The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: JuJu Gotti Wins Best Dismissal

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

JuJu Gotti dismisses Dan so precisely that he undermines Greg Cote's show-long argument against banging the drum at the Florida Panthers game. Also, hey. Fans of the show. Hey. You. Yes, you. Have you ever wanted to watch a game with Dan? Well, we have a new March Sadness bracket coming your way this year, and your involvement might just make it happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. We didn't talk at all about the fight this weekend. We have to do that. And we also have to before Juju comes in here. Billy, what's going on with March Sadness? It is the start of March. I am a little afraid about how little we have talked about what we are on with March Sadness? It is the start of March. I am a little afraid about how little we have talked about what we're doing for March Sadness.

What can you tell the people about what we're doing? Because I don't know anything about what you've been planning or why it is you need a vacation. Well, so March Sadness is fast approaching. We're like two weeks away from Selection Sunday and we said, you know what, last year, we're gonna be honest, people didn't like what we did from March Sadness which is fine that's fine so we wanted to kind of reach out

and give back to the fans and encourage some fan interacting we have the the boost mobile line that we've been doing but that's you know once a week that's not enough so we said you know what it would be a great prize if we open this up and we had a prize where someone could watch the game with Dan, wouldn't that be exciting, Dan? We can have a fan watch the game with you. No, not even. Not even $37.

Not even. Yeah, free. Just go to levitardaf.com and we're gonna have a situation where we're gonna pick 64 fans this year. You're gonna submit a video, you're gonna get a prompt. The prompt is gonna tell you what this video's supposed to be about. When you go to Levitard AF, you're gonna submit a video, you're gonna get a prompt. The prompt is gonna tell you what this video is supposed to be about.

When you go to Levitard AF, you'll see it right there, it's gonna say March Sadness Fan versus Fan Tournament. And what we're gonna do is unify our audience by pitting them against each other. So, they're gonna have videos, they're gonna be asked a question, they're gonna answer said question, and then fans are gonna vote for the fan that they like.

Bracket style, they're gonna keep moving on round by round and the winner is gonna get a very nice prize including watching the game with one Dan Lebatard. Which is very exciting. Now I'm not gonna tell you which Dan Lebatard but one Dan Lebatard is gonna watch the game with said fan. So, act now because here's the thing. Stunt Dan.

At the end we're gonna do a bait and switch where all of a sudden with, hey all we told you is that you got to watch the game with one Dan Lebatard and it would be Stunt Dan Danny Benitez. And maybe more. Maybe more people will be involved in that situation. Who knows, maybe there'll be like a,

you know, I can't give away too much information. Johnny will be there too? In honesty, I can't give away too much information. Johnny will be there too? In honesty, I can't give you too much information because I found out there are so many legal hurdles that go into having contests. Lawyers have really been holding this thing up. Right, so basically what this is, is you can watch the game with me,

we're encouraging the audience to be competitive about getting to spend a night with me. Well, don't phrase it that way, because legally I don't know what's going on, and that's exactly right. Maybe. Thank you, Greg. He gets it. Whatever. So here's the thing. Just go online, levitardaf.com. Look for the things. Start submitting your videos why you should be one of these people. They'll give you the question, answer the question. There's only going to be 64, and if I've learned anything, it's

probably going to be the first 64 that we get. Okay, no. So act now and submit, because if we getting into like the 400s, good chance we're not gonna see your videos. So get in there very quickly to make sure that we watch your video. Get in there very well. Get in there very well with quality content. Or annoy Dan.

Be really annoying and maybe fans will vote for you so Dan has to watch the game with you because you're really annoying. Let's do that more than we've done today. That's a good strategy. But also try to be one of the first 64 because if it's after 64, again, there's a good chance if we put Taylor in charge of this,

we're not even gonna see the video. Okay, excellent work. Juju, it is nice to see you, and I wanna get to a number of things with you, but the first thing that I want to get with you, get together with you on is the fight from the weekend, because a whole lot of people were yelling and screaming. The elimination chamber, Juju Seth Rollins after elimination decides to curb CM Punk and

then kind of weird maybe some tea leaves there for a sign of things that come John Cena does not show any hesitance, straps in the STFU, chokes out CM Punk, punches his ticket to WrestleMania you think you got babyface versus babyface after a warm embrace after Cody Rhodes says rock Go F yourself, but he doesn't say F He actually says the word and then daggers for eyes as soon as a rock Sled throws a little throat slice across his throat kicking the nuts. So your reaction Tank Davis is what I was talking tank Davis is what I was talking about Tank Davis is what I was talking about. Tank Davis is what I was talking about.

Also Travis Scott, you gotta learn how to pull your punches. He punched Cody Rhodes so hard, like, jeesh, learn the game. Vernon Sage though in the corner is a great heel move. I like that for him. This is all setting up a potential triple threat in which Bad Bunny comes to the aid.

Wow! Maybe a sort of pseudo Latin coalition with Cody Rhodes. Hell yeah. But with the other fight that happened as well, Tank Davis versus Lamont Roach. Man, what a sham, bro. Lamont Roach got screwed over, man. Tank Davis was, he took a knee mere fight.

Usually in every other situation and circumstance, that's counted as a knockdown. He got to take a knee and say, oh yeah, my hairstyle has put too much grease in my hair. Time out, time out. Come on, time out. What are we doing? What are you doing?

What are you doing? First of all, why would you blame sis? She at the house watching the fight and she probably did, I wish you would, what's the meme from the Tim Robertson show? Like what the hell? You blaming me for this? Like that was so Bush league. I think Lamont got screwed on that one Doesn't everyone think that like I've rarely seen Consensus consensus, even though we can have many subjective things in boxing. It's one of the sports most contaminated by

Accusations of fix because judging can be subjective. There didn't seem to be any argument on this one. It was just everyone in agreement. What's that? That's not boxing. That's different than any, that's not the way the rules work. You don't just protect this person. It's weird too.

And that's why we look at stuff with the UFC. And it's like, even there, there's a couple of things in Ipoke here, a nutshell there where it's like, oh, wait a second, something was up. But in boxing, it feels like this happens very, very, very often. Hell yeah, man. Like everything that Tank threw at Lamont, he had accounted for

the entire fight. Maybe the first couple of rounds, Lamont was filling him out, which Tank usually does. But around the 7 through 12, Lamont was clearly the better man in that fight. And I think it does a disservice to the game of boxing, the sport of boxing, when you let results like that come about.

Did the audience have any issue with Peter Rosenberg being our Oscars expert? Instead of David Sampson and Adnan Virk, they both wanted to be our Oscars experts. And for some reason, instead we went Greg Cody and Peter Rosenberg. Damn right. Now the audience loved it, man.

You know, I think the audience tuned in to David Sampson and Adnan's broadcast last night, which is still available online. Go check it out on YouTube if you missed the fellas. But yeah, I think Mike was definitely right, bro. Like, Adrian Brody, build a bridge and get over your damn self. Like, sir, you don't tell the music man

to stop, I've been here before, and then go on with two more minutes of boring, boringness, like you, sir, are the joker of the Oscars. Alongside, I think her name was Clermont Ducaux and Camille for singing the last 20 seconds of the Oscar speech. I salute sis, congratulations. But sis, sis, come on, let's get off the stage. I think a couple other good moments was when the fire chief had the Joker part two joke

that made me pretty much laugh like hell. There's a lot of great moments for the Oscar. I think you gotta just stay patient with them, man. I'm with you on Adrian Brody being the Joker of the week, Juju. It was annoying to me to see all of the other filmmakers get played off the stage. And then he was like, I'm actually the best actor. So I'm very important and I can tell the band to stop. And then they did. And I was like, no!

Terrible, they should have gone louder. Yeah. Out of it. Right. Justice for the Dune II producer who got cut off by the music and respected it. Justice for him, you feel me? I have not seen any of the reaction.

I mentioned earlier in the show that Conan, as a comedic, like really, a person that I've admired over 30 years, how he keeps reinventing himself. The reports before this appearance, where he's trying to make the Oscars matter again, he's 61 and he's had a really tough couple of months. In December, his parents, who were in their 90s, died three days apart in his childhood home in Massachusetts, not long after the double funeral.

Just as he was settling back in Los Angeles to work on the Oscars, the fire started there and his home was evacuated. When his wife called to ask what to save, his only thought was of a 1980 letter from the author and essayist E.B. White. O'Brien had written to him as a teenage fan and he wrote me back a really sweet letter O'Brien said, so I just said grab that and if the rest goes, it still goes.

He's living in a hotel where he's put the letter on a wall. Did people receive Conan O'Brien well yesterday? Because what he's been for 30 years is just exceedingly likable. Yeah, I think he was the bright spot of the show. Like Jessica said, when he was like, we're not wasting time, we're not wasting time. A lot of his transitions felt like,

just like the old Conan O'Brien show, just great to watch, you feel me? Yeah, I think everyone liked Conan. Juju, what would you tell us about the verdict from the audience on whether or not journalistically I should be doing the Panthers drum tonight? Greg Cody, last thoughts on this, Greg, because I have not decided what to do.

I do have two tickets. Greg is still arguing with his son. Greg is saying if he gets the two good tickets, he'll go. If he gets the two other tickets, he will not go. Yeah, exactly. If you're part of Dan's Four, you the two good tickets he'll go, if he gets the two other tickets he will not go. Yeah exactly. If you're part of Dan's Four you're getting good tickets. We'll see about that.

I thought those were the tickets we're giving away if I go, but your last thoughts on this are what? I mean if I'm getting a smoky old fashioned and maybe knock back a couple of those I'll go. I don't think you should do the drum banging though. I think you should say you will and then not do it and leave the Panthers hanging for not giving you a sweet. Enjoy all the spoils whilst being in the most exclusive

suite that they have. Right on. And not actually do the thing that got you access to the suite. Yeah, that's the way to do it. Yeah, it's possible. No, if you show up late, they're not gonna not start the game because you're late,

but they're not going to take your tickets away. It's another thing, Dan, you have to show up before the game. That's when this thing happens. Yeah, don't show up late. No Cuban time. You do have kind of a tendency. Yeah. Traffic will make this very hard to arrive on time.

You guys know this is a two hour trip. What time did they tell you? You're leaving now, right? You should be leaving like right now. When did they say the game was? This is an honor. This is an honor. You should have left like probably a half hour ago.

Not everything is fun in games. You should send an impersonator. This is a true honor. Danny Bonita. Right, either that or an AI generated hologram of Dan Leviton fangin' a drum. You really should send Danny Bonitas today and see what the Panthers reaction is because like.

But with Valerie. A lot, yes. Because a Panthers reaction is because like, but with Valerie a lot. Yes, yeah, because a lot of these things like You're not gonna see the person that actually invited you right like they hand this off to a handler the handler hands that off to a handler So like you're dealing with like third and fourth parties in a lot of these instances if Danny Benitez showed up and he's like hi I'm Dan Leventhal. I'm here to bang the drum. They'd like oh yeah come in oh yeah it's two minutes from now come on we're gonna rush you through the bowels of the arena and they put you on a golf cart there's always golf carts down there put you in a golf cart they usher you away and then boom Danny Bonitas is vamos gatos boom boom boom boom boom and then

up at the suite with Greg I think any tomfoolery that you might pull off tonight might have my credential stripped. So, uh, whoa, is that about you? Royce is about me. I'm coming down. Look, this is not the juju. This is not the spirit of the thing. Do you think, do you see what is happening here? I would like to make a mockery of this honor. If I do, I'm going to cost us the relationship with the Panthers. Dan, you are my brother and I love you. If anybody ever touch a hair on your head, I'm at them instantly. But who the hell do you think you are, sir? Like when the Stanley Cup champions

asked you to bang the drum, you bang the damn drum with a smile on your face, sir. Like this is an honor. You threw journalism out two miles ago, sir. They have revoked your journalism card, severance style, news flash. We can platform some jokers up here. You sir need to put a smile on your face.

I don't give a damn what they give you one ticket. You go get that one ticket and smile because these are the champions. And they thinking of you in these moments. What in the heck am I hearing, sir? Wow, that was a great speech. If it was a speech, what would you call what you just said? It was a soliloquy.

It was wonderful. Well, but you come out on the... It's wrong. Well, argue with him. Okay, well, argue with him then. Don't give him... That's a great speech, but it goes contrary to everything I've said for four hours. Yeah, no, you negate yourself as a former journalist even.

Retroactively, we strip you of all integrity if you bang the drum tonight. I've said that, I've made myself clear, but if you're going to agree to bang the drum, at least have them give you a damn suite so that you don't have to charge your friends to go watch you bang a drum. The whole thing takes about 10 seconds, 10 seconds. You know, Jack Nicklaus barely touched the skin of that drum, you gotta really bang it, you know? You gotta beat it like Michael Jackson. What?

I think integrity was out the window around Richard Simmons' costume. Like, I feel like, here we are, sir. We're in 2025. That's a point. Whole question updates, please. I don't know what I'm gonna do. Wait, what costume are you wearing for this?

I don't know that I'm gonna do it. Cuban born is the costume I'm wearing, evidently. They got a jersey provided for you, so. A jersey? Also, Juju Watkins, salute to Juju Watkins going crazy against UCLA this weekend, dropping a 30-ball on their heads, neither here nor there.

No, it's here. UCLA looked bad on Juju. It's here and there. It's everywhere. It's everywhere. It's a part two ever Oscar worthy. 52% of the audience says no it is not. Dang.

It's Thunderball sharks with lasers on their heads. 76% of the audience says yes it is. You guys were really disrespectful to the 007 franchise. Incredibly disrespectful. You know the Dark Knight that our sacrifice himself for his kid we're all fans of double oh seven we want it we want to see it do well I'm done like this is like the second double oh seven tribute that they've done in the last 11 years one was for the 50th anniversary and the other one is well we've sold it to prime is it rude to speculate on another man's tummy?

78% of the audience says, yes, it is very rude. Jessica speaking the truths around here. Yes. Rude boy. Is your spouse lying if they say that you are their best friend? This is amazing. I couldn't believe this. 61% of the audience says, yes, they are lying. You're not the best friend. This is amazing. I couldn't believe this. 61% of the audience says, yes,

they are lying. You're not the best friend. It's always a great lie. Never heard anybody. Of course you're my best friend. Yeah, of course. Would your dog eat you if you died? Tucson. Rest in peace to Angie Stone, by the way, as well. Yeah, rest in power. to some rest in peace to Angie Stone by the way as well. Yeah, rest in power. 59% of the audience says yes, their dog would eat them if they died. Dang it. Should be higher than that.

It's so sad. I'm no health expert, but people seem sicker. 86% of the audience says yes. Almost like there's a pandemic, it's weird. And those are the polls.