The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Extending Trips for SummerSlam

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

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think he's talked to you about it, but I think he's got some judgment about you flying to Vegas to a Backstreet Boys concert, even though Billy says concerts of all kind are fun. All kinds of concerts are fun. Not all, but I had fun at a concert this weekend. Which one? I went to see Darius Rucker. Oh nice.

Yeah. Oh you saw Hootie Wagonwheel. Hootie, which I don't think he likes to be called Hooty. It's his name. But I'll tell you this. He does not like to be called Hooty. Well that's too bad for him if we're gonna be perfectly honest with you. You don't introduce yourself to the world as Hooty and then say I'm not Hooty you know. But you know what I learned this weekend? Everybody at the Dares Rucker concert still loves Hooty and the Blowfish because he played some Hooty and the Blowfish. Biggest pops of the night was when he would come in and loves Hootie and the Blowfish because he played some Hootie and the Blowfish,

biggest pops of the night was when he would come in and sing a Hootie and the Blowfish song, and then Wagon Wheel at the end obviously. Spoiler alert, if you're going to a Darius Rucker concert, he ends with Wagon Wheel. They do the walk off thing and you keep cheering and then he comes back. Did some new stuff.

It was, you know, it was fine. You know he's recently moved to the UK? No. He just lives there now. Really? Yeah, he's just an other, he's like, I just always liked it here, so I'm moving, I live here now.

Does he? Yeah. How often, because he's touring, so he's not in the UK now. Well, not presently, he's on tour, but he, I think I saw a year ago, he's like, yeah, I think I'm just living here now. But no political reasons, like he's not doing it

like Ellen or anybody else, he's not saying it because he's in country music. Some people just like to live their lives. Yeah, no, he's good. He's not going to make a big show of it. But which is it, Billy? He hasn't said, can Darius Rucker say freely that he moved to the UK because he hates America? I don't think he can.

I don't think he does. No, but I'm saying could he if he did? I don't think he would. Why do you always take it there? Yeah. You're drawing conclusions. All I have is Darius Rucker saying he loves the UK I was gonna tell you he lost his voice a week ago had to end a concert short But he came back and he was he was back. He's good to go

So if you if you're on the tour stops coming up have no fear who'd he who'd he brought it? Were you worried when you saw the concert canceled the week before? I heard that it was canceled the week before that was ended early. It was the first time it happened. I talked to Mike Golic Sr. who's friends with Hooty. Did I talk to him in part to see if maybe some perks could come my way? Maybe I could introduce, because I want my parents,

maybe I could introduce my parents to Hooty. Maybe I brought it up. Did I ask directly? No, I didn't. So I didn't get that. Did you do the thing where you check in like, hey Mike, what's up? Just how's it going?

No, we had him. And then like, he says something back and then you do the thing where you check in like, hey Mike, what's up? Just how's it going? No, we had him. And then he says something back and then you go with the, oh by the way, this just came up. It's a delicate line. Yeah, I'm like when you wanna ask someone something specific, you know how to jump right into it. No, we had him on GBF last week and I just very, very heavy-handedly said at the end,

hey, I'm going to see Darius Rucker this weekend. That's how you do it. That's good. Is someone who likes asking for things, that's a delicate line. I hate asking for things. It doesn't sound like it. That's how you do it. That's good. Is someone who likes asking for things that's a delicate line? I hate asking for things. It doesn't sound like it. I also hate asking.

It sounds like the StuGots. I didn't ask. Sometimes you have to set the table weeks in advance. It's like, I'm gonna ask them for something in three weeks. So just to check so it doesn't seem like I'm falling out of the sky in three weeks. But do you think that person ever gets fooled by, you know? I know, they're like,

this person doesn't just reach out to me. I hate doing that. So Jabba Chamberlain's dad passed away So I reached out to him to say like my condolences and like the day before publics like hey We want to talk to Java Can you put us in contact like his dad died and I'm not gonna ask him that today and then like two weeks later Like so about job like now I have to ask him While he hasn't put an end date on his time in London

Darius Rucker says, this is not a permanent move. I still consider the Carolina as my home, but this is part of a journey of personal growth. And he's moved out there with his entire family, which is dogs. Why aren't you calling him by his real name? Hooty. Hooty. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. The way that Zaslow's confidence is ever growing troubles me because he has no problem during these difficult times attacking people where it is that they may not be confident and I don't know where... Difficult?

What's difficult well what's difficult is your backstreet boys shaming people in in our company Jason our director Chris Cody because they flew across the country a pilgrimage a boy band pilgrimage to watch the backstreet boys and you're judging it and it doesn't feel right to me for you to be doing this to Jason and Chris as a newcomer, but I can't stop your confidence from growing. I just, like Chris Cody, when someone asks you, what did you go to Vegas for? And your response is, I went to go see the Backstreet Boys.

You're not embarrassed by that? Well, I will admit, I lead with the Sphere. I lead with the Sphere. Oh, so you are embarrassed by it. No, it's just the first thing I say. Lead with the venue. Most people know when I say Sphere, oh, the Backstreet Boys. But yeah, I lead with the sphere also you are embarrassed no that's just the first thing I say with the venue that most people know when I say the sphere all the backstreet boys, but yeah, I lead with the sphere, but no I'm not ashamed at all why would you be embarrassed to go see the backstreet boys like

To go see backstreet boys who are you to peer pressure people you're a nerd I mean you jock of the town right here. Oh, you're the big cool guy like who gives a shit what you think about anything I'm not trying to say I'm a cool. I mean that's why I am exactly who cares what you think well Okay, but you're telling me that Chris just said it cuz he just said it He doesn't even leave holds up your pressure Chris folds the bullying and you're here to bully I want I'm not here to stand for I want to thank Billy because he Brings up a fantastic point just before the show you're gonna make fun of me I heard you say this exact sentence to Mike Ryan.

I just extended my trip for SummerSlam. That's right. Like, how can you say that and then come in here and shame me? Okay, are you a huge Backstreet Boys fan? Just real quick, yes or no? Yes. You are? Yes.

You're not embarrassed to admit that? No. At your age, you're a huge Backstreet Boys fan. I was, dude, big Backstreet Boys fan. You're a 50-year-old that likes fake fighting. What are you talking about? That's we're are we really going to do the fake thing? That's what we're going to do here to start the day. No, that's not like are there are there are there no TV shows or no movies that you love? You know, it's fake, right? You know, movies are not real,

right? No, they're real. I only watch documentaries. He just called you 50 and you took it. He just called you 50 years old. He hammered you with.. Well, you can see, my beard is very full. It does make me look a little bit older these days. How old are you? I'm very mature. That's why I have a beard now, because grownups have beards. He hit you with a 50 years old.

You did lead though with the sphere. If you lead with the sphere, let me ask you a question. If you were going to see the most impossible tickets to be able to get of whatever isn't the Backstreet Boys, Taylor Swift I suppose, Zazz would make fun of you about that too. Drake, would you lead with Sphere? If you were going to see Kendrick Lamar,

if you were going to see Kendrick Lamar, would you lead with the Sphere? There are a handful of venues that you lead with the venue. Red Rocks, the Sphere. No! There are some places you lead, where are you going lead with the venue. Red Rocks, the Sphere. No! There are some places you lead,

where are you going, you're traveling, I'm going to the Sphere. It's an excellent point. Really? It's an excellent point, yes. Seeing a show at Red Rocks, if you're in Colorado and like, oh, this jam band's playing Red Rocks. I don't like jam bands, but I gotta experience Red Rocks.

But I also like, look, I wanted to see the Sphere, but Backstreet Boys have been in Planet Hollywood for years. The Sphere transcends. But that's what I mean, I like the Backstreet Boys, but I did go out there for the Sphere. I like the Backstreet Boys, not ashamed to say. Okay, so if you went there for,

let's pretend that that's true, and as if you wore a drag to go see Backstreet Boys. I bought her the tickets for her birthday. Yeah, okay, let's pretend that it was true that you wanted to go to the Backstreet Boys. You bought it for you, but you said it was for her. Zagacki. Yeah, that's the play. I did that for my wife with the Backstreet Boys down here.

I saw them, they're good. Okay, but again, that's here. You didn't travel, you didn't get on a plane, five hour trip to go see Backstreet Boys. That's not, I don't understand. First off, we have some pretty damning evidence to catch you in a hypocrisy right now. Video team, can you throw up what I sent you?

This is Jonathan Zaslow backstage in a New Kids on the Block comms. What? Yo, don't worry about that. What? Yo, don't worry about that. What? Don't worry about that.

Wait a minute, what? Yo, don't worry about that. Don't worry about that. But that's the same thing. It's not the same thing. What do you mean? First of all, New Kids on the Block are the OG of the boy band. Don't worry about that. But that's the same thing! It's not the same thing! What do you mean? First of all, new kids on the block are the OG of the boy band.

Backstreet Boys can't even hold new kids on the block's jock! It is a completely different level. And by the way, Chris Cody, are you friends with any of the Backstreet Boys? Because that guy right there at Dennywood is my friend! That is my friend! My friend performs in the OG boy band. I am of course going to see my friend. Are you friends with the Backstreet Boy? I don't think so. No I'm not. Whoa! That!

Whatever! Can you guys put on the poll, can the Backstreet Boys hold the jock of new kids on the block? You haven't been to the Sphere yet, right? I can't go to the Sphere. Why? Oh, the Vertigo thing? I suffer from Vertigo.

Okay, no, it's probably the right call. I had a bout yesterday, to be honest. It sucks. Loser. I've been to the Sphere twice. Both times I saw fans. What, you laughing at Shuckles? Why, he called you a 50-year-old loser.

Like, Billy's just... Hold on a second. Just didn't the... Didn't new kids on the block need Backstreet Boy to go on tour. Yes. No one else cared about them So they had to form the super good safe kids on the block Backstreet Boy NK OST BSB, okay, and which one open for which it probably depended on do you understand how concerts work? The opener is the lesser Do you understand how concerts work? The opener is the lesser. Wait a second, Backstreet Boys open for New Kids on the Block?

There's no way that New Kids on the Block would talk about it. So it's just your opinion? I don't even know if they played together to be. I'm going with Billy. New Kids on the Block had to go home to take their pills and go to bed and all that stuff. How dare you. What is the argument other than they're OG?

Because if you're stacking up like sales, popularity, chart topping singles. Backstreet Boys are bigger and I thought considered better even though I don't know either catalog. That is definitely not true. That's your opinion. If you were to rank, so we're talking, right? It's New Kids and it's Backstreet Boys and it's Nsync

and it's what's the other Bobo group? 98 Degrees. Yes, 98 Degrees with the Lachey guy. If you were to rank those, it's New Kids on the block and it's what's the other bobo? Yes, 98 degrees the Lachey guy if you were to rank those it's new kids on the block and it's everybody else No, I think it's actually boys in sync and I get nuts You're nuts. I don't have new longs as well I think most people listening to this would say the Backstreet Boys are bigger than new kids on the block But we're just gonna skip over the fact that he went after chris cody and jason that way on backstreet boys and then all the sudden the source gives our great journalist mike ryan the information he

needs to point out that new kids on the block we're gonna just skip past the fact that this judgment was being rained down rain down from heaven that he was raining down blows on behalf of new kids on the block we're gonna expose him like this and he's not gonna eat the shame of that yo don't worry about that let me tell you something new kids in a block crawled so backstreet boys walk right nose so they they are the OG there's no disputing that but didn't backstreet boys become better weren't the OG new edition was the new edition yeah exactly he just replicated it haven't you seen

all these documentaries? He replicated the New Edition formula with a bunch of white kids. In terms of album sales, NSYNC sold over 70 million records worldwide. Backstreet Boys sold over 130 million records worldwide. New Kids on the Block sold over 80 million records. Those numbers are fudged, I can tell. I will say it was presented as a co-headlining tour, New Kids on the Block and BSB.

Maybe they alternated like that incredible tour with Ricky Martin and Ricky Iglesias and Pitbull, where they just took turns trading the closing spot. But here's the thing, when I go and see New Kids on the Block, I've seen them a lot, when I go and see new kids on the block, I've seen them a lot, when I go and see new kids on the block. You've seen them a lot? What, Danny's my friend, I just told you that.

How many times have you seen them? Probably like five times. For the new stuff? That's too many. I don't think they have new stuff. Yeah, duh. That's rude. Have you seen how horny Jordan Knight is?

He is mad horny on the stage now. Jordan Knight, he's mad horny on the stage. I guess they didn't notice that. He's like 17 feet above the stage in a cage and his shirt is off. They don't have a song. And you're just looking at him like, that dude's mad horny. They don't have a song where he should be that horny for.

I've got so many questions here. Please put it on the poll at LeBotard Show. Have you ever looked at a human being and said, yo, that dude's mad horny? Because it happened this morning in our office. I learned something about somebody who works for us. We were putting people in categories, whether they're- There's someone who's mad horny here?

Yes, evidently. I learned it this morning. People were being put in categories, either miserable or not miserable. Those were the only two categories, and he was the only person who, instead of miserable or not miserable, got as a description, just horny.

Which is never good at work. Put the camera on Ethan right now. Just go work. Put the camera on Ethan right now. Just go ahead and put the camera on Ethan right now so that we can see. There he is. There he is, horny Ethan, ladies and gentlemen. He was mortified by it earlier and he's more mortified by it now.

I'm sorry, horny Ethan, but congratulations on being neither miserable nor horny. Put it on the poll. Tough label. Sorry, miserable, neither miserable nor not miserable, just horny, at LeBittard Show. Put it on the poll, worst'm sorry, miserable, neither miserable nor not miserable, just horny at LeBittard Show. Put it on the poll, worst label, miserable or horny? I want another thing clarified here

that we were talking about earlier. It does have to be infuriating for Darius Rucker to arrive at this level of success and still have everyone think in the UK and America that he's Hooty. Maybe don't have a band where you name it Hooty and the Blowfish and be the lead singer. It's like he was insulted. You confused everyone. When there's a name at the front of the band, that's the lead singer.

Should have been Darius and the Blowfish. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, you're Tom Petty. Bruce Springsteen and the E-Stre Street Band? You're Bruce Springsteen. And the. If it's followed by and the, I think that person's the lead singer. Hootie and the Blowfish? You're Hootie. No, no. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Harold Melvin was not the lead singer. That was Teddy Pengrave. Cool in the Gang? You're Cool. He was the bassist.

Do you think the drummer's offended by Blowfish? Is Cool in the gang? Is Cool actually the lead singer? No, no, Cool is the bassist. I think he is. Okay. There's also other confusing bands, like Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper was the name of the band,

and then everyone just didn't understand that. They're like, the guy is Alice Cooper, move on. Sade, Sade, that's not her name. Her name is Helen. Sade? That's her name. Helen O'Doo. Put it on the poll, did Shade that's not her name her name is Helen. That's her name. Helen O'Doo. Put it on the poll, did you know that Shade's name was Helen? Also put it on the poll, would Tom Petty be mad if, let me see how to do this here, if, no, would the guy who wasn't named Tom Petty be mad if the band, would the lead singer, Let's workshop this. Hold on, we'll get it.

It is confusing. Thank you. Would the lead singer who's not Tom Petty be mad that people thought he was Tom Petty because he was the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers? Because Darius Rucker is mad that people think he's Hootie in the band Hootie and the Blowfish and he shouldn't be mad about that because it is sort of his fault. You know what I was thinking at the Darius Rucker concert? Kind of like along the lines of what you guys are saying.

So it's just Darius Rucker, right? But he has a whole band, but you're going to see Darius Rucker. So the drummer who I assume has a name, his drum kit says Darius Rucker. And I'm like, that's not your name. Like if I was Tom the drummer, I'd want to say Tom the drummer, just Tom the drummer is in Darius Rucker and I'm like, that's not your name. Like if I was Tom the drummer, I'd want to say Tom the drummer

and just Tom the drummer is in Darius Rucker's band. But we don't know any of the members of his band, or at least I don't. I don't think many people know the names of, all right, let's do it this way, at LeBittard Show, who was the lead singer for Hootie and the Blowfish, Darius Rucker or Hootie? Hootie.

Let's ask the internet, let's just ask the internet because I understand why Darius Rucker, who's moved to another country and another genre of music to escape all of the shame in being known as Hootie, like he has separated himself from this. You know they still play shows as Hootie and the Blowfish. I do and evidently they still play covers at Darius Rucker's country music concert where the fans want just Hootie and the Blowfish. They loved it. They loved I Only Want to Be With You. Oh and down here when he said the dolphins make me cry. In the middle of the show for some reason and it wasn't after I Only Want to Be With You, it was just

between two of his songs. A lot of his songs are pretty depressing but it was in the middle of two of his songs. He just stopped to give a toast to the Miami Dolphins and he took a shot to the Miami Dolphins because he loves the Dolphins. But it was like, apropos of nothing, we weren't talking about the Dolphins, he just felt like, you know what, I'm here, the seminal hard rock,

I'm gonna just toast the Miami Dolphins. Feels like a little bit of pandering, right? Yeah, and it works. I think he might have been drinking a little bit. Oh wow. And he took a shot. Oh wait a minute, hold on a second. He also had a red solo cup, I don't know what was in there.

Hold on, hold on. It's usually tea. Time to throw away all journalistic credibility and get reckless. Here is something we like to call reckless speculation. You're good. I mean, I don't think it's, why is that reckless? Before the club, we take some Cuervo shots here.

Like sometimes you just gotta take some shots, loosen up a little, you know? Well, you were accusing him of being drunk. No, I said he was drinking. And his judgment was impaired. That's irrefutable, unless it was a put on. And why would anybody take a fake shot of anything? You said he was alcoholic.

We have video of Jordan Knight being horny. Now you're the big New Kids on the Block fan here. Do they have a song that justifies this level of horniness on stage from Jordan Knight? Ooh, it looks great, by the way. How old is Jordan Knight? Jordan Knight, I think this song is called Heart. Now, maybe that would justify,

Heart has a bunch of different meanings. Does he mean it sexually here, Zazz? Fill me in on what kind of song he would have to be this damn horny. Sheesh. Yeah, I don't know. He's giving off a lot of Ethan there. There's a lot of Ethan in that sway.

I don't like what we did to Ethan. I don't. Well, I didn't do it. I repeated it, but it was done to Ethan in the other room. I didn't do it. He's very proud of that body. This looks like Seth MacFarlane doing a parody of boy bands. The same level of hair dye.

This is somebody, somebody, yeah, who wants to, goes up to somebody and says you want a family guy. So like you know the least famous member of New Kids on the Block, that's the Flex? I don't know why you would say that. Well he's not Jordan Knight, he's not Joey McIntyre. Okay. Yeah that's pretty horny.

So the Dolphins, you mentioned them and I saw you doing, and I like Billy, this journalist streak that you're now developing. I saw you doing some reporting in the parking garage. Guys go ahead and just leave that in the picture in the corner so anyone who's got some morning lonely can get some morning horny. Howdy folks, it's Mike Ryan. If you were listening to the show just a couple days ago, you know that Jeremy came up with the top five. Breath of fresh air type of list, a really refreshing feeling. And on that list, Jeremy, help me out.

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Stugats. It's a good algorithm. This is the Don LeBattard Show with the Stugats. I saw you doing some reporting. What were you talking to Big Mac about? Let's play the Big Mac intro without any Big Mac, please. Big Mac's take of the day. So we don't have any sound here from Big Mac, but we have you doing reporting on what Big

Mac had to say about the Dolphins. What's his appraisal? So he's very excited about Dolphins training camp, which is right around the corner. He's walking in yesterday, stopped talking to Big Mac. I saw you, you went right by us. I thought you wanted to talk along with us about Dolphins training camp and what the expectations were, but you didn't partake in that. So we just stayed there, we talked about Dolphins

training camp a little bit, we talked about the quarterback situation, Chris Greer obviously came up, as Chris Greer does come up a lot in my conversations with Big Mac, he says he's excited, and then everything that he said after that would lead to the fact that he's not really that excited about it, and that we kinda together came to the conclusion that this year, not a ton of expectations for the Dolphins.

The fan base is kinda just like, eh, maybe it'll work out, but we're not coming in with the high expectations of the past few years. He said to me, I wish I could be out there right now. And I was like, oh, you're excited about it? So I could give Chris Greer a piece of my mind. Wow. I was like, whoa. The're excited about it? So I could give Chris Greer a piece of my mind. I was like, whoa.

The people in South Florida are pretty upset because they've had 20 years of heat and now the hockey team's a champion. And what was the winningest franchise in all of sports when they had Marino and Shula is now a national and international laughing stock, and it's the only way they register nationally and internationally.

Otherwise, they are a forgotten regional thing that is well-served by not having any expectations, because the first time this century, they had any expectations, they were crushed under the weight of them. I feel like young dolphin fans, so if we're talking like 25, maybe even 30 years old or younger, have no idea where I used to take such pride in that, where I would be at a

dolphin game in the mid-90s or whatever it was, and they would flash on the Jumbotron highest win percentage any teams in sports. It wasn't highest win percentage in the NFL, it was highest win percentage any teams in sports. It wasn't highest win percentage in the NFL It was highest win percentage in all of sports like the Montreal Canadiens were number two Number one was the Miami Dolphins. I used to think that was I was so proud of that and now look at us now I will say this my friend Darius Rucker. We were at a concert together. We were doing shots him Was a shot me was not but we were doing shots together and Darius when he raised the glass at a concert together, we were doing shots, him was a shot, me was not. But we were doing shots together,

and Darius, when he raised a glass, said to my favorite franchise ever, the Miami Dolphins, took the shot, he said, I'm 59 years old, last time they won I was six or seven, or whatever the math came out to be. He said, if they win a Super Bowl, they better win before I die, and if they win a Super Bowl,

I'm gonna talk shit for 364 straight days, and the crowd went wild What do you mean? They better win one before like what happens if they don't they better win one? Well, he did well his life will be unfulfilled He'll have moved to England for nothing if the Dolphins don't sign another like any cornerback They will have the worst group of corners. I've ever seen in NFL history Their corner have you seen this corner? Yeah, me meenena Keim says it's by far the worst in all of football. I don't want to get too technical about it, but didn't they draft Cam Smith in the second

round a couple years ago? And he's like their number one right now. They haven't let him play for two years. I don't understand. Like if you draft a cornerback in round two, that should be, and he's going to his third year, that should be a guy who's going to be like really good. No? He hasn't been able to play.

I mean, maybe they've just been saving him. Yeah, for a rainy day. Put it on the poll please, at LeBataard Show, do you like when the lead singer starts yammering a whole bunch instead of singing? Because that always bothers me, none of them are as clever as they think they are except for Coldplay's lead singer, Chris Martin, because of what he did the other day to shame

and a CEO, a cheating CEO. Dated reference, but look, when Kanye was on tour at the peak of his powers, the set list remained the same for the national tour. The rambling meanderings of one Kanye West, that was unique to every city. And that's what, that was what the special experience was for those in the ticketed audience.

I don't feel like that should count because you're not doing that because he's eloquent or doing good speech making. You're doing that because you wanted morsels of the crazy. Well, there's one show on the tour where he's cussing out Kid Cudi. The very next show he's giving Kid Cudi love. Another one that I went to, he's taking credit for inventing leather jogging pants. I mean, it was crazy, quite literally. Kid Cudi is the one who had his car

blown up allegedly by Diddy, correct? Yep. I saw Kid Cudi in a concert with Pitbull. Oh wow. Guess who opened? What a bill. I would say Cudi. One new kids on block, tell you what.

Kid Cudi opened. Wow. And then half of the crowd left. Really, was this like an FIU? It was an FIU, yeah, it was awesome. Oh man, it's so great. And then half of the crowd left. Wow, really? Was this like an FIU? It was an FIU, yeah, it was awesome. Oh man, it was so great. That's a hell of a book. And when you were at FIU to get Man on the Moon, Kid Cudi?

Yeah. Wow. It was at the bank. That's incredible. Darius Rucker getting in front of a microphone and coming to Miami with a sentence that I associate with him more than any other sentence. And the dolphins make me cry. And when he wrote it, they hadn't even begun

to actually make him really cry. Like whenever that lyric was written, when Zaslow says what he says, okay, put this on the poll as well, Juju, at LeBittard Show, did you know that in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, the Dolphins had the best winning percentage in all of sports? Because I assure you that the majority of the audience simply does not know that. Totally.

And so, while they weren't quite the Patriots, winning seven championships, one out of every three years, there was an expectation when they had Shula and Marino that they were going to be Mike Tomlin every year. Literally every year growing up, I thought the Dolphins had a chance to go to the Super Bowl. I mean, I haven't felt that in 25 years. Remember how cool it was for local sports fans to see that Hootie and the Blowfish video?

And by then, they had a couple of hits. They were, in terms of adult contemporary music, like the biggest thing going. And then on MTV, you see Dan Marino show up in the music video. Well, we had a good run, because that was also around the same time with Ace Ventura. Yeah.

It was like, whoa, they're buying me dolphins? Did you know that MTV, for a full week in September, is going back to just being wall-to-wall music videos? Really? Yeah, I think it's as a way to drum up interest for the Video Music Awards. Are they bringing back Total Request Live? I don't think so.

Those were, Dan, those were the days. You'd come home from middle school, you put on the TV. TRL? And who dominated those rankings? I can't help it if it was a different year. How can you crush TRL and then crush, like. You're putting over TRL and the band that was a top TRL basically the entire run was

Backstreet Boys. Now you can understand the appeal. You're acting like TRL was devoted to Backstreet Boys every day. It was pretty much. There was no other music. Britney Spears. What world are you- yes that's right. I got no problem when I'm in middle school watching Britney Spears videos.

That is correct. You get the occasional POD climb.D. climb to number one. The rag corn. The bum bum song by Tom Green. Are you guys aware that all of it was fraud as reported by PabloToryFindsOut before it blew up into the place where you find all sort of investigative fraud?

TRL was phony and fake and they weren't calls and requests that were actually being taken. You should check out Pablo Torre Finds Out, TRL was corrupt. Not the best episode if I'm gonna be honest. I listened to the whole episode, he sold me on it, and at the end, spoiler, it was kinda like inconclusive. It's like, well, I guess we didn't find out this episode.

We just surmised this happened. But that was before Pablo got good. Yeah, he was still finding his wheels in journalism there with the TRL stuff. Now you're worried every time got good. Yeah, he was still finding his wheels in journalism there with the TRL stuff. Now you're worried every time he tweets. Yeah. You mentioned Dan Marino appearing in a Hootie and the Blowfish video.

Did you guys have any reaction whatsoever? Any kind of reaction? I know that people notice when Demar DeRozan shows up in the Kendrick Lamar video, when the oldest player in basketball and a player, I don't say these things about LeBron, but gets made fun of for dad stuff or corny stuff or whatever it is to age in places

where young people can mock the age, how did LeBron do in the Tyler the Creator video that he appeared in? Was it something that landed well or landed poorly? LeBron, he doesn't do a lot of that, obviously, lending himself to a video when we've watched him for 20 years, you know, singing music in his car. I wish I could help you here. I haven't seen it yet.

I know Tyler just released new music, and I do like some of Tyler's stuff, particularly because he works a lot with Pharrell. But culturally, I've got nothing here for you, Dan. Oh, I can watch it, though, during the break. Do any of you have anything for me, though? So somebody lands, so you guys are telling me that LeBron James just to the point of TRL

doesn't matter like it did, music videos don't matter like they did. You're saying that LeBron can land in a video now that quietly and everyone would just yawn unless he's doing something controversial, that something creative or artistic or lending his name to something like that isn't as cool as it would have been once upon a time?

Well, my question is, and I did, I saw this, but I don't know anything about Tyler the Creator, all right? But I saw- You're more of a new kids on the block guy. All right, whatever. But I saw LeBron James put out a tweet afterward which said, stop effing playing with me. And he wrote it in caps so like is he

sending a message to Lakers there is that what's going on I like I don't know the deal with Tyler the Creator I'm being serious though I we're showing our ignorance here is a show this video has escaped the majority of our attention maybe we have to check in with horny Ethan or some of the younger people in the other room but this room doesn't know anything about what Tyler, the creator, is doing with his music video. We are out of touch. I mean, I've seen Tyler, the creator, a couple times live.

I'm just not wise to this one. Well, I think that that is a resume that, like, it was on the desk. We needed it, though, because everyone was like, wow, nobody knows this. No one knows anything about Tyler. Little bona fides. So I'm getting kicked out for being the only person

that knows anything about Tyler. You're not getting kicked out. You'm getting kicked out for being the only person that knows anything about Tyler. You're not getting kicked out. You didn't get kicked out. You just got hit with a look at me, Louie. That's not, that's just a disgrace. It's not kicked out. That's not a disgrace. I'm proud of it. You get to stick around. I'm not 40 yet. Don LeBattar Show with the Stugats!

And I would go absolutely to the Sphere to watch Backstreet Boys. I think we've come out on the other side. Yeah, you may have found them corny when you were 18, but now it's nostalgic. And also, it's for the Sphere. I've seen two bands at the Sphere. Don't like either one of them. You too? Grateful Dead. That's ridiculous. You would go to a venue and see a show that you don't even like. But hey, I'm at the venue.

Yes. Is that cool? Have you heard about the Sphere thing? Has it not been on your radar? Are you just learning about the Sphere? I already told you. Huh? You, huh?

The Sphere? What is that? A big screen? Huh? What is it? I don't know who you're doing impression up there. I know that's not? You're...uh...the sphere? What is that? A big screen? What?

What is it? I don't know who you're doing impression up there. I know that's not me. Oh, you got a headache? Huh? I know that's not me. I'm more of an Angus Young guy. I don't know who you're impersonating there, but whoever it is, you need to work on it.

Yeah. You see what Jay Hustle said? Not me. Yeet. Yeet. Yeet. Yeet. Yeet.

Yeet. You can't just mumble and then say, oh, that's my impression. Sphere? Let me tell you. Sphere? Sphere? Sphere? That's a bad headache. Awesome. I would lose that if I were you.

I like vertical. Summer slam. Big event. Is that Joe Zagacki? I don't know who that is. Summer slam. If we could get two Zazzlos to argue with Zazzlo, I think I would enjoy that. At least I understood the word that came out of his mouth.

Mike you may want to take some cues from Billy with that impersonation. You got the ring general, Gunther, taking on CM Punk. CM Punk challenging for another title even though he's only got two wins since January? Here's the thing, I'm not embarrassed to say I'm going to Summer Slam. Chris Cody led with I went to the Sphere. It's the thing I'm not embarrassed to say I'm going to summer slam Chris Cody led with I went to the sphere It's the sphere. I just cuz the red rocks fear I would lead with that I'm not embarrassed if you were going to see it like the group like the hottest band in the world Or the hot if you let's just say Taylor Swift. All right, I said she's the hottest more of the sphere

You would say what do you go? What show are you seeing in Vegas? I'm going to the sphere That's exactly what Taylor Swift. That's how it works. I'm going to the sphere to see Taylor Swift Okay, at least you had in the same sentence. Are you going to summer slam to just watch summer slam? Are you going there for so it's a core. Oh, it's so it's a car I'm certainly not saying I'm going to MetLife Stadium. I'm saying I'm going to summer slam two nights You're gonna do two nights at MetLife Stadium. Have you ever gone to MetLife Stadium? No, it's a hellscape That's right. No going there. Are you gonna say in New Jersey?Life Stadium. Have you ever gone to MetLife Stadium? No. It's a hellscape. That's right here. Going there, are you gonna stay in New Jersey?

Yeah. Yeah, you might as well, you should, because like two long nights over there, the commute back to the city is awful. Yeah, I'm not looking forward to that part. That place is a terrible new stadium. I hear it's a dump. Put it on the poll please,

is MetLife Stadium a hellscape? And Mike, I'm sorry, I missed the reference. Can you explain to me why it is that you mentioned ACDC's Angus Young? I don't know why it is that you necessarily did that. It's just something I call people occasionally. Yeah, I think Brian Johnson is the one that we're looking for, actually. You know, you have, you know, Solos of Coa, he's got, he doesn't have the Ula Fala anymore. He's the little father anymore. Oh, yeah He's got a new tribe again. I don't know who you're impersonating there that I've never yeah

You know you gotta look out for Jacob thought to small small werewolf Can you guys please get for I didn't understand what you said some of this is a small world Small world. Small world. Can you guys please get for me some of the sound from Jerry Jones just basically lapsing into early onset. I'm too powerful. Small world. Just because we signed him doesn't mean we're going to have him.

He was hurt six games last year. Seriously. We've signed, I remember signing a player for the highest paid at the position in the league and he got knocked out two thirds of the year. Dak Prescott. So there's a lot of things you can think about when you, just as the player does, when you're thinking about Committing and guaranteeing money just what you want to do at a

Getting training camp going press conference. Let's piss off our two best players is Jerry Jones explaining to us that there are injuries in football Yeah, I should have explained better what that sound was So he's talking about Dak Prescott and Micah Parsons there So let me just play the sound again, forgive me for setting it up poorly there, so that you can understand who he's talking about because he said some things yesterday that make me think again, we need to take the power and the microphones

away from Jerry Jones, if they'd like to do any sort of winning because they asked him, did you have you thought about stepping down? And he's like, for a second, for a second I didn't, and I stopped thinking about it real quick, but I did think about it for a second. And so yesterday, what you have is a man He's like for a second for a second. I didn't then I stopped thinking about it real quick but I did think about it for a second and so

Yesterday what you have is a man who has been power for a long time and who is winning because if the Lakers went for 10 billion I can't imagine what the Cowboys are worth But they stink as a franchise and they've stunk for 30 years and they're relevant But not because they're winning important football game Just because they do a bunch of stuff that stays relevant and they get grandfathered in. In a way, the Dolphins don't get grandfathered in from a previous time. And the Dolphins in terms of popularity, not quite America's team, but in the 80s, 90s, a lot of people found the Dolphins as their favorite franchise and say what you want about the level of success or lack thereof that the Cowboys have had over the last close to 30

years. They got that it factor. They are worth talking about. They are the most chewed on topic out of any individual sports team in this nation on cable TV. Can I, can I just not to defend Jerry Jones, but and he just did by the way, he just did by saying that Jerry Jones is absolutely winning even though he's not winning because he has kept that franchise relevant by simply having the circus tent around it and making the star on the helmet a redundancy but it's not because it's on merit

also jerry jones has said this before right where the cowboys will be on the clock at the draft and even when they know who they're selecting i'll be damned if we're gonna make that pick before the clock at zero you can have that star on the screen the entire time like he has said that before is it possible like The Cowboys don't lose the free agents They want to keep like what who's the free agent they wanted to keep that Jerry wanted to keep and they weren't able to keep We did this with Dak Prescott CD lamb

Ezekiel Elliott, they don't lose the guys. Is it actually possible that he, this drags, it's worth him paying more money to Michael Parsons now because of the Miles Garrett deal and the T.J. Watt deal, as opposed to doing it last year, which Michael Parsons was ready to do, and it would have saved them money, because we're still talking. He loves the drama, and he always caves.

He always does. That's an excellent point there, and it keeps him in the headlines. Hell, if I wouldn't know any better, I'd say this by design. It's worth it for him to pay more money to the player for us to continue talking about. We got three years out of Dak Prescott's contract. They're still dissecting it on television. It is one of the great griffs of all time that an oil man who played poorly at Arkansas a long time ago and bought that team for $150 million. That's right. That's right. That's right. A bit of a profit there. $150 million. If the Lakers are worth $10 billion, what are the Cowboys worth? And when you are in the power game of calculating the winning

with power and money, you don't need standings for that. Can you take out a franchise equity loan? Yeah. And we'll ask David. Yeah. Because man, Steven Jones actually had this incredible clip that I saw last week that I thought about sending. It was about when Johnny Manziel was available for them

on the draft board and to Zazz's point, Jerry Jones loved being about the drama.. And to Zazz's point, Jerry Jones loved being about the drama. They had Tony Romo in house, but that was an electric moment in draft history when the Cowboys were up and Manziel was on the board. Everyone in that front office wanted Zack Martin. Every single person wanted Zack Martin and Cowboys were on the clock. Jerry's like, what do we think about Johnny? And everybody shoots their head down to the desk. No one wants to look the man in the eye. And Stephen Jones, his son, has the courage to say,

Dad, I think we gotta go with Zack Martin here. No one else wants Johnny, I think we gotta do this. And then they make the pick, and then Jerry Jones pulls Stephen Jones aside at the table so everyone can hear he's like that's why you'll never be great gets up leaves the room Jason Garrett slowly picks his head up and tells Stephen man I'm glad that wasn't me and then 10 minutes later Jerry Jones comes back and it's like I overreacted great pick everybody. I have only spoken in person with Jerry Jones one time and at the time he was

coming off of all of the success of having successfully replaced Tom Landry with Jimmy Johnson and proving to Jimmy Johnson after their breakup because he said while drinking in a bar around a lot of reporters, I could get 500 coaches to coach this team and win a Super Bowl, and then got a professional clown named Barry Switzer, and then won another Super Bowl. And so he's at the height of what his power was. And I can tell you,

I have rarely met people in my life that charming. Like a lot of hand on the knee, a lot of mentioning your, like you're sitting there and he's mentioning your name and it's just elegant, colorful quote after quote after quote and where he and Jimmy Johnson fell apart was, come on Jimmy just make it look like I'm in charge, can you? And he's like no I don't really want to do that anymore. I picked the players.

And so when he's interviewed, I think it was by Bob Costas. Bob Costas was like leaning on Jimmy in front of Jerry. Do you respect his football knowledge? He's like, well, I mean, yeah, he knows football, but not like I know football. And so that's like, that's where they fell apart. But since then, Jerry Jones has wanted to be the hood ornamental. Like Jerry Jones would be fine if it was his face on the helmet.

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