Le Batard & Friends - South Beach Sessions
There's way more behind the biggest and most beloved personalities from sports, music, comedy and more... all it takes is longtime host and reporter Dan Le Batard revealing more about himself than ever before too. South Beach Sessions is the critically acclaimed flagship podcast in the LeBatard and Friends Podcast Network. These one-on-one conversations aren't the same old, boring sitdowns - there's no success story without some struggle, no laughs without a few tears, and no questions left unanswered by Dan who gets past what you've already heard and into more with Dan Le Batard.
Episodes
May 8, 2025 • 70 mins
“These grandmas are straight up in Mafias.” Atsuko Okatsuka is magnetic, hilarious, and was kidnapped as a child… by her grandma… who is also her best friend.
Atsuko and Dan compare their upbringings, looking beyond the bounds of the “typical” immigrant experience… and Atsuko shows off her incredible ability to make deep trauma extremely funny. She shares her experience learning to care for her schizophrenic mother and coming t...
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May 1, 2025 • 76 mins
Jon Lovett has had a wild ride – from being plucked to write speeches for some of the largest figures in the Democratic Party (yes, like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama)... to creating a television show… to starting the bastion of “resistance” media in “Pod Save America” and Crooked Media.
Jon takes Dan through his career, from his uncertain start through the many challenges (and joys) today of running your own company. Jon als...
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April 24, 2025 • 82 mins
Performing sold-out shows and starring in an Oscar-winning movie… to helping catch a serial killer, Patton Oswalt has one of the most eclectic careers of anyone working today.
Paradoxically known for his wholesome characters and his provocative stand-up, Patton speaks with Dan about what it was like forging his comedy career and falling into acting without intending to make a living off of it. Patton’s also no stranger to grief a...
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April 17, 2025 • 74 mins
The NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and Olympics may have its individual legends, but Al Michaels is the legendary voice of them all.
One of the greatest sports broadcasters of all time shares with Dan his most cherished moments and iconic calls from six decades of covering the most major prime-time sports events of any announcer. Al reveals how it all began for him, how he created the career of his dreams and how equal parts luck and skill t...
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April 10, 2025 • 73 mins
@HasanAbi is in the house.
Hasan Piker streams eight hours a day… every single day… to combat the flood of alt-right and conservative media online. No weekends off. In this episode of South Beach Sessions, Hasan explores how his nigh-obsessive output comes from a place of both impressive motivation and a deep passion to make the world a better place.
Together, Hasan and Dan explore the trenches of insecurity, addiction, and self-...
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March 6, 2025 • 67 mins
Napheesa Collier is Unrivaled.
Even with an ever-growing list of accomplishments - NCAA champion, four-time WNBA All-Star, two-time Olympic Gold Medalist - Napheesa shares with Dan that her greatest achievement will always be becoming a mother. Napheesa doesn't shy away from revealing the doubts she had about resuming her playing career after pregnancy, fears of an early retirement, and why she was so determined to create an empow...
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February 27, 2025 • 76 mins
You know him from his voyages around the world, showcasing (and eating) staples from every culture on the planet, and now Andrew Zimmern is here in South Beach demonstrating the kind of open heart it takes to do that work.
From childhood hardship, to devastating addiction, into incredible ambition and drive, Andrew describes his journey and the presence of food along his way. He details the start of Bizarre Foods, his experience t...
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February 20, 2025 • 69 mins
The Big Hurt hits South Beach Sessions. Frank Thomas looks back on his legacy - one held up by professionalism and relentless strive for excellence – from his start as a dominant athlete, to a first-ballot Hall of Fame career, and the real hurt and loss he’s battled along the way. For all of his love for the game and historical dominance in baseball - Frank reveals how he paid the price in injuries, disrespect from management, and ...
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February 13, 2025 • 75 mins
Dave Barry is so funny, he won a Pulitzer Prize for making people laugh.
In this episode of South Beach Sessions, Dan and Dave explore their decades of friendship– including all of the inspiration Dave has given Dan… With extreme honesty, Dave speaks about losing his parents, the source of his humor and warmth, early on in life. He opens up about his regrets over his mother’s death, all the while explaining why family was such a ...
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January 30, 2025 • 103 mins
Baron Davis is LA to his core, so of course Dan had to meet with him on his home turf for a special LA-based episode of South Beach Sessions. Steeped in vulnerability, Baron dives into his life and career on a new level – from the streets to being an NBA All-Star.
Baron cracks open his past - growing up in South LA surrounded by violence and abuse - detailing his journey through the care of his grandparents from poverty to one of ...
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January 23, 2025 • 79 mins
Josh Johnson is writing all the internet’s favorite jokes.
The Emmy-nominated writer and correspondent on “The Daily Show” shares with Dan how he’s been building a community through his unique, topical stand-up every week on YouTube (to millions of views). With Dan, Josh takes on the biggest topics of today… like the gaming habits of billionaires, the loneliness epidemic, and, yeah, Luigi Mangione.
Josh also opens up about the ...
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January 16, 2025 • 88 mins
An icon of the screen, the craft, and a shining example of the American Dream.
Andy Garcia has been in all your favorite movies - and he’s also probably your Mom’s celebrity crush. This week on a long-awaited South Beach Sessions, Dan and Andy connect on their shared Miami roots as the children of Cuban exiles and Andy's legacy of creating work that is a loving tribute to their culture and history.
Andy paints the story of how h...
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January 9, 2025 • 139 mins
There is no 'Heat Culture' without Pat Riley.
Dan Le Batard and the legendary, nine-time NBA championship winning player, coach, and executive, leave nothing off limits in looking at a life, career, and unrelenting mentality that has shaped a league and culture for generations. Dan and Pat go through the successes, criticisms, and blow ups - including their 30 year relationship - to unearth what it was really like forging one of t...
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December 19, 2024 • 74 mins
Lewis Black has finally had enough…
There’s a lot for the modern comedy icon to look back on (and look forward to) - Lewis gets to the root of where all that anger he has on stage comes from in real life (he learned some of it from watching his mom yell at the TV), and how he channels it. Dan and Lewis also walk through his career– from years of playwriting off-off-broadway, to getting big break after big break, to finally decidin...
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December 12, 2024 • 67 mins
“That to this day, that was like one of the happiest moments of my life…”
Andrew Santino has one of the biggest podcasts in America, plays golf on the regular, is friends with Travis Kelce, and threw the first pitch at a Cubs game… he’s kind of living the dream. Not bad for someone who didn’t really have one. Andrew and Dan talk about coming from a family racked by addiction, grinding in Hollywood with nothing to fall back on befo...
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December 5, 2024 • 72 mins
There's only one Jim Rome... and he's never cared if you love him or hate him because he knows if you have a take and don't suck, he “can still go hard.” Things are bound to get wild when The Jungle meets South Beach Sessions.
Dan and Jim get together in Los Angeles to reflect on Jim's career as a pioneering game changer in a way he hasn't talked publicly about before. Jim gets personal, talking about what it was like growing up a...
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November 28, 2024 • 60 mins
Chris Parnell has a voice made of liquid gold and comedy timing you can set your watch to... which has earned him legendary status at two comedy institutions - The Groundlings and 'Saturday Night Live' - both celebrating their 50th anniversary this year.
Known as "The Iceman" during his eight seasons on SNL (because he never broke character, not even during the classic Christopher Walken “More Cowbell” sketch), Chris reminisces ab...
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November 21, 2024 • 87 mins
He’s not quite America’s sweetheart… Anthony Jeselnik is more of America’s caliginous omen. But there IS a human being underneath the dark persona and all that bravado.
Together, Dan and Anthony explore his endless well of ambition, his extreme drive to always be funnier, better, sharper. Anthony explains what he finds so funny about the darkest parts of humanity, and how he’s able to make people laugh about them. Anthony also di...
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November 14, 2024 • 66 mins
If you don’t get excited to see David Alan Grier, then something is seriously wrong. Like, please, go figure that out… we’ll wait.
David’s got 40 years of experience on the stage and screen - the craftsman of both comedy and drama with the awards to prove it. He didn’t start out as a Tony-winning actor, though… David tells Dan about how his upbringing shaped his lifelong curiosity, from getting his start in comedy as a class clow...
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November 7, 2024 • 69 mins
Iliza Shlesinger has been a dominant force in comedy and podcasting… and that’s because she’s never been afraid to stay true to herself and her audience.
Iliza holds nothing back from Dan in how she’s made a career in comedy - the risks and reality of betting on yourself and the often unspoken toll it can take. Iliza also opens up her experiences now as a new mother, including the immense joy for her (“it’s even better than perfor...
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