The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Daniel Day Stuis

Episode Date: October 2, 2024

Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Amin, Chris, Billy, Jessica, and Tony. Dan and Stu want to talk about their TV experience yesterday including baseball, basketball, and the debate, but guys, we have a lot to get to. We need to move on. As Daniel Day Lewis makes his return to acting, Stugotz and Billy take him out. Could Daniel Day Lewis method act his way into being Stugotz? And if we were to cast him as Stu in a movie, who would play Dan? Then, this Jayden Daniels is pretty good, huh? Plus, James Carville joins the show to discuss last night's Vice Presidential Debate before we realize he only wants to discuss sports topics like his disdain for Notre Dame, the LSU star rookies in two sports, Brian Kelly's accent, and the Saints game this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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for you to be watching television on Monday night to see that game between Tennessee and Miami and to have your television experience the following night be worse than that? That's hard. That's mathematically difficult. Chris Cody is working on a character here that he's looking to debut on today's show You're talking about baseball baseball was good yesterday. Yeah, what were you watching? It was bad basketball was good, too. Yeah, what was bad guys? We have a lot to get to preseason hockey Who cares we need to move on?

We just have a lot. Let's stay focused on the topic. Okay, Amin is here. That's always Exciting and I'm interested to get some good Carl Anthony Towns analysis As opposed to most of what it is that we've been doing around here. Tony. What are you dressed as today? I'm the guy from Reno 9-1-1 new boot goofing. They just didn't buy the boots. So I'm old boot goofing I thought you were far va. Oh Leader Cola. Yeah, I thought you were going for chips a long time Motorcycle television show from Eric It's dry. I can be anything. Can you take a step back?

I mean if you're really doing Reno nine one one We need to see how short those shorts are the shorts aren't short enough as you can see like they need to be like No one can see And also as an added bonus no one can hear you because you weren't so no I was far away from the mic, mic You can hear me from back here. The thing is the the shorts are too long Dan. I need them shorter I rolled them up three times So you don't have boots and you don't have the proper shorts and we're asking what it is that you're doing And we think you're something other than what you are Dan. I could be whatever you want me to be

It's okay. You want me to be chips? I'll be chips. That's Stugatz's fantasy right there. You're saying that to him. Tony is punch. Ponsciarelli is Italian. No, I, yeah, Ponsciarelli was Italian, even though he wasn't Italian. I was looking for the punch joke, P-A-U-N-C-H, on Stugatz, but I didn't want to start the morning.

I didn't want to start the morning there with some hostilities. Billy, what are you guys doing in Chicago? but I didn't want to start the morning. I didn't want to start the morning there with some hostilities. Billy, what are you guys doing in Chicago? I don't sense a general enthusiasm from you and Stugatz about going to Chicago. Tony's- Well, it's a day-to-day situation.

Tony's fired up. Very fluid. Very excited, very excited. It's a fluid situation, Dan. Getting daily updates on what it is. Love Chi Town. Trying to plan it, but- Chicago land.

One day to the next, you know. That's not much of a promotion for what it is Come see us. We'll be there. Okay. There you go. Yeah Yeah, do you want me to do with some flair and some Joe's on? Circumstance Dan is that what you know goes on weed Street my favorite Street in America I'll be there so you got to be there on weed 12 Eastern. I've been told now We're gonna be on a stage performing for a live crowd Now we're gonna be on a stage performing for a live crowd

So you can be part of that live crowd if you'd like to be just show up at the the bar and then be Over the age that you need to be guys. We got a lot to get to we need to stay focused here trying Yeah, I'll cut your mic This is the down laboratory show with this two guts podcast Well... This is the Don LeBattor Show with the Stugats Podcast! Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. A lot of people, Stugats, were very excited yesterday because Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement. A person that some people would argue is the best actor that is going today.

Who are these people? And let me be the first to say people get a life. I mean, seriously. Also, by the way, if you're surprised, grow up. Everybody knew that he was not retired. The guy wanted a vacation, then you say, I'm never gonna do it again, so you up your value, so the next time it's like, you really gotta give him the bag, he's retired now, he's not gonna work again. Please, the guy, all he does is walk around and limp around, pretend like his foot doesn't work or whatever, like, oh, what a method actor, blah, blah, blah.

Now he's coming back and he's gonna live in a fish tank or something, like, what are we even doing? There's three retirements I never take seriously. Number one, Daniel Day-Lewis. Number two, Tom Brady. Number three, Diana Taurasi. Really? How about aging rock bands?

Elton John? Oh yeah, anybody who says the last tour, anytime they say the last. Any musician ever. Dead in Company. They're never retiring, never. So you guys aren't taking this where I thought you would be which is a celebration of one Of the great thespians in America returning to work

Back to act and I think his son's movie Dan. Do we know if his son is a good filmmaker? I'm gonna guess no he works hard I'm gonna guess the name of the movie. I don't know what is nepotism is anemone Anema tip is a name of the movie I wasn't getting made without daddy being in it and worthy title let's just play Stugats's previous dismissal of one of the great thespians of our time and finally three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis has retired from acting good why good who cares about Daniel Day-Lewis takes

himself way too seriously I'm tired of him the actor's actor please get so deep inside the role please Daniel Day-Lewis go away okay see how empty your life is without acting have fun enjoy it it's a good point and we can't even trust that he's not just researching a retirees role because that's what he does exactly right. The guy's a liar. Right. A guy, right, a person who's retired from acting for his next, exactly right. That's something that he would do.

Well, he is a method actor. When he did My Left Foot, he only tried to use his left foot for many months when he was offset. I would say that Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the few actors that if he leaves acting, it's a genuine loss because he is a thespian. It's the last good thing he's done. Go ahead, Naaman, I dare you. I mean.

Go ahead, Lincoln. There will be blood. Oh yeah, that was good. That was back in 2007 though. What have you done for me lately? I mean, if you told me he was coming back and doing a Paul Thomas Anderson film, I would have been excited.

But now I'm sort of holding my breath a little bit. That sounded like someone doing a Stugatz impression. It did. It didn't sound like Stugatz at all. I was like, who is this guy? That was Stugatz. Full of youth and vigor. Is it because the voice was clearly

filled with energy and youth and not sort of tattered by self-destructive tendencies and age. What are you talking about? If he was such a great actor, do a comedy. How about show me some range, great actor? Always do the same thing. Not a great actor. Here's some range in Stugatz's voice.

See how empty your life is without acting. That's a good point by you, Chris. Like it really does sound like someone doing a great stugat See how empty your life is without acting have fun enjoy it Why does your voice sound so much stronger? I my voice is also deteriorated So I'm not I'm not sitting here just criticizing you saying we have both eight and I'm gonna stand up for you Your voice is not deteriorated It is aged like fine wine because early Levitard,

very high pitched and whiny all the time and very upset all the time. I've listened to the first episode. I think I've done this before. I listened to the very first episode of the Dan Levitard Show and you were so, I'm like, why is this guy so angry? He's like, that's not the kind of show we're gonna do.

We're gonna have Chris Mortensen on. We're gonna have the experts on. I'm like, why are you angry, dude? And then he finds out that because people said you guys are gonna die within like 12 months or whatever. I have had tone issues for my entire life doing this and I've never fixed it and I've known it's a problem and I know that it makes me strident,

somewhere between strident and sanctimonious, unlikable and it dilutes my message and I've never been able to fix it even a little bit. It's gotten better though. It's like imagine Daniel Day-Lewis in Super Bader, the sequel to Super Bad, and he kills it. That would be incredible. That would be impressive, would it not?

I'll be impressed when I see Daniel Day-Lewis as John Weiner in the Don LeVetard story. Daniel Day-Stewis. Don LeVetard? Daniel Day-Lewis as John Wiener in the Don LeBotard story. Daniel Day-Stewis. Don LeBotard. Daniel Day-Stewis. They gotta change the name. He's just chain-smoking heaters to get ready for the role. Well, they didn't get the life rights, so.

Can you imagine what the method acting, the method acting for Daniel Day-Lewis to play Stugatsa be? He becomes a Jets fan. You made it Don LeBotard-y. They don't have the rights. Yes. Yeah. Gotta go Don. You played hard ball. You gotta it Don Lebatard why? They don't have the rights. Yeah.

Got to go Don. You played hard ball. You got to sign it over, Dan. You take the A, you make it an O, boom. I refuse to have Daniel Day-Lewis in a recreation of my life. I absolutely refused. I held on to my name because I didn't want to be represented

by one of the great actors of our time. You're not, Stu is, and that's why you were mad. Yours is like John Favreau. You were mad, Stu is. And that's why you were mad. Yours is like Jon Favreau. You were mad. Jon Favreau. Jon Favreau as Don Lebatard. Jim Belushi.

Oh. Oh, wow. Because if you say Favreau, he'll say yes. You got to figure out the name. He'll say yes to Favreau. I don't think so. He didn't get a head tilt. You wouldn't want Favreau to play you?

I wasn't mean. I think he's accomplished enough where Dan would be OK with it. But as a director. Not would be no hey with it But okay with it not as an actor. Yeah, Dan doesn't want Favreau acting as him. You don't want Favreau playing you I don't know why you would believe that Billy is speaking for me accurately. Like I don't know why It's just you did the headline. How about an aged Leonardo DiCaprio playing Dan? I I'd go Chris Penn Not with us anymore. Rest in peace. Even better. I think it has to be somebody who looks a little swollen

and Jim Belushi is also B-list. Jim Belushi. B-list. According to Jim. Yeah, I think it can't be Leonardo DiCaprio. No, no, no, no, no. Daniel Day's Stewist is going to be in a movie alongside another A-list actor. Well, we blew the budget on Stewist, though. Yeah. no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, The one that we beefed with the heavy one Zach Galifianakis not terrible the facial hair. I'm telling you a little small though. He needs to be bigger

We can we can hide that out the camera. Well, how is Daniel Day stewis gonna shrink himself down to stugat? He's a method Exactly, he'll take seven years off. He'll figure it out. It's good luck at five eight five eight on a good day. You guys, just to dismiss a couple of things about Daniel. Then always add two inches. Daniel Day-Lewis. Welcome back, Jess.

Daniel Day-Lewis lived in Italy for a while to be a cobbler. He was actually making shoes in Italy. No, he wasn't. I mean, I'm just telling you. You'll believe anything. You believe exactly right. He didn't make shoes in Italy. No he wasn't. I mean, I'm just telling you. You'll believe anything. You believe exactly right. He didn't make a single shoe. You guys won't believe anything.

Like that's a, you guys call everyone a liar, any fact that's placed in front of you. You guys are the reason there's disinformation all over America. We're the reason, not the actor that tells you he's selling shoes in Italy that no one can verify. That's a pretty good, you know what? That's a good side by side, Chris.

How about James Corden? Would you have James Corden be you? Would Jet Black Harry paint some black? Be fun. James Corden! It works, I think. Yeah, I think it works too. James Corden, opposite Daniel David Stewart, I don't think Daniel David Stewart's gonna take that role.

What do you have this movie being? You have it being a musical? Well, we're workshopping it, yeah. The Don Lovatoch show. Guys, we need to move on. John Goodman? Oh, wow. Oh, wow, hold on.

Mike's gonna go off. Let's speak about another Daniel, Jalen Daniels. The idea that he has started, yeah, about 10 minutes too late. The idea that he has started his career completing all of his passes, we spent all of yesterday talking about a truly abysmal Tennessee Titans-Dolphins game while in the other game being played last night, you had, I'm sorry, Monday night, you had all completions by the Detroit Lions, and we talked about the dreadful game

we've also talked a lot this season about how bad the quarterback play has been how good the defenses are how many twenty to fifteen games there are and the commanders have the most efficient offense in the league and this kid is just getting started like how is that possible i cam newton came out of the box with one four hundred yard game and then settled into being good But not what cam Newton became right out of the gate, right? I don't know How many times in my career?

I've seen a rookie quarterback not named Dan Marino Start with four games like I got this figured out. I'm okay here, you can slow me some in Tampa, but I'm not somebody who the game is moving too fast for. Like give me all the examples you have off of the top of your head of a quarterback who has started this well four games in where they start him and it's just obvious right away, oh my God, he's going to be great. CJ Stroud did some of this. CJ Stroud did a lot of that. I can't believe I'm saying this, but four games in Brock Purdy was pretty good. Like there was no learning curve for him. He was good right away. Brock Purdy. He was excellent. It was like a 13 game streak of like, oh wow,

he might be the best quarterback in the league. Obviously he's got great weapons, but Dan on the Jaden Daniels point, like he's doing with so many limitations too. Offensively, they've got two guys that are OK. Terry McLoran's a good wide receiver. Robinson Jr. is a good running back. But he's got kind of nobody else. Noah Brown, Diami Hill. He's got him.

Yeah, sure. And he's already doing it with one hand tied behind his back with Cliff Kingsbury, who's not really a great OC. RG3, at the very beginning, we were concerned that he was going to get hurt. And so I don't remember what his first four games were like exactly.

He was running around a good amount. Also Brock Purdy, not to be a stickler, his first four games he didn't play. He was on the roster, he was sitting there, he was watching, then he played a couple of downs. How about the games he played? What's up? Well, he played three games before the streak you're talking about. I mean, he got into a game. He didn't start the game, obviously. His first four starts, yes. But

he had been on a roster, he had gotten into some games, three different games. What Dan is describing is someone's like, fresh out of training camp, here I am, football, this is easy like that's the crazy part that part makes no sense that there is no such thing as that largely that somebody comes in and the game isn't so sped up that uh... you're watching in your life

all this person has comfort doing what he's doing it wasn't that for Peyton Manning I'll tell you that Peyton Manning. Peyton had one of the worst rookie seasons of any quarterback in the history of the NFL He did, no doubt. But he got all the starts He started 16 games and the Colts, Jim Erce said this he goes he has the mentality to overcome a bad season He threw a lot of interceptions I don't know that I would call it one of the worst season to quarterback has ever had given how bad quarterback play is but uh... i'm still not uh... i

cj stroud it took a minute correct it wasn't like this it wasn't uh... it wasn't he takes the field and you're like all he's got this all figured out through the first month of the season uh... i feel like it was right away with CJ just getting back to RG3 for a second. His first game as a starter, he was 19 of 26, 320 yards, had two touchdowns. I mean, and he ran for like 70 yards in that game. He was good.

The team was good. They made it to the playoffs. He got hurt. I think you saw glimpses with Stroud, right? Because he had played some decent games. And you're like, oh, wait a second. Like, there's something there who would make a throw here and there. You'd be like, oh, wow, that's it. And then towards the a throw here and there, you'd be like, oh wow, that's it.

And then towards the middle half of the season, it was just like, oh, this guy's incredible. Jaden Daniels out of the box is like 82% completion percentage against a decent team and then he does it again and then he does it again and it's like, could this guy be not only rookie of the year but MVP? Seriously?

CJ Stroud, his first game had no touchdowns, no interceptions, but the next five games, he had 11 touchdowns and one interception. It was great. He didn't have a second interception until like November mid-november He was excellent to start his career, but with Jade and Dan is right It's not so much the numbers the touchdowns the yards he hit like he's been good has it been great It's the poise it's deciding when to run when not to run. It's not turning the ball over. He's been incredible The the math that I'm doing isn't something you can find in a stat sheet It is people watching at home, especially the people with teams that have quarterback problems

Saying through four games of the first month of the season Oh shit, Washington's gonna be a problem for a decade if that stays healthy. It's the same reason you're surprised that Jacksonville is playing so closely against Houston because you already trust that C.J. Stroud. You're already expecting Houston to be a favorite in most of the games that it plays just because of what their quarterback did last season where I'd just don't have a lot of instances i'd you know as i said cam newton's first game was four hundred yards i don't have a lot of anyone in mvp later on and they went to a super bowl

i don't have a lot of instances when i'm watching uh... a team and i'm saying that otherwise throughout the league all the other teams are having trouble with scoring and offense and defense seems ahead because of everything with the preseason. And I'm looking at a franchise that has been among the worst anywhere in sports in terms of leadership for 25 years. Problem solved. Problem solved. Yeah. You're also looking at the NFC East and being like is Jayden Daniels playing the best out of every

quarterback in the NFC East and multiple guys with 240 million dollar plus contracts like that's the other thing. Well, that depends. Do you value touchdowns? Yes, damn Daniel Jones is out. Hmm I mean if you didn't buy touchdowns, I'm like, wait a second Danny dimes It's it's also only four games into his career, right? Like adjustments will be made and then he's gonna have to adjust to the adjustments. Adjust to the adjustments. That's the chess game. I don't think that you can actually ever say in the NFL like this is a sure thing for a decade, right? Like Joe Burrow, we thought wow, the Bengals are gonna be there forever. They're gonna dethrone the Kansas City Chiefs.

He's still playing well though, Billy. But. When he's healthy. Yeah, but the Bengals are not really a threat, are they? Like, and the Chiefs have the record, but you can look at the Chiefs and say, that doesn't look exactly the same if they don't start making moves. Like, there's just not really sure things

in the NFL anymore, are there? We're not sure of anything, Dan. Well, and obviously, because injuries play such a huge role in it. I'm not saying that I will be right in saying problem solved. I'm saying that everyone's having that sort of reaction, and then you can do all the qualifiers after that might get hurt. Football is hard. A lot of things are in play. But you know that somebody's good already and that the adjustments

to the adjustments don't seem to be a problem for him like if you're coming out this Is the this is the worst he'll be he's gonna keep getting better with the repetitions of of Excellence like what you're presently watching is the worst professional him wait until he figures it out. I mean How can I be how can that be wrong what it is that I'm saying? This is not the worst he's going to be. Yeah, this is, yeah. There's no, that's just not true. It's exactly what Billy just said. They're going to make adjustments.

And if he doesn't know how to adjust the adjustment. No, I'm not saying that this is the worst he's going to be statistically. I'm saying this is the least he'll know. That he, that, that with reps and with experience that he's going to continue to get better. What I mean. Is that all of us? I mean, yes, it's all of us, but all of us don't start this way. Yes, it's all of us.

And you should know as somebody who believes in front office expertise and the measuring of talent, that this is as raw as this is going to look. Like, if you keep giving him seasons of snaps, the only thing that becomes a problem is his physical health because somebody might hit him in a way that his body deteriorates. But I just saw Derek Henry run through a secondary

at his age with all of that mileage on his body. And there are things that science can do now that helps these guys somehow recover and stay healthy. Did you guys see Derek Henry's eating routine? He doesn't evidently eat most days until five. So he's literally running through your secondary hungry. Like he does eat on Sundays, Dan. He does eat on Sundays.

Binge eats on Sundays. That's what it is. But no, I saw it, Dan. He doesn't eat gluten. He doesn't eat a bunch of different things. And then before practice, he'll have an avocado and a banana. And that that's what he does it's like a weird bizarro version of dan you know how we like dan how is it you don't eat any of these things you still stay big but he's in great shape and dan dan's not running 22 miles an hour through the bill secondary

i mean you've been very mean to dan today have i i said i told him hey they're gonna make a movie of your life and they're not gonna have the rights to it But they're gonna have Daniel Day Lewis plays two gods and then was kind of non plus He kind of poo pooed by the way he poo pooed some of our acting the Jim Belushi didn't like Jim Belushi didn't like Corden didn't like Galifianakis Yeah, Favreau Favreau. How dare you say no to Favro? I didn't say no to anybody. You said no to Favro.

I'm an accomplished actor, yeah. A lot of people were speaking for me, as is the case around here. Jeff Bridges. Sure. No, see that's why. Now we got him. But then get a quick response.

You know Dan, like that's, I mean he's right. If he gives you a quick response, that means he's good with it. Okay, how about they couldn't. He's mad at a mean. They couldn't reach an agreement, so they settle on Patrick Warburden. Oh, putty.

A lot of people my entire life have been calling me flounder from Animal House if you wanna get that picture up there from a million years ago. That's something that greeted me my first show on Pardon the Interruption. No way. Yeah, they were already unwelcoming.

Already people didn't want me there because I was neither Tony nor Mike. And what I got was, who put Flounder from Animal House on Pardon the Interruption? Oh, is that to do with the hat? Yeah, yeah. Oh my God. How about Newman from Seinfeld?

Oh, way nice. It gets meaner, Jessica. It keeps getting meaner. Why? Hold on. What? Flounder? Like you don't know what you're doing. You were trying to compliment me with Newman from Seinfeld? Better than Flounder. I mean look, Flounder's got the eyes.

It's the eyebrows too. It's the eyebrows. That's the levitard eyes right there. Just take this strip right here. That would be like young Dan though, right? Like in a flashback scene is young Dan. Crying at the Miami Herald because he can't be, he can't succeed at the beat work. It would be Young Don. Young Don. Who's future Don?

Because this is a time travel movie, obviously. Also Young Don works at the South Florida Sentinel. You gotta change enough stuffs to that day. South Florida Herald. Just so we don't get any more. There you go. Can you play that audio and that video please of a sweaty John Gruden really being excited about uh about Daniels

you know why i'm so sweaty i've been watching jaden daniels on film that's it i just sit here watching jaden daniels and i start sweating my heart starts beating watching him run around this guy's freaking awesome that's kind of porn it's great breathy it's pornographic it's a little you man I'm watching them and I'm just sweating breath you gotta go breathier the sweat just starts pouring out of me man when I watched that film I want to play that again please and I want to tell you I want to give you this is context this is not a football coach This is not a football coach. This is not a football coach talking about a quarterback. This is just a man emerging from a booth at the Pleasure Emporium.

You know why I'm so sweaty? God, I've been watching Jaden Daniels on film. That's it, I just sit here watching Jaden Daniels and I start sweating, my heart starts beating. Watching him run around, this guy's freaking awesome. I love any statement that starts with, you know why I'm sweating? You have my attention.

Why? Because it's like no one ever asks, hey man, why are you sweating? It's a good follow up. You gotta start with, you know why I'm sweating? Just this is my introduction right here. I generally know why someone is sweating when they're sweating you never know you never walking in from a hot outside Watching Jayden Daniels

Watching Jayden Daniels, maybe you assume that's what he was doing and he's clarifying That's a lot of sweat to be watching NFL highlights someone has to say it Wow, it's too much his handle is Gruden loves football. I saw that I didn't know that's an aggregator That's a natural. I just looked it up right now while we were talking and it seems to be all Gruden videos But I don't know if it's actually him or just someone who is it luv or is it Lovie? Lovie if we go behind the scene if we go behind the scenes on this video Did he just get done with a workout? He doing a thing No, did he watch water? Listening yeah, well behind the scenes, but that's the scene right what really I've got he just took a water bottle and poured it on his chest

I've been watching film man. I'm gonna do a video. Hey, honey. I'm gonna go in the office. I got an idea for a video I've been watching Jaden Daniels Wait a minute, what were those hands? The hands were all Biden. Listen man That's a that's a pretty good John Groot Can't say so myself Tony. That was a good teammate handing him your Reno 9-1-1 glasses to help him with the Biden Nation the noise Chris made while he was putting the glasses on, we might need to cut for later.

How about that debate last night? Juju, put it on the poll, please. Is Gruden loves football redundant at Levitarch show? How about that debate last night? James Carville is about to join us. How did you guys feel about the debate last night? I was really hoping that it would just be better and I'm just generally concerned about all leadership in America Hmm was it better? I didn't watch was

I had no idea there was a debate last night. We need to move on. Okay. I just we got to stay on topic here How about Dan Aykroyd is future Dan? Don't want to be sued. Gotta be, again, Amin is a real stickler about these legal rights. It's gotta be the Don Levitage story. I think you guys aren't understanding it. I have not allowed the rights to my movie

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Don LeBretard. I just heard a song that had Frank Sinatra singing from the window to the wall till the sweat drop off my balls. Stugats. The window to the walls. We all heard that, right? Till the sweat drop off my balls. Stugats! The window to the walls, till the sweat drops down my balls. So what I'm saying here... All these females crawl, singing oh skeet skeet god damn.

Old blue eyes. Congratulations on your suey nomination. This is the Don LeVatar Show with the Stugats! This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. Looking forward to this one. I've been enjoying watching and listening to this man talk for more than 30 years. He's a Hall of Famer of American politics. He helped run Bill Clinton's campaign in 1992. CNN Films has a new documentary about him called carville

winning is everything stupid it debuted saturday at seven p m eastern on cnn it's getting a lot of buzz at film festivals because he's been a character for thirty two years in uh... in the face of american politics and in public james carville with us uh... nice to you, James, always nice to see you. Well, good, thank you. Thank you for having me on. I've enjoyed, always enjoyed your show through the years, and we're excited about the new film.

The Raging Cajun, this is exciting. That is correct. Before we get to what happened last night, James, can you just tell me why it is that America doesn't have better leadership? Well, I think we have, at doesn't have better leadership? well, I think we have a little choice this time and I'm

enthusiastic about the vice president but one of the things that I tried to address in a movie is is We need to get really good people in politics and not running for office working in campaigns covering campaigns, covering campaigns, reporting on campaigns. You know, we need to tell people that this is an important business and it's a good business. Hopefully the film makes that point. Before we get to talking about the film, which I imagine will examine your marriage heavily, because it's one of the most unusual you will find not just in politics outside of politics because

you uh... you guys are aligned spiritually but not at all politically uh... what did you make of last night at the audit it that that was fine dances uh... you know what more people can't drop but anybody more arty was in charge and i and was came across like a

master sergeant and a football coach, you know, kind of steady guy plowing ahead, soldier on. And they both had their moments and I looked to the extent that it matters, I looked at the post debate polls and some were 44, 42, some were 50, 48. But if you liked one of them going in,

you came out liking them, and if you didn't like one going in, you probably came out not liking them, but that's about what I think had happened last night. Any criticism, anyway, because if I were Walz, I would have been mentioning that the person on the other side of the stage had compared his presidential, yeah, to Hitler. i would have meant to have some bad i think what we came out a little slow but data

that's not his forte and will be double what he got his jersey dirty he was fine uh... i think harris probably came out a little slowly even in her debating as proper she clearly one uh... but you know early debate jitters is almost a fact of life. And particularly somebody like Waltz doesn't have a lot of experience doing that. But but he came around, I could say what he was hitting pretty hard once he got his jersey dirty. A guy who hasn't come out slow, Jaden Daniels, huh?

Oh, man. Yeah, y'all ever seen two rookies so far from the same university, Jaden Daniels and Paul Skeens just knocking it like crazy? No. I mean, that's, yeah, I hope, I mean, I really hope Jaden stays healthy the whole year because that's gonna be the greatest rookie baseball, football combo, maybe in the history of professional sports

if Jden stays on track. And we're forgetting Brian Thomas Jr. What Skane's done is just historic. I can't believe, I shouldn't be surprised by this at all, I suppose, James didn't want to talk about politics at all. He was bored. And then all of a sudden you talk about Jayden Daniels.

He was totally bored with what it is that we were doing. And then you asked him a sports question and look at him. He lit up. He's radiant. I mean, this man is the biggest LSU football fan in America. How do you get that title? I mean, I don't know. I'm very passionate about him.

But, you know, I went there, I don't know if I was 25, but my siblings, nephews, nieces, you know, parents, aunts, uncles. I mean, it's just a long tradition of Carville's going to LSU and we love it and it's affordable. What do we make of Brian Kelly? Is he on the hot seat yet, James? I feel like we're getting close, don't you? Right.

Well, because. We're not even 500 and he comes and we go 10 and 3 for two years. We got the number one recruiting and number two recruiting class for 2025. What is this? Let me address this. I hear this crap all the time. It comes and, hey, she stole Brian Kelly from Notre Dame. It was just about money.

Brian Kelly was 12 and 0 at Cincinnati. Notre Dame stole him from Cincinnati. But why is it okay to steal a coat from Cincinnati but not steal a coat from Notre Dame? And why in the hell would Brian Kelly be on any hot seat right now? I just feel like we're starting to settle, Jimmy. You know, like we're here, we expect these big things,

and all of a sudden it's just like, yeah, second best. Coach O wins championships. Exactly right. You know what our record was in 2020 and 2021? What was it? All right, come on man, it was under 500. Y'all gotta, the national media has the most selective memory of any people I've ever dealt with.

What is it? It's not just true in politics, it's true in sports. Yeah, Billy. Yeah, but Coach O came in and Joe Burrow and they changed the expectations for LSU, didn't they? And now it's back to settling. It was the greatest college football team in history. We were 20 and six the last two years.

We were under 500 the two years before that. I mean, come on, man, we're not really having this. And by the way, next year, after this year for the next three years, we're golden. I mean, the guy's been there two years, and because he left Notre Dame, the media hates him because we just love Notre Dame. How could LSU be so mean as to take the Notre Dame coach away? What are we going cover outside of them? We don't have the Golden Dome and Touch Town Jesus, you know?

We gotta go down with a bunch of Cajuns, you know, eating weird food in the parking lot of the game. I think that maybe perhaps some people heard Brian Kelly's attempt at a wonderful accent such as yours and thought that he was perhaps a little phony. Care to comment on that? All right.

Yeah, come in. Imitation is flattering. So all right, if I tried to speak in a Boston Irish brogue, I couldn't do it very well myself. But if you try it, you can go you have to try it. Can you try it please? Bastard. What I can get at. Why would someone be offended because you tried to appropriate our culture. That's great.

Joe Borough was not from Louisiana and they called him Borough, E-A-U-X. But I just think that everybody in the national media just can't believe he left Notre Dame. Do we love Notre Dame so much? You whiny crap. You're really hung up on this. Let's play for James at the risk of upsetting him. Let's play for James how bad this Brian Kelly accent was. It's a great night to be a Tiger.

I'm here with my family and we are so excited to be in the great state of Louisiana, but more importantly, to be with you great fans. If they're liking you, you want to go a few minutes with them? Oh, we got the approval from the publicist. The publicist was going to cut us off. That's because we're talking sports. That is absolutely right. James, what else are you fired up about in sports? What pisses you off? What else are you mad about? Well, I'm not too mad. I mean, I think the conference realignment, I think the SEC, I mean, I look,

how many must-see games we got? I'm excited about Texas and Oklahoma being in the conference. You know, it was a little, I hope our baseball team comes back. You know, we won women's basketball, baseball, gymnastics, all in a two-year period. Hopefully our basketball team did better last year than anybody thought. They were almost like 500 a conference. So hopefully make some progress there.

But I'm really excited about the future of LSU football too. We got some really good, a really good crop of kids coming up but it's you know it's a tough tough world out there. We play in a very tough neighborhood. Kim Mulkey turned the women around huh Jim? She sure did. She sure did. You know, national championship and I think with elite eight last year and from everything I read they're gonna be pretty good now. You know these games are sellouts. I know the biggest thing I've seen in my life in sports is the explosion in women's sports and I'll tell you the truth the women's basketball college game is

they let them play harder than the men do. They play a fast brand of basketball, I think. You know, in terms of the Saints, that was, God, it was bad Sunday. Don't get me started on that. We take a time out with one minute to go. Right, you got yourself started. And third and two, I mean, what are y'all thinking? Not very much, but you know, but I'll tell you,

you got again with Jayden Daniels and Paul Skeens, you can't get any more exciting than that. So have you been watching pirate games just because Skeens throws 100 miles an hour and strikes everybody out? Yeah, when he's on, I can't tell you that I'm, you know, dying to see all this game between the pirates and the Cincinnati Reds.

But if Skeens is pitching, yeah, I do. It's pretty interesting to see. all this game between the Pirates and the Cincinnati Reds. If Skade's is pitching, yeah, I do. It's pretty interesting to see. It really is. How do you manage this, though, as an LSU fan? Kim Mulkey seems awful. Kim Mulkey what? Seems like an awful person.

She seems awful. Like she seems. She's not awful. She seems like it. She's awful. Like she seems. She's not awful. She seems like it. She's competitive. And this guy in LA Times writes a story about how pristine and precious the UCLA basketball team is and how the LSU team is a bunch of Bayou Rogues or something.

That's, I mean, we're used to that kind of stuff. All right? But you know, we're used to, oh, well, UCLA and Notre Dame, come on. How could you be any better than that? How dare some place on the Mississippi River, dare challenge their sports supremacy? I mean, my God. I mean, sometimes people in the sports national sports media don't have any idea of how ridiculous they sound to people in the rest, national sports media don't have any idea of how ridiculous they sound to people in the rest of America. And I, if we saw that in that article, in that lead

up article to the UCLA LSU, Kim Mulkey likes to win. Guess what? She will try to beat your ass every time. Yeah, that is correct. That article was super racist. But Kim Mulkey's politics, you tolerate, you tolerate other people's politics in a way that makes you married to Mary Madeline, whose politics are diametrically opposed to yours for 30 years. I don't know if I agree, I don't know,

I'm not sure what Bill Belichick's politics is, but if I was gonna bet on the game of those you're one I bet on I mean another thing is after athletic people They're honestly there. They're sports people who knows up Kim's from tick fall Louisiana Would you like for me to take you to take fall one day? explain a lot Explain a lot, but she didn't grow up in the top carnival crew in New Orleans or she didn't grow up in the sophisticated union league or something, but she's a tough competitor.

And that's what you want in a coach. I don't know what she does in politics. I don't care. I think some of her political views have been exaggerated over the years anyway. That's not important. That's not very important to me, but just. Darrell Bock Elitism bothers you, right? Like you seem to be getting bothered by elitism. Dr. Richard R. Reilly I'm not bothered by elitism itself. I mean, I think, you know, Milos Forman, who directed The People vs. Larry Flynn, he said, James, what's the elites? They cure the diseases. They write the books. All right? I mean, I don't have, but what I do have

is when people just take a reflexive view that everything about UCLA and Notre Dame is good and everything about LSU is bad. That's where I get reflexive about things. All right? But look, if somebody that went to Northwestern Journalism School and is covering sports, I don't have a problem with that.

Oh, so it's just Notre Dame. It's just Notre Dame. Of course it is. It's not just Notre Dame. It's UCLA as well. UCLA as well. Yeah, yeah. Most of them.

Yeah, yeah. It of them. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's mostly Notre Dame, though. What seems to be bothering you the most is just generally Notre Dame. Well, generally all the whining and caulking about Brian Kelly leaving Notre Dame,

and Brantlyn Rice, and the Four Horsemen. You could have Brian Kelly leaving Notre Dame and you know, Brantlyn Rice and the Four Horsemen. You could count Brian Kelly. You know, I checked the Notre Dame bots and Yeah. Johnny Lujac, you know. Johnny Lujac. But, but, but James, to their credit, big win over Louisville this past week

to get back into playoff contention for Notre Dame. Yeah, I got, you know, I had them, I had them Yeah. And it was, they covered actually. Yeah, I mean, I was getting smoked this year, but I had a good comeback with the Ravens on this. You get the feeling though, and I don't know if it's just me and maybe the whole,

there does seem to be naturally this Notre Dame bias where if there is a bubble team and it comes down to like an LSU or Notre Dame for the last spot in the playoff, it's gonna be Notre Dame, right? Maybe, I mean it's a 12 team playoff. You know, I actually think, it's like the selection committee for the men's basketball tournament,

I think they really try to get it right. I don't, I really do. A lot of times in sports, they're just kind of close calls. But I think for the most part, I'll give them credit, they're pretty conscientious about it. By the way, Georgia's nowhere near gone just because they barely lost Alabama on the road. They're still gonna be around,

they're still gonna be pretty good. It was impressive the way they came back. James, we've been joking around today about having an unauthorized biography of Dan Leventhal, a movie coming out, and trying to cast for it. You were actually played by Billy Bob Thornton in an unauthorized biography of Bill Clinton

called Primary Colors. How did you feel about his performance? Yeah, I talked to him before and uh... uh... you know if you if hard to be somebody else but i wasn't kind of doubt pretty out of that billy bob would be the person they choose to play me a unit that famous line from the book primary cause describe me as he looked

as though he was start out of a love scene from a film Deliverance. So. So. Oh no, that is not, look at how, that is terribly insulting and yet you find it funny. I find it funny. So a rape in the woods is basically what it is. That's what's.

That's what I look like. Yeah. Ha ha ha. And you're laughing. Yes. Yeah, of course I'm laughing. It's funny, you gotta admit it. Is there anything that you, what are the things you care about more than LSU football, James? My daughters. Good answer.

So that's a... I just think you know that you follow a team like that you know what it means to everybody in the state you know you're not just pulling for the football team you're kind of pulling for the whole state it you know I was my sister sits at exactly the same seat I sat in for Billy Cannon's Halloween run back in 1959. So that goes pretty deep, doesn't it? It does. Jessica has been waxing poetic about tailgating and the LSU night crowd, Scott, it's a really special thing.

So tell us, James, explain to us, as somebody who's been good with words his entire life, the sense of community involved in having the same seat at that football stadium for 60 years. The one thing that LSU does, okay, we don't have an Auburn, we don't have an Iowa State, we don't have a Purdue, okay? In terms of big time sports, there's only LSU. So you have, you don't really have a divided state, if you will. And you know, of course, the lore of the Cannon runback and we had those seats in 1959 or

so, but I know we had them in 58 too. The whole thing just comes, comes part in it. It's a whole state that enjoys it, and it's really fun to be part of it. And I just hope we never lose, but I suspect that's not a realistic hope. It's a rare place where everyone's connected too, right? Like you find all these places in America that are divided, that's an easy place to remain connected.

And in the night games, because we're at the end of the summer. So if you live in Boston, you love baseball season in the start of spring because you're sick of the wintertime. We love football season because we're sick of the summertime. And the night games, you get out there, and they get pretty juiced up we're sick in the summertime. And the night games, you know, you get out there and they get pretty juiced up before they get in the stadium. I'll tell you that, man. Oh, they can drink down there.

Shit. That's the truth. That's why the night games are so great. That's the reason. They're drinking all day. You know, my daddy used to say half the people in Tiger Stadium can't spell LSU. Just half, huh? The name of the in Tiger Stadium can't spell LSU. Just half, huh?

The name of the movie is Carville, Winning is Everything Stupid. It debuts Saturday at 7 p.m. Eastern on CNN. What did you like about it? I liked that the director actually worked in politics and covered politics, so he understood a little bit what we're about and what I hope I hope people see it and to say you know I would mind doing something like that and get involved because those guys look like they were having a good time I mean so much of everything in our culture is demeaning to politics

demeaning to political consultants demeaning to everything and what I'm scared is this is how you end up with somebody like donald trump it's a whole god damn thing is corrupt but you know we got nothing to lose just do that i think that's a dangerous law for so i hope people cd s and say well you know that was a noble that guy earned a noble living that that would be the map on this hope of it uh... you have been married as i mentioned for thirty years to one and noble that guy earned a noble living that would be to my fondest hope of it.

You have been married as I mentioned for 30 years to one of the most prominent Republican consultants in America, Mary Madeline. What is the secret? What is the secret to keeping love alive when you're politically opposed? You know, it's a lot of probing and we would do things and we wouldn't get along we'd fight and we'd find this, you know, if we talked about this, it was better. It comes with, we've found her and she's truly a fascinating, great woman. She's a beekeeper. She's a world-class editor. She gardens. She, you know, she's got great taste. She's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful mother to my two daughters. I mean, you know, of all of the things, if you think about that you could have go wrong at a marriage, I think a political difference

would not be as high as you might think. How does it go over with her the way the Republican Party stands on women's rights? You know, I never speak for her. That is where I just, people ask me her opinion on something and The one or two times that I've offered it. I got my head bitten off So I'd have to say you'd have to ask her because that is the Answered the question you answered the question after you didn't answer the question quite as well

You just answered how it is you stay married for 30 years right there. Yeah, right there. Yeah, absolutely. I'm surprised that you had a second time where you got your head bitten off. I'm surprised you didn't learn it the first time. You're a smart man. You know, sometimes it takes, you know, once somebody said this and I really believe it, the best education in the world is the second kick of a mule. James, thank you. It has been a pleasure to do this with you.

If you have any other sports opinions you want to get out there before you go on your tour talking politics and getting bored talking politics, we'll give you one last chance to give a strong sports opinion on your way out. Or gambling picks. I have no idea what's going to happen in a baseball playoffs. Indeed, it needed anybody else. The most unpredictable playoff of any professional sport there is. Sports prediction. Let's do this, James. Give us for DraftKings, our our sugar daddy give us James Carville's sure thing Draft Kings football game of the week this week a football game

You have your eye on the way that you had dry on the Ravens last weekend. I got a I gotta talk to my guy Yeah, I got a guy ACL okay, but I've been so busy with the movie and I know LSU's off this week. So I got a little space in my my sports looking up stuff but I think we played the Saints and the Chiefs play

and the Saints had a terrible, terrible loss to Atlanta. I think they're a little better than people give them credit for. I mean the Chiefs are the Chiefs. They're great, but they've had some tough games. I've got to look at the point spread, but there's a rare weekend where I'm going to really take a good hard look at the New Orleans Saints. All right. There it is. hard look at the New Orleans Saints. All right, there it is. That is close to taking the Saints.

James, good seeing you again. Carville winning is everything stupid is Saturday, 7 p.m. Eastern on CNN. Pleasure to have you on, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Pleasure. A lot of fun being on here. You're a bunch of fun guys.

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