Local Hour: The Donald Trump Interviews (Part 1)
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Shadow Show. Shadow Show. Shadowin' it. Shadowin' it. Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Best of the Dan Lebitard Show with Stu Gatz. And do we have an exciting Best of Show for you today. Happy Fourth of July. Happy America Day. When I think of America, folks, I think of one thing. It's the same thing you're thinking of. I think of Donald Trump. We're here. Who'd have thunk it? Who'd have thought that I would be thinking and associating America with

with Donald Trump. And believe it or not, many, many years ago, before he was president of this great country, he joined our show. Back when he was just a blowhard game show host, billionaire, he was a friend of the show. And it was a different time, folks. That's the only way I can explain it. We had no clue at the time that he would be president one day. We had no clue at the time all the things he would say and people he would offend.

But here we are, and it's time to relive it. And I thought, who better to lead us on this journey through our interviews with Donald Trump? And I know what you're thinking. It must be Tony. It's not. It's Jeremy Tashae. When I think of Donald Trump and I think of today's politics,

I think who better to lead us and guide us through this terrain than one Jeremy Tashae. So soon I will toss it over to Jeremy for him to walk us through all these different interviews that we had with Donald Trump. And I just encourage you to think back and think to yourself while listening to these interviews, who to thunk that this guy would someday be president. But here we are. So I'm excited to relive this with you. It's a lot. We're throwing a lot at you. But just know this happened a long time ago.

This was before he was president. And we had a lot of fun with him. He was a great radio guest. I've heard Howard Stern say that Donald Trump was the best guest that he's ever had, just in terms of he's going to be honest and he's going to say interesting things. So let's see if he did it with us. Multiple interviews with Donald Trump hosted by one Jeremy Tashay. Take it away, Jeremy. Hey, thanks, Chris. Thank you for for.

Putting me in this position to have to listen to all this audio and lead everyone through it. Thanks for nothing. I hate it. This is some of the craziest. What? What? What? What did I just listen to? Guys, what you're about to hear are three separate interviews that Dan and Stu Gotts did with Donald Trump over the course of three separate years.

The first, which you're about to hear in the local hour, half of it, is from 2013. November of 2013. You'll get the second half of that interview in the Big Sui. Then hour one will be an interview from September of 2014. And then finally, hour two, your final hour of the day, will be an interview from May of 2015.

Just 20 days before Donald Trump would announce his first run for the presidency. I'm sure some of you can remember some of the language used in that lovely little press conference. Some of the seeds of that were planted in these interviews. No joke. As you guys listen through, you will hear the evolution of Trump's line of thinking, I think.

There's so much weird stuff because it's all mostly through the lens of sports. But you can hear a lot of the make America great again rhetoric through stories of like Dick Buckus. So this is strange. Why are we doing this? Why are we air? Why are we doing this?

The position that I get put in on this show is it never ceases to amaze me. So, hey, listen to this interview where Trump gives his opinion on the Jonathan Martin Ritchie incognito scandal, talks about how wonderful Moscow is for his Miss Universe pageants and his wonderful relationship with the banks who helped bail him out of bankruptcy and

and how a bad economy is good for his business. Here's President Donald Trump back in 2013. Good job, guys.

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instant relief and then that first sip brother does that first hit that is a top five sequence of events that you can possibly go through i'm just serenity now when i just imagine that first sip of miller life just thinking about it's making me dude the sun is out it's nice you have your friends showing up you got your family there you just had your first sip of miller light and you know what you're happy

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Really cool to have Donald Trump, who is going to join us right now on the Subway Fresh Take Hotline here on ESPN Radio. Stugatz very badly wants to be Donald Trump. Even with all of Donald Trump's many enemies, Stugatz just wants to be this guy. We've got a lot of things to ask him, but we'll begin in sports. I want to know what the Donald thinks of this Miami Dolphins bullying calamity. You have to have opinions. You're known as something of a bully.

Well, I do have a lot of opinions. I try not to be a bully. Sometimes it works out that way. The other day I was tweeting, you know, this Twitter thing is a whole new world, but it's sort of funny. I have like millions of people on my Twitter. And I said, I wonder what Vince Lombardi would think when, let's say in the case of Rutgers, the coach...

shouted at one of his uh... one of his players he was shouting at the player and they were announced to him and destroy them sort of interesting that's a different world i mean i played football in high school and i had a coach that was so rough he was a drill sergeant who was also a football coach i went to a military academy and

This guy would be, I mean, he was brutal. He would grab you and smack you around. And, you know, it's a different world today. But hold on. I remember very well Vince Lombardi because I was a member of a golf club where he was. And he'd walk in and players would be there from, you know, his team. And they were these big guys. And he was not actually a big guy. And these guys were petrified of him.

And, you know, it's just a different world today, I guess. I don't feel like you answered my question about specifically the Dolphins bullying calamity, though. The Rutgers coach was throwing basketballs at players. He wasn't just cursing and yelling at them. No, no, no. I'm not talking about the basketball coach. I'm talking about the football coach. And there's been a new story about Rutgers. The football coach was shouting at one of his players, and the players thought it was very terrible. You know more about sports?

No, the basketball coach looked like he was out of control. I think this, I think the message that he left was terrible and really stupid. I don't know what's going on between those two guys, but I think the message that he left on the telephone was just so stupid. You wouldn't think anybody would say that. So certainly he did not leave a very appropriate message. You got to punch the bully in the mouth, though, right, Donald?

Well, you know, that was part of it. I mean, these are football players, and football's tough, and they have their own culture, and you would think that maybe they get into a fight, and people could understand that. But, you know, I really think that something strange was going on between the two of them. But certainly the message was terrible and inappropriate, and let's see what happens.

I mean, both of these guys, I'm not sure that you want either of them on your team. I want Donald Trump. I want to ask him about his life. So let's go back a little way. Do you have any huge regrets? Well, you know, I like to think that it's been such an incredible year.

I mean, I've just enjoyed my life. I've done really well with things, and my company is now better and bigger and stronger than it's ever been, and I've just had a great time. We just had Miss Universe. I own the Miss Universe pageant. It was in Russia and Moscow, and it was an incredible evening. I've had a lot of fun. When you do have regrets, you have to learn from...

mistakes we all make mistakes and if you don't learn from the mistakes and the mistakes just aren't worth it a lot of times you can make a mistake and it can save you later on a much bigger problem so you know i don't really have regrets it doesn't help to have regrets but whatever it is if something went wrong you have to learn from that that's very important donald trump with us on espn radio what's the closest you ever were to bankruptcy how how scared were you during that time well in the nineteen nineties i owed

billions and billions of dollars on the market collapsed and i never went bankrupt but friends of mine went bankrupt never to be heard from again and it's tough you know what you do that it's pretty tough but uh... i was billions of dollars and you know fortunately i developed unbelievable relationships with banks and they were the ones that the money and they were in a lot of trouble i mean they were in trouble with a lot of in a lot of different ways and i was able to work out deals with the banks that were really the best regret is still side ever made probably and

I still do business with those same banks. I mean, they've been, they were great to me. But how scared were you? How scared were you? Well, you know, I don't think I had time to be scared. I had to get to work because I had such a charmed period that I felt that, you know, anything I touched, they did a story in one of the biggest, the biggest business magazine, everything he touches turns to gold. And I believed it. I really did. And maybe I wasn't as focused as I used to be.

This is in the early 90s, and in the 80s, I was making tremendous amounts of money, and deals were phenomenal, and they were flowing off my back. So when the market turned, I wasn't used to that, and I had to go back to work. And frankly, it taught me that even like, you know, these days are very good, and

The markets, you know, for me have been fantastic. I've been buying a lot of different things. And I like to buy at depressed prices, and it's sort of good for that. And money is very cheap, which, frankly, from my stand, I don't know if it's a good thing for the country. But as a developer, that's a great thing. So I don't know. I think that I was so preoccupied.

busy making deals that I didn't have time to be scared. But the one thing I will tell you, I liked my life and I didn't want to change my life. I didn't want to be moving out of Trump Tower and move over to a one-bedroom apartment someplace. Believe me, I didn't want that. So I had plenty of incentive to work hard. What was the most reckless period of the Donald Trump life like? Give me the most reckless six-month or year-long period.

Well, I think the most reckless may be when I'm a golfer. I play golf. You guys probably are. I think you are golfers and we all love it. And I own great, great courses. But when you're a golfer, you don't really want to be buying boats. And I went out and I bought Adnan Khashoggi's yacht.

for a lot of money. And I had this yacht, this tremendous yacht. It had 27 people on board working. It cost at the time $25 million. Now that was today the equivalent to probably a hundred and something million dollars. And I had this magnificent yacht, but there was a problem. I didn't want to use it because I wanted to play golf. So I had a yacht

sitting there waiting for me. I had this massive crew and I'd play 18 holes and I've won a lot of club championships. So I'd be playing like at a club championship and I didn't want to go and go to the yacht after the round of golf. So I sat there. I was probably the only yacht owner that almost never used his yacht. And then ultimately I sold it and that was sort of a good day in my life when I got rid of it because the market had crashed and selling a yacht was not the easiest thing in the world. But that was a pretty reckless thing to do, I think.

Jeremy, you know something about me, right? You know when I'm grilling outside and it's summertime, you know how I supplement my summertime? Of course I do. I make a Miller Time. Of course. That beautiful white can. Oh, when it's so hot outside, I just put it right to my forehead, right there. And I just roll it sometimes right on the forehead, cool my body down, and then I crack it open and...

instant relief and then that first sip brother does that first sip that is a top five sequence of events that you can possibly go through i'm just serenity now when i just imagine that first sip of miller life just thinking about it's making me happy dude the sun is out it's nice you have your friends showing up you got your family there you just had your first sip of miller light and you know what you're happy

You're blissful. You're fulfilled. I've been stocking my cooler with Miller Lite for years and for good reason. It's brewed for taste. Only 96 calories and 3.2 grams of carbs. This year, Miller Lite turns 50.

There's five decades of cookouts, laughs, and ice-cold moments that never miss. It's the original light beer, and it's still my go-to. Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to MillerLite.com slash Dan to find delivery options near you, or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer. Cheers to 50 years of Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.