Hour 3 – Tribute to Pittsburgh, Frank Caliendo

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

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Speaker 2: I'd still dress for Pittsburgh, you know, maybe fifty degrees. Probably at draft time, yes.

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Speaker 3: Paul, Dan, I've got high of seventy four.

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Speaker 2: When the draft starts, cracked.

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Speaker 3: Low of forty nine. But that's the late night. I'm saying draft time sixty degree.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, yes, Tod.

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Speaker 4: And make sure you have a ticket. You're gon not be able to sneak in.

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Speaker 5: I took a walk the other day around try to get close to the sam just to take some pictures from my phone, and this black fencing all the way around blocking the NFL experience.

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Speaker 4: You can't get anywhere near the stadium, so don't try to show up.

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Speaker 5: And unless you're wanting to scale the fence like Spider Man or something, just want to.

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Speaker 2: Give you a little note of a thank you, ton.

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Speaker 4: It's important. You can't get ridly. You can't go close to the stadium.

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Speaker 2: We're on the air.

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Speaker 4: You know, I got right, Pansy Park, I was right there.

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Speaker 2: I was dying for a pirate game yesterday, like a like a one o'clock game. God, that would have been awesome.

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Speaker 5: And the Penguins went on the Road just finished Monday night. Now they go to Philly, just in time for us not to be able to go to.

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Speaker 4: A Penguin's game.

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Speaker 2: They were here the other night.

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Speaker 4: No, the Monday night was a Game two.

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Speaker 5: But now the rest of the series, over the next few days, they're in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 2: You were not going to a Penguin game.

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Speaker 5: I would have totally gone to a Penguin game. But we first got in Monday night, and that's when you think Game two was not. The series shifts to Philadelphia, which is not exactly across the street from here.

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Speaker 2: Did you find out the city of Pittsburgh all their teams have the same colors. Is there any other city that or state that comes close to me? No?

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Speaker 3: And it's been a long time thing with Steelers Penguins, Pirates. William Pitt he developed the city of Pittsburgh, Billy Pitt, and he was the first Earl of Chatham, of course you knew that. And his family shield was black and gold with gold coins. So in honor of him, they started doing black and goal for the team uniforms. I think the Pirates did it first, way way back when actually, I'm sorry, the Pirates were red, white and blue, back.

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Speaker 2: In the day.

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Speaker 3: But then the Steelers initially went black and gold. Pirates followed suit in the sixties.

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Speaker 2: I think okay, yes, Billy.

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Speaker 6: So if an NBA team were to come to town, do they shake things up or they sticking with black and gold?

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Speaker 2: Can you check and see if the Pittsburgh Condors were their colors black and gold they were an ABA team, Pittsburgh Condors.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Aba, I have them. No, it's kind of like this red and gold and white. Oh yeah, they look almost like the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: Oh like old Hawks jerseys.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yes, that's why they didn't survive.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they had black and gold.

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Speaker 3: They would have yes, But University of Pittsburgh football they branded themselves with their colors, which are great, by the way, top five uniform in college football. And they had to brand themselves separate from the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: But IOWA didn't separate themselves from Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: Now Iowa uniforms are almost directly what Pittsburgh Steeler shoes.

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Speaker 2: But then did Delaware take Michigan or did Michigan take Delaware?

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Speaker 3: I actually found this out last week. Princeton had the flare down its first, then Delaware second, then Michigan hijacked them much later.

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Speaker 2: Okay, back to you. I like Princeton's helmet, so yes, is there any.

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Speaker 5: Local sensitivity to saying black and gold versus black and yellow? Can they interchange? I don't know if there was any. I'm being serious. Is there local we're saying black and gold? But isn't there a black and yellow song? Like Whiz Khalifa? And okay dropping, I'm dropping some knowledge, a man of culture kind of dropping knowledge.

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Speaker 2: Don't you have a song for us today?

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Speaker 4: I do have a song?

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 5: It was a song by Terry Cashman, a baseball song called Talking Baseball, and.

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Speaker 4: It just kind of came to me.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to tell you where it came to me, but I was indisposed, and I was in the just kind of doing some business, and I'm like, I just.

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Speaker 4: Thought it mean to myself.

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Speaker 2: You don't but you don't have to tell me that.

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Speaker 4: But I want to share with you. We're clothes. I could share with you.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't really know everything.

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Speaker 5: Talk in Pittsburgh and I just started typing things on my phone while I'm doing my business.

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Speaker 2: How long is this song?

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Speaker 5: It's two pays? But I could sing it really fast. I wrote about like a dozen verses, but it doesn't go.

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Speaker 4: It won't be long.

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Speaker 2: So your business was taken a while.

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Speaker 5: And that's gonna get Himoris when you sit too long. But I think it's a pretty fun song. Okay, but I got dude wipes.

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Speaker 4: I'm fine, Okay, fine, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, let's let's we'll start. We'll see how the audience receives this.

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Speaker 4: Okay, here we go. Okay, we're talking pitts Burg.

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Speaker 5: Nothing could be fine or talking pitts Burg. Masaroski and Ralph Kiner, Phil Madlock, Bruce Keuson, Phil Gonner too, Rennie Stannint and Oma Marino knew what to do, especially Colemane, the Cobra and Pops. There's always the lords to Henley bid with Yagerlemew into the kid. The city's got the knack. All proteins wear yellow and black. Three Rivers was the place to be in seventy nine. We are family. There was bonds before the juice to Kobe. They let loose. Sacking Big Ben.

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Speaker 4: Was hard, that lifeless Honus Wagner card.

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Speaker 5: And we still can't get an NBA team.

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Speaker 4: We're talking pitts Burg. Ado all those mountain ridges. We're talking Pittsburg.

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Speaker 5: Lots of water and those bridges and Arnold Palmer, wait, he's actually from Latrobe for skeens.

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Speaker 4: Is it still the place to be? Let's wait?

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Speaker 5: And PNC winning many a super Bowl shout out, Bill Colaret sucking?

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Speaker 2: Is this a song? Okay?

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Speaker 5: Franco and Rocky's backfield scene, Ham Lambert, I mean Joe Green.

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Speaker 2: We're almost done.

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Speaker 4: A few more of us.

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Speaker 5: And Bradshaw was slinging it to Stalwart and Swan talking pitts Burg that d head, opponents hurting. We're talking Pittsburg can't hide behind steel curtain. And we so loved Clemente Cobra and Pops with Steeler Nation.

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Speaker 4: It's a rave, terrible tawbels.

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Speaker 5: We will wave, Defenders would hurt and fuss getting run over by the bus. There's even a hit medical drama called The Pit One. What we're talking Pittsburg. The city is a doozy, the Panthers coaching our goosey and I can't wait to come back to see my guys in yellow and black. I'm going to see all my boys in the yellow end the black, and that's.

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Speaker 4: The end of the time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that was That was kind of like a courtesy flush is what.

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Speaker 4: That's exactly when I finished that last firse. That's when I flushed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. Wow, who I thought that was fun.

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Speaker 5: I know it's off kid, I sing terribly, but I got some fun names in there.

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Speaker 4: And it was dedicated to Pittsbagh.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Paul.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately the draft is over.

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Speaker 7: Oh no, yes, Marvin is there also run time coming up with him too.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I got to wait till Friday for that's a lot for one day. I can't do that.

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Speaker 4: We do have one though. Come on, we're talking.

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Speaker 8: Pittsburg killing me my guys and Yellow and the Black.

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Speaker 2: I'd really get run over by them.

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Speaker 4: That's not nice. That's not nice.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I have one other Pennsylvania thing. What was that town you said you drink?

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Speaker 2: Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 3: That's a real town.

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Speaker 2: That's like, I think it's ten miles from Lancaster, where I was attending a wedding.

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Speaker 3: I've been ten miles from Intercourse before.

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Speaker 2: Most of my college days.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are a couple of the towns. Pastor Hall, who's a local pastor, sent this and on the Twitter. There's also Climax Pennsylvania and blue Ball Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 4: They're so close, but yet so far.

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Speaker 1: Not blue Bell blue Ball.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, how about that. I think intercourses in Leecock Township it is. Come on, I think.

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Speaker 3: If you're making it up, I've given you a blue it's.

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Speaker 2: L e a coc k. I think it's that's where intercourse is in Leecock Township. Yeah, Paul, So.

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Speaker 3: When you're sitting there with all the people in that town in the eighteen hundreds and you're coming up with a name for the town, like you know, Springfield that's nice, and Bland Glenwood. Now, let's go at climax, Like, how's that meeting happened?

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Speaker 2: I don't know how this happens? Like that in street signs, like there is a street sign where I live it's called breakneck. Now that can't be good. But it's that's like somebody said, you know what, how about breakneck? Oh okay, what could go wrong? Okay? Mike Tomlin going into the media. I always like the guys who don't like the media, they go into the media. Bob Knight hated the media. It's like I'm gonna stick it to you. Uh, Sterling Sharp now big on the media in Green Bay, became very good media person. Yes, Paul back.

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Speaker 3: Of the day when Bill Kauer went to the media and he left coaching early, and also Jimmy Johnson, I think he was pretty young when he left. It felt like everyone assumed within two years these guys will be coaching again, and they never did. When you look at Tomlin, what do you think.

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Speaker 2: I think he's either two years in broadcasting and then out and coach again, or he never coaches again. Now he's fifty four. Cower was forty nine. Forty nine. He'll join us on the program tomorrow. I believe ton will Bill Kwer although I got a hold of my bosses at NBC and I said, hey, we'd love to have Mike Tomlin on, and we were told, well, it's not official yet. I said, well, wait a minute, I work for you. Can you other people are reporting this, yeah, but we haven't made it official yet. Maybe we'll get Mike Tomlin on. And I think he's going to do really well. I think that there was probably a bidding war for him. I thought Fox was going to go after him as well. But when Tony Dungey stepped down, and then I realized that they were going to go all in on Mike Tomlin. He'll be the main studio analyst for Football Night in America. But by all accounts, he'll probably be very good at it. Uh, you know, Sean McVay is going to have the same opportunity, but you know McVay is flirting with Super Bowls still, Yes, Ton.

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Speaker 5: Because I mean the show is going to be very good, but not great. Just like, yeah, that's kind of where I was going with that.

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Speaker 4: It's not very nice though, That's not what you do.

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Speaker 2: Ye, So Tomlin's going to be the equivalent of a winning record.

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Speaker 4: It'll be really good.

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Speaker 5: But then you know you start looking at other channels here, like that's really good too, that one's great, that one just may.

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Speaker 4: Have missed, but hopefully I'm wrong about it.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, they set him up correctly and let him be Mike Tomlin. You know a lot of these guys, you really don't know their personalities because they don't like to share. Their job is to coach Bob Knight. You know, I didn't know how good he could be as an analyst. I know that there are some of my former bosses at ESPN were like so enamored to get Bob Knight, and I was just wondering, does he have any other speed than being angry? Can he be an analyst there? And you know what I became. I would say I became friends with Bob Knight late in his life. And it was so weird that I would do Sports Center and Bob Knight hated SportsCenter anchors because chances are we're making fun of Bob Knight do something you know, stupid on the air, you know, during a game, throw a chair, grab a player. And I just remember when Jay Billis came back from Indiana and Billis was there to do a game and he goes, hey, Bob Knight wants you to call him. And I'm going, oh my god, what did we do now? He goes, no, he wants to talk to you. He wants to come on your radio show. I go, come on, Jay and he goes, no, I'm serious. I go, Okay, get a hold of Bob Knight. He wants to come on the show. And I thought, you know what, can we do something that Let's have a preemptive strike, Let's do something that we know he's going to be in a good move. So Pauli came out up with the idea. He goes, why don't we reach out to his coaching idol, Beau scham Beckler, And so he was going to get a hold of beaucham Beckler at Michigan and next thing you know, we have Bo on the phone with Bob Knight and they just start talking. Coach Night called up after the interview and said, it's one of the nicest things anybody's ever done for me. And from then on he was like, whenever you want me. Even when I was doing my last show at ESPN Radio, he was on a fishing trip in Montana and they didn't even know if he had cell service. He still found a place where he could call in and say goodbye. So you know, you have sort of these you're not quite sure who people are, and we've been fortunate when we were at ESPN, you had a lot of those coaches who came in Bill Parcells. Bill Parcells was tough. He was really difficult to deal with, but you got him in the in the building and he became one of your teammates or vice versa, and it was just different. And I always had great appreciation for that. When you got to they allowed you to see their personality. Mike hopefully will reveal a personality, and I think people will be pleasantly surprised. Yeah, Pauline.

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Speaker 3: And if I remember right, just about six months after that interview with Bob Knight and Bo Schembeckler, you started your six o'clock Sports Center, and your first six o'clock Sports Center, Bob Knight came on and he had a zip up on and as you introduced him, he unzipped it and it had a Dan Patrick radio show sweatshirt. And Todd and I were in the control room and I said, is this about the most surreal thing you've ever seen? Yep?

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Speaker 2: That was so Yeah, he had just taken the job at Texas Tech. But then, if you remember, we would have him on and I kept telling him, let the Indiana situation go. There's so many fans, so many people who were so important to you that he had this problem with the president Miles Brand, and I said, let it go go back there. He said he would go back when all of those people are dead, and I thought, okay. He did wait till I think they were all dead, and then he did go back. But I just remember I said, go back for those people who supported you all those years, the heck with presidents and chancellors and all of that, go back for them, and then thankfully he went back. But a complex person. And you know, when people say, who are some of your favorite coaches? I do bring him up just because he was great content he was. He was a very very complex person. Greg Popovich, I always I never knew him. I tried, you know, just to at least. I remember they won the Western Conference championship. They were going to the NBA Finals, and I'm handing out the trophy and I'm trying to get him to come up and get in. So you had Duncan and Parker and Ginobili and I said, Pop, so we're live. I said Pop. And he's like I said Pop, And I go, oh my god, he's gonna leave me hanging here. He did not want any publicity. He did he'd do those interviews with Craig Seger in between quarters. And he likes Seger. That was the amazing part. Can you imagine if he didn't like you? But I found him fascinating. He perfect coach for a perfect city, and you know, a perfect team as well. All right, Frank, Caliendo's gonna join us. Todd was all nervous yesterday when I go, hey, Caliendo's in Pittsburgh. He's doing a show. Todd goes, oh is he? And I go, this is Caliendo does his impersonation of you, which you don't like.

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Speaker 5: I've been accused of li like that. You didn't call for Frank earlier because they don't like how he does.

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Speaker 2: Did you know Frank was in Pittsburgh?

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Speaker 4: It was brought to my attention in recent days?

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Speaker 5: But I thought, you know, we had him on recently and and all that, and even Frank said.

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Speaker 4: I could have stopped by just to say hi. But if you want to have me on as a guest, that's great.

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Speaker 2: Is this because he does an impersonation of you?

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Speaker 5: It is now you got to you got to separate, you know, your own personal feelings and you know, and the show.

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Speaker 4: And Frank's always a great guest.

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Speaker 5: So I think he does a fantastic impression to me.

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Speaker 4: No, but that's I would not book him. More effort to get him on the show.

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Speaker 2: But you didn't separate your feelings because you didn't tell us that's true.

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Speaker 4: I thought.

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Speaker 5: I thought I thought we had we had him on at the Super Bowl, like was it too soon?

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Speaker 4: And sometimes like I'll picture guess it's like we just had him on.

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Speaker 2: You're just trying to how about the house you should get?

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Speaker 4: Thankfully, in the eleventh hour the decision was made.

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Speaker 2: It's the eleven o'clock hour, yes, and.

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Speaker 5: He's coming on the eleven o'clock hour, I know. But something about the number eleven.

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Speaker 2: Last night when I said to you, why don't you see if Frank will join it?

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Speaker 4: And I said, what you were like, well, just you.

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Speaker 2: Go, well I'll try, like immediately.

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Speaker 5: In the middle of dinner, and you told no, did I say? Said, everybody except me? Because you know I'm booking guests and I'm allowed to get on my phone.

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Speaker 2: I didn't want anybody to have their phones out when we're at dinner. I said, but you can have your phone out because you're still working.

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Speaker 5: And to Frank's credit, on very short I noticed he moved things around. He was supposed to fly to Cleveland or something, and he altered his schedule to uh to join us.

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Speaker 2: So that did you not want okay, did you not want Frank Caliendo because you wanted to be the funniest guy on the show. It could be some truth to Okay, all.

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Speaker 4: Right, he's the funnest guy on the show. Wow, that hurts my.

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Speaker 2: Saw that was not to be. That was Oh I thought that was funny.

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Speaker 4: You say that song. I wasn't a stand up routine.

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Speaker 7: That was a song. Oh, I don't my big guys.

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Speaker 2: I thought that that was like a parody song.

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Speaker 4: It was a song that I took seriously.

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Speaker 2: Then I apologized for it.

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Speaker 4: That's a lot of time. I got up at four in the morning for some reason I couldn't sleep on. I'm like, take a break.

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Speaker 2: Care Pittsburgh, Carl and Seattle back here again. We'll take a break. Frank Caliendo, the second funniest guy on the show today, got that right. We'll join us. Coming up next here, Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: Let's bring out Frank Kelliendo. He was performing last night here in Pittsburgh the Pittsburgh Improv Cleveland tomorrow already sold out. You can catch him at the Funnybone in Cincinnati Friday, a Columbus Funny Bone on Saturday as well as Sunday. Go to Frank on Stage dot com for tickets. As we make way for Frank Kellyham, dude, all right now we're talking.

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Speaker 7: The words, we're talking. Bit was taking it okay, So uh yeah, I'll tell you what I started. You give us all these great things when we come here. Yeah shows, yeah, root and open stuff up. So I was like, I'll tell you what, man, that's a pretty tremendous thing. Put some of this stuff down. Think look right here, we got some rectext sauces and stuff like that.

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Speaker 4: Who you can't go anywhere with that? Man?

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Speaker 7: Oh what dude, what spider two white banana man.

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Speaker 2: You got uh, you've got product placement there. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 7: It's pretty good. Open up this. You think there's gonna be Roy Hobbs's Batman's gonna look at this? Could you imagine grow just had this stuff. I'll tell you what. We're gonna be flipping some burgers, man, Then we're gonna be flipping some cars. Well, I got talking to that on this microphone here, I was talking to the wrong microphone. I forgot how many there were.

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Speaker 2: All right, all right, are you gonna take that in the overhead? Ben going to Cleveland?

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Speaker 7: Uh? Yeah, yeah, well she uh Jade? Who you know? It gives us all this we get sent to us.

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Speaker 4: Oh you do.

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Speaker 7: But I'm gonna take this as well. So yes, I'm that kind of person. All right, Sorry, I forgot about microphones on those.

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Speaker 2: H It's great to see you. And we didn't know you were in town. Yeah, And then we found out somebody had said, or you gonna have Frank Kelly endo one.

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Speaker 7: I had said, I was just gonna stop by because you guys are fun to hang out with. Right off the air, and I had sent something to Marvin and I said, hey, uh, where I knew you guys were gonna because they've been listening to this show, and I was like, when do you get there and stuff like that, and I was like, maybe I'll pop in on the way to Cleveland. I didn't even know if i'd have time. I didn't even know if I was going to be here today. And i'd heard on the show you said you were going to be in on Wednesday, so I was like, okay, and then uh, then I got a text from Fritzy yesterday that didn't feel like he really wanted me here.

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Speaker 2: He didn't.

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Speaker 7: No, I'm hearing more and.

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Speaker 4: More of that.

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Speaker 7: Everybody has said that as I came in, which I kind of understand because my Fritzy impression is not that good. It's honestly, I understand where it's at. No, it's I don't have the voice I have some of them. You're doing it right now, Fritzy. You know, he doesn't even know he's doing He's got with his lips. It's like he just finished eating a cob of corn and he's like that kind of thing. So I, uh, but I understand. I understand where he's coming.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Frank, if the imitation wasn't good, it wouldn't bother Fritzi.

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Speaker 7: Oh you think so.

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Speaker 3: If it wasn't spot on with the mannerisms, it wouldn't bother.

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Speaker 4: That's fair because I'm that sensitive.

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Speaker 5: So it's actually the largest Yeah, but I don't want the booker of.

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Speaker 7: The show, one of my favorite shows in the world, to not like having me on. That's a big deal to me. Like if if, like when I would do Leno back in the day, if like the booker didn't like me because I did an impress, that would be a bad thing. Lendos.

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Speaker 2: I was like, a you're you gonna do me on the show?

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Speaker 7: And come on, do me.

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Speaker 2: So?

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Speaker 7: But yeah, I don't want I don't. I know Todd kind of thrives on that awkwardness, not on purpose, but he does. But it's I Todd's what You're so much fun Todd, especially, like I've said this before, when you're trying when you're being serious, When you're trying to be funny, it's not good. But when you're trying to when you're serious, if you just be serious all the time, I think you'd be the funniest guy in the world.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate that. I need to be more serious.

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Speaker 2: If mel Kiper suddenly couldn't show up tomorrow.

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Speaker 7: I actually I brought I started doing Kuyper and it wasn't even try to That's why my hair is like this. You were trying to do it. I was trying to do it. And then my buddy Willie, who's with me, is opening for me. He's like, you need a blow dryer. I'm like, well, it's a little late for that, but I had the glass all ready to go. I even print how to print out the stuff for vandam Mendez out in the at quarterback. This is his actual he writes like he talks. Twenty twenty five STAPs over sixteen games, seventy two percent completion rate, three thousand, five hundred and thirty five passing yards, forty one TV passes, six i in t seven rushing touchdowns. Mendoza transfer to Indiana after playing two seasons at Cal. We're talking pitts Berg and a game game took up part of the season for the jump. He cut down on sacks at twenty five at last season forty one. In twenty twenty four, Mendoza got the ball out quicker. That's what we're talking about. Fernando Mendozo. Last Fernando I remembers, Fernando Venezuela did a tremendous job. Left handed pitcher out there in Los Angeles can form the Mendoza line, the two hundred batting average, and that was where Bob Yucker lived his entire life. So yeah, so if that's if that's a.

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Speaker 1: What people don't know.

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Speaker 7: What people don't know about melis he's the sweetest guy in the world, Like he on TV. I always say in my even in my acts, I say he's a cross between Sam and American Eagle and Count Chawkula, right, Sammy American Eagle from the Muppets and Counch Chalk and you see him. And then all those years with Todd McSherry was just cutting him.

00:24:07
Speaker 1: Off Po Po Po.

00:24:11
Speaker 7: And on the Mothership. I got twenty five Todds out one time, and you know how hard that is. Po Po Po Pop. Come around, Todd, there's a different Todd. Don't worry not talking about you right now. At the end of the day, it's not all about you. Uh, but uh, he came to a show one time. I was in Baltimore, and I was in Baltimore and he's in the back of the room told me he was coming to the show. I get to the mel Kiper where I'm going to talk about him, and from the back he just yells out tap the audience, like why is that guy heckling? I'm like, that's the actual mel Kiper junior. So he's the sweetest guy and he talks. Everything he talks about is like when I first did the impression of him on TV, He's like, he calls me up. I think he's going to be upset. He's like the entire Kuiper family joining what you did, Frank everybody Las Vegas. I've never been there before Blue Man Group, and I actually blew Pete. Will we ever see avatar tremendously large people At the end of the day, I want to be an Avatar person. So he's really great. I thought he'd be great. I was like, when he gets off a little tangents, he sounded like an English teacher to me, I think that would be the toughest I before he except after seated was sound of his as a neighbor and way I ever trying to figure out the difference between there and there and there. I'm not sure if it's a hominem or a homograph. But that th h e r E is got hearing it. That's here nor there than t h e i r's possession and then thh e y apostrophe r E. That's a it's a contraction, Frank, you know, work on contractions.

00:25:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, but not everybody appreciates your imitations. You've you've talked about Madden. But did John Madden eventually warm up?

00:25:47
Speaker 7: They finally kind of liked me? But why why did he like me? Because I'd made his grandkids laugh? There was that, ok, and they they they enjoyed it. So that was the even like as I believe it was his son and wanted me to do something at John's seventy fifth birthday party. And then I heard from somebody and then all of a sudden, I didn't hear from them anymore. So they must have gone him.

00:26:08
Speaker 8: Like I don't you know, I don't think that's the way to go. There's maybe we could get that lady who rides on the utericycle and puts the cups on her head. I mean, what's the name that lady? I mean, if I mean, I mean, that's the thing. If you don't have anything. Boom, you got red pandam.

00:26:27
Speaker 7: So you w red Panda? She got hurt a while ago. She's gonna come the comeback. Man. How many plays? How many cups do you think she can hit? Hit on that top of that head? Man? Uh?

00:26:38
Speaker 2: And Gruden's okay with you.

00:26:40
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's he has fun with it. I mean he's I've be comforted. I just put something up when I went to talk. I talked to the Raiders a couple of times when he was coaching there before the before a game, I gave a pregame type of speech. It was just really making fun of John Gruden. And uh, he I just did something. I tell you I'm going I tell you, man, people didn't know what a hammy is like. Now they see it because he's opening up boxes on the internet and stuff like that. But he is, he's a goofy guy and he totally has fun with it. And uh, it's it's he gets it and some people don't get it. But when you get it, you have more fun. It's like I once called him and said, am I like keep your enemy, keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. Is that what it is? He's like no, man, we love you, man your best.

00:27:23
Speaker 2: But Chris Berman was okay, Well, everybody we've talked about this.

00:27:28
Speaker 7: Everybody does a Chris Berman at ESPN. They just don't do it out loud in front of him. Right, everybody's walking around like you don't even have to have words. That's Chris Berman is a chicken, say what you will, but nobody flashes the coop like he's chicken.

00:27:46
Speaker 2: So are you working on a Dylan in person?

00:27:49
Speaker 7: Yeah? Actually he sounds exactly like my av guy used to sound.

00:27:53
Speaker 2: All right, Dylan, let's hear.

00:27:57
Speaker 6: Just a little bit of my sweet sweet voice.

00:27:58
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, you got that. And it's it's in there, right, It's almost like.

00:28:03
Speaker 4: I just got some French fried potatoes.

00:28:05
Speaker 7: But there's something in there. Uh, it's very You're back in the back of the throat. So I don't have it yet.

00:28:12
Speaker 2: I do have.

00:28:13
Speaker 7: I believe it's Buddha. I've worked on my butt.

00:28:15
Speaker 2: Buddha from San Francisco.

00:28:16
Speaker 8: Yeah, good, more than mister Patrick, who does it.

00:28:22
Speaker 7: Nobody else does a Buddha?

00:28:23
Speaker 2: Right, No, yeah, no, buddy, Uh do you tweak your act for the city you're in.

00:28:33
Speaker 7: A little bit?

00:28:34
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:28:34
Speaker 7: I mean this week has got a little bit more of the draft and football stuff.

00:28:37
Speaker 2: Did you do some Terry Bradshaw last night?

00:28:39
Speaker 7: I always do some Terry Bradshaw. It says that doesn't even have to make sense. That's the part of it that's really good. Man, talk about what he's doing highlights. You have no idea. He has no idea that the guy that I missed it. Usually they have somebody who can read or knows the names of players.

00:28:55
Speaker 1: No.

00:28:56
Speaker 7: I you know that my grandpap had told me long time ago, back in the fourteen hundreds we were out and I'll just try to figure it out. Frank, that was always He's so great. But he will say things like, uh like, I probably shouldn't even brought that up and brought myself in. But he'll be walking through a founding. That's the lady of the night right there. Frank. He's not using those terms all he's but he is something else. He's he's one of those people that he's just not afraid to be himself. That's the and I think that really works, especially in this day and age. The more you are you and you you bring that out, that authenticity. That's what Barkley has. That's what people who are like that. They are not afraid to be themselves and they're unapologetic about it. Right, they go out and enjoy uh, just doing what they do. The fact that Charles has he couldn't care less. He doesn't even like the NBA A lot of them.

00:29:52
Speaker 8: I have no idea who's even player right now? Guys, these guys, what about the Orlando Magic. I don't watch them?

00:29:58
Speaker 7: Why not? Because they suck.

00:29:59
Speaker 5: Man.

00:30:00
Speaker 7: Nobody says they suck. Nobody said I've heard him on here. They suck nobody in broadcasting, So they suck except for Charles. And then they were like, hey, you, uh, you don't like you don't like you. You know, you don't really pay attention to basketball. Do you want to do college basketball too?

00:30:14
Speaker 8: For Marx Madden, absolutely pay the triple man we're in.

00:30:18
Speaker 7: And they do because he's such a great, such a great fun person to listen to and watch.

00:30:22
Speaker 2: But you need to have those over the top personality. Yeah, that makes your job so much easier.

00:30:27
Speaker 7: Well, did you hear when he and Dick Vital did that play? Did the like it was an unbelievable for like ten twenty minutes, and then it became like me doing Bill Walton with Bill Walton, where you're like, how can they go off on a tangent anymore? Because Vital's just going, oh, it's equitable, it's amazing. And then Charles, who hasn't researched any of the game, you.

00:30:47
Speaker 8: Know, the transfer portal and nil are ruining the game of basketball.

00:30:52
Speaker 7: These kids need to be paid. But and then they go to something else. It's a real dipeer din.

00:30:56
Speaker 8: He's like, yeah, but the transfer portal, the guy would the red head band just passed the ball.

00:31:01
Speaker 7: You don't even know his name. I didn't know. We're watching the game anymore, man, So that I mean, that's but that's sports. I found this a lot of times people in sports have more fun not talking about sports. Like it when I even have any football show I've ever been at, there like, how can we get to a story that's not just about the game. And I've even heard you guys talking about that recently. It's like, well, that's but that's where the world is going. I think the entertainment. It's almost like this show is you know, you're a sports show, but that's that's the through line and then the story of you guys and everything in the relationships is what makes it great. So I think that's I mean, you guys were ahead of the game. I remember being in the Super Bowl years and years ago after you left the Mothership and and you were just in that cardboard box or whatever you're doing. I opened it up. Man, there he was Dan Patrick. Many He's not even in Bristol anymore. He's in a suburb of Bristol. And I was I was like, I don't get it. This is a what a what a terrible idea? And look at what you've done. It's like unbelievable and fantastic and all you schmucks that have been along the way.

00:32:05
Speaker 2: No, but I think the important part. It's like when somebody goes all Bull Durham sports movie and I go, no, it's not, it's about really he's we label them sports movies, but they're not. They're about relationships for the most part. And that's what this is. It's it is sports, but it's so much it's everything that kind of revolves around sports.

00:32:25
Speaker 7: And I think that's what I think that's what's been lost a lot of time when the people who thought sports just go hardcore sports. Hardcore sports just give stats and stuff. You can get that anywhere now. But it's about who's who's telling you about the sports, and what fun are they having while they're doing it, and who are they trying to keep off this show?

00:32:42
Speaker 2: Nobody is doing talking Wow, it's just a job somebody's doing talking baseball on any other show today, talking Pittsburgh. Nobody's doing that.

00:32:51
Speaker 4: A bad rap here.

00:32:53
Speaker 2: You do not want and do you know that I did.

00:32:56
Speaker 7: I will defend him one hundred percent because I didn't really push it in the first place. I didn't. I knew you guys were gonna be here, but then I said, hey, I understand if you don't want me because I was just on recently.

00:33:08
Speaker 2: But you reached out to more of it.

00:33:09
Speaker 7: Yeah, but that was just I was just gonna stop by, say because Marvin I hang out. Yeah, okay, but if I was gonna get if I wanted to get on the show, I would definitely not go to Todd anymore.

00:33:19
Speaker 1: Todd.

00:33:19
Speaker 7: Todd did not want Todd did not want you, that guy, Dylan, Can I have your number on the way out?

00:33:25
Speaker 2: Two?

00:33:26
Speaker 4: Three?

00:33:26
Speaker 10: Uh?

00:33:27
Speaker 2: Frank already sold out in Cleveland and h then you'll be Cincinnati Friday, Columbus on Saturday and Sunday. Yep, go to Frank on Stage dot com for tickets.

00:33:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it.

00:33:38
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for stopping.

00:33:39
Speaker 7: Incredible job by you, better job by me.

00:33:42
Speaker 2: Well you're doing Jim Rome.

00:33:44
Speaker 7: How great is that?

00:33:46
Speaker 4: Dude?

00:33:46
Speaker 7: He's trying to go to commercial and CALLI keeps talking nothing new.

00:33:52
Speaker 2: We're back after this and the Dan Patrick Show.

00:33:54
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00:34:10
Speaker 4: I can't believe it.

00:34:11
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00:34:16
Speaker 4: I'll put myself in a position to be in.

00:34:18
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00:34:33
Speaker 4: And we won.

00:34:35
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00:34:36
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00:34:57
Speaker 4: Man.

00:34:57
Speaker 2: It went by quickly, it did that flew all right, Dyl, All right, Dan.

00:35:01
Speaker 6: So the pole question was if Mike Rabel could pick one when the Super Bowl vers Seattle or the recent mess never happens. Surprisingly, the numbers have shifted only fifty one point four percent say recent mess never happened.

00:35:14
Speaker 2: So there's some there's some football fans out. Okay, all right, fair enough, Yes, Marvin.

00:35:18
Speaker 4: Those are people that aren't married.

00:35:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is tricky when you're trying to explain to your wife what the situation is, because my wife is on a sports fan should go, so what happened to the person and then the other person and then they were somewhere together, and I go, Han, you got to help me out, give me a little more detail there. And then I said the coach and a reporter and then do you know them? And then I kind of, and what do you think? And then I said I don't know enough information. And I've said that all along that I don't know, but it just feels like you call a press conference, you talk talk about uncomfortable conversations, and so now you can avoid any further comments questions about this by saying I've addressed that.

00:36:09
Speaker 3: Yes, Pauline, you always know a story has crossed over to pop culture away from sports with what you just said.

00:36:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, when my mom my, sisters, my kids, my wife, when they start asking the questions and then I said, I don't have the answers, and I still don't have the answers. Yes, Marvin.

00:36:27
Speaker 4: Do you think there's gonna be pressure on Rabel and the Patriots to perform this season? I don't because of that on the field. On the field, yeah, okay.

00:36:39
Speaker 2: Maybe he's already performed.

00:36:40
Speaker 4: Come on now, come on now to perform less.

00:36:42
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I have, I have, I have no idea. I have no idea. Oh yes, mart.

00:36:50
Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm really You're not sorry? Okay, maybe I'm not a s end of the show.

00:36:55
Speaker 2: Be ashamed of yourself. Uh, this dants for it's history, paul I got a couple for you.

00:37:01
Speaker 4: Dan.

00:37:01
Speaker 2: You're pretty funny, aren't you, Marvin?

00:37:03
Speaker 4: Not funny?

00:37:05
Speaker 2: Yes you are, Yes you are. Okay, what do you have this Dane sports history.

00:37:09
Speaker 3: In nineteen fourteen, Babe Ruth, maybe you've heard of him. He made his pitching debut right out of his first year in the pros. And this guy, I think is from Pennsylvania. I went to high school around here. Michael Moore in nineteen ninety four became the first left handed heavyweight champion. Oh, he went to high school.

00:37:25
Speaker 2: Somewhere round Okay, all right. Daniel Jeremiah from NFL Network will join us tomorrow. Bill Kauer will join us. Kurt Warner will join us as well. My thanks to Frank Caliendo for stopping by even though Fritzi didn't want him. Jerome Bettis had him come by. Brian Windhors joined us, Fernando Mendoza. So great job Todd corraling everybody but Frank Callendo.

00:37:50
Speaker 4: It all worked out, No, it did it?

00:37:52
Speaker 2: Did?

00:37:52
Speaker 4: I know?

00:37:53
Speaker 2: We're just joking, right.

00:37:54
Speaker 5: I know, But I feel like now there's going to be a strain between me and Frank because we.

00:37:58
Speaker 2: Have Adam in Michigan. I know, but it's just land the plane.

00:38:04
Speaker 10: Adam talking about Piper is that the anthem for not getting nominated for a Sports Emmy, because that was terrible. I'm sorry, but what will get you back on the sports semi track is the New dance House video for the Peacock Watchers. Oh, I was having a poo on Monday and my little son comes out.

00:38:25
Speaker 9: Daddy, Daddy, Daddy.

00:38:27
Speaker 8: Dan has a new song.

00:38:28
Speaker 10: There's a new guy on it.

00:38:30
Speaker 4: He's different.

00:38:30
Speaker 10: And I came out. I had finished my business early, and Dylan was out there dressed like a sketchy boat captain, you know, because the implication. And I just loved the New Dance House video. So kudos to you guys.

00:38:43
Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you, Adam. Yeah, we had to incorporate. By the way, we saw Seaton yesterday. He was he was doing some videos. He was in Aliquippa, pau So it was good to see him. But yeah, Dylan sitting in Seaton's chair, and we had to of reorganized the beginning of the show. All right, let's go around the room see if we learned anything. Todd, did you learn anything?

00:39:06
Speaker 4: I did?

00:39:06
Speaker 5: Jerome Bettis is a golfing friend named Pickle who went low and mistakenly tried to tackle him.

00:39:11
Speaker 2: Okay, Dylan, you learned anything today?

00:39:13
Speaker 6: We are in fact talking Pittsburgh.

00:39:15
Speaker 2: Dan oh man, uh, Paul, do you learn anything?

00:39:18
Speaker 3: I still don't want to tackle Jerome Bettett.

00:39:20
Speaker 2: No, but didn't you try years ago at the Super Bowl?

00:39:23
Speaker 5: Yeah?

00:39:24
Speaker 3: I think it was Indianapolis and he kind of instead of putting his shoulder on to me, he kind of whacked my arm away with his big club arm. Yeah, and it hurt for about a month.

00:39:32
Speaker 4: Marvin Fritzy's the funniest guy on the show.

00:39:35
Speaker 2: What did I learn?

00:39:36
Speaker 4: Todd?

00:39:37
Speaker 5: Ryan Windhorse and says no one on the planet knows right now if Wembley's going to play Friday Game three against Portland.