Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show: Episode 6
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What is the significance of Jägermeister in the show?
Listen, boys, we got to talk about Jägermeister, a go-to guy at home, at the bar, or maybe even out at the rink. A drink so ice cold, it deserves its own video tribute at every sports bar across North America. No trash talk, no running its mouth. We love the confidence on them. Jägermeister sent us an ad to read on the show, but they're so confident they said, don't do any of that normal ad stuff. Tell the listeners two things. Jägermeister is great, but everyone's been drinking it wrong. Damn, that's cold. Well, how should we be drinking it? They're so glad you asked. Ice cold at zero degrees Fahrenheit, to be exact. Ice cold shots of Jagermeister. That's it. That's all they want to tell you. So wherever you are, if you're hanging out with friends or at the bar, call the shots.
Cheers with ice cold shots of Jagermeister. Damn, that's cold. And remember to check Jagermeister out at DraftKingsXJagermeister.com. Drink responsibly. Jagermeister liqueur, 35% alcohol by volume. Imported by Mass Jagermeister U.S. White Plains, New York. Now's a good time to remember where tequila's story truly began. In 1795, Cuervo invented tequila. Cuervo. What are you doing here?
Cuervo. Anytime someone says Cuervo, I show up.
Cuervo.
The tequila that invented tequila.
Cuervo.
Do you know this one friend who just comes out of bed in the morning and then doesn't come out of his grin? Who is even in front of the first coffee, shamelessly well-groomed, and radiates the morning sun around the bed? Terrible. Disgusting. How can you just...
So that's a terrible question I just asked you and horribly embarrassing. For those of you who are offended, I apologize because I'm tired of hearing from you, to be honest with you. 29.
I don't embarrass easily. Well, you're about to be more embarrassed. Oh, no. A little bit more. Oh, no. Because... Stugatz, that's Tony!
That's Tony! That's not Cassidy! That is Tony! Cassidy does not look like her!
This is the oral history of the Tan Levitard Show with Stugatz. Coming out of LeBron James' time with the Miami Heat, we're starting to become a regularly featured part of ESPN's audio talent when they put out packets for people to market their show and take on sponsors. We're doing calls.
There's nothing like being included in a sales packet.
You're doing affiliate calls. We're starting to feel the warm embrace of the worldwide leader. We're navigating it just fine. Yeah, definitely. Does our show talk about pop culture and things that aren't sports? Occasionally doing societal takes that weren't exactly sticking to sports? Yeah, but we can navigate all those fine. So ESPN has decided, as part of this Dan Levitard business that they're in, he's already front-facing on ESPN. He's a Latin presence. Let's see if we can simulcast his show on a Latin network called Fusion. Now, that wasn't the on-ramp to our show being televised. We had a really shitty webcam in a corner of a... Really small, plain, was it taupe? Studio in the Clevelander.
But we appreciated trying to figure out how to play with the visual medium some. Dan, when ESPN presented this whole Clevelander scenario, this is where you're going to be doing your radio show. This is where you're going to be doing Highly Questionable. The conversations were, it was a certainty. The Levitard radio show with Stu Gatz was going to be televised. What do you remember about those conversations?
It was not a certainty that the radio show was going to be televised. I was going over to the Clevelander as an audio product. And when we do this, I really do have like snapshots from my life coming before me to remind me of the places that we've The dinner that I had with Skipper, the conversation that got us televised was him saying to me, what do you think about being on television on a network called Fusion? Me not knowing what Fusion was and me responding to his question by shrugging my shoulders. I did not say yes. I did not say no. I just shrugged my shoulders. And he took that as permission to sign up whatever deal they had trying to get more Latin with an entity that was broadcasting Latin. Because whatever Fusion was, was doing a lot of Spanish language programming, a lot of distinctly Miami programming. And that was something that him and John Walsh, the guy who invented SportsCenter, put together. I was, again, a passenger.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the significance of Jägermeister in the show?
0:01–9:05
2
How did the team navigate being on Fusion?
9:05–33:01
3
What challenges did Le Batard face during the transition to TV?
33:01–44:58
4
What were the team's feelings about the quality of content?
44:58–1:10:28
5
How did personal issues affect show dynamics?
1:10:28–1:25:43
6
What role did Charlie Hulme play in the production?
1:25:43–1:27:24
Speakers
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