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How Many Ads Are in The Dan Le Batard Show? We Measured 67 Episodes

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The median episode of The Dan Le Batard Show carries 6.2 minutes of ads. That’s 16.0% of its runtime, measured across the 67 episodes we’ve cleaned through ZeroAds.

The Dan Le Batard Show is Dan Le Batard and Stugotz’s daily sports and pop culture show from Meadowlark Media. When someone adds it to ZeroAds, our pipeline cuts the ad segments out of each episode’s audio and logs every cut with timestamps. This page is that log, added up. Snapshot: episodes processed July 16 to August 5, 2026.

The Dan Le Batard Show
Episodes measured67
Median ad time per episode6.2 minutes
Median ad share of runtime16.0%
Typical episode lengthabout 41 minutes
Total ad time cut6.2 hours

A typical episode runs about 41 minutes, and the median episode carries 6.2 minutes of advertising. Across all 67 measured episodes, the ads add up to 6.2 hours.

How The Dan Le Batard Show compares to other podcasts

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Across every show we measured this window, the median episode is 9.8% ads, about 4 minutes. The Dan Le Batard Show runs about 60% above that. The full distribution and the heaviest shows we measure are in our August 2026 podcast ad study.

About the show itself: ads are how The Dan Le Batard Show gets made, and this page is a measurement, not a complaint. We’re building revenue sharing so the shows our subscribers listen to most will get paid from subscription money.

How to listen to The Dan Le Batard Show without the ads

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ZeroAds serves The Dan Le Batard Show back to you as a clean private feed. You keep the app you already use: the feed works in any podcast app that accepts a custom RSS URL, which is most of them. (Spotify and Amazon Music don’t accept custom feeds.)

  1. Sign up at zeroads.ai. Your first 5 episodes are free, so you can hear a cleaned episode of the show before paying anything.
  2. Add The Dan Le Batard Show and play your free episodes in the ZeroAds app.
  3. Subscribe to get your personal ad-free RSS URL and add it to your podcast app.

The founding rate is $5.99 a month while the first 500 spots last (more than 180 are claimed); after that it’s $7.99.

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How many ads does The Dan Le Batard Show have? In our measurements (67 episodes processed July 16 to August 5, 2026), the median episode carried 6.2 minutes of ads, 16.0% of its runtime.

How do I listen to The Dan Le Batard Show without ads? ZeroAds cuts the ads out of each episode and serves the show as a clean private RSS feed for the app you already use, any app that accepts a custom RSS URL. Spotify and Amazon Music don’t take custom feeds. The first 5 episodes are free.

Will my episodes have the same ads you measured? Probably not exactly. Most podcast ads are inserted at download time, so your copy of an episode can carry different ads than the copy we processed. The pattern holds; the exact minutes vary.

Are these numbers exact? Close, not exact. We test the detector against hand-labeled episodes: it catches about 97-98% of labeled ad time, and about 85% of every second it cuts lands on labeled ad time, with most of the remainder on the edges of those same ads. Treat each figure as carrying a few percent of measurement error.

Measured from the 67 episodes of The Dan Le Batard Show processed through ZeroAds from July 16 to August 5, 2026. Ads are inserted dynamically, so your copies may differ. Full methodology in the study.