The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Hating From Outside The Club (feat. Jessica Smetana & Channing Frye)
12 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What are the highlights of the Smirnoff game day campaign?
All right, kicking things off with Smirnoff, the official vodka sponsor of the NFL and the number one vodka in the world. Chris Cody, you're here. Smirnoff! Wow, you're on the money with Smirnoff.
Smirnoff!
Chris, you know what goes great with Smirnoff? Smirnoff! Yes, but I'm really talking about the game day fit. The style's got to match the vibe. Smirnoff! All right, here's the deal. Game day is everything. And that's exactly why your fit has to match the occasion. Smirnoff!
Starting this December, Smirnoff is giving fans 21 and over the chance to score limited edition Smirnoff commission merchandise from some of today's top creators, including Kayla Jones, Gavin Matthew, and Alaylee May. Smirnoff! Here's the kicker. One lucky fan will take home the grand prize, a trip to the biggest game of the offseason.
Plus, one fan will win a Lely Mays one-of-one game day jacket. Wow. The merch will be dropped on select dates from December to January 21, and it's all courtesy of what brand?
Me.
That's right, Chris. Fans 21 and over can head to Smirnoff Socials to learn how to sign up. And don't forget to grab a bottle of Smirnoff vodka, number 21, at your local retailer. Smirnoff. Please drink responsibly. Smirnoff. Number 21 vodka distilled from grain, 40% alcohol by volume. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. Please do not share with anybody under legal drinking age.
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Chapter 2: How does Jessica Smetana feel about college football commentary?
I'll let you know, Mike, when I come back. I'd like to leave, too, but I don't really have that option.
What are we doing?
You can leave.
This is the way I'll put it, right? To say it's shocking makes people think of a certain, oh, like a cliffhanger or something.
There's a twist.
Like Chris is holding his ears and saying la la la because he doesn't want to hear, oh, the killer is actually me or whatever. No, it's so off kilter. You would never expect it. Nothing. In a million years, if I gave you a million guesses, you couldn't.
possibly guess how that episode ended and yet it was so hilarious i laughed so hard moments before the scene like it was i was watching in the afternoon yesterday moments before my kids came in the room okay just let me slow every i don't want to spoil this but jessica please continue with the understanding that we don't want to ruin this any more than i already have for the audience
We won't spoil it. Let's say it doesn't have a lot to do with the actual plot and what will happen in the next episode. I'm assuming, although you never really know with Tim Robinson, it was a shocking final scene to an episode. And I posted this on my Instagram story. I don't think this is a spoiler. Did you post it? No, not that.
I posted an article about the scene that we're talking about on my Instagram story from Forbes that says, can the chair company do that? Like, can they do that? Are they allowed to do that? So that was my, also my takeaway was, so I guess they filmed this for the show. This isn't some other film that they inserted a clip into.
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Chapter 3: What shocking moments are discussed from The Chair Company episode?
They aren't all that great of a play.
Right, so now, when the moment is the moment, you've cried wolf so many times, none of us can be bothered. He ruined... The moment.
He ruins everything. Somebody else say something. There's not much for me to say. You said it all. I don't dislike him. I hate him. He ruins everything. It's kind of hating from outside the club, right?
I feel like he's doing the same thing. He's the radio host who cried wolf. Why is he getting so upset over this? The next time something even worse happens, I'm not going to believe him because he got so excited about Gus Johnson's call.
Dan, everybody knows this guy. He's like, man, he's probably whacking there anyway, man. That shit probably sucks, for real. No, man, that's who's hating, man. Who doesn't like Gus Johnson? You don't like Gus Johnson? He doesn't like football, though, I mean, let's be honest.
That's true, that's true. You don't? That game-winning call, Gus Johnson sounds the same as a great catch in the first quarter. Doesn't do it for me. Layup in the first half of the NCAA tournament sounds the same as the buzzer beater at the end of the game, March Madness. I don't enjoy him on the call at all.
You know what Zaz is doing? Hating from outside the club? Exactly.
This is the thing, though. Zaz knows what real enthusiasm sounds like, and it sounds like this.
I like that guy.
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Chapter 4: Why is there controversy surrounding Gus Johnson's commentary?
Stugatz. Have you never heard the breakfast flan song? No, hit me with it. Okay. I wish I had some breakfast flan. Breakfast flan. Waking up on a breakfast like that.
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugats.
He's an NBA champion. He's a 14-year veteran of the league and analyst for NBA TV. You can catch Handles as the co-host of NBA.com. Handles is the show and also the podcast, The Road Trippin' Show. Channing Frye is with us. And there's a number of basketball issues to talk about. But what do you find more interesting? If I put in front of you all of the following, I say...
The gambling scandal, I say the Pablo Kawhi stuff, or I say Nico and Luca. When I say headlines in the NBA, which is the most interesting to you right now, Channing? I think it's obviously the Nico and Luca thing. You know, I think because I don't know all the details and just hearing things from guys like Shams, who definitely got the scoop. more than most people.
It's just interesting for a player to be moved of his caliber and no one else is getting the blame for that. I think that's a team decision. And so for me, I was always like, there's no way you can move a guy like that. And then all of a sudden now Nico's taking the blame for it. I think if he brought up that idea, I think there are a lot of GMs that bring up ideas.
It's a matter of who's okaying it. So for me, I'm just interested to see how that plays out. But, you know, hey, it's when you look at the Dallas Mavericks, I don't think on paper they are that bad. They're just injury prone. But expectations at the beginning of the year were huge and they just can't kick that thing in the ocean right now. So something had to happen.
Jenny, how would you feel if you played for the Mavericks and they traded Luka Doncic? You had just gone to the finals a few months earlier.
Man, listen, honestly, I probably would think, what did they know that I didn't know? Or are we getting ready to blow this up? Honestly, I just think, you know, when you have older vets, right? Remember like when Boston traded KG to the Nets, right? You would go, okay, I understand. It's time to move on. We've won. They're getting a little bit older. What is he, 25, 26? You're right.
I just for me, you would you'd have to have a conversation if possible of like, what was your thinking behind this? Like, we've got to the pinnacle. It's hard enough with homegrown guys to get there and to do what he was doing. You know, I just don't know those those details. So the decision was made. And now you look at him and then the Lakers. Yeah. Disgustingly nice this year.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Brian Kelly's buyout situation?
So when he comes in there, he doesn't need to do everything. And I don't remember the last time he's had two guys, maybe I do, that he can legit trust like that with the basketball. Right. Maybe I do.
Channing, what did you make of Draymond Green questioning some players agenda on the Warriors? And do you think he was talking about Steph?
No, I don't think he's talking about Steph, man. Listen, don't don't bite the hand that feeds you. All right. And then I think secondly, Draymond is a no frills kind of guy. I think when you look at the Golden State Warriors with Jimmy, They feel like they have to feel like they have a chance if they could get it together.
I don't know, but I would assume the only guy that's ever been talked about that does not fit within that realm of what the Golden State Warriors do is Kaminga. I am just assuming, right? So what he's saying is, I've told it to you. In the locker room, probably. Now I'm going to say it publicly so that now there's more attention on this. They want to win.
They don't care about anyone individually. They care about the Golden State Warriors winning. And if you win, everyone gets taken care of. How many more years do you think Steph has or Jimmy or even Draymond? And they need Kaminga to be at his best for them to win games. And if he's not buying in, then... Hey, I wouldn't personally do it, but that's Draymond, and you've got to respect it.
He does not pull his punches for anybody, including his teammates. Give me the guy you played against, if there was any, in your career or your path anywhere where you felt, however it is, that Wemby must make people feel, where you're a giant, you've always been a giant, and you're like, what is this?
What am I supposed to do with what this is physically?
Man, I'm going to tell you two names, and everyone's going to tell you this. It's Shaq and Yao. Yeah. Imagine me trying to stop an F-150 in a diesel truck. I was 230 at that time. And this dude was 300. And I was trying my hardest to stop him move anywhere. And he just literally just picked me up like I pick up the phone and move me out the way. I couldn't imagine him in his prime.
It was just like, again, he's breaking machines. He's he's ruining the equipment. And so what does little old Channing have to do? And Yao was so big, one time he shot it, and I promise you, his elbow hit me in my nose, and I was like, wait, what the? I'm seven foot, and you're hitting me on the way up? I was like, coach, why am I guarding this dude? And that's why I started shooting threes.
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