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This is the Dan Levator Show with the Stukas Podcast.
Dan, what's in your hand?
Greg Cody is intent on wearing a costume.Good work there, Chris.What, Tony?
Come on.He's doing a lot of things, putting on a lot of plates.He's checking out, you know, managers over on his right there.
Plus, things like replay, like one out of every 70.So like 69 times, nice, you can leave something up and it doesn't replay.And every once in a while, something just replays around here.You beat you, man.
Yes.It just didn't happen to Roy, that's all.
So Greg Cody is here and he has got three different masks that he wants to wear in celebration of Halloween.It is among the many props that he brought today.I will remind people that he's got his podcast.
It's very popular, The Greg Cody Show featuring Greg Cody.He also has his book out.It came out yesterday.What have you heard in terms of numbers, Greg?It's very difficult with the mask.You've got to get your face, your screen face.Can you hear me?
Yeah, near the microphone.I can hear you, you're right next to me, but to make the joke work, you're very far away from the mic, so make sure you're close as a professional broadcaster to the microphone.Yeah, that kind of thing.
Okay, how many other masks?Just two more you've got?We have two more.We brought three.
yeah i don't like this he sounds out of breath i don't know if he's breathing properly through that mask i don't want an incident here greg can you breathe properly i can breathe man i'm breathing i've been breathing my whole life uh... the book sales have been great i'm not going to get any figures until later in the week but we're already top ten
in two of the major categories on Amazon.
So I think the pre-sales were really good, and I think the initial reaction, despite the fact that I wasn't on the Levitard show yesterday because I was bumped by Tim Walz, even though there's been like almost 50 vice presidents in American history, nobody can name five of them, but there's only one Greg Cody.
But still, people are really happy about that.That was a bar.
But he's right.Thank you. People are happy about the book.
Thank you for allowing me to plug it put it on the pole, please juju Can you name five American vice presidents?Yes, you know, of course.Come on guys.
I can name one or two But there's only one Greg code I got three Center on the kitchen table in Scranton.My dad said Joey Someday you could be vice president
That's Greg Cody's limited fake Joe Biden worse than his son.Not bad.
Try it without the mask.Come on.
Get to the table and scranton.
All he's got is scranton.That's all he's got. It is all he's got.You're so right there.Sitting around a table in Scranton.We got it.Do I go anywhere else?South Scranton.You went West Scranton, East Scranton, North Scranton, but that's it.
We're always sitting around a table.
That's weird.Sitting around a table in Scranton.
Says to me, Joey.It's the only two things he's got.Joey and Scranton.
Stu Gatz is moved because Tony's again wearing the Hispanic undershirt.
Tony, I think we need to explain to the audience and to Greg Cody why you're wearing that because I was confused on an MMA hangout that is increasingly getting more and more numbers that you went straight beefcake where I'm just going to give off, I'm going to oil up and I'm going to wear one of these shirts to give off masculine sensuality.
That's right, Dano, and it works to the tune of
a very high number on that MMA hangout and MMA hangouts after that but the reason I wore this today because Greg at one point a couple of weeks ago said that it was unprofessional to wear something like this in the studio and then he was told that I was at home and then he said it was still unprofessional so I made my vow to let Greg know that this is still professional I can still do my job and wear a tank top meanwhile.
He sure can.How about that?
That's it?Dad, now it's your time to talk about Tony wearing that shirt.Well, you can't see him.He's wearing a mask.
You know, Tony can do whatever he wants.Thank you.We all have our, you know... Yeah, we all have our things like it's not my thing to wear a tank top in public or in private But it's his and more power to him, you know personally it in this setting.
I don't mind it as much The only time I really mind it is in a restaurant.Okay, when I'm eating a burrito, I don't want to see your armpit hair It's great.
Mr. Tank top, you know sitting on the kitchen table in Scranton My dad would say Joey you don't want to be seen in a tank top.I
The part about this that's best is where he goes left hand to get the impersonation right like a Las Vegas impersonator where he's going professionally with the Joe Biden fingers on the left hand.
You gotta find it with the impression.Mine is my two hands pointed at each other.It brings it home.I do it better when my hands are like this.
I'm gonna go back to being a Roomba.Billy, you and Stugatz, it was so successful going out to Chicago that you and Stugatz are now going all the way to Arizona because God Bless Football is going all over the country.Spoiler alert.
I wasn't supposed to say that?
No, you were.I thought we were promoting that.You pretend it's a little secret and then the audience is like, ooh, I know something I'm not supposed to know.What if I show up there?Now there's a graphic.
What?That was quick.Secrets out, I guess, man.So the DraftKings sports book.Oh, you guys were at the one in Chicago, right?These things are amazing.
Yeah, we didn't do the Sportsbook in Chicago at Wrigley.We're doing the DK Sportsbook in Arizona.We were at a bar the first time on Weave Street.Joe's on Weave, yeah.Stu's on Weave, too.
No, but I thought, Stu Gatz, have you not done a show from the DraftKings Sportsbook in Chicago?Have you not done that?Because we had talked about you doing that, so I thought you had done that.
No, we talked about me doing it.We haven't done one yet.Billy sent me to Detroit-ish and I did one from a DraftKings sportsbook there.Yes, for the draft.DraftKings social, yeah.
And so what's this one?When is this one and what are you guys doing?Is this next week, two weeks from now?
It's a great question, Dan.It is Sunday, November 10th. Okay.Sunday, November 10th.Thank you, Chris.Sunday, November 10th.It is the Jets versus the Cardinals.We're going to be there.DraftKings Sportsbook, Stugatz and Mikey A and myself will be there.
Come out and join us.You can enjoy the game with us.You can follow along on YouTube if you're not in the area.
It's going to be lots of fun being had by all, except Stugatz and Mikey A, because again, the Jets are playing, so they're probably going to be miserable.
Yeah, Dan, we selected this game when we thought the Jets were going to be good.Yeah.
So let me know if you guys need any restaurant Are you going to be around?
I was explicitly told that they did not want me to be around.What?
Specifically?Yeah, specifically.They're worried about inventory.Brought to you by Smirnoff, by the way.Okay.All right.
Well, more for us then.This guy can put it down.Yeah, more for everybody else.By the way, also, just a friendly reminder because here's the thing.Guys, this weekend, we have a very important situation.Time is changing again.It is?
Yes, time's changing this coming Sunday.So a week after that, we're now going to have a situation where on YouTube, we're in Arizona, there's parts where they don't change the time, and I believe that that's going to be the case here.
So I'm being told 2.25 local time is the time that this game is kicking off.However,
Let me tell you something.Let me explain something from the Arizona guy here.You never have to explain to Arizona people what time the game is kicking off.They know.When the time changes, the clock changes for us.
To be perfectly honest with you, I'm more concerned about our crew getting there on time.He was telling me, I mean.Yes, and I'm more concerned about us and the YouTube audience.
YouTube audience, if you're on the East Coast, 425 Eastern, we're going to be starting.But if you're in Arizona, come sooner, hang out with us.It's going to be a fun day.
The point is that Tony and Stugatz and Billy will pop up places with little personal shows for the people who have the most intimate relationships with the audience.And when they go to Arizona, I mean, people would like to see you in Arizona.
It's your hometown.It's a bit weird that you're saying here, do you have scheduling conflicts?Are you lying about what is happening here because you can't be there because they'd like to have you there?That's right, Denno.
It's exactly what's okay well to be clear Amin will not be there and Tony will also not be there because he's gonna have a baby soon so we don't want to have a new baby comes out yeah yeah she's like hey look you're gonna be eight months pregnant you're gonna be six hours away on a plane so if something happens all the sudden it's gonna take you all that time to come over here right Greg?
I'm doing a watch party in Scranton!We're gonna have an extra big kitchen table!My dad said Joey invite everybody we'll have a watch party in Scranton!
President Biden, what do you think about the Yankee game last night about those guys in the crowd?
You know what, if that happened in Scranton, we'd kick their ass out of there.
They showed up at the kitchen table one day.My dad said, Joey, get these clowns out of here in Scranton.
He has to end every sentence.
I'm pretty sure that is the Yankee single A affiliate.
I really do believe that Scranton is one of their minor league affiliates.It's a truly terrible impersonation, Greg.I don't know why you insist on doing it.Your son's is much better.You're anti-Scranton.
You are Dan Confirm the rail riders triple-a affiliate of the Yankees Those fans have made it in Scranton never Joey Greg showed up all the mon.
They wouldn't have made it there
I am a little worried, as Amin is, that Greg Cody sounds like he's hyperventilating in the mask.All of this feels unhealthy and unsafe.You ever seen Interstellar?
He sounds like McConaughey when he was in the mask.
Sweating it is a little stuffy in here.
You've had breathing problems for four years I think we should probably get your mask off take it off and try on another one try on a different Reef for about a minute and then just get right back on the horse.
It's like it's like an egg It's got breathable parts on like a baseball just slam everything down.Don't worry.That was Greg all along What?
And I would have gotten away from you meddling kids.
That's a Scooby-Doo Right now for the audio audience my dad just went below the desk to hide so we have a big reveal How do we know it's Greg video guys look this mask he's been wearing since I was six is that right this mask He's had forever.
You have seen this mask young boy.I can see him from the side but We all can see it.The video has revealed to us, at least in the preview.Oh, that's good.Put on the headset.
He does look awkward.It is funny.
There's the reveal, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh boy, who's that?I don't want to be, this is a nice guy.I don't want to speak ill of him, but it kind of looks like a demon version of Tom Thibodeau.The butcher?
Greg, this is a second reveal here for Halloween.Sorry to the audio audience.It is quite the costume that is old.Probably doesn't smell good.He's not looking out the eyes.He is.
I regret to inform the audience that we have not been able to put together our Tim Legler Halloween because of all the hurricane stuff.We planned to do that in a couple of days.We were trying to send people.We had it all organized.
And again, for like the third straight year, he's not doing Halloween.
Yeah, it's pretty terrible.Thank you, Billy.And go ahead and speak, Greg.It looks good.The costume looks good.And go ahead and say whatever it is that you have to say so that we can understand you through that mask.I'm the werewolf of Scranton.
I guess.It does look like a werewolf.It's green.There's no hair.It's not a werewolf.A werewolf has hair, is a dog.It's a wolf.
No, but it's not a wolf.That is in no way a wolf.No, it's a werewolf.They're different.It's not a werewolf.It's not a wolf.It's not any kind of wolf.It's not a werewolf.It's a werewolf.Of Scranton.The werewolf of Scranton.All right, that's enough.
We've got enough.We've done enough with that impersonation.
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No one else here is willing to do a Trump or a Biden.
That's not true, Dan.Okay, Tony, you can catch up.Man of a thousand impersonations.That's not bad, man.
Pretty good. Stugatz.Yours is terrible.You just got to get a little redder.A little pinker.You're right there, man.
Yours is not.You're biting me.What do you mean?
Oh, his is good, Dave.That's actually not bad.His is good.Not terrible.That's not terrible.We got to come together.
A little southern twang there.A little George Bush in that one.This is the Don Levatar Show with the Stugatz.
I mean, can you tell me, because we've been talking about this for a couple of days now, where we don't know whether Joe Mizzoula is an odd bird or a strange cat, but Joe Mizzoula is now a champion and he can say whatever he wants about anything.
hasn't lost yet this season and was as dominant as a champion as we've seen through last postseason and now he's suggesting some stuff here because he's just just crazy talk for a 30 year old coach but he can say whatever he wants now because he's a champion.
We've been kicking around some proposed rule changes in the league. Oh, I love this.What do you got?
You have some proposals?Come on.Yeah, like, basketball is one of the only sports that doesn't have a power play.And I think soccer just put in the blue card where a guy has to go off and it's 10 on 9.
And so, like, we should have a power play where, like, you know, because let's say you get a technical or let's say you get a take foul, you get the one shot, but you're not really rewarded for that because if you miss it, you don't get the reward for the take foul.
You know what I mean?So there should be, like, a power play where on a take foul, on a technical, you have to play five on four for five seconds or three passes.Or charge.
Or what about for an entire possession?What if for the entire possession it's five on four?
I mean, that might be a little extreme, but I think we should institute power plays where instead of taking the ball out on the side, you commit a foul, the guy goes to the other side of half court, and he can't leave the half court circle until like three seconds.
The biggest thing that we rob people of from an entertainment standpoint is you can't fight anymore.
Would you just bring back like fighting what a dismount All I could think of is David Stern is rolling over in his grave because can you imagine the call he would have gotten from David Stern?Saying that that was the blue card PowerPoint, whatever.
That's that's whatever but said bring back fighting Dog, David sir would have called that dude up and said look here And by the end of it, he would have come out and had a very different tone in his next press conference.
But the power play thing, I think, is different at basketball because there's only five guys on the court for each team.So the removal of one person, that's 20% of the team versus in hockey or any other sport.
You talk about in soccer that they're doing a trial of this at lower divisions, but going down from 11 to 10, that represents less than 10% of your team. you know, the people on the field.
20%, that's a massive amount, and you know, we see it all the time, and in a fast break, that's why teams score so much in transition, is because they oftentimes have one more guy than the other team has.
Wouldn't an NBA team, that's not the part of this I find interesting, because I would assume that if you go NBA power play, every team in the league would surgically cut that up to get a corner three every time, because five on four for seven seconds isn't something... How about you dunk it?
But the other part of it is the part that I found interesting, where he's longing for a time that the NBA worked so very hard to eradicate our guys are fighting on the court, for him to just say, yeah, bring back fighting is strange to hear from an NBA coach.
That's the hubris of winning a championship.
I could say anything.I'm a genius now.
Taking away from this like he's kind of had funny quotes But he's just emboldened by the championship like I think it's gonna get like we're gonna in a couple months He's gonna say something that's even more shocking and quantum boldened It also feels like he's just got the best team right now, too So he can kind of say anything and it's like well We've got the best team on paper and on the court and it's like I can do whatever I want really it
Did you guys see the story involving Jameson Williams, the Lions, and everything, the details in the arrest of what's happening in Detroit right now?Because this is the best Detroit Lions team that there has ever been.
This franchise has been a laughingstock.Dan Campbell had to move his house because those fans are crazy about the one time they lost.It's been a long time since Detroit had expectations around its football.
Jameson Williams is found with a gun in his car and is about to be arrested. because he shouldn't have a gun in his car.
And there's an investigation underway as to how it is he was released without any arrest warrant, without any paperwork of any kind.
And now the details are coming in because Jameson Williams was telling them throughout the arrest, I'm Jameson Williams of the Lions.I'm of the Lions.I'm of the Lions.Again and again, the rules don't apply to me.
And then a sergeant arrived with cell phone wallpaper that was the Lions, and started whispering in the officer's ears, and he is heard saying, I'm so mad at you two right now.And he let Jameson Williams go.Wow.
Where was that guy when Tyreek Hill was arrested a couple of months ago?Probably in Detroit.Or detained, I should say, not arrested. Monster can have an opinion Do you want to take the third one out?
Let's go ahead and do your third mass, but drop down to the floor Just take it off.
Okay.Yeah.Yeah.No.No, he's got to drop below the desk
On the Williams arrest, it's funny, I've been watching the Aaron Hernandez show on Hulu, and the last episode is the one where he has the domestic disturbance and the cops come to the door, and in the show, as the cop is leaving, he said, I had you on my fantasy team last year.
And I wonder how often that happens to athletes, especially football players, where the law enforcement people being brought in have that interaction where it's like, hey, we're here for law enforcement purposes also, by the way.I need you on Sunday.
I'm number two in my fantasy league.
Regional identity with sports fandom is always interesting to me.Detroit has been starved forever.It is actually a football town.It's tried to become a baseball and basketball but it's always been a football town.
And they're embarrassed by how they get laughed at.But they care deeply about their football.And I would say, Stugac, I don't have this wrong, right?
That Man Campbell is now the most popular coach in Lions history and that this is the most celebrated Lions team there's ever been.
It's him or Wayne Fonz.It's HockeyTown, by the way.
Oh, fair enough.Yes, my bad.Also, Steve Mariucci would like a word.Oh, mooch.No, you've got it right, Stugatz, because they won championships in hockey.I guess what I should have amended that to say is,
Rare is the loser that has this kind of celebrated regional pride because that team has been a national embarrassment unlike most sports franchises where you're supposed to legislate equality.
They've been terrible for 50 years and all of a sudden their team matters.Why wouldn't their players suddenly act entitled?You're breathing very hard.
Do you not hear how hard you're breathing?I am an alien from Scranton.
Listen, the Lions won the championship in 1957.I would hesitate saying that this is the best Lions team ever at mid-season.I'm just saying.I barely remember that.That's a long time ago, but they have won an NFL pre-Super Bowl championship.
I mean, Dan's right.It's got to be after the Super Bowl.A pre-Super Bowl championship is not an NFL championship.
Ask Bobby Lane.Night train.I can't.He's dead.
Well, but if he were alive, ask him. This is my point about the NBA.Pre-merger championships should be put in a bucket, and that bucket should be put in the attic somewhere.So the Celtics, they only have five championships.
Wow, in your personal record book.
Absolutely.They only have five championships.Three with Bird, one with KG and Paul Pierce, and this one that they just won. That's a shocking take.Poor Bill Russell.I mean, look, it's just like Jim Brown and the Cleveland Browns.
They won a bunch of NFL championships and we respect them.We salute them.But you know what?It's over there in the bucket, in the attic.
Wow.Did they give championship rings back then?When did the championship ring begin?Why are you so winded?
Is it from putting on the mask? It's warm in here.
Getting down on the ground and getting back up twice during this segment.Your voice changed, Alien.What happened?
Alien it.It could be the COPD.I don't know.You know, something's going on here.
But you know, like, as an alien, you have the voice.You don't even need... We don't know the alien's backstory.You don't need to tell us about Scranton or Joey or the table.You just speak in the voice.We don't need all the backstories.
There's a large alien population in Scranton.
I simply want everyone to absorb that the single worst impersonation in the history of our show involves Greg Cody explaining to you the sentence, I'm an alien.
When you have to explain what your impersonation is that efficiently, it's a shit impersonation.
But Billy's saying he doesn't.No, I like the exposition.Greg, give it to me.
He's thinking of podcast audience that can't see he's an alien.It's helpful, really.
There are aliens all over the United States.I wanted to make clear that I'm an alien from Scranton.
There you go.Now it makes sense.
Let's do behind the bit, please, because I'm going to need to gather myself, not this bit, a bit that actively alienates the audio audience, because this is all visual humor.This is only working on video.
What is behind the bit?We ran the wrong one yesterday on the DraftKings network.I heard executives yelling at each other.What is this behind the bit that we're playing?
Okay, so we're gonna, yes, it's sad, right?It's nostalgic.Alan Thicke, friend of the show, but we remember him fondly.Now it's taken a dark turn because we're talking about death.All right, good.
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Dan Levitard.I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public.
Stugatz.Don't do it.This is the Dan Levitard Show with the Stugatz.This is behind the bit.
This is behind the bit.This is behind the bit.A very serious retrospective on some of your favorite Dan Levitard show with Stugatz bits.
to the beat of just one drum.What might be right for you may not be right for some.Thank you.Thank you.
How should I introduce you, Alan?Is that okay?Father from Growing Pains, is that alright?Or like, how should I be introducing you?
It's fine, you know, I think things like, uh, iconic, legendary, and maybe, uh, your highness, all kind of, uh, I'm fine with any of that.
How much money do you actually make just from the fact that you wrote two of the most famous television songs ever written?
I made enough to have three prenups.We were at the satay for a lovely luncheon and we're celebrating actually the fact this year that my wife and I turned 100 this year.
Has Alan Thicke ever, while making love, played one of his son's songs?
I count on it.Are you kidding?It's the most perverse thing that I do.The only three words that Igor knew in English were vodka, dance and girls.And I took it upon myself to make sure that all of that came true.
And that was the last we saw him on the ice against Canadian teams for some time.
Really?Only the only three words that you need to know, right?
I think, uh, yeah.I mean, you might not even need to know dance. could have been remarkably thick or painfully thick or thankfully thick.
We have our celebrity prognosticator.I've been told all show that it's a surprise.This suggests to me that we haven't been broadcasting this, that this is not a guest.They couldn't get a real celebrity.I don't even know.Hello.Hello.
I'm going to try to I'm going to try to overlook the not very famous introduction.When Snoop Dogg on radio one day was asked who the weirdest, most unusual guy he ever smoked weed with was.
And when he responded, Alan Sick, my son's lines lit up like, was he mistaken?Was he talking about you?Could that have been your dad?To which my response, of course, was, well, I was at the same party, maybe in another part of the room.
Is Turtle Wax still doing well?Is the business of Turtle Wax?I wasn't asking you, I was asking him.
I've never waxed my turtle.
I got my hands full with beavers.
We very much appreciate it.Hopefully we'll get you around here more often.It was a pleasure.
Thanks, Dan.My pleasure.We'll talk again sometime.
I hope so.Alan Thicke, be careful.He'll steal your women.
I don't think was a massive star when I was growing up like a massive star and so I was so excited just to have him on the show one time the fact that he turned in to a friend of the show and really a friend of ours and him and Mike got very close and we didn't get very close.
I think we all had different interactions with them not on air but off air and I just He was such a kind man, such a warm man, a funny man, always made time for me, Dan, Mike, the entire show.
And I always marveled at how much time he made for us because, again, this was a massive celebrity for me growing up.It still was when he was doing the stuff with us.He was just He was a father figure to the show, kind of, in a weird sort of way.
And a hockey correspondent.And a hockey correspondent.Both, a little bit of both.I remember being smitten with him as soon as he came on.Just general charisma that was off the charts.
And he seemed delighted to be with us and made us feel delighted by his delight from the very beginning.And so he's obviously naturally funny.He's obviously a born entertainer.
And him having comfort with where and how it is he's Hollywood cheesy made him, to me, instantly authentic in a way that made us very compatible right off the bat.
My favorite memories with Alan Thicke, I mean, he would knock every one of his segments out the park, but would be trying to book Alan Thicke and having those conversations and calling Alan.Alan became a friend.
Alan Thicke is a good guy.We all loved him.My favorite memory of him on the show was, at the time, Tomás Hertel, who was a rookie for the San Jose Sharks, scored four goals, I believe, in his first game.And it was a big thing.
So Dan asked him about it, and Allen said, who the hell is that?And so he didn't know who he was.So he even got a good laugh out of that one.
I want to talk Tomás Hertel with him.Is he the best player in hockey?Hockey correspondent.
Who the hell is that?He played hockey.He was a huge hockey fan.He's Canadian, so I guess that's where that comes from.Big Kings fan, but yeah, he was big into hockey.Was Mike emotional talking about Ellen?Yes, yes.
He said he became a friend.He really became a friend to him.
I'm still not over that loss.I cried and I cried.That was really sad.He was so good.Such a great guest.Every time.The segment was just a total heater.And a first class dude.Just as charming as he was on the air as he would be on the phone.
Equal parts cheesy and full of heart.
He was a great dude.The Alan Thicke off-air was even better than the Alan Thicke on-air because the Alan Thicke off-air was a caring, kind individual.
I was surprised by the breadth of his talent.I was not aware that he had written so many hit television theme songs.I was not aware that his son, Robin, would become a very accomplished musician.
Obviously, this was a person who had a great many interests. and a great many talents, a really radiant creative spirit.
He was a great dude and the way that he was on the air was how he would be in real life, really charming, equal parts charming and cheesy.That was Alan Thicke and it had such a wonderful appeal to it.
He had this magnetic personality, he knew that people would get a kick out of it.He would turn on the cheese and the charm if there was a voice on the other end that he was excited, genuinely excited to talk to.
And maybe I just fell for some like old Hollywood showmanship, but I kind of felt like we were friends and he was just a really good dude.
I used to practice with Orrin Espo.It was kind of embarrassing.I would, you know, they do the slap shot drill from the blue line.And I remember on one occasion,
Jerry Cheever is actually taking off his goalie gloves and catching my slap shot with his bare hands.
I mean, I want to take advantage of you being here.I don't want to make any big deal out of anything that has happened the first 10 days of the season.But I do want to ask you if anything has stood out to you this first few, you know, I don't know.
It hasn't been very much, but already people are worried about the Knicks, for example, because they don't look the same.The Denver Nuggets, I don't know what four games into a season when we know that's a good team.
I don't know what it means that Russell Westbrook looks totally spent and somebody who shouldn't be playing anymore for an NBA basketball team.
Well, yeah, he had a great game the other night on Monday night.He had 22 points in a win for them.I think, let me start with the Knicks.So this is what happens when you have a massive cataclysmic change in personnel like a day before training camp.
Your coaching staff has spent all of the summer prepping for a certain set of players and then Two days before we head to camp, oh, guess what?It's changing.And it's not like little cosmetic things.Karl-Anthony Towns is a massive change.
And so the way he plays from Julius Randall is different.The things that he does on the court are different.And so they're, in essence, trying to figure it out.
It's going to take time for that team, just chemistry-wise, assuming everything is great, everyone is bought in.It just takes time to come together.The question becomes, for Towns, and then to a lesser extent also for Bridges, They're the new guys.
Everyone there is kind of understanding of the Tibbs way.Are these guys going to buy into that?That's a question.But I think right now, even if they were 100% bought in, it's still. It's still new.They've got to figure all that out.
We talk about the nuggets at Westbrook specifically.I talked to Law Murray who covers the Clippers for the Athletic and he obviously covered Westbrook last year and he wrote about this.He said everywhere Russell goes there's an adjustment period.
When he went to Houston there was an adjustment period and then they figured it out and they got a lot better.They went to Washington there was an adjustment period.They figured it out.
and they got a lot better and he actually led them to the playoffs after they were way, way out of the picture that year.And then the Lakers is the Lakers because dysfunction.And then the same thing with the Clippers.
There was an adjustment period and then they figured it out and they got 11.
You're not out on Westbrook.You're one of the few who's not totally out on Westbrook.People are writing they should waive him already.
Yeah, I saw some scout told some reporter, hey, you know, this guy, if I were them, I'd wave him.I don't think that's the case.
I think he brings an energy and a spark and more important, a veteran off the bench for them because they have a very young team.But the reality is, if you're worried about the Nuggets, it's like, dude, they got the best player in the game.
I was just telling Tony this in the back.Think about it like this.They were up 3-2 in the conference finals with Game 7 at home.They had a Game 6.They got waxed in Game 6 because they didn't show up.And then Game 7, they blew it.
I'm not making excuses.I'm just saying, before we start fretting about Bruce Brown and Jeff Green last year, and now again this year it's going to be KCP, just remember, they have the best player in the game.
And with him on the floor, they'll always have the best chance of winning.
So like we were saying back here, I mean, like is the Christian Brown moving from the bench to the starting lineup and like a lot of that bench being, I'm looking at it, Dario Saric, Watson, Westbrook, Swather who I like, but still like a younger guy.
Like when you look at that, can that be something that can live in the playoffs or are they just going to have a seven man rotation go out the entire year?
Seven man rotation in the playoffs can live.The question is, can you do 82 games of this, right?And especially with a very young bench.And that's kind of like, this is where the,
Tensions between a front office and a coaching staff happen because the coach wants guys who can play right now Get me guys who could play right now.We saw Golden State try to do this like we're gonna have young guys Oh, it's alright.
These vets can go away.We're gonna develop our young guys and then they'll be our Rotation guys and what they figured out was like I kind of need guys who know how to play I don't I'm trying to win a championship.
I don't have time to be waiting for people to learn how to play So what does Golden State do it starts with?
couple years ago bringing Gary Payton back after they let him go and now you see they added Buddy Heald and they added Kyle Anderson these are all like it's on purpose these are vet players same thing in Denver they're saying oh Watson and Brown and these guys and
All the other young guys, they'll figure it out.But the reality is you need vets.And that's why Westbrook, right now it looks like it might not work, but I think you give it time because he's the kind of player they need.
You say they need vets.Last year, the biggest argument that you and I had is it seemed obvious to me that young players were going to take over the league, that it wasn't going to be anymore what the old stars were doing.
You were very reluctant because you believe so much in old championship veteran metal and wisdom.
Golden State and the Lakers, the first four games of this season, look a lot stronger than I expected them to just because I would think that those two outfits are tired and the first four games of the season aren't going to matter.
So I know it's a very small sample, but I've actually been impressed watching them play basketball the first four games.I think there's two different things happening.
In Golden State, it's a case of, OK, let's go back to having a deep team, a deep roster of guys who know how to play.Like I said, Heald, Melton, Anderson.These guys are proven NBA vets, right?And they're not like 35 years old.
They're young guys, but they just know how to play, as opposed to relying on guys who are going to have to make mistakes and learn, right? For the Lakers, I think it's a lot about A, there seems to be a pep in their step because of a coaching change.
Anthony Davis is playing at a level that we all know he's capable of, but can he be consistent at it?Can he do it every night and bring it in that way?So far he has.
That helps tremendously, because now we're arriving at the place that we're supposed to be four years ago, where LeBron was like, it's not my team anymore, it's Anthony Davis' team, I'm just here to help.
But what has happened, LeBron's been the best player in those four years.Now Anthony Davis is playing like he's the best player, which allows LeBron, in a sort of smaller capacity, to be still great.
Greg Cody, we all thought you killed it during that segment.
That segment just now?The one that's ongoing?
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