Is TikTok the one social-media platform that makes you feel good, or is it an algorithmic wasteland of culturally insignificant content? Are we partying hard enough? And was the pre-Taylor Swift version of Travis Kelce actually hot? Plus: second-person IG love letters to your child, a boombox-holding panda/dog... and the tragic end of Party City. Further content: Americans Need to Party More (Ellen Cushing) https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/01/throw-more-parties-loneliness/681203/ ...
Jan 24, 2025•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussion of mental health struggles and self harm. If you or someone you know are struggling with thoughts of self harm, you can get help by calling 988 for the national Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.This episode of the Oral History of the Dan Le Batard Show takes a serious turn, discussing the challenges with losing our biggest supporter at ESPN in John Skipper. Dan, Stu, and Mike Ryan re-live the unforgettable moment when Dan found out about Skipper stepp...
Jan 24, 2025•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rose has hijacked the plane today as she starts the show in the big chair to kick us off on our hot takes, winners and losers of the week. This week's edition features some great goaltending, injury concerns for Sweden at The Four Nations Challenge and big-time fights between some of the league's heavyweights. Then, Avry Lewis-McDougall of Avry's Sports Show and The Hockey News joins the show to discuss Connor McDavid's suspension for his cross check of Conor Garland, Leon Draisatil's incredible...
Jan 24, 2025•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dan is up to his old tricks creating tensions between two members of the show as he sparks a debate between Andrew Hawkins and Izzy about Izzy's naked hot tub habits. If you shower before getting into a hot tub, are you good? Izzy has all the answers about how sweat and pores work. Then, Dion Dawkins of the Buffalo Bills wants there to be an offensive lineman of the year award and we complete the investigation about whether or not Hawk called Larry Bird boring. Plus, how much money could Travis ...
Jan 24, 2025•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dan has a take that he has been working for 35 years to curate but he can't bring himself to say it: is Nikola Jokic a better offensive player than Michael Jordan? Before we get there, Dan invites Andrew Hawkins to our livestream Sunday for the AFC Championship Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills, but suddenly he has something Sunday that just won't allow him to make it. Also, Mike may have killed his elementary school principal and he tells us about how he gets hit on in sauna...
Jan 24, 2025•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pauley McPaulerson returns to talk with Billy Corben about the craziness that happened in Miami this week. Plus, Michele Borchew and Adam Goodman joins the show to update us on the cases that the office of Miami Dade state attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle bungled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 24, 2025•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sutgotz, Billy and Mikey A are joined by all-time leading scoring in the NFL, Adam Vinatieri who tries to answer what is wrong with kickers these days and plays "kick for your life". Austin Ekler joins the show as he gets ready to face the Eagles in the NFC Championship game. Simms stops by and previews both games, and tells us why Lamar Jackson is partially to blame for the ending against Buffalo. Plus, some more controversy in the picks segment with K Funk at the center of it. Learn more about...
Jan 24, 2025•2 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast JuJu Gotti is here to recap the show, deliver his Thursday Thunder bets, and update the polls before Scott Van Pelt joins the show via a phone call from Dan to respond to the allegations that he skipped the TSA line at the Atlanta airport after the National Championship game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 23, 2025•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast How much better can Jayden Daniels be? Is this the best rookie QB season we've ever seen? Then, what does America want from the AFC and NFC title games? Are we sick of Patrick Mahomes? Are the Bills, despite being a great team, somehow a loveable underdog? Plus, we have a new Pat Riley Statue, and this time it's actually good. Also, UFO expert Jeremy Corbell joins us to share his reporting on why and how we've been lied to for years about the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects. Are we clos...
Jan 23, 2025•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Samson is here JUST after the Oscar nominations have been revealed, and he couldn't be more excited. Samson answers the crew's questions about Emilia Perez's nomination for Best Picture, Challengers being snubbed from Best Score, and the movie he's about to watch at Mike Ryan's suggestion. Then, is David in a haunted hotel during his stay in Cooperstown? Plus, Greg shares his thoughts on Ichiro's Hall of Fame induction and delivers his Top 5 Old Person Insults. Learn more about your ad cho...
Jan 23, 2025•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast What's the most publicly embarrassed you've ever been? Then, Stugotz uses non-stop loaner cars, we determine the difference between blimps and zeppelins, and Billy Corgan and Bill Burr might be brothers. Plus, would you want to drive The Nut Mobile or The Weiner Mobile? Tubi or not Tubi, that is the question. Also, Greg doesn't know anything about horoscopes, and names in sports that sound like cars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 23, 2025•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Josh Johnson is writing all the internet’s favorite jokes. The Emmy-nominated writer and correspondent on “The Daily Show” shares with Dan how he’s been building a community through his unique, topical stand-up every week on YouTube (to millions of views). With Dan, Josh takes on the biggest topics of today… like the gaming habits of billionaires, the loneliness epidemic, and, yeah, Luigi Mangione. Josh also opens up about the loss of his father, his time in therapy, and what it was like for him...
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Greg Cote is in rare old person form as he is ready to say "good riddance" to Jimmy Butler. Greg leads the crew in his dismissal of Butler's lack of effort as he tries to force his way to the Phoenix Suns. We PROMISE this is not an extended Jimmy Butler conversation. We promise. Then, how do you feel about punctuation in show titles? What's the best show with an exclamation point? What about commas? How about a question mark? Plus, the Game Show Hall of Fame and Betty White's dating history. Lea...
Jan 23, 2025•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Greg Cote leads our Postgame Show with JuJu Gotti, and it's as joyful as you'd expect. JuJu gives us some praise from today's show, celebrates Kel'el Ware's ascension, explains what he expects from his teams this weekend, and updates the polls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 22, 2025•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast NFL star Cam Jordan joins the show, and even though he wants to stay in the positive land of his foundation, Dan and the crew need to know which Tight End he believes would be the easiest to kill. He also tells us about his pure hatred of the Falcons, the only time he felt bad about sacking a QB, Tom Brady's broadcasting chops, and Cal Twitter. Then, Greg Cote's dentist is a yammerer, and his old neighbor gifted him with a golf club that is too small to nudge an iguana with. Plus, Stephen A. Smi...
Jan 22, 2025•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nikola Jokic continues to do things on the basketball court that show off a level of dominance that is unprecedented, but it's literally putting the Shipping Container to sleep. Then, Greg has some of the best teeth and gums ever made, but would they survive cremation? Plus, Katie Nolan is here to discuss her new podcast "Casuals" and why it's a show about sports that isn't always as sports as you want it to be...but she doesn't need to explain that to us. Katie tells us about what it's been lik...
Jan 22, 2025•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast A miracle occurs at the start of today's Big Suey: Greg Cote admits he was wrong. Then, Lucy joins the show after a hellish experience at the Atlanta Airport, but she refuses to tell us who skipped the TSA line (outside of herself). She also tells us about the antiseptic NFL feeling at the College Football National Championship game, tries to decide which punishment she needs to fulfill to get to go to the Super Bowl, and delivers her Off Rohd-ing. Plus, a revelation about Jeremy's bachelor part...
Jan 22, 2025•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast The studio is abuzz with people all over the office fighting over who should have made the MLB Hall of Fame. Was Greg Cote the one voter who did NOT vote for Ichiro? Then, Billy wishes he could be put on house arrest just to get the relief of not having to make plans with anyone. Is house arrest actually our greatest form of freedom? Plus, snow in Tallahassee, Greg believes he could be a hype man, Jessica explains why the National Championship felt anti-climactic to some people, and we determine...
Jan 22, 2025•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast JuJu Gotti is here with his takes on Ohio State, Unrivaled, and his Joker of the Week before helping us update the polls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 21, 2025•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast MSNBC's Chris Hayes is here after yesterday's inauguration, and he's promised to be completely unbiased. Hayes chats with us about how the most powerful billionaires in the world ended up cozying up with the President, memcoins, the total uncertainty of the next 4 years, the pardons issued yesterday, and deep dish pizza. Plus, Jessica is here after her Notre Dame Fighting Irish came up just short in the National Championship, and she explains what it felt like to watch her team lose after such a...
Jan 21, 2025•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast JuJu Gotti checks in from the first weekend of games at the new women's 3on3 basketball league, Unrivaled. Then, we pivot to more NFL talk as Dianna Russini joins the show. She tells us about the mental warfare her husband is wielding against her to get himself to the NFC Championship Game when his Philadelphia Eagles take on Jayden Daniels and the Washington Commanders. Would Big Dom make a good nanny for her kids? Plus, we do some quick hit topics with Dianna including Ben Johnson taking the h...
Jan 21, 2025•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chris "Mad Dog" Russo stops by after a wild weekend across sports, but first, we need to learn about his visit to the premiere of 'A Complete Unknown' in London with Timothée Chalamet. Mad Dog, Stugotz, and Mike Ryan dive into Novak Djokovic's win over Carlos Alcaraz this morning as the best sports podcast in America breaks out around us. Then, Mad Dog's take on Dan calling Mark Andrews immortal, how he feels about Lamar Jackson's playoff performances, why he's sick of the Kansas City Chiefs, an...
Jan 21, 2025•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast The first Local Hour of the new presidential administration begins exactly how you would expect: Dan becomes a Commie. Dan, Stu, and the crew discuss Jayden Daniels leading the Washington Commanders over the Detroit Lions, who Dan felt bad for and then immediately turned on. Then, was Mark Andrews' drop a Bill Buckner moment? Is Lamar Jackson to blame for the Ravens loss? Is Jackson's playoff reputation ever going to change? Is he essentially the Peyton Manning to Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen'...
Jan 21, 2025•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Billy and Mikey A discuss the big weekend in the NFL. All four games were good, which was a nice change from last weekend. Plus, snow days, failed plans, Walmart logos and Taylor Swift heel turns. Will it be a good loss for the Chiefs to lose in the AFC Championship game? Billy gives his first ever college football playoff BBBBBB. Plus, Mike Golic joins the show to preview Notre Dame and Ohio State in the National Championship and Stugotz brings in a surprise guest for Golic. Learn more about yo...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Since long before their weed strains and tequila brands, famous people have been selling vanity fragrances. So, with a month before Valentine's Day, we're doing a pungent public service: Pablo, Katie Nolan and perfumier-adjacent lifestyle writer Lawrence Schlossman enter the PTFO laboratory with varying levels of sensory ignorance. The winner of our 11 mystery bottles, from Jordan and Brady's colognes to Taylor Swift and Britney's perfumes — plus, yes, Will Levis' sold-out parfum de mayonnaise —...
Jan 17, 2025•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tony and Uncrowned’s Conner Burks preview UFC 311. Breaking News: Lightweight Title Contender Arman Tsarukyan is OUT of the UFC 311 Main Event due to injury. Renato Moicano will be stepping in to fight Lightweight Champion Islam Makhachev. This podcast was recorded prior to the news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 17, 2025•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's a packed edition of The Hockey Show this week as the gang kicks off the show with their hot takes, winners and fails of the week. Could the Columbus Blue Jackets actually make the playoffs in the Eastern Conference? How concerning is the Carolina Hurricanes lost to the Buffalo Sabres? Has anybody ever fallen down as cartoonishly as Detroit Red Wings' defenseman Moritz Seider? Then, Adnan Virk joins us for his monthly visit to discuss some of the hot topics around the league including whethe...
Jan 17, 2025•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jessica Smetana and Lucy Rohden are back with a new episode of Gen CFB. They discuss their favorite moments from bowl season, argue for the success of the 12 team playoff and then preview the upcoming national championship between Ohio State and Notre Dame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 17, 2025•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Do you remember Canadian reggae artist "Snow?" Did you know he was white? Did you know because of his name? Then, we promised ourselves we'd stop talking about Jimmy Butler, but this new piece from Ramona Shelburne is just too good. Palpable dread? Disgust? Jimmy hasn't even started? Tonight's game and Kevin Love's IG are both going to be a movie. Plus, we use Andrew Hawkins' football expertise ahead of Playoff games returning tomorrow to let us know the difference between "a guy," "the guy," an...
Jan 17, 2025•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andrew Hawkins is here wearing a pink mink, and Dan "Jolly Qerim" Le Batard hosts Hawk and Amin Elhassan's battle on First Fake. Dan, Hawk, Amin, and the rest of the crew dive into the upcoming Bills-Ravens matchup in the snow and why C.J. Stroud could ruin everything before checking in with Rose and our Pat Riley statue. Then, the actual battle begins as Hawk and Amin embrace debate over Jimmy Butler, Deion Sanders, Lamar Jackson, and Gelo ball. Plus, which all-time musician is the best athlete...
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