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

Episode Date: December 17, 2024

Today's cast: Dan, Stugotz, Chris, Billy, Jessica, Lucy, and Mike. The Dan Le Batard Show has begun a Holiday Toy Drive as Tony camps out at the Flanigan's on Bird Road dressed as Cuban Santa waiting for fan donations. If you want to donate, can also drop off toys at Corner Coffee at The Elser Hotel. Help us help families this holiday season! The crew kicks off today's show by exploiting Papi without Dan's permission. Then, while everyone should be discussing Travis Hunter and his incredible play on the field during his Heisman Trophy winning season, people on the internet seem more concerned with his personal life. Why do people online believe they should be giving Hunter dating advice? That conversation brings Lucy back to her story from yesterday about Brianna Chickenfry, and, because we made the mistake of opening this can of worms, another song from Jeremy. Plus, Mike is unsurprisingly upset that Cam Ward finished as low as he did in the Heisman voting despite Dan being one of Ward's six (6) first place votes which leads to...you guessed it: another Jeremy Christmas song. Enough already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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for when something in the future might go wrong, but Billy as a bellwether for whether or not we're doing the wrong thing. When skeptical Billy makes an appearance, I get a little worried about things we're doing and we're doing a toy drive for the next three days. That seems like a nice thing, just give some kids some toys. It's an easy way to make them happy. Our audience is very giving and has, you know, has money. Our audience has money and usually shows it in instances like this. But Billy doesn't think we're doing this right because.

Hold on a second, falsehoods. What are we doing? What happened? We need a witness here, exactly. What happened is exactly right, Stu Gutz. What happened here? I just thought that perhaps you thought that Tony featured as a toy drive person.

You thought that we're not putting him in a position to succeed because he's Tony and because of some of the details involved with what we're doing today. Well, I mean, can I share the details? It's on like the DL, isn't it? Well, we might as well. I mean, we need people to go donate toys.

So can I share the details that I am aware of? Yes, because we are asking people to help us here with unwrapped toys and it's, we got a late start on this so we're Christmas snuck up on us we're jostling the calendars like the Super Bowl yeah the same every year the cow it's the same place every year but it sneaks up on us I saw poor Fuentes in the eating area and he was just lamenting that he's like Dan Christmas sprint I haven't bought all the gifts nobody's

fault but my own just muttering under his breath about the Christmas are you sure that was Fuentes? Cause he's not one to take accountability for not remembering things. Right, well it's that time of year, Dan. I mean, that's what people say. He looked sour and I went up to him and I don't often do this.

I'm like, are you okay? Is everything okay? And he's like, yeah, you just caught me thinking about the Christmas sprint and all of the stresses involved. But we're trying to alleviate some of the holiday stresses. This is a real easy transaction. You bring us a toy and we take it and make a kid happy with it.

Like it's a super easy way to do this. And we're at Flanagan's this morning. Tony is, Cuban Santa. It's at 2721 Bird Avenue, Coconut Grove, right in the Grove, the heart of everything we do. This is a two birds kind of situation. You go get a toy, hop over there around 11, drop off the toy, get some lunch, boom.

Well the thing is though is that we're there at 10, and I don't think the restaurant's even open at 10. And there's also two Flanagan's there, right? There's the restaurant and there's like Big Daddy's. Like are we outside of Big Daddy's or are we outside of Flanagan's? Cause like the locations, Big Daddy's is Big Daddy's.

Come to a bar and give us a toy at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday. It's kind of like, you know, do people have toys in their cars that are going to be at a bar at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday? Or are we sending people and hope that they're not working? And in which case are we asking unemployed people to give us toys at a bar on a Tuesday?

Like these are, just maybe the locations, it's like, you know, we're gonna send people to a trap house next? What are we doing here? If you're a parent like me and you've gotten your kids way too much crap. Take one of theirs. Give it away Flanagan's is not a trap house. No, I know I didn't say it was one of the most delightful places in all of South Florida The next two days will be doing this toy drive at Vivo at dolphin mall They've been very supportive lately

and so we will have a different part of Miami where we can go get toys and you can also just drop them off here at the Elzer because we've got a place here, Corner Coffee, that's open from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day if you can't do it right now. Do they know we're doing it? Yes, they would need to know we're doing this. It's a good question. It's a good question you're asking. Yes, that Flanagan's by the way is legendary. There's a good chance. It's a good question you're asking. That Flanagan's, by the way, is legendary. There's a good chance that Tony walks into that place and there are people still there from last night. I'm telling you.

That Flanagan's taught me, it brought me gently into adulthood, that Flanagan's. It walked me right into adulthood, just allowing me to drink. You see things in there, man. When I was in college and after college, and they just, they allowed me to drink. You see things in there, man. When I was in college and after college and they just, they allowed me to enter adulthood in a way that was, jostled me less

than it might have otherwise if I didn't have chicken wings in front of me. The problem though is like Tony likes Flanagan's so there's also the chance that like Tony forgets the mission that he's on and he's just hanging out at Flanagan's. Well you mentioned it might not be open which is a- Well that, I'm gonna look up the hours.

It's a hole in our plan, cause I, you know, I mean, I don't know if the Flanagan is famous for their breakfast That's the only I think I think it's pretty good I hope they're open by noon so we can tell people stop in bring a toy have lunch I don't know whether they are not they open at 11 at the latest. It says Close lunch menu right now opens at 11 Thank you So he'll be there for an hour pre pre open if you guys want a pregame there in the parking lot at the latest. It says close. Lunch menu. Right now. Opens at 11. Thank you.

So he'll be there for an hour pre-open if you guys want to pregame there in the parking lot. Maybe stand in line for. Tailgate. Yeah, tailgate for the opening. Toygate, toygate. There's a toygate. There's a toygate.

We're doing a toygate right now at Flanagan's. Who wants to come to party with Cuban Santa? And that's. I'm gonna look to see what time Big Daddy's opens though. Ah, it never closes. I mean. You can also meet that songbird Rose. Lucy finds no one in the world more delightful

than that songbird Rose. Depends on the day. You are so amused by her inability to say the name of that Italian alleged murderer of CEOs, Luigi Mangione. You are, I've rarely seen you as happy as I, as I saw you yesterday when you were staring at Rose's complete inability to say that name. Look, the way she was saying it wasn't like she just was like not able to pronounce it. She kept giving him the first name Jimmy and I was like, Rose, his

name is Luigi and then we'd say his name is Luigi Mangione. How do you say it? And she'd say Jimmy? All right, let's start with that because she's producing Tony. We'll start there It's the holidays a time for peace for love For presents and do I have one for you? It's poppies 50 shades of Christmas. You're welcome Christian trails a spoonful of ice cream down the center of my body. He kisses each of my breasts and each of my nipples hard.

My mouth is already open from panting. I open wider and he slides a large cool metal object between my... Sitting beside me, he gently pulls my sweatpants down, up and down like a horse drawers. He flexes his hips, so his p***** pushes against me. Yes, right there. In the bathroom, it is all hot and steamy. I strip off my clothes and quickly clamber into the shower, and I hold up my face into

the welcoming torrent. I want Christian Grey. Thank you, Papi. See, Greg, that's how it's done. Michelangelo's David has nothing on him. Es suficiente, Papi. Okay, time to start the show. This is the John Leventar Show with the Stugats. Alright, listen, Metal Arch Media, I didn't want to have to do this in public in front of everybody, but only I get to exploit my father. Everyone else, you need to knock it off and you need to check with me before you do that. Like you can't make, I get to do it, I get to do it.

No one else. Get it for 10 years on ESPN, that gives none of you, none of you that permission. I'm looking at you, Mike Bryant. You didn't tell me you were doing that. You didn't tell me you were voicing that I exploit My father no one else ESPN rented that accent for 10 years. It's retired now. It is done with its exploitation To be fair This was pre-existing Exploitation I'm talking about the cartoon graphics and you adding sensual voice to it and you'd like i'd again that was a i when i

explore i exploited him i was in i exploited him then i'm allowed esp needed some help with the hispanic uh... demographic still does good god good god feel free to have some hispanic people on air needed help and what happened after that dad held out he was bluffing you know how to tell the sonny wanted to retire

he has been given a raise called his bluff that he was confused and anyone flight crazy uh... and that's how we quit the show but but but but that's what that exploitation did so i've learned my lesson and i would like for you not to do that anymore Speaking of that graphic we put up there for the toy drive. There was a Christmas tree with a star of David at the top of it I mean

Inclusive Inclusive what's the problem with that? Welcome? What's the matter with that? What's it? We I mean you got a whole tree I got a little star also starts December 25th. Does it not Hanukkah starts December 25th? Look at you. I mean eight crazy nights I'm looking at everyone here asking no one seems to know except it does this year. That's correct So so yes a star whammy a star of David now Tony is at this toy drive at Cuban Santa and Billy informed me through giggles during the break that Big Daddy's opens at 7 a.m., baby,

so if you wanna get your party on right now. Yep, 7 a.m. to 3 a.m. If you wanna get your party on. It never closes. Well, it doesn't close from three to seven. Trust me, I live there, it doesn't close at three. Three to seven, no, look. They live there.

Listen, it's a sign, it says it on the door, they're not closed, okay? We all saw that you had your never closes lined up before billy said his seven to three and you're going to get that shot off no matter what you stop listening right there i did tony is at flanagan till legend he is that this is the legendary flanagan's is it not this is the one the one that brought me to adulthood in college and we're collecting toys there

and we're going to be doing it today until noon we're doing a toy driver tony drive and roses also there and rose cannot pronounce the name of the alleged c l murder louis g man g on let's go out to tony flanagan's and let's tell people motivate them over the next three hours to get out there and bring a toy or several toys. These are the kinds we're

asking for Stugats because we're gonna want like what an easy way to use this platform to just make kids happy right here in our city the city we're celebrating 20 years in and we haven't done quite enough of this over the 20 years where we're just giving back because it's a good time to do it. So balls and equipment, dolls, Barbies, remote control cars, Nerf toys, board games, you can bring more than one, jewelry, craft kits, perfume, cologne, Lucy was confused by that one. Perfume and cologne.

Cause I could see Stugat's like smuggling some toys and taking them home and undoing some Christmas, some early Star of David shopping. Thinking about it with the Nerf balls, I mean. I thought the perfume cologne was odd, but then I did, I used some context clues. I feel like a lot of these toy drives, everyone always gets the little kids stuff,

but there are, you know are high school, middle school students who probably want drunk elephants, Sephora stuff. So maybe bring some of that too. But the perfume cologne is under the elementary school list. Yeah, that's odd. Yeah, yeah. I don't think they meant to put it there. I have a question for all of the fans out there

as we're learning about the toy drive. So is it ending when the show ends or can they go to Flanagan's later in the day and we'll collect it later if we're not there? 10 to 12 at Flanagan's. You can do, what is it, 7 to 2 p.m. right out in our corner at the corner coffee store. At the Elser.

That's right, at the Elser. You seem a little rattled, Chris. Are you okay? Is everything okay? Or you got everything under control? There's a lot going on. There's a lot of defense being played about what we're doing today.

No, it's not defense, it's information. Guys, people are at work at this time. If they wanna help after they get out of work, I'm trying to find control. There's a lot going on. There's a lot of defense being played about what we're doing. No, it's not defense, it's in for me. Guys, people are at work at this time. If they wanna help after they get out of work, I'm trying to find out if there's a way for them to do so. Chris, I told you that I was met with Skeptical Billy and Skeptical Billy has a way of undermining some of these things before they get started. You may have noticed his work over the last 20 years.

If you're at work right now and you can't do it today, we're gonna be at Vivo Mall the next two days. That a boy. So if you have time then, and if you can't get in that window, the whole week you can come do it today, we're gonna be at Vivo Mall the next two days. So if you have time then, and if you can't get in that window, the whole week you can come to the Elcer at the Corner Coffee Store between seven and two p.m. Look, I believe, let's have a group meeting here.

We don't do very much of this. I believe we take for granted slightly just because it's such an overwhelming thing that our audience always shows up when we ask them to. It's not, and I'm not saying that we actually take it to, that we all spend our time taking it for granted. We cannot appreciate enough the way our audience, every time summoned, helps with something like this.

Every single time, it is without fail. And so it's not something that I can articulate well enough, after 20 years in Stu gots What a power it is to have with the platform. Hey, let's do something good here over the next three days Where it's Haseley put together. That's my fault Flanning ends today and Vivo dolphin mall the next couple of days We're trying to raise to get a lot of toys. You can bring more than one toy. Hmm about cash You can bring gift cards. See I'm worried about Stu gots in the

gift cards like if they bring the gift cards back here all of a sudden Stu gots is gonna do his holiday shopping in our in our bin meant for others what about heaters he doesn't have kids of this age but I can see Stu gots on eBay all of a sudden selling Legos Legosos are expensive. They are. Crazy expensive. That's the ones he would go steal. Put it on the poll please at Levitard Show. Are Legos crazy expensive? I'm gonna go out to Tony out there in a second but I wanted to circle back on something we were talking about yesterday because it's been kind of fun to see, like for college football to get to its exciting time

in the new age and hand a trophy to one of the losers, here Travis Hunter, you didn't get into the top 12. The standard for Deion and everybody is get into the top 12. You came close, you were relevant, you're a wild success. But now here's the biggest trophy in the sport before we kick off you know the big army navy over here and just let's celebrate football during the holidays

any too much and give and have bowl games on on the televisions because everybody's about to get a little bit time off around the holidays travis hunter and colorado just achieved a heismic thing uh... a a seismic heismic thing because seismic heisman thing yet to go from historically or historically black college to

the most famous coach in the sport and travis hunter holding up the big trophy that's like just a monster achievement my like monster achievement travis hunters now getting a lot of dating advice from the entirety of the internet because uh... people are warning him everybody's very comfortable and he sees pushing them off very comfortable you gotta get a pre-nup there

you can't just give yourself over the law of do you know what is coming into your life right now is the number one pick star of college football the hood ornament on whatever dion was doing hood ornaments so huge bigger than dion's son who might also be the number one quarterback taken like just a giant achievement what dion and Travis Hunter have done what do you make of the fact that the internet is now telling him he's got love all wrong after a video showed uh... that his fiance

what seemed to be a little bit bothered by the fact that he just had to sign a bunch of things and take a bunch of pictures and be famous and now a whole lot of fifty year olds a whole lot of sterling sharps and everyone else sir shannon sharper coming in here and telling telling this young man where he needs to grow up around love a whole lot of Sterling Sharps and everyone else, or Shannon Sharp are coming in here and telling this young man where he needs to grow up around love. And I don't know where he is with this,

but I have found interesting how invasive everyone is comfortable being on a kid's relationship, and them putting out everybody, his business and her business on what the intimate details of their relationship is because now she gets a fame too but it's unpleasant. It's a really unpleasant fame. Like the fame that comes her way ends up being something like she's being judged from every corner of how it is she's supposed to be or serve Travis Hunter as whatever it is they view a relationship as and I'm just asking the group what you make of how comfortable the internet is telling

Travis Hunter how to live his life around love giving him the advice of you gotta get a prenuptial agreement, you gotta protect your money, etc. The internet feels like they're experts on everything, and so I'm not surprised that they're doing this on the heels of Travis Hunter winning the Heisman and seeing his wife uncomfortable in certain situations. That comes with, fiance, I'm sorry, that comes with the territory, they're in love.

For me, and I can't believe I'm saying this, we're taking hot takes way too far. I mean, the kid won the Heisman Trophy and we're going to start just based on body language and reports. We're going to start talking about and giving him advice on his relationship with his fiance. He seems to know what he's doing and he seems to have a great support system around him that's protecting him. He'll be fine. Well, I would say there's been on camera a number of incidents already. It wasn't just once this weekend. So that's, I think, there's been on camera a number of incidents already. It wasn't just

once this weekend. So that's, I think, where people may be coming from. Also, like, Shannon Sharp has gone through the NFL. Like, he has experience in this area, you would think. So I'm not saying that they're necessarily judging him, but they may be telling him, hey, this is what I went through, just so you know. I just, we don't know these people. I think this is all like really weird There's you're they're very young. I don't I I saw some of this on social media and I was like that's enough social media Did I put my phone down? I think it's weird to harass college athletes I think it's weird to harass professional athletes about like their dating lives. We don't know them I just it's gotten a little weird and I would like to just ignore that it's happening

Also aside just from the Travis Hunter of it, most people are not with who they were with when they were 20 years old. So statistically, for everyone. If you guys want to do a relationship show around this, I suppose that we can. We don't, you're the person that is the topic. Yeah, no one asked for this.

No one wants to do that. Not a single person. Also, Travis Hunter was the number one high school prospect going into college. Like you could have gone to college anywhere. It started off good. I thought you were talking about, hey, you know, a kid winning the Heisman who's down in a playoff team and then you brought it to a weird place.

Well, you called them a loser from the jump. All the gambits have just been off. Look, I don't like this either. I have my regrets over Brittany Mahomes' conversations that I had when she was spraying champagne over Chiefs fans, but they were professionals. I guess that's my rationalization, but it's from learning from that experience.

I see this one. And like Billy mentioned, this has been a talking point for several months on the internet, their relationship. They're very young and I don't feel at all comfortable. And Brittany Mahomes is a public figure now. This is, I think, a slightly different situation. I also on the record want to say I love love. Right, this is what Chad Johnson was saying.

That was what, that's exactly what Chad Johnson was saying and that's the way to go in this circumstance, certainly. I think we can all agree, do you love love? And then at some point in the middle of that, Kansas City fans were booing that too. And the Mahomes family dynamics are all very complicated. But if we're going to sniff around in the lives of these public figures and make them professionals early, and they're going to make their relationships public, which is

then going to make the mess come to them, the thing I'm asking about where it is this can devour young people, young people in immature relationships. And I'm going to say immature relationships because I'm gonna say immature relationships because I'm gonna just simply assume that any relationship any of us had from 17 to 21 was probably a slightly immature relationship. I think we're talking about this relationship too much and not Josh Allen and Hailey Steinfeld relationship enough.

Ever since they got engaged, he has just been, life has been amazing for him. He's so tall, he's so good at football. He's engaged to some, like one of the most beautiful women and talented women in the world. We should talk about them. Fair enough. And you, as my chicken fry expert, because I know there's all sorts of gossip there,

you explain to me what the difference is between the two things I'm doing here. You're doing, hey, I've got a tock addiction i've got my chicken fry addiction this is where i like to spend my gossip time enjoying somebody's personal life and i'm telling you there's a whole lot of internet doing it in travis hunters relationship why is this one not as interesting to you i would say that bring on a chicken fry has that's her whole brand has been take a look into my life and i'm you know

bringing my friend to this public media company where the entirety of the content they do is here's what's going on in my life and Brianna chicken fry has made a point to come out and make all these statements there aren't things that are being taken from you know private things in her life she's going in front of a microphone and talking about all of this. So I think that sort of opens up the realm to be involved in this. But we're just not talking about how great of a couple

Josh and Haley are. Oh, it makes me so happy for the both of them. All right, I appreciate you doing that. And you are not wrong when you want to bring a lighter touch to all of this. So does Jeremy. Jeremy is insistent now we've opened this particular portal now he's just farting and burping song all over the place because it's the it's the job he's wanted all his life let me sing songs during the holidays to people

so he just whipped up a chicken fry song that I'm not very eager to hear. You know, Briana Chicken Fry sleeping over on a Friday night after Grace had made her cry and her friendship's gone Oh, they was raised up beneath the shade of the Boston Garden And with besties so Brianna's on TikTok Creating a following and then a Barstool show She's dating Zach Brian of Grace's Hour But there's no love lost between Grace and Brianna now cuz you know Brianna chicken fry sleeping over on a Friday night after Grace had made

her cry and the friendships gone to bring you back plan brief but the plan I don't like what Jeremy and Lucy are doing to the show. I'm just gonna say it. Yeah, you said you liked it before. Chris said, Chris came in here and he brought me the chicken fry song and I'm like, am I gonna like that?

And he's like, I don't know, Lucy likes it though, she can't stop laughing. I'm like, do we wanna trust that judgment? And he's like, yeah. And then we play it first. Sorry for bringing positivity to the show. Sorry for recording and loving my coworkers. I guess I won't do that anymore.

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from the window to the wall, till the sweat drop off my balls. Stugats. The window to the walls. We all heard that, right? Till the sweat drops down my balls. So what I'm saying here. All these females cross,

singing oh skeet skeet god damn. Old blue eyes. Congratulations on your suey nomination. This is the Don LeBathardt Show with the StuGuts. ["Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"] Just to put a bow on this Travis Hunter thing, Dan, if other people wanna do all that stuff, they can do it.

I feel like personally, I don't need to do any of it. I'm not, not for me. Maybe for other people want to do all that stuff they can do it. I feel like personally I don't need to do any of it I'm not not for me. Maybe for other people not for me Okay, and and so the reason that I ask all of the questions is because I have been almost fundamentally ill prepared for whatever the internet age and social media age the internet age and social media age has rot. So I don't actually know the world that Travis Hunter is headed into next because he's probably been living in a version of this world that I don't understand for three or four years as hey renegade team is gonna go play for a little bit at Jackson State and then they're gonna go and make themselves first round picks and go to Colorado and then they're going to get to the fringe of college

football and they've been living famous and big with next to Deion Sanders for a while so maybe they're prepared for all of what comes next because they've got the perfect mentor in Deion Sanders to warn them at every turn but all of it does seem dangerous from where I'm standing, like not understanding what fame is doing to 17 and 19 year old kids as we fast forward how professional football is. The internet is not great. It's tough to navigate, but I would say

while you're having difficulty navigating it, Travis Hunter is like always streaming. He is extremely online. He lives there, yeah. He is pretty public with his relationship online. I'd say he's probably positioned much better than you, someone in your 50s, to navigate it. I guess I don't understand what's so dangerous about it

and why it's different for Travis Hunter than anyone else in a relationship going through the same thing throughout history. I mean, everybody has probably been in a relationship where they're dating someone and the friends feel some kind of way about it. This is kind of a version of that. Only the friends are complete strangers.

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

feel like they know him. If I could tell you how many people that are strangers to me have come up to me, fans of the show, and said you should get divorced, huh. My point is, and I will leave it, and we will go and enjoy the holidays with Cuban Santa in a moment. Just my just general point, perhaps this is the most obvious thing in the world that I'm saying,

that I'm saying nothing astute here. But holy shit Travis Hunter, what a giant victory for you to go from historically black college to best player in college football as the hood ornament on that thing god bless What an achievement you're a writer and it shows sometimes I understand how you're coding everything by he went from an HBC. This was a number one recruit in the country Bursall and Deon Sanders made a huge show of Making the number one guy go to Jackson State. So he's been he's been a star and it's been dealing with a limelight for several

years now. Yeah he was committed to Florida State and I'll never forget it because when he decommitted all these Florida State fans sort of burning their D on jerseys and there's one classic image of someone burning a framed D on jersey they're like why would you not take it out of the picture frame? How many Billy? Too many to shake a stick at. Before we go to Cuban toning at Flanagan's at a bar on a Tuesday where we do a toy drive, I love that we're doing it this way. I just want to celebrate, Travis Hunter, you get to enjoy all of that for a second, no matter what the expectations were because you guys

did an enormous thing. I'm sorry the internet has climbed into your business as you're a star for the new age, the new Deion. You're the new Deion taught by Deion to head into football and and it's going to be so much fun to watch that that he that he met the expectations because you tell me he was the number one pick. Go ahead and name all of the last twenty of those those don't always end up here like those don't did i'd i'd i'd bet against any number one pick i'm seeing doing what travis hunter just did the college football would you when you bet against that

i because i would bet it i'd i'd think that the machine would eat up all the number one picks and then occasionally it belches out a star in the top ten well to your point in yes i think like i what what i've seen on the internet is sort of a lot of people assuming things about people they don't know and like making really kind of weird comments about people they don't know when it does feel like it should be a week a week to celebrate him and what a great football player he is obviously he is

also someone with internet celebrity and and has sort of welcomed some of this fame into his life like I understand that aspect of it but like I as a football fan and someone that's not super invested in his personal life I'm not that interested in that conversation I'm more interested in the football part of it which is that he was the best yeah right well position is gonna play who's gonna draft him what's he gonna do in the NFL? Like there's, who's gonna win the Heisman next year? That conversation's already started.

There's a lot of other stuff to me that's more interesting about it. Okay, and so the place where it's most interesting to me, because I've seen, Stugat saw the Ball brothers sort of conquer an internet space, and his high school girls were super interested in that. Now you said number one pick, you mean number one recruit in the nation

to go on and do this. So the last one to do that was Bryce Young, 2020. Okay, and I'm sure you can name some, I would bet against all of that. But what I'm saying to you about having seen Deon's climb from he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, showed up his last college games with a top hat, in a tuxedo

zero point zero gpa because he he was telling all of us i'm using college only to get to my fame he is birth this in the internet age something that is lived on the internet for a while and for four years has been famous and has brought a whole bunch of kids who think they know him that when they stand on that stage, holy shit the Heisman ceremony means something to kids it didn't mean something to. Like the height that stuffy trophy room that he just barged into he did it with an internet fame behind him that feels like it knows Travis Hunter and has known him for three years. I hate that this story's

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

I'm with Mike. What I saw during that speech was a kid and I didn't know him and I still don't know him, but that speech kind of gave you a peek inside to what he is all about. It was authentic too, off the cuff. It was great. And you saw a grounded kid who said all the right things,

acknowledged all the right people, Dan. Like, I think he's going to be fine moving forward. I think he has a good support system around him, and he's a good grounded kid. I think it's impossible to know that around him and he's a good grounded kid. I think it's impossible to know that because what he's headed into I don't know that anyone has the tools for. Like maybe he gets through it. He's navigated being the number one recruit in the nation and being a star that's delivered

on Heisman hype. Like he's been able to handle it while being under a microscope so far. So I have no reason to doubt that he can handle being the number one pick, because what does that come with? Expectation? You seem to be doing alright with that. If we like the kid, and I think me and Mike like the kid, it's impossible not to like the kid, but if you like the kid, let's all pray together that he doesn't go to the Jets. Under the Star of David. Or the Bears! Under the Star of David on a Christmas tree. let's go out to tony here uh... because uh... tony is getting gifts now

and he is uh... he's cuban santa tony and he's at flanagan's and i asked everybody in south florida to tell people to uh... run and tell people that tony is here and he's accepting toys for the next couple of hours at Flanagan's at the most legendary of all the Flanagan's 2721 Bird Road, Coconut Grove. Let's check in here with Tony now as we begin our toy drive. Tony what are you doing out there? What information can you give me about what's happening at a bar on a Tuesday morning in Miami? Yeah Dan, slow morning right now for the tour drive, but we're here accepting all sorts of toys.

Hold on, excuse me. My beard is getting a little bit into my mouth when I talk. If that's all the year. The hairs are a little longer than I would have liked it. So again, we're gonna be here on La 27th and Bird Road at the Flanagan's, the best one of all time, by the, we're gonna be we got this box But we're gonna need a bigger box once more people come and bring us stuff. You're gonna break something. All right, no, okay

Thank you. All right. So Dan you can bring a bunch of unwrapped toys. Whatever you want. We've got different ages We've got younger kids that can go for like a nerf ball or like an athletic ball or dolls or something like that can go for like a Nerf ball or like an athletic ball or dolls or something like that to older kids in middle school and high school that could be gift cards cash like Stu got said I'll be able to take that. I know that you can't accept that. Oh no that was different. Cannot accept cash. No Stu gots texting me that one.

Tony you can't do that. My bad. You can. Tony you can't. No no no I know. That is the best looking Santa I've ever seen. Do that as Santa. My bad. You can. Tony, you can't do that as Santa. That is the best looking Santa I've ever seen. Tony, Tony, you can't be Cuban Santa and then saying bring me cash and leaving with it in your pocket.

Sure you can. Tony, you can't. Tony. Tony, you can't be on television asking people to bring you cash through through a fake Santa beard this Yeah, okay. All right, if you're out of town go to branches FL Org and you can donate some stuff there, too We'll be here hanging out till noon bring over any toys any gift cards no cash, but bring over that stuff

We'll be here hanging out Thank you, Tony. We will check back in again We will check back in again and get your top five in a second Tony get yourself together We'll come back to you. It will make a technical difficulty because it's in us having a tough time with his beard on Tuesday at a bar. Can you see the long hair here?

It keeps getting into my mouth. Yes, I can tell that you're not thinking it. I can tell that this is his. It's not a bit. Before we officially conclude our Heisman conversation, Jeremy had something he wanted to add to the frame. Jesus. Oh Jesus. More songs.

No. I'll be a Homer for Christmas, voting for the Heisman Trophy. Oh, this is about me. He sings about me here. Give Kim Ward every award, even if he should definitely have just finished number three. I hate that finished number three. I hate that song, obviously. Mm-hmm.

I hate all of them, being honest. Is that a Christmas song? I love that he's a resident song and dance man now. I know, but we asked him to do Frosty. I still haven't heard Frosty. I mean. I'm a little upset that everyone's having to go at Dan for voting Camp Ward number one,

especially when the rationalization for Gentie being the Heisman Trophy winners. Man, they game-planned for him and they weren't able to stop him. Cool. No one was really able to stop Camp Ward either all season long except for maybe the staff. So Mike, let me stop you here for a second because I aired this year, I really did. And I was actually, I considered it for a moment and I should have done it, but I was too flippant about how I was voting. I should have called all of you and asked you how you would have voted.

Like Greg Cody does with me and my brother. Yes, just like that. I should have called all of you and asked you how you would have voted, because all I know is that I watched Cam Ward all year, and if you're better than any University of miami thing that i've ever seen that and you're the only reason that your team is in a national conversation you become just like chador sanders and travis hunter at the very least

but much better off it's like dot not a little bit better off is much better at offense and so i've just voted for what i watched in every game this season which is more proficiency at that position than I'd ever seen in the University of Miami Uniform at that position, but neither Lucy nor Jessica would have voted the way that I would have voted and I would have asked all of you to vote and how would you have voted? How would that because I would have voted for Travis Hunter number one same I think applying the logic on Gentie like I said and I deduce that Cam Ward is just as unstoppable and I think it's team, the same argument.

Where's Boise without Gentie? Where's Miami without Cam Ward? So I would have gone Cam Ward number two and Gentie number three. It really bothered me that Dylan Gabriel finished ahead of Cam Ward. His best game is an average Cam Ward game. There's no, like look, flatly, no disrespect to Dylan Gabriel. He's not as good as Cam Ward. The NFL Draft prospects will bear that out. My eyes bore that out.

So I think Cam Ward at four was a little disappointing, but Travis Hunter should have been number one. And I understand why it was a close race. Gentie's very impressive too. It was a great Heisman year But Travis Hunter deserved to win it The only thing I would say about voting him number one is that of the nine hundred and one first place votes He got six which is not six percent. It's point six percent. So

Well, that's why Jeremy sings that homer song about me. That's why here. Let me hear it again You Kevin Clark poppy who are the other three many Navarro Well that's why Jeremy sings that Homer song about me. That's why, here, let me hear it again. You, Kevin Clark, Poppy, who are the other three? Manny Navarro for sure. So Jessica, so Jessica, I want, okay, look, the rest of you, this happened before. Lucy wanted to hear the chicken fry song. It was funnier to her than to anybody.

But nobody was laughing harder at braying Jeremy serenading in my face with hot breath. Danza Homer, right in my face, Danza Homer. No one enjoyed that more than Jessica roaring with laughter in the back row. She had her hands in front of her face and I could still see her teeth around her hands because she was laughing so much at this terrible song. I'll be a homer for Christmas Enough Voting for the Heisman Trophy

Give Kim Ward every award, even if he should definitely have just finished number three. How many Boise State games did you watch this year? Yeah, that part's fair. I mean, you have a Heisman vote. That part's fair. The photo, you have a Heisman vote. That part's fair. The photo of the four finalists was hilarious. And Dylan Gabriel is short, but the P4 size compared to a group of five size guy was really funny.

I will cop to this particular bias, yes, of all the players who were anywhere around the Heisman, I only watched one of all of their games. But it was amazing. I'm like riding a bucking bronco against Duke and Wake Forest. Now imagine if you saw the other ones play. That's right, I can't even imagine how that blue field looked. I feel like the argument for Gabriel is that he is

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

Like, you can point to stats, I understand. I mean, most of the stats, if you want to cherry pick just one stat for Dylan Gabriel, most of the stats would say, Cam Ward's far superior. So, it's just, Cam Ward is flatly better than Dylan Gabriel. And he won the Davie O'Brien,

it was pissed off that Gabriel got Maxwell finalists and not Cam Ward. But it's all right, like, we're splitting hairs here. Dylan Gabriel's gonna be an all-timer Davey O'Brien, it was pissed off that Gabriel got Maxwell finalists and not Cam Ward. But it's all right. We're splitting hairs here. Dylan Gabriel's going to be an all-timer when it's all said and done, when his career is all done and dusted after the CFP. He's probably going to get two more years of eligibility.

I agree that Cam Ward is a great quarterback. That's why I said Miami's going to win all their games. They didn't. They disappointed me, but I thought he single-handedly could do it. And, you know, single-handedly he almost did. Yeah, I mean, he wasn't the reason that they lost two games. But his Heisman odds did go down after the Georgia Tech game.

That was sort of the turning point on the season. Yeah, if he was undefeated, do you think he would have won it? If he played better in that game, I think it would have given him a lot of momentum into the ACC Championship weekend, which I think a lot of people, their last thing that they saw was Gentie putting up these ridiculous stats in Championship weekend. Travis Hunter, like his last couple games this season, he had outstanding games.

So yeah, I think it helps having momentum in the last half of the season. And Miami definitely didn't have that. Cam Ward, I think, was maybe a little bit of a victim of that. You guys aren't doing something that I did here and I ask you because I'm genuinely curious and it's one of the reasons that I should have asked you. I wasn't penalizing Cam Ward. Now you guys are saying what would it have been if Cam Ward had been undefeated. I'm asking you this question. If the Syracuse game goes the way that it needed to for him to have the Heisman moments that I'm always

telling you these guys have to have. At the end of the Syracuse game, when it's his own coach denying him the ability to have both the Heisman moments of let's see if I can convert this on fourth and nine and let's see if I can get the two-point conversion on the road to get my team into the playoff. I ask you the question, do you factor in at all that his own coach denied him the moments at the end he would have needed for the story? My argument watching that Syracuse game back and I did that, I think we blew that game trying to get Cam Ward the Heisman because we were averaging six yards a carry in that game and people say 21

zeros they scored right away so 20 a two touchdown lead you salt the game away and this is a rule Dan you can't have your Heisman moment come against Syracuse you just can't I mean Heisman moments don't happen against Syracuse Cam Ward had six first-place. Travis Hunter had 552. I do not think 546 people were swayed by that play. Yeah, probably not. I'm gonna tell you guys. Who was Travis Hunter's Heisman Moment against?

I have no idea. I'm gonna tell you guys now. Not Syracuse. You guys know that... What happened? Nah, I'm too late. Nah, I just bailed on it. Nah, it's just, you know, my brain froze.

Travis Homer's still in the NFL, I'll leave. It's that time of year. Yeah, I'm just gonna go home for the year. But what happened? I'll see you guys next year. What just? Well, because I was positive it was Travis Homer and then there was Travis Hunter

and I'm like, I'm gonna say the name wrong, so I'm just gonna say nothing and you guys normally just like urinate and you keep talking and then no one spoke. Yeah, and then it became awkward, and I figured, well, someone's gonna make it less awkward. We're all staring at you. I wasn't, he needs to clear it was my fault, my bad.

No, it wasn't yours. No, it's Dan, really. Let me tell you the gift that you just gave me, because I'm not even making this up. I'm trying to throw it to the toy drive, but Cuban Santa's got hair in his lips and as you're talking to me like because I'm like okay I can just toss the show to Billy right I hear from Lewis in my head said don't go back to Cuban Santa don't go back to Cuban Santa

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