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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio Final Hour. In this Wednesday, Dan and the
Dans Dan Patrick Show a lot of fun so far.
Chris Webber always great Last Hour, Travis Kelsey the chiefs
All Pro tight End First Hour. You missed any interviews,
go to Dan Patrick dot com. Coming up, we're gonna
bring back an interview we conducted with the late great

(00:21):
comedian Norm McDonald, who passed away. Used to be Weekend
Update anchor. Got fired reportedly according to Norm, because he
would make fun of OJ Simpson on Weekend Update on
Saturday Night Live. Somebody in management at NBC didn't like
that Norm kept making fun of OJ Simpson and this

(00:43):
is post double murder by OJ Simpson and Norm Norm
got fired from the Weekend Update. There was a there
was a time recently where he started tweeting to the
dan Ets and just like random stuff, he would live
tweet golf and it wasn't like he was trying to
be funny live tweeting golf. But he also followed the

(01:06):
four dan Es for a while, like a month for
some reason. But I tried to interview him in twenty fourteen,
and it went as you would probably expect if you're
familiar with Norm McDonald, all over the place. If GPS
was trying to map that out, it would have been
all over the place. Also mentioned in the first hour
that a source told me that there's mutual interest with

(01:28):
James Franklin at Penn State and USC. I saw where
Sean Salisbury, a former co host of mine and former
quarterback at USC now a radio host in Houston. He
sent out a tweet and he said, we have to
stop thinking. These kids, even no players twenty plus years ago,
they want to build a new tradition. We better find

(01:50):
a coach who was not living in the past. That's
for us former players and fans. The president, the president
and future are what these kids care about. They know
more about the Oregon uniforms then they do about student body. Right.
It may hurt our pride as Trojans, but we all
better adjust or you get left behind. We better hire
a guy who has the energy of the players. And

(02:13):
then he ends it with facts exclamation point and Sean's
being realistic and you have to be as much as
we as older guys. Go man, USC, You'd love to
play at USC. I don't know what an eighteen year
old is thinking. If I'm an eighteen year old, I'm thinking, Okay,
can I play right away? What kind of offense you
got do? I like that coach, name, image and likeness.

(02:37):
When I was eighteen, I would have wanted to play
at USC. But somebody now kid now unless his dad goes, hey,
you know you want to go to USC. They want
to know where can I play on Sundays? What's the
quickest way I can get in and get to Sunday
and play? And I think there's a lot of teams

(02:58):
where you go like, you just want to be relevant.
Oregon is relevant. Well, they had a big win obviously
against Ohio State, but they've been relevant because of their uniforms.
As strange as that may sound. Hadn't played great football,
but that big win against Ohio State. Ohio State is
relevant because it's the Ohio State and you're usually in

(03:20):
a national title game, or at least in the picture.
Alabama trumps everybody. Clemson is in there, and it's quick.
It's easy to fall out. Florida State fell out, Texas
fell out. You can be up there and then all
of a sudden you're gone one day. And it's not
just college teams. You know, it was a year ago,
one year and eight months. The Texans were up twenty

(03:43):
four to nothing on the Chiefs in the Divisional round
of the playoffs. So it's twenty four to nothing one
year and eight months ago. Since then, Houston has lost
JJ Watt, DeAndre Hopkins, Deshaun Watson doesn't even play, and
they're expect you to be one of the worst teams
in the league. Just over three years ago, the Rockets

(04:04):
won sixty five games. The Rockets who up three games
to two on the Warriors in the Western Conference Finals,
Chris Paul, James Harden, they had Capella, they had Gordon.
Now they're in the mix as the worst team in
the league. And now they're trying to dump the contract
of John Wall who has two years ninety one million

(04:26):
dollars left on that contract. So that's three years ago.
The Astros in twenty seventeen won the World Series Josel
two Bay MVP. Now very well liked team, and then
the scandal. They're the cheaters, proven the most proven cheating

(04:49):
team that won a title in American team sports history.
Fans show up at their away games to make fun
of them. That's in the span of three years, four years. Now.
The Astros are still good team, but they're forever stained
with this. It doesn't take long. Like Tampa is the
toast of the sports world. Now you know they don't

(05:10):
support the Rays, but the Race are a really good team,
the Lightning a great team, the Buccaneers, but it won't
take long before it all goes south. Boston had a run,
unbelievable run all four sports. But you hold on for
dear life, and that's why you think, oh, there's always

(05:31):
next year. Well there wasn't next year for the Texans.
There wasn't next year for their Rockets. You know, Los
Angeles feels like it's in great shake. Dodgers got the Lakers,
UCLA playing a little better, Angels not so much. But

(05:54):
you got the Chargers, I mean you have you have
a nucleus there, the Clippers. It's a good time to
be a Los Angeles sports fan. But it doesn't take long.
As Houston has proven. They had Golden State on the ropes.
Now look at them. The Texans had the Chiefs on
the ropes twenty four to nothing. The final score was

(06:18):
fifty one thirty one. Yes, McLevin, the NFL you could
get back fast though, like you can. They could be back.
This might have been the best thing that ever happened
in them, that everything fall apart, right. I don't know
if it's the best thing. I think the best thing

(06:40):
would have been that you beat the Kansas City Chiefs
and you get nothing for DeAndre Hopkins. JJ Watt and
I had known that he was not going to stay there,
that they weren't going to keep him. The question was
would he go to the Packers or would he go elsewhere? Well,
he went to Arizona. No surprise there, Deshaun Watson, the
Great Mystery contain news. Hey you see healthy? Yeah? Can

(07:04):
you play? Yeah? Where's the on game day? I don't know?
Is he at home? Then he'n get to go to game? Yeah? See.
Our team's too quick to go into full rebuild rebuild mode.
It feels like the Texans had some pieces for a
while and it was always like, all right, you guys

(07:24):
are you're close, You're close, your cluck, and then all
of a sudden, it's like, I get rid of everybody,
let's just rebuild. Well, you have a window of opportunity
and you want to make sure that you take advantage
of it. Because if you hold on for one more year,
then you may miss out on something. You may miss
out on that quarterback. You know, Jacksonville. Jacksonville was on
the verge of knocking off the Patriots great defense, and

(07:47):
then all of a sudden it's gone, long gone. Yeah
mc clung. But the Texans had to sweep Bill O'Brien
out of there, Yes they do. They were just there,
you know, they were ten and five every year or whatever,
ten and six, maybe a fresh start they got. Limbo.
Isn't limbo worse than being bad? You don't want to
be in that what was eight and eight? Well, seven

(08:09):
and nine, eight and eight. You either want to be rebuilding,
get a great draft pick, or you want to be
competing for a championship. Yeah. See direct Jacksonville, like you
just said, they did the same thing. They were this
close and then started unloading everybody out and just getting
rid of everybody. It's like, what the hell are you
doing that for your disclosed I know, I know. And
then they got rid of Tom Conflin. Yeah. Paul. Jacksonville's

(08:30):
big mistake was the twenty seventeen draft. No offense but
a fourth pick. They took Leonard Fournette and stuck with
Blake Bortles. And you know, they could have taken Patrick
Mahomes or DeShawn Watson without even trading up. They had.
They had Watson and Mahomes sitting there. And even if
you say Mahomes wasn't that hot, Watson was, and what
they could have added Watson to that? Jackson Maline, I
love to say that I saw that Patrick Mahomes was

(08:53):
going to be this. I just thought he was like
Brett Farve, an entertaining player. Deshaun Watson had the full resume.
Everything about Deshaun Watson, I thought, Okay, somebody's got to
take him. And then nobody was taking him. And then
he started a fall, and I went, what else did
you need to see about Deshaun Watson? And we can
talk about him the person, but I get you know,

(09:13):
we didn't know anything about him back then. He was
well liked and he wasn't afraid. He played big. I
don't know the Texans actually go, let's trade up and
get him Kansas City, Let's trade up and get him.
Like sometimes you the reason why teams are bad is

(09:34):
because things like that. On draft days, you can say wow,
Lebrown's got all these draft picks, and I kept reminding people,
but if you're not good at drafting, it doesn't matter. Baltimore,
I could give them scraps and they'd somehow find an
All Pro player they were so good at drafting, didn't

(09:55):
It didn't matter how many it was the quality of
those that they were drafting. Like the raid Man, they
got a lot of draft picks. Are they any good
at drafting? And that's why you have some of these
teams that the infrastructure is not solid, and then that,
you know, is something that bears out on draft night
where you go, what are they thinking? There's a few

(10:16):
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(10:57):
Let's see what else do I need to mention? Oh?
Tom Brady had this to say, and I'm not sure
how to take this that he was talking about all
the young quarterbacks. And this is on his Let's Go
podcast with Jim Gray and Larry Fitzgerald in Serious Sex Hit.
There's a lot of rookies playing. That's pretty amazing. I
don't remember this many young rookie players even watching Yesterday.

(11:19):
When I think of even the second year guys to
Herbert Burrow, Trevor Lawrence, I mean Fields played a little bit,
Try Lance played a little bit, Zach Wilson's playing Mac
Jones's plan. That's a lot of young quarterbacks so kind
of gone. Or the days of Drew Brees, Peyton Manning,
Philip Rivers, Eli Manning. You know, those are the guys

(11:39):
that I'm used to hear and now I'm watching Yesterday
and I'm seeing all these young guys. So you know,
that's just the way it goes. You know, I'll be
forgotten here soon enough. I'll move on and they'll be
onto someone else. But that's just the way football goes
as does life. Okay, this felt like maybe Tom reminding
him that he's still playing, these other guys are playing,

(12:00):
and these kids are twenty some years younger than him.
It's like, oh, yeah, here's another wave of young quarterbacks.
And you know, we don't have Philip Rivers or Drew
Brees or those quarterbacks anymore. I'm I'll be gone one
of these days, but in the meantime, I'm still here
and these guys are twenty years younger than me. Did

(12:21):
anybody else get that feeling that Tom felt like a
victory lab. I don't know if it was an unintentional
victory lab, but it did feel like a little bit
of a victory lap there. Yes, don Yeah, I felt
that to me. He was just self deprecating enough to
add that part about they'll forget about me soon enough,
just to make a nutdown too egotistical. Thank you, Ton,
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what's on your mind today? Hi? Dan, I'm a penn
State alum and a forty year season ticket hold or.

(13:45):
I have great respect for you. You're a good guy.
But if James Franklin ever leaves penn State and he
made down the line, he's leaving for an NFL head
coaching job, and I'll tell you why he wouldn't go
to USC. The one main reason and Fritzie will appreciate this.
There's a whole note song that describes James Franklin to
a t and that's family. Man. I don't know if

(14:06):
you're a where. He has two daughters, one of which
has sickle cell. He isolated his family in Florida last year.
Nothing against USC or Los Angeles, but Happy Valley is
a lot better place to raise a family than any
big city. All right, well, thank you, Dave. Look, I
don't have any opinion, like I don't have any anything

(14:28):
invested in this. Oh I know. Let's put it this way.
A source who said that the Big Ten was shutting
down football last year is what is who told me this? Okay?
If James Franklin is staying at Penn State, he could
have mutual interest to get a better deal at Penn State.
I have no idea. I just tell you when I
get information and it's vetted information and people I trust,

(14:52):
then I pass it on to you. If you're a
season ticket holder for forty years, you are a die
hard Penn State fan. I respect it, I appreciate it,
and I have If James Franklin wants to stay there
for the next thirty years, great. I don't care if
he wants to go to USC great. I'm in the
content business, not you know, feelings, their personal opinion. It's

(15:17):
just I tell you when I hear something and where
he wants to raise kids. Is that a fact or
an opinion? I don't know. Yeah. See, they might be
a little too close to this one. Yeah. I get
like people feel like, oh, you know, how can you
say that. I'm not. I don't mean to disrupt life here.
I'm just telling you this is I deliver the food.

(15:40):
I'm I'm uber eats. I just deliver. Okay, somebody else
is making the food, not me. Just deliver the food,
that's all and leabe a tip. Okay. Yeah, maybe we'll
get I'm caught up in this, and I'm sure there
are gonna be other coaches ask about this because there's

(16:01):
a lot of names out there, you know, Luke Fickle.
I was told yesterday Luke Fickle's not leaving the Midwest. Okay.
I mean I didn't say that he's up for the job.
I just was I was told he won't leave because
he doesn't want to leave the Midwest. Yeah, mcclun meaning
there might be any vacancy up north at some point

(16:21):
at Penn State. Oh I was just thinking, like when
you said leave yours, who's going to go after him
Ohio State as Ryan Day? Oh yeah, Ryan Day is
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(17:25):
coming up. Update the poll results, Meg eleven, Which job
would you want? USC or Penn State? Sixty four percent
say USC. How's Twitter on this topic, It's split. I
think it might depend on geography. You know, it does
seem like everyone gets into the lifestyle question, so then
it becomes where would you want to live in Petsylvania
your la. I don't know if coaches care, the wives

(17:48):
of coaches care, where you're going to raise your family.
But all I have is information I'm given. Not know
what is James Franklin thinking. If he stays or he goes,
then you going to have an opinion on it. But
as of right now, and this is just information I received,
and there're gonna be other names that have come up
that this is just mutual interest from what I'm told.

(18:10):
And I'm told that Luke Fickle, who's the Cincinnati coach,
not interested in leaving the Midwest, and that David Shaw
wouldn't be on USC's radar. So those are just things
that I've heard. But you know, there could be other
people who who have been involved and they were going
to give the job to urban Meyer. I was told
that yesterday, and then you had the new president came

(18:33):
in and said, no, this is what I'm told trying
to clean things up. Nope, not going down that road.
And therefore Clay Helton, who was safe to keep in
the job, almost like let's get through all of the
stuff that's going on at USC and then once we
kind of emerge, come up for air and then maybe

(18:55):
you decide that you're going to bring in a marquee coach.
But that's what the feeling was because you extended Clay Hilton.
This is going to take a couple of months here.
You may not even hear something. Something may not get
traction until December. But another thing, you know, Adam Schefter said,
Eric B. Enemy would be interested in the USC job. Well,

(19:17):
you might have to wait until mid February for Eric B.
Enemy because he's the Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator. Can
you do that with recruiting, there's a lot of things,
but I was told that they're not going to circle
back and go after urban Meyer. That's what I was
told yesterday. A lot of information and there's gonna be

(19:38):
there's gonna be people trying to parlay this into getting
a raise. They'll be coaches thanks to their agents. Then
they'll put their names out there and all of a sudden,
you'll go, oh, they're staying at said university. Yes, because
they probably were staying at sed University. It's like you
take your name out of the running for a job
when you know you're not going to get the job.

(19:59):
It's rare when you go, I'm taking my name out
even though I'm the leading candidate. It doesn't happen, or
at least it doesn't happen very often. I got the
news yesterday that Norm McDonald had passed away. And the
first time I met Norm was the nineteen ninety eight
SPS he hosted, and he was fire breathing. He was unbelievable.
He knew he was going to be one and done.

(20:21):
In fact, I think his approach to the SPS that
night as the host was let me try to be
one and done so they don't ask me again. And
if that was the case, he succeeded because he was
taken on everybody in the audience there, but we had
him on. In twenty fourteen. He passed away yesterday. He
had been battling cancer for almost a decade, and you know,

(20:42):
he would tweet about golf. He would just sort of
if you get a chance and watch his one year
show on Netflix, and I think this was a couple
of years ago, and I watched every episode. He had
David Spade on. I think as his first guest, Jane
Fonda was on. He was flirting with her and it
was it was just wonderful. David Letterman was on with Norm.

(21:04):
But here's Norm McDonald. He joined us May of twenty fourteen,
and here's how it went. Actor comedian Norm McDonald, The
Pride of Kubeck. Oh. So the podcast Norm McDonald Live.
You'll see him in Austin, Texas. So it'll be coming
up in June and Aspen, Colorado The Belly Up in Aspen,

(21:27):
Colorado on July fifth and sixth. Big sports fan, Norm
McDonald back on the show. And you do a lot
of tweeting, Norm, You'll watch a lot of sports. Yeah, yeah,
I loves sports man. Hey, Dan, I heard you old
boys talking about Bob Dylan. Yeah. I thought I thought
i'd share a tale about him with you. Okay. I

(21:47):
went to see him at here in Los Angeles with
because but my Merle Haggard was opening for him, you know,
and I'm just an old chunk of Cole and I
like Earl, So I was there for Merle, but I
stayed for for Bob Dylan, and uh, he was kind

(22:08):
of a it was like you were saying, you couldn't
understand what his songs he was singing. And but anyways,
halfway through the concert, all of a sudden, because he
doesn't talk to the audience or something, all of a
sudden he started talking to the audience and he said
he said Ringo, Ringo, Ringo, Ringo, Ringo about forty five times.

(22:34):
So everyone was sort of shock. And finally a light
went into the audience and it was Ringo Star was
sitting there was some lady and then he was he's uncomfortable,
He's like Ringo. So he said about twelve more times.
Did you meet him, Bob Nlan, Yeah, yeah, man, man.
What happened was I was gonna finish my Ringo Star.

(22:57):
I'm sorry the Ringo Ringo as he said ring like
a whole bunch of times. And then he said that,
he said, and any any sounds you want to hear
Ringo And then Ringo Star said, I don't know, um um,
do you know any Bob Dylan's on do I for
the story? Yeah? Yeah, name one U tangled up in blue? Yeah,

(23:21):
so he said that. Ringo goes, well, how about tangled
up in blue? He goes, I already did that one.
You just didn't understand that he was. Don't tangled up
and don't understood anything. But yeah I did. I didn't
mean him, but I don't know him because I'm in
the country. I'm in the outlock country. So I was
there for Merle. Yeah, I like Merle's Norman McDonald I

(23:42):
think still with us, the actor comedian. Yeah you you.
You do a great job of always making me uncomfortable
when you hosted the SPS that one time. Oh you
were there. I remember that. Oh my god. I like
I was, and you were. You had jokes, but they
weren't directed at me. I was uncomfortable and they were
even directed to me. Yeah, I didn't even I have

(24:02):
this thing where I don't even know when I do bad,
but that happens to me a lot. I come off,
I go, hey, that went pretty well, right, They're like
where everyone left? I'm like, oh, but when you go
to these places the belly up in Aspen, Colorado. Oh yeah,
the belly up? What do you? What are you working on?
When you do? Is there always because comedians always say, oh,

(24:24):
I'm going into working on material or are you just
rehashing material? Well, I don't do a comedy on I
don't televise my comedy, so I've only done like one special.
I did a special a couple of years ago, about
an hour special. But I have like so much material
of nine, nine or ten hours of material. So what

(24:45):
I do now is I just talked to the crowd
the entire time, and anything they bring up I have.
I have material on. Oh so you leave it up
to them, Yeah, I just have a discussion with Oh
look at you. Yeah, it's like you you have a
discussion my dannists, your listeners, your your Dana's what do
you call him? The danis? Yeah. Are you up for

(25:06):
this Craig ferguson job to take over for him? Or
are you the one starting the rumor that you're up
for Craig Ferguson's job. Oh neither, Well, so you're not
up for it. No, I'm not up for it, nor
have I started anything. What happened was I just you know,
I tweeked and I talked to my my followers, you know,

(25:27):
I mean, I don't I don't want to sound like
the pale Nazarene, but I have a lot of follows.
How many followers do you? Oh? Good god, it must
be into the hundreds of thousands. Really, yeah, but the
most famous follower you have, any of them don't care
for me. You're following them. You go like, hey, guys,

(25:48):
what's going on today? And then they're like, you son
about that? But you know what, I know, I started
tweeting sports and then that'll bleed followers. You know, your forward.
But you're doing live, live, live golf, play by play,
norm I do I do any live sport, but I

(26:09):
like live golf the best, because you know, golf is
the greatest sport of all, man versus man, man versus himself,
man versus nature. You know what I mean? Dan? Yeah,
I do. You know, since you told the Dylan story
and it was okay, can you salvage this by telling
the Bill Cosby story. Oh one time I met I

(26:29):
met the great Waylon Jennings. Yeah yeah, so so you
know it's something stupid publicist lady, I'm like, oh my god,
I would love to I just talk to Waylon Jennings
for a moment because I had a great story about
him because when I when I was young, my dad
would play Wayne Jennings for me and it was kind
of important to me. So I wanted to tell Waylon

(26:51):
Jennings the stories that this publicist lady goes. I'm sure
he'd love to meet you too. I'm like, no, no,
I didn't know who I am like. She's like, yeah,
I biddy. I'm like, no, he doesn't. And I'm like so,
I'm like petrified that she's going to wreck it. And
then sure enough, I'm standing in the back, you know,
looking as he finishes a set and he key comes

(27:14):
out and you see this lady talking to him and
he's like why. He's like huh, he's like talking to
him his ear. He's like why what? And I'm like,
oh my god, Like obviously she's telling him my biography,
you know. So he comes off the stage and I
have this big thing I have, you know, memorized to
say to him, this big touching story but me and
my dad, and I'm like, so I go, it's a

(27:36):
pleasure to meet you, mister Jennings, and he goes, it's
a pleasure to meet you. I've enjoyed you on late
night television and also in the situation comedy. Do they
rite off your IMDb? Yeah? Right, the Bill Cosby story
Bill Cosby, No, I met Bill Cosby as my hero
and stuff. So he does opening for him, and uh,

(28:00):
I try to make this short, but I was opening
for him, and he said, I said, you know, when
I was young, you know, my You're my favorite comic
and I listened to you with my dad. You know.
He goes, where do you live? I go, what? I go, Uh, well,
my dad lives in Ottawa, you know. He goes. He goes,

(28:21):
I think I'm going to Abby had a guy with him.
He goes Herb when them Ottawa? And so Herb goes, yes,
he understands everything. Cosby says, you know, even though Cosby
just uses nouns at this point, and so he says, yes,
we're in Ottawa and in August, and he goes, man's
father Ottawa. He goes, yeah, yes, definitely, we'll get him

(28:46):
back to the you know stage, Yes, mister Cosby, he said, yes,
we will take him to the stage into the back
and the man will have and we will give him
a man's father. And so he's writing it and you know,
and then he says, the man has to become the
phone number for the man. So then he gives me

(29:08):
a piece of paper, you know, to write down my
dad's phone number. And then he said, she is the
man needs pen with paper with pen. So then the
guy gets a pen. So then and then at that point,
I remember my dad has been dead for fifteen years,
so I didn't want to tell him anyone. I say, oh, yeah,

(29:31):
my dad's dad, and then ruined the fun moment. So
I just wrote down like I knew the Ottawa you know,
area code, and then I wrote down the seven random digits.
So Bill, what the little half the man? So I go,
thank you? Really? And six months later I was doing

(29:53):
this little guest shot of the Drew Carey show and
I get a phone calling and it also shows you
powerful these guys are. They can somehow find you. But
the stage manager run up ross Bill Cosby's other fun
out what So I go over, I go hello, He goes, yes,
the man does not let the phone and they go,
oh what, he goes the man I phoned the man?

(30:15):
Your father was not the man was the father, And
I go, oh, yeah, no, that's the number. That's the number.
I'm just gonna continue lying anyway, so you're staying with it.
Was very very sweet the man. He probably still thinks
your dad's alive. Yeah, he's probably still trying to before

(30:36):
I let you go. Did you date Julia Roberts? Um, listen, Dan,
you know, a feller doesn't no dating. Doesn't you know,
tell me anything other than you maybe you went out
in that dinner? Did you date Julia robertson? Um, I've
met her? Have you kissed her? Oh? God, man, what

(31:00):
kind of filth? What kind of what kind of filth
is this? Look what you said earlier in this interview,
And I'm filth because I said, did you make out
with Julia Roberts? Oh my god? Now I see how
you're You keep pushing it up, you keep wanting more.
I'll take that as a yes. Did you love her? What?

(31:20):
Did you love her? Are you? Pretty soon you're gonna
be asking if I laid down with her? Good lord?
Did you love her? Oh? My god? You're you know
you're you know you remind me, No, you're ring a
young Uh, I don't know a young ring Lardner, Ring, Lordner,

(31:46):
that's playing to my demo here, come on, now, you're
rubbing a young WC. Hind Hey, good luck with trying
to replace Craig Ferguson there. I'm not trying nothing, okay,
all right? If grassroots if nominated, oh you're turning down
the job. If you no, what is it? If nominated,

(32:07):
I will not run. If elected, I will not serve
Who said that? Uh? Ring Lardner. Hey, remember when we
played golf at Shadow Creek with with Kat o'cayalen. Yeah,
that's where I met you. Man. I want to do
that again. I'd like to play golf with you again.
Oh man, that'd be great, me and you and Shadow
Creek with and I'll you know what, I'll have Bill

(32:29):
Cosby call you and we'll set this up. Hey. You
having a Sandler on the show. Yeah, tomorrow, Oh man,
that's great. That's I think he'll be. You will be
the first. Oh no, it was me. I had him
on yesterday. Nor thank you, thanks Norm McDonald. H I
hope you enjoyed it. He was. He was all over

(32:50):
the map. But there's a lot of brilliance there, a
lot of fun I played golf in Laws Vegas at
Shadow Creek, and it's a wonderful golf course and we're
just finishing up and I see two guys walking over
and I noticed one is really tall and the other
one's got stringy blonde hair, and I go, that looks

(33:14):
like cato' kalin and it's Norman McDonald, And I just
didn't put the two together. You wouldn't think that, like, hey,
and those guys are hanging out playing golf. Cato wanted
to do comedy and probably gravitated towards Norm because that'd
be a good place to start. Absorbed some of normisms.
And we sat and talked outside, had a couple of beers,

(33:38):
and I just remember Norm would talk about things that
his non sequitors. You're like, wait, we weren't talking about that,
but something came into his mind and then that's just
sort of how you know, that was his act. He
was sort of disengaged, and then he was really engaged,
and then he was two engaged, and then he was
disengaged but pasting, passing away after a nine year battle

(34:02):
with cancer. And if you get a chance, I think
it still holds up. If you go back to nineteen
ninety eight SPS when he hosted, and that was something different.
And you know, we look at Ricky Gervais with the
Golden Globes where he's you know, very in your face, caustic,
you know, having fun, poking funds, you know, giving you

(34:22):
a pretty good nudge here. And Norm did that with
all of these great you know tigers there, Ken Griffey Junior,
John Elway, Barry Bonds is there. I mean, it's star
studded and Norm, he didn't hold back, didn't let up
last call for phone calls. What we learn what's in
store tomorrow and we will do that right after this.
Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be

(34:44):
sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine until
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(35:06):
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(35:29):
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It's called for phone calls. Chris Collinsworth, NBC Sports will
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DP show email undress DPT, Dan Patrick dot com, Adam
Schefter reporting. Ask about the USC head coach opening today,

(35:49):
Jags head coach Urban Meyer said, there's no chance. I'm
here and committed to trying to build this organization. Well,
I don't know if he would come out and say,
you know, never say never, or boy, I'd always love
to go back to college. Of course, he's going to
say that he's there to build the organization. And I mean, look,

(36:10):
there have been coaches who've said one day, one thing,
next day they're in another job. Nick Saban, Miami, Yes, boy,
But if you're Urban Meyer, do you answer a question
that demonstratively if you're actually not in the running and
you haven't been contacted, it's possible that he's not in play.
I was told he's not. I was told there is

(36:33):
no chance that answer matches that. Yes, that that maybe
maybe he was, like they fired him. They interested in me? No, absolutely, positively,
not a coach You interested in USC? No? No, no,
I am committed to building this organization. Yeah, he sounded
a little more demonstrative than some of the other coaches

(36:54):
asked him about the USC job. As you guys know,
I can't stand in any form of distraction. So I'll
discuss this today with the leadership council so that we
can make sure that all of our energy and are
all of our energy is on our preparation for Auburn.
But why are what are you discussing with the leadership council?

(37:18):
I mean, that's call me crazy, but I would have
followed up by saying, coach, what is the leadership council?
Why are you what are you discussing with them about
USC my transition? Yes, that also sounds like a fake
organization on campus. I'm going to call the organizational leadership Council.
It's sort of like the Commissioner's exemplest. You know, we
didn't know it existed until it existed. But look, if

(37:42):
James Franklin stays there, good for him. Luke Fickle stays
at Cincinnati. Somebody's taking the USC job. Somewhere. Somebody has
taken that job. The question is when, and you know,
are they able to turn things around? Here's urban meyer
moment to go being asked about USC. You said, from

(38:03):
me get piled, this job was the kind of your
dream job. As a right scenario. Unfortunately for you, some
rumors came out yesterday and connecting you to the USC job.
I just just want to give you the oportunity to
recut it so there's no chance that I'm parent committed
to try to build an organization. Yeah, and I'd like

(38:24):
to clarify that the Jaguars were never my dream job.
On the weetah, who would have a dream, I didn't
know that that was his dream job. I'm gonna guess
if you would have said to Irban Meyer, hey, USC's
gonna offer you the job or you can coach the Jacks,
which one's your dream job? I'm gonna guess USC makes

(38:47):
the most sense for urban Meyer given his personality. I
don't know if you'd go man the Jags. That's been
my dream job. Yeah, Seed, It's funny that like USC
had the chance to hire him and didn't, I know,
And they kind of seems like they don't really want
them now either, and urban Meyer's like, there's no chance
I'm going there. But still it's like, I don't know

(39:09):
if I believe that. You know, I love a good ranking.
By the way, ESPN dot Com ranked the top ten
teams of the last half century in baseball. Oh God,
I don't even know you hate lists? I do? I do? Like,

(39:31):
how do you quantify that the Yankees are the best
baseball team in the last half century? The nineteen ninety
eight Yankees. The eighty six Mets are second, the nineteen
seventy Orioles are third. The twenty sixteen Cubs are in there,
the ninety five Braves are in there, twenty twenty Dodgers

(39:53):
in there, twenty seventeen Astros in there, twenty eighteen Red Sox,
nineteen seventy five red In, the nineteen eighty four Tigers. Uh.
Once again, I don't know how to how they quantified
this mclovin. Did they go position by position? They did,
like a power ranking at every position. All right, I think,

(40:15):
are you upset the seventy five Reds? Aren't? Guy? Are
on that list? That was like a Hall of Fame roster.
Let's let's just say that, that, to me is the
best National League lineup. I think in the last fifty years.
I got I got Bench, I got Perez, I got Morgan,
Concepcion and Rose. So that's my infield. Is there a
better infield in the history of baseball than that? Yeah?

(40:38):
Point shocker, you're getting fired up? I know. Yeah. Dodgers,
the great Dodgers. No, the Dodgers. The Dodgers would bow
down to the Reds that lineup and go, hey, we're sorry,
we're mentioned with you. You know, we got Ron Say,
we got Bill Russell, we got Davey Lopes, Steve Garby.
You don't have anybody at a position better than anybody
on the Reds. And then who they have of so

(41:01):
shows their catcher, all right, nice catcher, and he's not
Johnny Bench. Pride's Hall of Famer, Morgan Hall of Famer.
Conception should be Pete Rose, we know should be And
then Johnny Bench got a Hall of Fame. Yes, would
you put the Yankees that far behind those late seventies Yankees?
That far behind the Big Red Machine? Um Jambis Random

(41:21):
Dent mettals Munson. But what happened when they faced the
Big Red Machine? They got swept four games to none.
So would you like to apologize all that light have?
He just said? Was it even that good apology? Not
accepted by the way, No, No chamblist, Dent what I mean?
Nobody cares about that team I did. Get out of here,
get out of here? No, I meant he leave. Yeah,

(41:43):
he's only like a minute left. Me, I know exactly.
And Rabbit's day. It's lately. You can hang in there
for ninety seconds. Me And what are you going to
add in the next nineties? Not a lot? Just my
lower backs a little tight into Yeah, imagine my back
carrying you for the last alrighty, let's take a break.

(42:05):
Not icy hot. No, I got my levels like CBD
to do that. There would be ten times better. Thank you, Todd?
What did you What did you learn today? Todd? Chris
Webber's favorite sport growing up was football. He played tight
end in high school, but couldn't block very well. Mcleovin,
what did you learn? We all learned? James Franklin is
preparing for Auburn? What the heck is Pence playing arburn for?

(42:25):
I wanted to ask that seton O'Connor. What did you learn?
Travis Kelsey h is good with his barber. Yeah, he
loves his barber. Paul Ester Todd crush the last ninety
seconds he did? Yeah? Sure, Chris Chambli's first place. Thank
you for Steve Garby. What did we learn on the program?
Travis Kelsey put product in his here once before a practice,
but had to stop because it dripped down and burned

(42:47):
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