Bomani Jones
Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And so for me, it was great. But then it becomes like, all right, man, I got to get something that comes close to that again.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Like I got cool with Ta-Nehisi Coates over the years. And what I admire about him is. He's done comic books. He's done novels. He has done things, by his own admission, that could have gone wrong, but he needs that. He needs that feeling that this might not go, because otherwise you're not pushing yourself to the place that you want to be.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
If you were given more time, do you think you would have made that show work in the way that you really wanted it to work? Or did you arrive there already? I think we could have gotten better. I think that we were largely in the places that we wanted to be, but I would have gotten better. Like... I am not a comedian.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Like, when I first had the meetings with the people about it and I looked at their deck, the way I sold them on the show was I was like, look, man, this deck is for a comedian. I am not a comedian. Right. But I am the person for this show. And so it was a matter of learning how to bridge the gap.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And so I'm working with all these stand-ups who write for the show, and I got a coach that comes in and helps me. And I was improving at what we were doing because, like, we did – 16 episodes of Game Theory. That means I had the opportunity to do that literally 17 times. A test shoot, and then you can't do an episode without turning the clock on. So the only episodes are the ones you see.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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That's exactly right. They thought they were going to ruffle my feathers, but I was unruffled because it was a ridiculous claim that they love football more than me. Everybody knows it's not true.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So that means there's no practice.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So we were getting better. We just did TV the year that they literally stopped making television. Right. Writer Strike, merger of the company, everything else. Yeah. They just stopped making television. But no, man, it was great. I don't mean to stay on memory lane on that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Well, I need to write a book. I got an idea for a book. Do you realize I'm not going to lie to you? That was a moment that I said to myself, dude, come on, man. You know what I'm saying? No disrespect, but the gods beat you to the book, right? I don't know how Dan comes to work every day with that knowledge, right? I'm one of the best sports writers of my generation. And here's the author.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Thank you. That's when you start specifying this. Author, John Wiener. Thank you. Best-selling author. That's right. That's right. Publisher. Yes, publisher. Ed McCaffrey quickly corrected him. He's like, did you actually write it? He's like, well, no. He's like, so you published the book. I admire you for telling him the truth. Thank you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Because you definitely did not just tell it to me. No, I did not.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'm not mad. It's like that Emmy I got. I didn't win it. I got it. You probably wrote more for Seagas' book than he did.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Well, first of all, I have to say that both of us should be... deathly offended by the idea that they were afraid. And I'm trying to remember who exactly was afraid. It started with Dan, I think. But even then, I'm looking at that like, buddy, I don't know how to break this to you, but I do this. Number one, I do this. Number two, you've been doing this for quite a long time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Now, number three, I think the part that they were probably most afraid of, which did come to fruition to a certain degree, was like, are these guys going to be talking about weed? And the answer was, if it comes up, Yeah, and it came up. It did. It did indeed. Often. It did. Hey, man, you know. No, that was a – I do remember doing that show. That was a good one.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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See, the thing that people don't realize is that early on – I don't know if you guys – I guess you probably talked about this in a roundabout, but not specifically. But early on when it came to ESPN, Skipper had the bright idea that he was going to switch me in for you to do that radio show. And all three of us were like, no, that is not a good idea at all.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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at all we're not uh-uh uh-uh but at the same time i was kind of like i bet i would have got a raise yeah you would have yeah i would have got a raise but somebody would have died yeah i don't know which person would have died wait so you're taking me out of the equation it's just you and dan me and dan going from doing a tv show to doing a radio show totally somebody would have died but it's just been all day right it'd have been all day of me being cold
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You know? Yeah. Like, y'all still keep the office deathly cold? It's not as bad, but the Clevelander was freezing. Yeah. Just check it. I remember the first day. It's a bit warmer at the L-City. Well, the air is always broken. Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I had a day I came into the Clevelander, like when we first got there, and I was like, cool, I'll wear shorts to work. And I was in pain. Yeah.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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is I had this great misunderstanding about the dynamic of this show where I thought it was a show where everybody made jokes about everybody only to realize it was actually a show where Dan made jokes about everybody and everybody made jokes about you. And then I come in here trying to play along and people over there getting their feelings hurt.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
And I was just like, hey, you guys want to talk about some other stuff? But no, you are correct. I come to shoot. Are you saying we're a sensitive group? Because I'm not, for sure. You are not. I am saying that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You honestly can. It's a little worrisome, to be honest. It's healthy. It's not healthy at all. I'm just saying I showed up and I realized some things landed with different people in ways that I did not feel I was getting the benefit of the doubt for having a little levity with the situation. Maybe my hands are heavy. You know what I mean? But that was a time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Did you enjoy it that time? I did. It was the fit. Like I always said, I took up a little bit too much space. For people who enjoy the notion of chaos, my time there made sense. But I was fully aware of the fact that the fit wasn't exactly the most perfect. And God bless Dan because he was trying to work in my stuff. with y'all stuff, like having my guy Mike come in and stuff like that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And you know I tried to back off a lot when you came in.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah, we were just dancing to a different beat. The irony of it all is my chemistry with you in a radio sense is much better than my chemistry with Dan in a radio space. But that ain't how that dynamic y'all got works. Y'all got a with show. So we couldn't, you know, we couldn't just slide it in there. That was, I think, the part that people realized when we did that show together.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I would love to promote football. But, like, I would also really love to just get a product. Yeah. And any question, I'd be viewed as probably the worst guest ever.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Oh, no, we actually have a little bit more of similar wavelength.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah. Yeah. No, I just. I come to shoot. I readily acknowledge.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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But if you tell me it's my team, I will distribute. It's kind of like Kyrie Irving type basketball. If you tell Kyrie he's in charge, you'll give people the ball. If somebody else is in charge, just let me know you're ready for me to shoot.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I put this thing up. Why did you bring me here to set picks? I always looked at it like, hey, Bomani's here. I don't have to do as much today. This is great. To be honest, that's what Dan realized about the television show when I got there. He was like, oh, wait a minute. There's somebody that doesn't mind doing responsible things? Sure. I'll go first on this topic if you think it's best.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I don't have that much Super Bowl experience.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I felt so bad about that. They came across town. I'm like, I need to go in five minutes. No, no, no. We were just walking anyway. My thing I always say about New Orleans is there's two ways to look at New Orleans. It would be awful if it wasn't so awesome, or it would be awesome if it wasn't so awful. And I lean in on the awesome part.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Man, you know, do a little Super Bowl partying here and there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I had an invitation to a couple. My agent got me on a couple of lists. But no, doing that, it's for me... And I think you guys probably feel a measure of this too. When you do radio or something like that that grounds you in a studio, you don't get that much time to actually be amongst your peers and you don't have the greatest grasp. Not even on who rocks with you, but who even knows who you are.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Hey, look, Austin Eckler's over there. I'd be viewed as the worst guest ever, but I would just be promoting the product, and I would not ever veer off of the message that we were trying to get across of the product.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Correct. And so it's kind of affirming for me to have these moments where I'm walking past and see somebody who I feel is important or that I feel good about in that way. And they see, and I hadn't even met them, and they walk up to me with a familiarity that speaks to like a measure of respect.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And you kind of, you need to, I'm at a place in my life where I could be more honest about the need and the, not so much need, but at least their appreciation. for that kind of affirmation.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah, you know, like, because I still, I don't do radio anymore because it's hard, but we're radio-ish. Well, not even just radio, but, like, you were talking about your TV, like, journey, I don't think people realize that watch on TV that around the horn, you're sitting in a closet. You're not in a nice TV studio.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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At the Clevelander, it was like a pull-down screen. You're at school, and they used to pull down the map. That's what the background was for around the horn. When I did it from Raleigh, because one of the things that was interesting was they booked it for me like I was going to be doing it for one day when I was there, and then I stuck around for two and a half years. Wow.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
And so it started that I was in this room, and it was a real big deal for the folks at Raleigh because there was a picture behind me of the city. And so their city was getting put on. Like, you look at the cities that were around the horn. They were all very large. They were getting put on. But it was a picture that had the jail in it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And so then people kind of requested that maybe they could put a different picture back there. And then as things got better and they got, like, a dedicated fiber optic line or whatever, then they moved me into a bit of a closet. But it was my closet. So I would just keep like three sport coats and three shirts and just rotate them around and do that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
And then when I got to Miami, yeah, it was it was closet game. And the Cleveland went on to Cleveland. It was the other side of the room. Right. Right. What is the closet? It was the other side of the room. But you are right. Like there is nothing charming. about doing it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Well, even in D.C., where, like, Reali was doing the show, like, if you're doing the show from D.C., it was actually in the tape closet.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Like, you had to go around the camera to go get, like, tape reels and stuff like that if you wanted to use archived footage. No, no, no. You're in the way. So try this. So before they moved... He's so right. But before they moved into the Seaport, it was at the time Square Studio. And that was literally... That felt more like closet than anything. And Reali was in a closet.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So where Reali used to do the paper toss... He would throw a paper airplane from here to the edge of that table because the room they had him in was that small. Right. Yeah. Then it got to the seaport and everything kind of opened up a little bit. It did open up a bit.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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The thing that was so interesting about the seaport, and I don't remember if anybody's really talked about this, but it was like an office controversy because they didn't build a lot of offices. Clearly, whoever they consulted.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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to build the place they missed out on some details so everybody's just in like this open you know the like walls yeah like but you know like the open seating right yeah that's like when that they were built to when i was like open concept work right great right billy i was doing our show from there and like i was speaking out and like they were bothered by me because i'm screaming because they can hear you through there but the thing about the open table setup is that works for a lot of offices it's a little weird for a bunch of people on television yeah and then it's only a
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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A couple of offices, so now one person gets an office, and now another person is jealous of the office, and now an executive is giving up his office because you need to keep the ego straight. Nobody gave a good goddamn if I had an office. Just to be clear, I was sitting there with my troops. I don't know how much they liked it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They might have wished I had an office, but there was, like, no office set up. So it was, like, a lot of what went on there, that radio studio you talk about. But I used to do mine from the podcast room. They called it the huddle room. Right. It was just a little closet with a desk. And if I had a guest, somebody would be sitting right there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'm on for football. That idea is great, but also, like... Free football. What if, also, like, I had to just talk about, like... baby wipes the entire time. You know what I mean?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And then when Stephen A would be doing his radio show in there, especially when somebody did something that made him mad and he'd get charged up. Everybody was hearing that radio show.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I think it was Greeny, Stephen A. I will never forget this. I guess it's fair to tell this story at this point. It's been long enough. All right.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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uh the first take moved in the office after we had moved in because they didn't start doing that show until like september of 18 from the office and we started in june and i called myself like you know trying to put steven a on game and i'm like hey man you need to you know make sure you get you a good desk you know because this stuff is going fast he's like me oh no i got an office and to me that was a moment that simply said we are not the same
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I have no problem with my place in that hierarchy. But I understood. We are not supposed to try to be a good friend. Hey, you know what? If you want to come eat lunch with us. You guys are ridiculous. I sound it. That's the A, man. You know, I got this 10% off coupon.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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You know, go down to Subway. They give you 10% off. And Stephen A is like, yeah, Subway, y'all. Subway, the Subway, all things that Stephen A. has no concept of in the year of our Lord, 2018, let alone now. Oh, man.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Look, man, I was here yesterday, and Overtime has a setup right over there, over the bounty paper towel.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yes, I had somebody do a fit check with me, and it's my boy, so I did it. But I'm like, do you see my clothes? Do I look like I'm being fashionable? But Overtime got a setup over there, and I walk over there. Travis Hunter is over there hosting his show. Cam Newton as a guest and somebody else. On one hand, so cool. On the other hand, it's a little bananas. He hasn't even played a game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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God bless him. I'm not mad at him at all, but that's kind of a wild idea and concept. And I want to ask all of them. Like I asked Cameron on Game Theory. He was the last guest that we had. And I was like, it's wild, man. When I was in college, we was all trying to get like you. When did you decide you wanted to get like me?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And that's when we need to actually start telling all these ballplayers, get like me. Right. They're trying to get like me. They're all trying to get like me. Let me just tell them all, you the one trying to get like me now. What you think. And you think you better. This shit hard, ain't it? You should have just walked over and taken Travis Hunter's seat.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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If you give me a product that I can just talk about, I would love that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Let me show you what a pro is. Excuse me, young man. Exactly. Exactly. Come up off that seat. Yes, yes, I am. Call me sir. Yeah, you're doing a great job of sounding younger. Exactly right. I ain't trying to sound younger. See, that's the thing that I got a problem with with people of our age and ilk.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I put in the work to get here. Correct. Right? Like Black Thought, I've got a lot. A growing-ass man. I done paid my dues. Learned the rules, little homie. You can be one, too. Right. I got here. I'm ready. When does this start paying off? Because I can't do young as well as they do young. I'm not going to get nothing out of that. Right? Oh. He doesn't have a problem with being old, Stugatz.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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He just wants all the benefits of being old.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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What happens? I'm supposed to get a measure of respect and of truly functioning society. Right. Unk, that's just your excuse to act like that. You're not. I'm trying to think of the best way to describe this, but you're not putting anything in when you call me young. You are just calling me old with no respect behind it. I ain't with that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They have it easier now. Get in where you fit in. I have no problem with him. That's the thing. I have no reason to hate on these dudes. And most of the athletes that I come across who go into this space care about being good, want to be good, and especially football players. Football players are very coachable, right? And they ask for help and all of this stuff.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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And I have all the respect in the world for anybody that is truly like working. I get a Gerald McCoy show. right over there for Yahoo the other day, and I was so impressed that he's doing a three-camera shoot, and he's like, I'm going to two, I'm going to one, I'm going here. And so, yeah, go ahead and put in that grind.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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What I'm saying is they're getting in this, and it's going like everybody that's ever hosted a radio show where you threw your whole first segment. Two minutes later, your outline is gone. Everybody's ever taught a class. Everybody's ever hosted this. I think a lot of them are getting to learn that the job that we do
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It's way harder than they thought it was, and I do think what it will result in is a certain increased level of respect for the work that we have done and dedicated our lives to. I love that you're looking for that respect as you get older, Bomani. What else do I get out of it?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Not baby wipes. Yes. Because I feel like at least my current situation, I'm on the way out on the baby wipes, the diapers game.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It's important to me as well. It really is. My back hurts. You know what I'm saying?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah, all of this stuff. The least I could do is get somebody to treat me nice.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Wow. Diana, Diana dressed like she on Bobby Jones gospel. That's a, that's a, that's a Sunday morning BET fit right there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Hey man, here's, I'll tell you about the game. Second time in three years, it's the same people, but the black man can't lose. We got to decide who to root for. We can't just all pick the same person. Right. Okay. Here comes Diana Rossini. Hey there. I think we got one right here. Did you hear what Bobani said? No, it's like BET Sunday morning gospel, your shoes.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I can't tell which feline pattern that is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I feel like it's got more grr in it than peacock.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Did you shower? No, no, you're good. Did I shower?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I showered and I shaved. How about that? Wow. I'm a little afraid that I didn't notice when we tipped me off that he didn't shower. Thank you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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So I feel like I missed my diaper window.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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A diaper endorsement would do nothing for me right now.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Now, Pampers, if you're coming in with an endorsement and we're going to get free diapers.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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No, I was going to say, if I have to have another kid just to get a diapers endorsement, then maybe it makes sense. I'll have to look at the books, but if a diaper endorsement is coming, then I'll create a child.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Should I have another kid? It's like, well, I have a diaper endorsement. I need a kid. What am I going to do? Sure.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah, the same way that you made Shirley Schefter get a phone whatever it is that you said, a phone endorsement, and Adam a phone endorsement. Or on the show. Well, I did get her on the show. But the one. The one time.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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She's a friend. I don't want to bother her.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I know this is prime cruise season for her.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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It wouldn't be because there was someone walking around. I know of at least one person that was walking around promoting toilet paper. Oh, okay. There's no weird things to promote at Radio Row.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Toilet paper. Yeah. It's the next stage. You're right. Good point, Mikey. I wanted to have the person on just to see how we're going to be talking about toilet paper the entire time. You know what I mean? Yes. Because there's a prominent person.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Individually. And then maybe a little bit together. All together. All together? All together. Wow. What a Super Bowl Sunday, huh? They are going to help get you ready for the biggest game in the history of games.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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We didn't. But it was a good hang.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I'm happy it's here, but I'm sad because it's officially over. Because you love football. No one loves it more. Today's the day that it all comes to an end.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I had a moment yesterday where I met a young woman. She's an up-and-coming reporter and she went to my alma mater. And she asked me when I graduated and I said 2001 and I did a quick hit of math that indicated I don't think she was born. And then she's like, you know, so people know this is kind of a fun joke. Stu Gatz went to Clark University. Yes, I did.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I went to Clark Atlanta University, which is like the difference between Somalia and Samoa. They sound very similar, but they're actually vastly different. It used to be Clark College and then it was Clark College and Atlanta University. And they merged. And she asked me if I went to school before they merged. They merged in 1988. Yeah, and I'm just trying to figure out how old do you think I am?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yesterday, I went to the casino, and, you know, it says, like, the date. It's like, you had to be born by XX date 2004. I saw that. I had that same moment yesterday. I had that same moment yesterday. Or how about this? I did an event in North Carolina last weekend, and it was with Tyler Hansborough and Marcus Ginyard, who played for the 2009 National Championship team.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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They came into school in 2005, which would be 20 years ago. Right. And... All of that. Like, I have to stop doing math on years.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I got to take people as they are and hope they do the same. That's what I need.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Yeah, I mean, it's back where I used to work, you know, the event and everything. It made perfect sense. But, yeah, at the same time, it's like, oh, not only are these guys grownups, they're damn near 40 years old. Well, Monty, you look good, though. I appreciate that. I mean, you don't look a day over 28. I'll take that. I'll take that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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I totally lie. I'll still take it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Hell, yeah. Even if I'm lying to you. Hell, yeah. Look, I don't mind people, like, leaning in on the fact of being a little bit older. What I want, though, that doesn't happen anymore for older people is I want my goddamn respect.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
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Right? And I talk about it. They just out here calling us unks and everything else.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Not once have they gotten up and given me a seat on the subway.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Whatever happened to sir? When's the last time somebody said, sir? If someone stood up and said, take my seat on the subway, you'd be incredibly insulting. I'm far too bottom line oriented.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Yeah, feel free. Because if they give it up, there ain't no seats. Right. And I would like a seat. Okay. I'm taking the seat. Have you gotten emails yet for Social Security? Hasn't happened. It hasn't happened. Oh, it's the worst. It hasn't happened.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
How about AARP? But the difference is you're old.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Like you're there. Yeah, you're more than old.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Yeah, but like I'm looking at you, though, and I'm like, did you shave at like 4 in the morning? I did. They came right back.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Yeah, you're like you're on the Homer Simpson where like you do the shave and the next thing you know it's just whoop. Right back. Billy, do I look younger? No. Really? No, you look more like you tried today. Yeah. Which is interesting because...
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
I was about to say, that's some super con man s*** right there. Just clothes with a flourish. Right? That's my move in Ubers every time.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
So, you know, like the last three minutes of the trip, I'm like, now's the time to start a conversation.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? You just made me realize that maybe I've become a bit more of a bourgeois character than I wish to admit. Because I definitely hit that don't talk to me button in the Uber. I have become New York.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
I was in North Carolina. People were talking to me in the hotel on the street. And I was like, why are these people? That's right. Yeah. In most places, civilized people talk to each other. They're nice about it.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
I started the podcast seven years ago as a radio show was started 10 years ago. We started that right when you guys went to the midday shift. So it's just wild to think that that was 10 years ago. Again, I got to stop using numbers. It's not helping my self-esteem. But no, the pod, it's cool. It's still rolling. I got to find me something else to do. But in the meantime, it's still rolling.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
What do you want to do? Something else. Well, no, the thing I tell people is that I got to do Game Theory on HBO for two seasons, and it was literally the dream job. It was like, what happens when your culmination of life's work comes and you're 42? Like, I got to find something else that feels like something, kind of charges.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
That was the first time I recall that I did something that I wasn't sure, oh, I got this. Now, granted, some of the things I was like, I got this, I didn't have. But it was like, you know what? I need to try something. I'm going to do something that has the potential to go catastrophically bad. Right. Like nobody else had made the format work. I appreciated the challenge of getting to do that.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
And now I got to find something else that's kind of challenging. So what do you do after you've reached your dreams? That's a great question.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
What do you do after you reach your dreams at the age of 30? You'll hate this comparison, but I don't know how much you saw of any of that Aaron Rodgers thing. I have not seen it. It's really good. Well, I didn't finish it.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Yeah, I mean, it's a business trip for me. That's why I came suit and tie.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Everyone I've spoken to is like, I got through two, and then three, I was like, I got it. I got the point. But the first episode and a half was basically that. It was basically like, He worked hard. He thought he wanted to do this the whole time. Then he wins the Super Bowl, and he's like, now what? I don't feel anything. You know what I mean?
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Like, I thought this was the greatest feeling in the world. Now I don't feel anything. Now what do I do? No, that happens to a lot of people, and it has happened to somebody I know very well. And what happens when the thing you thought would feel like that doesn't feel like that? Right. Like, the thing I do have to say for me on the game theory situation is it did feel like that. Like, I had a –
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
When we were in North Carolina... Can you describe that feeling, though? It just felt what? It felt like... It just felt big? It felt... It felt like an accomplishment of sorts.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
Like, I remember the first episode we shot, we shot without a studio audience. Okay. So the only people there are, like, people who work on the show. My brother came. My agent came. Like, a couple of those people. And, you know, they do it... They do it big. One thing about working at ESPN that I realize is ESPN really treats being on television like a job. You clock in, you clock out.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
There isn't that much of a feeling of grandeur around what you do typically. Yes. And so your first show. Kind of lonely, you're right. Yeah, like your first show on like a TV show, for lack of a better term. And like the last episode of the season, they do the same thing. So you come out, and it's a cake, and it's champagne, and everybody's toasting it up.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
And I remember I stood there with my agent, and so this is 2022. So we've been working together now.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
We've been doing this for 11 or 12 years, and we just stood there. Right. And we were just next to each other. I just remember I just had my hand on his shoulder, and we were just looking at it like. It happened, you know, like remembering what it was like to sit in the HBO offices 10 years before that. And the guy's like, hey, man, I'm looking for a sports bill.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
And I'm like, baby, I'm right here. I know you're not going to believe it because I'm the one that's telling you. And it actually happened, you know, and then it was fun. And then it was, okay, well, now we're going to find a different thing to do. And now we find within it, like they had me working with a coach to help with my presentation and all of this stuff.
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GBF- Super Week: Bonus Episode
So, you know, we just had all these things go. And so I felt like I got it done. And when it ended, I didn't feel bad at all. It was like, what are you talking about? Why would I look at this through the standpoint of an ending as opposed to what it really was, was I got two years of this. I don't own this. Nobody took anything from me.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
The answer is no. That's a very good question.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Welcome back to The Right Time. My name is Beaumont Jones. Thanks for listening on ESPN Radio and the ESPN app.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 8
Sorry about that, Brian. In the meantime, how do the Cavs not have a general manager right now?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
Oh, it makes me think of Michael Jordan. So I can't say how it makes me feel on the radio.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
Oh, right. Well, then I can't say it because there's different rules.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
Michael Jordan, yes, would be up until maybe five or six years ago, my number one hall pass.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
Well, he got kind of old.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
I was fairly drunk at Michael Jordan's son's high school graduation party that Drake and Lil Wayne performed at. And I may or may not have given him my card and said, just in case you ever need anything.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
It was one of my old cards from when I lived in L.A., so one side was my acting headshot. No, this is... The other side was my phone number.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
woman that I worked with had been on several vacations with Juanita and the kids, almost as a sort of chaperone of sorts. And so she knew that I was a big fan and invited me to the party. And I had just met Michael two months earlier at a Super Bowl party. And I acted a little strange so that when he saw me again two months later at his kid's graduation party, he was like, what are you doing here?
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
Oh, no. You made an impression.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
Probably a vodka Sprite.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
He was in a VIP area of a party that I was covering the red carpet for. I discovered him before the party truly began when he was alone and no one knew he was there. And he was near the corner where the red rope separated the VIP. And so I asked if he might take a photo with me and the security guard kept saying no. And I kept upping the ante as to why he should take a photo with me.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
And I may or may not have said, when you got divorced, my mom emailed me and said, there's still a chance. And I may have said that when I was growing up, you lived one town over and I used to go to your house and stand on top of my car to look over the gate and see if you were in the front yard.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
And I may have said that I had a plan once to go trick-or-treating and then faint at your door so that you'd have to bring me inside while you called 911.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
Yes, but he did eventually take the photo with me because either he thought it was funny and compelling or he was scared. But Charles Oakley was with him and took the photo, but part of his thumb covered the corner.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
Still pending.
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Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 9
Potentially, I've never been back. Not just to the bar, but the city it was in.