Postgame Show: Top 5 Prison Movies (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz – Postgame Show: Top 5 Prison Movies (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Date: August 19, 2025
Recording Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Featured Guest: JuJu Gotti
Main Theme: The crew dives into pop culture with a spirited debate on the best prison movies of all time, blending signature humor, hot takes, and some digressions into time travel flicks and recent sports banter.

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Episode Overview

In this engaging postgame installment, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the crew are joined by JuJu Gotti to debate and compile the ultimate “Top 5 Prison Movies.” Along the way, they open with a candid discussion on time-travel films and TV shows, touch on recent basketball news, and keep things fun with quick-witted poll talk and friendly disagreements. The crew’s mix of nostalgia, personal bias, and cinematic trivia makes for an episode rich in banter and pop culture love.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Time Travel Movies to Kick Things Off

• [01:07] The conversation unexpectedly starts with co-hosts (and JuJu) riffing on favorite time-travel flicks and shows.
  • JuJu’s Picks:
    • “Bill and Ted has to have some consideration…they went and got honest A. You don’t just go back and get honest A.” (JuJu, [01:22])
    • “I’m just gonna submit a show, the show Dark on Netflix.” (JuJu, [01:46])
  • The crew discusses the impressive casting in shows like Dark and Righteous Gemstones, with an appreciation for actors accurately playing older/younger versions of characters.

2. JuJu Gotti’s Top 5 Prison Movies

• [02:44] JuJu reveals he assembled a list “as y’all was talking about time travel.”
• JuJu’s Top 5 (with playful pushback):
  1. The Rock
     • “Oli, welcome to the Rock.” (JuJu, [03:00])
     • Opens with this 90s classic, delighting the table.
  2. Doing Hard Time
     • Described as a “deep, deep black cut.”
     • Notable for starring Boris Kodjoe and Michael K. Williams.
  3. CB4
     • Crew questions: “That’s not a... I mean, the dude was in prison, but it wasn’t a prison movie.” (Co-host, [03:23])
     • JuJu defends his pick: “He was telling the story. I mean, make your own list.” (JuJu, [03:28])
  4. Law Abiding Citizen
     • Another “Oli” for the list.
  5. The Fugitive
     • Immediate crew debate: “Was he in prison? He was on the run.” (Co-host, [03:46])
     • Nostalgic side conversations about the '60s/70s TV version versus the ‘90s movie.

Extended List & Debate

• [04:11] Greg Cody chimes in:
  • “The number one of all time is Shawshank Redemption.”
  • Adds “The Longest Yard” to the discussion.
• [05:05] Poll Segment Pitch:
  • “Put it on the poll for tomorrow: What’s more famous, The Fugitive TV show or The Fugitive movie?” (Co-host, [05:05])
  • Greg: “I would love to see the result of that poll.” (Greg, [05:10])
• JuJu Admits Mulligan:
  • “I do agree with y’all… the whole point was to stay out of prison in the future. So, yeah, Mulligan for that one.” (JuJu, [05:44])
• [05:57] He updates his list: 4. Con Air - “Prison in the sky counts.” (Host, [05:57]) 3. The Shawshank Redemption 2. Blood In, Blood Out
  - “Vatos Locos forever… I used to watch that, like, every day at a certain point in my life.” (JuJu, [06:22])
  1. Life
     • “Of course. Course Life. Eddie Murphy. I see you, Martin Lawrence. Let’s get it.” (JuJu, [06:35])
     • “That was an all-star cast as well.” (Co-host, [06:49])

3. Random Movie & Sports Recommendations

• [06:52] Mentions David Sampson’s Freaky Tales review and “plane movie” suggestion.
  • “That spoiler isn’t necessarily gonna ruin it for you.” (JuJu, [07:04])
• [07:14] Teasing about Peacemaker Season 2 and what’s on their ‘must-finish’ lists.

4. Polling and Sports Talk Rapid-Fire

• [07:28] Poll results: “Best cream cheese: block or whipped?” (67% say whipped)
  • “Crazy people don’t get it. I’m the voice of the voiceless. We don’t have a lot of Jews in this audience apparently.” (Host, [09:14])
  • “I’m right here, baby. I got you.” (JuJu, [09:21])
• [07:39] NBA Reflection:
  • John Wall’s retirement sparks nostalgia and “Big Three” tournament chatter.
  • JuJu: “Zaz keeps slandering the Big Three. We can’t have that. The Big Three is a slander. Them boys trying the best.” (JuJu, [07:44])
• [08:24] Celebration Ethics:
  • “Do you agree that you’re allowed to celebrate a game winner on any level, however the hell you want?” (Host, [08:24])
  • JuJu’s rules—loves celebrations but isn’t a fan of claiming “My house” after a big shot:
    • “The whole team got us to the fourth quarter for it to be this close. Brother or sister?” (JuJu, [08:55])
• [09:23] Pacers-Knicks playoff flashback and the “Halliburton shot.”
  • “How crazy that Halliburton shot was, bro. I still can’t believe he hit that shot. What a great game. What a great series.” (JuJu, [09:25])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “You don’t just go back and get honest A. You feel me?” – JuJu, on Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure ([01:22])
• “He was telling the story. I mean, make your own list.” – JuJu defends his CB4 pick ([03:28])
• “The number one of all time is Shawshank Redemption.” – Greg ([04:11])
• “Prison in the sky counts.” – Host, on Con Air ([05:57])
• “That’s one of them lies that Mean was talking about earlier. Greg don’t give a damn about that poll result, man.” – JuJu ([05:34])
• “We don’t have a lot of Jews in this audience apparently.” – Host, about the cream cheese poll ([09:14])
• “The whole team got us to the fourth quarter for it to be this close. Brother or sister?” – JuJu, on celebrating ‘my house’ after a win ([08:55])
• “How crazy that Halliburton shot was, bro. I still can’t believe he hit that shot.” – JuJu ([09:25])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:07 – JuJu’s time travel movie/TV picks
• 02:44 – JuJu reads his first prison movies list
• 03:23-05:44 – Crew debates what counts as a “prison movie”
• 05:57 – JuJu’s revised “Top 5 Prison Movies”
• 06:52 – Freaky Tales movie rec and Peacemaker TV banter
• 07:28 – Poll results: Cream cheese (block vs. whipped)
• 07:39-08:24 – John Wall retirement & Big Three discussion
• 08:24-08:55 – Game-winning celebration etiquette
• 09:23 – Pacers-Knicks playoff memory and closing shout-outs

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Final Thoughts

With movie geekery, cheeky arguments, and deft sidebars into sports culture, this episode is a quintessential Le Batard Show experience—a blend of pop culture, nostalgia, and off-the-cuff wit. The “Top 5 Prison Movies” segment, while filled with debate over what “counts,” brings out both the crew’s cinephile credentials and their signature playful bickering, with JuJu Gotti fitting in seamlessly as both provocateur and peacemaker.

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Transcript

[Host]

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[Co-host]

We go to Jujugatti giving us all the goods in the post game Juju first question I have for you. Do you have a favorite time travel movie?

[Juju]

Oh dang, that's a good question. It's hard to narrow it down to 1. I definitely agree with Taylor Twelveman. Bill and Ted has to have some consideration there because they went and got honest A. You don't just go back and get honest A. You feel me? As well as Mozart, they went and got some prominent features. I'm watching the show right now called foundation where time travel is a little bit like that. I don't know. I'm just gonna submit a show, the show Dark on Netflix.

[Co-host]

I keep hearing about this show.

[Juju]

That's a good time travel movie. Yeah. Because they go back and they actually got actors that look just like the actor could have looked whenever they were that age. So Juju. Yeah, why is it dark?

[Co-host]

Let me I have confession to make. I am a sucker for any show that casts people that look like the older versions or the younger versions of themselves when they nail the casting. I'm so in about 35% of the reason why I love Righteous Gemstones is those flashback episodes they have once a year where those kids who not only look like they're the younger versions, but they act like them so well too. I'm like, how is this possible? How are they doing this? So, okay. So dark. I'll put on the list. I keep hearing good things, but I wasn't sure. What about. What about prison movies? Because movies as well. Do you have a prison movie?

[Juju]

I may. I was listening to that when y' all was talking about the time travel. I made my top five prison movies that I could think of in my lifetime. Oli, welcome to the Rock.

[Host]

Come on, man.

[Juju]

You got to know. You got to know. Also, Oli doing Hard Time with Boris Kojo and Michael K. Williams. Deep, deep black cut right there. Also, Oli, CB4. You got to know it.

[Co-host]

That's not a. I mean, the dude was in prison, but it wasn't a prison movie.

[Juju]

He was telling the story. I mean, make your own list.

[Greg]

Yeah.

[Juju]

Also, last Oli, Law Abiding Citizen. That was a good one. Number five, the Fugitive.

[Co-host]

Was he in prison? He was on the run.

[Greg]

That's a TV show, isn't it? The Fugitive.

[Co-host]

Greg, Greg, come on.

[Greg]

Now.

[Host]

The movie itself is a super old reference. To date it back to the source material. Harrison Petrified.

[Co-host]

Come on.

[Greg]

I'd be surprised if my dad could name three prison movies. I can name two besides ones that you've already heard. Go on. No, the. The number one of all time is Shawshank Redemption. Yeah.

[Juju]

Okay, nice.

[Greg]

And then another one that I personally like. Whole different genre. The Longest Yard.

[Host]

Wasn't that a TV show? It's just a wild for the Fugitive.

[Greg]

The One Armed Man.

[Host]

Something they were saying in 1994. Hey, wasn't that a. A TV show now?

[Co-host]

It's just 30 years ago.

[Greg]

I know, but the TV show is from the 70s. Yeah, it's in the 60s. I know. Episode 1960.

[Juju]

God is ass.

[Host]

Yeah, it's just a dated one arm.

[Greg]

The one Armed Man. One Armed Man.

[Host]

All right, we got to make our own list, as Juju said. But wasn't the whole point of that movie to not be in jail?

[Co-host]

It's like, hold on, I'm stuck with Greg here. It's like saying Scarface, and you're like, oh, yeah, with Edward G. Robinson. I mean, yeah, but like, most people hear Scarface, they think of the 1980s one, not the one from 1930 something.

[Greg]

Okay, but if you come out with a movie called the Twilight Zone. I'm sorry, but it emanates from the Twilight Zone with Rod Serling.

[Co-host]

Juju. Put it on the poll for tomorrow. What's more famous, the Fugitive TV show or the Fugitive movie?

[Greg]

Oh, I would love to see the Result of that poll.

[Host]

The shit talk from Greg Cody. You don't know your audience. I do. Most of them will know the TV show.

[Greg]

TV show. When you hear Ocean's Eleven, who do you think of? You know? I don't know. Frankie. Who?

[Host]

List Blue Eyes. Yeah.

[Greg]

Oh, Frankie, absolutely.

[Juju]

That's one of them lies that Mean was talking about earlier. Greg don't give a damn about that poll result, man.

[Greg]

You got that right. I want it on my side, but.

[Juju]

I do agree with y', all, now that I think about it. Yeah. The whole point was to stay out of prison in the future. So, yeah, Mulligan for that one. Number four, Con Air.

[Host]

Prison in the sky counts.

[Co-host]

Well, they started in prison and they were being transported to another prison, so technically, yes, I'm gonna allow it. That plane was a prison that got overtaken.

[Juju]

I like it. Number three, the Shawshank Redemption.

[Co-host]

Ah, that was a book, you know, Greg, that's like. What did you say? Oh, the book. The Stephen King book.

[Juju]

Number two, Vatos Locos Forever. Blood in, blood Out. Come on, man. I used to watch that, like, every day at a certain point in my life.

[Co-host]

Almost, or. Who was in that?

[Juju]

Yeah, everybody was in it, too. Like, more people than you think. Yeah. And the number one movie, of course. Course Life. Eddie Murphy. I see you, Martin Lawrence. Let's get it.

[Co-host]

I was an all star cast as well.

[Juju]

Hell, yeah, man. Also, earlier, David Sampson was talking about the movie Freaky Tales. He gave a spoiler alert. But that spoiler isn't necessarily gonna ruin it for you.

[Greg]

Okay.

[Juju]

You feel me? I think you should still check it out. It's a great story. I watched it on the plane. I mean, if you're going on the plane back.

[Co-host]

I am.

[Juju]

That's the movie you watch on the plane.

[Co-host]

I gotta feel me. I will do that. But first, I have to Finish Peacemaker Season 1, because Season 2 drops tomorrow, and I'm very excited.

[Juju]

I did that yesterday.

[Co-host]

There you go. Hell of a show, right? What are the polls? We got to update juju.

[Juju]

Yes, sir. Let me get this poll while I'm getting to the polls. Thank you for your service. John Wild. The John Wild has retired from the game of basketball. Salute. He just announced it.

[Co-host]

Did he ever do Big Three? He never did Big three, did he?

[Juju]

I think he was around. I'm not sure.

[Greg]

No, I just saw juju do it. Is that John Walls? Like, he.

[Juju]

Right? He was a good. A good Doug Ear, as they say. But, yeah, him. And I'm not sure if he was in the Big Three. But Zaz keeps slandering the big three. We can't have that. The big three is a slander. Them boys trying the best. That's right. And I think the excitement is, is worth it. You know what I'm saying? Like Lance and Mike Beasley. They excited. They excited. Sometimes you lose it, you go to the NBA. You be like, damn, I'm playing in front of a hundred thousand every day. Then they go without it. And now they get a little glimpse back into that world. Man, we finna hype this thing. Juju, baby.

[Host]

Juju, do you agree that you're allowed to celebrate a game winner on any level, however the hell you want? I mean, people can get that jacked up for a pickup game at a gym.

[Juju]

Exactly, exactly. The only, the only game winning celebration that I don't like. And I hate because my boy used to do it. D. Wade. I hate when the player be like this. My. This, my. Yeah, it's like this. The whole team got us to the fourth quarter for it to be this close. Brother or sister?

[Co-host]

My house, right, Peter Work used to do that. I believed it.

[Juju]

Oh Lord. The poll we have from today. Best cream cheese block or whipped? And 67 of the audience said whipped. Oh, wow.

[Host]

Crazy people don't get it. I'm the voice of the voiceless. We don't have a lot of Jews in this audience apparently.

[Juju]

I'm right here, baby. I got you.

[Host]

We got two right there.

[Juju]

Yes, sir. And earlier, last thing before we get out of here, you've mentioned that you was at the Pacers Knicks game in the playoffs, which just reminded me, bro. How crazy that Halliburton shot was, bro. I still can't believe he hit that shot. What a great game. What a great series.

[Co-host]

I wish I was at that game. I was at the one where they got blown out. Game five.

[Juju]

Damn.

[Co-host]

Yeah, but that was a great game and a great series and I'm excited for basketball to come back. Thank you, Juju, Everyone check out juju's show.

[Juju]

I buy hoops, baby. Nope, not. I buy hoops, dls, hoops, you dig it?