Local Hour: Dan Hates the Hurricanes

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: "Local Hour: Dan Hates the Hurricanes"

Date: January 15, 2026
Location: Elser Hotel, Downtown Miami
Main Hosts: Dan Le Batard, Stugotz
Guests/Regulars: Mike Ryan, Tony, Chris Cody, Roy, Zaslow

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Episode Overview

This Local Hour episode dives deep into the identity crisis and perception issues surrounding Dan Le Batard's relationship with the University of Miami Hurricanes, Miami's Cuban community, and the show's ongoing legacy in the local sports and cultural scene. Amid playful banter, the cast discusses why Dan is viewed as "anti-Miami," the show's impact on the community, and how Miami's vibrant neighborhoods and traditions shape both their sports coverage and personal reputations.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Dan Le Batard's Relationship with the Miami Hurricanes

• Topic: Why Dan is seen as an outsider—perhaps even a “hater”—by some Miami faithful, despite his deep roots and love for the university.
• Mike Ryan: “This show has an outsized representation of dissenting opinions when it comes to this program... That is the perception of the fans.” (09:57)
• Dan: “I have a relationship with the school, the community around the school. Speak at its classes, have loved the school, will always love the school, am wildly grateful for all of the opportunities it presented...” (08:25)
• The panel unpacks the differences in the show’s tone towards the Hurricanes compared to other Miami teams like the Heat or Panthers.

2. Media Perceptions vs. Personal Intentions

• Mike Ryan explains that, for most fans, Dan just doesn’t seem to “cape up” for the Canes despite being an alum—especially when national criticism is high.
• Mike: “You do not step to this town and talk shit about it… When there is a team for a school that you went to… you seem to both sides it.” (07:24)
• Dan pushes back, citing his history with Miami and local journalism, underscoring that he’s always tried to show the city in all its complexity.
• Both agree that context–rowing against institutional racism, handling scandals, etc.–complicates a simple "homer" narrative.

3. The Show as ‘Anti-Miami’ Media

• Discussion of whether the show's reputation as anti-Miami is earned or simply a product of highlighting dissenting voices for entertainment and balance.
• Dan: “We're doing a show that has represented our city for 20 years through all of that conflict.” (09:57)
• A mutual recognition that sports fans, especially during periods of team success, want wall-to-wall homerism.
• Mike: “People come here from all over the world to hear bias Miami coverage because we are a Miami show. And for whatever reason, when it comes to this program... this show has an outsized representation of dissenting opinions.” (13:53)

4. Community, Content, and Local Identity

• Tony is sent out into Miami neighborhoods, illustrating the difference between Le Batard’s “Miami Beach bubble” and the “streets.”
• Tony: “Dan's a bit Hollywood himself, right? He's got a little bit of a bubble of Hollywood people that he hangs around. He's not really in these streets. He's not on Coral Way Ilano NT, though. He's not here at Party Cake Bakery on Calle Ocho…” (38:59)
• The producers and hosts tout the rise of hyper-local coverage and “content factories” like Canes Insight, drawing parallels to other college towns and fan economies.
• Mike: “I do think that there's going to be a huge migration to local to feel a sense of community around stuff.” (21:20)
• The segment includes lively banter about Cuban coffee culture and the hazards for non-locals, reinforcing Miami’s unique daily rhythms.

5. Repairing Reputation & Integrating with “The Streets”

• Tony and Mike joke about Dan needing to repair his “Miami credentials,” suggesting stunts like buying breakfast for Miamians or spending more time in local dives.
• Tony: “We got to get you out of these streets, dude.” (39:34)
• Dan reflects on his (sometimes traumatic) history with Miami sports fans, social media toxicity, and being misunderstood in his own city.
• Dan: “I got battered in my 20s when I wasn't old enough to know what was happening to me.” (44:07)

6. Cuban Identity, Local Color, and Daily Miami Life

• The episode is peppered with jokes and stories about Cuban bakeries, street roosters, Spanish phrases, and local culinary rituals.
• Anecdotes, like Zaslow’s father overdosing on cafecito and the “dork” label for QB Fernando Mendoza, color the city as a character itself.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Mike Ryan on Dan’s Objectivity:
  “When those Heat teams were going and the entire world was against Miami, you didn’t give a single flying F about who was coming your way. … But for [the Hurricanes], you seem to both sides it.” (07:24)

• Dan on his Miami Past and Criticism:
  “The university of Miami programs, fans hated me because I was doing journalism around the school. So it was kind of a hard thing. … I got battered in my 20s when I wasn’t old enough to know what was happening to me.” (44:07)

• Tony, on Dan’s ‘bubble’:
  “Dan’s a bit Hollywood himself... He’s not really in these streets.” (38:59)

• Zaslow’s Cafecito Anecdote:
  “My father tells a story of when he first moved down here... and he had Cuban coffee for the very first time. He thought he was having a heart attack. They called the ambulance...” (26:28)

• Mike Ryan plugging local content:
  “We have as good a sources as anybody in the industry when it comes to covering this team. … Please. You're on YouTube right now watching us–official Canes Insight. Cost you nothing to subscribe and support what we're doing.” (21:12)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [07:24] – Mike lays out why Dan is perceived as anti-Miami for the Hurricanes.
• [09:57] – Dan explains his deep, conflicted Hurricane history.
• [13:53] – Discussion on fans’ desire for “homer” coverage and why the show resists.
• [21:20] – Mike on the return to hyper-local coverage/community.
• [26:28] – Zaslow’s classic Miami coffee/ER story.
• [38:59] – Tony and Mike rib Dan for being out of touch with Miami “streets.”
• [44:07] – Dan recalls early career trauma dealing with Hurricanes fans and local backlash.

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Tone, Style, & Show Dynamics

• The episode is punchy and densely packed, with the signature mix of self-deprecation, cultural pride, inside jokes, and bickering that characterizes the show.
• Local Miami flavor is embedded in nearly every exchange; Spanish, Cuban culture, and sports all blend seamlessly with playful pop-culture jabs.
• The entire team maintains authentic, irreverent voices—never shying from mockery, heartfelt praise, or public self-examination.

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Summary Takeaway

This episode is a love letter, roast, and therapy session for Dan Le Batard’s complex relationship with the Miami Hurricanes and his evolving role as patron saint—or provocateur—of Miami sports and culture. It tackles the poignant reality that, even as a hometown hero, your own city can be the hardest to please, and that authenticity sometimes means taking the hits as well as the hugs.

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Transcript

[A]

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[B]

So I feel a little bit like I'm. I'm going to be walking on eggshells today.

[C]

Why is that?

[B]

Well, I always like when we have David Sampson on. We're going to have David Sampson today.

[C]

He's very polarizing. Not everyone feels that way.

[B]

I know people. People like, oh, what's Samson like? He must be an like. No, I like, he's always been really good to me. Like, I. I like David took me to Pearl Jam.

[C]

Doesn't everybody here like David? I don't know.

[B]

I haven't done a poll.

[D]

Roy feels some type of way.

[E]

I love David, man. And as a good dude.

[D]

Yeah, I'm just kidding. Everybody likes David.

[A]

It's one of. He's grown on me. You know, many years ago, I would not have said I like David Sampson, but he's grown on me, genuinely.

[B]

It's one of the things I get from people where it's like, listen, Dan, I don't know Dan very well. Dan seems like a great guy, and I just don't understand how he can be friends with David Sampson.

[D]

I get that people think Dan's a great guy.

[B]

So I feel like. I feel like I'm walking a little bit on eggshells today because I love talking to David, and I just. I don't understand how he's working through everything right now. I really don't.

[C]

I've been asking him about leave. I think it's probably appropriate for him to leave. But he also gets whatever joy there is to be had in life these days from having an audience for an hour that cares about what he has to say about things. He's built that. It's hard to build. Zaz, you know how hard these things are to Mike. You know how hard these things are to build. But David built a media career in five years because he's in the volume business. He can do two hours a day by himself. Like, nobody can do that.

[D]

I think you've gone through your stuff, too, and your family, Dan. And I think that this audience, this Community around this show and the doing and the making of stuff does provide some relief. A bit of a cathartic experience making this stuff and being supported by a community that you've helped create. So I get why.

[B]

But you could also tell he works really hard at getting the show together.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

How does he find the mindset to do it?

[E]

I don't know.

[D]

This is not the. This is a pretty strange start, I can't lie.

[B]

Yeah, I'm a little uncomfortable.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

This was always supposed to be a meeting that was off air, that was overheard by the audience. That's what the Shadow show was supposed to be. But instead it became your performances. What's good, bro?

[E]

The dork.

[C]

How Cuban are you? Okay.

[F]

It's.

[C]

Aluminum cookies, cookies, cookies.

[E]

I haven't even left yet.

[F]

I don't know what Talco is.

[C]

Oh, Jesus.

[D]

It's a guy who is a blank prick.

[A]

I imagine it would be like your mama composa.

[F]

Is that like the like raspberry compote they do on great British baking show?

[D]

Hey, that's great to hear it.

[C]

How'd I do? Guess what.

[E]

We're doing the party. We're doing it at Bird Bowl.

[F]

Is Talco and baby powder the same thing?

[C]

Yes, you doofus.

[E]

All right.

[C]

What kind of Cuban are you?

[E]

Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant.

[C]

I love you, Miami. The money is in town. You guys feel it, right? Because the city's being wallpapered for advertisements to big time football, college football. Both team the. It's the Cuban Super Bowl. Fernando Mendoza has as many ads around town already as everywhere. You see them everywhere as the University of Miami playing a home game.

[A]

It's not good luck Columbus kids. It's I saw one. That's just good luck, Fernando.

[C]

No. Cubans are divided and this is a good time for that. Sports has torn apart the Cuban community. Look, Mike has seen enough of this to know that ESPN Deportes was stuffed into a corner of the Clevelander with us. Here's what's left of of it. Here's what's left of ESPN Deporters in the last five years. It's the biggest game is in Miami and we're going to Latin it up and we're going to do so with Greg Cody singing in a cowboy hat and prancing around the studio to introduce people, new people to our show. Because the biggest thing is here, it's in town and you already feel it. Nobody can get anywhere. Donald Trump being in town during a big event. Miami thing is going to make it take 17 hours for any person trying to get into that place. It's gonna be Trump sitting there alone.

[D]

At game time, just trying to stick to sports as my hockey team goes to the White House.

[C]

How soon. How are you leaving?

[D]

My soccer team can't celebrate the club World cup without him on the stage, as I can experience a World cup in this country without his every single fingerprint all over it. And now at the national championship game, which I just knew was going to happen.

[C]

Okay, well, but so let's talk about this as this giant monstrosity comes to town here, and I want to figure out what planes to fly over the stadium. Help me fly some planes.

[D]

Interesting way to frame that. Probably airspace is going to be restricted.

[C]

I want to do some advertising. You don't think you can have just the plane circling around in.

[D]

I think aerospace is going to be at a premium and restricted, so you may want to pivot. Maybe one of those buses.

[C]

No. You don't think it's funny for our logo with some joke and a banner to be weaving in and out of military planes? You don't think that's funny?

[D]

No. And I honestly don't even think our logo would fly with Cane's fans either.

[A]

Are we a playoff team now?

[D]

Probably. Probably even more polarizing amongst Keynes fans than Donald Trump.

[C]

Okay.

[D]

In fact, I know that to be the case. I have at least seen Hat supporting him at the games.

[B]

All right, look, here we go with this.

[C]

No, we can get. We can get into this because I was being heckled from. From the bowling alley. Greg and Chris Cody telling me what their friends are saying about how offensive the things I'm doing are. We'll get to that in a second. I'm a mad at you. I'm a provocateur. I've been doing this for 30 years. Look, you broke a bottle over my chin 25 years ago because you're mad at me. Don't care. Built the empire around our program. I love it. I went to school there, did journalism there. Don't care who's mad about it. Didn't care about it 25 years ago. Program's been very good to me. I love it. I've always respected it, and I've always told its story well.

[D]

Yes, you have always told its story well. I think most Keynes fans don't think that you respect it. And I know this from the enormous amount of fanfare that I got for yesterday's segment defending Mario Crystal Ball. Dan, I think here's where the confusion is. And let me try to Explain this as best I can. You're a guy that has historically put on for Miami better than anybody else. When those heat teams were going and the entire world was against Miami, you didn't give a single flying F about who was coming your way. You do not step to this town and talk shit about it. And when there is a team for a school that you went to, a team that reflects this town better than anyone has ever had, you seem to both sides it so. I know. Look, Jeremy, it's great that we have a villain Billy doing his shit serin thing, that was cool. But for it to come from somebody that went to the school who already got a reputation working against him. People, I think, incorrectly place a lot of the sanctioned stuff on you.

[B]

As you know about that Pell Grant.

[D]

Yeah. You got scooped on.

[C]

You say the one word there incorrectly again. No, let's give people. Since we're here. Okay, since we're here. Look, this is a long time in coming. I have a relationship with the school, the community around the school, speak at its classes, have loved the school, will always love the school, am wildly grateful for all of the opportunities it presented, including the stage right now, because they helped us build this thing with all the things I learned from them and their program.

[D]

Look, it's been a rough 20 years. I'm trying to calmly explain why people feel this way about you in the local hour over several years rather than trying to be rah rah about the home team like we are seemingly with all the other sports dolphins we tee off on. And that's understandable because they've been miserable and we got to find a way to find the fun content. But for whatever reason, when it comes to the Miami Hurricanes, we give the other side more than we give the pro stuff. I know I am not the only Miami Hurricane fan in this studio. I'm surrounded by them. You're a Miami Hurricane fan. You're a Miami Hurricane fan. These two guys in front of me are a Miami Hurricanes fan. The only person that's not a Miami Hurricane fan is Jeremy, who reps UCF and Indiana and whoever Miami is playing. That's understandable. And yet I think it's outsized and has been outsized on this show. Giving voice to the dissenting opinions that it's become the opinion and this is the reality. This is the perception of our show. The show outside of me is largely perceived amongst our community to be an anti Miami show.

[C]

Okay? And so let me. Jesus, I didn't realize I had to explain this to the audience. Never mind that I had to explain this to you. I didn't think I would have to explain any of this specifically to you. We're doing a show that has represented our city for 20 years through all of that conflict. And the story starts. Okay. Just so we remember what our roots are here before our radio station existed. I'm fighting in 90s Miami with the incumbent radio station who's killing me for 10 years while using all of my columns that are about race relations and what's going on really, at the University of Miami with its players and who they actually are, as everything that's being reported is gun charges and cocaine and Michael Irvin ran over somebody's foot near the library for 10 years. That radio station is crushing me and using my columns for content to make themselves radio stars while I'm coming up to that school as a Cuban Miami through, the same Miami Cristobal came up through.

[D]

Can you please mention how your parents fled to this country so I can get bingo for freedom?

[C]

I'm gonna tell you the entirety of the story. I know you guys know the story. Okay. And I know you're bored by the story, but I'm gonna tell the entirety of the story because of how I feel about this program and because I've been arrested around it and because I got a beer bottle broken over my face.

[D]

Yeah. No, no, you're gonna also tell the story because you're a writer. Tell it.

[C]

Yeah. And I'm the one who runs the show.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

And in running this show, we've created a wonderful journalistic character that represents the University of Miami artfully and with his heart at all times. And we do a national thing that annoys people plenty with all our Miami since ESPN deportes. And now I am happy for everything that's happening around the program. And I said a word yesterday. Reputationally. A word, a single word, is what I said to you that Mario Cristobal, reputationally, is not trusted in the big games. And that sets you off.

[D]

Yeah, because it's just not true.

[C]

He's seven and oh. Against top 25 teams. And that is indisputable.

[D]

Yeah, big games.

[C]

But what's also not disputable is they've never won the ACC or played in its championship game. The big games are few and far between. And so when you lose double digit underdogs, it's not unfair to say that before this recent run, he was reputationally criticized as someone who would not win.

[D]

These games or saying none of those games actually close at double digits. But I hear you. And. But like they were a Louisville double digit favorite. Right? But the reputation is they don't show up for these games. Like these are one score losses.

[B]

No, I think that, that, that's the part where that's.

[A]

Let me get.

[B]

There's confusion about.

[F]

We talked.

[D]

We talked about that yesterday. All right. It's fine. Here's where I want to get it. I understand what you're doing. I understand, especially during some lean years, how my character could be grading and how my passion needed to have people to bump up against on. When it comes to the Miami Heat, though, that doesn't really exist. When it comes to the Florida Panthers, though, that doesn't really exist. So Miami Hurricanes fans are sitting back and watching our show over the years and especially during this run, and are asking themselves, does Dan just need a Pat Riley fortune cookie wrapped around this story to cape up for his town? Because why is it so outsized that we have to have so many dissenting opinions when this is such a great story for this community? And Dan is supposed to be the Miami guy and he actually went to the school.

[C]

But who disputes any of what you're saying? And how is that not being conveyed by the show through you? How is that not obvious in terms of bursts of great hurricane coverage that they can get not just here, but with the own business that you started because you want to do it differently and you want to be over there actually analyzing for two straight hours the guard play.

[B]

I would guess because they want 100% buy in on this.

[D]

I think they look our. Our show meets a moment when the team is in the championship games, right? Like this is. People come here from all over the world to hear bias Miami coverage because we are a Miami show. And for whatever reason, when it comes to this program, and it's irrefutable because I have felt it, because I am often alone when I am touting the Miami Hurricanes. This show has an outsized representation of dissenting opinions when it comes to this program. And I understand why. And I understand why I in particular need a dilution. I don't understand why we need that dilution right now.

[F]

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[E]

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[C]

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[C]

Don LeBatard, the Judge Coach Sweetie Stugats. I should go say hello. This is the Dan lebatar show with the St.

[B]

I have a theory. I have a theory why. Why Dan is. I think what you're saying makes sense. And why Dan is like that with the canes as opposed to not like that when the heater in the finals or the Panthers are winning the Stanley Cup. Is it because you actually have a legitimate tie to the school and maybe you don't want to come off as like you want to actually be fair because you legitimately have a tie to the school as opposed to having it you never played with my.

[C]

Well, thank you, Zazzle. I am attempting ostensibly to be fair. Objective is funny because it's an illusion. But now. But did you know. But did you not hear Nick Wright yesterday? Were you guys not listening when Nick Wright did what he did with J. Capital J, wherever it is that he accused me of just sort of not being you anymore. Right? Are you.

[D]

Are you just overcompensating? Because you cannot deny because that it is different when it comes to this program.

[C]

I'm Simply to our national and regional audience. I am simply also trying to give voice to whatever other side there is here in the name of fairness, while everyone who's listening this knows I love the school.

[E]

Right?

[D]

But you don't do that to the other teams. You don't when they, when they are in this spot.

[C]

You don't ask Jeremy how the Heat feel about. How did the Heat feel about this show?

[D]

I don't know how the Heat feel.

[F]

I know as the one person I like, I'm hearing everything Mike is saying and saying yes, yes, yes on the Heat side recently. Because this entire show for the last.

[D]

Three years has been an anti Heat show recently. Like it's fair. Look, we're trying to, we're trying to call them a little bit like we see them. I'm not asking for 100% rah rah homerism. I don't think that's ever been the case. We've always had someone on the show that is either anti the local team or at least speaks for that section of the audience. I'm just saying, like the pro Miami stuff is not a majority opinion on this show and hasn't been since probably it started. And that, that is the perception of the fans. You may feel differently. I'm just telling you how it is. Cuz I'm out here in these streets.

[F]

Dan.

[C]

Yeah, you've mentioned that you have those street credentials and I urge everyone who's listening to this who want an evolution of all of this coverage. And I've heard what Mike is doing and it's daily and I shouldn't give him all the credit for because there are a lot of people working on it. But if you want a content factory where every day you're getting reported stuff and different perspectives and instantaneously. Because as I don't know if you've noticed this, but the whole machine is moving a lot faster now. So the places like doing what Mike is doing right now that are news information places that are independent and alive every day, especially during this time. People are snorting all of this coverage.

[B]

Yeah, no, absolutely. You told me how much content you guys are putting out with Kane's insight, like how much content per day. I couldn't believe it, man.

[D]

Yeah, I think that, that as the world gets smaller, as people get a little bit more detached, I do think that there's going to be a, a huge migration to local to, to feel a sense of community around stuff. And when I was in college, even.

[B]

When we're not playing in a championship game.

[F]

Yeah.

[D]

Even so, because there is a sense of community, people may have their opinions about what Miami's community is in Coral Gables. It's not, you know, Happy Valley or College Station, but when I went to College Station, Texags is this amazing content machine. What they do is aspirational. They have this huge three story studio right across the street from Kyle Field. And you realize there's an economy here and people are starved for it. When your team is making a run like this or even when you're upset with your team, people want to turn to stuff. So I'm really proud of the stuff that D Money, Peter Reeves and everybody that's ever helped us along the way is pumping out at Keynes Insight right now. Got in at a good time. Thankfully, the program trajectory is going the way that it is. But we cover everything. Transfer portal, we break news. Miami Heat basket, Miami Hurricanes basketball head coaching news. We broke that we have as good a sources as anybody in the industry when it comes to covering this team. We're really plugged in and we're pumping out content on the daily. So thank you for the opportunity to plug it. Please. You're on YouTube right now watching us official Canes Insight cost you nothing to subscribe and support what we're doing.

[C]

Look at Tony. He is soaked in Latino. I recognize, I recognize the furniture in there, you know, I recognize lopatelitos. That is you right now, it can be said are at the very epicenter, at the heart, the pulse, that very seat of Miami.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Dan. Hello. Welcome. Good morning. Right here, I'm at Party Cake Bakery right here on La Cayo. I have la Casa de Truco. Literally, I can. I can throw a baseball right to La Casa Trugo right across the street. I'm very partial. See, hold on, let's see if we can get it. There we go. Right there. There's Casala.

[A]

Try to throw a baseball.

[C]

Okay, no, look, I don't have a.

[E]

Baseball with me, but if I. Tony, if I could, I would.

[D]

Tony, please don't throw a fake baseball like he did at fiu.

[A]

Tony, we missed an opportunity yesterday to have the Columbus coach analyze Tony's quarterback throw without a football. Let's go back next week. On the way home, I was like, shitty job by me.

[C]

No, let's do it next week. It's fine. We look, this show's moving fast this week. There's a lot going on. So we just skipped past the national and I'm guessing international news that Fernando Mendoza's high school coach called him publicly a Dork yesterday, like a nerd. The beef in the. In the Cuban community has escalated to that. Where we stirred controversy we didn't have time for.

[E]

I mean, Dan, to be honest. Like, I didn't feed him the dork line. I know. Jeremy said that, Tony. Feed him that line. Like, I did not. I. We were standing a couple paces apart from each other. Just, you know, he knows ball. He know he understands the dork when he sees one, which is fine. I love Fernando Mendoza. Like, again, he could be my cousin, he could be my brother. I love the kid. But when you start. When you start talking about the stoics during the press conference. I know, hey, you took a couple too many philosophy classes at Columbus, which is fine. Again, no shade. But I just know what the deal is.

[C]

Tony, I have wanted all week for you to pop up somewhere and buy everybody breakfast. Is there a way right now that we can tell people where you're going to be tomorrow? Do we have a plan for tomorrow so that we can buy Miami breakfast on the corner of somewhere in Miami tomorrow? Please, Abs.

[E]

Absolutely, Dan. I'm gonna be boots on the ground at Coral Gables at. I'm be on campus at the university.

[A]

They're allowing us on campus.

[E]

Still TBD Location. Still tbd. But we will be on campus tomorrow. Maybe bring some colaita. We'll bring some batalito, some croquetica, and start passing around.

[C]

But how about right now where you are? Look, here's the thing, Tony. Here's the thing.

[E]

You want me to buy this guy breakfast?

[C]

No, I want. I want. I want you guys. I want you guys to have a plan of buying everybody a breakfast in Miami at some point. Maybe we'll do it Monday.

[D]

You have the budget for that? That's. Damn. That's going to cost like $16.

[C]

I know. That's why I want to throw a big party. That's why I want to throw a big party. Banco Montequia. Do you have any there? Are you dipping it in cafe con leche? What are you doing right now?

[E]

Right now I'm just drinking a cortadito, which is basically a mini cafe con leche. It's colada cut with. With milk, which is why it's called cortadito. There's. There's a truck going backwards on the road here. I don't know if that's legal, but there's a bunch of. If you look over my shoulder here, I don't know if you guys can see this over my shoulder right around here. There's like about 150 right there on the. On the rack back there. So they are getting.

[C]

Your mouth was watering.

[E]

Yes. We call Totada.

[C]

Yes.

[E]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Once we hang up. Once we hang up here together. Well, I'm gonna go have a breakfast, so.

[C]

Zasla, where are you on Cuban coffee? Trey Wango. You guys. Okay, so. But everyone knows the story around here. It is legendary. Trey Wingo's career ended when he came down to South Florida and got addicted to cafecito. And he was never the same after that. And he couldn't stop talking about it. So it isn't. It isn't normal coffee. It is spiked with. It's laced with 80s Miami cocaine. My father.

[B]

My father tells a story of when he first moved down here back in the early 80s, and he had Cuban coffee for the very first time. He thought he was having a heart attack. They called the ambulance. The hospital came to his work. They started strapping the deals on his chest, and they saw the empty cup of Cuban coffee on his desk, and they said, did you just drink all of that? He said, yes. They immediately took all the patches off and went home.

[A]

All the deals, they took off.

[C]

That is unbelievable.

[E]

True story.

[C]

That's right. A minute.

[E]

That way it's supposed to have the entire thing.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

That's why they give you the thimble. He didn't know you're not supposed to have the entire.

[B]

He loves telling that story.

[C]

He almost overdosed. So hold on. So you're telling me there's a visual somewhere of a family relative of yours? The. The paramedics arrived. My father, the parent. I know, but there are other people here.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

What I'm saying is, at the center of your family, you're having an incident in which your father has had too much cafecito passed out.

[B]

And one, it was at work. He's sitting behind a desk. The co workers called the ambulance.

[C]

His heart rate got so high, he.

[B]

Thought he was having a heart attack.

[D]

They're there.

[B]

They put the, you know, they're strapping the deals on his chest. You know, look at the shirt.

[C]

What are the deals?

[B]

You know, the heart monitors so they could see if you have a heart attack, you know, so they're strapping the deals on his chest. He's got his shirt open. The chest is out, that very manly, zaslow chest hair.

[D]

And.

[B]

And as they're, you know, monitoring, one of the, you know, paramedics sees the empty cup of capacito and says, did you just drink that? He says, yes. And they didn't even say anything. They just started unstrapping everything. They went home.

[C]

I'm telling you, that's a skit. That's a skit for all time on on Sabao Gigante. Someone like Zaz's dad thinking he overdosed on coffee and disgusted Latin New Yorker.

[B]

Who just moved to Miami, you know.

[C]

But disgusted Latin paramedics throwing down their equipment because, oh, we've got another one of these in Miami. Another Trey Wingo can't handle his coffee feet.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

True story.

[C]

It's an unbelievable story.

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[C]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the St. Yes, Tony, let's buy. Let's buy some breakfast for people. And I, I you. How many times?

[A]

Three times.

[C]

How many times? Go interview the person who's dropping things. Get us to the interview. Ask how common that is for somebody to drop three things in a 90 second hit. Go do the interview.

[E]

Nobody's dropping anything, Dan. No, hold on, Dan. Nobody's dropping anything. What. What had happened was that's when you, when you grind the coffee and when you actually make the coffee, you hit La cazuela. And that's what that is. I know you've probably never been to a Cuban bakery in the last.

[C]

Oh my gosh. That's my showing there.

[D]

How embarrassing.

[C]

How embarrassing.

[E]

It's embarrass. No, it really is embarrassing. It really is embarrassing. Like Dan's like trying to create these things and I'm like, oh no, dude, that happens 18,000 times a second here on come over.

[D]

Watch.

[E]

See? So if you look at what she's got going on right here, right? That's where the cafetera, that's that's what she's hitting right here. To knock out all the cafe that's already been made. So that's when you hear bom, bom, bom. It gets hit right there.

[C]

So can we sit around and get that? Can we. Can we sit here and get it until we get the live moment of a very. So that everyone can see how Cuban coffee is made. That ruins Trey Wingo's career. I want to build that way. I want people to be able to sell coffee.

[D]

You guys don't ran away because the camera.

[F]

He thinks his career was ruined.

[D]

I think he's still working. I follow. I did a lot of great stuff for DraftKings. I'll tell you that much.

[C]

I'm sorry. Was that cruel? I'm simply saying a little bit. I don't.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

That he got addicted to coffee.

[D]

No, no.

[B]

The other part.

[C]

The ruining of his career makes the story better. I thought that's the joke.

[D]

No, it's insulting. You don't have the greatest of radars.

[F]

Also, Dave Dunn isn't Cuban.

[D]

We tried to tell you repeatedly yesterday. He said he was a gringo.

[A]

Hey, Dave. Dave Dunn. What's your favorite Cuban dish?

[D]

You insisted.

[E]

Yeah, no, I had. I had to help on that one because he said, what does this mean for Cuban Miami? Which, of course, the guy does not know anything. He came here, like five years ago, at least threw him the alley oop of what's your favorite dish? Where he can at least throw croquetas in there.

[D]

A good job. Sometimes writers.

[E]

I mean, I know the story they're gonna tell. I'm trying to repair the. I'm trying to repair the relationship that Dan had with Miami right now. Because Dan is just uniquely Miami beach, and he lives in that silo, which is beautiful. I love that.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

But when we come over here on.

[D]

This side of them.

[E]

Carter.

[D]

What?

[E]

Things are different.

[A]

Sounds like an insult.

[D]

It's what the streets are saying.

[E]

It's not an insult.

[D]

That's what the streets are saying.

[E]

Dan, like. Like a father figure.

[D]

We're out here helping. We're boosting Dan's Miami credentials. I'm trying. I'm literally trying to know that the.

[E]

Pom pom pom was. Was a cafe.

[D]

Damn.

[F]

Even I knew that the mood.

[D]

And let's not. If we have to revisit it. His dad was an embarrassment.

[E]

Oh, my God.

[D]

In embarrassment.

[C]

Forgot about Fidel and forgot about Elion.

[E]

This is how you guys and the cookies.

[F]

It almost makes me retroactively offended by all the stuff he did on hq.

[C]

Oh, you should be. That was rampant exploitation. So the man at Disney could have a Latin accent because mine.

[D]

Cartoon character.

[C]

Because I'm Levitard. Dan levitar doesn't. Dan LeBatard is over here with Jeremy Tache in the Americanized version of the Cuban. We need to go get.

[F]

At least I knew what that sound was.

[C]

We need to go get the cartoon accent. Let's get that. Let's read daddy's voice.

[A]

Tony, behind the counter.

[B]

Tony, you work there now.

[E]

Behind the counter here.

[C]

Tony. Nice.

[E]

I'm basically almost part owner of this place.

[C]

Tony. I love the freedom you have and the trust you have in that kitchen. Let's tour. Let's. Let's.

[E]

There's the pancomantaquilla ready for good stuff. All you got to do is throw it on the grill. Oh, that's. It hits the grill right there. Beautiful.

[A]

They hate cameras. That's my favorite right there. Meat patties.

[E]

They got all kind of bread here. Dan, are you. Are you a bread chaser? Because they have them right here, dude.

[C]

Well, that's the good stuff, right? If we're going to dip anything in coffee, the. That soaked in butter. That's the. That's the Cuban experience.

[D]

Good stuff. Is it breaking down Elijah Surat vs. O.J. frederick? Probably not, but it's something. Then Kane's insight.

[E]

I mean, you can get that wherever. Yeah, you can get that with D money over there, but D money's not going to break down. Banco Montague.

[D]

He's vegan.

[C]

No. I love this. Tony's got run in the kitchen. People don't. Tony.

[E]

No.

[C]

Tony. How about this? Tony? Tony, tell me this. If you had to guess how many people there speak English.

[E]

This is more of a tourist. Tourist location. So I'd say maybe half of the people here speak English because this one's on cayote. So there's a lot of tourists walk walkabouts. But there's one. There's one that's on Miller. That one does not have any people that speak English, because I went to that one on. On Saturday after I played basketball to get some croquetas and some.

[C]

But those people would also let you just walk into the kitchen. But those people would also let you walk into their kitchen and just wander around.

[E]

Yeah, easily, easily, easily. Obviously, it's. It's harder for me to do it with. With the. Look at this.

[A]

Now the guy's just showing off.

[D]

Senoritas.

[E]

Ah, senoritas. Senoritas.

[B]

Ask her if she thinks the canes are going to win.

[E]

She's a pretty predictions.

[D]

Thank you.

[B]

Ask if she thinks the kings are gonna win.

[D]

There we go. She thinks we're gonna win.

[A]

Guy with a hurricane sweater.

[B]

Kane's my 50.

[D]

And she also says that Mark Fletcher is exceptional at picking up the blitz.

[E]

Oh, my God. Rose is giving me grogadikas here.

[C]

What other advantages does Miami have?

[E]

What other advantages? It does Miami.

[C]

No, I was talking to Mike.

[D]

We got to exploit number 67, that right tackle. Oh, she said.

[E]

She said strong d line play. That's what I. That's what I said.

[D]

It's lining up Mazador and Bane on the same right side. That's what it is. And you count on the development of marquis lightfoot on the other side to collapse that pocket. Make Mendoza hold on to the ball. He is prone to mistakes. This is a guy that can turn the ball over.

[C]

Dan, Tony, can you tell me what I have to do to repair my relationship with Miami? You guys have been trying to help me for a couple of days. You. You told me, dan, you're not welcome over at Columbus. They don't. They're not about what you're about. And I was blind to it. I'm like, what do you mean they're not about it? And I'm like, dan, stop being ignorant.

[A]

Their.

[C]

Their politics and your politics, they don't combine. But I'm like, no, I'm just doing a sports show over here, right? We're all in on the same joke. No, no, no.

[E]

Yeah, no, we are. And. And again, I'm trying to get.

[C]

Get.

[E]

I'm trying to get around to all the different places that people would be boots on the ground where regular people would be. And obviously, we called George sedano Hollywood. Dan's a bit Hollywood himself, right? He's got a little bit of a bubble of. Of Hollywood people that he hangs around. He's not really in these streets. He's not on coral way Ilano Nt, though. He's not here at party cake bakery on calla ocho. He's not here. And, like, there's no. There's no veneer that Dan could put on to be more Miami if he's not actually in the streets. It's been 30 years since he's been in a beer fight in a. In a bar fight with. With a beer bottle at bird road.

[D]

That's tough.

[E]

It's. It's I again. I love you like a father figure, Dan. Watch out here from Gladys. I love you like a father figure, Dan, but, like, damn, we got to get you out of These streets, dude.

[D]

I don't know what to say. We're trying to repair your reputation in your hometown. I can't believe it's come to this. It's worse than when Pilgrim was Happening.

[C]

Happening. That can't. That can't be true. It is worse that Mike.

[D]

That hop in a discord, pal.

[E]

Show them all the birds over here.

[D]

That cannot telling you your brand. Amongst that's a rooster.

[E]

Toxic Brando.

[C]

Cuckoo.

[E]

They're locked in, dude. These are real. These are real roosters.

[A]

Prediction.

[D]

Look at them all across the street versus those.

[A]

Yeah, there you go. Get Rose to chase. Chase the roosters.

[C]

Rose, you're there to know that some.

[D]

Of those roosters are.

[C]

Rose, you're there to document the television, not to make the news. We cannot. We. We need to go into the environments and allow the things to be as they are. We are. We are in. We are in the wild and we can't just be making television out there. Tony, we'll check in with you in a second. Just real quick, before I let you go though, Chris, are you aware of what la casa de los Trucose is? Because I have been there within the last 18 months. This will not surprise you guys.

[D]

Surprises nobody.

[A]

I am aware, but tells us no.

[C]

So you're not aware. Okay, so just. Tony, real quick, tell people. I know you did a Tony's tonight on one of these. No, that is a rooster. That's not. That's not a sound effect. Chris. Chris isn't doing that. He's not that good.

[E]

He doesn't like that I'm in his turf right now.

[C]

No, he doesn't.

[E]

He's right down there. He's in the. In the bushes right there. He doesn't like that I'm. That I'm on his turf.

[D]

Let's size him up.

[A]

This guy.

[E]

This guy's a little dirty here.

[D]

Size him up. Let's see what kind of agility.

[E]

A little dirty over here to the right.

[C]

All right, get out of there. Leave them alone.

[E]

He's got good agility.

[C]

It's their environment, not yours.

[D]

Yeah, we're scouting, but go ahead and.

[C]

And explain la casa de la trucos and then I'm going to send you over there because I need a report from over there, okay?

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Casa Lose is basically like imagine like the original Party City, right? They had every costume, every sort of like, gag gift. No wonder, Dan, like, there's actually like an old witch. There's an old witch as the similar place as the mascot with the long nose. No, no, not at all. Not at all. Not all.

[D]

This is not.

[E]

Thank you.

[C]

This is a Halloween. It's not a sex store. This is a Halloween store.

[E]

No, no, no, no, no. I mean, maybe if he asked the right people, there may be something in the back that. That could, you know, that could equate for that. But right now, it is probably the oldest costume store in Miami, at least. I don't know if any. Any place older than Casa Lotrugo.

[C]

All right, let's go get the history over there in the rooster a lav mic. All right, get out of here.

[B]

Bring the rooster with you.

[E]

Hold on. Let's. Let's see how many we got. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. We had seven roosters. Yeah, they're just kind of hanging out.

[C]

No, you're. Look more over there. Look. Look across the street there. Rose. Rose, look. There are roosters.

[E]

And the problem. Why did they cross the road?

[F]

Exactly right.

[E]

Exactly right. That's what I was about to say. Mike, she doesn't know that about probably 60 of these roosters have hands and will peck because.

[C]

Get out of there. They're talons.

[E]

I saw one with claws.

[D]

Yeah, half of them.

[C]

Get out of there.

[E]

They all have claws.

[C]

Look, man, those birds have been protecting that area of a store that's got a great dumpster because there's Montequilla and Bong back there. That's their family that. Get out of their neighborhood. That's a bad neighborhood. Get out of there.

[E]

Bad bird neighborhood.

[C]

It's a. But no. Yeah, it's a bad. It's a bad Miami neighborhood. Get out of there. Go across the street to la casa La truquez. Leave the birds alone. Thank you. I will continue to get advice for you because I am guilty as charged on where it is that you guys are accusing me of. Of more unpopularity than when the pell grant stuff was happening, which I did not report. When you tell me that I am guilty as charged on a bubble. Because I have totally checked out of social media in a way that has helped my head, because the last time all of this happened to me 30 years ago. I mean, you guys laugh at beer bottle of the chin. That's funny. No, it was terrifying. It was in my 20s, and the university of Miami programs, fans hated me because I was doing journalism around the school. So it was kind of a hard thing. It was a hard time. I got battered in my 20s when I wasn't old enough to know what was happening to me.

[B]

You got to get back on social media. Some wild stuff going on.

[D]

Yeah, dude.

[C]

Well, I am blissfully unaware of what it is that's happening with me. Reputationally that I would be seen as somehow you think I'm nationally seen as anti Miami hurricanes.

[D]

I think our show is largely that like, we've got me as like window dressing stunner.

[B]

I'm telling you, man.

[C]

Consider me stunned.

[B]

I'll show you my algorithm.

[D]

There's.

[B]

There's some stuff happening.

[C]

Consider me stunned. You are absolutely right. Then bubble as charged. Like I was blissfully unaware until now that that would. That however it is that we've been doing the show would risk any kind of unpopularity when everyone knows everyone nationally has been presented a figure in me who has always been pro Miami and nowhere outside of this market would I have a reputation that would be seen by anybody as anti Miami. It would only and could only be in this market.

[D]

It's sa sad to see what's become of you. Conversely, though, I am riding high. People love me in the streets.

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