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Stan Van Gundee texted me aggressively suggesting, I need to watch We are the World, the documentary on Netflix. And as is habit lately. I get about 20 minutes into things, and then I just fall asleep. I have not been able to make it through much of anything in the last two months. So I don't know if it's any good or not. I imagine a certain generation would love it just because it's nostalgic, just because the idea of all of the world's famous singers in one place or many of the world's famous singers in one place for one night, it's almost impossible to even make their schedules match up. Have any of you seen We Are The World, the Netflix documentary?

The Greatest Night in Pop, I believe, is the name of it. I finally got around to it yesterday because there's been a lot of positive word of mouth. I watched the NHL All-Star Game, and there's been Wired for Sound clips circulating of Justin Bieber asking anybody who would listen, Have you seen the We are the World documentary? I've heard a lot about it, and it was positioned as great insight into the creative process.

I don't think, Tony, from the look on your face, you don't even know what I'm talking about. I have no idea.

What is this?

It's like a- Greg Cody, explain We are the World from your prism as someone who grew up on MTV, it was a revolution to see music video come to life and this video come to life. Explain to Tony what We are the World is.

It was a charity single that included Michael Jackson and dozens of other luminaries in pop music.

Like the biggest names in music at the time.

It was immensely successful. It was a number one song for weeks on end. Decades later, it's still famous. If you say to anyone who's middle-aged or older, if you say, We are the world, just that phrase, the song comes right to mind.

We had never seen that star power gathered in one place for one night of performance.

It's like the All-Star Game back in the day where everybody was like, Oh, these are all the All-stars. Then now it's like, Oh, everybody already does that anyway. So it really doesn't matter.

But this is the biggest collaboration there's been, I think, before or since.

I don't think- It followed Band-Aid. There was already a set formula, and they tried to one up it. And the question was asked like, okay, you have all these white artists doing something for Africa. Why don't we have African-Americans doing something for Africa? So that was the concept. And then Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, and Michael Jackson were approached to put it all together. In first viewing of the documentary, I don't plan on seeing it again, I didn't think I liked it. But then the conversation piece is that come afterwards, I do find interesting. For example, if I can wear my producer hat, logistically, Super It's challenging to get all those people the Night of the American Music Awards, just the thought of someone scheduling it when you don't have to pay for budget and travel, just have all these people when they're already in town come after the awards show.

And it's Springsteen and Cindy Lopper.

Where do you stand people- Stevie Wonder. Bob Dylan. Where do people stand next to one another during this? Because that's something that you have to account for, vocal ranges. I thought some of the best parts of the documentary were Bob Dylan having a crisis basis of confidence because he's not this crazy good vocalist, and he's out there literally miming words because he realizes, I'm going to be a distraction. What am I doing here? That's Darryl Hall. How am I going to keep within that range?

That is one of the best parts of the original video is watching, and when they pan across everybody, you can see Bob Dylan just self-consciously looking around. I don't belong here. And he's known as one of the great artists ever, but he knows I don't belong in the company of Tina Turner singing over here and Diana Ross singing over there. It's special.

Is it just the repackaging of that video Jeremy's talking about? Because I've seen that YouTube video. It's like a 10-minute video.

No, but it's not repackaging. It's all Lionel Richie's home footage. It's access to a night unlike any in the history of pop music.

He has all this footage, all this raw footage from the day, the one day that they had this recording session. So it expands on that. And they just stopped. There is an interesting documentary, a really interesting documentary to be made made there, but they just stopped short of diving all the way in. They have people touch on things. For example, the specter of Prince hangs over this entire thing because they were trying desperately to get Prince to be out there, and they had negotiations. Why don't you just play a Tars solo. He didn't want to... There was this very real rivalry between Michael and Prince, maybe more one-sided, but they tried to coax Prince into showing up because they knew that he was in love with Sheila E. So there was a moment of self-discovery without giving things away that Sheila E is like, Oh, you guys are just using me. You're just keeping me here as long as possible in hopes that you can get Prince over here. There's more fascinating things to dive in there, but they just veer off into another direction. Sometimes the direction they veer off into is a drunk El Jarreau.

That doesn't sound like a bad direction to me.

That was the best part of the documentary. How drunk was he? He just several bottles of wine deep because he thought it was going to be a party. As a lot of people came in on a party vibe, at Post-American Music Awards, but he just fumbles it every time. And this is the old-school way of recording. Everyone goes down a line and has to nail it. There's no auto to to fix it. And he is just a drunk mess compared to everybody else. The late Al Jarreau.

I'd like to see that video. Jeremy has, incidentally, Jeremy, because we have moved into the second part of the sports schedule here with some second half of some basketball and and hockey and baseball's beginning, Jeremy has the top five things in the NBA to watch out for the rest of the season. I don't know. Did you guys get all of your exhibition game takes out there? I know there was some Jalen Brown video that we wanted to play at some point of him flying around. Isn't there some video out there that you guys can get me that I can play shortly as we go to Jeremy's top five things to watch out for in the NBA? Any OLIs here, Jeremy?

Yeah, there's one OLI. Oh, God, this video of Jalen Brown is spectacular. Just flailing through the air as he tries to jump over a five-foot-tall person sitting in a chair. Just that person that's sitting in the chair is 5 feet tall. This video is going to come back to haunt Jalen Brown if the Celtics don't do what they're supposed to. But the Oli, the Clippers are the best team in the NBA. They're spectacular. Nobody really seems to be paying attention to the fact that all those superstars are amazing.

Okay, they are. But tell me what happened the other where I'm watching the Timberwolves beat them in Los Angeles by 20 and saying to them, You guys are sorry, you guys are old.

Well, that leads to my number 5, Dan.

They're really good, too. Number 5.

Anthony Edwards and Carl Anthony Towns playing off each other might be the best duo in basketball.

I thought it was Jokić and Murray, but these two together, yeah.

Well, what it is is their ability at a pretty young age for this duo. Edwards has only been there a couple of years. Kat letting go of the ego and accepting that he's the number two offensive option and just taking over when Anthony Edwards says you can have the ball.

It's been great so far. Hold on. You think that Karl Anthony Towns is going to go to the second half of the season after scoring 50 in the All-Star Game?

He just shot 35 times in an All-Star Game.

In an All-Star Game because he's not doing it in the regular season. Look, this might not work in the playoff, and that's a huge part of it.

Kind of need to see it.

Right. Did Draymond Green make fun of him in the game being like, Oh, look, another game where he has 40 points and they lost?

Right. I'm just talking about the regular season basketball that you're all about to watch. They've been spectacular. That's why they're the number one.

Taylor Rookes is there, and all of a sudden, Draymond has a routine.

Help me with the box score, please. Did Karl Anthony Towns shoot twice as many shots as any two other players combined in that basketball game? Because I think you can say the All-Star game was just a disaster because it showcased Karl Anthony Towns that way. Number four.

Number 4. Shay Gildas-Alexander, probably going to win the MVP.

The metrics say he's the best player in basketball.

He's been spectacular, and the Thunder are really, really good. Again, I don't know come postseason, whether the Timberwolves or the Thunder will be able to make the noise that they've made in the regular season, but this MVP race is wide open, and he's at the top of it right now.

I'm super curious about whether or not the way that the scoring has amped up into a place that is crazed, whether it will alter things that we're used to seeing in that sport, which is Minnesota and OKC can't advance. They haven't suffered enough in the playoffs to advance. The history of that sport is those two teams never actually make it to the final. I'm curious whether this year it'll be different just because you can make 43.

It might be.

I saw a take online that everyone on the Western Conference is a Hall of Famer. Every single person that dress out for the Western Conference All-Star team, you could say, is a Hall of Famer. Even Shane Gillis-Alexander.

The Were you talking about on his team or in the game? Because there were two East players. If you add up their shot attempts, it's way more than towns. But if you add up anybody else's shot attempts on his team, nobody equalled him.

But no two guys together.

In the game, yeah. Lillard and Jalen Brown both shot over 20 times each.

The West is absolutely loaded, which leads to number three. At this point, the old teams have been old. Golden The 10th State, the 10 seed, the Lakers are in the play-in as well. Even the Phoenix Suns led by Durant, they're the five seed right now. But I think it's part of why when you look at the top of the West and you see Minnesota and Oklahoma City, these teams that haven't really suffered yet, You could see a ton of upsets in the West because there's a lot of really good teams at the bottom of that conference.

What you can also see, and this is so rare, Greg, this happened at the end in football with Ben Rothlisberger and Tom braided and the old guard of stardom. The bottom half of that conference is where the old guys are. The future of the league is at the top of that conference, and LeBron and staff having to go through Jokić at minimum. The Clippers are old as well. They don't even get to be the face of the league. But Paul George and James Harden, that triumvirate to have them be that good. You're looking at the whole league being upside down at the end of this year, where Curry and LeBron get kicked It's just out of the story lines.

Don't look now. Number two, Eastern Conference, top starting to falter, which means things are setting up nice for Miami Heats to take Eastern Conference.

That can't be number two. Over. Number two. Number one, number one. You You should go give it to us in the penalty box. That can't be number two.

No, because number one is going to fix everything. After all of this, all the NBA story lines you're looking at, talking about Shay Gildas, Alexander, all these other teams in the West. He loves him. Ultimately, Nikola Jogic is going to win the MVP, and the Nuggets are going to win the finals.

They're pretty amazing.

Shouldn't Embiid, pre-injury, he was way on top for the MVP.

Yeah, he was, which is why it's wide open.

I feel so bad.

It's wide open now. Guys like Donkich, Jason Tatum, all of these players are right there at the top because Embiid was leading far and away. That's why ultimately, we're going to do the thing where, Hey, nobody's paying attention to the Nuggets. They're just a few games back. They may end up the number one seed, and they're the favorites to win everything.

Mike Ryan, a shocking story that escaped What's your radar during the Super Bowl and the chaos of it is Giannis Antetokounmpo says flatly that he gets as many scratches on his arm as Jokić, but nobody notices because Jokić is just white.

He and his bad team.

You missed that entire story. I don't know why did you miss that story. Great. Giannis Antetokounmpo is claiming a legitimate race story that you simply missed, which is he gets just as many scratches on his arms, but he's not white. You got nothing on that? He silenced you? You're speechless?

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Don Levatard. Jess, you can't talk about double-digit national titles when every single call of you winning the national title-Sounds like this. Oh, there's Chubby Checker running down the sideline. If the audio-That's not true. Yeah. And there's a World War II veteran pitching it to another white guy, and he avoids another white guy. Oh, my God. Not a name. The Fighting Irish have done it again for the eighth time ever paying white people. Chubby Checker. I'm sorry. He's Black. He's Black, and I was really going, what's his white name? Chubby checker. I'm sorry, man. I'm improv in here. It's a pretty cool rib. He spells it differently. All right. His name is Chubby. Maybe you didn't hear me correctly. His name is Chubby Chaka. There's an S at the end.

I feel like that should be the largest of five.

Chubby Chaka. It sounds like a college football name. This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugats. How will you remember Rob Manfred?

You do word association. Tony's saying what happened to him. He's going to retire. He's still with us. You don't risk a $50 fine there. He says he's going to retire in four or five years. In 2029, he's retiring. And so he's doing the rocking chair tour of five years of my commissionership. He made a ton of money for baseball's owners and helped ruin or further ruin baseball in Miami because he was such a mercenary and sold all of baseball's traditions in search of advancement and evolution and helped modernize the sport. Part of his legacy will be fixing the sport because it's a lot more fun to watch ever since they discarded all of the tradition-rich nonsense that they used to embrace. So he did evolve the sport.

That's what stinks for him. And the business. Or rather for us as fans is like, Everybody wants to remember all the bad things, but ultimately, 50 years from now, that's how it'll be looked at, is that he saved baseball in a way because of the way that the game has become so much more entertaining.

Okay, but do you understand, it's probably the last bit of journalism I did where I actually got documents that showed that Manfred knew exactly what the Marlins were going to do and that it was a dirty, dirty business deal. I got into a lot of trouble at ESPN because we were league partners in that interview. It was one of the worst a commissioner has ever done anywhere. But they bleeped Miami again and again, continue to bleep Miami again and again. And the finances of that sport have helped serve the richest so that Miami gets bleeped again and again. And he signed off on it, signed off on it with Jeter, allowed all of it and treated South Florida the way baseball has always treated South Florida as the brothel that it is. That's actually not true. It is true. It's absolutely true. And I told you so to your face on the phone. It was the worst interview a commissioner has ever done. That's actually not true. I think it is true.

My passion for baseball died on his watch. But I do think that in terms of leaving the sport in better shape than he got it, he squeezed out all the possible money from the old model of TV deals with RSNs. They've made a lot of great investments and have proprietary ownership over certain streaming applications that really secured their future because many of the streaming services that you've come to know today have actually used their tech. And in terms of the gameplay, last year, it was largely a success.

Really good.

I do think that it'll look better once you get a treetop view on these things.

They were so ahead of the media game, so ahead of the NFL, of the NBA, and he will be remembered 50 years from now as somebody who will help save revolutionize the business of baseball, which is what the commissioners job is. Man, I will tell you that I have run into a number of people over the last few years, and I'm shocked by this. Maybe I shouldn't be. Well, not that smart. It's a bit shocking to hear, but that sport can't be led wrong. There's no way that if sports in general, stumble into financial wins, where Rob Manfred, making every mistake in the book, still makes tons of money for his owners, and Roger Goodell keeps getting, what's he earning now? What is Roger Goodell earning annually after doing the move of saying during the pandemic, he would take zero dollars, but then making his salary private because it has since become private, even though people are reporting it.

63.9 million annually.

It's pretty smart if you ask me.

It's ridiculous. Is it, though? It's not if you're making that sport that much money. I mean, if that sport keeps getting... Isn't the job of a commissioner simply to make the business run better than it ever has?

Yeah, but isn't the success of the NFL just self-perpetuating by this time? Couldn't you or I be the de facto NFL Commissioner and the lead League would continue to be successful just because it runs itself, right?

I'm saying to you, I'm stunned by the number of people who have dealings with Roger Goodell, and they're like, Look, this is not a brilliant visionary leader. This is the person who is in charge of that thing. Making the punches on behalf of all his very rich people who have a ton of infrastructure around keeping the media away from the secrets of the power and the owners.

He could re-up soon because I'm seeing here that this deal expires spring 2024. So who knows what the next one will be?

No, I thought he already extended. I thought that he signed some other giant monster deal. I think so. And has trampled Jerry Jones in the process. Jerry Jones was vigilantly anti-Roger Goodell for a while, and even Jerry Jones, the most powerful man in sports. Another person who Dominic Foxworth has told us, sat across from Jerry Jones like, This person's not as smart as I perhaps thought that maybe he would be given his amount of billions.

He does have an extension through 2027. I don't see the number here for what that was, but the 63.9 was as of 2019, 2020.

I think you're reporting exclusively what? It's really high.

I don't know what the number. It's more than 70. His contract runs through 2027. If he sees his tenure through to that date, it would mean his career earnings are up to roughly $700 million. He's a billionaire. You're going to tell me he's not smart, Dan? Come on.

What are we doing? We shouldn't all measure-What are we doing? Just off of finances. People take advantage of labor.

That's correct. That's right.

That's one of the things that ends up happening.

But I do understand why people arrive at a point that they think that... I mean, we're just talking about Trump a second ago.

That's what I was just about to say. Some of the things you were saying about Manfred, where you're like, Oh, he screwed Miami in this, and we're still going to look at him as, Yeah, Dan, four years later, Trump's about to get elected again. We don't care if people get screwed financially as long as it's beneficial to the top.

I wanted to ask you guys something about this because I saw quietly this happened over the weekend, and I don't get offended by very much that happens anymore in sports. I really don't. When I'm watching the outrage about the All-Star Game in the NBA, I wonder why the outrage isn't similar on the story I'm about to tell you, which is it's been reported that the trustees, the money in Penn State, wants to put Joe Paterno's name back on the stadium, and we're in violation of public law by having the meetings in private when you're supposed to do that stuff in front of people. But the money at Penn State, after the What's the largest sports scandal or scandal of any kind that I can remember, anywhere in sports, it's such ancient history that we get forgetful after three presidential cycles, that 12 years goes by and you're like, so Paterno helped lead kids into wounding that they will never get off of them because Sandusky was a pedophile running a muck at his university with young boys and their futures sent to him for future scarring because he was disguised in plain sight and protected by the saint of Penn State football, that they would topple his statues and that the noise would be loud enough for the moment to topple his statues, but that everyone would forget them in the echoes of the years that followed.

It's deeply offensive that this isn't a bigger story. Never mind that you're trying to do it in private when public law suggests that that's a violation and a crime in and of itself. But to do that with your money when you think all along that Joe Paterno has been wronged and you're forgetting, or Maybe you don't care, maybe it's not even forgetting, that the largest sports scandal of our lifetime, that a patron saint of college football, an American hero, was overseeing one of his assistant coaches leading boys to horror that they will never undo. How does that happen quietly? How is that something that happens and just escapes the attention because 12 years go by and, well, Paterno is dead and history doesn't matter?

Because it also forces you to relive that and hearing you just recap the story and what led us here was not easy to process. Most people would rather ignore it than be reminded of it.

Are they talking about doing it? They haven't done it yet.

They haven't done it yet because- I think that's a big difference, I think the outcry is if they actually have the nerve to go through with it.

You think they were doing it like they announced it in their engaging response?

No, they didn't announce it. They were having private meetings. They did not want heard or seen.

They wouldn't do so in a fashion that could be held against them if this is indeed against some rule.

But this is some shadowy cult shit to be trying to circumvent government law to have private meetings where the money re-instates- The entire scandal was shadowy cult shit. I mean, but come on. We're going to get that forgetful about that? We're going to get that numb to sports controversies. The machine is going to be noisy for three days on the All-Star Game, but this is going to be allowed to happen in the shadows? What sense does that make to anybody? I know it's not... Look, man, this isn't fun, but I was just shocked I didn't even read it. I was shocked to see I had to go and do more research to find if the story was real because I'm like, Wait a minute. So the statute of limitations on pedophilia is 12 years? So long enough for a generation to remember it. Is that How do you get forgetful about that? It was a giant scandal. And Penn State people were resolute about, No, you're wrong. You got it wrong about our St. Joe.

They took down his statue. They're going to put that up.

No, but they took it down under public pressure. And now they're talking privately, not about the statue, but putting his name on his stadium because a lot of people would make the argument on behalf if he didn't know when he knows when his players are missing an 8:15 meeting.

There were several accounts of people informing Joe Paterno of what's going on there and him turning a blind eye and Jerry Sandusky is still having an office.

But the trustees turning a blind eye to him in that because they are resolute that their money will win and they can put the name on the stadium because they have money and can erase or cure or throw a bomb on something that cannot have a bomb on it, cannot be allowed to have a public bomb on it. You might as well name it, Fuck You Stadium. We don't care that it's the biggest sports scandal that anyone has ever seen, that a saint in college football was overseeing the worst of crimes, was even tangentially involved. Even as you can understand that he tried to live a good life, and you can try to understand through Joe Ponsnansky's excellent book, that this probably killed Joe Paterno. The end result is his death, but then you're putting his name on his stadium and resurrecting all of it the moment that you do that. You don't bury him or this with this. That. You resurrect the name on the stadium, and those victims are supposed to feel how about that in the middle of that campus.

A lot of people tend to do the thing where they just see Joe Paterno as he was towards the end and say, This guy didn't have the faculties to truly understand the scope of his wrongdoing. Then you get familiar with the story, and this is several years long.

Sku Stadium does have a ring to it.

Yeah. Where did you go to school? I went to F. U. Hell, yeah.

Fus.

It is. It was pretty good. The mascot's a middle finger. What is the mascot? Double.

It's like a double middle finger.

It's two of them. They run across the sideline. It's two of them. The one of them.

One side of the stadium says, The other side of the stadium says, You. It's a good chant. Yeah, it's a good chant.

Sorry, Jeremy, and whoever's editing this.

Making this very difficult.

Don Levatard. I feel like we need to normalize saying these scientific terms for organs on the air.

A penis? Yes.

You know what? If someone takes a foul ball to the penis, we should just say, He took a foul ball to the penis.

Say it.

Stugatz.

That free kick hit him right in the cock-a-doodle-doo.

This is the Dan Levatard Show with the Stugats.

Juju, put this on the poll, please. When Patino says this the most unenjoyable experience of his lifetime, do you wonder which of his lifetimes he's speaking of at Levatard Show? I want to get to some shack sound that made me a little bit sad. But before I do so, I got a text from my wife about Greg Cody that made me a little bit sad as he continues to commercially sell out in a way that is uncomfortable for me. My wife just told me that the pride of a lion cost $50.

American?

What?

You're surprised by this? It doesn't.

It does not.

Are you saying that my wife's got it wrong? Yeah. Well, then why would she text me that that was so if that is not so?

I mean, I can look it up right now. I think the face value is- Respectfully, she's wrong.

I'm seeing Amazon 1899 for the hard cover. There you go.

Well, where is she seeing?

Is she seeing an audiobook, perhaps? There's an audiobook that's around $42.

I know Ron and I signed a lot of copies that are probably on sale for more than the face value.

I'm being told that it could be a signed copy on Levitard AF.

It's your company.

It's my own company who's doing that?

I have to confirm that. David Samson, baby.

Is that David Samson's doing? Is David... My wife is accusing you of something- That's quite the value. Wait a minute. The only place you're finding it for what my wife is alleging is a ripoff is at lebitardaf. Com. That's right.

Does she know it's signed? It's a signed copy.

Signed copy of Pride of the Lion by Ron McGill and Greg Cody.

It's signed by two people.

Somehow everyone's right.

That's what's happening. See, I don't even sell my own book in my merch store, which has the Heeha 3 shirt. A newly on sale, but I don't even sell my own book in my merch.

Where's that extra cut going, by the way? I don't know.

Is there an audio book? Is that a real thing? Who read the audio book?

It's an audio book. Did you do it? No. I don't think Ron did either. What?

Well, that's not as funny.

You know, maybe there's I got an audio book and should be. I also want one- I saw an audio book option. I want to bring- Let me open up the line as well. I know we're on sale in Germany and Italy. A lot of big Lion fans over there.

Big in Detroit, too.

Greg can't get enough about how much we've talked about him on the show today. Thank you. He's eating every bit of it up. More. Do you know any of the neighbors that Chris Cody is feuding with because he thinks some of his neighbors are partaking in odd behavior? Has your son told you any of these stories? No.

I'm not feuding with my neighbors, but my neighbors have something that I find to be one of the strangest things I've ever witnessed. I've never seen it anywhere else.

Before you get into it, you can pre order the audiobook of The Pride of the Lion. It releases on February 27th. It'll be available on Audible or wherever else you find your audiobooks.

It's like this God's thing where it's not actually been recorded yet.

It's narrated by someone named Jeffrey Beam.

Ron's got to do that?

Mcgill should have narrated it. He's got such a speaker's voice.

My neighbors, I want you to... Have any of you ever witnessed this? My neighbors, it's a couple. They have a young child, a married couple. They both have the exact same car color, year, the exact car. There are two of the exact car in their driving. I don't know why I said driving range in their driveway. Yeah, I don't like that. It's just one of those things where I'm like, How do they know which car to take? It's just, I don't know. I think they might be serial killers.

They got a deal is what they did. They went over to the Jeep logo. Hey, listen.

That's Ed Williamson. We're getting two of these.

Same thing all the way down. Miami. Thank you.

Is it cheaper if you buy two?

Absolutely.

Because you can negotiate and be like, Hey, I'm getting two cars off your lot right now. Maybe that is what they did.

But I see it in the driveway, and I can't not notice it.

You got to go different colors.

Exactly. So I chain issues.

Different wheel covers, something. That's something that delineates.

You think they have the keys just in a bowl and it's like, Oh, blind. Let me just see. Which one am I taking today?

Well, you put a thing from the rear view mirror, one of those little things that smells nice, shaped like a tree. I hate those.

A Christmas tree? Yeah, something like that. Black ice.

A hanging thing.

Greg, do you think, forgive me, is that something that people are still doing? Are they still hanging a tree scent from the rear view?

No, for sure. No trees had their best ear.

Let me write that down, Back in my day.

I don't think that I don't look. Look at littletrees.

Com. Our tree sense.

What? What was it even called?

Well, you need to know that before you shout it in the microphone.

Air freshener, I think, is what they are.

Air freshener? Littletrees. Com is exactly what it is. Really?

Look, littletrees. Com. I prefer the thing to put- Are you like that? I I prefer the thing you put in your vent, the little thing that just everyone's- That's too complicated.

I tried one of those once. When I was in eighth grade and Obama was being elected, a Republican, quote, unquote, friend bought me a Obama air freshener that smelt like weed. Really funny prank.

I propose. I'm being told that the signed books available on lebatardaf. Shop no longer available. It was a limited release.

I think we should get Ron McGill to actually voice some of this and give us animal noises and stuff, and it would make it something.

It's not your call to make. I mean, they've already recorded this with Jeffrey Beam. You're going to put him out of work? I would.

We should sell it for $100 on lebatardaf. Com.

I'll sell it for 99 in my merch store.

Little Trees has an America It's a scented tree. It is. Com. I said. Shop.

It also smells like weed.

What does it smell like? What is the sense?

I don't know. It's just America. It smells like Patriots.

At Lebatard Show, put it on the poll, please. Do you use an air fresher in your car? Certainly none of you use what I have used on occasion, which I will go in there, grab a 499 can of whatever that you just open and put under the seat, and I will do it gas station strawberry style. It doesn't smell good, but it smells like a cheap gas station somewhere in Hialea. It reminds me in some ways of my childhood. I don't think a lot of people are doing that anymore.

I had a friend who would smoke weed in his car. I've never done it, but he would use Ozeum. Ozeum is great.

That gets the smell out, yeah.

If you're trying to just freshen up a car, Ozeum.

That is a real good advice from a friend of Tony's. Tony seemed to be-There's also a true north scent.

Use your imagination there.

I've got a life hack for you. Oh, boy. You take your Christmas tree, you take a chainsaw, you You cut out a round of Christmas tree that's about an inch thick, put it under your car seat, and you get that beautiful Christmas tree natural fresh scent in your car until the round of tree completely dies and dries up.

Natural is what you're saying. Going to the organic source of the Christmas tree scent instead of the cardboard sort. Yes, correct.

Instead of the chemical spray that you're putting into your lungs every single time you inhale.

Let me play for the audience very quickly. The sound of Shaquille O'Neill, who has now reentered. He has reinvigorated himself on the podcast tour, and the big podcast with Shaq had Jason Kelsey on. And this made me sad for Shaquille O'Neill Neil. After Monique went on Club Cheche and said he doesn't have a woman, don't take any advice from him, Shaq gave some advice to Jason Kelsey, that the last sentence of which made me particularly sad, even though he's talking about his wealth. I had this conversation with Gabriel Iglesias, who had a very difficult breakup and found himself wandering around a giant mansion that he was no longer able to share with the people who have helped him build it. So this made me sad for Shaq. My advice to you is if you are going to retire, accept it. Enjoy your family, brother. Thank you. I made a lot of mistakes to where I lost my family and I didn't have anybody. That's not the case for you. So enjoy your beautiful wife, enjoy your beautiful kids. And never dwell on what we had. What we had is what we got. You got the ring, people know who you are.

Enjoy it. Because again, I was an idiot, and I've talked about this a long time. I lost my whole family. I spent 100,000 square for a house by myself, and that's when I got. But again, the way I was raised, man up, deal with it. But that's my advice to you. Mike, Ryan, what are you thinking back there as you gazed?

I'm thinking that that's a lot of mayo on the table. I don't have the back story on that. I don't have a backstory on that, but that was a refreshingly honest and slightly emotional clip. We all know what he's getting at there. And yeah, you don't see that often. Jack that vulnerable either. I mean, to the point where he's having difficulty making eye contact because of what he's revealing.

Well, just keep in mind what Monique accused him of a friend who loves him, says he's got no woman in his life. Don't take advice from Shaquille O'Neill. He gave a word salad after that that was largely empty. But one of the things that he did say about masculinity is you don't open up to your partner. You handle your problems yourself. That is the male way to handle things. Don't show the vulnerability. Don't show the weakness. It is terrible advice. It's a way to go through your marriage alone. It's a good way to get divorced. I will tell you this Shaquille O'Neill story from 2006. The Heat were celebrating their championship at a restaurant that he was no longer allowed to to because of whatever was happening in his life. But he was a street over in his car because he wanted to be near the celebration. They had to bring him food a street over. He's just in his car because he's no longer allowed to go into this hotspot restaurant where all his teammates are and where all the crazy is because whatever is happening in his personal life is happening in his personal life, and he's trying to hold on to his family.

To go from that to in your 50s, wandering around all of your success because he has said to have a... Michael Jackson at one wanted to buy his bed because it was so big and offered to buy the entire house just to have Shaquille O'Neill's bed. It is obviously he lives the most opulent of lifestyles, but it is lonely. It's lonely even if you're with companions, if you're not going to trust anybody with your vulnerability. He's saying that poignantly, right? I've got 100,000 square foot house that every step, giant step I take in it, I'm reminded of my family's no longer here. I threw that away.

It's especially poignant because Jason and Kelsey has crossed the threshold into a new fame. It's almost as if Shaq recognizing, Yeah, you were famous before. You were pulling down $10, $11 million a season, but this is a different type of fame. You're famously a family, man. Don't squander it. Say that way. I thought it was really cool, refreshing advice. That's certainly ground that these athlete-driven media companies don't feel all that comfortable covering. It's almost third rail. I appreciated Shaq's perspective there.

I've seen a bunch of clips to Mike's point of Jason Kelsi being swarmed by people. There's a freshness in his face to it where he wants to give every single person a little something But it's just overwhelming because he's got hundreds of people reaching at him.

I also came away feeling pretty Shad watching that because Shaq clearly needs to be vulnerable with somebody because if he's not going to be vulnerable with the women in his life, I hope that he's getting help somewhere because clearly that's a loneliness and a sadness that we've all seen. You need to be able to help your mental health. To take that himself is not great.

He's taking pride in the fact that he conceals it from others and does it the quote, unquote, masculine way of just keeping his problems to himself, and that's why he's so sad.

But there was vulnerability, though, in what he was saying to Kelsey. I mean, that's good. I saw that as an advancement in Shaq, allowing other people to feel his emotions.

How What about what Monique is saying, though, about, Don't take any advice from him. He doesn't know how to share his life in a way that is true companionship, because that's what she's saying.

I feel like he did it, and you can listen to that and understand that he has this huge house. He has all these things, but yet he's empty. You can take that advice from him because he's living it.

I have aird in not getting, at any point during this show, into a uniquely Florida tradition, rarely more Florida than it was this week, the Dayton 500. Pitbull made a return.

Dan, this was the most Miami Dayton 500 ever. You had the Grand Marshal being the Rock. You had DJ Khaled doing DJ Khaled corporate-sponsored things. And you have Pitbull release a Dayton 500 edition of a ERP that he released earlier called Trackhouse because he owns a racing team, Ross Chastain, a member of that racing team. He's a legit power broker in the world of NASCAR Pitbull. I don't know if you knew this. His trackhouse racing team at one point had three of the top four racers before the big one hit.

Does this album have Dolly Parton on it?

This album has Tim McGraw. This album has Dolly Parton. It has a song about Jimmy Buffett on it.

The Dolly Parton one's a banger. It's so good.

Is it 9:00 to 5:00?

It's sampling 9:00 to 5:00, and it's called Powerful Women, Dan.

It's got Dolly Parton on it. Is she singing?

It's Pitbull and Dolly Parton.

She sings their spoken word, hyping up the powerful women of America. It is. I mean, Dan, you're going to want to crank that on your radio the moment you get out of here.

What about the Dayton 500? What else was interesting this weekend? Greg Cody, you're a big racing buff.

Well, big times for NASCAR because F1 has been horning in on NASCAR's popularity in the American market. But Michael Jordan joins as a team owner. They just signed a $7 billion TV broadcast rights package.

Good times. This is a new and unimproved Dan Levatard show with the Stugas. Gamble on by DraftKings.