The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: The Demi Lovatbros

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

Andrew Hawkins is here to tell us why it's The Year of the American White™ in sports. The New York Jets sent out a post thanking Aaron Rodgers for everything he's given them for the past two years, but... what did he actually give them? Stugotz shares his thoughts on the entirety of the Rodgers era for his Jets. Then, Andrew Hawkins explains why the best locker rooms have a mix of guys who hit the genetic lottery and guys who are workaholics. What's the delineation between an "addict" and an "-aholic?" Plus, Billy Gil regales the crew with stories from the Daytona 500 including Pitbull, Matthew Kugler's dance skills, a special moment with Demi Lovato, and not Joey Logano. We watch some of his coverage from the biggest event in racing including what might be the four best videos ever to grace the Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz airwaves. Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Andrew Hawkins, Billy, Jessica, Mike, and Roy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Shadow show. Shadow show. Shadow show. Shadow show. Shadow in it. Shadow in it. Shadow in it. I come in here today, that sound you heard of an exhale was Stugatz's.

I come in here today and I see, yeah we're on, I see Andrew Hawkins and I say to him by way of hello, because I haven't seen him in a while. It's been a while. You know, what do you have that's interesting to you these days? And he is totally silent for a while and You know, what do you have that's interesting to you these days? And he is totally silent for a while and I move on with my morning and there's just silence there.

And then, I don't know, six minutes later, he shouts across the room, it's the year of the American White. Yeah. There it is. He's right. Yep. That's not wrong. And it took me a while to verbalize that in sports. That's the thing for me, especially in front of Stu gots

When I said that confetti fell from the ceiling I don't know how the hell he had it on cue right but sure enough as soon as I said it just fireworks Do you care to elaborate? I mean it seems I mean look it's it's it seems obvious because it is Okay, and I tried to deny it for a while And it seems obvious. I mean, look, it seems obvious because it is, okay? And I tried to deny it for a while, but Mack McClung being the three-time NBA All-Star slam dunk champion was a thing. When he first started jumping over things, I'm like, all right, this will fade out.

Somebody will catch up at some point. This was years ago you were saying. This is years ago. And I remember actually, I think the first appearance that I made on this show, I introduced everybody to a man named Riley Moss, who was a cornerback at the time for Iowa. And I'm like, hey, buckle up, white cornerbacks are coming. And everyone was like, what are you talking about? And I had seen him play against my nephew. And fast forward to here we are. We got Cooper Dejean. We got Riley Moss, right? You got Cooper, you got Riley, you never have Riley Cooper.

Let me be very clear on that. You don't go there. Riley's good, Cooper's good, no Riley Cooper. Obviously, the Caitlin Clark taking over women's basketball. Right? Cooper Cup, Cooper is like, Cooper flag. There's a lot of Coopers. Cooper's like the white Jalen right now. It's the year of the Cooper really. A couple years ago under Chip Kelly there was a moment. Yeah.

Exactly. We don't go that one. Remember what a big deal that seemed like. Yeah that was a huge deal back then. But again, again, you can go Riley, you can go Cooper, you can't go Riley Cooper. That is the rule. So yeah, it's, it's, if I would have told you, okay, coming into this season, there's going to be an NFL wide receiver who gets shot in the chest and then plays the next day because he was trying to get robbed for his chain. You wouldn't have thought of a white guy, Mike.

That would, that would not be who you thought it was. A thousand guesses. It took a couple weeks. One thousand guesses. Took a couple weeks. You wouldn't have got there, but this is, there's an evolution happening. Which city did it happen in?

There's an evolution happening in American sports. Who's the leadership in the city? I have a number of different questions that I wanna ask you, but when it comes to playing word association with a person, Riley Cooper, there's one thing you associate with him. It's not football player, it's not career. Like, the one thing when I hear that name, all I think about, like the first thing that floods to me is this guy was in the middle of using the n-word at a country concert I think Kenny Kenny

Chesney that's usually the word association that I do Riley Cooper Kenny Chesney I associate him with only that thing he was a part of that whole Gators team which is funny and retrospect. Again, we can do a whole resume if you want. I know there are other things on the resume. The Gator thing is funny because that's his piece of the equation. Of all the different Gators players that got into trouble, his was saying the N-word at a Kenny Chesney party. Alright, let's get started. This is the Don LeBattor Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Stugatz, I am curious if you had any sort of emotional or visceral reaction to the New York Jets on their account thanking Aaron Rogers for

all of the memories for everything you've given us. Name one. The past two years. Thank you. Number eight. You say the memory. The only memory I have is him getting injured after carrying the American flag on the field. Is there another memory of his Jets career?

Two years of the tenure, one of the greatest quarterbacks ever, the Jets swallow him. I didn't think he deserved this goodbye. Did he deserve this goodbye from the New York Jets? He did not. There are two memories. It's him carrying the American flag as you pointed out and then him four plays later tearing his Achilles. That's about it. Thank you for nothing. Well, how does this work? What is the other memory you guys have on two years of Aaron Rodgers? And how do Jets fans feel about the entirety

of the experience you got? Is it the end of Brett Favre's career with the Jets? Like what? Oh, Brett Favre gave us something. Yeah, Brett almost made the playoffs. Almost made the playoffs. A worse scandal. He gave you that, too. Yeah, that's true.

I mean, for nine weeks, though, for nine weeks with Brett Favre, the Jets were the best team in the NFL. It was the best jet team of all time for nine weeks. He left it out there. Yeah, it was four plays, but you can't deny he left his Achilles on the field for that franchise. I thought you were talking about Brett. Yeah, me too. He also left it out there, all right?

He really did, literally. He did. I mean, it's true. Put it back up there again, because I really do just want to look at this for a second. I thought we were still talking about Brett Farms, but don't put that back up there. What?

The Jets put up, thank you, and for everything you've given us the past two years, thank you, number eight. And my question is, what did he give them the last two years? I'm asking the question seriously nothing i'm what i'm answering it seriously popularity no the jets have never been a part of the national conversation as often as

they were in their franchise history at the for the only thing i want to know bottom line though no i know but we've always been like a team that everyone's made fun of in this kind of ratcheted that up because you got an MVP quarterback, the greatest quarterback I would say in franchise history, right? And in four plays, that's over. That whole dream is over. What about Hope? Does Hope mean nothing to you? You had so much hope. I have hope every August. You woke up today, you woke up in those mornings feeling like you had a chance, no? That one morning, yes. Hope and sales at the beginning he was good for.

Hope and sales, that can't be disputed. There you go. He was good for business at the beginning, but then you're theorizing that the rest of what he gives is just attention to the jets, but it's not good attention. And then it becomes Chris Cody's theory of in the modern age, all attention is good attention. It doesn't even matter whether it is good or bad. You just make yourself more famous, and that's the currency of the day.

That's not wrong. It's not a wrong take. And maybe I'm a little biased, because the Browns gave me a beautiful thank you when I left after losing many games, never seeing a playoff. But you, I mean, you talking about the love that they shouted me out with after I left left that organization and I'm no Aaron Rodgers So I'm like, you know, are you trying to convince me that I'm gonna miss Aaron Rodgers?

I think you feel that way you're doing I won't I'm not sure actually like what are they going to do at quarterback? And Andrew Hawkins at least got his big goodbye from the Browns because he represents one of the great things in sports that everyone can embrace, which is the underdog. Aaron Rodgers was not that. He's not the gritty underdog. Hawkins was also good for the Browns, whereas Aaron wasn't good for the Jazz.

Yes. How often did you skip training camp to go to Egypt or whatever? It was only that one year, Jessica. No, I never skipped training camp. No, I was a show up guy for sure. When you're under 5-8 You kind of have to show up forever

Well, but it wasn't on the Browns that you decided have a choice on the Browns It wasn't where you said on the sidelines. I will not punt return during an exhibition That was the Cincinnati Bengals and they also gave me a beautiful goodbye when I left their organization And then there was that one time where he was at training camp He's like, I don't feel like doing this anymore Tom Brady Bill Belichick Okay. All right. So maybe I am a little more Aaron Rodgers than it looks like on the surface where he was at training camp, and he's like, I don't feel like doing this anymore, Tom Brady, Bill Belichick. Yeah, okay. All right, so maybe I am a little more Aaron Rodgers than it looks like on the surface, okay?

Which plays into my point, it's okay to thank him for coming to the, because he had to move a lot of mountains to go to the Jets. Right. He had other places he could have gone at that time. This was the place that he chose. It didn't work out.

It's okay to break up amicably and say, hey, no hard feelings. Thank you for the times that we had, Stu Gotts. I can have hard feelings. I can. Okay. We've covered this a couple of times, but I thought you were going to kill it in New England. You've patterned your game after Wes Welker and you're the quickest man alive. And I had seen you in Cleveland. I'm like, finally,, the world's gonna learn how good Andrew Hawkins is gonna be. He's gonna become a superstar in New England. Was it just not going that way in camp? Did you not feel the same?

Because I kind of felt like it was gonna work out. I felt, this is no BS, I felt as quick as I ever had in my life in the off season with the New England Patriots. And it wasn't the work, because everyone's like, oh, you get there and it's hard. There's not like, I'm not scared of work. I'm a workaholic actually. So like if I was addicted to crack, like you're not gonna scare me with crack.

It's a good thing in that, that right in the middle of my work addiction, the problem was it was miserable. And it was miserable for a lot of things. And it was like, man man this just doesn't feel like at all what I want to do. My knee was hurting and I locked up for like four weeks that off season and so once I got there, by like day two, no BS, I was like oh yeah this isn't going to work for me.

There was no light in the building. Well I want to ask you about this, okay? I want to ask you about the, not just the Patriots, we were having this conversation last week about i think was billy who said you run a lot uh... alone always greg cody who said i run a loose ship and i was like i thought everybody wanted to lose ship i thought that that would be more fun than whatever it is that the patriots do but the patriots do also win and could

get your did could also get tricked into thinking that the reason they want is because they did it with no lights that way So let me play some sound here of Cam Newton talking the other day about like what loser culture is and how Cam Newton Felt walking into the Carolina locker room. He's on Travis hunters podcast here How did you handle the pressure being the topic? Let's put it in perspective. You're the top pick because what? Well, you play. No, no, no, no, no.

You're looking at it from a personal situation. I'm talking about from the professional situation. You're the top pick because that was the worst team in the NFL the year before. For me, I wanted to be the number one pick. You could potentially be the first pick, but bro, you have no way of impacting the game like a quarterback does.

You can lock down the number one receiver. You can make impact plays on offense all you want, but it's still game like a quarterback does. You can lock down a number one receiver, you can make impact plays on offense all you want, but it's still not like a quarterback. My issue is when I was the first pick, I went into a locker room of losers. Guys didn't know how to win, guys didn't know how to prepare. It was a culture shock for me.

The games don't mean a lot to a lot of people in the league like you would expect. It's just money. Not everybody has capabilities to be impact players. They're just players He pissed off that locker room pissed off Steve Smith by calling him a loser I love Steve Smith big fan of Steve Smith. Not a guy would want to piss off right in an older time He's mature very mature guy now, but in his heyday. Yeah, he broke the eye socket

He's still not somebody's a tough dude Yeah, he broke the eye socket of teammates. He's still not somebody you want. He's a tough dude. I don't want to piss him off. As long as he's alive and maybe after, to be honest with you. Total respect. When it comes to addictions, cause you mentioned being addicted to crack,

like when is it like an addiction and when are you an olic? Like why aren't they crackaholics? Put it on the poll please. Great question. At LeBittard Show, why aren't they crackaholics? They're crack addicts, right? Or crack heads. They're crack heads or crack addicts? aren't they crackaholics? They're crack addicts, right? Not crackaholics. They're crack heads or crack addicts?

They're not crackaholics, I've never heard crackaholic. Yeah, that's a good question. The loser's in the locker room, though. It's not, but they do. When Cam Newton says that, I can imagine Steve Smith bristling, but I wanna ask you about the idea of what is the right line between having

joy in the workplace and having misery in the workplace because of the distance between we've got too many rules or not enough rules. Yeah, I don't think it's, there isn't, there isn't a line. And I think that's the whole, the whole point. I don't know if the chiefs who, yes, they just lost the Super Bowl in a huge fashion, but you talk about success and a dynasty, they don't do this, do it the same way that the new moon patriots do it.

That doesn't mean that because they're having fun and they have better marketing agents that they're not still a dynasty and a culture of winning, right? And I think for me, even when it comes to New England, and I say that it was miserable for me because I was 31 years old, I had three children, I had been playing professional football by that time

for 10 years chasing this dream, which took me from living on somebody's couch to working in a factory to all these ridiculous things. And my goal, I'm not BSing when I say this, was literally to play one game. So no, I didn't come into the league thinking I was going to be a pro bowler. I didn't have any conception of thinking that I was going to get a second contract. I had like nothing. One game was all I wanted. So by 31 years old and I'm walking down a hallway for 20 yards, me and just a coach. And when we get close as we inch towards each other,

and I'm new, and we get right beside each other, I say, hey, what's up, coach? And they look at you and just keep walking. I'm like, okay, yeah, no, I can't do this at this age. Maybe at 25, when I was incredibly hungry and I was just trying to prove myself. And at that- You got your feelings hurt by that?

I didn't get my feelings hurt. It was that I didn't wanna be like, yo. A sadness and a loneliness to it, right? Hey, hey mother, I said what's up, you didn't hear me? Don't do that. I didn't wanna go there because I'm new here and because that's how I feel now because I have children that I would rather be at home with at this time.

That's why it was the wrong time for me. Let me ask you this park is we like to dismiss people who care very deeply and get to the top one percent of the top one percent as losers when they lose i saw i think it's been axle rod who had this that the other day while you were there the browns were walking axle road were one in thirty one passed on three mvp quarterbacks in the draft with the first pick while going once the one thirty one and had their two best players request trades

that they got from the one and thirty one that's loser that's in terms of a two-year span you will rarely see more loser than that in the nfl yet but hawk is saying his personal goal was just to play a single right but what's 74. I know, but I'm curious when Cam says that most of the guys in locker room didn't care the way he did. They cared about money. That wasn't the locker room you were walking into with the Patriots, was it?

No, and I won't say that was the locker room that I was with with the Browns or the Bengals either. Like you have 53 people. Yes, everybody's motivations are gonna be different. My motivation was to play one game, but I'm also a maniac when it comes to living up to expectation. So I approached every day like it was a game

because I was scared to death I was going to get cut. So that is not fun. That is not fun to feel like if you make one mistake, you're going to have trouble feeding your family. And so my standard, even though it was one game was my goal my standard never changed whether I was with the Browns Patriots Bengals or whatever and there's other guys that I don't think it's crazy to think about People who grew up in poverty. Yes, some people's goal is just not to be in poverty anymore, right? And it comes down to the fact can you maintain?

whatever level of excellence that you got to to become the 1% of the 1% or even if you won the genetic lottery? Maybe a large majority of the guys in the NFL? It isn't work ethic. It isn't how you approach it. It is you won the genetic lottery and because you're 6'6 and you run a 4'4 with the 42 inch vertical leap, everybody understands well even if you're not motivated and working hard, you're still better than the 5'7 kid from Toledo, like we'll still give you a shot. We have a better chance of winning with you than this guy.

And so, yeah, it's not a surprise that it is a lot of luck to construct a locker room that has that right mix of guys who have the right mentality, that has the right mix of genetics as well, and also has a quarterback who aligns with where you are in that time. Most championship dynasties and teams have that going for them. Hey there, wellness warriors.

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If I don't have to move to LA and I could just do this somewhere near to the Tamiyami area, like they have an old theater that's kind of abandoned right now, maybe we do something there. I mean, people like to come to Miami, right? You turned the abandoned Kmart into your late, late show studio. Yes, I didn't even think about that.

Wow, that's a theater right there. This is the Dan LeBattar Show with the Stugats. Roy, Jess, were you as surprised as I was, because he just mentioned not being surprised. Were you guys as surprised as I was to see Billy pop up at the Daytona 500 out of nowhere with no announcement? It's not as surprising to me as Cartersville, Georgia and Billy Gilday was that he took his whole family there unannounced, but I was surprised. Were you guys surprised?

Absolutely, like he probably wasn't there for the race. He had to have been there for something else, right? No. No? You weren't there for the race? Yeah, wasn't there for the race. Yeah, like, I mean, if you wanna know the nuts and bolts of it, someone from NASCAR reached out to me a couple weeks ago and I said, oh, Super Bowl's coming up, let's see, we'll figure this out. And then Super Bowl came and went and we ended up, you know, in Daytona, the great American race.

You went with Matt Coogler, producer of South Beach Sessions? You went with Matt Coogler? He was there. I have never seen such joy out of... What happened here? Where's the gearhead? I thought we didn't talk about... Thank you. I thought we didn't talk about Daytona 500, unless there was a gearhead. Why were you there? How were you there? It was Pitbull related, right? Pitbull happened to be there. Demi Lovato was there the night before at a private party that we went to. So, I mean mean it's a whole thing like you just Kind of it's a big event great American race the Super Bowl of Motorsports

Many say even though it's the first race so we had to go. It's Daytona's a quick drive up We drove up we you know you're going back and forth I talked to Carl I finally I think maybe I'm gonna be able to expense the Place that we stayed that night so we can go cover the race The next day and yeah, I mean if you invite us there and it's you know reasonable and we can make it happen We'll go cover your event Well people being honestly like I didn't know Billy was there I didn't know people was there when I agreed Yeah, I didn't know Demi Lovato was gonna be there. I think he was supposed to be there last year

and then they had weather delays and so this was like a make-up date for Pitbull. Yeah, I think last year he was supposed to perform and then it got canceled, not canceled, but pushed back to the next day and there was like, spoiler alert, there was, well I guess not spoiler, you could easily check in on what happened,

the Daytona 500, but it rained after like 11 laps and there was a very lengthy delay. And then they have to drive around and they have to drive the track with special drying cars. It's a fun time, have you ever been, Dan? I have and I find, when you say find a cheap place to play, obviously I think outside of biker week, maybe biker, it's gotta be the biggest weekend in Daytona.

It's gotta be bigger than biker week, right? Like I don't think there are cheap places or easy places to stay in a tona during the great american well We'll find out he's expensing it. We stayed in New Smyrna Beach about 35 minutes away and then we drove over an Airbnb lovely place to stay Chad great host if anyone has any recommendations Looking for a place to stay in New Smyrna Beach, stay at Chad's place, it was nice. The World Center of Racing in Daytona is really awe-inspiring in terms of a sporting venue. I don't know how it comes across on TV,

but having been there and seen it, it is a really huge, impressive thing. It's one of those, it's kind of like the Sphere. It has to be seen to be believed at how huge it was. I'm so happy that Billy went because I know he's a gearhead. It's not his first Daytona, he's been to Olmstead. I've been to more Daytona 500s than Super Bowls. Put it on the poll please at Levitard Show.

Bigger weekend in Daytona, spring break, biker week, or Daytona 500 weekend? Daytona 500, come on. Of course it is. I still like we're glossing over how good of a dancer Matt Kluge was in that clip. Yeah, Kluge was really good. But that's what Pip Paul does.

It was embarrassing, to be honest, because he did that the night before. And we were at this NASCAR event with all these big NASCAR big wigs there. And Jersey Jerry from Barstool was there, too. And Kluge is just dancing up a storm like that. And it's like, can you please stop it? No one else is dancing.

But he's really smooth with it though. That's not like a, that's not just a, that's not his first rodeo. That is in the mirror, probably a lot of minutes and times logged at home to get that kind of just the shoulder symmetry to the beat. I can't hear the music, but I can hear it in my head because I'm watching it.

Cause you know it's pitbull, which by the way, we need to talk about what a professional pitbull is. Because he could have very easily said, I'm not doing that. In fact, he's no longer with Trackhouse Racing, but he's a professional. And even though Mother Nature got in the way last year, as he famously once said, they can't, they won't,

they never will stop the party. All right, let's play this again so that everyone can see how wrong they were about Coogler being infectious. I want you to watch the bearded guy on the left. Watch it. That's the guy I'm focused on, dude. He gets into it like you're saying he didn't get anyone else into it. I say you're wrong. He got that bearded guy, he was a leader.

Coogler was a leader and he got everyone in there on that flat footed shoulder dance that doesn't involve lifting your feet anywhere off of the ground. It's just flat footed. Look at all these people. Look at all the lives Pipple is touching right now. He crosses over. I know how Kluge pulls now. I can see. He's getting to get me into, put the music on and watch me become the center of attention.

They should have played that on Saturday night on live television for three hours as part of the 50 year Saturday night live anniversary. I wanna talk about that in just a second. Transition. Well, the reason I'm transitioning, I'll tell you why I'm transitioning. I'm gonna give you the secret of what this transition is. Billy, you laugh, but wait until you hear

why the transition made an appearance. Lewis said to me, hey, I've got four videos from Daytona, and then after 30 seconds, he's like, none of them are good. Whoa, whoa, wait, wait a second. Hold on. That's what just happened. That's why it just happened. Impossible.

That's why it just happened that way. Impossible. I was told in my NASCAR group chat, which Billy, if you want, and let me know, that Billy had the best interview with Joey Logano anyone's ever seen. That's what I was told. But I was told the four videos that we have ready are not ready to go right now.

And that's why you got the transition that you did. Thank you for just leaving it out there without pointing it out to everybody. I don't know how that's possible. It's just, I know. So tell me what I'm throwing it to, and we'll judge for ourselves. I have no idea what they have.

Okay, very good. So let's throw it to the first video that Lewis says isn't good enough. Without context, as Billy doesn't know what video we're throwing it to. What a day in Daytona. Huh! Hey, yeah, yeah!

Que no pare la fiesta! Don't start the party! Hey, yeah, yeah! Que no pare la fiesta! Don't start the party! Electric. How many of these people do we think are here just for Pitbull? Most of them.

Look at this. No one's in their seats. They're here at the stage watching Pit. What a day. This is what NASCAR is about. This is what it's about. That's how you open a NASCAR season. Just like that. I'm home. That's how you open a NASCAR season. Just like that.

I'm home. That video was good enough. I'm home. That video was good enough. I am just singing. It's not exactly showing off NASCAR. Look at the access that fans have at a NASCAR race. You tried doing that at Formula One. It really is crazy. Everyone's nose is turned up. This is like minutes before the race starts. Minutes before the president has access to the speedway. You're like five feet away from the president. Like you could virtually do whatever you want. You're writing your name on the finish line. Oh yeah, I did that.

I wrote my name on the track. The way we opened the video, like I was on, it was in pit row on the wall as the cars are driving by, just shooting a start to a video. And it wasn't because like I was a special person, I just stood there for 30 minutes so that I would have that spot. I will tell you that I really enjoyed just moments ago

hearing Lewis in my ear cringe as Stugatz whispered to Billy in the talkback, that's the way you expense it. It is. When that video was played at the concert, let's play another video here that Lewis has deemed not good enough. He's now in control and can play a video to tank this whole thing. Well, but he was wrong on the first one, so let's see what else we've got.

This is the 67th running of the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. The fans, as you can see, are lining up and they're getting ready for Pitbull, who's going to be hitting the stage shortly. Bit of a sad day, Pitbull had a falling out with his race team two days ago, so he's no longer part of Trackhouse Racing, unfortunately. So some are saying this may be his swan song, this may be his last performance for NASCAR. Time will tell, but just very lucky that we're here for this moment in history when Pitbull is going to sing one maybe last time at Daytona International Speedway.

Sir, are you excited for Pitbull today? I'm sorry? Are you excited for Pitbull today? Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. Sad that he had a falling out with Trackhouse Racing. I'm good, thank you. Okay. Sad that he had a falling out with track house racing. I'm good. Thank you, okay He seemed

To Billy were you recognized by many people there? I don't I don't see People in NASCAR Checking in on this show for our NASCAR information and NASCAR coverage no matter how hard Mike tries. I was asked by many people that came up to me just because they saw the camera and the microphone like, you a YouTuber? And I'm like, kind of, it's complicated. Let's just say yes for now.

Let's play a third video of Billy at the Daytona 500 as Metal Arch Media tries to expand its coverage to see if we could grab some NASCAR fans. Daytona Motor Speedway, international, Daytona International Speedway. The Super Bowl of racing. Even though it's the first race, which is like weird, because normally the Super Bowl is the end of the year.

Not normally, it's always at the end of the year. What's this music? And that's where they determine the champion. This is the first race of the year. It's insulting. Is that a banjo? But it's the Super Bowl of racing here. Daytona International Speedway.

You check out the crowd here. It looks empty at the moment. But it's going to fill up. We're expecting a big crowd today. You don't say. at the moment, but it's gonna fill up. We're expecting a big crowd today. Whether, I don't know if it's gonna cooperate, but we're expecting a big crowd. Went out of the limb there. Andrew, you're writing things down here,

you're taking notes on Billy's. On how to expense, yes. I'm just trying to grade, number one, how do you get things expensive, this company? That's important, I have a two hour commute every morning I come here. And also number two, just like some, okay, why was this looked at as not being good enough?

And I'm taking notes for each video, so. All right, well come here. Get ready because we're sending you to Talladega. Okay. All right, hopefully you have security, but all right, we'll talk later. We're gonna get to your notes in a second. Were you with Demi Lovato?

What were you doing there? We were just at a private party the night before that we were invited to for NASCAR big wigs at an airport hangar, and then we saw the schedule and it's like, well, Demi Lovato is performing, and we're like, really? Okay, well now we have to go, and it was cinematic. As we were walking, and we weren't on the list, which was a whole thing, and then we have to go. And it was cinematic. As we were walking, and we weren't on the list,

which, you know, was a whole thing, and then we had to figure out how we were on the list, who we had to go through, it was a whole thing. But as we were walking in, Demi's hitting the stage and Confident just starts playing. And then we were watching, we're like, oh, we can get a little bit closer, like, we can get a little bit closer.

And then it got to a point where we're like, this is close enough. Like, you can literally just walk up and be hanging out on the stage because it was such a private party and everyone was just talking their NASCAR in the back and we were just there for Demi. And we were probably 15 feet away from the stage

just because we didn't wanna get any closer and make it awkward. Let's see some of that video and see if Billy went four for four over Louis's objections. Is this an IG story? What is this? This is not true. More, more Cougar dancing. More Cougar dancing, and now Lewis is worried we're gonna get flagged by you guys. Oh yeah, this video's not gonna be on YouTube anymore

because of that, I don't know why we heard that. I will tell you this. Good job everybody. Lewis tried to tell ya. You saw Thomas there. Thomas, like, it was the weirdest thing. Demi Lovato in the middle of the concert pointed at Thomas and said I love this guy I love

his energy and then went back and continued singing because he was dancing and she'd say things like you guys may know this song and then he'd scream out and then you could see how close we were he'd scream out we know all of them Demi! He's beaming, he's totally radiant look at him that right there you just caught him that's the happiest he has ever been right there just staring at that songbird in the middle of the NASCAR airplane hangar. What a performer by the way, Demi Lovato live. Like we thought because this is like a corporate event, like maybe we'd be mailing it in and like just be like going through the motions, lip syncing potentially.

No. Did she do heart attack? She, oh, of course she did heart attack. That's tough live. She did heart attack. She was, she was, look at that. That was us when we decided, you know Yeah, that's in the middle of a song Anyone's ever had for an event. Yeah Amazing God, where's the legato interview?

Where's the Lagano interview? Is there, where's the greatest showing Lagano interview that has ever been done? How wrong is it? People were calling us the Demi Lovatt bros. How wrong was Lewis here? I've got a beaming Andrew Hawkins here. This is incredible. First off, this is the most I've ever watched

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in the batch. There were a lot of photographers there taking a thousands of pictures. One got that photograph. Okay, good retort. Stugats. Haven't you ever passed by photographers? I guarantee you when that shot was taken we didn't just hear ch ch. That's not what you heard. If you were by that camera, ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch

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so Lugano is a cup series champion reigning cup series champion controversial cup series champion from last year but I think from what I've heard Billy was a little confused as to what type of champion he was. I was giving bad information right before. He's like, hey, you think you're going to go back to back here? And he's like, what do you mean, here? He's like, yeah, back to back, here. I was like, we're going to go back to back. And he goes back to back. And then he paused.

He goes, championship at the end of the year? I was like, yeah. That was pretty much it. Then asked how he's feeling. He's bailing you out. Yeah, stuff like that. He didn't win the Daytona 500 last year. He certainly didn't win it this year.

Well, that's because the three guys we spoke to crashed into each other and all eliminated each other from the race. It's very random, although William Byron wins for a second consecutive year. How about that, the 24 car? I just feel like we should have opened with these videos, with this conversation.

This has been my favorite part of the show, I'll be honest with you. I think Mike had some video of a wreck that he has wanted to show for a couple of days. Oh, the Ryan Priest thing? Did you guys see that? So like these, I don't know if we have that. I'll give videos some time, but either way,

like these next gen cars, you'll see sometimes when they're getting real close to one another, the flaps will go up, and that's to keep these cars grounded because it's been an issue at NASCAR, especially at super speedways because they travel so much faster. Cars getting airborne, there have been really gnarly wrecks over at Daytona 500 going up into the barriers,

putting the lives of people in the crowd in danger, so everyone wants to keep these cars on the ground. That Grand Prix last year had a nasty wreck in which it forced Daytona to chop up some of the grass that they have over there on the ground. In fact, Ryan Priest last year had a nasty wreck in which it forced Daytona to chop up some of the grass that they have over there on the infield and pave it because the grass also helped make this car go airborne. But here's Ryan Priest, the 60 car, goes airborne for the second straight year at Daytona and it was horrific to watch live. It's amazing these guys just get up and walk away. When you juxtapose that from what happened 24 years ago

with Dale Earnhardt, which looks rather innocuous compared to that, and we lost Dale, that's just crazy. I've seen tires come off of those cars and I just get terrified at the idea of if that hit a person, if somehow the safety measures and the protective nettings weren't good enough, like that would kill several people, just a tire flying into the crowd.

How many sets of tires do you think they use at Daytona International Speedway for the Daytona 500? If you were to guess, Benny, man, how many sets of tires? Four sets of tires, I would. Good guess, Dan? I'm gonna say a thousand sets of tires. Well, I meant per car, like per car. A thousand per car, so somewhere between four and a thousand.

All right, Hawk? You just asked how many tires, and so I was counting all the cars. How many sets of tires? All the sets of tires. That set is four. These cars have four tires, yeah. I would say 20.

20, okay. For this race, they only use seven sets of tires How much do you guys think each set of tires costs? Oh those they've got to be dollars no Premium like I paid like 800 bucks or something Okay, one of the most amazing things I have ever seen my father do before I knew what Hialeah was here in South, Florida Was back when he ruled Hialeah He took me through a labyrinth of alleys and places a door opened and they sold me a spare tire for $10

Well, and $10 is that your guess yet $10 or guess Remember it's for the set. Okay, so $40 Yes. Yeah, $10 are guests for the set. Remember, it's four of the set. Okay, so $40 is my guess. Now, $2,800 for the set of four tires. Well, those ones aren't stolen, so that's why. Yeah.

That's the difference between when you're doing it. Have any of you ever bought something from someone either roaming around South Florida in a van filled with electronics equipment, or bought something at a gas station from somebody who's just hustling, selling some independent stolen things? Have any of you ever purchased from one of the vans in South Florida that pulls up next to you

and says, would you like to buy X cheap? Typically if a van pulls up next to me, I try to avoid it. I sprint away. Nothing good happens if a van pulls up next to you. But you guys have all had this happen to you correct No, usually like this the specificity of the van is what's throwing me off right? I have a lot of room for the electronic I think I told you I had a guy pull up to me like in a van In a Home Depot parking lot like I was walking out

I had bought like a planter and he's like hey, hey, hey, you need a home sound system Like I have all surround sound, all these speakers. He's like opening it up and I'm like, where is this going? Like I'm very confused by this interaction. He's like, oh, you know, like I'm a contractor and we ordered too many for this project that I'm on. So normally, so normally this is like a $7,000 sound system,

but I could probably give it to you for like three. And I'm like, does this man think that I'm just walking around with $3,000 to give him for a sound system in the event that someone came up to me with a van full of electronic, it was the strangest thing, I'm like, no, I have a small house, that's what I just kept telling him, no, no, I have a small house,

no, this is a good friend of yours, I'm like, no, I have kids, it's gonna be too loud, I can't make this work, thank you, though, maybe next time. I think I hit him with a maybe next time. Was it before or after he saw you hanging out with Demi Lovato? Oh, this is way before. He didn't know I was a Lovato at the time.

I was gonna say, maybe that's why he thought you had three cages in a back pocket. Well, the idea that you would have any cash has had to be years ago, because no one's carrying cash, but $3,000 in cash. Certainly, I like the idea of the van pulling up with a credit card machine. I can tell you this, you don't need cash

or a credit card machine when you have Venmo. I mean, it's easy to do, boom, boom. Venmo also sponsors our fine bucket. I don't know if you knew that, Dan, Hawk, sometimes we'll get fines for doing things, sponsored by Venmo, incredible. Well done. Hawk, what are your notes here on all of Billy's videos

and his coverage for Daytona 500 that involved four other people and the first dancing coogler I've ever seen? No, the three people first of all, I will tell you this, that trip, you don't need to know the budgets for these things. That trip was like maybe $700 for four people to go to Daytona 500. It was like next to nothing that we pay. It was like, like a discount. I should be up charging and put a premium on that. You know what I mean? Maybe put in some gas miles or something. But we needed to have there someone for the social clips to get out there. We got those clips out, boom, right like that.

Boom, boom, boom, boom. Not to say that we didn't see anything from All-Star Weekend, but boom, we got some NASCAR clips out almost immediately. Boom, boom, boom. We didn't and haven't seen very much from All-Star Weekend. We got some other videos out there. Like boom, boom, boom. We got eight people at the All-Star game.

I'm sure we'll get it by next All-Star game. Let's play some video here. One more video of Billy at Daytona 500. I think I'm home. Hello, sir, how are you? Who do we like today? Who are we liking today? Chase Brisco, please.

Really? Yes. You think that today is the day for Chase? Ah sure hoping so. Hoping to get the race in. Hoping it's a lead Brisco today, you know what I mean? Yes, all the way. Lead Brisco. Thank you so much. Is he the name on your cap? It's the number 9 car coming through here, Taylor. Be careful. Careful. It's a good looking car. Are we number nine, guys? Is that Chase Elliott? It's something Elliott.

We're Elliott, guys. I think. Here we go. The 48 car. A historic number in NASCAR 48. Bowman's driving it today. I think we might be Bowmen today, here. Supporting the 48, you know what I mean? Billy?

I like it. I like how we're looking so far. Good day. I am willing to authorize right now budget for you to be the correspondent at events where you have no expertise Gregson yeah, you got Bowman right you got the historic number 49 48 whatever I mean Jimmy Johnson come on everybody if you guess Elliot you have a good chance of being right yeah I mean I saw his name on the car. It's over the window. I mean, he is the son of Bill Elliot. I can't confirm or deny that.

I don't know if this is a trick. Awesome Bill from Dawson Bill. It's easy to see why Billy has his own day, because this is not only. I heard that you were shitting on that. I got to tell you, we're got to me that you were really poo-pooing that situation. I was not poo-pooing the situation.

I was not. That was not the sentiment I heard you said no big deal or something along those lines. I've had many a day. No they they Discredited my day because I didn't have a official seal on the declaration But I did have a seal and then they put up a picture of the music artist seal because he was black It's always just it was a it was a whole thing This is what they try to divide us. This is exactly I just want you to know not only am I proud of your day Thank you. Those were the five best content clips that this show has to offer Wow

Okay, and the reason why I gave some notes number one They could have cut that one down by about 61% something were long, you know That was a little long number two. They could have cut that one down by about 61%. Yeah, some of them were long. You know? A little long. That was a little long. Number two, they could have cut right to the interview of the guy when he said, are you excited to see Pit Boy? He says, yes, that's great content. Number three was kind of an opening.

That should have led all the videos because no one's in the stands yet, so it kind of gives you a little bit of a buildup. But you gotta see the opening to the video package on YouTube, oh, it's an electric opening. Trust me, I'm locked in. Number four, we could have cut Ryk the Cougs dancing at the concert.

Like, anytime he's dancing, you gotta put him in there. I'm telling you, you just gotta trust me on this. I know content, I'm not just some guy. And then number five. Those are cutoff shorts, by the way. You can't see it here. It almost looked like a onesie. Those shorts, same exact print, like mid-thigh.

I want you to watch the neck work at the end of this video. Just let it get to the net. It gets cut off here. But that right there is where I was like, oh, no, this isn't a fluke. He's a confident dancer. You can see it. You can't hide that.

Put it on the poll, please. Number five was perfect. At LeBittard Show, can you be a confident dancer Confident dancer. You can see it. You can't hide that. Put it on the poll, please. That was perfect. At LeBittard Show, can you be a confident dancer if you are so flat-footed that it seems your feet are made of cement? Hey there, wellness warriors. If you're like me, you've given a lot of thought

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