The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: The Atlanta Dream Come True (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Episode Date: April 6, 2026

"Character is your currency." There's some huge breaking news in the WNBA that directly impacts JuJu's favorite team. Plus, his Top 5 People Who Already Blew It In The Year 2026 and a couple of birthday wishes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

All right, so we still have Mike out there looking for a newspaper machine and also looking for a payphone. We'll check in with Mike if he has any success. Tony, I was very unsuccessful before we get to Juju here in Who He Play For. I would like another Cracker 2. Okay. All right. I got a couple here for you. A cracker two at who he play for.

Let's do it. Come on. All right, Ryan Rupert. Who he play for? Just had a triple double, 33, 10, and 10. I will go the Nets. Juju, do you know where Ryan Rupert plays? Oh, yes, I do.

Please tell Zaz who does not watch hoops whatsoever. He plays for the Washington Wizards. Oh, no, he plays for the Memphis Grizzlies. Ryan Rupert of your Memphis Grizzlies. Can I tell you? That you want to stay there forever. You should be the captain of the team. Can I tell you, maybe it's because when you're younger,

you don't have as much information stored in your head so you remember things better. What are you trying to say? When I was younger, I could tell you like every player for every team in the NBA, right? All right, well, I got a note for you here. Give me one more. Jalen Wilson. Where does Jalen Wilson play? I definitely heard that name recently.

So that means I feel like the heat played against him recently, if that's the case. Jalen Wilson. Just had 19 points over the weekend. Boston. It plays for your Brooklyn Nets. Jalen Wilson, Ford for your Brooklyn Nets. One more, if I may. All right.

Eves Misi. Where does Eves Misi play? Oh, I totally just saw a highlight of him. Pelicans. Yeah. Yeah. Eves, Misi, your New Orleans Pelicans had 18 points, 13 boards, four blocks against the Orlando Magic.

That's right. End on a high note. That's how you play the game, Juj. Out of boys, Zaz. How you doing, Juju? Pretty good, brother. How you doing, man? Good to have your back, safe and sound. Thank you. Thank you.

You and your family, man, from that vacation. Yo, very big WMBA trade. Taylor Rooks. Who knew Taylor Rooks is a newsbreaker? Taylor Rooks breaks the news. Angel Reese has been traded to the Atlanta Dream. Juju, your thoughts. Man, the Atlanta Dream, do it again. Last season, I felt that we had to withdraw. dress that big man's position. And we've returned with Breonna Jones and B. Jizzle, Brittany Griner. So I think that this season with Brianna Jones going down with an injury over the summer,

people didn't know that. She's out, I think, an ACL or so we needed someone to feel that role. And oh, my goodness, we pulled off a heist to get the Barbie down here in the A-town. Yeah, this seems like a terrible trade for Chicago because, all right, They got two first round picks for Angel Reese. And even if you don't think Angel Reese is that good, whatever. I mean, because in her two years, there was Chicago, they were still really lousy. But Atlanta was really good this year.

So it's not like those two picks that they get are going to be these high draft lottery picks. It seems like a terrible trade. Right. And we don't need the same thing out of Angel that Chicago needed out of her. We have scorers. We got Ryan Howard. We got Alicia Gray. We got wings all over the place.

All we need her to do is what she's good. great at getting them boards blocking out and being an enforcer on that defensive end. It seems like that that was a bad relationship between her and that franchise, right? Yeah, for sure, for sure. They made a lot of different moves that she didn't agree with. But at the same time, they kept it classy as they could, but the right one was on the wild for this, for sure. All right, Juju, you got a top five for us today?

Oh, yes. After seeing my boy, Gino, make a ass of himself this weekend. Don't even get me started on that. I made a top five people of 2026 that have blown it already, bro. All right. Only four months in. Right, bro. OLLI, because I don't know the health of this brother right now.

Jaden Ivy. Hey, brother. If you love that man, please reach out to that man right now and see if you can pull up on them and give him a helping hand. Number five, one of our legends, Chili from TLC. Oh, yeah. What's she say?

She said things people don't like. Yeah, man. Then she tried to cover it up and then people pour receipts. It's getting goofy, man. Sometimes the best thing is to say nothing. Number four, dance guy, Lamar Odom. As crazy as the stuff has already been out, I think some of this new stuff is just as crazy.

He sat down recording him last night and said, the clip I saw him saying, I wish you would have sat down and gave me a kiss. Bro, you can't say stuff like that still, bro. Number three, Team Canada. You cheating at curling, son of a guns. I will never forgive you that. You cheated at curling, you'll cheat at anything in life. I don't forgive you.

All right, all right. Number two, Tiger Woods, man. Dan hit it right on the head, bro. The whole situation is nothing to laugh at. But you're pulling up talking about something, I just got the fun with the president. That makes you the goofiest man in the world. So goofy.

Come on, bro. And number one, Gino R.E.M.A. man. I could have never imagined this, bro. Like, this is character. Your character is your currency, man. And just this biggest problem I have with Gino, where is the staff? Like, technology is such that we have people

on the bench dedicated to watching a replay before we even get it at the house. Can't nobody correct, my boy, by the time he get to the podium, still talking about Sarah Strong, Jersey was ripped. So the staff, yes, I blame you as well. Somebody got to get in my boy ear and be like, because you look goofy. But what Gino Did on top of that is kind of triggering for your boy because that's exactly what people in his position be up to, bro. Luckily, we got the body cam footage.

4K, NCAA style. We saw he was misinformed and misleading us. But at the same time, a lot of people in my position don't get the benefit of them 4K cameras. You get the wrath of someone who looks like that. It automatically changes the opinion of people who listen to it. So I don't like this. He got that off like that, bro. So you and your staff, Gino Jokers of the week. Juju, uh, you'll up to excuse us for a second here. We're going to check in with Mike Ryan, who might have an update for us on his search for a payphone and or a newspaper. Mike, hello. Hey, how's it going?

So I know there to be pay phones at Bayfront Park. However, Bayfront Park is closed off because they're still unloading for Ultra Music Festival. So I can't get in there and show you what I know to be a payphone over there. That was going to be my move. I did find at the Intercontinental Concierge a hard copy of a newspaper. However, Dan would have been out of luck because neither of these papers. I got Miami New Times and certainly a newspaper over there that is not the Miami Herald. This would not have ended Dan's search to find a hard copy Miami Herald.

The explanation is they have not delivered the Miami Herald at this hotel. It's a big hotel. This is where the Indiana Hoosiers stayed at when they were here for the national title game. They've not delivered to this big hotel since COVID. Damn. Okay. All right, well, hopefully they get back on the delivery route sometime soon, Mike. Thank you for having me on the program.

See you. There he is. Juju, we got any special birthdays today? Oh, yeah, man. A lot of people say black don't crack. Well, this brother ain't cracked either, bro. Happy 57th birthday to Paul Rudd, man. Still looking like a young, handsome devil.

To him. I don't care. Good luck. Yep, looks exactly the way he looked and clueless. Has not changed. You did? Also, happy birthday, happy fifth year birthday

to Sterling K. Brown. Oh, that's my dog. You saw that finale? Yes, sir, man. Oh, man. Who me? Yeah, yeah. Both of you guys.

I saw it. Oh, yeah. I saw the finale. Hell yeah. I saw the finale, yes. I can't wait for the next season because we got a lot of stuff to clean up. Where'd she go?

I'll leave it at that. Where'd she go? Exactly. The way I saw things. The way I saw it. all things. She shouldn't have been anywhere, but now she's there. And I'm like, what are we doing here? All right, six, seven, for sure. Yes, sir, but Sterling K. Brown, I want to bring him up as well just to remind these folks, man, from Twitter, my buddy Terrell from Twitter says, he did small

roles and guest work for years and didn't catch his big ones, like, This is Us, the story of OJ, until he was 40 years old in 2016. And now 10 years after that, he is at what people would say is the peak of his career at 50. If you are listening to this, you still got time, man. Yeah, he's an A-list actor now. You're right at this point in his career in his life.

Juju, any free game for us before we get to today's polls? Yeah, man, just that. Man, it's a collection of all this stuff, bro. Just let this weekend let you be a reminder to do your due diligence, man. No matter how similar the person telling you some dirt looks, do your due diligence and find out for yourself, man. Don't take the word of people around you.

Go off of your experience with people, man, because in this day and age of misinformation, man, one little smudge on someone's record as far as like a lie or something like that can snowballing to them being blackballed in an entire profession. So let's use our words wisely. I'm glad Gino tried to clean it up a little bit, but he still didn't acknowledge Don at all in his apology,

and nor that he acknowledges how running up on a woman just looks as a man. You know what I mean? And it's not shaking the hand. He tried to use that as an excuse to not shake the South Carolina players' hands. So it's like, bro, if you out there, just do your due diligence, man.

Don't listen to what the man that looked like you said and believe him. Check his work, bro. Make him prove it to you, fam. Juju, let's run through the polls for today. What do we got? Yes, sir, man. If it happened to the angels, does it take 15 years to get to the rest of us? 92% of the audience says, yes, it does. Yeah, I can see that. If you're calling someone dirty, rotten, are you at least 70 years old?

92% of the audience says, yes you are. And last poll in basketball is 60 to new 50. 80% of the audience says yes, and those are your polls. Thanks, Jujum. Thank you guys, man. Good to have you back. Like I say, man, I don't take it for granted. You made it bad bit, bro.

Thanks, player. We're happy to have you, bro. Thanks, player. Yes, sir.