Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 12
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What is the focus of the Dan Le Batard Show during COVID?
So this will be an interesting time to revisit because I smile at it nostalgically even though it was kind of awful. And it's when COVID comes to visit and we're having trouble getting things like, hey, can I have a microphone to do the biggest sports radio show that there is in America? And Mike Ryan is getting essential worker status. and we are handling covid professionally by having hand sanitizer in two places following the rules and do america's biggest sports radio show from an apartment in your building dan see if you can figure out the zoom and see if you can't stop feeling like this is exactly where your career is going to shit because you called john mulaney one of the world's great comics james mulvaney
Because this is where I'm starting to feel everything's coming apart for us. We're in a sad apartment. There's 80s wrestling playing on the televisions. Mike Ryan has brought in everyone by Zoom and we are doing a bare bones minimum show that can't have chemistry because we're doing it in a place that's just awful.
At least you had 80s wrestling. I mean, that's something, right? Yeah, man. All right.
This is a dark, cold, amazing, fun time.
For everyone. Yeah. Well, not fun. No, there's some fun in here. There's some fun for us, but not for everyone.
Stugatz. There's plenty of fun. Stugatz. Oh, I enjoyed it. You never watched WrestleMania 10. I had a blast. I'm telling you. I mean. You didn't have to commute. I know. I was living my dream. And I had no traffic when I was commuting. I was working out.
I'm guessing that Stugatz has not even heard one syllable of what represents during this dark, cold, creative time what I believe to be some of the funniest stuff that we have ever done in the history of this show. In the shadows of people knowing we were in trouble and doing like some really funny comedy with some talented people. Like I was talking to Jonas. and John C. Reilly. And we had some talented people doing bits where we were making a lot of funny, creative jokes, but not able to do the show itself daily very well. Like it didn't have any chemistry because look at how we were doing it.
We actually eventually got to chemistry and I'm really proud technologically of things that we essentially invented. Dan just said we had a bunch of people on zoom. No, at the beginning of this, Zoom wasn't a thing. Having people just pop up on a Zoom wasn't commonplace. We had to rig things and invent stuff. I'm really proud of the shows that we put out during this era. Now, granted, it took us a little bit of time. It took everybody time. The audience reception to what we were doing, they were just so grateful to have anything, especially something regular and consistent that people might look back on this. I'm sure a decent chunk of our audience would say, that was my favorite era of the show just because of how much our show meant to them.
I've had a number of fans come up to me recently saying we've gotten them through their darkest period. And for many of them, it was COVID. It was that time. Sitting at home. Because I don't think many of us, especially down here, realize I could go outside. Like I was playing golf. We would do the show and then I would go golfing. But think about people. People who are in tiny little apartments and they have no form of entertainment. There's nothing going on. They're really struggling. There's mental health issues. And I had a number of people saying, hey, at the darkest time in my life, you guys really. And they do compliment the show saying it might be the best couple of years or year that we did.
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