Episode 371 - Grading the 2025 Prediction Show
Mitch Unfiltered
Mitch Levy
5.0 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
RUNDOWN
Episode 371 opens with Mitch's Saturday night unraveling after watching Song Sung Blue and realizing the Buddy Holly–impersonating character played by Michael Imperioli is allegedly his celebrity twin — a comparison he loudly rejects as it derails the entire movie. With Hotshot fanning the flames, the show pivots into the annual Prediction Show recap, replaying last year's bold Seahawks takes — including a seven-win forecast and Mike Macdonald job jeopardy — before grading every prediction and crowning a 2025 champion.
Mitch revisits last year's Prediction Show, replaying Dave Grosby, Jason Puckett, and Danny O'Neil's confident forecasts for 2025 — from Russell Wilson's salary and Geno Smith's future to Mike Macdonald's job security and a Seahawks Super Bowl run no one predicted. The segment tracks hits, misses, and wildly wrong calls, including gloomy seven-win projections and John Schneider pink slips that never came. With halftime scoring tallied and bragging rights on the line, the stage is set for Episode 372's official crowning of the 2025 Prediction Champion.
The second half of the 2025 Prediction Show grading delivers more swings and misses as Mitch revisits bold calls from Dave Grosby, Jason Puckett, and Danny O'Neil on Julio Rodríguez, Cal Raleigh's contract, Paul Skenes, Shohei Ohtani, Tiger Woods, NBA expansion, and Sam Darnold's future. From Oklahoma City's title run to Pete Carroll playoff dreams and wild card chaos involving Jeff Bezos and the Kraken, the predictions range from razor-close to wildly off base.
Mitch and Professor Slick bask in the lingering glow of the Seahawks' Super Bowl championship before veering into breaking "news" that Mitch left his iconic bell in Santa Clara — sparking a hilarious Rocky-inspired replacement plan involving Bunco night. The conversation shifts to spring training, where Slick sounds early alarms about the Mariners' pitching depth and offensive ceiling, while Mitch pushes back with optimism centered on Bryce Miller's return to form.
GUESTS
- Dave Grosby | Seattle sports radio personality
- Jason Puckett | Seattle sports radio host and founder of The Daily Puck Drop
- Danny O'Neil | Veteran Seattle sports columnist and longtime Seahawks analyst
- Professor Slick | Seattle sports commentator and longtime Seahawks fan favorite
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 | Doppelgänger Meltdown, Birthday Roll Call, and the Prediction Show Reckoning
19:09 | Prediction Show Reckoning — Revisiting the Bold (and Brutal) 2025 Forecasts.
34:37 | Prediction Show Reckoning, Part II — Bold Claims, Wild Cards, and a Surprise Champion
49:03 | GUEST: Professor Slick; "I Left My Bell in Santa Clara" — Super Bowl Afterglow, Aging, and Early Mariners Anxiety
1:21:30 | Other Stuff Segment: Jason Puckett wins 2025 Prediction Show title, David Crosby predicts Seahawks win 7 games and miss playoffs, Canadian curler Mark Kennedy profanity blowup at Sweden's Oscar Erickson over alleged rock-touching violation, Mitch's Winter Olympics viewing habits and curling being "hypnotic", 12th Man Rising floats Seahawks sale idea to Mackenzie Scott and Melinda Gates, NBA All-Star Weekend boredom and Mac McClung dunk contest absence, viral AI "Michael Jordan" dunk contest rant, Adam Silver expansion comments with Seattle + Las Vegas timeline frustration, Mariners nearly reaching World Series plus Seahawks Super Bowl creating "Seattle sports trifecta" potential with NBA return, Charlie Woods commits to Florida State over Stanford, Sam Darnold and Kenneth Walker Disneyland teacups video, Tyson vs Mayweather tease, Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Lægreid(?) emotional cheating confession post-medal interview, Joey Porter Sr. blasts Ben Roethlisberger as a bad teammate/person, Stefon Diggs arraignment over alleged assault of personal chef, Britney Spears sells music catalog rights to Primary Wave for $200M RIPs: James VanDerBeek, Tracy Scroggins
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| 0:00.0 | Would it bother you if people told you you look like someone? |
| 0:04.5 | And every time you saw that someone, you felt like, oh my God, this person is unattractive. |
| 0:11.5 | I did go through a little John Belushi phase in my life where people were telling me. |
| 0:16.0 | I think it's the nose, maybe. |
| 0:17.5 | But yeah, I didn't love it. |
| 0:18.6 | I didn't love it at all. |
| 0:19.7 | So yes, it would bother me. |
| 0:21.1 | Hot shot this show, this podcast ruined a very good Saturday night out at the movies with my wife. |
| 0:29.9 | Oh, boy. I got like 10 in my head that it could be. Just did a number on me. Do you know the movie? Are you familiar with the movie? I'm assuming you haven't seen it because probably nobody's seen it except for me and my wife now. Song sung blue. Ever heard of it? I thought about watching it the night before we are recording this. Really? Just didn't get to it. Yes. Is it the one about the Neil Diamond impersonator? It's not about Neil Diamond himself, right? No, no, no. I guess they call that a tribute band. I don't know what they call it. But it's a true story. Hugh Jackman plays 20 years ago, a Midwestern, like, Wisconsin guy who makes a living impersonating Neil Diamond. |
| 1:11.6 | His wife or girlfriend is played by Kate Hudson. |
| 1:14.9 | It's a perfectly charming story, very well done movie, obviously, great music, great soundtrack. |
| 1:22.1 | You love everything about it. |
| 1:23.6 | It's a true story. |
| 1:24.9 | A spoiler alert, it's a little bit of a tearjerker at the end, |
| 1:28.2 | but it's a nice movie that I really wanted to see with my wife. Here's the problem. |
| 1:34.0 | Let me just say, you don't look like Hugh Jackman. I'm going to cross him off the list. I've seen |
| 1:37.5 | him shirtless. No. Next. You haven't seen me shirtless. Don't be so sure. |
| 1:47.6 | Okay, here's the problem and here's where Mitch Unfiltered cost me a Saturday night. |
| 1:48.0 | Okay. |
| 1:59.7 | One of the supporting characters who plays the role of a Buddy Holly impersonator is a guy by the name of Michael Imperiali. |
| 2:01.2 | Here we go. |
| 2:03.0 | Hey, it could have been Lovitz playing the Buddy Holly impersonator. |
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