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Jess, I really need your help today. I think more than I ever have in the history of our company because face, when we talk about the heat and Jimmy Butler and Colton.
Yeah, your face speaks for what I know is the audience outside of Miami. And Zaslow is a bigger homer than Mike.
I just don't think that's true or possible. I don't think that's true.
I'm telling you. It's impossible, Dan.
I think that's as low is more than parakeet Cortez him what he thought about Xavier Restrepo's 40 time and see what he says and then we can decide who's a bigger homer but it's really hard to beat Mike I so this is what I need your help with because I think that Jimmy Butler stuff is gonna to contaminate the show, poison it, and I've seen over the last, I don't know, 12 months, you have been beaten down by heat disease. Like, it's, it's, there's no subject around here that we- It's called heat stroke.
Any amount of heat talk makes, like, I see it on your face. And when I see it on your face, I see the rest of our audience outside of Miami.
I've hated the Miami heat since the decision because Michael Wilbon told me LeBron James was going to come to the Bulls and he didn't. And then I moved here and I hated them even more because I had to sit next to Mike Ryan and Jeremy for four years.
So what am am i going to do today i can't do it okay no but i have to i have to do it jeremy just ran across the street for live coverage he just he just ran across traffic what are you laughing about what if we just tell him he's going to be on the air but we really just leave him across the street i I think that's what Dan was planning to do already. I have a problem, though, because, Roy, you can vouch for this.
Who's a bigger heat homer, Zaslow or Mike Ryan? I was trying to do Zaslow. He bought a championship ring.
What? He did? I think he owns two championship rings that the team gave him. Why did you just accuse him of buying a championship ring? He bought the championship ring.
That is not in any way true. This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
If you were not listening during the Shadow Show, I do believe that I just heard Roy make an accusation against Jonathan Zaslow that is the single greatest insult uttered from one person who works here to another that I have ever heard. I read on the face of Jonathan Zaslow more hatred for Roy.
Shocking. Who he's loved all his life.
More hatred for Roy for accusing Jonathan Zaslow of buying a Miami Heat championship ring instead of earning it. Earned, not given.
You've heard that before, right? Earned, not given. I didn't say you didn't earn it.
I just said you bought it. That is a shocking accusation.
That's not how I expect to start a Tuesday. I thought I was coming in here.
I thought everybody's feeling good about themselves. I thought we're going to be all over the heat's tip tonight because Jimmy Butler is here and he's part of the enemy.
I'm just saying, all right? I thought we were all on the same page, and that is a heavy accusation. What do you think, hypothetically, hard times in Zaslow Manor, what do you think you could get for those rings? You know, let's just put it this way, all right? Everybody knows that if their house caught fire in the middle of the night, we all have that one thing that we would grab on the way out, and the box with my rings in it.
That's right, rings, plural, plural. The box with my rings in it, that's what I'd be grabbing.
So the best way to answer that question is priceless, baby. Okay, let's say hypothetically you have to sell something and in this weird world it's like a Zaslo fan that just won Zaslo memorabilia, and it is either one of your rings or your children's birth certificates.
Birth certificate. You can get another.
Yeah, you can get another one. No problem.
I can't go to the championship ring store and get another one with Zaslo engraved on it. No.
But I can go to the birth certificate store. You can.
You bought the first one. You can just buy another one.
That's insulting. You guys need to be nicer to him.
So he didn't buy the team gave it to him you stole it earned i stole it how do you steal something with your name on it it has my name on it all right so this is roy that was shocking okay just i can't think of anything worse in the executive producer seat than to have someone new as a co-host not how you not how you make someone feel wanted. It's unbelievable that you would accuse him of buying his championship ring.
Unsolicited. Well, he made an accusation there that I would also make of Zaslow.
He was actually paid to wear that ring because the Heat paid him for years as the pregame, postgame. Oh, my God.
How many people on the Heat payroll? That's not true. I was paid through the radio station, not the Heat.
I've never been on the Heat's payroll. I do have to mention that.
Jeremy says the same thing. Jeremy's paid by the regional network.
The media get talking points from the Heat. This is what's going to be put out there.
That might be the stupidest question that you've ever asked. I asked a pretty bad hypothetical earlier.
Yeah, you did. Okay, so go ahead and do that then, Billy.
Well, no, we can get to that later. We're talking about the heat now.
I'm just saying. The talking points this week were the Jimmy Butler tribute video to get a gauge for what the fans want, to get a gauge for what the reaction is going to be, right? You're told to put feelers out there on the tribute video.
I am certainly not told anything since I stopped being on the broadcast. I haven't been on that broadcast since the year 2022 of our Lord, all right? Since then, I've never been told anything, all right? The words that come out of this mouth, the words that come from this lips.
You said that very poorly. Hold on, hold on.
You said that very poorly. Are we live? The seat gets everyone.
Erase that. About the words coming out of that lip.
Let's start over. Wait a minute.
Let's go to a real broadcaster live across the street. Jeremy Taché is in the weeds with the Miami Heat because it's a very serious day.
The Jimmy Butler is returning to the Miami Heat. Let's go out to Jeremy Taché.
He is the first reporter who's out there right around the ambiance. What's going on out there, Jeremy? Dan, we wanted to be the very first ones on this story as the energy gathers here outside the Kaseya Center.
We have Dwayne Wade over my right shoulder, but we know that Jimmy Butler will be looking over both shoulders as the heat approach him tonight. Jeremy Taché, Metal Ark Media, here outside the Kaseya Center.
Why is he wearing sunglasses? The sun is rising behind him and there's a building in the way. He's standing in shadows.
All right, that's a live report. Thank you.
There is indeed a reflection off the building across the street. The voice, too.
I don't like it. What, the sing-songy broadcaster voice? Yeah, keep that for your paid stuff.
No, that's... No, he wants to...
Jeremy Taché, Metal Ark Media. He wants to...
He already got his marching orders, Dan. He went inside, got his marching orders, and came back out.
No, he wants to run between both worlds and then eventually be a sideline reporter who's playing a kaleidoscope or playing a, you know, doing something. A xylophone? A xylophone, excuse me.
A kaleidoscope is that thing that looks like a... Yes, it would have been a better joke is a xylophone.
But he wants to be a sideline reporter who dabbles in the arts, but he's got to go sell his soul with cheese broadcasting first. I am selling grilled cheese.
Is that what you said out here, Dan? Grilled cheese? No, they don't sell grilled cheese at Big Face Coffee, but they do sell $50 cups of coffee, unless you're a Golden State Warriors employee, in which case that will cost you $30. That's the latest report from Jimmy Butler and his camp here outside the Kaseya Center.
Jeremy Taché, Metal Ark Media. That's good information.
Thank you, Jeremy. We'll be checking back in over the course of the next important four hours.
He's dying to talk about this stuff. He's going to be out there for four hours? I mean, it's a big day.
This is the big story of the day. Well, Juju Watkins should be the big story of the day, but locally.
Locally. I feel like this game has been, it just needs to happen already because we've been talking about it for so long.
We just need to get this over with. I'm just glad that they won the other day, man.
You think I need 11-game losing streak as the headline on national TV? I don't need that in my life. Okay, but let me ask you guys this question because I would imagine the nation at large is weary of all of this, especially here.
I would say that there's just a general fatigue about, really, we're going to make all of this noise about Jimmy Butler? When, yeah, he kind of made himself a star in Miami and got the things that he wanted and what was a blessed marriage for both parties for the entire time they were together. And then at the end, he said, I'm more valuable than this.
And since then has proved it because the last 16 games, I think we can all say, oh, he was right. All those 40 point games were required from him in the playoffs.
He had eight of them, never won in the regular season. So these guys were helpers.
Bam, all-star, Olympian, champion, you know, winner guy. But you're number two.
And you're number two, and look at what it looks like when it's you and Hero is the number one. Jimmy ends up winning there.
He's coming back a winner on what this looks like. But what I wanted to ask Jessica about, and the audience at large, is what, because I hate pregames, but this stuff we love.
this soap opera nonsense, the narratives, the stories, the things that make it all easy and and dumb, but it's fun for content. But when sports can be great, what has to happen tonight for it to merit even a fraction of the amount of talk it's gotten when the nation at large says, get Jimmy Butler out of my life.
He's not a champion. He's a number one who's actually a number two because he's never going to win a championship as the lead guy.
I'm sorry, Jess. I was going to say, I think most everyone is watching tonight hoping Jimmy Butler crushes the heat.
That's what I was about to say. 50-point game from Jimmy Butler.
Crushes the heat. I will go run a lap around the Kasaya Center tomorrow morning.
So that is what, that would make it worth it? It's not game winner, it's not a fight, it's like, what is the ideal situation, like, content gold mine of I'm interested in sports and the build up to a regular season game, like, this is the last regular season, this is the last game of the heat season that will matter, because even in those play-in games, we all know this team is not going anywhere. It's broken.
You're not getting fired up for Heat at Chicago playing? Chicago put up 150 on the Lakers. Chicago's good.
They love the play-in game too. Chicago's a fun team.
Listen, guys, just a couple of years ago, people were saying that Heat should lose a play-in game so that they could increase their shot at getting the number one pick or winning the lottery. And what happened? The Heat went on a magical run because of culture and Jimmy Butler, and they made it all the way to the NBA finals in a Hollywood type story that just didn't have that ending that we needed.
But once you win and you get in, anything can happen. I think this Heat team can go on a run.
Okay, Billy, thank you for that. What does that have to do with that? No, no, well, I'm going to explain something that's happening with Billy right now.
He feels a genuine snort. I'm going to explain exactly what's happening with Billy Gill.
What's happening? Okay, he's been very frustrated for 12 months, more than 12 months, actually probably his lifetime with our show, because he believes, what do you mean, I haven't even made the accusations yet. I see we're starting with 12 12 months and I'm looking at my timeline and life I know what's going on here but okay over the course of you living in a world where the heat are talked about the way this show talks about them I believe that for largely 20 years you believe that there are things you're not allowed to say about the Miami

Heat.

Oh, I can't. No.
Your voice has been suppressed for 20 years around here. And today's your day, Billy Gill, because this is the biggest Heat homer I've ever met.
Hit? This right here. He's a journalist.
I am a journalist. I mean, I'm not a journalist.
Ignore what he's wearing. He's a journalist.
not true Jonathan Zaz look I Mike Ryan criticizes poisonously the Miami Heat Zaz will get mad at him Zaz will not rip the Miami Heat the way Mike Ryan does well and Mike sits here Mike's Mike's Mike sits here and will tell you that he's not watching the heat I'm I'm watching the heat begrudgingly the last couple of months. Like, I wake up in the morning.
Now, I don't feel that way today because I'm looking forward to the game tonight. But I'll wake up begrudgingly over the last month.
Like, oh, great. The Heat are playing tonight.
That's what I got to do for two and a half hours of my life tonight. Like, Mike Ryan won't watch it, though.
I mean, I'm sitting here and hang with him, man. I'll still tell you what he thinks.
Don't worry. Okay, but when I talk about Heat fans in the history of this market, what this team means to Zaslow and now Zaslow's kids because he insisted on passing it down, as someone who was proud, honored to earn working days and nights.
His shifts were crazy, man. That's why I have all the gray hair.
I mean, that was... I did that for seven years.
All right, so for seven years, he's doing the postgame and then waking up to do the morning show, and he aged about 40 years in seven years. He arrived here a broken man.
He used to be the young one, Tony. Laugh in his face.
He used to be the young one. He used to be the kid.
And seven years of loving the Heat, he gave his heart and age over to this franchise. I gave them years of my life, Tony.
Well, explain Tommy Tide to me then because he didn't have a gray hair on his head. Well, maybe there's some performance enhancement going on there.
Whoa. I'm just trying to...
The great Tommy Tide? I'm trying to be reasonable here. When I saw him that day in the studio, it did not look like PEDs.
The day you threw trash at Tony. Exactly right.
All right. We go back out to Jeremy Tashay now.
Jeremy Tashay is reporting live at the Kaseya Center where there's a lot of mood and a lot of fans. What's the energy out there, Jeremy? I mean, the energy is palpable, Dan.
I've got Trevor from Georgia here with me.

Now, Trevor was a fan of the Miami Heat because of Jimmy Butler.

So, Trevor, what are your thoughts on Jimmy Butler's return to the Kaseya Center?

Oh, I'm excited.

I think Jimmy's about to whoop some butt.

Okay, that's not good.

We're not going to talk about that any longer.

All right, very good.

No more conversation of that.

Good report.

We're calling it the Butler Armageddon. Just give Trevor a hand.
Dan, that's totally something you would ask. Trevor here, would you like the microphone? Angel to mock up for you.
Sure. I think Jimmy's about to do great.
He's not bam, ain't going to do anything. I hope Steph comes out and plays.
I'm sorry, Heat, but Jimmy's about to give y'all some whooping. All right.
I know it's from here outside the Kaseya Center. Jeremy Cachet, Metal Ark Media.
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These five words in his head.

Scream, are we winning games yet?

This is the Dan Levatore Show with the Stu Gads.

You guys must run into like spring breakers all the time down here this time of year.

We ran into a few on Saturday. Okay, well, maybe not where you live.
But Dan, I'm sure you do occasionally. I'm walking my dog and there are these like drunk 20-year-olds coming up to us on the sidewalk Saturday night.
And they're like, oh my God, what a cute dog. And they're like petting her so aggressively.
And we're like trying to just like, you're you're a little intoxicated it's spring break we understand we're gonna we're gonna keep moving along and there's like these like hordes of college kids chasing us down the sidewalk trying to pet our dog yes that is spring break in Miami it is well what they've um what they've done to spring break is interesting we'll go back out to Jeremy in a second uh but I did see something yesterday that I've never seen. And I have to think that no one's ever seen before I saw it.
Because I'm driving and in front of a post office, okay, where you've got a four-lane stretch of traffic. There is a woman who is squatting in front of the post office, urinating in a bush.
But not just that. She's got a yoga mat under one arm.
She's got a cigarette in her mouth and she's holding a sandwich. There's no way like a sub.
There's simply no way that is something that has ever been seen by anybody before. By anybody.
When you got to go go but we'll go back out to Jeremy a second but I want to show everybody here because I need to I want everyone to understand how much Zaslow cares about this team I have a photograph from a long time ago no and I don't remember the context exactly of this but I've been sending this photograph to Jonathan Zaslow for, is this 15 years? Because we can mark the date on before a Miami Heat game when the blueprint was at risk, when everybody was scared. Jonathan Zaslow claimed that he was not scared before a game.
And this photograph of Jonathan Zaslow not being afraid,

being a Heat fan who would never lose hope and would not be despondent,

this was Jonathan Zaslow very much believing their season was over.

That right there, it was the worst moment of my sports fandom life at the time.

It's now the second worst, but that is right after

that's in the bowels of the arena.

I just got off doing the post-game show.

A post-game where the Miami Heat lost

Game 5 in the

Eastern Conference Finals to Boston

and they fell down now

three games to two. They were

going to Boston now for Game 6.

We all know what happened there. LeBron,

he had the eyes. Heat win the series.

Amazing. But that right there, they

fell behind 3-2 and Saddam Thank you. Going to Boston now for game six.
We all know what happened there. LeBron, he had the eyes.
He won the series.

Amazing.

But that right there, they fell behind three to two.

And Sedano, I mean, like a snake.

I'm sitting there with George Sedano.

You see, I got a beer.

I'm several beers deep at this point.

And Sedano, he sneaks his phone and snaps a picture.

And he routinely shares it in a group chat. Very dirty move by Sedano.
I didn't even, I mean, look at me. Do I look like I'm posing for a picture? You're not consenting.
Is that the group chat? That's not consent. That's not consent at all.
That's not consent. That seems liable.
You should sue Hollywood Sedano. So like a snake, George Sedano.
And that right there, at the time, it's not anymore.

It's now the second lowest.

But at the time, that was the lowest I had ever been over one of my teams.

And yes, I thought they were going to lose.

How do you feel about Sedano?

Because he was down here when he was here.

He's a snake for doing that.

Well, a snake for doing that.

But I want to ask you a little bit deeper.

Because down here, he was Mr. Miami Heat.

Now he's over L.A., Hollywood Sedano.

He's a big Laker guy.

He's Pacific guy.

He's so L.A.

Yeah.

I don't know what to tell you. He's a big-time L.A.
guy. I don't know what to tell you.
What are you, no commenting? I'm just saying I don't know what to tell you. Big-time L.A.
guy. You're a big commenter, though.
But you know what to tell us. You do.
He's a big-time L.A. guy.
I know what to tell you in regards to Sedano being an L.A. guy.
It just makes you wonder, did he really like the heat at all while he was down here or not? I mean, if he's able to flip it. If you were to move, if you were to get the big gig ESPN L.A., they call Zaslow.
They say, Zaslow, we need you to come out here to Tinseltown, Hollywood. We need you to be the voice of Los Angeles.
No. Really? I'm 305 till I die.
Really? Well, you're not. You're 954.
Yeah, you live in Cooper City. My cell phone's 305.
That's what matters. You got me.
That's true. Everybody knows that.
I need to tell you guys, this is funny with Zaslo, because there are a number of things about him that are super curious. Jeremy Taché is saying that he's got another report that's ready to go.
I don't know if we should just break into all programming every time he's ready. I don't trust his judgment on this.
What are you guys laughing about? Have you ever lived in Miami? Of course, I grew up there. I'm from North Miami Beach.
That's not... Come on now.
NMB Senior High. What? What? What did you say? I like North Miami Beach.
Underrated part of the beach.

It is.

There's a dog beach up there.

Yes.

Have you been to North Miami Beach?

Have I been to? He grew up there.

Not a great place.

I saw you had to go to that Flanagan.

It was so far, my God.

That was a hike.

A trek.

163 Orlando, basically.

That's not Miami, by the way.

It took me an hour and a half to get to that Flanagan.

That's the OG Mall, 163rd Street. Yeah.
Come on now. What are you doing? It's OG Mall, Dan.
Everybody knows. I'm repping 305 is what I'm doing.
I don't know what you're doing. What are you doing? Yeah, what are you doing, Dan? Let's go back out to Jeremy.
He is outside of the Miami Heats Arena. Jimmy Butler is approaching, and Travis, or whatever his name was, reports that Jimmy Butler's here to kick ass.
No, Dan, we are not talking about the OG Mall or OG Ananobi. We're talking about Jimmy Butler here outside the Kaseya Center with Metal Ark Media.
I'm Jeremy Taché, and we need to be focusing on the details of this experience. What color will Jimmy Butler's hair be? What color will his shoes be?

How petty will he be during the video presentation tonight?

Not at the Kasaya Center.

That's not how you say it.

It's the Kasaya Center here in downtown Miami.

Reporting live from Metal Ark Media, I'm Jeremy Taché.

He gets a standing ovation today, right?

Jeremy?

No, Jimmy Butler.

Like, he should. He meant more to this organization than Alonso Mourning did.
Whoa. Wow.
Whoa. He led them to more finals, did he not? Put his ring in a box, and then put Jimmy's rings in a box, and see which one shakes out more.
Eastern Conference finals rings, we have a conversation. Zole came in as a mercenary at the end, if we're going to be perfectly honest.
He betrayed the Heat. He left.
He didn't want to be here. He had a fit.
He left. Then he had his medical situation, which is fine.
I feel like almost everything you just said is factually incorrect. No, that's not true at all.
The only thing that was correct was the medical situation. He had a medical situation, but he left town, betrayed this team, and then all of sudden, he comes crawling back when he realizes easy championship.
All I have to do is act as a barnacle on this ship over here. This carnival cruise liner towards the NBA finals.
Is that not what happened? He had that block, though. That's not what happened? No.
He had that block, and he did the freak out on the ground. Great moment.
Game 6, 2006. That block, wow.
Just asking. He's done great.
He has a school named after him, all the charitable work, all that. But, I mean, he kind of betrayed this city.
It's all the time we grew. And he comes crawling back and all of a sudden we forget about his actions.
There are things Billy has not been able to say for 20 years, and he's here to say them to your safety. I'm not saying anything that I'm not allowed to say.
I will say this. The Heat

fan base, very sensitive bunch.

Anytime I say anything slightly critical of the

team, they say, who hurt you? Okay, what

fan base? I want to hear the fan base

that is, eh, you know what? They take criticism

really well. It's not a criticism.

No, but you're saying that

when the Heat are criticized, that the fan

base is very sensitive. I want to know

the fan base that's like, eh, you know what? We're good with being criticized. No big deal.
Marlins fans, I feel like, are pretty good. Yeah, I just kind of let it roll right off our back.
I was like, yeah, we're back. You're right.
We're the worst. Billy was telling me the roster today.
I was like, that's not a team. It's going to be rough.
Thursday's going to be a rough one. Pablo who? Let's go out to Jeremy Taché and ask him what the Marlins lineup is going to be.
He's going to be on sidelines for the Marlins this year. Jeremy, what is the Marlins lineup going to be? Let's go through it right now outside of the Kaseya Center where Jimmy Butler will soon bring his fury.
Yes, Dan, we are looking forward to not only Miami Heat basketball tonight, but a spring training game between the Marlins and the Yankees at Lone Depot Park. can expect to see the likes of nick fortes matt mervis and eric wageman in the heart of the order for the miami marlins reporting live from outside the caseya center jeremy tache metal arc media i would so like mervis well here's the thing tony i'm actually scared to do this to him right now because we're live but i actually want to quiz him on what the lineup might be and he's really good like he should know but i'm not totally sure he does and that would be a bad position to put him in well he also could just make it up and none of us well that's true too but then he'd be on live television somebody would know yeah the burger guy's not here anymore no he's not i liked him i'll miss him they made me fall in love with burger Yeah, he's a being able.
I liked him. I'll miss him.
They made me fall in love with Berger. Yeah, he's a Ranger now.
Skip went over there. I'm not going to say Skip stole him, but Skip went over there.
He's a consultant in Texas and all of a sudden Berger's in Texas. Jessica, I've asked for your help today with some things here.
Yes, I'm sorry. Should I or should I not ask Jeremy to take a guess at what the Marlins opening day lineup is going to be? I would be surprised if you didn't know.
He gave me the Cubs entire opening day lineup for the game last week. This is harder, though.
This is much, much harder. I think a better way of the game is, Jeremy, name the Marlins lineup and we stop you when you made someone up.
That's a good idea. Let's do that one.
This is like that scene in Major League where they were building a roster like this guy's dead. Cross him off then.
Okay, Jeremy, what's the final heat report you have for us? The final heat report is that Jessica's heat stroke will have to continue as we will, without a doubt, continue to discuss this Miami Heat team no matter who is on the roster, whether it's Matt Mervis, Xavier Edwards, Otto Lopez, or Eric Wagaman, we will see an especially strong Heat team tonight because, Dan, as many former players say, that is how the cookie crumbles. Reporting live from outside the Kaseya Center, I'm Jeremy Tache.
That was not a report with information in it. Those were all real people.
Eric Wagaman? Yeah. Otto Lopez? Yeah, Otto Lopez.
Starting second baseman. Otto Lopez is going to win a gold glove.
He is not. That lineup is a vomit.
I mean, in the Marlins defense, Connor Norby is hurt. That's a great sentence.
Make that a t-shirt. I'd love a pack of Marlins fans to go to the game with that as their t-shirt.
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Don Levitard. All these high-paid analysts.
I don't want to mention names. TNT, ESPN.
You know, oh yeah, they're dead. They're not going to make it, you know.
Even if they win in, if they lose in Miami. I need to calm you down.

That's right. If they lose in Miami, they don't got a chance in Boston.

Oh, they are going to have their ass, you know what, in Boston, you know.

Stugatz.

They were wrong.

Are they going to lose their job?

No.

Are they going to get a cutting plate?

No.

What are they going to do?

Keep predicting.

What is the obvious?

They are going to say, oh, the Nuggets are going to win.

Oh, Denver, the altitude. And you know what? The Heat are going to win it all.
This is the Dan Le They're going to say, oh, the Nuggets are going to win. Oh, Denver, the altitude.
And you

know what? The Heat are going to win it all.

This is the Dan Levatore Show

with the Stugats.

One of the bad spots that we put Sedano

in when we ask him about some of his

colleagues, like that snake Sedano,

because this needs to be talked

about right now, and I'm going to betray

some confidences

here, and I'm going to ask

Thank you. His colleagues like that snake, Sedano, because this needs to be talked about right now.
And I'm going to betray some confidences here. And I'm going to ask Zaz to walk a little bit of a labyrinth with me here as a rising star at ESPN, as he is on ESPN radio, already making people like Clinton Yates jealous because they haven't put in the time the way Zaslow has to be a celebrity picker during March Madness.
You have gotten to ESPN now and have a rising star, but over your history, a history that has that fandom in it, you have a number of people at ESPN who are now colleagues that you have excoriated on the air for 15 years like Brian Windhorst that you cannot see in the hallways without it being a problem i would imagine because no one was harder on brian windhorse in the regional or national media than you were during the lebron years i was not a nice person and and he certainly knew about it i i know that he knew about it all right and i knew there was going to be a reckoning when I started to work at ESPN radio. A day is going to come because I don't book the guests like the producers book the guests, you know, and there's going to be a day where, hey, we're going to have Brian Windhorst on today.
And I'm like, oh, crap. So that day came, you know, and I'm going to have to deal with this in some fashion.
And I don't know him personally at all. So I have no idea how this is going to go down.
And I actually sent a text message to another coworker. And I said, listen, I don't know how I should handle this.
Should I call Windhorst right now and just be like, do a whole me a culpa or are we just going to do this on the air. But Mia Culpa, you meant those things when you said them.

Well, yeah. First of all, it was never anything personal.
I never said anything personal about him. Did I mean the things where I would say that he hates the heat and has a bias against the heat? Yeah, I meant those at the time.
Sure I did. I didn't know how it was going to come off on ESPN radio.
I thought maybe I should call him in advance. Like, Hey, listen, I'm not like a total a-hole, you know? How many people are there at ESPN that you have to look at the floor when you walk by them because you're afraid they know what you've said? Well, I will say that he was, he was totally good about it.
I didn't even have to do a whole deal explaining myself. He's very professional.
I ask him basketball questions. He answers to the best of his ability.
But that was the one where I was like, man. A total pro.
Always has been. Windhorse has always been a total pro.
I'm dopey. He's a total pro and it obviously showed.
He's at the top of the list of people. It's like, man.
But how many are there? We'll see if we can extract them over the course. Well, Skip Bayless is not there anymore, so he would be right up there also.
Did Wendy know who you were? Definitely. Oh, okay.
He knew that my show had him in the Tool of the Week Hall of Fame, all right? There was a banner hanging in my studio with him hanging from the rafters. Who wouldn't know of the Tool of the Week Hall of Fame? Right.
It was what I'm saying. It was sponsored.
Who was the sponsor? It was a tool. Yeah, a tool company.
No, it was like Harry's Tools in Fort Lauderdale. Why did we not do that? Why have we not just stolen that idea? Can we have that? Do you own the IP for that? Can we buy it from you? No, you can have it.
But we have to put up the tools that are already in the Tool of the Week Hall of Fame, correct? Yeah, there were four members of the Tool of the Week. Really? Yeah, four.
Like, every week we nominated someone, but you had to be really special to get into the Hall of Fame. Who were the four? The four.
Well, the inaugural member was Brian Wintour. Yeah.
Okay. He was the inaugural.
You gotta remember the times that we're living in. It was us against the world, Zaz.
No, it was a fun. He would go around the room and everyone would nominate a tool.
And then I think the fans would call in and they got to choose who it was. And once you were in the Hall of Fame, you can't nominate that person again because they're in the Hall of Fame.
And they would hang from the rafters in our studio. So he was first ballot.
Yeah. Well, no, not just he was the first inductee.
He was in the inaugural class. Who were the other three? Brian Winters, Michael Wilbon.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Hated the heat. Michael Wilbon hates the heat.
Benny the Bull. Come on.
And Jeffrey Loria, of course. Yeah, of course.
You got to remember the times. And former Marlon closer Heath Bell.
Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Those were the four members.
Good class. Well, they were separate classes.
We only nominated one at a time. You want to give proper respect to each.
If you could nominate someone right now to be in it, who would it be? Well, this is something that you can't just come up with. It's not a willy-nilly thing.
There's no one off the top of your head that you're like, if you still did this, we would put him in the Hall of Fame. Gotta put a lot of thought into it.
And to clarify, Benny the Bull is not in the Hall of Fame. You call Michael Wilbon Benny the Bull.
We used to. Again, you gotta remember the times we were living in back then.
It was us against the world. It's like 15 years ago.
Exactly. Is your whole life this reality that you've created in your head or just related to work? I don't understand this reality that I created in my head.
Everything I just told you was factual. It's not like it didn't happen.
It wasn't a dream. You against the world.
It was us against the world. You don't think it was us against the world? Who's us? Mine, Heat.
Look around. So Billy is someone that you might consider for the Tool of the Week Hall of Fame.
No, I was out there. Heat lifer.
I was wearing a Dwayne Wade jersey. Tool of this week.
I had a Dwayne Wade shirt out there when LeBron signed. I was celebrating at La Carreta on Bird Road.
Again, it's important to understand. I didn't give the Tools of the Week.
It was our listeners, all right? We listen to our audience, to the Miami fans. And then when they're nominated a certain amount of times, they go up in the rafters.
It's beautiful. It's akin to what it is that Greg Cody would do with the PFPI gala.
He has a shrine to his fandom. And Sedano, that snake, loves to send the photo around, and we all do.
Because that was Heat fandom broken, which is what people are rooting for tonight, nationwide. The people who tune in will be doing so to watch Jimmy kick their ass, correct? What is the other thing people are rooting for? Because it's not just kick their ass, but, oh, look, you remember the 15 years of this team doing? It's us against the world! Well, here comes what you've wrought.
it's not just kick their ass, but oh, look, you remember the 15 years of this team doing it's us against the world. Well, here comes what you've wrought.
It's leading a team that has actually been a champion the last few years. And that storyline is the one that's carrying us today.
I think you're hoping for a moment as well. If you're the national audience, certainly if you're TNT, you're hoping for a moment where you catch Butler gesturing in the direction of Pat Riley like that's like he does like that crying face maybe Butler and one and he's just like staring at Riley gives him the old bicep flex over at Riley some kind of gesture or stare toward Riley is what everyone's going to be wanting tonight I was hoping for closure maybe an maybe an embrace, a handshake, like, you know what? So you live in fantasy world.
I'm just saying, we go and we embrace, look, we look up and we see the Eastern Conference finals, banners, and look what we did together, and then you move on. And then good riddance from Green Day plays in the background, and everyone's like, yeah, then tip off, and then it's all done.
I mean, look what we did together. The other day, Jimmy Butler said we said we didn't do anything.
I mean, literally said we didn't do it. Well, he comes in and then he gets the nostalgia and he realizes maybe I spoke out of turn.
Was he wrong about that? The standard is winning championships. Yeah.
I don't have a problem with him saying that because if you ask Pat Riley, Pat Riley would say the exact same thing that they didn't do anything. I don't see that way from a fan perspective because even not winning the title in 2020 and 2023, those were two of my all-time favorite years as a sports fan.
It was amazing, those runs. It didn't end with the championship.
We played in the last game. It didn't end with the championship.
But still, I look back on those two years super fondly. Can we play the sound of Jimmy Butler talking about this? What was that? Win and win, I think, like, we're supposed to.
So, I don't know. We made some cool runs.
We had some fun. I think that's all we did.
What did he say that wasn't true there? We had fun, but that's all we did. That's what you just said.
Did they have fun? You know what? I'd like that on my tombstone. You had fun? We had fun, but that's all we did.
Like, that's a good life. Conference champion? This was a good marriage, man.
Like, you could get your heart broken because, oh, he's treating me. He's not respecting me as the ex-lover.
You could say, man, that was a wild-ass fling. That was fun when he'd go.
Again, never seen it before in my life. Zero 40-port games his entire career.
Eight of them in the postseason. What the hell is that? And you're not even that good of a three-point shooter.
What the hell is that? 40-point games? I just saw Andrew Wiggins put up 42 and was reminded, oh yeah, that's a number one pick. That's a champion.
That's the player that they thought they were trading for and then 11-game losing streak. It was the second greatest five-year stretch in the history of the franchise.
Wendy should put on his tombstone, Tool of the Week Hall of Famer. Wow.
I think that's what he should have on his tombstone. And Dan, on yours, you should put We Had Fun.
I don't know who the we is, but... I had a source, Zaslow, tell me that you had special imaging where you ripped Aaron Goldhammer.
Oh, yeah. And you now do a show with Aaron Goldhammer.
Another now co-worker. Yeah.
Yeah. The first show I ever did on ESPN Radio was with him.
And I'm like, oh, that's going to be fun. I was brutal to him.
Here's the thing. Cleveland, me,

don't really mesh.

That's what it was back then. And yes, we had, uh, we

were very mean. My show was very

mean back then to Cleveland, and anyone

associated with Cleveland. But Cleveland

and you don't mesh, you're giving off

right now in gear

Daytona Beach.

Why? This is something someone from Daytona Beach wears? Big Heath fans up there. I'm just saying in general, this is what you wore for like 20 years on TV.
A flat brim hat and a sports shirt. Not backwards though.
I would never go backwards. Well, no, never backwards.
I would never do it backwards. Because it's my look.
It's not your look. It's my look.
Billy, what have we kept you saying for 20 years? Nothing. I'm just talking.
Pat Riley can say that he'd accomplished nothing, and then if I say it, all of a sudden I'm a pariah, and who hurt you? And it's like I'm literally just repeating what the Godfather said, and all of a sudden I'm out of line. I don't understand it.
Billy has felt not the ability to speak freely about Pat Riley. No, it's not Pat Riley.
We talked about it. There's talking points in the media, right? And the media just gives everybody all these talking points and the fan base just believes all the talking points that the media is fed by the machine over there across the street.
And then if you dare say anything against the talking points, you're out of line and who hurt you? And it's like I'm telling you, they didn't win the championship. Oh, how dare you? We played in the last game of the year.
Is that what I sounded like when I said it? That's what I sounded like. I'm not saying you.
I would never say you. Because those are the words that came out of my mouth.
No, you sounded like this. Awesome.
Hey, you in the audience, it's Mike. You've been a fan of this show, hopefully, for a long time.
And you know how much Miller Lite means to me. This partnership, it's real.
It's documented. For almost 20 years, Miller Lite has been a partner of the Dan Levitard Show with Stugatz, and now Miller Lite is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
I've had so many great moments with Miller Lite, so many great activations, so many great events presented by Miller Lite. A great partner.
Cheers to them. Cheers to 50 incredible years.

And for you at home, you know that Miller Time always means a good time.

From game night to parties with friends or a special anniversary,

celebrating important occasions means more moments for the coolest people in your life.

Cheers to 50 years of Miller Lite, the great tasting like beer,

for people who love beer since 1975.

Now's a perfect time to celebrate legendary stories with friends, family, and a great tasting light beer.

It's Miller time.

Miller Lite. Great taste.
96 calories.

Go to MillerLite.com slash Dan to find delivery options near you.

Or you can pick up some Miller Lite pretty much anywhere they sell beer.

It's Miller time.

Celebrate responsibly.

Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.