The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Dan's Apology

Episode Date: August 21, 2024

David Samson hangs around for another segment to dive into a plethora of topics including the Marlins' new season ticket plan, private equity in the NFL, white guy bands and the Pete Rose docuseries. Then, Dan makes an apology alongside two of his biggest supporters who he does not know for treating Amin and Jessica with disrespect earlier in the show. Is eating fried cheese and pork before 10 a.m. egregious? Plus, we dive into Barack and Michelle Obamas stealing the show at the Democratic National Convention and eulogize Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck after their shocking divorce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar. David, what did you make of the Marlins and what they're doing with ticket pricing?

Can you explain to us what's real and what's perception there? So what's real is that they announced 6794 at Marlins Park last night against the Diamondbacks. I can't believe they allowed that to be the announced attendance on the day that they're in the news cycle getting attention for this new season ticket plan, which is not new. It's something that we've done over 20 years and every team does it. They're called flex season tickets, meaning, hey, we know you don't want to come to 81 games because if you do, you're sort of an overwhelming super fan. Come to any amount of games you

want, sit wherever you want, which is sort of like buying an individual ticket in advance. But the reason we want to call it a season ticket is we want you to pay now so we can keep track of our revenue so we can figure out what our payroll is gonna be all they're trying to do is get Money up front from people who would normally buy one game at a time And then you make up a bunch of benefits that no one takes advantage of and don't really matter at the end of the day And you get some good articles written about you. The NFL is running its business impeccably. They are far and ahead of everybody in everything they're doing to monetize. Private equity in the NFL, what are your thoughts there

as somebody who covers sports business better than anybody out there? Again, I tell people nothing personal is the place to look if you're really interested in the minutia of sports business. Can you explain to me what's happening with the NFL and private equity and furthermore can you explain to me how it is the NFL gets away still charging for these preseason games the way they do? Well let me start with the second one. I was in Denver. I went to the Broncos Packers preseason game and I was. It's a great question because my girlfriend's a Packers fan and I love the Packers and I was in Denver and the Packers were playing.

And so we were on our way to Red Rocks for an OAR concert and stopped and watched the first half of the preseason game. It was so bad, so bad. And here's what I realized, there will be an 18th game and I don't care what anyone says. It doesn't matter what the union says or what management says. It is a FEDECOM plea that there'll be an 18th game and it will be in exchange for one fewer preseason game. Fans aren't interested.

They're not gambling as much on preseason games. Nobody plays. It was a high school team, basically. You played for the Packers. Jordan Love was there in his skivvies, along with half the other starting players. And it's just a waste of everyone's time and money. And why do that when you have a chance to make more money

and waste less time? So that's that for preseason. Private equity, I did, Dan, a 15-minute segment this morning. Let me sum it up for you this way. If you wanna get billions of dollars for your team and keep the value of your team increasing, there's a limited number of basis in the world.

So you've got to find other pockets of money. And what private equity means is you take all your money, Dan, you put it together with all everybody's money, and you look for investments that give you a return on that investment. And it turns out that owning sports teams is a good investment. So there is a huge amount of cash out there

ready to be deployed in different sectors. And sports is the latest sector. The NFL is the last league to allow it. And in an owners meeting coming up this week, they will allow it. It will be voted on. And mark my words, Dan, there will be private equity investment

in an NFL team immediately because it's a way for owners to take some cash off the table and diversify. What concert did you say you went to? OAR. What? Is that not a base? Did I say it wrong?

What, what, what, what, what? You said it perfectly. are? Is that not a bait? Did I say it wrong? He said it perfectly. No one said that you said it wrong. Was the Springsteen concert that Jeff Passon and Woj and all of America's sports media was at not available to you? I didn't happen to be there at that time. I do like Bruce Springsteen. I wouldn't have wanted to be in that photo necessarily. I do like Bruce Springsteen. I wouldn't have wanted to be in that photo necessarily. Of course you do. The boss.

Big surprise. Put it on the poll. Is the boss's demo 55 to 70? Is it David? White people. White men. At LeBotard Show. What's the movie you're reviewing for us this week?

Speaking of 55 to 70 white people, can we talk about Pete Rose? Tell me somebody in the room watched the four part mini series on people. I watched it, I thought that it could have been better. I thought that it was a lot of celebration of how good his teams were, and I would have liked a little more on the underbelly of stuff that he has.

Yeah, I thought there was a lot of underbelly to the point that I don't think baseball was happy with that documentary, to tell you the truth. The underbelly that I saw is it both helped baseball in saying, look at Pete Rose, he's done nothing to help himself. He does nothing but step over his own, triple over his own toes.

He'll never get reinstated. But on the other hand, I felt sorry for him for the first time. And I had not felt that before because I had not aged him appropriately because I've only seen him sitting behind a desk signing autographs in Vegas. I didn't see how slowly he moves now all these getting and boy, it would be a shame if he dies, and that's then when people start caring and he gets reinstated. So my vote after that documentary

is you don't need the four hours to spend watching it. However, you should give some thought into whether or not the punishment has fit the crime. Oh, well, this part is interesting though, and I'd be curious what Amin thinks on this, because the thing that they did best as a last play, because this felt like basically how do we weave the tapestry that tugs on the heartstrings that shows everybody that this baseball immortal is old and there's no point to letting him in the Hall of Fame after he's dead.

It means too much to him while he's alive. Like to me that felt like the last hail mary that people's has to get his story humanized in front of people you cannot gamble on your team it's a hard and fast rule no matter how much the gambling rules change you cannot like it you cannot contaminate the integrity of the league that's the one rule that's not allowed to be fractured the only other hail mary has after that one, Dan, is contrition.

He's never said, I did it, I shouldn't have done it, man. I regret doing it, it's ruined my life. It's, now I'll never get into the Hall of Fame, look up into the camera with big, wet cartoon eyes. Right, that's the only play he has left. The problem is, he's never, never ever ever taken that L of saying yep I did it and I shouldn't have done it. It's all like well I just I was betting on this over there and I think that's the biggest hurdle. David do you

agree? Yeah it's the third rail that he touched and generally you die from touching the third rail. The thing is that there's been a lot of lifetime penalties of people who have done things that are third rail ish and they have gotten spared. And the thing about Pete Rose is what I spoke about with the commissioner when he was running for office, when we were talking about the Pete Rose situation, I suggested that he remove him from the ineligible list because that would make him allowed to be on a ballot or to be considered for election and let the writers or let the committee

have its decision about Pete Rose, this way we satisfy all constituencies. And it's hard for either Manfred or Seelig to do anything out of respect to Bart Giamatti, who did the lifetime ban and then died of a heart attack five or six days later. And so no one's wanted to reverse that out of respect for Giamatti. And then I thought maybe after Bud passes away that they would do it. I mean, Bud has not and I don't want him to.

I hope he lives to 105. But I know Rob is respectful of Bud who would never overturn it. And when I asked the commissioner, would he consider that he thought about it? But his view is let's sort of, let's wait. Let's not decide this now. He'll keep appealing and we'll think about it then. And then has turned into, you know, 10 years later. I pulled up similar bands to OAR.

And what I got was Journey. White guys, wah wah wah wah wah white. The Dave Matthews Band. Mashbox 20. You can criticize me all you want. It's a great venue. And the Jim Blossoms.

Oh, I like it. White guys. W-w-w-w-w-white. Jessica, are you learning right now that Bart Giamatti is the father of Paul Giamatti? No, I did actually know that. I was recently on Paul's Wiki page because I watch the Holdovers and he's just, he's such a damn cutie, that Paul, love him. I learned that his father died

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The Smirnoff Company, New York City, New York. Let me get that ambient sound out there so it feels like a press conference. I just want to start off by saying I am genuinely happy for Amin, for Jessica. I wish them nothing but the best. Relationships are important to me. They've always been important to me.

It's important to me to have relationships with people who work around me whose names I don't know because they haven't been here long enough. I just wanted to tell Amin and Jessica that I may have been a little hard on them. I've learned. I've done some learning since the first hour. I want to have a positive impact on people.

Terrible person. I want you guys just to be the best version of yourselves. The two of ya. The two of ya. It's a bad two of joke. It's a bad one. Yeah it was a bad two of joke. So I just wanted everyone to know that I've done some real learning that I'm not going to take any questions on. So I'll just throw the show back to you guys now. Seem real supported, I mean. I'm just surprised he didn't thank all the kitchen people. I don't know all their names.

Fried pork is aggressive in the morning, by the way. It is. Beyond bacon. If you go beyond bacon, that's aggressively Miami. Tony, I've seen you sniffing around the fried pork. I had a couple of chicharrona, Dan. I'm not gonna lie, I had a couple of them. Flores should have done this. Just like start on Tula

and then just start riffing on other stuff. Do you guys think it would have been better if he had the kitchen staff walk out with him? And the equipment room. And the commissary, yeah. Yeah, yes, I do. Dan's right though. We usually save chicharron day for Friday,

but today's Wednesday? It's a little early in the week. I've had two things of squeaky cheese and man, I'm feeling it. The rare Wednesday that feels like a Friday. Oh, I love that. Is it possible that Flores could only find two guys to support him? Like he could only muster up two people? He went around the entire locker room and the first dude that said yes.

You have him doing the Jerry Maguire. Who's coming with me? Everyone just stared at him. I do wonder if that was something that the two players came up to him and were like, hey, he woke up to a text, like I'm gonna be with you there today. Or does the PR person go around like,

all right, we're looking for two people. Need two. Need two. They start raffling off like days off from camp. I got you a full day and a round of golf. Who could, you know, here, here, here, a round of golf, a round of two rounds, two rounds. Do you think there was a crisis PR meeting

about how many players? Because like, is two sad? And will people question why there aren't more? But is five way too many and now it's like, all right guys, come on. Two is too many. I felt like two was too many, was it not? Not enough. Two, one would be sad though. No, why does he need players behind him?

He doesn't need players behind him. It becomes, did both those guys practice having their arms crossed? Was that something they decided beforehand? Let's stand like security next to him. Well, that's how you do it, yeah. It has to be an even number though, right? Cause like.

No, three would have been cool. No, because where do you put the third? Right beyond third right beyond his back right behind him yeah it has to be someone I got your back yeah that's me someone much bigger than him he's he's bigger than one of the guys yeah that's the problem hmm yeah and but you know what I owe I owe an apology I owe an apology to Ethan because I told Ethan hey man you got to keep it together, man. He looked like he was about to crack several times. But now I'm looking at that picture,

and my man on Brian Flores' right, he looks like he's about to crack. He doesn't know what to do. He has like, his posture is like joking almost. Yeah, like, hey guys. Zero is the number of players that it needed to be. And I wanna circle back on what it is that we were talking about, which is Billy,

you've grown up around Cuban culture all your life, so it's normal chicharrones, but fried pork at eight in the morning is aggressive. So, like, beyond bacon. I think that's leftover from yesterday, and we just like know that people wanted to picad. Yeah, no, yesterday we had pincho. I think that's leftover pincho from yesterday.

So we have stuff to picad and I think it was in the fridge so they just put it on the hot plates and they're like, if anybody wants a snack, we have some leftovers here, it's heated up. Because I walked out there and I said, do I want queso frito at 10 a.m.? Yes. Is this gonna be good for my tummy?

No. It was extra squeaky today. I guess it being from yesterday makes sense. Yeah, but it, well man, you warmed that thing up. It tasted good and if you toss it in the air fryer, I'm sure it's the greatest thing that's ever been consumed on earth. I think the problem is that the queso frito

and the chicharron were ordered for Lewis's birthday, but Lewis, we found out, has multiple birthdays, so there's some sort of discrepancy happening right now with it being served on both days. I've learned here if parties don't go exactly as planned. We just cancel them Even if your pregnant wife is sitting in the corner now Billy Can I just ask a question again you said yesterday because that pinch is that what you said no pincho? Factory yes a restaurant local you want to go. I'll take you one day

We were to the flan come from this morning. I mean that came from last week He left it from last week. Isn't pincho just a shish kebab in Spanish? Isn't that what un pincho is? Oh, it's more than just that. They do a lot of stuff. Literally, yes. They do burgers.

They do a Guayaba pastelito burger, where the two buns are pastelitos at Guayaba, and then you put a burger in between. It's incredible. That sounds pretty good, actually. I will say it again, though. At Levitard Show, Juju put it on the poll. Is fried pork and fried cheese before

10 a.m. Too aggressive Because I was I was alarmed at the amount of chicharron sniffers there were out there Deeply unhealthy. It's keto Dan. It's healthy. You're good the cheese and meat. Yeah, yes down the gullet Yes, no carbs, but generally fried pork. It's got that much fat on it It was more fat than pork. There's a hard part to pop a key to my room about the empty I had to send a special message on Friday, please don't give willow any chicharron because usually Roy He's standing there in front of the bacon because normally we just have regular bacon and normally he's just doling it out to her No, that'll make that'll give a dog the runs. I don't want her to get pancreatitis.

Yes, a dog can eat bacon. That, what is out there is too aggressive. Stugatsa, I wanted to talk about what happened last night, maybe too late at night for young Jessica, because she's not watching anything after 1130, and I think a lot of people had the reaction that Kamala's lucky that Michelle Obama didn't decide to run for office because at this point the sanity of that party which is now the party of the arts and the party of

entertainment last night compared to the RNc and the starchiness of that event yet dj cassidy and they turned roll call into something that was entertaining they turned uh... they turned into something uh... was not unpleasant to watch if you're someone who doesn't care about politics and is just about state pride and whatnot and then the Obamas speak and they have to let, you know, Kamala's in two days,

so they don't have to steal at all, but they are both very good public orders. And they had the sway of that room in their hands. Good, they're great. Are you kidding me? The best I've ever seen. I watched Obama speak, Barack, and I thought to myself, damn,

can you imagine if he was running? It would be like, what's the biggest landslide in American election history was a Reagan over? Mondale Mondale in 84 Look at Tony. It's over 84. Nothing like it. It was the same thing for me. I was just like oh That's what this is like. I missed this It was like game way and just owning the room, And it was just like, man, that's impressive. I would have voted for Obama for a third time. No doubt, yes.

So what's happened in the last 12 years, because it's weird, Stugatz, I do recall, in the last 12 years, I remember our show reacting to the politics of the time and the general stupidity of George Bush and starting wars in countries that didn't do the things to us that we were accusing them of. Barack Obama came in as one man representing hope and I remember telling people at the time he's just one man he can't do much of

anything against an entirely corrupt system. But he ran on a platform of hope. A lot has changed in the last 12 years and it's harder and harder to hope. But what he articulated last night was something that sounded like hope and was surrounded by a party and DJs. I know these ideas can feel pretty naive right now. We live in a time of such confusion and rancor with a culture that puts a premium on things that don't last. Money, fame, status, likes. We chase the approval of strangers on our phones. We build all manner of walls

and fences around ourselves and then we wonder why we feel so alone. We don't trust each other as much because we don't take the time to know each other. And in that space between us, politicians and algorithms teach us to caricature each other and troll each other and fear each other. But here's the good news, Chicago. All across America, in big cities and small towns, away from all the noise, the ties that bind us together are still there. We still coach Little League and look out for our elderly neighbors.

We still feed the hungry in churches and mosques and synagogues and temples. We share the same pride when our Olympic athletes compete for the gold. Because the vast majority of us do not want to live in a country that's bitter and divided. We want something better. We want to be better. And the joy and the excitement that we're seeing around this campaign tells us we're not alone. Did you stay up for it, Jessica, or did you fall asleep?

Dan, I was so exhausted after all the states did the roll call going from song to song. I go, what's California gonna be? I was tantalizing. I'm not gonna lie, I ate that shit up. That was fun. Sean Astin was there, it was amazing. Was he digging a pool? What?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Gotta laugh, that's all that matters. Tantalizing and eating is tantalating. Both of those things are. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. But you were moved by the musical choices by California skipping its turn so that they can go last because they were too soon

alphabetically and just waiting around for Vermont? I assume that they went last because they were where Kamala is from, because Minnesota was second to last, I believe. I could be wrong. I thought it was alphabetical and then they skipped their turn so that they could be last. I, was it?

I don't know. I have no idea. I could not tell you. I think they wanted to be the one to seal the nomination so they passed on their turn so they'd be the official ones to nominate someone from their state. It would have been a hell of a twist if they hadn't, right? They'd nominate someone else. It would have, yes. Michelle Obama. Oh, a surprise twist. Michelle Obama. Oh, a surprise twist. Well I saw that, so I tuned in like midway through, I saw that Florida song was Tom Petty I Won't Back Down and I was

wondering if the Miamians in the room were upset that they didn't choose Pep Us. The part that I liked is when they're going Little John and evidently when he goes Harris to the walls, they don't know what the next lyrics are at the DNC, that they don't know what comes after from the window to the walls. To the sweat drops down my balls. That's right. A meme was gonna ask you.

And I was gonna say that, not like that. Not as well as Jessica did it, but I'm guessing that that's not something they knew when they did that. Do you think that the DNC knew? That was all blue eyes? I don't know what you're talking about. People are mad that Frank Sinatra's been supplanted there

at Yankee Stadium and near that short porch they're still singing New York, New York by Sinatra and they're not gonna let Jay Z and Alicia Keys have it. Well it's a good call by Yankee fans because Frank Sinatra owns that town. That song should always be New York song. They only play it when they win. I think when they lose they play Tony Bennett. Yankee fans because Frank Sinatra owns that town. That song should always be New York's song. They only play it when they win. I think when they lose, they play Tony Bennett.

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Don LeBretard. Again, started on the breakfast flan. Oh man, I've been singing the song to myself all morning while I'm... Breakfast flan, dun dun dun dun. Stugats! Have you never heard the breakfast flan song? No, hit me with it. Okay.

I wish I had some breakfast flan, dun dun dun dun. Breakfast flan, dun dun dun dun dun. Where can I find a breakfast like that? Dun dun dun dun,Battar Show with the StuGats. Ben Affleck and JLo got divorced yesterday. Again? No! It was official, it was made official yesterday but we had the pictures from last week and Ben Affleck in public with a faux hawk. That says divorced right there. He announced divorce with that photo of him in a faux hawk, a leather jacket, and sunglasses. He looks like Biff's grandson from Back to the Future 2.

Griff! Griff. How do we feel about another... I thought that these kids were going to make it this time. No one thought that. Did anyone think that? I mean, when you've already broken up once several decades ago, it just feels like,

how is this gonna work this time, you know? You know what, I gotta say, J-Lo, maybe you should try something different. The celebrity route's not working for you. Maybe you need to- Back up to answer- Well, Benny too. Yeah, she's been married to non- Backup dancer. Yeah she's been married to non celebrities. Maybe she needs something in the middle. Not quite as famous as Ben Affleck. Not quite as

anonymous as a background dancer. What about Ben though? Ben's got the same sort of resume. Does he? Yeah I mean him and Jennifer Garner had a very like big celebrity breakup and he got blamed for a lot of it. We don't know much of what happened in between that and the reunion with Jennifer Lopez. We also don't care about Ben. Yeah that's true. That's not true. We're gonna cut to the chase.

We don't care about Ben finding love. We want J.Lo to find love. We do, yeah we love J.Lo. But Amina's saying listen, learn from your past mistakes and try again. I just grow like Brian Flores. Yes. I don't think you can say, look, it's difficult to age in that industry.

We just made fun of De Niro falling into the water at 80 years old. He's made a lot of bad movies. Plummeting. Plummeting to the water. Ben Affleck is going to have more difficulty aging as not a joke in his 50s and 60s as an actor, but it can't be argued that Ben Affleck's

not like one of the top 10, 20 of his time. Whether you like his acting or not, his stardom. I think people could argue that, but I think we're saying we don't care about him finding happiness. We care about J.Lo finding happiness. He's always looked miserable. Go do your Dunkin' Donuts ads, go do your Matt Damon situation.

And be miserable. Exactly right. Like just stop being such a grump all the time. Maybe, look, I'm going to say it without knowing anything involved here. He was the problem in this relationship. Oh, absolutely. Oh my God, what a sour puss. They go out, she's trying to have a good time.

Turn that frown upside down. He's not going to do anything. It's always something with him. He's just, hmmm. Well it's cigarettes and a with him. He's just Well, it's cigarettes and a drinking issue. Oh look at me. I'm a big giant dragon tattoo on my back. He's rolling Please get out of here. We were talking before Jess and I before the show started about this situation and this breakup and I think we came to a conclusion that not many people will agree with, but I think it could be discussed here.

J-Lo was the biggest loser in the whole COVID situation. Right? Like, cause she was at the top of the world with A-Rod right before the world got shut down. She just comes off performing at the Super Bowl that happens like two weeks before they shut down everything. Hustlers was a moment for her. Hustlers had just come out. Because she looked great,

she learned how to do all the dancing. It was like one of the first like actually really good movies that she was in. I actually really liked it. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Anaconda would like a word. Made in Manhattan. I actually never saw Anaconda.

You didn't miss anything. Should I watch Anaconda? What? You missed everything. I mean, three whiskeys. Spoiler alert, at one point, John Voight gets spit up by the anaconda and before dying while covered in anaconda fluids,

he winks. He winks? You don't love that? That's everything. That sounds awesome. Yeah, that sounds great. Like a Costanza wink? But she was like, at the time, was like one of the biggest celebrities out there, right?

Yeah, she was having a moment in 2019. Terribly timed moment though, because the world shut down, and then I guess when things started opening up again, she started trying to do like a world tour, and she wanted to have like a Tara Swift moment. Well, they also, they had to postpone their wedding, right? Her and A-Rod were supposed to get married.

Exactly right. I think they had to postpone their wedding like a couple times because of COVID. Check me on that. I hope they got the deposit back. Well, they never did get married, correct? No, no, COVID. But she had that gigantic ring.

She did. COVID really tested a lot of relationships and theirs was one of them and unfortunately it didn't work out and then what happened she's left in this vulnerable state where she starts making some of the same mistakes as she had previously made. She goes back to Sourpuss Ben, you know his whole thing, we've gone over that. And now look at where we are. Who is the celebrity you're rooting for love for the most? Is it J.Lo, is it Jennifer Aniston, it's not Affleck, you're rooting? It's always Jennifer Aniston. Has he found love?

I don't know. I think, well, if it's always, shouldn't you? I mean, I should know, I should be keeping track of this. I mean, you just said always, and then you just right after that just spewed your general ignorance. You don't actually know anything here. Thank you.

I kind of want to go back and re-watch the J.Lo video, I guess movie, question mark music video on Amazon. To see if there were signs. It's like about her finding the greatest love in her life. And then they filmed a documentary about making it, which I did not watch. But apparently they're both in it. And now I'm like, well,

I kinda wanna go do some revisionist history on this. And on top of that- Fascinating text. Ticket sales were very poor for her concert and that documentary, Beyonce did the same thing without doing any harm to her career. Beyonce put out a documentary,

there was an intimate look at her life and there was nothing in it, it was empty. We were better off with the mystery, but it didn't do any damage to her. J.Lo actually did some damage to herself by financing her own movie, showing us the innards of her life and buying nothing with the public with her.

But it was weird, right? Like, wasn't that the whole thing? It was just like a really strange movie. It was so weird. It was two things. It was a movie and then it was like a documentary, right? And the documentary had Ben Affleck in it. So did the movie.

Yes. As a cameo, dressed up as someone else. Why did you do it? And he's like, I don't know. He gave an answer that was definitely a harbinger of like, yes, this relationship is gonna work out. We were all getting weird vibes from the media going on around that time.

She also had that movie with Maluma where she finally found love that it was like on Peacock or something, which is like great. And then she had that action movie on Amazon Prime. She also had that movie with Maluma where she finally found love that it was like on Peacock or something, which is like great. And then she had that action movie on Amazon Prime. Oh yeah. Did you watch that movie? Of course I watched that movie.

That was the one where she's like on the run with some guy that they were about to get married and they're on some island and like someone's chasing them. Oh yeah, no, it's the best. Sounds like fugitive. Machine guns. She gets married a lot,

like not just in real life in movies. She's just a hopeless romantic. That's why I think we all want her to find love and just finally be happy. Is she the top of the list in terms of celebrities you're rooting for to end up finding love because they deserve it after what, is it five marriages now for J.Lo? I think four.

I think she's been married four times. I think sometimes you're just looking in the wrong places, Dan. I think, you know. You gotta make adjustments think sometimes you're just looking in the wrong places, Dan. I think, you know? You got to make adjustments. It does seem like she found love at times, maybe not like a permanent lasting love. But her and Mark Anthony, they have several children together.

They were married for almost a decade, maybe longer. Maybe it's a little bit like the Seinfeld situation. Anyone can take a reservation, ultimately see holding of the reservation that makes it functional. And she can get a relationship, get a marriage, you gotta hold it. And in order to hold it, it takes two sets of hands, hers and the significant other.

And I just think she's been looking at the wrong hands. The movie was called Shotgun Wedding. And it was Josh Duhamel, friend of the show. Has she actually made a good movie? Has she made a good movie? Has she made a good movie? Has J.Lo made a, she made one with Clooney. Westlors was fine. She made some good movies.

Wasn't like an Academy Award nominated film, but Shotgun wedding was dope. It was good. Okay, you guys wanna ask if J.Lo has, Money Train, Ring a Bell? No. Pretty good. Which one was that?

The one with Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson? What was the train that bad bunny was on and there? Bullet train that's a great movie. Yeah, also she was also in Monster-in-law that was fun right no okay the wedding planner saying about weddings the cell U-turn? Out of sight? None of these ring a bell? Out of sight was with Clooney. Put it on the poll please, Juju, at LeBretard's show.

Are you looking for love in all the wrong places if you've gone sniffing around Affleck twice? G-Le? G-Le? That one wasn't as bad as people said. What? I thought she won like a Razzie for that. Yeah, that one wasn't as bad.

That's an all time awful movie, Billy. Nah, just because people said that, I watched it. I was like I was like this is fine when you say to me worst movies of all time I've never even seen it, but that's what I go to I know you got a you got to watch it because when you watch You're like this isn't actually the worst movie of all time And if you don't want to watch it you can always listen to Cinephobe the podcast was that Harper and I watch movies that are poorly Rated on Rotten Tomatoes, and we try to ascertain where they're actually poorly rated or maybe didn't get a fair shake It's Cinephobe's produced by Anthony Mays. And we reviewed that movie, Geely,

about probably, ooh, 100, 200 episodes ago. So go ahead and look it up. The start of that promo was really clean. I know. It petered out at the end. I know. Minor penalty, two minutes rambling. ["Spring Day"] Minor penalty, two minutes rambling. Stu got farted out of the side of his face the movie Ishtar, which is a reflex reaction.

It is the original terrible movie with a giant budget. I'm going to go to do my hard time folks. Yes. She played Selena. Like she was critically acclaimed for that role. But it is a movie that is viewed, that in Ishtar are the two, doesn't she have another one?

Jersey something? Jersey girl, maybe? Fly girl? She was in Ice Age Continental Drift. Jersey Mike's? That may be her best movie. You know, I'm not really familiar with the JLo filmography or discography.

I'm not gonna lie, like JLo was never really my jam. I mostly consumed JLo through like the pop culture circus of her relationships, which you know, is like a little, it's fluff. Like it's, we don't really know these people. We don't know what's going on. We don't know what happened with her and Ben Affleck either time.

They're not people that we've actually ever met. She was in Ants. what's going on, we don't know what happened with her and Ben Affleck either time. They're not people that we've actually ever met. Or an ants. Or Diddy, whose reputation has taken a hit recently because it's always interesting to see how it is that these people age. Should she circle back there? No, no. No, I would, yeah, let's not.

I was just asking. That seems like you've gone too far. Seems like a bad idea, yes, just a general bad idea. A reclamation project, I think we can all agree on that, but I wouldn't go down that path. Billy, did A-Rod also have his moment before COVID and has that sort of declined since then? You know, the problem with that relationship,

and I'm just speaking for me personally and my feelings, I was very interested in the two of them together and couldn't give a darn about the two of them apart. Wow. Interesting. A lot of them apart. Wow. And, and there, well, he just made the argument on both what happened to them and why it is that we care about couples finding love because you were also rooting for a rod to find love there. Oh, she was in Parker. Parker.

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