The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Chris and JuJu's Loveline

Episode Date: March 5, 2025

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You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Warning. I've got this condition where I don't feel pain. You're a superhero. No. If this is how intense Nova Kane sounds... Oh, wow. Imagine how it looks.

Is there more? Yeah, big time. Nova Kane. Forming theaters March 14th. Oh wow! Imagine how it looks. Yeah, big time. What's up Juju? What up dawg? Four episodes in. My brothers? Four episodes in.

That's some fire bruh. Juju, did you watch the finale? Hell yeah dawg. I didn't see that one coming huh? Be careful, tread lightly. I'm just saying, I didn't see that one coming, huh? Be careful. Tread lightly. I'm just saying, I didn't see that one coming. They're talking about Paradise, and it's getting a lot of word of mouth, and I always enjoy when these shows get word of mouth,

and a lot of my friends start talking about stuff, because now I can anticipate binging something. I'm only one episode in, but go ahead. I mean, have the floor here with how good this show is on Hulu. And for those of you who don't know, without spoiling anything at all, it's a president of the United States

and his top security person, and it goes from there. Yeah, it's a murder mystery, right? And watching the first episode, you'll be like, okay, all right, whatever, it looks a little weird, okay? And then there's a revelation at the end of episode one. And that sets the premise for the entire show, and that's what takes it from,

okay, another one of these whodunit shows. No, but it's plenty good before that revelation. It's good, but it's also like been done before. Whodunit, been done before. The thing that I felt in the first episode, and I will let you guys speak to it, but the thing that I felt in the first episode that I legitimately have not felt since watching The Shield,

which I believe to be one of the best television shows I've ever seen, is an increasing tension that by the end of this, I feel like I'm going to be personally surrounded because of how bad a situation this is. For sure, but even saying that, we can still acknowledge that you've never felt like I'm watching something totally undone before

until the end of episode one. And that's what took me from like, okay, this is a cool show to, what? And it sets everything else into place. I'm four episodes in and I'm loving it so far, so be careful with the spoilers. But I will say my one critique without, this is no spoiler, the time hops. and I'm loving it so far, so be careful with the spoilers. But I will say my one critique without,

this is no spoiler, the time hops, like we gotcha. It's just like, oh, my relationship with my father, cut to seven years earlier, where here we're gonna show you in one scene how I encapsulate my entire relationship with my father. Oh, you should see my kids, cut to seven years. It's just like, we gotcha, you can do time hops. Typically, I'm not a fan of time hops.

I think they do the time hops perfectly. But then I did wanna bring this up because I saw this. This was the Dan Fogelman, who is the EP of the show. He posted on Instagram an email he sent to Sterling K. Brown, the star of the show, December 14th, 2022. Hey man, so here's something different I've been working on for the last few months.

Wrote it for slash picturing you. You're the only person who has seen this aside from the fourish people who run Disney slash 20th. It was turned in 48 hours ago and it's getting a series order. Keep that between us. It's all just happening overnight, but it will be roughly eight to 10 episodes a season

for Hulu, couple seasons. I have no desire to shoot anywhere besides LA, though we might have to drive a bit to get to location that requires no one else involved yet. No one else has seen it. This email will self-destruct in two minutes. I know it goes without saying, but never feel pressure on my end.

Like Whitney said, I will always love you. Take a read, tell me what you think. You'll have questions at the end, I have answers. Love to Rye and the fam, feel better. Two years ago, he sent that email to Sterling K. Brown, didn't have a cast, didn't have a green light. Isn't that how every show gets started? No.

Like with a pitch to a lead actor, hey, I wrote this. No, man. No? How is every show pitched ever to an actor? Well, usually- I don't mean to undercut what you're doing, but it just seems like a pretty standard process. Usually they pitch to the studio,

and the studio either has ideas of who they would want or. Well, we're talking to a movie star here. He would know how this stuff happens. Sterling K. Brown is great. He's a nightmare. I love him in just about everything. Juju, what are your thoughts on Paradise? Well, you've told us already, but added thoughts.

Yeah, like they're saying, when it comes to the Time Hops, it's from the same people who made This Is Us. And if you watch This Is Us, they got nothing but Time Hops telling you about how the dad was going through this or that. And long story short, after you watch that first episode, the last scene, I feel like universally around the globe, You're in.

You just say, I'm in. You say exactly, okay, I'm in now. I'm locked in. Can't wait for episode two. Please, I urge everybody to go give it a chance. All right, please, I urge as someone who was discussing with Amin off air here moments ago, my general frustrations on us having ideas at Metal Arc

and then not executing them, I would love a time hop that goes back in your relationship with your father, Chris Cody, and shows me your entire relationship in one scene. I would like for you to write with your dad, show us that he's the actor that he's told us he is this week, one scene that encapsulates your whole relationship.

I'm giving you the assignment. I'm sure we'll never see the light of day. Hold on, Dan. Chris, let me help you out. The present scene is you guys on the boat for your dad's birthday. The time hop goes back to the story you told on the boat. Do it however you want.

Just get me something by the end of tomorrow's post-game show. I mean, nailed it. Look, as someone who witnessed the boat and the speech on the boat, that's a really good template. Whatever you guys want. It didn't include the bag. Should we work on this?

I'm just saying, when you've been around Hollywood as long as I have, like, you get to see things. Memes and nightmares on Hulu right now. And then the next scene, you go from that boat and then go to Greg Cody's belly button surgery and then you go back to freedom. And it's like, oh. Then fast forward and it's a funeral scene

and you're like, oh no. And then they zoom out and it's Greg looking at Chris's cast. No! Oh, I'm in. No! Exactly, Juju. Oh my God.

I'm in. You had my curiosity. Now you have my attention. What else do you have for us today in terms of review of the show, Juju? I think they got a little carried away with the White Lotus conversation, which makes me want to jump in as well. I think the other couple of days ago you was like, things that are best to take a nap to. I would urge people to see season, I mean episode three of White Lotus, very peak nap taking vibes. The water hitting, you'd be like, oh man then you hear the birds chirping and then you hear a phone vibrating, but it's like, oh

that's not my phone, that's Draco Malfoy's dad phone. I can stay asleep and speaking of Draco Malfoy's dad, his accent could use a little WD-40. I'm not sure if he's from Texas, Australia, London, I don't know, but I love the White Lotus, they're just a franchise, but this season is made of filler. Thank you. How did you feel about people coming after renewed vows? I thought they really went hard after romance here.

Right, right. The same way White Lotus has made a filler, my shirt is made of boyfriend material. If my baby wants any, I don't give a damn if she wants me to fly to the moon and just say, hey bro, we gotta go. She has chosen to spend the rest of her life with me. And if baby say she wanna renew her vows

in front of her friends, there I say I'm willing to give her the moon, I'm willing to give her the world. I will invite all the people. Thanks for saying this, I know who to leave off the invite. Because bro, whatever my baby want, I'm gonna surround her with love for the rest of my life.

So I think that the vows got a little bad rep. Bro, we talking to David Simpson, a proud divorced man. He calls him what, the devil he knows? The rare. We can't ask people like him about the vows. I think that vows are to be celebrated and it's amazing thing to live that long and celebrate your love.

Juju, I saw a guy on Instagram say that the cure for the divorce rates in America, which is around 50%, is to treat marriages like a four-year MBA contract. And that way you have a contract year at the end and people are still working to keep the relationship alive versus a lifetime deal where it's like, what's the incentive for me to work? I'm already here.

Right, and you gotta treat every day like you just started courting, like beating. Uh oh. Hanging on every word. Yep. You gotta. Damn it. You know what I mean?

We didn't know what you mean because you froze out after our lights went out, go ahead. You always gotta be courting is where we lost you. Oh yeah, you gotta keep it courting, bro. Ask your wife, hey, do you mind if I take you on a date this Saturday, are you free it going, bro. Ask your wife, hey, do you mind if I take you on a date this Saturday? Are you free?

Like, keep the spice in your love life. Write her a note. Tell her, hey, meet me at this restaurant. I'm gonna act like I don't know you, and I'm gonna try to see if I can pick you up sometime in the night. Like, keep your relationship alive, and this is the stuff that helps do so.

When I ask my wife to go on a date, she goes, but your parents watched her last weekend. What am I gonna ask my parents again for the third weekend in a row? I can't just be asking. We can't ask everyone every weekend and then I get an earful. That's why I'm just like, okay, sorry.

I have an idea that's never been done before on any show or podcast anywhere. What if we had a love line for advice? But for every question, Juju gives his advice and then Chris gives his advice. I love that, I love that idea. Let's do that right after we do Greg and Chris in a single snapshot, one acted scene.

Before we get to the polls, I wanted to tackle a couple of basketball things here with Juju. First of all, Juju has designed a new T-shirt, thank you, Nico Lakers shirts that you can get at lebatardaf.com. What are your thoughts on Nico, the Lakers, and the fact that last night they win again and Luka hasn't looked efficient or right in any of the games, but they're winning plenty

just like Golden State is. Right, I think it's something to having LeBron and Luka on your team when you are a Showtime Laker. I think it motivates everybody to having LeBron and Luca on your team when you are a Showtime Laker I think it motivates everybody to treat every single game like it's a new relationship like man There's Joe there's Denzel Washington, man. I got to do my job Like they are so efficient right now Jared Vanderbilt the enforcer like you you said it a couple weeks ago I was I laughed at you Dan. I was like, yeah sure Jared Vanderbilt I told my girlfriend Dan said a funny joke today

Jared Vanderbilt is an enforcer. No you were right he like they they bring the pressure to every single game and I think that they're rising to that occasion and if you're out there listening to my voice if you want a team to do bad send me an email tell me to praise them and watch their season go down the toilet that day. Thank you, Nico Shirts, right now available, lebatardaf.com. I don't get to have it right on the Lakers.

I thought they would immediately be the worst defense in the league if they had LeBron and Luke on the court at the same time. I don't get to be right on that one. I mean, I don't even understand how I'm that wrong on that one. I thought they would be the worst defense in the league, taking out Anthony Davis and replacing it with having

Luca and LeBron on the court at the same time. Well, first of all, the Phoenix Suns, they hold my beer. When as soon as you're there, you say that because they're awful, they guard nobody. But yeah, Jared Vanderbilt, Juju's right, Jared Vanderbilt has been a got some returning from injury for them they have enough guys they were you know uh... uh... everyone on the team being a great defender but they got enough guys

between vanderbilt dory and phinney smith we are tomorrow we got enough guys to keep us some of the gay benson uh... a semblance of a great defense and what they've done is they've defended at a top five level. Now, Dan, if I told you who are some of the other great defenses since the Luka trade,

and I told you the Brooklyn Nets are in there, and the Detroit Pistons are in there, and the Portland Trailblazers are in there, it also begins to give us, oh yeah, this is small sample size. Juju, what are your thoughts on the conversation around Jimmy Butler and Golden State? Yeah, man, I think Jimmy Butler,

he just opens up the floor so well, and the combination of him and Draymond's veteran leadership, it allows players like Brandon Podziemski, Moses Moody, last night, Buddy Hill, to do what they're actually good at versus trying to do what Steve Kerr would like for them to do. He's allowed every player on that team to actually settle in to what they're good at.

I mean. Yeah, I need to make a correction. From earlier in the show, I talked about the likelihood of the Warriors being probably the seventh seed going in after winning a play-in. I misspoke because the Clippers lost last night and the Warriors won.

The Warriors are now six officially. Clippers were up by 23 last night. They've lost all four times. They've played Phoenix. And if you're only looking at boxcores, Podzemski has been better than Jimmy Butler. But don't tell anybody that, all right? Just keep making it about only Jimmy Butler.

Let's update the polls in a second, but let's do against the spread. It's not my computer. It's time for Against the Spread. It's brought to you by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Jeremy, take it over. College baseball, Florida and FAU with a midweek game. Now, Dan, listen to this one, ready? Florida lost last night to UCF 13 to three. They've lost every game they've played to UCF since 2017.

They've lost back to back games to in-state opponents, Miami and UCF. Meanwhile, Florida Atlantic, they've won back-to-back games to in-state opponents Miami and UCF meanwhile, Florida Atlantic They've won two midweek games already against in-state opponents. You got Miami you got UCF. They've got those wins they're gonna keep that going because they Are an underdog by three and a half runs tonight against Florida Florida had to use five pitchers yesterday in a midweek game They're not gonna have enough pitching Florida Atlantic covers the spread plus three and a half

in Gainesville against the Spurs. I'm gonna take the Anaheim Ducks plus one and a half against the Vancouver Canucks. We are two and oh when we take the Ducks this year. Last time we took the Ducks it was very, very dicey. They were favored to lose by one and a half. They had a three to by one and a half. They had a three to nothing lead.

Most dangerous lead in hockey is two goals. They ended up blowing that. They were then down by one. They pulled the goalie and then what happened? Lots of shots on goal. Hit the crossbar or the side post, one of those bars. And we almost lost by two, but we didn't. We covered, so that's as good as a win.

I know what you're thinking, Billy, didn't the Vancouver Canucks and the Ducks play each other last Thursday? They did indeed, and the Ducks won five to two. Well this time it's in Vancouver. The Ducks won two of their last three, the Canucks have won one of their last five. Vancouver has the lead in points 65 to 61,

but we're gonna take the Ducks plus one and a half against the Canucks tonight Against the Sprats! Best one we've ever done. Best one we've ever done. Ladies of the night! What? Update the polls here for us, Juju. I've enjoyed the return of the polls, the return of the updates. You've been choosing very smartly with the ones you've chosen to update.

What do we have today? Before we get to that, I want you to put a question on the poll, Dan Lebatard. Worst year, Nico Harrison or Aubrey Drake Graham for tomorrow's polls? Oh wow, no, put it up right now at Lebatard show. Worst year, Nico or Drake? You're supposed to do it. I just did it Pole number one will they from Billy Gill you know what I mean?

57% of the audience says yes, they will I don't remember what we were talking about. Some lassoos and white lotus, will they? Oh yeah. All right, Walter Goggins with that look in his eyes. Poll number two, are renewed vowels one of the stops on the train tracks to divorce? Big day for Billy on the polls. 79% of the audience says yes.

Those are two good ones. Exactly. Speaking of divorce, David Sampson, early, this has been like hitching my giddy up. At the party, they asked Saquon, could you hurdle? What in the? That's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy.

Bro, that's like asking Gregory Hines, hey, can you come over here and give us a little soft shoe? You don't do that, that's why you need friends from all walks of life in your life to be able to say, hey bro, don't ask that to the black, don't do that. I'm outta here. Juju, here's the crazy part, the friend who was that in that story was David Sampson.

He was the one. Samson was the voice of moderation there. Can you imagine a rumor? Samson is like, he's the one who knows how to act. Hey Chris Cody, can you give me a little Michael Jackson kick? What are we doing? I almost did it. I was like, I just did it.

I mean, Dan makes me write a song so that I can work here every day. Best song ever though. Thank you. Best song ever. I really appreciate that. His last one was really good. It was a really good effort.

We found a lane for him. Just make fun of Dan and his ability to eat pie. Oh yeah. That song of the- So Dan was saying, oh my, how I'd love to eat pie. Oh, but if it has some gluten, then I think I may die. I'll shoot my integrity straight into the sky, bangin' Panthers drums as a Cuban born guy.

Panthers drums as a Cuban born guy. Panthers drums as a Cuban born guy. Cuban born guy is just excellent. It was not Cuban born. It's as big a lie as the one Dwayne Wayne told, according to the Miami Heat. What do you have for more updated polls here? Do you use the word croaked when talking about death? 57% of the audience says yes they do.

Wow, that's high. That is high. We got an old ass audience. Does everyone have a crotch? 96% of the audience says yes everyone does. 4% of them are Arliss, everyone does. It's a good poll. Go ahead. 4% of them are what? Artless Loveless from Wild Wild West?

4% question. And that one guy, the wrestler. Oh yeah. Those are your polls. Thanks, Juju. Thanks, Juju. Thank y'all.