The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Salute To My Guy Pepe (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

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Alright, let's do some post-game show here. Let's bring Juju aboard. Hello, Juju. How you doing today? Alright, my brother. Luscious. That hair is looking luscious today. I don't know what you got going on or what the program is.

Feeling confident, player. But I am loving it, brother. Feeling confident over here. Yes, sir. That's how it goes, man. Speaking of confidence, so I know you're keeping track of everything going on. NBA free agency. We didn't do a ton of that today, so it's a good opportunity to discuss it with you.

Eastern Conference, who's making moves right now? Who are you happy with? Man, with myself, chicks dumping like none other right now, we signing Peter and Paul these days. I don't know what's going on. I think the New York Knickerbockers might be in position to be the best Eastern team next year. They signed Yabu Sele, who had the Olympia dunk over LeBron, and they signed Jordan Clarkson

to add to the roster they had already. Could you imagine if they only had a coach? You feel me? Tony, you're poopooing this. I am poopooing this, and Jujuuju is my brother and we have a lot of good basketball conversations. I think the answer is over his left shoulder. Again, different team, but in the same city, Atlanta Hawks did a lot of great things in a very weak Eastern

conference. To me, it feels like the Hawks might be the best team in the East and they haven't played together in all of the, with all of these different pieces. Nikhil Alexander Walker, Luke Canardar, Trey young, Jalen Johnson coming back next year. Reese's she came online last year. Pretty good towards the end. Poor Zingas Oh, Kong Wu. Like they've got players on that team, Jew. Yeah, you're right. I can't argue with that. My only argument against that is when you live in Atlanta,

you always expect something to go wrong They could have the Braun and everybody but something is gonna go wrong. I don't know. I'm not predicting it I don't want to put that on wax, but you're right. They Atlanta looks great on paper with Prozegas but Shelf and a hoax. I know I know but paper, that's what we're playing in July, right? We don't play on wood, we play on paper right now. And it feels like the Hawks are really good. Zazz, I don't know if you saw something in Easter Conference better than what the Hawks have done. No, I like what the Hawks are doing.

Porzingis, Nikhil Alexander Walker, they're going for it. I mean, I can't say as much about the Heat. I know everybody loves what the Hawks are doing right now. I think so far, you know, except for the obvious one, which is Kevin Durango in Houston, I really like what the Nuggets have done. All right, big place for the Nuggets. They bring back Bruce Brown, who killed the Heat in the finals in 23.

Michael Porter Jr. stinks. Cam Johnson is a nice player. I like Cam Johnson over Michael Porter Jr. They also brought in some shooting with Tim Hardaway Jr. So Juju, I love what the nuggets have done I know it's the West but I like what they're doing. Yeah exactly because like you say MPJ gave them nothing in the playoffs Russell Westbrook was the the Super Mario question mark. What you're gonna get from him? Are you gonna get a turtle shell?

Are you gonna get invincible man? So yeah with them adding those core players to put beside the Joker, barring injury, dare I say they might be the ones coming out of the West next year. And what I like too, is that they were able to get underneath the tax. They were worried about that. And I think that's where Cronkite was like, yeah, we might have to trade 15 at some point if the tax gets to that level when now it's not. They also get Jonas Valanchunas, who's going to be a big get for them on a center, where you don't have those non-Jokic minutes

were so tough for them down the stretch, that it's like, how do we get another center to still play big? Jonas Valanchunas is that guy. Timmy Hardaway giving them shooting. Excuse me. It feels like they let go of Michael Porter Jr. and brought in three or four guys to replace them. And hopefully, their young guys step up.

But it's like a really good core of veterans that can play in playoff games. Juju, what did you make of Sophie Cunningham yesterday in the WNBA? Very critical about the cities that they're choosing to expand WNBA in. I feel like that league is weird sometimes man. I've never heard a player in one of our major sports who talks about there shouldn't be teams in specific cities. Yeah, I think she needs to do her history, do her Googles, because the last couple of sellouts, the best attendance record ever in the WNBA came from the Detroit Shockers. And I think that, I mean, moving forward, I don't see why that city

wouldn't clamor for another team. They don't necessarily have a lot going on. You see the Pistons always selling out. You feel me? So I think that some of the new players, this is like sometimes we got to do our histories on hip hop and the Beach Boys and see what they actually meant to the people. I think that the Detroit will be a great addition to the people. Now, I think they they would definitely sell out. Juju, what do you make a Cocoa Golf yesterday? Oh, oh, oh, man. Before we move to Cocoa Golf, that's a great transition.

I got to give some credit, though, to Sophie Cunningham and those Indiana Fever. They got they won the Commissioner's cup last night without Caitlin Clark. Tough day for the Angel Reese and the Indiana Fever are nothing without Caitlin Clark haters like the Natasha Howard MVP. Stepped up 16 big points, 12 rebounds, Aliyah Boston, 12 points. I was like about 13, 12 rebounds, a little Boston, 12 points, about 13, 14 rebounds. But one of the biggest mid season acquisitions that's flying under the radar, Airy McDonald.

Airy McDonald has came into that team and has been the leader that stepped in for Katelyn distributing what Tyrese Halliburton is for the Pacers. Airy has stepped into that role and they got a big dub last night distribution, distributing what Tyrese Halliburton is for the Pacers. Aerie has stepped into that role and they got a big dub last night against the pretty much the favorites to win the

championship this year, the Minnesota Lynx. Terrible night for Lil' Feezy and the Feezy Collier. She went like, what was the stats? Six for 18 last night. Kay Kayla McBride won for seven. The bridge is over.

Zero points. Bridget Carlson. Oh man, but great, great win for the Indiana Fever last night. Commissioner Cup champs. Give me some thoughts here on Coco. What happened to her? Yeah, man. I mean, we praise Coco when she do good.

So we got to talk about her blunder yesterday at Wimbledon. Maybe she was just riding that championship high. I'm not sure, but she went out in the first round yesterday in Wimbledon against, I got to read her name, Dayana Yashkrimska. Nailed it. Never heard of her, but now she put her name on the map and beat the number two player in the world in Coco Golf.

And Wimbledon shaping up to be an interesting one on that women's side. Jeremy, you got to start of the day for us here. Oh, I do. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day. And this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day. And this is the start of the day.

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like Bonds used to get? I do not believe that that happened in this game, but I will go back and check each of these at bats and by the end of this post-game show, I will have that. Has there ever been more of a sign of respect than walking a hitter when the bases are loaded? Right, ultimate respect.

That's the ultimate respect. You got some polls for us, let's update the polls for today, Juju, come on. Oh man, I got some polls, but I got one thing to get off my chest. Love Island, oh my damn, last night was one of the greatest shows in Love Island this season.

It showed the true colors of Shelly, Olandria showed her ass, and Ciara out of nowhere. Like come on, I wanna give them the goofy of the day. Ciara, Olandria, and Shelly, you guys are the goofballs of the day for your opinions in that truth ceremony last night. Totally uncalled for ganking up on my sister Hooda. What else can she do? She's sorry. Neither here nor there. Ace had a rough night too, Juju. Poor Ace. He was going after people left and right for

some reason. And Amaya has become America's sweetheart now just because of the pounding she was taking yesterday. Right, Austin, right, because Austin showed up out of nowhere. Austin was all quiet whenever he was with her. Right, now you want to get in front of everybody and voice your griefs with Amaya. How about be a man and tell her how you felt when you was in a couple with her? That was totally low ball from him. Big night for Chris though. Chris really stepped up yesterday. Yes sir, he did. Chris and the other guy who we forgot,

I think his name's Brian, that was with Andreina, but no one talks about him. Or he went into fan Amayah. Billy, I'm late to this Love Island game, but you've said that the games are useless, and I disagree. They are not useless. It's for you to make out with somebody

that you've been wanting to make out with when you're in a couple. No, yeah, no, but there's no winners or losers. Like, there's point systems or whatever, but there's no prize at the end. But a lot of drama comes through, like, because you guys are always saying, I skipped through the game.

It's like, no, you gotta watch these games. No, no, no one skips through the games. I think Rose said that she skips. It's like, no, you don't skip through the game. You see who's making out with who. No, yesterday's game was, seriously, just here's a piece of paper, and honestly talk shit about people, and then make them stand in front of everyone and read it out loud and then maybe You'll claim it

Maybe you won't but then other people will jump in and just start piling on and gaslight and scream at people and tell them What pieces of crap they are yesterday was like the most? Toxic episode I don't like call things like toxic off But you're like yes, it was like the most. Let's just be all terrible people to each other for no reason. All right, bro. And salute to my brother, Pepe,

because I would he turned down old girl, Adrena. He kept it real and turned down pretty much one of the bombshells. So salute to Pepe for keeping it real, telling his new girl that it may not be working because he still got his heart on Hannah, but he could have said it a little earlier

before the challenge. Neither here nor there. Can I ask you a question about Pepe from last night? So last night they wrote anonymous notes to each other and the point was to kind of clear the air, I guess, but it was really just to get everyone to fight. I think that Pepe wrote a note to himself Asking himself to break up with the girl publicly because no one was gonna do it

Because we never got to the bottom of who wrote the letter is like you got to choose pepid you still like the other Girls like I do it's like I think you wrote this to yourself as a cop out Bro, I think that is a dookie bomb cuz I ain't even think of it from that If it was trying to find a way out of that. I think he gave it to himself. Right, right. And he did not have accountability. Speaking of accountability, I'm going to give a little unsolicited advice to my brother Tony. You got to stop saying you're going to kick everyone's ass in the building,

because if you can't imagine if I said that the Miami PD will be called expeditiously. Neither here nor there. First pole, best heat shooter of all time. Duncan Robinson or Ray Allen? 79% of the audience says Ray Allen. Wow. Obvious. Can you leave a funeral blasting loud music? 57% of the audience says, no, you cannot. Who are the 43% that think it's okay? Partyers. That's who they are.

I just did something really sad. Can I not make myself feel a little better on the way out? Can we wait till we pull out of the funeral home? That's fair. Right. Maybe you can blast boys to men, something like that, end of the road. But yeah, Beast Boy seems a bit on the line. That's kind of inappropriate too.

Just blast an end to the road. Someone just died. I feel like Zazz, you would appreciate me blasting a Pearl Jam if you died. Well, yeah, because I think just everybody knows, oh man, Zazzle would totally approve of this. I think I see that. just everybody knows, oh man, Zazzle would totally approve of this. Would you be embarrassed if you had to call your mother-in-law to fix your flat tire? Oh man. 94% of the audience says, yes, they would.

Yeah, that's a disgrace if you got to do that. Are you grotesquely fascinated by the 2025 Dolphins? 73% of the audience says no they are not. Is every player in basketball a free agent while under contract? 88% of the audience says yes they are. Do you assume that Manny Ramirez will still be in a batting cage at 100 years old? 89% of the audience says yes he will be. Should Mission Impossible be called Mission Kinda Impossible? 88% of the audience says yes it should. Is the best thing in the world opening a can of Pringles and discovering that none of them have been broken. 78% of the audience says, yes, it is.

And the last poll, when Zaslow speaks, does it rattle around in your brain? 65% of the audience says, yes, it does. And those are your polls. Good job, Juju. Thank you guys.