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This is The Dan Levator Show with the Stu guts podcast when the lights go out mid broadcast with sportscaster Dan Patrick of The Dan Patrick Show. Let's bring in Dan Levitard, host of the Dan Levitard Show with Stu Gotz. And, Dan, good to see you.

It's always nice seeing you, Dan. I've got a little bit of chaos around me here. We've got a very electric, sort of vibrating Miami. And we're coming off of a historic United America last night feeling very good about itself because they would be able to laugh at one city. Last night was a winning night for America. Either today would be about laughing at Boston fans or laughing at Miami fans. And America wins today. And here's the best part about it. America was going to win today no matter what. One hated fan base was going to allow you to laugh like that today. So congratulations to America.

Yeah, but I don't know if America hates the Miami Heat anymore.

No, we kind of need it down here.

They hate Dan. Oh, but not the heat.

I believe that all things Miami are something that divide America.

Do you guys hate the Miami Heat? Like, Jimmy Butler is a great story. And Caleb Martin and Gabe Vincent and Eric Spolstra.

And we need the hate. We've been starved for the hate since 2000. Why are you not understanding what's happening around here?

Wait, the lights just went out on your show. Oh, my God. Haters. What happened?

Haters.

Bring back our hate.

Okay, I'm sorry that the power has gone down here. I can still hear you, though, Dan. I can still hear you.

You never look better. I love it. Anybody get any matches? How about a candle?

Something? I'm running a media empire here, Patrick. This is a very exciting time in our history. Everything shakes and creaks down here with the enthusiasm. We've lost all power down here. So I'm sorry this isn't a better televised.

It. I like it. I like it. My candlelight. Is this the levitard? Blair Witch Project?

I'm sorry that I literally after leaving ESPN, can't keep the lights on.

Stu Gott, pay the bills for the man, will you? You want me to pay the bills? I don't pay my own bills. How big is Jimmy Butler? If we had power rankings in Miami, I know our athlete. Power rankings is he a one? Dan, you are doing the show. I've always wanted to do power rankings. Jimmy Butler, God bless you. One seed, one a okay. Over. Anybody with the dolphins? Anybody else come into anybody from the Florida Panthers?

Okay, you're talking about present or all time?

How about current? And then we could do all time.

Okay, but this is what we need to do if we're going to go to can you put up a test.

Pattern at least on your screen? There, like, something buddy, I don't have.

Control of the technology here.

This is embarrassing.

It is embarrassing. You don't think I'm embarrassed right now? Do you think that I'm filled with Buoyant champion pride right now?

This is why Mike Ryan left.

But as you he hasn't left. You just can't see him because he's.

Got his head in his hands. In the dark.

I can see.

Well, he's going to be leaving.

Yeah, I'm leaving now.

Yeah. I can get out. Get out while you can.

To answer your question, this is why it's funny, the question that you just asked.

Yes.

Jimmy Butler is in the process of trying to wrestle away the legacy and team of the Miami Heat. From Dwayne Wade gave us the greatest feeling and LeBron James gave us the greatest feeling. However, in the last two games, caleb Martin has been their star. Caleb Martin has been their best player over the last few games. Our Michael Jordan has been outplayed by Caleb Martin over the last half.

He should have been the MVP last night.

Well, that's Reggie Miller's fault. He said it on the broadcast again and again.

Why are you yelling? You don't even have lights on then. You don't even have the status to yell at me right now.

Because Reggie Miller told us on the.

Broadcast last night the audio works there out of that studio. Good God. Goodness gracious, man.

Can you see me at all?

No, it's a dark screen.

Why am I holding these lights?

He's been holding the phone to his face for 15 minutes. Dan, for twelve minutes you have been in the black and in the dark.

You can't see me at all?

No.

The power is out in the building, Dan.

This is great.

I have no idea how we're connected to Dan Patrick. Honestly.

It's hot in here, too. All right, well, now I'm here. Now you don't have any signal here. Coming. Oh, my God. I feel bad for you. Metal arc media.

Hiring now. Hiring now. Media falls apart all over the United States.

How about technicians? Hiring technicians right now? A lighting director, something like that. You got to start with the basics. A good foundation, Dan.

A brand new studio. I'm sure it wasn't cheap, Dan. I'm sure it wasn't.

Oh, no, I saw the tour. I saw the tour of the studio. Look great.

You know how hard it is to pay rent and buy things in Miami right now? Do you know how expensive things are here?

Stu Gotts. Greg Cody and Dan Levitard make up that powerhouse show the Dan Levitard Show with Stu Gotts. You know what? You're onto something. A blackout. See, we see audiences do it. You've done it with the show. Congratulations, Dan.

I'm deeply embarrassed.

Don Lebotard.

All of us who were watching college football elevated everything the weekend was because we missed football in general so very much.

You didn't watch the ending of UTEP, Jacksonville State? It was awesome.

A doozy boom. Stugats, it's such a lane for you.

Just everything in college football is awesome. Any single thing that happens, she gets deliriously happy about.

Don't you miss viewing sports through that prism, though? Like, I'm envious of Lucy. I wish that I could still be happy. This is the Don Levatar show with the stu guts, rich Winningham's last day.

When you guys make big announcements, are you one that just likes to rip the band aid off or really just drag this out? Like, if you had something really important to say in this segment, would you just say it right now? Or would you like, let's have a.

Segment, have a little conversation.

What do you mean, big announcements? Like, what kind of big announcements?

I don't know.

I'm just saying if hypothetically, someone wanted to announce something in here.

Announce?

Like, if you wanted to announce something, are you ripped the bandaid off?

Kind of guy. I think I am. I don't like to drag things out.

You're right to the point.

Why are you guys talking about big announcements?

Because I just like to talk about life sometimes. And we all have big announcements to make sometimes. And I just like to see I like to go around the room, get a feel for how people like audience, we're going to give a little 10 seconds of silence here so everyone in the audience can say how they handle big announcements.

All right?

So, audience, when you have a big announcement, are you a rip the bandaid type or do you slow burn? Wow, this is a callback to naked Chris, by the way. I used to do this with naked Chris.

You guys are so uncomfortable with silence, you couldn't get through four. I still don't understand what you're doing, though. Are we making a big announcement here? Is that what you're yes.

Yes, we are.

But who's making it? Is Chris Cody making mean I am.

Making a big well, I don't like to classify my own announcements as big or not big.

Wait a minute.

I'll leave that to you guys.

I started this segment, and there's actually an announcement that needs to be made.

What are the chances? Wow, good at this.

All right.

Spoiler alert. What the hell are you doing?

Yeah, Chris Cody is correct. He has indeed broken my news. I will no longer be the executive producer of this program. I took over that job, like, a year and a half ago. But, yeah, I will indeed be leaving that. And I have decided to commit fully to my play by play role, which I have recently begun with Apple. And, yeah, I will no longer well, I don't say no longer because I'll still be around. Here at Metalark, we're working on a project that I will be a part of. But, yeah, in terms of regular daily involvement on this show that comes to a conclusion today, I'll still be around, like, I think every once in a while I'll still kind of.

Did you have a different way of doing this before Chris Cody?

No, I didn't write anything. I was going to say it just as awkwardly.

Some people would argue that you presided over the single worst era of the Levitard Show with Stu Got.

And if that is that was Andy King year. No, my fault and Dan's fault. Not Andy's fault. Okay.

Poor Andy king. All right.

Not Andy.

King's. I said it.

I come in third, then that's fine. But if that's on my tombstone, the very least, I got to say I work with you. Tremendous group of people. I love you all. I will miss you all.

Rank us.

Hold on. Before we get to making this awkward and syrupy, we are very happy for you because when you started over here, you are now embarking on what is your dream job. Correct. And for those who do not know, we have known Whittingham since he was a young broadcaster in college, heard him on a WVUM game and he was exceptional, noticed him that he was good at the art of play by play. And so you bailed us out during a really turbulent, difficult time by coming over here and simply being helpful at a time and we still need the help because we're going to miss you. But you're getting your dream job and you want to devote yourself to it because people don't understand how consuming these jobs are. They think Joe Buck shows up and can just fart out 4 hours and that's not how it works.

Yeah, I didn't, honestly, because when I got it, I was like, all right, this works out perfectly. Fly it on a Friday, do the game on a Saturday, fly back on a Sunday, do the show Monday to Thursday, it'll be fine, it'll work out great, and then you get into doing it's like, whoa, this is a lot. So, yeah, I've embarked on a couple of trips and it kind of proved to be too much for me. And, yeah, I kind of decided that, yeah, this is absolutely my dream job and working more towards this and being able to do it better is really important to me. So, yeah, I'll still be kind of hanging around in case anyone needs me for anything. But in terms of regular involvement in the show and I actually, Dan, in honor, I have a top five list if you want it.

Wow.

On the way out here as sort of a memento to leave behind.

Okay, so this is a top five list on one of the worst eras ever of the Dan Levittard Show with Stugats surpassed only by Andy King, although says it's my fault.

And his fault, by the way, those three weeks when I started in between ESPN and just doing a podcast next day, one of the craziest three weeks of my life, that was batshit crazy.

The whole thing has been batshit crazy. Again, I remind you, don't start a business during a pandemic. What is the top five?

Top five know, I like to annoy you guys with my British expressions and I kind of revealed them one at a time. And I got people saying not from eclive.

And I got people saying unwelcome additions to the.

So I have a top five list of British expressions that I haven't gotten to yet that I was going to over the course of time, but I didn't get to.

It's the perfect way for you to go out. Terrible.

Maximum fancy lad. He's 100% Colombian, not British in any way. It doesn't make any sense in any way except that he wishes to be like their people.

I do have a Welsh last name.

Just saying it's weird. I think I'm shocking people right now, telling them that Chris Whittingham is 100%.

Colombiano, fake last name. I mean, that's harsh.

Anyway, number five.

Well, I have two Olis. First, I never got to say that I was going on vacation by saying I'm going on holiday.

I said it to you often.

Everyone is just shaking their heads, sadly. But not because you're leaving. Sadly because this has to be the end.

All right? I never got to say that I was eating cookies by saying I'm having a biscuit.

Chris cody, I'm looking at the faces here you are getting at the very end.

Glad he's leaving.

No buy in from anybody.

Number five, I never got to describe someone that was very pale as being albino.

Number four, one of the strangest dismounts in the history of goodbyes.

I never got to say that people driving a pickup truck drive lorries.

Unfortunate.

I never got to say that where we park our cars is a urine smelling garage.

Cody, how do you feel about how this goodbye is going?

It says goodbye.

I feel great about it. And I don't want to step on his lines here, but when I take over as executive producer, as soon as Whitty teaches me all the buttons, I'm going to really give it my all. So witty. Thank you for leaving me that job.

I've been told you're in the running. Greg number two never got to describe something in quotes as in inverted commas.

Is Pablo Tori coming in to be the executive producer of this show? Is that what they're also in contest? What he was hired for?

Number one, I never got to describe juju Gotti's incredible sneakers as trainers. Wow.

Go sit in the penalty box.

Bye.

Forever.

Forever.

Forever.

Love you. Lifetime. Forever.

Lifetime band.

Lifetime major.

I'm just going to come in a month and just go sit there for an hour and then leave.

Be great if you just always there. Just put a cardboard cut whenever someone goes to the box. You have to be a cardboard cut.

Out on the way out. You have to do that at the end.

A cardboard cut out of me.

I want to be sent there in a month and I'm sitting next to you. Don lebotard teammates can't shoot from three now they're going to see a different Jimmy. Now he's just playing nickel back in the locker room. And stu guts now play d and show threes as they chase the nets for the six seed. These five words in his head scream my way. Winning games yet this is the don Levitar show with Chris witty.

Jessica has compiled for us a list. I mean, because I don't want to say she is thrilled that whitty is gone. I would not allege such a thing, but there were sparks created in the tensions of witty just generally being annoying and unusual and I think being more comfortable than anybody in the history of our show, showing everybody his weirdnesses.

I love this, that we're just burying him on the day after he leaves. We can do this more often.

Do it when he's here.

Enough.

We did, to be fair.

Victory lap. And he's, like, waving at everybody, and Mike is calling him one of the greatest human beings he's ever met, and enough.

Well, he is.

Enough with the kids 30. Enough with the you left me in a lurch, though.

That's a great human being for you. Hey, Mike, hold this steaming bag of shit for me while I go blow up somewhere else.

I have never heard someone describe themselves as a steaming bag of what?

You're in the middle of what we're doing.

How do you think we got steaming? We were just a bag of shit. And then you just got here and the thing really caught fire. Top five weirdest things about Chris whittingham. Is that what the list is?

Well, I decided to make it the top five revelations that we learned about witty over the last two years. He will be missed. Like you said, Dan, we often bickered on air because he could be very disagreeable and contrarian at times. And as a grumpy person, I tended to argue back with him constantly.

Oli. Do we have oli? I want oli because he gave us so many weirdnesses. And one of the things I truly loved about witty, I do past tense there, because I no longer love him.

That's right.

But he is alive. Right.

One of the things I loved about witty is his great comfort. And yes, that's weird about me. You think it's weird and I don't care that you think it's weird.

Exactly.

Oli.

He wore two watches.

No, he didn't.

Yeah, that's only an oli because he revealed it to us two weeks ago. Apple sent him a watch when they hired him, and he decided to wear that on one wrist and his wrist watch on the other wrist.

He says he's going to do it going forward, period. That he likes it as a stylistic choice.

Of course he does.

Number five double bubble. Fucks him up.

That's right.

He ate his gum. You would swallow his gum every time.

I didn't even make the list. I forgot about that one.

Well, that's why it fucks him up.

Wait a second. He would swallow his gum?

Gum he's ever had, he swallowed that's all his gum?

That can't be healthy.

But that's not even why he says it fucks him up. No, that's not what Jessica's saying.

That's not why the Double Bubble has so much sugar that it fucks him up and it gives him a headache and he can't eat double Bubble. He revealed that on mystery crate last year during our candy draft.

Maybe if he didn't eat it to.

Mike's point, it's why it fucks him up.

I think they're separate revelations, though. I screwed up. That should have been number five, that he swallows all his gum.

That is a ton of sugar, though, is it not? Double Bubble is a specific burst of fireworks of sugar.

Awesome.

More than most gum.

I'm about to throw up.

What is the best gum?

None of them. They're all terrible. What?

What do you mean by that?

Bazooka.

I hate bazooka.

Is my favorite gum bubblicious?

Bubblicious or what's?

The one with the juice in the inside when you take a bite, the fruit gushers gushers.

There you go.

I think that is bubblicious.

There's one. That's a gum.

There is something that has, like, a jelly in it?

Yes.

It's just a burst of extra syrupy sugar.

How about Big League Chew?

Right?

Big oh, my grandma used to eat.

Cinnamon gum, and it would burn the shit out of my tongue.

When we traded for Shaq the first game, he beckons me over. Shaq has this weird thing where he doesn't want to talk sometimes.

Big Aristotle.

So he just literally beckons me over with one finger, and I say, yeah, big fellow, what do you need? And he goes he points to his mouth and he goes and I'm like, you want nods?

I'm like, okay.

So I go get the gum basket or whatever. He looks at it's like, what is this bullshit? I need Big Red. I'm like, I didn't know I've got this Orbit cinnamon one. He's like, no, I need Big Red. So I had to leave. We had a game. I left. I went to a gas station to go buy some Big Red, right? I come back, he's already played games over. So the next game, I bring him the big red. He's like, no. Bring me the orbit. Because he had a good game when he had the Orbit. Big Red. Piece of shit gum.

Wow.

Hubba Bubba.

Max is the one with the juicy explosion.

No, Big Red is terrible. And I think my grandma only eats it because she has old taste buds and needs to feel something.

She's like a coal miner, right? And that's the only way she could taste, is if it's burning.

She's not a coal miner, okay?

I mean, I just figured the only.

3 seconds that Fruit Stripe gum last is a good 3 seconds.

Yes, put it my grandfather was poll.

Please. At Levitard show. Is Orbits the shittiest of the gum?

No.

How do you feel? Or is orbits the shitty gum? What did you say?

You said I didn't say it was that Shaq said. What is this bullshit?

It's put on the poll as well at LeBatard show. Big Red. Do you like it or do you not like it? And I still don't think we have a classification, a definitive consensus on what is the best gum.

Oh, we found one right here. Workshopping it five gum. Five gum does the job aligned.

Five gum is good because I'm just trying to keep my breath fresh. It's not because it's got a bunch.

Of purpose of gum?

No, I chewed it for a week once.

What do you mean, no, it's not the purpose of gum. And what do you mean you chewed it for a week?

The flavor was so good I chewed it for a week.

There's no way.

And the flavor was still there? Not Monday to Friday.

Found our new whittingham.

Not true. You didn't sleep. You just kept the gum in your mouth, you brushed your teeth.

Put it to the side. Put it to the side. Come back. The taste is the same five days a week, Daniel.

It's the deadpan serious look on his face.

Well, Whittingham has left the lane open for weirdness and now Tony is here. That's not that weird.

How's the rest of that list going, by the way?

We'll get to number four in a second. I just do want to stop on stugatt a week. I want to stop on Stugat. Much like Cuba is stuck in the 1950s, we're stuck on number five with Russian Lottos. Stugats is stuck in the 80s with Big League Chew and Bazooka gum.

Bazooka sucks.

Bazooka is terrible.

I love Bazooka. I'm sorry.

You read some little comics, bazooka Joe, right?

No, I didn't read anything, but I just like the gum.

Wasn't the gum wrapped in a comic?

Yeah, but I don't read I know it's short, but allergic to reading. Number get to the gum.

It's short in cartoons and he can't even be bothered with that. Number four, Jessica.

He's never eaten the snickers. He ate his first Snickers last fall because we made him eat one after Mystery Crate.

Tell me he did it with a knife and fork.

No, no, George Costanza.

Number three, he tucked a napkin into his bow tie. Number three, he has a playlist in his car that is supposed to be agreeable for a large swath of people that he plays when someone new is in his car so that he doesn't offend them with any sort of specific music type.

It's called the mutually agreeable playlist.

He's prepared for everything. Like Chad GPT.

He's like a little, like corporation in a person's body.

I'm starting to miss him.

I know.

Number two, he gels his hair before bed.

Hold on. I got to step in here. You cannot gel your hair before bed every single day. And that be healthy for you. There's something in that gel that's not good for you, and you especially can't do it at night.

What's in the pillowcase?

Yeah, what does pillows look like?

Mike, you were not here yesterday, but Jeff Passen called out you as an authority on being able to tell whether people dye their hair or not.

Yeah, and he was one that I got famously wrong. The only time I've ever been wrong.

On this was Passen.

You thought Passen dyed his hair?

Yeah.

Why?

Just because it's jet black all the time. Passenger's young, early 40s. But it's jet black. There's no gray. There's nothing on the sideburns, either.

I don't have any gray hair.

You have some in my beard.

Yeah, but if I shaved it, you wouldn't know. That's true.

And you're old as fuck.

I don't know.

Is that a gray number one? My God.

This one is obvious. We all know what number one is. He uses his stove as his alarm clock.

That is weird, man. That is a weird, weird man.

Wonder what he does on the road now before games. You think he gets a hotel room with a kitchenette?

He's got to get he has to. Yes.

It's in his contract. He has to stay at a Residence Inn.

I'll miss him. I miss him. He's gone already.

Are you of the belief that the stove industry is still making a lot of stoves that have clocks on them that would also double as alarms?

Remember when that whole gas stove controversy was happening a few months ago? I bet Witty was just like, I don't care if it's gas or electric, as long as it's got an alarm clock on it. That's all I care about.

It's not even an alarm clock. It's literally the timer, right?

Nine hour timer.

This weirdo sets the timer.

That's right after he puts gel in his hair.