This is an I Heart podcast, guaranteed human. You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio. Final hour on this Thursday, Dan and the Danits, Dan Patrick Show. You got the Minister of Humor, the Minister of Music.
You also have Marv, you have Paulie, yours truly in the back room. Guys, we'll talk to Dan Hurley, on loan from Connecticut, coming up here momentarily, keeping an eye on the leaderboard. Scores are low right now. Well, I should say, even one under, two under at the most, it feels like weather is gonna be great.
Right now doesn't look like any wind, no rain, and this course will dry out a little bit. And I was listening to Golf Channel last night, Randall Shambly, Rich Lerner and Company. They were talking about the conditions there. Would we get to double digits?
Would the winning score be at least 10 under par? And it wasn't a consensus one way or another. But they have a way of easing up, maybe some of the conditions. Paulie, do you have the leaderboard there?
Yeah, Patrick Reed, three under, after only four holes. Hot star for him, and Tommy Fleetwood. Okay, three under as well. I had Patrick Reed in my draft yesterday.
Go, former Master's champ. By the way, watching the par three yesterday, Tommy Fleetwood's son, Frankie. And I don't know how old he is, but he's never been able to get the ball over the pond on the night pole. So there was a big build up to it, and he had a driver, you know, he's just a adorable kid.
And they came a couple tries, he didn't make it. But Shane Lowery's daughter, she was trying to make it. You know, you have all these kids, you know, some are playing in the sand, like it's a sandbox. You got him rolling down the hill there.
I mean, you know, it's basically chaos, but it's in a great setting. The par three is a wonderful event. It's become must see TV. All right, eight seven, seven, three DP show, email and address, dphatantrick.com, Twitter, handily, DP show, good morning.
Those watching on Peacock, thank you. Downloading the MBC Sports Network as well. This is the day before the day. Seton's last day tomorrow.
He's got the menu for Meat Friday as well. Are you going to have a farewell song that you want played? Like, is there anything that I should be prepping for for Friday, aside from being emotional? I do have the final walk off song, Ready to Go.
Marvin's got that sort of in the hopper. The Meat Friday menu is ready to go. Very excited about that. I think it'd be a massive day.
Been sort of sitting here thinking about maybe what my final thoughts will be on the air. If we do something like that, I'm not exactly sure how that's going to go. But it's kind of, you know, as we always do, man, play it by the seat of our pants. And scripted by the seat of our pants.
He is Dan Hurley, Connecticut basketball coach and joining us on the program. How's him around today? Feel pretty good that you recover, start to recover a little bit more physically, emotionally, with every day that passes. You know, you got a little more strength back.
You know, you start to get the life starts getting back in your body. It's a long season. And when you play, when you're on those last buses on Monday night, you know, you're playing a long season. I mean, you know, like you're, there are a lot of colleges, seasons are over when we were playing the Big East tournament, you know, so it feels like a year ago.
The high, high of winning and the low, low of losing. Can you compare those two? Yeah, you know, I don't, maybe I didn't feel it, the low, low of losing. I think I've, you know, sometimes like being proud of the group and how hard they fought to give you the maximum with the group.
Sometimes that, that is kind of a little bit of an override on the disappointment of missing out on the confetti, the trophy, being the champions, you know, so like, proud is kind of overriding disappointment and sad. Maybe, and maybe that's because we have a couple chips, but you know, proud, more than sad. When did you realize you were in trouble? What, what different things I did during the game?
No, no, no, no, you're always in trouble. I'm talking about. When I was eight years old, when I was eight years old at OLM, I don't like the emergency, when sister, sister Mary caught me. No, I'm.
Wait, what did she catch you doing? Probably, you know, copy homework five minutes before class. Okay, that's not that bad. Not that bad, not that bad.
I would say in that game though, when the game first starts and you see, you know, literally the massive challenge in terms of their size and athleticism and physicality. And you know, I think we start the game nine, nine, four down and you're like, whoa, it's going to be really hard to score and we better be ready to fight. But you got 22 offensive rebounds, which is kind of crazy. If I would have said that before the game, you're going to get 22 offensive rebounds.
You'd probably lean towards win in this game. Yeah, I would say a lot of the numbers, you know, the rebounding. Obviously we've been a great defensive team the entire year, especially guarding the three point line. If you would have said to me, 22 offensive rebounds, obviously the defensive effort keeping them to what we held an excellent team.
And then when you look at probably the shots that we started to get, you know, as they started to get fatigued in the second half, you know, we had a lot of opportunities. Obviously you make a lot of the, you know, the fast break basket to cut it to four with two minutes to go. What would have obviously put enormous game pressure. Yeah, I thought that that was probably the key to the game.
And then after the game, you said just nice things. Verbal bouquets about the referees. Yeah, listen, when you get to that, you get to get somebody tournament, you know, you get the officials, you get the best of the best. And, you know, the officials that you get as the tournament goes on or the best officials keep advancing, you know, you go back and watch the film and, you know, there's obviously things that I got wrong as a coach, the shots that the players missed.
And then, you know, you see plays that went on during the game that, you know, that the officials missed. It's not a perfect, you know, situation. Obviously the hook and hold on Caravan was a big play. And then obviously they missed a couple of, you know, they probably missed a couple of two of calls of shubs in the back or would have you.
But, you know, Michigan was the best team in the country, you know, the whole year and they deserved it. Dusty did an awesome job there in all time. What are the best teams in recent memory for me? When do you find out if Mullins is coming back?
Well, I mean, the line is starting to form. It's the supermarket. It's the deli section. I don't know what.
Take a number. Yeah, OK. Yeah, it's such a, you know, for, I think for teams like us and the teams that played in the final four national championship game, it's like, it hits you like an avalanche because we literally, you know, you season really just ended, you know, just like literally two days ago. And now you've got to make all these decisions.
You've got to help your players make monumental decisions. I would just say, like now in college, I would say that unless it absolutely makes total sense for you to go in a draft, you know, unless you know you're going to be a lottery pick or guaranteed to go top 15, top 18, the biggest mistake that you can make right now as a college basketball player is going to the draft too early and not staying long enough in college because of the obviously the money situation. What's your advice going to be or has it already been for Mullins to stay or go? I think with what I'll tell, what I'll tell Braylon and I'll tell his family is number one, do you, do you like college, you know, do you like college?
I mean, some players are in a rush to get to the NBA because they don't like being a college student. They don't like being in a college program. So I think that's like, because college programs are run way different than NBA teams in terms of how we practice and, you know, just in how kind of rigorous study hall and go into class and then, you know, the coach being in charge of the whole operation. So, yeah, I mean, it's, it's, do you like college?
And I think that the world has changed is not this, you know, this pressure to go to the NBA now because of the, because of the money situation. He, you know, players like Braylon are probably, he probably make more money at UConn next year than he would if he was the 15th pick. So, you know, those are the things that you have to weigh. How badly do I want to get out of college and get to the NBA?
Are you scheduled to face Luke Murray and BC next year? No, I'm going to put the, the family, he's like a brother to me, Luke. I mean, and I couldn't imagine Bill Murray not wearing my team's hat or rooting against me now. So, he's like a brother, so I'll never schedule Luke.
The transfer portal and recruiting out of high school. Like, I don't know if you've ever had a top 10 recruiting year. Maybe you had 11th is your best, but it kind of feels like you have a formula of what you're trying to do. Maybe you take a big swing and you get Raylon Mullins, but then you're also going to be filling in the pieces here.
We saw that with Illinois, we saw that with Michigan. Is this, is this the future of college basketball? Yeah, Dan, I think we're at Crossroads. You know, I think we've got to decide, you know, what is, you know, who do we want to be?
You know, do we want to try to hold the line and just go retention, high school recruiting, and maybe, you know, cherry pick a need in a portal? You know, or is this now, are we at a point where it's like, wipe the board every year and try to put together the most talented team that you can? I mean, we have our first national champion that was comprised of all portals or all transfers in Michigan. Obviously, starting McKinney off the bench as a high school recruit, but right now, we're processing the best way for us to move forward because you've got players on your team that are obviously right now weighing, you know, what they want to do, but also from a program standpoint, you also have all these players that have entered the portal, you know, who are also reaching out for UConn that would like to potentially play here too.
So, you know, our players have decisions to make about what they want to do in the future, but you know, we also, as a staff, have got to decide quickly. Is coaching the least stressful part of this job now? Yeah, I mean, this is terrible right now, what's going on. I mean, I think we all have to get to a point.
And it's not, it's not terrible, you know, in a sense of NIL. I think the NIL for the players is awesome. Our players made a lot of money this year and their commitment level was to the max. So, the money didn't make them lazy or hard to coach.
They were awesome the whole year. But just, you know, like I think as college programs right now, you literally have to have a front office that takes over at this point of the year, you know, like to take a coaching staff that now did the six-month season. And now you've got a flip and now, run recruiting business, put the roster together, talk to the age. I mean, it's a lot.
I think college programs are, we got to start being run like an MBA organization or a pro sports organization. Do you have a player who has a nicer car than you? Yeah, I mean, I think it was early this year. I started to see the Teslas and the BMWs.
And I'm a Ford guy, you know, I'm a Ford guy. I got my Ford Raptor truck. So I'm built tough. Of course you are.
But it used to be in the old days, players would have BMWs in nice cars. It just was not a tough Ford. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now it's leases.
Now they're getting, now they're getting leases with, which is, you know, it's, hey, listen, it's great, the type of guys that we get at UConn, again, it's like, for me, it's the transfer rule. If my sons, as college or high school kids, said to me, hey, dad, I want to transfer after my freshman year of college, you know, I would say, tell me why. And I want to hear your reasons. And then I'll support you if the reasons make sense.
But then at the end of their sophomore year, if they said, I want to transfer again. And then I want to transfer again. At some point, I would, as a parent, I would be concerned. All right.
Well, you got time off now, don't you? No, that line, it's even got bigger since I looked less. Do you know how many players right now you'll have on your team next year? No, I know, I maybe five, four or five out of 15, maybe, you know, with between Turning Pro, you know, players, you know, having the role they want here.
You know, should I test the draft process? Yeah, obviously, this tampering that's been going on. I mean, this tampering that goes on the entire year. So, you know, now, even players that aren't in the portal, I mean, everyone's in the portal.
But Danny, why do we allow schools to tamper with coaches? What's that? Why do we allow a school, you know, North Carolina, if they're interested in Ben Bolden or they're interested in, you know, Tommy Lloyd, like, why are they allowed to do that? They're under contract.
Yeah, I mean, you shouldn't, you know, you should. North Carolina didn't reach out to you today. No. Okay.
And when I was approaching at Rhode Island, it was really important for me that, and I knew my last year that there was going to be interest from Pittsburgh and UConn. And you obviously, you have agents that are, you know, because these schools, they want to know, like, they want to know, they want to know what your interest level is while you're in that other job. They don't want to wait till your season's over. But I think what was unique for me when I was coaching Rhode Island was, you know, I refused to talk to any of those schools or to even have the intermediary, you know, conversations until Duke beat my butt at the end of my last game if we beat Oklahoma in the tournament at Rodey.
So, I mean, I don't know how you can do that as a coach and then come in and look at your team and then be upset with the players. And yeah, I mean, I think that as adults and as coaches, you got to have, you have to have some honor with the way that you move in the decisions that you make with your career. Hopefully you enjoy the off season. Thanks for joining us.
Thanks for sharing as always. Always a pleasure, Dan. Thank you, but that's Dan Hurl. You got to, now the job really starts.
You talk to these coaches. They're like, give me to a game. Let me coach. We'll take a break.
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Subscribe. Hit that thumbs up icon and comment away. Dan Hurley seemed okay with the loss in the national title game. I think he got bummed out when we were talking about the transfer portal.
It's like that was bumming him out. And he's got some decisions to make and some of his players, especially Raylin Mullins who I've seen two mock drafts. One at the end of the first round. One maybe around 15 or 16 for him.
But I get the feeling he's probably going to go pro. Yes, he says something like life is slowly reentering my body. Yeah, that's funny, man. Is because when I say when did you realize you were in trouble and he's like as an eight year old.
It was a little more Steven in Hollywood. Hi, Steven. What's on your mind? Hey, guys, first time long time.
Six one one ninety five. They often show the audience network days. I love the show. I love seeing you.
You're awesome. You taught me to hate the word curated. Anytime I hear it now, I think of you. And I'm just as annoyed as you are with whatever word.
I'm fully curated. Well, we fully curated. But also, I'm letting you know that you watch the show on Peacock with closed captioning turned on. At least this is how it is on my Roku TV.
It re spells Seton to Satan. I email you a screenshot. So yeah, I just want to let you guys know. I don't know if that has anything to do with Seton leading the show.
Maybe this is more of like an exorcism. But either way, Seton, thanks for the memories and good luck with the new gig and Hail Seton. All right. Thank you, Steven.
That's great. I think with closed caption, don't they take the word that is as closely assimilated, assimilated to your name or the pronunciation of your name? Yeah, that's exactly right. Like the name Seton wouldn't be in their lexicon.
So they would go with the closest thing. And it's Satan. Not a judgment. That's great.
I mean, very well. Could've been Stephen. Like my mom called you. Correct.
No idea. She would be like, how's Seaman? I go, his name is Seton, Mom. It's still one of my favorite things.
We had like this. We're in the New York studio at the time. And there was a huge executive from a major truck brand in and we were all celebrating like this sort of partnership. And like the dude is a big deal.
He just took over the whole company and he came in to do this and we're talking about these things or whatever. There's all these salespeople around. It's like, oh, this or whatever. And you know that it had bled into our lives so much that you had said to me, hey, Stephen, can we do this thing?
And I just answered without even thinking twice about it. And you could just see the people from this, I mean, massive truck company like he just called him Seaman. But nobody calls anybody by their real name with the backroom guy. So Marvin is Melvin or Mark.
And then, and I found myself calling him and I say, Hey, Melvin, and I realized, you know, his name is Marvin, but I called him Melvin before Eric, the big German everybody calls him Derek. So it feels like everybody has a different name. If you come in and you go, Oh, I thought your name was Melvin. No, it's Marvin.
Wait, your boss doesn't even know your name. I do. But this is what everybody when we're not on the show, they call each other. Yes, Melvin.
I just had it. I just had to tell one of our interns, everyone, no one calls me Marvin unless we're on the show. So don't be alone. He's like, isn't he?
Martin? Yeah, it can be. Dave in South Dakota. Good morning, Dave.
What's on your mind today? Hey, good morning, fellow. It's morning Dan. I say, you know, I wanted to say quick, good buying good luck to see here yesterday.
I thought though, there was a moment that was kind of telling Dan, you were talking about Seton, Dan, his decision coming up here to do something different. You said you keep trying to convince yourself that it's going to be a good thing. And I'm sure you already know the Seton, but I just thought that was a real flack, but we're touching moment because it sort of showed how much you've meant to everyone. And you know, there you have the Venatorius GDP pausing and saying it to convince himself that it was going to be a good thing for everybody to let you go.
So I just wanted to bring that, bring that up and say that it looks like it meant a lot to you, Dan. And I'm sure it did everybody else. If it's okay, one more quick thing. I just want to say, well, I'm on a positive note.
I want to say something positive about Fritzy. Oh, he caught showed a clip earlier, Brando Chambley hitting a three wood and Seton coming up after that. And they were sort of seeing who might be able to hit it longer. When they were done, there was Fritzy holding Chambley's sport coat for him as he was going to put it back on.
And I just thought that was a very thoughtful and polite thing to do. Okay. Well, thank you, Dave. Yeah.
That might have been one of those minimal kindness moments where he just gave me the jackets out here holding. Yeah. You didn't volunteer. Do you have to hold your jacket while you're playing over?
Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of different emotions attached to this because I have to do what's best for the show. But I also have to do what's best for Seton because I did promise that Dan has that.
If you got a better opportunity, I wanted you to take that opportunity, no matter what it was, if it was a better opportunity for you and your family. So you kind of have this dichotomy, this tug of war of, yeah, but I got to replace Seton on the show. And, you know, Dylan is a younger person and he's inexperienced, but we really like him and he's fun, but Seton's got 25 years of radio experience and you can't replace that right away. But if I live up to what I said and that is, what is best for him?
And this is what's best for him. And that's why I said I got to convince myself that it's going to be best for all of us. I'm more sure of it's best for Seton than it is for the show, but it's only because Dylan is going to have to grow in that position just like Marvin did when we lost McLovin. McLovin wanted to be around his daughters and he was commuting four hours a day.
And I said, look, this is a better job than what you're going to take, but this allows you to be a better dad. That's the important part of all of this. So you get caught up in being selfish and, you know, I learned that with McLovin. He had to do what was right for him.
And he did. He did what was right for him. Tripp and Vegas is back. Hi, Tripp.
What's on your mind today? Hey, good morning. I'm going to speak with y'all at a few comments about Gus and two questions for your guys. I'm kind of the privilege of going there about 25 times in my life.
You don't have to like golf to enjoy a Gus, the azaleas bloom, they're heated if they don't bloom. And then people don't understand how hard it is to walk that course. The elevation is not seen by the TV and my two questions are this? How far down does Marvin have to grip a golf club to be able to hold it if he can?
And then next week, and then next week, we're all the dentists be standing remotely because there'll be no seat. Oh, I see. No seat. And reserve seat.
I don't know. Marvin, you can swing a golf club. We'll check her in the brain. You can hold a golf club.
We'll check her in the brain. Okay. All right. J.D.
and Tulsa. Good morning, J.D. Good morning, Dan. Thank you for taking my calls.
Just a couple of things. First of all, I wanted to say that seat will be missed when I found out yesterday. I missed a show on Tuesday, but when I found out yesterday, it was truly, it was truly depressing to hear about that and think about it. So, see, you'll be missed very late.
But secondly, you were talking about a dog collar shocking and I had a little story about that a few years ago. A bunch of co-workers and I had a Christmas party and I walked in the room and there was a guy standing there facing the other way. And I said, what's going on? And he was taking a little bear with a shock collar.
And he was taking it a little bit lower in a worse spot. But he wanted to see how far this is the crazy guy. But he wanted to see how far he goes. So I bought it.
Just both of them with a one. I could take that and my boss gave me the buzzer. So I said, OK, here's two. I hit him with about four.
And then he said, OK, I can do another one. I said, OK, here goes three. And I hit him with about seven. And I ended up getting him all the way to the 12 before he lost it.
OK, wait, is this in his groin area? Yes. It's in his groin area. Damn.
Yeah. I mean, we did the shock collar for Dylan. He lost a bet. By the way, that's on the gambling podcast and that's available at damnpatric.com.
Thank you, JD. Alan and Charleston. Hi, Alan, what's on your mind today? Hi.
Good morning, Dan. I hope everything works out great for you. I know how you value everything in that man cave, but I think it would be great if you presented to seat in that guar mask on top of the door that you have there. This way, he can put it in his new man cave.
What do you think? Well, I think Seton is planning on taking that. You know, I really wasn't. No, I wasn't planning on taking that.
No, I would. Would you like to have the guar? Oh, my God. Are you kidding me?
OK. That would be amazing. OK. What we'll do on Friday is I'll get a ladder and then you can go up there and take it down as we end the show.
That is. So this will be your one. One quaring moment. That's great.
That's there's not a lot of those in existence. There's probably maybe two. Yeah. No, there's a couple of them.
Yeah, that would be incredible. All right. Corey in Kansas City. Hi, Corey.
What do you have for me? Hey, good morning, Mr. Patrick. Teeter and the boys.
Marv, Seton, blue tank driver guys. I got cut off yesterday before I could address Seton. So with your permission, Dan, it's not what I'd like to say. OK.
So, Seton, man, I'm a date early on this time or tomorrow, so I had to call it a day. I remember distinctly nickel on a meeting and honestly not really very much an update about the show. Marv, you truly are another to start at five and begin the next week. You are going to be my favorite.
But, Seton, you've been my part of the show, so I started listening to the pod and I haven't been to days since 2009. When I finally became an e-regular caller, I always started each one with the Wu-Tang forever shout out to you because your taste and love of music is what made you my favorite on the show. You're humor too, man. From the fake glass and personating for these cough to Jimmy Jefferson and all the other outstanding impressions you've concocted, man, you're just overall energy and opinion shared.
You'll be missed on the daily. Well, thank you, Corey. Glad you called back. I appreciate that.
Yeah. Look at that scene. How about that? How pouring a loaf.
Is this like Charlie Sheen leaving two and a half men or like Shelly Long leaving cheers? Charlie Sheen left two and a half men. That wasn't a good situation. Shelly Long went to make movies.
I don't really appreciate the Shelly Long part of that. But, I would have thought if you had given me the chance that if I was betting, I would have thought it would have ended much more Charlie Sheen like given the way I'd been living my life for a long time. A lot closer to that than Shelly Long. That's why when you came in and you said, you know, you were like kind of casually talking about not drinking anymore and how long you'd been sober.
And I was like, I was surprised that all of a sudden you wake up one day and you go, that's it. I don't want to drink anymore. And it's great that you got to that point in your life because how many people do? Certainly the older you get, you're like, who gives a damn?
But, you know, you came to that realization and like, you know, there's a lot of different things. But that's one of those moments that will stay with me because you made a commitment to that. And it was important to you. And you realized having a son being married, you know, all the things that go with that.
That's one of the things that will stand out probably more so than all the humor that we had. You know, I, I had gotten to a point where I was like conscious of the fact that, um, you like, I didn't leave a room in my house without having to drink in my hand. Like if I was going to go from one to one, I was like, I'll let me bring my whiskey with me. I'm going to go here, whatever this.
And I just, uh, I really had to be a better example for my son. You know, I really couldn't let him see me doing that. Like, Dad, you want to go play Madden in the other room? Sure.
Let me bring this beer with me. Let me bring this whisk. And I just didn't really want him seeing me be like that anymore. And you'd see me like that for way too long.
And, uh, once I had this sort of window of sobriety, I had about two weeks. I was going to do a month, but I had about two weeks. I was like, I just saw this door open and I was like, this is my chance. I don't know that I'm ever going to take this chance again to actually try to clean myself up.
And, uh, just, it's stuck somehow, you know, how long's it been? Uh, it's over about two and a half years. So it'll be, it'll be three years in, uh, end of September, the long three years. Yeah.
Yeah. So it's, uh, and that I, I haven't been able to say that since I was in about third grade, you know, when that, when did you start drinking? Uh, well, uh, probably like fourth grade. Sneaking?
Uh, yeah, kinda. Yeah. It was, you know, I grew up in a culture of drinking. You know, like my town, um, and the area that I grew up in, it was, uh, it had previously been in the Guinness Book of World Records for most of ours in a square mile.
You know, and like if you went to the firehouse, like all of the firehouses, for some reason, the town is a mile square, but there's like seven firehouses. And every firehouse is a bar. And every time you go, it was just, it was, you're constantly in it, you know, and, um, yeah, I just, uh, I started, I wasn't drinking regularly, um, but I was having alcohol at that time. Uh, more than I should have, you know, more than like, uh, sip off of somebody's beer or whatever.
It was more than that. And I really shouldn't have been. Um, but it's, uh, yeah, I just, I've, it's probably my alcohol is probably my first true love, you know, more than, uh, sports or music or skateboarding or any, uh, like girlfriend or partner I've ever had. That was the thing that like, I just wanted to hang out and drink all day.
It's all I wanted to do, you know? Uh, I want to thank Rob who was one of the backroom guys putting together during the commercial breaks on Peacock and NBC Sports Network. All of the archival stuff with Seton involved in it that we wanted to do. I mean, there's so many memories, you know, I forgot how many memories that we've had just with Seton alone.
But Rob and the team back there went through all the archives and I said, bring out the greatest hits with us Seton. So we still have tomorrow to play, uh, even more of those. We'll take a break. Last call for phone calls.
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Last call for phone calls. What we learned. What's in store tomorrow? I tell the Dannets if you're going to tell me something and then you don't want me to say it on the show, then you have to tell me that yesterday with Marvin and he starts talking about his prom date.
Shaniqua. Right? Well, my prom date was Lisa Richards. Oh, okay.
Yeah. Lisa Richards was fine as one. Okay. Yes.
Careful. But then there's Shaniqua. Yes. She came over to 106 in Mars and I entertained when I was a tiny boy.
When you were in college at UConn late high school early college doing damage before I met my wife. Of course. But now me. I'm a family man.
Yes, you are. And you are the father. Whatever. Whatever.
Whatever. More he had a run. Yeah, he did. He did.
And he only had two topics on the show. Or the really bad teenage kids. Oh. He was like, I do whatever I want.
And no one can tell me anything. Cross his arms. Yeah. Those like little set up pieces where like everybody thinks I'm bad news.
Whatever. Guess what? They're right. Cross his arms.
But who did it better? Springer or Morrie? Because Springer was hotter. Springer had a lot of things going on there.
I mean, you're right. Morrie. He didn't have too many topics there that were discussed. It was either you're pregnant with that guy or you're not and or the troubled teen.
And then you'd have the mom and he's not listening to her. She won't listen to me. And then you would have some kind of therapist on there. You know?
Yes. And Springer would have more fights with bouncers. Steve getting around the chin and Jerry Jerry. That was always the thing.
There's actual fights going on. Yeah. But if you look back, Phil Donahue is the one who created all of this. He was he was so far ahead of his time.
He was so good at what he did. And then Oprah copied that and I think people forgot about Phil Donahue. He was like good topics, serious topics. And he would be running around with his microphone interviewing people.
Yeah. Yeah. He's like asking the crowd there and the people that he's interviewing is like, you know, on the chase show, we've got the KKK, the Black Panthers and a bunch of punk rockers. Let's get into it.
Like, what dude? This is crazy. What could go wrong? The show is nuts.
Yeah. And then Geraldo did his as well. Sally Jessie Raphael had hers with her red glasses. Yeah.
Daytime. Everybody had everybody wanted to do one of those shows. Chris in Texas. Hi, Chris.
What's on your mind? Hey, Dan. How's it going, man? Good.
Good. Good. Good. Good to meet y'all.
First time, long time. Six foot. 180. On the move.
Sounds super exciting. The mid-11 leaving with a big blow. The Dan retirement with a big blow. Seton leaving now is a big blow.
I'm starting to feel the weight of the show kind of culminating here and just wanted to call in and give everybody a congratulation and props and let y'all know they all have guided me for the past 20 years in my sports life. It's been awesome. I just wanted to call in. Thank you, Chris.
I said this last hour. We don't know the impact we have. You know, on your day life, the role that we play, we hopefully play a role. We appreciate the opportunity.
You know, for one hour or 15 minutes or three hours, you listen on the podcast. You join us when we're out at the super, whatever. It's never taken for granted. And your stories are our stories.
And we appreciate that. The opportunity is rare where you get to be part of somebody's life. They're daily routine. And it's not lost on us.
But we do want to have fun. What you hear is real. I mean, it's sports. We're supposed to have fun.
You know, there's time to be serious, but we're in it together until the very end. Eddie and Boise. Hi, Eddie. What's on your mind today?
What's up, Dan? Thanks for taking the call. This is a second time. Yeah.
I just want to echo kind of what Cory said about music. I say a lot of words to see. I remember when you were up front with Polly on the board and coming back from break. All of a sudden I hear leave alone by no effects.
I'm like, heck yeah dude. Also, your attention to soccer too. Even minor league soccer and semi pro soccer. It's really, really good.
Speaking of Boise, we just got our first U.S.L. soccer team. And if you're ever doing any kind of content out here at West, I welcome you to reach out. And I'm proud to even take a hold of her.
And I know one of the sponsors can get you on and meet you the team and get you a tour of the stadium. So, appreciate that. Just good luck to you, your wife, Karen. And also, man.
Thank you, Eddie. Three more hours. Tomorrow. Three more hours.
Tomorrow. Last call. Meet Friday. Seaton's controlling the menu.
The music. Let's go around the room while we learn on the program, Todd. Dave Roberts didn't want to throw anyone into the bus, but he noted Eric Greg's very favorable strike zone for the von Hernandez. And I just want to press me in the morning.
Seaton. Marvin thinks I'm making a Shelly Long type decision. Riley accused me of being Shelly Long leaving ESPN. I'm right about the same age, Dan.
Are you leaving ESPN? I'm just 50. Marvin. Dave Roberts loves Canadians.
Paul! We're here for Dan Hurley. That's it. Thanks for joining us.
Talk to you tomorrow. This is an iHeart podcast. Karen's Heat Human.