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Postgame Show: THE ALIENS ARE HERE! (feat. JuJu Gotti)

16 min
Feb 11, 20264 months ago
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Summary

The Dan Le Batard Show postgame episode features discussion of media accountability around investigative reporting, NBA rule change proposals, and lighthearted segments on pizza eating techniques and Disney rides. JuJu Gotti joins to discuss crediting ideas in sports media and defends early takes that later became mainstream.

Insights
  • Early takes in sports media are often dismissed until they gain mainstream acceptance, creating a credibility gap for original thinkers
  • Investigative journalism in sports carries real professional and personal risks that deserve recognition without appearing self-promotional
  • Social media verification challenges are creating widespread skepticism about video authenticity even for legitimate content
  • Sports media figures struggle with balancing credit attribution versus appearing petty about idea ownership
Trends
Increasing difficulty in distinguishing authentic content from AI-generated media in sports coverageSports media consolidation creating pressure for faster idea adoption and attributionInvestigative sports journalism facing credibility and safety challenges requiring institutional supportEarly-adopter disadvantage in sports commentary where ideas gain credibility only after mainstream validationSocial media handlers becoming integral to athlete brand management and content verification
Topics
Sports Media AccountabilityInvestigative Journalism in SportsNBA Rule Changes and Dunking DefinitionsSports Media Idea AttributionAI Content VerificationAthlete Social Media ManagementSports Commentary CredibilitySalary Cap Circumvention ReportingEarly Takes vs. Mainstream Validation
Companies
Disney
Referenced for teacup ride experience featuring NFL players Sam Donald and Kenneth Walker
Los Angeles Clippers
Mentioned as context for investigative reporters working in potentially hostile territory
New England Patriots
Discussed regarding early takes about team performance and playoff eligibility
People
Pablo Torre
Investigative reporter praised for exceptional reporting work on salary cap issues despite personal risk
Nick Wright
Sports media personality credited with proposing three-point dunk rule change on Bill Simmons podcast
JuJu Gotti
Guest co-host discussing early sports takes, media credibility, and idea attribution in sports commentary
Victor Wembanyama
NBA player referenced in discussion about dunk vs. layup rule clarification
Sam Donald
Super Bowl MVP featured in Disney teacup ride social media content
Kenneth Walker
Super Bowl MVP featured in Disney teacup ride social media content
Duncan Robinson
Player referenced regarding walking away from altercation without suspension consequences
Isaiah Stewart
Pistons player suspended seven games for involvement in Pistons-Hornets fight
Miles Bridges
Hornets player suspended four games for involvement in Pistons-Hornets fight
Bill Simmons
Podcast host where Nick Wright discussed NBA rule change proposals
Ryan Clark
Sports analyst referenced as later validator of early takes about Patriots performance
Omar Raja
Social media personality documented Disney teacup ride footage with NFL players
Quotes
"The work is too hard to do to expect everybody in media to be doing this stuff, but it's not too hard since Pablo is taking the risk of responsibility"
Dan Le BatardEarly segment
"Great minds think alike. And if you think Nick Wright is a great mind, you kind of got to lend me that now"
JuJu GottiMid-episode
"Not wrong, just early. Exactly, not early, not wrong at all"
JuJu GottiMid-episode
"In a world that magnify hate and turmoil, just remember, bruh. Yo, people are yo, people for a reason. It's really up to you to treat them special"
JuJu GottiLate segment
"I wasn't wrong. I was just early. Maybe that's not putting that wording out like I'm savvy enough"
Dan Le BatardLate segment
Full Transcript
Put a camera on the frustrated Jeremy out there. He's pissed off at us. He's not even wrong to be pissed off at us. We sort of deserve his rage because we ganged up on him. What do you mean? He has a 14 minute question. And it's taking him a long time to make this song, but songs are hard to make. It's, I mean, we are really putting pressure on him to quickly make songs and he's got a certain standard. And we're watching him while he does it and we're like bothering him. We're playing defense against everything he's doing. We'll get to Jude you here in a second and update the polls, but I wanted to ask the group of you as it relates to this Pablo reporting, okay? Because Pablo is doing an exceptional job, but I also feel like it can be off-putting and and and not a great look for us to sort of be grandstanding about why can anyone else do this work or why can't anyone else bring attention to this work. The second to me is more important than the first. The work is too hard to do to expect everybody in media to be doing this stuff, but it's not too hard since Pablo is taking the risk of responsibility to then talk about what it is he's reporting without any legal risk to yourself because you put the responsibility of it on Pablo. And I don't know how to correctly walk the line between asking the media to please pay attention to what is really good work. Don't ignore it. It's hard to do what Pablo is doing and not looking like we're grandstanding. I don't know how to do it correctly. I think we're off-putting in demanding that the media please pay attention to this. You sure are. You sure are. Demanding that people pay attention to co-I Leonard. There are aliens with bases in our oceans. The government has told us they exist and you're talking about co-I Leonard. Do we just not have the mental capacity to reconcile that we're not alone in this universe? Do we not want to do that to our theologies? The aliens are here. I haven't seen these aliens. What? What did you just mutter? I got it. I speak jazz now. What did you say? I have it. Yeah. We'll get to the polls in a second with Juju. Juju, do you have any thoughts on Nick Wright? I imagine. When was it? Do you have a time stamp on when it is that you gave us this idea and Nick Wright just stole it to make dunks worth three points? No, man. We're going to keep the respect on Nick Wright's name. He ain't stealing nothing from me. I go the other way. I don't like the rest of the folks in the media who get offended by stuff like that. That's a form of flattery to me and a reminder of what I was saying a couple months ago. Whenever I say stuff as Julian G with my tie on, it's taken a little serious. More serious than this guy right here. I don't do myself no favor. So just remember that great minds think alike. And if you think Nick Wright is a great mind, you kind of got to lend me that now. You did. It's very kind of you, but it's just outright thievery. There are timestamps on this. You said this a long time ago. Now, Mike Ryan's coming in here all lightheaded about how great Nick was on Bill Simmons' podcast, changing the NBA, fixing the NBA, which is a go to topic two days after the Super Bowl. That's how it goes, man. Like I said, I bought it in here. I said, bro, I said a couple of things about the bills earlier in the season. Me and the cons said them by three months later, the whole world fell out and couldn't believe how a brilliant of a takes you had. I told you that the Patriots were frauds. Like halfway through the season, I told you they haven't played no damn body. I said, what have you done for me lately? I was in Miami when this happened. My bills beat them. You got beat by my bills. That tells me a lot about you. And then the world starts saying, now put it on right. Ryan Clark said it. Then our life's key said it. It must be true. Come on, man. I think you got to throw my boy. Jew a little bit respect right now. You feel me? I've been doing this for a little while. I've been here at this job for six years now. They usually make someone to expert that song. You feel me? No, Mr. Dama's over here. Jew, to be honest though, you're in the same situation I am. Again, not wrong just early. Exactly, not early, not wrong at all. And I even showed support. I went to other way. I wore the Patriots jersey on here last week because guess what? I'm a friend, unlike Duncan Robinson. My partner, AJ Heisman, worked for the Patriots. He get paid every time they want in the playoffs. Come on, man. I don't ruin for that still. Good guy over here. You're telling me though, like Nick Wright can tell the difference. Guy gets fouled going to the basket if he was trying to dunk it. Or maybe he was going to do a layup. I mean, last night Victor Wembañama, he drove to the basket and he did a finger roll. Like you assume he's going to dunk right now. No, he did a finger roll. No Wembañama can do a finger roll without jumping. I understand, but that's not a dunk. You wouldn't get three points. I'm a bad slippery slope. What's a dunk? I think it's easy to fix. That's slippery slope. I had it already now. Once you go up for a layup or a dunk in the paint, that's three free throws, no matter what. Case closed. Get out of my face. Do you have any advice for Pablo Amin and David Samson on what it is that they're doing there on Pablo Tory finds out? Pablo. Yes, sir. I got some advice from Metal Art Media, man. These are our brothers. I preach brotherhood and I preach love. We sending them folks to LA this weekend in crypto. We need to get them boys on Aschrish security. We need to make sure they got everything they need. Because imagine, they go on in the enemy territory. Imagine you work for the Clippers and you see Amin prancing his ass through the bars of your organization. Uh-uh, no, sir. Let's make sure we got some $200 an hour brothers with them brothers everywhere they go. I do think that Pablo's doing actual dangerous work. You, I don't know whether the people at large in this America and in this protect billionaires America. I had the thought of when the original aspiration they came out where I opened my phone and I saw and I was like, oh my god, they're gonna kill Pablo at some point. I had that idea like six months ago. No, no, no, no. Aliens are in the ocean. That's the tip of the iceberg. They're gonna kill Pablo because of salary cap circumvention. Yeah. I mean, a little self-important this segment, huh? They're aliens. Pablo's self-important, not me. I want to show people here a ride at Disney that has always been scary to me. And it's not one of the ones. And not a fan of this one. This ride sucks by the way. It sucks. Terrible ride. No, the teacups are dizzying and it's unpleasant. And I think I'm a little bit of a baby and not liking this. There are many. This is a Sam Donald and Kenneth Walker doing the teacups. I love the social media people like trailing them. Yeah, they're, they're having natural fun. They're like, we need our own cups. Please, we need to get this footage. Two different social media handlers around the organic moment of here's Super Bowl MVP, Kenneth Walker and Sam Donald, not an original ginger according to Chris Cody. But is an original ginger according to Erling Cody, Chris Cody's mom and the authority, the true authority on these matters. The teacups, how do you feel about this, Judu? Am I a wimp for hating the teacups? They make me dizzy. They affect my equilibrium. I do not like that ride. You are a wimp for 100 other reasons, be it brother, not a hidden or a dare. But at the same time, this is proof that I don't believe nothing on my brother. I don't know what to believe. I see a video I think is AI. I watched this video 800 times. I was like, is brother Sam in the teacup or not? I don't know. We are going 100 miles an hour in the wrong direction as a society. I don't know what this is. I'm looking at. OK, so it's the not knowing that it's real that bothers you. It's not that Sam Donald and played again. I want to see this real. You know how I know it's real Omar Raja on the screen filming that day? Yeah, look, that's what I've been looking at the entire time. There's Omar having the film. He probably skipped people in line for this, by the way. Oh, yeah, no doubt. I can't tell anything, Omar. I'm like, is this all sitting down for real? But neither here nor there. Well, I'm the pizza gate. Yeah, we'll get the pizza gate in a second. Well, that's where we'll end up. I do think I feel like not that pizza gate. I do feel like most people here think that I am simply wrong. That it's not about being earlier being wrong. I think that they just think I'm wrong about everything I've said about the pizza. And I don't know. It's just important to I promise the TV show traders, bro. Oh my goodness. It has changed my life. It has revolutionized my thinking. You be seeing something. Think you write his hair, but be wrong as hell. You will see somebody that looked like you walked like you talked like you say something. You just inclined to believe it. No, it's wrong. Brothers, I don't do this in public because I'm a german phob. And when I'm in Miami, I'm touching the pizza on the crust only because I can't y'all got that soap in the bathroom. It'll leave my hands stinking. I'm going to be honest. I bring my own soap down there. So when I'm at home, though, I tear off the crust because you eliminate the coast. It's like a little ivory coast where the crust turns into pizza. That little badlands right there. I don't own none of it. I only want the possibility of it. I have nothing but a whole chunk of deliciousness in my hand to fold and manipulate how I want to. I don't never touch no pizza or no pepperoni sauce or no cheese. I'm touching the undercarriage. You make the taco. I got it. It's brilliant and easy. But let y'all tell it. You get you get you get some America if you do this. Come on, guys. I don't know what pepperoni sauce is. Is it the juices from pepperoni? Exactly. You know what pepperoni sauce is? Look at your belly. You know what some damn pepperoni sauce is. It turns it. Put up big fat then. Put up big fat then. Get fat then. It turns a napkin. Black history. My heavy black history must, by the way, you feel me? I got some free guidance for the world right now. In a world that magnify hate and turmoil, just remember, bruh. Yo, people are yo, people for a reason. It's really up to you to treat them special. The entire world is trying to tear them down for the mistake they made. The entire world don't believe in them. They already don't. They hate them when they walk through the door. You don't have to join the in line. You feel me? Your patience and understanding is going to be the world to them. Lend it to your people. They your people for a reason. That's how you strengthen these bonds down the road. Have people willing to die for you? Because you took up for them and you had their back when they made a mistake. So free game for the world. Yeah, I could see that. At Levitard show, if you want to vote on the polls, and again, if we want to get love advice from Greg Cody, the telephone numbers, 305, 486, got 305, 486, 4689, he's going to do this live at the end of the week. I get to feel like I make the argument that I'm not wrong. I'm just early on being fooled by the internet. I was fooled by the internet before the rest of you were fooled by the internet. If Juju is now too old, if Juju, our social media guy is not savvy enough to realize that he's going to be made a sucker by the internet. I wasn't wrong. I was just early. Maybe that's not putting that wording out like I'm savvy enough. I'm going to keep my job. Well, oh, oh, oh, but at the same time, we got breaking news out of the NBA. The NBA suspensions for the Pistons Hornets fight has been released. Isaiah Stewart seven games, Miles Bridges four games, Musa Diabate four games, and Jalen Durin two games. How many Duncan Robinson get? Exactly. He gets the game extra games. Eternal shame. He gets eternal shame. Duncan Robinson from walking away. That's light on Isaiah Stewart. I thought I thought he was going to get 10. All right. I like that. It's like League of Sane play on. I dig that. More fights coming off the bench, though. Yeah. That's a dangerous person. You think they dropped him in Detroit? That's exactly right. What? What you're just saying? I love it, Tardew. I speak to Tardew. On the pole questions. What do you have for us today, Juju? Well, I mean, this has never happened before in the history of the show, bro. My boy ain't putting out one pole up today. I'm talking about not one of them. So as a treat was Dave Portnoy, the first person to call the bottom of a pizza, the undercarriage. And before I read this, I got to remind you, listen to the alley hoop at DLS Hoops. That's how you find it. If you ain't hating, why you waiting? Subscribe, please. 65% of the audience says, yes, Dave Portnoy was the first person to call the bottom of a pizza, the undercarriage. And that is your pole. All right. Thank you, Juju. We will staple to the end of this whenever Jeremy is finished with it, the song that he spent the last hour making in a room alone, vulnerable in a shame, because look at Tony. Tony betrayed him. I might betrayed him. Mike betrayed him. You guys, look at him. He's been in his quarterback, Dan, ever heard that? He's leaking confidence. Look at him out there. He doesn't feel good. He doesn't like us very much. He's like, is he should be the bird there? I think that is. I think that's a middle finger. 1758, Jose Querva would make. 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