Hour 2: The Awkward Top 5 (feat. Mad Dog Russo & Katie Nolan)

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.7 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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"If you're gonna get me on, you're gonna be talking about the old days, for crying out loud!!!" Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo joins us for a legendary hit as he refuses to speak about anything from the last decade. Then, Katie Nolan is here to chat about her Patriots getting back to the Super Bowl, the Westminster Dog Show, Catherine O'Hara's passing (with an appearance from Dan's Inner Monologue), and her popularity with the radio row guys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	This is the Dan Levator show with the Stucats podcast.
0:41.7	Is the King of Radio Row there? Is he there?
0:42.4	Yes, Danny.
0:43.0	How old you, pal?
0:43.9	Oh, he's already there and he's ready to go and he answers to the King of Radio
0:48.3	Row.
0:48.7	No, I don't mean it that way, but I knew you were chatting, so I figured I'd fill you in.
0:53.2	How you doing?
0:53.8	Oh, what's going on? We've already started, and I've identified Chris Mad Dog Russo as the King of Radio Row, because who's more of the King of Radio Row than you? I think of you and Jim Rome with his bodyguards, but you don't do bodyguards because you're a man of the people. Funny there, Danny. Well done. Yeah, 1990. So a long time doing this, and there was no Radio Row in 1990, Niners and Broncos in New Orleans. Three or four of us there, the local radio guy, Howard Eskin, Eddie Andleman, guys that you are familiar with. And in a hotel lobby at the Hyatt, 5510 San Francisco.
1:26.7	You invented Radio Row then?
1:28.6	You're saying you were at the original radio, and it wasn't a row.
1:31.3	No, but there were three people there is what you're saying.
1:34.8	Well, Pete Franklin for WFAN went the year before.
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