Hour 1 – LIV Golf Loses Funding, Beyond Round 1

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Speaker 2: The Rockets over the Lakers. I'm still surprised. The Lakers are up three too, I know, with no Kevin Durant, but you don't have Luca Reeves came back last night, didn't play well, and the Rockets down three to two. So if you're looking for games coming up tonight, I got the Knicks favored by two and a half against the Hawks, the Celtics favored by five and a half against the Sixers man Boston. You can't be goofing around here because Philadelphia is still a dangerous team, even though two of their best players aren't consistently healthy with Paul George and Joe lenb The Nuggets are favored by five and a half against the Timberwolves. And then I've got point spreads for Friday night. The Pistons are favored by three and a half against Orlando, the Cavs three and a half against the Raptors, and the Lakers getting four and a half against the Rockets. I haven't seen any update on Kevin Durant and his ankle being able to come back. But if you're able to hold on get to a seventh game, maybe you get Kevin Durant back. Austin Reeves last night looked like a guy who hadn't played in a little while. Didn't look good, didn't look comfortable. Still know Luca, and the report yesterday was Luca, if the Lakers survive, probably wouldn't be back. And I look at these teams and this is just filler for me, Like, how many of these teams can win a title? Can the Rockets win a time? I mean, I know I have to give you at least a one percent chance. I can't say you have no chance. Can the Knicks win a title? I think they can go to the Eastern Conference finals. I think they could maybe go to the NBA Finals. Boston I think could well, I expect them to go to the NBA Finals, but I think they could they could win it. Okay, see, of course I think the Spurs can get to the NBA Finals.

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Speaker 3: They might be able to win it.

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Speaker 2: I know we love to say a lot of times with teams, man, they're a year ahead of schedule.

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Speaker 3: San Antonio doesn't feel that way.

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Speaker 2: These players don't go, Man, we're a year ahead of schedule, We're on scholarship.

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Speaker 3: Here can the Lakers?

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Speaker 2: No, I don't see that because you're not gonna have Luca coming back. And even if you do, when he does come back, how long does it take him to get back up to you know, all pro all you know, first team NBA reeves you're gonna get more out of you know, the longer you survive here. Who else? The Rockets? I don't see that happening. So there's not a lot of teams where you go, boy, they're like, can Orlando win? And the answer is no, can Detroit. I think Detroit's still gonna win the series. I just get that feeling Orlando had its chance. Franz Wagner not in, didn't play. It feels like Detroit is gonna slug this out and somehow make it to the next round.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Paula Denver isn't Denver of three years ago. But I wouldn't give them I wouldn't put them in that no chance category.

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Speaker 2: No, No, I give them a chance. I just I don't think they're they're not on the level of San Antonio and if Aaron Gordon isn't able to play at a high level, and give credit to you know, the Timberwolves. They played great defense here. The Nuggets scored one hundred and twenty one points per game during the regular season. They're down to one oh eight. That would be twenty nine, that would have ranked twenty ninth in the regular season. And Rudy Gobert has done a wonderful job on Joker. He is shooting thirty six percent from the floor or on sixty five shots when matched up against Rudy Gobert. So Gobert has done his job and frustrated Joker. Joker did have a triple double this last game. And with the injuries with Dante DiVincenzo and Anthony Edwards, I expect the Nuggets to win this. But this is one of those you know, Minnesota might get another star that appears, or somebody who comes out of nowhere and puts up forty three and you will knock you out. Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of The Dan Patrick Show. First Hour brought to you by Neutrofole. If your hair isn't playing like it did in your twenties. It's time for a real comeback because putting on a hat, Dylan isn't a strategy. Start neutrofol today and make the hat optional. Visit neutrofol dot com, enter the promo code Dan Patrick, Hi, Dylan, I think the hat's an option, but I'd like to try out this neutrofol thing. I want you to try it where we have it here, I can get it. I know people I would I would love something because did you set a wedding date? Not yet? Okay, so you're just engaged. Yeah, it'd be nice, you know, maybe full head of hair, walking you know, your wife down the aisle, neutrifall and some steroids and maybe we could slim you up a little bit there. I'm thinking more god like Jacked.

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Speaker 5: Out of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this whole go to Turkey to get things done cosmetically, Like that's the go to place you see a guy with a bleeding head on the flight back, there's just a row of yes, there are you can see these guys who go over there for hair transplants, and then you'll see them on the plane and they all have been there, and they all have bandages on their heads, they're all stapled together. Or you got people who have had nose jobs over there. I don't know what else they're doing over there in Turkey, but probably breast enhancement, face shoal surgery, cosmetic surgery, facelift. Maybe they do breast reductions.

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Speaker 3: You need breast reduction.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if I'm over there, man as well, just throw the You know what was really bad yesterday I was having lunch and all of a sudden, Mario brings out a picture of him in Pittsburgh with Big Da Ray and they have their shirts off. That was me and Mario with our shirts off. So even more unfortunate for all. We're at this bar that Todd likes for Ford to as Hamburger Harry's. It was not, and it was it had to have been like eighty eight degrees in there.

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Speaker 3: And you guys took off your shirts.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we made it about an hour until a guy who worked there walked up and he was like, guys, can you put your shirts on?

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Speaker 2: It's a health code violation. And I asked him. I was like, if we were in good shape, you have told us to do that, and he was like he just walked away. Okay, That's why it's even more alarming at what I saw. I didn't even notice you in the picture. I noticed Mario and it and it looked like he had a breast job that that didn't work out. He's got one up here and one down here. They call a botch job. Yes, yes, And I'm thinking, why would you if you look like that, you would take your shirt off in a bar in Pittsburgh? Just moxie? Dinh?

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Speaker 3: Was that what it was?

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Speaker 2: Just moxie?

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Speaker 3: Yea.

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Speaker 2: By the way, there is a soft drink known as Moxie. It's still in business and it's a kind of a doctor pepper. It's big and main. Really, yeah, you get moxie. Uh, I tried it. I think they have diet moxie too, But just throwing that out there as in his side. All right, poll question, first hour, what are we going to go with here? Well, Dan, we got a couple we've got some golf related ones. I don't know if you want to hold off on that or get those out into the ether.

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Speaker 3: How about we hold off on the live questions here?

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Speaker 6: Okay, Well we could populate this one of the first round NBA series that are not done yet.

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Speaker 2: Who's the most surprising so far? Well, Orlando has to be up there because you're an eight seed against the number one seed, and you might be bouncing. The Sixers are surprising me, and it might be Boston surprising me where I thought, Okay, just put them away. Don't let these guys get some confidence momentum embeed now kind of springy out there, Paul George, you know Edgecomb is really good, Maxi's really I mean, they got talent, Grimes, so you just got to make sure you don't let them get squirrely again and take another game from you. But I would say Orlando surprising a lot of people because I'm guessing most people don't watch Orlando basketball, but now you're forced to. If you're, you know, looking at meaningful games, i'd probably be it. I don't know if there's any other really big surprise.

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Speaker 6: Yes, is it surprising that the Rockets are losing to the Lakers. Given the Lakers personnelity a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit, Yeah, no Durant there, you would expect them to be up three to two without your two best offensive players with Reeves and Don Chic.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Paul, I was watching the first few minutes of Lakers Rockets and I don't know how it happened, but Reed Shepherd, he's not a big guard. He was being covered by Lebron the first colve minutes of the game. It felt like bring your kid to school day. He looked like a child compared to Lebron. You kind of forget how big he is and he's just checking him outside.

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Speaker 3: Well, Player of the Day will be coming up. Stat of the day.

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Speaker 2: As always, we will dive into the Live Tour on life support here and there had been whispers about this for quiet sometime. I'm just wondering, if the Saudis have billions and billions and billions and you want to sports wash your reputation, did you accomplish what you wanted to accomplish with the Live Tour? And I said from the outset, I mean I watched the DP World Tour, I watched the LPGA, I watched the PGA pros or the teachers. I don't know the official title. They're at Bandon Dune, so the PGA Championship with actually golf instructors out there playing, and you know, I would watch the live tour. I just didn't understand why you go fifty four holes and you get to wear shorts and play loud music and you have teams. I don't know who you were appealing to, because Deshambo is the only player that you actually tune in to see. Dustin Johnson used to be a great player. John Rahm is a great player. He's just not must TV. Deshambo is Patrick Reed. You may tune in just for attitude. Cam Smith great putter, but really, you know, Keepka when he defected and now Patrick red and if you want to come back, it's going to cost you the value of coming back if they allow you to come back, because I think they had a one time offer. You want to come back, this is what you have to do. And Keepka came back, agreed to what the stipulations were, and it's going to be around fifty to seventy million dollars with money that he could have earned, tournaments he could have played in, but he is back, and I mean, he's still a good player and people still like watching him. But I don't know if they're going to let these other players in. If you're the PGA Tour, you know what kind of did you set your precedent? And then are you still going to You want Deshambo back, you want John Ron back. Patrick is coming back. But after that, you know where are these golfers gonna go? Are they going to play on the European Tour, the DP World Tour. So there's a lot of things attached to this, and I'll go back to there were some broadcasters with LIV who were kind of critiquing, criticizing mainstream media for celebrating the death of Live. I'm not celebrating it, but I know that it was a rival league to take down the PGA Tour, and I didn't want that to happen. PGA Tour is ours, the Live Tour is not. It's not ours, and I wanted the PGA Tour to wake up and realize, spend the money, make sure you take care of your players and listen to them, and don't treat this as a monopoly. Greg Norman did not want to make the PGA tour better. Greg Norman wanted to bring down the PGA tour. This has been a mission, a life's mission for over thirty years.

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Speaker 3: Well it didn't work, But.

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Speaker 2: I will talk to Brandall Shambly about what did Live accomplish. Did they accomplish what they wanted to accomplish? Yes, dealing Well, the money side of it's interesting because that's not it's not like they're like, oh, we're out of funds. Like the PIF owns eight percent of shares in Saudi a Ramca, which is a two trillion dollar company. They're not short on money at all. I think, you know, five years nowhing's really changed. It's probably gone actually downhill. Well, they haven't gotten anybody in the last what three years now.

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Speaker 6: And then now you're trying to recruit outside capital to come in that. Why would you invest in a dying product if you're just you know, whatever, a VC fund or something.

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Speaker 2: Well, but once again, I don't know, if money is not an issue, why not just continue it? I think I think they probably got bored in Saudi rate. I think the novelty probably wore off. You know, maybe they accomplished what they wanted to. They're they're trying to clean up their image, and they're trying to do this through sports. Maybe they did that, maybe they accomplished what they wanted to, But fifty four holes, loud music and playing in your shorts. Sorry, I'd rather watch some of my friends play golf over the weekend.

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Speaker 3: You know, yes, dying.

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Speaker 6: I mean you can tell by the fact that they moved back to seventy two holes.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they're like maybe this was actually, you know, not too bad. Well they made it sound like, oh my god, we're playing fifty four and I go, that's stupid, Like what golf fan goes Now, I don't need eighteen more, just fifty four.

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Speaker 3: I'm good. It's silly. The music, who cares?

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Speaker 2: Hey I get to see Phil Mickelson's calves. Hey they're wearing and shorts. Honey, come here. Yes, he does have pretty nice cat he does.

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Speaker 7: He does.

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Speaker 2: His calves are the size of Fritzy's biceps.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty close there.

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Speaker 8: They're like bowling balls.

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Speaker 2: They are caves stick out like that.

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Speaker 8: I know.

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Speaker 3: All right, let me take a break. Let me take a break.

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Speaker 2: I knew you were gonna do it, Tod, You're so predictable, Live and Litter. I knew he was gonna send me the James Bond movie poster. This is Roger Moore as James Bond. Yes, and the movie is Live and Let Die, but it's l IVEE Live and let diuy So Todd has the new movie post.

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Speaker 12: I wish I had the computer skill set like you know do. I guess you could do a chat GPT and create your own poster with the current live golfers and take the e off to live and have fun with them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now there's a report on the Mothership that with the Saudi's out, they're trying to get a new executive board together to keep Live Alive. But they won't have the money. They won't have that backing. I don't know if an equity fund comes in hedge fund people and they want to continue, because once again, you know this is most of these events played outside the United States. I don't know what the cost would be to underwrite this, but I was told Deshamba is looking for five hundred million dollars to stay because his contract was up. And I don't know what what kind of money it would take to get these guys entertained to stay. But then I don't know if they're trying their entrance strategy of coming back re entry for the PGA Tour, if they're even open to it. Yes, boll, it appears to be changing rapidly. Mark Schlebah of ESPN and so others have a report this morning. The Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is pulling its funding after the twenty twenty six live season and their Live Golf is establishing a new independent board that has nothing to do with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund. No details on the future or next season or what.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I just don't know the money that's going to be available.

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Speaker 2: But I also don't know what kind of you know, roadblocks or stop signs that the PGA Tour is going to put up. But we'll talk to Brandal sham Lee about it. You know, you start to think about these leagues, these rival leagues, and I go back to the USFL because I was knee deep in that. I remember going to press conferences at Trump Tower when Doug Flutey got signed and they brought in herschel Walker, the New Jersey Generals. They were getting real stars, kind of like the Live Tour, but you're getting Jim Kelly, Reggie White, Steve Young. You were getting and I truly believe this. If the USFL had played a long game, they might have absorbed some of those teams, just like you had with the ABA in the NBA, because they were getting players. USFL had some players. You know, Michigan was a really good team. Generals were a good team, Steve Young, the LA Express. Now not everybody was showing up to see these games. It's not like you were getting sixty thousand, but you did get the NFL's attention. I had to cover the trial with the USFL versus the NFL, and they ended up getting a dollar and then it was troubled, so they got three dollars out of that.

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Speaker 3: We won.

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Speaker 2: Well, how many millions did you get? We got three dollars? Yay, yes, Paul.

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Speaker 4: You always have to look back though, when the USFL in eighty three, eighty forty five took their shot, the NFL was not the goliath it is now. It's just like right before Dan Reno and Joe Montana took over, baseball was probably the biggest sport.

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Speaker 7: In the country in eighty two eighty three. Yeah, so the.

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Speaker 4: USFL was like, let's let's take their shot.

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Speaker 7: But they went too far.

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Speaker 3: They just they panicked.

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Speaker 2: And then I think Donald Trump with New Jersey, he wanted Buffalo, he wanted the Bills. Now you have the generals hoping to get like kind of bulldoze your way into the NFL. But I think if they had played a little bit, maybe two or three more years, and if they got a couple more stars, then maybe you would have had some of those teams be absorbed by the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Dylan.

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Speaker 2: Actually didn't have anything to say then, But that's where you fake it eleven.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Yes, Paul.

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Speaker 4: What these days, these new leagues, like the UFL, they're not in competition at all with the NFL anymore.

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Speaker 7: They didn't they don't even try that.

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Speaker 3: No, they're in conjunction with the NFL like a partner.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you look at any of these sports, will there be a rival league that can come in with any of these sports that we're talking about.

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Speaker 3: You know, got.

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Speaker 2: Formula one, NASCAR soccer. Now you had that super league that they tried. That lasted for a couple of months, I think. But I don't know if there's any other sport where you say they're vulnerable for somebody to come in and create a rival league. Now, the PGA Tour could still be vulnerable here, but I just there's no real attraction to that. There was no real audience. I like that they their graphics, like they did some fun things. It was just it was meaningless golf. You start with fifty four holes. Now you've lost me. And I don't care about your team or your logos. I don't care about any of that. It's does this matter? And the answer is now it doesn't. Everybody gets money great. I want to see you earn your money. I want to see you earn your card. I want to see what happens when you're struggling. You go out there and play golf, and you know, it's like Lee Trevino used to say that he would bet more than he had in his pocket because he wanted that pressure. It was like, I'm betting ten, but I've only got five in my pocket. I like that those players go out there and earn and sometimes lose the opportunity to be a professional golfer. That's what we love. Like does this mean anything? It's like watching spring training, all right, nothing else on, have a beer, I'll watch spring training. It doesn't mean anything. And that's what Live was. It didn't mean anything. You know, there was no relegation. Well they did have some relegation, which I liked it, but it was just there's not enough attention with Live, Yes, Dylan, I think they made it feel like an exhibition, which is like you said, like there's nothing there. Felt like there's no stakes at all.

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Speaker 6: I mean obviously there's you know, a descending prize pool and stuff like that, but it's like they've already all signed these huge bonuses to join.

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Speaker 2: So it's like, you win four million dollars for winning the Live tournament. Whoop do you do? You got two hundred and fifty million dollars to sign?

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Speaker 13: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well I think that's a big part of it. Like when you're watching a PGA Tour event, even like a medium size one, if you see a guy who's kind of a mid level name win and you see him get a check for one point five. You realize his appearance fee wasn't more than one point five. It changes his life.

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Speaker 2: So brooks Koepka had to make a five million dollar charitable contribution to a tour approved organization. He also lost access to the twenty twenty six FedEx Cup Bonus Money sponsor exemptions. These are the twenty million dollars signature events and any equity in the PGA Tour for five years. So based on his previous performance, the financial impact estimated to be between fifty and eighty five million dollars over that period. So brooks Kopka got paid, but he is paying to get back on the PGA Tour.

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Speaker 12: Yes, Ton, Now, does this have to be the exact punishment for lack of a better word, for any of the other liv golfers because a president was set that they have to stick to that where they're going to try to even come up with a horship penalty for those that continued to have.

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Speaker 2: They had a one time only like if you wanted to come back, Kopka came back, Patrick reed coming back. But I don't know if they're I hope that they will reconsider that and let these guys come back and wear the scarlet letter and you make sure that you buy by what brooks Kepka is doing. Well, these guys got paid. There should be a punishment for you trying to sabotage the PGA tour.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Doyling, and the the PGA Tour has even more leverage than they did two weeks ago. So I mean, there's the eleven guys who were part of the anti trust lawsuit against the PGA Tour, which is like the Shambo, phil Ian Poulter, some of those guys, they're they're in for a tough time. I think I would think so Phil joining back the period would be that's crazy, that's.

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Speaker 2: Not gonna happen. No, that's not that's not gonna happen. But Deshambo, I mean, I hope he comes back still a draw, but I don't. I mean, John Rahm's a great player, but I don't know if he's that's gathered the kids and watch TV. But de Shambo is although there's not many golfers where you go, like Rory still even Tiger playing in the you know his league that he formed with Rory. That's a TV show and people will watch that. But I don't know if there's that many guys where you go, man must see TV. I mean, for me, it is because I love the sport, but I don't you're trying to get the casual. That's what was so magnanimous about Tiger. Yeah, people who took up golf because of Tiger tuned in you. If you had an event on tour, you were hoping Tiger was going to play on your event because you were guaranteed you were gonna get ratings throughout the weekend. All right, some phone calls here, but I don't know if is there a winner. I guess the PGA Tour is a winner, Yeah, Paulie.

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Speaker 4: Two winners future golfers, because the persons now are more than double what they were five years ago for golf events. I would say that Rory McElroy was the big winner because I think he's the most popular golfer definitely in America and he's not American, and a lot of it is based on not just being a likable guy, but he stood up to the live tour and passed on tons of money and that he's emeritus.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Rich in Ohio, Hi, Rich, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 14: Hey?

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Speaker 3: Dan?

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Speaker 5: I just got a couple of things. So the first thing is is you you just asked if the penalty for live guys trying to come back to the PGA would be more harsh than Brooks Koepka. I actually just saw an article this morning saying that it absolutely would be. I don't know the exact details of that, but it is definitely something that they're going to impose. And then the second thing was I'm not I'm not sure are you guys aware of like the YouTube golf scene and what's kind of going on there and how it's taken off.

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Speaker 3: You mean Deshambo's videos, well.

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Speaker 5: To Shambo, and then there's some other guys. So there's a guy named Wesley Bryan who used to play on the tour and has actually one and they have their own channel and they collab with a bunch of other guys and it's really taken off and they're starting like their own kind of mini tour. And I just feel like the timing of live was just bad because YouTube golf started taking off and maybe owning some of the space where people wanted to see golf. But get a little more personal on how these professionals are high level golfers act when they're just kind of playing golf. So Live was supposed to be like an alternate to the PGA, but no one really enjoyed that as much as I just did YouTube golf if they weren't going to watch the PGA.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had the Brian Brothers on a while ago, and you know, this kind of a grassroots thing that they're doing, which is great. And Deshambo has done a really good job with his YouTube videos where he's playing with different celebrities. I know he played with President Trump, you know, trying to see who can shoot the lowest, you know, scores in the fifties or something.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I can see.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what he's making from that, but would be great if he was able, you know, to come back and play on the PGA Tour. Now, if you want a major, I mean you can come back and play in the majors, but to get the tour full and having that drawing power eight for some of these guys to be able to come back. Uh.

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Speaker 3: Dylan in Denver, Hey, Dylan.

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Speaker 15: Hey, Dan, first time, longtime five eight one sixty. Yeah, I just wanted to call and you guys were talking a couple months ago about which Major League Sports league is most vulnerable, and I think the MLS has got a big competitor in the USL. They're going to start doing promotion and relegation here in a couple of years, and that really is popular among soccer fans both here and abroad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see that. Uh, setans talked about that as well. I like the relegation aspect of sports where this means everything, and certainly in the Premier League like these towns where they have their team and it means you know the amount of revenue by being in the Premier League and then you get relegated devastating, Yeah, Paully.

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Speaker 4: Like right now in the Premier League, Tottenham, who is usually a quality squad, they're usually a decent team, They're in that relegation zone and it's one of the bigger stories in European sports.

00:31:13
Speaker 3: The Spurs.

00:31:14
Speaker 2: Your Spurs, Yeah, Mike Spurs, isn't Steve Nash a big Spurs fan.

00:31:18
Speaker 7: Former home of Harry Kane.

00:31:20
Speaker 3: Harry Caane. Let's see Josh in West Virginia. Hi, Josh, what's going on?

00:31:27
Speaker 14: Hey?

00:31:27
Speaker 13: Then sixty three with a soft two forty five soft all.

00:31:33
Speaker 14: Right, man. You know it pains me to say this, Dan, I still can't stand the guy, but after watching last night, I can no longer deny that Mike or Jordan is clearly a big goat. I mean, I love watching lebon Prey.

00:31:47
Speaker 2: He was one of my favorite prayer Wait wait what happened last night? Like you just decided that Mike's the greatest of all time?

00:31:55
Speaker 13: Yeah, because if Mike played last night, he would have put the Luckers away and it just kill a vitality And I'm watching highlights. It's just he's different, And like I said, I can no longer.

00:32:06
Speaker 1: Deny that he's the goat.

00:32:07
Speaker 2: Mike wouldn't have been playing in his forties. We saw what he was like with the Wizards. Lebron is still playing at a high level in his forties. So Mike wouldn't have eliminated the Rockets last night if he's forty two years of age. So Mike didn't win every series. Mike didn't make every shot. WHOA, No, he didn't, Yes, Marmon.

00:32:30
Speaker 8: Mike didn't make the playoffs with the Wizards at age thirty nine and forty.

00:32:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, let's just be I don't like the argument. But thank you johsh for bringing it up. I don't think i'd have an epiphany after watching last night and go, you know what, that's it. Michael's now the greatest Why because he would have eliminated the Rockets. Okay, I don't believe that for a second. I'll go back and say what I always say, Lebron, you can make the argument has the greatest resume of any NBA player in history.

00:33:04
Speaker 3: Greatest player is Michael Jordan. That's it all done. That's it.

00:33:11
Speaker 7: It's all semantic.

00:33:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.

00:33:13
Speaker 2: It's done right, don't call us Yeah, yeah, I appreciate what Lebron has done. I don't think it's appreciated enough because I feel like Lebron when he picked number twenty three, all of a sudden, you're saying I want to be compared to him. Kobe went the different round. He was like, uh, you're twenty three. I want to be twenty four. I'm going to be eight. He was like, no, no, no, I'm not I want to be better than you. Lebron already put this in motion when you have the number twenty three. Now you do that as a tribute. But then you get to the point where people think you're infringing on their childhood. Hey, he's not as good as Mike. He's different than Mike. He's more magic than Mike, but not Magic Mike. Oh, because that's challenge Tatum. Yes, I caught my wife watching Magic Mike recently. Yes, yes, And so she's in the basement. Uh, now I come back down. I left my iPad down there, and all of a sudden, the music's a little louder, or the you know, the TV's a little louder, and I go, what do you want? Oh? Come on, yes, Dylan, be honest, that's the first movie you finished in a while. I didn't watch it, no, not even no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:34:46
Speaker 9: No no.

00:34:49
Speaker 2: Did you feel anything?

00:34:53
Speaker 7: Who's seen Magic Mike?

00:34:55
Speaker 2: I haven't seen part of Magic Mike, Pallope, Cruz or Selma Hyak in like Magic Mic three three? I think I knew there was two? Is there a third one?

00:35:08
Speaker 3: I think there's X l.

00:35:12
Speaker 2: Unanswered questions, yes, Todd.

00:35:14
Speaker 12: Selma, Jayak, Magic Mic Last Dance, Yeah, Mike's Last Dance.

00:35:18
Speaker 2: I always get those two mixed up, and they're they're both beautiful. But Penelope Cruise and Soma hyak.

00:35:24
Speaker 3: Yes.

00:35:25
Speaker 4: Is it like The Godfather? The first two are classics and the third was disappointing.

00:35:29
Speaker 7: Is it like that?

00:35:29
Speaker 3: I don't know. I didn't see the first two or the last one.

00:35:32
Speaker 2: I didn't see any of the magic mics.

00:35:34
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I didn't either. All right, let me take a break. Play of the Day next.

00:35:39
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00:37:12
Speaker 8: Yes, Marv, with the Flyers and Penguins. And this is a legit question because I'm not not a hockey guy. What's the most intense rivalry in the NHL? Is it like one of those original six teams or is it Penguins Flyers? I'm not sure.

00:37:26
Speaker 3: Well, that's always because that's in state. I don't know. Boston and Montreal. They don't like each other, yes, del.

00:37:35
Speaker 2: I was gonna say Canadians Bruins is probably they're historic wise. Yeah, Rangers, Islanders, Rangers Islanders.

00:37:44
Speaker 14: Boy.

00:37:44
Speaker 2: When I got to New York in the early eighties, and that was because the Islanders were great and that's that was a you know, dynasty. But Blackhawks, red Wings, they don't like each other. Yeah, Paul Mighty Ducks show always was Big Eye Household as a kid, Okay, it was go time. Okay, all right, fair enough David in Ohio, Hi David, what's on your mind today?

00:38:10
Speaker 11: Hey Dan, Dylan, congratulations. I heard you were getting married, So congrats on that. For entertainment purposes, I thought would be kind of funny if Shay might be a groomsman and maybe you could wear like a shot collar or something on your leg during the wedding or ceremony there.

00:38:26
Speaker 2: So thank you, all right, thank you, David. I don't know who's going to be invited to your wedding everyone, Uh, you're not going to come, are you?

00:38:35
Speaker 3: Where's it going to be?

00:38:36
Speaker 2: Probably a visa all don't do an estimation wedding now. I think it'll be in Mystic, Connecticut, Okay, convenient open bar. Yeah, I'm not an animal, Okay, I'm just saying that is like the one requirement about now about a seafood teller. I mean, naturally we're actually thinking, we talked about it.

00:38:56
Speaker 6: I was thinking about going no, like you don't like picksteak or salmon, just skip that entirely, and kind of like pizza truck rob Art, just like kind of like the order of portion, but it just have it extended so people can kind of just go up and eat when they please.

00:39:11
Speaker 2: Okay, that's been done.

00:39:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, Uh, DJ or a band.

00:39:15
Speaker 2: I feel like I would like to go live band. Okay I'm not. You know, DJ's fine, but the band's kind of band brings another vibe. Like you know, now we're doing destination bachelor parties, destination weddings. You know my daughter, you know, I got a destination wedding and I'm like, oh my god, yeah it's in it. You have to go to Italy from Thursday to Sunday. No, I have to go cross country to cry? Like can I just cry you know locally? You can no, because I have to go out there for the wedding. Is it all the way out west?

00:39:47
Speaker 3: Yeah? That's only Yeah, yes Mormon.

00:39:51
Speaker 8: Dylan, are you getting married before the show ends? Yeah?

00:39:57
Speaker 2: Maybe ORULD probably be kind of around that time.

00:39:59
Speaker 6: I would think obviously I haven't planned that yet, but I mean maybe the Monday after the.

00:40:05
Speaker 2: Super Bowl.

00:40:08
Speaker 7: You'll be down like three grand.

00:40:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, then I won't be there.

00:40:11
Speaker 2: Turns out we're having a DJ. There's no open bar and there's no food at all.

00:40:14
Speaker 15: Uh.

00:40:16
Speaker 4: Yes, Paul band is really costly in comparison to DJ. That would be your biggest cost, one of your biggest costs.

00:40:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, something about having a band there, it's pretty good. I've been I've been to both or like you know, with band and DJ. The band, the vibe of the band definitely changes things.

00:40:35
Speaker 13: Yeah.

00:40:36
Speaker 2: By the way, Gambling podcast later on today with Dylan bad Larry and Shayan Irving. I think our buddy Sammy P Professional Gambler is gonna stop by as well. And uh, that'll be available Dan Patrick dot com. By the way, Todd talks new episode. Oh my goodness, there's a lot to unpack with Todd the todcast pretty incredible.

00:41:07
Speaker 3: That's when you say something Todd.

00:41:09
Speaker 12: I say, I appreciate that, but I was I was concerned you were going to be like that. It goes a little too over the rails or something it did may have upset you, which I don't know what that would be. But hopefully it's entertaining and it's a lot of words and a lot of all.

00:41:21
Speaker 3: Over the twenty minutes.

00:41:22
Speaker 2: It's basically Todd on a couch, uh talking to his therapist.

00:41:28
Speaker 12: Dylan brings out the brings that out and me and Marvin and Mario and Ray are in the room, and I just, all of a sudden, I get really loose.

00:41:34
Speaker 3: I guess you love to perform.

00:41:36
Speaker 12: I do love to perform, but I also you know, some of the episodes I address some things that I wasn't planning on sharing, or that might be uncomfortable to listen to.

00:41:44
Speaker 2: Kelly was to share. I don't know if there is a topic that you don't want to share about not after this episode.

00:41:51
Speaker 3: It's available Dan Patrick dot com.

00:41:54
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