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Chapter 1: Why do Dominican New Yorkers love the New York Knicks?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
If you're not aware of where Mike's irrationally hostile and rabid fury about the Heat comes from, it's not merely what's happening with the Heat. It's also that the Celtics and Knicks are good. And when the Knicks are good, it makes for loud Latin people. And while I usually like loud Latin people, loud Latin Knicks fans make it hard. How do we have so many of these guys?
Ian Lada is a comedian here. You can catch his hour special, the new one, Material Boy, on YouTube, and you can get tickets and available dates at ianladalive.com. Look at him smirking and smiling. Is this an underrepresented base that you're going for?
Chapter 2: What makes Ian Lara's comedy style unique?
The Knicks fan base, just because we got him and Sam Morrow. Dominican Knicks guys. You got Morrow, you got this guy. What's going on here? Yeah, well, I like funny people and energetic people, and I like people who are excited about their sports teams. When is the last time, Ian, and thank you for joining us, that you loved the Knicks team this way? Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
And honestly, the last few years have been good. I feel like we've advanced a little bit further every year, so I'm thinking this is the year.
Chapter 3: How has Ian's relationship with the Knicks evolved over the years?
And we just added Alvarado, and I don't know if you saw the game he had yesterday, but... The Latin loud fans are just going to multiply. Yeah, 26 points he had. And you feel how about Karl-Anthony Towns? What's your relationship with him? Because he's going to get some grande por gusto if he disappears in the playoffs. I like Anthony.
Carl Anthony Towns is half Dominican, as am I. So legally, I'm not allowed to say anything negative about him. He played for a Dominican team. I also am a fan, aside from both coming, having the same parents, but parents coming from the same country.
Chapter 4: What are the challenges of being a Knicks fan?
But I do like his game. I think I don't like it sometimes. I feel like when he doesn't get the ball, he tends to get a little pout a little bit. But I like his game. And I think last year in the playoff, he carried us a lot when Brunson was down. What else do you put next to your irrational Knicks love in terms of passion? What else in your life sort of lines up the way that that does? The Mets.
Yeah, so you've been suffering, right? You've been hurting for a while.
Chapter 5: How does Ian feel about the current state of the Knicks?
Your most joyous, because you're still a young man, your most joyous experiences in sports are what? Well, I'm a Giants fan also. I saw them win two Super Bowls versus New England. I'll never forget that. One of them being the undefeated season that New England had. So that'll hold you over for a while. That'll hold you over for 20, 30 years.
It might, but I feel like you like basketball and baseball more, so you're choosing the Giants just because it feels good where it is you've had your sufferings over here for a while. Almost for as long as you've been alive, you've had some Mets and Knicks disappointments. I mean, when you say it like that, it sounds bad when you point out that my entire life has been a disappointment.
Chapter 6: What does Ian think about Karl-Anthony Towns and his performance?
But if you look at it more positively, I have seen the Mets in the World Series twice. That's something. I saw the Knicks in the finals when I was 10. That's something. It is something. That's not up for dispute. It is something. You're denying that it's long-suffering fanhood. You're sitting here. You're saying, no, sports are fun and I'm going to enjoy my teams.
Chapter 7: What are the cultural influences on sports fandom in New York?
I'm not going to come out here and whimper about my teams being bad. They give me hope. They give me something to be excited about. How did you feel about the halftime show? Surely you have opinions there. The reaction, I don't know why I was surprised by this. I really don't. It feels naive. Borderline feels stupid in the America I live in.
to be surprised that people would react to Spanish that way.
Chapter 8: How does Ian view the representation of Latinos in sports?
But I've just been around Spanish so long in Miami that I feel like I'm numb to the idea that Spanish would be weird to people, that singing in Spanish on a halftime show would be unacceptable to people. I mean, I thought it was great. I saw Bad Bunny. I went to his concert in Puerto Rico. It was amazing. I think he's a great artist.
It's funny that it's controversial when the Super Bowl picks the biggest artist on the planet to perform at the halftime show. And that's considered a controversy. I think that's pretty silly, but I thought it I did not know that the halftime show at the Super Bowl was such a groundbreaking political event that we had to get. I just thought it was good music.
I had friends who are also Latino who saw it. I had friends who were crying because of the representation and how cool it meant to see their flag being represented in that way. So I thought it was great. Ian? Am I canceled? People had to endure the rap last year. They didn't understand. Now you're going to make the rap a different language entirely? Like, it's too much. It's too much. It's fine.
Look, we'll get Coldplay next year. Everyone will forget about it. Do Maroon 5 again? Yeah, everyone will forget about it. Your first special was called Romantic Comedy. How do you do Valentine's Day? Yeah, I mean, I'm a comic, so it's tough because I work on all the holidays. Like I work.
I know I saw a meme yesterday about like some guys are like, babe, I got to work at night on Valentine's Day to get out of it. But I literally and it's Saturday night. Like I have six shows on Saturday night. So I kind of got to get like a redo date on the Valentine's Day.
six shows you have too many too many shows you mean six shows too many shows are you insinuating that i overbooked myself are you too many shows are you doing a matinee what are you doing a breakfast show like what are you doing six what's up denny's no no because i'm in i'm here in new york so it's not it's not our headlining shows it's more showcase so it's just six 20 minute spots it's not like i'm doing six hours oh like rounds so you stink at valentine's day
No, no, it just, if the 14 falls on like a Tuesday, I'll kill it. Okay, but it doesn't, so you're just working on Valentine's Day. Do you have any advice for broke people on Valentine's Day? Do you have different advice? Well, you must have different advice for rich people on Valentine's Day. My advice is the same across all pay grades. If you have the opportunity to work at night, take it.
I mean, they're looking for shifts, and you can get it, and normally your partner would understand if you get them a nice gift after.
You guys should know back there that Ian made an observation that a whole lot of people make when they land in Miami and just end up at the local Whole Foods where it's like, holy shit, I've never seen this many beautiful people in one place in my life, which seems odd. He made this observation on Adulthood, his podcast. But you're from New York. Right. So what is happening there?
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