The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz will apparently have one of its titular hosts back on the show relatively soon.
Jon “Stugotz” Weiner appeared on FS1’s Wake Up Barstool on Tuesday, and he said he will be back on the show with Dan Le Batard, which he cohosted for 20 years, multiple times in the next “30 to 45 days.”
What’s going on with Le Batard and Stugotz has been something of a mystery in sports media circles this year. In May, Barrett Media reported that Weiner was “stepping back” from Le Batard’s show. After the report, Le Batard did a bit where there was a literal inflatable “elephant in the room”—something he also did years before when he was the subject of controversy at ESPN—that he never addressed. One week later he acknowledged Weiner aspired to strike out on his own.
While Stugotz’s name remains in Le Batard’s show title, he hasn’t been on it in months and has been largely replaced by longtime Miami radio host Jonathan Zaslow.
In the meantime, Weiner launched his own new show, Stugotz and Company, and landed FanDuel as a presenting sponsor in August. This was notable because Le Batard and his media company, Meadowlark Media, have been sponsored by DraftKings since leaving ESPN in 2021. DraftKings and FanDuel are the Capulets and Montagues of the online sportsbook space, dating back to even before the legalization of sports betting when they operated as daily fantasy sports companies.
“We’re having a blast with [Stugotz and Company]. Naturally, I did the show with Dan for 20 years. Still doing the show with Dan—I’ll be in there a bunch of shows coming up in the next 30, 45 days or so,” Weiner said on Wake Up Barstool. “When you do a show with someone like Dan, a lot of times you’re gonna go down the road that he wants to go down. What I’ve found liberating about this is I choose the road I want to go down. I’m not so much reacting to what he’s saying and what’s interesting to him; I am choosing what’s interesting to me.”
When Weiner signed with FanDuel, it seemed from the outside like it might be quite some time, if ever, before he would return to Le Batard’s show.
