The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: That's Actually Not True

Episode Date: February 20, 2024

Mike says the "We Are The World" documentary doesn't quite hit the mark, and Jeremy has a Top 5 NBA Storylines to Watch now that you're paying attention to the NBA. Then, how will YOU remember Rob Manfred's tenure as MLB commissioner? Plus, a report on a group potentially trying to repair Joe Paterno's legacy, Greg Cote selling out, Chris Cote's neighbors and their weird behavior, and vulnerable sound from Shaq. Trigger warning: segment two mentions of child sexual assault. If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, help is available. Call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800.656.HOPE (4673). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe Kings Network. This is the Don Lebatore Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Stan Van Gundy texted me aggressively suggesting I need to watch We Are The World, the documentary on Netflix. And as is my habit lately, I get about 20 minutes into things and then I just fall asleep. I have not been able to make it through much of anything in the last two months. So I don't know if it's any good or not. I imagine a certain generation would love it just because it's nostalgic, just because the idea of all

of the world's famous singers in one place or many of the world's famous singers in one place for one night, it's almost impossible to even make their schedules match up. If any of you seen We Are The World, the Netflix documentary? The Greatest Night in Pop, I believe is the name of it. And I finally got around to it yesterday because there's been a lot of positive word of mouth. I watched the NHL All Star game and there's been wired for sound clips circulating of Justin Bieber asking anybody who would listen, have you seen the, we are the world documentary? I've heard a lot about it and I, I, it was positioned as great insight into the creative process.

I don't think Tony, from the look on your face, you don't even know what I'm talking about. I have no, so, so what is this? It's like a Greg't think, Tony, from the look on your face, you don't even know what I'm talking about. I have no idea. So what is this? It's like a... Okay, Greg Cody, explain, explain we are the world from your prism as someone who grew up on MTV. It was a revolution to see music video come to life and this video come to life.

Explain to Tony what we are the world is. It was a charity single that included Michael Jackson and dozens of other luminaries in pop music Like the biggest names in music? Yeah, it was immensely successful it was like a number one song for weeks on end and And decades later, it's still famous if you say to anyone who's in middle-aged or older If you say we are the world just just that phrase, the song comes right to mind. We had never seen that kind of star power gathered in one place for one night of performance. So it's kind of like the all-star game back in the day where everybody was like,

oh, these are all the all-stars. And now it's like, oh, everybody already does that anyway. So it really doesn't matter. But this is the biggest collaboration there's been, I think, before or since. I don't think- Well, it kind of, it followed Band-Aid. So there was already a set formula and they tried to one-up it. And the question was asked, like, okay, you have all these white artists doing something for Africa. Why don't we have African-Americans doing something for Africa? So that was kind of the concept.

And then Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, and Michael Jackson were approached to put it all together. In first viewing of the documentary, I don't plan on seeing it again. I didn't think I liked it, but then the conversation pieces that come out afterwards, I do find interesting. For example, if I can wear my producer had logistically super challenging to get all those people the night of the American music awards, just the thought of someone scheduling it when you don't have to pay for budget and travel, just have all these people who, when they're already in town, come after the award show. And it's Springsteen and Cindy Loper.

And where do you stand people? Stevie Wonder. Yeah. Where do you, where do, where do people stand next to one another during this? Because that's something that you have to account for vocal ranges. I thought some of the best parts of the documentary were Bob Dylan having a crisis of confidence because he's not this crazy good vocalist and he's out there literally miming words because he realizes I'm gonna be a distraction. What am I doing here? That's Daryl Hall. How am I gonna keep it within that range? That is one of the best parts of the original video is watching and when they pan across everybody, you can see Bob Dylan just kind of like self-consciously

looking around. I don't belong there. And he's known as one of the great artists ever, but he knows like, I don't belong in the company of, you know, Tina Turner singing over here and Diana Ross singing over there. It's kind of special. Is it just the repackaging of that video,

Jeremy's talking about? Cause I've seen that YouTube video. It's like a 10 minute video. No, but it's not repackaging. It's all Lionel Richie's home footage. He's an exact, it's access to a night, unlike any in the history of pop music. He has all this footage, all this raw footage from the day,

the one day that they had this recording session. So it kind of expands on that. And they just stopped. There is an interesting documentary, a really interesting documentary to be made there, but they just stopped short of diving all the way in. They have people touch on things. For example, the specter of Prince hangs over this entire thing because they were trying desperately to get Prince to be out there and they had negotiations. Why don't you just play a guitar solo? He didn't want to.

There was this very real rivalry between Michael and Prince, maybe more one sided, but they sort of tried to coax Prince into showing up because they knew that he was in love with Sheila E. So there's a moment of self discovery without giving things away that Sheila E is like, Oh, you guys are just using me. You're just keeping me here as long as possible in hopes that you can get prints over here.

There's more fascinating things to dive in there, but they just veer off into another direction. Sometimes the direction they veer off into is a drunk algero. That doesn't sound like a bad direction to me. That was the best part of the documentary. How drunk was he? He did several bottles of wine deep

because he thought it was going to be a party. As a lot of people kind of came in on a party vibe post-American music awards, but he just fumbles it every time. And this is the old school way of recording. Everyone goes down a line and has to nail it. There's no auto to fix it. And he is just a drunk mess compared to everybody else. The late Al Jarrell. I'd like to see that video. Jeremy has incidentally, uh, Jeremy,

because we have moved into the second part of the sports schedule here with some second half of some basketball and, uh, and hockey and baseball's beginning, Jeremy has the top five things in the NBA to watch out for the rest of the season. I don't know, did you guys get all of your exhibition game takes out there? I know there was some Jaylen Brown video that we wanted to play at some point

of him flying around. Isn't there some video out there that you guys can get me that I can play shortly as we go to Jeremy's top five things to watch out for in the NBA? Any OLIs here, Jeremy? Or just, Yeah, there is, there's one OLI in this. Oh God, this video of Jaylen Brown is spectacular.

Just flailing through the air as he tries to jump over a five foot tall person sitting in a chair, just like that person that's sitting in the chair is five feet tall. This video is going to come back to haunt Jalen Brown if the Celtics don't do what they're supposed to, but the OLI. The Clippers are the best team in the NBA. They're spectacular.

Nobody really seems to be paying attention to the fact that all those superstars are amazing. Okay, they are, but tell me what happened the other night where I'm watching the Timberwolves beat them in Los Angeles by 20 and saying to them, you guys are sorry, you guys are old. Well, that leads to my number five, Dan.

They're really good too. Number five. Anthony Edwards and Carl Anthony Towns playing off each other might be the best duo in basketball. I thought it was Joket and Murray, but these two together, yeah. Well, what it is is their ability at a pretty young age for this duo,

right? Edwards has only been there a couple of years. Kat sort of letting go of the ego and accepting that he's the number two offensive option and just taking over when Anthony Edwards says you can have the ball. It's been great so far. Hold on, hold on. You think that Carl Anthony Towns is going to go to the second half of the season after scoring 50 in the All-Star game? You could just shot 35 times in an All-Star game. In an all-star game because he's not doing it in the regular season. Look, this might, this might not work in the playoffs and that's a huge part of it.

Kind of need to see it. Right. Raymond Green make fun of him in the game being like, Oh look, another game where he has 40 points and I lost. Right. I'm just talking about the regular season basketball that you're all about to watch. They've been spectacular. That's why they're the number one.

Help me with the rooks is there and all of a sudden Traymon has a routine. Help me with the box score, please. Did Carl Anthony Towns shoot twice as many shots as any two other players combined in that basketball game? Because I think you can say the All-Star Game was just a disaster because it showcased Carl Anthony Towns that way. Number four.

Number four, Shay Gildes Alexander. Probably gonna win the MVP. The metric saves the best player in basketball. He's been spectacular and the Thunder are really, really good. Again, I don't know come post season, whether the Timberwolves or the Thunder will be able to make the noise

that they've made in the regular season, but this MVP race is wide open and he's at the top I'm super curious about whether or not the way that the scoring has amped up into a place That it is crazed whether we'll alter things that we're used to seeing in that sport, which is Minnesota and Okay, see can't advance. They haven't suffered enough in the playoffs to advance. Like the history of that sport is those two teams never actually make it to the final. And I'm curious whether this year it'll be different just because you can make 43. Yeah, it might be. I saw a take online that everyone on the Western Conference is a Hall of Famer.

Every single person that dress out for for the Western Conference conference all squire, all star team, you could say is a Hall of Famer, even Shane Gales Alexander. We're talking about on his team or in the game? Cause there were two East players. If you add up their shot attempts, it's way more than towns. But if you add up anybody else's shot attempts on his team, nobody equalled him, but no two two guys even no two guys together in the game yeah a Lillard and Jalen Brown both shot over 20 times each the West is absolutely loaded which leads to number three at this point the old teams have been old

golden state the 10 seed the Lakers are in the play-in as well even the Phoenix Suns led by Durant there they're the five seed right now. But I think it's part of why when you look at the top of the West and you see Minnesota and Oklahoma city, these teams that haven't really suffered yet, you could see a ton of upsets in the West cause there's a lot of really good teams at the bottom of that conference. What you can also see, and this is so rare, Greg, like this sort of happened at the end in football with Ben Rothless, Berger and Tom Brady and sort of the old guard of stardom. The bottom half of that conference is where the old guys are. The future of the league is at the top of that conference and LeBron and staff having to go through Jokic at minimum

and, and, and the Clippers are old as well. They don't even get to be the face of the league, but Paul George and James Harden and that, that triumvirate to have them be that good. You're looking at the whole league being upside down at the end of this year where, where Curry and LeBron get kicked out of the story lines. Don't look now. Number two, uh, Eastern conference, top start and falter, which means things are setting up nice for Miami Heat.

Oh, come on. That can't be number two. Over. You know what? And number one, number one. You should go give it to us. Number one, please. That can't be number two.

No, because number one's gonna fix everything. That can't be number two. After all of this, all the NBA story lines you're looking at, talking about Shay Gilgises Alexander, all these other teams in the West. Ultimately, Nikolay Yogic is gonna win the MVP and the Nuggets are gonna win the finals. They're pretty amazing. Shouldn't Embiid, pre-injury, he was way on top. Yeah, he was, which is why it's wide open. I feel so bad. It's wide open now, guys like Donkitch, Jason Tatum. All of these players

are right there at the top because Embiid was leading far and away. And that's why ultimately we're going to do the thing where, Hey, nobody's paying attention to the nuggets. And they're just a few games back. They may end up the number one seed and they're the favorites to win. Ryan, a shocking story that escaped your radar during the Superbowl and the chaos of it is Yannis onto to compo says flatly that he gets as many scratches on his arm as Jokic, but nobody notices because Jokic is just white. He and his bad team. You missed that entire story. I don't know why did you miss that story? Yannis Antitokopo is claiming a

legitimate race story that you simply missed, which is he gets just as many scratches on his arms, but he's not wiped. You got nothing on that? He's silenced you, you're speechless? Hey folks, it's Mike Ryan. Now, you've had the distinct privilege of knowing me for close 18 years, and you know that I've changed. A lot of my personal life has changed.

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Oh my God, not a name. The fighting iris have done it again for the eighth time, and I'm playing white people. Spookats. Shubby checker. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He's black.

He's black. He's black, and I was like, oh, he was a white name, Shubby checker. I picked a black. I'm sorry, man. I'm improving here. It's a pretty cool riff. I'm lying.

Chubby Checker running down the side. He spells it differently. All right, his name is Chubby. Maybe you didn't hear me correctly. His name is Chubby Checkers. His an S at the end. I feel like that should be the largest of five. And Chubby Checker, it sounds like a college football name. This is the

Don Lebatar show with the Stugats. How will you remember Rob Manfred? You do word association. Tony's saying what happened to him. He's going to retire. Yes, he's still with us. You don't risk a $50 fine there. He says he's gonna retire in four or five years. 2029, he's retiring. And so he's doing the rocking chair tour

of five years of my commissionership. He made a ton of money for baseball's owners and helped ruin or further ruin baseball in Miami because he was such a mercenary and sold all of baseball's traditions in search of advancement and evolution and help modernize the sport. Part of his legacy will be fixing the sport because it's a lot more fun to watch ever since they discarded all of the all of the tradition rich nonsense that they used to

embrace. So he did evolve the sport. That's what kind of stinks he did evolve the sport. And the kind of stinks for him and the business or rather for us as fans is like, everybody wants to remember all the bad things, but ultimately 50 years from now, that's how it'll be looked at is that he saved baseball

in a way because of the way that the game has become so much more entertaining. Okay, but do you understand? It's probably the last bit of journalism I did where I actually got documents that showed that Manfred knew exactly what the Marlins were going to do and that it was a dirty, dirty business deal. And I got into a lot of trouble at ESPN because we were league partners in that interview was one of the worst a commissioner has ever done anywhere, but they bleeped Miami again, again, continue to bleep Miami again

and again. And the finances of that sport have helped serve the richest so that Miami gets bleeped again and again. And he signed off on it, signed off on it with Jeter, allowed all of it and treated South Florida the way baseball has always treated South Florida as the brothel that it is. That's actually not true. It is true. It's absolutely true. And I told you so sort of to your face on the phone. It was the worst interview a commissioner's ever done. That's actually not true. I think it is true.

My passion for baseball kind of died on his watch, but I do think that in terms of leaving the sport in better shape than he got it, he squeezed out all the possible money from the old model of TV deals with RSNs. They've made a lot of great investments and have proprietary ownership over certain streaming applications that really secured their future because many of the, uh, the streaming services that you've come to know today have actually used their tech. And in terms of the gameplay last year, it was largely a success. So I do think that it'll look better once you get a treetop view

on these things. They were so ahead of the media game, so ahead of the NFL of the NBA and he will be remembered 50 years from now as somebody who helped save and revolutionize the business of baseball, which is what the commissioners job is. And man, I will tell you that I have run into a number of people over the last few years and I'm kind of shocked by this. Maybe I shouldn't be. Gidele, not that smart. It's a bit shocking to hear, but that sport can't be led wrong. There's no way that if baseball stumbles, if sports in general stumble into financial wins where Rob Manfred, making every mistake in the book still makes tons of monies for tons of money for his owners. And Roger Godel keeps getting, what's he earning now? What is Roger Godel earning annually after

doing the move of saying during the pandemic, he would take $0, but then making his salary private because it has since become private, even though people are reporting it. 63.9 million annually. It's pretty smart if you ask me. It's ridiculous. Is it though? It's not. If you're making that sport that much money. I mean, if they, if that sport keeps getting, isn't the job of a commissioner simply to make the business run better than it ever has. Yeah. But isn't the success of the NFL just self perpetuating by this time? Couldn't you or I be the de facto NFL commissioner and the league would continue to be successful

just because it runs itself? Right? I'm saying to you, I'm stunned by the number of people who have dealings with Roger Goodell and they're like, look, this is not a brilliant visionary leader. This is the person who is in charge of that thing taking the punches on behalf of all his very rich people who have a ton of infrastructure around keeping the media away from the secrets of the power and the owners. He could re up soon because I'm seeing here that this deal expires spring 2024. So no, I think I thought he, no, I thought he already extended. I thought that he signed some other

giant monster deal. I think so. And his trampled Jerry Jones in the process. Jerry Jones was vigilantly anti-Roger Gidele for a while. And even Jerry Jones in the process, Jerry Jones was vigilantly anti Roger Goddell for a while. And even Jerry Jones, the most powerful man in sports, another person who Dominique Foxworth has told us sat across from Jerry Jones, like, this person's not as smart as I perhaps thought that maybe he would be given his amount of billion. He does have an extension through 2027. I don't see the number here for what that was, but the 63.9 was as of 2019. I think you're reporting, you're reporting exclusively.

What it's really high. I don't know what the number it's more than seven. His contract runs through 2027. And if he sees his tenure through to that date, it would mean his career earnings are up to roughly $700 million. He's a billionaire. You're going to tell me he's not smart then?

Come on. What are we doing? We shouldn't all measure. What are we doing? He's off of finances. People take advantage of... That's correct. That's right. That's one of the things that ends up happening. But I do understand why people arrive at a point that they think that... I mean, we're just talking about Trump a second ago.

That's what I was just about to say. Some of the things you were saying about Manfred, where you're like, oh, you know, he screwed Miami in this and we're still going to look at him as, yeah, Dan, four years later, Trump's about to get elected again. Like, we don't care if people get screwed financially as long as it's, you know, beneficial to the top. I wanted to ask you guys something about this because I saw quietly this happened over the weekend and I don't get offended by very much that happens anymore in sports. I really don't. So when I'm watching the outrage

about the All-Star game in the NBA, I wonder why the outrage isn't similar on the story I'm about to tell you, which is it's been reported that the trustees, the money in Penn State, wants to put Joe Paterno's name back on the stadium and were like in violation of public law by having the meetings in private when you're supposed to do that stuff in front of people but the money at Penn State after the single largest sports scandal or scandal of any kind that I can remember anywhere in sports it's such ancient history that we forget for a little after three presidential cycles that 12 years goes by and you're like, eh, so paternal helped lead kids into wounding

that they will never get off of them because Sandusky was a pedophile running a muck at his university with young boys and their futures sent to him for future scarring because he was disguised in plain sight and protected by the saint of Penn State football that they would topple his statues and that the noise would be loud enough for the moment to topple his statues but that everyone would forget them in the echoes of the years that followed it's deeply offensive that this isn't a bigger story never mind that you're trying to do it in private when public law suggests that that's a violation and a crime in and of itself. But to do that with your money, when you think all along that Joe Paterno has

been wronged and you're forgetting or, or maybe don't care, maybe it's not even forgetting that the largest sports scandal of our lifetime, that a patron saint of college football, an American hero was overseeing one of his assistant coaches, leading boys to horror that they will never undo. How does that happen quietly? Like how is that something that happens and just escapes the attention because 12 years go by and well, paterno's dead and history doesn't matter. Because it also forces you to relive that and hearing you just recap the story

and what led us here was not easy to process and most people would rather ignore it than be reminded of it. Are they talking about doing it? They haven't done it yet. They haven't done it yet because of- That's a big difference though. I think the outcry is if they actually have the nerve

to go through with it. Well, what? They were doing it like they announced it in our gauging response. No, they didn't announce it. They were having private meetings. They did not want her to work. They wouldn't do so in a fashion that could be held against them if this is indeed against some sort of rule. But this is some shadowy cult shit to be trying to like circumvent government law to have private meetings where the money reinstate- The entire scandal is shadowy cult shit. I mean, but come on. Like we're going to get that forgetful about that. We're going to get that numb to sports controversy that the machine's going to be

noisy for three days on the all star game, but this is going to be allowed to happen in the shadows. Like what sense does that make to anybody? I know it's not. Look man, this isn't fun, but i was just shocked even read it like i was shocked to see like i had to go and do more research to find if the story was real because i'm like wait a minute so the statute of limitations on pedophilia is twelve years so long enough for a generation to remember like it's not they got you get forgetful about that

it was a giant scandal and penn state people resolute about no you're wrong you're wrong. You got it wrong about our St. Joe. They took down his statue. They're going to put that up, but they took it down under public pressure. And now they're talking privately, not about the statue, but putting his name on a stadium because a lot of people would make the argument on behalf of he didn't know when he knows, when his players are missing an eight 15 meeting. I mean, there, there were several accounts of people informing Joe Paterno of what's going on there and him turning a blind eye and Jerry Sandusky still having an office. But the trustees turning a blind eye to him in that because they are resolute that their

money will win and they can put the name on the stadium because they have money and can erase or cure or throw a bomb on something that cannot have a bomb on it, cannot be allowed to have a public bomb on it. You can't like, you might as well name it, you stadium. Like we don't care that it's the biggest sports scandal that anyone has ever seen, that a saint in college football was overseeing the worst of crimes, was even tangentially involved. Even as you can understand that he tried to live a good life

and you can try to understand through Joe Poznancki's excellent book, that this probably killed Joe Paterno. The end result is his death, but then you're putting his name on his stadium and resurrecting all of it the moment that you do that. You don't bury him or this with that. You resurrect the name on the stadium and those victims are supposed to feel how about that in the middle of that campus. And a lot of people tend to do the thing where they just see Joe Paterno as he was towards the end and

say, this guy didn't have the faculty to truly understand the scope of his wrongdoing. And then you get familiar with the story and this is several years long. You stadium does have a ring to it. Yeah. Where did you go to school? I want to fuck you.

Hell yeah. In the US. It is. It's pretty good. The mascot's a middle finger. What is the mascot? Double. It is. It's pretty good. What, the mascot's a middle finger? What's the, what is the mascot? Double, it's like a double middle finger. It's two of them.

They run across the sideline. Yeah. One side of the stadium says, the other side of the stadium says you. It's a good chant. Yeah, it's a good chant. Sorry, Jeremy and whoever's editing this. Make it very difficult.

Don Lebatard. I feel like we need to normalize saying these scientific terms for organs on the air. Like, if someone, yes. You know what? If someone takes a foul ball to the penis, we should just say he took a foul ball to the penis. See?

Stugats. That freak can't get him right in the cock-a-doodle-doo. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. ["Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"] Giu-Giu put this on the poll, please, when Petino says this is the most unenjoyable experience of his lifetime, do you wonder which of his lifetimes he's

speaking of at LeBatard show? I want to get to some Shaq sound that made me a little bit sad but before I do so I got a text from my wife about Greg Cody that made me a little bit sad as he continues to commercially sell out in a way that is uncomfortable for me. My wife just told me that the pride of a lion cost $50. American? What? You're surprised by this? Yes, it doesn't. It does not. Are you saying that my wife's got it wrong? Yeah. Well then why would she why would she text me that that was so if that is not so? I mean I can look it up right now. I think the I think the face value is

So I mean, I can look it up right now. I think the, I think the face value is respectfully she's wrong. I'm seeing Amazon 1899 for the hard cover. There you go. Well, where is she seeing? Is she seeing an audio book? Perhaps there's an audio book. That's around $42. I know Ron and I signed a lot of copies that are probably on sale for more than the face value. I'm being told that it could be a signed copy on Levitard AF. Aha! So it's your company. It's my own company, I was doing that! Aha!

David Sampson, baby. Is that David Sampson's doing? Is David, so my wife is accusing you of something? Oh, that's quite the value. Wait a minute, so the only place you're finding it for what my wife is alleging is a ripoff Is it lebatard af dot com? That's right? It's a sign copy. I'm copy pride of the line by Ron McGill and Greg Cody. Ah

So somehow everyone's right So that's what's happening your own see I don't even sell my own book in my merch store Which has the he-haugh three shirt? book in my merch store, which has the He-Ha 3-Shirt newly on sale, but I don't even sell my own book in my merch store. Where's that extra cut going, by the way? I don't know. Is there an audiobook? Is that a real thing?

Who read the audiobook? There's an audiobook. Did you do it? No. I don't think Ron did either. What? Well, that's not as fun. You know, maybe there's not an audiobook and should be.

I also want one of those. I saw an audiobook option. I want a big old... Let me open up a lion as well....part of a lion as well. I know we're on sale in Germany and Italy. A lot of big lion fans over there. Big in Detroit too. Greg can't get enough about how much we've talked about him on the show today. Thank you. He's eating every bit of it. More. More. Do you know any of the neighbors that Chris Cody is feuding with because he thinks some of his neighbors are partaking in odd behavior? Do you have as your son told you any of these stories?

Nope. This isn't, I'm not feuding with my neighbors, but I, my neighbors have something that I find to be one of the strangest things I've ever witnessed. I've never seen it anywhere else. Before you get into it, you can pre-order the audio book of the Pride of the lion. It releases on February 27th. It'll be available on audible or wherever else you find your audio books. It's like this thing where it's not actually recorded yet. It's narrated by someone named Jeffrey beam. Oh, Ron's got to do that. McGill should have narrated it. He's got such a speaker's voice.

So my neighbors, I want you to have any of you ever witnessed this. My neighbors, it's a couple, they have a young child, a married couple. They both have the exact same car, color year, like the exact car. There are two of the exact car in their driving serial drivers. I don't know why I said, I almost said driving range in their driveway. Yeah. I don't like that. And it's just said driving range in their driveway. Yeah, I don't like that. And it's just one of those things where I'm like, how do they know which car to take? It's just, I don't know.

I think they might be serial killers. They got a deals with what they did. They went over to the G-flow Boko. They said, hey, listen, that's Ed Williams. We're getting two of these. Same thing all the way down. Miami. Thank you.

Is it cheaper if you buy two? Absolutely. Because you can negotiate and be like, hey, I'm getting two cars off your lot right now. Maybe that is what they did down the line. Right now. But I see it in the driveway and it's just, I can't not notice it.

You gotta go different colors there. Exactly. So I change issues. Different wheel covers, something, you know, something that delineates. You think they have the keys just in a bowl and it's like, ah, blind, let me just see. Which one am I taking today?

Well, you put, you know, you put a thing from the rear view mirror You know one of those little things that smells nice shape like a tree. I hate those a Christmas tree Yeah, something like that. Black ice hanging thing Greg Do you think it the forgive me is that something that people are still doing are they still hanging? And let me write that down back in my day. I I don't think that that I don't look trees calm our tree sense What we're even called well you need to know that before you shout air freshener I think is what they are air fresh little trees calm is exactly what it is Little trees I prefer the thing I prefer the thing you put in your vent.

The little thing that just every once in a while. When I was in eighth grade and Obama was being elected, a Republican quote unquote friend bought me a Obama air freshener that smelled like weed. Really funny prank. I propose. I'm being told that the signed books available on lebatardaf.com. Um, that shop, um, no longer available. It was a limited release.

I think we should get Ron McGill to actually voice some of this and give us animal noises and stuff. And it would make it's not your call to make. I mean, they've already recorded this with Jeffrey beam. You're going to put him out of work. I would. We should sell it for $100 on lebatardaf.com. I'll sell it for 99 in my merch store. Little trees has an America scented tree. It is.com. I said that shop. That's it.

Also smells like weed. What does it smell like? What is the, I don't know. It smells like Patriots. It smells like Patriots. At Lebatard show, put it on the poll, please. Do you use an air fresher in your car? Certainly none of you use what I have used on occasion, which I will go in there.

I'll grab a 499 can of whatever that you just opened and put under the seat. And I will do it gas station strawberry style. It doesn't smell good, but it smells like a cheap gas station somewhere in Hialeah. And it reminds me in some ways of my childhood. I don't think a lot of people are doing that anymore. I had a friend who would smoke weed in this car. I've never done it, but he some ways of my childhood. I don't think a lot of people are doing that anymore I had a friend who would smoke weed in this car. I've never done it, but he would use oseum oseum That gets the smell out. Yeah, that's I mean if you're trying to just you know freshen up a car oseum That is a real good advice from a friend of

Tony's Tony seem to be there's also a true north scent use your imagination there. I've got a life hack for you. Oh boy. You take your Christmas tree, you take a chainsaw, you cut out a round of Christmas tree that's about an inch thick, put it under your car seat, and you get that beautiful Christmas tree natural fresh scent in your car until the, the round of tree completely dies and, and drives up. Natural is what you're saying. Going to the organic source of the Christmas tree scent instead of the cardboard source. Yes, correct.

Instead of the chemical spray that you're putting into your lungs every single time you inhale. Yeah. Zagac. Uh, let me play for the audience very quickly. This sound of Shaquille O'Neal, who has now re-entered. He has reinvigorated himself on the podcast tour and the big podcast with Shaq had Jason Kelsey on. And this made me sad for Shaquille O'Neal. After Monique went on Club Shea Shea and said he doesn't have a woman, don't take any advice

from him, Shaq gave some advice to Jason Kelsey that the last sentence of which made me particularly sad even though he's talking about his wealth. I had this conversation with Gabriel Iglesias, who had a very difficult breakup and found himself wandering around a giant mansion that he was no longer able to share with the people who have like helped him build it. So this made me shack. This made me sad for shack. Advice to you is if you are going to retire, Yes. Accept it. Enjoy your family, brother.

Thank you. I made a lot of mistakes to where I lost my family and I didn't have anybody. That's not the case for you. So enjoy your beautiful wife, enjoy your beautiful kids and never dwell on what we had. Yeah. What we had is what we got.

You got the ring. People know who you are. Enjoy it because again, I was, I was the idiot. And I've talked about this a long time, lost my whole family. It's been a hundred thousand square foot house by myself. And that's what I got. But again, the way I was raised. So yeah, man up and deal with it.

But you know, so, so that's my best. Mike Ryan, what are you thinking back there as you gaze? Thinking that that's a lot of mayo on the table. I don't have the back story. Helping sponsor projects. I don't have the back story on that, but that was a refreshingly honest and slightly emotional clip.

We all know what he's getting at there. And yeah, you don't see that often. Shaq, that vulnerable either I mean to the point where he's having difficulty making eye contact because of what he's revealing well just keep in mind what Monique accused him of a friend who loves him says he's got no woman in his life don't take advice from Shaquille O'Neal and he gave a word salad after that that was largely empty but one of the things that he did say about masculinity

is you don't open up to your partner, you handle your problems yourself, that is the male way to handle things, don't show the vulnerability, don't show the weakness, it's terrible advice, it's a way to go through your marriage alone, it's a good way to get divorced. I will tell you this Shaquille and Neal story from 2006, the Heat were celebrating their championship at a restaurant that he was no longer allowed to go to because of whatever was happening in his life, but he was a street over in his car because he wanted to be near the celebration. They had to bring him food a street over. He's just in his car because he's no

longer allowed to go into this hotspot restaurant where all his teammates are and where all the crazy is because whatever's happening in his personal life is happening in his personal life and he's trying to hold on to his family. To go from that to in your fifties, wandering around all of your success because he is said to have a Michael Jackson one time wanted to buy his bed because it was so big and offered to buy the entire house just to have Shaquille O'Neal's bed. It is obviously, he lives the most opulent of lifestyles, but it is lonely. And it's lonely even if you're with companions, if you're not going to trust anybody with

your vulnerability. Like he's saying that poignantly, right? I've got a hundred thousand square foot house that every step, giant step I take in it, I'm reminded of my family's no longer here. I threw that away. It's especially poignant because Jason Kelsey is crossed a threshold into a new kind of fame. And so it's almost as if Shaq recognizing like, yeah, you were famous before you were pulling down 10, 11 million dollars a season, but this is a different type

of fame. You're famously a family man. Don't, don't squander it. Say that way. I thought it was really cool refreshing advice that that's, that's certainly ground that these athlete driven media companies don't feel all that comfortable covering. It's almost thorough rail. So I, I appreciated Shaq's perspective. I've seen a bunch of clips to Mike's point of Jason Kelsey being swarmed by people and he had, you can see, there's like a freshness in his face to it where he wants to give every single person a little something, but it's just overwhelming cause he's got hundreds

of people reaching at him. I also came away feeling pretty shad watching that because Shaq clearly needs to be vulnerable with somebody because if he's not going to be vulnerable with the women in his life, I hope that he's getting help somewhere because clearly that's a loneliness and a sadness that we've all seen. Like you need to be able to help your mental health and take that himself. He's not great. He's taking pride in the fact that he conceals it from others and does it the quote unquote

masculine way of just keeping his problems to himself and that's why he's so shat. But there was vulnerability though in what he was saying to Kelsey. I mean, that's good. I saw that as an advancement in Shaq allowing other people to feel his emotions. How about what Monique is saying though about don't take any advice from him. He doesn't know how to Share his life in a way that is true companionship because that's what she's saying

I feel like he did it and you can listen to that and understand that he has his huge house He has all these things, but yet he's empty you can you can take that advice from because he's living it I have aired in not getting at any point during this show have aired in not getting at any point during this show into a uniquely Florida tradition, rarely more Florida than it was this week, the Daytona 500. Pitbull made a return. Dan, this was the most Miami Daytona 500 ever. You had the Grand Marshal being the rock. You had DJ Khaled doing DJ Khaled corporate sponsored things and you have Pitbull release a Daytona 500 edition of a EP that he released earlier called track house because he owns a racing team. Ross Chastain, a member of that racing team. He's a legit power broker in the world of

NASCAR Pitbull. I don't know if you knew this is track house racing team at one point had three of the top four racers before the big one hit. Does this album have Dolly Parton on it? Or is this album has Tim McGraw? This album has Dolly Parton. It has a song about Jimmy Buffett on it. The Dolly Parton one's a banger. It's so good. Is it nine to five? It's sampling nine to five and it's called powerful women then. And it's got Dolly Parton on it. Is she singing or is she? Yeah, she's, well, she's, it's Pitbull and Dolly Parton. She sings their spoken word, sort of hyping up the powerful women of America.

It is. I mean, Dan, you're gonna wanna crank that on your radio the moment you get out of here. Dolly! What about the Daytona 500? What else was interesting this weekend? Greg Cody, you're a big racing buff racing buff well big times for NASCAR because F1 has sort of been horning in on NASCAR's popularity in the American market, but

Michael Jordan Michael Jordan joins as a team owner. They just signed a seven billion dollar TV rights pack broadcast rights package. Good times. This is Inu Anun and proofed on Levitar show with the Stugas. Gamble on by DraftKings. Hey folks, it's Mike Ryan. Now you've had the distinct privilege of knowing me for close to 18 years and you know that

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