Speaker 1: Now I want to get into a story I've seen
Speaker 1: percolating in the headlines and social media, and that's about
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy winning Travis Hunter and it's fiance Leonna Lenae.
Speaker 1: For some reason, these two young people feel the need
Speaker 1: to hit the social media airwaves to defend their relationship
Speaker 1: in front of the world. I really don't get this.
Speaker 1: Leanna went to TikTok when they TikTok to explain why
Speaker 1: she didn't stand when Travis was announced as the Heisman
Speaker 1: Trophy winner. Take a look at this.
Speaker 2: When his name was called, I instantly was gonna if
Speaker 2: you watch the video, you can see me like, but
Speaker 2: his mom didn't get up, So I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: maybe I don't get up. Maybe I just sit here
Speaker 2: with her.
Speaker 3: So you sat there and then and then y'all said,
Speaker 3: coach Pum had to tell me to get up.
Speaker 2: No he didn't.
Speaker 3: He said go get him, go get your man like
Speaker 3: and once Travis stood up.
Speaker 2: But he didn't have to do that because I was
Speaker 2: gonna do that anyway.
Speaker 3: As soon as I seen Travis get up, then I
Speaker 3: thought it was agreed to stand up, greet him, congratulate him.
Speaker 2: But then there was a camera right in front.
Speaker 3: Of Coach Prime, and I knew they were gonna film
Speaker 3: that moment, and because of how people are online, I
Speaker 3: was like, I don't want to be in that shot,
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna sit down. So I try to sit
Speaker 3: down so I'm not in the camera while I'm crying.
Speaker 3: People are gonna go, oh, why she's why is she crying?
Speaker 3: Like you know, stuff like that, And so I got
Speaker 3: out of the camera purposefully so they can have their moment.
Speaker 3: That's all it was. No one told me to stand up,
Speaker 3: no one had to tell me to celebrate with him.
Speaker 3: I was just sitting there crying. I wanted to take
Speaker 3: it in myself too. I was super excited for him,
Speaker 3: but I wanted the moment to be about him and
Speaker 3: his family.
Speaker 1: What are you doing, Leanna, What are you doing?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: I go any further on this subject, let me fully explain.
Speaker 1: She also went on to explain actions following Colorado's last
Speaker 1: home game, where fans wondered why she didn't see to
Speaker 1: give him a hug, and then she explained the fans
Speaker 1: why she didn't respond to Travis when he first tried
Speaker 1: to holler via a DM. As for Travis, he also
Speaker 1: went to social media on money to defend his fiance,
Speaker 1: adding more fuel to this fire, Hunter, who swept all
Speaker 1: of the major college football awards, including the Heisman, appeared
Speaker 1: on the streaming platform Twitch that same day as Leanna.
Speaker 1: He told fans she's been crying herself to sleep over
Speaker 1: comments made by internet users. What are y'all doing? First
Speaker 1: of all, Leanna, you are his lady. You are his fiance,
Speaker 1: You are about to be his wife. Why are you
Speaker 1: explaining to the world, why? How much you care about him?
Speaker 1: Does he know that's all that matters? Are on camera?
Speaker 1: Your voice cracking, tears feeling like seeming like they're on
Speaker 1: a verge of streaming down, your face, completely upset over
Speaker 1: these assertions pervading all over social media. You think that's
Speaker 1: gonna shut people up. All it's going to do is
Speaker 1: invite them to talk about you more. Why because you
Speaker 1: find people soft squat and soft spot and you squeeze.
Speaker 1: That's the cruel world we're living in. You gotta be
Speaker 1: stronger than that. You gotta have alligator skin. You're a
Speaker 1: young lady, a beautiful young lady who one with surmise,
Speaker 1: completely loves some men and is looking forward to spending
Speaker 1: the rest of your life with them. Congratulations, But it's
Speaker 1: about him, not about what other people think about you.
Speaker 1: With him. You got to learn that when you invite
Speaker 1: people in your relationships, you're ultimately gonna invite them into
Speaker 1: your marriage. You really really want that, you don't want that.
Speaker 1: That's number one. The big issue I have is with
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter. She's crying herself to sleep. What in God's
Speaker 1: name would make you think that that's a good thing
Speaker 1: to tell the world. Why would you do that? You
Speaker 1: think they're gonna feel sorry for you? Think they're gonna
Speaker 1: have compassion. You don't see these trolls out here, bruh.
Speaker 1: You are an all world player and they gonna find
Speaker 1: something to criticize you about. Just wait for it.
Speaker 2: It's coming.
Speaker 1: If it hasn't already.
Speaker 3: Give it time.
Speaker 1: I tell you a few minutes. The people talking about
Speaker 1: how she looks. I think she looks beautiful. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you do too. I'm quite sure there's other people that
Speaker 1: say in otherwise. They don't mean it. It's to get
Speaker 1: at you. You could do better. Why you got to
Speaker 1: be with her? Why can't you be with somebody else?
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. They gonna do all of that what
Speaker 1: you're doing, What are you doing? Don't give in it
Speaker 1: that you're about to go into the National Football League.
Speaker 1: That's what you're about to do. You're about to get paid.
Speaker 1: In my eyes, this should be your most selfish time.
Speaker 1: You need to think about the people that you're involving
Speaker 1: in your life. How close net they are, do they
Speaker 1: keep things internal? They gonna go on social media and
Speaker 1: express themselves. You don't need that. You ain't got time
Speaker 1: for that nonsense. Try and get your paper, trying to
Speaker 1: build your career, trying to be in the National Football
Speaker 1: League brouh. You don't need to be coming home after
Speaker 1: a hard day's work. Is a National Football League player
Speaker 1: worried about what somebody got to say about you or
Speaker 1: your girl, your fiance. You can't respond to that. You
Speaker 1: just want the heisman and you on X talking about
Speaker 1: how or or twitch or or whatever hell else you
Speaker 1: were on talking about how she had to cry herself
Speaker 1: to sleep. What in this world has told you? People
Speaker 1: are gonna say, Oh, we're so cruel, we shouldn't have
Speaker 1: done that to her. We're sorry. They ain't gonna do that.
Speaker 2: They ain't gonna do that.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of good decent people in this world, Travis.
Speaker 1: But the ones who are the loudest, the ones who
Speaker 1: are the most conspicuous, who illuminate the most.
Speaker 2: Dan ain't shit.
Speaker 1: They wait for you to fall, Bro. They don't give
Speaker 1: a damn about you. And in their eyes, your girl
Speaker 1: is your weak spot because she showed her vulnerabilities. Don't
Speaker 1: do it. Take it from your boy Stephen name, because
Speaker 1: you know I'm rooting for you. First of all, I
Speaker 1: think she's beautiful. I think you'all a beautiful couple. I
Speaker 1: wish you nothing but the best. Secondly, you got prime.
Speaker 1: Talk to your coach. That brother knows they came after
Speaker 1: him too, and look at how he shined follow his lead. Last,
Speaker 1: but not least, let me tell you something, Bro. Listen
Speaker 1: to Cad Williams. You got fifty hater his mad manauhed
Speaker 1: to be happy. You don't have one hundred two hundred,
Speaker 1: five hundred alligator skin, bro, develop more of it. Let
Speaker 1: it roll right off your chest because in most instances,
Speaker 1: well in this world of wishing they were you, you
Speaker 1: don't have to do what you did. She don't have
Speaker 1: to do what she did. Being on social media holding
Speaker 1: back tears, voice cracking and all of that, no, that
Speaker 1: showed the world they could get to you. You don't
Speaker 1: do that. You don't do that.