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Dan LeBatard
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Stugatz
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Chris Cody
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Stugatz
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Dan LeBatard
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Tony
Shadow Show.
Stugatz
Shadow Show.
Tony
Shadow Show.
Stugatz
Shadow Show.
Tony
Shadow Show.
Stugatz
Shadow Show. Shadow in it. Shadowing it. Deeply concerned. Chris, can you ask the people in the other room to shut up please?
Roy
Yeah, I'm on it.
Stugatz
That we've started and that they're really loud over there, having a lot of fun, not working because they can't wait to get into the chat and not work, get into the chat when the show starts and just fool around. I'm concerned for a reason. Okay.
Tony
Okay.
Stugatz
And I hate to hate to say this out loud for anybody to know it, but I would say that the most vibrant time in this show's history was when we had a connection with the audience that had them sort of competing on Clevver in a way that reached us during the show. Show. Okay.
Tony
Yep.
Stugatz
And a lot of people have been criticizing us for a while now about like, this show's not as good as it was. None of them are as good as they used to be. It's all suck. They're. They're suck. And I have found that when we try to sponsor something that then requests creativity of this audience, what we get to the take line, the bold take line is just a never ending river of shit from our audience. Like Cold Cuts one competing on Clevver. Like the Looks Like Game is the audience competing on Clevver. And we've opened up a phone number that has the four religious letters of Gotts in it. We purchased that.
Tony
Do better.
Stugatz
That's Expensive. Thank you're talking to the audience, right?
Tony
Of course I am.
Stugatz
The audience we had was. And I'm not, you know, I'm scared to admit this out loud in front of anyone. I hope no microphones are near us. To think that Jim Rome's audience might now be more clever than ours. Because I throw out a take line number where we buy the Gotts number, and all we get is a never ending river of shit from our audience. And then we have to sponsor it. Then have to go to the sponsor and tell the sponsor, hey, you want to sponsor this river of shit? That our listeners, the smartest in the land, the smartest in America, the smartest in sport, the smart. Our listeners are just going to produce a never ending river of shit takes.
Dan LeBatard
But you're insulting them, like, over the air. Like with Jim Rome, he says, like, have a take come strong. And it's always been that. That's been the edict from the very beginning. You just lazily toss out a number. So maybe you do need to come a little stronger, but without taking personal shots. And also the cold cuts one wasn't bad.
Roy
They are creepy.
Stugatz
Come a little stronger, have a take, come a little stronger.
Tony
Give some direction is what might come strong.
Roy
Throw in a couple phenomen.
Dan LeBatard
And he's got like a whole. Like, there's a cadence. Like, hey, Jim, thanks for the vine. Like, you need to establish a bond.
Stugatz
Okay. No, help me with this. Tony. Welcome back. Tony, your microphone broke. Welcome back. Good to see you. It broke into a thousand pieces.
Tony
Billy had to rig that.
Stugatz
I mean.
Billy
This is the Dan Levatar.
Stugatz
Show with the Stugats podcast. Welcome back, Tony.
Billy
Hey, Dan.
Stugatz
Thrilled to have you.
Billy
This thing, this is clearly sabotage. The reason why. I know it is sabotage.
Tony
It's Billy's.
Billy
It's Billy's. A and B. Your Honor, there is a obvious screw missing that connects both of these little arms to this thing, right? And that's how you tighten the bolt here. The screw's missing, dad.
Stugatz
All right, Tony, welcome back. Please. This is what I'm gonna ask you, okay? Because over the last four years, there are a number of ways that my resentments have sort of spilled out of me in ways that are unpleasant for. And what I am going to tell you now, and this is something I should have told you to your face in a private meeting a long time ago, but I have told you a couple of times, your movement in the back row since you got here with those microphones is always loudly noisier than anyone else who works for Us in terms of readjusting your microphone noisily. And so when you come in today after a month off and your first action is to grab a microphone and have it fall apart in your hands because Billy knew you'd come in and immediately be too handsy with a microphone. Because Billy's got the same ear the rest of us do, which is if there's a bad sound somewhere that someone's producing, we're gonna notice it. But if it's you, he's gonna notice it every time. And so that's an obvious act of sabotage there. And it succeeded. Billy in spirit has already sabotaged today's show.
Billy
It was an absolute booby trap. And Dan, I don't think I grabbed the mic any other way than everybody else does. Like, Mike does the same thing. We both stand. We both grabbed the mic. Like, I think that's something that you're.
Roy
Heavy handed with it.
Stugatz
I will say you're heavy handed with it. I will say I've also noticed it of Mike and I also haven't said anything to Mike because Mike's got a lot on his plate at the moment. You have been off for a month.
Billy
Mike has a lot on his plate at the moment. Like. Like, what are we talking about?
Tony
Tony has a baby.
Stugatz
I understand you, Daniel, I understand. Not needed to bring to work. He can.
Billy
I need a screw buddy.
Stugatz
Take care of that baby when you're on the baby's time. When you're on our time, don't grab the microphone.
Billy
But then why does Mike have so much, like, stuff that he's dealing with?
Stugatz
Right? Mike has so much stuff that he's dealing with because we're trying to carry a company during business development and we have some problems here because we've got to adjust to. Hey, it's just us these days and somebody just had a baby and Tony's going to be gone for a month. Tony, we need you. Every, every orifice of this company needs you. We need you over here in MMA hangout, but you got to go take care of a baby. How long should paternity be happening back?
Billy
Well, we get three months. Dan. I did a third of what I was allotted, so it should be. Tony think. Let me get the sound. No. To put it through the. No. Give me the screw. Taylor clearly doesn't know. He doesn't fix anything in his house. He's a guy that. He probably asked Mattley to come over and fix stuff for him. You know, they live in the same apartment building.
Dan LeBatard
Dude.
Stugatz
Tony, welcome back. Thank you. I Have a number of things that I want to talk to you about today. I have been waiting because I was told you were coming back today. I did want to talk about the MMA events of the weekend and just everything that's happening around MMA as Donald Trump and Joe Rogan are at the top of a community that when it was here in Miami, Stugac. I told you here recently, I felt very alone as a Cuban at wanting to watch the fights in Miami because what surrounded me was very welcoming to all things Trump and that has won in America and MMA continues to win. And Dana White is more powerful by leaps and bounds than he has ever been. So I want to talk to Tony about that stuff in a second. I also want to salute Donald Trump.
Tony
Hmm.
Stugatz
I don't think we need pennies either. That's a good idea. Yeah, I think.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, I got a low key with the paper straw thing.
Stugatz
What type of salute? I am telling you right now that if it costs more now, I don't know the consequences and repercussions of half baked ideas. So this may still be a half baked idea because I don't know the consequences of taking 99 cents out of a price and making it only nickels. Because now you, you're eliminating the making of the pennies. But it costs more to make the penny than it costs than the value of the penny. And we can all agree that that seems silly, right?
Tony
I am good with no more pennies. Yes. That is ridiculous. It is silly. I am good with no more pennies. I never take the pennies. When you give me change, I say keep the pennies.
Stugatz
Right? And so change.
Roy
You don't say keep the change.
Tony
Well, no, no, just the pennies.
Stugatz
No, he needs those nickels.
Roy
No one says that.
Stugatz
No one says that.
Dan LeBatard
Keep in mind, he'd give five grand if he won a $50,000.
Roy
So when it's 88 cents, they every nickel counts.
Stugatz
Wait a minute, so you really. Hold on, hold on.
Dan LeBatard
Five grand on a 50K?
Roy
You're making it difficult for them.
Tony
I know I am.
Roy
I mean, let him keep the dimes at least.
Stugatz
No, put it on the poll at Lebatard show. Juju, do you value pennies? Because I believe that Stugatz, while what he has just revealed feels wrong, it just feels wrong to have someone be handing you $0.88 or $0.86 and you saying keep the penny.
Tony
I mean, it's my penny. I'm giving it to you.
Stugatz
I know, but as. As a tip, right?
Tony
It's not a tip. I just don't want the penny. It's your penny.
Stugatz
But it is a tip.
Tony
I'm not tipping anyone.
Stugatz
It is, I mean, but it is a tip. It's a tip if you say keep the penny. Look, I don't know about you, but I, I tip grocers. Like if a cashier, I will let them keep the change.
Tony
Right?
Stugatz
And, but, but if it's a penny, I'm going to ask for it back because I don't want to insult that person by. For them to think that I'm only leaving them a penny. I'll put that in a jar, right?
Tony
You have a penny jar, huh?
Stugatz
No, if they, you don't have a penny jar, I'll put the penny in the jar that's next to the, you know, the register or whatever. But I, I will not hand someone a penny or say keep the penny. That's insulting, is it not?
Dan LeBatard
I mean, I just say keep the change.
Roy
Yeah, as, as humans do.
Tony
What if the change is $0.88?
Dan LeBatard
I always keep the change. I don't need any coins.
Tony
You know, you say that, know, nickels, dimes, quarter. You invested 85 cents and you did it every single day. And you did it since you were like 16 years old.
Stugatz
I could say that a lot of money, but I could say that of pennies. Pennies, man, how are you not listening to yourself?
Tony
I am listening to myself. I don't want pennies.
Stugatz
If you did this with pennies since you were 16 years old, you would have a good deal of money right now.
Tony
I do.
Billy
You wouldn't be here.
Roy
Do you ever get odd responses from the people at the grocery store? Cuz like, I have a. I've noticed if you try to tip somewhere where they don't normally tip, sometimes they give you, like, what? Keep the ch. Like keep the change. This is not, this is not a restaurant. I don't know. I just feel like you'd get an odd response sometimes.
Tony
It's your change, right? I don't want your change.
Roy
I know. Like they're working and they're like, okay, I'll keep it, I guess. This is weird.
Stugatz
I, I have not been prepared for a number of the things that have happened in America in recent years. Our different relationship with change, literal and otherwise, is something that is confounding to me. And this particular change on change, where I think many people listening to this can hear the privilege in. I never keep change. I just throw that off to the side. I think a lot of people listening to this are like, no, I keep the change. It has value. However, I might. I might stop you on a penny because I think this is a good trump idea. However, when I present to you, because anyone can agree with the simple math, I don't know what the consequences are of. It costs more to make a penny than to have a penny than the value of a penny. That's inefficiency. Come on, Elon Musk, help us fix the government and fix our inefficiencies. That's obviously inefficient. However, I ask you this, and I don't know the answer, but I hope that it's what I think it is. Please tell me that a nickel costs more to make than a nickel. A lot more to make than a nickel. Please tell me what it costs to.
Dan LeBatard
Make a nickel made out of actual nickel. I feel like an idiot for asking, but I haven't thought about why.
Stugatz
But. Right.
Billy
You might not like the answer to this, Dan.
Stugatz
No, what I'd like the answer to be is that it costs twice as much to make a nickel or three times as much to make a nickel as it costs to make a nickel. Ooh, 14 cents.
Billy
Oh, almost three times as much.
Tony
It hurts.
Stugatz
So now we're in a place where the nickel doesn't have any value either. So if you go down. This is a slippery slope.
Dan LeBatard
Well, the nickel is 75% copper, right?
Tony
What?
Dan LeBatard
That's 25 nickel.
Tony
Really? Huh.
Roy
Penny costs 3.7 cents to produce.
Stugatz
It'll all be dogecoin soon anyway, right?
Tony
Yeah.
Stugatz
Thank you, Jeremy. You're welcome.
Tony
Oh, he's right.
Stugatz
He is right.
Roy
I'm glad we're talking about the right parts.
Billy
Carry it on my person, you know?
Stugatz
Okay.
Roy
But the straws. He came out against the straws.
Billy
Huh?
Dan LeBatard
The straws are fine.
Roy
He should have said that earlier.
Dan LeBatard
Straws are fine. My executive order would be like if you're at a beachfront bar. Paper straws.
Stugatz
Yes.
Dan LeBatard
Okay. Because then it can get.
Roy
If I can see the ocean. Yeah, I'm fine with the paper straws.
Billy
But if.
Dan LeBatard
If I'm like, come on. If I'm in Pembroke Pines.
Roy
If I'm in Weston. Yeah, get that paper straw out of my face.
Dan LeBatard
If we're in Davie, I'm sucking on that plastic straw.
Stugatz
There's only so much climate change stuff you guys will abide. And we're all hypocrites. And sometimes I don't recycle.
Dan LeBatard
Even your song is like, we're all going to die. We all know it. I mean, we can't put the toothpaste back in the bottle. You can only hope to mitigate it. So why don't we just start focusing on solutions?
Roy
Title of the episode where Donald Trump is right. You're worried about the turtles. How about me when I'm drinking this, like, paper that's disintegrated into my drink?
Billy
The chemicals in there.
Dan LeBatard
I. Yes. The one in a million turtle that gets a plastic straw up his nose is a tragedy, but so is me trying to suck down this frappe soggy ass straw.
Stugatz
I. I don't know where you do degrees and delineations on I won't wear a mask for you. And where freedoms get impinged on. Our selfishness. Killing sea turtles.
Dan LeBatard
I mean, come on. The odds of the straw. All right, look, matriculating through the ocean and getting lodged in the turtle's nose.
Stugatz
We're all in agreement that we've polluted the seas and have destroyed the earth. Yes. That we've already done that.
Dan LeBatard
Yes.
Stugatz
Well, but I don't think everyone's in agreement on that. Because if you deny climate change, you're not in agreement on that.
Dan LeBatard
No, no, no. If I were running for president, I would not deny climate change at all. I'd say, wow, we really messed that up. Here's how we're gonna deal with it going forward.
Stugatz
Yeah, but that's not what we're presently doing.
Dan LeBatard
Solutions. We're gonna. American ingenuity. American ingenuity on, like, making sure that our towns don't get flooded.
Stugatz
Okay, but what it is that you're doing there, Mike, is all you're doing is, well, I'm already losing. So here we go. I'm going with you on a paper straw. And I get it. I don't know where to put the line on degrees, on creature comforts of living your life versus we're destroying the earth. But, you know, a bunch of homes just burned in Los Angeles and it's the beginning of the new normal.
Dan LeBatard
Nothing to do with the straws.
Stugatz
No, but you know what I'm saying.
Billy
Nothing to straws out of that.
Tony
Yeah.
Roy
If I'm with Dan, we don't know that.
Dan LeBatard
If I'm drinking, if I see the ocean. Paper straw with you, that's how we mitigate this.
Stugatz
I'm not going to do climate change talk anymore.
Tony
You have rights in this segment.
Stugatz
In this segment. In this segment, I am going to move away from climate change talk.
Roy
Where are you moving?
Stugatz
Oh, I mean, there ain't red, white and blue line. There ain't anywhere safe. I've been looking, I've been Talking to climate scientists. Where? In Ireland? There ain't anywhere. What an emergency home in Colorado.
Dan LeBatard
They did tell us that Asheville was safe.
Stugatz
They did.
Dan LeBatard
They did.
Stugatz
Well, but the parts of Asheville I was looking at, they were safe. They were different part of Asheville. Well, it doesn't flood.
Dan LeBatard
Move down, Ballista. Orlando. Got my eyes on you. Or literally located. I can drink out of a plastic straw.
Stugatz
Yeah, Orlando. Orlando is alleged to be the safest place in Florida from all manner of things, but it flooded recently in a way that made me wonder whether Stan Van Gundy was going to live. So, like, really? Because I had Stan Van Gundy, you know, his house filling up with water, and then what are you gonna do?
Dan LeBatard
You do you, man, you're President Lee. You got beachfront. I'm worried about you.
Tony
What do you do?
Dan LeBatard
Which is why my plan is gonna build you a beautiful seawall with American.
Stugatz
Ingenuity before I get to Tony's return here and before I get to all the things with Sean Strickland and Dana White, because I have been wanting to talk about this. And when Tony comes in and I tell him I want to talk to him about it, he says, you know what, Dan? I'd prefer to talk about top five Miami smell.
Tony
Oh, wow.
Stugatz
And I'm like, that's what you've been doing with paternity leave. You've been off for a month and what you come back with is top five Miami smells.
Tony
It's a good use of time.
Roy
Color me intrigued.
Billy
Not only that, I've got that, which is very exciting, by the way. I've run it by a couple people that are Miamians and they've agreed with every single one of them. Okay, so that's one. I've also got new father observations if we want to get to those in homage to stugats.
Tony
Thank you.
Billy
That's fully baked, fully done, ready to go.
Stugatz
Really?
Billy
Yes, absolutely. And on top of that, I was raising a child, so I was doing a lot of stuff.
Stugatz
Well, welcome.
Dan LeBatard
I think we should have more man made lakes, folks.
Roy
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Dan LeBatard
Don LeBatard to U.S. residents.
Tony
Oh, wow.
Stugatz
That's pretty.
Tony
It's in there.
Roy
It's better.
Dan LeBatard
You think I haven't been practicing Stugats?
Stugatz
I didn't realize we had a substitute complicated legacy projected by headquarters.
Billy
Toyota 441 Power Line Road second down to nine.
Stugatz
This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats. Welcome back, Tony. I like what you've been doing with MMA hangouts, so I'm gonna give you the room as part of welcoming you back. And because Billy sabotaged you, I'm gonna give you the floor here for Top five Miami Smells. Stugatz. The entire segment I've been talking. You've been talking to Chris and doing your own show with Chris laughing. What do you la.
Tony
Well, I was trying to feed Chris a line. I had a child. I mean, nailed it.
Dan LeBatard
You see what I mean?
Tony
Like, that's why I wanted you to do it.
Dan LeBatard
If there's gonna be more water, we just dig holes where there isn't water. And we put the water that is getting higher into those holes, therefore restoring balance.
Roy
How about we just drop plastic straws in the ocean less anyone thought of that?
Tony
Yeah.
Stugatz
Can you please Chris, Cody, give me whatever it is that we need for Tony's top five smells? Have you produced anything? Did Tony during the month off come back with imaging for his new segment Top 5 Miami Smells. Okay, Tony, I appreciate all your hard work. What is the baby's name?
Billy
Her name is El Rose. Dan, we're putting that out there.
Stugatz
Well, no, congratulations, because look, man, what's their social for those of you.
Billy
We just got it, by the way. Very exciting. Dan, when you get the little social card, it's so tiny.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, they're taking it away.
Tony
Oh, wow.
Billy
I have to remember this. For the rest, you gotta put that out on Social. More things to remember.
Dan LeBatard
Elon knows it.
Stugatz
Tony, like Amin, who connects with our audience from there because he was living in Bristol and doing ESPN things and overcoming illness to chase his dreams the way that his father in this town wanted to do all the things that we were doing and built a company to compete against ST in the sports radio world in South Florida. Tony leapt with us and overestimated his reach in thinking that at Freedom, we should bring him out with a feather bow and tell everybody, hey, everybody. Tony came with us too, but it's what he wanted. It's not what we gave him. Would have been funny after all.
Roy
Oh, a joke you were going after.
Stugatz
All of these years. After all of these years. He's got a. He's got a baby now and he has a child and it's called MMA Hangout, his most beloved child. It is not, by the way. It is not L. Rose. The real Elrose is the one that will bring him riches. The MMA Hangout, which has exploded in popularity because Tony is at the helm of building and hustling his way into. And his dad would be proud of this. Creating an entity and a thing that is his. And so I will go to him now and his expertise. Not on Strickland, not on Dana White, but on Top five Miami smells. Ola. Oli.
Billy
Dan. Cocaine.
Tony
Yeah.
Stugatz
What does it smell like? I don't know.
Dan LeBatard
You don't know?
Tony
Oh, come on, Dan.
Stugatz
I don't know.
Dan LeBatard
I don't do it. I like the way it smells.
Billy
Told it's been bitter.
Dan LeBatard
It smells great.
Billy
Bitter experience. Oli. Number two. Not. Not all these smells are good.
Stugatz
Hold on, Juju, Put it on the poll. Do you know what cocaine smells like? Because bad cocaine, I couldn't describe it for you. I don't even know where to begin on what cocaine smells like. And so you guys laugh because you've clearly done cocaine.
Dan LeBatard
We've just smelt it.
Tony
That is reckless.
Stugatz
Well, okay.
Roy
I think you'd be surprised how little cocaine I've done.
Stugatz
Well, but. What?
Dan LeBatard
You'd be shocked about my number, Roy.
Tony
Shocked?
Stugatz
Roy? Yes, Roy.
Roy
A ton.
Stugatz
What does cocaine smell like?
Dan LeBatard
Dead plants.
Stugatz
What does it smell like, Jeremy? Strip clubs?
Roy
I don't know. Rubber.
Dan LeBatard
It depends on what it's cut with.
Tony
Yeah.
Dan LeBatard
Or so I've heard.
Tony
Yeah.
Stugatz
So how many people here know what cocaine smells like? Stugats. What does cocaine smell like?
Tony
Good cocaine has no smell. The bad cocaine, it smells like urine. A bit.
Billy
I mean, the drywall.
Dan LeBatard
The drywall.
Billy
Urine.
Stugatz
I don't know what's real or what's true here.
Tony
But Mike told me it depends on what you're doing.
Dan LeBatard
The joke is that it's. You smell it, but you don't do it. But it's impossible to smell it and not do it. That was the joke and we say it on it. We got nothing for you.
Billy
Number four, Oli. Whatever.
Stugatz
Still on?
Billy
Yes. Oh, yes. But again, not every smell is going to be a good smell.
Roy
Robert says it smells like a mineral.
Stugatz
The IT guy.
Dan LeBatard
Perk.
Stugatz
Let's give him a. All right, fine. Give him a camera. Give him a mic.
Dan LeBatard
Fat Rob. What do you mean, like calcium?
Stugatz
Give him a. I'm going to go to the.
Tony
What do you want Robert to do? Smell cocaine.
Dan LeBatard
You're not doing it.
Stugatz
I'm going to ask him the question of what cocaine smells like.
Roy
Just repeat referencing him was joke enough.
Billy
The smell of the bathroom at the Orange Bowl.
Stugatz
That's a top smell.
Billy
It's a top smell of nostalgia.
Tony
Dan, you used to walk by the.
Billy
Orange bowl and you used to walk by the bath and be like, polarizing. But it reminds me of back home. Reminds me of a time that was. That was simpler, Dan.
Stugatz
That means top smell.
Dan LeBatard
The sense that's most tied to memory is smell. Exactly.
Stugatz
Okay, wait a minute.
Tony
It's Tony's list.
Stugatz
Okay, so you're making it a top smell because of memories?
Dan LeBatard
Because of. You smell it and it puts you back into a place you don't have. That's never happened to you? Like, oh, this is that perfume my wife wore that one time we. We had a magical evening in the French Riviera.
Stugatz
Yeah, it's a bad smell.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah. Well, it was a bad night for the Florida Gators.
Tony
It's a bad smell that puts you in a good place.
Billy
Exactly.
Stugatz
Right.
Billy
Thank you, Stu.
Stugatz
Put it on the poll at LeBatard show. Does a bad smell ever put you in a good place, like cocaine?
Dan LeBatard
Depending on what it's cut with.
Stugatz
You said bad cocaine smells like urine, which I. What does bad cocaine do?
Tony
It gets you there just enough.
Billy
Another Oli. The salty smell. When your parents would roll down the windows after the toll to the Key Biscayne Bridge when you were going to fight.
Dan LeBatard
Oh, wow, that's a good one.
Stugatz
On the causeway.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, they lower all the wrecking back.
Billy
A car, and then all of a.
Stugatz
Sudden you're like, unbelievable.
Billy
Salty smell.
Tony
This is the wreck.
Stugatz
I'm not a landlubber anymore.
Dan LeBatard
Everyone thinks I do cocaine because of my character. I've never done it. But if it came in a pill form I would do it. Look, I was hooked on, like, 11 Red Bulls a day back in my day. But the whole thing about, like, snorting something, I can't do it. Especially if it's a paper straw.
Billy
Number number five, Dan, on the official list, when somebody in the neighborhood is doing a barbecue, but you can't really tell which house it is.
Stugatz
Yeah, that's a good one.
Dan LeBatard
You're like, that's a good one.
Billy
Who's cooking? Who's grilling right now?
Stugatz
Neighbor.
Billy
No, you look over the fence. No, it's not him.
Dan LeBatard
And then you realize, I don't want to actually talk to my neighbor.
Stugatz
Oh, there he goes. Tony. I gotta be honest.
Billy
I'm nailing it, Right?
Stugatz
It's a good list so far. Yeah, it's a good. But it. And it's a distinctly. It's about to become a distinctly Miami list. If. If you're going over a bridge there and giving the locals. Local smells.
Billy
Local smells.
Roy
I gotta push back on that last one. Can't anyone, anywhere they live, be like, I walk outside my house, I smell barbecue in any neighborhood. Which house is that? I just don't know if that's the right one.
Tony
That's the one you're pushing back on. Not the orange bow.
Billy
Tell them, Dan.
Stugatz
You know what, though?
Dan LeBatard
That's a plantation guy right there.
Stugatz
That is a plantation guy. Yeah.
Roy
I've also smelt barbecue.
Dan LeBatard
We're talking about roasted pigs.
Stugatz
You don't understand what you're talking about. Roy's talking about.
Tony
Don't.
Stugatz
No, you don't, because Roy's talking about one kind of barbecue. And Tony's also doing lechon.
Roy
I know, the pig roast.
Stugatz
Yeah, Tony. But Tony's also doing, like, Latin cuisine. It's not just barbecue. It's barbecue that brings back ethnicity. Like, it's not. It's not just a random barbecue. Barbecue.
Roy
My parents go to a pig roast in Davey.
Stugatz
No, it smells Hispanic.
Roy
I know you guys think everyone thinks their thing is the coolest thing. It's not the coolest thing.
Stugatz
It's just the smell.
Roy
You know what? You're right. You guys are the only ones that have barbecue.
Tony
Chris. Yes.
Stugatz
It's. It's pork. It's this.
Roy
I know what it is.
Tony
A big box in Broward. We're not grilling pork.
Roy
When it's done, you pick the skin off.
Tony
I know. We're doing it in Palm Beach County.
Stugatz
Hold on a second. I'm gonna. I'm Culturally. Culturally, I'm going to explain something to you guys, and there is a difference between the date and Broward line. And there's different. There is a very specific thing that Tony is talking about here when he's talking about Latin culture that I'm about to explain to you. I imagine that Tony Kornheiser, in his life, has smelled barbecue in the neighborhood, right?
Tony
Yep. Yep.
Stugatz
Tony Kornheiser, when he was doing Monday Night Football, came to do a Monday Night Football game in Miami, and he was afraid to fly. So the Monday Night Football bus comes into a very small Latin neighborhood where the people out back are cooking a pig in a box. Okay, Tony Kornheiser, who would tell you that he knows the smell of barbecue, would say that when he walked into this home, the smell of barbecue was better than any he had ever seen. And also that he'll never forget it, because he was horrified because we handed him the pig's head. And it was a triumphant cultural moment for him that he had not seen. Even though he would say, like you guys are saying, that we're all talking about the same kind of book. Barbecue. We are not.
Tony
Right?
Stugatz
Number four.
Billy
Four D. Oh, jeez.
Tony
I mean, I gotta tell you, when I think food, I think Tony Kornheiser. What are we doing here? I mean, Jesus.
Billy
Taylor, always helpful, gave me just being kind.
Tony
He was being polite.
Billy
Okay. Didn't even finish it. Cut the tape, buddy. Jeez.
Tony
Classic Billy the right way.
Billy
There we go. Attaboy. All right. Yeah. Number four.
Tony
Yeah.
Billy
A fresh, fresh, freshly made cafecoano.
Roy
Now, that Davey doesn't have.
Billy
Now, that could be at the house.
Tony
Same with Palm beach county, right?
Billy
That could be at the house. You make it on the stovetop at your house, your grandma will make it. Your mom would make it. You get the pumita. You're there mixing it, Right? Or if you're at the bakery, all of a sudden, you open the door, Boom. It hits you. But it also hits you with the combination of number three, the smell of freshly baked Cuban bread.
Roy
See, I am so ill.
Tony
Excellent.
Billy
You open that door of the bakery, and it's like, oh, is that cafe?
Roy
Yes, that's my cocaine.
Billy
Ah, the freshly baked Cuban bread. Dan. Number three.
Stugatz
If. If I may put some steaks on this for a second.
Dan LeBatard
I love talking about barbecue over here.
Stugatz
It's delicious. We are two away from this being the best top five list that's ever been done here.
Tony
Wow.
Stugatz
Right? Right now, we are trending that this Tony is on pace to score more than has ever been scored in a top five game.
Tony
Even with the Orange bowl, huh?
Stugatz
Even with the Smell of urine. And even with the smell of cocaine and cocaine that smells like urine.
Tony
Wow.
Billy
Number two, Christmas. When it's a little chilly in Miami. Me, right? And you're there, you're outside. Maybe you're grilling a little bit, Hanging out with the family outside, Just enjoying the nice 60 degree weather we have for the first time in nine months.
Stugatz
The last month has been really nice.
Billy
It has been. And then all of a sudden. Is that a. Is that a bonfire? A bonfire coming from Chrome Avenue? What are they burning over there? What do they burn over on Chrome Avenue? All of a sudden it's wafting over and it's like. I. I don't know where the bonfire is coming from. I know it's coming from chrome, but how did it make it all the way over here? And what the smell? With a little chili. You got this.
Stugatz
Gotta be a cold night.
Billy
It's a cold night. It has to be a cold night. Because if it's a warm night, then we're a. Chrome's on fire. But if it's not, if it's a chilly night, you know, people are doing bonfires.
Dan LeBatard
And you make it a Miller time too.
Stugatz
Oh, gosh, I gotta. I gotta be honest, that one's a little high.
Tony
Really?
Dan LeBatard
Oh, you're the one that attached steaks.
Tony
Are you saying you're the only one who has bonfires?
Billy
No, no, I'm saying that's why it's a little high. I'm saying the bonfires are coming from Chrome.
Tony
Right?
Billy
That's where it's a different.
Stugatz
It's a. You're saying it's different when it's coming from chrome?
Billy
Exactly. Right.
Stugatz
The way it smells.
Billy
The bonfire, number one, huh? This is the one that really kickstarted the entire list.
Roy
No pressure.
Tony
This is big, Tony.
Billy
No, this is huge. And everybody's going to agree with this, okay? When you start walking, you get out of your car, okay, and you start walking towards a familiar sign and you start smelling. Oh, they're making chicken tenders in there. The publix chicken tender smell that wafts out of that publix when they're cooking the chicken tenders early in the morning is a smell that is uniquely, uniquely Miami. And I love it. It's my number one smell. I mean, publix chicken tenders being.
Roy
Broward has publix.
Tony
So does Palm Beach.
Stugatz
Everyone's got chicken tenders.
Billy
No, not the list.
Roy
Sticks on it. And you farted.
Stugatz
The list fell apart.
Tony
It really did.
Dan LeBatard
I mean, seriously. Seriously.
Stugatz
A rapers, a rapist.
Billy
From the street vendors.
Stugatz
A rapist.
Dan LeBatard
Arepas. Arepas. You're gonna need to hold on a minute.
Billy
What happened? That's not my list. That's not my list.
Stugatz
No. Roy, Roy, Roy. Why?
Dan LeBatard
You said a rapist.
Tony
He heard it the same way.
Billy
I don't know how that's connected.
Dan LeBatard
He said a rapist.
Roy
I think he said a rape.
Dan LeBatard
You said a rapist and then a raper to correct yourself. Okay, Should I roll my tongue on that one? Yeah. Yeah.
Stugatz
I don't think I can do that.
Roy
Roll that thing.
Dan LeBatard
I don't. Roll it. I say arepas.
Tony
Arepas.
Roy
Nailed it.
Billy
Okay.
Tony
Roy.
Dan LeBatard
Yes, Dan.
Stugatz
You. You have lived in South Florida, Roy, all your life, huh? That's correct.
Tony
Were you asking.
Stugatz
Confirmation? Surrounded by Hispanic people at work every day. Rapers. The word arepas. You just clearly called them a rapist. I did not. I got an excuse here.
Billy
I'm wearing clear aligners.
Tony
Ah, well done. So understandable.
Dan LeBatard
That's the first time he's used that excuse, too. I believe him.
Tony
Yep.
Billy
Pull it out and say it again.
Tony
Yeah.
Stugatz
Do you want to try again? We're gonna give you the room. Nobody pulled him out. No, you really pulled him out. Nobody say it again. Nobody say the word again. Roy. Try again. To say the delicious corn and cheese magical melted treat that is is the arepa killed.
Tony
It sound like.
Stugatz
Did you hear?
Dan LeBatard
He was so a rapist that we comedically couldn't do anything with it. Like, what's our boy doing here?
Billy
How could you do anything with that?
Roy
That last one sounded like a raper with some flair.
Stugatz
A raper.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah. That's the other A At the end.
Stugatz
There isn't. There literally is an A.
Dan LeBatard
Hard A. There's a hard ra at the end.
Billy
There's no R. At the end, there's no.
Stugatz
There's a hard.
Billy
Yes.
Dan LeBatard
Parappa. The raper.
Stugatz
What I'm going to tell you, Roy, Look, I was thinking of delicious, melty, mouthwatering treats, and only because you originally said and brought my mind to a rapist, did it then become something that was even worse and funnier while saying the same thing, which is a raper, which is what you said when trying to correct a rape rapist.
Dan LeBatard
All right.
Stugatz
I also said street vendor after that, so. All right, Chris says he's got the sound. Everyone stand back, everyone. Roy, be quiet for a second. Roy, Everyone. Roy, just everyone be quiet.
Tony
Yes.
Stugatz
I would like to go back to the moment, how you've lived here all your life. Yeah. Surrounded by Hispanic people.
Dan LeBatard
Well, actually, this. These neighborhoods are segregated so not really.
Stugatz
Okay. But it works. Surrounded by Hispanic people. People. Yeah. Like always.
Dan LeBatard
You casually holding your teeth.
Tony
Yeah.
Stugatz
Okay. I want you. I'm not going to put on the console. Do me a favor.
Roy
I'll hold it.
Stugatz
Louis. Louis, please. Camera trained only on the face of Roy here. Okay. I want his facial reaction when I hear for the first time how it is or he sees for the first time how it is that he just said I the rapers.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, I understand how. How the clear liners can distort my.
Tony
Well done. Stay there, Roy.
Stugatz
Vocal, you know.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, it doesn't sound good.
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Stugatz
Don LeBatard Kermit the Frog here live.
Dan LeBatard
From Meadowlock Media Studios here in Miami. Stugats the Germans are advancing on France.
Stugatz
In World War II. This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach. I want to play some sound here. Not that sound anymore. No. Thank you for your contributions there. Stugat yesterday never got to get a takeoff that he badly wanted to get off post Super Bowl. He wanted to talk about Jalen Hurts and Jalen Hurts. If you're going to ascend the ladder on maybe this quarterback is the reason they win. Winning is a quarterback stat. It is how we give fame. If you are a winner. He just beat the winner of the winners. Who was going to repeat place? Tom Brady. Who is Jalen Hurts now as he flies into stardom as the fifth or sixth best player on his offense and a guy who would win super bowl mvp. And yet still all of us would watch that game and still say, yeah, Kansas City's got the better quarterback. Like I know.
Tony
Well that's the weird thing. To me it's like Jalen Hurts won because the offensive line is good. The defensive line is good, his wide receivers are good. Good. His running back is great. He went to a Super bowl two years ago with Miles Sanders as his running back. This is a guy who checks all the boxes in terms of things you want from your athlete and he doesn't seem to be getting any of the credit. He has been through all the adversity. He had to leave Alabama after winning a national championship because it was to his turn and he had to go to Oklahoma and he didn't solve Hulk. He went to Oklahoma and made himself better. Drafted in the second round, makes it to two Super Bowls, one of Super Bowls Super Bowl MVP. He's 25 years old and no one is celebrating Jalen Hurts. And to me that is odd because what do we do when a team wins a Super Bowl? We usually celebrate that team's quarterback. I have Found it interesting that we're making more excuses as to why Patrick Mahomes didn't win the super bowl then giving credit to Jalen Hurts for actually winning the Super Bowl.
Stugatz
So this. This part is super interesting to me. And not a lot about this stuff is usually in what we've made of sports, where after losses, all of us are yelling and screaming about who's to blame, often about a call here and there, this little move here. But now what you've got off the game is we were just denied a historic. That football dynasty has never existed. There's never been something that wins three times in a row. And America delighted so much in its demise, in the demise of excellence, that Philadelphia winning pales compared to Kansas City losing. Because we're in blame culture, man. And this was about Taylor Swift and Kelce and can I laugh at his outfit? And can I boo Taylor Swift and somebody else gets to win. And this team that has represented America for three years in the power sport made us forget Brady Quick. Or I. I shouldn't say forget Brady Quick, but I just saw in one game, Stugot. I saw the television coverage go from Ken Mahomes be better than Brady after this to Mahomes loses that way. And then the television coverage is. That has gone out the window. Right. Mahomes will never be Brady because that loss, Brady would have never lost like that.
Tony
Yes.
Stugatz
The whole story becomes about Kansas City loss, not Philadelphia one. Except in Philadelphia, where. Where Philadelphia can celebrate that it's got a beast of a football team.
Tony
But that is odd to me, the fact that that's where we decided to go as a nation, as a country. And we're not addressing Jalen Hurts at all like Jalen Hurts changes game. I know Jalen Hurts can win that team a Super bowl because he almost did it by throwing the football two years ago. But he was willing to say, hey, you know what? We have Saquon. We have a great offensive line. When you need me to throw it, I'll throw it. But in the meantime, we're going to change our game and we're going to run our way to a Super bowl. And is giving this guy credit for doing all the right things his entire career, college and professional, because we're making fun of the Chiefs. I agree with you.
Stugatz
It's.
Dan LeBatard
I think this is a paper straw man. I really do. I really do. I mean.
Stugatz
Well, hold on a second. Let me get that for you. Then I gotta find it. Thank you. I'm sorry, straw man.
Dan LeBatard
Jalen Hurts had a Produced super bowl commercial by Jordan Brand in that he is the the face of a football Brand, his airness hand picked him. He's in Disney World. He, he's played well now in two Super Bowls against the Kansas City Chiefs. He made a bomb ass throw. Probably the throw of that game. He wasn't limited. He, he came in. There were some critics saying that this guy is not the most spectacular guy on his own offense. And it's by a wide gulf he was the best player on that offense in that game. And I think, think quite honestly, yeah, the nature of social media is to make fun of the loser. But I think the main takeaway from what I sampled across the nation was God damn, that defensive line from Philadelphia was really good. And everybody was giving them credit because everybody was taken aback. We don't see Kansas City dominated like that over the course of this entire run. We've never seen that. So Philadelphia got plenty of credit, I think.
Billy
And I think credit to Jalen Hurts because he's been at. He's had to change his game so many times from the college level level to the pro level where it was like, all right, we know you can't throw the ball. You can only run to all of a sudden, wait a second, like he can start throwing the ball now. Now they changed their entire identity offensively. Now we have Saquon Barkley. We're going to run the piss out of the ball. And yet continues to make great throws. The throat he had AJ Brown to start the game was incredible. Dropped it completely in a bucket. Got called back. Then he had to throw Devontae Smith like he's shown you his progression as a quarterback from his time in Alabama to now winning Super Bowl.
Dan LeBatard
The. The Jordan Brand commercial was like, what are you going to say now? If I told you the Kansas City defense would do that good a job against Saquon Barkley headed into that game. Tell you nothing about what has happened on the other side of the ball. You're like, okay, Eagles probably lose that game if you bottle up Saquon Barkley. If they have to count on Jalen Hurts to win that game, they did and they won easily.
Billy
Do you think Jalen Hurts keeps his pennies?
Roy
H. I want to play a sound here. Jalen Hurts did the Disney thing. He had to go to Disney World. He must have been so exhausted. And I know that Jalen Hurts isn't the most exciting talker, but he gives this ESPN tik tok social media person as little as I've ever heard anyone give Anyone in an interview.
Dan LeBatard
How many unread text messages do you.
Stugatz
Have after winning the Super Bowl? I'm not sure.
Tony
I don't.
Dan LeBatard
I'm not sure.
Stugatz
When was the last time you were starstruck? Funniest thing a fan has ever said to you during a game.
Dan LeBatard
This one. What's a classic movie you've never seen?
Stugatz
If I've never seen it, how am.
Dan LeBatard
I supposed to know?
Stugatz
NFL player. You know, could the average person run.
Dan LeBatard
For one yard in an NFL game.
Stugatz
If they had 10 tries?
Billy
I'm sure a wise coach can make it happen.
Stugatz
Your iPhone wallpaper was the last super.
Dan LeBatard
Bowl game that you played in.
Stugatz
Have you changed it yet? I got no plans. It's just.
Dan LeBatard
It's just a wallpaper.
Roy
The only thing he answered there. Who's your funniest teammate? Lane Johnson. Every other answer, I don't know. I don't know, don't know, haven't changed.
Dan LeBatard
Sneaky big eyebrows on Jalen Hurts. Why is he dressed like the Joker? Going to the art museum.
Stugatz
Disney World is in the background there as he just gives you. His only job right now as he arrives at stardom is to give the people some personality. He's not going to. Right. He's a great. He's a great leader, but he's going to fall in line on quarterbacks who don't bring any kind of controversy anywhere near the huddle and don't reveal very much of themselves to anybody. But.
Tony
So he's too boring. That's why we're not celebrating. Jalen hurts.
Stugatz
Wait a minute. I. No, no, but hold on a second, though, right? Because we're all in agreement. We can diminish whatever the accomplishment was if you want. I can. When Mike says he was the best player that day. No, he wasn't. Saquon Barkley's the best player on their offense. Kansas City stopped him, and it afforded Jalen Hurts an assortment of opportunities that he wouldn't have had if Saquon Barkley hadn't been the running back.
Dan LeBatard
That's the MVP taking those flowers right away from him. Look at this guy.
Stugatz
I know.
Tony
That's what I'm saying. He had those opportunities two years ago. He outplayed Patrick Mahomes in a Super Bowl.
Stugatz
That is correct. And it becomes about Mahomes. Chok underachieved. It's not what Jalen Hurts did. It's that it was 10 nothing. And then Mahomes throws the interception. It's 10 nothing. And then all of a sudden, Mahomes throws another interception and we're also in the place where we're wondering, as Travis Kelsey and him don't look right. We haven't seen this for three years. Oh, do they realize that they don't have a chance? Have they come to the realization that they're sitting in the middle of the super bowl going in at halftime? And it's like, we got 23 yards in the first half. What's that? They've got 24 points and should have more. Like they've. And so they're sitting in and it's the halftime show and Kendrick Lamar and they're just sitting in it. It's like, oh, it's all over. Yeah. There will be no comebacks. Yeah. What happened in Houston when we were down 24? Nothing. That's not our team.
Dan LeBatard
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Yep.
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Summary of "Local Hour: Where Donald Trump Is Right"
Episode Information:
[01:12 – 02:56]
Stugotz opens the episode with a candid critique of the show's current audience interaction segments. He expresses disappointment over the quality of listener contributions, suggesting that recent attempts to engage the audience have fallen short compared to earlier, more vibrant interactions.
He laments the shift from a strong connection with the audience to what he describes as "a never ending river of shit takes," highlighting frustration with the current state of listener engagement.
[05:55 – 07:24]
The conversation takes a personal turn as Stugotz confronts Tony about a malfunctioning microphone, insinuating deliberate sabotage upon Tony’s return from paternity leave. This segment reveals underlying tensions between the hosts.
Tony and Billy attempt to defend themselves, but Stugotz remains resolute, emphasizing the strain these internal conflicts have placed on the show's operations.
[07:04 – 13:34]
A significant portion of the episode centers around the discussion of eliminating the penny in U.S. currency, inspired by former President Donald Trump's stance. The hosts delve into the economic implications of removing the penny, debating whether coins like pennies and nickels are cost-effective or merely represent inefficient government spending.
Stugotz [08:24]: “If it costs more to make the penny than to have a penny than the value of the penny. That's inefficiency.”
Tony [08:52]: “I am good with no more pennies. Yes. That is ridiculous.”
The discussion highlights the argument that producing smaller denominations like pennies and nickels may cost more than their actual monetary value, questioning the practicality of their continued circulation.
[17:30 – 34:45]
After a month off for paternity leave, Tony introduces his new segment, "Top Five Miami Smells." This humorous segment lists and discusses various distinctive Miami scents, blending nostalgic and local cultural references.
Tony [22:20]: “Cocaine.”
Billy [26:10]: “The recently baked Cuban bread.”
The segment includes playful banter and mispronunciations, adding comedic value and local flavor to the show. The hosts explore smells that are uniquely tied to Miami, emphasizing their cultural significance and personal anecdotes.
[35:00 – 47:01]
A substantial discussion revolves around Jalen Hurts, his leadership with the Philadelphia Eagles, and his Super Bowl performance against Patrick Mahomes. The hosts express frustration over Hurts not receiving the recognition they believe he deserves despite his significant contributions.
Tony [39:52]: “He's 25 years old and no one is celebrating Jalen Hurts.”
Stugotz [42:15]: “It's about Mahomes. Chok underachieved.”
They analyze how Hurts’s multifaceted contributions were overshadowed by focus on the Chiefs’ performances and external distractions like celebrity interactions during the Super Bowl. The hosts argue that Hurts deserves more acknowledgment for his role in leading the Eagles to victory.
[47:02 – 49:10]
As the show wraps up, the hosts continue their lighthearted interactions despite earlier tensions. They maintain their signature humor and camaraderie, providing a sense of closure to the episode.
Stugotz [49:09]: “Yep.”
Tony [49:09]: “That's my new favorite lip gloss from NYX Cosmetics.”
Conclusion
In "Local Hour: Where Donald Trump Is Right," Dan Le Batard and Stugotz navigate through a mix of internal show dynamics, economic debates, lighthearted local segments, and in-depth sports analysis. The episode provides listeners with insightful commentary and entertaining banter, encapsulating the unique style and essence of the show. From critiquing audience engagement strategies to celebrating local Miami culture and spotlighting deserving sports figures like Jalen Hurts, this episode offers a comprehensive and engaging listening experience.