The Dan Le Batard Show

Follow the money. That was the great lesson from Deep Throat in the movie version of All the President's Men. I don't think that happened in real life, but it was a great line that the screenwriter came up with.

I've seen Klosterman making the rounds here, selling the book. It's called Football, so that should sell.

He's a new instant New York Times bestseller as soon as his book arrives. His book just arrived and it's already a New York Times bestseller. It's called Football. It is available now.

The name of the book is Football. He is exceptional.

He writes in the book, the name of the book is Football. The weather, we are able basically to live in the modern world separate from the climate, and Football demands us not to.

He is the author of a great new piece in Sports Illustrated, The 60 Greatest Moments of the Super Bowl Era. I contributed, I consulted my guy, Verderham, on this a little bit.

I have watched eight of the ten Best Picture nominees. I don't know who's going to win, but I can tell you right now, Train Dreams can get all the way the f*** up out of my face. What a bullshit movie.

Unfortunately, Train Dreams will have to wait before the critic and audience scores come down some. That was awful, I don't want to watch it.

The Testaments, a new Hulu original series from the executive producers of The Handmaid's Tale.

my first book was called The Other West Moore.

when I first got the whole book out and she read it and she saw the response that it got. I remember she said, well, you got it honestly, because she was like, you know, again, this was not your academic training, but you got it honestly.

He wrote Absalom, Absalom, um, Light in August.

It's not merely pornographic. It's not merely something that I would hear or read in 50 shades of gray.

Something my wife would read.

He has said I think there needs to be a new entry in the Guinness World Book of World Records that includes Donald Trump for the lies and the falsehoods.

It's called You're Lucky You're Funny, How Life Becomes a Sitcom. And it was my way of paying this forward as we were wrapping up.

I did write that book, You're Lucky You're Funny, about my experience in television at that time.

I should tell the people about, again, the book. Just try it someplace new.

He's not just children's books. As you said, you've tackled other books as well.

His book is Turf Wars.

The name of the book is Turf War. It's the fight for the soul of America's game.

Turf Wars is the name of the book, The Fight for the Soul of America's Game.

What is the best book of all time? ... Art of the deal. Yeah, Art of the deal.

They were in the Guinness Book of World Records and all that. You know who I'm talking about, right? ... They were connected by a flap of skin around their appendix.

I mean, there's no question about it. He's a Hall of Famer in both basketball and boxing, a 12-time Emmy Award winner, covered 22 Super Bowls. To me, the most important detail is he interviewed Mike Tyson several times, including that one interview where Mike Tyson claimed he broke his back. He's also the author of a memoir. I know. The author of the memoir, Talking to GOATs, the Moments You Remember and the Stories You've Never Heard. It's Jim Gray.

I will say it again. It is the greatest call in sports history. Knocking out Do You Believe in Miracles by Al Michaels. It is Matt Pinto of the Oklahoma City Thunder Radio Network.

He's the leading corporate accountability reporter here in the state, the author of Big Profits, Tiny Taxes, which exposed how corporations dodge taxes, and a 2021 series tracing dark money used in a ghost candidate election scheme.

Well, thank you for bringing up Winning Time because it allows me to revisit a Pat Riley quote. Dominique, I don't know if you remember this, but throughout Winning Time, which was done by Adam McKay, Jeff Pearlman's book.

Okay, so the homework for this week. It's an actual book we're reading. It's called There's Always This Year on Basketball and Ascension. It's by Hanif Ador-Rakib. He's a poet, a MacArthur genius, a finalist for the National Book Award, an Ohio native. And he'll join us on the season finale. There will be a quiz. There will be a quiz.

There was a book published in 2008 by author Carol Felsenthal called Clinton in Exile.

And one of the things that she wrote at the time, which probably didn't mean as much then in 2008 as it does now, but that in addition to Ron Burkle, Clinton spends much of his downtime with Miami businessman, Philip Levine, billionaire money manager, Jeffrey Epstein and movie producer Stephen Bing. This is like the only mention, I think, of Jeffrey Epstein and Philip Levine in that book.