Postgame Show: Happy Thanksgiling Pt. 5! (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Postgame Show: Happy Thanksgiling Pt. 5! (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Date: November 27, 2025

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Episode Overview

Broadcasted from the Elser Hotel in Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the crew—joined by JuJu Gotti—dive into a lively postgame show filled with their signature mix of sports banter, pop culture riffs, listener shoutouts, and a wrap-up of topics from the main show. This episode has the playful silliness that defines "Thanksgiling" with heavy audience interaction, friendly teasing, and some surprising observations on player legacies, sports journalism, and personal connections with the audience and each other.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

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Sponsored Banter and Game Day Rituals

• The crew kicks things off with an over-the-top Smirnoff vodka advertisement, weaving it playfully into conversation.
• Greg Cody repeatedly injects “Smirnoff” as both his favorite food and drink for game day, becoming an ongoing comedic bit.
  • Memorable Quote:
    Dan Le Batard [00:20]: “That’s your favorite game day drink. What’s your favorite game day food?”
    Greg Cody: “Smirnoff.”
• Emphasis on the importance of game day rituals: noise, wings, dips, and, jokingly, vodka.

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"Against the Spread" Picks & NFL Predictions

• Amin Elhassan gives MLB betting advice, pushing for the Yankees due to their spread performance against the Astros.
  • Amin Elhassan [01:41]: "Go with the Yankees. They are the favorite tonight."
• Sam Ponder analyzes the Cowboys vs. Eagles NFL opener, predicting the Cowboys to cover the 8.5-point spread and noting Dak Prescott’s anticipated heavy passing workload.
  • Sam Ponder [02:06]: “Dak Prescott is gonna throw about 67 times with Brian Schottenheimer. Give me the eight and a half with the Cowboys.”

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Dak Prescott & Dallas Cowboys Debate

• Dominique Foxworth argues that Dak Prescott is past his prime, while younger QBs in the division will improve with experience.
  • Dominique Foxworth [03:12]: “Dak Prescott is past his prime and he’s not going to get better. And the guys that are ahead of him in the division but behind him in age are going to get better.”
• Debate on whether this could still be a career year for Dak, given a pass-heavy offense (but risk of high interceptions).
  • Dominique Foxworth [03:54]: “And it’s also going to be 25 intercept if he’s doing that.”

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Tyreek Hill, Forgiveness, and Player Reputation

• JuJu Gotti, claiming Tyreek Hill as his (distant) cousin, passionately supports Nick Wright’s take on forgiving athletes and not holding past mistakes over their heads.
  • Notable Quote:
    JuJu [04:06]: “If you're gonna forgive somebody, you got to forgive him. ... Treat me as the human being That I am. You feel me?”
• Light familial ribbing from the crew about JuJu’s “cousin” claim and the complexity of kinship in sports fandom.

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Greg Cody’s Unexpected Popularity

• Audience and crew praise Greg Cody’s energy and comic impact in the episode, with JuJu jokingly advocating for a full podcast of just Cody content.
  • JuJu [05:13]: “I would pay to listen to an entire podcast of baby. Greg Cody just does whatever you do, bro. Hearing that voice was so amazing.”

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Pablo Torre, Sports Journalism, and Owners' Intelligence

• Pablo Torre's safety is teasingly debated due to his reporting on contentious NBA stories, with jokes about whether he’ll need personal security.
  • Chris Cote [07:04]: “He should at least be holding a piece when he’s walking around.”
• JuJu references a Dominique Foxworth tweet on CBA negotiations, skewering the myth that wealthy team owners are “smarter” than the people they negotiate with.
  • JuJu [07:41]: “Steve Ballmer, all these folk, Jerry Jones, man, they just like us making these decisions and sometimes fall straight on a face.”
  • Dominique Foxworth [08:32]: “The realization, this person's not actually smarter than I am. Why did I think this person was smarter than I am?”

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Listener Shoutouts & Fan Engagement

• JuJu delivers shoutouts by name to frequent fans and contributors (via Twitter and beyond), sharing gratitude for gifts (jerseys) received after his own was stolen.
  • JuJu [09:00]: “Brother named Gabe Renizo... sent me a quality Dominique Fox Worth jersey, bro, in the mail. ... Salute to Gabe Renizo.”

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Audience Polls & Quirky Debates (09:44–11:17)

(JuJu presents the show’s running interactive polls)

• Did Mike McDaniel rig the Dolphins captain votes? 86% say yes.
• Does everyone like coffee? 61% say no.
• Did you ever think Mark Whipple would be the next big thing? 88% say no.
• Do you eat the whole shell of a peanut? 89% say no.
• Has Pablo Torre eaten a peanut in the last 30 years? 65% say no.
  • Sam Ponder [11:00]: “11% though the Kiki way.” (referencing odd dietary habits)

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Show Plugs & Closing Bits (11:17–12:03)

• Crew plugs spinoff podcasts: “The Greg Cody Show Featuring Greg Cody” and “DLS Hoops,” with jokes about adding galas to their fantasy league.
• Pablo Torre [11:55]: “You know what? That's a great idea. I'm gonna bring that up at the next board.”
• Dominique Foxworth [12:03]: “You’re spelling that B O R E D because of how your family members react.” (wordplay on “board” meetings)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Dan Le Batard [00:28]: “Game day is everything. The noise, the rituals, the passion, the dip, the wings, the dip again.”
• Chris Cote [07:04]: “He should at least be holding a piece when he’s walking around.” (about Pablo Torre’s safety)
• JuJu [07:41]: “They just like us making these decisions and sometimes fall straight on a face.” (on sports owners)
• JuJu [09:00]: “Salute to Gabe Renizo. Salute to you, brother. That's rage against Twitter.”
• Sam Ponder [11:00]: “11% though the Kiki way.” (regarding peanut shell eating)

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Timestamps to Key Segments

| Time | Topic / Segment | |------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:00–01:11 | Smirnoff game day fake-ad, comedic volley among Dan, Chris, and Greg | | 01:41–03:59 | MLB/NFL picks: Yankees vs. Astros; Cowboys vs. Eagles; Dak debate | | 04:06–05:43 | JuJu on Tyreek Hill, forgiveness, and Nick Wright | | 05:43–06:25 | Greg Cody's performance, JuJu's admiration | | 06:25–08:44 | Pablo Torre’s safety/journalism, owner intelligence, CBA memories | | 08:44–09:44 | Listener/fan engagement, jersey shoutouts | | 09:44–11:17 | Live show polls: Dolphins, coffee, peanuts, & Mark Whipple | | 11:17–12:03 | Final plugs for spinoffs, podcast gala joke, closing banter |

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Summary

This “Thanksgiling” postgame episode exemplifies the Le Batard Show’s brand: a blend of sports talk, audience inclusion, in-jokes, silly running gags, and warmth among the cast. With contributions from JuJu Gotti and the usual suspects, it delivers laughs, thoughtful jabs at sports logic and ownership, and a sense of a tight-knit, deeply engaged community—one willing to respectfully roast each other, revere their favorite podcasting oddballs, and keep debates as fun as they are occasionally enlightening.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, Smirnoff, official vodka of the NFL. World's number one vodka. Chris, Cody, you're with me here.

[Chris Cote]

Smirnoff.

[Dan Le Batard]

Wow, you're on the money with Smirnoff.

[Greg Cody]

Smirnoff.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm gonna ask you, Chris, what's your favorite game day food?

[Greg Cody]

Smirnoff.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's your favorite game day drink. What's your favorite game day food?

[Greg Cody]

Smirnoff.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, here's the deal. Game day is everything. The noise, the rituals, the passion, the dip, the wings, the dip again.

[Greg Cody]

Smirnoff.

[Dan Le Batard]

Smirnoff belongs in that mix. Because if you're tailgating or hosting or just sitting there checking your fantasy lineup every 30 seconds, you need Smirnoff. Otherwise, it's not a real game day. They've been doing it since 1864, which is. I don't even want to do the math. It's a long time. It's like when Greg Cody was born. They're award winning, they make cocktails super easy and they're all about bringing fans together. So, yeah, we do game days. That's their thing. And if you're over 21, you. You should too. Why, Chris?

[Greg Cody]

Smirnoff.

[Dan Le Batard]

Grab a bottle of Smirnoff at your local retailer and head to smirnoff.com to find recipes of delicious cocktails perfect for game day.

[Greg Cody]

Smirnoff.

[Dan Le Batard]

Please drink responsibly.

[Greg Cody]

Smirnoff.

[Dan Le Batard]

Number 21, vodka distilled from grain, 40% alcohol by volume. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. Please do not share with anyone under legal drinking age. Against the spread is presented by DraftKings.

[Juju]

DraftKings.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Crown is yours, Roy.

[Sam Ponder]

Take it away.

[Amin Elhassan]

All right, we got Yankees at Astros tonight. The Yankees have won eight out of the last nine games. They have covered the run line in Houston in the last nine. In the last nine games against the Astros in Houston and they are 54 and 33 against the spread on the road after playing the previous day. So go with the Yankees. They are the favorite tonight. Run the half against the splash.

[Sam Ponder]

All right. The NFL dance starts tomorrow. Did you know that you finally, finally figured it out. We got Thursday night football of reigning champs Philadelphia Eagles are playing against the Dallas Cowboys. Again it's at Philly, but eight and a half is the spread. Dallas is going to be a better team than they were last year. Obviously they didn't have Dak for a bunch but I think eight and a half points early the first game of the season, way too many points. I think The Cowboys offense is going to be a lot better than it was last year. Added George Pickens. They don't really have a running game. Dak Presley is going to throw about 67 times with Brian Schottenheimer. Give me the eight and a half with the Cowboys. They're not going to win, but they're going to cover Dano just like great teams do.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I guess that's right. One of the things that I didn't mention in all of the Micah Parsons talk that we did and why it is that Dallas did the inexplicable thing. You guys want to guess how many years Dak Prescott has been in the league? Anybody? Anybody want to guess how many years, rookie year, 10 years he's been in the league.

[Chris Cote]

You were close, Chris.

[Dominique Foxworth]

He's not going to get any better. And they've got two teams at the top of the division who've got young quarterbacks who are, with reps, going to get better. That's part of the problem that they're facing in Dallas. Pretty good right now, but he's not going to get any better. And the guys that are ahead of him in the division but behind him in age are going to get better. Dak Prescott is past his prime and.

[Chris Cote]

He makes a lot more money than those quarterbacks.

[Dominique Foxworth]

I don't. I don't. That's right. That's the other thing. I don't even mean it as an insult. I just mean it's a problem that Dallas has.

[Sam Ponder]

He could have a career year this year, though. Like, this could be the year with George Pickens, with CD Lamb, Jake Ferguson, again, lack of a running game. Like he could be throwing the ball 500 times a game.

[Dominique Foxworth]

And it's also going to be 25 intercept if he, if he's doing that.

[Sam Ponder]

That kind of thing.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Juju, let's get to some of the stuff we had on the show today. What were your thoughts on what Nick Wright had to say about Tyreek Hill?

[Juju]

Yes, sir, man. Thank y' all for having me. I gotta remind people that you know what I mean, Tyree, that's my cousin. So a lot of this stuff be hitting me certain ways, but I, I agree with Nick. Right, man. It goes for, like relationships where the friends, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband and wife, bro, if you're gonna forgive somebody, you got to forgive him. You chose to bring this man back then. Hey, man, this is a brand new year. We can't still be referring back to whenever we did you wrong. You say you forgive me now. Treat me as the human being That I am. You feel me? So I agree with brother Nick on that issue.

[Dominique Foxworth]

What cousin is he of yours? How. How distant?

[Juju]

It's just down the line.

[Andrew Hawkins]

It's not semantics.

[Pablo Torre]

Okay.

[Juju]

Moving on down the street, around the corner, Cuban cousins.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Dan, I. I felt like we didn't get got a good and healthy amount of Greg Cody during the first three hours of the show, but he. He disappeared there during the Nick Wright episode. And anytime that Greg Cody is around, we want to maximize Greg Cody. What did you think of Greg Cody's performance today, Juju?

[Juju]

Yes, Sir. The real DB L1 from YouTube today says, I now understand why Juju was such a huge Greg fan. Where is my tattoo artist? And I agree, bruh. Today, Greg Cody, you were on a road magnificent. I would pay to listen to an entire podcast of baby. Greg Cody just does whatever you do, bro. Hearing that voice was so amazing. I think I would pay for that, bro.

[Andrew Hawkins]

That's Greg.

[Pablo Torre]

Thank you. Thank you very much.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Kind of thing. Yes.

[Juju]

Yeah.

[Dominique Foxworth]

What were your thoughts about Pablo's appearance on the show? Pablo joining us from the Harvard Club to have the big story in sports that Nick Wright says he won't talk about on his show today.

[Dan Le Batard]

Right.

[Juju]

I think that Pablo has reached a certain status and he has bothered the a specific type of person that we can no longer say his whereabouts live on air. Like, we got to protect my boy. He got some powerful people that he rubbing elbows with these days. And so I think we should stay away from letting folks know exactly where to find Pablo if we can.

[Amin Elhassan]

Jude.

[Sam Ponder]

To that point when. So we got an email, company wide email, like, hey, this is what the story is going to. And I woke up at like 5 in the morning, baby was crying. So put her back to sleep finally. And I look at the story and then I keep reading and I'm like, okay, Kawhi Leonard, you know, circumvent the cab. I'm like, they're gonna kill him one day. Respectfully, respectfully, respectfully, respectfully. But they're gonna kill him.

[Chris Cote]

It'll be a respectful murder.

[Sam Ponder]

But I mean, it's like he's asking.

[Andrew Hawkins]

For it at this point, Dan. Like you got to do something or you're an accessory, you know?

[Pablo Torre]

Wow. Oh, that.

[Dominique Foxworth]

That show doesn't cost enough. You need me to buy thousand dollars a day worth of security for when we were at the Clevelander after leaving espn.

[Chris Cote]

He should at least be holding a piece when he's walking around.

[Sam Ponder]

Can't do that. Just wait till the next episode.

[Dominique Foxworth]

So you want Pablo Torre Strapped.

[Sam Ponder]

Has he ever been.

[Amin Elhassan]

What a great spinoff series.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Let's keep working on that. Pablo imaging. We need to do a little bit better for when a Pablo drops. Okay. When he drops a Pablo, the back of my neck. Again, a reminder to the audience, 3:30 in the afternoon, today Eastern, Pablo will be advancing this story with Amin, Samson and others on YouTube. If he's still with us, no one harms him because I haven't hired security or enough security in time.

[Juju]

Yes. Also one of the things that Pablo reminded me of with this story of of just how heavy handed sometimes these owners could be. It's a quote from Dominique Foxworth. He tweeted this about a month and a half, two months ago about the cba. He said, one of the things I've learned from CBA negotiations is they aren't smarter than us. I think we sometimes are victims of having this belief that because these people have made it to the top of their profession, that they are as good as what they at what they do, as we are at what we do. They aren't. And so I think this is a great reminder to what my boy Dominique said. He went on a little bit more about the cba. But yeah, bro, Steve Ballmer, all these folk, Jerry Jones, man, they just like us making these decisions and sometimes fall straight on a face.

[Dominique Foxworth]

He said, he actually said that he had that realization while negotiating with Jerry Jones. The realization, this person's not actually smarter than I am. Why did I think this person was smarter than I am?

[Juju]

Right? Also, salute to the the fans of the show today. I'm gonna stay on this topic right now just because I never have a chance to do this. Casey, Brian, also Ryan Gully, Black Brancher from Twitter, they always send me great jerseys, you feel me? Since I got my jersey stolen in, in the airport. But a brother named Gabe Renizo, salute to whoever you are. He sent me a quality Dominique Fox Worth jersey, bro, in the mail. I gotta get his brother shout out because it's one of the best jerseys I ever got in my entire life. Also, he sent. Come on, man. You got to know, man. Andrew Hawkins. I see you, bro. Gabe Renizo, salute to Gabe Renizo. Salute to you, brother. That's rage against Twitter.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's the game that helps us with our sui.

[Juju]

Shout out to that Gabe Bruh. That brother sent me two of the best jerseys I don't have, man. Salute the game. You got to know at Lebatard show.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Is how it is you vote on the polls. Let's update some Polls. Juju, what do you have for us today?

[Juju]

Yes, Sir. Did Mike McDaniel rig the dolphins captain boats? 86 of the audience says yes, he did.

[Chris Cote]

It's possible.

[Juju]

Also Rest in peace to stream east. Man, that's a good one today, Rip.

[Sam Ponder]

The MMA fans knew.

[Juju]

Allegedly, right?

[Pablo Torre]

Allegedly.

[Juju]

Does everyone like coffee? 61 of the audience says no, they do not. No, me neither. Stuff. Poop. Did you ever think that Mark Whipple was going to be the. The next big thing? 88 of the audience says no, they did not.

[Chris Cote]

Oh, those are liars.

[Juju]

Also, take the time right now to promote DLS Hoops. Right now we got. Bro, I got a brand new co host, man. A permanent co host. Now the show is going to go from 0 to at least around 27. So please, DLS Hoops. Check this out. Do you eat the whole shell when you eat a peanut? 89 of the audience says no, they do not.

[Amin Elhassan]

Of course not.

[Sam Ponder]

11% though the Kiki way.

[Juju]

And the last poll. Has Pablo Torre eaten one single peanut in the last 30 years? 65 of the audience says no, he has not. And those I oppose.

[Dominique Foxworth]

Any. Any last thoughts here, Cody? The Greg Cody show featuring Greg Cody is now. Any last thoughts? We didn't promote that today and I know you are here only because you want that promotion.

[Pablo Torre]

Thank you for the mention of my podcast. Go inside the PFPI Fantasy Draft, exclusively on the Greg Cody show podcast. Gigi Juju was in.

[Dan Le Batard]

Gigi's mom's best friend was.

[Pablo Torre]

Was in one of our other leagues. And we're happy about that. How about that?

[Juju]

Yes, sir. Come on, man.

[Pablo Torre]

That's right. Let's go.

[Andrew Hawkins]

With the. The popularity and success of all these leagues. Have you ever considered having a preseason gala as well?

[Pablo Torre]

You know what? That's a great idea. I'm gonna bring that up at the next board.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's fine.

[Pablo Torre]

No, no, let's do that.

[Dominique Foxworth]

You're spelling that B O R E D because of how your family members react.