The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Pops Witherspoon (feat. JuJu Gotti & Bryant McKinnie)

Episode Date: January 15, 2026

"He plays more defensive tackle, right?" JuJu is here for Thursday Thunder, some crucial show feedback, and to update the Polls as Bryant McKinnie reveals the truth about an urban legend and Tony dresses Dan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So make every dish the greatest and eat the goat. All right, McKinney, I've done a dangerous thing here. Juju, I've done a dangerous thing here. I have allowed Tony to pick out my outfit for the live stream on Monday. We are doing the entire week building up to the live stream on Monday. So, Juju, it's a terrible decision. I remember one time many, many, many years ago, Boug Shambi allowed me to pick his Halloween costume.

And so a ginger was in a giant heart, and it was embarrassing to him, and he'll never make that mistake again. I've aired terribly in allowing Tony to make my outfit for Monday night. Have I not, Juju? I don't know. Stay tuned. I got to see what my boy working with right now because I heard satin was in play.

So if it's some satin in play, I think we got a winner. All right, let's see what we've got here. Let's go out to Tony. McKinney, you please help me and tell me whether I can pull this off in any way, pull off this outfit on Monday night. It's the most Cuban game ever played, and Tony has picked out my outfit. So what do you have, Tony? Hey, Dano.

Shout out to Juju. Shout out to BM in the back. Thank you for putting Jeremy in a headlock. You're actually lucky because if I would have let Rose pick your outfit, you would look like Craig Sager and it would have looked terrible. So this is not, she keeps holding this thing up. Rest and piece of Craig Sager, by the way. She keeps holding this up.

This is not what we're doing here. But Fidel here at Havana Collection did allow me to have a little bit of some Bacelo rum, extra iniejo, $500 a bottle here. So we're going to sip this as we go. They're taking care of you, Tony. Yes, sir. Smooth. You know how we do, Dan?

When you love the city, when you love the city, the city loves you back, Dan. Remember that. All right. All right. So this is what we're going with. This is what we're going with. First, we'll go from the bottom up. These are the shoes you're wearing right here.

Look at this. Look at this style on this. Look at that. Giovanni shoes. All right. I was surprised when I heard your shoe size, by the way. Wood bottom. Hard.

Small. Yeah, a little small. I saw it, size 11. Small, small, small. Yeah, for a minute, and what I heard was 10.5. Ooh, really? What I heard was 10.5.

Yeah, I was like, wait, Dan, I was like, wait, Dan to 10 and a half. Run that again. I'm like, no, no, no, no, for sure. 14 I am. Big poker. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure, boy.

All right, so that's the shoe. 18. Oh, my God. He's a size 18 shoe. That's like two of shoes, Dan's shoes put together. All right, Dan, so the bottom, here are the pants. right here. Look at these day. Ooh. All right.

Stylish right here with this baby blue. And then we're going to put this shirt on top with a nice, look. That's a good look. Tony, I thought for sure you were going to dress me as a clown. People are going to say this is going to be, that this should be my look. Why would I trust you as a clown? It should be your look.

Why would I dress you as a clown? I can't believe how loving that outfit is. Now, I'm not going to be able to pull it off, but my guess is you're going to actually make me look good. There's the hat. Brings it all together. Yeah, that's a good thing. Look at the hat.

Look at that. Look at that. With these shoes on, with some tan socks on the need, Dan, you're looking, Dan, nobody's going to be better dressed than you. They're going to come to you and be like, whoa, how did you put all this together? This is incredible. And then you're going to say, yeah, man, I just love the city. The city loves me back.

They gave me all this for free. All right. I need a makeover. McKinney. So explain. Thank you. Tony, excellent. Bring that over.

I'm looking forward to enjoying this with you guys on Monday night. Go ahead and buy that. Can we expense the $500 bottle of butcelo rum or no? Yeah, go ahead. Bring that over here from. For Monday night. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go ahead.

For Monday. Look, we're going to be doing a big party on Monday night. Look, McKinney can tell you some of the stories. McKinney is not a shame to tell you about the money spent on bottles during the Super Bowl. I don't imagine, right? So he would admire a man who buys some liquor. Am I going to look okay, Brian? Because I need your help in reinventing myself.

Some people in Miami are mad at me. They're saying that my journal... Mike, explain what it is that I've done wrong that we need Bryant-McKine. he's helped to endorse me because Miami's mad at me. Cuban Miami's mad at me. Dan's not caping up for the canes the way that he would cape up for a Pat Riley team. I guess he needs Pat Riley to dump his head in an ice bucket for this team to resonate. And a lot of Miami people in the streets are like, Dan forgot about us.

He doesn't cape up for us the way that he does for the other teams. Well, I think he did a good job. Maybe I would change the shoe color. Yeah, but I mean, other than that, I'd like the outfit and the hat is a girl. What shoes would you go with? Tony, would you be willing to take some advice from Bryant on the shoe or maybe get two pairs of shoes or am I insulting you right now? I could.

Am I insulting you by offering? See, here's the thing, Brian. You can't go black. Now, respect to Brian, okay, loved you as a cane, loved you in the NFL. But the problem is you can't wear a black shoe with the Navy and the baby blue. You can't do that. That doesn't work that way. That color scheme does not work.

We need a Cuban color scheme. White shoe. White shoe is better. Okay. Let me see. He doesn't like the shoe. White shoes a little bit. A little bit.

Pops Witherspoon. Dan's a younger guy. Yeah, John Rook is moving. Great job. There's a thin line between Cuban and Popswether's spoon. We could do some of these right here. Do we like this one better? What do you think?

It's your, Brian. You're in here with you. Can I see it next to die? Look, we are allowing you to pick my shoes for the Monday night watch party. And Tony, thank you for doing this for Brian, but thank you for helping him as well. Because I don't want to be embarrassed. I want to look good. Exactly right. So here's here's the two collections of the shoes, right?

That looks better. Yeah. It's a better one. Can I see it with the hat? Can I see with the hat next? There you go. Yeah, that's right. I'm green brown. You're right. Up to two is a better option. Who's team brown? Yeah. Not me. My issue is that this color is a little more cream than white, right?

So this I think matches a little bit better. Yeah. All right. Juju, final vote. You're good? Yeah, I'm with it. I'm with the team. Lock it in. All right, they're dressing me up. Tony, thank you for the work. We'll see you again tomorrow. We're going to get to Juju here in a second and Thursday, Thunder, and a number of other things. But, Brian, I did want some more of your insights here because you have something in the way of real expertise. When you see Fletcher run, you know what good running backs look like. When you see this offensive line play the way that it does, I've never seen, obviously, I've never seen a Miami team do the seven-year-old. rugby scrubs down the field.

But I've also never seen University of Miami team led by the size and toughness of its offensive line. We want to control the game. Yeah, there are any number of things that we want to happen in this game. But one of the things that we want is our identity is our coach insists on we're going to play from second and three because we're going to take seven yards from you, even though you know we're going to take seven yards from you on a run. So when you look at Fletcher running with that offensive line, what are you seeing?

I'm saying one, a patient runner back because I feel like he allows things to develop. But, two, he gives a lot of second effort, too. Like, he breaks the first tackle and he's able to get to the secondary. So I like seeing that. And the O line is downfield. Still just knocking people out the way. Brian, I'm sure a lot of people want to ask you about Markell Bell because of the dimensions and the sheer mass of you two.

Markle, in Cuban Spanish, there was saying, Grande por gusto. This was a guy that was in. Ronde's big. Yeah. Yeah, but Grande por gusto usually means big for nothing. usually see, and that's not what Markell Bell is, but Markele. Yeah, neither you. Markele Bell was a guy, even though he's six foot nine and looking as huge as he does, he was a guy that came over from junior college. So how difficult is it? I know a lot of people

think mass kicks ass and it definitely does, but there's a lot of technique involved. How much more difficult for big guys like you is it to hone in on the technique from a coaching perspective? Yeah, so big guys, you're tall, but some people can get under you and have a little more leverage. So you have to know your points. You have to have knee bend. You have to know hand position, things like that. So as you get older and the more you do it, you'll realize putting your hands in certain places to give you more leverage and power

and you look stronger than what you actually are just because you know how to move people. So sometimes people don't, it's not about moving a lot of weights. It's not how to move a person's body. And I feel like he's getting good at it. You could be out the game Monday? So they told me yesterday, say, hey, we're working on your tickets. So, you know, I was patient.

You know, the group chat was going crazy. So I just stayed quiet And I just waited And luckily I got a call yesterday They say hey we're working on your Ticket So who's being the most impatient right now In the group chat

There's a few people Yeah It's a few people Because you know Rom dog Is it Rom dog You know he's definitely one of the candidates You know

A lot of guys just feel like You know We were part of that Great team And just feel like well We should be in there But I understand that The college football

Is the ones who's over the tickets And everything So it's like You can't really blame the university you just have to kind of be patient to see what, you know, what comes about. We're going to go to juju now. I've never known a hurricane of the excellence of your caliber to concede too much respect to someone who came after him in a way that would suggest that that person could beat him.

But if Ruben Bain played his prime years against Bryant McKinney in practice, would Bryant McKinney have allowed a single sack in a hurricane practice over his entire time practicing for the hurricanes? But Rumin Bain, he's like a detackle, right? They move him around. Yeah, but mainly detainers. With his limited amount of attempts to go at a defensive end, I doubt it. Because he's more inside. What about Mazzador?

Yeah, Mazzador. No. Oh, there you go. That's it? You're trying to put Rumen at D tackle even more, so he didn't have to answer that question. We all saw what was happening. Thank you, Brian.

I appreciate spending time with you. he was doing with the Rubin thing. Yeah, that's about the highest praise. Look, these canes begrudgingly give the respect to the people. That's about as high as Ruben's going to get. He won't put Ruben on the edge nearly as much. He doesn't have to answer that question. We got highs.

We know where fours lined up. Juju, thank you for joining us. Let's do Thursday Thunder. That's right. It's Thursday Thunder and is presented by Draft Kings. Draft Kings. The Crown is your. Guju, what do we got?

Yes, sir. This week, we're going to let that thing sizzle. We're going to let this thing cook all week and go with the game of the week on Sunday. Brams versus Bears, you did we? First leg. I'm going with puka, puka Nakua. His quarterback is not named Tua yet.

Stay tuned. For eight catches this Sunday, eight catches for my boy. 18 targets last week. Every week they're asking him for eight plus catches every week he's doing. The only way it doesn't deliver is if he gets hurt. It's crazy. They still haven't known how to price these.

Next leg, I'm going with the rook. I'm going to Chicago. Coast in Loveland for five receptions on Sunday night. That last game was crazy. Was it not like even? It really clicked with him midseason. It's just unbelievable. It's cool to see guys develop in the middle of the season.

It's just awesome. But that is nuts, though. You rarely see something like that where you're all of a sudden, oh, Roma Dunzee, everyone else. DJ Moore doesn't matter. That's the guy you got to be thrown to. That never happens with a rookie. Sometimes you don't call plays.

You call players. Call Loveland more and more. Amen. And speaking of Moore, last leg, we're going with the eret, eric DJ Moore for three receptions on Sunday night. Lock it in, man. I meant to say, by the way, look, this guy has been so exceptional at doing these,

and they don't come in by the thinnest of margins. Juju went three for four last week, and was it half a catch that got you? Was it half a catch? One catch from my boy Wallace from Ole Miss. Now, I'm glad he didn't because the U is almost bad. But at the same time, man, one catch away from Supreme Victory. What do you have, uh, Juju for the, for the way? for me to improve my standing with Miami right now. I do need all the help I can get.

Yes, sir, man. I got about three ways for you, man. First way, go to a game, brother. Just one. Go to the game, be on the sideline. I don't know if you got to be close to Michael Irwin. I don't know if you got to be close to the edge, but I just want you to be in the mix and let these folks know I'm in the mix, man. They'll be super helpful with your sideline pass. Number two, go to the hood, bro. Give out about four, five, hundred turkeys, man. You feel me? Trust me, it's gone work.

No matter what hood you pull up in, pop the trunk, tell Bitt McKinney or a brother his size to stay with you because it can get hot out there. But give out them turkeys, you don't post a video. Let somebody else post a video. They caught you giving out turkeys. I got you back. I got you back. There we go. That's good backup.

You want to set up? So where am I going? Where am I going to give out turkeys? We can do it in the city. This week? The fact that you're asking shows exactly. No one's looking for turkeys. Maybe on Thanksgiving, not this week.

Ridiculous. This week. And the last way to revive yourself, especially with the Cuban community, which I heard and realized today during the show, this might be a billion-dollar idea. We should make Dan Lebertart. croquettas and put them bad boys in stores sell them around the world with a Cuban flag behind you. Okay. That's a whole, that is a great business idea. You didn't like the shape of Tony's earlier. Well, I mean, that was, look, we had nothing more controversial, not shaped like me.

That's what I'm imagining. You got a croquetta shaped like me. Well, that one was shaped like you. Okay. I now know why McKinney beat you up in the other room and took the consequences of an incoming lawsuit. Man, that was my first ever fat joke and already just put an ep race on. Juju, do you have an ability, please, and I need to put you and Zaslo on the same page here. I want to be doing MVP of the day every day with you and Zaslo. So who is today's MVP of the day? I'm ready. Yes, sir, man.

We got to let the legend get his runway. There were seven F words. Raditat tatted there. And check my text. M. V. The of the day. All right, Dan, last night, the Cleveland Cavaliers,

they took that ass at Philadelphia. The Cavs, though, are having kind of a mid-season. That's what the kids say. They're having a mid-season. They're only 23-19. But if we're going to talk about MVP, better have a conversation about Donovan Mitchell. Donovan Mitchell last night, 35 points, nine assists.

He was 11 to 22 from the floor. If we're going to talk about MVP, we need to have a conversation about Donovan Mitchell. I like it, brother. I like where your head is at. Our last update. VP of the day. was on December 11th.

Stefan Castle. That was your MVP of the day. Let's do it every day. Let's stick to it. Let's not forget. And also get that Ray Hudson call of the day. I need to bring that back right up to the World Cup. The bills this weekend play juju.

Are you scared? Man, it's been a great season, man. Last week we slayed a dragon. But this week, we've gone up against the number one team in the NFL, man. As well as we only have three wide. receivers on the active roster right now. Gabe Davis went out last week with a tour in ACL. Terrell Shavers went out last week with a tour in ACL. He was big for us on special teams. He was big on both a lot of different areas and we know what Josh

dealing with hand knee foot. I think that this weekend in Denver is gonna be a little bit too tough a test and I think Brandon Bean might find himself on the hot seat next week. We're gonna update the polls and it's second but Chris Cody would you be kind enough pleased to come in here and grab this piece of paper and give it to Bryant McKinney so he can end the show on behalf of Mike Ryan threatening Indiana in the words of Mike Ryan. I want Brian to proofread this to make sure he's comfortable saying everything that's on that sheet of paper. It's not too bad. I just had like 12 tequila soda limes at the time. So, so you know, I just want to say juju sound like the 2026 version of Tonloak.

Wow. I want him to rap Funky Comedina. He is a rap. Is he? Okay. I can hear it. This was You know, me kind of feel on the path that we've, you know, it's been a special season. We've been in all our rivals, Notre Dame, Florida, Florida State, Ohio State, conquered the Fiesta Bowl. So even though we're not back and we're here, we're one step away. And it is a little moment to kind of feel yourself a little bit. We'll get to that in a second. Chris, get me better music than you gave me yesterday so that this can have the proper amount of menace in it. As Bryant McKinney decides whether he's comfortable enough to read this in his most menacing voice.

But his voice isn't terribly menacing. So it's going to have to, it's going to summon some acting here because I don't know that, you know, anyway. Polls. You can also say no because Dan's asking and you're much larger than him, which is not something that we can say for many people. This is me talking smack to Indiana, folks. Okay. But not right now. We're going to update the polls.

We're going to end the show with you and music. It's all good. He has a lot of bad ideas. Go ahead and, Jiu, go ahead and read the polls, please. Yes, sir. Man, it's a lot of action, man. On the show today, we had one of the first shows ever with no polls today. But I got an important poll from yesterday that we can get to.

Last person, last poll. It's Ty Simpson, Mad Lane, for real. And you know it, yo. 84% of the audience says, yes, he is. Yeah. It's true. Thank you, Juju. I appreciate it. It seems like Bryant McKinney has declined.

He was like Gino did it yesterday. What are we going to do? This is good enough eight. Go up. You're all right? Tomorrow? You want to use the telistrator? Do what now?