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Chapter 1: How does Carvana make selling a car convenient?
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Yeah, sold it to Carvana.
Oh, I thought you were selling to that guy.
The guy who wanted to pay me in foreign currency, no interest over 36 months? Yeah, no. Carvana gave me an offer in minutes, picked it up, and paid me on the spot. It was so convenient.
Just like that?
Yeah.
No hassle?
None.
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Chapter 2: Who is Seth Davis and what is his role in sports broadcasting?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
This guy's going to be co-anchoring his 21st Selection Sunday. 21 of them he's got on the resume. It is next Sunday, 6 p.m. Eastern Time on CBS. We are going to do our own Selection Sunday show for fun next Sunday live. He's also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of of Hoops HQ, Seth Davis with us. Again, 21 years is crazy.
No.
you have named uh first of all it's amazing to hear you say that i've done 21 shows because i'm only 26 so obviously uh i'm the dude i'm the doogie hauser of sports broadcasting uh you you've actually named in one of the shows i actually watch uh i am not a shows guy or a movie i'm even worse with movies so i've watched a few shows i i am not caught up on white lotus i am
through season two uh i know we're in season three i've watched a couple episodes of severance i have no idea what's going on but then again i usually uh don't have any idea what's going on so it's all good are you guys uh falling asleep during severance i like severance but i keep falling i cannot stay awake for severance there's something about the tone and the pacing of it that is so slow that i'm perpetually even though i like it i'm perpetually falling asleep during it
100%. First of all, part of it is I usually watch it at night with my wife and I'm 54 and I'm lazy. So, yeah, by the time we get about halfway through, I nod off and then I have to watch, you know, the last 15 minutes the next morning during my workout or something to stay caught up. So these are first world problems for sure.
I apologize for not responding to that. I have never watched Severance. I wouldn't even have heard of it except my wife watches it because she watches everything. I watch very little TV, although I do love White Lotus.
Can you please explain to me whether or not you're surprised that Rick Pitino has been allowed to climb back toward the top of the sport given how his last tenure ended?
No, because he can win. you know, the, uh, the ability for people to get past certain things is directly correlated to your ability to win. And no one can ever, um, question Rick's ability to win. You know, it's, it's interesting, Dan, the thing that he was eventually fired for in relation to the, um, FBI investigation was like the biggest nothing burger of all time.
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Chapter 3: What is the impact of NIL in college sports?
Miami is introducing Laron Yeager's replacement today in Lucas from Duke. What do you think of that hire?
Well, I think it's a great hire. The very, very interesting part of that is the timing. And this is just one of those odd things. I presume this is going to be fixed. The transfer portal opens on March 24th. And so if Miami doesn't have a head coach, not only on the 24th, but really in the run up to the 24th, it's going to be way behind the eight ball in terms of recruiting transfers.
So that's basically the deal, as I understand it, that they presented to Lucas. And, you know, a lot of credit should go to John Shire for being okay with it. Because if John Shire put his foot down and said to Jay Lucas, hey, I gave you a chance to come here. We need you for the stretch run. We're trying to win the championship.
I'm not saying Jay would have done it, but it would have been a different situation. So it's a great, again, lesson in terms of leadership of service, doing what's best for the people who work for you. But it's a problem because the portal opening on the 24th, so you're going to have 16 schools who are still playing in the NCAA tournament.
They could move that back even a week and a half, two weeks, and kind of ease that pressure. Football has a much harder problem because for 95, 98 probably percent of the schools, I guess, whatever it is, 90 percent, their season basically ends at Thanksgiving. Now, you have these bowl games that don't really matter in the grand scheme. And so kids can enter the transfer portal.
But you still have 12 teams in the playoff that doesn't even begin for several weeks. And that's interesting.
a very very long uh lead time and there's really not much they can do about it because there's so much time between the end of the regular season and the start of the postseason but i'm hoping in college basketball that they'll be able to move the portal back a week or two but there may be other factors particularly academics involved in that that i'm not you know fully briefed on that would prevent that but it seems to me you know one or two weeks shouldn't be all that hard
Chris Cody, always on top of things as the executive producer, has accused you in my ear of stifling a burp during that answer. Is that accurate? And what would the breakfast of choice for a Seth Davis?
See, Chris needs to roll with me because I'm kind of an intermittent faster. So I have my – I'm in L.A., by the way, so I'm up early. Dan, I love you, but it was for Leah that I'm doing this because I don't say no to her. That's my rule. So I got my little MCT oil and my ghee butter and my early morning coffee. Chris, you may want to give it a shot.
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Chapter 4: Why is the ACC struggling in college athletics?
Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. Do you think that Seth Davis could eat a cheesecake like nobody else at Levitard Show? Tell us about your stand-up comedy career.
Man, I didn't know you did research like this, bro. I don't know that I would call it a career. I know it shocks you because I'm not funny at all. It was basically an itch I wanted to scratch. I was living in New York City. I grew up like so many people listening to George Carlin and Rich Pryor and especially Rich Little.
a great impressionist you don't you don't do impressions do you did you do impressions not in this i don't have to think about what i want to do for you um yeah of course i could do impressions go ahead um well let's not put some pressure on let's give him some time to think about which impression he'd like to unleash but also please continue answering the question how much stand-up did you do when did you realize it wasn't for you etc
should I do this whole answer is, is, uh, Rich Little doing Ronald Reagan?
Well, I, uh, I always, I always listened to George Carlin and, uh, well, one day I, uh, had a friend who took a comedy class at the new school and, uh, well, there you go again. Um,
The well is key to Ronald Reagan. It's really – That's it.
That's it. Every Ronald Reagan impersonation has a well in front of it. You can flip that right into Mike Tyson. I don't mind losing to Buster Douglas. I just want to lose Staley. Anyway, I – I grew up listening to George Carlin and Richard Pryor, all these guys. And it was like, you know, everyone was like, oh, I could never get on stage and do that, right? So I was living in New York City.
A great friend of mine named Mitch Brenner was taking a stand-up comedy class at the New School down at Greenwich Village. And as part of the class, you take a few classes and then you get some stage time. And I thought, oh, I could never do that. I can't believe you're doing that. I could never do that. And then he showed me a video of him and his fellow students doing their stand-up.
And of course, being students, they were awful. And I watched that, and I said, oh, I can suck. I didn't realize sucking was an option. That's easy. So I'm going to go out there and suck. And I did, but at the time – You could get five minutes of stage time if you brought three audience members. And those audience members, I think they had to pay a $20 cover and a two drink minimum.
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Chapter 5: What are some sleeper teams for the upcoming tournament?
Chapter 6: What is the future of Sports Illustrated according to Seth Davis?
I was probably like, that kind of thing. Something? Okay, no. The home run call was that kind of swing, that kind of thing. Stugatz. Oh. That's a good call. Thank you. And plus, it doesn't matter who's hitting it. Like, you're not tailoring it to a particular name. You know, all that jazz. You know, you don't got to do that. You just do a generic call. Oh, that would be a great call.
Up, up, and away. That kind of swing. That kind of thing. This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugats.
We've got to get to a very expensive Cheeto. We have to get to some unfortunate wording that a broadcaster used on a California game. And we have to get to a very fast 70-year-old who is not Greg Cody. That is Greg Cody and his son breathing very heavy. At the end of the show, toward the end of the show, Greg forgets that he is on the air and he just breathes with his giant nostrils.
Well, they usually tell me to put the mic closer to me. This time it was too close by a quarter of an inch. Now you're in peak comfort. Well, I'm relaxed. How fast do you think you can run 100 meters? Probably 15 seconds.
Do you think you could run as fast as this 70-year-old right here is running 100 meters in just a second faster, a second and a half faster than Greg Cody thinks that he can run a 100-meter dash? This is pretty fast for a 70-year-old. Tomorrow we're going to have a corn dog eating competition. Look at this guy. Greg, this guy is going very fast.
You think that you would run one and a half seconds slower than that guy did on a 100-meter dash?
29 seconds. Obviously, the film was sped up. It was not sped up. That wasn't real time.
That is real time. The wind was blowing through his hair. He would have been faster if not his hair slowing him down aerodynamically. See, I don't have that problem.
He's right about that. Okay, I'm going to adjust my estimate slightly from 15 seconds to 17.5.
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Chapter 7: Can Greg Cote really run a 100-meter dash in 15 seconds?
Unnecessary.
You mentioned only those two. Unbelievable, really. Unimaginable, right?
Un-American. Un-American? Well, I don't know about un-American, but all the other uns were accurate.
I'm glad I've never been asked. What's a good time for the 100 meters? Because I got to be honest with you, just not getting around to learning exactly what a meter is. I think it's about this, but I don't know for sure. If we had a contest in here, I think a lot of Americans would also fall well short of what a meter is.
Well, I only know because of Olympic timing. Like the Olympic gold medal candidates run under 10, you know, like nine, what's a great world time?
He just said he doesn't know. I don't know.
Nine and a half, I'm going to say.
Yeah. If you would have asked me before that clip, I would have been like 13.
Isn't it like 9.2? Why is that ringing a bell?
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