The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Postgame Show: Top 5 March Madness Moments (feat. JuJu Gotti)

Episode Date: March 20, 2025

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You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Challenge and Jersey Shore, all totally free on Pluto TV. Stream now, pay never. That's right, it's Thursday Thunder, and it's brought to you by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Juju, what do we got? Man, man, man, the best Thursdays in the world. One of them today starts right now. And I'm going with some March Madness picks.

You got to know it. You got to dig it. First off, I got to say the beautiful show today, guys. Beautiful show. We're neither here nor there just yet. With these Thursday Thunder, this week, I got five on it. I'm going with all five seats you got to know. First five seat I'm going with Michigan Moneyline to win the game. You got to know it. You got to feel it. If you don't, get lost. The second seat or the second number five

seat I'm going with is Penny Hardaway and them boys, Anfernee Hardaway. It always ask my dog Tony like to call him, Anfernee. What would you like to call him Tony? Afernee. Afernee Hardaway, you got to know. I'm going with the Memphis Tigers to win Moneyline. Yadigski.

And with the last leg of Thursday Thunder, I'm going to the Women's League. I'm traveling all the way to Tennessee to my sisters. I think they are gonna drag USF tomorrow. I mean, they gonna beat the tar off those ladies. Salute the USF, but I'm taking number five seed, Tennessee, to win by 19.5 at least tomorrow. You got to know it. Lock them in.

Juju, I don't know how closely you follow NASCAR or how familiar you were with Ryan Blaney. I'm sure much of our audience is NASCAR agnostic. How'd you like that interview? It was good, it was fun. He was, his microphone, I think the NASCAR microphones, they don't work as well as the regular people's mics. Something going on there. Not sure what's going on there. I think it was a wonderful segment. He was a great sport.

He leaned in. He even answered Dan's awkward question that shocked the world yesterday. Hats off to Buddy. And he does look fantastic in a hat. Oh, he can rock a cap. What is the worst part of the life? So bad. Oh, man. And I'm so happy to see we got a celebrity in the building today. One of the most popular celebrities, Andrew Zaslow.

Oh my God. That's why Andrew's atop that celebrity pick them board. My bad. John, his post friends call him Andrew. I call him, y'all call him Jonathan. But yeah, bro, and I agree with you, bro. Like, White Lotus this season, absolutely nothing has happened, bro.

Nothing, nothing. Good to see you, Juju. I do need to ask though, when you say that USF is gonna get the tar beaten off of them by those Tennessee ladies, can you also salute them while you're saying they're gonna get the tar beaten off of them? Yes, sir. It's required. It's in my contract. You have to salute them after taking a page

out of the the devil's book and saying they're going to get the tar beat off of them. All right. So you got you got to. And the last piece about a white lotus. So much of nothing has happened. Like it's beautiful scenery, wonderful scenery, but so much of nothing has happened that you guys are like, I want to say, I would say the word, but I can't say the word. You guys are finding over a Sam Rockwell monologue. That's the most boring thing in the world. The monologue at least to get over itself just a tad bit, neither here nor there. It was very freaky spoiler alert Someone else who doesn't seem to like foreplay just say I

Did spend the entire part of that monologue? Thinking like most of it was just me thinking to myself How would I react if my one of my close friends was telling me all of that? I was envisioning me being in that situation and what I would, like I was stunned that Walton Goggins' character allowed him. Like there wasn't a single moment in the middle of that where he goes, are you effing with me?

I think he played a pitch perfect. It's a lot to absorb. But wouldn't you say to your friend at some point, are you effing with me right now? Uh, me? Perhaps, yeah, I guess. It depends on the friend. There'd have been some type of interjection on my part.

He did. He made a, ah. I would have asked him, are you OK, bro? Something. Are you good? Something. We talk White Lotus this, White Lotus that. Thursday, best Thursday of the year right here,

and we're talking about white lotus for six hours and kissing and let's focus on hoops. How about that, Juju? Hell yeah, because today is legally contractually the first day that we were allowed to talk about white lotus, because it's been the allotment of days. But speaking of hoops, I saw that you guys had a segment, the end of the segments discussing

the Boston Celtics trade. I mean, the sale of the Boston Celtics. And I heard my brother Andrews Aslow talking about how they're relocating. Yeah, they need to relocate. And I just want to just, you know, just put some accoutrement in the air just to remind my brother that the heat still have a ways to go before they even matter. You know what I mean?

Some would say that that Jimmy Butler trade rivals the Nico Harrison trade. And if they said that, they'd be wrong. Okay, but we do need to acknowledge Juju, the Heat can't do anything about them not being born while the Celtics were winning all those titles because since the Miami Heat have existed, they've won more titles than the Boston Celtics. Like that's the only way we can measure those two franchises. The Heat can't do anything about not being alive in the 60s and 70s. The Heat have won more titles than the Celtics since 1988. Speaking of being born and alive during the 70s and 60s,

happy birthday, Pat Riley. I don't know if we got to that today, but happy birthday to the big dog. Happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good luck. Some would say that this might should be the last birthday that he occupies this position because the heat are definitely not in the right place. I don't I don't put too much stock into the draft positioning and all of that,

because you only get one Cooper flag per draft. You only get one Victor Wimby Abma that you missed out to go to the play in the championship. So yeah, get well soon. Tony was right. They went through the thoughts. You feel me? Yep, congratulations.

And it cost everything. Yep, what did it cost you? Everything. But now, but back to Tony though, speaking of the season of basketball, I got my top five March madness moments in the history of middle earth. Oh, let's do this.

Yes, sir. Oh, well, I because it was the Big East championship. Kimber Walker crosses up a buddy from Pittsburgh fade away. The absolute, that was electric. That's what got my my brother into basketball He became briefly a Charlotte Bobcats fan because Kemba Walker was there because the first tournament He ever watched included that shot going into the tournament got your brother into basketball. It did fun fact You're welcome

People care people care about me in disguise. All right, that was not nice. I feel no one's nice to me I was not nice by Chris really me very condescending a little Hell why are they why are they being mean to you today? I today. Yeah, I mean listen. I'm here today This is what I'm notice. It's constant But he does have the golden, golden voice vocal chords. You know what I mean? He is, he's blessed up with some bangers. Salute to Jeremy Tache in the singing voice.

Love you too. Number five, Chris Webber's Time Out. Yeah, man. Fab five against North Carolina. That time out, time out heard around the world. It ended one of the most epic runs in the history of basketball. Number four.

I love, by the way, I loved Michigan growing up. All right, I was way into the Fab Five. You know, when they won the national title in 88, Glenn Rice. So from that point on, I was a Michigan kid. And then we get to the early 90s there and you got, I was heartbroken when Weber called that time out. Jeremy, how was your brother? How did your brother handle that?

He was just absolutely crushed. Number four, Jimmy Valvano's NC State slays Houston at the buzzer for the national title and he runs around the court. Oh my God, I see that every day almost. But what a moment for the world. He's looking for somebody to hug, run around the court. Oh my god I see that every day almost but what a what a moment for the world. He's looking for somebody to hug running around that court can't find anybody to hug. Right, luscious locks too just flowing in the wind just flowing. Number three Christian Leighton from

Grant Hill touchdown Duke. What a moment unless you hate Duke. I'm sorry, Taylor Vipulis, but that was a great moment. Yeah, my brother really hated that one. Number two, Kaitlyn Clark versus Angel Reese. The Tony Yayo heard around the world. That will go down as one of the biggest moments in women's sports history. It sparked a new age of WNBA basketball, now unrivaled hatred, like, oh my God, so salute to all the sisters around the world who made their rivals, alas, you dig it.

And number one, you can't deny this, Chris Jenkins, buzzer beater versus North Carolina. Let me do the number one. is Chris Jenkins, Buzzer Beater versus North Carolina. That was crazy. Cause that was that the Marcus Paige shot before the Chris Jenkins shot. That's why that is like maybe the greatest ending. Any of us will ever witness.

Cause it had two of the greatest shots ever. And we don't even remember the first one. That was Villanova, right? Right. Yeah. That's the Villanova game. I mean, Jay writes non- non reaction. It's unbelievable. You gotta act like you've been there before Zaz. I mean no emotion what's just alright handshake line. That's the right reaction. Salesperson. Jeremy and put that against Jeremy's reactions to like a regular season game game winner. I care okay, don't knock my passion.

Jerry was scraping Cheeto juice off his thumbs. Neither here nor there. Juju, we got any polls today? Hell, yeah. Dan went crazy on the poll. I think he was trying to make up for the polls yesterday about only having one. So I'm going to go through them. Do you know why anyone was putting feathers in their cap? 86 percent of the audience says no, they do not. Will you always stop on someone falling on a treadmill?

92% of the audience says, yes, they will. Big number. Huge win for Dan. Right? Oh man. Huge loss for Dan coming up. What is a penguin more of? A fish or a bird?

Unbelievable. 83% of the audience says a bird. It literally has feathers, come on man. It has wings, it has a beak, it's a bird. Man, who are the 17%? It's Dan's burners. What annoys you more? No turn signal or someone who forgot to turn

their turn signal off this is big 76% of the audience says no turn signal yeah I'm in the minority there it is really annoying when someone's just like their blinkers been on for four miles yeah because my in my driving to Miami my expectation is you're never gonna turn on your turn signal you're messing with me if you have it on and I'm making room for you, like now, now I'm stuck in the in-between here. I'm over thinking this one. Hell yeah.

Do you think a NASCAR wedding is more debaucherous than a regular wedding? Someone maybe had to Google how to spell debaucherous, but neither here nor there. 87% of the audience says, yes, it is more debauchery. Yeah, I could see that. Oof, big poll coming up. Oof, is Sunday the end of last week or the beginning of this week? Wow.

This one shook the world. 69% of the audience says the end of last week. Wow. Jeremy, what do you think about that number? Nice. The best sports Thursday sponsored by Jeremy Fitzpump, not sponsored by Jeremy Fitzpump. The best sports Thursday sponsored by Evan Williams, Bourbon.

They'll get you a taste. Thanksgiving NFL opening night, the Masters first round or the start of March Madness? Come on, Masters. 52% of the audience says the start of March Madness. Today, so we made it. We are here. Heard that, Jeremy, go get you a taste.

That poll was brought to you by Evan Williams Bourbon. Game day's number one pour. Evan Williams, Kentucky, straight bourbon whiskey. Bardstown, Kentucky, 43 to 45% alcohol by volume. Enjoy Responsibly, 21 plus. Delicious. Do you know what highlight is? 70% of the audience says yes, they do.

Salute to my new always. This is our audience. I'm worried about the 30%. What is wrong? We communicate for a living. We're doing something wrong with like three out of 10 people don't know what highlight is. Never heard of it.

Messaging is bad on this show. Is the sports anchor profession dying? 74% of the audience says, yes, it is. Man, Christine Leasy tapped in and said no with like 5,000 O's. So salute to my sister, Christine Leasy. And the last poll, the most important poll some would say, are you good at foreplay? We know Jeremy is. 67% of the audience says, yes, they are.

It was right there for them. We needed two more percent. Those are your polls. Thanks, Juju. Thank you. Thanks, Juju. Thanks, Andrew. Good stuff.

Andrew, the Iceman. The Iceman says.