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Chapter 1: What is the significance of Dan's retirement announcement?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
Hi, everyone. In the words of Rafiki from one of my favorite movies, The Lion King, it is time. After 46 years of an extraordinary journey, it's with deep gratitude and heartfelt reflection that I announced my retirement from Zoo Miami, effective May 10th of this year. What began for me at the old Cranon Park Zoo on Key Biscayne evolved into Miami Metro Zoo
and ultimately into the world-class institution we know today as Zoo Miami. To have witnessed and even played a small part in that evolution has been one of the greatest honors of my life. Zoos cannot spend millions of dollars on new exhibits without committing a substantial portion of those budgets to in-situ conservation of the very animals they choose to showcase.
If zoos become the last place where those species can safely survive, then zoos have failed in what should be their top priority, to protect wild animals in the wild where they truly belong. It is that belief that led me to create what I am most proud of in my career, the establishment of the Ron McGill Conservation Endowment at the Zoo Miami Foundation.
When people ask me what I want my legacy to be, I want it to be this endowment. It's been established in such a way that long after all of us are gone, it'll continue to fund conservation initiatives and scholarships that will help ensure the survival of some of our world's wonderful wildlife for generations to come.
I want to thank the Zoo Miami Foundation for giving me the opportunity to remain connected to Zoo Miami and continue sharing the stories that matter. I am deeply honored to serve as the Foundation's Goodwill Ambassador and Conservation Liaison, a role that will allow me to focus on conservation while remaining closely involved with both our local and global communities.
In this position, I will continue to be available to speak to individuals and groups throughout the community in educational, civic, and social organizations in the hope of inspiring a love of wildlife and a commitment to protecting it for generations to come.
Through the Zoo Miami Foundation, I will also manage the newly established Into the Wild Travel Program, drawing on my many years of visiting all seven continents to create and lead inspiring adventures in nature travel for zoo supporters and donors.
Most importantly, I will be able to continue building the Ron McGill Conservation Endowment, ensuring ongoing support for in-situ conservation programs around the world, and providing scholarships for those dedicated to careers in wildlife conservation. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for all the incredible support I've received for so many years.
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Chapter 2: How has Pablo Torre achieved recognition in the podcasting world?
But The number of awards that this podcast continues to get because its excellence is that distinct is truly staggering. Like it has been a monumental sports achievement to watch. Pablo Torre win, and I'm just going to list some of the awards, okay? It's not a few of them. It's a lot of them. I don't know what the Ambys are.
Chris informed me that they're the Oscars of podcasting, but he wasn't just named the best sports podcast because he was also named the podcaster of the year. Those are two different awards. So it was, what do you make him face? He named himself that, Podcast of the Year? No, it's not. He's not naming himself that. This is a group of people. What do you mean he named himself that?
I'm pretty sure he named himself Podcast of the Year. I saw him do that. No, he didn't name himself. This is the Oscars of podcasting. I've never heard of the Ambys. I don't know what the Ambys are.
The Poy. P-O-Y.
Podcaster of the Year.
Thank you. You didn't get that? Everybody knows the boy. Congrats to Pablo. Pablo the boy.
Chris, do me the favor of showing you why Greg Cody isn't the podcaster of the year by just playing the sound of his stomach at the end of yesterday's show.
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Chapter 3: What unique challenges do podcasters face in gaining awards?
What was that sound? We're not making that up. I deny it. Yesterday in the postgame show, it was Dan being like, all right, thank you, guys. And then that noise came. That noise did not emanate from my mind. Is that the dog that's around here? That's not an edit.
It didn't sound like a dog growling.
That's not Ollie. No. That is so much more of a ferocious growl than the one Ollie has. That's not me. It is you. You're denying something that's absolutely you. That is not distorted by us. That is why you're not the podcaster of the year, even though it's the best sound to come out of your body of any kind. Oh. Let's examine for a second. What's after four hours of coffee?
Yeah, let's not examine that. No, I want to examine not only that, but just in general, I'd like to examine how it is that the body makes that sound and how it is that in your imagination, if I hadn't told you what this sound was, what would you guys have guessed this sound was?
Mordor.
It's a small, angry animal.
Yeah, it sounds like a dog. That's why it's not me.
Maybe a mongoose.
If it were me, it wouldn't be the coffee. It would be the lack of breakfast. Why?
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Chapter 4: What humorous incident occurred involving Greg Cody's stomach?
Because I come in yesterday, there's no bacon. It's a bacon job that I come in here and I can't get my bacon. Greg, you know what that was? Another Greg Cody.
First down! It's a bacon job that he couldn't have bacon. You guys, we're going to play that sound for Ron McGill and ask him what animal makes it. We're going to say it is an animal. And we're going to say, what is this? Identify this sound. So it's not just that Pablo, OK, is getting best sports podcast. It's not just that he's getting Podcaster of the Year.
He's also won the Gold Signal Award for Best Sports Show, the Silver Signal Award for Best Video Podcast. He's won the Gold Medal for Best Documentary Podcast from the Sports Podcast Awards. And last year, he won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports Reporting, as well as a Peabody nomination. You guys are all bored by this, as I say it. I know Juju's not. I know Juju likes to celebrate.
Juju's a good teammate. The rest of you are bad teammates. What do you mean? What do I mean? What do you mean? You...
I salute Pablo Torre. Me too. Him winning is us winning. So salute, my brother. And Matthew Sullivan, I salute you. And everybody else a part of the PFTO podcast.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Jerickson Profar's suspension in baseball?
Agreed. Well put. I totally agree. He's the best Torre since Joe. And when you said Edward R. Murrow, I perked up. That's an award right there. Hey, yo. The Ed.
You perked up?
I did perk up.
What's that look like? The Ed is what he just called the Edward R. Murrow.
That's what we call it in the industry.
The Ed. Yes. The Ed. Let me see here. Tony, I don't mean to pick on you here because I don't think Zaz knows either. Do you guys know who Edward R. Murrow is? Of course. Legendary broadcaster. Yeah. Newsman, right?
Yeah.
Journeyman Newsman.
He was Cronkite before Cronkite.
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Chapter 6: How do the dynamics of quarterback contracts affect team strategies?
Play that sound again.
Not me. Greg, we're not making this up, okay? This is not a distortion.
It wouldn't be the first time you made up something to embarrass me.
But we're not doing that. I'm promising you that's not something that we're doing.
I'm going to get you the full context. I'll get you how yesterday's show ended. Okay, clearly that's AI. That's artificial intelligence. You ask AI, AI, make a rendition.
You don't hold a phone like that when you talk to AI.
Greg, Cody, whatever, growling.
You're so busy. Making your own jokes that you didn't hear him say more GI than AI because it is, it's a gastrointestinal issue. Okay. It is. Like, you cannot have, look, you cannot have two thermoses of coffee on an empty stomach. You haven't eaten anything in 18 hours. Your stomach is going to give you the dancing swords. Like, for sure, you have no chance.
I'm surprised that you don't notice that your body is making these sounds.
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Chapter 7: What are the top low-key NFL free agents discussed in this episode?
We have talked before here about how, in general, the sports fan is a bit numb to cheating. I really don't know at this point what the cheating scandal for performance enhancers is that I would have to put in front of you for it to start. a lot of clucking outrage, but Jerickson Profar being suspended for an entire baseball season at the age of 33, it costs the Braves, obviously.
He's 33 years old, and I understand at that age why you would go through the pharmacy to try and do something like this. 162 games suspension, is baseball reacting to something it didn't react to a long time ago with punitive measures that are really punitive? Like, I don't know how long the average baseball career is, but there is very little precedent.
There's some, but there's very little precedent for a guy getting an entire year. 162 games at the age of 33, I'm going to say comes pretty close to ending your career because I don't think you could just not play a year of baseball at the big league level and just return intact. And you're going to return stained. What do I have to do in baseball? I have to make it a star, right?
I have to make it Aaron Judge or Otani for anybody to actually care about this. I can't make it Jerks and Profar.
Yeah, but I don't think it's just a baseball thing. I mean, if random NBA player got popped for, you know, drug testing for the full season, I think we'd kind of shrug our shoulders there, too. I don't think it's just isolated baseball.
But a full year suspension. Look, I don't... Baseball has, in some instances, become a... It's supposed to be the national pastime, but it's become something of a regional sport. And I know they care about this in Atlanta. They do care about this in the city that it happens. But what I'm marveling at
is the idea that a year's suspension on a starter could be met by an audience that is so numb to cheating with a shrug. Because 162 games is crazy. That is somebody, and he's a repeat offender, right? So that's the reason that that's happening. But even sports media members, like Cody's over here yawning. Despite all the coffee that he drinks, he's yawning at this as subject matter.
The reason, and I wasn't yawning, but the reason that it's of mild interest to me is that when we think of PEDs, particularly in baseball, you start with the biggest names possible. Clemens, Bonds, A-Rod.
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Chapter 8: How does the conversation about Kyler Murray's future unfold?
And so when you get somebody who's not a household name, it barely resonates with me.
You remember the first name that got popped when they started instituting these rules? You know, you would expect it to be like this big... Was it Guillermo Mota? Dee Gordon? No, I think it was Alex Sanchez. It was a guy who doesn't look like he has any type of muscles, and he's getting popped for the entire season.
Yeah, this is the equivalent of Jarrett Vanderbilt has been suspended for an entire NBA season.
I mean, shoot, from a local perspective, we weren't that outraged with Aaron Eckblad last season. He got popped for 20 games.
He started playing well. I was happy. Yeah. Quick break to tell you about a special Miller time I had with my good buddy, Mochetta. Mochetta texted me the other day. He said, hey, what are you doing for the game? I said, I'm just on my couch right now, doing nothing, enjoying it. He's like, hey, do you want some company? I said, from you, Mochetta? Absolutely.
Mochetta comes over to the house and I pull out the Miller Lite. Miller Lite made that casual hang a memorable good Miller time with my good friend Mochetta. Because Miller Lite brought us together. We took that first sip after we toasted our beers and we knew we made the right call. We watched a game. All of a sudden, we're standing up on our feet.
Big threes are being drained and white cans are being clanged. See, times like these, that's exactly why Miller Lite is my go-to. Clean, refreshing, easy to drink, brewed for taste with simple ingredients. The original Lite beer since 1975, and it still hits different for yours truly and his good friend Mochetta. Cheers to legendary moments made with Miller Lite. Great taste, 96 calories.
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