Hour 2 – Brian Windhorst, Fernando Mendoza

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

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Speaker 2: Our two on this Wednesday, beautiful day in Pittsburgh leading up to the Draft. Great studio audience here, best studio audience we've had all week long, broadcasting live from the Distillery Complex in Pittsburgh. They got rooftop views, great food, cocktails, and a great great cigar lounge. Gift bags to all of our guests this week. Receive gift bag provided by Rectech, Panini Penske Dude Wipes. Our stat of the day is always brought to you by Panini American, the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. Fernanda Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner, will join us in about twenty five minutes from now. Frank Caliendo, who had a show last night in Pittsburgh, staying over before he goes to Cleveland. He'll stop by as well. NFL Draft Eve also NBA Playoffs in full swing. Sixers over the Celtics, the Blazers over the Spurs without Victor Wimbenyama got injured in the second quarter, and the Lakers over the Rockets. I was wondering about this. Would the Rockets be better without Kevin Durant that trade, now, just follow me on this. So they got Kevin Durant Clint Capella, and then they traded away Jalen Green and Dylan Brooks and some draft assets to the Phoenix Suns. Brooks is averaging twenty a game. Green is averaging just under eighteen a game with the Phoenix Suns, who did make the playoffs. It's nice to have Kevin Durant there, a go to guy, a bucket. But I was just wondering about that. Younger players, certainly Green and Kadi at his age, but Rockets lost last night. Katie had twenty three and nine turnovers. There, Marvin, you look puzzled.

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Speaker 3: There's not Jalen Green and Dylan Brooks are nice players, Okay, they're not Kevin Durant. Okay, how many Kevin Durant you have him for that reason to make those buckets in certain parts of the game. Jalen Green nice player, okay. Dylan Brooks a malcontn.

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Speaker 2: Okay, But you know, no, it feels like you're yelling at me. I just posed the question.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't mean too.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, yeah, but it felt like you were yelling. I'm really sorry, by the way, the gang is all here. Fritzy is here. You're a redhead.

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Speaker 5: I missed a couple of spots with the sunblock and they should have been wearing at But.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I can call you a redhead because you don't have hair, but your head is red. It's fair.

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Speaker 4: It's not the usual term when you describe a redhead. Yeah, balding red first out.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Dylan is here with this Ravens hat on. Paulie is here, Marvin, Yes.

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Speaker 6: Paul Fritzy does not like sunblock. He went out for a long walk in the Pittsburgh sun yesterday. Salons at sunblock.

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Speaker 2: Well, nobody's worse than Stuart's sink. When he takes off his hat, the golfer and it it looked like it was dipped in white paint his noggin. I mean, come on, and I brought a hat.

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Speaker 5: I just left it in the hotel and went for a long walk.

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Speaker 2: Uh, let me get to Wendy because he's really busy. Bryan Windhorn and then we'll come out with pole questions for Nano Vendoz who will join us coming up in a little bit. Brian Winhorst for the Mothership ESPN senior NBA writer in attendance for the Lakers game last night as they beat the Houston Rockets. Let me let me ask you that question. Would the Rockets be a better team if they didn't make that Kevin Durant deal.

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Speaker 7: No, I like the value of that trade.

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Speaker 8: I think what has the derailment of the Rockets season began right before the year started, when Fred Van Vliet towards ACL and they were, you know, any you know, you lose your franchise point guard who happens to be a guy who is also a leader before the season and you're, you know, in your kneecaps.

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Speaker 7: But not only that, they didn't really.

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Speaker 8: Have a backup, like they were probably in the worst position in the league to lose their starting point guard, and they lost him like in a spot where they couldn't really replace him because of where they're I won't bore you with the details of the cap position, but it was really unfortunate. But the decision to go through the entire season and not address it because eventually they had the ability to make a trade to try to do something about it, that is what's biting them. The reason the Rockets are underachieving is because they cannot get into anything resembling organized offense. Part of that is, you know, I think he may Doka hasn't done a great job. He's a brilliant defensive coach, but he has not been a great offensive coach this year. But part of it is their franchise point guard got hurt in a terrible time.

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Speaker 2: You know, with the injuries to the Lakers. In watching Lebron, it almost brings it back to people remembering just how incredible this is that what he's doing without the two best players on the team. I don't know if that every time I watch him, Duran or Steph, I feel like I'm being treated to something special. And you know, the Olympics, you know they're going to be gone one day and we'll look back and go it was incredible, and you'll try to explain it to people. But Lebron's still out there playing at a pretty high level. Your thoughts when you watch him and how many more years do you think? If he has one or two more?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, So when the discourse comes to Lebron's career, so many people want to, you know, pull it right to him versus Jordan. I go all over the country all over the planet. This is what they want to ask, and I get it. I totally get it. But really, what Lebron's career is, the richness of his career is the sub stories of each of these eras.

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Speaker 7: In each of these seasons.

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Speaker 8: You know, the concept of getting to eighth straight finals, he's preposterous, but I won't focus on that. There were so many things that happened in these individual years, and the story of this individual season is very interesting in the Lebron landscape because when he first came back then with that sciatica thing, he looked terrible by you know, just being fair, Like, I'm not saying that there was a shocking but like, for the first time, he looked old. And I remember watching when he first came back whatever it was, late November December, and saying.

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Speaker 7: Oh, this might be it.

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Speaker 8: In fact, I had a meeting with my bosses and I go, you know, we may need to start our content planning for him retiring because he looks for the first time like an old man who can't compete. And he looked like that because he couldn't really work.

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Speaker 7: Out all summer.

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Speaker 8: He had no training camp, and as the season went along, he got himself into better condition, and by the time the spring came when they really needed them, he was in great shape. Whatever he does in between these games to keep his back healthy and get himself into actual fate physical condition has been great. Secondly, midway through this year, he took a step backwards or sideways, whatever you want to say, so that it could work better with Austin Reeves and Luka Doncic. So he took even if he was feeling one hundred percent and was, you know, feel like a thirty year old, he difficultly adjusted the way he played the game. And then in this last you know, moment of the season, he shifts and has to go back to being normal Lebron again. And like a lot of people on the Lakers are doing, have their sleeves rolled up and are doing work here that are making this thing put together. But the story of Lebron's season is really remarkable to watch. And he has tax you know, he has traits about him that are sometimes annoying, but when you look at the actual thing that he's doing.

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Speaker 7: This is why I say, when you.

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Speaker 8: Look at the actual accomplishment and take it for its value, it's pretty darn remarkable. Not just that he's forty one, just that he's doing just what he's done this year, which has been unlike any season he's taste had before.

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Speaker 2: Talking to Brian Wynnhorst of The Mothership, NBA writer senior NBA writer, the difference in an NBA concussion protocol in the NFL concussion protocol is what.

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Speaker 8: So basically, it can it can be shorter. You can start there's certain things you have to accomplish that take twenty four hours, but you can start that after twenty four hours. So in theory you can come back within forty eight hours. But within that there's two steps, step one and then step two. So the fact that you know every NBA First Round series has one spot where there's.

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Speaker 7: Two days in between games just.

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Speaker 8: Because they have to elongate it up, just because there's eight series, it takes they all take like they're all budgeted for up to fifteen days or so. This happens to be a good fortune moment for the Spurs because they do have the extra day. They didn't have an extra day between one and two. The extra day comes between two and three. So in theory, he could come back on Friday. Okay, that's the legal Eese having said that, damn, this was a brutal, brutal fall. He was knocked out, flat cold, and I have no idea. I don't know what his history is going to be. I don't know how severe this concussion is.

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Speaker 7: The Spurs said.

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Speaker 8: Last night that he did not have a jaw injury. If that is true, that is incredible. I or the fact that he didn't bite through his tongue with that hit. He was not bleeding from the mouth, so that was fortunate. But I know that, and I know that you know, I work at ESPN, and you understand this.

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Speaker 7: Like on my phone right now.

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Speaker 8: Is many producers for the shows I'm doing today.

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Speaker 7: Who are gonna want to know.

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Speaker 8: And they're not being you know, insensitive, They're just doing their job, but.

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Speaker 7: They're gonna want to know. Is Victory is gonna play on Friday? Do we know right now whether the Victor's gonna play on Friday? It's ct you're gonna play on Friday.

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Speaker 8: There's nobody on the planet right now who knows, because you just don't know what concussion symptoms.

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Speaker 7: So it is.

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Speaker 8: But not only that, the Spurs had two other players that got injured right after that, Harrison Barnes hurt his shoulder and had to leave the game, and Dylan Harper hurt his thumb. Now maybe they're gonna be okay, but this was you know, every I always say into every playoff run, a little rain must fall. I don't care who you are, I don't care if you're you know, the the nine ninety eight Bulls, there was a moment of adversity or two. Okay, but this hit these guys hard right away. So now we have an adverse situation and I will see how the Spurs manage it.

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Speaker 2: You got a better handle on the future of Steve Kerr Billy Donovan.

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Speaker 8: Well, Steve Kerr, I think probably has a good feel of what he's going to do. Billy Donovan probably is waiting to see what options are there. Billy Donovan will coach somewhere again. I would bet on the NBA, but he could be in college. The college cycle has ended, but I would think that it could be. And we're gonna there's more NBA jobs that are going to You're gonna.

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Speaker 7: Open in the next few weeks.

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Speaker 8: The Steve Kerr situation, I think there's a nuance of people need to understand and I know the Warriors fans probably understand this. There's not a contract sitting on the table for Steve Kerr. It's not like they've said Steve just resign. Like I'm not saying they wouldn't resign him. But he makes seventeen million dollars and I'm not sure you know, when they pay them that contract. The Warriors were, you know, competing to win the West. That's not the case anymore.

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Speaker 7: This now.

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Speaker 8: Look if they go trade for Giannis in the next three months and we'll have a different conversation. This isn't this team's not going to win the West next year. If they're not going to compete to win the West next year, I don't even know what Jamiy Butther is going to be able to give them. I'm not sure they're in the mood to pay their coach seventeen million any coach. I don't care if red Auerbach and his prime comes back, I don't I think so.

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Speaker 7: I think the money is an issue.

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Speaker 8: Secondly, my colleagues at ESPN, Anthony Slater Ramona Shelburne did a piece this week.

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Speaker 7: Well they said that the.

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Speaker 8: Warriors leadership would like Steve Kerr to potentially change his staff and make strategy changes. Now, Steve Kerr is a Hall of fame coach and you know, again the fields are all there. He's hugging players. This is not part of the decision. Will be sentimental. But if just think about you, Dan, think about you, if you were at ESPN, you know, maybe you can relate to this. If they to you, Hey, you're having a hall of fame career.

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Speaker 7: Thank you so much. We love you.

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Speaker 8: Think of all these awesome sports centers you did, Man, it was great.

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Speaker 7: Let's go watch the highlights.

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Speaker 8: We'd like you to take a pay cut, and we'd like you to completely change the way you do your job. Okay, sign it and we'll see you at the press conference. It's not as simple as whether Steve Kerr has the burning fire or desire to coach. There's other things that are going on that might push Steve Kerr out, and I think that's where it's headed more likely than him staying.

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Speaker 2: Brian. That's what ESPN did to me. I mean, it's kind of I kind of knew that. It kind of hurts here. That's good reporting by you. I'm not a betting man, but I keep looking at the Vegas situation. I saw the artist renderings of the Diamond Arena. I'm assuming I'm gonna put one in one together and the Vegas Diamonds would be playing in the Diamond Arena.

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Speaker 8: That's an interesting concept. I haven't heard that this is at least the third arena.

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Speaker 7: Plan that I'm aware of.

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Speaker 8: I'm not on top of this story every second of every day. And usually, as you know, they have several arenas, including arena where the Golden Knights play. People have been trying to build arenas for to prepare for the NBA team for years. There's multiple plans. This This isn't like the official plan.

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Speaker 7: Uh, it's just a plan.

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Speaker 8: So there's a whole other arena that's multiple years in the making South and the South part of the strip that people thought was going to happen. That it's actually built, being developed by the same people who redid the arena in Seattle is interesting as it is. So that's a that's that arena. You know, when you have they say about renderings, that arena may never see the light of you may never hear about it again. But uh, but I promise you that when the Vegas team comes to the NBA team and comes back in Vegas. There will be some arena that is being built for them and they will probably play in the interim at the Tea Mobile Arena once a long gets built.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us, as always, we appreciate it. Brian, Thanks Dan, have a great week. It's Brian Winhorst, ESPN, Senior NBA writer. Yeah. I saw the The arena kind of looks like the sphere a little bit. I mean, it's dressed up. It looks really nice. Twenty one thousand seats. It's right by the airport. You could It feels like you could walk from the airport to this arena. Now I'm looking at the odds, Dylan, You've got the betting odds. The favorite, I believe is the Mirage. Now the Mirage Hotel doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, it's torn down a couple of years ago. Okay, so now they can be the Mirage with no affiliation to the Mirage Hotel. No, they didn't tear down the Mirage so they could name the team the Mirage. Did theyoil hat thing? Then what other are the favorite? Where are the Diamonds with the potential of the Diamond Arena?

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Speaker 9: So I'll go down the list a little bit, so Mirage's favorite then jokers, outlaws.

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Speaker 2: Scopie can't be jokers. You can't be you can't be outlaws, No scorpions.

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Speaker 9: I don't know where that came from.

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Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, Paul, Diamonds makes a lot of sense. When you brought this up last night, I thought that's nice and vague. It's got a lot of sponsorability, a lot of glitz and glamour, and it's I'm a diamond. You can say I'm a diamond.

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Speaker 2: And then you could have the guy who's a g league a diamond in the rough. It writes itself, that's you know. But I think diamonds would be great. You could be really shiny and glitchy inside your uniform and it says Vegas like yeah, yeah, yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 4: What's the color scheme for that? Would it be like a silver?

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Speaker 2: It could be a lot of different like purple hues, blue hues, blues. I don't know. If you have a diamond, and don't you get to see all kinds of light going through it? Vvs? Too?

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Speaker 10: Dan?

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Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, mister, I just got engaged there. Just cut Okay, yes, Tom.

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Speaker 5: Do you do red, black, and green for the roulette wheel at all work in the poker chips.

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Speaker 4: I know you got the bulls with red and black.

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Speaker 5: Is there anything you can do with colors that are coming to gambling?

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Speaker 2: No, I'm doing diamonds.

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Speaker 4: There has to be diamonds, though you can mix up all of it, stay with.

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Speaker 2: The bit, but we're doing diamonds. Diamonds are forever.

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Speaker 5: Yes, we're doing diamonds, but there's just so many colors that darks.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Paul, and going to a game will call it cost you three months salary.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay. I never bought into that three months salary for the diamond ring. Who came up with that? Women? Yeah, they probably said, you know what, three months? Who spent the most? How much did you spend on your engagement ring? It's like seven thousand dollars seven thousand todd How about you?

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Speaker 4: None.

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Speaker 5: I was asked to use a family heirloom in laws old the engagement ring.

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Speaker 4: In the wedding ring, we're kind of taken care of.

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Speaker 2: Paul.

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Speaker 6: I had seventy five hundred in the bank my life savings. I spent seventy three hundred. I was down at two hundred bucks after.

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Speaker 3: I bought it, okay, Marvin twelve hundred bucks, which was three most salary years.

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Speaker 2: Yea four months. I think I bought an antique ring in the Diamond District and I think it was like twenty two hundred dollars. But that was a whole lot of money back then. And uh, I just remember I went in if you ever go to the Diamond District in New York, bring help, because man, they they it's an onslaught. They lock the door behind me and my my now wife, and they weren't letting me out until I bought a diamond and I said, you got I got claustrophobic. I'm like, you got to get me out of here. You got to get me out of here. The guy finally goes, just you know, to my wife, is he serious? And choose yes, he serious. They let me out. I go, holy bleeve, like this is supposed to be a great moment. They lock the door. It's like I used car lot on steroids. There man, no expensive All right, we'll take a break here. My thanks to Brian Winhorse for joining us on short notice and Fernando Mendoza. We did the interview on Monday. We'll bring it back and uh boy, if you're not impressed with him already as a person, wait till watch this interview. Frank Caliendo will join us in the final hour of the program. We'll take a break. We're back after this Dan Patrick's Show.

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Speaker 2: Picks will be coming in Draft night. Isn't just about who gets called, It's about who shows up. So grab your crew. Crack Miller Light Iconic, the first light beer fifty years ago. Legendary moments start with a light beer I was told by some of the backroom guys, I'm getting roughed up on social media with my Nashville's getting the super Bowl in twenty thirty. Well, I still stand by that, and you haven't heard anything from the NFL to refute that it's going to be La Atlanta, Vegas and then it's going to be Nashville. Now, this is what my source also said. Keep an eye out on the next cycle. It's going to get really crowded with teams getting new stadiums. Jacksonville's getting a new stadium, they've already hosted the Super Bowl, Washington, DC is getting a new stadium, Kansas City, Cleveland, and then you got the cycle of some of the other places, New Orleans and Miami, and that's why it's going to get really competitive, really crowded. I did ask can Buffalo Buffalo's getting a new stadium? Can Buffalo host the Super Bowl? And I was told no because of the weather, probably the infrastructure, and it's not a dome stadium. Yes, Martin, Well.

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Speaker 3: Are they going to throw some of these teams at bone and just say you guys can have the Draft but not the super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Well, Buffalo is going to get the draft. I was told that Buffalo will get the draft, they won't get a super Bowl.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, poem with Kansas City getting a super Bowl, that Kansas City weather in February.

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Speaker 2: Well, they have to have a dome on that stadium.

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Speaker 6: I would imagine more for the activities around the super Bowl week.

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Speaker 7: I'm curious.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, because Minnesota had that. I don't think anybody was concerned about people getting frostbite. You know, Minnesota did a great job with that Super Bowl. I mean it was cold. And then I said, well, the Giants Stadium is open air, and they said, because it's New York City. That's I mean they lucked out with the weather with that Super Bowl.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Pauli, they miss a snowstorm by twenty four hours.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh, we'll update our poll results here. Let me get to Fernando Mendoza. Now once again we take the interview on Monday. We wanted to play it, you know here. Once we got to Pittsburgh and he joined us on behalf of Pfizer the Every Breakthrough Matters campaign. Every step makes a difference, starting with your cancer screening. And the first question I asked Fernando Mendoza if I would have told him last year he was gonna win the Heisman. What would he have said.

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Speaker 11: I would have said, what are you on?

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Speaker 12: Because that would have been out of the realm of reality. However, at the same time, focused around the present moment, you know, going in the future, there were some projections. I said, Hey, this kid has some raw ability and maybe could project to this.

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Speaker 11: However, you know.

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Speaker 12: In reality, at that point a year ago, I just made the move from cal to Indiana, and I was getting my buck kicked by the Indiana defense in spring ball and amazing Brian Haynes defense has proved to be the best defense in the nation. So I would have been a little skeptical, but it's been a great blessing and those tough experiences have forged me into the player and character ams today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but you had to have doubts about yourself that you leave cal you go to Indiana, and all of a sudden you're getting your lunch handed to you. Did you have any second thoughts about going to Indiana?

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Speaker 11: Yes, yes, I did.

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Speaker 12: Have second thoughts for going to Indiana, especially when leaving California.

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Speaker 11: Having lived in Miami, been.

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Speaker 12: Leaving California, great weather cities I mean not City, souc States, and then moving to Blimington, Indiana, which is awesome, but zero degree.

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Speaker 11: And seven inches of snow is not.

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Speaker 12: You know, it's not ideal, especially for someone who comes from a warmer weather state. But I believe those experiences have also primed me for the NFL, to them playing cold weather performances and cold weather games. But there was definitely a lot of you know, weariness, and maybe some are not some regrets, but maybe some double takes at first. However, God's plan pride and true, and been very blessed for this year.

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Speaker 2: You grew up a Dolphins fan.

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Speaker 11: I grew up. I did, but I really didn't because although I liked the.

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Speaker 1: It's okay and that was a huge Miami Hurricanes fan.

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Speaker 12: But my dad did his medical residency in Boston and so I only lived there for two years. But when I was seven years old, I watched I think it was like six years old, actually I watched New England Patriots play the Giants and Lily lost my phone. Enamored with the New England Patriots, so that was my team growing up.

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Speaker 2: Have you met Tom Brady?

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Speaker 11: I have.

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Speaker 12: I've met him in the official thirty visit at the Raiders.

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Speaker 11: And how did that go? It was fantastic. It was fantastic.

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Speaker 12: He gave me the message that he's gonna push me and he's not going to be all lovey dovey espial, and that if the Raiders draft me, he is going to be, you know, a mentor and wants to pour into whatever quarterback the Raiders have, whether it's me, whether they draft somebody else or you know, or like the Raiders. They also signed Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 2: What was your reaction when they brought in Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 12: Well, if I'm lucky enough to go to the Raiders, I think it'd be a great opportunity to be able to learn from someone who's had so much success throughout the years and who I think has a very similar playing style as me.

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Speaker 11: I've been able to watch his film There.

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Speaker 12: Was two years ago where I've watched all his Minnesota Viking's pass tape, every single pass where there's incomplete completion throughout the entire season, which is a lot because the NFL is a lot of games. But to be able to even learn from.

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Speaker 2: That, wait, wait, wait, wait, So you went back and looked at all of his throats.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, this is actually funny enough.

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Speaker 12: This was maybe some foreshadowing, but this was This was a year ago when I was back in California, and there are a couple of comparisons on, Hey, you play a little bit like Kirk Cousins, Sam Donald, just from our NFL guys, and so at that point I was like, Okay, let me watch these guys and see what they do.

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Speaker 11: See they do good, and see what they do you know they need improvement on.

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Speaker 12: And so in this aspect, I it was for my free time, and I love watching nfootball. So after I was doing my process, I'd watch thirty minutes or an hour of Kirk Cousins or Sam Donald. Then this past year it was Matthew Stafford. Not saying I play like Matthew Stafford, but it's something great to learn from and those experiences have helped me a lot. It has to get adjusted to the college games and to see how quarterbacks process the defense.

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Speaker 2: We're talking to Fernando Mendoza and he's joining us on behalf of Pfizer Every Breakthrough Matters campaign. All Right, Peyton Manning's probably the best pitch man. So let me hear your pitch for Pfizer here.

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Speaker 12: I'll let Peyton Manning hold the rain on that and hold the throne on that.

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Speaker 11: He is for sure the goat of pitches.

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Speaker 12: However, I believe that the partnerships that are most viable and most significant to me are the ones that have tangible application. I've been very vocal, and I've had first hand experience with health in my life and my family's life, and that's why I believe it's very important to broadcast out visorfarall dot com slash screens because fifty percent of Americans are behind on their cancer screens. And to take that step in your health, it's something that I believe that I've been put on this platform to them push and to then help other families and individuals with the help front.

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Speaker 2: What did you say from the National title game?

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Speaker 11: Excuse me?

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Speaker 2: What did I yet like uniform? Did you get the football?

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Speaker 7: I save?

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Speaker 11: Okay, I love Blueminton.

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Speaker 12: I love my guy Mitch in the EQ room and he was lucky have to give me a game ball after because all those balls were gone.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, but my younger brother Alberto.

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Speaker 12: He took we took one ball home from the stadium and I have my helmet. I don't know where my shoulder pads are. I think we might have my shoulder pads, but definitely helmet, jersey and towel and cleats.

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Speaker 11: The cleats are at home. I almost use those cleats to work out the other day. But I was like, you know, let me.

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Speaker 2: Just keep it.

00:27:25
Speaker 11: I'll use some of the cleats.

00:27:27
Speaker 2: You know, I enjoyed the cleats were take me into the huddle on that game winning touchdown? And but were there any other options other than you creating something? Yes?

00:27:42
Speaker 12: There were, And the huddle is a very special place. It's like football heaven for me and believe for a lot of other quarterbacks. It's fourth down in the National Championship. You have ten other players. We've worked all this way through an entire season, creating his brothers looking at you, seeing what's the play call?

00:28:01
Speaker 11: How how much does he believe in this.

00:28:03
Speaker 12: Play call by the way he says it, and does and does he have any other messaging? And so at that point I was able to deliver the play call with complete confidence. Our guys, not just me, but all of our guys were able to come together, give each other a little pump up hey, saying this is what we do we make big plays, big time games, and it was a play that depending on manner zone. The defense was a little bit discombobulated because they didn't believe we'd go for in fourths and five. I believe every analytic expert could tell you we should have kick the field goal there. However, when the game came down to the to the wire, I need to trust the big boys up front, the Hoggies, and they delivered us to victory with a great with great blocking whether it's pass or run protection, and they had you know, and they had a great run game there, I mean a great run game protection there, and it worked and enabled me to get the first down and then go ahead for the store.

00:28:56
Speaker 2: What's the plan for Thursday?

00:28:59
Speaker 12: The play I and for Thursday to stay home in Miami, Florida. I believe it's very important to have everyone who's poured apart and poured into me and been a part of that village to be there and experience this new opportunity. This is not an end, this is the beginning, and there's gonna be a lot. It's a great new opportunity that there's gonna be a lot of hurdles and I look forward to resting and confiding in my support system whenever those hurdles occur. My mom and my dad wanted to do it in Miami because we need to hop on the plane the next day whatever team drafts me. And it's been in a lot of travel this year. And although Pittsburgh is gonna be a great event, I can't wait to be a great league partner, I believe, especially with my mom, she really wanted to do it at home, and it's gonna be most applicable and easiest for our family.

00:29:50
Speaker 2: How old are you fifty? I mean, you don't sound like your age here. What would you have done if you didn't play football?

00:29:57
Speaker 12: If I didn't do football, I'd be grinding the streets of New York doing finance. But luckily God has blessed me so I don't need to work twenty four hour days.

00:30:06
Speaker 2: Oh no, you're gonna be working twenty four hour days.

00:30:09
Speaker 11: But it's not work for me.

00:30:10
Speaker 12: It's it's fun. It's fun for me. It's fun and it's it's great. Whether it's hoever i'm eating, I'm usually watching YouTube video of somebody breaking down NFL football.

00:30:20
Speaker 11: Every single Sunday, I'm watching football. I love, actually just do love football.

00:30:23
Speaker 2: Give me that address again for Pfizer It's.

00:30:26
Speaker 11: Pfizerfall dot com slash screens.

00:30:30
Speaker 2: All right, great to meet you. Congratulations on a wonderful season and the Raiders will be lucky to have you.

00:30:38
Speaker 11: Great to meet you.

00:30:38
Speaker 12: I love your Nevada sticker there in the front or patch. Excuse me, Yeah, been Fanny for a long time. My dad loves listening to you. So thank you so much again for having me on. God bless hope we have a future interaction.

00:30:49
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bud. Fernando Mendoza he's a nerd, but like he's saying things that you're going you're like fifty years old. I look forward to our future interactions.

00:31:04
Speaker 12: You know.

00:31:04
Speaker 2: He sounds like he's a politician, but this is who he is. When he said, hey, I broke down everyone of Kirk Cousins throws He's got to get a hobby. I mean, dang, yeah, Pauli.

00:31:19
Speaker 6: He reminds me of your high school student council president. He would wear a tie and he was also president of the athletes, and he felt like he was already twenty five years old, but he was seventeen.

00:31:29
Speaker 2: Man. Very impressive though, that personality walking into the building and like it comes off is kind of corny, But there's an Andrew Luck Russell Wilson combination in there. Maybe throwing tbou in there, that would be kind of the combo platter.

00:31:48
Speaker 6: Yeah, Pauli, it feels like, and I think you and I talked about this the other night. It feels like he's running a business and the business is Fernanda Mendoza the football player.

00:31:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Todd.

00:31:58
Speaker 4: It feels like there.

00:31:58
Speaker 5: Might be batteries in some kind of AI overde what is the perfect answer for each of the following questions?

00:32:04
Speaker 10: And that's what comes out.

00:32:06
Speaker 2: It's awkward because we're not used to hearing that, but that's who he is. All Right, we'll take a break, we'll update our poll results here, we'll talk to Frank Kelly endo he'll join us in the final hour of the program. Always great to see him. Did a show last night here in Pittsburgh. But back with some more of your phone calls, best and worst of the weekend. We're back after this Dan Patrick show.

00:32:30
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00:32:46
Speaker 2: I can't believe it.

00:32:47
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00:33:08
Speaker 2: And we will Fox Sports Radio. Give me the team that will shake up the draft? Okay, one pick one team, Todd will start with you. The team that will shake up the draft.

00:33:23
Speaker 5: Jerry Jones Dallas Cowboys will jump up from twelve to four tomorrow night, giving up a lot.

00:33:28
Speaker 7: What that is, I can't tell you.

00:33:29
Speaker 4: So the Tennessee Titans to select.

00:33:31
Speaker 5: Jeremiah Love, blocking the NFC East rival Giants from taking Love with the fifth pick overall.

00:33:38
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna give you a bloop on that. Jerry always promises, he rarely over delivers where he's all in. But there's been talk that they might be moving up. Dylan, all right, Dan, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh, you're just playing to the crowd in your Hey, disband the franchise. You're pandering. You're a Ravens fan. You don't care about this Steelers? No, I don't. Okay, but I think they're gonna shake up the draft. Okay, how are they going to shake up the draft?

00:34:09
Speaker 9: They're going to keep their pick at twenty one, and with uncertainty at the position, draft quarterback Tye Simpson twenty first.

00:34:17
Speaker 2: Overall, there's groaning. There's groaning. He's gonna make an awesome backup one day. They've been down this road before.

00:34:26
Speaker 1: Yes, if he went to pitt they'd be like, yeah, yeah.

00:34:30
Speaker 2: No, they've been down that road before too. All Right. The team that shakes up the draft, PAULI.

00:34:36
Speaker 6: With a thirteenth pick, The La Rams will trade well down into the first round and take ty Simpson out of Alabama.

00:34:44
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, standoff? Yeah, well a tie Marvin.

00:34:53
Speaker 3: The Atlanta Falcons. I think they're gonna move up and draft Ruben Bain out of Miami. Okay, all right, need little help on the defensive end.

00:35:01
Speaker 4: Short arms, I can. I can understand that.

00:35:04
Speaker 2: So small hands supporting short arms.

00:35:08
Speaker 4: We got to stick together a charity.

00:35:13
Speaker 2: So all right, I could see I hope so, I hope that we get some We normally get five to seven trades, either leading up to or Draft nine. Make sure that you get a quote at Libertymutual dot com or your local independent agent. Make sure you bundle your car and home insurance. By the way, I'm looking at mock drafts, I don't see an SEC player taken in the top ten. When's the last time the SEC didn't have a player in the top ten. Oh? You know what I'll do. I'll give you the year. It was two thousand and six. This player went eleventh overall.

00:35:55
Speaker 7: Paul oh Man, I know who went first and second? Oh, and now.

00:36:02
Speaker 2: Marvin em Todd. I do not have an Dylan Uh yes, Martin.

00:36:14
Speaker 4: What was the school?

00:36:15
Speaker 2: No, when I give you a school, what was the name? Jay Cutler?

00:36:21
Speaker 1: Jay Cutler, Jay Cutler, Vandy?

00:36:24
Speaker 6: And that barely counts because that's Sandy.

00:36:26
Speaker 2: I know these well know these days. Vandy's a powerhouse. Two thousand and six, he went eleven, Jay Cutler. All right, A couple of phone calls in here, Carl and Seattle. Good morning, Carl, what's on your mind?

00:36:39
Speaker 10: Today, Good morning man, first time, very long time six three two ten and ten two ten. I actually just wanted to my best and worst comes a little backwards.

00:36:52
Speaker 2: It's a little longer.

00:36:53
Speaker 10: It's not a team or anything.

00:36:55
Speaker 2: It's more of you guys.

00:36:57
Speaker 10: Like so I lost you guys when you guys first moved to Peacock. I used to simultaneous here. I'd watch you in the morning and i'd take my kids to school and go to work, and I'd get you in the evening, I mean at the last hour, last half hour, and everything was great. Because then when I lost you in Peacock, I could only get you.

00:37:15
Speaker 2: On radio, and for whatever reason, I don't know, i'm.

00:37:18
Speaker 10: Computer alliterate, so I couldn't get you on Peacock, and if I did, it would be the day later, and it wasn't the same. So that's my worst. But then now you come back to the best. I'm a see I'm a Niner fan, but I live up here in Sea Hawk Territory, and I watched these Mariners, and when the games came back on, we lost our regular network up here for the Mariners, and so now they came back to an NBC network and guess what I didn't care about the marrinders. All of a sudden I got Dan Patrick and the guys back. I've read the babe, babe, babe, the guys are bad, So of course I started watching you again. And then then I come to sign out seat and leaving, and then you're retiring, and that broke my heart, and I'm like, so that's the worst.

00:38:00
Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you, Carl. Carl kind of took a little while to get a little bit where he needed to.

00:38:07
Speaker 1: I had basic cable and then I got the sports package.

00:38:11
Speaker 2: Did you write that for Carl Todd?

00:38:14
Speaker 5: You would thinking, is that's my Thing's land the plane?

00:38:20
Speaker 2: When Will Ferrell joined us in Dublin and we kept seeing this guy. He came over uh for the broadcast, and I saw him when I arrived, I saw him when I got to my hotel. I saw him when we were leaving Dublin, and he would start a story and it would take forever, forever. And finally I'm sitting there with Will Ferrell and the guy starts telling us his story, and you know, Will, after about ninety seconds goes, hey, hey, why didn't you land the effen plane? And the guy goes, what land the plane. He goes, what do you mean, finish the story? And Will's one of the nicest people. But he kept just droning on and on and on and on, and then I reminded me of you, ton No, it's not yes observation. Yes, Marvin arned. Oh uh, Dylan, I'm guessing.

00:39:17
Speaker 9: When he finally did land the plane, it was like upside down.

00:39:19
Speaker 2: It was not good. It was Yeah, even Sully couldn't help him with landing that plane.

00:39:24
Speaker 1: Uh.

00:39:25
Speaker 2: Let's see Mike in Youngstown. Hi, Mike, what's on your mind today?

00:39:30
Speaker 13: Hey Dane, thanks for taking my call. I'm trying to be concise, not like Carl. But can I get a happy birthday for my neighbor Patsy. I know he's listening. He cut me freshman year in basketball, but I wouldn't make his day.

00:39:42
Speaker 10: And I also got the name for Vegas.

00:39:45
Speaker 2: Okay, you want the name?

00:39:49
Speaker 11: No?

00:39:50
Speaker 10: No, no, no, let us guess all right, Dad.

00:39:55
Speaker 13: Jackie Moose spoke to me in a dream and he said, welcome to the he gets tropic. Let's get tropical.

00:40:05
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, I miss Carl in Seattle.

00:40:10
Speaker 7: It's Patsy's birthday too.

00:40:12
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, happy birth freshman year. Ohso Jade who works.

00:40:22
Speaker 4: With us, Jade Bay, let's go.

00:40:31
Speaker 2: Do we have a poll question today? Dylan, we have a couple.

00:40:34
Speaker 9: Dan, I did put one up, okay, and this is from Paul and it's very saucy. If Mike Rabel could pick one win the Super Bowl last year versus the Seahawks or this recent snapoo never happens. So far, eighty percent said the recent snaphoo never happens. I probably would pick the same thing over.

00:40:53
Speaker 2: A Super Bowl win.

00:40:55
Speaker 4: What Marvin DP, if you've got in trouble, would you go to the police or home?

00:41:02
Speaker 2: I'm going for the police, lock me up, sports Emmy, or disturbance at home, disturbance at him. Yeah, I gotta get rid of that. Yes. Frank Caliendo is going to join us Final Hour this Wednesday, Dan and the Dan Nets