The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Chris and Jeremy are back to preview today's show after the world was officially introduced to Greg Cote & The Hee Haw Three. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stugotz, Billy and Mikey A react to an underwhelming first ever CFP 12-team playoff weekend. Stugotz has a surprise name to win NFL MVP. Billy and Mikey play a failed game of "video roulette". Jess joins the show to talk about Notre Dame's big win against college football darling Curt Cignetti. Plus, the BBBBBB looks to bounce back and "if the season ended today". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the 10 Days of Gregmas! This week and next, we have a special holiday celebration as the Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz will be re-airing the best Greg Cote days from throughout 2024. Chris and Jeremy have all the details of what today's show has in store and what's ahead for the rest of the week. Happy Holidays, everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you aren't familiar with the Americans who love calling into The Paul Finebaum Show, you're in for a holiday treat. Because during this bowl season — Alabama's first without Nick Saban — no radio show has been more vital in its misery. Or more of a portal into the universe of college football in the South. (As Paul himself says: "We found this audience before Donald Trump did.") We're talking poisoned trees, verified heart attacks, and the hidden backstory of one legendary caller... who trusted us to unveil his haunting past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the final Hockey Show of the year and Roy and David are joined by Rose and Ethan to celebrate the occasion. The boys start off their slapshots, winners and losers of the week including the vibes around the Rangers, Zach Hyman's face and an emergency goalie literally running to the game. Then, Adnan Virk joins the show to discuss his conversation this week with Florida Panthers head coach, Paul Maurice, after he sat down with PoMo leading up to the Panthers game against the Edmonton Oilers. Speaking of that game, is there something to what the Panthers are doing against some of the top teams in the league? Also, is there any way out for the Rangers? Finally, we wrap with a recap of the Panthers week that included a shutout loss to the Calgary Flames, the epic win over Edmonton and a domination of the Minnesota Wild. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amin Elhassan and Andrew Hawkins launch their new show: First Fake. Amin and Hawk battle it out in a debate style program analyzing several topics they have done absolutely zero research on. Which of the two will come out victorious and which of the two will accidentally spit on the other? It's time to embrace debate. Then, Pablo Torre is here to tell us about his new episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out, but instead, he spends most of his time explaining to us how he is somehow "cool" and "a jock" on MSNBC. Plus, Jordan Brenner and Peter Keating of The Underdogs discuss the unwarranted stigma around analytics in sports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today's cast: Dan, Amin, Andrew Hawkins, Chris, Jeremy, Mike, Roy, and Tony. It's the final live show of the year, and it begins with the type of hella good expertise you've all grown to expect from the Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz: people who did not watch Thursday Night Football breaking down Thursday Night Football. Should we launch a new show called "First Fake?" How should the Los Angeles Chargers feel after their comeback win? Is Sean Payton doing Bo Nix any favors? Then, Jeremy has a Stat of the Day on Jordan Love's production during Toyotathon, but how did he play during OTHER promotional deals? The crew sends him down a rabbit hole to find out. Plus, it's time to keep the main thing the main thing, Amin and Hawk share their thoughts on the internet's obsession with Travis Hunter's relationship, and Mike shares a theory after Luigi Mangioni's cinematic perp walk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The time has finally come: the College Football Playoff is here and Lucy and Jess are here to break it all down. Jess is flying up to South Bend to watch her Notre Dame Fighting Irish take on the Indiana Hoosiers. How confident is she that the Golden Domers will escape with victory? Lucy is taking off to Austin to see the Texas Longhorns and Clemson Tigers do battle. Who does she see coming out on top in this matchup of powerhouses? Plus, the Penn State Nittany Lions welcome the SMU Mustangs to Happy Valley and the Tennessee Volunteers head to Columbus to take on the Ohio State Buckeyes. How badly do James Franklin and Ryan Day need to take care of business at home? What would an upset mean for the Stangs and Vols? We answer all of those questions in our Gen CFB College Football Preview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Bear Chris Fallica joins the show to give his thoughts on the CFP and how the 12-team playoff affected the regular season. He also sings his "12 Bets of Christmas". New UNC GM Michael Lombardi joins the show to talk about what he and new head football coach Bill Belichick hope to build at North Carolina. Simms joins the show to share his thoughts on office Christmas Parties, drones and a little football. Mojo returns for the picks segment to pick some very special games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We check back in with the laziest Santa we have ever seen, Rose, one last time to tell us how things are going at our Toy Drive. Then, Juju Gotti joins us to give us his picks for Thursday Thunder and recap a truly epic show which featured Greg Cote stealing David Dwork from Roy, Amin talking with a bag full of nickels in his mouth and College Mike's abs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Miami's very own boogeyman, Dirk Nowitzki, joins the show and Mike Ryan has fled the premises in fear. We talk to the Dallas Mavericks legend about slaying the giant in 2011 when he took down LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and the Miami Heat basically all by himself. We also dive deeper on his rivalry with Dwyane Wade and just how frosty things got at one point in time. Plus, Amin goes deep into the archive to find the stats from when Dirk and John Amaechi matched up back in the day and we make a shocking revelation that Meech may have been a Dirk Stopper. To wrap up, we play Stump The Meech with some shocking mispronunciations from Stugotz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After John Amaechi's 'Chiddy Chiddy Bang Bang' reference, Tony comes really close to reading as he shoots to explain the movie to us. Then we check in with Rose again at our Toy Drive and she presents a challenge to our listeners that could lead to her skydiving, which hurtles us into a discussion about the time Tony went skydiving and had to succumb to an instructor the size of Ethan, who joins us for a hilarious demonstration. Plus, Meech has beef with Elon Musk, we revisit Amin's jumpshot that makes Meech sick, Mike Ryan is scared of Dirk Nowitzki and we further explore the Aaron Rodgers docuseries on Netflix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dianna Russini joins the show after her bombshell report this morning about the dysfunction around the New York Jets franchise, including Woody Johnson turning down a trade for Jerry Jeudy because his Madden rating was too low. Plus, Bill Belichick circled back to the New York Jets and Mike Ryan found it sad. We move on with some songs to spread the Holiday spirit including an absolute banger from Taylor about Bill Belichick going to North Carolina. Stephen A. Smith had some interesting takes about Miami and it has Meech completely freaked out. Then, we watch some video of Kanye West at a deposition which leads us into a discussion about how celebrity affects mental health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today's Cast: Dan, John Amaechi, Chris, Tony, Mike, Amin. We are all struggling a bit today after last night's holiday party but luckily The Meech is here to lift all of our spirits. We begin by recapping the best moments of our holiday party, including a triumphant moment of celebration between Greg Cote and David Dwork. Then, the Florida Panthers dominated the Minnesota Wild last night and everybody is talking about the quintessential Matthew Tkachuk game that took place last night. Plus, Amin face planted and busted his lip up last night, but powers through to have a discussion with Meech about the concept of athletes being soft, including Joel Embiid after Stephen A. Smith's comments and the Tennessee Titans after their head coach, Brian Callahan, responded to the accusation that his team is not tough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lewis Black has finally had enough… There’s a lot for the modern comedy icon to look back on (and look forward to) - Lewis gets to the root of where all that anger he has on stage comes from in real life (he learned some of it from watching his mom yell at the TV), and how he channels it. Dan and Lewis also walk through his career– from years of playwriting off-off-broadway, to getting big break after big break, to finally deciding to retire from a life on tour. Lewis and Dan also share stories about their brothers, and get into the spirituality of feeling someone’s presence after they’ve passed on. Don’t miss your last chance to see Lewis live on his “Goodby Yeller Brick Road, The Final Tour.” Visit lewisblack.com for tickets and tour dates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Juju Gotti joins the show to end the day and break down how today went. We recap the epic interview with Nick Turturro, Michael Kay and David Samson and Greg Cote's reaction to being placed alongside Dave Hyde. Plus, Greg and Juju make a bet in case they end up meeting in their Fantasy Football Championship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you miss the Kurt Thomas baseline jumper? What about the Tyrone Hill pick-and-pop? Did the Eric Snow elbow jumper do it for you? What if layups counted for three points? Subjective three-point lines? It's time to fix basketball and Chris and Stugotz have whipped up some ideas. Plus, we check back in with Roy one more time and he brought a visitor along: Rose. Then, Greg Cote had Alonzo Mourning on this week's Greg Cote Show With Greg Cote and he discusses the emotional interview he did with him and how Chris make Zo unhappy with some of his questions. We wrap up the show by talking about the new docuseries which follows Aaron Rodgers and whether or not Billy ended up like Rodgers by the end of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In one of the most chaotic interviews in recent memory, Nick Turturro joins us to discuss the rage he has felt as a New York Yankees fan since Juan Soto signed with the New York Mets. As he unleashes his fury, David Samson is also with us to assess the situation and tells us where the Yankees have gone wrong in their Plan B since losing out on Juan Soto. Did they give Max Fried too much money? Is Cody Bellinger a solution in center field? Then, to add even more fun to the proceedings, the voice of the Yankees, Michael Kay, joins in on the fun to give us his thoughts on how the Yankees offseason has gone. Plus, would Dan attend Michael Kay's funeral? Would Michael Kay attend Dan's funeral? Would anybody attend David Samson's funeral? Also, this entire time Greg Cote is wrapping presents and forcing Michael Kay and Nick Turturro to watch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dan kicks off the hour by sharing his love and gratitude for everybody in the studio as we move through the holiday season, but pays no mind to those outside the studio. He reels in Izzy from the outside to discuss how his allegiances have changed with the Miami Heat stuck in a rut and the Florida Panthers winning the Stanley Cup then continuing to be phenomenal this season. He also shares his allegiances on the big topic that rustled Greg Cote's feathers in the last hour: is Greg Cote really neck-and-neck with Dave Hyde? Plus, Doc Rivers takes a victory lap after the Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA Cup last night, and it launches us into a very heated debated about whether the NHL has surpassed the NBA as a product. To cool the room off, Chris Cote has a loop to close. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today's Cast: Dan, Stugotz, Greg, Chris, Billy, Mike. Roy is out at Vivo! at the Dolphin Mall for the second day of our 'Roy Drive' collecting unwrapped gifts for children this holiday season. We check in with our Stoic Santa to see how things are going, and Dan announces that he will match all of the toys we collect during the drive. Then, we get into a discussion about how the Florida Panthers are capturing the hearts of fans in South Florida and doing something Dan never thought possible: making people care about regular season hockey. With basketball's ratings dipping and the Miami Heat continuing to fall short of expectations, have the Panthers overtaken them as the second team in Miami? Thankfully, we have Greg Cote here to put this into the proper perspective as one of the most important columnists in South Florida sports history right alongside Dave Hyde. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices