Jon “Stugotz” Weiner, who has been the co-host of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz for the last two decades, recently returned to the program after a prolonged absence and revealed on social media that he was also launching a YouTube channel. During last Monday’s edition of the program, he informed Le Batard that he was not sure he would make it through the episode because of pain he was feeling.
Throughout his time behind the microphone for the show, he contends to have never said such a thing and was not sure what was going on, expressing that the right side of his mouth was killing him. Weiner expanded on the story during a recent appearance on The Greg Cote Show with Greg Cote podcast from Meadowlark Media.
“I took enough medication to get myself through two hours,” Weiner said. “It was a good two hours. Thankfully [Jonathan] Zaslow was there because I had to leave early and Zaslow was there to do the show with Dan, but it was a pain that I haven’t experienced in my entire life. It was shooting up the side of my head around the back and like down my side, and so I told Dan, ‘The dentist can get me in at noon or at 4:45,’ this is going back to Monday, and I said, ‘and I don’t know if I can make it till 4:45.’”
Weiner added that he was doing this all with a piece of bacon in his mouth and in his hand, something Cote pointed out helps with tooth issues. Cote then proceeded to ask if Weiner was feeling loopy while on the show having taken the medication amid the pain he was feeling.
“It was a loopy two hours – it was a good two hours ‘cause a loopy Stugotz is a good Stugotz, and so I left at 11,” Weiner recalled. “Thankfully, the dentist identified very quickly what it was, which was a root canal that I had had previously that had gone bad, and so they needed to redo that. It’s a two-part thing, so I was in the dentist – I went Monday.”
Weiner expressed that his dentist said the issue was beyond his paygrade, and he subsequently went to see another doctor, presumably an endodontist, to undergo a two-part oral surgery the following two days. While taking part in the podcast, he stated that he was feeling a little bit better, although he did not divulge when he will make his return back to The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz. From there, the show proceeded to discuss other topics in the world of sports, including the slide of quarterback Shedeur Sanders in the NFL Draft and the NBA Playoffs.
“Thank you, and for all the money we’re paying you to do this right now, I hope you’re feeling better,” Cote said to Weiner, “and if you’re not, you got to fake it.”
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