The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Is TikTok the one social-media platform that makes you feel good, or is it an algorithmic wasteland of culturally insignificant content? Are we partying hard enough? And was the pre-Taylor Swift version of Travis Kelce actually hot? Plus: second-person IG love letters to your child, a boombox-holding panda/dog... and the tragic end of Party City. Further content: Americans Need to Party More (Ellen Cushing) https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/01/throw-more-parties-loneliness/681203/ Subscribe to "Casuals with Katie Nolan" https://www.youtube.com/katienolan Subscribe to "The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny" https://www.youtube.com/@minakimes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussion of mental health struggles and self harm. If you’re struggling with thoughts of self harm, you can get help by calling 988 for the national Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.This episode of the Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show takes a serious turn, discussing the challenges with losing our biggest supporter at ESPN in John Skipper. Dan, Stu, and Mike Ryan re-live the unforgettable moment when Dan found out about Skipper stepping down on air and recount the fallout for the show at the worldwide leader. Mike Ryan also elaborates on some of his own mental health struggles during this period and explains how he was able to overcome them. Stick around for this episode’s supercut as well, featuring our interview with Rob Manfred, Chris Simms’ top 70 quarterbacks in the NFL, and Terry Bradshaw’s hi jinx. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rose has hijacked the plane today as she starts the show in the big chair to kick us off on our hot takes, winners and losers of the week. This week's edition features some great goaltending, injury concerns for Sweden at The Four Nations Challenge and big-time fights between some of the league's heavyweights. Then, Avry Lewis-McDougall of Avry's Sports Show and The Hockey News joins the show to discuss Connor McDavid's suspension for his cross check of Conor Garland, Leon Draisatil's incredible season and whether or not Nathan MacKinnon has stolen the mantle from McDavid. The show wraps up with our Panthers recap of a week in which the reigning Stanley Cup Champion, Florida Panthers, went 2-1 with two wins over the Anaheim Ducks and a loss to the Los Angeles Kings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dan is up to his old tricks creating tensions between two members of the show as he sparks a debate between Andrew Hawkins and Izzy about Izzy's naked hot tub habits. If you shower before getting into a hot tub, are you good? Izzy has all the answers about how sweat and pores work. Then, Dion Dawkins of the Buffalo Bills wants there to be an offensive lineman of the year award and we complete the investigation about whether or not Hawk called Larry Bird boring. Plus, how much money could Travis Hunter make if he came back to college? Also, Mike has an update on former Miami Hurricanes quarterback Tyler Van Dyke and why he is transferring to SMU, Pete Carroll is coming back to the NFL, and Taylor wants Mike Florio to keep his coach's name out of his mouth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dan has a take that he has been working for 35 years to curate but he can't bring himself to say it: is Nikola Jokic may be a better offensive player than Michael Jordan? Before we get there, Dan invites Andrew Hawkins to our livestream Sunday for the AFC Championship Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills, but suddenly he has something Sunday that just won't allow him to make it. Also, Mike may have killed his elementary school principal and he tells us about how he gets hit on in saunas. Plus, sure Nikola Jokic is boring, but is Patrick Mahomes even more boring? Then, we get deep into the debate about whether Jokic could actually be better than Michael Jordan, but that is quickly shut down when we remember Michael became the best player of all time after the first three-peat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pauley McPaulerson returns to talk with Billy Corben about the craziness that happened in Miami this week. Plus, Michele Borchew and Adam Goodman joins the show to update us on the cases that the office of Miami Dade state attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle bungled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sutgotz, Billy and Mikey A are joined by all-time leading scoring in the NFL, Adam Vinatieri who tries to answer what is wrong with kickers these days and plays "kick for your life". Austin Ekler joins the show as he gets ready to face the Eagles in the NFC Championship game. Simms stops by and previews both games, and tells us why Lamar Jackson is partially to blame for the ending against Buffalo. Plus, some more controversy in the picks segment with K Funk at the center of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

JuJu Gotti is here to recap the show, deliver his Thursday Thunder bets, and update the polls before Scott Van Pelt joins the show via a phone call from Dan to respond to the allegations that he skipped the TSA line at the Atlanta airport after the National Championship game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How much better can Jayden Daniels be? Is this the best rookie QB season we've ever seen? Then, what does America want from the AFC and NFC title games? Are we sick of Patrick Mahomes? Are the Bills, despite being a great team, somehow a loveable underdog? Plus, we have a new Pat Riley Statue, and this time it's actually good. Also, UFO expert Jeremy Corbell joins us to share his reporting on why and how we've been lied to for years about the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects. Are we closer now than ever to learning about the existence of aliens? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

David Samson is here JUST after the Oscar nominations have been revealed, and he couldn't be more excited. Samson answers the crew's questions about Emilia Perez's nomination for Best Picture, Challengers being snubbed from Best Score, and the movie he's about to watch at Mike Ryan's suggestion. Then, is David in a haunted hotel during his stay in Cooperstown? Plus, Greg shares his thoughts on Ichiro's Hall of Fame induction and delivers his Top 5 Old Person Insults. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What's the most publicly embarrassed you've ever been? Then, Stugotz uses non-stop loaner cars, we determine the difference between blimps and zeppelins, and Billy Corgan and Bill Burr might be brothers. Plus, would you want to drive The Nut Mobile or The Weiner Mobile? Tubi or not Tubi, that is the question. Also, Greg doesn't know anything about horoscopes, and names in sports that sound like cars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Josh Johnson is writing all the internet’s favorite jokes. The Emmy-nominated writer and correspondent on “The Daily Show” shares with Dan how he’s been building a community through his unique, topical stand-up every week on YouTube (to millions of views). With Dan, Josh takes on the biggest topics of today… like the gaming habits of billionaires, the loneliness epidemic, and, yeah, Luigi Mangione. Josh also opens up about the loss of his father, his time in therapy, and what it was like for him going from a grocery store clerk to a writer for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”. See Josh live on his “Flowers Tour,” tickets are available at joshjohnsoncomedy.com. Watch and subscribe to Josh's YouTube channel with new weekly content @JoshJohnsonComedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greg Cote is in rare old person form as he is ready to say "good riddance" to Jimmy Butler. Greg leads the crew in his dismissal of Butler's lack of effort as he tries to force his way to the Phoenix Suns. We PROMISE this is not an extended Jimmy Butler conversation. We promise. Then, how do you feel about punctuation in show titles? What's the best show with an exclamation point? What about commas? How about a question mark? Plus, the Game Show Hall of Fame and Betty White's dating history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greg Cote leads our Postgame Show with JuJu Gotti, and it's as joyful as you'd expect. JuJu gives us some praise from today's show, celebrates Kel'el Ware's ascension, explains what he expects from his teams this weekend, and updates the polls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NFL star Cam Jordan joins the show, and even though he wants to stay in the positive land of his foundation, Dan and the crew need to know which Tight End he believes would be the easiest to kill. He also tells us about his pure hatred of the Falcons, the only time he felt bad about sacking a QB, Tom Brady's broadcasting chops, and Cal Twitter. Then, Greg Cote's dentist is a yammerer, and his old neighbor gifted him with a golf club that is too small to nudge an iguana will. Plus, Stephen A. Smith rips the NBA All-Star game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nikola Jokic continues to do things on the basketball court that show off a level of dominance that is unprecedented, but it's literally putting the Shipping Container to sleep. Then, Greg has some of the best teeth and gums ever made, but would they survive cremation? Plus, Katie Nolan is here to discuss her new podcast "Casuals" and why it's a show about sports that isn't always as sports as you want it to be...but she doesn't need to explain that to us. Katie tells us about what it's been like to rekindle her sports fandom after stepping away from sports media for over a year, what the podcast plans to focus on with its guests, and she determines which Tight End would be easiest to kill. Also, has Katie ever skipped through the TSA security line? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A miracle occurs at the start of today's Big Suey: Greg Cote admits he was wrong. Then, Lucy joins the show after a hellish experience at the Atlanta Airport, but she refuses to tell us who skipped the TSA line (outside of herself). She also tells us about the antiseptic NFL feeling at the College Football National Championship game, tries to decide which punishment she needs to fulfill to get to go to the Super Bowl, and delivers her Off Rohd-ing. Plus, a revelation about Jeremy's bachelor party, Stugotz's Father's Day edition of his book, and the pettiness of the Jimmy Butler saga leaking into the locker room has Dan intrigued. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The studio is abuzz with people all over the office fighting over who should have made the MLB Hall of Fame. Was Greg Cote the one voter who did NOT vote for Ichiro? Then, Billy wishes he could be put on house arrest just to get the relief of not having to make plans with anyone. Is house arrest actually our greatest form of freedom? Plus, snow in Tallahassee, Greg believes he could be a hype man, Jessica explains why the National Championship felt anti-climactic to some people, and we determine which Tight Ends would be most difficult to kill. Also, is Martin Short a good actor? Is he an immortal like Mark Andrews? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

JuJu Gotti is here with his takes on Ohio State, Unrivaled, and his Joker of the Week before helping us update the polls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MSNBC's Chris Hayes is here after yesterday's inauguration, and he's promised to be completely unbiased. Hayes chats with us about how the most powerful billionaires in the world ended up cozying up with the President, memcoins, the total uncertainty of the next 4 years, the pardons issued yesterday, and deep dish pizza. Plus, Jessica is here after her Notre Dame Fighting Irish came up just short in the National Championship, and she explains what it felt like to watch her team lose after such a memorable season. You will NOT get her tears. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices