Local Hour: The Dan Le Batard Show Toy Drive With Cuban Santa

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz Episode: Local Hour: The Dan Le Batard Show Toy Drive With Cuban Santa
Release Date: December 17, 2024

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Introduction to the Toy Drive

In this heartwarming episode recorded from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz spearhead a community-driven toy drive aimed at bringing joy to children during the holiday season. Emphasizing the generosity and financial means of their audience, Stugotz sets the stage for a significant charitable effort.

Stugotz [02:06]: "We're doing a toy drive for the next three days. That seems like a nice thing. Just give some kids some toys. It's an easy way to make them happy."

Organizing the Toy Drive

The team discusses the logistics of the toy drive, highlighting key locations and strategies to maximize participation. The primary site is Flanagan's at 2721 Bird Avenue in Coconut Grove, affectionately referred to as the heart of their operations. They plan to extend the initiative to Vivo at Dolphin Mall and offer an alternative drop-off point at the Elser Hotel's Corner Coffee.

Chris Cote [03:17]: "Boom."

However, Stugotz voices concerns about the suitability of holding a toy drive at a bar, leading to a humorous debate about Flanagan's reputation in South Florida.

Stugotz [03:58]: "Flanagan's is not a trap house. It is one of the most delightful places in all of South Florida."

The team also addresses the challenges of timing, such as restaurant opening hours, and reassures listeners that Flanagan's is a reliable venue for the drive.

Stugotz [04:00]: "I hope they're open by noon so we can tell people to stop in, bring a toy, have lunch."

Engaging the Community

Stugotz passionately underscores the importance of the community's support, emphasizing that their audience consistently rallies behind such initiatives. They encourage listeners to contribute a variety of items, from traditional toys like dolls and Nerf balls to gift cards, ensuring that the donations cater to children of different ages.

Stugotz [10:19]: "You can bring gift cards. See, I'm worried about stugats and the gift cards. Like if they bring the gift cards back here. All of a sudden Stu got to do his holiday shopping in our bin."

Addressing Challenges and Skepticism

Throughout the episode, the hosts navigate skepticism and logistical hurdles with humor and determination. Stugotz mentions encountering a "Skeptical Billy," whose doubts about the toy drive's execution prompt the team to reaffirm their commitment and clarify misconceptions surrounding their charitable event.

Stugotz [12:43]: "And so we will have a different part of Miami where we go get toys. And you can also just drop them off here at the Elser because we've got a place here, Corner Coffee."

Spotlight on Travis Hunter and Online Scrutiny

Transitioning from the toy drive, the conversation shifts to Travis Hunter, a standout college football player who recently won the Heisman Trophy. The hosts delve into the intense online scrutiny Hunter faces regarding his personal life, particularly his relationship. They critique the invasive nature of internet commentary on young athletes' private matters, advocating for respecting their privacy and focusing on their athletic achievements.

Dan Le Batard [18:51]: "It's weird to harass college athletes. I think it's weird to harass professional athletes about their dating lives. We don't know them."

The discussion highlights the pressures young athletes like Hunter endure, balancing newfound fame with personal relationships, and the often unwarranted advice they receive from online audiences.

Lighthearted Interludes and Community Interaction

Injecting humor into the episode, Jeremy introduces a playful moment by singing a comical song, leading to laughter and lighthearted banter among the hosts. This segment serves to balance the more serious discussions, showcasing the show's signature blend of entertainment and community engagement.

Jeremy [27:36]: "So what I'm saying here all these... Females crossing o Skeetski goddamn ol blue eyes."

Checking in with Cuban Santa

As the toy drive progresses, the hosts maintain live connectivity with Tony, the man behind Cuban Santa, who is actively collecting donations at Flanagan's. They encourage listeners to visit and contribute, reinforcing the show's commitment to community support.

Stugotz [36:37]: "Hold on. Excuse me."

The playful interaction continues as Tony humorously grapples with his Santa persona, adding a festive and interactive element to the episode.

Stugotz [37:46]: "Tony, you can't be Cuban Santa and then saying, bring me cash and leaving with pocket."

Conclusion and Final Encouragement

Wrapping up the episode, the hosts reiterate the significance of the toy drive, expressing gratitude for their audience's generosity and participation. They offer reassurances about the toy collection process and extend their thanks to everyone involved in making the initiative a success.

Stugotz [43:17]: "Every award, even if he should definitely have just finished number three. I hate that song."

The episode concludes on a positive note, celebrating community spirit and the collective effort to bring happiness to children amidst the holiday season.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Stugotz [02:06]: "We're doing a toy drive for the next three days. That seems like a nice thing. Just give some kids some toys. It's an easy way to make them happy."

• Chris Cote [03:17]: "Boom."

• Stugotz [03:58]: "Flanagan's is not a trap house. It is one of the most delightful places in all of South Florida."

• Stugotz [10:19]: "You can bring gift cards. See, I'm worried about stugats and the gift cards. Like if they bring the gift cards back here. All of a sudden Stu got to do his holiday shopping in our bin."

• Dan Le Batard [18:51]: "It's weird to harass college athletes. I think it's weird to harass professional athletes about their dating lives. We don't know them."

• Jeremy [27:36]: "So what I'm saying here all these... Females crossing o Skeetski goddamn ol blue eyes."

• Stugotz [37:46]: "Tony, you can't be Cuban Santa and then saying, bring me cash and leaving with pocket."

This episode of The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz masterfully intertwines community service with engaging discussions on contemporary issues, all while maintaining the show's trademark humor and camaraderie.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

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[Stugotz]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Stugotz]

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[Chris Cote]

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[Stugotz]

Learn what Amazon Q Business can do for [e-mail] learnmore stugaats I don't know about you whether you have like a bit of an antenna for when something in the future might go wrong, but Billy as a bellwether for whether or not we're doing the wrong thing. When skeptical Billy makes an appearance, I get a little worried about things we're doing. And we're doing a toy drive for the next three days. That seems like a nice thing. Just give some kids some toys. It's an easy way to make them happy. Our audience is very giving and has, you know, has money. Our audience has money and usually shows it in instances like this. But Billy doesn't think we're doing this right because.

[Chris Cote]

Hold on a second. Falsehoods. What are we doing? The witness here. Exactly what happened is exactly right. Stugotz, what happened here?

[Stugotz]

I just thought that perhaps you thought that Tony featured as a toy drive person. You thought that we're not putting him in a position to succeed because he's Tony and because of some of the details involved with what we're doing today.

[Chris Cote]

Well, I mean, can I share the details? It's on like the DL, isn't it? Well, we might as well. I mean, we need people to go donate toys. So can I share the details that I am aware of?

[Stugotz]

Yes, because we are asking people to help us here with unwrapped toys. And it's. We, we got a late start on this, so we're.

[Chris Cote]

Christmas snuck up on us.

[Stugotz]

We're jostling the calendar.

[Mike Ryan]

It's like the Super Bowl.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, the same every year. The calendar, it's the same place every year, but it sneaks up on us. I saw poor Fuentes in the eating area and he was just lamenting that he's like Dan Christmas Sprint. I haven't bought all the gifts. Nobody's fault, but my own. Just muttering under his breath about the Christmas Sprint.

[Chris Cote]

Are you sure that was Fuentes? Because he's not one to take accountability for not remembering things right.

[Mike Ryan]

Well, it's that of year, Dan.

[Stugotz]

I mean, he. He looked.

[Mike Ryan]

That's what people say.

[Stugotz]

He looked sour. And I went up to him and I don't often do this. I'm like, are you okay? Is everything okay? And he's like, yeah. You just caught me thinking about the Christmas sprint and all of the stresses involved. But we're trying to alleviate some of the holiday stresses. This is a real easy transaction. You bring us a toy and we take it and make a kid happy with it. Like, it's a super easy way to do this. And we're at Flanagan's this morning. Tony is Cuban Santa. It's at 2721 Bird Avenue, Coconut Grove. Right. The grove, the heart of everything we do.

[Chris Cote]

This is a two birds kind of situation. You go get a toy, hop over there around 11, drop off the toy, get some lunch.

[Stugotz]

Boom.

[Chris Cote]

Well, the thing is, though, is that we're there at 10, and I don't think the restaurants even open at 10. And there's also. There's also 11, two Flanagans there, right? There's the restaurant and there's like, big daddies. Like, are we outside of Big Daddy's? Are we outside of Flanagan's? Because, like, the locations. Big Daddy's is Big Daddy's come to a bar and give us a toy at 10am on a Tuesday. It's kind of like, you know, the people have toys in their cars that are going to be at a bar at 10am on a Tuesday. Are we sending people and hope that. That they're not working? And in which case, are we asking unemployed people to give us toys at a bar on a Tuesday? Like, these are just maybe the locations you just. It's like, you know, we're gonna send people to a trap house next. What are we doing? If you're a parent like me and.

[Mike Ryan]

You'Ve gotten your kids way too much.

[Chris Cote]

Crap, take one of theirs, give it away.

[Stugotz]

Flanagan's is not a trap house.

[Chris Cote]

No, I know. I didn't say it was.

[Stugotz]

It is one of the most delightful places in all of South Florida. The next two days, we'll be doing this toy drive at Vivo at Dolphin Mall. They've been very supportive lately. And so we will have a different part of Miami where we go get toys. And you can also just drop them off here at the elser because we've Got a place here, Corner Coffee, that's open from 7am to 2 every day. If you can't do it right now.

[Mike Ryan]

Do they know we're doing it?

[Stugotz]

Yes. Okay, good. They would need to know we're doing this. It's a good question. It's a good question you're asking. Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

That Flanagan's, by the way, is legendary.

[Stugotz]

Yes.

[Mike Ryan]

There's a good chance that Tony walks into that place and there are people still there from last night.

[Stugotz]

Yes. I'm telling you that Flanagan's taught me. It brought me gently into adulthood, that Flanagan's. It walked me right into adulthood just allowing me to drink.

[Mike Ryan]

You see things in there when I.

[Stugotz]

Was in college and after college and they just, they allowed me to enter adulthood in a way that was. Jostled me less than it might have otherwise if I didn't have chicken wings in front of me.

[Chris Cote]

The problem though is like Tony likes Flanagan. So there's also the chance that like Tony forgets the mission that he's on and he's just hanging out at Flanagan's.

[Stugotz]

Well, you mentioned it might not be open, which is, well, that I'm going.

[Chris Cote]

To look up the hours.

[Stugotz]

It's a hole in our plan because I, you know, go.

[Chris Cote]

I mean, I don't know that Flanagan is famous for their breakfast.

[Jeremy]

That's the only.

[Stugotz]

I think, I think it's pretty good. I hope they're open by noon so we can tell people stop in, bring a toy, have lunch. I don't know whether they are or not.

[Chris Cote]

They open at 11 at the latest. It says close lunch menu right now. Opens at 11. Thank you. So he'll be there for an hour. Pre. Pre. Open. If you guys want a pregame there in the parking lot, maybe stand tailgate for. Yeah, tailgate for the opening toy gate.

[Stugotz]

There's a toy gate. There's a. There's a toy gate. We're doing a toy gate right now at Flanagan's. Who wants to come to party with Cuban San?

[Chris Cote]

I'm look to see what time Big Daddy's opens though.

[Mike Ryan]

Ah, it never closes.

[Stugotz]

I mean, you can also meet that song bird Rose. Lucy finds no one in the world more delightful than that song bird Rose.

[Dan Le Batard]

Depends on the day.

[Stugotz]

You are so amused by her inability to say the name of that Italian alleged murderer of CEOs Luigi Mangione. I have rarely seen you as happy as I saw you yesterday when you were staring at Rose's complete inability to say that name.

[Dan Le Batard]

Look, the way she was saying it wasn't like she just Was like not able to pronounce it. She kept giving him the first name, Jimmy. And I was like, rose, his name is Luigi. And then we'd say, his name is Luigi Mangione. How do you say it? And she say, jimmy.

[Stugotz]

All right, let's start with that. Because she's producing Tony. We'll start there.

[Jeremy]

It's the holidays. A time for peace, for love, for presents. And do I have one for you. It's Poppy's fifty Shades of Christmas. You're welcome.

[Chris Cote]

Christian trails a spoonful of ice cream down the center of my body.

[Stugotz]

He kisses each of my breasts and.

[Chris Cote]

Each of my nipples hard. My mouth is already open from panting.

[Stugotz]

I open wider and he slides a large, cool metal object between my.

[Chris Cote]

Sitting beside me, he gently pull my sweatpants down.

[Stugotz]

Up and down like a horse drawers.

[Chris Cote]

He flexes his hips so his pushes against me. Yes, right there in the bathroom. It is all hot and steamy.

[Stugotz]

I strip off my clothes and quickly clamber into the shower. And I hold up my face into the welcoming torrent. I want Christian Grey.

[Jeremy]

Thank you, Papi. See, Greg? That's how it's done.

[Stugotz]

Michelangelo's David has nothing on him.

[Jeremy]

Es sufficiente, Papi. Okay, time to start the show.

[Chris Cote]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.

[Stugotz]

All right, listen, Meadowlark media. I didn't want to have to do this in public in front of everybody, but only I get to exploit my father, huh? Everyone else, you need to knock it off. You need to check with me before you do that. Like you can't make. I get to do it. I get to do it. No one else did it for 10 years on ESPN. That gives none of you. None of you that permission. I'm looking at you, Mike Ryan. You didn't tell me you were doing that. You didn't tell me you were voicing that I exploit my father. No one else. ESPN rented that accent for 10 years. It's retired now. It is done with its exploitation.

[Jeremy]

To be fair, this was preexisting exploitation.

[Stugotz]

I'm talking about the cartoon graphics and you adding sensual voice to it. And you like again, that was a I when I explained I exploited him. I exploited him. Then I'm allowed. ESPN needed some help with the Hispanic demographic. Still does. Good God. Good God. Feel free to have some Hispanic people on air. Needed help. And what happened after that? Dad held out. He was bluffing. He didn't know how to tell his son he wanted to retire. ESPN gave him a raise, called his bluff. Then he was Confused. And then he went flat crazy. And that's how he quit the show and that's what that exploitation did. So I've learned my lesson and I would like for you not to do that anymore.

[Mike Ryan]

Speaking of that graphic we put up there for the toy drive, there was a Christmas tree with a Star of David at the top of it. I mean, that's how we're doing it.

[Stugotz]

Inclusive. Inclusive. What's the problem with that? Welcome. What's the matter with that? What's we?

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, you got a whole tree. I got a little star.

[Stugotz]

Hanukkah also starts December 25, does it not? Hanukkah starts December 25.

[Mike Ryan]

Look at you. I mean, eight crazy nights.

[Stugotz]

I'm looking at everyone here asking. No one seems to know.

[Dan Le Batard]

Except it does.

[Stugotz]

Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

This year, that's correct.

[Stugotz]

So. So, yes, a star, a Star of David. Now, Tony is at this toy drive at Cuban Santa. And Billy, through giggles during the break that Big Daddy's opens at 7am Baby. So if you want to get your party on right now.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, 7:00am to 3:00am if you want to get your.

[Mike Ryan]

Never closes.

[Stugotz]

Well, three to seven.

[Mike Ryan]

Trust me, I live there. It doesn't close at three.

[Stugotz]

Three to seven.

[Mike Ryan]

No, look, listen, it's a sign. It says it on the door. They're not closed.

[Stugotz]

Okay, we all saw that. You had your never closes lined up before Billy said his seven to three and you were going to get that shot off no matter what. You stopped listening right there. I did. Tony is at Flanagan's, legend. He is. This is the legendary Flanagans, is it not? This is the one. The one that brought me to adulthood in college. And we're collecting toys there and we're going to be doing it today until noon. We're doing a toy drive, a Tony drive. And Rose is also there. And Rose cannot pronounce the name of the alleged CEO murderer, Luigi Mangione. Let's go out to Tony at Flanagan's and let's tell people, motivate them over the next three hours to get out there and bring a toy, several toys. These are the kinds we're asking for stugats because we're going to want, like what an easy way to use this platform to just make kids happy right here in our city, the city we're celebrating 20 years in. And we haven't done quite enough of this over the 20 years where we're just giving back because it's. Because it's a good time to do it. So balls and equipment, dolls, Barbies, remote control. Cars, Nerf toys, board games. You can bring more than one. Jewelry, craft kits, perfume, cologne. Lucy was confused by that one. Perfume and cologne. Because I could see Stugat's like smuggling some toys and taking them home and undoing some Christmas some early Star of David chopped.

[Mike Ryan]

Thinking about it with the Nerf balls.

[Dan Le Batard]

I mean, I thought the perfume cologne was odd, but then I did. I used some context clues. I feel like a lot of these toy drives, everyone always gets the little kids stuff, but there are, you know, high school, middle school students who probably want like drunk elephant Sephora stuff. So maybe bring some of that too.

[Chris Cote]

But the perfume cologne is under the elementary school.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, that's odd.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think they meant to put it there.

[Chris Cote]

I have a question for. For all of the fans out there as we're learning, you know, about the toy drive. So is it ending when the show ends or can they go to Flanagan's later in the day and we'll collect it later if we're not there? 10 to 12 at Flanagan's, you can do. What is it, 7 to 2pm Right.

[Mike Ryan]

On our corner at the corner coffee store.

[Stugotz]

At the elser. That's right, at the elser. You seem a little rattled, Chris. Are you okay? Is everything okay or you got everything under control?

[Mike Ryan]

There's a lot going on.

[Chris Cote]

There's a lot of defense being played.

[Mike Ryan]

About what?

[Chris Cote]

Like. No, it's not defense. It's information. Guys, people are at work at this time if they want to help after they get out of work. I'm trying to find out if there's a way.

[Stugotz]

I told you, Chris, I told you that I was met with Skeptical Billy. And Skeptical Billy has a way of undermining some of these things before they get started. You may have noticed his work over the last 20 years. If you're at work right now and.

[Chris Cote]

You can't do it today, we're going to be at Vivo Mall the next two days.

[Mike Ryan]

That a boy.

[Chris Cote]

If you have time, then.

[Stugotz]

And if you can't get in that.

[Mike Ryan]

Window the whole week, you can come.

[Chris Cote]

To the elser at the corner coffee.

[Mike Ryan]

Store between 7 and 2.

[Stugotz]

Look, look, I believe this is. Well, let's have a group meeting here. We don't do very much of this. I believe we take for granted slightly. Just because it's such an overwhelming thing that our audience always shows up when we ask them to. It's not. And I'm not saying that we actually take it too, that we all spend our time taking it for granted. We cannot appreciate Enough. The way our audience every time summoned helps with something like this every single time. It is without fail. And so we. It's not something that I can articulate well enough in 20 years in Stugat. What a power it is to have with the platform. Hey, let's do something good here over the next three days where it's hastily put together. That's my fault. Flanning ends today and Vivo Dolphin Mall the next couple of days. We're trying to raise. Get a lot of toys. You can bring more than one toy.

[Mike Ryan]

How about cash?

[Stugotz]

You can bring gift cards. See, I'm worried about stugats and the gift cards. Like if they bring the gift cards back here. All of a sudden Stu got to do his holiday shopping in our. In our bin. Meant for others.

[Mike Ryan]

What about heaters?

[Stugotz]

I mean, he doesn't have kids of this age, but I can see stugats on ebay all of a sudden. Selling Legos.

[Chris Cote]

Legos are expensive. They are crazy.

[Stugotz]

That's the ones he would go. Go steal. Put it on the poll, please, at Levizard. Show our Legos. Crazy expensive. I'm going to go out to Tony out there in a second. But I wanted to circle back on something we were talking about yesterday because it's been kind of fun to see, like, for college football to get to its exciting time in the new age and hand a trophy to one of the losers here, Travis Hunter. You. You didn't get into the top 12. The standard for Deion and everybody is get into the top 12. You came close. You were relevant. You're a wild success. But now here's the biggest trophy in the sport before we kick off, you know, the Army Navy over here. And just let's celebrate football during the holidays and eat too much and give and have bowl games on. On the televisions because everybody's about to get a little bit time off around the holidays. Travis Hunter and Colorado just achieved a heismic thing. A seismic heismic thing because.

[Mike Ryan]

Seismic Heisman thing. Yeah.

[Stugotz]

To go from historically, historically black college to most famous coach in the sport and Travis Hunter holding up the big trophy. That's like just a monster achievement. Like monster achievement. And Travis Hunter is now getting a lot of dating advice from the entirety of the Internet because people are warning him. Everybody's very comfortable and he's pushing him off. Very comfortable. You got to get a prenup there. You can't just give yourself over to love. Do you know what is coming into your life right now as the number one pick star of College football. The hood ornament on whatever Deion was doing, hood ornaments. So huge. Bigger than Deon's son, who might also be the number one quarterback. Taken like just a giant achievement. What Deion and Travis Hunter have done. What do you make of the fact that the Internet is now telling him he's got love all wrong after a video showed that his fiance seemed to be a little bit bothered by the fact that he just had to sign a bunch of things and take a bunch of pictures and be famous. And now a whole lot of 50 year olds, a whole lot of Sterling Sharps and everyone else or Shannon Sharpe are coming in here and telling this young man where he needs to grow up around love. And I don't know where he is with this, but I have found interesting how he's in love, how invasive everyone is comfortable being on his. On a kid's relationship and them putting out everybody, his business and her business on what the intimate details of their relationship is. Because now she gets a fame too. But it's unpleasant. It's a really unpleasant fame. Like the fame that comes her way ends up being something like she's being judged from every corner of how it is she's supposed to be or serve Travis Hunter as whatever it is they view a relationship as. And I'm just asking the group what you make of how comfortable the Internet is telling Travis Hunter how to live his life around love. Giving him the advice of you got to get a prenuptial agreement, you got to protect your money, et cetera, et cetera.

[Mike Ryan]

The Internet feels like they're experts on everything. And so I'm not surprised that they're doing this on the heels of Travis Hunter winning the Heisman and seeing his wife uncomfortable in certain situations. That comes with fiance. I'm sorry, that comes with the territory. They're in love for me and I can't believe I'm saying this, we're taking hot takes way too far. I mean, the kid won the Heisman Trophy and we're going to start just based on body language and reports, we're going to start talking about and giving him advice on his relationship with his fiance. He seems to know what he's doing and he seems to have a great support system around him that's protecting him. He'll be fine.

[Chris Cote]

Well, I would say there's been on camera a number of incidents already. It wasn't just once this weekend. So that's, I think, where people may be coming from also. Like Shannon Sharp has gone through the NFL like He has experience in this. This area. You would think so. I'm not saying that they're necessarily judging him, but they may be telling him, hey, this is what I went through. Just so you know.

[Dan Le Batard]

I just. We don't know these people. I think this is all, like, really weird. There's. You're. They're very young. I don't. I. I saw some of this on social media, and I was like, that's enough social media that I put my phone down. I think it's weird to harass college athletes. I think it's weird to harass professional athletes about, like, their dating lives. We don't know them. I just.

[Mike Ryan]

Just.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's gotten a little weird, and I would like to just ignore that it's happening.

[Chris Cote]

Also, aside just from the Travis Hunter of it, like, most people are not with who they were with when they were 20 years old. So, like, statistically, if you guys.

[Stugotz]

If you guys want to do a relationship show around this, I suppose that we can.

[Jeremy]

We don't. You're the person that.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, no one asked for this.

[Jeremy]

No one wants.

[Chris Cote]

Not a single person. Also, Travis Hunter was like the number one high school prospect going into college. Like, you could have gone to college anywhere.

[Mike Ryan]

It started off good. I thought you were talking about, hey, you know, a kid winning the Heisman who's not in a playoff team, and then you brought it to a weird place.

[Jeremy]

Well, you call them a loser from the jump. All the gambits have just been. Been off. Look, I. I don't. I don't like this either. I have my regrets over Brittany Mahomes conversations that I had when she was spraying champagne over Chiefs fans. But they. They were professionals. I guess that's my rationalization, but it's from learning from that experience. I see this one. And like Billy mentioned, this has been a talking point for several months on the Internet. Their relationship, they're very young, and I don't feel at all comfortable with it.

[Dan Le Batard]

And Brittany Mahomes is a public figure now. Like this, a slightly different situation.

[Chris Cote]

I also, on the record, want to say I love love.

[Stugotz]

Right. This is what Chad Johnson was saying. That was what. That's exactly what Chad Johnson was saying. And that's the way to go in this circumstance. Certainly, I think we can all agree. Do you love love? And then at some point in the middle of that, Kansas City fans were booing that, too. And the Homes family dynamics are all very complicated. But if we're going to sniff around in the lives of these public figures and make them professionals, early and they're going to make their relationships public, which is then going to make the mess come to the thing I'm asking about where it is. This can devour young people. Young people in immature relationships. And I'm going to say immature relationships because I'm going to just simply assume that any relationship any of us had from 17 to 21 was probably a slightly immature relationship.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think we're talking about this relationship too much and not Josh Allen and Hailee Steinfeld relationship enough. Ever since they got engaged, he has just been. Life has been amazing for him. He's so tall. He's so good at football.

[Chris Cote]

He's so handsome.

[Dan Le Batard]

Some like one of the most beautiful women and talented women in the world. We should talk about them.

[Stugotz]

Fair enough. And you as my chicken fry expert, because I know there's all sorts of gossip there. You explained to me what the difference is between the two things I'm doing here. You're doing, hey, I've got a TikTok addiction. I've got my chicken fry addiction. This is where I like to spend my gossip time, enjoying somebody's personal life. And I'm telling you, there's a whole lot of Internet doing it in Travis Hunter's relationship. Why is this one not as interesting to you?

[Dan Le Batard]

I would say that Brianna Chicken Fry has. That's her whole brand has been take a look into my life. And I'm, you know, bringing my friend to this public media company where the entirety of the content they do is, here's what's going on in my life. And Brianna Chicken Fry has made a point to come out and make all these statements. There aren't things that are being taken from, you know, private things in her life. She's going in front of a microphone and talking about all of this. So I think that sort of opens up the realm to be involved in this. But we're just not talking about how great of a couple Josh and Haley are.

[Stugotz]

Okay.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, it makes me so happy for the both of them.

[Stugotz]

All right. I appreciate you doing that. And you are not wrong when you want to bring a lighter touch to all of this. So does Jeremy. Jeremy is insistent now we've opened this particular portal. Now he's just farting and burping song all over the place. It's the. It's the job he's wanted all his life. Let me sing songs during the holidays to people. So he just whipped up a chicken fry song that I'm not very eager to hear. You know, Brianna Chicken Fry sleeping over on A Friday night after Grace had made her cry and her friendship's gone well, they was raised up beneath the shade of the Boston Garden and were besties. So Brianna's on TikTok creating a following and then a barstool show. She's dating Zach Bryan now Grace is.

[Chris Cote]

Out.

[Stugotz]

But there's no love lost between Grace and Breanna now. Cause you know Brianna, chicken fry sleeping over on a Friday night after Grace had made her cry and the friend ship's gone to bring it back. Plan breath. I don't like what Jeremy and Lucy are doing to the show. Yeah, I'm just gonna say it. Yeah, you. You said you liked it before. Chris said. Chris came in here and he brought me the chicken fry song. And I'm like, am I gonna like that? And he's like, I don't know. Lucy likes it though. She can't stop laughing. I'm like, do we want to trust that judgment? He's like, yeah. And then we play it first.

[Dan Le Batard]

Sorry for bringing positivity to the show, but.

[Mike Ryan]

But how dare you.

[Dan Le Batard]

Supporting and loving my co workers. I guess I won't do that anymore. Doesn't get you very far around here.

[Jeremy]

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[Stugotz]

Terms apply Don LeBatard I just heard.

[Jeremy]

A song that had Frank Sinatra singing From the window to the wall till the sweater up off my boat stugats the window.

[Stugotz]

We all heard that, right?

[Dan Le Batard]

Till the sweat drops down my ball.

[Jeremy]

So what I'm saying here all these.

[Dan Le Batard]

Females crossing o Skeetski goddamn ol blue eyes.

[Jeremy]

Congratulations on your suey nomination.

[Chris Cote]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the St.

[Dan Le Batard]

Just to put a bow on this Travis Hunter thing, Dan, if other people want to do all that stuff, they can do it. I feel like personally, I don't need to do any of it. I'm not. Not for me, maybe for other people. Not for me.

[Stugotz]

Okay. And so the reason that I ask all of the questions is because I have been almost fundamentally ill prepared for whatever. The inner Internet age and social media age has rot. So I don't actually know the world that Travis Hunter is headed into next because he's probably been living in a version of this world that I don't understand for three or four years as hey, renegade team is going to go play for a little bit at Jackson State and then they're going to go and make themselves first round picks and go to Colorado and then they're going to get to the fringe of college football and they've been living famous and big next to Deion Sanders for a while. So maybe they're prepared for, for all of what comes next because they've got the perfect mentor in Deion Sanders to warn them at every turn. But all of it does seem dangerous from where I'm standing, like not understanding what fame is doing to 17 and 19 year old kids as we fast forward how professional football is.

[Jeremy]

The Internet is not great. It's tough to navigate. But I would say while you're having difficulty navigating it, Travis Hunter is like always, he is extremely online.

[Mike Ryan]

He lives there.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, he's pretty public with his relationship online. I'd say he's probably positioned much better than you, someone in your 50s to navigate it.

[Chris Cote]

I guess I don't understand what's so dangerous about it and why it's different for Travis Hunter than anyone else in a relationship going through the same thing throughout history.

[Jeremy]

I mean, everybody has probably been in a relationship where they're dating someone and the friends feel some kind of way about this is kind of a version of that. Only the friends are complete strangers and there's thousands and thousands of them.

[Mike Ryan]

But friends to him perhaps, maybe. I mean, he spends all his time.

[Jeremy]

There like we, we run into it all the time when we have events. People feel like they know us because we live between their ears. And I'm sure Travis Hunter, who's always streaming online, his fans that tune in to watch what he puts out there feel like they know him.

[Chris Cote]

If I could tell you how many people that are strangers to me have come up to me, fans of the show and said, you should get divorced. Huh?

[Stugotz]

My point is, and I will leave it and we will go and enjoy the holidays with Cuban Santa in a moment. Just my, my just general point. Perhaps this is the Most obvious thing in the world that I'm saying that. I'm saying nothing astute here, but holy shit, Travis Hunter, what a giant victory for you to go from historically black college to best player in college football as the hood ornament on this. That thing. God bless. What an achievement.

[Jeremy]

You're a writer and it shows sometimes. I understand how you're coding everything by. He went from an hbc. This was the number one recruit in the country.

[Chris Cote]

Wasn't he committed to fsu.

[Stugotz]

Fsu.

[Jeremy]

And on signing day, he decided to go there. Barstool. And Deion Sanders made a huge show of making the number one guy go to Jackson State. So he's been a star and has been dealing with the limelight for several years now.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah, he was committed to Florida State. And I'll never forget it because when he decommitted, all these Florida State fans started burning their D on. And there's one classic image of someone burning a framed Dion jersey. They're like, why would you not take it out of the picture frame?

[Mike Ryan]

How many, Billy?

[Chris Cote]

Too many to shake a stick at.

[Stugotz]

Before we go to Cube and Tony at Flanagan's at a bar on a Tuesday where we do a toy drive. I love that we're doing it this way. I just want to celebrate a Travis Hunter. You get to enjoy all of that for a second, no matter what the expectations were, because you got. Guys did an enormous thing. I'm sorry the Internet has climbed into your business as you're a star for the new age, the new Dion. You're the new Dion, taught by Deon to head into football. And. And it's going to be so much fun to watch that. That he. That he met the expectations because you tell me he was the number one pick. Go ahead and name all of the last 20 of those. Those don't always end up here. Like, those don't. I. I'd bet again against any number one pick I'm seeing doing what Travis Hunter just did to college football. Wouldn't you? Wouldn't you bet against that? Because I would bet. I'd think that the machine would eat up all the number one picks, and then occasionally it belches out a star in the top 10.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, to your point, Dan? Yes, I think, like, what. What I've seen on the Internet is sort of a lot of people assuming things about people they don't know and, like, making really kind of weird comments about people they don't know. When it does feel like it should be a week to celebrate him and what a Great football. He is obviously, he is also someone with Internet celebrity and. And has sort of welcomed some of this fame into his life. Like, I understand that aspect of it, but like, I, as a football fan and someone that's not super invested in his personal life, I'm not that interested in that conversation. I'm more interested in the football part of it, which is that he was the best. Yeah, right. What position is going to play? Who's going to draft him? What's he going to do in the NFL? Like, there's. Who's going to win the Heisman next year?

[Stugotz]

That.

[Dan Le Batard]

That conversation's already started. There's a lot of other stuff to me that's more interesting.

[Stugotz]

Okay. And so the place where it's most interesting to me because I've seen Stugat saw the ball brothers sort of conquer an Internet space and his high school girls were super interested in that.

[Jeremy]

Now, you said number one pick. You mean number one recruit in the nation to go on and do this. So the last one to do that was Bryce Young. 2020.

[Stugotz]

Okay. And I'm sure you can name some. I would bet against all of that. But what I'm saying to you about having seen Deion's climb from. He was on the COVID of Sports Illustrated, showed up his last college games with a top hat in a tuxedo, 0.0 GPA because he was telling all of us, I'm using college only to get to my fame. He has birthed this in the Internet age. Something that has lived on the Internet for a while and for four years has been famous and has brought a whole bunch of kids who think they know him, that when they stand on that stage, holy shit. Heisman ceremony means something to kids. It didn't mean something to, like, that stuffy trophy room that he just barged into. He did it with an Internet fame behind him that feels like it knows Travis Hunter and has known him for three years.

[Jeremy]

I hate that this story's around because I thought his speech was beautiful.

[Mike Ryan]

It was great.

[Jeremy]

I think it's a wonderful moment. I think it's really cool for Coach prime and as someone that found a mentor of his own. It speaks to the importance of mentorship and finding the right one to pave your way for success. Really hate that this is hanging around the story because it's really cool.

[Mike Ryan]

I'm with Mike. What I saw during that speech was a kid and I didn't know him and I still don't know him. But that speech kind of gave you a peek inside to what he is.

[Jeremy]

All about, it was authentic to off the cuff.

[Mike Ryan]

It was great. And you saw a grounded kid who said all the right things, acknowledged all the right people. Dan, like, I think he's going to be fine moving forward. I think he has a good support system around him and he's a good grounded kid.

[Stugotz]

I think it's impossible to know that because what he's edited into, I don't know that anyone has the tools for. Like, maybe. Maybe he gets through it.

[Jeremy]

He's navigated being the number one recruit in the nation and being a star that's delivered on Heisman hype. Like, he's. He's been able to handle it while being under a microscope so far. So I have no reason to doubt that he can handle being the number one pick because what does that come with? Expectation. You seem to be doing all right with that.

[Mike Ryan]

If we like the kid, and I think me and Mike like the kid, it's impossible not to like the kid. But if you like the kid, let's all pray together that he doesn't go.

[Stugotz]

To the jets under the Star of David or the Bears under the Star of David on a Christmas tree. Let's go out to Tony here because Tony is getting gifts now, and he is. He's Cuban Santa Tony, and he's at Flanagan's. And I ask everybody in South Florida to tell people to run and tell people that Tony is here and he's accepting toys for the next couple of hours at Flanagan's at the most legendary of all the Flanagans. 2721 Bird Road, Coconut Grove Grove. Let's check in here with Tony now as we begin our toy drive. Tony, what are you doing out there? What information can you give me about what's happening at a bar on a Tuesday morning in Miami?

[Jeremy]

Yeah, Dan, slow morning right now for.

[Stugotz]

The toy drive, but we're here accepting.

[Jeremy]

All sorts of toys.

[Stugotz]

Hold on. Excuse me.

[Mike Ryan]

Okay.

[Jeremy]

My beard is getting a little bit.

[Stugotz]

Under my mouth when I talk.

[Mike Ryan]

It's that time of year.

[Jeremy]

The hairs are a little longer than I would have liked.

[Stugotz]

Yeah. So again, we're going to be here and Bird Road at the Flanagans.

[Jeremy]

The best one of all time, by the way.

[Stugotz]

We're going to be. We got this box, but we're going to need a bigger box once more people come and bring us stuff. You're going to bring something, all right? No. Okay.

[Jeremy]

Well, thank you. All right, so, Dan, you can bring.

[Stugotz]

A bunch of unwrapped toys, whatever you want. We've got different ages. We Got younger kids that can go.

[Jeremy]

For, like, a nerf ball or like.

[Stugotz]

An athletic ball or dolls or something like that.

[Jeremy]

To older kids in middle school and.

[Stugotz]

High school, that could be gift cards, cash.

[Chris Cote]

Like Stugot said, I'll be able to take toys.

[Stugotz]

That's not.

[Jeremy]

Hold on.

[Stugotz]

I thought you can't accept. No, that was different. Cannot accept cash. No.

[Jeremy]

St. Go texting me that one.

[Stugotz]

Tony, you can't do that. Stu texted me that. My bad.

[Mike Ryan]

You can.

[Stugotz]

Tony, you can't. No, no, no. I know. Santa. I know.

[Mike Ryan]

That is the best looking Santa I've ever heard.

[Stugotz]

Tony. Tony, you can't be Cuban Santa and then saying, bring me cash and leaving with pocket.

[Jeremy]

Sure you can.

[Stugotz]

No, Tony, you can't. Tony. Tony, you can't be on television asking people to bring you cash through. Through a fake Santa beard. That's fake. Yeah. Okay. All right.

[Jeremy]

If you're out of town, go to branchesfl.org and you can donate some stuff there too. We'll be here hanging out till noon. Bring over any toys, any gift cards.

[Stugotz]

No cash, but bring over that stuff.

[Jeremy]

We'll be here hanging out.

[Stugotz]

Thank you, Tony. We will check back in again. We will check back in again and get your top five in a second. We. Tony, get yourself together. Well, we'll come back to you. We'll make a technical difficulty saying that's having a tough time with his beard. Tuesday at a bar.

[Jeremy]

See the long hair here?

[Stugotz]

Yes.

[Jeremy]

To my mouth.

[Stugotz]

Yes. I can tell that you're not faking it. I can tell it's not a bit.

[Dan Le Batard]

Before we officially conclude our Heisman conversation, Jeremy had something he wanted to add to the frame.

[Stugotz]

Jesus.

[Chris Cote]

More songs.

[Stugotz]

Jesus. I'll be a homer for Christmas. Voting for the Heisman Trophy. Oh, this is about me. He sings about me here.

[Mike Ryan]

Give Kim Ward.

[Stugotz]

Every award, even if he should definitely have just finished number three. I hate that song. Obviously. Be asleep.

[Mike Ryan]

Mm. I hate all of them being honest.

[Stugotz]

Is that a Christmas song?

[Jeremy]

I love that he's a resident song and dance man now.

[Mike Ryan]

I know, but we asked him to do Frosty. I still haven't heard Frosty.

[Jeremy]

I mean, I'm. I'm a little upset that everyone's having a go at Dan for voting Cam Ward number one. Especially when, like, the rationalization for Genti being the. The Heisman trophy winners, man, they game planned for him, and they weren't able to stop him.

[Stugotz]

Cool.

[Jeremy]

No one was really able to stop Cam Ward either, all season long, except for maybe the staff.

[Stugotz]

So, Mike, let me stop you here for A second. Because aired this year. I really did. And I was actually. I considered it for a moment and I should have done it, but I was too flippant about how I was voting. I should have called all of you and asked you how you would have voted.

[Chris Cote]

Like Greg Cody does with me and my brother.

[Stugotz]

Yes, just like that. I should have called all of you and asked you how you would have voted. Because all I know is that I watched Cam Ward all year. And if you're better than any University of Miami thing that I've ever seen. Seen that. And you're the only reason that your team is in a national conversation, you become just like Shador Sanders and Travis Hunter at the very least, but much better at offense. Like not. Not a little bit better at offense. Much better at offense. And so I just voted for what I watched in every game this season, which is more proficiency at that position than I'd ever seen in a University of Miami uniform at that position. But neither Lucy nor Jessica would have voted the way that I would have voted. And I would have asked all of you to vote. And how would you have voted? How would the.

[Jeremy]

Because I would have voted for Travis Hunter number one.

[Mike Ryan]

Same.

[Jeremy]

I think applying the logic on Genti, like I said, I deduce that Cam Ward is. Is just as unstoppable and I think his team the same argument. Where's Boise without Genti? Where's Miami without Cam Ward? So I would have gone Cam Ward number two and Genti number three. It really bothered me that Dylan Gabriel finished ahead of Cam Ward. His best game is an average Cam Ward game. There's no, like, look, flatly, no disrespect to Dylan Gabriel. He's not as good as Cam Ward. The NFL draft prospects will bear that out. My eyes bore that out. So I think cam Ward at 4 was a little disappointing, but Travis Hunter should have been number one, and I understand why. It was a close race. Genty is very impressive, too. It was a great Heisman year, but Travis Hunter deserved to win it.

[Chris Cote]

The only thing I would say about voting him number one is that of the 901 first place voting votes, he got six, which is not 6%. It's 0.6%. So.

[Stugotz]

Well, that's why Jeremy sings that home song about me. That's why. Here, let me hear it again.

[Dan Le Batard]

Kevin Clark. Poppy. Who are the other three?

[Chris Cote]

Manny Navarro.

[Stugotz]

So Jessica. So Jessica. I want. Okay, look, the rest of you, this happened before. Lucy wanted to hear the chicken fry song. It was funnier to her than to Anybody but nobody was laughing harder at braying Jeremy serenading in my face with hot breath. Danza homer right in my face. Dan's a homer. No one enjoyed that more than Jessica roaring with laughter in the back row. She had her hands in front of her face and I could still see her teeth around her hands because she was laughing so much at this terrible song. I'll be a homer for Christmas. Enough voting for the Heisman Trophy.

[Mike Ryan]

Give Kim Ward.

[Stugotz]

Every award.

[Dan Le Batard]

Even if.

[Stugotz]

He should definitely have just finished number three.

[Dan Le Batard]

How many Boise State games did you watch this year?

[Stugotz]

Yeah, that part's fair.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, you have a Heisman vote.

[Stugotz]

That part's fair.

[Jeremy]

The photo of the four finalists was hilarious. And Dylan Gabriel short. But the size, the P4 size compared to a group of five size guy was really funny.

[Stugotz]

I, I will cop to this particular bias. Yes, of all the players who are anywhere around the Heisman, I only watched one of all of their games. But it was amazing. I'm like, I'm like riding a bucking Bronco against Duke and Wake Forest.

[Mike Ryan]

Imagine if you saw the other ones, right.

[Stugotz]

Can't even imagine how that blue field looked.

[Dan Le Batard]

I feel like the argument for Gabriel is that he is QB rating wise right there with Cam Ward through as many touchdowns but is just not going to give you the same type of style of play as Cam Ward. Ward. But I guess like I could see why you would vote for him instead of Cam Ward when he played multiple top 25 defenses. Miami really didn't have those kinds of games this year.

[Jeremy]

It's a record thing I think with Dylan Gabriel like you can, you can point to stats. I understand. I mean most of the stats, if you, if you want to cherry pick just one stat for Dylan Gabriel, fine. Most of the stats would say came words for superior. So it's just K. Moore is flatly better than Dylan Gabriel and he won the Davy O'Brien. I was pissed off that Gabriel got Maxwell finalists and not Cam Ward. But it's all right. Like we're splitting hairs here. Dylan Gabriel's going to be an old timer when it's all said and done. When his career is all all done, whatever that is. Yeah, he probably, he's probably going to get two more years of eligibility.

[Dan Le Batard]

I agree. I agree that Cam Ward is a great quarterback. That's why I said Miami's going to win all their games. They didn't disappoint. They disappointed, disappointed me. But I thought he single handedly could do it. And you know, single handedly he almost.

[Jeremy]

Did Yeah, I mean he wasn't the reason, yeah, he wasn't the reason that they lost two games.

[Dan Le Batard]

His Heisman odds did go down after the Georgia Tech game. That was sort of the turning point on the season.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

If he was undefeated, do you think he would have won it?

[Dan Le Batard]

If he played better in that game, I think it would have given, played pretty well momentum into the ACC championship weekend, which I think a lot of people, their last thing that they saw was Genti putting up these ridiculous stats in championship weekend. Travis Hunter, like his last couple games of the season, he had outstanding games. So yeah, I think it helps having momentum in the last half of the season. And Miami definitely didn't have that. Cam Ward, I think was maybe a little bit of a victim of that.

[Stugotz]

You guys, you guys aren't doing something that I did here and I asked you because I'm genuinely curious and it's one of the reasons that I should have asked you. I wasn't penalizing Cam Moore. Now you guys are saying, what would it have been if Cam Ward had been undefeated? Asking you this question, if the Syracuse game goes the way that it needed to for him to have the Heisman moments that I'm always telling you these guys have to have at the end of the Syracuse game when it's his own coach denying him the ability to have both the Heisman moments of let's see if I can convert this on 4th and 9 and let's see if I can get the 2 point conversion on the road to get my team into the playoff. I ask you the question, when do you factor in at all that his own coach denied him the moments at the end, he would have, would have needed a story.

[Jeremy]

My argument, watching that Syracuse game back and I did that, I think we blew that game trying to get Cam Ward the Heisman because we were averaging six yards a carry in that game. And people say 21 zeros, they scored right away. So 20 a two touchdown lead, you salt the game away.

[Mike Ryan]

And this is a rule, Dan, you can't have your Heisman moment come against Syracuse. You just can't. I mean, Heisman moments don't happen.

[Chris Cote]

Against Syracuse, cam Ward had six first place votes. Travis, Travis Hunter had 552. I do not think 546 people were swayed by that play.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, probably not. I'm gonna tell you guys, who's Travis.

[Jeremy]

Hunter's Heisman moment against?

[Mike Ryan]

I have no idea.

[Stugotz]

I'm gonna tell you guys now, that's Syracuse.

[Chris Cote]

You guys know that.

[Mike Ryan]

What happened?

[Chris Cote]

Nah, I'M too late. Nah, just. I've just failed on it and it's just, you know, my brain froze. Travis Homer's still in the NFL.

[Jeremy]

I'll leave.

[Mike Ryan]

It's that time.

[Chris Cote]

Yeah, I'm just gonna go home for the year. What happened, you guys?

[Stugotz]

Next year?

[Chris Cote]

Well, because I was positive it was Travis Homer, and then there was Travis Hunter, and I'm like, I'm gonna say the name wrong, so I'm just gonna say nothing. And you guys normally just like, you're an idiot. And you keep talking. And then no one spoke.

[Mike Ryan]

Yeah.

[Chris Cote]

And then it became awkward, and I figured, well, someone's.

[Jeremy]

I wasn't clear. It was my fault.

[Chris Cote]

No, it wasn't yours. No, it's Dan. Really.

[Stugotz]

Let me.

[Jeremy]

But let me.

[Stugotz]

Let me tell you the gift that you just gave me because I'm not even making this up. I'm trying to throw it to the toy drive, but Cuban Santa's got hair in his lips. And as you're talking to me, like, because I'm like, okay, I can just toss the show to Billy, right? I hear from Louis in my headset, don't go back to Cuban Santa. Don't go back to Cuban Santa.

[Chris Cote]

I heard that, too.

[Jeremy]

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