The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Good Day! (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Episode Date: March 12, 2025

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It was so wild. I don't think of you as a spiritual person. Do I have that wrong? Like, I know that... So we're doubling down on it. Well, yeah, I guess so. I think hating God is too strong. I don't believe that that's what I said entirely.

A cynic of God. Just doesn't think God exists, yeah. A cynic. A God-cynic. I was like, what? Are you a spiritual person? Would you consider yourself a spiritual person? How do you define a spiritual person? You define it. I'm asking you. Then yes. If it's my definition, then yes. But I'm curious what your definition is. I think of you as almost inherently skeptical about everything. And

so I don't think, I remember having a conversation with you on Pablo Torre Finds Out where you didn't Have much use for whatever the spiritual center of yoga was for example We're talking about ghosts man like that like I don't believe in ghosts I've been very clear on that if there were ghosts and there'd be a lot more ghosts walking around He told me like oh this woman died of heartbreak in a in somewhere there's a ghost there but like all the slaves that died they don't have ghosts. Have you ever been to the ghost tour in St. Augustine Florida though? Cuz that will convince you. I've been to ghost tours all over this nation man I never seen nothing to make me believe that there's any kind of life after that exists in the same planet. A cynic. Yo, Lickentown. You are in a ghost tour.

I'm in a ghost tour with everybody. I mean, what kind of town is a ghost tour? I really want to delete Dan and I want to go home right now. Go to a ghost tour. Go to Lexington, Kentucky. Go to a ghost tour. I love when Dan's alone as a chicken. Alone as a chicken is great for Dan.

I love his part. What kind of chicken was? There's an accent. Lexington, Kentucky. Juju, welcome. It is nice to see you. What are the fairest of all of the criticisms on today's show? I imagine that tomorrow we'll start the show by saying all of the things that we did wrong

on today's show for about an hour and a half. Yeah, first correction I have, if I recall recollectly, the chickens were defeated by Jeremy Tashay's video for Tony reality last week, not necessarily Taylor. Still an upset. I know he didn't want to bring that up. Still an upset. Yes. Good, good correction. Thank you, Juju. Hell yeah. And Dan, my brother, please, just take it from certain wars. You gotta learn to take the L, brother. We sat here, I'm ashamed to be a part of this two days in a row.

Amin had great points and checkmated you around minute three, but you kept it going for 25 more minutes. Come on, where is the magic crater content? Does that button not work no more do we do we get rid of it because I thought we had an umpteen amount of times to press that button Dan and the fans of the show today they say Nathan stacking from YouTube says juju you can't tell Dan that the chat has been overwhelmingly positive about the show today. Dan is out

here making a damn fool of himself with this LeBron take. NDA Vader from Twitter, Yo, LeBotard show. Dan is too smart to play coy about this topic. Darth Amin is right to call him out about it. This show is moving to OAN the past few days. Oh, I Mean the people have spoken my brother. That's worse than a godsend Republicans listen to our show too And they buy tennis shoes as well and which you gave got got on Michael Jordan for that and LeBron did a great job It's speaking up sometimes So let's just try to keep it fair and So let's just try to keep it fair.

Let's just try to keep it fair because we did 25 plus 23 minutes yesterday on that and now one mention of the Joker's heroic revenge game against SGA and the Thunder where not only did the Joker step up, the entire team, the Oklahoma City Thunder team, not the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Denver Nugget team showed up, you feel me? From the first man on the bench to the last man on the bench to the training staff, they was wrapping ankles. Good like, bro, we need to talk about nothing from that game but we sitting here with this propaganda for day two.

That was a good second game though. I had, after watching Denver slog to that first one against OKC in the fourth quarter to see Jokic go and lead against that defense, lead the Nuggets with 140 points? Well Dan, I gave you the stat last week. The Thunder had lost only two games by ten points or more all season long which is tied for the record and that was game number three right there so they will not hold the record. Belt to ass. Also, I mean, you had a little bit of,

I know you were disappointed in Stephen A's first take response, but like you said, you were armed with the full story and information after the weekend. And so was Stephen A. Once Richard Jefferson and LeBron had their powwow with the hot mic, that's when Stephen A was able to say, wait, that wasn't about no damn LeBron. that powwow with the hot mic. That's when Steve Vanay was able to say, wait, that wasn't about no damn LeBron,

that was about Bronny. That's why we got what we got from Gils Rini yesterday, scorched earth, Steve Vanay. And so I think that's why you may have been disappointed on that Friday. Okay, that's fair. See, then, it's not that hard to be like, oh, okay. You feel me?

And also, the joker of the day goes out to my big brother. I rocked his jersey today Shaquille O'Neal the Shaq fool himself How dare you sit next to Charles Barkley while he scorns the ESPN staff for not talking about the great teams We're talking about the Lakers. We're talking about the cell the popular teams and we're not giving credit to the Cavaliers who to sell the popular teams and we're not giving credit to the Cavaliers, bro, and teams like the Pistons who are having a great year and then you do a disservice to Chauncey Billop as well as JP Bickerstaff by not mentioning the importance that the Pistons are having and the Trailblazers who the Chauncey Billops are coaching right now, they're actually doing a good job right now so you do a disservice for both of those teams by being flippant talking about you don't

watch this. That's what's the problem with this media. That's the big problem right there. I love you Shaq Fool. I love you Shaq Gnosis. But come on big brother, build a bridge, get over yourself and tune in to some Pistons games because them brothers are doing a great job right now. Juju to be fair, when Barclay said all that stuff, he said to Shaq, what's the name of that fool over there?

Shaq said, who? So Shaq wasn't really bought in on the whole argument from the beginning. It was really Charles' argument. Yeah, well I think that that's what's wrong with the NBA coverage. That's why we have people around the world saying, I don't watch basketball no more.

Combine that with these super teams. You tune in to the Orlando Magic playing, the Toronto Raptors, you couldn't give a damn because nobody has a, you gotta love basketball and all these stars are so clustered up together. Don't get me started. I'm out of here. No, I wanna talk about a couple of other things,

but I also wanted to ask Amin what his opinion was on the idea that whatever you think of the lead NBA voices in this country, Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley, Stephen A. Smith, if they're in your top group of NBA voices, they're entertainment more than analysis. It doesn't mean that they can't also do analysis, but the emphasis is on entertainment. Well, we talked about this before, where people don't possess the skills to differentiate between what those guys say and do versus what great writers and reporters are doing,

and just lumping it all as, the media says this, when LeBron said, that's the problem with the media. Well, it it's like well, I know plenty of people who analyze and break down the game who do all the things that LeBron claims They want to Kevin Durant claims. Hey, why don't you guys just talk about the game? Say but yeah, you never you never mentioned those guys You're part of the problem. You're taking your Platform your voice that goes very far and choosing instead of saying, you know what, I really enjoy the writing of Tom Havistrow. I really enjoy the writing of Marcus Thompson in The Athletic and Sam Amick and guys like that.

Instead of that, you're choosing to talk about the same four people over and over again. Well, there's no wonder why those guys keep getting raises and keep getting paid and keep getting attention and keep getting every show because the stars are endorsing them whether they want to or not. We've got to get to a few more things with Juju and we'll have Amin in the rest of the week on basketball. But also as part of this affliction though, I mean, you've got those people who are entertainers

talking about how many teams that have a real championship chance, a legitimate championship chance. So they have to invent other storylines because you've got four or five teams to choose from as legitimate contenders. Yeah, I would say six. There are six teams that legitimately have a chance to win a championship.

And at that point of the year Yes Attention tend tends to wane on the lesser teams because we're all getting ready to talk about these teams that we're going to be talking about Through april may and june the difference and I think juju is going to point this out Which is detroit's been getting better and better so a team like detroit at the beginning of the year was probably not on shacks radar getting better and better. So a team like Detroit at the beginning of the year was probably not on Shaq's radar. Now should be, but because of the way they started, wasn't really there. Same thing with Portland. They're probably not going to make the play in, but they're playing a lot better now than they were early in the year. Even a team like the Wizards, who I've been clowning all year long, they've been like roughly 500 over the last, since

trading Kyle Kuzma. So a lot of these bad teams are getting better but the problem is for guys like Shaq and I don't blame them on this one. You're going to be asked a million questions between now and June about the Cavs, about the Thunder, about the Celtics, about the Nuggets, about the Lakers, about the Knicks, maybe the Warriors. You know what I mean? That was great. I couldn't have said that better. I would definitely attend your funeral. I don't give a damn if it's overseas was great. I couldn't have said that better. I would definitely attend your funeral. I don't give a damn if it's overseas in Australia.

I'm getting my behind on the plane. I would attend all of you guys' funeral, by the way. I don't take it lightly. Even Jeremy? This means a lot to me. I know y'all don't have to answer if y'all would come to my funeral. I know the answer to that.

But I would attend all of you guys' funeral, 100%. Thank you, Juju. It's a dark compliment. It's fair. Before we get out of here on polls and stuff, I think you've earned today the ability to give just any kind of life advice that you would like to give to anybody in the audience.

It doesn't have to be in victory lap form, but if you want the floor to give any life advice that people can use Please have at it Yes, a brother named Ronnie H hit me on Instagram DM and I won't read this message You feel me? But I think I was just share the advice. I was giving him bro friendships Friendships are not easy man something even the best friendship in the world marriage marriage starts off with a, hey, better or worse now. Like you feel me? You have to, it's a part of that contract.

Your wife, she's going to fart under the covers, bro. You got to get through that Dutch oven. And the same thing with friendships. Sometimes we go through things with our friends and sometimes we internalize them instead of going to that friend and saying, hey bro, do you mind changing this? Sometimes we go to, we'll be offended by your friend and we'll hey bro, do you mind changing this? Sometimes we go to, we'll be offended by your friend and we'll go to 12 people, 13 people, and be like, that person, guess what that person did? That's not necessarily friendship.

If you want to call somebody yourself a friend to someone, you gotta be one and give them an opportunity to be a friend back to you. Say, hey bro, I didn't like how you did that to me. Can you change that? And that person now has the option to say, hey, no, screw you, get out of my face, and you don't have to waste time with that friend anymore. Go your separate ways. Or that person may surprise you and say,

oh my goodness, I'm so sorry, let me not do that again. And your friendship grows stronger forever and ever. And you know now you can depend on that person even if you drop the ball. Communication is key in every scenario and just allow your friends to be friends and they might surprise you and actually give you what you need.

Much easier, much easier to just talk shit behind your friends back to 12 people. Ronnie H, Ronnie Honlete. Yes, very inefficient way to do it. What kind of polls do we have, poll updates do we have poll updates? Do we have today juju? Yes, sir. Is the person who says shant an asshole 101%

91% of the audience says yes, he is hey toss Do you long for the day when you let off steam by dancing in a warehouse Do you long for the day when you let off steam by dancing in a warehouse? 64% of the audience says, yes, they do long for that day. That script on that movie, can you imagine that script? And now Kevin Bacon goes to the warehouse and just dances like crazy. Just what a shitty script. I threw this on the pole because you guys were lingering on this, I thought you were about to ask it, so I just threw this for answers and giggles.

Kevin Bacon's career is equivalent to Chris Bosh, Kenny Smith, James Joan, or Tracy McGrady. 37% of the Instagram audience says Tracy McGrady. No way! Absolutely not! You know what? This show has been disrespectful enough. You're disrespected LeBron.

You're disrespected Shaq. Now you're gonna disrespect Tracy McGrady? Good day! Oh wow, good day! Everybody look out! Good day! Oh my God, he punctuated it with that! Good day!

Those are your polls.