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Speaker 1:
[00:00] You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2:
[00:04] I'd still dress for Pittsburgh, you know, maybe 50 degrees, probably at draft time. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3:
[00:12] Dan, I've got high of 74.
Speaker 2:
[00:13] Well, when the draft starts.
Speaker 3:
[00:15] Correct. Low of 49, but that's late night. I'm saying draft time, 60 degrees.
Speaker 2:
[00:20] Oh, okay. Yes, Todd.
Speaker 4:
[00:23] And make sure you have a ticket. You're not going to be able to sneak in. I took a walk the other day around, try to get close to the same, just to take some pictures from my phone and this black fencing all the way around, blocking the NFL experience. You can't get anywhere near the stadium. So don't try to show up unless you want to scale the fence like Spider-Man or something. Just wanted to give you a little note of...
Speaker 2:
[00:41] Thank you, Todd.
Speaker 4:
[00:41] It's important.
Speaker 2:
[00:42] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[00:43] You can't go closer to the stadium.
Speaker 2:
[00:46] We're on the air.
Speaker 1:
[00:46] Oh, I thought we were going to come up for a break.
Speaker 4:
[00:49] I got right at PNC Park. I was right there.
Speaker 2:
[00:51] Oh, I was dying for a pirate game yesterday, like a one o'clock game. God, that would have been awesome.
Speaker 4:
[00:58] The Penguins went on the road that just finished Monday night. Now they're going to Philly just in time for us not to be able to go to a Penguin's game.
Speaker 2:
[01:05] They were here the other night.
Speaker 4:
[01:06] I know. Monday night was at Game 2, but now the rest of the series over the next few days, they're in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2:
[01:10] You were not going to a Penguin game.
Speaker 4:
[01:12] I would have totally gone to a Penguin game, but we first got in Monday night and that's when you think Game 2 was. Now the series shifts to Philadelphia, which is not exactly across the street from here.
Speaker 2:
[01:20] 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 that?
Speaker 3:
[01:29] No, and it's been a long time thing with Steelers, Penguins, Pirates. William Pitt, he developed the city of Pittsburgh, obviously, 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 gold 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 in the day. But then the Steelers initially went black and gold. Pirates followed suit in the 60s, I think.
Speaker 2:
[02:02] Okay. Yes, Billy.
Speaker 5:
[02:04] So if an NBA team were to come to town, do they shake things up or they stick in with black and gold?
Speaker 2:
[02:10] Can you check and see if the Pittsburgh Condors, were their colors black and gold? They were an ABA team. Pittsburgh Condors.
Speaker 3:
[02:22] Yeah, ABA. I have them. No, it's kind of like this red and gold and white. Yeah, they look almost like the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 5:
[02:32] Or like old hawks jersey.
Speaker 2:
[02:33] Okay. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 6:
[02:34] That's why they didn't survive.
Speaker 5:
[02:35] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2:
[02:36] They had black and gold. They would have. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3:
[02:38] 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 have to brand themselves separate from the Steelers.
Speaker 2:
[02:49] But Iowa didn't separate themselves from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3:
[02:52] No, Iowa uniforms are almost directly what Pittsburgh Steelers use.
Speaker 2:
[02:56] But then did Delaware take Michigan or did Michigan take Delaware?
Speaker 3:
[03:00] I actually found this out last week. Princeton had the flared helmets first, then Delaware second, then Michigan hijacked them much later.
Speaker 2:
[03:09] Okay.
Speaker 3:
[03:10] Back to you.
Speaker 2:
[03:10] Yeah, I like Princeton's helmets though. Yes, Todd.
Speaker 4:
[03:13] Is there any local sensitivity to sing black and gold versus black and yellow? Can they interchange? I don't know if there's any. I'm being serious. Is there a local sensitivity? We're saying black and gold, but isn't there a black and yellow song like Wiz Khalifa and some people called it? Look at you.
Speaker 3:
[03:27] Okay.
Speaker 4:
[03:29] I'm dropping some knowledge.
Speaker 5:
[03:30] A man of culture.
Speaker 3:
[03:31] I'm dropping knowledge.
Speaker 2:
[03:33] Don't you have a song for us today?
Speaker 4:
[03:35] I do have a song. There was a song by Terry Cashman, a baseball song called Talkin Baseball. It just came to me. I don't want to tell you where it came to me, but I was in disposed and I was just kind of doing some business. And I'm like, I started humming to myself.
Speaker 2:
[03:48] You don't have to tell me that.
Speaker 4:
[03:49] But I want to share with you.
Speaker 2:
[03:50] We're close.
Speaker 4:
[03:50] I could share with you.
Speaker 7:
[03:51] No, I don't need to know everything.
Speaker 4:
[03:53] I'm in Pittsburgh, and I just started typing things on my phone while I'm doing my business.
Speaker 2:
[03:57] How long is this song?
Speaker 4:
[03:59] It's two pages, but I could sing it really fast. I wrote about like a dozen verses, but it won't be long.
Speaker 2:
[04:05] It won't be horrible. Business was taking a while here for you to...
Speaker 4:
[04:07] It is, and you get hemorrhoids when you sit too long. But I think it's a pretty fun song.
Speaker 2:
[04:11] Okay.
Speaker 4:
[04:12] But I got dude wipes, so I'm fine. I'm totally fine.
Speaker 2:
[04:15] All right, let's... We'll start. We'll see how the audience receives this.
Speaker 4:
[04:20] Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2:
[04:20] Okay.
Speaker 4:
[04:22] We're talking Pittsburgh. Nothing could be finer. Talking Pittsburgh. Maseroski and Ralph Keiner. Bill Madlock. Bruce Kees and Phil Garner too. Rennie Stenant and Omar Moreno knew what to do. Especially Clemente, the Cobra and Pops. There's always a Lord Stanley bid with Yager LeMue and to the kid. The city's got the knack. All pro teams wear yellow and black. Three Rivers was the place to be. In 79, we are family. There was Bonds before the juice. To Covey, they let loose. Sacking Big Ben was hard. That priceless Honus Wagner card. And we still can't get an NBA team. We're talking Pittsburgh. Adore those mountain ridges. We're talking Pittsburgh. Lots of water and those bridges. And Arnold Palmer. Wait, he's actually from Latrobe. For Skeens, is it still the place to be? Let's wait. And PNC, winning many a Super Bowl shout out, Bill Cowher and Chuck Knowles.
Speaker 2:
[05:25] Is this a song you're singing?
Speaker 4:
[05:26] It must be a song. Franco and Rocky's backfield scene. Ham Lambert and me and Joe Green.
Speaker 2:
[05:31] Are we almost done?
Speaker 4:
[05:32] A few more verses. Bradshaw was slinging it to Stalworth and Swan. Talking Pittsburgh. That D had opponents hurting. We're talking Pittsburgh. Can't hide behind steel curtain. And we so loved Clementi Cobra and Pops. With Steeler Nation, it's a rave. Terrible towels, 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 more verse. We're talking Pittsburgh. The city is a doozy. The Panthers coaching our doozy. And I can't wait to come back to see my guys in yellow and black. I'm gonna see all my boys in the yellow and the black.
Speaker 2:
[06:25] Okay, that was kind of like a courtesy flush, is what that was.
Speaker 4:
[06:29] And when I finished that last verse, that's when I flushed.
Speaker 2:
[06:31] Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1:
[06:33] Wow, whew.
Speaker 4:
[06:35] I thought that was fun. I know it's off-key, and I sing terribly, but I got some fun names in there, and it was dedicated to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2:
[06:41] Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3:
[06:41] Unfortunately, the draft is over.
Speaker 8:
[06:43] Oh, no.
Speaker 2:
[06:44] Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 8:
[06:45] Is there also runtime coming up with him, too?
Speaker 2:
[06:47] I don't know. I gotta wait till Friday for runtime.
Speaker 4:
[06:50] That's a lot for one day, Paul.
Speaker 2:
[06:52] I can't do that.
Speaker 4:
[06:53] I do have one, though.
Speaker 2:
[06:53] Come on, we're talking Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4:
[06:56] My guy's in yellow and the black.
Speaker 2:
[06:59] I'd rather get run over by the bus after that.
Speaker 4:
[07:01] That's not nice.
Speaker 2:
[07:02] Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3:
[07:02] I have one other Pennsylvania thing. What was that town you said you drove to?
Speaker 2:
[07:05] Intercourse, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3:
[07:06] That's a real town.
Speaker 2:
[07:07] That's like, I think it's 10 miles from Lancaster, where I was attending a wedding.
Speaker 3:
[07:12] I've been 10 miles from Intercourse before.
Speaker 2:
[07:14] Most of my college days. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[07:17] There are a couple other towns. Pastor Hall, who's a local pastor, sent this in on Twitter. There's also Climax, Pennsylvania, and Blue Ball, Pennsylvania. We have themes.
Speaker 2:
[07:27] They're so close, but yet so far. Not Blue Bell, Blue Ball.
Speaker 3:
[07:30] Yes.
Speaker 2:
[07:31] Okay.
Speaker 3:
[07:32] How about that?
Speaker 2:
[07:33] I think Intercourse is in Leacock Township. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3:
[07:37] Come on.
Speaker 7:
[07:37] I think, no, if you're making it up, I'm giving you a blue.
Speaker 2:
[07:41] It's L-E-A-C-O-C-K. I think that's where Intercourse is in Leacock Township. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 3:
[07:49] So when you're sitting there with all the people in that town in the 1800s, and you're coming up with a name for the town, Springfield, that's nice and bland. Glenwood, no, let's go with Climax. How's that meeting happen?
Speaker 2:
[08:02] I don't know how this happens. That and street signs. There is a street sign where I live. It's called Breakneck. Now, that can't be good. But 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 going to stick it to you. Sterling Sharp, not big on the media in Green Bay. Became very good media person. Yes, Paul?
Speaker 3:
[08:46] Back in the day when Bill Cowher 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?
Speaker 2:
[09:02] I think he's either two years in broadcasting and then out and coach again, or he never coaches again. Now, he's 54. Cowher was 49. He'll join us on the program tomorrow, I believe, Todd.
Speaker 4:
[09:17] He will.
Speaker 2:
[09:18] Bill Cowher?
Speaker 4:
[09:19] Sure will.
Speaker 2:
[09:19] 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. 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 Dungy 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. You know, Sean McVeigh is going to have the same opportunity. But you know, McVeigh is flirting with Super Bowls still.
Speaker 4:
[10:10] Yes, Todd, because I mean, the show is going to be very good, but not great. Just looking like 98. Yeah, that's kind of where I was going with that. It's not very nice, though. Wow. That's not what you do.
Speaker 2:
[10:20] Yeah. So Tomlin is going to be the equivalent of a winning record.
Speaker 4:
[10:25] It'll be really good. But then, you know, you start looking at other channels like that's really good, too. That was great. That one just may have missed. But hopefully I'm wrong.
Speaker 2:
[10:31] 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 SportsCenter 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 J. Billis came back from Indiana, and Billis was there to do a game. And he goes, hey, Bob Knight wants you to call him. I'm going, oh my God, what did we do now? He goes, no, he wants to, he wants to talk to you, he wants to come on your radio show. I go, come on, Jay. 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 mood. So Paulie came up with the idea. He goes, why don't we reach out to his coaching idol, Beau Schembechler. And so he was going to get a hold of Beau Schembechler at Michigan. And next thing you know, we have Beau on the phone with Bob Knight and they just start talking. Coach Knight called up after the interview and said, it's one of the nicest thing anybody's ever done for me. And from then on, he was like, whenever you want me, you want me to do it. 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 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 the personality and I think people will be pleasantly surprised. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 3:
[13:20] And if I remember right, just about six months after that interview with Bob Knight and Bo Schembechler, 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?
Speaker 4:
[13:41] That was so beyond cool seeing that.
Speaker 2:
[13:43] 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 back there. He said he would go back when all of those people were 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 interviewed. So you had Duncan and Parker and Genoblee and I said, pop, so we're live. I said, pop. And he's like, I said, pop. I go, oh my God, he's going to leave me hanging here. He did not want any publicity. He did. He do those interviews with Craig Sager in between quarters. And he likes Sager. 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 a perfect team as well. All right. Frank Caliendo is going to join us. Todd was all nervous yesterday when I go, hey, Caliendo is 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.
Speaker 4:
[15:53] I've been accused of like you didn't call for Frank earlier because you don't like how he does.
Speaker 2:
[15:57] Did you know Frank was in Pittsburgh last night?
Speaker 4:
[16:00] It was brought to my attention in recent days, but I thought we had him on recently and all that. And even Frank said, I could have stopped by just to say hi, but if you want to have me on as a guest, that's great.
Speaker 2:
[16:09] Is this because he does an impersonation of you?
Speaker 4:
[16:12] It is not. You got to separate your own personal feelings and the show. And Frank's always a great guest. Do I think he does a fantastic impression of me? No, but I would not book him or effort to get him on the show because of that.
Speaker 2:
[16:24] But you didn't separate your feelings because you didn't tell us.
Speaker 4:
[16:27] That's true. I thought we had him on at the Super Bowl, but was it too soon? And sometimes I'll pitch against it. It's like, we just had him on. You're just trying to guess.
Speaker 2:
[16:37] How about I decide? How about I decide?
Speaker 4:
[16:38] You're the host. You should get the decision.
Speaker 2:
[16:40] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[16:40] Thankfully, in the 11th hour, the decision was made.
Speaker 2:
[16:43] It's the 11 o'clock hour.
Speaker 4:
[16:45] And he's coming on the 11 o'clock hour.
Speaker 2:
[16:46] I know.
Speaker 4:
[16:46] There's something about the number 11.
Speaker 2:
[16:48] Last night, when I said to you, why don't you see if Frank will join us?
Speaker 4:
[16:52] And I said, what?
Speaker 1:
[16:53] That guy?
Speaker 2:
[16:54] You were like, well, you go, well, I'll try.
Speaker 4:
[16:57] And I immediately, in the middle of dinner, and you told us not to use our phones.
Speaker 1:
[17:01] No.
Speaker 2:
[17:01] What did I say?
Speaker 4:
[17:02] You said, everybody except me, because you know, I'm booking guests and I'm allowed to use my phone.
Speaker 2:
[17:05] I didn't want anybody to have their phones out when we were at dinner. I said, but you can have your phone out because you're still working.
Speaker 4:
[17:12] And to Frank's credit, on very short notice, he moved things around. He was supposed to fly to Cleveland or something, and he altered his schedule to join us.
Speaker 2:
[17:18] Did you not want, okay, did you not want Frank Caliendo because you wanted to be the funniest guy on the show?
Speaker 4:
[17:25] It could be some truth to that.
Speaker 2:
[17:26] Okay. All right.
Speaker 5:
[17:27] He's the funniest guy on the show?
Speaker 7:
[17:29] Yeah.
Speaker 4:
[17:32] Wow, that hurts my feelings.
Speaker 8:
[17:33] Talk to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6:
[17:35] That wasn't meant to be funny.
Speaker 7:
[17:36] That was a similar song.
Speaker 2:
[17:37] Oh, that was not meant to be funny.
Speaker 1:
[17:38] That wasn't some parody.
Speaker 7:
[17:39] Oh, I thought that was supposed to be funny.
Speaker 4:
[17:41] I took that very seriously that time. That wasn't a standup routine. That was a song I wrote.
Speaker 1:
[17:44] Oh, I thought, my bad.
Speaker 4:
[17:44] You guys are the worst.
Speaker 2:
[17:45] I thought that that was like a parody song.
Speaker 4:
[17:47] No, it was a song that I took seriously.
Speaker 2:
[17:50] Then I apologize for laughing.
Speaker 4:
[17:51] I spent a lot of time. I got up at 4 in the morning for some reason. I couldn't sleep.
Speaker 6:
[17:54] And I'm like, I'm going to write a poetry song.
Speaker 2:
[17:55] We'll take a break here.
Speaker 6:
[17:56] Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2:
[17:56] Let's get Carl in Seattle back here again. We'll take a break. Frank Caliendo, the second funniest guy on the show today.
Speaker 4:
[18:04] Got that right.
Speaker 2:
[18:04] We'll join us. Coming up next here, The Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
[18:48] Let's bring out Frank Caliendo. He was performing last night here in Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Improv. Cleveland tomorrow already sold out. You can catch him at the Funny Bone in Cincinnati Friday, Columbus Funny Bone on Saturday as well as Sunday. Go to frankonstage.com for tickets as we make way for Frank Caliendo.
Speaker 6:
[19:16] All right, guys, we're talking Pittsburgh. I don't know the words, we're talking Pittsburgh. Todd was taking it, okay, so, yeah, I'll tell you what. I started, you give us all these great things when we come here to do the shows. It's like, Gruden opens stuff up. So I was like, I'll tell you what, man, this is a pretty tremendous thing right here. Good, put some of this stuff down. Take a look right here, we got some rec tech sauces and stuff like that. You can't go anywhere without this, man. I'll tell you what, dude wipes. Spider two wipe banana, man.
Speaker 2:
[19:53] You got product placement there?
Speaker 6:
[19:54] I appreciate that. I'll tell you what, this is pretty good. I'll open up this, you think this is going to be Roy Hobbs' Batman?
Speaker 9:
[19:59] It's going to be even better.
Speaker 6:
[20:00] Take a look at this. Can you imagine Gruden just had this stuff? I'll tell you what, man. We're going to be flipping some burgers, man, and then we're going to be flipping some cars. Well, I got to talk into that.
Speaker 2:
[20:09] Yeah, it's called a microphone.
Speaker 6:
[20:11] I had this microphone here, I was talking to the wrong microphone. I forgot how many there were.
Speaker 2:
[20:15] All right, are you going to take that in the overhead bin going to Cleveland?
Speaker 1:
[20:19] Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6:
[20:20] Well, Jade, who gives us all this, we get it sent to us.
Speaker 1:
[20:24] Oh, you do?
Speaker 6:
[20:25] But I'm going to take this as well. So yes, I'm that kind of person. All right, sorry, I forgot about microphones on the show.
Speaker 2:
[20:31] Yeah, it's great to see you. And we didn't know you were in town.
Speaker 6:
[20:34] Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[20:35] And then we found out somebody had said, are you going to have Frank Caliendo on?
Speaker 6:
[20:39] Well, I had said I was just going to 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, where, I knew you guys were gonna be 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 gonna be in on Wednesday. So I was like, okay. And then I got a text from Fritzy yesterday that didn't feel like he really wanted me here. He didn't. No, I'm hearing more and more of that. I had 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. I don't have the voice, I have some of the... You're doing it right now, Fritzy, he doesn't even know... He's got this thing with his lips. It's like he's just finished eating a cob of corn, he's like... that kind of thing. So I... but I understand, I understand where he's coming from.
Speaker 2:
[21:36] Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3:
[21:37] Frank, if the imitation wasn't good, it wouldn't bother Fritzy.
Speaker 6:
[21:39] Oh, you think so?
Speaker 3:
[21:40] If it wasn't spot on with the mannerisms, it wouldn't bother him.
Speaker 4:
[21:43] That's fair, because I'm that sensitive. So it's actually the other way.
Speaker 6:
[21:45] You are just... yeah, but I don't want the Booker of 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 like when I would do Leno back in the day, if like the Booker didn't like me because I did an impression, that would be a bad thing. Leno was always like, ain't gonna do me on the show? Come on, do me. That means fun. So, but yeah, I don't want, I know Todd kind of thrives on that awkwardness, not on purpose, but he does. But it's, Todd's, 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.
Speaker 4:
[22:33] I appreciate that. I need to be more serious.
Speaker 2:
[22:35] If Mel Kuiper suddenly couldn't show up tomorrow.
Speaker 6:
[22:40] I actually, I brought, I started doing Kuiper and wasn't even trying to. That's why my hair is like this.
Speaker 2:
[22:44] Oh, you were doing Kuiper hair?
Speaker 6:
[22:46] I was 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 had to print out the stuff. Fernanda Mendoza, Indiana quarterback. This is his actual, he writes like he talks. 20-25 stats over 16 games, 72% completion rate, 3,535 passing yards, 41 TD passes, six INT, seven rushing touchdowns. Mendoza transferred to Indiana after playing two seasons at Cal. We're talking Pittsburgh. And the game took off. Part of the season for the jump, he cut down on Saxon. 25 at the last season, 41 in 2024. Mendoza got the ball out quicker. That's what we're talking about. Fernando Mendoza. Last Fernando, I remember, is Fernando Valenzuela, did a tremendous job, left-handed pitcher out there in Los Angeles, camped for the Mendoza line, the 200-batting average. And that was where Bob Euker lived his entire life. So, yeah, so if that's a... What people don't know about Mel is he's the sweetest guy in the world. Like he, on TV, I always say, even in my act, I say, he's a cross between Sam the American Eagle and Count Chocula, right? Sam the American Eagle from The Muppets and Count Chocula. And you see him, and then all those years with Todd McSherry, he's just cutting them off. Todd, Todd, Todd, Todd, Todd, Todd. And on the mothership, I got 25 Todd's out one time, and you know how hard that is. Todd, Todd, Todd, Todd, come around, Todd, there's a different Todd, don't worry, I'm not talking about you right now. At the end of the day, it's not all about you. But 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 Kuiper, where I'm going to talk about him. And from the back, he just yells out, Todd, Todd, Todd, Todd! The audience is like, why is that guy heckling? I'm like, that's the actual Mel Kuiper Jr. 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 enjoying what you did. Frank, you ever been to Las Vegas? I've never been there before. Blue Man Group, are they actually blue people? You 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 just thought, when he gets off on little tangents, he sounded like an English teacher to me. I think that would be the toughest. I before E, except after C. He was sounding his A as a neighbor in way.
Speaker 7:
[25:18] I never try to figure out the difference between there, there and there.
Speaker 6:
[25:21] I'm not sure if it's a homonym or a homograph, but T-H-E-R-E has got here in it. That's here nor there. The T-H-E-I-R is a possession. And then T-H-E-Y apostrophe R-E, that's a contraction. Give it a little work out, contractions. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:
[25:39] But not everybody appreciates your imitations. You've talked about Madden, but did John Madden eventually warm up?
Speaker 6:
[25:46] He finally kind of liked me. But why? Why did he like me? Yeah, because I'd made his grandkids laugh. There was that whole story.
Speaker 1:
[25:53] Oh, okay.
Speaker 6:
[25:55] And they enjoyed it. So that was, I believe it was his son wanted me to do something at John's 75th birthday party. And I heard from somebody, and then all of a sudden, I didn't hear from them anymore.
Speaker 9:
[26:07] So they must have gone to him, I was like, I don't think that's the way to go. Maybe we could get that lady who rides on the unicycle and puts the cups on her head.
Speaker 8:
[26:17] I mean, what's the name of that lady?
Speaker 2:
[26:20] Red Panda.
Speaker 9:
[26:20] Red Panda, I mean, that's the thing. If you don't have anything, boom, you get Red Panda.
Speaker 6:
[26:27] So you would, Red Panda? She got hurt a while ago, she's gone to come back, man. How many plates, how many cups do you think she can hit on that top of that head, man?
Speaker 2:
[26:38] And Gruden's OK with you.
Speaker 6:
[26:39] Yeah, he has fun with it. I mean, he's, I just put something up. When I went to talk, I talked to the Raiders a couple times when he was coaching there before a game. He gave a pregame type of speech. It was really just really making fun of John Gruden. And he I just did something. I'll tell you, I'll tell you what, 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 it's he gets it. 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. You're the best.
Speaker 2:
[27:24] Chris Berman was OK.
Speaker 6:
[27:26] Well, everybody we talked about this. Everybody does a Chris Berman at ESPN. They just don't do it out loud in front of them. Right. Everybody's walking around and like, you don't even have to have words. That's Chris Berman as a chicken. Say what you will, but nobody flies the coop like these chickens.
Speaker 2:
[27:46] So are you working on a Dylan impersonation?
Speaker 6:
[27:49] Yeah, actually, he sounds exactly like my AV guy used to sound.
Speaker 2:
[27:53] All right, Dylan, let's hear. Give us a little.
Speaker 5:
[27:56] Just a little bit of my sweet, sweet voice.
Speaker 2:
[27:58] Yeah.
Speaker 6:
[28:00] Yeah. You got that. And it's in there, right? It's almost like, I just had some french fried potatoes. There's something in there. It's there. You're back in the back of the throat. So I don't have it yet. I do have, I believe it's Buddha. I worked on my Buddha.
Speaker 2:
[28:15] Buddha from San Francisco?
Speaker 9:
[28:16] Good morning, Mr. Patrick.
Speaker 6:
[28:21] Who does it? Nobody else does a Buddha, right?
Speaker 2:
[28:23] No. No, no, no.
Speaker 9:
[28:24] Good morning, Mr. Patrick.
Speaker 2:
[28:27] Nobody. Do you tweak your act for the city you're in?
Speaker 6:
[28:33] A little bit, yeah. I mean, this week has got a little bit more of the draft and football stuff.
Speaker 2:
[28:37] Did you do some Terry Bradshaw last night?
Speaker 6:
[28:39] I always do some Terry Bradshaw. That doesn't even have to make sense. That's the part of it that's really good, man. When he's doing highlights, you have no idea. He has no idea. The guy that, oh, I missed it. Usually they have somebody who can read or knows the names of players. Now, then my grandpappy told me a long time ago, back in the 1400s, I just tried to figure it out, Frank. That was always, he's so great. But he will say things like, I probably shouldn't even have brought that up, I brought myself, but he'll be walking through a town, that's the lady of the night, right there, Frank. He's not using those terms all the time. But he is something else. He's one of those people that he's just not afraid to be himself. And I think that really works, especially in this day and age. The more you are you, and 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 just doing what they do. The fact that Charles has, he couldn't care less. He doesn't even like the NBA a lot.
Speaker 9:
[29:51] I have no idea who's even playing right now, guys. These guys. What about the Orlando Magic? I don't watch them.
Speaker 6:
[29:58] Why not?
Speaker 9:
[29:58] Because they suck, man.
Speaker 6:
[30:00] Nobody says they suck. Nobody says, I've heard them on here, they suck.
Speaker 9:
[30:03] Nobody in broadcasting says they suck, except for Charles.
Speaker 6:
[30:06] And then they were like, hey, you don't like, you know, you don't really pay attention to basketball. Do you want to do college basketball too for March Madness?
Speaker 9:
[30:15] Absolutely. Pay me triple, man. We're in.
Speaker 6:
[30:18] And they do because he's such a great, such a great fun person to listen to and watch.
Speaker 2:
[30:22] But you need to have those over the top personality. Yeah. That makes your job so much easier.
Speaker 6:
[30:27] Well, did you hear when he and Dick Vitale did that play, did the like it was unbelievable for like 10, 20 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 vitality is going, oh, it's incredible.
Speaker 9:
[30:44] It's amazing. And then Charles, who hasn't researched any of the game, you know, the transfer portal in NIL are ruining the game of basketball. These kids need to be paid.
Speaker 6:
[30:53] But and then they go to something else.
Speaker 1:
[30:55] It's a real diaper, Dan.
Speaker 9:
[30:56] He's like, yeah, but the transfer portal, the guy with the red headband just passed the ball.
Speaker 6:
[31:01] You don't even know his name.
Speaker 9:
[31:02] I didn't know we're watching the game anymore, man.
Speaker 6:
[31:06] 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 when I even have any football show I've ever been at, they're 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 is almost like this shows, you know, you're a sports show, but 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 at the Super Bowl years and years ago after you'd left the mothership. And you were just in that cardboard box or whatever you were doing. I opened it up, man. There he was, Dan Patrick, man. He's not even in Bristol anymore. He's in a suburb of Bristol. And I was like, I don't get it.
Speaker 9:
[31:57] This is a what a terrible idea.
Speaker 6:
[31:59] And look at what you've done. It's like unbelievable and fantastic. And all you schmucks there have been along the way.
Speaker 2:
[32:05] 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 relate. There 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.
Speaker 6:
[32:25] 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 the show?
Speaker 2:
[32:42] Nobody is doing talking.
Speaker 6:
[32:44] Wow. It's just a job.
Speaker 2:
[32:46] Nobody's doing talking baseball on any other show today. Talking Pittsburgh. Nobody's doing that.
Speaker 4:
[32:51] I'm doing a bad rap here, but not wanting to.
Speaker 2:
[32:53] You did not want Frank and you know that.
Speaker 4:
[32:55] That is not true.
Speaker 6:
[32:56] I will defend him 100% because I didn't really push it in the first place. I didn't. I knew you guys were going to be here. But then I said, hey, I understand if you don't want me because I was just on recently.
Speaker 2:
[33:08] But you reached out to Marvin.
Speaker 6:
[33:09] Yeah, but that was just I was just going to stop by and say it because Marvin, I hang out. Yeah.
Speaker 2:
[33:14] OK.
Speaker 6:
[33:14] But if I was going to get if I wanted to get on the show, I would definitely not go to Todd anymore.
Speaker 2:
[33:19] Todd did not want. Todd did not want you.
Speaker 5:
[33:21] The bad guy. All right, Dylan.
Speaker 6:
[33:23] Can I have your number on the way out?
Speaker 5:
[33:25] 203.
Speaker 2:
[33:27] Frank already sold out in Cleveland. And then you'll be Cincinnati Friday, Columbus on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 6:
[33:34] Yep.
Speaker 2:
[33:34] Go to Frank on stage.com for tickets.
Speaker 6:
[33:37] Yeah, that's it. Thank you.
Speaker 2:
[33:38] Thank you for stopping by.
Speaker 6:
[33:39] Incredible job by you. Better job by me.
Speaker 2:
[33:42] Well, you're doing Jim Rome to me.
Speaker 6:
[33:44] How great is that? Dude is trying to go to commercial and Caliendo is talking.
Speaker 2:
[33:49] Nothing new. We're back after this in The Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 1:
[33:54] Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk line up in the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsportsradio.com. And within the iHeartRadio app, search FSR to listen live. The NFL Draft is where it all starts.
Speaker 2:
[34:09] This is crazy.
Speaker 5:
[34:10] I can't believe it.
Speaker 1:
[34:11] From the picks to the breakdowns, we're covering all of it.
Speaker 5:
[34:15] Because in the NFL, I put myself in the position to be here.
Speaker 1:
[34:18] one pick can change everything. It's Draft Night Live. Join Jenny Taft, Jay Glazer, LeVar Arrington and former Falcons GM, Terry Bottenham, April 23rd at 5 p.m. Pacific. And it's brought to you by Express Pros and Weeble.
Speaker 6:
[34:33] This is what I'm doing for a man.
Speaker 1:
[34:34] On Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2:
[34:36] Big shout out to the Distillery Complex, our home away from home all week long. Beautiful views and it's a beautiful day. We're up there on the roof deck and so you got great food, cocktails, cigar lounge and more information. The distillery complex.com. All right. Final results of the poll question there. We'll recap the day as well. Man, it went by quickly. It did.
Speaker 5:
[34:59] That flew.
Speaker 2:
[34:59] All right, Dill.
Speaker 5:
[35:00] All right, Dan. So the poll question was if Mike Raible could pick one, win the Super Bowl versus Seattle or the recent mess never happens. Surprisingly, the numbers have shifted. Only 51.4% say recent mess never happens. So there's some football fans out there.
Speaker 2:
[35:16] Okay. All right. Fair enough. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 4:
[35:18] Those are people that aren't married.
Speaker 2:
[35:23] It is tricky when you're trying to explain to your wife what the situation is because my wife is not a sports fan. She'll go, so what happened to the person and then the other person? Then they were somewhere together. I go, hon, you got to help me out. Give me a little more detail there. Then I said, the coach and a reporter, and then do you know them? Then I kind of, and what do you think? Then I said, I don't know enough information. I've said that all along, that I don't know, but it just feels like you call a press conference, you talk about uncomfortable conversations. So now you can avoid any further comments, questions about this by saying, I've addressed that. Yes, Paul?
Speaker 3:
[36:10] You always know a story has crossed over to pop culture away from sports. What you just said.
Speaker 2:
[36:15] 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.
Speaker 6:
[36:27] Do you think there's going to be pressure on the label and the Patriots to perform this season?
Speaker 2:
[36:33] I don't, because of that?
Speaker 3:
[36:35] On the field, on the field.
Speaker 2:
[36:36] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[36:36] Okay.
Speaker 2:
[36:38] Maybe he's already performed. Come on now, come on now.
Speaker 3:
[36:41] He needs to perform less.
Speaker 2:
[36:43] Yeah, I have no idea. I have no idea. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 3:
[36:50] Sorry, I'm really sorry about that.
Speaker 2:
[36:52] No, you're not sorry.
Speaker 3:
[36:52] Okay, maybe I'm not. It's the end of the show.
Speaker 2:
[36:55] Be ashamed of yourself. This day in sports history, Paul.
Speaker 3:
[37:00] Got a couple for you, Dan.
Speaker 2:
[37:01] You're pretty funny, aren't you, Marvin?
Speaker 3:
[37:03] Not funny, they're Fritzy.
Speaker 2:
[37:05] No. Yes, you are. Yes, you are. Okay, what do you have this day in sports history?
Speaker 3:
[37:09] 1914, Babe Ruth, maybe you heard of him. He made his pitching debut right out of his first year in the pros. This guy, I think is from Pennsylvania, went to high school around here. Michael Moorer, 1994, became the first left-handed heavyweight champion. He went to high school somewhere around here.
Speaker 2:
[37:26] Okay. Daniel Jeremiah from NFL Network will join us tomorrow. Bill Cower will join us. Kurt Warner will join us as well. My thanks to Frank Caliendo for stopping by, even though Fritzy didn't want him. Jerome Bettis had him come by. Brian Windhorst joined us. Fernando Mendoza. So great job, Todd, corralling everybody, but Frank Caliendo.
Speaker 4:
[37:50] It all worked out.
Speaker 2:
[37:51] No, it did. It did. I know. We're just joking, right?
Speaker 4:
[37:54] I know, but I feel like now there's going to be a strain between me and Frank because we have Adam in Michigan.
Speaker 2:
[37:59] See what you did?
Speaker 4:
[38:00] See what you just did?
Speaker 2:
[38:01] I know, but it's just land the plane. Adam?
Speaker 8:
[38:05] Talking about Pittsburgh. 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 Emmy track is the new dance house video for the Peacock Watchers. I was having a poo on Monday and my little son comes out, goes, daddy, daddy, daddy, Dan has a new song. There's a new guy on it. He's different. I came out to finish my business early and Dylan was out there dressed like a sketchy boat captain, you know, because the implication and I just love the new dance house video. So kudos to you guys.
Speaker 2:
[38:43] All right. Well, thank you, Adam. Yeah, we had to incorporate. By the way, we saw Seton yesterday. He was he was doing some videos. He was in Aliquippa, PA. So it was good to see him. But yeah, Dylan sitting in Seton's chair and we had to kind of reorganize the beginning of the show. All right, let's go around the room and see if we learned anything. Todd, you learned anything?
Speaker 4:
[39:06] I did. Jerome Bettis has a golfing friend named Pickle who went low and mistakenly tried to tackle him.
Speaker 2:
[39:11] Okay. Dylan, you learned anything today?
Speaker 5:
[39:13] We are, in fact, talking Pittsburgh, Dan.
Speaker 2:
[39:15] Oh, man. Paul, did you learn anything today?
Speaker 3:
[39:18] I still don't want to tackle Jerome Bettis.
Speaker 2:
[39:20] No, but didn't you try years ago at the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3:
[39:23] Yeah, I think it was in Indianapolis. And he kind of, instead of putting his shoulder into me, he kind of whacked my arm away with his big club arm, and it hurt for about a month.
Speaker 2:
[39:32] Marvin.
Speaker 3:
[39:33] Fritzy is the funniest guy on the show.
Speaker 2:
[39:35] What did I learn, Todd?
Speaker 4:
[39:36] Ryan Windhorst insists no one on the planet knows right now if Wemby is going to play Friday, game three against Portland.