The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Dan's Strange First Question (feat. Nick Wright and Earleen Cote)
08 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What fantasy football stressors are discussed at the start?
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Chapter 2: How does Nick Wright view LeBron James' latest announcement?
Anybody that has been following LeBron James for a quarter century that thought he was going to announce his retirement or retirement tour on a Tuesday at noon is a moron. That was not like, oh, he made us think he was retiring and it's a Hennessy ad. Anybody with a pulse should have known that was going to be an ad.
You don't have to be a LeBronologist to know that he's not announcing his retirement on a nondescript Tuesday at noon. So I think everybody that... I saw a lot of people I like saying, you know, oh, he's selling in, trading in his credibility. Give me a break. Anybody that thought he was announcing his retirement... You've mentioned that.
You've mentioned that. What day and time should we expect it?
6 p.m. Prime time on a Monday, I would imagine. Some pomp and circumstances. If that tweet said Monday, 7 p.m., I'd be like, oh... We'll look out. Hold on. Maybe something's here. But, yeah, I mean, that's the thing. I don't think anybody actually thought he was announcing his retirement.
No, I didn't think. I will tell you this, though, and you're saying this to my face, and I do feel like a fool. I was not doing any of that time stuff. I did think that he was teasing with people's feelings because he does that. Like, it's been a move for 15 years, and it's worked. He's like, he is the Internet Ages athlete. And he's being a troll as a dad at the end.
And I do feel like a moron, and you're calling me on it. But I also thought it was also grotesquely commercial.
No, I think obviously the proper way to announce a retirement or to retire in the NBA if you really want to be the GOAT is to do it three separate times, which makes the first two fraudulent retirements. That's the way to do it. The way to do it is to quit the sport multiple times, then come back, then quit again, then come back again.
then quit again and then joke about coming back at 45 we all know the blueprint's been laid out on how to properly retire from this league which is to not actually retire just to quit and come back a bunch of times and then have people pretend that anything that happened really post retirement two or during retirement one didn't actually count that's the blueprint he's going his own way and selling cognac that's fine with me who's he talking about
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Chapter 3: What insights does Nick provide about the Chiefs and Jaguars matchup?
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Don Levitard. Quiet man. Yes. You know, I'm a married man. I don't cheat on my wife, despite that gratuitous line back in my day. Stugatz. I wish you were here, my wife. I really miss her. No, I don't. That's the thing about being married. You know, you're not allowed to say, I don't miss my wife. I've been gone two days. I haven't been gone long enough to miss my wife. I'm sorry. I call her.
I'm on the phone with her for 30 seconds.
You know, what am I? Hello. All right. All right. We'll see you. All right. And then, you know, I'm going to see her in two days. How's jumping, Charlie?
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I don't like that my reaction was to recoil there on all of it. That he was playing again with people's feelings 15 years later was a funny reminder. And I do feel like a fool for falling for it again.
Well, I must apologize, Dan. I didn't know, to be honest with you, that one of the people I was calling out was you. I maybe would have softened that.
No, I don't. I just feel like such a fool and your aunt. You're laughing in my face at something. But for 15 years, this dude was the economy here, and he's played for the Lakers longer than that. The idea that he's still the story in basketball, even on a football Monday and Tuesday, is pretty funny when you look at a career unlike any other.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of LeBron's recent commercial decision?
Don Libetard. Surely every time you're watching this, you recognize that your wife is laughing that she married Larry David.
I do, yeah. One of the great characters in the history of television, in my humble opinion. And to my credit, my personality... In my humble opinion, followed by to my credit.
To my credit. It's amazing.
My personality does predate Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Stugatz. Oh, wow.
I'm not going to say Larry David patterned himself after me.
All right, put it on the poll, please, Jude. You did, Greg Cody, copyright being an asshole long before Larry David.
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Can you guys get me that video, please? Because it's, yeah, it's an interesting thing. Someone who cannot control themselves. Ken Dorsey was viewed as a player, as a stoic, and then all of a sudden he's your offensive coordinator and he's in charge of Josh Allen and it's too much?
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