The Dan Le Batard Show

@thedanlebatardshow · Podcast

Latest segments

• Patrick Stewart dies at 86, 2026-10-30
  Reports Stewart's death and final role
  Reports Stewart's death at 86 and his December turn in Avengers: Doomsday, then argues over whether Professor X or Picard is the defining role. The back half is a live Professor X audition, playing the Days of Future Past scene with Dave.
• Panthers fire Evero, 2026-10-30
  Recaps the Evero firing between jokes
  Reports the Panthers' defensive coordinator firing between jokes about Carolina teams borrowing Florida names, then wanders into franchise-relocation history and an early-voting read. The firing itself is a one-line recap of what the day's coverage already had.
• Panthers-Packers Thursday night, 2026-10-30
  Questions the clearance in Watson's return
  Recaps Watson's ambulance return in movie-trailer terms and questions which doctor cleared a player coughing up blood to go back in. Stays inside the injury story the rest of the day's coverage already told.
• Brewers win the World Series, 2026-10-30
  Plays fan reactions and ties them to Uecker
  Plays fan-reaction videos, an elderly man and a ten-year-old, and ties them to Bob Uecker's voice and to the Cubs' 2015-16 drought ending. Pure reaction and nostalgia; it stays inside the title already on the record.
• Dream move Finals to State Farm, 2026-10-30
  Recaps Game 6 from the arena angle
  Recaps Game 6 from the arena angle: the rushed practice-court trophy plan had Golden State won, the sold-out State Farm crowd, and the Dream's 3,000-seat home as the root of the scheduling mess. Stays inside the week's coverage.
• Bears trade for Jeffrey Simmons, 2026-10-30
  Argues Miami is rebuilding, not tanking
  Turns to the other side of the Simmons trade: with the Dolphins finally winning a game, the Titans are now the worst team in football and the frontrunner for the top draft pick. Zaslow argues Miami is rebuilding, not tanking.
• Patrick Stewart dies at 86, 2026-10-30
  Puzzles over filming Doomsday with dementia
  Reacts to Patrick Stewart's death at 86, trading favorite non-Star Trek roles and James Corden jokes, then puzzles over how he filmed Avengers: Doomsday while suffering from dementia.
• Miami at North Carolina, 2026-10-30
  Recalls Miami's history against North Carolina
  Zaslow runs through Miami's history against North Carolina - the Connor Barth kick, Hakeem Nix, Eric Ebron, Brandon Tate, the Butch Davis loss - and lands on being spooked by the number one Canes walking into a Halloween night game in Chapel Hill. Series lore and dread, no new development.
• Pastelito Gate, 2026-10-30
  Interviews Rodriguez on the bakery backlash
  Interviews Eliott Rodriguez about the bakery video backlash, letting him disavow socialism and blame a paid influencer, then pivots to the Democrats' first-100-hours plan and a vote-everybody-out pitch.
• Crown Jewel security warnings, 2026-10-29
  Adds the unnamed venue and the canceled NFL event
  Samson and the hosts work through the venue change and the drone attack on Riyadh airport. Adds that WWE has not named the new venue and will only reveal it 48 hours out, that some performers are reportedly uncomfortable, and that the Tom Brady football event in Saudi Arabia was canceled.
• WNBA Finals Game 6, 2026-10-29
  Argues the owners' letter backfires on the team
  Samson takes the Dream owners' letter and argues it backfires: reserving dates and following up is the team's job, and the Hawks moved their game only half an hour because nothing contractually required more. Opinion and explanation, not new reporting.
• Chiefs sign Justin Tucker, 2026-10-29
  Questions the moral line on the Tucker signing
  Brings Samson in on the Tucker signing and presses him on where the moral line sits. He argues no 37-year-old post-suspension kicker is worth the press conference, and says Reid's defense of the signing did not persuade him.
• Brewers win the World Series, 2026-10-29
  Explains the dried-out mound in Game 5
  Samson, drawing on people at the ballpark, explains the mid-inning mound delay in Game 5: the mound dried out after a late game the night before, and Misiorowski lands where no other Rays pitcher steps. He says he would have fired the grounds crew.
• Brewers win the World Series, 2026-10-29
  Defends the Rays' pre-set pitch limit
  Samson defends Tampa Bay's process in the clinching game: Rasmussen was pulled after 48 pitches because the Rays had pre-set a roughly 60-pitch limit and wanted a clean inning from the bullpen. He notes the team preferred Rasmussen on an extra day's rest, with about 18 such starts this year, and wanted Nick Martinez in Game 1.
• Brewers win the World Series, 2026-10-29
  Frames the title as the best team all year
  Samson's opening assessment of the Brewers' title: best team from April through October, bullpen depth shortening games, and only Gasser lasting six innings all postseason. Reaction and framing on top of the clinching, with no new development.
• Chiefs sign Justin Tucker, 2026-10-29
  Questions ownership over the Tucker signing pattern
  Widens the Tucker signing into a pattern: three kickers with problematic backgrounds on the roster, Tucker only on the practice squad, and a franchise history from Kareem Hunt to Javon Belcher. Puts the questions on ownership rather than Mahomes, while noting Reid took five straight minutes of Tucker questions.
• Heat beat Hawks for first win, 2026-10-29
  Debates whether Wiggins' big night is his ceiling
  Turns the win into a referendum on Wiggins and Adebayo: Wiggins called his shot at shootaround and delivered, but the hosts argue that is the ceiling, not the baseline, and that Miami tried to trade him all last season and again this offseason.
• Heat beat Hawks for first win, 2026-10-29
  Recaps the first win and debates emotional analysis
  Opens the local hour on the Heat's first win, then spends most of the segment arguing about whether emotional reactions corrupt sports analysis, with the Dolphins' one win over the Jets as the parallel. The Heat substance is a recap: Bam and Wiggins led the way, and the offense stopped running everything through Giannis.
• Brewers win the World Series, 2026-10-29
  Adds Chourio's eight-year contract detail
  Retells Verducci's draft-day Pratt story and adds a contract detail the piece left out: Chourio is locked up for eight years and $50 million, signed before he played a big-league game.
• Brewers win the World Series, 2026-10-29
  Compares Contreras to Pudge and Perez
  Compares Contreras's postseason to Pudge Rodriguez's 2003 run and puts a marker on the record: Contreras is the first catcher to win MVP since Salvador Perez in 2015. Stays mostly inside the case for catchers, with Samson on pitch calling and the Marlins taking it away.