The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Best of DLS: The Day the Lights Went Out In The Elser

Episode Date: November 23, 2023

While you continue to enjoy your dry cornbread and even drier turkey, here is some more Best Of. The show is embarrassed on another national platform as the electricity said bye-bye while Dan was on The Dan Patrick Show. Speaking of goodbyes, we say goodbye to Chris Wittyngham, who went on to greener pitches. And Jessica has a list for Witty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don Levitar Show with the Stugat's podcast. When the legs go out, mean broadcast. With sportscaster Dan Patrick's show. It's bringing Dan Levitar, host of the Dan Levittar show with Stu Gants 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, no, we kind of need it. We kind of need it down here. They hate Miami. Oh, but not the heat.

We kind of need it down here. They hate Miami. Oh, but not not the heat. I believe that all things Miami are something that divide America. Do you guys hate the Miami heat? Like Jimmy Butler's a great story and Caleb Martin and Gabe Vincent and Eric Spolstra. And we need the hate. We've been star for the H. 2000. Why is it not understanding what happening around here? Wait, the lights just went out on your show. Oh my God.

Yes. Haters. What happened? Haters. Bring back our hate. Okay. Why? 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. Yeah. Anybody got any matches? How about a candle? Something.

I'm running, I'm running a media empire here, Dan Patrick. This is a very exciting time in our history. Man. 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 affair. Do you? Is this my like it?

I like it. I like it. My candlelight. Do you see me? OK. Can you see me now? Is this the Levitard Blair Witch project? I'm sorry that I literally, after leaving leaving ESPN can't keep the lights on.

Stugots pay the bills for the man. Well, you, you want me to pay the bill? I don't pay my own bills. How big is Jimmy Butler? If we had power rankings in Miami. I know. My power athlete power rankings is he a one seed. Oh, yeah.

What do you, oh yeah. Are you guys over there? Dan, you were doing the show. I've always wanted to do power rankings. Jimmy Butler. And God bless you, man. One seed. One A.

Okay. Over anybody with the dolphins, anybody else come in to, anybody from the floor to 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 gonna go to, you know,

or or. Can you put up a test pattern at least on your screen there, like something? It's just, I, 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 filled with boy and champion pride right now? This is why Mike Ryan left. But as you, he hasn't left, I just can't see him because his head is hand in his hand

in the dark. I can see him. Well is had his hand in his hand in the dark I can see he's gonna be leaving. Yeah, I'm leaving now. Yeah, I don't I'd get out get out while you can 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 in 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 of the game.

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 there. You don't even have the status to yell at me right now. Because Reggie Miller told us on the broadcast last night. Price, the audio works there out of that studio.

Good. Goodness gracious. Man, did you see me at all? No. It's a dark screen. Why am I holding these lights? I can't see me sweat. It's been holding a phone to his face for 15 minutes.

Dan, for 12 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. This is great. I have no idea how we're connected to damn badgered on his way. It's hot in here too. All right. Well, now I'm now I'm here. Now you don't have any signal here coming. Oh my God. I feel bad for you. Metal art. You. Oh my God, I feel bad for you. Metal Arc, you're on the line. Hiring now. Hiring now. It's 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 cheap. 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. You know how expensive things are here. Stugots, Greg Cody and Dan Levittar, makeup that powerhouse show, the Dan Levittar show with Stugots.

And you know what, you're onto something, a blackout show. You know, we see audiences do it, you've done it with a show, congratulations Dan. I'm deeply embarrassed. The Dan Levittard show with Stu Gantz is sponsored by BetterHelp. The holiday season can stir a wide range of emotions

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we missed football in general so very much. You didn't watch the ending of U-Tep Jacksonville State. It was awesome. A dizzy. Boom. Mm-hmm. Still gots. It's such a lame 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, that prism though. Like, I'm envious of Lucy. Like, I wish that I could still be happy. This is the Don Lebertar Show with their stugats. For his wedding haves last day. When you guys make big announcements, are you one that just likes to rip the bandaid 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? 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 and then build up. What do you mean big announcements? Like what kind of big announcement? I don't know.

I'm just saying if hypothetically, someone want to do announce something in here. Announce like, what if you want to do announce something? Would you just like, are you ripped the bandaid off kind of guy? I think I am. I don't like to drag things out.

Yeah, right to the point. You're right to the point. 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. You never know. And I just like to see, I like to go around the room,

get a feel for how people like audience. How do you, like we're gonna 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 ripped the bandaid type? Or All right, so audience, when you have a big announcement, are you a ripped-of-bandaid type,

or do you, you know, slow burn? Shh. Hmm. Hmm. Wow. This is a call back 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 certain times. I mean, Chris is a real football player. You're all tired of it. No, I'm not to read your full. I'm going to go. I'm ready for 10. So you're I still don't understand what you're doing though. What are we making a big announcement here?

Is that what you're saying? Yes. Yes, we are. We're making it. Chris Cody making it. I mean, I am making a big announcement. Okay. I don't like to like, you know,

classify my own announcements as big or not big. Wait a minute. I'll leave that to you guys. I started this segment. There's actually an announcement that needs to be made Wow Good at this All right Yeah, I, I, I, 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, which I've recently begun with Apple. And yeah, I will no longer, well, not always say no longer, because I'll still be around here at Metal Arc. 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. I love how you do. Comes to a conclusion today. I'll also be around like I think every every once in a while still kind of Different way of doing this Just as awkwardly some people would argue that you presided over the single worst era of the Levitard show with Stugat and if that is that was Andy King your what Oh, no, no, my fault and dance ball not Andy's fault. Okay, or any king. All right. So 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. Frankus. Hold on. Don't hold it.

Frankus. 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? This is, And for those who do not know, we have known, Wittingham, since he was a young broadcaster in college, heard him on a WVUM game, and he was exceptional. Noticeed 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. This is, and you want to devote yourself to it because you can't, people don't understand how consuming these jobs are. They think Joe Buck shows up and can just fart out four hours. And that's not how it works. Yeah, I didn't honestly because when I, when I got it, I was like, all right, it 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. That'll be fine, it'll work out great. And then you get into doing, I was like, whoa, this is a lot. So yeah, I've embarked on a couple 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 a better is really important to me. So, yeah, I'll still be kind of hanging around. 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 moment, a momento to leave behind. Okay. So, this is a top five list on one of the worst errors ever of a moment of momentum to leave behind. Okay. So this is a tough five list on one of the worst errors ever of the Dan Levitard show with two guys surpassed only by Andy King. Although that's not says it's my fault. And I thought, by the way, those 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 that shit crazy again. I remind you don't start a business during a pandemic. What is the top five?

I'm in the top five list. You 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 E. Clive and I got people saying unwelcome additions to the show. Yeah, right. 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. In that is terrible.

It's a maximum fancy lad. He's a hundred percent Colombian. Not British in any way. It just 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 waiting him is 100% Golemiano. It's a fake last name. It's uh, I mean that's harsh. Uh anyway number five Well, I have two OLS 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. I was sad, 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, having a biscuit. Oh. Oh.

Oh, 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 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. Unfortunately. I never got to say that where we park our cars is a year in spelling garage. Cody, how do you feel about how how this goodbye is going? It's just 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 Woody teaches me all the buttons, I'm going to really give it my all. So Woody, 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 an inverted commas Is Pablo Torrey coming in to be the executive producer of the show? Is that what they've already was also in contention? He was hired for number one. I never got to describe but you do got his incredible sneakers as trainers Go sit in the penalty box. Forever.

Forever. Forever. Love you. Lifetime. Forever. Lifetime band. Lifetime major. I'm just going to.

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I'm just going to. I'm just going to. I'm just going to. I'm just going to. I'm just going to. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna I'm just gonna I'm just gonna come in a month and to be just go sit there for an hour and then leave be great if you just Just put a cardboard cut Streams by the way And I'll be sitting next to you Don't let a tart French in me now he's just just playing Nickelback in the locker room and stugats As I chase the net for the six seed these five words in his head To me my way winning games. Yeah, this is the down lebertar show with his two gods the got

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No, he's going to be dead to be. He's checking a victory lap and he's like, you know, waving it everybody like, uh, and Mike is calling him one of the greatest human beings he's, he's ever met in. Well, he is. I know enough with the kids 30 enough with the you let me in a lurch though. Yeah, that's a great human being for you. Hey, Mike, hold this steamy bag of shit for me. Well, I go, well, I go blow up somewhere else?

I have never heard someone describe themselves as a steaming bag of shit. Oh, wait, I'm like, what? You're the middle of a wood door. How do you, how do you, you never got to see me? We were, we were just a bag of shit. 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 Whitty 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. Oh, well, I do. We have all our questions.

We have all our questions. We have all our questions. He gave us so many weirdnesses. And one of the things I truly loved about Whitty, I do past tense there because I no longer love him. No, that's right. But he is alive, right? One of the things I loved about Whitty 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. Oh, a lie. He wore two watches. No, he didn't. Yeah, he did. He did. That's only an OLI, because he revealed it to us two weeks ago. Apple sent him a watch when they hired him.

A watch. 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 it. He would swallow it 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. He's ever had. He's all his gum. That can't be healthy. But that's why he says it. Fox. No, that's not why that's not why the double bubble. It has so much sugar

that it fucks him up and it gives him a headache and he can eat double bubble. He revealed that on mystery crate last year during our candy draft. Maybe if he didn't eat it, to my point. It's why he fucks him up. I think they're separate revelations though. I screwed up.

That should have been number five that he swallows all his gums. 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 not throw up.

What is the best gum? None of them. They're all terrible. What? What? What? What's the one with the juice in the inside? We need to get a bite.

Like the free. Gushers. That get a bite. It's like, the free. Gushers. Gushers. I think that is bubbleicious. There's one that's gum that has something that has like a jelly in it. Yeah, it's just a burst of extra syrup. Yeah. Have a big league chew.

I love that. That's for 30 seconds. Every one of them is a bit red, right? Big O. My grandma is great to get. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead.

I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead. I'm a big lead.

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What do you need and he goes you points to his mouth and he goes And I'm like you want you want gum like in he nods I'm like okay, so I go get the gum basket or whatever you look sad as it what is this bullshit? I need big red. I'm like wow like I didn't know I've got this orbit cinnamon one She'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. You know, he's already played games over. So the next game, I bring him the big red. He's like, no, no, no, no, bring me the orbit because he had a good game when he had the orbit. Big red piece of shit gun. Wow.

Hubba, bubba max is the one with the, the juicy explosion. He had a good game when he had the orbit. Big red piece of shit gun. Wow. Hubba, hubba, hubba max is the one with the, uh, the juicy explosion. No, big red is terrible. And I think my grandma only eats it because she like has old taste buds and needs to feel something. She's like a coal miner, right? And like, that's how this only was you could taste as if it's burning. She's not a coal miner.

Okay. I mean, I just figured the only three seconds that fruit stripe gun wax is a good three seconds. Yes. Yeah. Put it on the pole. Please at Levitard show is orbits the shittiest of the gum? No. How do you feel? What is the shittigum? What did you say? You said I didn't say what that's a fact said. What is this bullshit? It's put on the pole as well at LeBetard show big red. Do you like it or do you not like it? And I still don't we think we have a classification a definitive consensus on what is the best? Oh, we we found one right here workshopping it five gum five gum does the job.

Oh, no, no, no, yeah, that's so great. She's a winner. Yeah. It's like five gum is good because like I'm just trying to keep my breath fresh. It's not because it's the purpose of gum. No Not to fight it. So long as you've had to. Yeah, we kept changing. Found our new winning ham. That's not true. You didn't sleep.

You just kept the gum in your mouth. You'd take your brush. You'd put it to the side. Put it to the side. Come back. Keep getting a whole five. It's the same. Five days a week, you know?

It's the dead pan serious look on his face. Yes. Well, he's winning him has left the lane open for weirdness. And now Tony is here to believe that's not that weird. As a result, that was going by the way. I will get to number four in a second. I just do want to stop on on stew got a week. I want to stop on stew got much like Cuba's stuck in the 1950s.

We're stuck on number five with Russian ladders. Stugats is stuck in the 80s with Big League Choo and bazooka gum. Oh, good. He's just a bazooka sucks. Bazooka's terrible. I love bazooka. I'm sorry. You're doing a comment at a time.

You guys have a comment? Bazooka Joe, right? No, I didn't read anything, but I just like the gum. It wasn't the gum wrapped in the comics. Yeah, don't read he's a he's a little bit short but you know allergic to reading number to the go it's short and cartoons and he can't even be bothered with that number four Jessica he's never eaten a snickers he ate his first knickers last fall because we made him eat one after mystery

create tell me he did it with a knife in four no no George Costanza number three and he took the 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 time it's called the mutually agreeable playlist he's prepared prepared for everything. It's like Chad GPD. He's like, he's like a little like corporation. So in our person's body. I'm certain to miss him.

I know. Number two. He gels his hair before bed. There's something, hold on. I gotta, I gotta 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 his pillow case? Yeah, what's his pillows look like? Mike, you were not here yesterday, but Jeff Passon called out you as an authority on being able to tell whether people die there hair or not. Yeah, yeah. And he was blessed. He was blessed. I got famously wrong. The only time I've ever been wrong on this was passing, you thought passing died his hair? Yeah. Why? Just because it's jet black all the time.

It's all black. And it does a scene where he's like, passes y'all. Early 40s, but it's jet black. There's no grass. There's nothing on the sideburns either. I don't have any gray hair. You have some in your beard.

But my shave that you would know, like I, like I, my shirt. You're an year old, it's fucked. Yeah. I don't know, is that a gray? like I got my shirt. You're old, it's fucked. Yeah. I don't know. Is that a great number one? Oh my god. This one is obvious. We all know what number one is.

He uses his stove as his alarm clock. Mm-hmm. That's that is weird, man. That is a weird, weird man. Wonder what he does on the road now before games. He gets a hotel room with a kitchenette. He's got to get the stuff. He has to, yes. He's at the center's contract.

He has to stay at the residence in. I'll miss him. While he's, I miss him. He's, 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 Whitty was just like, I don't care if it's gas or electric as long as it's gotten

alarm clock on it. It's all I care. Is that even an alarm clock? It's literally the timer, right? He's right. He was done right now. That's it. Like a nine hour timer? This weirdo sets the timer. That's all I care. Is that even on the alarm clock? It's literally the timer, right? Yeah, he's right. He's got it. Like a nine hour timer? Yes.

The weirdo sets the timer. That's right. That's exactly. And after we put jealous air.