Hour 2 – Birthday Prep, Nick Wright

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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio Our.

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Speaker 2: Two on this Tuesday, Gangs here ready to go. Our good buddy Nick right from First Things First on Fox Sports One. He'll stop buying about twenty minutes get his thoughts on Lebron's future and is it tied to the Lakers future. Reggie Miller will also stop by as well. He'll be on the call for the game tonight in San Antonio, with the Spurs being a ten and a half point favored against the Timberwolves, Cavaliers with a great second half performance from Donovan Mitchell goes for forty three.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what that's like.

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Speaker 2: You go for four in the first half and thirty nine in the second half. As the Cavs beat the Pistons, that series tied to two games a piece. Thunder sweep the Lakers, and they did so with I thought a little bit of a struggle. I felt like the Lakers did a pretty good job with SGA. The problem is sometimes you focus on one guy and you let other guys become stars for the night. AJ Mitchell went for twenty eight points last night Timberwolves and the Spurs tonight eight seven to seven three DP Show email address DP at Danpatrick dot com Twitter handle. A DP Show stat of the day is always brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show, and you can sign up to win a Rectech grill coming up on Friday. Go to rectech dot com, search the Dan Patrick Show for details and enter for your chance to win. Todd is here, Dylan is here, Marv Poully yours truly the back room guys.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Dylan, are we.

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Speaker 4: Doing anything fun for your birthday other than giving away the Rectech?

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Speaker 3: I don't think so. No. I wasn't planning on it. Surprise party, No, No.

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Speaker 2: I made my wife swear no surprises. I don't want any surprise.

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Speaker 3: Hert can't take it.

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Speaker 2: I know I was going to say that. I said, what if I have a heart attack and die because of the surprise.

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Speaker 3: You don't say that.

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Speaker 2: I said, well, it could happen if I walk in and all of a sudden, I just have a towel on and everybody goes surprise I dropped the towel and then they have heart attacks.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Paully, I think ten years ago your party was a surprise party.

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Speaker 6: Wasn't it.

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Speaker 5: The one is the golf course?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that was.

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Speaker 2: That was and they couldn't get me to go, right, I remember there was an issue.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike, I wasn't going.

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Speaker 2: I you know, my wife said, hey, you got to go over and pick up uh somebody at the golf course. And I said, uh no, have you know jack my son go? She goes, no, no, no, you need to go. So I'm not dressed in accordance to having a party. And I walk in and they do this surprise thing and I go, oh and she's done this three times now.

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Speaker 6: Oh boy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I said, no, no surprises, we don't need it.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Tom, If you kept refusing to go, eventually she'd be like, Danna, it's a surprise party.

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Speaker 6: You have to go there. Everyone's okay. Now you've ruined it because you were refusing to go.

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Speaker 3: Thank you to yes, pony.

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Speaker 6: I try to follow that.

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Speaker 5: Are you one of those people who says I don't want anything special for my birthday and then when they don't do anything special for your birthday you sulk?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah I knew the answer to that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You know, when when my kids say, or my wife says, you have everything I said, well, now there's a couple other things out there that i'd like. There's another Porsche out there. It's just you know, other roll Lex out there.

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Speaker 4: Yes, we're already getting you a Porsche for your retirement gift. In we're not made of money over here. Okay, we can't get you two cars, thank you. We can get something else though.

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Speaker 3: No, it's okay.

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Speaker 4: Perhaps you'd like a rec tech maybe me and all the boisle chick.

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Speaker 2: I don't need anything. I don't need cigars, I don't I don't need anything. I mean I would like to have things. I don't need anything.

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Speaker 3: Booz Booh's always good because.

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Speaker 2: My wife will say, do you really need an other watch? And I go, no, I don't need it, but I wanted, Yeah, Paul.

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Speaker 5: A bunch of years ago, when you and I first started working together, I didn't have much dough and I went. I was in New York City at Nett Sherman's. It's like this tobacco place. It's pretty famous, you know it, And I bought you what to me was an expensive lighter. It was really solid and heavy. The next day we went on a road trip for the Dan Patrick Show, and it got confiscated at.

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Speaker 2: Security, and they always say, if you want to go back out and mail it to yourself. I go, I'm gonna have to get back in that line again, and they go yeah. I'm thinking who does that? Who actually gets out of line? Who has time? And you know that guy's going, man, this is gonna be my liner. Click click click click click click.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Dylan, that happened to me going into MSG.

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Speaker 4: I had like a tiny little like Swiss army knife on my keychain and they're like, you got to throw that out. I was like, what am I gonna do with thirty thousand people in MSGU with like a one inch long little knife? And I think he wanted it too. I think you're right.

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Speaker 2: I was behind a woman who not only had water, a bottle of water inner luggage, but also had a like a pen knife, like a Swiss army knife, and I'm going, is this your first time going through security? I'm saying this to myself, but she's like, oh, I forgot the water. It's like the size of a barrel. Oh I didn't know I had the knife.

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Speaker 3: I'm going, that is not my glock. I swear to.

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Speaker 2: That that's what I don't understand when you go man, I did not remember I brought my gun.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Tom, it's just a flight.

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Speaker 7: It's not an episode of Survivor where you need all these tools and drinks. They'll give you water and you don't need this Swiss army.

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Speaker 2: Knif All right, well, thank you again, Todd. National Limerick Day if you missed last hour. Todd gave us a limerick when he went to the confessional.

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Speaker 3: And that's it.

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Speaker 2: It's a new item, a new segment here where we used to do this at the old studio. And I said, I'm going to bring it back. And uh, it's kind of an interrogation room for sixty seconds. And Todd has two limericks. I said, you only get to do one, so I said you can do one in the confessional. So I don't know how well it went. I didn't hear anybody laughing. I didn't hear any applause.

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Speaker 3: So it's a little birthday.

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Speaker 7: Tribute to Weeks, which was a little sensitive about because the first line described ups and downs of one's career, which I needed for the rhyme, not because there's an accuracy.

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Speaker 2: And he, of course is our cameraman, yes, our camera. Yeah, sometimes you have to elaborate a little bit.

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Speaker 6: That's fair.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, Todd, so weeks are cameraman. It's his birthday today. Mine is on Friday, no surprises.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Paul, you know you're gonna get Friday Fritzy on your birthday. No that you like it or not.

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Speaker 3: No, that's my wish to not have Friday Fritzy.

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Speaker 6: That is your birthday present for me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, quiet, yeah, great?

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Speaker 2: All right, So Nick Rydell join us coming up here in a little bit. Christ and Syracuse lead just off over two. Hi, Chris Hey, thanks as always.

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Speaker 8: Dan Hey had a couple. I got some Celtics and Knicks for you. And also you were mentioning last hours about the Lakers as an organization, they got to do what's best to make their king better. And I always remember when the Red Sox got rid of Nomar. That was a business decision that didn't make the fans happy, and that led directly to a World Series a few months later. And over the last several years, the Knicks came so close to pulling the trigger to acquire Joel Embiide and I'm so glad they held off and ended up with Kat and an example of how hungry Nick fans are for a title. The summer night, the Knicks acquired the last piece of the puzzle, mikel Bridges, from their crosstown rival, the Nets, for five first round picks. The Yankees were playing the metson City Field, and when they flashed the news on the scoreboard, Yankee and Matt fans in unison started chanting, Let's go Knicks. And also Jalen Brown said this year was his favorite years the Celtic. It kind of tells you he may want to fly solo as the guy without Jason Tatum and certainly is the first time he hitted it that. I just hope they both realize they can achieve so much more together collectively down the road than they ever would do it apart. And Dan, I wanted to throw at you. I was thinking, as a Nick fan, the biggest and most loyal celebrity for fans over the long haul, and I got four of them. I'm gonna go with my fourth. First, I think it would be Ben Stiller because he hasn't been around that much. Steven A at three, Spike It two, and then I'm gonna go Woody all On at one, and also Dan. I remember you telling the caller once that when your child is born, take a picture every day of them for the first year because they changed so much.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Chris.

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Speaker 2: Yes, when you think about it, your child in his or her first year changes more than any other year in their life. And take a photo every day. Let's see Luke and text is hi?

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Speaker 6: Luke?

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Speaker 9: Hey Dan? First time?

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Speaker 10: Long time?

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Speaker 9: Script's one. I got a potential ball question. Do you gut it's okay to skip your.

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Speaker 11: Son's little league baseball game to go watch Victor Limbyama?

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Speaker 3: Wait, did you already do it?

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Speaker 8: Luke?

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Speaker 3: Not yet? Are you doing it tonight?

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Speaker 9: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Sir? How old is he.

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Speaker 12: Nine?

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Speaker 3: How good is he?

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Speaker 9: He's pretty good?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what. I would go to the basketball game, all right?

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Speaker 8: Cool?

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Speaker 2: Could bring the kid to the game, unless he's playing in his game while you're the game. Basketball games going on. But if he's pretty good, there's going to be more games for you to go to. Might not get too many opportunities to see the Spurs.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Todd, what.

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Speaker 6: If that game is like the it's greatest game ever? Hits him home run.

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Speaker 7: And goes four for four and gets the game winning hit or catch and then you've got to live with picking Wenby over your own kid.

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Speaker 3: He's only nine.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but at nine years old you can be you can do something.

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Speaker 3: Very pitch at nine and not well.

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Speaker 7: I was got a couple of All star teams, granted they were looking for a nine guy that he wanted forfeits.

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Speaker 6: I was like, I have every attack to play.

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Speaker 3: First name Nate in La Hi, Nate, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 13: Beg your morning, Dan. I also have a potential poll question and a personal question for you, if my time permits a pole question. Which is the hardest first time job MLB manager, NBA head coach, NFL head coach, or first time dan at.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: I would think the NFL, because you're running an organization and you got a lot of people, a lot of moving parts, So I would I would definitely say being an NFL being a dan at Marvin and Dylan were around the show for a long tom and then they got the opportunity to sit in their chairs, so they knew the feeld of the show.

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Speaker 3: They knew everybody involved in it.

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Speaker 2: Therefore, I mean the hard part is you're introducing somebody new to the audience and then you're replacing seat, and you're replacing Mick Lovin. You know that transition can be difficult, but these two guys who've handled it extremely well.

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Speaker 4: Yes feeling Yeah, Well, you get me around an NFL organization for a couple of years, I'll take them right to the promise.

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Speaker 2: Oh you will tell you. Okay, all right, let's see Tom and Nebraska. Good morning Tom.

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Speaker 3: What do you have for me?

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Speaker 6: Hey?

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Speaker 12: Good morning guys.

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Speaker 3: Dan.

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Speaker 12: For a couple of years. For several years, you've been giving great advice as far as speeches go, whether it be weddings, what have you. The advice is always keep it short, keep it sweet, make it about them. And I'm like Todd, it's not the stand up comedy hour. The second thing was a couple of years ago at my sister's wedding. I put this into practice and was invited to say a few words. I am reading off the speech. I go outside the venue, which happens to be an open area bar. I'm practicing the speech in a quiet corner and I'm kind of tearing up, sobbing a little bit. When a cop happens to come up and walk up behind me. I explain what I'm doing, but she doesn't believe me, so I just said, I'm reading the speech off, I'm just a little emotional. I think she thinks I'm inebriated, so she goes read it to me.

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Speaker 11: So I do.

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Speaker 12: I read the speech and again get very emotional, start tearing up. When she finally believes, he said okay, okay, okay and gives me a great big hug. But thought i'd share that story with you that it's great advice.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Tom.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully that won't happen to me when I give this speech at my daughter's wedding. Man, I'm getting a lot of advice now. Everybody's an expert on this. Two of my daughters. They want to tell me how to do it. You don't do this, do that my way. Don't be joky, it's serious.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Dally, I feel like you got a pretty idea of what you need to do.

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Speaker 2: You know, Oh I do, But even practicing, I tear up. Yeah, that's not good.

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Speaker 4: You could get drunk and cry, probably like that guy who just called in.

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Speaker 2: But I had a dream last night where I walk down the aisle and I actually bend over because I'm so emotional. So I'm walking my daughter down the aisle and then I just I get overwhelmed.

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Speaker 4: So you're you're screwed right at the gates before long, before you even get to the speech part.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Paul, remember one thing, the more emotional you get, the more pub you'll get at the end, the more appreciative she you're gonna get. The crowd's gonna love you if you get emotional. So don't think it's a bad thing. Oh I'm telling you, and you get emotional, the crowd's gonna love it.

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Speaker 3: So you want to get through it, yes.

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Speaker 5: But they'll remember it.

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Speaker 3: I can't get through it. I won't be able to get through it.

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Speaker 2: And then maybe I read it, but then reading it feels you know, we don't do anything scripted, so I don't want to do anything scripted.

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Speaker 3: And I'm a broadcaster. Yes, Todd, I'd be.

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Speaker 6: More worried, maybe because I'm a klutch.

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Speaker 7: I'd be more worried about stepping on the veil of the train, the back of the dress and doing something like that than just talking to Especially for you speaking publicly. I know it's an emotional time, but you're great at that. You're you got that personality, got that charisma. You'll you know, I'd be more worried about just like.

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Speaker 6: Tripping or something. Todd got a lot of thank you TODs to the.

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Speaker 4: Wedding is one of the more like intimidating venues to do stuff like that, though, Like I officiated my buddy's wedding and I was incredibly nervous beforehand because you're like, I don't know, everyone's dressed up nice. They're there for like a momentous occasion that doesn't really have it's not your occasion, but.

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Speaker 2: You see, everybody in your life is in that room exactly, from brothers and sisters. You know, my mom and dad aren't around. You know, you're just like, oh my god, how did I get here? And you know, I'm trying to like have some kind of focus. I'm trying to look at somebody who won't make me emotional. But I don't want to tell that person. I'm looking at that person because they're not going to make me cry, Like I might not care about.

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Speaker 4: That, and I will offer you something. I'll come sit in the audience.

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Speaker 2: No, no, if Todd was there, I could just look at Todd and I don't know if I would cry.

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Speaker 6: Whatever I could do to help get you through it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Todd. A team player, Thank you Todd. How about we take a break our good buddy, Nick Wright. He'll have some thoughts on the Lakers moving on and Lebron moving on and will it be in Unison? Will take a break back after this Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: On YouTube? When wherever you get your podcast? And host of No Gamble, No Future for Poker Go? How are you great to see you? I have a message I have to convey. I got this text seven minutes ago. I'm going to edit it for clarity and language. I efin love Dan p I see her about to bless him. That's too bleep and dope, first of all. Second of all, I love how you appear on shows.

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Speaker 10: I'll skip that part. Let Fritzie know. I'm definitely have to go bar for bar with him one day. I feel like we would spend a lot of time me, you know, saying guess who that's from? So do you want to guess? Or should I just reveal it? I think this will be absolutely thrilling for Fritzi, and I think you will be pleased as well, Dan.

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Speaker 2: Patrick All Todd, would you like to guess who would like to sing with you or against you?

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Speaker 6: Frank?

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Speaker 10: No, Frank, Calliando is not the answer, Tudd.

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Speaker 3: It was terrible.

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Speaker 6: Katy Perry do.

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Speaker 10: You think Katy Perry is texting me?

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Speaker 6: Yes? Why not?

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Speaker 10: Let me tell you this, Katy Perry is much closer in fame and profession than Caliendo. That's a clue. Any other guesses? Or should I just reveal it?

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Speaker 3: Paul Kenny Chesney, Okay.

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Speaker 10: We're getting colder again. You gotta keep in mind this is someone that I have a personal relationship with. I'm gonna give you one more clue. I hugged this person in the last seventy two hours.

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Speaker 8: Ok.

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Speaker 3: Kanye West?

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Speaker 10: No, and you know if I was hugging Kanye, that would probably be something I wouldn't talk about publicly. But you are getting very warm now, Okay, Dylan jay Z very close? Should I just reveal it?

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Speaker 3: Wait? Man, hold on, let Marvin, we'll go around the infield. Nos.

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Speaker 10: No, you know I'm not quite No, it's a little too old for not that just for me to have the personal relationship. This also has revealed you guys don't follow me on Instagram. I guess that's fine, no problem. Huge fan of Dan Patrick. Person that wants to go bar for bar with Fritzie, my dear friend, the greatest rapper alive.

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Speaker 3: Lil Wayne, Lil Wayne.

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Speaker 10: Okay, Wayne, maybe wants to stop by the man came sometime when he's out East yeah, come see you guys, And so I thought you'd like to hear that.

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Speaker 2: Dan, Yeah, Lil Wayne Big Fritzy to awesome.

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Speaker 6: That's not necessarily.

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Speaker 10: Okay, we can get to the regular scheduled programming. I just wanted to pass that along.

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Speaker 2: All right, let me start with what's more interesting, the Lakers moving forward or Lebron moving forward.

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Speaker 10: Lebron moving forward the Lakers listen. I think the Lakers blew it. I think that when Luca's Lakers tenure is over, there is a greater than fifty percent chance that the best teammate he ever had was age forty and age forty one Lebron James. And because the Lakers for the last four years have been seemingly annoyed at Lebron's refusal to fall off a cliff athletically and as a basketball player, that they have just been like, well, we'll address the team after Lebron. Will address the team after Lebron. They were like, well, you can't expect us to have a team ready made for Luca. We didn't expect to get Luca except for the fact the exact type of players need to put around Luca. You need to put it around Lebron. Luca modeled his game after Lebron and this year. Listen, they got unlucky with injury, but was one of you know, when you have two guys suffer those types of soft tissue injuries, does that maybe not happen if you have a deeper, younger, more athletic roster around him. You know this year, last year, once they got Luca, they sat on their hands. And so I think that, and you know how much I love Luca, but I think the Lakers might be stuck a bit in what, all of a sudden looks like such a deep and athletic Western conference. Meanwhile, Lebron has some really interesting options on his hands. Maybe he stays in LA I hope he doesn't. I hope he doesn't because I don't think that team has been particularly well run, but also because I want to see the version of Lebron we got to see in the playoffs at the end of his career, hand on the joystick, even if he needs to have another alpha scorer around him, like a Jalen Brunson or like a Donovan Mitchell. Uh. But I don't third option Swiss army knife Lebron. I He's he's too good for that role. He took that role on Dan because he can He can do that, and Luke and Austin couldn't. But that's not how I want to see it end for him.

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Speaker 3: Okay, but if you're going to place him outside of the Lakers.

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Speaker 10: Clean Harden gone him there, that's it. He's like, yeah, I mean the listen, the Knicks maybe, but the Knicks might be. I mean, are the Knicks the greatest team ever? They have been for two weeks. I don't, So I don't know, and but I just the exact thing that the Calves, in my opinion, foolishly brought James Harden in to be second best player offensive initiator. Lebron can do that without melting down twice a series in the playoffs, and while there they play it, they play different aesthetically. Donovan Mitchell can do the exact Kyrie Irvings stuff and Dwayne Wade's stuff that Lebron is, you know, a high volume, really good scorer alongside Bron, and then you have Alan and Mobley as really good you know, rim protection. Like that team makes a lot of sense. And I don't think the Caves are gonna beat Detroit, So it'll just be another year without making the conference finals, without Lebron on the roster.

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Speaker 3: You brought up Jalen Brown.

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Speaker 10: Did I say Brown? I meant Jalen Brunson. Oh, I'm sorry if I said Jalen Brown, I apologize.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 10: I think I think it's Nicks or Caves. There is a very weird, not weird, but interesting Nuggets thing because Bron is so tight with Stan Kronki's son, Josh Cronky, the owner of the Nuggets, Jared Dudley, who's another one of Lebron's guys on the coaching staff. He is exactly like, if the Nuggets really are just gonna try to turn the offensive engine all the way up Lebron, you know, taking a little bit off Joker's plate, but and being you know, Jamal Murray's the scorer, Jokers that do it all.

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Speaker 6: Guy.

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Speaker 10: That one's interesting, but I don't I just don't think that's likely. I think it's probably Lakers, Cleveland or New York with a tiny chance Golden State, but I think tiny chance.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking to Nick Wright, host of First Things First on Fox Sports one and What's Right with Nick Right on YouTube wherever you get your podcast and host of No Gamble, No Future for Poker Go. Also, you got a factor in new management ownership with the Lakers, with the Dodgers and their approach to things. Does that change the Lakers approach moving forward with spending money.

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Speaker 10: So I think it will, But I just I don't think those Listen. I believe Bron's gonna play two more years. I think he's gonna put in a smooth quarter century in the NBA and have that be the final piece of I've given more to this game than anyone could have ever fathomed giving. So I just don't know if those types of changes impact you, know that quickly on that short of the timeline, I can I ask you. I'm gonna be like very sincere for a moment, Can I ask you a question?

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Speaker 3: I'm sure.

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Speaker 14: So.

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Speaker 10: I don't know if you listened to Lebron's whole press conference at the last night after the game or this morning, but he just kept talking about how he'll never his love of the process of getting to the stadium five hours before the game, getting to the stadium three hours before practice. And he was talking about that in the context of he'll know when it's time to retire when he no longer loved doing that. So this is where you know, I'm just really actually curious about that. I think the audience will like it. I apologize to putting you on the spot here as you have as you've had this fifty year, forty five plus year broadcasting career, is one of the reasons you have shifted from different types of broadcasting because the process and the prep and the things that go into the other jobs no longer felt fulfilling to you. And it's just like this radio show. This thing is the thing that you still get super excited for because I heard him and I thought of you, And it wasn't just because I was coming on the show today.

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Speaker 3: I like the grind.

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Speaker 2: I like the daily I like you know, I come in on Saturday and Sunday when we're not even on the air, and I just I like that you just start something, what are we going to do with it?

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Speaker 3: Who we're going to have on, what are the topics?

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Speaker 2: It's three hours and then you go home and then you start thinking about it again. So that that every day is what always attracted me. I could never be a seasonal broadcaster where that's my sport and then I'm off, I it has to be every single day.

00:27:26
Speaker 10: And did you did you like, do you find because that's the part I thought, and I thought, I was like, man, I bet, I bet Dan's not just mailing in shows. It's not like all right, listen, we all have you know, rough days or rough you know. I'm not saying it, we're all one hundred percent, but that one of the reasons you've done it for so long and still been into it is because you're not just flipping on the microphone and having Paulie tell you what's on the docket, like you're still putting your version of showing up to the stadium five hours beforehand. And so I I just I thought I heard him talking about it, and I thought of you, and I wanted to ask you that I apologize if that's weird.

00:28:04
Speaker 2: But no, no, because I think people are curious that, you know, what are you getting out of it? Not getting out of this? Why don't you want to continue? And I think my biggest fear is to not be great at the very end. If anything, we're more aggressive in the last with these last two years than I've ever been with this show of what we're doing where we're going, and you know, I said, I want to go out that way.

00:28:29
Speaker 3: I want to.

00:28:30
Speaker 2: I want to make sure that nobody thinks you're just kind of showing up, because then, like that would be the ultimate criticism that it doesn't feel like you care as much.

00:28:40
Speaker 3: Probably care more and more.

00:28:42
Speaker 2: And you know, I think if it doesn't show on me or sound on me, then it doesn't you know, kind of trickle down to the dan nets where they need to know I'm excited. They need to know I'm happy about something aggressive, fun, all of that. And I told them the last two years it must be we must have fun and that that's all I asked them to do. And I'm sure Lebron wants that. You want to you want to go into an environment that is fun, not on pay I'm just picking up a paycheck.

00:29:12
Speaker 3: I think.

00:29:13
Speaker 10: So that's that the to turn it back a bit. That is I think the best thing the Lakers have going for him is Bronni's like gonna be a part of the rotation next year. And I think I I think one of I think JJ Reddick did an awesome job this year in this postseason. I think he deserves a lot of credit.

00:29:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.

00:29:35
Speaker 10: One of his only postseason missteps was once Austin came back Bronnie. You know those beginning of the second quarter minutes Bronnie was getting went to zero, which totally makes sense because of where he is in the hierarchy. What I think JJ didn't do the math on is I think you were the four to six minutes a game getting not only peak focus, but a momentarily rejuvenated lebron within kind of the the toughest spot of games to stay into it. You know, where he's tired, but it's not clutch crunch time yet because of the excitement of playing with his son. And I think he also his his focus always great, but I think it was extra hyper of like, man, if Brownie makes a mistake, I gotta fix it, And I think that's just not there for Jake la Ravia, and so it was. That's one It wouldn't have changed this series, but that's one thing I kind of wish they had back.

00:30:44
Speaker 2: Why do you think Steve Kirk came back to coach the Warriors.

00:30:49
Speaker 10: I'm sure you know Steve. I don't know Steve at all, Mike, so this is blind speculation. My gut is felt like he owed it to Steph. I mean, twenty million is probably nice or whatever they're paying him, But my gut is he'd said, I'm gonna try try to have step and I go out together. That's what I That's what I would imagine is the case.

00:31:13
Speaker 2: You mentioned maybe a small chance Lebron would go to the Warriors.

00:31:18
Speaker 3: I like that idea.

00:31:20
Speaker 2: I don't know what they're gonna do with Jimmy Butler, Like Durant's not gonna last in Houston, right.

00:31:28
Speaker 10: You think they seem awful happy?

00:31:30
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:31:31
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean listen, I don't If David Stern was still around Rest in Peace, I feel like he'd hold a press conference and be like, hey, by the way, funny thing, new.

00:31:44
Speaker 3: Rules for this year.

00:31:47
Speaker 10: If you're over thirty six, your contract doesn't count against the cap, and you know, do with that what you will. But if that means Durant and Steph and Kawhi and Lebron all end up on one team and it's a traveling road show and they try to take on the mechanical but totally vanilla Oklahoma City Thunder, it's probably not bad for business boys.

00:32:14
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think how Okac gets into the conversation of great team of all time, like if what would they have to do? Where you go, Okay, we can kind of put that three in a row, three in a row, Okay, I.

00:32:27
Speaker 10: Think three in a row in So this is something that I think is under rated, which is there is a direct line of history on how many championships can be won by a team or by a player. Like so, if we just go through a Russell Ero, what's the max well, I guess it's eleven in the sixties, sixties to seventies, what's the max havlichk eight? Okay, seventies to eighties, what's the max six eighties to nineties, what's the max Jordan's six nineties to two thousands? What's the max Shack or I'm sorry, Kobe Duncan five two thousands to two thousands, tens? What's the max? Bronze steph four twenty twenties. Nobody's got more than one, like everybody, And so as the league has gotten deeper and harder, like what the maximum realistic championships could be, one is going down. Also, we haven't had anyone go back to back in a decade. So of OKC all of a sudden, not only goes back to back, but wins three in a row when we haven't had that in a quarter century. I think it will be undeniable that they're just one of the greatest, one of the most well put together teams ever, and one of the greatest teams ever. Unfortunately, they're not going to because this year we all know the Timbrels are gonna win. So I can hit that bet.

00:33:55
Speaker 3: And you put down ten grand to win two million.

00:33:59
Speaker 10: Well, listen, I it was. You know, I'm in a few gambling consortiums dan so I was the trigger man for that. But I don't own one hundred percent of it. But I just I knew it was mispriced. They were saying it was priced like Anthony Edwards, you know, had retired. There were eight teams left. They were in round two Anthony Edwards over the same injury Gianna suffered. They were two hundred to one. The Lakers, who didn't have Luca and they were playing the Thunder, were twenty eight to one. I thought the Thunder, I thought Minnesota should have been around twenty five to one. They were two hundred to one, So I was gonna bet it. I text my buddies. It's Kentucky Derby Saturday. You know sports books got a lot going on. There's fights Kentucky Derby. You got a square like me walking up to the window, like hey, give me ten grand on the tea wolves. They're like, yeah, we fill that now. All of a sudden, I got it locked away in a safe. They win tonight. Oh boy, that equity's just getting higher and higher.

00:34:51
Speaker 3: Thank you, Nick. Good to talk to you again.

00:34:54
Speaker 10: You as well. I'll give a little Wayne your best. Maybe one time can do a three man weave you me and him talk little football would be fun. Talk to you guys later, be here.

00:35:02
Speaker 3: Thank you, Bud.

00:35:02
Speaker 2: That's Nick Right, host the first things first, Fox Sports one, What's right with Nick Right on YouTube wherever you get your podcast and host a no Gamble, No Future on Poker Go. Lil Wayne wants a piece of you, Todd.

00:35:15
Speaker 6: Let's go for it. That's a pretty big deal.

00:35:17
Speaker 3: That's exciting little wrap battle between you two. Yeah, all right, we'll take a break. Phone calls coming up.

00:35:24
Speaker 2: Reggie Miller will join us coming up next hour, and the curious comments of Lane Kiffen about leaving Old Miss and one of the reasons why he did in an article in this month's Vanity Fair.

00:35:37
Speaker 3: Take a break back after this.

00:35:38
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00:35:51
Speaker 3: Let me see a couple of phone calls here.

00:35:53
Speaker 2: There's an article in Vanity Fair magazine profile of Lane Kiffen, and there's a quote that's making the rounds has to do with why he left. One of the reasons why he left Old Miss, and we'll have more on that story coming up. I want to read the article or at least get the context of what he's saying about what role racism played in him leaving Old Miss, what he was told by the parents of recruits that this is one of the reasons why he left Old Miss. When he found this out, Let's see Ryan in Illinois. Hi Ryan, what's on your mind today?

00:36:36
Speaker 3: Hey? Dan?

00:36:37
Speaker 15: I got two quick things for you. One, I'm getting married here in July, actually in Cincinnati at the Monastery. You familiar with that venue, but wanted to get some tips advice in the last two months of wedding planning. Also, and maybe more importantly, I got my bachelor party coming up, flying out tonight to go to Fort Waterdale. So many tips and tricks of the trade that you and the boys might have as we're making our last second plans.

00:37:02
Speaker 3: Would appreciate that. Well.

00:37:05
Speaker 2: My philosophy was always what would my dad think if he was here? If I was at a bachelor party, what would my dad think? I think sometimes it's good to have, you know, a conscience there because there'll be people who look at it like they're on spring break, and there are ramifications of those things that what goes on at a bachelor party doesn't always stay at a bachelor party.

00:37:31
Speaker 3: Yes, dealing, what are.

00:37:33
Speaker 4: Your thoughts on the dad attending? I know that's a thing sometimes.

00:37:39
Speaker 2: I think the first half of the evening like if if my dad was alive, I would have had him go to my bachelor party.

00:37:47
Speaker 3: It was pretty lame.

00:37:48
Speaker 4: But everyone knowing even if your dad's like the coolest dad, no one like what.

00:37:52
Speaker 3: The dinner and drinks and then you know my dad would leave or.

00:37:56
Speaker 4: You're gonna like fly him to like you know, Daytona beach and then go there.

00:38:01
Speaker 3: Didn't do destination bachelor parties. You did in Ohio.

00:38:06
Speaker 2: Yes, we don't need to go anywhere if at these destination weddings bachelor parties.

00:38:14
Speaker 4: Nonsense, there's what But does destination constitute leaving the country, because for weddings, I feel like it does.

00:38:20
Speaker 12: Right.

00:38:21
Speaker 2: No, my daughter's got a destination wedding. I got don't want to get on a flight and go someplace to cry, Like, can I just cry in my own backyard?

00:38:31
Speaker 3: You can do that too. She's not getting married at my house, but you can cry in your backyard.

00:38:37
Speaker 2: I know it would be really, really weird if I'm outside crying in my backyard.

00:38:42
Speaker 3: The neighbors keep hearing noises. Trip in Vegas, h I trip? What's on your mind?

00:38:48
Speaker 11: They good warning? Then I'm always good to speak with y'all. Want at a few things. One, I want to call in today on my birthday and give you an early birthday. Wish that they'll be traveling on Friday so I won't be able to speak with y'all. And then I had a few things about the podcast You'll lif and Todd and doing a life. It is entertaining. I'll tell you what. Dylan does a great job listening to it. It seems like he does the best he can to keep Fritzy on topic. It's kind of like hurting a group of feral cats. And then with Fritzy doing forty four minutes while only taking three breaths, that was very impressive. So it's the oldest thing everybody should do.

00:39:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, when's the next podcast? Is that Wednesday or Thursday?

00:39:27
Speaker 6: This week?

00:39:28
Speaker 3: I believe we'll do tomorrow.

00:39:29
Speaker 4: We got the Gambling Pod Thursday, so Todd's been promoted to Wednesday.

00:39:33
Speaker 2: All right, available at danpatrick dot com. It is entertaining, I will say that. Patrick in South Carolina, Hi, Patrick, what's on your mind?

00:39:42
Speaker 12: Hey?

00:39:43
Speaker 5: Yea?

00:39:43
Speaker 8: How you doing?

00:39:44
Speaker 1: Good?

00:39:46
Speaker 8: Good?

00:39:46
Speaker 9: I had the early birthday funny story. My eldest sister finally got married, and of course, you know the boys friends that she brought us. She's very trim and proper and she marries a guy that works on cars and does did a send my mask or whatever? But we're sitting there in the in the sanctuary, and the preacher goes, who takes this woman to be his lovely wedded wife? Or she says, I do, And I'm thinking and sailing silently to myself, sucker. Then behind me at the same time, I heard my brother go sucker well enough reverberate through the whole church, and I always told her was just nothing to laughter. And after the wedding time was like, you know, it was the best thing that could have happened.

00:40:42
Speaker 3: Okay, I think I followed that. Was that a cat in the background. I don't know what was going on. Something's happening to that cat? Yes, yes, Paul.

00:40:51
Speaker 5: He's saying the wedding was really tense, and in a tense moment someone made a joke from the crowd and broke the tension.

00:40:57
Speaker 2: That's a risk, though, yeah, h yeah, maybe somebody will do that when I'm giving my speech. Maybe if I knew somebody funny who could just be there, I'll take that role.

00:41:10
Speaker 6: I'll give it a shot.

00:41:14
Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin's story, there's a quote certainly making headlines. We'll talk about that coming up. Reggie Miller will stop by as well. Final Hour right after this