The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: Find Out About Pablo Torre Finds Out

Episode Date: September 5, 2023

Pablo Torre is here to celebrate the official launch of 'Pablo Torre Finds Out' and expose Dan for his old interviews with the Trumps. Then, we have another Climate Change Stat of the Day and Lee Corso makes Lucy sad. Plus, Bernie Williams joins the show to discuss modern baseball, dominating with the Yankees, Seinfeld, playing instruments, his organization Tune In To Lung Health, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunlabel Tarshall with the StugatSpotCas. Pablo Torrey has worked for Metal Arc Media for many, many months now. I have just heard from our new New York Studios, Metal Arc's New York Studios, them spending 14 minutes trying to figure out why the sound was so tinny and shitty. His new show begins right now. Pablo Torrey finds out it is his first episode, even though he's had a couple of fakey episode where it just gets me and Neon and gets highly questionable reruns and rehash. But now the

real show is out and it debuts today and our audience needs to support it vigorously, correct? Yes, please. As vigorously as you can, as vigorous as that tepid applause. I know really wanted to. Thank you, Roy. The hash that you referred to, Dan, is elevated hash. It is great. The sneak previews you've been doing. I'm going to do more of that.

I came with a lot of thoughts about my show. I want to get to those. I have some Buffett thoughts, though. I've been hearing you guys talk about Elvis and Buffett. Right. Okay. I was, I found out landish, they were suggesting, prisoner of the moment nonsense. I thought that they was outlandish, that they suggested that Buffett will have the enduring

legacy of Elvis. No, look, my standard is how many bank robbers impersonate you. And I don't know if a single Jimmy Buffett impersonator trying to rob a bank, you know, like, that's the legacy that I want to find out about personally. More than Margarita Vils, they were arguing that his his lasting impression of Margarita Vils in your airport malls will out-endore Graceland. I think every part of Elvis's body is famous, every single part of it. And the motions it makes. I don't think this is close. But anyway, I digress.

Can I play the teas of my show, Chris Codys, I can do the teas. We do that now. Yep, yep, here we go. Let's listen to it. As a first order of business, in the creation of this show that you've been talking about for months,

it's to embarrass the founder of this company. Are you somebody who remembers anything about the tapes I'm about to play for you? You have just told me we're doing the Trump tapes and I'm like, what is it? What are we doing? There is this wildly truly eerie foreshadowing. Most of the oligarchs were there that's tremendous wealth, unbelievably beautiful women. Fireires to God, telling me to fire. Well, to God, you are absolutely fired. You don't have it.

I will tell you that right now, I am deeply embarrassed. I am legitimately fearing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot in here. There's some journalism, some investigative reporting. I think Greg appreciates the reporting I did about Dan as a reporter himself. I'm still gots had some reporting in this one that I don't want to spoil Dan, but involves the p-tap.

It involves like the most explosive aspect of the Donald Trump legend, which you guys accidentally wandered into. And I appreciate you letting me do the thing that you do better than anybody else in sports media. I believe, which is be humiliated in public. And so if I can continue this thread, I have another secret clip from your archive that only I have access to. Chris, if you play clip number one, if something's not in the episode, Donald Trump with us on 790 to take a junior. We like to talk MMA on the show. Donald Trump, junior is involved. Oh, no, I forgot this. I'm fighting this weekend. Fedor is fighting against Tim Sylvia. Yes, we do, and it's gonna be awesome.

Wasn't really asking you. I was just sort of introducing you. I appreciate the intro then. Oh. You guys became fast friends at that point. Oh. Oh. So your first episode, your official first episode

is just is journalistically uncovering my previous ping around with all the Trumps. Hold on, hold on. I have a lot of journalism that does not involve any of you guys coming this week. I'm very proud of it. Real investigations, not tongue in cheek investigations, but with my tongue still firmly in my cheek I have a second clip because that one was not done.

How much money's in your wallet right now? Oh, no. A couple of other books. That's it. It's actually a lot for me because you know i i i i'm a kid of the credit card generation i just i charge it all so i usually don't even have guys which is you know usually problematic by just got back from uh... vietnam where judging the miss universe pageant which we also over there credit cards are as easily accepted so i have to have some cash

and how and how much how much beautiful beauty fell in your lap at that thing you know it's pretty big amounts but uh... how much how much beautiful beauty fell in your lap at that thing you know pretty big amounts but for better or worse i'm a happily married man and so i can't go on the record for any of those things what is the point of that? I know i'm a smoker she doesn't matter with you are you are you are you are you are you are you are you are you are you are you are literally I go back and look back at life and say wow you know i could have done some things a little differently but now it's

my wife's also been to be. We have a lot of fun. She's not misuniverse. Oh, no She's not too bad trust me. No, I'm not I'm not I'm not saying she's bad. I'm just saying How is that more embarrassing than your entire first episode? I know I'm a smug. I higher first episode. I know, I know I'm a smug. I mean, what's most embarrassing is that Donald Trump,

Jr. in 2008 was trying to alpha himself up to Dan's level and Dan immediately got him to betray his wife in like five seconds. I know, I know I'm a smug. Very poor, poor question asking there. What else can we expect? I know, I know, I know I'm a smug. From Pablo Torres finds out?

So the YouTube video, our YouTube channel, Pablo Torrey finds out we spent a lot of time on and it's really, this is me saying this very sincerely, as sincerely as I'll say anything, that part as well. We should, we should use that. I regret not having that in the show now. The YouTube channel is special. We designed this to be basically a weirdo psychedelic TV show as well. And so we're gone. Look, I don't want to bore you with all of the previews about stuff. I just want you guys to listen to the stuff. So just check it out. You'll see it. It's really good. We're on ApplePod. We're a podcast, we're a digital show, we have real, real good stuff coming Thursday. That's going to surprise you.

And Friday, that'll surprise you Tuesday. We went across the country. Billy, we're about to lay. Billy, wait, Billy, you've got the right look on your face. Billy, go ahead. And what is he doing? He's turning a free off. We're premiering today.

What, why are we holding good stuff for Thursday and Friday? He is turning our show into a promotional vehicle for his new show. It's a heavy play. And which he's just telling you, we've got good stuff next week. That's right. It's really good stuff. Later this week. But later this week, the week after that,

I just gotta say, I feel kinda like a dog that they launched into space here. I know New York is a very fancy city, we have a very fancy studio, but building a show for Dan has kind of like been one of those dogs they launch into space. And you're like, I wonder if this dog's gonna make it and the dog sort of barks around and says subscribe

to his podcast. And it looks cool. And hopefully I live. I'm still here. I want to get to a couple of the sports stories of the day with you. Stugots, did you see that the New York daily news reported that bill parcells has given four million dollars to twenty x giants who are in financial distress

that is awesome big dude yeah good for him is that the money he stole from the dolphins at the end haha that is it with an Elvis Presley mascot? Is it guilt money that he paid? That story made me, it is a nice story. It also made me profoundly sad. Well, then all of these, I, one of the first real bits of journalism I ever did, which Billy

Corbin and I got connected on was the broke 30 for 30 about how all of these athletes lose their money. And so the fact that Bill Parcell ends up being, and I'm learning this from you just now, he ends up being a substitute for what the players union and what the league does not do, which is provide financial relief to a super majority of the athletes, their employees, who have their bodies and their wallets broken because no one has trained them to do anything. Yeah, a little weird that Bill Parcell's is Robinhood here in that sense, I guess, but I think I'm in favor of him doing all of this. There's going to be that 21st player that says, Hey, Bill, what about me?

Well, now they all know there is one guy out there that's probably. Yes, that's exactly what's happening right now. There's one guy. He said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, doing NFL player in financial distress shark tank. How do you navigate your emotional morally conflicted stance on we're about to head into another season of great, great enthusiasm and we'll stop for a moment if a Damar Hamlin happens and we'll turn away from the television and then get right back to it the following Sunday. My favorite part was that they removed and racism from the end zone. Like we did it. Yes, we did. We did do it.

Yes, they're putting something else, right? It's not end racism anymore. Now what do they say? I think it says play football. Play football. Oh, it's perfect. It's perfect. By the way, that's the story.

Dan, in so many words, all we want to do is watch them play football. It's perfect. By the way, that's the story. Dan, in so many words, all we want to do is watch them play football. So thank you for finally owning up to the actual morality of this product, which is, don't you just want to watch this? If we put a football on a table, wouldn't you want to watch it? We need to play it. Just watch a football. It would be another thing they could spray paint, and it'd also be totally valid.

Where are you on Lucy's blasphemous commentary that Lee Corso needs to be gone from her television? I think today is probably the funniest show for Lucy to take a stand against old people. Thank you. Lucy, why are you so comfortable with this? I don't understand. I it shows a fundamental lack of respect for someone who is an aged icon. No, it shows compassion. I'm showing him respect. This is, I love his legacy. This is not how it should end.

Lucy, but no, I want, I want the NBC special that Elvis performed when he came back, Triumph and Lee and like a red background and like he was like, you know, like doing this, like pelvic thrusting. I want Lee Corsot to have a final special on TV. If you're gonna send him off, send him out with the big Elvis level ceremony that we can all sort of remember him by before he, I don't know, airlifted out, I guess. I don't know how you're excellent.

Oh, wait a minute, what did you do to stay, right? Why are we airlifting him? Talk to him. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, him. No, no, no. Emergency airlift. A font. Not a bad. A font airlift. A spare lift. They don't know fun airlifts.

They don't know fun airlifts. The airlift needs your trouble. You see the helicopter landing near the emergency room? That is not a good situation for anybody involved. It can be fun. Thank you Greg. No one's being airlifted going, we. You guys think it's a zipline? You guys think it's the helicopter and he can get over traffic and

an emergency because someone's leaking out blood you guys think it's a zipline? It's just a married delight through our jungle just where we ride a hundred miles an hour leak course so you've got them in a paper machine netting going a hundred miles an hour airlifted from the game day set to a nearby hospital and air lift always canotes an emergency wearing the head well being admitted i can't hear your sound to Pablo for metal arc media from the new york offices check out Pablo torey finds out his microphone just wrapped out he will betray the founder of the company with his journalism

I can't believe I am deeply uncomfortable I can't imagine how embarrassing these tapes are gonna be to me When he said when he said Trump tapes we're gonna play the Trump tapes I thought he'd fished something out at Mogul Larr by the toilets over there the documents I'm like what trump tapes are a logo That's a big Live Don libato I'm a big

Slut it away. Okay, I don't think that's I don't think that's I don't think that's proof. I don't think that's proof. I think that's a lie. I don't think that's absolute. I don't think that is evidence. Salute to that boy. It's it's it's just came a flash. It suggests that you do. There's no idea what we're talking about. And now it's just googling it. Stugots. I'm not googling in here. My grandma was been staying in the country. I watched the braids, I watched the Colombo, I watched Matt Lug, I watched Andy Griffin. Yeah, I watched the show. Yeah, that's what you said. You go to the Pillar of the Bucks, damn. You tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you tell me, you That's... We're all wandering wide Let's turn on the news and find out

We're gonna die Die The monsoons in the American Southwest have not been seen according to researchers at Syracuse in 3 million years How could you prove that? Die No one was a life-threatening hero.

Are you a climate change denier? I'm not, I'm just saying. People are stuck at Burning Man. I don't want to be a stick in the mud too soon, but don't go into the middle of the desert. Well, it never rains there though. Time! It does rain, and now people are stuck at Burning Man,

but people do like that why isn it that we like to laugh so much at the festival goers? They're weird. Because festival's kinda suck. Yeah, they do. You get Burning Man. They're overrated. What's that all about, I mean?

You go to a festival in the middle of a desert in Nevada and whatever happens, Dia happens to you and I'm not gonna feel badly for you. That's it. Come on, wait a minute. It's right about that. Wait a minute, somebody died. Well, I feel badly for that person. That's. Come on, wait a minute, it's right about that. I mean, wait a minute, somebody died. Well, I feel badly for that person.

That's where you draw the line. Yeah, it thoughts and prayers. And their family. Oh, dude, right? No. Well, that would be unrelated to the. Oh. There, I feel bad for anyone that dies, Dan.

Teasing peace. Lucy, I am worried about you because you continue to stake out a position that is the voice of many, many, many young people to get Lee Corso off of your television set. And it's a controversial take. I think it's a controversial take you have and you are having it very strongly, more strongly than most. I talked about this on the show a few weeks ago

and people were really mad at me after watching this week's college game day, I'm doubling down. It was painful to watch him. He's not making sense in what he's saying. He can't enunciate words anymore. Like it's just time to let him retire or force him to retire. At some point it is on ESPN, right?

Because they're probably just letting him decide. But it's some, I don't know. There just has to be a way I'm with her. It's, I'm just getting stressed out now every time they go to him because you can see her be next to him. Like just being, they're being so sweet with them. They're trying to help him, but it's just I'm getting stressed out every time he talks. I think the parts where you feel really bad

is where he loses his way in a conversation like they toss it to him about something and he's talking about something else. I think there's a way here to fashion and exit for Lee Corso. And I, you know, we love the guy, but I know that's always dangerous in sports media, right there. It's about the fire. We love the guy, but it's always dangerous in sports media. He can't. He can't be doing such an important job at that age. I think it'd be better for him to run for president of the United States. Ha-ha.

Against those two white walkers that are going to be running in 2024. I think that's the age bracket for it. The remedy to let Lee Corso exit and still keep his sense of being is to have him do the funny paper mache head. And that's it. And that's it. Right. Like he's still on. He's the paper mache, paper mache head guy. That's going gonna be his thing. You know, it's a mascot head It's not paper machete. It's not what you're Just one whatever you're all wrong. You're all wrong Lucy, I'd like to get your thoughts here because thank you to God says an important thing for you to say part of my childhood

I love everybody. I did paper mach mache when I was a kid. Really? It used to be a big thing. Yeah. Water glue paper. It's a crazy thing to do. But, uh, everybody know how to spell paper mache because it's a funny thing to spell. Really? Wow.

Okay. Anybody? That's going to be fun. Why don't you spell it for us? P-A-P-I-E-R-M-A-C-H-E with the little thing. Woohoo! That was fun. Yeah. Thank-A-C-H-E with the little thing. Woohoo! That was fun. Yeah, thank you.

All right, Lucy, you got the floor. Thank you so much, Greg. Wow. Oh. The IR versus the ER though. I'm being nice. Like, it is so hard to watch him. Like, I want to turn the TV off when he's there because you're watching someone who just,

they are all the way and it feels just wrong. What is the proper way to do this, Dugantz? Because one of the few times. Paper mache. That would be like an arts and crafts the course of creates the paper mishay head during the show and then it drives out and no bad idea he puts it on

definitely keeping busy i don't know how to allow someone to age with grace when you want to max some respect them and their contribution to what it is that you've built he is a masquerade can he is a mascot for the network and for college football, and is someone that is beloved there in the same way Dick Vitale isn't get some of the same criticism. I don't know the right way to honor them

once you've got to the flinching portion of their career, but I think there is great grace in trying to allow the person to retire the way that they would like, because that is how we'd all like to be treated by an employer at the end. And what he is covering is not so important that this particular thing matters that much, because the broadcast ratings are the ratings,

and whether he's in the middle of it or not, you're either watching ESPN or you're not, but he's not costing them viewers. What he's costing them is in the social media age, they're getting ripped every Saturday because people don't want with college football to see aging in a way that makes them uncomfortable. We all love Lee Korsodan.

I think the proper way to do it. And I think what people are upset about is because we love him so much, because he is so beloved, it feels like his employer is putting him in a very, very tricky spot in a very bad spot for Lee Corso. He's putting, he's putting them by not retiring.

He's putting them in a tricky spot. Well, and perhaps they're both putting each other in bad spots. I think Greg is kind of odd. You're not. The employer is trying to protect what he wants, Stugat. I understand that, but at some point you got to pull him aside and say, Lee, this is becoming embarrassing for you. I'd like, I would like Stugots to be treated

at the end the way that Lee Corsot was treated at the end of his career. I would say it is causing viewers. I texted a friend about it and he was like, I'm not watching anymore. Like I've moved to big noon because I can't watch Corsot like that. Because they feel bad for Lee Corsot.

I'll watch Urban Meyer instead. Bernie Williams next. Don Lebertard. All these high paid analysts. I don't want to mention names. TNT. ESPM. You know, they can't look at the they're not going to make it, you know, even if they win, if they lose it in Miami, they calm you down. I know. They lose it in Miami. They don't got a chance in Boston. They're going to have their ass, you know what? In Boston, you know.

Stugats. They were wrong. They were going to lose their job. No. They're going to get a cousin paid. No. What are they going to do? Keep predicting what is the obvious.

They're going to say, oh, the nuggets are going to win. Oh, Denver, the altitude. And you know what? The heat are going to win it all. This is the Dan Lebatar show with his two cats. He's a five time all-star, four time gold lover, four time world series champion, more postseason. I think this is still true, more postseason RBI's

than anyone ever. Why? Because the Yankees were always in the postseason. There were a lot of people on base around him. He was always playing in the postseason. And he had 80 postseason RBI's. Bernie Williams with a- Also, he's great. And that too. Yes, that too. Cotton being a volume shooter out here. Also, no, yes, he was great. I thought that I said that with four time World Series champion, five time all-star, four-time gold glove. Or he was just hanging around compiling.

Bernie, did I insult you right off the top by calling you a compiler and that all your RBI are fraudulent in the postseason? Hey, I had a lot of chances. So yeah, that's something to be said about that. I am curious when we have all of these sports discussions comparing players across eras, you know, because you played baseball during Michael Jordan's time, but no one here is going to say that anyone that now is better than Michael Jordan. When you're watching baseball today, Bernie, are you simply confused by how hard all of the pitchers are throwing? Oh my God, it's just incredible.

When I was playing, we have maybe one or two guys in every team that could throw maybe, I don't know, 98, 99. And that was kind of a rarity, mostly the relievers, but now it seems like 60, 70% of everybody pitching and those pitching staffs are throwing over 99, you know, 98, 99 miles. Even people breaking 100 miles an hour. That was definitely a change. As a great hitter, can you please explain to the layman in a way that we can understand

what's the difference between hitting someone who's throwing 91 and someone who's throwing 101? Well, you definitely need to get the bat out there a lot earlier. You have to practice your mechanics. So you are letting speed quick to get that bat through the strike zone. The flip side of that is that you're facing a guy hitting 100 miles an hour.

That pitch is providing most of the power that you need to hit that ball out or to hit it hard because you don't have to provide a lot of your power. But you still need to see the ball in that reaction time and it gets even shorter. It's pretty short when you're hitting a 91 mile an hour fastball, so it's even shorter when you have to react to a 100 mile an hour fastball. So it's even shorter when you have to react to a 100 mile an hour fastball.

You famously crushed a pitcher who threw total slop, Jamie Moir. Everything that he threw up there was 80 miles an hour. Do you remember your postsie or your stats against Jamie Moir? Yeah, I think that's probably one of the few guys that I remember. I think I'm hitting out of no four, four 50 50 something like that. It was just an insane number. I think it was just a function of all the times that I faced him because I I actually faced Jamie

Through my whole career including the minor leagues. I mean, I remember facing him when he was with the mud hands with the Tigers and when he was with the mud hands with the tigers and several older teams before he we became major leaguers. So I had a pretty good idea of what he was going to throw. You have a change on his change. He's not throwing his slower than this. And then there we go. He will throw probably 60 miles an hour. In the major league, you had 90 at bats against him. You hit 389 in the majors and you hit eight home runs when you're getting to the park are you saying to yourself more than with any other picture I cannot wait to get there today I'm going to crush this man. Yeah I mean it gives you a little bit of a piece of mind when you are facing somebody that

you have had success against but at the, basically, it's such an unpredictable game that you never let that affect your approach. You're approaching the game and that particular picture as you've never seen them before. And you're going through all your arsenal trying to be at the top of your game because they're all major league pitchers and they're there for a reason and they can capitalize on your mistakes.

So you need to be at the top of your game whether you're facing Pedro Martinez or Jamie Moir or anybody in between. Bernie, who's the opposite? Who's someone that most people wouldn't think of but you're like, man, that dude, I could never figure him out. Well, I got a few in there. I'd probably Josh Beckett, Norm Chalton back in the day, 95, you know, 94, 95, Josh

Beckett with the Marlins in 2003. And when he was playing pitching with the Red Sox as well, I mean, I, I, he was just very hard for me to figure him out. And Pedro Martinez, you know, I mean, that was to to me, the hardest picture that I've ever had to face. So how does that work when you're going to the park that day when you know you have to face Pedro? Is it, is it vastly different than when you have to face Jamie Moir? Yeah, I think mentally is a little bit different because you go, you try to trick yourself into the opposites, you know, in other words, if you have a lot of success against one guy and you're going to the park, you're not really thinking, oh, I got it all

made because I know I'm going to crush this guy. You're like, well, this maybe the guy that he may have your number is maybe the day that he may have your number. So you better be ready. And then on the flip side, if you have a guy that you haven't really got any success, you trick yourself into thinking, hey, maybe this is the day that I'm gonna get his number. So it's a bit of a mental game that you play with yourself. Try to get ready and not leave anything,

let anything, leave anything to regret it. Bernie, one of my favorite shows of all time is Seinfeld. You've been on it, Deeter's been on it, Polo, Neil has been on it. When it was happening, what was the conversation like in a clubhouse when you guys have figured, oh, wait, now you're gonna, now you're gonna cam me on the show too? No, no, we really weren't talking about

a lot of the off season or off the field things. I think everybody had their own stuff, especially after 96 that we actually came into the map as this, you know, underdog team that, you know, won it all this, you know, it's kind of an underdog team that, you know, won it all against, you know, all us, you know, against the, you know, arguably one of the best rotations in the game at that time, you know, with the braves. We were kind of like the darlings of baseball,

18 years, you know, between championships in New York. We had it, we had it really good back in those days. So, but you know, the flip side of that is that we had an owner that was almost frowned upon a lot of all the field activities. They wanted he wanted a Mr. Steinbrenner. I'm talking about he wanted us to really focus on our job on the field and then have all the other, you know, side things, you know, I kind of kept to a minimum. Bernie, give us the example though, of some of the settings that you found yourself in

as a New York champion where you couldn't believe who was surrounding you and how interested those famous people were in being in your company. Like there have to be a number of examples when you guys are running New York at a different time. Baseball was more important back then to the country than it seems to be now. It's become more of a regional sport than when it is that you're playing it. Give us some of the examples of settings that you found yourself in where you were pinched

me. How did I get here? Yeah. I mean, I have a few, you know, starting with each and every one of those ticker tape parades. I mean, you're talking about a city just pouring it, you know, starting with each and every one of those ticker tape parades. I mean, you're talking about a city just pouring it, you know, itself out into the into the city, you know, into the main town in Manhattan. You see it cramming, I don't know, two or three million people in a few blocks, you know, pouring all their love and admiration and cheering us when we won all of that was that was just incredible. Going into after 96, you know, me and Tina Martinez went into a tavern on the green,

a really great famous restaurant and a central park. And as soon as we got in, when we sat down, everybody, everything, person in the restaurant, we got up and gave us a standing ovation. You know, I was like, whoa, that's insane. That is incredible. And then I will be remiss to mention, not to mention 9-11, when we were sort of cold upon to kind of give a little normalcy into what was one of the greatest

tragedies in this country. And we were part of that process of trying to heal the nation and let everybody know that we were not going to be changing our way of life because of those circumstances. So yeah, I could mention a few, but those are the ones that sort of come to mind. How about perks like signfeld, things that you had come into your life that you were stunned arrived as an opportunity. Oh, I got, yeah. I mean the sign felt that thing was just kind of like you know, sent from heaven, I guess. I had no expectation of that happening ever. Me and Derek Jeter had an opportunity to make a cameo in that episode and up

to this day, I mean, I still see reruns of that. Just an amazing opportunity to have my 15 seconds of fame on TV on a sitcom. I mean, this is something that will just live forever. So very grateful for that. I also had another opportunity to sort of raw elbows with a celebrity, the Jotore, a safe at home foundation dinner. I had an opportunity to play side by side

with Bruce Strangstein. And he pulled me, hey, you may be old for baseball, but you're a spring chicken for rockin' roll. Good job, we played Glory Days. You know, it was like a duet, you know, two acoustic guitars, and it was just one of the highlights of my young musical career, If I could call it that. Bernie, how hard was it for you to get credibility in the music scene?

Because you're serious. You're a serious musician, you've studied it, you're accomplished. But I got to imagine at first, the music people are like, okay, here comes this ball player. He thinks he can do what we do. Yeah, that's certainly a double-edged sword, which is something that I have to deal with, but I think that all of those thoughts dissipate when the people hear me play. You know, they, you know, as in baseball, everything that I wanted to do in baseball came from the fact that I wanted to be respected by my peers.

I mean, I take the accolades of the fans and all the fame and celebrity, but when he blows down to, you know, deep down inside a player in the clubhouse, wants to be respected as one of the peers, what they call a gamer. A guy that is ready to play and you can count on and moments of, you know, plush, you can get that guy out there, he's going to do the job for us. So in music, music is no different. You step out there on the stage and you hear the musicians play and they hear you play. And they can tell right away from the first two or three notes that you play and say,

hey, this guy's a player, this guy is serious about what he's doing. And you know, the music kind of speaks for itself. So, all I needed was kind of like an opportunity to get in the door and then that has sort of opened a little bit by my fame as a Yankee but once you get into the door you still got to play and you got to convince this guy that you are not just a hacker just trying to hack some chords here and there. I expect him to be respected just by what you did before, but you got to put in the work and let them know that, you know, I'm, you know, I'm wanting you guys and hopefully

you accept me as one of them. What is the most intimidating setting that you have played where you are most scared? Well, playing this national anthem, man. I've got a couple of circumstances where, you know, it's like a little icy, you icy, you get hanging on in a thread, and there's no second chance. You can't just say, okay, I'm gonna start over again. So it's a one time deal that you have to be on point and really on your game. And I've had a few words, it's like, wow, man,

I'm glad that this is over. But yeah, those probably are the situations that I feel probably most intimidated when you're playing it, you know, in front of 50, 60,000 people and you have that chance to make that anthem and respect it and play it, you know, and how people, you know, get excited about it, you know, and, you know, that's pretty, pretty tough and pretty cool. You have to pick one, which is scarier. Game seven, big at bat or game seven or playing a national anthem acoustically. Playing the national anthem on my electric guitar probably is the most intimidating thing

because I have no excuse as if I mess up. You can, you can play big, full. You can say, oh, the young park all about pitch on me. That guy was on. I missed this of that. But that spotlight is on you on that situation. You got to perform, and you have to do it to perfection. That's a pretty high pressure situation.

How good are you with those bongos behind you? I don't know, man. I just, I haven't just sort of killed the time, and I'm watching TV. I'm a very rhythmic oriented person, having my Latin background and my Latin culture that being from Puerto Rico. So I always, I'm always banging on things, tables.

So I keep the bongos, so I don't break anything. I have something that I can bang Dan don't do this a Bernie I can I can already tell where you're trying to go with this I could see them behind him over shoulder The thing you ask a guest to to do something for you either Dance or play music. He doesn't want to do it. I can tell by the end. Can you tell he doesn't want to do it? I can tell. Yes. Okay.

Because if he were to talk about tune into lung health while on the bond goes, that would be, you know, he's here for a reason. He's here to talk about lung. Yeah. Are you bothering or how do this for you? Hold on. Hold on.

Oh. That's how you call it. Let's go. Yeah. Let it. Let it. Yeah. And's have a tart bun. Yeah. And then you look forward to sticking the book.

All right. Go ahead and ask him a question about what he's promoting. OK. What are you promoting for us today, Bernie, because we're thrilled to have you on. He's a four-time world champion, a five-time all-star, four-time gold glover, 1998 AL batting champion, and he's hella good at the

bongos what are you promoting today? Yeah, too many too long health is a program that I you know helped create it with a bear ranger angleheim to utilize music you know the power of music to deal with you know the you know the hardships of of dealing with interstitial lung disease. My father died from a idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 2001. And I've been, you know, sort of having this process of, you know, getting him diagnosed and, you know, the hardships that we went through, dealing with his disease. So I am really happy to be part of this program and promote and raise awareness

about interstitial lung disease. It was something that not a lot of people know about. I was told that the Zoom didn't quite pick up that you were playing a little bit of bongo. Don't do this again. Did you think what he just promoted? I was just gonna ask him to play us out here just to quietly play us out. That's all I was gonna ask us for But the not that quietly little bit louder. I try

The visual without being able to see the bongo Little odd I'm gonna rip it up, Nick Bernie. Little odd. Pretty bad. Yeah. Yeah. The worst part about it is because we can't see the bongos. It's not clear what it is that he's doing

with the lower half of his body. Yeah. He can only see my face. Yeah. Okay, at least I have a photo. Yeah. I'm so excited. Yeah.

Impressive. See you later, Bernie. Thank you for being on with us. I really appreciate it. The boss. Thank you for coming, guys. Take care. Pressive see you later Bernie. Thank you for being on with us. I really appreciate it

Thank you for going with me guys take care