Hour 1 – Fritzy vs. Vegas, David Croft

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Speaker 2: Elevator, you're getting ready to go to work, and some people have already done some work and they're coming back home.

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Speaker 3: They have put in their work already, yes, Paul.

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Speaker 4: So we're heading to the set around four to ten am local time, and all the people coming in for F one just.

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Speaker 5: Got in yesterday and they're living it up last night.

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Speaker 4: So there's a bar just downstairs, and we walked by there at four ten am and there's people and I don't mean like six or ten, there's like forty or fifty people still going from last night.

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Speaker 5: I got to respect it.

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Speaker 2: Well, they probably on a different time zone, you know, well, you know they're probably on a few things, but uh, you know, that's that's Vegas.

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Speaker 3: It's festive.

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Speaker 2: It's just our nights usually end at eight, eight o'clock and there's just getting started probably around midnight or one in the morning. Beautiful people here, beautiful scene. Ran into a few beautiful people in the elevator this morning as well.

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Speaker 3: I did.

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Speaker 6: They weren't exactly pleased to see me, but yeah, yeah, I did. I ran into some beautiful Australian women in the uh in the elevator.

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Speaker 3: No, why wouldn't they want to see you?

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, it appeared that there had just been an incident slightly earlier, and they.

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Speaker 3: Were like still reacting to what had.

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Speaker 6: Just happened, you know, And then I sort of put myself into the middle of it.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you don't just wheeling my bag in here. Hello.

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Speaker 6: They had hit a bunch of the you know, in the elevator. They had clearly hit a bunch of the wrong floors. And so this one girl kept when the when the door opened and dinged for me, she went to get and her friends were like, not that one, and so she got back in. And then we went to the next floor and it opened up and nobody got on. She went to step out, not that one.

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Speaker 3: And then they.

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Speaker 6: Came out, and then by the time I got to get out on my floor, which still was not their floor, the girl I went to step out. The girl went to step out too, and they said not that one. And she looked at me and went, what the hell, man, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I didn't get on the buttons. Lady had no idea.

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Speaker 5: Yes, Baul, Yeah, And Marvin and I are walking down this morning.

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Speaker 4: I see a guy holding a beer waiting for the elevator, but it's like three elevators passed and he was just standing there with his beer, looking off into the distance.

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Speaker 5: Marvin saw a brawl, a light brawl.

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Speaker 7: I don't know if it was light, because one one girl was at the bar and the other one was on the casino floor and everybody about twenty feet away from each other.

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Speaker 8: And she was like get out here. Yeah, and I was like go time. Oh, there's go time, and she was ready.

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Speaker 7: She was like yup, passed a drink to her friend and they got it on.

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Speaker 4: And Dan, the thing is, we're completely sober. We all just took showers, so you see in a very different light.

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Speaker 3: Todd, how you feeling. We got rhyme time coming up a little bit later on good.

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Speaker 8: I've tried to understand.

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Speaker 9: Pauling referred to living it up, and maybe it's just I haven't lived that kind of lifestyle and priced out age wise.

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Speaker 10: But what does that entail the Vegas experience?

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Speaker 9: What would be a few items that would be considered that you lived it up last night?

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Speaker 2: Well, they have clubs, people stay out late, they drink, and they dance.

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Speaker 9: But there are a portion of those people. I think we could all agree that they think they're supposed to do that nothing. You know, and you try to convince yourself you're having a good time in some loud hysteria.

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Speaker 3: So this is Todd. So let me get this straight time.

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Speaker 6: The people who go to Las Vegas and only stay in their hotel room or doing it right, the people who go out and experience the city are the ones doing it wrong out of some weird forced pressure that you're supposed to go out.

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Speaker 5: In great summary, I.

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Speaker 10: Think there's a happy medium to that.

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Speaker 3: That I have Todd, you haven't been out of the building.

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Speaker 9: I have not been out of the bliding because the fountain Blue is so amazing. You don't have to leave the hotel.

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Speaker 3: You haven't been out of the room.

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Speaker 8: I'm here. This is good. He's for work.

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Speaker 3: That's for work, Todd.

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Speaker 8: I I just don't live. I guess that wild, crazy lifestyle that you guys live.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Paul, I think Seaton Summery was right on Todd thinks what he's doing is perfectly right. Todd missed his twenties. He never had a twenties where you make mistakes, you get roughed up, you go to Vegas and you make horrible decisions, you wrack up credit card debt. You know you questionable things happened to you, and then it goes away when you turn thirty five or forty.

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Speaker 5: He never had those years.

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Speaker 10: I didn't go away to college, so I did miss some of that.

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Speaker 3: You stayed in your room with your mom.

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Speaker 8: I did.

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Speaker 9: I loved that I had stayed in her room. But I grew up in an apartment. Then that's where I went to school.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Sorry, you're supposed to go out and see the town you're in. I guess I guess I'm the one wrong. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Sorry, you're supposed to go have to dinner?

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Speaker 2: And why are you making people in Vegas feel guilty that they're having a good time in living it up, Todd.

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Speaker 10: I just want to know what living it up in tails.

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Speaker 8: I'm just I just said, that's a fascinating phrase.

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Speaker 5: I think you're you're you've missed your window there, I think I had.

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Speaker 2: Alrighty, we're just getting started here. Once again, there's a few left turns here. We did go and watch the last couple of minutes of the football game Texans and the Bills last night. Great ending there, but I think it raises more questions about the Bills the Texans. The Texans got a great defense and Davis Mills has played really well. They were five and a half point underdogs, but a pass rush in November travels and no matter who the Texans are going to play, that defense is still going to be formidable. And they put They hit him twelve times, they sacked him eight times. And although the Bills had a chance there at the end, give credit to the Texans because they're six and five and it feels like everybody in the AFC is in it. I don't think there's any team where you go, they're the best team. This is why Vegas loves the Ravens and the Chiefs still, because nobody's going to run away with anything. Denver has been great with their record. But if you said the Chiefs are going to play the Broncos in the playoffs, people would still have the Chiefs favored in that game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Pauling.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And we're watching the Texans downstairs in the sports book last night, and it felt like the Bills could steal it. But Davis Mills, he's not very popular or anything like that, but he's a pretty high end backup. He's had a lot of starts and his career stats are pretty good. He just did enough and let the defense took over.

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Speaker 2: All right, So the Chexans over the Bills, Houston down six and five. Not a great weekend for college football. And the NFL, of course, is king no matter what the weekend is. And you have the Vegas Grand Prix. So the man they call Crofty will join us coming up a little bit. We'll discuss all the things, you know, the races, the history, everything that he covers here with Grand Prix Formula one. Seaton's pool question today.

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Speaker 6: Well, I'm actually formulating a topic right now just based on what we're talking about.

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Speaker 3: But technology that should exist, but doesn't you.

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Speaker 6: Should be able to get onto an elevator and when you press the wrong button, press it again and then you don't have to stop at the Wow. Now, there might be a security issue for that, like if you're stuck, if you're in an elevator and somebody is like, I'm gonna press the button and now you can't get off, that might be the reason it doesn't exist.

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Speaker 3: It's possible, but.

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Speaker 6: You usually have to use your key to make a change on there. I feel like you should be able to de select the button. All right, I'm gonna ask for more examples of technology that should exist that's like right there in front of us, but doesn't.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Paul, I'll keep this in the hotel realm realm. Like you know, when you get up in the middle of night and you could see nothing. What if just the minimum of light turned on in your hotel room to guide you to the bathroom. Now, a twenty percent light, it's sense that you got up. I'm sure some places have this, but I've never seen it before.

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Speaker 3: They have it here in the fountain below.

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Speaker 5: It recognizes that you got up.

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Speaker 6: No, they have the low yeah, the low setting, and they have the night light in the bathroom.

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Speaker 4: But that see, that's you know Fritzy was almost killed a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 3: That's that's true, almost tragically died in an hotel.

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Speaker 8: Actually love the nightlight though, that's perfect. And I love the drapes.

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Speaker 9: And I was playing with those buns, I know, while you guys were at having fancy steak dinners and living it up with the clubs, whatever you were doing, I'm pressing the button and the things the drapes.

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Speaker 8: A you're not going to I want to go.

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Speaker 10: I'm just saying I do like all the buns of the drapes opening and closing.

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Speaker 9: We've stayed at a number of hotels on the lad that don't have all these cool amenities, and I.

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Speaker 10: Just got to kick out of pressing those buttons.

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Speaker 8: So I had a nice view of the sphere and the whole strip.

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Speaker 3: There and how how old are you? Then I'd like a leathern like you?

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Speaker 8: What nine?

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Speaker 3: You pressed the buttons?

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Speaker 8: Can? I closed it?

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Speaker 9: And then I took a little video of Wow, the drapes would open and close and open and close.

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Speaker 10: How many chances you get to stay at a hotel woul drapes open?

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Speaker 6: And then, in an effort of not letting this go for two seconds is Todd brought it back up again. If I was to ask a pole question of living it up in Vegas means dot dot dot going out and seeing the town or pressing the drapes button in your room.

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Speaker 3: How do we think that, uh pole question is going to fair?

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Speaker 10: You'll be surprised.

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Speaker 3: I think the twenty seven Yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 7: Fritzy's like mcaullay colchin at home alone too, where he gets into the plaza and starts jumping around and taking the food, eating the m and MS.

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Speaker 2: Fritzy is eleven. Yeah, how old was Calley mccachin eleven?

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Speaker 5: What's what was his name?

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Speaker 3: Colley mccacchyin. M Hey, I'm still on MAD. I'm still on Mad.

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Speaker 10: Here, So Fritzy had no excuse, then you're on Mad.

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Speaker 3: Nolly McCall's money.

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 6: I can't even remember what his real name is, because here's Colley mccauchyin.

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Speaker 10: I was frighted from the nineteen twenties.

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Speaker 3: Was that the Falkland Island.

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Speaker 2: It's McCaulay, c U l k I n or McCaulay, mcauchin, hearing Culkin, McCaulay, McCaulay, McCaulay mccachy calling Mike Cochin.

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Speaker 3: Alrighty the funny Todd, I blame you.

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Speaker 8: That is definitely my flat I rails any.

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Speaker 3: Other pole questions there. Yeah, we're working on the most I got to clean up our act before Michael Douglas gets here. Yes, okay, give it a shot. We'll give it a shot. Okay, you got another pole question.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm working on a most must win NFL game. He's ahead a little bit to a segment.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a big weekend for Chiefs. Chiefs act Coults. That is a monster game. Uh, the Eagles at Cowboys. This is a massively must win game for the Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: Okay, can you remember and we should see if there's any research the most attention attached to a game that featured two teams this late in the season who had four total wins, the Raiders and the Browns, and the attention that that game will get not only watching it, but the fallout of all of the games this weekend that might get more fallout when it comes to Monday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, PAULI and Brown's at Raiders is in the late window on Sunday, so there's only three other games going with it's a late game.

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Speaker 5: It is.

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Speaker 2: Oh I thought I saw it yesterday as all one o'clock, and I thought, I think he.

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Speaker 5: May I think he might be right.

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Speaker 4: I think they may have flexed it down to a better time slot to get more eyeballs, because when we looked at this a week ago, I thought it was a one o'clock Eastern game to.

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Speaker 5: All check for.

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Speaker 4: Right now, it's a four or five Eastern game and it's going up. Here's what's going up against. Well, it's going up against Eagles, Cowboys, Jaguars, Cardinals, Falcon, Saints.

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Speaker 5: So really only Eagles Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's gonna dominate. Yes, that'll dominant.

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Speaker 5: But people are gonna peak if they can.

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Speaker 2: If that game is, oh I, everybody's gonna at least sample it. They're gonna be curious about Shador Sanders. Now he's getting the first team reps. How he's gonna perform against the Raiders.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Marvin and the Raiders are basa, that's trash and Spanish, and if he doesn't play well against them, they're gonna be like, he's not an NFL quarterback because this is probably the worst defense in the league.

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Speaker 8: As you'll last week against the Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great point. But you know, I'm curious how well he plays. They're going to give him a Now, is Dylan Gabriel not healthy? Is that why he's in the protocol?

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Speaker 10: He is?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this isn't a start based off performance, It's a start based off the depth chart.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all right, So the Texans sacked Josh Allen eight times. That's the most he's been sacked in a single game.

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Speaker 3: And the eight sacks matched a franchise record for the Texans.

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Speaker 2: Also, Kaylon Bullock, the safety, he was great. He forced three turnovers last night. Also that hook and ladder, that was great. The hook and ladder. You know, they got in a first down. What was at fourth and twenty seven they converted, had a chance, yeah, Paul.

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Speaker 4: And the very last play of the game, the last offensive play for the Bills, they threw a pass and was intercepted. And then the flag comes down and we're all set at the sports book and nowhere reacts more than a sports book because it's life or death of the people sitting there, and we thought it was a bailout flag for Josh Allen and went the other way.

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Speaker 2: As OPI, well, we're in this sports book and I'm sitting close to Mario and Mario said, you know, I got a bet, and I thought he was betting on the game last night, and I said, well, what'd you bet? And he had somebody giving writer forty two points checking. I don't know who they played, but I I you know, I don't like to sit next to people who are gambling because they're squirming and then all of a sudden you're invested in the outcome.

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Speaker 3: So we're watching the final two minutes of Rider. Who they playing, Paul?

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Speaker 4: It was the Rider Broncos coming in at one in three at the number two in the country, Houston Cougars that were four and oh the line was forty five points. The final score ninety one forty five Houston. That's a one point cover by your rider Broncos.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He was celebrating then, you know, like that he had won the Super Bowl. He said, how much do you win? He goes thirty dollars and I go, don't do that to me.

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Speaker 3: Yes time.

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Speaker 10: So once again, we've talked about this many times.

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Speaker 9: How did it come up with that number for a game like that and get it so exact for.

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Speaker 3: It's just impossible, which not impossible they do it?

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Speaker 9: How do they consistently do that and not make us start wandering and wondering a little bit about how that is not slightly manipulated once in a while manipulated?

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Speaker 8: Does that never cross your mind at all?

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Speaker 9: A forty five points brand and it ends in a forty six point difference.

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Speaker 2: In business, they're just doing their job. Well, this their their business depends on I understand.

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Speaker 9: But you can know everything about computers and put in all the formulas and everything. That just seems almost impossible to be that consistent with the points.

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Speaker 4: Yes, they're looking at home and away, they're looking at scoring per averages per game, and they pick the best number where they can get money on both sides of the bet.

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Speaker 5: That's how it works out. They're not fixing the game because they don't have any power to do any No.

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Speaker 9: I know it's not fixed, but it's amazing for you come up with a number of forty five points and it ends in a forty six point difference.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but they didn't get the Texans game right.

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Speaker 10: No, but all too often.

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Speaker 9: Yet to have it within a half a point in like weird lacrosse games or something.

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Speaker 8: Is that?

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Speaker 3: Come on, you are mister Vegas. You know that they are mister Vegas.

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Speaker 10: Got time someone recognize me.

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Speaker 3: Nobody lives it up like you live it up.

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Speaker 9: I had my drinks and my kitkats and my snickers from my little snack area brought up to the room.

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Speaker 8: I was good to go.

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Speaker 3: How about we take a break here, take a break? Just getting started here, David Croft, who covers Formula one for Sky Sports. Join.

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Speaker 5: To go out all of a sudden.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, well you'll take a break. We're back after this on The Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 5: Good to see you, see crafty as they like.

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Speaker 3: To call you. How are you, I'm good, I'm good.

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Speaker 2: So explain this how this exploded in the United States? When and how did Formula one all of a sudden become important in our lives.

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Speaker 12: I'll take you back to two thousand and five, June the nineteenth, two thousand and five, my birthday, which is why I remember this day, and it was one of the worst days in Formula one history because that was when we raced at Indianapolis with only six cars. If you remember, the cars withdrew on the formation lap because the tires, the mission and tires weren't holding out and.

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Speaker 8: We hit a new low.

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Speaker 12: And since then formula one has been right, how do we give back to the American public and actually make this sport a bit more accessible in such a great country. And so first and foremost Liberty Media, when they got the commercial Rise, decided we needed more races in the States and we needed to move away it from Indianapolis, which is great and the Indy five hundred, it is a marvelous event. But let's have another track, and let's have a track that we can really call our own Cota Circuit of the Americas.

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Speaker 8: In Austin.

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Speaker 12: I know, if you guys have ever been to Austin, you look like you've partied in Austin just a.

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Speaker 8: Couple of times. Not yourself, Dan, you know you've got to bed early.

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Speaker 12: Yes, you're in charge, right, Yes, So we go and party in Austin, and everyone comes to Austin because it's a racist track.

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Speaker 8: It's a brilliant circuit.

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Speaker 12: The fans love it, and we pack out and take over Austin for the US Grand Prix.

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Speaker 8: But that's not enough.

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Speaker 12: We need glamour, we need a bit of sex appeal. We go to Miami, where all the cool people hang out. Yeah yeah, where Marvin hangs out, right, but not yourself down because you go to bed early. And then we think, right, okay, that's cool. We've got East Coast sorted out, we've got Texas sorted out.

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Speaker 8: We've probably need another race.

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Speaker 12: And where would you want to go and race in the States if you've already got the best of the best. Where you go to Las Vegas right where we know you come a pasty And that's why you're here this weekend.

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Speaker 8: And we're not going to be you don't know, there's too.

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Speaker 3: Much to me and Pitbull. We're not going to bed, just letting you know.

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Speaker 8: Okay, do we all get an invite to that one?

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Speaker 3: You've got tickets for everyone Friday night?

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Speaker 12: Friday night Pitbull, yeah, yeah, yeah and me and the boys yeah done.

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Speaker 8: Yeah. Before then, of course we're going qualifying.

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Speaker 12: And you see the cars racing down the strip and it's absolutely amazing under the lights in Vegas. The sphere looks fantastic, The strip looks all lit up, and it just shows off f one to be the biggest and the best motor sport out there, which I think it is.

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Speaker 8: Now couple with that we've got drive to survive. We've sold the soap opera.

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Speaker 12: You know, we used to say come for the live sport and stay around for the soap opera.

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Speaker 8: Now here's the soap opera hanging around for the live sport. And the soap opera is often as good as the live sport.

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Speaker 2: But for that really, I think the Drive to Survive that feeling of because I didn't know how much drama there was behind scenes. Yeah, what money changing teams, girlfriend's wives, somebody's a star, somebody's no longer a star.

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Speaker 12: You take the most extreme competition and a lot of money and the most competitive people on the planet, and you're going to have a soap opera that rivals Days of Our Lives, Dynasty, Dallas. I don't know what other soap operas are around.

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Speaker 8: These days, but you know, it all comes together and it's real as well. And Drive to.

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Speaker 12: Survives has brought in a new audience, a younger audience, and one of the reasons I think it's taking off of the States is that is that now you can see a lot more races in your time zone over here, but now more female fans are coming to the sport, more younger fans are coming to the sport as well.

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Speaker 8: And personally it's been great.

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Speaker 12: I've gone from arriving for graen Pries in the past of the States when no one has known what f one is let alone who we are to now be called out by the guy at passport Controls saying hey, crafty, how are you.

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Speaker 8: Doing, which is just fantastic. You know, I love this and thank you very much to the Dallas customs officers.

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Speaker 3: Any any issues with celebrities when you're working the.

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Speaker 8: Races, Well, issues with celebrities, would you mean.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, somebody difficult doesn't want to be talked to leave?

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, all the time, to be fair.

00:21:36
Speaker 12: But Martin Brundle, the man who stands alongside me and who does the most magnificent grid walks, he's the guy that gets rejected by the celebrities or he bumps into Machine Gun Kelly, who doesn't quite know what day of the week it is.

00:21:48
Speaker 8: Let alone who is meant to be talking to in that respect.

00:21:51
Speaker 12: It's a real shame because I'm a big fan of Machine Gun Kelly and gave Martin a whole load of questions, and I think the celebrities that come on the grid by and large are very good to be honest, and they give freely of their time to have a chat. Martin was once told, yeah, Daniel Craig, James Bond is on the grid. Don't talk to James Bond. He doesn't want to talk. So Martin, being Martin, went straight up to James Bond and had a chat. And James Bond went, hey, Martin, how are you doing in there? Because Martin Brundle is bigger than James Bond, way more real, really, yeah, seriously, he knows everybody in this sport.

00:22:25
Speaker 2: Well, if I'm Martin, I walk up to Daniel Craig and say, hey, I'm not supposed to talk to you.

00:22:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm Martin Brung.

00:22:31
Speaker 8: Like that's yeah exactly.

00:22:33
Speaker 3: And Dan you're seven, I'm all eight.

00:22:36
Speaker 8: And they both drove and aston Martin at that time.

00:22:39
Speaker 3: Is it how much is the car? How much of it is the driver?

00:22:43
Speaker 12: I don't know how much? How much is you Dan? And how much is your team?

00:22:47
Speaker 3: Probably sixty forty.

00:22:49
Speaker 8: What in their favor? Yeah, okay, that's that's very honest. You see why he's such a good boss. God, I like this.

00:22:55
Speaker 12: I would say you can have the best driver on the planet. But if you if you give him a donkey, he's not going to go and win. So you need a massive technical team to produce something that allows the drivers to show off.

00:23:10
Speaker 8: Their superhuman skills. You're not going to win a Super Bowl.

00:23:13
Speaker 12: If you've got the best quarterback, you're going to need the best defense to go with it as well. On that subject, come on the Bears. I am a big Chicago Bears fan. I just want to say seven to three?

00:23:22
Speaker 8: Who saw that?

00:23:23
Speaker 3: Wait? Why are you a Bears fan?

00:23:26
Speaker 8: Because I'm old? Right?

00:23:27
Speaker 3: Oh? Is this the eighties here?

00:23:30
Speaker 12: When I first started watching Ye we Go, when I first started watching American football, the fridge was his pride.

00:23:39
Speaker 13: Yeah.

00:23:40
Speaker 3: So pay is from Chicago. Yeah, yeah, Pauli's from Chicago.

00:23:43
Speaker 4: Everyone I meet from Britain, Great Britain. They watched the Bears in the eighties on BBC and then it went away, and so you only really knew the Bears and a few other teams.

00:23:51
Speaker 12: Yeah, and I still only know the Bears are a couple of other teams. Do you know what I want? This is one of the highlights of my career. I'm going to go off script here. When I got asked to commentate on the Super Bowl and I had to miss a race when my eldest son was born. And my bosses when I worked for the BBC said, roll, if you're going to miss a race, you either take a pacer or go and do the super Bowl instead of a race. I'm like, yeah, I'll do the super Bowl, thank very much. And it was the Miami Super Bowl. When Prince played the halftime show, I went devon hes to return the kickoff, Yeah, and I went absolutely.

00:24:23
Speaker 3: Ballistic And that was your highlight?

00:24:25
Speaker 8: Was that was as poorly and I.

00:24:28
Speaker 12: Remember it didn't get any better on that and my co componated said, yeah, crafty, that's really good, but we've got four hours of this made you want might want to pace yourself a little bit. That was fabulous, but no, you have you have teams upwards of a thousand people back at base designing a car, building a car, simulating that car, even going so far as to getting bits of tarmac from the tracks and putting it on on a machine backup base, and then running tires on that machine so they can simulate how the interaction between the time over the tarmac goes. To give them a chance when they come to Vegas. That's the level that they go to. They build engines as well, with the marketing, the commercial thousands of people involved in making two cars go as fast as they can from A to B and then the drivers get all the credit at the end of the year. But some people follow teams. Some people follow you know, drivers. If you follow a team, that team is always going to be there for you. If you follow a driver, they can move. You could be a big Mercedes fan and now having to go and buy some red for Ferrari.

00:25:29
Speaker 8: You know, if you're if you want to.

00:25:30
Speaker 2: Go and cheer on Lewis Hamilton, he's David craft Crafty Sky Sports Formula One commentator. You know, you look in the cockpit of these cars and I was curious the heights. I think there's a driver might be five to three. Ali Burman might be six to two.

00:25:46
Speaker 8: Yeah, what are you six three?

00:25:49
Speaker 3: Yeah? I used to be, so I'm not. I'm kind of Oli Burman.

00:25:53
Speaker 8: Yeah you are.

00:25:54
Speaker 12: You could just about fit in. You're kind of spulting up. Yeah, you could do it poorly, I think. Yeah, not a bad size.

00:26:03
Speaker 3: Marvin, Yeah, what about Fritzy.

00:26:05
Speaker 8: Fritzy you're with me? Fritzy on the sidelines.

00:26:11
Speaker 3: Seaton Seaton, I think about five or eleven, yeah, with downforce, with down force, yea, yeah.

00:26:16
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah. So I actually drove three.

00:26:18
Speaker 12: Laps once in the Formula one car. It's one of the best experiences of my life. How first, I went one hundred and seventy five down the straight.

00:26:27
Speaker 3: But what are they going to do here in Vegas?

00:26:29
Speaker 12: Top speed top speed qualifying two to twenty one miles an hour down the straight and then but it's the stopping distance that first gets you. So they'll they'll hit the brakes at one hundred meters before the corner at the T sixteen and they will scrub off two twenty one down to about seventy, so one hundred and fifty miles an hour in one hundred meters, and you feel that when you're strapped into the cockpit. And then your cornering speed as well, where you'll go through a corner like a fast right hander and a hundred and eighty miles an hour and the car just sticks to the road, and it's just phenomenal. It's one of the most glorious experiences. But I remember sitting in the car and they kind of they strapped me in. They said, right, okay, Crafty, can it you just go a bit lower for us?

00:27:12
Speaker 8: I yeah, okay, go a bit low. Yeah, we need to go a bit lower, Crofting.

00:27:18
Speaker 12: Crafty, we need to go a little bit lower than that's, guys, I'm going to be singing boy soprano for the rest of my life if I go any lower, because you've got the belts between the between your legs and stuff.

00:27:27
Speaker 8: And it was kind of it was like if you're on a roller coaster at New York New York.

00:27:31
Speaker 12: You know, when you're trapped in beforehand and you just can't move, but when when you get going, you just feel free and you feel part of the car, and it's just a phenomenal experience. If you ever get the chance, do say yes.

00:27:43
Speaker 3: The a Formula one movie with Brad Pitt. You're in it.

00:27:46
Speaker 8: Yeah, I am okay, type cast? But did you the commentation?

00:27:49
Speaker 3: Did you you know that's a stretch? Did you Okay?

00:27:53
Speaker 2: This is where you know, if we have a football movie or a basketball you know, we we're always going, well, could they really play you know, like white men can't jump with Wesley Snipes and we're like, I don't know. How did Formula one view the Formula One moving with Brad Pitt.

00:28:10
Speaker 12: Well, Formula one opened the doors and said, right, we'll give you the biggest access, the best access. Come and make a movie about our sport that sells our sport. It's another factor in the growth of the sport that people have seen this and now want to watch it live. And they made as real a Formula one movie as they possibly could, with a little bit of Hollywood sprinkled in to that. Martin and myself we did nineteen hours a voiceover and commentary for this, and I remember having a chat to Joe Kazinski, the director, who's a fabulous director to work for.

00:28:44
Speaker 8: Whatever you do is always brilliant, and then he gets you to do it his way.

00:28:50
Speaker 3: That was perfect. Now do it again exactly.

00:28:52
Speaker 12: Yeah, and we'll do it again and again until you do it my way and you'll still think it's your way, but that he just brought the best of Aldam Martin.

00:29:00
Speaker 3: Did you meet Brad Pitt eventually?

00:29:02
Speaker 12: Yes, So I went to the whole filming process not meeting Brad Pitt at all, and then saw him on the red carpet in New York, now New York Times Square. You know, thousands of fans and all the displays have got the f or movie around it. And I'm still talking to Lewis Hamilton, two boys from Stephen. It's going, oh, this is just insane.

00:29:22
Speaker 3: So you're from the same hometown as Lewis Hamilton.

00:29:25
Speaker 12: I am the second fastest man from Stevenage and always will be and this one and he's he can have that on it because he's the greatest we've ever seen in this sport.

00:29:32
Speaker 3: Lewis Hamilton's greatest driver of all time for me.

00:29:34
Speaker 12: Yeah, he's a seven time world champion, should be an eight time world champion.

00:29:38
Speaker 3: Abba Dabby Turu, Starvin can't catch him in your mind for staff and could for this Jordan versus Lebron Yeah.

00:29:46
Speaker 12: I think if Max, for Staffen has a car that can give him a championship challenge, he is more than good enough to get to seven, eight or nine. You know, he is an exceptional talent. Lewis has gone and done it.

00:30:00
Speaker 3: So you're blaming the car here this year?

00:30:02
Speaker 12: Yeah, this year Max has driven superbly well and has not always got the results he deserve because.

00:30:07
Speaker 8: The car's just not been there for him.

00:30:08
Speaker 12: He finished minute off the pace in Hungary and finished down an eighth and then RedBull kind of got their act together a little bit after the summer break and he started winning again, by which time, sadly, you know that the championship I think it's a bit too far away from him, but Lewis to me.

00:30:24
Speaker 8: It is the greatest, not just for what he's.

00:30:26
Speaker 12: Done on the track, but for the way he has used his platform to highlight issues that need highlighting. That we are Formula one, so we compete and we interact as one, and we allow everybody from all corners of the globe, whoever they are, race, creed, color, you know, sex, religion, whatever, if you're good enough, come to Formula one, And he has used his platform for that, and that has been brilliant to see how he has gone from a young man with an exceptional talent to a more mature man, still with an exceptional talent, but a social conscience that I'd like to see more of our star athletes around the world have, you know, and not just our star athletes, you have politicians and celebrities as well. You know, we've all got a voice and we should use it for good. But to go back to Brad Pitt, who, by the way, is one of the nicest men on the planet as well. We met up on the red carpet and I've still re Martin. I said, come on, we're gonna go and get selfie with Brad Pitt. Why, I said, because I haven't met him yet and you have. He said, he's busy. I said, don't care. We're in the film and movie stars. This is the only chance I'm ever going to get to do this. So we walked up to Brad and I went, hey, Brad, sorry, I'm crafty, Sorry to bother you. Hey, crafty men, how you doing. I'm like, Brad, no, so I A, this is great man. You legitimize everything we do. I said, well, that's very nice. I have no idea what it means, but it sounds good. And we had a selfie and it was really lovely. Fast forward and this was the best bit about being in the movie. Fast forward a week and I'm on the red carpet now at the London premiere and I took my son. My youngest study was sixteen. It just finished exams. So come on, you've done really well. Here's a little prezzy. We're going to go to the premiere. Okay, So we were on the Red Cup. We met Tate McCray, which was really nice. He was ever the sweet and did a little video for our daughter. We were going to go see a concert the next day with to see Saint mccran and we saw some access from the movie and I said, right, okay, we're going to go in, but do you want to see anyone else?

00:32:18
Speaker 8: He said, who else?

00:32:19
Speaker 2: Can?

00:32:19
Speaker 8: We say?

00:32:20
Speaker 12: Brad's over there. I see Brad if you want. And he's like, you don't know Brad Pitt. Of course I know Brad Pitt. I'm going a movie with him. Son, you don't know Brad Pitt, you've never met. I said, right, we're going to go and see Brad Pitt.

00:32:31
Speaker 8: He's a mate. I'm thinking I've met Brad once.

00:32:33
Speaker 4: Here.

00:32:33
Speaker 14: This could go horribly wrong, right, So we walked over and he just finished an in and I said, Brad, how's it going? And he spun righting it crafty, oh man, what did you think of the film? At which point my son now thinks, yeah, Dad knows Brad Pitt.

00:32:49
Speaker 8: So we have a bit of chat.

00:32:50
Speaker 15: So one, by the way, says my son, this is James Brad, Brad, James ah Crafty junior can't give us a hug, and so James, my son is now hugging Brad right.

00:33:00
Speaker 8: And I have got more Dad points out of that than anything I've ever done in my career. That was just mega.

00:33:05
Speaker 3: So you're all in favor of F one two?

00:33:08
Speaker 8: Yeah, well F two it should be called F two F two Yeah, the sequel should be.

00:33:15
Speaker 12: And I've already told Joe because it's good this so if it comes up, you heard it here first or second, it should be fast forward eighteen years and.

00:33:24
Speaker 8: Brad's and Kerry I've had the relationship.

00:33:27
Speaker 12: I've had a daughter, and the daughter is excelling in carts and junior formula and is now ready for Formula one. And we'll see, you know, Brad and Carey's daughter go and tackle formula one and see what happens. That would be my sequel. Pleasure to meet you and you my friend. Thank you for stopping by.

00:33:43
Speaker 8: It's been great.

00:33:44
Speaker 3: Don't screw up this weekend. Okay, do you know what I got?

00:33:50
Speaker 12: I got hairs on my arm stood up when he said that because he meant it, didn't they, Yeah, absolutely meant that.

00:33:56
Speaker 3: He's David Kraft.

00:33:57
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00:34:06
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00:34:24
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00:34:42
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00:34:44
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00:34:47
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00:34:57
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00:35:17
Speaker 8: Hey? Thank you? Dan?

00:35:18
Speaker 5: You have two things for it.

00:35:19
Speaker 16: You know, I'm with Ross Tucker. I think, like many NFL fans, I'm so conditioned to thinking, no matter what happens in the regular season, the AFC Championship Game will consist of Casey, Buffalo or Baltimore and teams like New England and India or Fools Gold. And this year doesn't feel any different. And off of Sunday's Cowboys, Phill these games man with that cowboy offense, especially George Pickens, it feels like all their defense has to do is make maybe four stops and they're in great shape.

00:35:48
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:35:48
Speaker 2: I agree, And you throw Quinn Williams in there, and you know, maybe they can get an average defense. They have an above average offense. They all they need is an average defense and they could make things really competitive.

00:36:00
Speaker 3: Rest to this season. Thank you, Chris. Mike in Hollywood, Hey Mike, what's on your mind today?

00:36:06
Speaker 13: Hey Dan? What's going on? Hook You enjoying Vegas?

00:36:08
Speaker 12: Oh?

00:36:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, as only we can. We live it up like nobody else in Vegas.

00:36:13
Speaker 13: Well, Actually, that's my point. What I'm getting to here is, I mean, you know, I love me some Fritz Deyvin. Listening to the show a long time. I'm workshopping a character today called Todd Fritz Las Vegas Passpole. So I'm thinking that he's figuring out other ways to keep other people from having fun in Las Vegas. He's standing in the doorway of the elevator saying, go around me. He's walking slowly through the casino. He's standing in front of the crap table. Won't let you put your bet down. He's standing in front of the slot machine. Ultimately, he gets in his car and sits in front of the task. He stand and won't let anybody leave and go enjoy the city.

00:36:48
Speaker 3: Wow, Okay, that's Todd Fritz's pencil.

00:36:51
Speaker 9: I have no interest in interfigure with anybody's good time. I was just playing off of living it up because I'm not that type. But everyone should enjoy themselves. I wouldn't get no way.

00:36:58
Speaker 2: I've kind of made people feel guilty, or you tried to that people were living it up.

00:37:03
Speaker 8: No.

00:37:03
Speaker 10: One of my point is I'm teasing.

00:37:04
Speaker 8: There's always there's a certain group of people. I've been there before with friends.

00:37:06
Speaker 9: When I went to clubs when I was in like my twenties, where you feel like you're supposed to go start.

00:37:11
Speaker 3: You didn't go to the dance clubs.

00:37:13
Speaker 8: I didn't.

00:37:14
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm going to throw the flash.

00:37:15
Speaker 8: I was home by like midnight. I went to like the early evening and then I got back Boato before.

00:37:19
Speaker 3: What was the club you went to?

00:37:21
Speaker 10: There was Escapes in Merrick, Long Island, Merrick log Island.

00:37:25
Speaker 8: Yeah, that was a big one.

00:37:26
Speaker 3: You live in the city, you live in Brooklyn.

00:37:28
Speaker 10: We went to Long Island.

00:37:29
Speaker 9: My friend Jason had this cuisine car with his Denzi box and his little Monty Carlo and we go check out the Chicago's and Lodi, New Jersey.

00:37:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes see what is a Cujean car?

00:37:42
Speaker 8: Cuisine?

00:37:42
Speaker 9: Like the like the he dress up like a Guido in your Sham's le Baron's shirt and your Puka shells and your your gold chains and all, and the act like you know, you're a tough Italian guy.

00:37:52
Speaker 10: Where they were called Cuijine's in Brooklyn.

00:37:54
Speaker 3: Are you allowed to describe the people like that? You're not Italian, I know, but I.

00:37:58
Speaker 8: Wanted to be.

00:37:58
Speaker 9: I aspired all the girls like the Italian guys, not the Jewish nebushy guys.

00:38:03
Speaker 10: You wanted to be the cool Italian guy and hanging out in front of the pizza place.

00:38:07
Speaker 3: Yes, Paul.

00:38:08
Speaker 4: To be fair, if you see pictures of Fritzy at age twenty to twenty four with the hair and the chains and the tan, he does look Italian.

00:38:15
Speaker 5: He could pass.

00:38:16
Speaker 8: I wanted to be like them. I aspired to.

00:38:18
Speaker 10: That's why I started going to the gym, and I'm like, I gotta look like these guys.

00:38:21
Speaker 1: This is with their hairdos and.

00:38:22
Speaker 8: They're they're waiting their bodybuilding. All the girls wanted those guys.

00:38:26
Speaker 3: You kind of wanted to be stallone.

00:38:28
Speaker 9: I kind of did, Yeah, stallone that memorized the prey on the table of the elements I start.

00:38:32
Speaker 8: I had the academics, but I also wanted to be the cool kids.

00:38:35
Speaker 3: To David in Los Angeles, Good morning, David.

00:38:38
Speaker 17: Good morning, gentlemen. I wanted to add to yesterday's pantheon of movies, which racing and rodeo themes, starting with and I know this is going to date me. The nineteen sixty six picture Grand Prix sit against the backdrop of the iconic Monaco Grand Prix directed by John Frankenheimer and it was co produced by Michael Douglas's father, Kirk, and it took home a few oscars. And then there was the nineteen seventy one movie Lamont starring Steve McQueen, and he played a great existential character in that one. But Paulie, as far as bull riding goes, I insist you pull up a little known film made in twenty seventeen. I think it's a contemporary western called The Rider, directed by Chloe Jao, and this is absolutely the most authentic film about rodeo riders as was ever made. And it features members of the Lakota Sooutrot and you play actual versions of themselves. This is really an unvarnished glimpse into the way of life of riders and it's really riveting. I hope you get a chance to look at it.

00:39:45
Speaker 4: Well.

00:39:46
Speaker 3: Thank you, David, Thank you for those suggestions.

00:39:48
Speaker 1: Eric.

00:39:48
Speaker 3: We were talking about great racing movies and surfing movies, and you know bull riding movies a genre. Yeah, yeah, of course we got on that top against paul.

00:40:00
Speaker 4: You know, going back to what you were saying about the Texans and their safety, Kaylen Bullock. Yeah, I went back and looked because I remembered his name. He was part of the Deshaun Watson trade when they traded Deshaun Watson. When they dumped Deshaun Watson to the Browns, the Texans got three first round picks, two fourth round picks, and two third round picks. Among those players, they got back Will Anderson Junior, one of the best pass rushers in the league, Kayln Bullock one of the best safeties in the league. Tank Dell a very good wide receiver. He's had injuries. But they got five starters still off that trade.

00:40:34
Speaker 5: Wow, the gift that keeps on good. That's underrated.

00:40:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, a lot of signs.

00:40:39
Speaker 2: We don't follow up with, Oh, they got, you know, three first round picks, But then we don't, you know, we kind of move on from what exactly did they You get rid of Watson and you get all of those players, and you get C. J.

00:40:50
Speaker 3: Stroud.

00:40:51
Speaker 2: One hour in the books on this meet Friday. Yes, we have meat on the way here. It'll be early early steak. Well, when is too early for stake. We will have Michael Douglas stopping by as well. We'll settle on a poll question as well. It's our one in the books. Two more to go living it up in Las Vegas is only the Dan Patrick Show. Can Fritzie Seat and Marv Paula yours truly our two after this