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Appearances
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
And so when you criticize me for my lists and my top fives, it literally doesn't matter to me. I could not care less because it's my list and it's my life and how I engage with it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
So it's like Wilson. So there are stages. So there's the Wilson when it first got opened. Then there's the Wilson when there are branches in it toward the end of the movie. The FedEx box when it first washes up. That's one. So there are different stages. Das war. So you have to just know how much of what there is. But again, I'm not looking for the FedEx box to go up in value.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
It's not it's not a stock that I purchased. I look at the pocket watch or the FedEx box or the hospital gown as just something that I love to be in my midst every day. And something you'll die in. I mean. Well, the gown is. Billy just gave me the great idea. I'm actually going to have to put that in my living will for the scores of people. The kids don't want it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
There are a lot, these glasses. I want to try. And you're right. I wore at some time during college, I wouldn't wear a cross earring, but I wore a dangling ballerina earring. And I have stubble from time to time. It's all from George Michael. He was sort of a style person who I always respected and loved and couldn't necessarily pull off. But I think these glasses have a shot. I really do.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
That was shocking, what he just revealed there.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
I wanted to be George Michael. I'm ready to acknowledge that. I'm open about saying that. I have great love for George Michael.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
I'm not saying that everybody got it, but it didn't matter because I loved it. And I had to take it out when I went home. I wasn't allowed to have an earring. And I got my ear pierced at the 86th Street subway in New York City when I was a senior in high school. And I walked there. There it is. If you're listening to this, you don't see it. But if you're watching.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
And I got my ear pierced. Back then you would do it down in the subway. And I walked back to my apartment. And I was a senior in high school. And I was kicked out of the apartment and said, you can go live with your friends or take your earring out.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Thank you. Yeah, your allocation was just off. It was such an amazing weekend of sports. And you led and then just stayed with the Dolphins for so long. And I'm definitely loyal and understand the legacy audience in Miami. But you have to think about the amount of time that you have people watching your show. And there was a million things to talk about.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Ich musste meine Tattoos von meiner Familie und meinen Eltern verstecken, als ich mein erstes Tattoo bekam. Und ich habe sie in einem Ort bekommen, das versteckt wäre. Und das erste Mal, als ich eines bekam, das visibel wäre, als ich Shorts trägte, war es ein schwieriger Moment, weil ich ihnen sagen musste. Der erste Gedanke war, dass es ein Bar Mitzvah Tattoo war.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
The kind that just rubs off in three days, which everyone gets. It's what all the Jewish kids get to be cool. And then it just sort of washes off. So that was the first thought. And then it was, oh, this is real. And meanwhile, I was the president of a Major League Baseball team. And what I was told is that you cannot be the president of a team.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
It's like being the Secretary of Defense with arm tattoos. You just can't do it. But it turns out that you can't.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
So it is a Bubbemeister. I was taught growing up that you can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery with a tattoo. But I did consult my rabbi before getting my first tattoo, which was a World Series tattoo. And it turns out to be not true. You can be buried in a Jewish cemetery with a tattoo. So I presented that as an argument that was a losing argument.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
But to me it was the end of the argument because I thought that was the main reason. But it turns out that their view was that if you have a tattoo, that you are not a mensch or the type of upstanding citizen. And I found that to be ridiculous, that you are who you are, having nothing to do with the tattoo.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Er wird es für den Rest seines Lebens denken, als ein Moment von unglaublicher Verletzung. Und dann wird der andere Seite seines Gehirns sagen, es war eine regelmäßige Saison, Game 10 gegen die Pistons. Es war nicht das Ende der Welt. Wenn das ein Playoff-Spiel wäre, That haunts your dreams and nightmares forever. But as a regular season game, it impacts his day to day. But then he moves on.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
And in terms of how it would go after last night, I heard you guys talking about it. You're right. No conversation at all. You walk into the locker room after that. If you're Pat Riley, you just, you know, look at him, you nod and then you leave.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
And you just kept hammering it and you hammered in a way that was not at all original. Yeah, they stink. David, it was coming off Monday Night Football.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
I just don't know that that's haunting. I hear what you're saying. Of course they'll remember it. You talked to a manager. I just talked to Jack recently on October 25th. Jack McKeon, the former manager of the Marlins, who's 94 years old. It's fine to say that. I worked with him for many, many years. And he will remember it specifically. Okay.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Er erinnert sich an ein spezielles Spiel von seiner ersten Karriere. Und er erinnert sich an, wer in der fünften Runde von Spiel Nummer 69 der regelmäßigen Saison eines einzelnen Jahres war. Das ist nicht schrecklich. Das ist nur so, wie ihr Gehirn es macht. Also, natürlich, Spolster wird das erinnern, aber nicht in der Weise, wie ihr es denkt.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
He'll remember it, but it won't be his greatest regret. But he will be in a hospital gown, but it'll be standard issue. Make no mistake, we all end in a hospital gown. How old are you at that point, Dave?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Boy, you thought you had problems in Miami with Marlins Park and with building the Inter-Miami Stadium by the airport at Melrose. Tampa's got a real issue in St. Pete because it's going to cost at least 55 million to get Tropicana Field ready to go after that horrific hurricane. The problem is the Rays don't want to play there after 2027.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Who would put, it's like redoing your house as you're about to raise it. Literally, you would not put that amount of money and you would just live with a bad bathroom for another couple of years. But they can't get a certificate of occupancy to play games without fixing it up after the hurricane. So they're deciding whether that money should be spent. And I don't believe it will be.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
They've already said they can't play there in 2025. So Major League Baseball is going to have two teams next year playing in minor league or spring training facilities. It really is staggering.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Logistically, how is that going to work? There's team hotels and there's planes that will land at the airports and team buses and the players will show up and it'll just be a minor leaguer spring training facility. It's just a lower attendance, but Oakland and Tampa don't draw anyway.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
And if either of those teams make the playoffs next year, they will not play their home playoff games in front of 15,000 people. They will go to a different site with larger capacity because there's money involved.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Yeah, they're both tiny. The A's are playing in Sacramento. I think we were just told in the media, we have to call it West Sacramento. So that's like making people say that Hard Rock Stadium is in Miami Gardens, which I'm pretty sure nobody says, except they only want you to say it. Do you guys refer to it as Miami Gardens ever?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Right, so just because it's the only game, it doesn't mean you have to give them that level of attention. Because there was a lot of other news that particular night. I was just struck by it. And the problem with Dan, guys, and I think you know this, he just doesn't take criticism. He assumes that his ear is obviously better and more experienced than everybody else's.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Apparently Sacramento is West Sacramento, where the ballpark is, and not Sacramento.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
I appreciate that you're trying to say that about both. That's the situation in Tampa, not Oakland. Oakland was just an old-fashioned, we're going to relocate because we're not getting enough money to stay in Oakland. And they need a temporary place to play because they didn't have a lease to stay in Oakland. That's all.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
It's true. Now that part is true. Oakland has lost a team, but teams relocate all the time, as you know. And then you spend more money to get a team back. Just ask Seattle what they're trying to do with their basketball team. You always spend more money to bring a team back. Ask Montreal, they're doing the same thing than what it would cost to keep it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
That's one of the crazy math equations in stadium and ballpark finance that even Billy Corbin will admit that municipalities always spend more in regret. after the fact than they would have had to when the deal was happening.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
It's a fantastic baseball city, as recently as the mid-teens, when they were good. They still have a team. It's like denying that the Jets were good more recently than the Dolphins. Of course they were. It's hard to debate that. The A's had a great run. They're just in a closed window, the way many teams are, when you have a rollercoaster open window closed window.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
So people are reticent to ever say anything to him, like walking on eggshells, but I'm not that way. So I merely reached out to him and said, that segment sucked. And of course... He didn't respond. He'll only respond when you do something wrong on your show or when someone is on X saying that, oh, you're being criticized or that, oh, you're not popular.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
But no one would have Miami as a top five football city out of all of the 32. Would Miami be a top five? But you'd be despondent beyond repair if the Dolphins relocated or the Jets relocated. The Jets are not a top five football loving place in Jersey.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Er hat viel Zeit gebraucht, um darüber nachzudenken.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Was ist der Film, den du für uns heute kritikierst, Samson? You just missed it. You could have said that would be the final Nightgown.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
There's a movie that I hope you have all seen. It's called Patrice the Movie. Can I get anyone in the room?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
It is a documentary about a couple named Patrice and Gary and they are a special needs couple. She is one of the most Perfect Characters and Human Beings you will see in a movie who has her life documented. And it is about the real problems that a couple has because there are laws where they live that they can't get married and they're madly in love. And she has to take care of him.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
He has muscular dystrophy. She's got some disabilities as well, but she takes care of him. She's a crossing guard as well, trying to earn money. But the government is such that if you get married, you lose your federal disability payments, which is so unbelievable that it staggers me. And it's contained somewhere in a 20,000-page bill that no one focuses on. And so they try to get the law changed.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
He'll forward that to you, but he won't acknowledge any possible mistake that he could have made.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Because they want to get married, but they can't or they will go bankrupt. And Patrice is one of the best women characters, best male, best any character you'll see in a movie this year. So if you have time, please watch Patrice the movie.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
As long as it makes me feel, I don't need to always feel very good. I want to feel something. And you end up falling in love with Patrice and just feeling for her and feeling how do we live in a world that has lost its finesse in this way, where it's so easily fixable. But they interview people in D.C. who are like, listen, we'll try. But this is a tough one. And to me, no, it's not tough.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
You should be able to get married to someone you love. Hard stop.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
half the world puts their head in the sands and that is why the world ends up where the world is and it's called you know the ostrich head in the sand defense which is i had no idea this was going on people use it in white collar crimes all the time i had no idea people use it in sports like jim crane with the astros i had no idea there was cheating going on Just give me a break.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
It's the most ridiculous thing. You shouldn't be allowed to use that as a defense of any kind. And if you don't want to appreciate what Michael J. Fox goes through with Parkinson's, then basically, you know, screw you and go live the life that you think you're leading.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
It's bizarre. I don't know if you're just trying to make sure that I don't get an ego, which in your universe is impossible for me to have, both on and off camera. Literally impossible. Which is hard to subjugate my ego, what I have to do in your universe.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
But yes, it is bizarre, whether it's 3 in the morning or 7 in the morning, or most likely at 8.02 in the morning, when you text me what somebody who has four numbers at the end. The irony is, you'll tweet back and say... Oh, way to go, John46969. But yet when it's about me, you'll act as though it's the number one most important criticism of all time. Because it is.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
I'm just trying, I listen to the show every day. And I think it's important to listen to a show that you are emotionally, fiscally and just invested in all the way to my bones. And I wish that everyone would listen to the show who has an investment in the show, because it's important to understand it. And it's not a perfect show.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
And you have to be willing, although you've been doing it for 20 years, which is amazing. And you've been in the business longer than I. It doesn't mean that you're perfect. Hmm.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
It's probably cooler to have than Otani's 50th Home Run Ball. And some people would argue it's cooler to have than a Picasso. So there is a market for that type of car. And it would cost quite a bit to insure. And you certainly would be subject to get tickets or to have it inspected would be interesting. But there's definitely a market for it. And there's a market for movie memorabilia.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
As a matter of fact, I'm bidding on a piece of memorabilia while I'm going to be doing a show. So I haven't figured out how to do that at the end of this week. But there's an amazing market in the memorabilia world and that is a living, breathing piece of memorabilia. So yeah, I'm in. What are you bidding on? I don't I actually I'll disclose it to you. I'm bidding on the I can't even forget it.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Yes, I'm going to tell you. George Michael wore a pair of sunglasses when he did a concert. I love George Michael. I've always loved George Michael. He's dead now, which is sad. And there's a concert worn pair of sunglasses that's available. And you don't see this often. And I can buy him and wear them.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Ich kann sie nicht nur zeigen, sondern ich kann sie tragen, um meine Retina und Korne zu schützen.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
It's going to actually cost it. We telegraphed our pass. I mean. This is a risky business, Stu, because you could bid it up and I could disappear and you'll have yourself a $5,000 pair of sunglasses.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
It's really my brand. I will always answer any question you have and I won't shy away from it. But there also may be more to the story. So, for example, there may be a second item in that auction that I want even more.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
But I give you just enough to make you think like I give you everything, knowing that you jackasses may bid up the price for the sunglasses and I may have to let them go because I have a price in my mind that is a drop-dead price. What's the second thing? Forget that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
I have a good number actually, because I buy things that are meaningful to me. So I don't buy them as an investment. And I know that my kids, you know, in a few years or minutes or decades will just sell it all when I croak. But there are certain things, the number one thing that I have that I love... Weird. Go put it on. It's not in this studio, actually.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
I have two different ones, but I will wear it. Actually, I've never worn it, but I would only be able to wear it with nothing underneath, because the whole point of it is that your ass cheeks have to show, because that's a true hospital gown.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Yeah, I would not. It's not to be worn outside. I've never actually taken it off the hanger. So I still have it exactly as it came to me. But I have a bunch of things of props of movies that just are meaningful to me. And that's there's no reason. The second one that you've seen on my set is the FedEx box from Castaway, the actual FedEx box.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Das ist eine coole Sache, weil Castaway ein Film ist, der mir viel bedeutet. Und das FedEx Box und was kann in der Leben passieren. Und es informiert, wie ich reagiere. Und ich lebe mit diesen Props. Und es ist seltsam, eine Art Phantasialand von Memorabilität, sowohl Sport als auch Unterhaltung. Und ich verliere mich darin. Also mache ich es nicht, nur um zu sagen, dass ich es habe.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Es ist kein Schau auf mich, Louis. Ich engagiere mich darin. Ich denke darüber nach. Ich schaue darauf hin und lebe damit. Und ich liebe das. Es ist wie Kunst.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
As a matter of fact, Billy, it is almost my commitment that if it's not one of those sudden things like getting hit by a bus, wo es etwas ist, das nur ein zweijähriger Schmerz ist.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Ich weiß nicht, ob du das mit Filmen hast. Und den Film, den ich heute reviewen möchte, ist mir auch passiert, wo du dich erinnerst, als du es zum ersten Mal gesehen hast. Und du erinnerst dich daran, wie es dich beeinflusst hat. Der Film geht um einen literarischen Charakter, der tatsächlich real ist. Und Emma Thompson ist eine Schriftstellerin, die ein Buch schreibt.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Und der Charakter im Buch ist Harold Crick, außer Harold Crick ist ein echter Kerl, der eine schreckliche OCD hat. Er ist völlig leise. Und dann kommt plötzlich Maggie Gyllenhaal in sein Leben. and shows him that he can be loved and shows him how to love and that he can actually live a life. And he ends up living that life that he never dreamt he could ever live.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
And he survives an accident that the book had him not survive. Und ein Teil des Buches wäre, er würde sterben, um ein Kind zu retten. Aber dann als echte Person musste er leben. Und er hat es überlebt, weil er gelernt hat, zu lieben und zu lieben. Und es hat mich immer beeinflusst. Und ich habe es wahrscheinlich 30 Mal gesehen, zumindest in meinem Leben.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Und es beeinflusst mich fast immer wieder, außer zum ersten Mal.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Yeah, I don't think people need to have me on the couch. It's not SBS. But obviously, Dan, you don't need a roadmap to know that. Of course, the movies that impact me are the ones that I see myself in or that I recognize my failures or my issues and that there's a path forward. So the reason I asked the question.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
So I don't actually know that, though I agree with you because I can't get anyone in. You know, you have people like Adnan who are big movie guys who claim, you know, they know everything about movies, but they don't really live them the way I do. Part of me has always felt like Walter Mitty. And that's something that I've tried to explore.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
And it's, you know, eventually you just run out of the money allocation for that exploration. But Walter Mitty is a character, the Ben Stiller movie. But it's a book before that where he finds himself in situations where he is, who he's not in real life. Und also sind Filme für mich das. Und ich habe das immer gehabt, seit ich ein Kind war.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
Seit ich vier oder fünf Jahre alt war, erinnere ich mich an Filme in dieser Weise. Also, du hast recht, es ist ein großer Teil meines Lebens. Also bin ich glücklich genug, Dinge in diesem Krankenhaus zu haben. Es ist nicht wert, was ein Picasso wert ist, aber für mich ist es wert. Und das ist der Art von Sachen, die ich kollektiv mag.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: The Final Nightgown
You're the best ever. I'm not actually yucking on anybody's movie yum. You can engage with them however you want. And I don't impugn any of your... I just say that for someone like Adnan to say he is the authority on movies, that may be true in his mind. But I never say I'm the authority on movies. I say that I'm the authority on the movies that are meaningful to me.