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Dan LeBatard
This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats podcast.
Stugotz
This is the Dan LeBatard Show.
Chris Cote
Okay?
Stugotz
It's always a better show when Dan is here and sitting in this chair. I want to make that clear. I don't want to make anyone feel like I think I'm better than Dan LeBatard. Always. Always a better show when he's here. Always a better show. Having said that, I cannot express to you how happy I am that he's not here today. I'm watching that Thunder game and I'm like, oh, I'm about to hear this shit tomorrow. And then like a spark hit my brain. Tomorrow's Friday. And I open the email that has a talent schedule, like, who's in? Who's in? And no. Dad?
Billy Gil
Yeah.
Chris Cote
What were you afraid?
Mike Ryan
What were you afraid?
Chris Cote
What were you so certain you were gonna hear?
Stugotz
Cause I've been talking mad shit about the Thunder. Like, hey, man, they're just a better team. It doesn't matter what Jokic does And all that shit. Like, hey, man, it's just. It's bound to happen. This is a team of destiny. They're gonna win a championship and all that. Like, I've been talking real, and I get it. It's not over. Game 7 is in Oklahoma on Sunday. We'll all be tuned in, but I just didn't want to have to hear Dan for another show. But, I mean, yeah, not the day.
Chris Cote
To defend Jalen Williams, I would say.
Stugotz
Which one?
Chris Cote
The All Star.
Stugotz
Okay.
Chris Cote
The All Star didn't really look like an All Star yesterday. A day after I think I said that Darius Garland was the most fraudulent of the All Stars. I think Jaylen Williams said, hold my beer because that wasn't a great. That wasn't a great.
Stugotz
When did he say hold my beer? Was it before or after he missed the dunk?
Chris Cote
It was during. It was during.
Stugotz
That was that one. That one hurt me.
Greg Cody
I was like, oh, can I read you boys his field goal Percentage the last three games?
Dan LeBatard
Yes, sir.
Greg Cody
15.4% in game five, game six, 35% in game six, 18%.
Israel Gutierrez
I feel bad for the other Jalen Williams because imagine, Imagine being so great at your profession that you are one of the, you know, 300, however, 450 best people in the world at what you do. And luck would have it that not only do you end up in the NBA at the same time as another person named Jalen Williams, but they're on your team, so you have to be the other Jalen Williams. As if you're like, in elementary school and there are multiple kids named and they force you to go by your last name.
Stugotz
What's a more interesting coincidence? Is it that there are two Jalen Williams on the same team who were drafted, by the way, in the same draft in the same year? Or that everybody named porter in the NBA is a Porter Jr. Kevin Porter Jr. Michael Porter Jr. Craig Porter Jr. I'm like, is that a prereq?
Mike Ryan
I'm going to find a Porter that's not a Junior.
Chris Cote
There's another one. There's another Israel Gutierrez in the world of basketball.
Stugotz
Is there?
Chris Cote
Yeah.
Stugotz
No way.
Chris Cote
He was. I don't think he still as he was, I think on the Mexican national team.
Greg Cody
Is he still with us or he's still alive? Okay.
Chris Cote
Yeah, I don't think. I mean, you know, I can't confirm that for sure. I have not seen an obituary that said Israel Gutierrez on it because I probably would have freaked out.
Stugotz
Do you think they call him Izzy in Spanish?
Chris Cote
Israel? I don't know, Isi. When people call me Izzy with a Spanish accent, just comes out easy, easy. And like, Tony says it, it just doesn't sound.
Greg Cody
Or if you're in Spain, easy.
Dan LeBatard
If you saw his obituary, would you then want to have, like, depending on what it said. Right. Would you then be like, I to be so much cooler? Like, I need to go out much cooler than this person? Yeah. Like, I want to have the best Israel Gutierrez obituary out there.
Chris Cote
Like, what if he, like, got decapitated because he's really tall? Is it the way that you die?
Dan LeBatard
People get decapitated just for being tall, Tony.
Greg Cody
Still hasn't happened to me yet.
Stugotz
Okay.
Chris Cote
I always worry about that.
Dan LeBatard
I can confirm he still has his head.
Chris Cote
I worry about that around helicopters. You know, tall people, really.
Greg Cody
The thing is, they're so high up in the air, we're Talking about like 15 helicopter, you know, and people are ducking.
Mike Ryan
Like, if it's going to hit him, guys, it's not going to hit you.
Israel Gutierrez
I promise you.
Dan LeBatard
There's like two levels of respect for helicopters, right? It's like that where it's like, I'm going to duck going into a helicopter even though it's above your head. And then there's the people that are like, I'm going to jump out of this helicopter into the ocean and seem to forget that they're spinning blades above their head. And instead of just like diving down, they jump up to go down into the ocean. It's like, guys, there's blades spinning over your head. You shouldn't ever jump up when you're jumping out of a helicopter.
Stugotz
Billy, you got a lot of people jumping out of helicopters.
Dan LeBatard
Have you not seen this? People do that.
Mike Ryan
I thought it's more of like a fall backwards out of it.
Greg Cody
No, you can't fall back. You jump off the helicopter.
Mike Ryan
Hold on, I gotta. I'll find it.
Stugotz
But not jump.
Dan LeBatard
But yeah.
Mike Ryan
I've seen Navy SEALs falling out backwards.
Stugotz
Not out of water.
Dan LeBatard
No, you can't.
Greg Cody
Chris, you've seen that on both A hop.
Stugotz
Put it on the pole. Have you ever seen a Navy SEAL fall backwards out of a helicopter like a crazy person? A trust fall. A trust fall.
Dan LeBatard
You can't fall backwards and you do like a big, like a back flop or like you land on your head, break your neck. Yeah, yeah.
Chris Cote
Dangerous.
Israel Gutierrez
Israel Gutierrez still plays in the Mexican League.
Stugotz
Wow.
Chris Cote
Look up for me if there's also an Israel Gutierrez who's a salsa dancer.
Israel Gutierrez
I will.
Dan LeBatard
And also as I'm looking at one, any Israel Gutierrez has ever died and what their obituary says so that we can one up it. Yes.
Stugotz
And was there a helicopter involved?
Dan LeBatard
Yeah, right.
Stugotz
That. The question now I have is that that is your Gutierrez. The one that's hooping in Mexico. He must really hate, like, how many times. Oh, it's. Is he gutierre? Like, not that one?
Chris Cote
I don't think so. Like, I don't think I'm big in Mexico.
Stugotz
No, No.
Chris Cote
I don't know why, but I don't think I'm huge in Mexico. How. How do we do that?
Stugotz
Well, first of all, Tony just came back from Mexico.
Greg Cody
King of Mexico, basically.
Stugotz
All right, Tony, you're our take Over Guadalajara.
Greg Cody
We'll take you to Tequila. The Cuervo people take care of you. We'll put you out out there. Okay? They'll. Hey, this is Izzy Gutierrez. We'll have like a gang of people.
Chris Cote
Follow you, but we have to be specific. Like the most famous Izzy Gutierrez in Mexico.
Greg Cody
Remember, we don't know if he goes by Izzy.
Chris Cote
Right.
Greg Cody
So, like, you're Izzy.
Stugotz
Right?
Greg Cody
Nobod.
Chris Cote
Easy. We have to go easy.
Stugotz
Well, not in Spain. That's.
Greg Cody
We'll go to Spain then.
Stugotz
Okay.
Greg Cody
World tour for Izzy.
Israel Gutierrez
There are several people named Israel Gutierrez who have perished.
Stugotz
Oh, damn. Yeah, helicopters.
Israel Gutierrez
I'll look at the salsa dancer now.
Chris Cote
Okay, thank you. Do some more research. Whatever the most impressive obituary is, let's see it or hear it.
Stugotz
What do you.
Greg Cody
Do you think you're the most impressive? Israel Gutierrez?
Stugotz
Has to be.
Chris Cote
No way, though.
Stugotz
Maybe the one that's playing basketball. Because he's still playing the guy. Still hoping.
Chris Cote
Yeah, but he's also like 6, 10, I think. Like, he's not just some guy with super skill. He just happened to be tall.
Stugotz
Whoa.
Chris Cote
The salsa dancer. I'd be more impressed.
Greg Cody
He plays on jalapa.
Israel Gutierrez
Israel Gutierrez has been dancing since his feet could carry him. When he was 12 years old, he took his first dance classes in Havana, Cuba. Five years later, he entered the dance academy and it was the beginning of his professional career. Since then, he's performed in all the well known theaters and stages of Cuba. He also worked on a solo act at a musical, Havana Night, for two years.
Chris Cote
Wow. Israel Gutierrez. A lot of entertainers, we like really people.
Stugotz
Just no engineers, no doctors, lawyers, Just creatives. Just creatives.
Chris Cote
What is that, Tony? That's for other people.
Greg Cody
That's for other people. Here's how. How do you imagine. Because I just saw. I glanced over at his computer and I looked at the picture. How do you think a picture of a dancer would be? Like his portrait? Like his headshot.
Stugotz
Hands on the hips.
Greg Cody
Close.
Chris Cote
Very tight clothing.
Greg Cody
Okay.
Stugotz
The ruffles. The ruffles on the. On the. Either the sleeve. Maybe a pirate shirt.
Greg Cody
Are you ready for him or recreate it?
Stugotz
Okay.
Chris Cote
Yeah, yeah. It's kind of like.
Greg Cody
Like he's about to hit like a.
Chris Cote
Or if he's about to hit a very effective dab.
Greg Cody
It's like a little too low to be a dab, though. It's almost like he's like bringing it around.
Chris Cote
Okay. It's a great pose.
Stugotz
Oh, okay.
Chris Cote
I know. You're gonna dance with him to see who's leading.
Israel Gutierrez
Salsacongress.info if you want to find it.
Stugotz
Thank you.
Billy Gil
Salsa Congress.
Stugotz
I thought you got that from Checks and balances dot com.
Chris Cote
It's wild to me. Salsa is so much more difficult than merengue. It's. It's such a subtle difference because I.
Greg Cody
Think it's just a couple steps.
Chris Cote
Yeah, just walking in a box, basically.
Greg Cody
A couple steps.
Chris Cote
It's my favorite.
Stugotz
It's like Hitch. You're. You're in the box right here. Just don't look.
Greg Cody
Don't get out of your box.
Stugotz
They'll get out of your box.
Greg Cody
I mean, do you think you're the first amino Hassan?
Stugotz
Not the first, but certainly the most famous. I've done that Google search before. There's like a couple of doctors and stuff like that.
Mike Ryan
If you look up at. Now we have Navy seals and they are dropping out of a helicopter into the water.
Stugotz
That's not backwards.
Mike Ryan
What do you mean? They literally turn their body as soon as they drop.
Stugotz
What are you, Chris, Are you blind?
Chris Cote
You did. You did. When you did that, you did like a trust fall.
Mike Ryan
Like you're in a. I've seen that before.
Dan LeBatard
You also.
Greg Cody
That's not what that is.
Dan LeBatard
You selected that video of every video on the Internet and that they're dropping.
Mike Ryan
You guys said no one. They don't jump out of.
Greg Cody
No, no, I said they don't jump backwards.
Stugotz
Trustful, Chris. We're talking about what you said. You said they go backward. We said that's out of a book.
Mike Ryan
You said, I mean, I'll. I can find that too. Like I've seen it before.
Dan LeBatard
We don't.
Greg Cody
You're doing the pencil.
Dan LeBatard
We don't need class to do.
Chris Cote
We thought that's what you were doing the first time is finding that one.
Greg Cody
With the guy's literally straight like this.
Mike Ryan
I want to go back to the sound. When I said they fall out. You guys, like, they don't even. They would never jump out of a helicopter. There's something spinning like you guys were dismissing all of it.
Stugotz
No, no, no, no. This is what this is. I'll recap it for you. Billy said there's a lack of respect from the people who jump out of helicopters. I asked Billy gotten a lot of people jumping out of helicopters. Cuz I was thinking about people on spring break or whatever.
Mike Ryan
And that's not jumping out of a helicopter.
Greg Cody
That's.
Dan LeBatard
Hold on. This is a different.
Stugotz
Slow your roll. So then everyone's like, yeah, that happens. And you're like, yeah, they go backwards. And that's what we pounce. On.
Mike Ryan
You just said they don't you, Billy. A lot of people jumping out of like. So we're forgetting that you do you.
Stugotz
Understand what a week. Hold on. It's not semantics. You understand what a recap is?
Dan LeBatard
Semantics.
Mike Ryan
You sarcastically said, billy, you got a lot of people jumping out of a helicopter.
Stugotz
You understand what a recap is? Yes, a recap. Like, it's like, I can't stop Spider man before he gets bitten by the spiders. You see, he is a high school student. The recap has to end. So Billy says. I say to Billy, do you have a lot of people jumping out of helicopters?
Mike Ryan
Which is implying that people don't jump out of helicopters.
Stugotz
Hold on, hold on. Billy said. Hold on. Billy said, yeah, they do. I've seen it. And then you said.
Mike Ryan
I gave an example.
Stugotz
You said, they fall out backwards sometimes. They fall out. That's where everyone in this goddamn room said, chris, what the are you talking about?
Mike Ryan
We're gonna move away from you sarcastically saying to Billy, wait, you have a lot of people jumping out of helicopters.
Dan LeBatard
This is a weird argument.
Stugotz
It's a weird argument because the only reason why everyone in the room called you an idiot, Chris, is because you said they backward that they have, like.
Mike Ryan
I'll find the video. I'll find one.
Stugotz
That's what you were set to search the first time. That's what you were to start the first time.
Chris Cote
Wait a second. I mean, you said, thank goodness Dan's not here. And yet you're attacking Chris with very Dan chair.
Stugotz
Is he. It's a goddamn chair.
Israel Gutierrez
Israel Gutierrez.com takes me to Texas realty.com, but Texas spelled T E X U S. Oh, text us for all of us. And it's led. This brokerage firm is led by an Israel Gutierrez who has over 20 years of experience in the field.
Stugotz
So does Izzy.
Chris Cote
A more successful Gutierrez.
Stugotz
No, you got more than 20 years.
Chris Cote
In the field, but 20 plus years in real estate, a little bit more. No, it's not financial. Yeah.
Stugotz
No, it's not. You don't know. You don't know. What are you selling? You were selling some bullshit out there.
Chris Cote
Did you hear the website?
Stugotz
Text us.
Chris Cote
I mean, this guy's amazing.
Stugotz
He's pretty creative. He's pretty creative. Speaking of creative transition, hold on.
Greg Cody
A sub. A subplot. Where? What is it?
Israel Gutierrez
Where Texan know how meets excellence.
Greg Cody
Wow, that's good.
Stugotz
Okay. All right, now you might be in trouble. I'm telling you, you might be in trouble.
Chris Cote
The.
Stugotz
You know, yesterday we. Was it yesterday or two days ago? We had Sam Earl on, right? And yesterday that was.
Dan LeBatard
Feels like every day funnier.
Chris Cote
Seriously.
Stugotz
Oh, Billy, you missed a good one.
Dan LeBatard
I doubt that.
Stugotz
Oh, no.
Chris Cote
By good, do you mean funny or just.
Stugotz
Oh, it was amazing. He dismounted by telling Tony to eat shit. Dan to eat shit?
Dan LeBatard
No, not eat shit. Dave is more.
Stugotz
Yeah, well, again, when a recap happens. Guys, let me explain it again. Paraphrase the story happens, and then you're.
Dan LeBatard
Telling me no one jumps out of helicopter.
Mike Ryan
I mean, you did say that.
Stugotz
But he said he met Jaylen Brown, and one of the things that upset him was that Jalen Brown's such a nice guy. And it got me thinking. You know how they say, never meet your heroes, meet your villains? And I wonder. I've got two names of people that I hated before I met. And then I met them, and I was like, ah, shit, man. Why'd you have to be such a nice guy?
Mike Ryan
I kind of like him.
Stugotz
Number one was Dan Marley.
Chris Cote
Wow.
Greg Cody
I wonder.
Stugotz
Dan hated Dan Marley when I. Because I was a Knick fan when I was growing up, and so Dan Marley was just fouling people. He didn't do, like. He was just. He was a dirty player all the.
Chris Cote
Way in Phoenix most of that time.
Dan LeBatard
Like.
Chris Cote
Or you're saying with Miami as well?
Stugotz
With Miami, like, with the. With the whole kind of, like, Alan Houston thing, like, this guy's a jerk, man. I don't like how he plays. Da da da. This white guy, man. Like, all you could do is hold. All you could do is hold. I remember. And then I met Dan Marley, like, damn, he ain't the coolest dude, man.
Chris Cote
I was gonna say Dan Marley, Thunderdance.
Stugotz
A cool dude, man. And then. And then obviously got to work with him and stuff. And so that was, to me, like an eye opener, because I was so sure he's gonna be a jerk, and he's just, like, the nicest guy in the world. And then the other person who never presented as a jerk, but I just didn't like him because of who he played for. Steve Kerr. Oh, man, I hated Steve Kerr, man.
Chris Cote
Did you know his background story?
Stugotz
I didn't care.
Chris Cote
That's a tough guy to hate.
Stugotz
I didn't care, man.
Chris Cote
Okay.
Stugotz
I like Steve Kerr.
Greg Cody
Just didn't like the look of him.
Dan LeBatard
It's a good answer. It's why nice people honestly suck. Because you can't hate them.
Stugotz
Yeah. I mean, it makes you feel bad when you hate the people.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah. So let me just hate you. Just be a bad person.
Stugotz
So who are some people that you Guys hated from afar.
Chris Cote
I'll tell you somebody that I hated from afar and then got to know quickly because of my profession. Right out that you were wearing his jersey, I think, the other day. Anthony Mason.
Stugotz
Oh, Anthony Mason.
Chris Cote
Anthony Mason. And he was about a much as much of a jerk as I thought he was.
Stugotz
Well, no, that's. That's not what we're playing here.
Greg Cody
That's a different game.
Stugotz
That's a different game we're playing. Thought you were a jerk. Met you. Oh, my God, you're such a nice person.
Chris Cote
Okay, well, I will say this. I. I did write a very flowery story about him. So he clearly was a nice guy, as Dan likes to remind you, Brothers with Jay Feedler. But yeah, I guess after a while, we did have a decent relationship, but he was still crazy intimidating.
Stugotz
Yeah, I mean, intimidating, sure.
Chris Cote
He used to put on his, like, body. Was it baby oil all over his body like this?
Stugotz
What?
Chris Cote
Yeah, just baby oil. Just like five fingertips at a time.
Dan LeBatard
Wait, why?
Chris Cote
I don't know.
Stugotz
That's like, he didn't believe in lotion. He just went straight to baby oil.
Chris Cote
Baby oil. I Reminderman can confirm ahead of his time.
Stugotz
Have you guys seen the details of that?
Israel Gutierrez
Let me put you in a $2.4 million home on 7708 Lynchburg Drive in Austin, Texas. We got four beds, three baths, and it's right on the water. So you got a lake. You can walk out to the lake. Can I get you in that home?
Dan LeBatard
I don't like Lynchburg Drive.
Greg Cody
Two for four, three, by the way, in Texas. Come on.
Mike Ryan
What are we doing here?
Greg Cody
I need more.
Israel Gutierrez
How about a 1.1 million dollar home on Dellcrest Drive? This is also in Austin, Texas. Five beds, three baths, 2000.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Greg Cody
Studio in there.
Dan LeBatard
Have you guys seen, like, the videos on, like, hey, you want to move to, like, some city you've never heard of in Texas? For $75, you can get an eight bedroom, 500,000 square foot home. It's like, yo, I should move to Texas, like, buy one of these houses. I'm sure we're gonna put up like a Walmart at some point around there. Like, if everybody's moving there and I could get this mansion at some point, we're gonna civilize this area, right?
Greg Cody
So I always do that. And then I Google the town. It's like, all right, here's Kayleen, Texas. And I'm like, all right.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Greg Cody
And then I get on my phone and I'm like, zoom out, zoom out.
Dan LeBatard
870 miles from El Paso. And it's like, well, I get to make that drive in. I have to get supplies.
Chris Cote
It's a $92,000 commission. It's a Guadalajara house.
Stugotz
It's crazy, because every time I go to any city, if I see a for sale sign, let me see what they talk about, Man. I'll never forget during the finals in Cleveland 2015, we're walking downtown, and downtown's revitalized because LeBron is back and all this stuff. And as we're walking through the hotel, there's, like, a firehouse, an abandoned firehouse for sale.
Dan LeBatard
I love that, dude.
Stugotz
I said, and it was for sale. So I was like, oh, let me look it up. It was like, $65,000. I was like, I'm about to put a bid in right now, because all I want.
Greg Cody
Half.
Stugotz
I just wanted. And I'm gonna make it like Ghostbusters.
Dan LeBatard
Let me guess.
Chris Cote
All you can think of is sliding down the pole?
Stugotz
Of course. Come on now.
Dan LeBatard
Probably doesn't include the pole, though.
Greg Cody
They come in and take the pole out.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah. When you go to buy a house and you see things, you're like, oh, that's pretty cool. Like, as soon as you come in. That's exactly right. That's gone.
Chris Cote
Are firehouse poles the same as stripper poles, where the pole is itself actually rotates? Do you guys know this dribble pole? Like, the pole itself rotates.
Stugotz
Wait.
Chris Cote
Which is crazy.
Stugotz
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Are you telling me it's. Hold on. Put this in the sui Revelations pds. Are you telling me that the pole is not fixed like this?
Chris Cote
No, the pole is slowly circulating, just going.
Stugotz
It can move.
Dan LeBatard
Wait a minute.
Stugotz
Thus helping them in the centripetal force of doing this right here.
Chris Cote
I will say this like, yes.
Mike Ryan
I'm gonna text my sources on this.
Chris Cote
My partner, Anthony, took pole dancing classes with a couple of friends of ours, and he. Very strong legs, but he very much struggled with it. But he learned things like, yeah, the pole actually rotates. What?
Stugotz
You're gay?
Dan LeBatard
I thought he meant, like, writing.
Chris Cote
But, yeah, he took the dancing classes. The girls that he took it with kept taking it. He stopped, I think, after two.
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Israel Gutierrez
Sugar daddies.
Mike Ryan
These things, I'm telling you, love sugar daddy. I like, stuck in your teeth like you can't chew them. You. They're, like, impossible to chew. They are impossible.
Chris Cote
That is every day.
Stugotz
Stugats.
Dan LeBatard
This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugach.
Israel Gutierrez
Israel Gutierrez of Israel Gutierrez Realty, actually has three children with a lovely wife. They've been married for about 15 years. And he's a native Austinite, I guarantee you.
Chris Cote
He has sold the house with a stripper polo winner.
Stugotz
He's got three kids.
Israel Gutierrez
Three children.
Stugotz
Sounds like a pretty good dad. You know who thinks he's dad of the year? Dominique Foxworth.
Mike Ryan
This guy.
Dan LeBatard
What?
Mike Ryan
He's been doing this for a long time. Whenever he's on, like, espn, his background, he likes to put his kids paintings up there. And it's just like, I know what you're doing there. You're a better dad than me, and you're not Chris.
Dan LeBatard
He's not a better dad than you.
Stugotz
No, Chris.
Mike Ryan
Equal dad.
Stugotz
I'd say Chris. This is what I'm gonna say. You guys ready for this? I don't think those are his kids paintings.
Greg Cody
Wow.
Stugotz
He did them himself. I think those are his. But he's like. He puts it up there that his.
Mike Ryan
Mom gave him back that his mom kept from when he was a kid.
Stugotz
Nope. He's like, oh, I need a backdrop for sportscenter or get up or whatever. Hey, kids, can you paint my picture? And the kids are like, shut up, dad. Right? That's what they did. They left, they rode their bikes, played video games, did whatever kids do, right? And then he said, man, I can't just have a blank background, right? I can't do a helmet, because that's what every other football guy does, right? So then he gets to work. He goes to, like, what's the craft? Michael's Crafts or whatever. That place buys some paint.
Greg Cody
Michaels, I love this.
Stugotz
Yep. And then he's like, okay, all right. How would I draw myself if I were also, like, 8 years old?
Mike Ryan
Do it with my left hand.
Stugotz
Do it with my left hand. There you go. Now we're cooking Right. So then he paints this. Post it. Now, notice I know this about every kid. Whenever they paint a picture of their father or of their mother or whatever, they always caption it dad, mom, something.
Chris Cote
Don't they usually put themselves in it.
Stugotz
Also put themselves in it. They never do portraits. Take a look at this picture, ladies and gentlemen. Where do you see anywhere it says dad. It's just a picture. And he's smiling in all of them. And it's like, look. Oh, he's a green shirt here and a blue shirt here. Get out of here.
Chris Cote
Different styles of drawing in all of them. Maybe he just changed it up because he's got different drawings.
Stugotz
Look at the look on his face. He knows it too. That's the pained look of someone who's been living a lie for years. And he wants to someone release me from this lie.
Chris Cote
Please.
Stugotz
Please. But he can't, right? Because he knows he's in too deep. So he has to keep going. He has to keep forging. And that's why, if you see there are newer and newer pictures every single time. He's gonna add pictures because he's busy painting. But by the way, he doesn't paint these during regular hours. He does this at night, middle of the night, gets up, sneaks out, doesn't want to wake up the wife, gets down to the basement, left hand, like Chris said, and just get the painting.
Chris Cote
What's the lie, though? That he loves his kids or that his kids love him?
Stugotz
Him?
Mike Ryan
No, this is him trying to be like everyone has their. Their awards in their background, you know? You know what? I care about my family.
Stugotz
These are my kid.
Mike Ryan
These are my awards. Nothing's more valuable. If there was a fire in my house, these are the first things I'd go for.
Dan LeBatard
Wait, so the accusation is he doesn't love his family?
Chris Cote
Seems like it.
Mike Ryan
I think he loves his kids, but it's really. He wants everyone to think it's perform your dad of the year.
Stugotz
The accusation is it's performative.
Greg Cody
Got some abstract pieces up there too.
Dan LeBatard
So let me ask you, the guy.
Mike Ryan
Look how clean that. Those paper. Like when, when kids bring papers home like that, they're like crumpled. Crumpled. They were in a backpack.
Stugotz
There's no way. Look like they came pristine. Come on.
Dan LeBatard
So when he's up in the middle of the night painting himself as his children, left handed, obviously. And then his, his wife, like, gets up and sees this art, does she question like, oh, did the kids bring that home? Or she's part of this con too.
Stugotz
Billy, you've Seen Dominique?
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Stugotz
This poor woman has enough to worry about.
Dan LeBatard
I don't know where this accusation.
Stugotz
It's not. It's just. Look, she's got a lot going on. She's got to take care of the kids. She's got. She's got her own career and all that stuff.
Dan LeBatard
The kids that he's neglecting while pretending to love his kids, acting as them.
Chris Cote
Left hand.
Mike Ryan
Now you get it.
Stugotz
He's gallivanting. He's going to Miami to do a week of shows and then he's gonna go do get up from New York and stuff like that.
Dan LeBatard
Come with him on those weeks.
Stugotz
No. Again. Are they here in the studio? No, they're not. Where are they?
Dan LeBatard
They're home painting.
Stugotz
They're with their. No, they're not painting. No, they're not.
Dan LeBatard
Sorry.
Stugotz
They're having great activities because their mom is a great mom. Their mom is a great mom. You know what? I'll put it out there. Mrs. Foxworth. Number one mom.
Dan LeBatard
Wow.
Stugotz
Number one. See, that way you can't say I'm biased. Dominique. Not number one dad.
Dan LeBatard
Though I think that if I'm following your guys logic, and these were actually paintings that his children were doing, they would be of their mom, not of him. So that's how you know that it's fake. Is because the photos are of him, not of the mom.
Stugotz
All of him.
Dan LeBatard
Who you guys are accusing. Yeah. That they love more than him.
Mike Ryan
I really want to know why Dominique, while trying to draw himself, decided to draw Jalen Rose in the bottom, right?
Dan LeBatard
I don't.
Stugotz
That's the other way.
Mike Ryan
You know, I approved that with Roy.
Dan LeBatard
Before I said it.
Stugotz
Wait, wait.
Mike Ryan
That looks like Jalen Rose.
Dan LeBatard
Come on.
Chris Cote
He proved it with Roy after pitching it to me. So it was almost like approving it through me. And then he's like, wait a second, I've got a better source here in Roy.
Stugotz
Okay, so I mean, technically he does.
Chris Cote
But then he said it anyway.
Stugotz
First of all, I approve of that as well.
Mike Ryan
Well, you were talking, so now I'm gonna go.
Dan LeBatard
I also suspect that that was texted to you because I was checking my phone and I see that I received that text as well.
Stugotz
Yeah, you got suspected.
Chris Cote
So somebody tried to run that through Taylor.
Stugotz
Okay, so let's talk about this. Who would be narcissistic enough to paint themselves with a better hairline than they've ever had in their life?
Greg Cody
Greg.
Stugotz
Cody. Greg. Cody's one. But Dominique Foxworth, Very high on that list as well. It all adds up. You know what? My kid, my Kids. You know what my kids do to me every time they're standing above me? Whatever is it? Oh, that bald spot's getting bigger, dad. That's how kids are. They don't say, oh, I love my dad so much, I'm gonna give him three more inches of hairline. We're gonna pretend that this is the work of a child. Get out of here.
Chris Cote
They're smart.
Stugotz
You're right.
Chris Cote
The kids know. It's like, hey, there's an accent I need to make larger. And, yeah, there's my dad. Not the hairline.
Stugotz
Dad has a five head.
Greg Cody
Let's make it seven.
Stugotz
That's. That's how they do. They're not saying, oh, no, come on, guys. That's not right.
Greg Cody
I give that a little. Get that a couple inches here.
Chris Cote
Poor Dominique. Thank you, Cody's phone, by the way, for taking that photo.
Stugotz
Not poor Dominique. We're not doing that. Hey, you know what? Never meet your hero. That's a villain right there. Dominique's a villain. Villain. Met him.
Dan LeBatard
Well, so you want to meet him, then?
Stugotz
Well, no, no.
Greg Cody
He's Izzy's list of guys that you met that were also what we thought they were.
Stugotz
Do we have that list? Is Rory McElroy on that list? Has anyone here met Royal Macro?
Mike Ryan
I haven't met him, but I do think he's a dick.
Stugotz
Why do you say that?
Mike Ryan
Oh, I mean, he's been doing this thing. I got to grab this sound here. He's been doing this thing where, like, he just is so surly with the media, he doesn't want to give him a quote. They asked him the other day about his not Talking to Bryson DeChambeau the final round of the Masters, and his answer was just like, I'm a competitor. I'm not out here like friends.
Chris Cote
Rory has, ever since the Live split, it has kind of been the people's golfer, right? Because he was the one that was talking against Live. He was the one that was said, you know, basically keeping his morals and just, like, say, the PGA Tour should. Should really stand up for itself, yada, yada. And you're saying that now he's just being kind of a jerk, and so he's too arrogant to be liked.
Mike Ryan
I don't know if it's like, he's on the defensive against the media. It's just trying not to make headlines. The PGA did this fun thing where they were asking every golfer, give me someone else. Something from someone else's game that you would take. Justin Thomas is like, I'll take Scheffler's approach shots. Some other golfers, like, I'll take prime Tiger putting, a harmless game. Show a little love for someone else.
Chris Cote
I'll take tigers.
Mike Ryan
And of course, they get to Rory and they're like, oh, let's play this game with Rory. And this is what he said.
Billy Gil
When you're looking at the four parts of the game. Driving, approach, putting around the green.
Stugotz
If you were forced to trade one.
Billy Gil
Of those elements of your game game for anybody currently playing, which would you choose?
Stugotz
Which part of the game and who.
Billy Gil
Would you replace it with? I wouldn't trade if you're forced to, but I'm not.
Chris Cote
If I asked you what part of.
Billy Gil
A game you admired in somebody else.
Chris Cote
What other player, like, who's somebody you.
Billy Gil
Admire putting, for instance.
Chris Cote
I'm focused on my game.
Mike Ryan
Just play the game, dude.
Stugotz
Okay.
Mike Ryan
It's just like, I get what.
Greg Cody
He's dork, though. He's a dork is what I think.
Mike Ryan
It's just he thinks if he says X, player X is driving, it's gonna be a headline. It's like, no, dude, we're just playing a harmless game.
Stugotz
Yeah. Okay, so the first half of it sounded a lot more playful than what you meant. It was like, but I'm not, I'm not forced. I'm like, oh, that's kind of a funny answer. But then the second half, the follow.
Mike Ryan
Up is just basically like, all right, fine, you don't want to play my game.
Stugotz
What do you like?
Mike Ryan
Just say something nice.
Stugotz
You know what? And I'm with you now. He's a jerk.
Chris Cote
I mean, yeah, I would like to teach Rory McIlroy a couple of words. They are, yes and like, just come on, man, play the damn game. And like, the first part would have been hip. Haha. I got you. You know, I did wordplay around your pick yourself.
Mike Ryan
Say my driving.
Chris Cote
There you go. Just keep the game going, like. Or pick somebody who's dead.
Stugotz
That's always a good move, right?
Israel Gutierrez
Israel Gutierrez, volunteers for Habitat for Humanity in Austin. So he seems like the type of guy you'd want to meet.
Greg Cody
Do you?
Chris Cote
I do not.
Stugotz
I try to stick up for you earlier, but as the details keep coming out, might be number one on the top five busies.
Israel Gutierrez
He enjoys fine art, sports, mountain biking, technology, and most of all, Austin life with his family.
Dan LeBatard
What is that?
Chris Cote
And he enjoys sports. He probably knows me. Should get this guy on the show.
Dan LeBatard
Wait, what does that mean? He enjoys technology? Like, he, like, we all enjoy technology.
Israel Gutierrez
A little too much in graphic design from the Art Institute of Houston and a Bachelor of Arts in business from Concordia University at Austin. So clearly this is someone who knows his way around.
Chris Cote
Bachelor of arts who went into real estate. Man, that's interesting.
Stugotz
Greg Cody, that's the answer that you guys are looking for. People who don't like technology.
Mike Ryan
He's the answer to a lot of questions.
Dan LeBatard
I sent Greg Cody an email this morning.
Stugotz
Why?
Dan LeBatard
Well, I was also trying to schedule the email because it was too early. But I was doing it on my phone and I hit the wrong thing and it sent immediately. Like, oh, no, I shouldn't have sent this this early. But then I also thought, I'm sure Greg is not going to get this notification at this time that I sent this email at this time. But I sent him an email this morning because I saw a follow up to something that we were talking about I think this week. I don't even remember all the days are the same. But I think it was this week where we were talking about buying every lotto ticket to win the lottery.
Chris Cote
Yep, I remember that.
Dan LeBatard
And I saw that someone did it in the Texas State Lottery two years ago. It was not, unfortunately, no. So they did it and they won and there was no other winner and it actually worked. And then it led to like this crazy investigation of how did this happen? And then it ended up being like a syndicate and it was like over like international waters and it was like a whole thing. But I feel like they didn't commit a crime. I think that they were mad because from the portion of the story that I read at that time while I was sending it to Greg, it seems as though like the state lottery was in on it. Like they were, they were sending more machines to certain like areas that were like low traffic areas to allow them to buy more tickets. They bought virtually every number.
Chris Cote
I'm telling you. I always known there's some sort of scam, there's some sort of way they can and manipulate the lotto. I have. Okay, I take that back. I know one person, a relative of my best friend growing up who had won a lottery. Outside of that, I have never experienced a human being who has won the lottery. They have these drawings every week. How is it possible I have not met one of these people?
Dan LeBatard
Can I say something that I will, I will get a lot of hate for saying, but it's along the same lines of like contest winners that I've never seen the winner of. And I, I, I would, I wouldn't dare to accuse it of not being real.
Chris Cote
Can we say it at the same time.
Dan LeBatard
Yeah. One, two, three.
Chris Cote
5050 raffle at Panthers games.
Dan LeBatard
Oh, my goodness. At Panthers. Every sporting event, anyone, but every sporting.
Mike Ryan
Event, Panthers in particular. Man, have I done it.
Greg Cody
That take. I've had that take for years.
Dan LeBatard
I feel like I saw one time. There was one time that I saw that, like, the brewers posted. Some random celebrity won it, and I'm gonna find out who it was because it, like, was, like, a celebrity that'll blow your mind. It's like, what was this person doing in Milwaukee? But aside from that, I feel like we need to have a movement where the winner of the 5050 raffle of every game announced or published, like, this is the person who won. Because I find it impossible.
Mike Ryan
And you never see, like, a section over.
Dan LeBatard
No one ever celebrate, like, because they.
Chris Cote
Don'T have to be there. You can order, you can get those tickets.
Mike Ryan
That's crazy, though.
Dan LeBatard
Well, you used to not be able to. Used to have to be there. Right, right. But never once have I seen anyone win a 5050 round.
Mike Ryan
You feel like you see that every time.
Greg Cody
Guys, you're not going to believe who won the brewers 50 50. Who was it, Jeremy?
Israel Gutierrez
Kato Kalin.
Stugotz
Wow. Wow.
Mike Ryan
Izzy Gutierrez was clearly. This one's better, though.
Chris Cote
Talk about suspicious.
Dan LeBatard
What was Cato doing in Milwaukee?
Chris Cote
Suspicious, dude.
Stugotz
Cato Kalin, man. Okay, so to the younger listeners, viewers.
Dan LeBatard
I guess Cato's, like, entire life is. What was Cato doing there?
Stugotz
Exactly. So when O.J. may or may not have murdered Anna Nicole.
Greg Cody
Allegedly.
Stugotz
Right. So Kato Kahlin was living in the guest house. So he was one of the star witnesses in the O.J. murder trial. And that's him right there. I mean, he's every bit of the goofball, like you might think. Oh, he just looks goofy because of the 90s. No, he was a goofy dude on trial as well. And so for that to be the guy who won the 5050 raffle, apparently.
Israel Gutierrez
He'S from Milwaukee, and his brother bought the raffle ticket for $30. They said 50% of the money collected will go to traffic.
Mike Ryan
That's how you do it.
Israel Gutierrez
Yeah, that's the 50 50.
Mike Ryan
Every two months, you give it to a crappy celebrity, so it makes a little headline somewhere. So people see, okay, they do give those things.
Israel Gutierrez
Speaking of crappy celebrities, there is another Israel Gutierrez who owns Gutierrez Olive Orchard Ranch. They produce O oil out of Texas. So another Texas more successful.
Greg Cody
You gotta go to Texas.
Chris Cote
All I develop is stupid opinions. This guy's got olive oil.
Stugotz
Definitely make the other guy's Selling million dollar homes.
Chris Cote
Yeah.
Stugotz
The other guy's hooping.
Chris Cote
Dancing.
Stugotz
The other guy's dancing.
Chris Cote
Terrible skill. I chose writing.
Stugotz
Are there.
Greg Cody
Are they the worst? Is he.
Chris Cote
I am Jesus Oli of the Izzy Gutierrez's.
Stugotz
I'm just looking for a regular.
Israel Gutierrez
I need to find one more.
Stugotz
Yeah, the. So. So if we're keeping track of home, outside looking. Izzy frauds number one, Dominique Foxworth, number two, the 5050 raffle at games. Number three.
Mike Ryan
Also, I think I might have to be on there because I'm seeing a lot of people dropping off boats backwards. I'm telling you, though, I've seen it. Maybe it's not common. Maybe I was wrong about how common it is. I've seen people from a small distance, a low fall backwards from a helicopter.
Greg Cody
You've seen scuba diving. People go backwards with the scuba diving.
Mike Ryan
But I'm telling. No, no, I'm not gonna. I know what I've seen in my life. No, you don't. I'm gonna admit that it doesn't seem to be as common as I thought.
Stugotz
I hate to. Again. It's the chair. It's not me, Chris. But this is like your father thinking he saw the wilt 100 point game. This is exactly the same wavelength right.
Mike Ryan
Now, swear I've seen. Did you see it from below? The helicopter drops really low. It's probably 10ft from the water. And they get down on, like, the bar that's there, and then they fall back. I'm telling you, I've seen. I'm. That's. And I'm admitting I was wrong. It's not common.
Dan LeBatard
I think I found the video you might be looking for, Louis, if you could put it up. So this might be the video that.
Stugotz
You'Re thinking, oh, my God, that's not real. Oh, my God.
Chris Cote
No, no.
Stugotz
This is Dan getting pulled by the Internet. Can we run it back? Run it back, Please run it back. Give it to me again.
Mike Ryan
The Blob. It's like a blob situation. He jumped above a helicopter and he lands on top of it.
Dan LeBatard
Like a military helicopter. On top of like some satellite or something. On top of it.
Stugotz
Do it again. Give it to one more time.
Mike Ryan
The Blob. This is like heavyweights blob.
Chris Cote
Did he go through the spinning?
Dan LeBatard
Yeah.
Mike Ryan
They want you to think.
Dan LeBatard
Is that what you saw, Chris?
Stugotz
Okay, close. It really is the chair. I need this recurring for the rest of the show. In the corner. Just put it in the corner. And I don't.
Chris Cote
In the corner like Bob was during that frick is in front of the net.
Israel Gutierrez
There is another Israel Gutierrez in Austin, Texas. And this one works for the nuclear company where they're doing fleet scale nuclear technology across across the country to try to decarbonize the United States.
Chris Cote
Unbelievable. I am useless.
Israel Gutierrez
All in Austin, Texas, apparently.
Dan LeBatard
Is it possible that that one Israel Gutierrez just can't keep a job?
Billy Gil
No.
Israel Gutierrez
These are all different headshots.
Mike Ryan
Come on.
Dan LeBatard
Internet.
Chris Cote
He just really wants to change the world and it's just doing everything.
Mike Ryan
I just need the Internet to find one example and tweet it to me so I can retweet it.
Dan LeBatard
Did you see it in perfect or on video?
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Mike Ryan
I see it, I think in my mind. Mind. I'm like my dad now at the hundred point game. In my mind, it was on video.
Greg Cody
I have a villain that I met and then I was like, oh, I kind of like him.
Stugotz
Who's that?
Greg Cody
Dave Sampson.
Mike Ryan
That's a good one.
Greg Cody
I always thought he was villainous and evil.
Mike Ryan
Now I like him.
Greg Cody
Trying to build the the country and whatever. And I like him.
Mike Ryan
That's actually a good one.
Chris Cote
I have one David I haven't got.
Stugotz
And now I like him. Okay.
Greg Cody
Ryan Rosillo.
Stugotz
Oh, yeah.
Greg Cody
Another guy who was like, oh, this guy, I don't know. And then I met him. I was like, you know what? I like him. And then me and Chris saw him. He's the mayor of what? Where is he?
Mike Ryan
It was Manhattan beach.
Dan LeBatard
Manha.
Mike Ryan
Mayor Manhattan at the Super Bowl. Saw him in sedano.
Greg Cody
Guy was dominating.
Mike Ryan
How about still surprising Sedano showing up.
Stugotz
Sedano, Hollywood Sedano. Man, that's quite the. You guys got this experience that, huh? Green juice. Sedan.
Greg Cody
He's the best.
Stugotz
Yeah, man.
Greg Cody
Took care of us.
Stugotz
Yeah, no, he's. He's. He's a hospitable guy, but it is funny to see the. The switch.
Chris Cote
He's definitely like. He like LeBron. He is officially more LA than Miami.
Stugotz
Oh, for sure.
Mike Ryan
I'm pretty sure.
Chris Cote
Miami connections.
Mike Ryan
I'm pretty sure he showed up with like pre roll all of us. He's like, I'm not sharing with you guys. You each get one.
Stugotz
It just opened like a cigar case.
Mike Ryan
Rare. Like usually it's like we're going to community that it's just like, no, here's yours, here's yours, here's yours.
Chris Cote
It's a nice flex.
Mike Ryan
It was a flex. Or did he. Did he not want to share my germs?
Israel Gutierrez
Shooter from El Salvador, Israel Gutierrez in the Olympics last year.
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Podcast Summary: The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Episode: Local Hour: Where Texan Know-How Meets Excellence
Release Date: May 16, 2025
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz delivers another engaging episode from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, where hosts Dan Le Batard and Stugotz, along with co-hosts Chris Cote, Greg Cody, Mike Ryan, Israel Gutierrez, and Billy Gil, delve into a myriad of topics ranging from local sports anecdotes to humorous discussions about common names and quirky personal stories. This episode, titled "Local Hour: Where Texan Know-How Meets Excellence," encapsulates the unique blend of sports analysis, pop culture commentary, and original content that fans have come to love.
The episode kicks off with a lively discussion about the curious case of two NBA players named Jalen Williams. Stugotz humorously expresses his apprehension about hearing Dan's take on the Thunder game, anticipating a continuation of his own critical remarks about the team.
Stugotz [01:05]: "I've been talking mad shit about the Thunder... This is a team of destiny. They're gonna win a championship."
Chris Cote and Greg Cody engage in a playful debate about Jalen Williams' performance, highlighting his inconsistent field goal percentages across crucial games.
Greg Cody [02:31]: "15.4% in game five, game six, 35% in game six, 18%."
Israel Gutierrez adds a comedic twist by lamenting the confusion of sharing a common name within the NBA, likening it to elementary school scenarios.
Israel Gutierrez [02:43]: “Imagine being so great at your profession... and they force you to go by your last name.”
A significant portion of the episode revolves around a humorous yet heated debate about the feasibility of jumping out of helicopters backward. Stugotz initiates the conversation by referencing a popular yet dubious notion of individuals performing risky helicopter jumps.
Stugotz [05:21]: "Billy, you got a lot of people jumping out of helicopters."
The hosts exchange exaggerated anecdotes and playful insults while attempting to validate the claim, eventually admitting the skepticism surrounding the frequency of such stunts.
Mike Ryan [36:40]: "I've seen people dropping off boats backwards. I'm telling you, though, I've seen people from a small distance..."
Dan Le Batard tries to mediate the discussion by suggesting the existence of related videos, only to realize the confusion persists.
Dan Le Batard [37:16]: "I think I found the video you might be looking for..."
The conversation takes a humorous turn as the hosts discuss the prevalence of the name "Israel Gutierrez" in various professions and locales, leading to a series of comedic exchanges about distinguishing between them.
Stugotz [03:45]: "I'm going to find a Porter that's not a Junior."
Greg Cody [38:14]: "There's another Israel Gutierrez who owns Gutierrez Olive Orchard Ranch."
This segment highlights the challenges of common names in the digital age, blending humor with light-hearted confusion.
Shifting gears, the hosts delve into the quirky world of real estate listings, particularly focusing on unusual homes and the allure of affordable summer properties.
Stugotz [16:43]: "It's like, yo, I should move to Texas, like, buy one of these houses."
They reminisce about spotting a firehouse for sale during the Cleveland finals, contemplating imaginative renovations reminiscent of Ghostbusters.
Stugotz [17:07]: "I just wanted... I'm gonna make it like Ghostbusters."
The banter underscores the amusement found in unconventional housing markets and the dreams they inspire.
A heartfelt segment centers around Dominique Foxworth, lauded for his role as a dedicated father. The hosts humorously critique his public displays of parental pride, suggesting that his children may have actually created his acclaimed artwork.
Stugotz [23:54]: "They're smart. The kids know. It's like, hey, there's an accent I need to make larger."
Dan Le Batard [25:20]: "The accusation is it's performative."
This discussion intertwines humor with genuine appreciation for community figures, highlighting the show's ability to balance satire with sincerity.
The hosts examine Rory McIlroy's evolving relationship with the media, critiquing his terse responses and perceived arrogance despite his previous stance as a 'people's golfer.'
Mike Ryan [29:04]: "He's being kind of a jerk, and so he's too arrogant to be liked."
Chris Cote [29:25]: "I'll take Tiger's."
They discuss the implications of McIlroy's behavior on his public image and interactions within the PGA Tour, shedding light on the pressures faced by top athletes.
Delving into skepticism surrounding 50-50 raffles and lottery winnings, the hosts express disbelief over the rarity of visible winners, suggesting possible orchestrations behind the scenes.
Dan Le Batard [32:55]: "I feel like we need to have a movement where the winner of the 50-50 raffle of every game announced or published."
Greg Cody and Mike Ryan share personal experiences and doubts, adding to the humorous skepticism.
Chris Cote [32:12]: "I have never experienced a human being who has won the lottery."
Towards the episode's conclusion, Israel Gutierrez highlights his volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity in Austin, Texas, showcasing his commitment to community service and providing a positive note amidst the episode's humorous undertones.
Israel Gutierrez [30:50]: "Israel Gutierrez volunteers for Habitat for Humanity in Austin. So he seems like the type of guy you'd want to meet."
Stugotz [01:05]: "I've been talking mad shit about the Thunder... This is a team of destiny. They're gonna win a championship."
Greg Cody [02:31]: "15.4% in game five, game six, 35% in game six, 18%."
Israel Gutierrez [02:43]: “Imagine being so great at your profession... and they force you to go by your last name.”
Mike Ryan [29:04]: "He's being kind of a jerk, and so he's too arrogant to be liked."
Stugotz [23:54]: "They're smart. The kids know. It's like, hey, there's an accent I need to make larger."
In "Local Hour: Where Texan Know-How Meets Excellence," The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz masterfully blends humor, sports commentary, and community-focused discussions. From dissecting NBA name confusion and debating helicopter jumping antics to spotlighting community figures and questioning lottery fairness, the episode offers a rich tapestry of conversations that entertain and engage listeners. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to the show, this episode exemplifies the dynamic and spirited exchanges that make the podcast a staple for original content in the sports and pop culture landscape.