Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: How does Mina Kimes connect football with pop culture?
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This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
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Dano, hot off the press, Dylan Gabriel in the concussion protocol. Shadur Sanders to make his first start this Sunday.
Okay. Let's go. We will start then in the obvious place of showing Mina that beauty pageant contestant from Chile doing death metal during the talent portion of the beauty pageant. That's crazy.
That's crazy.
If you're just listening, it's a beautiful woman doing death metal during the talent portion of a beauty pageant. Mina, your thoughts?
Uncannily close to my Cookie Monster impression or my Elmo impression, both of them, right? If I remember correctly. I don't know if it started as Cookie Monster or I pretended to be Elmo or was interpreted as Yoda, but the net result was a lot like that. I think we can all agree.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Mina provide about player injuries and concussions?
I mean, maybe they squeak in. I have to look at everybody's schedule. But even if they do squeak in, it's going to be hard to pick them against a lot of the better competitors in the AFC. Even a team like the Bills that's flawed, that really can't defend the run, is actually a bad matchup for Kansas City because Kansas City can't run the ball. And you saw that right when they played.
And I think that's the thing. When I look at this Chiefs team, everyone points to like, oh, they had the luck in the one score games last year and now the luck is gone. And that's 100 percent true and something we should remember. We will not remember. But when another team does it this year and you're looking at one score records, people should remember it.
But the thing I think striking that strikes me when I watch them is it's just a very fundamentally flawed team. They can't run the football. They struggle against man coverage and they can't rush the pass here. And those are pretty important things when it comes to winning playoff games.
Mina, was Dan's take right that their offense is kind of constipated?
Yeah. Constipated is such a great word to describe it because if you can just play tight man coverage and the Broncos can do that, or even you're not too afraid of getting beat over the top and Mahomes missed a couple balls in that game, everything does feel really tight. Everything does feel like you're just playing for third down. I don't know why I did a constipated voice there.
You're playing for third down and just trying to squeeze out. Oh, God. Actually, I don't know. You're right. You're right. I don't know. You keep doing this. You're pushing.
You keep doing this. Yes. It's the perfect visual, actually. Their offense needs, is it a modium or is that the opposite? Metamucil. Yeah. I don't know. I hate how quickly I answered that.
Yeah.
isn't their EPA good though? Like aren't, don't they have, isn't it like the, no?
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Chapter 4: How does the discussion shift to the performance of the Kansas City Chiefs?
incredibly well coached they're talented at all three levels the pass rush is unbelievable and yeah for them to get that close it is i think um it's going to raise a lot of interesting discussions about what you said which is how do you keep sam darnold from doing what he did in that game in the same thing he did against the rams and i think for seattle's purposes
it's not just like Sam Darnold doesn't have the clutch gene. Sam Darnold is a choker on the playoff, you know, the big stage. It's Sam Darnold struggles against specific types of interior pressures when he has to sort out the rush. That is how I felt watching him in that last year. That's how I felt watching him in this game.
I thought the Rams did a fantastic job of drawing out the exact types of pressures that give Darnold trouble. So for Seattle now, it's like you got two months to fix that. Not two months, right? It's November. Jeez Louise. You got a month and a half to fix that. You got to figure out a way to run the ball, too, against defenses that go light like L.A.
But you and the other thing with Arnold, because the defense is so good, bro, just take a sack. Like he was trying to make plays happen on all of those that just weren't there. But you got the frickin rebirth of the Legion of Boom on your side. Just take the sack. Live to play another day because they're going to hold them to very few points.
I read some stats earlier this week that he's 21-4, Darnold, is against people who aren't Chris Shula, but against Chris Shula, the defensive coordinator for the Rams. He 0-3, 12 sacks, 5 interceptions. So is it interior pressure? Is it that the Rams are good at interior pressure? Or which is it more of, interior pressure of the Rams or Chris Shula?
Yeah. I think it's the pressure designs by Chris Shula because on three of the four interceptions, it wasn't just defensive tackles winning straight up. He was like showing all out blitzes. Guys were dropping. So Sam was like, oh, what's going on? What's going on? Who's actually coming? And then you would have edges in many cases looping around the inside.
So it was like Darnold holding on football take because he was confused. And then here comes Byron Young barreling through the A gap or Puna forward in one case. So Like, I think just going back and rewatching them, Dan, like all the similarities in the pressure designs. Shula very smartly leaned on that, but also the players are very good.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Colts vs. Chiefs matchup?
That was your takeaway from what she said.
Please don't do that. Don't worry about that, Mina.
I got to do my show, by the way, the Mina Kaibu show featuring Lenny. We preview all the games for two hours later today. I can't kill my voice like that. Okay, so I think a lot of the stuff's catching up in terms of not having his dudes out there, right? Wow, I almost went full Gronk there.
It's Eggbeg Boo.
has been awesome, but he cannot just be the entire focal point of your passing attack. And then the Bucs run game has taken a step back, although they were very good against Buffalo, which is not hard. But, you know, they haven't had Bucky Irving. I do think getting guys back in the offensive line, the right tackle, will help them.
And the other thing is, like, they just played really good teams, Mike. Like, looking back on their schedule, going into the season, I don't think it looked nearly as hard as it, when you realize, oh my goodness, the Bucs have had a gauntlet to face. But fortunately, they're in the NFC South, and so things are still very winnable.
It's so good. Do you think that they're going to pull one of these 49er tricks where they get all their guys back at the right time and they find their groove and all this is just they're hurt and they're playing the cream of the crop? Is that a 49er?
Is that a 49er trick? Because I don't feel like they ever get their guys back at the right time.
Well, they just end up getting re-hurt.
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Chapter 6: How does Mina analyze the current state of the Bears?
Being a playoff team and then getting there and not pooping your pants. So, like, I would like to see them get in the playoffs, which seems very doable at this point, and then just look like they belong. They don't have to win, I think. And, again, I don't think Bears fans would agree with that.
Oh, I think it's already a success because they know they have the best quarterback they've ever had as a franchise.
And a good coach. I mean, the run game has been wildly fixed. I just think they don't have enough of a pass rush. There's issues with run defense. But yeah, I agree about that. The quarterback and the coach seem to be sort of coming together, too, as the season goes along. So you feel good about where things are going.
You mentioned the pooping of the pants. I will show you a Packers defensive lineman peeing on the sidelines here. Exactly what I wanted to see. Obviously peeing on the sidelines here.
The job of the coach is there, clearly looking away, making him feel very safe.
Excellent work. Is that Bryan Cranston? There is a lot of looking away there. That could be either Bryan Cranston or Aaron Paul. It looks like both of them. I don't have any commentary here. Do you?
Are you watching Pluribus? Sorry, Brian Pranston just got me thinking about that because of Breaking Bad. Dan, I feel like this is extremely your shit.
Yeah, I love it. I'm two episodes in, and I love all the Breaking Bad Easter eggs in it. Like, just all the little nuances of Vince Gilligan. Where'd you go? Did someone say Pluribus? Why are you breathing so hard? Did you want to talk Pluribus with Nina? Yeah, yeah.
Are you into Pluribus 2?
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges facing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
By the way, I posited a theory and I think there's some substance to it that Tim Robinson is loosely basing his character in The Chair Company on Jim Harbaugh. Who was on Detroiters? So they know each other. Let's talk this one out. Why? Okay. So literally on Sunday night, I was watching, they did a side interview with Jim Harbaugh, like a halftime interview, I think it was a few Sundays ago.
And everything about it, his mannerisms, his like weird focus on like random shit, his ability to like, he couldn't shake his obsession with whatever he was talking about. It was so similar to the main character in The Chair Company. Then we watched it to our company later.
I was like, I feel like I'm watching the extension of the halftime interview and Jim Harbaugh is just like going down a rabbit hole. And you know that family has had to deal with Jim Harbaugh, you know, doing his proverbial Jeep tours company or something, whatever. Like, you know, he's going down some weird roads that we don't know about.
Chris, which would have been better in terms of hitting her with look at me? Would it have been this one? Would it have been this one?
I actually had someone, I'm going to do it again. I actually had someone run the theory by Tim Robinson, who was on it. Hit her again. Play this out, play this out, play this out.
Yeah, that's the name drop. I think the name drop is better than this.
No, I like the name drop sound. Look at me.
Go ahead, Amin. You've been interrupted 16 times. Look at me, Louie, is reserved for when you are acting in a way that's like, look at me, I'm holier than thou. Our papal seat excluded, of course. Name drop is when you do what Mina just did, where it's like, yeah, I had someone run it by old Tim.
Nobody wants to know what he said in response to the theory. Did he respond? Yes. He responded? You know what? He did respond. And because of how you guys have acted, I'm not going to tell you what he said.
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Chapter 8: What are the key points about 'The Chair Company' discussed in the episode?
Football. Football. Football. Football. Football. Football. Football. Football. Stugatz. Football. This is the Don Levitar Show with the Stugats.
You wanted to ask her something, Zazz, before we got carried away with hijinks? Thank you, my son. Mina, were you shocked at the end of the last episode of Chair Company? We haven't watched the last episode yet. No, no, like two episodes ago. The second to last one. The last one is not as shocking as the one before that. Spoiler alert.
Okay, so it's a perfect example as of like how, no, because I've watched I Think You Should Leave and I'm familiar with the oeuvre, but I was like watching that and thinking, if you were not, if you have not watched this man's work, you must be like just befuddled. by what you're seeing on your television.
Okay, that's actually how I'm experiencing it now, Mina, because I started watching The Chair Company, and now I've been watching I Think You Should Leave. He started with friendship. He started Tim Robinson with friendship and said he got secondhand awkward embarrassment. I didn't know if I was going to be able to finish the movie.
I have a little Tim Robinson zipline guy behind me, by the way. That's not a name drop. It's literally just a prop that's relevant to the discussion. Yeah, you should watch. I think you should leave. Watch the first season. I am. Oh, sorry. Yeah. I feel like if, yeah, I mean, how do I explain? It is just like an embrace of like randomness that doesn't really exist anymore. in comedy, right?
No one can predict anything that anyone's about to say. In a world where increasingly every content is just AI spitting out like, hey, what's the next sentence going to be? AI could never write a single line of dialogue or scene in a show like this because it only comes from the most demented brains on earth.
I made my older son sit down and watch I Think You Should Leave With Me. He got mad at me.
That's a common experience of people watching I Think You Should Leave.
I think that's something. I've told you guys the story that I was with my brother's fiancee at a loud place, and I was recommending the show to her, and she thought I was being mean because she couldn't hear me, and I just kept saying, I think you should leave. That's actually a great sketch for that show. Who do you imagine is going to win Colts off a bye versus Kansas City?
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