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Chapter 1: What is the significance of the Jai Alaivestream event?
This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. If I went throughout the entire history of our show and asked you guys to come up with a list of things that we have done that you have enjoyed the most for symbolic reasons or emotional reasons, Something that we're doing this afternoon is a source of great pride just because of how wonderfully silly it is that we own a highlight team.
And today we're going to, in the year 2026 of our Lord, broadcast a highlight game to the nation with Mike Ryan. And are they surprise guests? Chris Cody, do I want to mention the guests or do you want to surprise people with the randomness of some of your guests? Our head of scouting, Mike Fuentes, will be there. Our head of... Vibes, Ethan Badowski. Head of vibes, Ethan will be there.
David Sampson's going to be there.
Chapter 2: Who are the surprise guests at the highlight game?
And also, yes, I will give away our illustrious guest list. The 2018 Miami Open champion, John Isner, will be joining us as well. Go ahead and Google the ATP leader in aces and see the lead that he has. It might be insurmountable. He knows Pelota. Oh, Isner. Isner. I didn't say that. We... Yes, but we are doing a live broadcast.
We secured the rights to today's game happening at the Fronton at 3 o'clock Eastern. That's first toss. We'll be live at 2.45, and we'll be commentating on our team's game. They're playing the Fireballs. You'll see all the big stars. What are you laughing about? What are you laughing about? I'm not kidding you when I tell you. What are you laughing about? You almost died at the place.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of U.S. intervention in Cuba?
This is real. I am telling you, if you told me five years ago, Metal Ark Media is starting, do you think one of the things you'll be proudest of is that you own a highlight team and you're going to be doing a guerrilla broadcast with John Hisner and other surprise guests? And may Cody be there for you. You need this Cody. He's been on fire for two hours.
Yeah, he might be tired by then, but we'd love to have you. Yeah, we've been talking about our highlight team for a long time, and it's based down here in Miami, and we want to engage our national audience and reintroduce this great game. You've heard the names of Manu, but have you seen Manu? And we're a few weeks away from the playoffs. This is the perfect time to dive in.
We're with a couple good outings this week. We're back at the top of the table. Why are Tony and Greg Cody laughing at you guys? They don't know Pelota. No, no, I do love Pelota. Dad, do you know about that chit-chat?
Mike says that we've talked about Manu for so long and this is the experience Manu Manu sorry for him to actually be seen and I think it's just a funny visual when you think of the powerful warrior that is Manu And then you see him, and you're like, oh, he's the best backcourter in the world. Thank you. Yeah, and you see the power. Right. It jumps off.
You get to see legends like Gnocchi and Jairo, as well as new players, former Cyclones that have been reintroduced to our ecosystem in Bradley. Nobody throws the pilota harder than Bradley. Your father is laughing at you. Your father is laughing at Chris Cody. It's all fun and games until you see The Undertaker. Yeah. Somebody now is not invited to the playoffs.
This guy likes to laugh, and then as soon as the playoffs come around, he wants to show up, but nope, not invited.
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Chapter 4: How do U.S. sanctions affect the Cuban people?
I might be there Friday night for the match. Good, good. Yes, so if we turn you on to this sport during today's broadcast, we play again on Friday, and now with the working knowledge of what Highline is all about, we hope that you come out and support the Cyclones on Friday. Yes, it's free. It's at Casino Miami, the Jam Arena, a brand new sparkling venue for our tremendous sport.
The sound of this court. Yeah. I wanted the opportunity to show you what this sport is all about because many of you maybe don't know how to find this. Well, guess what? You're watching us right now. You know exactly where to find this broadcast today. It's right here on our YouTube page.
YouTube.com slash at Levitard Show will be live throughout the entire match and you will learn about the world's fastest game. Eyebrows protect the eyes by diverting rain and debris and sweat. So they're essentially a blockage for you, Greta, and they protect your eyes. You know what I've noticed recently? What was that? Greta? I think I might have said Greta. Van Fleet? Dornberg.
Did you just throw it to Greg Cody and refer to him by the old woman's name because there's no way we're still making Gretas? Ah, Greta Thurnberg. Yeah, there's one that's particularly annoying. Particularly annoying. What? Those are Jeremy's words. Want to talk Cuba? I do, actually. I think I can do better.
Chapter 5: What historical context is important for understanding Cuba's situation?
Let's do it. Take two. Greg wants to talk Cuba. I have this to say. If you're going to give any country freedom by force, it should be Cuba. Now, it's complicated, but when we invaded Venezuela and removed Maduro, extremely popular with the Venezuelan people, right? I don't think... The polls I've seen have them not liking the military force needed, but they like that Maduro is out.
And so similarly, Cuba has suffered for years, for decades, for generations. I think they deserve their freedom. And I think I would support... a military force in Cuba to give those people their freedom. And I don't often say that. I'm not a hawk. I hate that we invaded Iran. But I don't know. With Cuba, I just think the people deserve it.
I hope it doesn't come down to needing to take it by force. That would make me a little bit more out on it. I think Cuba is obviously super complicated. We've lived to see us grow out of our echo chamber down here where what you said was met with universal praise, really. And now, as we've gotten further along from it, people are generally over the plight of the Cuban exile.
They're over their outsized political influence and socialism. and what it does to one's economy is often viewed through that prism. And it becomes a standard bearer for what socialism is to both the right and to the left. And neither of those sides really do a good job of taking into account history. For those on the right, they view Cuba as proof positive that socialism doesn't work.
Whereas those on the left say socialism does work and it would work if it were not for the US's crippling sanctions. And everyone talks about these sanctions in a vacuum when they totally overlook history, which was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 90 miles away, weapons of mass destruction were potentially brought in by the world's greatest enemies.
Now, I know America has a sort of past and present. But during the Cold War, I believe that we were the good guys.
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Chapter 6: What are the arguments for and against military intervention in Cuba?
Right? And the Soviets were knocking on our door. And I think a lot of people weighing in on this haven't spoken to somebody that was hiding under their desk doing A-bomb drills. And all these crippling sanctions are a byproduct of our greatest enemies in the world threatening to use a land that was 90 miles away strategically to bring us closer to World War III than we've ever been.
And if you think a developed Cuba wouldn't have been aligned with those very same enemies, I think you're playing yourself a little bit. It is a national security threat and the people are suffering. And right now the people that are left, who knows how many millions because people like to pick apart their population numbers. They are victims in this.
I think we should absolutely be allowing humanitarian aid in right now. And the U.S. is blocking that. But they're also arguing that we're at the 11th hour here and this regime is almost choked out. Let me be clear on something. OK, that island is starving. That is what's happening right now. And it's happening in a lot of places all over the world.
And it's starving, at least in part, because of what, 70 years of U.S. sanctions and an embargo that made it impossible for that island to succeed under its government principles for all the reasons that Mike... enumerated. You can't have that kind of threat 90 miles off of our shore while Greg Cody's saying he needs to be hawkish here. He doesn't mind hawkish when hawkish isn't needed.
Loosen the sanctions. Normalize the relations. Help the actual suffering people. Don't make it about politics. Help the actual people. You don't have to make it about, I'll take the country whenever I want and be flippant about it. I'd have the honor of taking that country. It's a starving island.
We've helped it rot for 70 years because of how we've tightened the grip, understandably, in the name of keeping our shores safe.
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Chapter 7: How does the conversation shift to the impact of U.S. politics on Cuba?
But those people don't have to starve. It's worse there than it's ever been. It's been plenty bad for 70 years. Well, the issue is how do you ensure that the people are actually getting what it is the humanitarian is getting sent over, right? Because for a long time, the government just takes whatever they want and then leaves the people with nothing. That's not necessarily true.
I'd love to hear how that is. So tell me, Tony, things have gotten better at different points over the course. Like it is up and down. Their economic stability within the world economy has been at different stages. They haven't been at the very bottom the entire time. You look back 10, 15 years ago as sanctions were being lifted and the economy there got better. People had more.
The Cuban leadership allowed humanitarian aid to come in and it affected the economy like these things are true. And while yes, obviously, like there has been more going to the leadership than there has been going to the people like there is a. For 70 years. Yeah, but it stems from the very beginning, Tony, of this is a 70-year-old conflict that was from 70 years ago.
And when the Soviet Union collapsed about 30 years ago, a lot of that changed. And who the allies are and who is quote-unquote funding what, every mission that the United States goes on with their intervention is under the guise of... Terror threat, weapons of mass destruction, all of these things. And with Cuba, it was the proximity that was the scary part. Yeah, a very real thing. Yeah, it was.
And at the same time, the United States had their nuclear weapons in Turkey pointed at the Soviet Union. And both sides were able to come out of that saying they were the winner after the Cuban Missile Crisis. That's how it was all positioned. And so I'm not here saying that...
I care most about, like, and you guys do too, this place that we stand, all of us equally, is we care the most about the Cuban people being able to come out of this better off. I just don't have a lot of examples in the last 70 years where American intervention in a country has led to those people being better off. And be clear on this part, too.
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Chapter 8: What are the potential outcomes of U.S. intervention in Cuba?
Cuba's suffering more than ever with blackouts right now, at least in part because of what we already did to Venezuela. That's right. We're randomly bombing boats without any proof of what it is we're doing. Yeah. And look, Venezuela was propping them up. I'd like to dissect. Jeremy said a lot there and a lot that I agree with.
And I do think that the moment in time was for Obama to lift the sanctions when he did. Unfortunately, here in the United States, we voted for candidates that, at least in the first go round, voted against that and reversing that. And we kind of have to live with that. And these are the consequences that we have to live with.
I also, to a larger point, kind of am confused by those on the left that say, leave Cuba alone, but also save them. You know, like it's not. Yes, it's America's fault that they're dying. Well, I see the point that you're trying to make. But no, it's Cuba's government's fault. It's Cuba's government's fault. And you're asking for America to rescue them.
Intervene, but only intervene to a certain degree. Unfortunately, Obama's policies did not have the chance to survive. We are here right now. So what does this mean for the future? I think I speak. For Tony, I know that there are people, and the president does not help things, and I'm sure people are as skeptical as they should be.
But Tony, I don't know if I speak for you here, I want a sovereign and free Cuba. Absolutely. That's the end game. I don't want it to be part of the Florida Keys. I don't want it to be Mar-a-Lago South. I want the people to be free. But you know that's what's going to happen though. I fear that's what's going to happen, but here's the thing. Let's not be prisoners of the moment.
The political pendulum swings in this country. As Obama's policies reverted to a hardline right, I think that the seeds of freedom, yes, it can be bastardized by this administration, no doubt. But this administration is not forever, at least we hope. No, but it's putting reported estimates of $3 billion in its pocket right now so that it doesn't have to ā
honor an election in three years so that it can make trump properties here and there as what will stand between us and the freedom tower over here is a plot of land that desantis has given trump i would i would label this as hearsay but educated hearsay it's what they've said themselves yes it's not hearsay it's say yeah it's not it's not a black and white issue it's incredibly complicated
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