The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Elle Picks Her Favorite Child (feat. Elle Duncan)
18 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is the significance of Smirnoff as the official vodka sponsor of the NFL?
All right, kicking things off with Smirnoff, the official vodka sponsor of the NFL and the number one vodka in the world. Chris Cody, you're here. Smirnoff! Wow, you're on the money with Smirnoff.
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Chris, you know what goes great with Smirnoff? Smirnoff! Yes, but I'm really talking about the game day fit. The style's got to match the vibe. Smirnoff! All right, here's the deal. Game day is everything. And that's exactly why your fit has to match the occasion. Smirnoff!
Starting this December, Smirnoff is giving fans 21 and over the chance to score limited edition Smirnoff commission merchandise from some of today's top creators, including Kayla Jones, Gavin Matthew, and Alaylee May. Smirnoff! Here's the kicker. One lucky fan will take home the grand prize, a trip to the biggest game of the offseason.
Plus, one fan will win a Lely Mays one-of-one game day jacket. Wow. The merch will be dropped on select dates from December to January 21, and it's all courtesy of what brand?
Me.
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Chapter 2: How do Elle's thoughts on the Broncos reflect her sports fandom?
The system and the way that it was applied to me in this case was fatally flawed. I had a conversation with the Players Association. I expressed to them that I have not done anything that could have possibly led to this test result. I've already addressed everything related to the Miami situation. I addressed it in spring training. I will not make any further statements about it.
The truth has not changed. I don't know the specifics of the story that came out, but I've already addressed it. I've already commented on it, and I'll say nothing further about it.
Excellent generic guitar news music. She's the longtime SportsCenter host. She's the host of ESPN's Vibe Check. It's every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 5 p.m. Eastern, exclusively on Disney+. I have missed her. We miss her. Why do you hate Riley Moss so much? Why are you going out? angrily and publicly after poor Riley Moss.
As your Broncos have a great defense, and we're just winning one of the biggest games that you've seen them win in the last 10 years.
Oh, hey, what's up, Greg? You know what? I was going to say that, but it doesn't have the same ring to it when Greg's actually sitting there. I could just be saying hi to Greg. Hi, Chris. Hey, Al. So many thoughts. You guys always come in with just so many thoughts. So many thoughts about Ryan Braun. Like, first of all, I hate when people say, like, I'd bet my life.
That's not a real bet that you can do on. So those are hollow words. Secondly, why would you hold that press conference at a ballpark? Anyway, back to Riley Moss. Dan, Riley Moss was really, really good in that Bronco secondary last year. Like, like a captain good. He gets hurt. He's not the same when he comes back. That's to be expected.
And this year, he is just, it's a tough assignment when you have to line up across from Patrick Sertan. But come on, you guys. Whenever there is a flag on Denver's defense, and there's a lot of flags on Denver's defense, there is a 100% chance it's on Riley Moss. It's I don't under like at this point, like give up the touchdown. Good God.
It would be a different result than consistently getting called for DPI. That's the game plan now. Oh, we're in a third and long situation. Throw it Riley Moss. He's sure to give it to us. It's just ridiculous.
I'm used to seeing you this way about the Georgia Bulldogs. I'm not used to seeing you this way about the Denver Broncos. So the last time a Broncos game felt like this to you, was it the Super Bowl against Cam Newton?
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Chapter 3: What insights does Elle share about women's basketball and the Georgia Bulldogs?
Like y'all stop.
You're still scared of him, right? I think they'd still be favored. I think if they had to go to Denver to play, they'd still be favored the next time they play them as well.
They would absolutely be favored. The thing that's gone for the Chiefs is the mystique, like the mystique, this idea that like, you know, oh, here they come and they're the undertaker and they're just going to beat us because the ball always bounces their way seemingly. I think that is over. So I don't think people are as like nervous and tight to play them anymore, but it still achieves.
And I would still absolutely fear playing them in any important or relevant game.
This is a crazy thing to say in 2025, but it is, Vibe Check is still a super rare kind of show. It's not something that you see on most television. Not that looks that way, sounds that way, and has that kind of chemistry between the participants. So recently, what would you say has been the biggest reaction that has been created on any recent topic amongst yourselves on Vibe Check?
I would say, like, we, full disclosure, have not, the three of us, meaning me, Andrea Carter, and Shania Gumike, kind of got VibeCheck off the starting blocks. We haven't really had an opportunity to do it together very often. But I would say, in general, VibeCheck is a space where we talk about all sports, but it's really the home for women's basketball.
So I think most of the conversation surrounding, like, VibeCheck and the women's sports space right now is... college basketball that's just started? And is UConn A not only going to run it back, but are they going to go undefeated? Because they look real, real nasty right now.
So to me, that's probably the biggest talker is just shifting gears from WNBA into college women's space, like what that looks like, what the numbers look like, how much more growth we're going to have, and just the parity.
Elle, how big of a threat is Project B to both the WNBA and college basketball?
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Project B for women's basketball?
Rightfully so. Florida, Georgia being played in Tampa and Atlanta instead of Athens or Gainesville while Jacksonville Stadium undergoes renovations. El yeah or el nah?
Hell no, for me, dude. It's the whole point is that you get to go to the vapid wasteland dump that is Jacksonville one time a year and partake, and I know this because I lived in Jacksonville, and partake in the festivities. Like, there's no NFL football that's happening in Jacksonville that's interesting. I also think if you're going to move it, move it to the respective home stadium.
Like, I want... Florida in Athens. I want to go to Gainesville. So it doesn't make sense to me if you're going to move it from the neutral site to two additional neutral sites. It doesn't make sense to me.
Yeah, wouldn't that have been a nice little treat just for two years to be able to play in the home stadiums?
I think it would be great, and I think they'd probably see that, like, that's an even better environment than the world's largest cocktail party. And the smell. Have you guys been to Jacksonville?
It stinks. Yeah, you're right about that smell.
Yeah, but when's the last time you were there? Because Jacksonville keeps getting mad at me because I say that because it's paper mills, and they say that that's an outdated reference by me. I haven't been to Jacksonville in about six years. I went to the game this year. It smelled like garbage. So it still smells bad?
The thing that I wanted a ruling from you on, Elle, before we let you go, and I will remind everybody that you should watch Elle on ESPN's Vibe Check. It is on Disney+, not Disney-. It's every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 5 p.m. We had a ranking of what the worst kinds of crying is.
Jeremy made a big list of tier of tears where we have a ranking from bottom to top because we couldn't decide whether sobbing was worse than wailing and weeping. So where did you land on your hierarchy? And see if you have any objections here, L, to how Jeremy ranked these. Okay. From the very beginning here, we have frog in the throat, sniffling, sniveling, lamenting, choking back tears.
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Chapter 5: How does Elle view the current state of the WNBA?
Joey, off the oven. What do you want? What are you looking for?
I don't know where Allosaurus is. What are you looking for?
No lollipops. No lollipops. Wow.
That's a reason not to have kids right there. What's the word we give that? Is that sobbing? Is that wailing? Is that gnashing? What is that?
Yeah, being a toddler. Like, it's so relatable. I would say that's, yeah, that's like a wine blubbering. I think it's like a mix of both, but it's incredibly related. My son had that same reaction today. He started screaming this morning at breakfast, like screaming at the top of his lungs. I said, what's wrong with you, Xander? And he said, my cinnamon roll is hot. I was like, Jesus Christ.
Diana's exasperation is exactly how I feel 90% of the time. So, yeah, that's one of those. You just got to ignore them.
She said it publicly. Xander is her favorite. I can't believe she said it publicly. She just doubled down on it. It's lovely seeing you as always. Vibe check. Disney Plus, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 5 p.m. Eastern. Nice seeing you all. Thank you.
Bye, y'all.
And SportsCenter. Bye, Greg. And also SportsCenter, where Amin is hoping that she will be wearing a Georgia Tech yellow jacket. I won't be. Baseball cap. Get out of here, Al!
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