Chapter 1: What challenges does Mike Ryan face during the show?
Chris Cody, I really need you to be a strong leader today because I've got two things happening that feel cruddy, okay? And I need you to lead us here on this. One is I've got Lewis roaming around here saying how badly he needs this Chiefs money on Sunday, okay? I've got on the television, I can't believe what I'm seeing on the television, it says Chiefs must win game and I'm like...
It is this week. The Chiefs have a must-win game. But for Lewis, it's a must-win game. For all of us, it's a must-win game, Dan. But Lewis has like 17 kids. Yes. Lewis is the only one in the office muttering, I really need that money, while walking past me as if he doesn't think I can hear him. I can feel that off him at all times, but it usually doesn't come out of his mouth.
So the Chiefs game is a big game. But the other problem I have is, and I've been in negotiations with Udonis Haslam, and he's expensive, and Mike's not helping. He's not helping things because I need someone to oversee the punishments in this league. And I don't know what Mike was doing today, but he's just wearing a...
a raiders sweatshirt and saying his p he's pete carroll and that no one has honored the punishments more than mike ryan has uh okay i have honored every single punishment no matter how difficult and today is probably the most challenging thing i've ever had to do since freedom get the hell out of here I have to chew gum during the show.
The show just started. Shouldn't you be?
Do you know how much gum I usually chew during the show? Zero. Zero. There might be times during today's show where I have one, maybe two pieces of gum in my mouth while I'm talking.
A lot of squatting, too.
That is a choking hazard. It also represents a 200% increase in chewing gum that's in my mouth during these shows.
Well, no, it's more than 200%. You went from zero to whatever it is. That's an infinite.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the Chiefs game mentioned?
This is the Don Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Tony's taunting me during the break, saying Udonis Haslam has become Diana Rossini's Grandpa Santa on the phone. That it's an empty threat that doesn't mean anything to anyone around here on the punishments. And Mike Ryan is actively, and this is disrespectful, and it's an act of resentment, honestly, that shouldn't express itself this way.
I think he's Pete Carroll today. This doesn't feel like a real punishment, but the only one who gets punished is me is because every time I'm talking, Mike is whispering into his headset, 57's the Mike, 57's the Mike, while covering his mouth with his play sheet. And he's trying to distract me from doing the show while also doing Pete Carroll, not like Daniel Day-Lewis as Pete Carroll.
He's not leaving character. Let's settle down.
Chapter 3: How do the hosts react to the concept of punishments in sports?
Take the air out of the ball. HB dive. Big gap. That's what he's been doing every time I'm talking. He's doing it when I'm trying to give points and while I'm talking and trying to organize the show. So the team is actively playing defense against me today on a legitimately good content day because 24 hours later, how silly does this show sound?
Laughing at the Warriors and celebrating the Miami Heat. 24 hours later, I don't know that I've heard someone do what Norman Powell did yesterday where he's like, just put my name on the quote, that's a bad loss. Where, that's something fans say? I rarely hear players say of losing to other professional players, man, that's a bad loss.
Chapter 4: How does Mike Ryan's impersonation of Pete Carroll affect the show?
I love it. And he didn't even leave it at that. He said it's a bad loss. That's a really bad loss. How often do you hear, he's right, you're losing to... Loved it. What did you love? No, I loved that he came out and said that. Yeah. Why are we... Oh, it's a professional team, you know, they got guys who... No, no. That's a really bad loss last night. Good for you, Norman Powell.
I like you even more now.
The headline is, Heat waste big lead, wilts in fourth quarter, in quote, very bad loss to undermanned Cavs. Mobley is not there. Come on, man. Mitchell's not there. Like that's not their team. Garland's not there. That's not their team. That's not what I thought the Heat spent. Like you can't, you're undefeated at home. Like explain that to me. So it's a very bad loss.
And they were five and a half point favorites in the game with all of the Cavs back home because the Cavs were, that's as close to tanking as a team will do overtly.
Chapter 5: What comedic moments arise from the discussion of chewing gum?
Is it not just sending its starters home like that? Zaz, you know about that Naquan Tomlin?
That's a made-up name.
We want to do a spelling bee on Naquan. How do we spell it?
I mean, I know. The way y'all looking at me.
I'll take a try. I'll take a stab at it.
Here we go.
N-A-Q?
Nope. You sure? Thanks for playing.
That's how you spell Saquon.
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Chapter 6: What insights are shared about the Miami Heat's recent performance?
Like, Jason Kidd's point is apt, regardless of Niko is still there or not. That has nothing to do with anybody on the floor. Matter of fact, none of them even have control over that. They are all subordinates to a decision that is happening far above them. So how does... He's saying don't chant it. He's saying the game's on the line, and our guy is on the free throw line. What's going on?
Our guy's on the free throw line. Why are you distracting him? Why are you actively giving him negative energy? P.J. Washington had nothing to do with this, and that's the question right there. So I agree with Coach Kidd. It's like there's a time and place to do it, and that was the wrong time.
So is the team 3-9 because the fans are being mean? They weren't mean.
booing like boo you guys suck they're saying fire nico that's that's very different let me ask you though i mean is there another team in the league pleasant presently playing at home under the hostility i'm speaking of it's not that we're mad at you because we think you're bad this is a place for us to vent at what you did to us they're also bad by the way
No, I mean, obviously not. There's no team that even comes close to this because, again, nobody has ever pretty much done a deal like this in real time. So don't tell the fans to move on. But, again, like, hey, if you want to boo Nico, if you want to boo Patrick Dumont, Sure, even if you want to boo the team, but the game was not in hand, it was in the balance.
The guy has a chance to make free throws and win this game. Why are you actively playing defense against that? I think that's the point.
And to that point, at what point is it going to be enough? The whole season? Probably when the team's good.
Probably when they're good. So what if they're not going to go for another five years?
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Chapter 7: How does the team discuss player accountability in sports?
But guys, the reason I keep thinking that this is being underestimated emotionally, it's just super rare for a fan base...
to want to punish its team because it's mad at its team because they want to blame somebody so we don't care if we win during this season because miss the free throws because bleep all of you that's why i'm going to the game to go and get into the crowd and have my outrage fed so that i can have lighter fluid the country's paying attention to me we have a bonfire in dallas more cubans rushing into the rescue i got it i'll save them and everyone in dallas is hurt
wounded and lashing out at the home team.
So Zazz, a comp is when Portland had the quote-unquote jailblazers, right? Their players were getting in trouble, getting arrested. Meanwhile, the team also wasn't so good, right? That's a situation where I'm like, okay, you can boo them. You boo them because they are responsible. They are the ones who are doing this stuff. P.J.
Washington, Cooper Flagg, these guys have nothing to do with the workings of a higher-up. P.J. Washington, either P.J. Washington is like, yeah, trade Luka. I'd love to get him out of here. Those guys, of course they want to play with Luka. Of course they'd love to have him.
So you're telling me when P.J. Washington's on the free throw line, a professional basketball player who plays half his games on the road, where the entire crowd is chanting and yelling and booing and wanting you to miss free throws. The crowd chanting, fire Nico, is so disrespectful and distracting for him, he can't make free throws. Even when he knows it's coming.
It is jarring. He doesn't know it's coming in that moment. You're at home.
They're doing it all game.
12th man. You're at home, and again... You're at home, and this isn't third quarter free throws. This is crunch time free throws. And you're like, wait, do they want us to lose? What's happening here? That is a jarring experience that I don't think most NBA players would expect in that scenario.
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Chapter 8: What implications does Jason Kidd's coaching have on the Mavericks?
Really thought we could. Yeah. Thought we could trust him. Have a lot of regret. You know, it starts with me. I made the call. I made the call to go to Roy. Panthers didn't play last night. I should have known that. You know, he's a lot like Leroy Hort. You need three yards, he'll give you three yards. You need four, he'll give you three. And I just got to do a better job there.
I thought the fans were great. A couple calls didn't go our way. Bradley stayed on basketball way too long, especially with the CFP rankings. That's bread and butter right there. That's our identity. We'll talk politics, though. Push away the remainder of our audience. Next segment.