The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Can A Playa Get Some Conversation? (feat. Bert Kreischer)
09 Sep 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is the Dan Levitard Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
Do you get annoyed every time Dan Levitard pontificates about the sports media industry? Well, too bad, mother******.
He knows he don't give a damn about what he's gonna say. It's time for Sports Media Talk. Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon have signed a three-year extension for PTI.
I'm going to assume, but cannot say this for sure, that it will be their last contract there because I don't know how much after 80 years old Tony's going to be wanting to do that, even though people around him who love him suspect the moment you turn off that TV camera, he will just wander over to a potted plant and start giving that his sports opinions.
I don't know what the details are on, did they make them go to an hour from a half hour? Because there was some thought that it would be easy to do that, which would be easy for them to do that, except you've got to pay Tony twice as much as you were paying him if you want him to do twice as much work, and that might be less easy than it used to be.
One of the greatest sports television shows, top ten of all time, correct? Top five? Like, where... Where are we putting one of the greatest sports television shows there have ever been?
And does PTI rise to the level that's more than 20 plus years of chemistry on television and able to survive all of the flux at ESPN and at Disney because it's still a monster when it comes to ratings, even though very little is a monster when it comes to ratings?
I remember where I was the first time I saw the show. I think I was 19. I remember exactly where I was. and it was incredible because I remember saying to myself, well, hold up, those are the topics they're going to talk about and they're on my screen? I get to see what they're going to talk about on this show?
That's one of the great sports inventions of all time, that ticker, that timer that keeps them to 90 seconds in the event. that you are not interested in that topic. You know it's going to change in 60 seconds because what they did there is grab short attention spans before social media, before the addictions, and they're like, we're going to speed all this up for you.
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Chapter 2: How did Dan Levitard feel about the extension of Pardon The Interruption?
Of all the arguments I've had with Boog Shambi, he tends to win most of them. He's smarter about sports than I am. He also saw that come up on his screen for the first time, and he looks to me and he says, that'll never work. Because they were bad at the beginning. They didn't know what they were doing. There was no chemistry.
Well, they infamously, when the bell would ring, they would stop and look around, right?
Well, they just, yes, they didn't know how to do television necessarily as chemistry, right? They were very good at radio. They were very good in the newsroom having chemistry. But televised chemistry has to be learned. And obviously, what are you laughing about, Chris? They perfected it, obviously. Let's get a list of the top five chemists. I have a top 10.
All right, we're going to get to it in a second. We're going to go through it with Bert Kreischer. Let's go through it with Bert Kreischer in a second, your top 10 list. But let's play some more sounds that we have not gotten to. I want to start with Jacksonville's owner. Tony is feeling Jacksonville, okay? They didn't even get huge games from their skill guys. Their skill guys are good.
And their defense is going to be good. And at the end of the game, Shad Khan, who is just so very happy to be out from under the stench of Urban Meyer. It takes a long time to recover from it. He is giddy with enthusiasm, our friend Tony Khan's dad.
This is what we envisioned in January, okay? Yes, sir. It's happening here in September. Going to go on forever.
Yes!
You can hear the pain in the way.
Gonna go on forever!
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Chapter 3: What are Mike's Top 10 sports TV shows of all time?
Was Arch in the bathroom? I don't know. Is that a saying? I never filmed you guys in the bathroom. Why'd the reporter lie there?
Yeah, that was weird, right? Oh, they get scared when the big tough goes. He's like, oh, Arch. No. Did you talk to him? No. This is, I understand that I'm obviously. You won't let me. Bathroom. You won't let me talk to them.
I'm pro-media, and so I've got my biases, but that's just a scared reporter, and that's just a tough guy coach who's in power and can embarrass a scared reporter who got nervous.
I've never filmed any of you guys when you're using the bathroom, so I don't know what faces you make when you're doing that.
It would be illegal. You know, a lot of people have different problems with Sarkeesian. I think people are deserving of a second chance. For me, I wrote him off. You ever see that video of him chewing out the ESPN field producer while he's in the tunnel getting ready to come out for a bowl game? I could already make a character judgment on this guy by how he treated that dude.
Arch said that to you? No.
Why do you lie?
I don't want to make a character judgment about drinking problems because everyone knows that they're an assortment of addictions that run rampant and sickness that runs rampant as well when it comes to not being able to control your addictions.
But it is fairly amazing that Sarkeesian has been able to get that particular job so quickly after being someone who was drinking on the job in his previous ā or actually two stops ago the last time he was a head coach. Rehabbed himself the way that many did and do under Saban, literal rehab, and then comes back and has that job, which is with that quarterback.
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Chapter 4: What was Bert Kreischer's experience giving a pump-up speech at Florida State?
Are you a fan of this? This Brian Callahan.
Chapter 5: How did Bert Kreischer's life change after becoming a comedian?
You are in a position where you are in the tank for Cam Ward. Everyone else is at fault for any of Cam Ward's failures. He should have been 28 for 28 in his game against Denver if simply everyone around him hadn't betrayed him, who's a Tennessee Titan, including his coach not knowing the rules. That's a misinterpretation. I counted 24 of 28.
Cam Ward would have had the day Aaron Rodgers had if the Titans weren't bums. And that is the fair and reasonable analysis from Mike Ryan. Calvin Ridley could not catch balls that were too hot to handle. But let's hear... They could have been handled. All right. Make a play for the young man. And that's what I was saying the entire game.
But the rookie from Stanford that put up 200-plus yards on Travis Hunter, this is an exciting draft pick. Tony, help me with the name because I don't want to mispronounce it. That's right. So... Young man makes a play. Goes up there. Catches the ball. Elbow comes down inbounds. The rest of the body falls out of bounds. And I'm watching at home. NASCAR's on the main, for those that don't know.
Isn't that inbounds?
Should be inbounds.
I thought so. I thought I knew ball. Apparently I didn't know ball. They didn't challenge it. It's not challenged. They didn't take a look at it. I see the replay on the TV. I'm like, elbow came down. I thought the elbow, you know. Does one elbow...
equal two feet well let's see we're asking the right question i feel like i've heard that before we all we all thought that right cheek what are the things that equal two feet knee butt cheek elbow that all of those things is there anything else that shoulder possibly face teeth uh shin shin yep we've seen that play out before but i found it very odd what about head Head? I don't know.
If your head lands inbounds and then your feet land out of bounds, is your head two feet long? Where's the ball? We've never seen that before.
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Chapter 6: How does Bert Kreischer feel about his acting career now?
But maybe we will one day, so it's important to establish rules. One butt is a butt, correct? One cheek, two feet. I gotta think the head is down inbounds if the shin is. Like comes down head first and then falls over. If you land on the top of your helmet and then your feet land out of bounds, that's gonna be no catch. Which head? Oh, really?
He was workshopping that for eight and we were like, no, don't do that. And he was like, I'm confused doing the dick joke. All right, put it on the poll. Is the penis, does it count as two feet? The penis doesn't count as two feet.
So you and I, I think just his penis would land in bounds and the rest of his body out of bounds.
An elbow?
I mean, what's the difference? There's pants. What is the rule? So we knew ball. The elbow comes down in bounds. That counts as a knee. That counts as two feet. I feel like I've heard that before. So let's hear the head coach, Brian Callahan, after the game, and then Brian Callahan upon reflection, first after the game.
It looked like an elbow bounce.
Yeah, you got to get a foot inbounds too, which we didn't have a clean look at whether his foot was down as well. An elbow doesn't equal two feet, so his foot would have had to come down as well. We didn't have a clean look, so the call from upstairs was that it wasn't worth challenging.
So, Zaz, you and I, very clearly idiots. There is no way that you have to have an elbow and a foot.
There's no way that's the rule. Well, an elbow and a foot, that equals two feet.
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of the Florida State experience for Bert?
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Chapter 8: What stories does Bert share from his time on the road?
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