The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Old Rock Stars

Episode Date: July 15, 2025

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We interrupted you and you kept talking through the hard network and we couldn't hear any of what you said. Yeah. I still don't believe that Mike Ryan is right about this even though he mocks me I don't believe that rock can produce and Ozzy Osbourne anymore We can produce pop stars, but and Ozzy Osbourne that kind of thing I don't I don't know how it is that that gets produced so that 50 years from now There's whatever would be today the equivalent of 50 people honoring Drake or whatever. It's just really hard to shock people these days. Part of what made Ozzy such

a cult of personality was how shocking he was even by today's standards but because there was an Ozzy Osbourne it makes it really difficult for another one to exist but Youngblood very clearly going for it it felt like a passive baton moment even though he never interacted or interfaced with Ozzy Osbourne there. A lot like Ozzy in that he is a singular rock act that tours as a rock act. It's not too common these days. Handsome, English, got a lot going for himself and the pipes to boot. That was again, seek it out. Incredible. Yeah I think the fact that Ozzy's had health issues added a poignancy to that whole event and I want to say that Ozzy, you

wouldn't think that there would be close, but Ozzy and Elton John have been very close friends for a lot of years. They did a duet a couple years ago called Ordinary Man, which is incredibly poignant because it's what you would imagine it's about it's about two old rock stars aging and talking about how they feared just leading ordinary lives and how neither one of them did that it's a great song. And what something that happened also over the weekend that made me feel old was not just watching Ozzy there but Jack White turned 50. Yeah. As part of turning 50 he got a cell phone for the

first time which I just I love Jack I don't believe you. He looked a little bit old when John C. Reilly was singing him Happy Birthday the other day at Tiger Stadium. I looked at Jack White and saw a rock star who also looked old and I'm I remain surprised to hear my John C Riley's looked old for a while I mean that aging yes a lot of forehead surface area on that one but I I do believe I'm not going to say that Jack White is the last of it but I just think we've the way that music is made today doesn't really allow for someone to be that kind of different from, I'm not saying from rock music, I mean we make plenty of musical stars, plenty of pop stars, make

the stars differently than we ever do, but I just don't know how it is that you make something that existed like Jimi Hendrix from the 60s or 70s, and I'm not romanticizing or pining for a time that didn't exist, I just don't know the way that we're making music today and distributing it, the way that access't exist I just don't know the way that we're making music today and distributing it the way that access is today I don't know that an act can break Controversially or even being great enough to be better than the computers and the auto-tune and all of the producers that are making all Of this music a little more Homogenized where the AI can even have a hit album a i can create a musical hit because computers can now do that i think rock music goes through

these delayed cycles we got into a little bit but that there was an interesting interview them currently listening to was a local i respect immensely i think one of the greatest radio disc jockey personality types ever to do it he interviewed deftones uh... at a famous diner in l a and they're occupying this very interesting place in rock music right now because deftones are a famous diner in LA and they're occupying this very interesting place in rock music right now because deftones are bigger than they've ever been. They're playing sold out arena shows. They just played the stadium over a crystal palace and a lot of it is Tik Tok

and a lot of it is songs that were deeper cuts that were not singles whatsoever that kids on Tik Tok. I found when I went to the deftones show a few months ago, it was all people around 40 and over, and then teenagers, it just miss an entire generation of 20 to 35 year olds. It was crazy to see, but social media is going to have these moments in which people get really amplified and people it gets

people curious they do some digging and they realize that band like Death Dones that's been around for 30 years has a huge catalog and deserve to finally have their moment. Something I should have said earlier that I did not say I didn't know whether people had seen that we had sold something to ESPN, that Adam McKay and his team have made a 30 for 30 podcast that six part series, chasing basketball heaven on where it is that the three pointer originated and where it is the game was revolutionized. So we were pretty proud, a small victory here

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