Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Episode: Postgame Show: Spliff Notes With Juju Gotti
Release Date: December 12, 2024

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1. Show Highlights and Welcome

The episode kicks off with Dan Le Batard engaging his co-hosts, Roy Bellamy and Chris Cody, in a light-hearted discussion about the week's memorable moments. Dan shares his amusement over welcoming the underdogs and highlights the humorous inability of Jordan Brenner and Peter Keating to "get their shit together."

• Dan Le Batard [00:41]: "I really enjoyed welcoming the underdogs and laughing at the fact that Jordan Brenner and Peter Keating couldn't at any point get their shit together."

Chris and Roy echo Dan's sentiments, with Roy noting the memorable nature of the moment.

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2. Special Announcement: Juju Gotti on Spliff Notes

Juju Gotti makes his appearance on the show, bringing his unique perspective and enthusiasm. He announces a significant achievement by his brother, Taylor, who has the number one selling jersey in America, a testament to their collaborative efforts.

• Juju Gotti [01:17]: "This is the number one selling jersey in all of America today. Google it."

Dan playfully comments on Taylor's newfound stardom, expressing surprise that Juju is elevating Taylor's status beyond his expectations.

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3. Sports Discussions: NFL Penalties and College Football

The conversation shifts to sports, where Juju praises the NFL's decision to review face masks and penalties, emphasizing the importance of accuracy in officiating to ensure player safety.

• Juju Gotti [03:55]: "Salute to... Hats off to the NFL. Yeah, do something right."

Dan agrees, highlighting the necessity of utilizing available technology to minimize errors that could impact the game's integrity.

Additionally, the hosts touch upon college football controversies, with Juju referencing SMU's cheating scandal and Roy dismissively labeling Duke as "irrelevant."

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4. Audience Polls: Change and Tarantino Movies

Juju introduces a poll result questioning whether change is hard for older generations, revealing that 97% of the audience agrees it is.

• Juju Gotti [04:22]: "97% of the audience says yes, and 3% of the audience says no."

He expands on this by advocating for the inclusion of classes on patience and anger management in elementary schools, arguing that such skills are essential yet often neglected in traditional education.

The discussion then transitions to a poll about Quentin Tarantino's films, specifically whether "Inglorious Bastards" is his best work. The poll shows 59% disagreeing.

• Roy Bellamy [07:21]: "Is Inglorious Bastards the best of the Tarantino movies? 59% say no."

Juju expresses his preference for "Inglorious Bastards" and "The Hateful Eight," while Dan Le Batard favors "Pulp Fiction" for its role in introducing him to Tarantino's storytelling.

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5. Entertainment Segment: Jamie Foxx Special Review

Juju reviews Jamie Foxx's latest special, noting its departure from traditional stand-up comedy. Instead, Foxx delivers a heartfelt sit-down session with his fans, focusing on personal reflections and gratitude.

• Juju Gotti [08:09]: "This was like a sit down with his fans to explain what he's been going through."

Dan shares his own experience watching the special, initially expecting comedy but finding himself emotionally moved by Foxx's genuine expressions of gratitude.

• Dan Le Batard [08:44]: "I turned it off right after Juju out of respect for... he's just cr. Trying."

Juju advises listeners to approach the special with an open mind to fully appreciate its emotional depth.

• Juju Gotti [09:56]: "As long as you go back prepared for what you're getting into, I think you will love it."

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6. Holiday Cheer: Christmas Gifts and Merchandise

As the show approaches the holiday season, Juju extends gratitude to Roy for an extraordinary Christmas gift: a Larry O'Brien Trophy ornament featuring the Celtics logo.

• Juju Gotti [10:16]: "A Christmas tree ornament of the Larry O'Brien Trophy with the Celtics logo on it."

He also promotes his merchandise, encouraging listeners to support the show by checking out his T-shirts available at levitaraf.com.

• Juju Gotti [11:00]: "We got a lot of good stuff that supports good brothers and sisters from the show. Salute."

Dan echoes this sentiment, urging the audience to visit Juju's site to explore and purchase the offered apparel.

• Dan Le Batard [11:17]: "Check them out. We have stylized some of the T shirts along with Angel Resto."

The episode concludes with warm holiday wishes and acknowledgments, reinforcing the sense of community among the hosts and their listeners.

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Notable Quotes:

• Dan Le Batard [00:41]: "I really enjoyed welcoming the underdogs and laughing at the fact that Jordan Brenner and Peter Keating couldn't at any point get their shit together."

• Juju Gotti [01:17]: "This is the number one selling jersey in all of America today. Google it."

• Juju Gotti [04:22]: "97% of the audience says yes, and 3% of the audience says no."

• Roy Bellamy [07:21]: "Is Inglorious Bastards the best of the Tarantino movies? 59% say no."

• Juju Gotti [09:56]: "As long as you go back prepared for what you're getting into, I think you will love it."

• Juju Gotti [11:00]: "We got a lot of good stuff that supports good brothers and sisters from the show. Salute."

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This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz seamlessly weaves through diverse topics, from sports insights and audience interactions to entertainment reviews and festive cheer. Juju Gotti's contributions add depth and enthusiasm, fostering engaging discussions that resonate with both long-time listeners and newcomers alike.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Before we get to juju here. Roy, Chris, did you have a highlight of today's show? Because off the top of my head, I really enjoyed welcoming the underdogs and laughing at the fact that Jordan Brenner and Peter Keating couldn't at any point get their shit together.

[Chris Cody]

That's mine.

[Roy Bellamy]

Yeah, you kind of took mine. Let me think of this.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. So you guys don't have anything better than that?

[Chris Cody]

Nope.

[Roy Bellamy]

It's most memorable for sure. Okay, well, I'm not going to forget that for a long time.

[Dan Le Batard]

It was. It was funny. So, juju, what do you have for us? What is. What is out there today that has made people object to anything that we're doing? What's the positivity that we should be celebrating today?

[Juju Gotti]

What's going on, my brothers? Yo, Good to see y'all. As always. I think we. We missed over one of the. One of the highlights of my day. I want to give my brother flowers because he scooped shifty. He scooped everybod. I want to. I think I know what this is right here.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, wow. Congratulations, Taylor. Wow. Oh, okay. See, I've been. Oh, my God. All right, look. I've been holding Taylor down and now juju insists on making him a star. I don't want Taylor to be a star. That's unbelievable. That's good gear. That's.

[Juju Gotti]

This is the number one selling jersey in all of America today. Google it.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's really good. That is North Carolina jersey. Taylor's last name is on it. He didn't even. They don't put names on the walk on jerseys. Right? So juju just got you a better jersey than the one you had at North Carolina. Did he not know?

[Juju Gotti]

Don't do my brother like that. Nah, bro. His name was on the back of it. It's in. It's in bars across. Don't do my brother. Not today.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right?

[Juju Gotti]

I was so turned up here in the living room. He was like, espn. You got schooled on the biggest college story by the person living in the smallest studio Apartment, man, I was screaming on top of my lawns. My neighbor literally knocked on the wall this morning. He was like, smu, you cheated and you ain't shit.

[Roy Bellamy]

I was like, yeah, Duke, welcome to another decade of irrelevant.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, so you guys, I thought. I thought that that was a lot for him to bite off to try and go after the rants, but he did. He earned with his information. He had a bigger story that he didn't share with anybody. The mental arc media way. We have the breaking news, we just don't give it to you for profit or in time for you to be surprised by or call it the breaking news. It's not a great slogan. Not a great slogan.

[Juju Gotti]

Watch out for the ponies. A story came across the desk the other day that I couldn't believe it was actually a story. I think it was yesterday that they finally allowing maybe the thought of reviewing face masks and different penalties. It's like, bro, why. Why have they not always done that? You did me like, why review anything if you're not going to review the penalty? I think the NFL is doing the right thing with that because it's like the drawing without that, without reviewing some of those face masks at the end of the game. You get the drawing from the Twitter with the beautiful horse that turns into horse shit at the end of the game because you missed the damn face mask. You feel me? So salute to. Hats off to the NFL. Yeah, do something right. I'm a saluted.

[Dan Le Batard]

If you have the technology, your goal should be to make it most right. Those people are killing themselves to try and get an extra yard. You shouldn't get the call wrong if you have the technology. But they're worried about the game. The game's paying pace, and so they allow. They allow it to be a little less accurate. Even though. Yeah, yeah, that. I don't. I don't know how many people would disagree with what you're saying there, Juju. What else today do we have in. In the way of criticism, constructive criticism?

[Juju Gotti]

We had a. We had a positive. A big poll from the other day that we didn't get back to. Is change hard for old people? Because it's been a buzz in the. In the dimensions. And 97% of the audience says yes, and 3% of the audience says no. And salute to Joe Thornberg. He, He, He. He kept it real with us. He said, I just voted no to be a jag off. Sorry. And so I would say that's about 98%. And that's right, brother. It's like it's hard to change. And it made me think that, like it's even before that just as hard as it is for some old people to change, it's hard to get rid of some developmental stuff you have. Which is why I think that elementary school should institute a different class called patience. A different class called what to do with your anger anger management. Because some children grow up in single homes or they just grow up in a home that allows XYZ versus a home that would never play this crap or just doesn't have the right parenting or, you know, people having babies. Having babies these days. So it'll be, I think, cool to institute something in these elementary schools before they learn about Christopher Columbus and social studies and all that jazz. Let's teach them how to handle their anger once it happens because it's going to happen. Let's teach them how to be resilient. Let's teach them forgiveness. You feel me? Because some of that stuff is not being teached at their homes. I don't know why I went off on that. No.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's pretty good though. You're basically talking about practical schooling just here. You go to a year's worth of classes and one of them is change. Handling change or handling your anger or just basically doing therapy instead of textbooks where you're just sort of running through feelings instead of learning things. No, that what you're saying makes sense. We got to get back to up updating the polls. Can we start? People have been complaining about that juju. I've seen that. And they're right that we give the polls and then we don't update the polls. I think most people listening to this would say that change is hard for them. And I also would say that anywhere you find growth, you're gonna find change. So I don't know why it is that you would object to the idea of change, but old people. Chris, your dad. Your dad is now. No, he is fully functionally formed. Like he is done learning. There will be no learning for your father anymore. He's going straight from wherever he is to Fossil without learning. One more thing. He is stubborn about change like no one I've ever met. And my dad is plenty stubborn about change. Your father is going to be the worst version of this that you've ever seen, Chris. You've already seen pieces of this. He stubbornly refuses to change anything he thinks, believes or acts. There is no learning being done by Greg Cody for any more time in his life. Does anyone dispute what I'm saying?

[Chris Cody]

Nope.

[Roy Bellamy]

No notes.

[Juju Gotti]

I love you, Greg. Cody.

[Roy Bellamy]

I have a poll here. Is Inglorious Bastards the best of the Tarantino movies? 59% say no.

[Dan Le Batard]

What do you like better, Juju?

[Juju Gotti]

I mean, I love Inglorious Bastards. I think also too. When my bud Tony was giving his list, y'all was coming at him with knives out elbows. This his list. If everybody got a list, let everybody make a list. But I think that I love Inglorious Bastards, bro. I like the Hateful Eight. It's not one movie that I would necessarily.

[Dan Le Batard]

Pulp Fiction is the one that I. I mean, I just think the Pulp Fiction, but it's also the one that introduced me to Tarantino's Reservoir Dog ship.

[Chris Cody]

And the one that introduced you to Tarantino there.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, I did them in reverse. I did it the other way. I hadn't seen Reservoir Dogs. After I saw Pulp Fiction, I went and found Reservoir Dogs.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah.

[Juju Gotti]

Hey, also, I watched the Jamie Foxx special. Spoiler alert. Kind of. Sort of lookout alert. Kind of. This wasn't a stand up to me. This was like a sit down with his fans to explain what he's been going. Excuse me, $12 for me. Sorry. To kind of explain what the last couple of years have looked like from his perspective. So if you going in looking for the laugh for your life, you may not get that, but at the same time, it was just a feel good. Like an hour and a half would just feel good.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, Juju. So let me tell you what I did last night with the Jamie Foxx special, which I've been looking forward to for a number of different reasons, but I understand what you're saying. I wonder if he's getting critically panned because what he did was heartfelt as opposed to doing traditional standup comedy from one of the most talented people anywhere in Hollywood. I started to watch it and when I saw in the first five minutes that he was crying and in a heartfelt way thanking Atlanta for saving his life, I'm like, let me stop this real quick. I'm trying to go into something thinking I'm getting something else. And if he's going to do this, just emotionally grateful. Thank you for saving my life. I want to revisit this with a different mind frame. I don't want to watch this as a comedy special. I want to watch a celebrity actually have a connection with a city that he cares about because he's just grateful that his life that he's grateful that he gets that night with his family, with his daughter introducing him.

[Juju Gotti]

Yeah, that's exactly What I did, I had mentioned I tried to watch it after Jamar chased him on Monday night. But I got to that same point, I was like, whoa, whoa. Okay, I'm gonna doggy this and come in prepared. As long as you go back prepared for what you're getting into, I think you will love it.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, but I turned it off right after Juju out of respect for, like, oh, I misread this one. I turned it off right after I saw. Oh, he's crying. He's so. He is so grateful to be on that stage that instead of performing, he's just cr. Trying. I've got to look at this differently. I expected something else.

[Juju Gotti]

Yes, sir. And before I leave, I want to send a shout out and a salute to my brother Roy for the best Christmas gift that a brother can ever receive. Holy moly. Thank you so much, Roy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Roy, you sent a Christmas gift. Roy, you're a Christmas gift giver. What is that?

[Chris Cody]

That's a Christmas tree ornament of the Larry O'Brien Trophy with the Celtics logo on it.

[Juju Gotti]

Come on. It goes perfect with this one. It's like my house is championship city. It also goes great with this one because you forgot I'm a Panthers fan.

[Chris Cody]

That's right.

[Juju Gotti]

Oh, my goodness. Thank you so much, Roy.

[Chris Cody]

Yeah, no problem.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right. Early Christmas, giving Juju. Good seeing you, sir. Thank you for stopping by on Sunday. Juju will be with Tony right after. Right after the football games on YouTube.

[Juju Gotti]

Oh, yeah. And also too, I do a poor job of this. Levitaraf.com I got some T shirts I've been making for the show. You feel me? And around the show for the last couple of months, even while I was off. Go check them out. We got a lot of good stuff that supports good brothers and sisters from the show. Salute.

[Dan Le Batard]

I will tell everyone listening to this again, if you do not know what the show's relationship is with Juju Gotti, I believe that he cares about the way the show looks and sounds and feels and the connection with its audience more than most people I know. Never mind that. Just work here. Most people that listen to the show. So if you like his artistic taste, you can get more of [e-mail] where he has stylized some of the T shirts along with Angel Resto. Thank you, Juju. We will talk to you again.

[Juju Gotti]

Yes, sir.