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Dan Le Batard
Before we get to juju Gotti here, the polls and some more football thoughts Mike Ryan I'd still like an explanation for the audience I wandered away from this why it is that we as a media company have on the table the ability to have Billy Corbin make a bunch of University of Miami content for us. And you as somebody who's a lead executive talent producer, broker, person who makes things or director of Making Magic shit or whatever it is that your job title is, why is it you're saying bleep Billy Corbin, who's offering to make good fresh things for us and is the voice of University of Miami football historically through sports documentaries.
Mike Ryan
This company shouldn't be called Raconteur, it should be called Saboteur. He just hasn't been on on our side like he every opportunity to make a joke and poke holes in what we were trying to build, he's taking them. Why does he do that? And he sounds sarcastic when he does. Like let's go cane. Why does he do that then? I don't know. Maybe some people emotionally hedge they don't wanna get hurt by this program, so they build up walls and a fake public bravado. But he hasn't exactly been an ally. Dan I think you could agree I.
Dan Le Batard
Don'T technically agree because I believe that simply he put sports in its proper perspective and so he is bemused by some of These things. But he also knows, like Zaslow knows when he says last week that the University of Miami winning is the biggest thing in sports for him. He just said earlier today that that last win is the biggest that he's felt of his lifetime. Zaz is answer when asked about why he feels that way was along the lines of, they're good for business. Like the. Everything hurricane related is good because people eat it up like they eat nothing else up.
Mike Ryan
Right. If you want to approach this from a mental health standpoint, I'm not even disagreeing with you that maybe Billy Corbyn's approach to sports and the school that he went to is. Is. I'm not going to argue that that's the wrong way, but I rock with the people that are emotional, that don't have the perspective that have been living and dying with this. You don't think he was emotional about it? No, it wasn't. I know the people in the foxhole, and he's not one of the people in the foxhole. Oh.
Dan Le Batard
But there are very few, and this is why you're getting a sports allegiance experience very few ever get. The fan always feels like he or she is a part of these great things when often they're not in any way. Your voice hasn't lent anything to the contribution. You're there and you care and they will take all your money. You. If you've invested your time money investment, business investment, you have. No, but, Mike, you've built a media thing at Miami while talking. Look, I saw an espn. Who was that guy representing you on espn that. That Danny. What was his nickname?
Mike Ryan
D Money.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, D Money Excuse bomb.
Mike Ryan
He killed it.
Dan Le Batard
Yes. Sorry for forgetting his name. D Money is somebody that you have partnered with on talking University of Miami football and building a business. And I'm sure this week is week for business that you will have in the history of your business investment.
Mike Ryan
Yeah, it's been a good time to hop in on Cain's content. My issue with Billy Corbin isn't so much that he was a doubter and he wasn't there on the foxhole. I know I mentioned that, but it was. He just made fun of us a lot, and I didn't really understand it. Great. There were things to make fun of, you know, there were people that made the decision that they weren't gonna make point and laugh at what was going on with Miami. They were either gonna try to be part of the solution or be there for support. And when it comes to the emotion of your team finally digging itself out of that and feeling like they're a part of this, I think I've earned the right to be a little skeptical about Billy Corbyn and his motivations coming around here.
Dan Le Batard
Roy, I don't know. And Juju, forgive me for a second. We'll get to you in a second. So I know you've been talking to Billy Corbyn. I am proud of what it is done for several years you and him have done on because Miami serving as a community watchdog. What can we actually tell the that Billy Corbin, who made the U1 and 2 the U was the most watched 30 for 30 documentary there's been. I don't want to reveal too much, but he's willing to help us make more content this week and Mike is saying he doesn't want it.
Mike Ryan
Yeah. We are currently playing some cutting room floor stuff from his previous documentaries about the U and hopefully on Monday we will have something that might be a you part three that's also like can we win? Can we win? That's enough time dedicated to Billy Corbin. Remember, it might be we're not back, we're here. Let's stop making documentaries. But being here will be not the ending yet. Yeah, we gotta win number six. That's another thing. Like don't bring your energy over here when we're trying to win.
Dan Le Batard
Well, bleep Billy Corbin.
Mike Ryan
That's right.
Dan Le Batard
Efficient than that.
Mike Ryan
That's right.
Dan Le Batard
You're weird this way. You did this with the Panthers and not allowing me to put up billboards because you didn't want me to jinx the franchise for all time when it's just nonsen sense.
Mike Ryan
Yeah, we understand. I care more. I love sports. I like my teams. You like to be over there joshing it off on the sideline.
Dan Le Batard
Agreed. But that's not just caring more. That's caring so seriously that you think that I can affect the result with some crappy superstition. You have.
Mike Ryan
You wanted them to get reverse swept, Dan.
Dan Le Batard
No, I didn't.
Mike Ryan
What are you talking about?
Juju
You wanted that content.
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We don't need to relay that.
Dan Le Batard
I wanted to get to game seven.
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Wasn'T a good look for you.
Mike Ryan
You have your approach. It's been madly successful over 20 years and when it comes to University of Miami, you've largely right. But these are the consequences for approaching this school, your school, I might add, the way that you have. Yeah, that and Columbus doesn't like you.
Dan Le Batard
Okay. And they don't agree with your apologies. So this has come up. Forgive me, Juju. Just give us A second.
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Three apologies.
Dan Le Batard
No, because this is. Well, this isn't an apology. This is a bleep you. Because, I mean, yes, I have been grateful verbally and in print throughout the entirety of my life for the way that that school raised me in a number of different ways, including my first introduction to black culture of any coming out of high school and private schools in Broward county, teaching me about race relations and being the most interesting thing I've ever written about locally in my sports lifetime. Because of how outraged America was during McDuffie riots and in the 80s and 90s, the things that were going on in Miami. That team represented this city in a way that was polarizing, unpopular, wonderful, and champion excellence, and they made the entirety of my career. But while I was there, I was also taught at the journalism school to do journalism. And that program had a lot of stuff in it that was worth reporting. And so I did, with the help of players who gave me that information freely. Because at the time, as a reporter, I wasn't writing about the injustices in college football. I was just writing about how it is and why it is they weren't getting stipends and what they were doing around that. That's journalism.
Mike Ryan
I stopped listening juju.
Dan Le Batard
I know you did, but I don't really care.
Mike Ryan
I perked back up for injustice. I was like, yep, I don't really.
Dan Le Batard
Care that the fans of Miami don't think I'm a fan enough for them.
Mike Ryan
All right, well, the consequences are. That's what the reality is.
Dan Le Batard
Okay, fine. And. And because I'm not. I'm not. I'm not a fan. I'm a. I'm a journalist, not an ally.
Mike Ryan
Weren't you, like, spreading ketchup on your face? I was on Friday. This.
Dan Le Batard
This school.
Mike Ryan
This school has tapped back into my school pride and my fan. You're. You're playing was the name of our local hour bandwagon. You said you were emotional two weeks ago about the win.
Dan Le Batard
I was. I was scared.
Mike Ryan
And you just pumped when you. Donna hasn't made that baseline shot.
Dan Le Batard
That's great. What side of the fence are you? I told you guys. I was surprised by all of it overcoming me. And it's just because I'm a bandwagon who likes to be near the flame.
Mike Ryan
You just don't like to be all in emotionally. You like to emotionally hedge. You think if you make a joke out of it, it can't hurt you as bad. That's what you're doing.
Dan Le Batard
That's excellent pop psychology.
Juju
That's literally it. And I'm sorry to chime in finally, but Mike is exactly right, bro. I've been running these social media accounts since 2020. That means I've been seeing Billy Corbin's response to the Miami hurricane season being over. Every sing, every time it's over, he be like the you is back at Mike. The you is back at Libertar show with some funny stuff. Nah, brother, you wasn't with us shooting in the gym. Matter of fact, you wasn't with Mike shooting in the gym. You just like a hater. A hater who follow you on ig look at all your stories, but never push the heart. Never give you a like, never put you a hundred or nothing. Nobody want to hear that, brother. Now that we doing good, stay over there with your hating ass and let us be. Okay? Sorry for buttoning know about that hating ass.
Dan Le Batard
Dan. Put it on the poll at Lebiton show. Hey, Billy Corbin, stay over there with your hating ass. Yes or no at Lebaton.
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Are we going to respect the vote?
Dan Le Batard
No, I'm going to take his content. He can stay over there. I'm going to take his content though. I mean, there's no circumstance under which I'm not taking his. Pretty good.
Mike Ryan
I watched it the other day.
Dan Le Batard
It's gold. What? Are you kidding me?
Mike Ryan
Yeah, it's also a long time ago.
Dan Le Batard
Yes, well, that's. And Miami having games that mattered like this also a long time ago.
Mike Ryan
Not helping.
Dan Le Batard
I mean, it's a not open. It's a fact.
Mike Ryan
He's a journalist.
Dan Le Batard
Stat of the day. I'm fact based. Ain't no fake news around here. We're brave enough to send Tony into the sex shop. Ain't nobody else doing that with the freedom God gave us.
Mike Ryan
Fat based.
Dan Le Batard
That was ketchup. It was legitimately ketchup on my forehead. What is the stat of the day that you have? Juju? Do you have one better than a mean? Stat of the day.
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Juju
In the career of 49ers wide receiver Juwan Jennings career, he has two touchdown passes over the career of one quarterback of the LA Chargers, Justin Herbert. He has two touchdown passes back to.
Dan Le Batard
You guys in the playoffs. So you didn't you blame Herbert, then everyone's blaming Herbert instead of that Herbert didn't have an offensive line.
Juju
No, I'm not blaming Herbert at all. You can't watch that game and see how much scrutiny he was under and not understand. It's just like the. The Bills right now. It's miraculous. I cannot believe we won that game yesterday. We had number 37, the new safety, come in. I was like, oh, I'll. Bets are off. But, man, them boys got it done. So I think that Justin Herbert is just a victim of that old line.
Dan Le Batard
But when you say those. We didn't talk very much about Bills in Jacksonville, and we are at the point in the story for Josh Allen where only the losses that are calamitous are going to be things that smear him because he's now expected to win every game and get into the super bowl, beat all the teams even if it's on the road and even if they're outmatched as they were yesterday. He made every important play in that game. Every while Trevor Lawrence is slipping on 4th and 2 with some of the physical advantages that he has. And while Trevor Lawrence is immediately extinguishing hope with 59 seconds left, Josh Allen beat Jacksonville on the road by himself. Like Brandon Cooks. Brandon Cooks was available to everybody. Four, four, four weeks ago, anybody could have had Brandon Cook. I don't know how many times he's going to target Shakir 12 times in a game. I can't believe Buffalo won that game not being able to run the ball.
Juju
Ju Right, right. That was our biggest advantage of going against the number one rush defense. And they pretty much factored James Cook irrelevant the entire time. It was one of those days where Superman, we need you, please. The building is falling and Superman swoops in before the building falls down, especially with a hurt finger from the first half, a knee that was hyperextended the other way, and a foot that was already messed up on top of a concussion.
Dan Le Batard
So. So thank you for that, juju. Because we were talking about the way Justin Herbert plays and the idea that the Philadelphia Eagles ravage f physically. There were three times that Josh Allen left that game yesterday that I thought he was injured like Matthew Stafford. It was just his hand. Josh Allen already said, I'm coming into this game, my feet don't work the same. I will have to deal with that the rest of the season. Yesterday was his head, his elbow and what else? Juju.
Juju
Yeah. Like you said, during the game, someone 1 Josh Hines Allen fell on his head during the first quarter. So it was like, bro, everything that he was, that was stacked up against him yesterday, he would have been perfectly fine laying on one of saying, man, I couldn't go no more because he landed on my foot or my knee. Hyperextended, he said, excuses be damn. Put Buffalo on his back once again. And we're on the Denver.
Dan Le Batard
You don't think that that Josh Allen tush push for 10 yards is real football, do you?
Juju
I mean, I feel like once you out there, you got to do what you got to do. I feel like that was a heroicism. That's what that was. I also think that on the other side of that ball, though, that we didn't get a lot of media attention. Parker Washington was concussed. I mean, I have eyes. I listened to Dr. What's his name? Nowinski. What? Chris? Yes, Bruh. I saw Parker Washington come over the middle, take a couple steps, not know what his hands were, and fall on the ground. And they let that brother come back in the game in the third quarter. I don't know what we're doing no more.
Dan Le Batard
The last play of the game. Bad. Trevor Lawrence throw the. The. The. The safety bit. That was open for Parker Washington for the game to be won by Trevor Lawrence with one throw, and instead he throws an interception. What do we have on the top five people that Justin Herbert reminded you of last night? Do you have any Oli or do you have just the top five?
Juju
Just the top five, man. It's one of those mornings where y' all pretty much got to every topic I had on my sheet. So we're going with the B cuts, baby. Number five, who Justin Herbert reminded me of last. Martin Lawrence versus Tommy Hearns in a boxing match. Number four. I don't know how I sent them to the. To the. To the video team. Let me make sure I send them to the video team. Good. But, yeah, I think that. That the. The Chargers line needs to. They need to grow up. Number four, the Saturday Night Live skit where the football player kept falling in the most uncomfortable ways. Whatever the name of that skit is, that's what he looked like. Number three, don't be a minister. South Central in the hood while drinking your juice. The. The gangster that got stomped out for coming to the neighborhood. He won't come over to the wrong neighborhood no more. I got these cheeseburgers. Right. Number two, the hockey meme where the guys in the hallway just tackle each other. That was Justin Herbert on the back of that.
Dan Le Batard
That looks. Man, that is not worth Whatever they got for clicks on that. That seems wildly painful and dangerous what they did there. Ouch.
Juju
Right? Spina bifida. And number one, the joker on a motorbike being slung off the motorbike meme. That was Justin Herbert last night. Every play.
Dan Le Batard
Excellent video supplements. I encourage the audio audience to see all of that on video. It is made funnier by the video. Juju, any other football thoughts before we get to the polls?
Juju
Yes, I would. Great wins by Indiana and Miami over the weekend, but it kept coming up that Lane Kiffin and his coaching staff were kind of. I'm not sure how that worked. He was allowing his coaches to coach while recruiting. That whole situation to me is goofy as hell. The NCAA need to step in, man. Recruiting starts from now on January 1st. Like it seems like an easy fix. Why do we recruit and start the same week? Oh, I need you over here. We're trying to get to the national championship but come from the national championship run to recruit. It don't make no sense to me. NCAA goofy as hell, man.
Dan Le Batard
I did not have your football thoughts from the last week of professional football. Being the NCAA is goofy as hell.
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Dan Le Batard
Yes, of course he's right. At Lebatard show on the polls. Juju, what do we have?
Juju
Yes sir man. Hold on while I pull him up. Also, my cousin was goofy as hell yesterday. Darius Slay. He got signed by the Buffalo Bills. Didn't want to come to the Bills. Still wanted to play for the Eagles. Pull up to the Eagles game. Goofball cousin of mine. Have the shoes at Bird bowl been there for 69 years? 92% of the audience says yes they have been. Will an NFL team hire Brad Williams next season to be thrown on 4th and inches? 82% of the audience says yes they will.
Mike Ryan
According to Dan. Only if he loses like 25 pounds.
Juju
Is it possible to have a minus 60 plus minus against the Hornets. 69% of the audience says no, it is not possible.
Dan Le Batard
That happened this weekend.
Mike Ryan
True.
Dan Le Batard
Also a Miami Heat game got complaint got canceled because of condensation.
Juju
The rain out aisle three in the grocery store has chips or pasta sauce. 67 of the audience says pasta sauce. And last poll the Golden Globes welcome distraction or troubling for these times. Also I think I watched the wrong adolescence.
Dan Le Batard
Not troubling for these times.
Mike Ryan
I was also confused.
Dan Le Batard
Especially ridiculous for these times. Not troubling for these times.
Juju
But yeah but on the Instagram polls you only get a certain amount of characters so as as elegant as you want. These polls to be you only get 20 characters. B Bros or. Or something like that. But of the audience says it's troubling for these times.
Dan Le Batard
That's too bad. Juju. Good seeing you. Thank you, sir. Check out Alley oop. He does it with Trista. She's hurting. Trista's hurt. And that organ result really made her look bad. Feel bad, Zazzle. You seem to enjoy her pain a little.
Juju
No, I don't.
Mike Ryan
But I checked in with her that night.
Juju
I was like, hey, you're doing all right.
Mike Ryan
Just writes, not even a little.
Dan Le Batard
Yeah, Alley Oop is the name of the podcast and on YouTube. It's a lot of fun, and it's different. Thank you, juju.
Juju
Yes, sir. Dlshoops.com baby sub stackers.
Date: January 12, 2026
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Guests: JuJu Gotti
This episode digs into the ongoing debate within the show over filmmaker Billy Corben, his role as a voice of University of Miami sports, and the emotional stakes of local sports fandom. With JuJu Gotti joining the fray, the crew tackles sports allegiances, media authenticity, fan gatekeeping, and the paradoxes of balancing journalism and fandom. The second half pivots to NFL playoff observations, Josh Allen's heroics, quirky sports analogies, and comedic audience polls.
Why Not Take Corben’s Content?
Dan Pushes Back
Fandom vs Journalism
Resolving the Irony
JuJu’s “Stat of the Day”:
Dissecting Herbert’s Play
Bills vs. Jaguars & Josh Allen’s Heroics
Questioning the Tush Push & NFL Safety
The episode is frank, irreverent, and infused with inside jokes, Miami-centric sports passion, and playful bickering. JuJu Gotti’s energetic input and colorful metaphors spark lively banter, while Dan and Mike’s contrasting philosophies about fandom, media, and loyalty animate the main debate.
If you’re new to the Le Batard universe, this episode captures the messy intersection of local sports loyalty, personal grudges, and media authenticity. Come for the UM drama, stay for the NFL hot takes, spicy polls, and group therapy disguised as sports talk — all with plenty of laughter and Miami attitude.