Top 5 Items That Create Fanfare | Postgame Show

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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: Top 5 Items That Create Fanfare | Postgame Show
Date: May 18, 2026
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz
Guests/Contributors: Juju, Jeremy, others

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Episode Overview

In this playful and insightful postgame installment, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the broader show crew dive deep into the phenomena of sports fanfare, viral hype culture, and the quirks of modern fandom. From memes about WNBA coverage to stampedes at the mall for special edition watches and a humorous look at “top five” lists covering everything from fast food frenzies to expense account memories, the episode balances sharp commentary on sports media, society, and race with the show’s trademark wry humor.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Caitlin Clark and the WNBA Social Media Drama

(01:02–02:44)

• Dan Le Batard asks Juju to break down the furor over Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark being omitted from a TV promo graphic:

  “There was a whole big to do on social media yesterday how Caitlin Clark was not in the graphic for…promoting the games. Was that a big deal? What was that about?” — Dan (01:16)

• Juju explains:
  • Clark’s fans “weaponize” every slight; “This is much to do about nothing, man.”
  • The WNBA is just trying to highlight other talented, lesser-known players like Raven Johnson.
  • Urges calm, mentioning even Dave Portnoy got involved:

    “We don’t gotta weaponize everybody against everybody all the time…We got to come together in this country, bro.” — Juju (02:44)

• Notable Quote:

  “I can like Angel Reese. I can like Caitlyn. There’s no rule that say we can’t do that, man.” — Juju (02:44)

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2. The Hype and Madness Over Limited Edition Swatch Watches

(03:00–06:37)

• Dan asks why people were stampeding for “AP Swatches” at Miami’s Aventura Mall over the weekend.

• Juju elaborates:

  • The craze for Swatch x AP (Audemars Piguet) led to chaos, fights, and inflated resale prices (up to $10,000 online).
  • “The Internet...created a craze. And now some of those $400 watches are being sold online for five bands, ten bands…” (03:34)
  • Recalls similar crazes for Jordans and other sought-after items.

• Memorable Moment:

  • Juju launches a “Top 5 Silliest Things Earth Has Stood in Line For”:
    1. Any Air Jordan release (“I’m guilty of that, too.”)
    2. Trader Joe’s Tote Bags
    3. Pink Stanley Cups (“The Targets was looking like the wild, wild west.”)
    4. Popeyes Chicken Sandwich (“For a damn sandwich!”)
    5. The current Swatch AP (pocket watches, not wristwatches, to everyone’s disappointment)
    6. Honorable mention/Joke: “Earth January 6th” (The January 6th Capitol riot as the ultimate misguided line-up)

• Notable Quote:

  “They makes the whole crowd over and over. So it made me think, bro, what are some of the silliest things that earth has stood in line for?” — Juju (03:58)

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3. Top 5 & Top 10 Lists — Sports Media and Road Life

(07:11–15:04)

A. Sports Announcing Teams Poll

• Juju runs a poll on the audience’s favorite NFL announcing team (07:11–07:56):
  • Buck & Aikman win with 57% of the vote.

B. Fun Audience Polls (08:08–09:36):

• Over/Under: Dan Marino’s career rushing yards (62% say under 18.5)
• Should it be okay to make fun of bald people? (“79% say yes. Bullshit.” — Dan, 09:19)
• Five King Kongs vs. 1 million Vin Diesels? (53% pick King Kongs)

C. Jeremy’s Top 5 Road Trip Moments

(09:43–11:39)

• Highlights from his Marlins broadcast road trip:

  1. Working with respectful colleagues
  2. Exploring new towns (“Nude towns?” ongoing bit)
  3. Staying in first-class hotels (tip: steal hotel slippers for flights)
  4. Charter flights (sub-list: huge seats, custom snacks, charcuterie, breaking ‘plane rules’, extra meals)
  5. “Baseball. Man, was awesome.”

• Notable Moment:

  “Did you say nude town?” — Dan (11:35, running joke)

D. Dan’s Top 10 List: Ways He Irritated ESPN

(12:55–14:48)

• Hilarious recap of rebellious acts at ESPN, such as:
  1. Ignoring his boss for months
  2. Insulting UFC after rights deal
  3. Beef with agents/Deadspin
  4. “Yelling at them because they took us off in New York”
  5. Writing (blocked) columns on China
  6. Billy Gill’s famously confused appearance on air

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4. Social Media, Mainstream TV & Race in Sports

(14:48–16:27)

• Pivot to a tweet by Nick Wright about racist chants against Rep. Ilhan Omar.

  • Hosts agree: “This is obvious…abhorrent, obviously racist, dangerous rhetoric and not calling it out makes you complicit.” (15:18)
  • Dan and a co-host critique how sports media and society at large “run it through a weak, cowardly sports angle” rather than address it directly as an issue of race.
  • “Sports has always been a place where this stuff changes...Bill Russell, Jim Brown, Kareem, Muhammad Ali were all fighting for this stuff in the 60s…” (16:28)

• Notable Quote:

  “This isn’t about politics, it’s about race...We only talk about it around here when Steve Kerr or Popovich says something.” — Co-host (16:00)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• WNBA/Caitlin Clark Discourse: 01:02–02:44
• Swatch Watch Fanfare & Top 5 Silly Lines: 03:00–06:37
• Sports Announcing Team Polls: 07:11–07:56
• Audience Poll Bits: 08:08–09:36
• Jeremy’s Marlins Roadtrip Top 5: 09:43–11:39
• Dan’s Top 10 ESPN Aggravators: 12:55–14:48
• Race & Media Segment: 14:48–16:27

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Tone & Style

The episode is lively, irreverent, self-deprecating, and honest—mixing sharp sports and cultural commentary with the show’s trademark playful banter. The hosts and guests aren’t afraid to poke fun at themselves, each other, and the wider world of sports fandom, hype, and media.

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Memorable Quotes Recap

• “We don’t gotta weaponize everybody against everybody all the time…We got to come together in this country, bro.” — Juju (02:44)
• “Pink Stanley Cup ladies, I’m looking at you. The targets was looking like the Wild, Wild West.” — Juju (04:53)
• "Did you say nude town?" — Dan (11:35)
• “This isn’t about politics, it’s about race...We only talk about it around here when Steve Kerr or Popovich says something.” — Co-host (16:00)
• “This is obvious…abhorrent, obviously racist, dangerous rhetoric and not calling it out makes you complicit.” — (Quote read from Nick Wright’s tweet, 15:18)

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Final Thoughts

Whether riffing on viral products, untouchable sports figures, or uncomfortable social truths, The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz manages to be hilarious, insightful, and never afraid to question the status quo—earning its postgame reputation for unforgettable, original content.

Transcript

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[Dan Le Batard]

All right, let's bring juju aboard here. Juju, good to see you as always. And I, I have some questions here. All right. Because no one I know is on top of the WNBA more than juju is. And I want you to help me out here because I saw yesterday, you know Caitlin Clark, who's been terrific so far, the early start of this season, the, the Indiana Fever, they took on the Seattle Storm and there was like a double header, you know, on whichever channel was. Maybe it was, it was prime or I don't remember, but there was a whole big to do on social media yesterday how Caitlin Clark was not in the graphic for them promoting the games. Like, was that a big deal? What was that about? Why are people freaking out over that?

[Juju]

Right? It's because her fan base usually weaponizes every single thing. Everything she's a part of, they gonna weaponize it, Man. This is much to do about nothing, man. The NBA do it all the time. We, we just try to highlight different players. We know Caitlyn over there. We know the goat is here everywhere we need to be. But let's highlight some of these less known players. Let's put Raven on the, on the, on the sheet, man, on the promo. So I don't think it's any type of deal at all. It's just Internet fodder.

[Dan Le Batard]

Like Raven Johnson. I, I think she was a top 10 pick. Like she's supposed to end up, I know she's gotten off to a slow start, but she's supposed to end up being a really good player for them, right?

[Juju]

Absolutely. Her and Aaliyah Boston up and down the roster. Demir's dances like everybody is on that. That Roster now, it's const to be the team that is, like, Kate Cunningham doesn't have around him right now. That roster is constructed just so she could have the support she needs. So I think that everybody up top, from the top to the bottom of that lineup needs to highlight at least once in the season. We know. Caitlyn. Come on, y'. All.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, so everybody needs to calm down. That's what you're saying, right?

[Juju]

Yeah. Dave. Dave. Port Nor, man, come on. Not this one bit, bro. Like, come on, bro, calm down. We don't gotta weaponize everybody against everybody all the time. We can, like, look, bro, I can like Angel Reese. I can like Caitlyn. There's no rule that say we can't do that, man. We got to come together in this country, bro.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, I got another thing I need you to help me out with because you're certainly a lot cooler than I am. We could see by the way you dress. You're into fashion. I'm not into fashion. At my. My hometown mall over the weekend, the mall that I went to growing up as a kid, the Aventura Mall. All right? And there was.

[Juju]

There.

[Dan Le Batard]

There was a whole thing at the mall this weekend. Like, people. There was a stampede or something over these. These ap Swatches, you know what I'm talking about? They had to shut down like a whole. A whole. A whole deal for these watches. Do you know what was going on?

[Juju]

Absolutely, man. They don't even got no wristband or nothing. They just stop watching. I'm like, bro, what in the hell is going on? See, that's the real deal. They just show. That's the real stuff. SGA got the thunder. Them. That's them big boys. I'm talking about them swatch guys and pop swatches. Boy, they are so weak. But at the same time, the Internet, how it got behind it, it created a craze. And now some of those 400 watches are being sold online for five bands, 10 bands, because you couldn't get one. They so ridiculous. Fights breaking out. Mace. They makes the whole crowd over and over. So it made me think, bro, what are some of the silliest things that earth has stood in line for, bro? And I got an oh, well, I'm gonna start top five right now. Oli, pick a Jordan. Any number. And I'm guilty of that, too. I can't even. I gotta raise my hand. I'm guilty of that. I used to stand in line, and guess who stand in line two blocks down? The thieves and the robbers. Hey, LeBron, you just got them J's. What size? Don't mind. Now, number five, Trader Joe Tote bags. What was that America like? Come on, bro, put it on the

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

poll at Le Batard show. Trader Joe tote bags. Was that America? Yes or no?

[Juju]

What? Number four, right? Number four. The pink Stanley Cup. Ladies, I'm looking at you. The targets was going, right. Them targets was looking like the wild, wild west. Number three, the Popeyes chicken sandwich. That was crazy.

[Jeremy]

I remember that one was wild

[Juju]

for a damn sandwich. I was interested. I sure was. But I would have been down to stand in line for three days for a sandwich. Number two, yours truly, the Swatch ap. Man, if it was like the draw ups that came out two weeks ago, we thought, oh, damn, they might be some nice wrist watches. But when they came out with them pocket watch, colorful stopwatches was like, boy, stop. The world still went crazy. Yeah, see, those would have been nice. I thought that's what it was.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly a producer or another commentator)]

That's what we all thought they were. That's what we all thought they were. We thought we were going to get APS for 400 bucks. We were like, okay, perfect. I'm about to buy 20 of them, right? And then.

[Juju]

You feel me?

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All.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly a producer or another commentator)]

All of last week we were waiting. We're like, all right, we don't know what this. What the skew is going to be. We don't know what it's going to look like. We don't know what colors are going to come out. And then all of a sudden we. We heard royal pop. And then they go back into the archives and like, royal pop is going to be a. A risk.

[Juju]

What is it?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly a producer or another commentator)]

A pocket watch that you could put over your, like on a chain so you wear the watch as a chain. And I'm like, I'm not gonna wait for that. Dan, as the expert in horology here on this show, I. What? As the expert in horology on the show, I was like, I'm gonna go outside and I'm gonna sleep outside and wait for this watch. If they were the wristwatches that came out, I was gonna be there waiting for five days. Then we realized it wasn't. That couldn't do it.

[Juju]

Yeah, I was gonna get my shadour on all season and dare y' all to say that's not an AP. The number one most rid that we stood in line for. Earth January 6th.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

Come on,

[Co-host or Guest (possibly a producer or another commentator)]

sit in line for that.

[Juju]

Back to you, Dan. I got right to the front.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly a producer or another commentator)]

Didn't feel it's a mob More of a mob mentality.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

I didn't feel like that was a line. We've got.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly a producer or another commentator)]

Nothing happened.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

We've got a couple of top five lists to get to still yet because Jeremy's got one and I've got to get to my top 10 list. But let's update the polls here for a second. What do you have on poll updates, Juju?

[Juju]

Oh, while I pull up these polls.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly a producer or another commentator)]

Let us in.

[Juju]

By the way, mind y'. All right. I'm not gonna say the four greatest words in sports that a man said, but when James Harden got traded to the Cavs, I came on here and said, hey, the reason this is going to make more sense is because here he doesn't have to do anything in the game seven. All he has to do is rely on the boys. Donald neither here nor there. Biggest announcing team in football. Chris Collinsworth and Tariko. Nance and Romo, Brady and Burkhart or Buck and Aikman.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

What do you think is going to come back here? What do you guys think is going to come back here? It's going to be Buck Aikman. Sounds like we have an overwhelming winner.

[Juju]

Yeah, right. 57% of the audience says Buck and Aikman. Aikman Bakeman.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

Play the sound real quick of Troy Aikman not having a conflict whatsoever. I don't feel there's a conflict, but I will say I'm pulling for the Dolphins.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly a producer or another commentator)]

Perfect.

[Juju]

Over under. On Dan Marino's career rushing yards over 18.5 or under 18.5. 62 of the audience says under 18.5.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Juju]

Damn.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

The Internet is wrong. We were wrong.

[Juju]

Right? Also, too. I think you're a little wrong, too, Dan on the Jaden during Jalen Duran escaping. We got to get you a burner account because they are roasting my boy marshmallow style online. You can't scroll two posts without seeing Angel, Reese, X all this. So, yeah, he getting it.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

Oh, I meant. I'm sorry. I didn't mean the Internet. The Internet will find the people to roast. I meant mainstream television is what I meant. I didn't see that he was getting scorched the way that, for example, Harden always gets scorched when that's the kind of series that he has.

[Juju]

Yeah, mainstream ain't what it used to be be, bro. The best TV shows and the best people talking about basketball. Number One is on DLS, Hoops on YouTube. Number two is you got to find you a secular show to watch because the big guys are too busy arguing with my boy Jalen. Brow and like that. Neither here nor there. Should we still be okay with making fun of bald people? I'm sorry. Says 79% of the audience says yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

Bullshit.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

Yeah, it's still okay. Sorry.

[Juju]

And last poll, five King Kongs versus one million Vin diesels. Who you got close one. 53% of the audience says five King Kongs. Damn. And those are your polls.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

Thank you, juju. Jeremy, what is your top five list? Before I get to my top ten list on things I did to make

[Jeremy]

ESPN angriest top five parts of being on my road trip with the Marlins over the last week. A couple of olis Oli having time during the day to be a human being. Crazy. Just working at night, not having to do two jobs at once. It was awesome. Another oli not having to really deal with much other media while you were on the road. It was pretty much just the broadcast. Number five, working with people who respect me and think I'm good at my job. Number four, exploring new towns. Minneapolis and St. Paul. Lovely places. Is that the same as the Oli one? No, totally different. Because going through a new town and actually getting to see nude towns. Did you say nude towns? Yeah. Now C E. That's what I said. They got the towns. Yeah, for sure. Nude towns. That's what I said. That's what I said. Going back to number five.

[Commentator discussing politics and race (possibly a guest or co-host)]

Shut up.

[Jeremy]

Number three, staying in first class hotels. Oh man, I looked like Hollywood sedano the entire time I was there. It was incredible. You know a little pro tip I learned take the slippers from inside the robes that they give you at these first class hotels. Take them on the flight and take off your shoes. Now you walk around in slippers, you're not walking around barefoot. Had a nice little conversation with the San Antonio spur while I was there about the wemby ejection. Wait a minute. So you are walking around your plane. Where are your socks with slippers on? Well, hotel slippers. Just go ahead and wait until number

[Co-host or Guest (possibly a producer or another commentator)]

get the dogs out on the plane.

[Jeremy]

Number two, chartered flights guys. Mini top five within at number five first class size seats on the entire plane. Number four, flight attendants. Learning your favorite drinks and snacks and adjusting for your next flight and leaving them at your seat. Number three, the meal that you walk on and grab at the beginning of the flight. Little charcuterie board. Number two, learning everything that they tell you about planes is bullshit. Including airplane mode and needing to be seated for the descent. Number one, the second meal that they give you on that chartered flight. And then number one, baseball. Man Was awesome. Target field beautiful.

[Dan Le Batard]

Did you say nude town?

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Naked town.

[Co-host or Guest (possibly a producer or another commentator)]

Nude town.

[Jeremy]

Naked town.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

Do you guys all remember the first time? I don't know, this might not be the first time that Jeremy's gotten an expense account, but do you guys remember the first time on the road that you got an expense account? Because I do. I remember being in Omaha, Nebraska and thinking it was the most amazing thing that anybody would pay me to do any of this. Do you guys remember or not remember? Like, Jeremy, was this the first time that you've had an expense account?

[Jeremy]

That was the first time I was on the road. So that was the first road trip I've taken. There was a per diem. Time to walk around, be in beautiful hotels. It was unbelievable.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

Let's answer my question. Do you guys remember the first expense account that you ever had on the road? Never had that kind of job.

[Juju]

Yeah. What?

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I would spend responsibly and then like

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

put in to be reimbursed, but I never got a per diem. But that is what an expense account is to have that. That's what it is.

[Dan Le Batard]

That's what I'm counting it as.

[Juju]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

Jeremy, what was Kyle seal off like on the flight?

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

Just.

[Jeremy]

Just a delight. He was great. Just minding his own business. He looks like a plane farter to me. No, no, definitely not. Now you've gone too far.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

What have you done? Why would you do that?

[Co-host or Guest (possibly a producer or another commentator)]

You could talk about other people looking like plane farters.

[Jeremy]

I'd say it to Kyle's face.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

All right, Would you?

[Jeremy]

I'll text you.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

I don't believe. I don't believe texting us, not his face. You want me texting us not his face. I don't believe that you would do. I just wanted to tell you that

[Jeremy]

I have his phone number.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

All right, here it is. My top 10 list on the things that I did to bother ESPN the most. Number 10 didn' earned my direct boss's call for eight months.

[Juju]

How to find your ass too.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

I didn't get fired. Chris Cody did. Number nine, called the UFC the sewer immediately after they signed their contract with UFC with Tony Kornheiser on FaceTime. Number eight got into an argument that my agent called the worst conversation he's ever seen anyone have in a meeting outside of Bobby Valentine over our T shirt sales. I'd like to thank Trog for his contribution to the oral history. Number seven, sold Deadspin, my hall of fame vote. Number six, the first take battery. Number five, yelling at them because they took us off in New York. Number four, the billboards. Number three, A hiring back Chris Cody.

[Commentator discussing politics and race (possibly a guest or co-host)]

Wait.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

Number two, I wrote the best thing I've ever written about China and the relations with China and they wouldn't run it. And number one, what I believe to be the funniest video in the history of our show here is a confused Billy Gill who was left to produce our show and could not hear while I what I was doing.

[Commentator discussing politics and race (possibly a guest or co-host)]

But the director was smart enough to

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

try and foul this up by putting Billy on the screen instead of me so that other people in the industry wouldn't aggregate this. But they had to aggregate it anyway with a confused Billy Gill at the top.

[Commentator discussing politics and race (possibly a guest or co-host)]

This tweet from Nick Wright. If you're listening to people chant Send her back about a Somali refugee who

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

serves in Congress,

[Commentator discussing politics and race (possibly a guest or co-host)]

Nick Wright writes, I don't talk politics on here, but this isn't political.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

This is obvious.

[Commentator discussing politics and race (possibly a guest or co-host)]

This is abhorrent, obviously racist, dangerous rhetoric and not calling it out makes you complicit. The send her back chant and the go back to where you came from are so antithetical to what we should be.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

It is so right what he is saying there. It is so wrong what the president of our country is doing, trying to go down, getting reelected by dividing the masses at a time when the old

[Commentator discussing politics and race (possibly a guest or co-host)]

white man, the old rich white man, feels oppressed, being attacked by minorities, black people, brown people, women. That's who we're going after now. Black people, brown people, women. And that's the like.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

Let's do it as the platform.

[Commentator discussing politics and race (possibly a guest or co-host)]

That's what you're seeing and the only way we can discuss it around here. Because this isn't about about politics, it's about race. What you're seeing happening around here is about race and it's been turned into politics. And we only talk about it around here. When Steve Kerr Popovich says something. We don't talk about what is happening unless there's some sort of weak, cowardly sports angle that we can run it through. When sports has always been a place where this stuff changes. Where stuff.

[ESPN Host (likely Dan Le Batard or a co-host)]

Wait man.

[Commentator discussing politics and race (possibly a guest or co-host)]

Muhammad Ali was fighting for this stuff in the 60s. The Bill Russell and Jim Brown are really old. Kareem Abdul Jabbar is these people who were fighting the most powerful among us in sports who are fighting in the real, in the civil rights era for things, atrocities happening to black people that we're still paying for now in a country where this is our greatest sin. I forgot about the art of conversation.