The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: John Ortiz Loves The Boost Mobile Hotline
Tue, 22 Apr 2025
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Chapter 1: What is the current status of Aaron Rodgers' NFL career?
I want to talk for a second about something Aaron Rodgers related here that I was laughing because the other day, Mina Kimes was sort of dragged away from Aaron Rodgers has spoken on Pat McAfee and retired quarterback who's not retired, who is not that wanted and not that good anymore, trying to make a decision on a lot of bad offers and maybe one in Pittsburgh, but not one in Minnesota.
The free agency of Aaron Rodgers who would play if somebody appeared with a job offer that made him feel like a good quarterback. But instead, he is only in the news to continually make news. Mina Kimes was pulled away from the conversation we were having to react to the breaking news of Aaron Rodgers' speaking.
And has done it so many times that she is made weary by there is no new ground to be covered here. He was bad at playing quarterback last year. And now he's not terribly wanted, but he's famous and he's infamous. And this ending is going to be intriguing if unwanted.
And so now Aaron Rodgers exists basically, Zaz, to just be something that is the last embers of what kind of conversation can we make around old, famous, tired, quarterback?
I think he's going to retire. I don't think he's playing anymore. I think he's going to retire and I think stringing it out like this works in his favor where he can make it sound like I decided I don't want to play football anymore. Like he said with the Jets, the Jets asked, do you want to play football? He said, I'm interested.
And now he doesn't know because he's got things going on in his personal life that That's why there's no timetable with the Pittsburgh Steelers. I think he's going to eventually make it sound like, not that he was pushed out, but he ultimately decided head's not in anymore. I think he's going to retire.
I found his quotes on his ending with the New York Jets to be pretty fascinating. And like is usually the case when he joins Pat McAfee, totally lacking in self-awareness. He took exception to being flown in across the country on his own time to meet with Aaron Glenn and have Aaron Glenn not waste his time. Like Aaron Glenn just said, hang on one second. Let me go bring the GM in here. Um,
Well, he made it sound like they were mid-conversation and Aaron Glenn ran out. And he's like, let me get to our GM. Look, Aaron, our plan here is to not bring you back. Now, it's weird that Aaron Rodgers, of all people, takes exception to this could have been an email. Considering how much he likes to draw things out, I imagine he was stunned that not everybody else operates that way.
And I would get it, Aaron, if this were Green Bay. But to Aaron Glenn, you're Tim Boyle. You're very clearly not a part of their plans. If anything, they did you a great service, so you can draw this out however long you want. They didn't waste any of your time. I found it to be very weird. It sounded like he was taking a shot at Aaron Glenn for how Aaron Glenn treated him.
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Chapter 2: Why is Aaron Rodgers' breakup with the New York Jets controversial?
He was very disrespectful to me was the attack that he took. The Jets owe him nothing. Aaron Glenn owes him less than nothing. And by the way, if this took place over a phone call, you know Aaron Rodgers would have said, you didn't even have the guts to tell me face to face.
Let me take up the other position, though, here, because I do understand how it is that Aaron Rodgers would receive all of that coldly. And you guys saying he owes them nothing. They owe him nothing. He gave two years at the end of his career to that franchise and thought he did so with all of the power in the world.
That he would not be disabused in those two years, you don't have that power anymore, you deserve the respect of this meeting to be more human. I understand why he would crave
a two-hour conversation a human connection but you guys are saying nope at the end this is how cold employment gets we just sever our ties and in this instance it's interesting for to hear aaron rogers plead for humanity and respect he's asking he's feeling that's all disrespectful in its coldness it sounds like he was craving a preamble
He didn't like what he was being told and then took exception to how quick it was. Zaz is on the money. He would have been insulted if they didn't bring him in for this meeting and he would have made a whole deal of it. He just didn't like the breakup. But it's a weird fixation that he has with drawing things out. They know that about you.
They actually made this super efficient so you can take all the time that you want. And also a little awareness that this didn't work out the way that anybody wanted. Not you, not them in New York. And this is how a breakup happens.
You guys don't find it funny, though, that basically all that's actually happening here at the end is that giant legend Aaron Rodgers, or Packers legend Aaron Rodgers...
just wanted a hug at the end it wouldn't have just been about a hug he would have found something else to complain about it's just he i understand why he feels like his time is wasted but it's just a weird messenger from a guy that's been wasting our time now for he's doing the far thing over and over again will he or won't he only he doesn't have the suitors
I'm at the point where my eyes just gloss over when I see any bit of text written about Aaron Rodgers. I just, like, I don't care. I don't want to cover everything he says like it's news anymore. And my eyes just gloss over it. And I'm like, play, don't play, I don't care. Let me know in September what team he's on.
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Chapter 3: How do the hosts interpret Aaron Rodgers' behavior and attitude?
That, to me, is what I'm seizing on here. It's a weird message coming from Aaron Rodgers. Like often, he exposes his own hypocrisies, and that's fine. We can be hypocritical people, but at least have the self-awareness here that they are very clearly starting a new chapter.
Okay, but can you just allow this one thing, right? I don't know how people become egomaniacs. I don't know what it is to be as great at anything as Aaron Rodgers was at quarterback. But if he still thinks...
that he is a talent to be respected throughout that sport for having a mastery of that position that very few have ever had, my guess is I understand why he would have blind spots where his arrogance is about, I'm the greatest. Treat me like I'm the greatest.
Well, the market's not treating him like that. Understood, but do you understand how he arrives at the blind spot? I know how he became an egomaniac and kept finding out algorithms that just fortified his own beliefs. I read a book on the guy with my ears. I understand how this came to be, but I don't like it.
I really take exception to it when you start taking shots at people because on his way out the door, he wanted to make one more mess for the Jets and say, the guy that you hired, he's not a good people person. This is how he treated me. Dude, it didn't work out. They did you a great service by telling you directly to your face, your future is not with us anymore.
For you to still be taking pot shots out of what history will reflect on your time over there with the New York Jets is one of the biggest sporting disasters of all time.
That is a hot, hot take from Mike Ryan, and the Boost Mobile line is filled with hot takes.
May I just add, it will not go down as one of the biggest sporting disasters of all time because of how boring and uninteresting it was. We will not remember it because it basically never happened.
The Boost Mobile hot take line, I am told by Chris Cody and others.
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Chapter 4: What are the hottest sports takes from the Boost Mobile Hotline?
This is 80 on a mobile. First time, long time. My hot take is Lou Dort needs to be a Hall of Famer just by overcoming the name Lou Dort. I'll hang up and listen.
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Chapter 5: Who is John Ortiz and what projects is he discussing?
It's great to see you guys. This is amazing. I'm like completely like a kid in a candy shop in here watching you guys and hearing you guys. What piece of candy am I? You are a jolly rancher.
Wow, good guess. I would have gone candy corn. I would have gone... That's not nice, Dan.
Yeah, Dan.
Chapter 6: What was John Ortiz's experience filming Bad Monkey and other works?
What do you mean it's not nice?
It's not terrible candy. It's a color thing.
I like candy corn. Why don't you do Roy next?
But a lot of people hate candy corn. Please don't.
But I love candy corn. But you know what you're doing. Yeah, you did. I'm just collecting data here. Do Roy next. Please don't. Just do Roy. John, how do you feel about...
candy corn candy corn on a scale of one to ten it's about a 1.8 wow uh john when uh you did bad monkey and thank you for joining us i want to talk about uh this dream project that you're presently doing because i did not know that you were a baseball fan but i enjoyed bad monkey for a number of reasons
One of them because you guys really honored Carl Hiaasen and because you really honored Miami and Key West. And I've rarely seen anything on television that had that kind of touch on things. So thank you for making it. But what was your experience with making it?
I loved making that show. It's so great. It really was an experience that's right up there with all the best ones I've had. And I've had a few. You know, I think... It's challenging to shoot in Miami in the middle of the summer.
That is correct.
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Chapter 7: How did John Ortiz view the Fast and Furious franchise, especially Tokyo Drift?
You've done so much work, so much award-winning work. When I present you with American Fiction, Silver Linings Playbook, when I put your history in front of you, is there something that you thought while you were making it that was going to stink and then you couldn't believe how it came together because you doubted it throughout.
Not necessarily I doubted it, but I just didn't know, kind of like Bad Monkey, how it was going to come out because we were doing so many different takes. We were just going for stuff without... too much thought. We just trusted whatever was put in front of us. So Bad Monkey and the second one that's right up there, and they're similar in the way we attacked it, was Silver Linings Playbook.
I had no idea. I knew we had a great time doing it. We believed in everything that we were doing. But in terms of what the hell is this going to feel like or look like, I had no idea. We had David O. Russell just behind a camera just throwing lines out at us, and we would just say them. And then Fast and Furious. Actually, the first time I was offered the role, I turned it down. Are you crazy?
Well, if you recall, that's the first time in four was when Vin Diesel and Paul Walker were going to come back. So Tokyo Drift, they weren't in. And it wasn't that much of a hit. And I had just done Miami Vice, another 305 plug. And the roles were similar. So I said, nah. And I was convinced to do it. And that was a shocker that it was that big of a hit.
Billy, what are you shaking your head about? Tokyo Drift was not that important. Some would argue Tokyo Drift holds the entire framework of the franchise together. There are so many plot points that go through Tokyo Drift. And then you look at the different timelines. You sound like a fool, John. I don't think you know what the hell you're talking about.
John, you sound like a fool. You don't understand what you're talking about. You disrespect Tokyo Drift.
Well, I tell you, I didn't say it wasn't important. I just said it wasn't that big of a hit.
Who do you side with, The Rock or Vin Diesel on this feud that was going on? You were there. You probably got to know both of them. Whose side were you on?
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Chapter 8: What are some memorable moments from Carlito's Way with John Ortiz?
Thankfully, I wasn't there. So I plead the fifth on that one.
All right, that stinks, because we needed to know what the truth was there.
John, you're in the opening scene of Carlito's Way, which is really one of my all-time favorite movie scenes, in the billiard room with the drug dealers. What do you remember about filming that scene?
Oh, my God. You know, first of all, that was my first movie ever. So as you can probably imagine, I was nervous as hell. And right before the very first take of that scene, we were shooting it in a studio. So we were outside the door, you know, the entrance. which wasn't real, you know, it was built. And so we're like halfway in a club and halfway in just a makeshift space.
And I'm trying to be serious actor because I'm right next to the legend Al Pacino. And lo and behold, he's chit-chatting me. And I'm like, this guy, I can't believe it. I was just so surprised that he would just be talking about whatever as we're preparing to get in. Yeah, I stole it from the earlier segment.
You stole the chit chat from you were listening to the boost mobile hotline.
I love the boost mobile hotline. That thing was just so entertaining. I was just like, give me more. And now I'm just obsessed with chit. Anyway, so so we're we're hanging out. Which seems like forever, but it's really like three minutes, right? Before they get the cameras going and waiting for action. Very first action I hear ever professionally from Brian De Palma.
I'm just waiting, but I can't because Al Pacino is chit-chatting. and he's like so what'd you do this weekend and i'm like uh i uh took my girlfriend out for her birthday um we went to the movies and had dinner he's like how old did did she turn and i'm like uh 23 and there's a slight pause and then he says good age Action!
This project that you're now doing, John, the Diamond King, your love of baseball, before we get to it, how much could we badger you right now on the Knicks and have you run scared because your confidence is shaken after last night?
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