouting across the way, he'd already hooked me up with tickets, but I actually got to meet up with him

just like by happenstance, it was wonderful. He hooked up my family with tickets to go see the Cubs, and I wanted Juliet to really experience it and understand that there was something here, but how do I explain the history of this place to a four-year-old? We watched Rookie of the Year the day before, experience it and understand that there was something here, but how do I explain the history of this place to a four year old? We watched Rookie of the Year the day before,

and so she identified it with the movie. It was amazing. I'm sure she sat through that. No, she loved it. Yeah, she loves the Sandlot too. She's gotten into baseball movies. Mighty Ducks, not so much, Mighty Ducks 2, not so much, but it was incredible.

Did you know about it? They got bars around everywhere. Ivy? I mean, there were a lot of passionate fans and they got a beautiful brand new Draft King sports book that's adjacent to it, which is an amazing place to watch a game. They're doing something right up there.

I owe the audience an apology. Masons work with stone, blacksmiths work with steel. So if you hammer the steel like me and Mike, you're a blacksmith. A good correction. I remember Bobby Bowden one time said that he didn't want to retire because there was only one big event after retirement,

which was death, and he also said of nostalgia. He said, nostalgia's not so great when you're talking about what it used to be in the dentist's chair many years ago, back in my day. So I get the goosebumps walking into Wrigley Field because I know the history which becomes less romantically nostalgic when you're using a urinal from 1918. One of my very favorite summer traditions is finding a baseball park somewhere else in the country, not here in Miami, where I can go take in a game.

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