#BecauseMiami: Uncle Luke Wants To Go To Washington

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: #BecauseMiami: Uncle Luke Wants To Go To Washington

Date: February 20, 2026

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Overview

In this episode, Dan Le Batard and the Because Miami team host Luther Campbell, better known as Uncle Luke, to discuss his announcement to run for Congress representing Florida’s 20th District. The episode also covers a shocking development in the police shooting of Evelyn Valdez, a young woman killed during a police-involved incident in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, and probes deeply into failings of the city’s emergency response. The tone runs from raucous and irreverent to urgent and indignant as the show explores politics, community, and justice.

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Uncle Luke’s Congressional Run

Uncle Luke’s Background and Motivation (04:00–07:45)

• Luke’s Candidacy Announced:
  • Uncle Luke is running to unseat incumbent Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who is facing federal indictment for misusing FEMA funds in her campaign. (00:46, 02:12)
• Campbell Positions Himself as Different:
  • “I am different than any, any of these people that is in this race. You got career politicians, you got people who’ve consistently ran and got their ass beat on a consistent basis.” — Uncle Luke (05:29)
  • He recounts decades of work in the community: running youth programs, coaching at Miami Edison Senior High, advocating for resources and facilities, and even winning major Supreme Court victories on First Amendment grounds (05:22–07:45).
• District’s Needs:
  • “When you look at the entire district... At the same time, you have a congresswoman who has not been here, pretty much lives in D.C... and is underserving the people of this community.” — Uncle Luke (03:10)
  • Campbell emphasizes District 20’s specific issues: underinvestment, large immigrant population, and lack of representation.

The Crowded Primary and Campaign Approach (04:16–07:48)

• Crowded Field:
  • Several Democratic contenders, including Elijah Manley, challenge the embattled incumbent.
  • “The more Democratic challengers McCormick has in the primary, theoretically, the better it does for her. It kind of cannibalizes the opposition and maybe she sails through.” — Interviewer (04:51)
• Luke’s Qualities:
  • Focus on tangible community improvement over negative campaigning: “I’m trying to stay away from negative campaign. You know, it’s like football. It’s a contact sport. As soon as they hit me, I’m gonna hit back.” — Uncle Luke (04:42)
• Immigration and TPS:
  • Highlights the precarious status of over 300,000 immigrants in the district, referencing concerns over “temporary protected status” (TPS), especially for Haitian communities, amid Republican targeting (07:48–08:29).

Bipartisan Work and Potential for Change (08:29–10:47)

• Ability to Work Across the Aisle:
  • “I’ve worked with Republicans and Democrats... Marco Rubio, I mean, I consider Marco Rubio as a good friend of mine. There’s never been a time where I’ve taken kids on college tours... that Marco Rubio didn’t donate.” — Uncle Luke (09:15)
  • Luke stresses he’ll cooperate with anyone, including Trump, if it benefits his district: “I think if you have a real serious conversation with this dude, I don’t think he’s going to get in the way of anything that I’m trying to bring to this district.” (11:35)

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The “Eyes Wide Shut” Mar-a-Lago Story (12:25–19:33)

Viral Clip and Clarification (12:25–19:33)

• The Story:
  • Recounts a now-viral 2016 interview about a surreal Mar-a-Lago party in the 90s: “Just imagine the Eyes Wide Shut movie. That’s what I felt like I was in. ... every time you open up a door with something else going on that I didn’t care to be a part of...” — Uncle Luke (13:00)
• Fact-Checking and Denial:
  • Show presses Luke to clarify what he saw — or didn’t see — and why his tone in the old audio seemed more sensational.
  • “A large part of it is me in the interview, but I’m here to tell you this. There was no little girls running around there. I went in. I was invited. ... I left Mike Tyson there. I left Eddie Murphy there, and that was it. I see nobody taking no drugs. I ain’t see nobody having no sex.” — Uncle Luke (15:24–16:31)
• Memorable banter:
  • “When the man responsible for Uncle Luke's freak show is like, ‘This is too much for me’... People are curious about what it is that you saw.” (19:33)
• Final Word:
  • “If I can work with the bad people in Miami... I think I could work with people in Washington.” — Uncle Luke (09:23)

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Petition, Support, and Closing the Politics Segment (21:32–24:49)

• Luke’s Qualifying Strategy:
  • Collecting petition signatures instead of paying to appear on the ballot: “If I can’t get 2500 petition signatures, then I will probably end up out of the race. But nine times ten, I believe in the people of this district.” — Uncle Luke (21:45)
• Petition Support:
  • Friendly banter with Roy and Billy about eligibility to sign.
• Closing Quips:
  • Mocking the incumbent’s alleged diamond ring purchase: “Sheila buys you a ring. A beautiful, beautiful, beautiful ring.” — Interviewer (24:41)
  • “Is from the fraud money. Which one? Because I mean, it was some odd money too.” — Uncle Luke (24:42)

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Investigative Segment: The Death of Evelyn Valdez (28:40–47:16)

Breaking News: Police Bullet Killed Evelyn (28:40–31:42)

• Incident Overview:
  • Reveal: The bullet that killed Evelyn Valdez, out celebrating her 28th birthday, was fired by a Miami police officer. All shots that night were from officers; none were returned.
  • “Evelyn died because she made the horrible mistake of celebrating her birthday in the city of Miami.” — Interviewer (29:29)

Timeline of the Incident and Response Failures (31:42–39:26)

• Family Account:
  • The car she was in was unintentionally rerouted near the club as shots broke out (31:47).
  • Immediate attempt to find help from police — but the officers didn’t render aid, instead isolating Evelyn and her companions as if they were suspects. (34:29)
  • “How do you not render aid to somebody who’s shot in the back of the car?” — Unknown Family Member (34:46)
• EMS Delays:
  • Evelyn didn’t receive hospital care until 34 minutes after 911 was called, despite proximity to emergency services (36:42–37:21).
  • “You could walk there faster.” — Interviewer (37:13)
• Dispatch Problems:
  • Evidence of dispatcher understaffing and confusion — skeleton crew, multiple dispatchers on leave or overtime (40:21)
  • “There’s a lot of confusion coming over the comms. They don’t really know how many victims are involved. They don’t know where these victims are located.” — Angela Martin, attorney (38:47)

Family Perspective and Aftermath (41:24–47:16)

• Family’s Experience:
  • “No. Because to this day all that happened. I never got a call from an officer. ... I got the call from the girls. I didn’t speak to an officer until 5:30 in the morning after being in a hospital since 3:40.” — Christy Garcia (41:43)
• Suspect Treatment:
  • Family felt they were interrogated, not comforted: “The officer’s first words to us is... What do you know? ... You should be the person — the suspect with a firearm was taken out... No, it was that—” (42:05)
• Police Accountability:
  • Outrage that police fired all shots and then obfuscated with the family and public.
• Memorable Quote:
  • “If the people with my sister that night, instead of having faith in those that are paid to save lives, instead of having faith in them and just driving them themselves to the hospital, my sister probably still be here.” — Jose Valdez (44:04)

Investigation Status

• FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) is still conducting its investigation.
• Family and attorney are in a holding pattern, but gathering their own evidence.
• “This is a multidimensional incident, multidimensional tragedy. ... It was a catastrophic failure all around from the incident itself, from the response that came after.” — Angela Martin (46:34)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Doing the Work:

  "At the same time, you have a congresswoman that has not been here, pretty much lives in D.C. ... I think this is the right time. And you need a grown man to go up to Washington and fight for the people..."
  — Uncle Luke (03:10)

• On Miami’s Police Shooting:

  "Evelyn died because she made the horrible mistake of celebrating her birthday in the city of Miami."
  — Interviewer (29:29)

• On Systemic Failures:

  "I mean, that is a catastrophic failure all around from the incident itself, from the response that came after the incident."
  — Angela Martin (46:34)

• On Trust in First Responders:

  "If the people with my sister that night, instead of having faith in those that are paid to save lives... just driving them themselves to the hospital, my sister probably still be here."
  — Jose Valdez (44:04)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Uncle Luke’s announcement and reasons for running: 03:10–07:45
• District demographic issues and handling the primary: 07:48–10:47
• Working with Republicans, Trump, and Mar-a-Lago story: 12:25–19:33
• Petition process and playful banter: 21:32–24:49
• Evelyn Valdez shooting: background and breaking news: 28:40–31:42
• Timeline and failures in emergency response: 31:42–39:26
• Understaffing and 911 dispatch issues: 39:26–41:24
• Family’s frustration, advocacy, and update on investigation: 41:24–47:16

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Tone and Style

• The tone shifts from lively, humorous, and combative political banter to somber, investigative reporting as the topics move from Uncle Luke’s campaign to the tragic, systemic failures exposed by Miami’s police and ambulance response.

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This episode is essential listening for those interested in South Florida politics, hip hop’s political past, urban emergency response failures, and the complex intersection of community activism and public trust in Miami.

Transcript

[Angela Martin]

Close your eyes, exhale, Feel your body

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

relax and let go of whatever you're carrying today.

[Christy Garcia]

Well, I'm letting go of the worry that I wouldn't get my new contacts in time for this class. I got them delivered free from 1-800-contacts. Oh my gosh, they're so fast.

[Angela Martin]

And breathe.

[Christy Garcia]

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[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

1-800-contacts.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

I saw this ab.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

I got a hit.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

In the new limited series DTF St. Louis, Jason Bateman, David Harbour and Linda Cardellini star as three suburbanites who spice

[Angela Martin]

up their love lives.

[Jose Valdez]

Wow.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Don't miss the new HBO Original Limited Series, DTF St. Louis, premiering March 1 on HBO. Max he's going to run.

[Christy Garcia]

Luther Campbell, widely known around the world as Uncle Luke, made it official this morning. He's running for Congress, hoping to unseat South Florida Democrat Sheila Sherfilis McCormick, a pivotal figure in hip hop as a rapper and producer. Luther Uncle Luke Campbell brought 2 Life Crew to fame in the. He then led the group through landmark legal battles in the 90s over the obscene nature of the group's lyrics, winning free speech protections for their music. Campbell gave up his job as head football coach at Miami Edison Senior High School after eight seasons to run for office.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Drug dealer, pornographer, hip hop artist arrested for obscenity, First Amendment crusader, Supreme Court VICT director, college football nil pioneer. You remember the Hurricanes pay for play bounty scandal, don't you?

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

And now candidate for United States Congress in whose district? Roy?

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Yeah, you goddamn right, meatball. He has my vote.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

So up there in this busy primary. Roy.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Yeah.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

So we all have to remember where Luke is running. Luke is running in District 20 and District 20. As a refresher for those of you who have been watching the show for a while is the district of Sheila Sherfilis McCormick who's run into some trouble.

[Christy Garcia]

Nearly three months after Sheila Shirfilis McCormick was indicted for allegedly stealing $5 million in FEMA funds, a new lawyer representing her officially entering a plea of not guilty on her behalf. Prosecutors say a health care company the congresswoman ran with, her brother was mistakenly overpaid for a COVID 19 vaccination staffing contract. Rather than paying it back, she's accused of funneling some of the money into her 2021 congressional campaign and using other funds to buy a 3 carat fancy vivid yellow diamond ring. I am innocent in no way did I steal any kind of funds. If convicted, the congresswoman could face decades in prison and millions in fines.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Uncle Luke Mogatov, you're not the only candidate in this race with a rap sheet. So talk to me. Now, you've teased this before. You've been on the show before, teasing this after the last election, the presidential election, I mean, in 2024. Why now? Why are you doing this?

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

I mean, it's the perfect time. Billy. Thank you guys for having me on the show. And then the mere fact that this is Roy district, you know, I think Roy needs great representation. Him and the people of District 20. It goes from Belglades, it goes to Pohoki, it goes to River Beach, Lauder Hill, Lauder Hill, Lakes, Tamarack, all these different areas. And all these areas got issues. You know what I'm saying? My son plays baseball in Tamarack. You know, my good friend Ricky Jackson is in Belglades, Pohokee, South Bay area. I mean, when you go through that area, I mean, it's less than 35 minutes away from us. And it needs help. Let's just say it needs help. I mean, when you look at the entire district and then at the same time, you know, you have a congresswoman that has not been here, you know, pretty much lives in D.C. with her family and is underserving the people of this community. And I think this is the right time. And you need a grown man to go up to Washington and fight for the people and fight, bring resources back to this community. And I think I'm the best person in this race that can do that.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

First and foremost, you do have a Democratic primary that you have to compete in. I think it's a pretty crowded field. From what I recall, we've had one of those candidates, Elijah Manley, on this show as a guest in the past, because he was being sued for a while. I don't think he being sued by Sheila Sherfilis McCormick for calling her a criminal. Which, incidentally, I mean. I mean, come on now. Uncle Luke's just sort of seems to have no comment.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

But I'm trying to stay away from this month. I'm trying to stay away from negative campaign. You know, it's like football. It's a contact sport. As soon as they hit me, I'm gonna hit back.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Well, I guess my point here is that this is a very crowded field. Elijah Manley, I think if you believe his polling is beating her statistically, if not tied with her statistically, I should say so. The more Democrats, the more challengers McCormick has in the primary, theoretically, the better it does for her. It kind of cannibalizes the opposition and maybe she sails through. I mean, what is your kind of handicapping of this race and how do you kind of distinguish yourself and eke out a victory here in the primary?

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Well, I look at it like this. I'm not a regular candidate. You know, I'm not.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

You don't say I'm different.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

I am different than any, any of these people that is in this race. You got career politicians, you got people who've consistently ran and got, got their ass beat on a consistent basis. You got doctors, you got people in the, in this race that has not did anything for no community under no circumstances. I mean, I think part of qualifying, you should have to have done some community service, you know, over the years. You should have to have done, you know, you should have to start youth programs. You should have been going to the city council meetings and advocating for different things within the community and bringing resources back to underprivileged, underserved people in these underserved communities. And you should have been, you know, a person like myself that went to the Supreme Court, highest court in the land, and won. You know, like you say, I'm a pioneer of a lot of things. This is something that I've always wanted to do at some point in my life, and I think right now is the perfect time. Like I always say, if people were happy with their congresswoman, I would not be in this race. I mean, there's tons of races that's out there. I mean, most people wanted me to run for governor. I think that's a department that we need a good candidate in at the same time. But, you know, when I look at this race and I look at this district, you know, I can do the same thing that I did in this district, that I did in Miami Edison, that I did at Liberty City, that I did with helping kids get jobs, renovating a 28 acre park, renovating a school and bringing it back to life, having turf fields, doing partnerships with the different, you know, sponsors and people that I'm affiliated with. I can do those things in District 20. And I don't see any other candidate. And you got tbs. TBS is going to happen. Judge ruled and they went back to the same judge and they judge then said, I'm not going to overturn it. You know, it's going to end up in the Supreme Court that Donald Trump controls. This district is 700,000 people. 300,000 of them are immigrants and their status is up for grab. I mean, I don't want to scare nobody, but at the end of the day, that's what's on this ballot.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

So you know, you deport it. When you refer to tps, you mean temporary protected status. I believe that your district 20 is probably the district in the country with the most, I think Haitian immigrants specifically, who are certainly among the groups on the chopping block when Donald Trump they're the target.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Trump target that group before even got in the race. Trump target Haitian people when he was the president, when he called him a shithole of a country. So you know that they're to target when they were running him and JD Vance target them and said they were eating cats and all kind of shit like that. I mean, at the end of the day, you know, so it's a serious issue. You don't need.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

How do you plan on dealing with that though? You had said that you have some experience with bringing home some bacon and that you're the adult in the race who can go to D.C. and have conversations with these people. How do you intend to do that?

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Well, the same way I've been doing it for years. I mean, we know your good friend Maris Suarez is a car carrying Republican. I'm able to go work with, you know, when you can't work with him. Billy, if anybody should know, you know how difficult it is to work in the city of Miami. I've been groomed to be able to work within that gridlock of a dais. I mean, and it's full with Republicans and I've never not got a no vote for anything that I was doing for the community. Same thing with the school board. I've never not gotten a no vote. Whether it was me advocating for coaches, higher pay in getting facilities built within the district, I've never gotten a no vote. And these are Republicans and Democrats. I mean, Marco Rubio, I mean, I consider Marco Rubio as a good friend of mine. There's never been a time where I've taken kids on college tours in the 20 years that I've been doing it that Marco Rubio didn't donate. You know what I'm saying? So these people on the other side of the aisle, I've worked with on numerous occasions, some of the most unscrupulous people. And you know for a fact it is some very bad people. And if I could work with the bad people in Miami, Dade county, city of Miami, you know, I think I could work with people in Washington. I mean, hey, look, I can Go sit down. I'll sit down and have a conversation with anybody about bringing resources back to this district. And I think I'm able to be able to do that. Well, look, you said it. I mean, you can work with people across the aisle and everything, but what about maga? I mean, they seem to be fully

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

entrenched with Trump, and I don't think,

[Mike Ryan]

I don't think he's gonna be able

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

to agree with anything that you're gonna say. Well, you know, we can all just sit here and cry over spilled milk. I mean, when you look at Donald Trump.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Spilled milk.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Donald Trump is. He's parting Kodak Black. He's given Nicki Minaj a card. But all these people, you know, Cody Black and Lil Wayne and all of them, they didn't have to sell their soul, you know, to get a pardon. You know, I think, you know, I can have a conversation with Trump if I have to. You know, I, you know, you gotta know the individual in which you work with. You just can't just get on TV and just go crazy and just talk about him bad all day. I mean, he has. That's what he's doing, but he has enough shit on his plate that I'm not. My job is to go and bring resources for people who live around the corner from him. I mean, he lives in Mar A Lago, and that is the last time I checked, that is a part of Palm Beach County. And so he doesn't want to be living in a third world country where fires are burning around Mar A Lago and he can't get there. So that is a part of his community. And my job is to go and say, hey, look, man, these kids need tech schools because everybody is not going to college. I mean, we need affordable housing. We need these groceries. Prices in your neighborhood need to go down. And those people who working in the kitchen at Mar A Lago and working on the grounds, those are the people that I'm protecting. And so I think if you have a real serious conversation with this dude, which I don't think he's going to get in the way of anything that I'm trying to bring to this district. I mean, shit, you got look in river beach, they're ball in the water. They're borderline having the same situation that they had in Michigan. You know, that's been going on for God knows how long. You know, Congresswoman, Congressman, whoever it may be, you know, I got to go in there and help those people with the resources to be able to, you know, Build, rebuild their water plant.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

And listen, I have no reason to doubt. You certainly wouldn't be the first time you were at Mar a Lago. I don't know if you've heard this. Stop me if you've heard this one. Roy, Uncle Luke, Mike Tyson and Eddie Murphy walk into Mar A Lago. That's not a joke, it's a documentary. In fact, it might even be a Stanley Kubrick film, which is exactly what you compared it to. In this clip of Mark Thompson's Sirius XM show back from November of 2016 that has recently gone viral. Because sometime in the early 90s, Donald Trump invited you and Tyson and Eddie Murphy to Mar a Lago during a beauty queen related party. Let's watch.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Just imagine the Eyes Wide Shut movie. That's what I felt like I was in. So a lot of things in a lot of different rooms and every time you open up a door with something else going on that I really wasn't, didn't care to be a part of where I think they got cameras and everything be able to take me, and before you know it, you're extorting me. That ain't gonna happen. All the women were enjoying themselves like they do. Thing is, when you're around, I've been around a lot of models and a lot of pageant women because that's what mostly was. A lot of these women ain't of age. Some women look too young. I mean, they were all enjoying themselves. But were they old enough to be enjoying themselves? I don't know. I ain't gonna. I ain't gonna too much elaborate about everything else, what was going on outside of the sexual act, but add some other elements and some other things in there. Then that's. That's when I got to go.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

You were saying, Uncle Luke, what year that was 2016. November of 2016. After Donald Trump had been elected president.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

No, I didn't go to. When I went to Mar a Lago.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Oh, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That was the interview.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

The interview was in.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

The interview was November 2016. You said it was sometime, I guess in the early 90s. Donald Trump bought it in 85 as a private residence, and then in 95, he opened it as a private club. So it was probably around the mid-90s.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Yeah, yeah, it was around the night. He was a Democrat. Donald Trump was a car carrying Democrat who had given money to Hillary Clinton and giving money to Kamala Harris for her run for Senate at that time, you know, I didn't know anything about the Central Park Five? Because if I knew that, you know, the type person I am, I wouldn't have accepted an invite to that. But a large part of that interview, I don't recall. You know, my voice kind of changed a couple times. I mean, but at the end of the day, I'm here to.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Wait, are you saying it's. It's AI. What are you saying?

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

If you listen to the entire interview.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Yeah, there's 10 minutes.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

I start off, sign in a certain way. And then when it got into the salacious shit that they tried to imply, it became.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Are you saying it's. Wait, are you saying it's not you, and you didn't say those things?

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

I'm saying part of it is me.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

My voice is changing now. My voice is. My voice is pitching up because the lie detective test determined that was a lie. Come on.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

You.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

That's you in the interview. Luke, let's just start there.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

A large part of it is me in the interview, but I'm here to. I'm here to tell you this. There was no little girls running around there. I went in. I was invited. It was me, Eddie Murphy and Mike Tyson. We drove down there. I went in. Trump showed us his house. At that time, Trump had been on over 1400 hip hop songs from hip hop artists in New York, as if he's a friend of the hip hop community, which he was at the end of the day. And the man showed me his house. It's no different than me and Billy Suarez. Suarez, Daddy. And the whole gang hopping in the pool and Coconut Grove. Underhanded, man. Child fail, son.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Wait, so, okay, hang on. I think it's very different than that. There wasn't different rooms at different things. There was no Eyes Wide Shut shit going on in that pool. Uncle Lou.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

I left. You know, I left y' all in

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

the pool talking about some pool party. That pool party was. It's not a pool party. It was a race for charity in a public park is what it was.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

I don't know what.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

How are you comparing that?

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

I don't. I don't know. I'm comparing that because I don't know what you guys did after I left you at the pool. And I'm notorious for leaving parties just like I left. How can I help? I leave all the parties when I go in. And I went in, just keep it a buck. When I went in, I went in, looked at the place, saw the place. He showed us around, we looked around. Oh, man, this is a beautiful place. The golf course, everything was dark in the back. Saw that, you know, hey, look, I had another engagement. I left. I left Mike Tyson there. I left Eddie Murphy there, and that was it. I see nobody taking no drugs. I ain't see nobody having no sex. I see no little girls running around.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Hang on, what you said, okay, but none of that. You didn't say little girls. You said pageant. Women models, people who can be difficult to determine. Their guy here, he's trying to make

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

it sound like it was some. Some young people underage. This argument.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

That's you deadly. No, I listen, you can see the jump cuts in. And I edited it together for brevity, but not for content. The content is the content. I don't want to get into an argument about the veracity of the audio. That is the audio that is circulating. It's a 10 minute chunk that I reduced to 50 seconds. But that is what is said. That is the substance of what is said in that interview with Mark Thompson. So you're saying that that happened. You did go to Mar a Lago. You did the president, before he was president, showed you around. Nobody's faulting you for accepting an invitation in 1990 from Donald Trump. A lot of people partied with Donald Trump. I get it. But you left for a reason. You said you saw shit that didn't play as kosher to you. And you said, great seeing you guys, I'm out.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

No, I didn't see anything. I left. I did another engagement. Okay, listen, listen, let me tell you this here. I'm running for Congress, right? It would be great for me to say right now, oh, yeah, I saw all kind of wild shit going on. No, I won't do that because I am not that type of person. I just keep it 100. I left. I didn't see anything. I could get one in on Trump right now and say, oh, I took off because, no, no, no, we ain't doing that. And see, that's what I have a tendency of doing. I, you know, I get a little animated like this, and then people cut the shit up and then take that part and use that. You know, back then it was slice and cut and then add it into some shit to make it seem like as if I saw something. Nope, I did not see anything. It was a pageant. Yes, he had pageant. He was having a pageant event weekend. Did I see any girls? The man walked us around the house. I left him. I don't know what they seen. You can talk to Mike Tyson and you can talk to Eddie Murphy. Hey, When Luke left, what happened?

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Okay, I didn't mean to get on. On a tangent here with this. I also didn't expect you to deny that you said something that you're recorded saying almost 10 years ago. I think that's more of the curiosity. Why did you say that then on this interview with Mark Thompson? But you're saying you didn't say that. Listen, you also said you didn't see anyone. You didn't see any assault of behavior. You didn't see any coercion. You said everybody looked like they were having a good time. Your concern was that perhaps they weren't old enough to have a good time and consent. You also said you did not see Donald Trump engaging in any sexual conduct or misbehavior. All of those things are in the totality of the interview. I think people are curious about some of the other things that you were saying went on and that you saw that. Listen, when the man responsible for Uncle Luke's freak show is like, this is too much for me. I've got another engagement. I'm out. People are curious about what it is that you saw at Mar a Lago. That's all.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

It could have been a lot of things, but I didn't see anything.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Eyes Wide Shut. You described it as I,

[Jose Valdez]

at that

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

time in my life, and as you know, my life has changed and in a better way for so many years now, at that time in my life that could have been boring to me, and I just wanted to go home.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

I wanted to go to another Eyes Wide Shut. Eyes Wide Shut is pretty. Is pretty boring to me. I.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Before Eyes Wide Shut, you know, you know, everybody in that thing there. Tom Cruise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's Tom Cruise. Everybody had their clothes off. They had a mask on.

[Jose Valdez]

I had.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

I did not have a man.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

So for the record, Uncle Luke in the files. Not in the files.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

No.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Roy. Roy, you in the files? Not in the files.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

You in the files? Nowhere near the files.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

I'm. I am not in the files either. Before we go on Galuka, I want to give you the last word because our friend Glenna Milberg at WPLG had an opportunity to talk to Sheila Sherfilis McCormick, who has turned down my invitations to be on the program. And apparently she was asked about what she thought of. Of you getting into this race.

[Christy Garcia]

And Glenna also spoke with Sheriff Alice McCormick this week about a possible Campbell challenge. Here's her reaction. You know, I don't have time to worry about political games when I got real problems.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Uncle Luke, I'LL give you the last word.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Well, she said a mouthful right there. I mean, you know, but at the end of the day, man, you know, all jokes aside is really not a joking matter. Because the people at CD20, you know, they have real concerns. They need a congressman to go up there and fight for them, bring resources back to the community. These kids need support. These guys who are volunteer their time on the parks every day. I mean, you have Medicare, Medicaid up for grabs right now with this administration and tps. And my job is to beautify this district the same way I've done every place I went and doing great things. And we will do that if these good folks elect me. Right now, I'm going out on the trail of getting people to sign. I'm doing a petition. You know, I'm not just gonna go and pay the $10,000 and say I'm in the race and buy my way in the race. I'm doing a petition. And the petition is gonna have people in the district sign it. And hopefully they sign it, and that will qualify me to be in this race. And so that's my direction. And if. If I don't. If I can't get 2500 petition signatures, then I will probably end up out of the race. But nine times ten, I believe in the people of this district, and it's my job to go and, you know, bring the resources back that needs to be brought back to this. This district. And that's what I'm going to do.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Roy, there's like four or five candidates in this Democratic primary, and there is a Republican primary, so there will be, you know, contested race. Sometimes this race isn't. Are you convinced yet or are you still on the fence? Are you going to at least sign the petition to put Uncle Luke on the ballot? What are your thoughts?

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Well, it is a problem because I'm

[Mike Ryan]

not affiliated with either party, so that means I can't vote in the primary. So I am hoping and praying that Luke advances into the general election, or

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

at least anyone other than Sheila.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

No, but Roy can sign the petition. Oh, absolutely.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Right. He just can't vote in the primary.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

He can't vote in the party. Correct. Well, I will be.

[Mike Ryan]

I will be on the petition front. You got my.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

There you go. Look at that. Thank you.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Thank you, Roy. That's all I came on this show for. It was not for you, Billy. It was not for you.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

I'm not a constituent. I'm not a constituent.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

I am. But in all actuality, you can sign the Petition, Billy, because anybody in the state of Florida. But I don't want you sign it because you have enough issues. I'm getting people in the district to sign this

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

cigarette. Uncle Luke's telling me that I have too many issue. He does not want my support. He does not want my name on the petition because I'm a problem. I can only imagine what I was going to say. I don't have to imagine what Uncle Luke's APO file looks like. I've read his book books. So he's written his own oppo file. For crying out loud. Like everybody knows his life is literally an open book. Uncle Luke, thank you for being here. Good luck to you. I just hope it's Sheila buys you a ring. A beautiful, beautiful, beautiful ring.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Is from the fraud money. Which one? Because I mean, it was some odd money too.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Oh, God, I love this town. Thanks, Luke.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

No doubt.

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[Christy Garcia]

A 28 year old woman was out celebrating her birthday early Saturday. The vehicle she was in was passing through this area while police were trying to stop a guy with a gun. In the end, she and another man

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

would end up dead.

[Christy Garcia]

28 year old Evelyn Valdez killed in a police involved shooting. The shooting was early Saturday morning as the busy Wynwood bars were closing around 3am in the area of Northwest First Place and 23rd Street.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Officers observed a male who was armed. Subsequently, several officers discharged their firearms.

[Christy Garcia]

Evelyn was not the intended target, just an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Breaking news from Because Miami we can report here for the first time ever that the bullet that killed 28 year old social worker Evelyn Valdez while she was celebrating her 28th birthday in Wynwood last June was fired by a city of Miami police officer. It was originally reported that Evelyn was an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of a police involved shooting. She was definitely an innocent bystander, but the term crossfire insinuates that someone was returning fire. The truth is, based on the evidence we currently have, the only shots fired that night were by Miami police officers striking three victims, two fatally. Evelyn died because she made the horrible mistake of celebrating her birthday in the city of Miami. This is a devastating case study of the complete and total failure of Miami's emergency response infrastructure, the most basic function of the municipal government, the crucial lifesaving services that we want our taxpayer dollars invested in. But everything that you hope or expect to happen when an incident like this occurs, did not happen here. So if you live in Miami or visit Miami, the staggering incompetence and negligence revealed by this avoidable tragedy, from the officers on the scene to the dispatchers to fire rescue and EMS will chill you to the bone. Evelyn was on her way home at 3am on a Saturday morning last June after spending Friday night out with friends. Last call on liquor in Wynwood is 3am so everybody kind of gets pushed out onto the street at that time. At around 3:06am Jose Valdez Evelyn's brother what happened

[Jose Valdez]

once the shots were fired? And my cousins and everyone that was with my sister in the car realized that she had been struck with a round. Immediately they saw the first police car on the road. They drove to it, jumped out the car with the car still moving, trying to flag down any police officers they could find.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

So they were leaving for the night, is that right? They were just pulling, just driving by so they actually.

[Jose Valdez]

They actually left, and GPS had a detour. GPS sent them down the road that had construction in the moment, detoured them back around to the. To the opposite side of the club, back in front to where the shooting happened. Had there been no construction that night, they would have been home, no problem. But GPS had a detour, ended up back in front of the. The club. As everything transpired, what do you understand

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

was happening out on that street before the shots were fired? What do you know about that?

[Jose Valdez]

From what I know from statements that were given to me by individuals that were there at the scene. I was not at the scene. So from what I know, there was an altercation. There was an individual with a firearm,

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

and

[Jose Valdez]

the officers did what they did.

[Unknown Family Member or Associate]

The altercation started apparently inside the club and escalated outside the club. By the time this altercation is escalating outside the club is when the car is doing that detour, coming back around the front of where everybody was coming out of. And there was traffic by this time, so they got stuck.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

So they were kind of crawling or stopped in front of.

[Unknown Family Member or Associate]

Yeah, the club was. There was a line of cars, and they're just trying to get out of there.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

This is Christy Garcia, Evelyn's mother. This was on 23rd street in Wynwood outside of a nightclub that we're talking about is called Electric lady or Electric 23. After Jose had told us that the car then proceeded to the nearest police officer. What happens from there? I mean, obviously they're looking for help. Did they realize Evelyn had been struck?

[Jose Valdez]

So they see a squad car with the lights on parked on the side of the road. They drive up to it. There's no officer inside. Officer was already at. At the initial scene.

[Unknown Family Member or Associate]

Yeah. Most likely, he was at the scene of where everything had happened.

[Jose Valdez]

So they're running around at this point. They're called. One of them's calling 91 1. Another one's running to the next cop that they see driving to the first scene, trying to flag them down. Right. Within two minutes of the first 911 call, they had an officer at the scene. Officer's priority was not rendering aid to my sister. It was isolating my sister from the individuals that were with her, trying to render aid to her.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Why?

[Jose Valdez]

That's our question.

[Unknown Family Member or Associate]

Cause it was an active scene, apparently. So they were treated like if they were suspects instead of victims. They were all separated.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Do you have any understanding of what was Evelyn's condition at that time?

[Unknown Family Member or Associate]

At that moment? The girls told me that she was. That she was okay. That she was breathing and whatnot. What I know, I don't know. I just know by what I've seen and what I've heard. She was laid out. Social media had videos all over the place. There was a video of her in the back seat. Basically laid slump with this gush woot and nobody helping her, nobody up here. And when the cop does arrive, he's worried more about getting the girls to separate, keeping them away from her, leaving her alone in the car and then putting up yellow tape on the streets. How do you not render aid to somebody who shot in the back of the car?

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Angela Martin, you are an attorney representative representing the family. I understand there's no. You have not sued yet, right? There's no lawsuit yet. But you're obviously looking into this, investigating this, trying to understand better what happened. What I'm trying to understand is they said within two minutes of the 911 call, there was an officer on the scene. Where is fire rescue? Where is ems? Where's the ambulance? I mean Wynwood, if you have to experience a traumatic incident, Wynwood would strike me as one of the better places, if you will, in the world. Because you are blocks away from a fire rescue station. You are a mile and change away from one of the preeminent.

[Jose Valdez]

Exactly, exactly half a mile from the station, right?

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

I think it's like 18th or 19th street, right. And you are a mile and change away from the one of the preeminent trauma centers in the world at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Rider Trauma. So all of this would strike me as Evelyn could have been on her way to one of the best trauma centers in the world. Very, very quickly. What is happening? What is the tick tock here?

[Angela Martin]

I mean, that's the burning question, right? We know that the 911 call went out. At least the initial 911 call went out from one of the vehicle occupants as early as 3:06am and we do, you know, we are aware of the fact that Evelyn didn't receive definitive care or wasn't received into the hospital Rider trauma center until 3:40.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

That's an extraordinary period of time.

[Angela Martin]

It's 34 minutes. So it's 34 minutes is a long time to be sitting in the back of the vehicle suffering from a gunshot wound.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

And we're Miami people, 3:05am on a Friday night, Saturday morning. How long does it take to get to Rider Trauma? You could walk there faster.

[Angela Martin]

Well, you have, you have station two, which is, you know, less than a half a block away. You have rider trauma, which is about a 1.3 to 1.4 mile drive. And yeah, in terms of the distance an able bodied individual could have walked to the hospital quicker than she was transported by rescue.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

And I understand this was a bit of a cluster. You had three people shot, you had what it turns out to be two or three Miami police officers who effectively turned 23rd street into a shooting gallery while customers were pouring out onto the street after closing time at all the bars at 3am and you had, and apparently this armed man, Norman Lindo, who was also shot and killed by police officers, effectively I imagine the target of the officers when Evelyn was hit, but also the manager of Electric Lady, John Fortini, who filed a lawsuit last October, who claims that he was having a conversation with the third police officer at the front door right there on 23rd Street. And that officer, I guess in response in a panic hearing gunshots or hearing that someone had a gun, is taking like Keystone Cop style, taking his gun out of the holster and, and there is a, what they claim to be a negligent discharge that shoots this club manager in the hand. So this sounds like a total mess. What have you learned from the dispatch recordings and like what was happening in that in the immediate aftermath and in the 40 friggin minutes or so or 30 plus minutes before Evelyn made it to the hospital?

[Angela Martin]

Well, it became evident that dispatch was scrambling. Right. There's a lot of confusion coming over the comms. They don't really know how many victims are involved. They don't know where these victims are located. That could be a reason for the lack of care or the delay in which Rescue actually made it to the scene where Evelyn was finally ultimately located, where that vehicle came to rest. So, you know, it's very apparent there is a lot of confusion there. It's a convoluted case. Nobody knows, you know, where people are, where the resources need to be dedicated. So you know, there's a lot of questions.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

There are public records here though. There's a dispatcher roster.

[Mike Ryan]

Sure.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

What if anything, does that reveal about how this was handled or mishandled?

[Angela Martin]

Well, I don't, I can't say that it reveals anything definitively, but it certainly begs many questions, you know, and were there, were there staffing issues that night? You know, this is a Friday night in Wynwood. This is a period of time in which you would expect the 911 dispatch department to be adequately resourced.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Yeah, Friday night, late night, crazy shit goes down. Right.

[Angela Martin]

You know, you have a shift, a B shift and a C Shift. The C shift begins around 10:45 at night, which would have, you know, been the shift in which all this entire incident transpired, you know, happened at three in the morning. So yeah. Was there personnel issues? Were there staffing issues? Were there people out on vacation that were needed in, you know, needed in house?

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Well, the records seem to indicate that the C shift looked severely understaffed. You had multiple people out on vacation, Family Medical Leave Act. You have several people on OT who by the time that this incident occurred would have been working in excess of 12 hours. At that point you've got one person who's listed as sort of, I guess a CTO or a training officer, but also tactical. So this is a person who's ostensibly, I guess there to handle I guess high stress or I guess major duty incidents like this, who was out on workman's comp leave. So it looked like there was like a skeleton crew on staff on a Friday night in Miami at dispatch. And there's also evidence that the city of Miami Police Department had been pretty proactive in recent years trying to hire at the dispatch dispatchers. Is that true?

[Angela Martin]

Yeah, I mean, you know, there's several social media posts that we came across where, you know, there's obviously, obviously a clear intention of trying to onboard some additional 911 dispatchers. Is this a habitual issue? You know, are there staffing issues? It certainly begs the question, Christy, what

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

would you tell other mothers and other parents whose children or whose kids go out in Miami every day and every night, should they feel safe that if there's an emergency or an incident occurs that, that they could feel comfortable with the response? They could feel comfortable with 911?

[Unknown Family Member or Associate]

No. No. Because to this day all that happened. I never got a call from an officer. I never got a call from. I got the call from the girls. I didn't speak to an officer until

[Jose Valdez]

5:30 in the morning.

[Unknown Family Member or Associate]

Not even. Yeah, 5:30, 6:00 clock in the morning after being in a hospital since 3:40.

[Jose Valdez]

And the officers, the officer's first words to us is, hi, my name is so and so.

[Unknown Family Member or Associate]

What do you know?

[Jose Valdez]

What do you know? What do you know happened? What? Yeah, I was skeptical from the moment I spoke to those officers about it being an officer's round that took my sister. Because in a situation where you have an active shooter and you go to the family of the victim, you should be the, the person the suspect with a, with a firearm was, was taken out, he was spent. So you're gonna go knowing like, hey, this person killed your. Your daughter, you know, but we got him. We got him. No, no, it was that.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

What you mean? Felt like they were circling the wagons and covering something.

[Jose Valdez]

What do they know so far? So we could. We could see how we could cover.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

And what we know now, of course, is that as far as the evidence that's been released to date, it's been almost a year that only police officers fired. So police officers shot and killed two people, including Evelyn, who was just in a car.

[Jose Valdez]

Yeah, the car was struck twice. One round towards my sister, the other round and the front.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

We have fortini in the hand, and then the. I think Norman Lindo was hit twice. So we have at least five shots, at least that we know of, all of which were fired by police officers. And then you have immediately Evelyn and her friends or cousins being treated like suspects rather than victims. Evelyn deprived, apparently of medical, life saving, medical care and attention. And then the police officers calling you instead of notifying you about this tragedy, they are effectively interrogating you. Like, this is a. This is sort of like compounding the tragedy and the trauma of this for you guys. Jose, I want to give you the last word. You were in town, you guys left Miami Dade. You live out of the county now. Did this have anything to do with that? And what are you doing back here today? Can you give us an update on the case?

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

My.

[Jose Valdez]

My whole life has been Miami Dade county, like from the moment I was born. You know, my mom came here when she was like three years old. She grew up here, you know, like the streets that my sister died on. My parents walked up and down those streets all day, every single day of their teenage life and their young, their young adult life. You know, me and my sister were raised on those streets. Raised there, went to school in the area, you know, and my sister, if she wasn't working, she wasn't in school, she would go to the BEACH, you know, 28 years old, you know, who's not gonna go to the club and dance and listen to good music and spend time with your family, you know, to celebrate your birthday, you know. You know, you asked my mom a question. You said, how should parents feel about the safety if the people with my sister that night, instead of having faith in those that are paid to save lives, instead of having faith in them and just driving them themselves to the hospital, my sister probably still be here.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Angela, I want to give you the last word because I do want to understand the update. I understand you met with the state attorney's office, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, where is the case now? What is taking so long? This was last June. This was a very contained scene and situation. I know there's cameras that the city has right there on that block that must have captured the entire incident. Where are we in this? What's happening, and what's next?

[Angela Martin]

We're waiting for FDLE to conclude its investigation and finalize its report with its findings. And unfortunately, until that task is completed, we're kind of in a holding pattern. We've enlisted our own efforts to reveal certain facts, kind of conducting an investigation. That's why we're able to get to where we are today, no thanks to law enforcement and their ability to keep the family apprised of what's going on. But obviously, there's an investigation that needs to be protected. You know, you want to protect the sanctity of the investigation, and that's a. It's a difficult balancing act. But until FDLE has finished its job and published its findings, we're kind of in a holding pattern.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

I made references to negligence and to incompetence. I understand you're still waiting for the facts to all come out. Where do you think the culpability ultimately lies here?

[Angela Martin]

Well, I think it's. This is a multidimensional incident, multidimensional tragedy. You know, there's several players here. There's several shortcomings and failures, but I think largely it was a catastrophic failure all around from the incident itself, from the response that came after the incident. And all of these facts warrant a complete and thorough investigation. You know, so we're still exploring that. We're still exploring that. We have a lot of lingering questions, a lot of burning questions that we hope to answer in the near future. But until that. Until FDA leaves, has concluded its report and published its findings, that's where we're at.

[Interviewer (possibly Billy or Dan)]

Angela Martin, Christy Garcia, Jose Valdez, thank you for being here. Good luck to you.

[Uncle Luke (Luther Campbell)]

Thank you.

[Jose Valdez]

Thank you for having me.

[Mike Ryan]

Hey, everybody, it's Mike Ryan. Now, if you've been following the show, you know, I've been traveling, been super busy, been supporting my favorite football team with mixed results, Right? Not the greatest hang so far in 2026. I try to find every excuse in the book. I had one buddy that was trying to invite me out. I wanted to stay in. He's like, come on, let's watch this NBA game. So I go over to his house. I watch this NBA game, and guess what? Something amazing happened. He pulled out the Miller Lights, and I knew right away I made the right call. Next thing you know, we're toasting, we're celebrating, we're having a great time. We're talking about nostalgia. We're talking about old friends that we had. And it was all thanks to Miller Lite, that icebreaker. Because when you actually say yes and you actually show up, you want a beer that fits the moment. For me, that's Miller Lite. Legendary moments. Start with Miller Lite. Great taste. 96 calories. Go to millerlight.com dan to find delivery options near you. Or you can pick up some Miller Light pretty much anywhere they sell beer. It's Miller time. Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Co. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 96 calories and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces.