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Dan Le Batard on ‘Mas Miami’ fan event, Meadowlark’s new documentary — and his show’s next move

The Miami-based Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz, one of America’s most popular podcasts, has a lot going on — including an upcoming new Mas Miami street party, a documentary film ... and a move to new studios.

Catching up with the former Miami Herald sports columnist and his growing business:

The fifth edition of Mas Miami, the recurring street party for fans of the show, is Saturday, December 10 at Wynwood Marketplace, 2250 NW 2nd Ave., Miami. (They’d call it Mas Miami V, but the whole Roman numeral thing is so done.)

The event will be a mix of music, arts and sports and feature the show’s entire cast, including the Shipping Container, show regulars Greg Cote of the Herald and Zoo Miami’s Ron Magill, and surprise friends from ESPN and elsewhere.

The 2,000 tickets are nearly sold out, but a small number of the $40 general admission (18 and older) tickets remain, as do $140 tickets that include admission and a buy-in to Papi’s Domino Tournament. Tickets are available only at maslebatard.com. A limited number of VIP tickets are expected to go on sale soon as well so check the website.

With Thanksgiving just past, Le Batard sees the Mas Miami events as a way to express his gratitude both to his show family and to fans.

“We left Disney [which owns ESPN] to see if we could do it ourselves with the starting point that Disney wasn’t paying my employees enough,” Le Batard said. “With Mas Miami, I wanted to create something to celebrate, to throw a party to show our gratitude to Miami for supporting our shitty family.”

Previous Mas Miami events have attracted fans not only from South Florida but from across the country.

Le Batard says the new Mas will be the show’s ”most extravagant yet.” His show is the flagship of a Le Batard And Friends podcast network that draws around 14 million downloads per month.

The new Mas will feature music by G.Love, an alternative blues and hip-hop band from Philadelphia; Patrick & The Swayzees, a Motown-influenced rock band from Key West, a DJ set from the show’s Mike Ryan Ruiz, and also a performance by a band of show listeners led by Yeti Blanc (a Greg Cote Show podcast producer) and Andrew Streeter.

There also will be live art installations by local artists, then a silent auction with proceeds benefiting the Ron Magill Conservation Endowment and Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital.

Magill will unretire his popular “Sex And The Animals” show at the event, and The Greg Cote Show podcast will have a special display that -- for reasons unclear and best not known — will feature one of Greg’s great toenails.

“Splendidly ridiculous,” Cote called the plan for the display. “It makes me proud and mortified at the same time.”

Meadowlark Media, the production company started by former ESPN president John Skipper and Le Batard after Dan ended his long run at ESPN in January 2021, is out with its first major film production.

Good Rivals is a three-part sports docuseries on the intense, unique rivalry between the U.S. and Mexican national men’s soccer teams -- perfectly timed as the World Cup goes on in Qatar. It is streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video.

The beyond-sports docuseries explores the rivalry that has made the U.S.-Mexico border one of the most intriguing soccer frontiers in the world, with players and families from both countries a focus of recruiting battles between interconnected neighboring countries.

“This is the first docuseries, but we’re in production on many others,” said Le Batard.

DraftKings and the new studios.

Meadowlark and the Le Batard Show signed what was widely reported to be a three-year, $50 million sponsor partnership with DraftKings in April 2021. The two sides are expected to extend their agreement beyond the three years.

The Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz also will soon be moving locations -- but staying in Miami.

For years the show’s studios have been at the Clevelander South Beach Hotel on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach. The move from its longtime home will symbolize a further moving-on from ESPN as the show relocates to new studios in downtown Miami.