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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stukas Podcast.
It makes me happy every time I see this man's face. I believe I'm one of the few people in the world who would say such a thing about Stan Van Gundy. I don't know that he just brings happiness and joy with him wherever he goes, but every time I see him, I'm made happy. He's the lead game analyst for the NBA on Prime. There are a number of different things I want to ask him.
I'll start in the obvious place, though. Stan, do you know how much a postage stamp costs? I'm not sure. I think I'm going to say 42 cents. That's the last time I use one. Would you be shocked to learn that it's now 76 cents for a postage stamp? Do you find that? I'm not shocked to remember it. No, I'm not shocked that I'm living in the past. 78 cents.
I'm sorry, Jeremy just made a correction after his recent foray. Yeah, 78 cents. My bad.
You didn't send me to that post office for no reason, Dan.
Well, I did, actually, but okay.
That was a double negative.
Fair enough. So, Stan, I've got some basketball questions for you, but how are you doing in general and how was this season for you on Prime? You are now a bit of a vagabond when it comes to being a prostitute of sports media. You have worked for just about everything. Everybody, how was this season for you compared to the other seasons?
It seemed like you were having a great deal of fun, especially when you were doing a game with Dwayne Wade.
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Chapter 2: What does Stan Van Gundy think about his recent NBA season?
They're telling me if it's early 2000s, that makes it now oldies.
I mean, to me, oldies are the 70s. Yes, I agree. I mean, I think to me it's, The era when I was in high school, that's the oldies to me. And so I would be the 70s. Everything after that is, you know, very contemporary.
Those are moldies. Those are entirely different category. You absolutely have this wrong. We've already covered all of this. Also, before we get to the basketball, does a streaker, in order to classify as a streaker, have to be nude? No. Yes. Okay, thank you. I appreciate how definitive you were. Now let's see if you'll be that definitive on some sports questions we have.
First of all, give me a historical comp for Jalen Brunson.
I don't have one, to be honest, because I think, you know, you can go back and have other small guards like Isaiah Thomas, but the game was different. And I think for what he's done in today's game, I don't think there is a historical comp for him.
Can you explain to me what you saw in that series and how different it was from what anything I've seen in a series is where it seemed like the Spurs were 10 points ahead all the time and they were either tied or leading with every game with two minutes left and they end up getting dominated in the series. I just...
I don't have a lot of reference points for that team is so young it simply doesn't know how to win late in games because it hasn't played many late in game situations as opposed to Jalen Brunson, who's been playing three years nonstop of late in game situations.
Yeah, look, what amazed me about this series, I don't know that I've ever seen a series where where it seemed every game followed the exact same script. I mean, normally, people will say, hey, every game's different, and it usually is. But in this series, it was San Antonio get out to a double figure lead early. It gradually seeps away.
And then in the third quarter, they gain the lead, you know, get back up again and then can't hang on. It was it was every game. And so by the time we got to game five. and you're halfway through the third quarter, you just have this feeling, you know what, they're not going to win this game.
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Chapter 3: What was the significance of Stan's tighty-whities revelation?
I mean, come on, this was a great, great year, and I don't think we need to find someone to blame. We need to find more people to give credit for for that.
Stan, I do want to put you in a bad spot. Yes or no, if Pop is the coach, the Spurs win that series. No. If Pop is the coach, they win one of those late games. No. Okay, so you're saying it has nothing to do with coaching, that there is no... Not at all.
I think, listen, I think that what Mitch Johnson did this year, first of all, was absolutely...
incredible just what i said about their team nobody thought they were ready to do this and he got them to the point that they got to i i don't think that i don't think that there's very many coaches pop included that could have gotten them i mean take a look at wimby's first year with pop i mean you know and i'm not saying this is a knock on pop he's
quite possibly the greatest coach in nba history i'm just saying the game is different the players are different and mitch johnson did an incredible job i i thought you know how they played the end of games their players did not get the job done i don't mean there's nothing mitch can improve on and that he won't go back and look at things but but no i i did not think uh
I do not think coaching had anything to do with what happened at the end of those games or throughout the series.
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Tony, you know that moment at a party or a tailgate where everything just sort of clicks? I know it well. It's usually when I show up, everybody goes crazy. Yeah, you usually take all the credit for it, but it's because Tony usually walks in with Cuervo. I walk in like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuervo is the thing that turns hanging out into this is the night. It has that effect on people.
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Chapter 4: How does Stan evaluate the performance of Jalen Brunson?
Because I imagine Stan tells everybody at this point he has no change. He just gives it to, he leaves it behind wherever it is that he is. I'm not talking about dollar bill change. I'm talking about coins.
Yeah, I mean, I've got a bunch in my car, but I never use it. And I've got a jar of change at home, which I should probably cash in. I mean, I'm like most people. I don't use cash all that much. So I don't get much more change anymore.
Prepare any more basketball questions you have because I am taking off of the back shelf something that you have not seen or heard around here in a long, long time. It's an old game, but for us it's a new game because we haven't played in a very long time.
And now it's time to play Douche or No Douche. Here's your host, Douche Levitard.
Reclining your seat on an airplane, douche or no douche? No douche. Ripped jeans, douche or no douche? Douche. Wearing cologne, douche or no douche? Douche. Reading texts over a stranger's shoulder on an airplane, douche or no douche? Douche. Sending your food back at a restaurant. Douche or no douche? No douche. Person who doesn't wave thank you when you let them merge into traffic.
Douche or no douche? Huge douche. I never do. Standing up immediately when the seatbelt light goes off after landing. Douche or no douche? That's me. No douche. Grunting while working out at the gym. Douche or no douche? Douche. Signing your emails. Cheers. Douche or no douche? Douche. You were excellent at this game. I love your conviction, Stan. I love that you weren't afraid of anything.
You are a brave human being. Zaz never waves to somebody when they let you in on traffic?
No, it's survival of the fittest out there.
No, no. I'll tell you what, when I left the inn and they don't wave at me.
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Chapter 5: What are Stan's thoughts on the San Antonio Spurs' future?
But your perimeter better really be able to play and shoot the ball, you know. So who you're going to surround them with would be a major question. And I have no idea who that might be. And so I'm not sure that takes you to the upper level of teams right away just because of those two guys.
Okay, but should Otto Lopez be a Major League Baseball starting shortstop in the All-Star game?
That's a tough question. I'm going to say no. He's hitting about .350.
Not good enough for Stan.
I also think that Stan has given up on the Marlins. Didn't you boycott the Marlins? You were a huge Marlins fan for a while, but then they did your friend Freddy Gonzalez dirty, and you basically stopped paying attention to the Marlins, right?
I did, yes. Until Freddie went back to him as a coach, you know, with Don Mattingly. But I follow baseball. But, yeah, there's just so many good players out there. But, I mean, I guess he wouldn't be the starting shortstop, but he's going to be on the all-star team.
Thank you for the music again. A person who continues to put up his phone and film the entire concert. Douche or no douche? Douche. Getting a haircut every two weeks, douche or no douche?
No douche. I wish I had to get mine cut that often. Ordering a whiskey neat, douche or no douche?
No douche. Your friend asking you for a bite of your meal, douche or no douche? Douche. Stan, it's lovely to see you again. It's always nice. You were great this season. It's been wonderful to see. You were great from the very start, but it's been wonderful to see your market improvement with the reps. You seem super comfortable, super relaxed.
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Chapter 6: What insights does Stan provide about Giannis Antetokounmpo's situation?
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Greg Cody's got some thoughts on UFC 250. We have not talked to him about that. It got a little bit overshadowed by just a gigantic sports weekend. You rarely have two championships in the World Cup.
It was interesting, at least in part, because it was the most politicized event, which is saying something given that at the World Cup, Iran is feeling repressed and being sent back out of the United States after their match, being sent to Mexico because we're doing an assortment of absurdities here while trying to play soccer with a country that we're sort of at war with and a war that nobody really wanted or
Still a war. Still a war. Yeah, but they weren't even calling it a war, Tony, at the very beginning.
I agree. They were very careful about not calling it a war. Speaking of war, Otto Lopez, top five in baseball in offensive war.
Oh, no. Yeah, I mean, I almost think it goes without saying that UFC on the south lawn of the White House is a travesty. It's a disgrace to the historic prestige of the White House. I thought it was terrible, not to mention what Josh ā it's Hokut, right? Josh Hokut? Yeah. What he said about Michelle Obama was just despicable, and it just put a sour note on everything.
I just think it demeans the White House. And forget who's in the White House right now. To me, it demeans the history of the White House. Then again, nothing says patriotism like a bunch of guys in a cage kicking and punching each other.
You don't think the White House should be used as a pre-fight locker room? Not particularly, no.
Well, but I'm with Luke Thomas on this, and I think you guys should check out what Pablo Torre did with him so that you understand just how much everyone in the media, Greg Cody is accenting what I believe to be.
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Chapter 7: How does Stan assess coaching decisions during the playoffs?
Like UFC, whether you like it or not, I think anyone can acknowledge it feels kind of dirty, you know. And, yeah, I think it's the fighting on the white ball.
How about a football game? Like if there was somehow, that's violent. How about a football game? Like if it's the violence that's bothering you. Because all of these things can be true, right? You can be bothered by the optics and also say the UFC had a win because they threw a great event with great fights. You can have all assortment of issues with Dana White. They are plentiful.
And say he throws a great big event that had to be terrifying to throw. Can you imagine that? The amount of embarrassment that could have fallen on top of Dana White's head if it had merely rained all night.
I mean, it started embarrassing. It was an hour rain delay to begin the broadcast.
But imagine if it had rained all night. You've got fighters in swamp heat fighting with... Mosquitoes and everything else outdoors when fights shouldn't be outdoors because you have to do this. You have to throw this event. It could have been an unmitigated disaster and was not. Whatever criticisms you have, you could have had before the fight.
But once the event was thrown, it can be a great event. Because it was. Because Dana White, during the pandemic, was the only one willing to actually have an event that wasn't scared of all of the protocols. You can believe all of these things, have them all be true. You don't have to choose sides between all of the things. It could be grotesque and be a grotesque success.
It can't be argued that it wasn't a success for UFC. It can't be argued that it wasn't a success for Dana White.
It's a success for UFC in that they got the event off. I don't know that I would call it a great event when some of the things that were said on microphones become part of it when you're seeing fighters walking through the Oval Office with members of the military so that there's mandated salutes from the soldiers who are standing in the hallway. It's sort of a mockery of the United States.
I don't necessarily agree with A mockery of the United States, Justin Gaethje reading the Declaration of Independence, walking out and then kicking Ilya Teporya's ass is a mockery of the United States? Hell no, dude. That was the sickest video that I've seen all day. And there were war heroes. There were veterans who were walking the fighters down. Right, that's the point.
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