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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

The Best of SBS: Ernie Johnson

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.631.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

As "Inside the NBA" on TNT comes to an end, we look back at Ernie Johnson's incredible South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard, originally recorded on May 22, 2023. A legend, a national treasure, and the glue that has made "Inside the NBA" on TNT the best show on television for nearly three decades, Ernie Johnson is the best of the best because he's done it all with love. Dan explores the secrets behind the magic of what Ernie does, the humbling wisdom learned from his son, Michael, and the unspoken sensitivities surrounding Shaq, Charles, and Kenny. Ernie also reveals being haunted for years by a rare moment when his ego unleashed the worst in him. Watch the last shows of "Inside the NBA" on TNT's Eastern Conference Finals coverage and listen & subscribe to "The Steam Room with EJ and Chuck" wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.3

Welcome. Welcome to another South Beach session.

0:59.9

I am so happy to be joined by a legendary friend.

1:03.2

He will poo-poo the idea of legend.

1:06.2

He will poo-poo with great humility, the job that he does on the longest-running funny show,

1:13.6

not just in sports, but for all of television, one could make an argument that you have the space.

1:20.6

Now, I'm going to do this introduction correctly because I want people to understand

1:24.5

all those guys say you're the most important piece,

1:28.0

and you say that's ridiculous, obviously, that's asinine, they're the stars, you're just there to serve them,

1:34.1

but you know how to be a host, and being a host requires a decency, a kindness, and an ego

1:42.8

that you don't generally find in the television

1:47.1

business, because you have to be someone who brings the ball up and just passes again and

1:52.8

again and again, does it quietly. And you built a monster, a monster. I don't know if it's

1:59.3

by accident. I don't know how much inventory. I imagine

2:05.2

you're very meticulous. There's just simply no way you can do the job as well as you do without

2:09.4

caring deeply about the craft of broadcasting. But I don't think people understand how hard

2:15.7

it is to be you and I need you to explain it to them without being humble, because it's not as easy as you make it look to do 30 years of the greatest sports television show that there has ever been.

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