Dan Le Batard
Appearances
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
What's her name? Lauren Sanchez. Because the old gal was kind of normal looking.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I'd let him fuck me for riding that yacht. I'll tell you. I'll tell you that yacht.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Boy. Can I make you a drink? You guys got some tequila there?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I don't usually do whiskey, but I will do it in the spirit of... I love it.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I'm going to give... All right, let's give him a shot. Let's go. Let's do some whiskey.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Thanks for coming and talking. Thank you. Have we started already? We're on the air. We do a little intro. We're on the air.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
So she's your number one because she is an assortment of wonderful things that would captivate, you know, that would hypnotize George Clooney because she's got, isn't she also like an incredible lawyer?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Well, I just saw before this, Kathy Bates was up there. So what were we doing before that?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I will warn the two of you that the last time I did anything like this, I broke up Bert Kreischer and Bill Burr. What? It was their last podcast together. They had me on. Bill was surly, as he often is. He was being dragged in from a barbecue. He didn't want to do it.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I kept saying that Boston was racist and that they had shit in Bill Russell's bed, and that was the last time that Bert Kreischer and Bill Burr ever did that together. They made this go more successful. Yeah, but they haven't done the podcast again. Podcast's over.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
been over damn but why would you saying it's racist fucked up their relationship i could see them him being mad at you but why the two of them uh well he got mad at me i don't think he enjoyed it i was backpedaling the whole time i know better than to try and instigate with comedians that's not gonna go well yeah especially that one don't poke the bear i was just backpedaling but they did shit in bill russell's bed he was saying every place is racist and i was saying yeah but only one place shit in bill russell's bed
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Love it. Let's drink. Are we doing a cocktail? Do you have ice, Matt? He got it right there.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
more elitist and also like fuck you yeah there's a funny like Cambridge and then fucking Southie it's a funny mix yes you say funny again and again and I wonder I've always wondered and asked and thought that our show would never succeed in Boston because Boston is too serious about its sports that we try to do funny around sports all the time great sports fans obviously unreasonable sports fans I don't
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Hell yeah. You're the man now, dog. Finding Forrester? Oh, yeah. Welcome to the rock.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
He told me you don't really do much in the way of sports, and he's an interesting... He's getting into it.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Well, he's an interesting combination of 400-year-old Jew about all other things, and then 12-year-old about sports, right? And so... He takes his sports very seriously, and I don't know if our thing would succeed in Boston because they want to talk about a third-inning bunt a little more than I would, too.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
No, but Boston supports sports like crazy. They've got Bill Simmons. They support sports content a bunch. But our thing is, I don't know, it's not for everybody.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Like the fact that we existed outside of the bubble. I went to Bristol one time in eight years. Wow. Yeah, I was able to avoid all of that. But it's an interesting place. Why Bristol? Why there? They got a great tax deal from the city. There's nothing else in Bristol. So it's basically the entirety of the economy. It's an entire cult.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
What they all say about Bristol is it's only a two-hour drive from New York.
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Are you apologizing to my wife back there? Is that what you're doing, or is that the audience?
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That was the last one. You don't know that. You don't know if the wife is lovely or not.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I used to like what Florida is. I'm a bit surrounded now by a lot of things that I don't like in Florida. The politics of Florida are complicated. The general amount of fraud. Miami itself is a bejeweled dumpster, but I don't love. I've always lived in Florida and always loved it, but the changes have been uncomfortable. Yeah.
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For as long as we have it until both the beach and the sun engulf all of the land and put us underwater and wreck all our homes in the future.
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Super weird. Miami, I would say that all of Florida is a bunch of spring break towns, all of it. So it's Daytona Beach, whatever you associate with spring break Florida, but ours is covered by all of the brown cocaine money. All of the people who came in from Venezuela and Cuba and everywhere else that make it a vastly more ethnic spring break town.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Oh, but New Orleans has more culture, I would say. Not necessarily more cultures, but New Orleans, I mean, has a musical taste and a food taste that is ridiculous.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I've lived there all my life. I have. No, but that doesn't mean like it's it's trying now. I mean, I don't know. I know you guys go in and out of politics, but what is happening in Florida is insane. And it tends to happen 20 years before we tend to be like 20 years ahead of the rest of the country. Yeah, because it's so many different kinds of people. The diversity ends up happening like fast.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
And I'm scared what the next 20 years are going to look like because all of this was portended when Rush Limbaugh was doing this in Florida and Spanish language radio was going crazy and no FCC rules. Everything that's happening in this country now was like yelled at through radio speakers 20 years ago in Miami.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I mean, that's my family all my life. Like, parents come from Cuba, come from communism. Oh, you're Cuban? Yeah.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Yeah, but I'm surrounded because I'm a liberal Cuban, so they call me El Gusano, like the worm, because I don't agree with the politics of the region. Look how this delights him. He loves when someone's called a worm. It's funny that your family calls you a worm. No, not my family. It's not my family that calls me a worm. That's not as funny.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
You just, what, you drink tequila until you get to the worm at the bottom?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
You guys have figured out, though, like a lot of comedians have with these economies, that you guys are basically just doing radio shows that rely on your funny curiosities. So you're just sitting here. People get to enjoy your company because you're just... discovering shit and then in real time ad-libbing off of it.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
You've been doing it for how long? Like 25 years? Our radio show celebrates its 20th anniversary next week. I mean, it's not a radio show anymore. It's now a podcast, but it's 20 years. But you guys have invaded the space in a way that's super cool to watch how it is. The comedians have like this counterculture. They're not mainstream. They're not cancelable and they can run anything.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
El Gusano. Yeah. You and Rodman, man. Dennis Rodman was the worm. That's right. He was the worm. One of my favorite Dennis Rodman facts is that he's one of 21 children and his father's name is actually Philander. Oh, that's right.
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Yeah. What was he like? A number of times. A lot of bravado, a lot of insecurity, a lot of self-medicating. Early on, he didn't- What's that like?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Early on, he didn't have a lot of confidence. So he'd get in front of public speaking groups and just as a piston start crying. And then you saw what it ended up becoming when he started like feeding all of his vanities and insecurities and just feeding off attention.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
He's got the same sort of deal where he would break away from Doc Rivers or whatever to go to Vegas to feed his vices. And it was sort of understood as the coach or manager or leader. You have to allow your artists a little bit of liberty.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Well, how are you defining crazy, right? I can't believe I'm talking to this person. Oh, okay, so you're talking about like just me just sort of being awed to be in presence of someone. Well, I love starting a sentence with the phrase when I was in China with Michael Jordan. Like that's a good way to start a sentence, right? How about that?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I asked him about the slave labor and the sneaker shops and a woman who was one of his many publicists kicked me in the back with her high heel while I was asking him questions.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
You've got to ask some tough questions. You can't just be, hey, can we go to the Great Wall together?
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Right on the spot, yeah. Right on the spot. It was so embarrassing when ESPN televised that. Wow.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Oh no, he was always cool. He had, yeah, well he had great gifts. Like he knew the size of his power. Like he knew when he like put a hand on your knee or said your name, like he knew it was, it was a bit hypnotizing to watch how well he used the power to never say anything and to sell everything because it was part of the, part of the gift is being able to, the best
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Guys in sports who are most beloved allow us to write the mythology around their winning. Jeter, Brady. There's not much personality there. You're not learning a lot about who they are, but they're benign enough that the sports fan can just sort of put on them whatever it is they want the myth to be.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Well, he's got the smile, and it's not that he has to say very much. Yes. But A-Rod, I've known, I've covered A-Rod legitimately when he was drafted. I was in his kitchen with his mother in high school because he's from Miami. And so I've seen sort of the evolution of that dude wasn't an adult until he got into his 40s.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Like these guys are so obsessive, compulsive, and they have to concentrate on being great at that one thing. You guys must have some of this. Well, we're children.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I think I can. Let's see who we've got there. We've got Ray Ordonez, Edgar Renteria. We've got A-Rod. Who are the ones in the front there? I'm not, I don't know. Garcia Parra's not on there, is he? Hold on a second. Is that Jeter on the right? Yeah, that's Jeter on the right. And who is that on the left?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
That doesn't look much like Nomar, but he would be of the class of shortstops that that would be in. So that's a lot of chains in there.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
You would think so, yes. But you got to look good. It's like when you ask Shaq, he could have shot 70% or 80% granny style at the free throw line. But he was like, I'm not doing that. I'm Shaq. I'll shoot 50% and shoot at demands.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
You'd respect Shaq less if he shot it granny style, correct? That hurts his money at the end of the day, I think.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
When you talk, though, about not being interested because the personalities aren't interesting enough, the thing in sports that's interesting to me is sort of the sociology of it, like how these guys become great at what it is they are.
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But I like that about comedy too, right? Like I don't know, I'm super curious about like how it is that you guys got to where you are and how much of your funny comes from where.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
He wrote, what is that? He wrote the Tender Bar. Yeah, Moringer's who wrote that. Honest to God, he told me you love to read and stuff. That is the best sports biography I have ever read. Oh, wow.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Well, he was willing to be vulnerable. Do you know Agassi? I've talked to him. I don't know him. I mean, you read the book, you feel like you know Agassi. Yeah.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Well, one of the things that I wonder about, though, right? Like if you're someone who gets a lot of identity from your work and you're someone smart enough to know that you shouldn't actively seek the validation of others, that the hole you need to fill is about loving yourself, right?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
When laughter is what you need as the ultimate approval, it's the thing that feels best when you know you got this, you could throw it into the audience, and what comes back feels like love. Yeah. I could see how easy it would be to get addicted to that.
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Do you guys look at anything and say that's harder than what I do professionally when you strip it down? This is the reason I ask. I admire you guys because of the bravery of being stripped down to the expectation of funny. And it's only you, your talent and the microphone. Like there ain't not there ain't no teammates. There's no. You got it like that.
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And then I meant an entertainment. I'm sorry. I meant degree of difficulty in entertainment.
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Yeah, we're all... I wasn't saying you guys are working in a sewage line like underwater hardest jobs in the world.
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we're brave. I fucking hate that. I hate when people call us brave. I don't think we're brave.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
You don't have to think it's brave. We have to drink. It's part of the job. Most people listening to this are terrified of public speaking.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
You're right. should i not have done that no no i said levitard is howard stern essentially where he's going to interview us i'm genuinely curious about how it is you got and i would assume your audience is as well but i'm and it's an excellent way to deflect intimacy so if you want to come at me you can we'll answer this but then we're going back to you yeah so what was the question
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I was just deflecting intimacy. I was just deflecting intimacy.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
So, yeah, that was fun. Damn, I love that. How was the Stress Factory?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
The act of writing, the process of writing, I grew up as a writer, and so what I enjoyed about writing is having written. The Miami Herald? Yes.
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But it's fulfilling. So it's fulfilling, but only after it's done. I can't imagine when I cite bravery with what it is you guys do when the last special is done and you've been sculpting that thing for a year and now you've got a black blank canvas and you got to go and you got to make another special.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
But so how... Yes, I did see you last night. How do you ravage yourself and how forgiving are you on yourself when the last joke you made, you stumbled toward the finish line in your life? I did.
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But how does that... Like, how do you... I have a hard time treating failure as learning. And that's all you guys are doing.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
But there's real confidence in what it is that you're doing and being that gentle with yourself. Oh, really? I don't have that. To have the understanding, like I'm not that forgiving with myself. I'm not that gentle with myself on mistakes. Yeah.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
The real confidence is you guys have so many jokes that you know work. Like, you're just waiting. You've done it so many times by the time you get to the special that you know, pause here, wait for laughter.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
It didn't go poorly with Bert Kreischer and Bill. I think it was probably entertaining to the audience. Just when it was done, I didn't feel good about it, and it ended their podcast. Wow. So, you know. And Bert said that that was the reason that it ended, that I don't think he was lying to me, yes.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
But there are all sorts of athletes, usually the younger ones, who are either not introspective enough or by job design, NFL quarterback, you're purposely boring because you don't want to have the headlines of whatever comes in that military environment when you say the thing you're not supposed to say.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
When Tua Tonga-Vailoa comes out of college Alabama, he's a very young kid. When I was talking about lopsided athletes, you're a quarterback coming out of college. You're good at quarterbacking. You're not a grown-up. You're a grown-up at quarterbacking. You're not actually a grown-up. And so you're also careful and guarded after that. I'm not going to be able to get anything out of you.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
But now, the last time I talked to Tua a couple of weeks ago, he made all sorts of headlines because he got his money. He got his confidence. You know Hawk Tua? He's sitting there. Keep going. Keep going. He got more confident with age. So the people you want to interview have some life experience.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
So there are all sorts of athletes that I feel like I'm going with a crowbar or a tire iron into their mouth to get something out of them because they haven't lived a life that has a lot of wisdom in it yet.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
But you understand that it's your job to be entertaining. Yes. That ain't their job.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Their skill set is to be entertaining with the skills that they apply all the time. We're a nuisance. We're an invasion. We're something that they don't even want in the locker room. And furthermore, what's gotten worse is they don't actually need us anymore. Right. It used to be that it mattered to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated or it mattered to be interviewed by ESPN.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Now all these guys have realized, no, I'll make my own content. I'll make the money off my content. I'll show people what I want them to see.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
It might have been legal. He had other issues with that. That was mostly optics.
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That's all he told me about you, by the way. He'll probably fart during the podcast.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Thank you. I appreciate the gift of giving that you're all about. This is good, by the way, for those who don't know, I don't do celebrity endorsements, but this is a, I'm not, nor am I a whiskey guy, but this is good.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Um, Ray Rice happened to so many times. Ray Rice. Ray Rice was not a dick. Antonio Brown. Antonio Brown became a dick, but was like excellent before that. Antonio Brown was homeless in Miami at 16 years old. So I don't know. Somehow he's worse off now.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
The dicks are all over the place in sports. And I remember, yes, that, too. My first experience with it, I was very young. I was in my early 20s.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
and i go up to this name's not going to mean anything to you but an old baseball player named chili davis i remember chili davis and i just the yankees as well right i used i came up to him and i just asked him something about whether or not i could talk to him and he's like no i i don't do that no no and then i'm like seriously what is he my girlfriend
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
And I'm like, seriously? And he looks me in the eye and he's like, has a heart attack. Whoa. Wow. Has a heart attack. But I can give you a lot of stories like that. All we are is a professional nuisance. Imagine someone invading your space where you're getting dressed all the time and just needing something from you all the time.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
There are people who want to talk because when I was writing a lot, I was somebody who tried to get at the depths of who a person was. And so if they knew my reputation as someone who could tell their story well, there would be people like an Aaron Rodgers before the recent things who want to be more seen by the public because they don't think that they're understood very well.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
writer to be the bridge to communication for them on can you frame this for me that's why Agassi chose Moringer as his writer on his biography because he's like I I have not expressed myself this way to others but if I go get somebody who's a construction worker about words he'll be able to bring me to the people in a way that I haven't been seen before hey that was perfect good good answer
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Thank you. My first good one so far. More drink. I'll get really good by the end of this, and we'll be doing it like in the locker room. The three of us will be nude, and I'll be asking you questions.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
What do we think about the end of Pacino's career, the last 15 years of work that don't involve him being an 80-year-old father of a newborn?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Heat 2? You're excited about Heat 2? They're doing a 2? Yeah. Michael Mann's got... Adam Driver, right? A second one. Young Neil McCauley.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I'm sorry, I have to have a peeve about what? Shooting. That's a peeve of mine on it. That means to graduate to something more than a peeve, doesn't it? We could do better than peeve on school shootings. So what is an irritation of mine? Can I think about that for a second? Give me a filibuster so I can think about something that would be a pet peeve of mine.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Yeah. Old Met shirt over here is really all-knowing. I love that you guys have someone on the payroll who's just all-knowing on all things.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I will go with one that's wife-related. I would say it's legitimately the only thing my wife does that's annoying.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Where are we going? Well, I'm volunteering a peeve on my wife while she's in the room.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
It's after I've gone to get what it is I was sent to get at the grocery store, when I get the text while I'm in the elevator going back up to our home, and here are the other three things that I need. That's a peeve. That's a tough one. That's a good one. That's a very good one. That's a good one.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
That's not how it happens. The elevator goes down and it returns with oat milk.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
She doesn't understand because I go right back down and go back quietly back to the store.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I have a hard time imagining Sam being mean to somebody who's not mean to him first.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
See, this makes you guys crazy, at least in part. Actually is longer than really. I feel like is longer than think. You guys are words. You guys know the economy of words. Like, you need shit to be efficient when you're speaking.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
You have to have the lane in all of comedy at the moment with more comfort with Hitler and Holocaust jokes than anybody.
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Like, is there anyone else leading the way? Yes, you. What do you mean? Really? There's a lot of content out there on Hitler. It's not just me.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
We're shallow. It's a shallow app, Mark. It's a picture. That's true. Shallow App, good Gwyneth Paltrow film.
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But what about – Sorry. I heard a great story about Sacha Baron Cohen that I don't know if it's true or not. I love the Cohen. That he had a three-movie deal at the height of – I don't know. Would it be after Borat? It would have to be after Borat.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
A three-movie deal, and he makes The Dictator, and it became a one-movie deal that he wasn't going to be able to litigate himself out of because the executive had so much power that he just said, go ahead and try and fight me on it, The Dictator. And then I don't know if it's true or not. I haven't looked at his IMDb, but I don't remember his career exactly flourishing after that with a lot of –
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
He didn't. What happened was the dictator failed. He was saying, what's a movie with laughs in it? And I wanted to make the joke that the dictator didn't have quite enough of them.
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Because it flopped, and then he didn't get the rest of whatever that was supposed to be.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
That's the way it worked, but the only one that got made, well, because the illustration of the story was that in Hollywood, the producers and the power have so much power that the stars only have so much power. That even someone like Borat, you're always one dictator away from your empire falling apart.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
He is a genius. He's indisputably a genius. Yeah, that show was, that HBO show when- Ali G?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
That's crazy, right? And I think of Ali G and just to make something so good that he could no longer do it because it had gotten so pop culture evasive that he couldn't fool anybody anymore.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I went to see him last year. I don't know if this will make you feel a certain way, but he was in Fort Lauderdale, and I was legitimately walking over to get to my seat, canes and wheelchairs, because the demo was so old. Someone in line just died. Yeah. Like, damn it. Because he's 70 years old, right? Or however old he is that you would never guess that he's 70 years old.
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And I admire him the way that you guys do as just like as a craftsman on what it is that he created.
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It was great. I mean, he's still... I know there are some people... I... It's tough for comedy to age. I don't know a lot of comedians in their 50s. Just what's happened with Eddie Murphy, where you remember what that was when it was young and hungry, and then success happens, and why would you be that young and hungry again? Why would you choose whatever the suffering is between... Right.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Specials, unless your personal pride is so strong and your love of it is so strong that you can't help but not get fat on whatever it is that fame and temptation are. Like once you've arrived at an airport hangar filled with whatever with cars that Jerry Seinfeld has, like what's the motivation to still be great? In his case, it's personal pride.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Who are the ones that have aged well? Carlin, Rickles, George Burns, Dangerfield. But who of the modern comics that you guys admire, can you imagine in the 60s and 70s still grinding it, doing tour work, being at a restaurant somewhere in Cleveland? in the kitchen because they just got to make the material work. It's funny saying grinding because a lot of them are going to be flying private.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
For sure. Well, let me ask you guys this about a tell because his last special was 39 minutes and he purposely farted out the last three minutes like as a fuck you to everybody. He's still great. Indisputably great.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
But like when you guys watch that special and he's throwing away the last three minutes because he couldn't get three more minutes of comedy and he can do that because he's a tell you feel a certain kind of way about it.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
The greats can make bad choices. The Departed, the way it ended with a rat running across the balcony. That's a terrible ending.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Spoiler alert, everyone dies at the end and it's a bit of a surprise. I don't need a rat scurrying across the balcony because Matt Damon's character was a rat.
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The CGI that you have to do to get De Niro at 78 to be beating someone up.
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Finds out. Oh, well, he's told me that his, are you talking about the pod that he does about with his dad and stuff? Yeah. But I'm not familiar with the details of that story.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Tiger Woods, another one that doesn't say anything, by the way, like in terms of how it is that you, that documentary on, I'd recommend that one on Max that doesn't have any access to him. Tiger Woods is somebody who is bland on purpose so that we can continue selling stuff around him without...
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
him being any kind of controversial there i i don't know who i would cite as the best of the athletes like great great athletes who are also publicly interesting like is there anyone trying to think deon sanders is kind of entertaining yes uh yes that's a good one okay not kind of entertaining super lebron's not a great interview no but he's he's better than these other guys that we're talking about and stands for certain things uh
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Steph Curry is excellent. But when you talked about John Morant and face of the league stuff, the place that I went first, right, when you're representing the league and have to be palatable to white customers, like in that league, your majority of your customers are the white customer. Yep.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Steph Curry is a family man, a religious man, you know, his dad and mom before they divorced at the games and stuff like that is a little easier to sell than John Morant on Instagram with his father, you know, waving a gun around.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I saw that Trump the other day visited Max Crosby. Put Max Crosby and Gardner Minshew on the screen for him. Actually, do me a favor. Minshew. Actually, put for him on the screen Gardner Minshew's recent workout video where he was shirtless. Now, this is a guy who in the offseason, purposely, even though he's a Raiders quarterback, lives in an RV.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Once he finds this video for you, I will ask you whether you'd be surprised at all whether Gardner Minshew and Max Crosby, who spend time with Trump and are willing to do so, even though they've got a huddle filled with black teammates, whether or not you think they might be... Yeah, that's it. Really? You have multiple shirtless, sweaty, hairy torsos with a mullet cut?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
This one's been confusing to me. That entire generation of men seem to be going toward Trump. But this is, look, whether it's Tucker Max or Andrew Tate or whoever, or Dan Bolzerian, hating women is something that young men who are insecure around women and have had their egos trampled by women because they don't know how to deal with women. It's sort of...
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Just one more, though? I could do this. I'd love a refill if you have some ice. I could do this with you guys for a while.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I think we should just stay here. Let's let him think about it. See if we can find. You guys talk. So he asked me, because I said Tiger Woods and he said LeBron, and we were talking about whether or not there is, like, who is the greatest one. I mean, Ali would be the greatest. Oh, that's a great one. Who would be interesting.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Jim Brown was also excellent as a talker. Jim Brown said one of the more insightful things I've ever heard an athlete say when he was talking about his disappointment in Michael Jordan for not using the platform to do more than just sell shoes. One of the things that he said of Ali was.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Don't ever forget that Muhammad Ali didn't go from the most hated athlete in America to the most loved athlete in America until he lost his ability to speak. You think so?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I mean, that's the whole plot of Manhattan, right? He's dating that young broad. And they don't end up together. Oh, yeah. And that's the sad part. Well, she had to graduate. Good to go off to college.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
No, yes, he may have said. I don't think Michael Jordan said that. No, but Jim Brown, yes, Jim Brown. I think Jim Brown threw a woman off of a balcony, if I'm not mistaken.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Wow. That can't be right. Is that right? Is that right? I don't know. Look it up.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
That was before my time. I did not have anything for you there.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
He says 20,000 women he slept with. Ric Flair says he slept with 10,000. I'm not really understanding quite why anybody would say that. It's actually impossible.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
How about, was Kobe cool? Kobe was super interesting is what Kobe was. The stories about Kobe and competitive even with teammates are legendary in terms of somebody gets there, a Rick Fox or a Derek Fisher, and he will push them until... Off the balcony?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
he will push them until they're ready to fight in order to test them to see if they're people worthy of being his teammates so like he'll just sit in the space that you're supposed to have for sprints or whatever and just wait he's just alphaing somebody until they they buck up and actually say like Rick Fox did, okay, are we going to have to go? Do we have to settle this by fighting?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Yes, Rick Fox was beautiful. Is beautiful, is beautiful, yes. He does have beautiful eyes. I think both of the people we're talking about are beautiful people.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Vanessa Williams. That's who it is. Look at this. Full circle. That's a great place to close. You were objectifying women when I walked in.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Yes. You'd like the story. I think he would like the story of everything that happened. I'd love to hear it. I mean, we just sort of got run out of ESPN for being counterculture, and we started our own thing, and all of our people came with us and did something not unlike what you guys are doing, something I would have never done if they hadn't pushed me into a place where I had to do it.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
It is working, and thank you for having me here. I really am an admirer of what you guys do, and even if you don't think it's brave, it's only because you're numb to the bravery in it.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Do you guys get at all worried, or do you have the confidence and security when you go into foreign lands with your act? Like, you know that that's going to kill? Like, you know that you're going to have crowds and it's going to sell?
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
I'd be scared going to some place like Winnipeg or Amsterdam. I wouldn't know.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Yes, sir. Thank you for having me on. And speaking of bravery, drink Bodega Cat.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
Oh, fewer canes. I didn't mean to correct you. I just didn't know where you were going. So it's not going to be wheelchairs and canes that I'm walking over. You've got a younger demo.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
They're going to laugh so much that it's going to cause paralysis. And there'll be wheelchairs at the end with the merch where you can Winnipeg all the stuff and merch that doesn't sell in Winnipeg. He's going to give it away in Fort Lauderdale.
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Ep 198: Dan Le Batard
She was talking about the tartar breath. Didn't expect that coming off of this. You never get a beef tartar at a bar?