Amin is almost fully recovered from his fall at our Christmas Party and reveals to us he has been dry ever since. Speaking of dry, we revisit the video of Roy (who claims he’s been dry since July) staring longingly at David Dwork as he and Greg Cote took a shot from a hockey stick. What a waste of a perfectly good hockey stick! Then, speaking of hockey equipment, Roy tells us he is learning to skate in preparation for a potential media game at the 2026 Winter Classic in South Florida. Plus, why do we as sports fans care about the money in transactions but not the money in ownership? Also, Dan tells a story about Micky Arison that nobody really understands and leads to a hilarious ending with one of the most iconic sounds in show history catching Amin completely off guard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened to Amin at the Christmas Party?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
At some point, thank you, Amin, for coming in and immediately shuffling papers when they're counting us in and trying to keep the sound pristine. Excellent start to the segment. As always, we appreciate the drunken meanderings of Juan Amin Alhacen when he comes into town and graces us with his expertise. I've been dry since the holiday party. Way to go. Did you learn something?
Are there more parts of that story that are unknown? Because as an adult man, you probably shouldn't be drinking so much that you fall on your face.
That's not what happened. Whoa. Right. That's not at all what happened. Mm-hmm. I fell, and I haven't had a drink since. I did not link those two things together.
I've fallen.
We all have.
After the Christmas party and drinking too much.
Not that night. Didn't drink too much. I wasn't the one doing shots out of a hockey stick.
No, that was me. I wasn't the one falling on my face and needing surgery on my lip.
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Chapter 2: Why is Roy learning to skate for the 2026 Winter Classic?
The Venmo fine bucket. Love it. It's at Billy L. Gill. Just send the money that way.
I sent it to the bucket. I don't send it to you.
From the maker of It's Opposite Day.
Which is January 25th. We looked it up.
Oh, it's early. Is it a leap year? I can't wait. Why is it different this year? Must be like Thanksgiving.
From the maker of It's Opposite Day. I mean, I'm going to give you the information, and you're going to see the errors of your ways, and I think the $7 not listening fine should be doubled. What?
I think your reaction... It's only on Tuesdays with Greg.
I think your reaction to hearing for the first time what you should have heard, because listening is an important feature of this show, is the follow-up questions I assume you're going to ask when I tell you that Billy Gill said that him and Roy played tag this morning. You didn't even hear that. No. Was it phone tag?
I hate phone tag.
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Chapter 3: Why do sports fans care about player transactions but not ownership money?
It's always interesting to me, though, when you guys are interested about money. Like, you guys, it really is funny to me, right? Because Jimmy Butler, Tyreek Hill, it's all money. Money, money, money, it doesn't matter. When it's that, you're fascinated.
But when it's the big money, when it's the money that families fight over and Woody Johnson is making his teenage kids the team, then you don't care unless I give you the details of, oh, rich family treats the whole thing as a stupid toy. Isn't that funny? Yeah. They ruin Aaron Rodgers at the end because it's a rich family stupid toy.
What about me makes you think that's funny? I mean, I represent Jet fans here. I am the only Jet fan here. None of it's funny. I've known that for two and a half decades.
This is the part that I'm fascinated by that I want to talk about with you and Amin because I don't get it as a content strategy thing. I've been telling you for years that when John Skipper
and david samson talk with pablo torre the amount of business information there is something that the business world is chewing up because they can't believe that's out there and for free a knowledge of how it is to dominate the sports business what do you mean you can just get that expertise by downloading fifty minutes because
We cover it very poorly in sports because in the mainstream media, we obsess about the Tyreek Hills and the Jimmy Butlers. And these owners hide in the shadows and we don't know anything about them. And they are these shadowy creatures that are covered very poorly until all of a sudden Donald Sterling stumbles into it for the 7,000th time. And then they can't hide it anymore.
Well, Dan, I'll say this. There's two reasons for that. reason number one is there's a dearth of people who actually know these things, right? David Sampson, me, Mike Tenenbaum, I don't know, he's not on ESPN anymore. Like, the number of people who work in front office and are willing to speak frankly, not just...
That's the big thing, though, that I'm telling you is on the Sporting Class podcast where it's like this information, nobody gives it publicly. How it is these commissioners get run through on these TV contracts because people keep assigning some strength to the people running college football and they've been played for fools already by the money.
Now, the other side of this, I'm going to say, is part of the grander problem, I think, about sports. And I talked about this to you when Georgia Tech was playing Miami. And I said, it's so fun just to be a dumb fan. I don't know who the AD at Georgia Tech is. I don't know. I just know that my team's going to kick your ass.
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Chapter 4: What iconic sound caught Amin off guard?
I don't think Amin knows what we're talking about when we reference one of the most famous sounds in show history that involves Mickey Arison. Chris Cody doesn't know what it is that I'm talking about. I don't know. Yes, you do, Stugatz. I do know. Stugatz. I do know.
Stugatz.
I know. Do you not know?
Is this the expose where he admitted to putting air in chips? Yes.
Stugat, you don't know the sound I'm about to play that I have told Mickey Arison that we're not playing anymore because it's a problematic sound.
Mickey Aaron chips, man. That was a good day. I do know the sound. I'm aware of the sound. Yes. I'm just scared for you to play it.
I just want to hear his voice. I don't care if he talks about the weather. Chris can't find it because he doesn't know the joke I'm talking about. After Mickey Harrison is not a public speaker. OK, so he is outside this arena here and there there's a parade full of people out front. And the slogan for the Miami Heat at the time is stay white and.
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Chapter 5: What’s the story behind Mickey Arison and the Miami Heat?
Oh, no, no. It was white hot. Excuse me.
I just can't believe that nobody around here knows this story. It's like one of the most famous in the show's history.
Well, clearly I know the story.
And I'm surrounded by people who don't know this story when it's sound that vanished that the people around here should know the story. Well, you're telling us the story.
We moved our mics away.
How am I telling a story that is one of the most famous in show history that no one here knows that story? How is it possible when everyone here knows the story?
I think we're trying to figure out which story.
Is it the statewide story or the sound disappearing story? Because that story was leading us there.
The sound disappearing story is not something that any of you knew.
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