The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: THE DAN LE BATARD SHOW HAS WON THE BIG ONE!

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

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Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan LeBattard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it.

And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face and the habitual liar. This segment is presented by LinkedIn jobs. Post your job for free at linkedin.com slash DLS terms and conditions apply. So David Sampson has arrived his podcast Nothing Personal is not as award winning or as award nominated as Pablo Torres podcast might win the big one though. There you go. All right, well we're gonna award the big one in an hour. In an hour I'm gonna figure out, or at the end of this hour,

I'm gonna figure out how it is to award the big one. I have put people in the back room at work on like, get me a trophy, let me figure out how in the next 30 minutes to award the big one. David, what would you say is the greatest award in podcasting? It's gotta be the sports podcast awards. Yep.

So, God bless football. Three out of four years, God bless football. Dynasty. Has been beating the Kelceys, Shannon Sharp beating everybody. So that's considered the big one? Well, I'd have to say that what nothing personal has accomplished there and what God bless football

and I'd say that would be good. I think the one that I'm not after ever would be the Peabody because I just think that it requires a level of gravitas that I'm not willing to commit to on a daily basis. What are you saying? I'm saying that I don't necessarily view what Pablo's doing his show is fantastic, but I don't think that being a Peabody nominee all of a sudden brings you into a class of shows that is unheard of or unseen. If you're a multi-time sports podcast award winner,

I think then you're in the conversation. It's sort of like Brunson Halliburton. Brunson to me is the Peabody, Halliburton is the sports podcast. Wait a minute, you're saying the awards you've won, those are the important ones, the one Pablo wants that no podcast is ever up for because podcasts aren't high standard enough

to usually climb into this territory. Dan, what he's saying is you win a Peabody, that doesn't get you anything, you win a sports podcast award, restaurant reservations open up, you get the foursome on the nice golf course with the cool people, right? So sports podcast, this is the potties.

No one wants to hang out with someone who won a Peabody. Nobody, the potties. So you'd rather win, all right, put it on the poll at Levitard Show, what would you rather win, a Peabody or the potties? Or what sounds more fun to win, a Peabody or the potties? Because Pablo Torre, he's very award nominated.

Everyone knows this, everyone knows this, and it's an exciting time for Pablo, but you guys are undercutting it, and it sounds like you're jealous. No, that's not the case. We just said that when the decision was made to go on this Belichick trail, that might cost him the Peabody.

And maybe a Potti also. Well, what are your thoughts here, David? we are going to award the big one in a second but uh... what are your thoughts on pablo torre i'm maintaining that that podcast is special for a number of reasons but one of them is because it's high can go higher than any other high and they'll get no fight occasionally with marcus jordan and larsa pippen and do a little, you know, gutter dance to get the clicks. And that's what's presently happening with, you know,

slinking around this story that everybody wants to talk about but nobody wants to actually do the work of reporting what the facts are. So what's interesting is that what Pavotori finds out, and I'm not his PR guy, he's got plenty of those on staff, is that they are able to negotiate around different topics going from Pippen Jordan to Jordan Hudson to talking about the seriousness of Matt Ishby's ownership

off the court and issues like that and talk politics. They talk sports in a way that's smart, that used to be reserved for, you know, shows that were on linear TV and what podcasting has become, and Pablo is leading that pack. It's an area where you can do the serious stuff. I think you said dumb, I mean,

it's actually what he says is, do the serious stuff stupidly and do the stupid stuff seriously. And so his ability to walk that tightrope is what's gotten so much attention for him in the show. And at three days a week, it's a great listen. But Dan, today was supposed to be the big announcement. For me, I thought I was coming on here

to talk about that I was going back on Survivor. Chris Cody just saw, he heard your three days a week. What a subtle little jab little industry talk jab You gave him a chicken wing Chris Cody Also the PR guys on staff was also a little For a three-day pod, it's nice. It's like chicken strips, like five chicken strips, too many. Three's okay, four sometimes.

Three's snack. You guys got me. What do you mean we got you? You did it to yourself. Four's the perfect amount. You got me. For you. I'm with you.

I want six. I appreciate the fact that you wouldn't let the subtle thing. You got me. For you. I'm with you. Give me six. I want six. I appreciate the fact that you wouldn't let the subtle thing go and stay subtle. Okay, so nothing personal I will and have told you, okay? It's not only popular and successful, those two guys. It also has unusual range. So when I ask David about business stuff,

it tends to be more informed, his answers, than just about anywhere else, and you'll have an assortment of other terrain that he covers on nothing personal but when i say to you the reporting that pablo did simply on the owners ishbia and gilbert simply that this year would you not classify that which might not be one of the top five things that pablo did on that podcast that story to be the closest this year that sports journalism has been to reporting the insides of where the rich people do the stuff

that can be allegedly, you know, really damaging and how it is that power comes to be in ways that can make people really uncomfortable. Who's gotten inside the dark, dark rooms of real wealth better than that story in sports. Well, think about it what he does though. He does it by doing it in a jocular way with very serious reporting and with serious people. He's sort of the anti Logan Royce children in succession where he is so serious about what he does because he does it with aplomb. He does it with real journalism and real background and education,

and he does it in a way that people can actually understand it and then take away and discuss it outside of the podcast, and that's a tough thing to do. So that is to me where his true talent is, is to make things that seem impossible to comprehend able to understand. Like a haunted hotel in Oklahoma City.

Can someone tell me, I'd like to know here before we go any further, David, you've been sort of, you've been sort of trying to become the Pope of Metal Arc here. If while you were talking, I saw on a Slack string, an employee of ours write, are we just gonna bleep off Pablo all day long to interrupt my thought process?

How should I be reacting to that question appearing in my phone from an employee who's working for us in the last five minutes? I'm asking you curiously because we were talking about Pablo a lot. By not interrupting the show and bringing that up. I hit send on that, huh? Okay.

It's a little creepy, right? The Belichick situation now. We have a thing at MetalArk that I would like to stop as of today. I believe that what you do, we are teammates. I want to be the Pacers. I want the sum to be greater than the parts at Metal Arch, and to do it, we have to revel in each other's victories and we have to diminish and cover up each other's defeats. And what we tend to do is the opposite, and we hide it under the view of entertaining content.

I think it's way more entertaining to actually look as though we are supportive of each other because we all do need each other to accomplish what we want, as opposed to thinking that the audience wants to hear us, MF, you know, Pablo or David or whoever else. I think there's a moment you can do it, Dan, but when you interrupt the show by saying that there's an employee

who thinks that we're doing this wrong, it just makes us look disorganized. And I think that I want to profess to the audience that we are a tight run organized machine of content every day of the week. Roy's shaking his head no. I mean, you took the shot at Pablo. How many PR people does he have again?

Three days a week. You're the one who said that, listen, three days a week for some people is a full week's work. For others, it's 60% of a week's work. For some people. Really championing pop.

No shots taken. And you're responsible for 15 to 20 hours every week. And that is, you have to perform every day, whether you don't feel well, whether you do feel weather, whether you have something important to say or not, you have the ability to keep a huge audience for hours, five days a week. There is no greater compliment in the industry than what you do.

There's no one else doing it. Great show last Friday, Dan. That was Amin and Hawk. They join you often on Fridays to give you a better perspective that is different from me and Samson, but that is not award-winning presently. It is neither award-nominated nor award-compensated.

Give him the big one. The big one, though. The big one is up. Well, how does that work? Is there one big one, or are there subcategories to the big one? You gotta win the big one. Yeah, just gotta win the big one.

So it's just best show? Like, what is the big one. Yeah, I don't know big one. Yeah, just So it's just best show like what is the big one? That's a good question. This is what I'm going to say. The big one is thank you for asking the definition It is the award in the sports podcasting Industry that is the single most coveted award that there is by Consensus no one would argue. As soon as I present you what this award looks like in in about a half hour everyone will know why it's the big one why it is it's the great that we are going to give away to one lucky winner what is the biggest prize in the entire industry that's what

I'm saying it is is that good good enough for you, or do you need a better explanation than that? Hmm. A little confusing. I'm happy with that explanation, but it can only be one thing. It can only be money. It can be many things, and you need to make everything about money a little less.

Chris, a lot of people are accusing you for just stealing Austin Powers moves that none of yours. Oh, I mean, that's, yeah. Yeah, but none of your stairs or elevators or anything, none of it's original. The canoe! Yes, this show. The canoe needs to fall off a waterfall though.

It does. Okay, very good, Stu. You show us how to do that one as a professional stunt man. It's not my canoe. In my defense, the first time I ever did this shtick, I paid respect to Austin Powers. That is exactly what I'm doing here. But then you furthermore stole it forevermore.

Well, it's just a funny bit. Okay. That's correct. I laugh every time. David, one of the things, when I talk about the range of shows, one of the things that David does on his show that I don't see a lot of people doing is the following. The twin sale, David. I don't know how many people care about the Minnesota twins being sold, but a giant baseball team being sold has an unholy mess of wiring.

Can you take us through some of it? Yeah, this actually is something that everybody focuses on in every sport. It's sort of an obsession of people. How much did this team sell for? What's it worth? When you're out trying to sell a team, you have an idea of the number you want to get. But as you know, something's only worth what someone else will pay for it. And when someone else pays for it, that is definitionally what it's worth. The twins said, we want $1.7 billion in 2025.

And what the buyers have said is, we don't think so. We think maybe one four, We think maybe one five. And so there's a lot of articles that have come out that the twin sale is delayed because no one will bid what the owners want. What the owners are not realizing is that baseball right now is at a very interesting point with collective bargaining agreement

that is expiring at the end of 2026. There's going to be a lockout. The lockout may last for a long time. It may interrupt your revenues for the 2027 season that you're counting on as part of what explains your purchase price. There is disruption in the TV world. The RSNs are in trouble. Local TV revenue is in trouble.

National TV revenue is going to become a much bigger thing in baseball, but it's harder to project what each team will get. When you don't know the revenue and expenses of a business, it's very hard to buy that business. And so the disagreement is that the twins feel as though they deserve a number that the market is saying no to. And so what do you do? You do what the nationals did.

You do what the twins are doing. You take the team off the market. Like when you buy your house or sell a house, if you don't get the price you want, you don't want it to sit on the market forever. So you take it off the market, wink, wink, and then you redo the kitchen and then you put it back on the market

for the price you wanted. The twins, like the Nationals, are still gonna be on the market. They're still gonna be sold. And it's the most important number that we'll see in baseball this year, more than Juan Soto's batting average or his slugging percentage.

What the twins sell for will be an indicator of the health of the sport and the timing of that health. And we're paying attention to it on nothing personal. You're guaranteeing a lockout in a year. Guaranteed. There is no scenario where at the end of December, 2026, the players will not be locked out. The owners still cannot stop fighting with each other about what they want in a new CBA. Forget fighting with the players.

So when you're still fighting with your own side, what you do is you delay the negotiation with the other side. And the way you delay that is by locking them out. What a lockout means during the off season, it means you can't use the facilities, et cetera. what a lockout means during the off season, it means you can't use the facilities, et cetera, but really it's a move you make in collective bargaining to try to figure out how to get to a deal, and it's gonna be a long one.

As you know, the last CBA had a lockout. Well, what does this mean? Hold on a second, just put numbers on this, just real quick, and maybe this is common knowledge to you, it was not to me. So you're guaranteeing that not after this baseball season, but after the next baseball season, the sport will lock out for minimum how long?

It will be minimum of four months. It will go through the month of April at best. The season will be delayed until May at best in 2027. The underlying economic issues are the following. Can you imagine running a business, Dan, where the employees don't understand that the business does not make the amount of money that the employees thought it did and the employees still want the amount of money they were getting? That is what baseball players are doing. They don't get what's happening. There will be an adjustment.

There is economic disparity that is unreasonable and uncomfortable, and the only way to do it is going to be with a harsh reality of a work stoppage. And it's just because they can't control themselves because they fight and pay for Soto, and they keep alleging they can't afford Soto, and then they give Soto $765 million guaranteed for 15 years.

Well that's really a not sophisticated way to look at it. They have the money though. Okay, it can be a not sophisticated way to look at it, but once we get to the point of we don't have a salary cap, we do not have the benefits that basketball and there's other sports have of being able to control their dumb owners who are rich guys who always get what they want. So the salaries are going to be $765 million for 15 years and you're going to be paying for the last seven years of a guy's career, whether he's playing or not.

Those numbers lock the sport down right there. Just fans don't understand it. How is Soto worth more by that many millions guaranteed than LeBron James? Get out of here. Yeah. So that's not why the lockout happens. It's not because Soto got 765. The lockout is actually over things

that you wouldn't think about, like what the minimum salaries are, what the total salary you can have per team, how revenue gets distributed amongst teams like the Marlins, Guardians, and Royals, from teams like the Dodgers and the Mets and the Yankees. Those type of things are far more important than one player being two standard deviations away

from other players. That's not really between owners what they're talking about. But David, the change that's gonna come from that, and I'll get to other subjects in a minute, correct me if I have this wrong, is they delay it, then they make the season shorter, and then we just get shorter baseball seasons, because baseball's gonna play differently than they used to.

Are the TV dollars too much that they can't play fewer games? Well, it's not just that. We tried to lower the season, shorten the season. In 2015, we wanted to go to 154 games, and that meant that home teams would lose four games each every team and Teams like the San Francisco Giants the New York Yankees the Los Angeles Dodgers

They said no we want to play the full 81 games at home because if we only play 77 then you need to pay us they said to the Commissioner you need to pay us back for those lost home games Where teams like the Marlins, the Guardians, and everyone else said, yeah, not a big difference between 81 and 77. We're good with that. And so it's the big fight that we have on the owner's side, not wanting to shorten it, but then the players also.

The players were told, hey, if you go to 154, you're only gonna get paid 154 162nd of your salary and the players said no way pay me the same amount of money to do less work Can you imagine for a minute doing less work and asking to be paid the same amount of money? I don't quite get that David Can you give us and the audience an idea like how valuable those home games are? What do the Yankees make on a home game?

Just one home game. So there's a big difference between what the Marlins make and what the Yankees make. Just like there's a big difference between the Warriors make and what the Pacers make. It's based on average ticket price and what the per cap is for each fan, because they're spending more money in certain stadiums than others. For the Yankees, just think about their ticket revenue alone. Let's say the Marlins can be at $20 to $40 million in ticket revenue.

The Yankees can be at $100 to $150 million in ticket revenue. That's just ticket revenue. That's not counting food, bev, merch, parking. It's not counting the difference in the average ticket price. So none of those things come into play when we give you a gross revenue number. There are huge, huge differences between the teams. Nothing personal is growing in personality, growing in audience,

growing in all the ways that are important. Will it win the big one? I don't know. We're going to find out in about 10 minutes. We're going to let David go on that note, but before you leave, just tell us about the movie review that you're doing for this week, because we've been negligent about not letting you do this the last few weeks.

I'm still watching a movie every day, Dan, no matter what I do, on Nothing Personal or Beyond. A new movie came out called Fountain of Youth, I hope, I mean, did you watch it yet? I've seen it, I haven't seen it. I've seen of it. I've seen of it, yes. Seen of it?

I've seen it, David. The commercial, we've seen the commercial for it, David. It's a ripoff of Indiana Jones, but go ahead. It feels like that, yeah. It was a ripoff to me of National Treasure and Indiana Jones. It was one of those movies that was put together by Apple and Greenlit because it has a great cast.

Anytime you see Natalie Portman in a movie, who wouldn't want to see that? Or John Krasinski, I'm in. The problem is I've seen the movie before. It wasn't interesting to me to watch people go on a treasure hunt trying to discover this fountain of youth that may or may not make Dom Gleason die

or never age or never die, not invested at all, two hours plus of my time. It was like a repeat. So I would advise the audience, you don't need to watch the Fountain of Youth. Instead, go back and re-watch National Treasure and give a little moment to Nicolas Cage for what was an original fantastic movie

that I was proud to watch and watch again. So Dan, what I did is I finished watching Fountain of Youth and then I watched National Treasure right back to back so I could do an immediate comparison in my head and I was not disappointed. Nat Tresch all the way. Imagine a doll Federer Murray and Joker searching for the fountain of youth. David, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Because that one, the Cup of Christ is supposed to give you... Holy Grail. The Holy Grail is supposed to give you immortality. That's a more apt comparison. I thought you didn't see the movie. All right. Well, just based on your description. You know what, Samson?

Doesn't need to see it. You don't get the show. I've Seen Of It is an old callback. You don't get to be around here anymore. We did a joke from a long time ago and you stopping the show and balking. I appreciate your time around here. I appreciate your analysis, but you're done for the day.

Thank you. Good seeing you. Good luck to you, but you're done for the day. Thank you. Good seeing you. Good luck to you, David, on the big one. Yes, I'll do you too. Hey, listeners, listen up, because I know that approaching the summer, you're probably as busy as I am, but also as desperate as I am to find some healthy meals that you can fit into those busy windows. Well, it's time to make this the best summer yet

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That's not terrible. We gotta come together. A little southern twang there. A little George Bush in that one. This is the Don LeBathard Show with the StuGuts. So we've got 15 minutes before I announce the big one. And 15 minutes before I tell you, or through which I'll tell you what some of the nominees are because I urge all of you to check out the Greg Cody

show featuring Greg Cody. His producers, Yeti one of them, scampering to the bathroom in order to be late to produce the show poorly and you know crudely. The chemistry that these people have have made it so that in the last episode I learned what it looked like to see Greg Cody in a Best Buy, that Greg Cody was loudly right over his son who was yelling and screaming that there was no such thing at any point in time about an adult bookstore,

and I'm pretty sure that Greg Cody did not know the word for dildo. What? Wow. I let him, like he was trying to look for it and I wanted to help him, but I was just like, no, this is good, you try to find it. You could have done that for the rest of the three episodes

and I would have enjoyed listening to your father fumble about a dildo. Nominating or? Yes, but probably not likely to be the big one. That's the hardest one to get. But are we talking awards or dildo? In in the next 13 minutes who's confused about this I'm going to award the biggest award there is in sports podcasting I get to decide no one will disagree okay I didn't I'm just that's a hard standard correct it's a

heart I'm proud I but we can't disagree, so yes. Well but. It's the hardest. As someone who likes to under promise and over deliver, you would agree that it would be pretty bold to say, I am going to award a winner, there will be no argument, there is, this will not be subjective, we will all agree that this is the big one. That's a hard standard to meet, I believe I'm gonna meet it. We'll see. It'll happen before the end of this segment.

I think that's the hardest end that there is, right? If only one person gets the time. And we all have to agree. But up for it is the Greg Cody Show feature. Congratulations. Congratulations. This is the Greg Cody Show first nominee for the big one. It's, you know, these things are allegedly subjective, but I would

say Not this time. Should I call my dad and tell him? Put him on the big microphone. Let him know. I don't think he's gonna win. I don't want him to be disappointed. Well, no, just let him know he was nominated for the big one and see how excited he is.

I'm so excited. Dan, it's an honor just to be nominated. You've been nominated be nominated Greg for the Dad Did you get the email? No, I just saw we got nominated for the big one the Greg Cody show The big one what are you talking about? Look check your email. We are nominated for The big one. What are you talking about? Check your email. We are nominated for the big one.

Christopher, this is going to be a joke. I'm not mixing my email right now. What are you talking about? Do you know who's won the big one before? Are you aware of the big one? No. Well, we're nominated and it's big. Okay.

Okay. I smell a joke. I mean. All right. I mean. Alright, I'm live on the air. You're trying to get me to be all excited about winning a fictitious big one. No, it's real. Alright, well the problem there is I would never be that eager.

I overacted there. I did too. Why'd you just hang up on me? Billy gave me the note before of you gotta be excited and so I turned it up too much Chris. I got to tell you great urgency Yeah, no, yes, and it's real he was nominated for the big one, but it gave off like he Hold on you just ended the phone call by hanging up on me They were nominated because their chemistry was good there. They're the only nominee right now.

Well, you say. They co-wrote Unopposed. You say they're the only nominee, but I would say that everyone right now who does a podcast, and that is everyone, because everyone does a podcast, they're all nominated right now, and within 10 minutes, one of them is gonna get

what would be considered by all the others to be, by consensus, the big one. Well then, it's not an honor to just be nominated, right? Like that's the whole thing, right? When they say, do you think you're gonna win? It's an honor to just be nominated. Everyone's nominated, right? Like every team making the playoffs.

Everyone's eligible, not everyone's nominated. Is it just podcasts or like MMA hangout eligible? Yes, yes. Nominated? That's more of a hustle award like Draymond Green wins over here. I'm a Shanghai shark Thank you Call them a Shanghai sure that's just do so I didn't call him that Draymond Green is a legend Why do we're green on the show is doing this and that Shanghai shark? Go ahead. Thank you. I appreciate it Why do you wear green on the show is doing this and that Shanghai shark?

Thank you, I appreciate it Poor Greg monolith and what he hung up on he's fine. He knew the like it was like Nominated I mean still rude God bless football. God bless football is also nominated while I'm talking here and as we build up to the big one Can you guys just roll? Knicks fans from last night and just be role of Spike Lee and just an assortment of sad Knicks that we build up to the big one, can you guys just roll Knicks fans from last night and just B-roll of Spike Lee and just an assortment of sad Knicks that we have not given the people enough of because we're talking about ourselves

instead of being WFAT. I'm just picturing like Ben Stiller and Chalamet, like you wanna go? You wanna go to game four, PJ? I'll pay for this one. I'll get there, you get the way back. It's like an Uber for them. Who called who?

I think that's Chalamet. He's like the super fun guy, like come on Ben, we need you, I need you there with me. I gotta check my schedule, I'll work some things around, and the next thing you know he texts me back, I'm in. What happened to the Pacer fan who had been hit with trash? That guy is a big winner today, right?

He's a star, he was on McAfee the other day. I mean, just paraded around. A little much, right? Walking into the airport, people are like, thank you for your service here. I think you guys are too down on this Indiana story, man. Paraded around a little much right walking into the airport I think you guys are too down on this Indiana story man You guys are being bad to Indiana Indiana can deserve to enjoy this man They don't get a lot of moments like this trash boy doesn't get to have this moment right Halliburton John Halliburton Definitely does right Pat McAfee. I'll give it to Mike apps. He'll, he'll get it too. This guy, get out of here.

Get him off of my screen. I don't wanna see any, this guy is basically being rewarded for being an instigator. He went outside and instigated a riot, excited a riot. Waving like a queen. He just shook his hand like a pilot. It's so good. Get out of here.

Is that a key to the city? I want it. Is that overrated? He is a firefighter That's why he's running the fire trucks that that part is not just a pomp and circumstance. He's one of them That's cool. The firefighters want to make a big deal about him have at it by the way You know what a firefighter who starts a fire is an arsonist. That's what that guy is. He walked in there He started inside of the riot and then oh, oh, a guy hit by trash, oh, feel bad for me, find me to the game,

give me tickets to the game, get out of here. I can think of no greater symbol for where his sports are today in the, in the currency for our attention that we have made famous the guy who's famous for getting hit by New York dumpster juice because New York throws trash at people when it's feeling good about itself

up a couple games in the playoffs where they haven't been for 25 years. Doesn't this encourage Knicks fans to do what they did? No. This isn't discouraging, I'm gonna be meaner to a Pacers fan. It's the greatest reward you could give a sports fan today. Make me famous around my team.

We had this conversation when it happened. I'm saying I wouldn't want the dumpster juice. I wouldn't want to be hit by trash. And all of you are saying, hit me with that trash. Just make me a star. Is he going by himself to the game or does he get a plus one? Because now we may be encouraging a situation where

I go out and I'm like, hey, Tony, you want to go to this road game? Throw trash at me. And then be my plus one. No one's gonna verify who threw the trash at me. Like this could be an inside job where his friends were throwing trash at him and now he's got free tickets for him and his friends.

Yeah, maybe, yeah. Well what if he got a plus three? That's what I'm saying. So he had his friends dress up as Nick fans and throw trash at him? I like it, yeah. God bless football is up for the big one. Oh, congrats Billy.

It's an honor just to be nominated. This is God bless football's first nomination for the big one. Oddball is up for the big one. Wow, congratulations. We're somewhat biased. We're busy. No, but it's also Bill Simmons and pardon my take.

Wow. And the Kelseys. They're all up for it. Spittin' Chick, Keith Yannil, we'll join us next. Just throwing those in there. Yes and Club Shea Shea. Like I said, everyone is nominated. Again, now that makes it less of an honor. Yeah.

Well to be nominated, but to win, what I'm saying is the honor will be the honor and it'll be in three minutes. Is this show nominated or is there like a bias here because you're the decider of the big one? Greg Cody's show, very happy to just be in the conversation. He didn't sound it. He was at first, he said, what? His first was like, really?

And then his second reaction was, this better not be one of the jokes. He was literally upset that you would play with his emotions like that. And by the end he was like, ah. How about the triple option with Urban Meyer? Is that nominated? It is was like, ah. How about the triple option with Urban Meyer? Is that nominated? It is.

Wow, wow. Congratulations. See Oscars now, there's 15 nominees. What do you think the third option is? What's Right with Nick Wright is one of the options. Also joining us today. He's gonna be here in a little bit as well, yes. What's Right?

Can you guys, Chris, I saw you rummaging around trying to find me a trophy that we can give. Oh no, they're prepared to present it whenever you're ready for it. Oh, they're prepared to bring it in? They're gonna walk it into you. Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay.

What are you laughing about, Stugats? We need a couple people to walk that sucker in. Really? Okay. It's pretty big, huh? I was wondering if Stupodity was up for the big one. It's the big one. It is also.

Oh, wow! Congrats, Stugatsa, too! Congratulations, yeah. Master of upsets if you win with one episode. This is years. This is Dugatsa's second nomination for the big one. All right, let's walk in the trophy to Dan. Let's bring Dan in. Oh, the big one.

Wow. Whoa, don't hurt yourself, Mike. That's the big one. Oh, it's got a little crown on it, too. Wow. Who wins? OK, well little crown on it too. Wow. Wow. Who wins? OK, well, hold on a second. Look at the butt on that.

You must work out. Statues have great butts. They do. They got great butts, man. Creating in the lab, almost. You never see a statue where you're like, like that? Put it on the pole. Pancake back there?

What's going on? At the Levitard Show, do all statues have great butts at Levitard Show. Do all statues have great butts at Levitard Show? Stu Gatz, so just for the audience so they understand, what is a very short way to describe what this award is? It's the big one, Dan. It's the trophy that everyone wants to get in the podcasting business. I hope that I win the first annual Big One Award. It's a very, very, very tiny trophy. It is, yes, that is correct.

And it is a very big prize, though. The smaller the bigger, Dan. And the bigger the smaller. Welcome to Pablo Torres Finds Out. Well, that's nominated. That is nominated. Wow, come on. What do you mean? This is Pablo Torres' first nomination for the big one.

But I would describe it more shortly as what it's the prize everyone in podcasting wants. Well, I said that. And you did say that. I did. And we, our show, this one, has won it. Congratulations. Oh! Congratulations. Oh, wow!

Let's go! This is the Dan LeBataille Show's first win of the big one. Was it nominated though? Congratulations, guys. We have signed a new deal with DraftKings. That is one of the best deals that you will find anywhere in the industry. to continue our partnership with Draft Kings.

They've been the best partner that we have ever had. And now we are long-term working with- We back, baby! The big one! Yes, the big one has been won. Oh, good music, I like this. Draft Kings will support all of the things that we do around here in a way that will allow us to continue to make

Pablo Torre finds out and God bless football and Greg Cody's show featuring Greg Cody and oddball and the hockey show and MMA hangout and so congratulations to the Dan Lebatard show with Stu Gott for winning the greatest of the trophies the money. Someone tell Barrett Media are we at a carnival? Yes please please just keep like circling writing about the Levitard show in demise. Oh no what's happening? 80-20 my way or? You can have 80% of the Big One trophy here. I was talking about the keys.

God bless football, also one of the winners. We are the winners, the crown is ours. Yeah. But in all seriousness, if I can just for a moment thank our sponsors when I tell our audience, the most loyal audience, that there is, like, honest to God, I cannot thank you enough for your value because your value and your loyalty is the reason we've been able to do everything that we have done so that DraftKings may support this thing that, you know, belches and stumbles around.

And they have supported us as the best partner we've ever had. And it's not just because of the money. It's because they let us, in a really fractured media time, have real freedom and independence the way nobody in this business has. They let us do what we want. They fund it.

They support it. And we've learned so much together over the last few years. And this rocket ship is about to take off and grab all the things there are to be grabbed by the one uh... yes it starts only with this i don't know if it's not a little or is that what you're but i'd i'd just i know i haven't said in a while but i said all the time

it's because no matter the turbulence the audience comes with us. It's a hard and rare thing, man. Like reality's got it, but in the history of this business, there ain't a lot of people that take the audience with them.

Bayless took a little bit of it, but not because the audience really knows, no, these are the people I do this with, and I do it three hours a day. That's what DraftKings is paying for. Like that's, that's, Stugats, that's the best symbiotic marriage you can have with your audience when the audience funds it that clearly

and the sponsor understands it and gives the audience and the show the freedom it needs to actually partner. I mean, so blessed, so blessed to be able to have the greatest gift, the big one, which is you get to keep doing it. Look at what we're doing for a living. Look at how Chris Cody is dressed. Look at how Billy has dressed for ten years. This is not the height of executive corporate greed and front office. It took a turn.

Yeah, I've been taking shots at us. You bought new clothes like two weeks ago. It's a weird exception. You won the big one. You know what? I don't have to stand for this. Cut to me, guys. Hold on. The elevator elevator is not worth it. Oh, there it is. Okay. I'm grateful for all of you.