Pardon My Take - Dan Patrick, Mt Rushmore Of Chillest Bros, Chill Week From Tahoe Plus Reading Some Headlines

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

We’re live from Tahoe for Chill Week. We talk some headlines and uniform rankings have dropped plus the best golf fight video has hit the internet (00:00:00-00:21:35). Mt Rushmore of chillest bros (00:21:35-00:35:08). Hot Seat Cool Throne including micro retirements and USA Soccer (00:35:08-00:50:42). Dan Patrick joins the show to talk about his career, upcoming retirement, the time he turned down the Price Is Right hosting gig, leaving ESPN and tons more (00:50:42-01:54:35). We finish with FAQ’s (01:54:35-02:11:11).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take

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day. Yeah. So we woke up early. Me and big cat went down did an interview with Dan Patrick, which was awesome on his show. We did a lot of walking to went for a nice, what, 30 minute morning stroll. Yeah, we, we, uh, PFT and I got up, we're like, Hey, we're going to go do Dan Patrick show. We're excited. We love those guys. Uh, we showed up to the golf course and we asked someone who was driving by us, uh, what's the fastest way to get to the 15th, uh, green. Yep. And he was like, you're going to want to go along the water. So we walked all the way up 18 or 17 through 16 all the way around. Probably took us 25 minutes. And when we

got to the Dan Patrick show, it was quite literally a hundred feet from where we had started. We were there. We did a whole circle. We were already there when we asked for directions. Yeah, actually. So this week has been so chill, even though it's been, you know, we've been working. But it's been so chill that this morning I set my alarm to wake up for this and my alarm clock in my room is so chill with the sound that it makes. Yeah. That I just slept for another 15 minutes as the alarm was going off because it was like birds and nature sounds. We got to get back to making alarm clocks great again. Yeah. Because I need to have like the fire alarm sound. I need Max's hiccup to wake me up. Sorry about that. Yeah. That's okay. But like I need, I need a grating irritating sound to wake me up. Alarm clocks have gotten way too chill with a nice like gradual, uh, the light ones that like light up your room a little bit with sunlight, ambient noise, the ambient noise. Fuck that. That's, that's too new agey shit for me. Yeah. So we, so we did that. I agree with everything you just said. We did that. Uh, we did a video. Then we had three interviews that we did. One is Dan Patrick, which was great. It's coming up on this show. Uh, and like we, you know, we come out here, we call it chill week, but we work a lot. Zach got on the grill, grill this dinner. You're working your balls off. Zach, you went to the costume store for a video. That's coming out again. We had a redim moment on the costumes and we hit the grill today and

everybody said things were cooked decent. So we'll take that to the bank. It's one of those days that I'm going to go when I, when we get back to our, uh, hotel, we're going to lay down and be like, man, that was a hard working day where we earned it. Yeah. Well, laying down feels better when you work so hard. And I mean, to a man, everybody here, they all work like Max. You did a great job. You produce all those interviews. You asked some great questions today. You chipped in everywhere. Shane was editing, editing, pug editing, editing right now. A sound guy, Matt hasn't missed it. Hasn't missed it. Okay, he's here.

He's crushing it with the ads. Hey, Jackson, the other room. Yeah, but he made sure that we're all set. Jackson, the other room. He's editing. Yeah. So everyone's been just working their asses off. Hank, how was your day?

Oh, man, let me tell you. I woke up when you got some breakfast. Yeah. Had a coffee. Speed pass. I had some time, went to the gym, we went and filmed a video. And then I had, you know, I got to play golf, me, Marty Fish, Jake Owen, Adam Thielen, the NOLO teachers golf, played a full 18, one of the chillest, chillest, most enjoyable rounds

of golf I've ever played. I didn't even realize you played 18. What were we doing while you were playing 18? Well, we were setting up. I was helping set up. We were dealing with the... Whoa, whoa, whoa. Was he helping set up? He was there.

He was supervising. He was there. And then Big Cat was like, oh, I saw Marty do like, do you want to go golf with him? And I thought I was being pranked. I legitimately was like, I thought it was a trick question.

I was like, can I? And you're like, yeah, you can go, you know, go play. And I went and played it again. I was walking out there. I was like waiting for, you know, the big aha moment, but no, you played 18, 18, never in a million years. I think it was going to be 18. I said that he should have stopped at 17 just so he could say, so, so what happened was we go into the room. We're getting set up for our first interview. It sounds awesome. It's a great course. You played the course you're going to see on TV at the tournament all weekend. With a champion, with a two-time returning champion.

I already said seven times. Well, he's a returning champion. I thought that too. I was like, you played someone else. I thought said seven and then he's like, I've played 12 years. I was like, damn, you're seven for 12. He's like, I know two. Still two for 12 is good. So I go into the room where we're getting everything set up. This is when Hank supervising set up did a great job with that. And Hank just starts pacing around the room and he just keeps repeating, this is the chillest week ever. This is so chill.

He's got this big smile on his face. I thought he was just remarking about the place that we were and I was feeling the same way to be truthful. I was like, this is a very chill environment. I'm so glad and thankful to be chill. Little did I know you were only saying that because you were about to go out. You just found out that you were going to get to play 18. He played the American century championship program. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So chill. Thank you. It really, I don't want to pebble beach. Then we send you out for 18 on the American century

championship. Yeah. I don't want to over exaggerate. Then we send you it out for 18 on the American Century Championship. Yeah, I don't want to over exaggerate it, but it was honestly one of the most enjoyable rounds golf ever played. Wow. Great. And what were we doing? You guys working? Oh, okay. Yeah. Production guys probably won't

sleep tonight, but that's fine. Oh, is that true? You guys have a long night ahead. Oh, yeah. Again, reminder for everyone. We are on a road game right now. So the Wi-Fi and everything. But yeah, they're going to work there and you'll you'll you're probably tired. You're out in the sun

all day. Oh, all right. Uh, he's got his hostage. If we, if we say stay up and help produce the pod, help edit then in the morning, we're going to have to deal with morning. He's basically a toddler where it's like we'd rather him just go to bed. Go to bed. It, go to bed. Because it would hurt us. That's when I truly get to relax during each day is when Hank goes to sleep.

And I'm like, all right, we got through another day. If Hank doesn't get his nine hours of sleep, we're in trouble as a podcast. OK, so we have been kind of, we actually have been doing a lot of work. We haven't really been plugged in. Is there anything we want to talk about sports-wise? I had a couple things.

So I was just going to read some headlines. Okay. Yeah. Let's read some headlines. Read some headlines. Well, I did see that Caitlin Clark traded her own coach. Oh, at the all star game for the all star game. Okay. They did the draft, but then afterwards she traded her coach to the other team. Okay. Coach killer. Okay. So sources, Yoke, it's to delay extension talks until 2026. Okay. Thoughts. Hmm. 2026. Yeah. When is this contract up? Money will be worth less, but horses will be worth more. Did you see that video of Yoke, it's a celebrating a horse. One of his horse.

Yeah. I mean, he's the fucking is the best. Uh, well, let me see when his contract is up I'm gonna pull it up right now His contract is up. He's an unrestricted free agent in 28 29 Okay, got a player option in 27 28. So Huh, I saw the owner of the nuggets say we're still gonna offer him a contract Yeah, and then if he feels like signing he can sign it. He is making You want to guess what he's making next year? He is making me know 30 million 55 million dollars

Pretty good. That's pretty good. Then it goes to 59 then it goes to 62 Feel like he would pick up that option. Yeah, uh Okay, so that's yeah, you Jokic, so they're gonna, oh, we, go ahead, keep going with headlines. This is from Shams, Dallas Mavericks All-Star, Anthony Davis underwent a procedure to repair a detached retina that he suffered during the season, sources tell ESPN.

Is that a Najee Harris story? It might be a Najee, he might have it confused. Davis played through multiple hits to the face last year. How about that? How about that? That's pretty incredible. He's expected to be healthy for next training camp. What is going on with Najee Harris? Uh, nobody knows. Okay. Cause so for people who maybe don't live online, there was a rumor that Najee Harris shot his eye out in fourth of July fireworks. Now what made it very confusing was there also was a fire because of fireworks in

Fresno, California. And in the local television report, they were like, and local resident, Najee Harris, and it was just a random dude. Yeah, that's very confused. So that was also part of the trending. Do we know what has happened to him? I don't think so. Adam Schefter hasn't tweeted out the x-rays or MRIs yet. So until that happens, I'm not going to comment on it. But I'm told that his agent might not be commenting right now. So I don't know. Read that what you will. Okay. All right. Keep going with headlines. Okay. Any more thoughts about Anthony Davis? No, sounds like multiple hits to the face. He plays with multiple hits. He's tough. Uh, then Dak Prescott said

he's fully healthy, ready to go for training camp pending one more checkup with the team doctors. Oh, so fully healthy, full go, nothing in the way except a checkup with the team doctors. I saw a headline the other day that was like Dak Prescott when he has weapons has been an elite quarterback. And the the headline was essentially saying implying CD lamb is elite, but the George Pickens was also elite. I don't think that's fair. I think you could make the argument that he's an elite

weapon. He might not be an elite wide receiver. I don't know if it's like an elite weapon that could hurt both sides. Like a firework. Yeah. Yeah. A drone that could blow up. Yeah. He's JPP. Yeah. Okay. All right. That makes sense. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, apparently fully healthy, ready to go for training camp, pending one more checkup. Okay. That the pending one more checkup looms large full, full go pending one more doctor's appointment. Okay. Yep. What else? Uh, Aiden is excited to play with Luca. He said on joining Luca, it's like playing a video game, which he's addicted to, which he is. So he would know he is literally

addicted to video games. He said it before that he would just basically sleep two hours because he was playing so many video games. So everything to him is probably like a video game. He sees it everywhere. I will say this about Deandre Eight and it does feel like if it doesn't work with Luca, he's gonna be in a, I don't know where it would work because that's just lob city for him. Yeah, which video game?

Pac-Man? Yeah, probably. He's probably like playing. No, Kirby. Kirby, yeah, Kirby or Pac-Man. It's getting bigger and bigger. You're right, because Pac-Man, there are some fruits and vegetables in it.

Yeah, right. Yeah. Okay, next one. I think that's all the headlines from. Okay. So I have the sports. I have the real story of the day was we had, uh, I would say the golf fight of the year, which was an incredible call fight. Uh, it was a former, uh, NHL player. What's the name? Yeah. Enforcer Nick Taranski, I believe. Was that his name? Nick Tarani? No, no. I don't know what his name was. Taransky. Is that his name? Was bad fact

checking. Someone's got it. Someone's got it. Someone's got Nick Taransky. Yeah, I was right. All right. Got to trust myself. If you haven't seen the video, you got to see the video. Can we put the video on YouTube? No. Okay. Go watch the video. It was I've never seen anything like it because it was Nick Taransky who's a former enforcer in the NHL. Basically getting angry at a guy playing slow playing in front of him. The guy was the aggressor in this altercation

did a full charge at Nick Taransky Nick Trans can throw him into a lake. Then he came back for more and he punched him in the face like five times each time punching him the face saying bang, bang, bang, which was one of the coolest things. And also just getting thrown into a lake. Most fights will be over at that point. Yeah. So I guess like the guy that was the aggressor, he seemed like a piece of shit bad guy, but he also got back into the fight after getting thrown into a lake. I personally guarantee you, if I ever get into a fight

and I get tossed into a lake, the fight's over. I would just keep rolling. I would stay in the lake. I'd roll and then I'd go underwater. And now I live with the fishes. And just hope that they leave and then I'd come back up. You're like you're trying to escape a swarm of bees. Yeah, right.

So that was actually really, I love that fight. It was a great fight when he got when he got tossed and went horizontal. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. All right. I have a couple headlines I wanted to throw out to you guys or things we had quarterback season two premiere. The big stories coming out of it was Joe burrow clip of him being very frustrated in a 10 point win. I like that passion. Him getting an argument with his coach on the sideline after a 10 point win. They had eight offsides in that game. So that makes sense. Yep. And then Kirk Cousins talking about That it would have changed his decision-making if he had known the Falcons were gonna take Michael Pennex, Jr. Which I think that's fair. Yeah, he said he felt a little misled. Yeah

But to he did get a lot of money though to back the Falcons up. They did pay Kirk Cousins a lot of money, so that's nice. But also I don't think the Falcons knew they were going to take pinnix until way, way, way, way, probably like two seconds before they turned the card in. Yes, it felt like that was a last second. Yeah, that was a fuck it. Let's just do that. Fuck it. We ball. Yeah, it's just doing be legends. Yeah. Uh, I also did you guys see that there was a, um, an article on, I believe USA Today,

uh, ranking all 32 NFL jerseys. Okay. Would you like me to tell you some of the results? I actually agree with pretty much the top 10 is number one chargers number one is chargers okay number one is charged I like it you want to keep guessing there's one that I don't agree with fully number two is the Pittsburgh Steelers J also agree I was actually gonna guess that yeah yeah three is the Colts mmm okay yeah it's blue yeah four is the Browns which I agree with classics. Five is the bills. Classics. Six is the 49ers. Classic seven dolphins, eight Packers, nine bears, 10 lions. Okay. I don't know if I love which 11 Raiders. Okay. Waiters probably should be higher.

Which dolphins uniform was it? I think it was just the classic candy ass. Yeah. Home uniform combination. Uh. Yeah. Yeah. The kid not the full candy ass because the full candy has when they go somewhere cold. So it's the it's the teal not the all white. I actually don't hate that ranking for the candy ass uniforms in the month of July. Yeah. Since we're right now. Yeah, I agree that would you guys like to know where your respective teams landed? I have a guess. Okay. Mine might be. All right. Do you want to guess? We'll start with you,

Max. I will say 18. You were the Philadelphia Eagles were 23. Okay. I think with the Kelly Greens though, they would have been higher. Yeah. The Kelly Greens are midnight greens. Aren't our, memes. Want to guess yours? 1713. That's the new ones. Yeah. Zach, Tampa Bay bucks. I would like to guess 17 is 19. Henry, you're looking at my computer. I'm gonna go ahead with 17. Uh, you were 22, one ahead of the Eagles and PFT. Dead last. Dead last is correct. Yep. Yep. I saw where that was going. Yeah. Yeah. And honestly, uh, don't necessarily disagree. Yeah. I don't, I don't know. I was trying to think like what, you don't have a mascot. I would say major Tuddy did. I would say the I don't like the Texans uniforms. I think they I think they could be dead.

The midnight blues are okay. Yeah, I hate it when they wear the oilers, even though it's a great uniform. Or they don't wear the oilers. Tennessee where I hate that if Houston had the oilers, then I would absolutely love it still. Yeah. I also don't love the Rams. I think the Rams are kind of weird. They're like kind of trying to be the Chargers, but not. They got the shiny letters. They get the ones that are the off-white, kind of beige-ish, barely beige uniforms. But this is prime time rankings. Yeah.

What about Seahawks? Where's those? Seahawks. By the way, tune in later on this show. We're going to rank our backup quarterbacks. 26 were the Seahawks. OK. All right.

Should we do backup quarterbacks? Next episode. Yeah, 26 were the Seahawks. Okay. All right. Should we do backup quarterbacks? Next next. Yeah, we can wait for that. We gotta give some thought to backup. I don't. But this yeah, James one. Yeah, easy. This this entire list is just so it basically it just should have read. Hey, it's July and it doesn't even matter how they list it. Like there's not to be reason. I will read every list. Yeah. Every list. As long as it's got NFL logos or NFL players. And I'm going to take a look at it. Now I did see that the commanders

were going to unveil their, uh, their new alternates, which are apparently going to be a throwback, but they're going to be a throwback to before they had the Dave American head logo. So it's going to be like the, the spear and maybe, Oh, I like that. Which is substrate that that puts us up to like, if that was our main uniform, now we're up in the mid teens easily. Yeah. Not higher. Yeah. I liked, I liked that logo. I think that's a good logo. Um, I didn't have much else. Uh, I feel bad for Paul skeins. He has a one nine four ERA. He's got four wins this season. 19 games pitched. Yeah, that's insane. Then ask another Derby contestant. Oh,

who? O'neill Cruz, O'neill Cruz. Oh, there we go. Okay. So how many were yet? If we're at seven, this is a sick joke. I think it's five. No, it's got to be more than five. I feel like I know five off top of my head. He's got memes. Got it. Give it to us. Memes almost got it. Ronald Kuna. Okay. Cow Raleigh five. So it's five. Okay. You're right. James Wood. Fire. Buxom. Yep. O'Neill Cruz. Yep. Believe that's it. That's five. These are five. Hank is locked in for a guy who golfed

18 holes today. Thanks to you. Are you playing again tomorrow? We gotta shoot a video. Yeah. What kind of video we're playing a skins game. The twist. Yeah. We're playing golf. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Again. Like this is not. Yeah. Yeah. We're playing golf. I don't even care. I honestly don't even care. Yeah, you shouldn't. We're playing. Great. What was the first thing that we did on Monday when we landed? I'll do the long drive competition. You again, challenge me to. That's true. Yeah, that is. Yeah, we made you. It is true. Okay. Should we do that's coming out Thursday? Should we do Mount race? Great video. Should we do a Mount Rushmore then hot seat cool throne? I think that that would make sense. You want to do that? Sure. Chevy, you grind all year early mornings, late nights, fantasy drafts, hustle mode on. But when summer hits, it's time to chill. And Chevy Silverado

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And head to chevy.com to check out more about the Chevy Silverado. All right, let's do Mount Rushmore. So Mount Rushmore of Chilis bros or dudes. What's the official Chilis bros? I like Chilis bros. Yeah, yeah. Zach and I are in trouble.

We're bad at Mount Rush Force. Look, the season has started off great. But I mean, I think there's plenty of time for us to completely, drastically change the way we're going about it to try to get some wins. Yeah. I think maybe players only meeting. Yeah.

We might need a players only. The problem is, I think our biggest problem is we have some pretty solid starts and then we go for the stuff that made us laugh in the meetings and they don't play well on the graphic. It's not working well on the Twitter feed for us. No, no. All right, so what is it?

Seven, seven, four, I believe. Yeah, so seven, seven, four. What? That's nothing. Yeah, no, we got a lot of season left. Okay. So we're up for a sec. Okay. Yeah. We talked about this. What's the order? We did. We're first. Who's second? Their second. You guys are third. Cool. All

right. I think we got to go with the pick. We talked about. We got to just try to stay consistent. Try to keep the ball in the fairway. Okay, okay. Our first pick is going to be Adam Sandler. Chill is pros. Good pig. Yes. I mean, he's he makes movies with his friends. He goes to awesome locations. He plays pickup basketball. That's pretty much his only addiction. He wears whatever clothes he wants. Yeah, he is as chill as chill gets. Matthew McConaughey. Okay, that was that was what we were deciding between those two.

So good pick. That was also our one too. Oh, yeah. We had McConaughey Sandler one too. Yeah. Yeah. Oh wow. Actually one three. What's your two? It's a two. Our two is Jimmy Buffett. Okay, very good one. Chill bro. Some piece. Very chill. Chill bro. Very chill bro. Just do whatever you want Hank. You can put yourself on the list. You've been very chill. Oh man. Jesus. Jesus. Yes, that's. Good pick. Good pick. Why? He's just the chillest guy. Well, the other trying to try to, you know, bring the world to the world. Dude, bro took a three day nap. Yeah. How chill is that? No. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm

sorry. Pft. No, great. No, great. Thank you. Got your back. Yeah. Good pick. I had him one one. Good pick. Good pick. Thank what the fuck is not even our list Good pick good pick good pick. We're gonna go with the dude the bagel basket. That's a great pick We're gonna go with that is alright You always We just take try to take the work Don't try to take the wheel. Okay, I'll throw one. Hank, we got Jesus in the second round, man.

That's exceptional. I was gonna rip one, but I don't like, do you think that plays? You think one plays? Yeah, I do. Okay, because I think he's extremely chill, but I think the others do. What?

Right there? I think we go, you don't like Jesus? We go one and 13? If you don't like that pick, you're going to hell. I love Jesus. 13. I love Jesus. 13.

Get us in trouble again with. No, I think 13. Oh, yeah. You're actually right. I have to play as fucking straightforward. Right. Yes. It is.

All right. What were you saying? Max? I was saying anything. I think Hank was just stressing over his pick. Yeah, he is stressed over his pick. It's over, yeah. We're told.

No, all right, go. You go, I'll go. You go, I'll go. Gotta have faith. Yeah, our next pick is gonna be John Daly. Yes, John Daly. Great, great pick. Thought about John Daly.

Chill as possible. He just rips cigarettes, extreme drinks. Why was that, why did you think that was gonna be controversial? I feel like. We're second-guessing ourselves. We're all good. Okay, okay. He was more to be controversial? I feel like he was more talking about the pick I'm about to make, which I still think it's the right. I think

it's where we go here next. Yes. Okay. What Hank talk? It's a podcast. I, Jesus was a bad pick. I don't know. It's pretty, you never know. So I got to do, um, Michelangelo Ninja turtle party party did. He literally just eats pizza and parties. And I think extremely true. I think as much as Raphael wants to fuck April and Neil, I think, I think Michelangelo is what April O'Neill lost after what she needs. Yeah. Right. Where do you think those numptracks go? Yeah. Do you feel good about that? Zach? I feel good about that. He's a party. He literally is a party dude. He's always trying to keep everyone chill. I'm just shocked. Memes and I have a pic

that is insane that it's gone this far. Oh, okay. Wow. You guys are awesome. I'm on Rushmore. Blake Bortles. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. He's on our list. Blake B's that's so we were fighting over the dude in Blake Portals for our last big because we thought there was no way it was getting back there. Yeah, we were going to say I should have taken Blake Portals. He was on. He was going to be my decision there and I should say Michelangelo. Fuck. All right. That's okay. We're okay. We're working out. King's Jesus. We're good.

Okay. I mean, Michael Angel's not that much better. It's better. He's a party dude. He's literally the party dude is being mad disrespectful to J. C. The party dude. We are going to go with Wiz Khalifa. Okay, this is the one where I told Hank. I'm just going to let Hank do his thing. I was clean. It's Joe. Yeah, it's show. It's chill as fuck.ve is chill? Yeah, that's chill. Pretty chill, yeah. That's chill as fuck.

So what we smoke weed? That's chill as fuck. And Keanu Reeves. Okay. Okay. Chill. What are you laughing about, guys? I mean, we, I, I, I, the hand up, hand up.

Hank went completely rogue. You told me that's what you said to everyone and And then I just like, I don't know. I say go rogue. Wait, so this is us again? Yeah. We will take Snoop Dogg. OK, that's a good pick. It's a really good pick.

This was a great draft from from team memes and Max over here. I'm just going to say it. This is where we fuck things up. Usually. Fuck man. This is where we can fuck things up bad because I want to take the pic that makes me laugh so hard. But I think it's so funny because he really chose well because he like yeah that's I'm saying the pic that Zach sent me say he's got it he's chill because

of he's got issues. Do we want to say it? I don't think he's got issues. I think you know, he literally has he's world of t shirts. Whoa, dude. He just has a different worldview. You know what I'm saying? Like we're going to lose this draft, but I'm I you know what? We don't pander on our team. We take them. We don't hand. We're going to go for it. Go for it. We take for scum. Oh no, I like force. Come on. Or is come. We take for scum. Oh, no, I like for us. Or is gum. Chill. He's so chill. Life. Life is like a box of chocolate. For scums. For my favorite movie since I was a little kid. So I love that. He literally can't be sad.

And his life is so sad when you watch it. Well, no, he was, he was very sad when Jenny died. Yeah, but he still just kind of picks up and keeps trucking. Bad things happen and then he chugs along and then something great happens next. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. He's chill as fuck. I guess sometimes I don't know if Rock is... Horace Gump is chill as hell. Alright, great pick. Great pick, Zach. Great. I was just laughing so hard about it. Alright, who did we miss? I had TJ Lavin. Yep.

Chill as fuck. Marty Fitt. Marty Fisch. How do you know him? He's the chillest guy in the world. How do you know him? I put a call for him today. Okay, nice. We had Bob Ross. Yeah.

I think that was a good one. Tony Hawk. Tony Hawk. Super chill. Gandhi. Okay. Guy who rolls a perfect joint. Yeah.

Was Khalifa. Yeah, that's good. Jack Johnson. Um, Jack Johnson chill. The chill little guy from the chill guy meme. Is Timothy Chow, Chow, May Chow? No, he's too much of a too much of all knower. Yeah. Yeah.

Billy Strings. Billy Strings is really fucking chill. We had Tito from Rocket Power. Bart Simpson. Is he chill? I think I've never seen Rock. Bart Simpson is cool. Tito is super chill. That's a good pick. Bart Simpson is cool. I don't know if he's chill. Okay. I, the other one that the other auto is chill. The other, I wish I, I was in my own head. If I hadn't taken Jesus, Jim Nance, that would have been another terrible pair. All right. I saw, I saw that on the list and Hank, I was just I was praying to hello friends. That's like that's like the chillest thing you can. Sal Masekela. Yeah.

Spicoli. Spicoli. Yep. Always a good one. Rob Lowe. Guy Fieri. Oh, Danny McBride. Danny McBride. Great pick. Guy Fieri is a good guy. Fieri is great. And chill as fuck. All the real bros of Simi Valley. Yeah, I was trying to figure out like, because Bryce is technically known as the chillest,

but he also fights babies, right? So I think you could have taken all the real bros because there's chillest bros. Oh, yeah, true. So Hank, what were our picks again? We have, I mean, it's going to be neck and neck. Jimmy Buffett, Jesus. Great pick.

We should have taken Wiz Khalifa, Keanu Reeves. Honestly, all those names pop off. Yeah. Willie Nelson would have been a good one. Yeah. Bob Bob. Like that. That's a, that's a, that's a casting, a wide net of like, you know, fan bases. Bill Murray. Yeah. We got the Christians. We got the stoners. We got the acting aficionados and we got, you know, the olds. You don't have any party dudes. No, we don't. Wiz you know the olds. You don't have any party dudes. No we don't. Whiskle you for kind of. You didn't watch Ninja Turtles. Not really. That's why you

hated it on the pick. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We'll just say you didn't watch it like he just said Tito from Rock of Power. I didn't hate on the pick I said I've never watched. Well he didn't pick it as one of his official picks. No but I said I didn't watch it. Yeah. Do you guys think Brad Pitt is chill? Nah. Too many divorces I feel like. And kids. Oh yeah. The beard phase, he's not so chill when he's in the beard phase. I feel like how many times have you been married? Two or three? Few. If you've been divorced like multiple times, that kind of takes your chill factor down. That's true. If you break up with Jennifer Aniston. Yeah. PFT had Andy Reid. Chill guy. Mike McDaniel. It's true. If you break up with Jennifer Aniston, if he had a Andy Reid, chill guy, Mike McDaniel, chill.

Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse. He keeps it cool. Hey, are you throwing me under the bus for some of the picks that I did in my brain dump that I didn't put in her top 11? I like Andy Reid. Andy Reid is not a bad pick. Yeah. Mike McDaniel, I think is a little too forced. Yeah. Well, I did Andy Reid. Then I thought what other coach maybe Mike Mc a bad pick. Yeah. Mike McDaniel, I think is a little too forced. Yeah. Well, I did Andy Reed and I thought what other coach? Maybe Mike McDaniel. Yeah. Yeah. What? What? Who's the chillest sports star? Jim Nance. Uh, yeah. Blake Griffin would have been a good pick. Blake

Griffin. I think Shohei might be chill. Cody Ballinger. We had it. We had on the list. Really? Yeah, he's a chill ass dude. He's pretty chill. I think I think Jane Danvers has to be probably pretty chill as well. Oh, yeah. Chill guy. Yeah. No girls. Smiling all the time. Really? Yeah. He's a chill ass dude. He's pretty chill. I think I think uh Jay Dan is has to be probably pretty chill as well. Oh yeah. Chill guy. Yeah. No

girl smiling all the time. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. He is pretty **** chill. Lamar Jackson. Chill. Chill. Chill. When was Jesus ever not chill? That was his whole. Oh, you you just can't stop. Well, no, I don't get like he's like he like was

literally like they're they wrote an entire book about how chilly was he. He was like a leader of like so chilly. But it's a lot of work like he just did. He was spreading chill. I don't think you really understand what chill is like chill is like chill is golfing like chilling is all your coworkers. Chilling is being like damn. I got a bunch of water and it's being like you want some wine.

No, but he was doing miracles like Like he was doing shit. Like Hank, that's a great point. The man made wine. He walked on water too. He water skied. That's so chill. Like, damn, we got no, no food. Like here's some bread and fish. The Rizler. He's just trying to make arguments. Is it disputing them? He just goes on to another honorable mention. I think we ended them out rush for he's just stuck on fighting about. I think honorable mention. Like, yeah.

Shout out, JC. The problem is, it's starting to make a little too much sense, and you guys are getting uncomfortable. No, I just That's not what I think of as chillest bros. I How come millions of dudes wear shoes millions of dudes every week go to say what's up to him fucking chill Winnie the Pooh Yoda he's pretty chill. Yeah. What is a great? I

Kinda like Jesus. I couldn't take Yoda because Great. Yoda is a great pick. I I kind of like Jesus. I couldn't take Yoda because I have not watched Star Wars but I know that I just know that he's chill. Baby Yoda. Yeah, baby Yoda's chill as **** Baby Jesus too. Yeah. We had Jack

Sparrow. I don't know if it necessarily plays but he's kind of a chill guy. Yeah, he's a leader. No, Jack Sparrow was a bad leader. He's a captain. No, Jax was a bad level. Yeah, the bucket hat does tie it all together. The bucket hat boys did pop out today in full effect. Yeah. All right. Jake Owen. Jake, how do you know him?

Just, I love his music. You should have done your Mount Rushford should have been all four guys you golfed with today. Party fish, going Adam Thielen. All right, let's do Hot Seat Cool Throne. OK, Hot Seat Cool Throne. Whoa. Look at us.

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My hot seat is the USA. Why? We were so distraught about this on Sunday. We couldn't even talk about it. I can't talk about it now, but we lost the concaf cup. Yeah. Yeah. To Mexico at home. but we lost the concaf cup. Yeah. Yeah.

To Mexico at home. We just forgot to talk about it because we lost. Like we, that wasn't a bit. We came in just to watch it. We came in to watch the game we lost and then just didn't mention it in the show. Yeah. But now that it's been a couple of days, what the fuck is a handball?

Yeah. That was a goddamn, his hand was literally on the ball in the penalty area. I know the the cry babies out there will be like, well, you didn't play the ball. The man fell down with his hand, stopped the ball with his hand, stabilized the ball at his feet, stood up and played it. That's a fucking handball. So I I joined the chorus of those who were saying conca calf rigged. They don't want to see the United States win the gold cup

They'd much rather have me be Mexico and that was our B team. Anyways. Yeah, who cares? It's the four nations We know the top ten in the world. We're cokes for the world. We fucking 17 17 the world I'm sure we're not top ten. That's like that's a joke. We're seven. Were you were the United States of America? We also didn't have like five of our best players on that roster. I thought this this I thought the concave meant something supposed to be fixed at all. Pochettino had this whole talk. Yeah, we did. He's golden generation. Well, he has no excuse. Okay. So if he loses, it's the we might suck

at soccer. Yeah, we might suck at soccer. Okay. Yeah. I've been saying that. Well, no, no, no, no, but the golden generation was not. Those guys are the ones that weren't playing. Okay. So like the five best players that we had it like literally the best they were. Well, no, not there. They're not the best. That would be Argentina. The five, no, the five best, the five best that we have. Yes. Wait, would they get playing time on? They play, they play on the world cup team. They play on elite club teams. They get play on the world cup. Some of them. Yes. Yes. Some of them. Some of them. Yeah. Probably on top 10.

We might suck at some of them. Yeah. I wish you could throw you because you golfed. Oh yeah. That also people cool throne. You golfed. Uh, well, yeah. That also, uh, people without TSA pre check. Oh, the TSA has finally gotten rid of the, you have to take your shoes off to go through security. Oh, wow. We made it. We made it. How many years was that? 20, 20 years. What was his name? Richard Reed. Yeah. Richard Reed, the shoe bomber tried to take his shoes off on a flight. By the way shout out to the the passengers on that flight Remember what he looked like when he got off that the man's face looked like he just went eight rounds of Holyfield

Yeah, just all swollen up. But yeah ever since that one motherfucker tried to do it then got take your shoes off Yeah, not anymore. Not anymore. I Was I was going through I was coming back from Boston last weekend and I was I was going through I was coming back from Boston last weekend and The security the guy at TSA was acting as if it had been a rule for years He's like don't take your shoes off And I was confused honestly and then I found out like the next day that they changed the rule But the guy had acted like they changed the rule like years ago hot seat perverts who go to airports to look at feet Yeah, can I say something? I didn't I didn't even know the rules still existed because I have TSA preaching. Well, that's why the cool thrown is people

that don't. Yeah. So why do you still have to take out their laptops? Probably. TSA pre-check, you don't. But the cool thrown is for the people that don't have it. Oh, okay. Like me. Yeah. Never got it. Got it. You neither You got it. But you still have to take out your laptop. That's why I'm always the shoes is always the worst. Yeah, laptop is easy. Okay. Alright Pft. Your hot seat. Cool to

run. My hot seat is going to be. Our list of quarterbacks that we put out on Monday. We got a little bit roasted for we tried to make it as fair as possible. But then after that sky right here, you're doing your seat. Hanks just playing with the golf ball. It's no. He was like, he was like this while you

were talking. He can't. I want to, I want to, I want to go back. I want to go back throughout the history of the show and see how many times when it, when Hanks done with his hot seat or with his who's back of the week and it goes to me immediately he checks out and starts doing something that he knows is going to distract big cat listening. Yeah, I was trying to listen while listening like a cat with a being active while listening. Okay, I'm on your side. Is that what active listening is? That's the exact opposite. But I have our list of quarterbacks on the hot seat because a better list of quarterbacks on the hot seat or better list of quarterbacks in the NFL came out today and that was from Johnny Barks

who ranked every NFL quarterback based on how cool they'd be to smoke weed with. who ranked every NFL quarterback based on how cool they'd be to smoke weed with. Ooh. So I think it's a, it's a great list, but I disagree vehemently with some of the street, he had Gino Smith in the top tier and dream rotation. Okay. His dream rotation was Josh Allen, Baker Mayfield, Gardner, Menchuk, good pick and Gino Smith. Okay.

Just, I don't know what Gino is doing up there. Uh, the nightmare rotation at the very bottom, Russell Wilson agreed. I think't know what Gino is doing up there. Uh, the nightmare rotation at the very bottom, Russell Wilson. Yes. Agreed. I think he's, he should be on his own. A hundred percent. Uh, Aaron Rogers. I disagree with that. I disagree with that. Uh, Deshaun Watson. Yes. Yeah. Fair. And we'll, Levis was down at the bottom. I disagree with that as well. I would have Russ, I would put Russell Wilson beneath Deshaun Watson. Yeah. For guys to smoke weed, smoke weed with. Yeah. Yeah. Russell Wilson would pretend he was hallucinating. Oh, yeah. I think I'm having a heart

attack. Yeah. Okay, dude. It'd be bad, but it's a good concept for a list. Yeah, I'm trying to think of who would be who would be the worst besides Russell Wilson. That is because Russell Wilson is I got to say, I think I think Bo Nicks would kind of be annoying. Yeah, be very annoying. Yeah. Yeah, it's nothing to do with his football skill, but I think he'd be annoying. He would have the worst playlist. Yeah, he would be he would be annoying. Trying to think who else would be not great on that list. Kirk cousins,

Kirk cousins. I feel like Kirk cousins as he gets older. He's also in the heart attack category. No, I think, I think it might actually be like the get you a water and be like, it's cool, dude. Yeah. I think like if Kirk cousins smoked weed, like he wouldn't, he would not smoke weed. Right. If you, he were to be dosed and he's just going along for the ride. He just be like, let's put on some, let's put on a Creed album.

Yeah. It's so funny. Right. Dak would, would not be fun. Dak was way too high up. Dak was in the chill, but we'll hog the ox category. Uh, so it was Drake may Spencer rattler was in that. I think he's way down in the list too. Um, the big, my big argument with this list, you got to put Lamar in the top tier, right? Yeah, for sure. Lamar is absolutely the top tier of that. Was Jalen hurts in the top tier? Uh, Jalen hurts was, he was in the Dak Prescott category. Okay. Hog the ox. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Uh,

and then you should do one of the cocaine quarterbacks. He'd like to bang rails with it. Wouldn't look too dissimilar. Probably not. Um, no, I think, yeah, just mention number one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, okay. Was that your cool throw? And that was my hot seat was our list and Hank started playing with the golf. Yeah. Yeah. And then my, my cool throne is Ms. Rowski again, from the brewers. Yeah. So we talked about him on national sports podcast last week. Uh, Mizraosky. He struck out 12 gave up four hits one earned run beat out Clayton

Kershaw. He's fucking awesome problem. If you haven't watching pitch yet, this dude is a he's so fun to watch because he throws the ball like 103 miles per hour every single time and he's not he just started He just started in MLB. Yeah, he's a problem. He's the best. He's a problem. All right. My hot seat is Kentucky punter Aiden Larros because he is the only player in the college football 26 game to have a zero toughness. game to have a zero toughness rank ranking would happen. That's brutal. How do you get that? How do they not even give them like five? I have no idea. That means you're dead. Yeah. Zero toughness.

I also I really want to play the game, but we're on show week, but I can't wait to start playing the game because I heard it's really, really good. Yeah. Are you a memes? You must be feeding right now. Feeding. I'm fired up. Well, you're we're not going to see you after like when you get back, you're going back to Friday. Go back Friday. Just see a memes. See ya. Yeah. Two straight locker room. Ultimate team. Gotta get that guy. How many titles you're going to win that quick? It's a slow build.

Okay, slow build. Okay, you gotta find the worst team and then build up. My other hot seat is Hank because there was an article in Fast Company about Gen Zers. They are. There's a new fad for Gen Zers. It is called micro retirements. They involve taking a one to two week break from work every 12 to 18 months.

They're basically just stealing vacations. Also, not enough. No, it's not enough. It's not enough, but that's but you can't let them steal the word vacation. They're trying to change it to micro retirements. Yeah, it makes no sense. Yeah, it's crazy. Trying to rebrand it. There was one guy that article that said that he liked to take a two-week vacation twice a year, which is that's more of Hank's speech. Yeah. Yeah. It's just what did they did they email you to get comment? They did not. But micro

retirements is just not a thing. Yeah. Micro retire. That's what Aaron Rogers does every off season. Yeah. Yeah. He invented that. All right. My cool throne. One is it's Amazon Prime Day for the next three days as you're listening to this, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Go to Stella Blue's store if you're a Prime member. Bye, bye, bye. Amazon Prime Day rocks. And then also my cool throne is our guy, Zach, because as we're sitting here, this is the

first time that Zach has been west of the Mississippi and the first time you have been... What was the other thing we were talking about? west of the Mississippi and the first time you have been, what was the other thing we were talking about? We hit a top of the United States on the way down. Yep. Seattle for Seattle. We went all the way left. All the way left. Directionally on the map.

Yep. Yep. So you've never been west of the Mississippi. No. And this is like the, oh, it's the highest you've been as well. Oh, that's right. That's right. The elevation.

Yeah. The mountains are here crazy. So congratulations to you. That's pretty awesome. I appreciate you guys letting me come check out Tahoe. How do you feel out here? Do you feel different on the west coast? It doesn't like, so driving from Reno to where we're at now,

right, it felt like almost as if we were driving through unreal territory just because the mountains are so insanely big on both sides and I just I've never seen anything like it. Like it's something you'd see on like a Microsoft wallpaper of sorts or like a default iPhone screensaver picture. It's beautiful. It's real. Yeah. Insanely beautiful. Yeah. And so what? First time? West of Mississippi. How old are you? 27? 27. Yeah, that's huge. So you did it. Yeah, we're checking off States. It's kind of wild. Yeah. Insane. You did Washington, Nevada and California and uh, Massachusetts.

Oh yeah. That was those two weeks ago. Yeah. So we're at like five different states now. Holy shit. I think I was capped at five before before really recently. Yeah. Look at you. You have one that's next on the list. One fifth. Whatever states open having me. Okay. All right. Out there. Any states that want to have Zach. Let them know. Hank. What'd you say? Well, I'll say one one. I mean, we're going to have to go to South Dakota. You want to sit down one fifth? I don't know what the states has been. Said five or four or five or 10 overall. Okay. All right. I thought you were saying got it. All right.

That's Zach. Your hot seat. Cool. Turn my my hot seat with you mentioning the Dakota's it. So it's seven seven to four in the Mount Rushmore standings right now. My hot seat is me and you big cat. Yeah, we're going to find you guys. It's so early and no, but we, I don't like we, you guys are begging for votes right now. No, we're not. We're, we have a bad,

we are making each other laugh. We're not thinking big picture. We, our strategy might be too whimsical in the prep. Correct. I think we are. We're like, we're like to like 12 year old girls at a sleepover party. And that not when we're doing our prep might not be good for success. Yeah. As we've seen coming out, uh, hard lines. Yeah. We just have to, I say be true to yourself, Zach.

Well, we have been and also maybe rework. Yeah. All right. And your cool throw a cool throne is, uh, I hate, I hate to do this again, but anybody who's at the house right now on the couch or in the bed or at the desk just ripping college football 26 with nice beverage beside him just getting into the game. I hope for all of you that ultimate team is not paid to win this year and I just hope you can have a beautiful experience with not only you maybe have some of the boys in the party. So you're going to rip it when you get home. Of course. Oh, wait, what's your college team college team?? Uh, I like to see the state win. Never graduated from a full university. So I don't have the most insane ties. So I just like to see a state win. Yeah, love that. So are you going to, are you going to just hop around the state when you play? Uh, for, for college football, I try to be on uniforms early. So any uniforms that are enticing,

I'll try to go with them. So season one, what school you play? I'm not sure yet. That's it. In the moment thing. That's at the desk. Yeah. You got to update people. I can do that for you. And let, yeah, yeah. Let them know. Let them know. Tweet. You picked, uh, okay. Good hot seat. Cool throne. Great fruit through the loom underwear. Let's get to our interview with Dan Patrick awesome interview Okay, we now welcome on a very very very very special guest recurring guest It is the legend Dan Patrick who still has two and a half years left in his career Dan, thank you always for coming on. We love having you on Should we talk about

the retirement tour? Because it's... Okay, it wasn't set up to be that. I said this is the last contract I was going to sign. Is this the technicality that you're doing? Yes. Are you doing the immunize that Rogers did? I said this would be the last contract. Then it became a retirement. I didn't mean for it to be a four-year retirement tour. So you're working for free after your contract's up, is what you're saying. You're not going to sign a contract. I won't be working. I won't be strictly Sandler movies. Okay, wait. Are you actually going to retire in two and a half years? Yes. And do you not feel like you're going to miss this and doing all this? Because you're still the top of your game and you're still put on a great show.

I just feel like I guess it's more I'm projecting here where someday I'd like to retire, but I don't know if I could give it up. Well, I still have a broadcasting school. I'll still do things. It's just it's I don't know. There's things I want to do. Like I want to I want to move to Italy. Oh, that's a big thing.

I want to learn Italian. My wife's Italian. I got grandkids. I mean, there's things to do. I got a place in Maine, I started fishing again. So I don't know. I've been working five, six, seven days a week for almost 35 years.

Yeah. And so it's time. Plus you don't want to get to that point working five, six, seven days a week for almost 35 years. And so it's time. Plus you don't wanna get to that point where people are laughing at you, not with you. And I went through a period where I really struggled. I was going through health issues and I said to Paulie, I leaned on Paulie more than I ever have, my producer, because I couldn't remember Albert Pujols his name. I couldn't remember

Tom is those named during the show and I panicked and it made me start to realize okay You just don't want to be that guy Yeah and I think I it kind of put the wheels in motion of I Rely on the Danettes my guys a lot more than I used to on the air and off the air Because I want them ready whatever they do after this So it's a long-winded way of saying two and a half years and then I'll be done Can I give you a tip for the Dan Patrick School of Journalism and we'll we're happy to teach a course

We've done it before. Yeah, we have. We've taught courses before. So you mentioned you don't want to be that guy who makes the mistakes on air. The tip is be that guy who makes mistakes on air your entire career like we do. Yes.

And then no one's ever going to notice when we get old. Like they're disappointed when you don't make mistakes. Correct. We fuck up things every day. And how did you say that? How did you not know that? It's like, that's kind of the beauty of it. We never really ended to be professional. Yeah. And you, that was your job. Yeah. So we're taking that bullet away from you. You can't be like, Oh, very, very unprofessional. But I think from PFT commentary, that was brilliant from your guy's perspective. First of all, young, you're going against everybody,

you're going against the world, how do you stand out? But to be almost counterintuitive to what people were doing, that everybody's trying to get the right guest and ask the right questions, where you might get the wrong guest and ask the wrong questions, or even the right guest and ask the wrong questions,

then things go viral. And I never really looked at, like McAfee with YouTube, like those numbers, that's really all that matters. It's insane. And I've been with terrestrial radio all my life and you keep thinking of those ratings, those ratings, those. Now, nobody cares about that. They care about, you know, social media, what went viral, the number of people watching clips, and that's what you guys have been able to do. McAfee's been able to do that as well.

Yeah. When it comes to terrestrial radio, how do those ratings get actually sorted out? I always wondered that. I still don't even know. They just tell me. Yeah. One day, they're going to say, hey, come here, bring your playbook. You're done.

And they could be something random like that. We'll, we'll be in on market in a market and they'll go, you're killing it, but they want to go local. And I'll go, what does that mean? So then you're not in an affiliate in Portland, Maine. Meanwhile, you thought you were doing great in Portland, Maine. So I don't, I don't like being beholden to that, because face it, you have a lot of people who are in radio,

who your boss is, who probably haven't done radio. And I think it's unfair sometimes with they project to what you should be doing or why aren't you doing or why didn't you ask. When you're in the chair and there are live bullets, I mean, it's just different. Are you just saying that you're going to move to Maine to get your numbers up in Portland, Maine? Is this a trick?

Strictly. I'm going to have one affiliate. It's Portland, Maine. So wait, go back to Italy for a second. Describe to me your perfect day, ideally, 10 years from now. How do you spend your day in Italy? Up early.

I'm out. I'm already out retirement. How early? Probably early. I'm out. I'm already out retirement. No, probably six. Okay, that's not bad. So up early. And then probably out the door. Probably living somewhere along the water. Probably a nice lunch. They don't do brunch over there. They don't really do breakfast, I don't think either. They smoke cigarettes Yeah, they do and drink wine. Yeah, but they all look pretty healthy. They do Yeah, I mean, but they're you know, you can't go wrong over there with the food

I think Whatever the day would bring over there would be great fishing hiking biking But trying to learn the language. Yeah. I want to take dance lessons too. Oh wow. Yeah. All right, I have two questions about Italy though,

that I'd be concerned about moving there. Now is this product placement with the shoes? Yeah, oh yeah. Okay, you do. Fair enough. We'll get you a pair. We're billboard. What size are you?

11 and a half. Just missed being a real man with 12s. That's tough. PFTs. Not a real man. Yeah, no, he's not. I'm a boy. I'm a boy. It's weird that 12 was the number I picked.

I happened to be 12. Michael Jordan, 13. Yeah, Italy. Are you worried about getting all the games, being able to watch the games, and two, are you worried about all the perverts? A lot of perverts in Italy. There's perverts all over. Yeah, Italy's got a lot of them.

They elect the president. Listen, they always got a lot of perverts. They elect them president. Listen, my kids are a quarter Italian. I can say this, there's perverts in Italy. I don't know if being a quarter you can't. Yeah, no, they're quarter. No, no, it's like size 12. I think you're going to be at least half. Okay.

Well, I'm a father. I'm an Italian father. I have children that are Italian, so I'm an Italian father. Okay, all right. All right. I guess a loophole. So are you worried about that? No, I'm not. And I'm not worried about the games either.

OK. Are you really going to watch the games? I don't know. That's crazy to me. Because I. You've got to escape it occasionally. Yeah. Because if I'm at home and my wife will say,

are you going to watch blah, blah, and I'll go, I'm watching Diner's Drive-Ins and Dives right now. Like, I'll get to it. Because if not, you never going to watch blah, blah, blah. And I'll go, I'm watching Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives right now. Like, I'll get to it. Because if not, you never get away from it, ever. And Fritzie, my booker, is constantly sending me emails and texts of guests or stories. And then Paulie gets in on the chain.

You know, then all of a sudden, it's 10 o'clock at 930 at night. And you're going, got to go to bed and then turn around and then get ready to go the next morning. You got to get away from it, I think, to come back to it and try to love it. Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, like, NFL Sunday? I don't...

I'm okay. Okay. I'm okay. I love it. I love it. But I, you know, I choke it. Yeah. I need to get back away from it.

Well, I mean, this is good because I do think that there are a lot of people in our profession that don't love it and they pretend to kind of keep loving it and it shows, you know what I mean? Where they're almost mad at having to watch the games and it's like, if you don't like watching the sports that you're covering, why are you covering it? I think it's the one thing that people don't understand because I say to them, the other I go, you're lucky you get to watch games. I said, but it's my job.

I don't get away from it. I have to know everything. It's live. And when you fuck up and then somebody said, how can you not know blah, blah, blah? I have to know everything. Trivial Pursuit. I don't like playing it, but I'm always in another room and they'll go, Roger Maris, 1961.

And I go, Roger Maris, you know, 1961. And I go, 61, Homer, you know, and then they're like, okay, oh, okay, for a pie. Like that's not any fun. You don't get away from it. Yeah. Yeah. Is there a sport that you've retained your love for

more than the others? I think it's storylines. Like if there's a storyline, it doesn't matter what it is. It could be golf. It could be even tennis. If Djokovic goes and plays in the finals at Wimbledon, that's a great story. Football's always got storylines.

Baseball is a little harder to find those storylines that stay true. Basketball storylines is what true. Basketball, you know, storylines. I don't root for anybody. Like you know, you're a Commander's fan, everything Washington, DC. But I gave that up when I started at ESPN. I gave up my fandom. I'm from Ohio.

I didn't root for anybody in Cincinnati. Bengals, the Reds, gave it up. But I do miss that. Like I miss that pain. Like when you get crushed or when you win, like I do miss that. And the Bengals go to the Super Bowl and people are like, oh man, are you crushed, they lost?

I go, no. They played well, but it was a good storyline for the Rams as well. And that's what people don't understand, is I gotta look at it not as a fan, but this is a job. And you gotta do it correctly. You gotta put in the time. When you have interviews, you can't cheat the audience.

You just, you know, they tune in and I tell them, hey, I got this guy coming up or this person, and then I want you to listen because you trust me that I'll do a good interview Yeah, but if you try to mail it in man, it always gets you always What is your what's your go-to like interview move or something that you're like? This has worked throughout my career because you're a fantastic interviewer and you you do such a great job of I feel like almost disarming the guests where you ask a straight question that's very simple but gets a

great answer. So what is it about like did you, was that something you had to work on or did you just have that? You mean you taking a long-winded way? Yeah that was, I did that job. No I just wanted to make sure. I knew halfway through that question. I was like I'm fucking up the question, complimenting you about how good you are at asking questions. Dan if you were to rephrase that and ask yourself that same question, how would that go? Go ahead. What makes you a good interviewer? Okay.

That's good. I think you just answered the question and asked. Yeah, yeah. That's my pet peeve. Yeah. Ask, answer, ask. Yeah. Uh-huh.

Because I love to- God damn it, I fucking suck. I like to ask you a question so you don't get time to think. Because even today when we talked and you said, oh, that's a great question. Well, you're stalling to come up with an answer. But when you can get somebody, like I want LeBron to ask Kevin Durant, do you think you're better than me

on his podcast? Or Steve Nash ask Durant if he thinks he's better than LeBron like I think that that would be Awesome, I'd love to do that and and then LeBron to go back at Kevin Durant. I mean they're greats of all time Why do you think you're better than me? Yeah, then you could kind of go back at that but to get a short question to people and Not let them load up because if you you do ask, answer, ask, then they got something for you. Yeah.

All right, I'm gonna do a round of it. Ready? Okay, here's one. I'll go first, I'll go first. No, we're gonna get you. Yeah, go ahead. Because I was gonna say, Yeah, yeah.

Favorite color? Blue. Blue. That's why we love each other. Me too. Why did you turn down prices, right? Because I was still in a sports mode. I wasn't ready for a game show.

And it's 1999, and I get a call out of the blue and said, hey, are you interested in Prices Right? I thought they were selling me something, or I didn't know what it was and They said we're interested in have you host prices, right? And we checked with Bob Barker and he signed off on you posting prices, right? we want to build a set in San Antonio where the NBA finals were and We wanted to see you on stage and we're gonna build the set and I just remember hanging up the phone and going, I don't know what that was.

And then I said, well, for shits and giggles, I go, well, what's it pay? And they said, if you take the job, we'll tell you. So I go home and I say to my wife, hey, I got offered the job at Price is Right. She goes, well, you turned it down. I go, well I say to my wife, hey, I got off for the job at Price is Right. She goes, well, you turned it down. I go, well, not exactly. I just wanted to know what it paid.

And she goes, what's it pay? And they said, if I take the job. And she goes, you're turning it down, right? And I said, well, I will, but it's not because of that. I just didn't think I could do it well enough. And then I was up for who wants to be a millionaire. So I meet with the guy who started the show, Michael Davies. Yeah.

Century City. He worked on Barstool Vantoc. Yeah. Another guy. Long running show he's done. Yes, the long running show. So it flies me out. So I want to talk to you about hosting a game show.

I said, all right. We go in, we watch Japanese game shows for probably 90 minutes. He hadn't offered me anything. And then all of a sudden, he goes, man, these are fucking great, aren't they? And I said, yeah, sure. And he goes, all right, we're going to do the show. He goes, god damn it, Regis won't leave me alone.

What are we doing here? And he goes I okay hold on I Got to get a game show for Regis Philbin, okay But I want you to it's called who wants to be a millionaire You're gonna you want to host who wants to be a man. I said I'm open. I don't know I'm open to it because I got to get fucking Regis a game show And so I go home and my wife goes what how what was it? I said who wants to be a millionaire the whole concept she goes Are you gonna take it? I go. I don't know. I think it hinges on Regis Philbin getting a game show

so she goes Okay, and I do explain it as God is my witness, I did not hear back from Michael Davies until I saw on TV Guide Regis Philbin was going to host Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Mm-hmm, found out through the press. Yeah. And I, for 10 years, I waited for Michael Davies to apologize to him. And he had some game show that he called me about. His assistant did.

And I said, tell Michael to call me. And he forgot all about it. And I'm like, hey, dude, I'm waiting for the call to be who wants to be a millionaire. And he goes, oh, are you still hung up on that? I go, hung up on that? I flew out here. You were going to give me the job. Reed just had to get a game show, and I'm hung up on that. I go, hung up on that. I flew out here. You were going to give me the job.

Reed just had to get a game show, and I'm hung up on it. So there's been three or four game shows that I had the opportunity to do. Jeopardy? I, well. That's a great question I just asked. It was one word. Yeah.

Great question, PFT. Yes. Wait a minute. Hold on. Yeah. Ask it again. Let me do the phone. What is jeopardy? Great question. Jeopardy. Were you offered? Were you in discussions for the jeopardy? I was. I met with Steve Moscow, who was the head of Sony. And he that day on my show for some reason the guys were asking about what game show would you host and I said Jeopardy. The show ends get a call Steve Moscow from Sony he's in France and he says hey I'm gonna be in New York I'm gonna talk to you about hosting Jeopardy. Now I just think he's fucking

with me like maybe somehow you heard I was talking about Jeopardy, and I had met him one other time, and I meet him in New York, and then he said, look, if Alex doesn't sign this contract, I want you to be the host of Jeopardy. I said, okay. And he goes, in the meantime, we're going to do sports Jeopardy.

Have you host that? It'll be on the set. I want you to have dinner with Alex." And so all these things happened. Had dinner with Alex. He wasn't sure if he was gonna resign. And I'm doing Sports Jeopardy. And then all of a sudden Sports Jeopardy. Alex resigns. Steve Mosco gets fired at Sony, and then all of a sudden, nothing happened. But it was quick. And I would have taken that job. I think you would have been good at that one.

I loved it. It was quick, it was fun, the staff was unbelievable. The knowledge, research that you were around was spectacular, but that would have been one you could have done. And they said, look, you're going to work 48 days a week. And you would do five shows a day. Alex was a monster, man. He was a machine.

He was unbelievable. And I remember when he had had surgery on his knee and he insisted on going out there, and he's hobbling. And he was a tough, tough SOB. But he knew that I was there, and I hated that feeling. And I still have the voicemail when he called me to have me go to dinner. And we went at 5 o'clock.

And we just sat there, and he gave me his marker that he uses so I could use that on Sports Jeopardy, made an appearance on Sports Jeopardy. But that was one that looking back, if I had the opportunity, I probably would have left sports. I am mad at you about prices, right? Though that is I have a dream job. That is my dream. But you could do that. I would leave everything for that.

Right now. Yes, that's the best. It's the greatest game show. It is. I used to watch it all the time. What's your favorite game show, PFT? I mean, I've always been a fan of Jeopardy. I like that one.

I do like the Japanese game shows. Yeah. Like the wipeouts, like those. Yeah. I would say Jeopardy is one, one for me. Okay. It's off the list, yeah. Price is right, it's pretty good. I would say Jeopardy is one, one for me. Okay. It's top of the list, yeah. Price is right, it's pretty good.

I just think. The skinny microphone, did you at least hold the skinny microphone? I would have if I let him. Yeah, you have to take the job first. Yeah, you do. Yeah, don't give you the microphone, you gotta take the job.

But you know, Drew Carey has done a wonderful job. He has, I'm not saying that, but I just. You know, there's part of you that I never wanted to be, you know, I had a chance to be in Entourage, but I didn't wanna fuck up of you that I never wanted to be, you know, I had a chance to be an entourage, but I didn't want to fuck up a show I was that I really liked. Right. I didn't want to do a corny cameo. And then I've done 21 cameos with Sandler. So those are great. You know, and happy Gilmore too. You know,

so, uh, but it's, I think I've, I've aged out of the game show. What was your best cameo? But it's, I think I've, I've aged out of the game show. What was your best cameo? The one that you say I knew. I think when I did, uh, uh, what was it? Just go with it with, uh, Brooklyn Decker, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Aniston, and I play a nightclub owner. I don't want to spoil if you guys haven't seen this.

No, no, no. You see, I have my favorite movie. Yeah. OK. So I'm on stage, Dave Matthews, Sandler, Kidman, Aniston. This is the greatest name drop of all time. And there's a dance contest. So I'm hosting. And Aniston looked incredible.

God damn. There was a moment when I'm shooting my scene. Aniston looked incredible. God damn. There was a moment when I'm shooting my scene, or I don't even know if I think I said the words, but I'm just staring at her, and I'm going, god damn it. She is unbelievable. Kidman had just had a baby, like six months earlier, whatever. She is ripped, like incredibly ripped.

And I just remember being on stage and Aniston and Kidman are there. And I'm thinking, do they know that I can't act? Because they kept looking at me like I knew what I was doing. And then Dave Matthews was there as well. And he was a lot of fun. But that's where Sandler just said ad lib.

Yeah. And I used a line with a woman, I called her big country and they kept it in. You really got to make sure to hit the RY on there. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Big country.

Yeah. But yeah, she looked like Bryant Reeves a little bit. Yeah. Have you played basketball with Adam Sandler? Yeah, many times. And how good is he? He carries the ball. Yeah. Have you played basketball with Adam Sandler? Yeah, many times. And how good is he? He carries the ball. Okay, so there we go. We got to start calling that bad shot. Yeah. It goes in. That would be a good shot. It that you can have a bad

shot that goes in. But it is still a good shot. Yeah. But I met with Sandler, I don't know, three or four weeks ago having dinner. I said, hey, it's kind of a nice place in New York. He goes, all right, Danny, I'm going to go play basketball before. So I'm thinking, all right, he's going to play at 5. We're eating at 6.

Chances are he's going to come in with floral shirt, basketball, trunks, and the whole thing. Sure enough. I'm sitting there. It's a really nice place. Sandman walks in, floral, you know, print shirt on, basketball, he's sweating, and sits down. Nobody's sitting. Everybody, it's a dress code. Sandman had just played hoops, just walked on, doesn't know anybody, just walked over, started playing. And he said, one guy just kept coming after him, going, Kyrie, motherfucker, Kyrie. Sandman goes, I don't know why he was saying that,

but he loves pickup. Every time I've done a movie, there is something, you know, well, he'll want to go play basketball. Always built in for his time. And he had Timothy Chalamet out there playing. Big Hooper. But Sandman will play anywhere. With anybody. I just looked up Jennifer Aniston and just go with it. You're right. She's stunning. Stunning. Accurate description of her. Stunning. Goddamn. i am a journalist yeah i but she and brooklyn decker yep uh andy roddick's wife

swimsuit model very very nice lady yeah very pretty yeah um like that so just to put to bed though not to harp on price is right i heard the rumor that you didn't take the job because you were anti-spay anti-neuter yeah you want to die sp anti-spay, anti-neuter. Yeah. Like you want the dog's intact. I'm not anti-neuter. Okay. Just so you know. Okay, good.

Somebody did ask me that about the job and that Bob Barker wanted to know. What's your stance? What's your policy on dog testicles? This. And I said, you can fucking spay me if you want. Tell me, just tell me how much money I'm going to make. Yeah. That maybe that was what it was. I think it was, we'll tell you the money once you get spent.

It was $10 million. Was it back then for that's 1999. Yeah. A year. Yeah. You're such an asshole for not taking that job. I hate you so much. I know. I hate you so much.

I know. I know. I wasn't ready for it, though. I wanted to do the Olympics. I still wanted to do Super Bowl. There were things I wanted to do. And you did them all. Yes.

Is there one thing that you do regret, like a sliding doors moment of your career? No. Because I was so lucky to even get to a point if there's a sliding door. Yeah. I, because I never, I didn't take it for granted at all because I'm, I'm from a small town in Ohio and you know, I'm handing out the Superbowl trophy. Yeah. I mean, that's pretty cool. How cool is that?

What was that like preparing to hand out the trophy? I was thinking about that earlier today. That's a small moment, but probably a very big moment for the person that's doing it, right? You know, it's, it's the kind of thing where you just don't screw up. Nobody's really going to remember you're handing out the trophy unless something happens, right? That's all.

And the first time I did it, it was Cardinals-Stealers in Tampa. Dramatic finish, Rothlesberger, touchdown pass. I'm on the podium, and it happened so quick. Roger Goodell's up there, and he keeps asking me questions. I'm trying to find out who the MVP is. I'm assuming it's Rothlesberger, but it's not. But I'm yelling to people, anybody, who's the MVP. It's chaos. Roethlisberger comes up. Santonio Holmes comes up. Steeler

ownership comes up. Roger keeps saying, are you going to introduce, are you going to introduce, will you introduce me? Yes, yes. Like I'm telling the commissioner, like, you know, I'll get to you in a minute. Joe Namath starts walking up with the Super Bowl trophy the seas part Football players are touching it. I still don't know who the MVP is And so I'm talking to my producer waste talking to me He goes Bob's gonna throw it to you, you know two questions two questions two questions. Don't give up the microphone Now there's a 100 million people watching,

but they're not watching for me, unless something bad happens. So thankfully, I just yell again, who is the MVP? And somebody goes, Holmes. Well, Rathasberger, I truly believe Ben thought he was gonna be the MVP. Because I, like he's looking at me like,

yep, I know it, yep. You're gonna and it never happened. Obviously, we do the whole ceremony. And I didn't tell anybody in my family I was given out the trophy. Then I get all these messages you're handed out the truck like, they don't they don't know how to respond to it. But yes, I didn't I wanted them to see it. And then I didn't want to tell them Did you also hand it to Belichick? Was that your Super Bowl? Yeah, I guess Seattle right after to flake it It was like right in the middle of that right? Yes, what was good? Oh, was he acting different? No podium like no, not there not at all

But here's the I had two moments that one was with one of the Giants owners two moments that one was with one of the Giants owners who once again you never give up the microphone because it's really quick two questions two questions two questions you got to get back to Bob and get off the air because you have programming coming in they spent a lot of money to follow. One of the owners grabs so I have the microphone he grabs the microphone. Now you can't tell this if you're watching, but I'm pulling this way to the right, he's pulling this way to the left. He wants that microphone.

I can't give that up. My producer and my, do not give up the microphone. So he now knows that I'm not gonna give it up. And then they think they're live at the improv. Like these owners, like, hey, America! You know, the Eagles owner tried to do that as well, Laurie. And then the other time was when Eli had a car dealership that I think was Toyota or Nissan, and he was the MVP.

So I'm reading the card. It'll be like, and such, blank, has won the, you know, this black on black Corvette, you know, L1 something, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, stage. So I have the keys. I can't hand out the card because Eli doesn't want to be associated with Chevrolet. Yeah. So we love bad guy. Bad guy. So I, yes, we love Chevrolet. So I, I'm yelling, this is live. I'm yelling at Eli. I was like, Eli! Eli! I'm yelling at Eli. I was like, Eli! Eli! He came back up and I go, here are your keys.

Years later, he admitted that he did that to me, but he didn't. He had a Nissan, some Toyota. Just take the keys. Just take the keys. And I almost did this to Brady on the podium after the Malcolm Butler interception. It still haunts me because I came so close to almost doing this.

And I almost said to Brady, you know, that truck belongs to Malcolm Butler. Oh, you should have. It would have been correct. But I couldn't do it in that moment. No. But damn, was I so close because it belonged to Malcolm Butler.

Yeah. You're not wrong. Yeah. And I thought, god damn, would that be good. Yeah. If all of a sudden Malcolm Butler came up there and got his truck, Tom had to give it to him. I think somebody said Tom may have given it to him.

I bet you he did. But that would have been unfair to Tom to go, you know, Tom, without Malcolm Butler, you're not up here. that would have been unfair to Tom to go, you know, Tom, without Malcolm Butler, you're not up here. That would have been great, though, to watch the wheels turn in his head as he's got the keys in. OK, what am I supposed to say? This is not scripted.

That Cardinal Steelers Super Bowl, that was Madden's last Super Bowl, was it not? Believe so? I'll have to look it up. Someone fact check for me. Did you work with John Madden? That was the question. I only around him. Okay. I never worked. Okay. Yeah. Never worked with. Bad question. That's okay. Yeah. I mean, if

you did research, you probably. Well, I think I was right. I think that was so. But I didn't. Maybe Diva Dan didn't work with John Madden but other people did. He didn't work with me. Okay, got it. Yeah. Wait, which one's Diva Dan? Okay, gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah, which one's Diva Dan? Okay, gotcha. Gotcha. Diva. We gotta specify. Who's more of a diva? We gotta Dan off. We gotta Dan off. Who do you think? Well, I mean, I haven't asked. I mean, 21 Adam Sandler movies. Yeah, it's pretty. I didn't ask. You've never asked? Big Cat's

not on a four year retirement tour. Yeah, I'm not yet. One time I think I asked. Hey everyone, I'm retiring in four years. Please talk about me. But that wasn't every time. This is my last contract. We're going to get back to Dan Patrick in a second. He's brought to you by Truly Unruly. It's the high alk hard seltzer that drinks light but parties hard. Truly Unruly is a hard seltzer. Breaks all the rules. It's 8% ABV. It hits hard but still tastes amazing. Comes in four fresh flavors, tropical twist, berry blast, citrus crush, strawberry smash. It is the best to the truly hard seltzer taste that you love, the high elk unruliness

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I'm going to do it in Italian. Okay. that's fine. We would learn Italian to translate. I'll do it, my hot take in Italian. Yeah, I wonder if they have hot take TV over there and they have to in Italy. I think they do. Rick Riley moved over there, right? I believe so. I think he did. For a while.

Oh really? Yeah. Oh, now it doesn't sound like you wanna go to Italy. Yeah, I'm sailing. That place isn't big enough for two of you. Maybe not. Maybe the pervert thing to Italy. Yeah, I'm saying that place isn't big enough. Maybe not. Maybe the pervert thing was right. I think I had.

I was looking like France now, south of France. Switzerland. I think I had a falling out with Rick Riley and I don't know why we had a falling out. I know why you had a falling out. I think it had something to do with when you left ESPN radio, he said it was the biggest career mistake you did.

Oh, yeah, he called me. He said it's going to be like, yeah, it's going to be like Shelly Long leaving, Katie Korak going to CBS Nightly News, and Dan Patrick leaving ESPN are going to be the three biggest media mistakes. Oh, that's why I'm mad at him. OK, thank you.

But you proved everyone wrong. I did. Son of a bitch. I said, I'll prove you wrong, dude. Yeah. But you did, because you prove you wrong, dude. Yeah. But you did, because you were the first big guy to leave. That had to have been at least a little scary, I'd imagine. Oh, frightening.

Because there was this smear campaign that started. Any radio affiliate that had my show, you'd be dropped as an ESPN affiliate if you decided you still wanted to carry me. It's mafia shit. Yeah. It was heavy handed. decided you still wanted to carry me. It's mafia shit. Yeah. It was heavy handed. But I understood it empowered me. Like, holy shit. I'm going to matter. They're going to have to deal with me.

Right. And look, in my mind, that I loved David against Goliath. I'm sure they didn't care. But in my mind, I would tell the Danettes, I'm like, these motherfuckers, man, we're coming after them. I don't think anybody was shaking in their boots because we were doing our little show. I think they were trying to send a message to the talent that they still have. Like if you leave, yeah, we're fucked up. There's no doubt. I probably had four people, one a big name, and the other three were probably recognizable names. They wanted to know about leaving.

And I said, don't leave. They're like, why? I go, it's a million, I mean, it's even larger odds than that. I was doing the show in my attic for two years. We didn't have it made. There was a six month period where I made sure the Danettes cashed their checks, because I didn't know if we were going to make payroll. We changed ownership, and that changed everything for us.

But it was not. It was not a success story. But I did it on, I had to do it. I had four kids. They were young. I had three daughters. I had to be at home. And I was selfish for... I mean, I'm on Sports Center. Like, I don't... Come on.

Yeah. And kids will raise them and think, come on, I'm on Sports... Don't you know who I am? You can watch that on TV. Yeah. Yeah. I'll parent them on TV. Booyah. And I just... I remember I listened to my wife because I was gonna sign a five-year deal That that morning I'm driving up. I'm sign a five-year deal

And she just said the kids are all gonna be out of the house and you're gonna be you're gonna be a mess And she was right and when I said no I Didn't even know what I said no to but it was quick They they wanted me out and what I said no to, but it was quick. They wanted me out. And then I'm trying to get Seton and Fritzie to join me. Paulie was already gonna join me. And then I remember reaching out and Fritzie had a too good a job.

Like he was a big deal at ESPN. And I knew I just couldn't get him to go. And I realized that. Seton was just on the verge of doing things. And, but man, he was all in. He was all in. And so I was like, let's just try this. Let's see. I mean, I can always go back to TV somewhere.

I knew I had NBC. Knew NBC wanted me to do the Olympics and Football Night in America. So I at least had some TV exposure, wanted me to do the Olympics and Football Night in America, so I at least had some TV exposure, but I missed Sports Center. I loved it. I loved it. I loved that it's live.

11 o'clock at night, loved it. But I did the 6 o'clock Sports Center, and I'm throwing out to Sal Palantonio. And I just remember I'm throwing out to him and it gets to him and I said, God damn it, I'm mailing this in. I felt like a fraud. Because I didn't want to do the 6 o'clock, but I had to get home instead of working second shift. And I said, I can't do this anymore. Sal Pal sucked your life out of the business for you. If I was throwing it out to Susie Culber,

I might still be there. But it was Sal. But it hit me hard that I'm taking a job from somebody. And somebody who should be in that chair, somebody younger. And it's the first time I really thought about an exit strategy. And I remember telling my wife, I said, I've got to get out of there.

But I couldn't. It's like Alcatraz they never tell you when anybody gets to the other shore right never and they did their damnedest to make sure that I didn't get to the shore so all these years doing radio at ESPN and then outside of ESPN radio I'm sure there are some topics that you just got sick of discussing yeah do you have do you have any off-limit topics like you will not talk about these issues anymore. Well, I don't go out of my way to talk about the Cowboys or LeBron. And Paulie is really good. He's got a great news sense. If there's a story, then we'll cover it.

You get late July or June, July, man, it's back to the cowboys in LeBron. Now, sometimes they're warranted, but I just can't do that to the audience. I cannot. And I should play the hits. That's what people do. I think your audience probably respects you for not doing it. Now, Dak Prescott just said that his hamstring is almost fully healed. He should be good to go next year. What are your

thoughts on that? And what's his legacy? His legacy? Yeah. Like, what is how does Kevin Durant go into the Rockets affect his legacy? And you're being no because it's usually where we connect the dots of KD going to the Rockets. How's that affect LeBron? Yeah, yeah. It's never, yeah. You know, uh, all of it, Jackson Dart, great, uh, training camp. Uh, how is Dak Prescott doing in Dallas? Yeah. You know, it's like, let me use that to jump over here, but it's put more pressure on Dak Prescott.

Is this the most pressure Dak Prescott has ever been on? But also you get, we had talking, not talking points, but we had topics we had to talk about on ESPN and it was all, you're in an echo chamber. You would, everything you were talking about was talked about, will be talked about. Let's have a guest to talk on, about the ESPN hockey game. Bill Clement joins us now to talk about, let's bring in Peter Gammon's to talk about the Sunday night. But so you didn't, and I just said, let's just do what we want to do.

Yeah. And I couldn't do formulaic. And I'm fortunate that my affiliates, with Fox and Premier and those kind of partners, they let me do what I want to do. I just said, just trust me. If you don't like it, then drop me as an affiliate. But I, especially Portland, Maine.

But there's so much fun every day. My favorite ESPN thing they do is someone says something outlandish in the morning, and then the rest of the day they just keep repeating that. It's like, where did this come from? I remember Ron Jaworski said that Colin Kaepernick could go down as the best quarterback of all time in the NFL. And then for, I think it was like a week after that, he was on every show.

It was on the bottom line of other shows being like, Ron Zaworski says that Colin Kaepernick. How did this happen? It didn't used to be that way. But you know, I'm the get off the lawn guy because, but SportsCenter, when we first started doing highlights, you didn't know what, you could know the final score, but Sports Center when we first started doing highlights you didn't know what you could know the final score but you didn't know the highlights right and so we got to get build an audience and that was what was great is you were tuning in to watch the highlights and it was such you know a built-in home court advantage and we took advantage of that. I mean, that that was where it was, you know it was boy band crazy at times.

You were also setting the discussion and setting the agenda for what you're going to talk about when it comes to that game too, because a lot of people wouldn't have they might not have seen the game, but they tune in, find the final score, find the highlights direct from you. Whereas now it's like they've

probably seen all the highlights 1000 times before they watch Sports Centerenter on their phones, on the screen, whatever it is. And so the narratives have already kind of gotten started before ESPN has a chance to set what that narrative is. But yeah, you're tuning in now to hear why that happened. Right. Yeah. Whereas we're gonna show you how it happened. Now it's, okay, I know that. Then you have to start a discussion. And we didn't have to do that. Now you could do it a day later when shows would say,

let's talk about that. And it was legitimate. Now these shows, you know, it just feels like, and the pressure was there. We had to talk about Duke basketball. We had to talk about if it was Tyson, Terrell Owens, Red Sox, Yankees, always, always, always. Up to the middle on T.O. Yeah, that's what I appreciated.

Constant, constant because they were playing the hits. And, you know, after a while, you just, I remember when, when Mickey Mantle died and I was with Keith Obermann and we said we want the first 15 minutes to be about Mickey Mantle died and I was with Keith Overman and we said we want the first 15 minutes to be about Mickey Mantle and they were like what? We said no it the first segment of Sports Center should be on Mickey Mantle. What he meant I mean and you know Keith would always fight, he had a great new sense. He was, he was unbelievable as a partner, unbelievable. But we fought that.

We had to call bosses at home. And we said, we're we're doing the first 15 minutes on Mickey Mallow, and that's one of those where years later, looking back, that's that's as proud as I ever was about doing something and going against what was probably the norm, you know, they would expect. But there were times when, you know, they allowed you to, we weren't allowed to do anything. Catchphrases, they didn't want any of that stuff, nothing. Fought us. Got called into, you know, conference rooms, yelled at. Catchphrases they they don't want any of that stuff nothing fought us um

Got called into you know conference rooms yelled at And I kept thinking god damn. I thought we were popular And I realized we were But then a member of management said We don't want another berman And I went why wouldn't you want another? Somebody that popular. Yeah But they couldn't control. And that's where, so we had to kind of surreptitiously sneak in stuff doing the highlights.

We had built in jokes. We made fun of management. But that was the best TV in my life. Yeah. Yeah. It was so much fun because they didn't want us to have fun. Now they go back and say, oh, you know, we're responsible for one of my bosses. I'm like, shut the fuck up.

Yeah, right. You weren't. You made us better by not maybe allowing us to do a little bit more. So in full context It made us sharper because we had to be yeah sneak it now. They got it on the walls You can't come in yeah, yeah You have a sports gambling podcast. I started it because I don't gamble anymore. Okay, so Dan Patrick takes a gamble Yes, it goes subscribe Dan Patrick. And I had a friend named Bad Larry,

and he lives in Jersey. I already like him. Yeah, he, first time I meet him, he says, you get off exit 98, you ask anybody where Bad Larry lives, they'll tell you. This guy's awesome. And it's true.

God's on his truth. Where does exit 97 lead? They know, it's like Seagirt or Spring Lake. OK. Bad Larry. Well, he'd always tell me these gambling stories. He'd won every gamble. He's like Floyd Mayweather.

Of course. Like, god damn, he's winning every one of these. Then I thought, you know what? Let me start a podcast with Bad Larry. And then Dylan, who used to answer phones and help build the place running cable, and then he was graphics, and now he's on the gambling podcast with us. And then we have Shay and Irving,

who is just this crazy random guy who's a crazy cowboy fan. And he comes in every week, we do the gambling podcast, and you just, you get around to talking about the games, but it's about crazy stuff. I mean, Che will talk about going to therapy with his wife. Dylan did nine hot dogs, nine beers, and nine innings. We talked about that. Bad Larry had to get new teeth for his daughter's wedding.

And we talked about just normal, silly, stupid things. But we have so much fun. And it makes me realize why I can never gamble again. Yeah. Because it was bad. Yeah. Yeah. I was all in.

But I made money, but I lost a bet. I think it was Arkansas, Oklahoma bowl game. And I lost three grand. I was up six. I lost a bet. I think it was Arkansas, Oklahoma bowl game. And I lost three grand. I was up six. I lost three grand. So I lost 3,300. Closed up shop, paid some school loans, bought my mom a dishwasher,

and never placed another bet again. That's for you. I mean, I go, yeah, that's smart. I love gambling, so I don't think that day would ever come for me. I don't enjoy winning that money as much as I hate losing it. And I can never watch a game that I bet on. Oh, that's all.

I love it. I know, but I would love it. Friends would say, hey, I don't know, if you want to watch the Browns and the Raiders. And I go, yeah, sure. And they go, yeah, I got to put something on it. Yeah. See, that's, yeah, I mean, it's to each their own.

I'm a losing gambler my whole life. But my happy place is like a Tuesday night in the middle of January just being like, all right, there's 25 college basketball games. I can sit on the couch and watch all these. I'm in. I love it. And then there's like a pack, not the Pac-12 anymore,

but there's a late night Washington, Oregon game. Mountain West game. Yeah. Yeah. Nevada. Yeah. Place to play. I'm going to tune in at 11 PM.

Midsummer baseball. And you become an expert on mountain west football. All of a sudden. It's the best. I love it. So we, I mean, we do have to talk about, we try to talk about all the major sports on this show. Uh, but sometimes like right before the all star break in baseball, the games

aren't that interesting. Not all the time. But you bet on four of them per night. And guess what? Now, you're forcing yourself. I look at it like I'm doing my homework when I do that. So I'm going to watch the games. Then I'll at least know what's going on major league baseball.

But that's why I got into fantasy. Yeah. Because it helped me stay up on everybody and stats. Stratomatic, I don't know if you ever heard of stratomatic baseball, but it helped me memorize stats. But my bookie died at his kitchen table on a Sunday morning. Did you have a balance? No, I was up.

Okay, that's too bad. Cause Dave, our boss, famously his bookie died and he was down big and it was a big day for him. But one of my bookies used to take bets from Pete Rose. And I just got to ESPN when this happened. Just left CNN, went to ESPN. And I go in there, and I'm working with Bob Lee. And Bob is journalism personified. And I said, look, I got

a great source and he's going to give us information. And my book, he said, just don't mention my name. That was it. And I, to this day, I've never mentioned his name, but he would get- Steve, Jim, Bad Larry. Jim. Bad Larry, but he would get sometimes that his Pete's main bookie would lay off bets to my guy. Right. And I remember he would joke about it because you know, Pete, he would say, uh, you know, your boy just put like Pete would bet on Vancouver Canucks hockey. He had a big satellite dish and let's not shame. And I, I know, but that's back. I got bit on the hall of fame. I bet on the hall of fame.

That's sad. Preseason football. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. He would tell me all of these things that were going on with Pete. So we knew it was true. And I remember in 1986, we're at Shea Stadium. It's Mets Astros. And I'm with Bob Costas. And Pete's there. And he walks up the steps.

And he goes, who do you guys like today? Yeah. Now, if you're a gambler, there's certain codes. There's certain phrases. And I said to Bob, I go, and Bob's dad was a bookie. And I go, Pete's's dad was a bookie. And I go, Pete's betting on this game today. Of course, now granted it was Mets Astros.

Yeah. But that's, and then he came on my show years later and said, Hey, I bet on the Reds to win every game. And all of a sudden, you know, this blew up because nobody had ever, he never said it before. And everybody's like, yeah, you bet on yourself. I mean, that's the way, that's the American way. And I'm going, no, there were certain pitchers

that he wouldn't bet on. When he bet, he bet on his team to win. But there were two pitchers I was told that he wouldn't bet on the Reds when they were pitching. Also affects the way they use the bullpen too. You're betting on that. You're playing every game like it's game seven. All of a sudden, John Franco's coming in

his fifth consecutive game. Yeah. But I just got caught up in it because I thought I knew sports. And now I have so many outlets to actually have information. Yeah. And I can't go back. It's smart. It's not cool. But I love it.

And you should subscribe to your podcast. Yeah. Dan Patrick takes a gamble pot It's fun. And if you wanted it, you know, and why do we use degenerate gambler? Why like it just be a gamble It's a house around a lot. Yeah, I mean we don't use it for anything else do we know like a did you I know I think that's unfair to the gambling community I also think that like speaking for myself who has gambled for a very long time What's the most you've lost a A lot. A lot. In like one game. Oh. 10th? 50, 60. Those are

game of the years though. Those go bad. Well alright so I had a streak. Wait wait. You look worried. Here's the thing. Alright Dan, let me explain. Is this where the tout says this is my game of the year? You probably missed this, but it did make waves. I started March 1st this year. I did not lose a game in March till March 10th. I went 16 and 0 straight. The bets started going up and up and up. So the 17th game was a lot. I was making like QB1 money for a week and a half.

It was insane. It was insane. They were talking about it on the broadcast. They were saying, like the 15th and 16th game, the broadcasters were like, and there's the over and Big Cat and all, and everyone who's riding with him must be happy 16 and up. Okay. So you made this money to get to 50 or 60. Yeah.

Oh, so you didn't just plump. No, but yeah. Plunk down 50 grand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Correct. I was up and I kept on going, pushing it, pushing it, pushing it. What's the most you've lost? It was the Eagles and Super Bowl a couple years ago against the Chiefs. I think that was, I want to say $8,500, $9,000. And I did that because actually, fun story, Big Cat had a future ticket on the Eagles.

Yeah, he was being a good friend. Yeah, Big Cat would have won, I think, $200,000. $200,000, yeah. It was 20 to one on the Eagles from the start of the season. Yeah. And I did not want to root for the Eagles as a commander's fan. It's against my DNA. But I'm not going to root against him winning $200,000.

It was a great move by him. That's a house. So I was like, I'm going gonna feel this one way or another. So, but I'm hopefully not going back up to that. Why didn't you ask for biggest wins? Why you gotta do it the negative? Because that's the way I deal. I want pain.

We had Travis Hunter to win the Heisman interview. I, yeah, but that wasn't crazy. 40 to one isn't crazy. Yeah, we got him early. 40 to one, 5K to win 200,000? Oh, I wouldn't see that as a big deal. Judging me for my losses, that's not fair. OK, I mean, most people will tell you when they win.

I'm really curious about when you lose. Now, you know, Van Pelt started the bad beats. But I like to hear when somebody says, you know, this is what happened. The losses stick with you. Those are, but that's what makes the wins fun. And it's when you get hot. And like I said, it's a hobby for me.

I am a lifelong loser. But the bet sizes go up. Yeah, but you're not anymore. Yeah, right. You've had to shed that label. No, but in terms of gambling, I am. I also want to retract that. It was closer to 16,000 or 17,000.

Because in that game, I also bet on no doinks. The ball doesn't hit the upright. It's like a lock. It never happens. People think, oh, I hear doink all the time. It was like minus 500. I bet a lot of money on that because I'm like, this is an investment.

It's an investment strategy. And so it was that combined. That just that was a bad day for me I also should say that the 17th bet was 65,000. I know that for a fact. So that was bad, but I had what was up But do you run it by your wife? Uh She's aware. Okay Do you know I think the Travis Hunter one was I won that and then she was like What are we gonna do with the money and it was like two weeks after I'd won it Hunter one was I won that and then she was like, what are we going to do with the money? And it was like two weeks after I'd won it.

And I was like, the money, week 12 and 13 didn't go so Who's the two way guy at LSU who's now with the Texans, the defensive back, who's Stingley? Yes. I don't think he plays two ways. But you know, I but I, I told people to bet him. I thought his next year he would have been the Heisman Trophy winner. He would have gone both ways. And I thought he was just like, he was Travis Hunter before Travis Hunter,

in my mind. I mean, that has nothing to do with me, this story, other than I'm trying to show you that I can kind of have a Travis Hunter moment. Who wasn a Travis Hunter moment. Who wasn't Travis Hunter. That's couldn't. Didn't win the Heisman. And he didn't play offense.

But you know his name. But he could have. And we had to help you with his name. Exactly. Well, next year. How do you pronounce the guy with the card and he played with the Angels? Pujols. Yeah, there you go.

If you want next year, we can tell you who's going to win the Heisman. Yeah, because we're two for two in the last two years. Yeah, we like to delicately use some of the influence that we have. So when we decide who's going to win the Heisman, usually in mid-September, we will just strictly highlight that one player in college football and bring him up all the time. The Heisman is the dumbest trophy that we give out because it's 2,000 voters and 1,500 of them don't watch all the games or any of the games. There's voters not a lot. Correct. And so we've realized how stupid it is that they don't have experts voting on this. They have people who are watching and they're, oh, what's the biggest game?

What's, you know, who plays for Notre Dame who plays for the? President are you saying that dead people vote for the Heisman? It might be we got ballot fraud. Yeah, they haven't voted But yeah, okay, they still have a vote. Yeah Yeah, we gotta find out who those people are and then we can get there we can write in from their name Yeah, but I got it. I think it's so formulaic. You can't win it in September Yeah But I think it's so formulaic. You can't win it in September. We give out the September VP, like the September Heisman. And that person never wins. Because you have to have your marquee game.

You have to have a nationally televised game, preferably playing in a big conference. And you play a skilled position. Yeah. And you've got to win like eight. That was our thing with Travis Hunter. If Colorado can win eight or nine games He should win the Heisman. That's that's a big piece. Jade and Daniels the same way It's like that wasn't a I think they had a three they were three losses

So they had to win nine games. Mm-hmm, but if you can get there and So who's winning it this year? I will tell you in September. Mmm. Yeah, does he play for LSU? He might actually Yeah, that's my or my there's a chance that could be a that could be one I also think Clemson's gonna have a really good. I do too. Yeah, I do too. So that's gonna I Think Arch Manning is too obvious. Yeah, I can't yeah that that would be I actually I don't hate the Notre Dame running back love Because that does that's another one where it's narrative if Notre Dame goes to the playoffs and he rips off a ton of yards you know Heisman voters are hard it's hard to do the running back I know but Notre Dame the Notre Dame part Notre

Dame and with with the name like love wake up the echoes Dan yeah just think about that this is all we're gonna say all all fall on my teeth genti rushes for 2,000 yards yeah and. And granted, it's Boise. But still. Oh, he was phenomenal. Those were great. We had to say some bad things about him to help Travis Hunter. Oh, you did? Oh, yeah.

Like the defenses he played against. It got ugly. It got ugly. I didn't even see Frutal Alune. Yeah. You can keep those. Yeah, those are yours. That's part of the gift.

36, 38. We're like Derek G to give those. This is your old Gert. That's when I was 12. But you were, you didn't wear briefs back then. I don't know. Yeah. No boxers, regular boxers.

Oh, you did? Yeah, yeah, the old school. Yeah. Those are big. No, that's not old school. Old school's tighty white. Yeah, that is old school. That's, yeah.

Yeah. And that's, that's. You're going to be walking around, you know, in wealthy coats, tighty whiteys. You don't wear any underwear right now, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're gonna be walking around, you know, in wealthy coasts in the mid-1980s. You don't wear any underwear right now, right? Yeah. No, I love that. Just for this interview.

Yeah. That's the rule. And just strategically where I'm seated. Yeah. Thanks for that. Just wanna say. Max texted me like 30 minutes ago saying, hey, PFT, your shirt button is on button.

It's true. And it was just a gaping hole for, I think, half the interview. I was mesmerized by it. That's the interview trick. Every time you were speaking, it was like a mouth moving. This is the future of journalism. OK?

We're in good hands. All right, last question. This has been unbelievable. We always love having you on. You're going to chop this up, and it's going to be about seven minutes. No, no, no, no. You are one of our favorite cats.

Just keep it for the archive. So when I die and then you bring it back, and you go, hey, never aired. Oh, there you go. Yeah, the never aired Dan Patrick interview. That's smart. I could say something now. Uh-huh. You'll never believe what he said.

That it would be from the grave. Time capsule. You know what he said? We talk about that every now and then when we will be traveling. So like we'll tape the show on a Thursday, and then we have to get on a plane. We're like, what if we just died? And then we release the last podcast.

You should have kind of a say something at the end in case you die. Yeah, posthumous. Yeah, I mean, for your family. OK, all right, so rollback question. Promo code TAKE, 20% for your family. Okay. Alright. So, Roback question. Okay. Promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, Roback.com promo code take. Give it to us. What's the? What? Give us the the the Dan Patrick has died. What does

he want to live on forever? I don't know if we have enough time. I mean it's emotional. I this is gut wrenching. Alright, I'll do. I'll go first. Okay, I'll go first. I'll go first. Nussmeyer to win the Heisman. So if you die before Heisman season, there's going to be voters that are like, Nussmeyer for big cat. We got to do it. So you'll get three in a row.

It'll be worth it. They'll have to vote for it. You'll die. We'll lose you, but you'll win that bet. OK. All right. PFT. I never found out if Joe Flacker was elite.

And that tears me. I'm in purgatory right now in the afterlife. Trying to claw my way back. Who was going to tell you he was elite? I just thought somebody would let me know. It was just gonna click, yeah. Yeah. When you know, you know.

Yeah. I think he was. I don't think he was just gonna click, yeah. Yeah. When you know, you know. Yeah. I think he was. I don't think he was. All right, I want a Super Bowl. Nick Foles wasn't elite. This is the perfect conversation. That's the exact conversation anyone has ever had.

But usually they say, so did Trent Dilfer. Yeah. I didn't go there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Foles was unbelievable in his Super Bowl. He was elite. Yeah. But you can look back on these quarterbacks. Like look at a Bob Greasy Super Bowl. The numbers, Bart Starr, you know. Or Joe Namath. Yeah. I mean, they're not great numbers,

but we somehow think, boy, these guys had an unbe- you know, Brady's for Super Bowl. Yeah. Like they're not great numbers but nobody ever lumps them in with some of these other guys we consider pedestrian. Right. Who have won Super Bowls. I just hope that you guys carry the torch of what? Entertainment, journalist- no, entertainment, entertainment. And yeah.

I mean, there's a great chance you outlive us. People need to be like 120 years old. If I get to Italy, then I'll keep you informed. Unless Rick Riley comes to. Will I make, okay, real quick before... Ooh, Rick Riley. He sees you walking off the plane. Shelley Long.

All right. Will I make in memoriam at the Academy Awards? Oh yes. Are you sure? Yes. That's 22 movies. If I'm lucky enough. Some films. Yes. If I'm lucky enough to outlive you I will make it my mission that year to get you in memor morning. You promise. Yeah better question Well, yes, pn put it that was my next page of ESP. No, no, no, I'm going bottom line bottom line I think you'll get bottom. Oh, yes get front page of ESPN calm. Yes. I don't know I think you will I haven't gone there since I left. I know but I so I don't I My family you think you're gonna like you went on SVP, right?

Yeah, but yeah, but I didn't go on the ESPN page You went on SVP, right? Yeah. But I didn't go on the ESPN page. I got to go to the website. So you think that it's going to be like the sky beat the fever and then the line below it's going to be Dan Patrick dies. No, no, it's Caitlin Clark and the fever beat the mystic. Dan Patrick passes away. So that might be what I'm going to leave you with. Beat the mystic. Yeah. Yeah damn Patrick passes away. Yeah

So that might be what I'm gonna leave you with when I die that I'm talking about when I die and these are things I'm asking you to help me with we got your bottom line is fine in Memoriam that'd be kind of nice. Can I tell you what would have guaranteed you to get into the memorial page for the Oscars? If you had taken that fucking fucking prices god damn it ten million dollars a year you to get into the memorial page for the Oscars? If he had taken that fucking fucking prices, God damn it, $10 million a year. Yeah, but that's TV. You're an asshole. No, no, this is in memorial. No, they still would have done it.

You would have had more cameos. You would have been in more movies. No. Bob Barker. I know, do you know Barker insisted on beating up Sandler in Happy Gilmore? I did not know that. He said that he would do the scene,

but he says, I'm kicking your ass. And so Sandman's like, yes, that's, that's great. That he wanted that Bob said, you know, I want to win. And that's so good. Said, sure. I don't care. Yeah. All right. Well, this is it. We is the best. This is the final one. You're the best. No, you're coming back home. This will play. Listen, when you do your. Two and a half years when I'm done. Yeah, when you do your real retirement tour,

when we get to the last few months, you're going to, you know. And I'm there with Portnoy feeding him pizza. Yep. Yep. On your job. You're going to be doing everything. It'll be great. Yeah.

You're going to be doing quick picks. You're going to be doing it all. I'm going to do bar everything. Yeah. You're going to be doing quick picks. You're going to be doing it all. I'm going to do bar stool. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to do it all. You would think I'd spend enough time on a bar stool, far more than you guys have.

Yes, that's right. I didn't want to talk about a bar stool. OK, that's it. We've done it. Thanks for joining us. All right. Oh. OK.

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Okay, let's finish up with FAQs Hank you got him. Oh, I actually can I do an FAQ yourself, please? Hey guys longtime listener was wondering Hank, you got him? Oh, I actually, can I do an FAQ myself? Please. Hey guys, a long time listener was wondering if you feel a little intimidated about the new guy being a complete heartthrob and girls on TikTok lusting for him. No, it's an awesome trend.

Yeah. Yeah, it's called, you're Zaching. Yeah, for people who missed it, Zach, you got some admirers. No, there was a kind woman on the internet that gave me shout out. Shout to her. Looks like a shout to her. She but the comments too were like, Zach's got it. Those people were very kind. Yeah. Yeah. She did. She she completed the Zach challenge. Yeah. Just listen to Zach and loves. Yeah loving Zack Dude this like it would make me so happy if this podcast got you would

Not much of a not much of an intercourse guy That's gonna make him watch you so much more. Zach, you know that girls are going to get so fucking 40 for that. Like I don't even, I don't even like it. It's not a man of course, guy. I should have kept it to myself. I'll say this, though, that's a challenge. That's a challenge. Yeah.

Girl, I did. It was probably the first thing that your mom will appreciate. That's a challenge. Yeah. Girl, a double. Yeah. Probably the first thing that your mom will appreciate you saying on the show. Yeah. He's like, oh, my sweet little boy. Not much of an intercourse guy. What does that even mean? We got so many FAQs. We got. Should probably get on the next one. We got so many. Alright, yeah. Let's go to the next one. This one's relatable. I may miss it but how did Zach come about being on the show one? All right. Yeah, let's go to the next one. This one's relatable. I may miss it, but how did Zach come about

being on the show? I love the edition, but I was wondering about the backstory. Yeah. Zach, do you want to start? You want me to tell a little bit too? How are you like, sir? Okay. All right. Well, all right. So tell the leading up to the group and then I'll take it from the group. So what were you doing before? And kind of, you know, what was your life like in, in, you know, relationship with Barstool? So we're, uh, so I was, uh, I was running like a clip accounts on like Tiktok and Instagram

and then, uh, selling cars as well. And then they had, uh, they had a listing for, uh, like production assistance and help with the junk room. Cause you guys hired him or got, Gawgruin late last year. And they're like, hey, we're in Tampa, we're gonna have some interviews. Here's like a little bit of interview process, couple different like a Google Doc situation, some emails.

And then I was fortunate enough to be invited out to the in-person interviews and I didn't get the job. Yeah. What was Grun like in that interview? He's an electric guy. Really to the point, pretty fun. It was a little overwhelming because I'm a Bucks fan growing up so you know he brought us to the Super Bowl. So there was a little bit of pressure there. And what was the, what was, you say say the shining moment from that, uh, that maybe caught Dave's eye? Uh, I know he, I know he did have a good,

uh, all right, I'll take it from here. All right. So they, they had it in, that's okay. You're doing a great job. They were trying to hire a Gruden's assistant. They brought a bunch of guys in. Zach was Zach, which pops off the camera. But then there was a moment where they did a task where they're watching a game and that everyone on burner accounts and they said tweet like you're tweeting from John Gruden's account tweet clips throughout the game. And we're going to judge those. Zach tweeted zero clips in the first half and said

that when asked about it, you basically were like, well, I kind of got nervous and then I fell behind the eight ball and it was a little self-miscommunication was the exact line that was it was. Yeah. So you just sat there for an entire half of football just kind of frozen trying to get it back together. There was some. Yeah, there was some frozen moments for sure. It was it was you at the costume store. Yeah, no, no, we're moving it worse. It was worse because it

for entire half football. I didn't finish the assignment. He didn't do anything I did. I was trying to get there and like I just it got mixed up and you're right. It was a mis is a self miscommunication. Well, I know I'm ready. You said that, which is a great term. I don't know how to break. So, so flash forward. So he, he was electric. He didn't get the job. Uh, March madness comes around first weekend. Dave was like, Hey, I brought that Zach kid. I want to see if he, you know, if you like them, uh, and you can have them in Chicago. And our first conversation

went exactly like a lot of these conversations go where I was like, we just started talking and you had flown in on Thursday morning and I said, yeah, I want you to, I was like, when do you fly back? You said Monday morning. I said, change that tonight. And you said, oh, so I have to leave tonight.

Should I go right to the airport? This is Thursday. I said, no, no, no, change it to Monday night because I want you to come on the act and just be in the office. And then I love, I loved you from right away. And I told Dave, let's do it. Let's get them hired and, uh, cream team, a couple of appearances on the act. And I was like, you'd be perfect in PMT. And now here you are. I'm very grateful for the opportunity. Uh look forward to helping team to the best of my ability as much as I can. Yeah, very much so. And that it was hard when I when I thought I heard you go, no change it to tonight. The flight. My heart sunk a little bit. I was like, oh, there's no way I messed up this bad. Yeah, it was a simple

conversation we were having. I just said, I said, when are you going home? He said Monday morning. I said, change it to the night. It sounds like tonight. Yeah, that does. I could see how that is. But it also was at like 7 p.m. That Thursday night. And he thought I was literally telling him to get out of here and go to the airport. Just like pretty much go. Yeah, like you suck. Go. And you're like, and you just said, so should I go to the airport right now? I said, no, no, no. Monday night. And then the rest is history. Did you ever want to move to Chicago? Uh, uh, Chicago is definitely far from where I was currently living at the time. Uh, definitely a bit of an adjustment period. Uh, but I, but I enjoy, I've enjoyed the city of Chicago for sure. When was there a moment where you're like, you know, during that weekend that you're up here that you're like, I think I'm doing it good. I think I think they like me. No, I didn't think I was I was I was initially I came up here thinking or just like, at some points where I was here, here the first time I felt like I wasn't helping enough. And I

was like, I'm just there needs to be something. There's got to be I'm messing something up. I don't know. I was in my head a little bit. I think Dave was also judging you a lot based on if you were if he was winning bets. By you being next to him. The Florida bet was big, the first one, the second one went bad. Yeah. Couldn't have gone worse. Yeah, but I mean, here you are. I appreciate you guys having me. Yeah. We're here. West Coast. We're so far west right now. Look at you now. We're so far west. Yeah. Do you ever, when do you think you'll feel comfortable being like, oh, I'm good. I'm here. I think I'm getting much more comfortable around you guys for sure. I feel like we're like, I won't call it bonding a little bit. Oh, definitely bonding.

I feel bonded a little bit too. We're going to go eat ice cream later. I'd like for you to stand up for yourself a little bit more. Okay. That's OK. I stepped on Zach's foot earlier, and he said sorry about that. Yeah. I said, Zach, I just stepped on your foot. It's a tight kitchen, big feet. Listen, if Hank steps on your foot, you have permission to be like, Hank, what the fuck?

But I'm sorry. I wouldn't hate it if you slapped him. Just if he gets out of line, just crack him one. So weak, dude. I'm not into physical violence too much, just crack him one. Show week, dude. I'm not into physical violence too much. Hank, you're good. We're all good. Yeah. All right. Throw him in a lake. Uh, how did the lottery ball machine start? I went underway on a submarine for a

couple of months, a few years ago and was confused when he came back to listen to the show. Okay. Good question. Uh, it was COVID right. And oh, it was the NHL lottery. Whatever year that was, everyone was saying it was rigged. Right. Remember that year? Blackhawks one. Was it? No, no, no. It was the year before.

It was NBA. Cause I don't think NHL always does. No, I think it was after the NBA doesn't show the lottery ball. And the NHL does. I thought it was after NBA. I think it was like three or four, whatever it was. It was during COVID. It was one of the leagues did their lottery ball. People thought it was rigged. I was like, you know what I need? I need a lottery ball machine. I bought it. It was like two grand from China. That was the original

one. And then we just were like, where there's so many things we can do, like guess the numbers. And that's pretty much all we've done with it. Except we did the Blake of the Year that one year and that was really bad. We also did one on macro dosing where you just pull up a number and then you race to be the first guy to say a jersey number that that was from that dude.

That's good. It's a good game. But I do love the lottery ball. Just another form of gambling, I guess. It means what? This is a 2020 lottery. 2020 NHL lottery, right? Yeah, they're saying the lottery calls with Wade. Yeah, they're saying that. Yeah, yeah. During

covid. Yeah. So yeah, because they showed it on screen. Memes, you love the lottery ball machine, right? No, we were watching a game show last night at Margaritaville and there was just ping pong, ping pong ball show and I was just disturbed by it. His three wasn't coming up. It's great because this was Hank's burden for the longest time. And I think that what we'll have to do, so this is lottery ball machine number two. I think the day that memes gets it, we have to buy another lottery ball machine and start all over again. Don't you guys agree? He's never going to get it. He isn't going to get it, but we do. We should buy another one. Sure. Why? No, I'll buy it. Okay. Yeah. But that's the whole fun of it is one person is just not gonna get it for the longest time and it's gonna kill them and eat them.

So we get a giant one. Yeah, I wanted a really giant gas one. Yeah, we can get a big one. Fuck. Yeah. Hell yeah. One like shoots and ladders and shit. I'm just rooting for memes to beat Hank and that that day isn't It's pretty pretty close the way that was phrased though is confusing you want him to have a longer streak of not getting it than Hank Correct another beat him and you're being bad. Yes. Yes. No, it's a long But three episodes for we So less than a year in podcast getting a lottery ball for a year is very that makes sense. How many? How many? What's the number you're away

from him? I think it's like 370. It's like a year. 370 days. Yeah. Okay. Got it. Wow. I don't know how many podcast days that is. I don't think I don't think that matters, though. It wasn't podcast. It's guess they haven't even done 500. You just were just I think next week's our 500th episode. Yeah. Do you miss being able to go to live sporting events? You can't go to anymore. No NFL games except Monday nights has to be tough.

Yeah, it's a small sacrifice, but there are sometimes like when I found out that the commanders are playing the Dolphins in Madrid, I thought that would be a sick ass game to go to. Yeah. Go over to Spain. Um, but note, honestly, getting to watch games on your couch is way better than being at the games. Usually anyways. Yeah, I actually don't, I don't have that feeling during NFL Sundays because I want to watch all the games. I have that feeling like if there's other games going on and it's like, Oh, I want to go to the Blackhawks game or like, but I can't because there's other games going on. It's like, you know, we got to watch this. So it's more that yeah, like random weeknights where it's like we have something

going on. I can't go to this game. Yeah, I think going to like a couple NFL games a year would be a lot of fun. And if you if we can do it on a Monday night, we sometimes try to make that happen. Yeah, but yeah, overall, like sitting on your couch at home with your own snacks and your own food, not having to drive and park and then leave and drive and park. It's the best. It would be the one thing

that would hurt me if I couldn't go to baseball games. Baseball games are the best in the summer. I've been to like 13 Cubs games. So that I'll just keep doing. And that's kind of our offseason anyway. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Last one. Two weeks ago, you talked about balls in or out for years. The argument at blue collar jobs has been over or through underwear thoughts seems as an age always picks that through wait through I'm confused with that question. We talk about balls going over

under the underwear or no no, over through. Over through. So what's the question? Do you go balls over through? Over. Yeah, I feel like it's kind of the same question. I like to keep the balls separate. The balls usually stay indoors. I think I go everything. So you would go balls through the underwear but over the pants? No, I'm saying I I try to keep the balls indoors. He keeps them under like like just just the dick comes out. Oh yeah. Yeah. Is that crazy? I like to go everything over and flop my balls onto my underwear. You flop them all. Yeah. That flop them onto my underwear. Is that way the front of your pants

is always covered in ball sweat? Well, I mean, my balls aren't that sweaty. They're not big enough to be sweaty. So no, I guess. I keep the balls indoors, general rule. This is also one of those questions that I just can never, I have to go do it to tell you what my answer is. You know what I mean?

You don't even think about it. It such a it just happens don't you guys agree yeah I just could run a simulation run a thousand simulacra check right now 95% of the time I think the balls don't go over the top or through the front the ball stay where there are and then everything else we need to fill about so the Philly just lost on a walk-off inside the park home run Oh my god, you run walk off inside the park. So I join be treated. Oh my god. No way Maybe I don't know it's like Show fucking bad. That's really bad walk off inside the park home runs. Awesome. Was that was that in and be just tweeted?

OMG, No f way Yeah, he's watching the game. Wait, it sounds like he's rooting against the Phillies. I I would have the exact same reaction. That's true Like half in half out did you go over top I like I'm holding my balls and my dick Okay, does that make sense? So you just hold. You support everything. I support everything. So but like my hand is kind of almost in my,

half of my hand is kind of in the underwear, but it's also kind of. Yeah, I guess. You know what? I think it really matters about the pants. True. The waistband. Really good point.

Yeah. Because some elastics, all elastics are not built the same. Yeah, because the jeans, I'll unzip and just go through that. Yeah. Through the zipper. Yeah. Any kind of sweatpants, elastic, I'll go over.

Yeah. OK. High level talk. Yeah, basically the same conversation. All right. Good show, boys. Good show. Chow week.

Let's kick it back to ourselves in studio for memes to get the lottery ball. OK, we're back in studio for the numbers three and uh chow week will continue i'm gonna go 100 i'll go uh 21 77 i was literally pointing at shane i was like say 21 before i was gonna say before meme says it but well now you have to play yeah now you gotta play often yeah, no it's playing off it yeah Six 14 one 99 put 85 gates

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