Postgame Show: Show Awards (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz – "Postgame Show: Show Awards (feat. JuJu Gotti)"

Release Date: June 12, 2025
Guests: JuJu Gotti

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1. Opening Banter: Charlie’s Perpetual Hunger

The episode kicks off with a humorous exchange about Charlie’s incessant hunger. Dan, Stugotz, and the crew rib Charlie for his constant snacking habits.

• Charlie: "I'm hungry." [00:02]
• Dan: "Why don't you go get something to eat before I pass out?" [00:05]
• Dominique: "I mean, he eats every five minutes." [00:09]

This light-hearted conversation sets a playful tone for the show, highlighting the camaraderie among the hosts.

2. Spotlight on Indiana Pacers: A Championship Contender

The discussion swiftly shifts to the Indiana Pacers, with JuJu Gotti expressing initial skepticism about their chances.

• Juju: "I guarantee that the Pacers would not win no more games. And now look at me. Egg yolk everywhere over here." [02:02]

Dan counters Juju’s skepticism by lauding the Pacers as the best team of their generation, emphasizing their championship-level performance over the last 64 games.

• Dan: "This is the best Pacers team there's been. It's closer to a championship than any that has ever existed." [02:13]

Key Insights:

• The Pacers have shown remarkable consistency, winning at a rate comparable to championship teams.
• Their performance has kept many fans engaged, even those previously uninterested in the series.

3. Thursday Thunder: Betting Strategies and Predictions

Transitioning to the betting segment, JuJu presents his "Thursday Thunder" parlay, sharing his picks with enthusiasm.

• Juju: "First leg of the parlay, I'm going with TJ McConnell for over 6.5 points." [03:28]
• Dan: "You rarely do." [03:54]

The hosts discuss the intricacies of betting parlays versus individual bets, noting that while parlays offer higher payouts, they are riskier compared to winning individual bets at a higher success rate.

4. Player Performances and Fan Reactions

The conversation delves into specific player performances, particularly focusing on TJ McConnell and his consistency.

• Juju: "His hair stays perfect, just like Marv Albert back in the days. Hair never moved." [05:05]
• Dominique: "The Seattle Storm took down the Links last night..." [05:25]

Notable Discussion Points:

• TJ McConnell's reliability and fan perceptions.
• Caleb McBride's decision-making in critical game moments and its impact on his reputation.

5. End of Show Awards: Celebrating the Crew

Dominique introduces the "End of Show Awards," a segment where humorous and light-hearted accolades are given to the hosts.

• Dominique: "The best Revelation award today goes to Roy likes man feet." [07:22]
• Charlie: "Best impersonation, Charlie Kravitz's Dan Lapdox." [07:51]
• Dominique: "I'll give a writer of the day award to Roy." [08:01]

The awards highlight the playful dynamics among the hosts, showcasing their ability to create entertaining and memorable moments.

6. Audience Polls and Pop Culture Tidbits

The hosts engage with audience polls and share amusing pop culture snippets, adding variety to the discussion.

• Juju: "Was Alexander the Great a mama's boy? 90% of the audience says yes." [11:00]
• Dan: "Brian Wilson. On a lighter note..." [11:56]

Highlights:

• Discussions around popular figures and their quirky attributes.
• Reflections on nostalgic moments, such as Ananda Lewis's impact as an MTV VJ.

7. Closing Remarks and Final Banter

The episode wraps up with more banter, solidifying the show's friendly and humorous atmosphere.

• Dan: "I'm an ally." [10:21]
• Roy: "No, that's what I do." [10:36]

These exchanges underscore the hosts' chemistry and their ability to maintain an engaging and entertaining dialogue throughout the episode.

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Conclusion:

In this episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, listeners are treated to a blend of sports analysis, betting insights, and playful interactions among the hosts. JuJu Gotti’s presence adds an extra layer of engagement, especially during the "Thursday Thunder" segment and the "End of Show Awards." The hosts effectively balance in-depth discussions on the Indiana Pacers' impressive performance with light-hearted humor, making the episode both informative and entertaining. Notable quotes, such as Dan’s praise for the Pacers [02:13] and Juju’s humorous betting anecdotes [03:28], capture the essence of the show’s dynamic and engaging format. This summary provides a comprehensive overview for those who haven’t tuned in, highlighting the key moments and the seamless flow of conversations that define the Le Batard experience.

Transcript

[Charlie]

I'm hungry.

[Dan]

Why don't you go get something to.

[Juju]

Eat before I pass out?

[Dan]

Yes, go get something.

[Dominique]

I mean, he eats every five minutes.

[Dan]

I mean, I know diamonds smell like pee pee.

[Roy]

When Dominique is hungry, it is unbearable.

[Mike]

Go, go. Yellow.

[Juju]

That changes my notes there.

[Dan]

No, we've already started. It's okay, Juju, it's all right. I'll bring him back at some point. We've already started here.

[Dominique]

Because I'm just so resentful of Dominique and how he can eat as much as he can.

[Dan]

Yes, well, I wanted to discuss this for a second because he's got. And Charlie, you. You produce him. It's not just that he's got a crazy metabolism. Just insane. It's also that he will get angry if he does not eat every three hours. It'll be. It'll. It'll. It.

[Dominique]

And he feels like after every segment, not every three hours.

[Charlie]

No.

[Dan]

And I don't think he gets angry about much else. I think hunger is like. I mean, I. He's pretty stoic.

[Roy]

He's not like, angry. He gets, like, very testy. Like, you can just see the entire mood change and it's. Yeah, I have to bring him snacks. I've brought him snacks many times for recording. Like, if he's. If it's like Pablo taking advantage of Dominique and making him do Pablo, Tory finds out after he's done. Get up. Before he's going to do his own show, he needs to be brought a cookie. In the Meadowlark New York studio.

[Dan]

A symphony. A symphony of narcissism and ego is what the show has been called today. Juju, I'm surprised you're not exhausted after last night's merriment well into the night. The basketball purist in you, the fan in you, must love in some ways that Indiana at least provides us with the greatest thing that sports gives us, which is the surprise. If it's the underdog or the surprise are the best things. So finally, the NBA gets a story here, three games in. That is the most interesting of the stories because it's not even as interesting if the pace pacers are up 3, 0. Pacers up 2. One gets people more interested in a series that they might not have been interested in, Right?

[Juju]

And I got on these airwaves yesterday, and I guarantee that the Pacers would not win no more games. And now look at me. Egg yolk everywhere over here.

[Dan]

You're not the only one.

[Juju]

Joker of the day.

[Dan]

You're not the only one. But it's the greatest thing right this is so special in Indiana because I said a couple of weeks ago that this is the best Pacers team there's been. It's the best Pacers team of our lifetime. And it was like, no Reggie Miller, etc. Etc. Well, this one's closer to a championship than any that has ever existed. And what they're doing over the last 64 games or so is winning at a rate that is championship level. So they are shutting a lot of people up through three games. Can we get to Thursday Thunder, though? Because this has been. I've hurt for Juju here. He keeps going 2 for 3. So I'm just telling you that the Thursday Thunder is a bundle. But. But bet these individually because if you were betting them individually, you'd be winning at about a 70% clip.

[Dominique]

Kiss of death.

[Dan]

Well, okay, but fine. But fine. The last. The last parlay of three legs, you know what he had in game one? He had OKC Moneyline. It was the easy part of the parlay. I called him a coward for doing it.

[Juju]

So did. And right. Right between the eyes. Halliburton right at the end.

[Dan]

Oh, never mind. All right, let's do Thursday Thund.

[Greg]

Thursday Thunder is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings. The crown is yours, Juju.

[Juju]

Yes, sir. Welcome back. Welcome back. First leg of the parlay, I'm going with the Reggaeton superstar himself, TJ McConnell, for over 6.5 points. Bring it to me. Nice Thunder, Roy. He got that look in his eyes.

[Dan]

Had the timing right on that one. You rarely do.

[Juju]

And the second leg, I'm going with Halliburton over 4.5 rebounds. Give it to me, Roy. And for the last leg, I'm going with the lost Debar's brother. You may have seen him on the R B video. You may have seen him trotting out for the Pacers, but being separate over 2.5 points this Friday. Roy, give it to me.

[Dan]

Is that the best you've heard on Shepherd? Surely a lot of people are sort of mocking that he doesn't much look like an NBA player. And it's just the mustache. And it's just the El Debarge in the mustache. Have you heard any other. What's the best of the commentary we've. The Internet has given us on Shepherd?

[Juju]

I think that's the. That's the top one right there. A lot of people say he looked like a plumber with the Mario Luigi references. His people have Photoshop hats on him. He. He. That must as you can do a lot. He definitely like, he could change your oil as well, like, very quickly. You know what I mean? Neither here nor there.

[Dan]

I believe it's both here and there. I would. I. Can you tell me TJ McConnell looks more like a Benedict than Benedict looks like a T.J. mcConnell.

[Juju]

100%. And his hair stays perfect, just like who. What. What was that? Marv Albert, back in the days. Hair never moved.

[Mike]

Yeah, it was weird how that happened.

[Dan]

It did make you wonder. Do you think I meant to ask L. Duncan this? And I did. Not in L, yes or El, No. But the. The links in the Liberty being this much better than everyone else that. Is that good or bad?

[Juju]

I mean, it was good until last night. The Seattle storm actually took down the links last night and gave them their first loss of the year. And I think at the end of the game, Caleb McBride forgot that they're playing for the commissioners. The unwritten rules where you're up by a convincing amount, but you still take that last layup at the buzzer. My sister, Erica Wheeler took the layup at the buzzer. K. Matt got real mad, threw the ball like, oh, this is unprofessional. But the Commissioner's cup goes off a point differential, so she might have put herself in joker of the day contention with that technical foul.

[Dan]

Did we put ourselves in joker of the day contention with that Mark Kriegel interview?

[Juju]

Nah, it was okay. Like, I think the most important thing that we uncovered was Roy, as. We love you, brother. We love you. You know, if anybody touch you, we got your back. But I don't know how we can call you a writer without writing any articles. I wrote an op Ed.

[Mike]

It's a controversial opinion.

[Charlie]

I know.

[Greg]

I wrote an op Ed after you.

[Mike]

Were granted access into a writer's association. Turns out in a vacuum, most people find that odd.

[Dominique]

We're efforting to get the committee chair.

[Juju]

And I know what an I bet is, but Jeremy Tashay does not know what an I bed is. Could you please explain to him it's.

[Greg]

A opinion piece and editorial.

[Juju]

Oh, wow. So no facts. Okay. But either neither here nor there. When Dominique is in, he usually takes control of the whole show. And he like to do a little thing at the end of each show each week. The end of show awards.

[Dominique]

Yes.

[Juju]

So I want to bring that back for the day. It's been a great week. Well, I start off today. The best Revelation award today goes to. Roy likes man feet.

[Dan]

Yeah.

[Greg]

No, Roy does not like man feet.

[Mike]

At all. No Sydney Crosby guy. I know that to be true.

[Greg]

No, no, absolutely. Not.

[Dan]

I mean, we had a show today that had a sentence that's never been uttered.

[Dominique]

Impressive.

[Charlie]

Can I. Can I give him an award out, please?

[Dominique]

Yeah, yeah.

[Juju]

Yep.

[Charlie]

Best impersonation, Charlie Kravitz's Dan Lapdox.

[Dominique]

Got us off on the right foot. Got us off on the right foot.

[Dan]

Yeah. Good start.

[Greg]

Good start.

[Dominique]

I'll give a writer of the day award to Roy.

[Charlie]

Yeah.

[Greg]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Mike]

Can we play where Colin was? Right?

[Greg]

No, no, no, no.

[Charlie]

Cutest cast member goes to Roy. Thanks to El Duckett. He's a little Ryder baby.

[Greg]

Good job, bro.

[Roy]

Top grade goes to Chris. Top Greg right there.

[Greg]

Good job.

[Dan]

Congratulations, Greg.

[Mike]

And the most obvious position ever taken on the show goes to. Jess. Thank you very much.

[Dominique]

Going out on a limb there.

[Charlie]

I would like to give most likable cast member Michael Ryan Ruiz.

[Greg]

Yeah, I don't agree with the award. I disagree.

[Charlie]

Be like Mike. Be like Mike.

[Dan]

So he keeps lashing so he can stop. Good. Good range today from you, Dominique. Poll questions at Le Batard show. Juju. What do you like? I thought a great revelation from last night all of a sudden was Jamel Hill telling us she's got Cher in her phone.

[Mike]

How did that happen? Did she just volunteer it? Because I'd volunteer it at all times, but.

[Dan]

But Cher in her phone. That's a shocking revelation, is it not? Do you guys have that from last night? Well, I guess I blew the punchline, so it doesn't. You don't have to play it. But I just. The idea that Cher was in her phone. What kind of world is. Is Jemele Hill trafficking in as I walk through a parking garage every day after being, you know, having my controversy with Ian and you.

[Charlie]

Big time.

[Juju]

Big time.

[Mike]

And Dominique Fox.

[Juju]

Well.

[Dominique]

And she said that Cher texted her that she didn't even have the number that she said. I thought it was a friend sent her Cher's number, which is. Could be a prank. Like, that's not really shared.

[Dan]

What do you mean? I. Big time. You, Dominique.

[Charlie]

So I left my computer at my hotel, and so the computer was being delivered by Uber. I'm outside waiting for my computer to be delivered. I see a handsome man drive by in sunglasses and a convertible, and I say, what up, Dan? You didn't even turn your neck. You just. You shot me with the Chuck Me the deuces. Hey. Damn.

[Dominique]

Who you think you are?

[Dan]

I just didn't know it was you. I just thought somebody was shouting my name.

[Dominique]

Oh, another day driving to work. Someone's shouting my name. Hey, what's Up.

[Mike]

How's it going? Peace.

[Dan]

And I'm an ally.

[Greg]

He's a big time writer, just like me.

[Dan]

I'm an ally.

[Mike]

Yep.

[Dan]

That's what you do.

[Dominique]

That kind of thing.

[Roy]

No, that's what I do.

[Juju]

That's you, Dan.

[Dan]

I'm an. I'm an.

[Mike]

Wait, do I have the best impression of the day?

[Juju]

I'm an.

[Dan]

It looks like we've got a league challenger for best Dan impersonation.

[Charlie]

Charlie's already in the clubhouse.

[Roy]

Best impersonation goes to Mike.

[Juju]

Yeah.

[Greg]

Good job, Mike. Good job, Mike.

[Mike]

Yeah. Big win.

[Juju]

Yeah, I decided that. Are you excited that college football is headed towards private equity? 80% of the audience says no, they are not.

[Charlie]

Is there anything that you could be excited about is headed towards private equity?

[Dan]

It's so funny.

[Mike]

You're ready to learn PIF.

[Dan]

So ridiculous.

[Juju]

Was Alexander the Great a mama's boy? 90% of the audience says yes, he.

[Dominique]

Was highlighted that interview.

[Mike]

You guys see that Jared Leto story?

[Greg]

No.

[Dan]

What happened?

[Mike]

The most obvious thing ever.

[Dan]

Okay, look it up.

[Dominique]

You don't really.

[Juju]

It says everything. Do you hate leftovers? Who says 80, right? 80 of the audience says no, they don't. And those are your pose also. Rest in peace to Ananda Lewis, MTV vj. Thank you for making that great person.

[Mike]

Yeah, absolutely. That was a big part of a lot of people's childhood.

[Juju]

Yes, sir.

[Dan]

Brian Wilson. On a lighter, lighter note, just real quick in terms of the highlight of today's show, if you had to pick just one, the echoing and eternal babying of the pity in L. Duncan's voice when offered that Roy wrote something that level of condescension and honesty and vulnerability seemed to me to be the honest. The most honest thing that happened today. But also pathetic.

[Mike]

Well, at least she vocalized it instead of carrying out a first segment. Not doing it to his face.

[Greg]

41 years old man.

[Dan]

41 year old writer.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Greg]

Oh, hey, what's up, Greg?

[Dominique]

Damn it.