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November 20, 2025 41 mins

Dan and the Danettes discuss some extreme sports and debate a gruesome “would you rather.” Comedian and impressionist Frank Caliendo drops by the set in Vegas and brings a whole cast of characters with him, from Joe Biden to Jon Gruden to Morgan Freeman, and he even attempts an impression of Fritzy.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Made it to a final hour here on this Thursday
in Las Vegas. The Fountain Blue Hotel our home away
from home, our residency here. It's only a two night
a two mornings day as opposed to the normal residencies.
But I want to thank Fountain Blue, beautiful place and
a lot of people in town for Formula one. We
thought we would try it. You know, we usually get

(00:26):
in stay in our comfort zones. I said, let's try
something different, and Fountain Blue said, we'll host. You want
to come out and the race is coming up this
weekend on ESPN on Saturday, starting at eleven Eastern. Frank
Caliendo will join us, coming up in about twenty minutes.
When Frank went to dinner with Frank last night, had

(00:46):
a lot of fun, but it is a problem with
Frank that you go to dinner with. So there was
a table for six, but it really should have been
for twelve because Frank does all of his impersonations while
you're talking to him. You're watching on Peacock. That was
the table there. The Entourage shot there. Nice, Yeah, the
big German was there. He took the picture with Marvin

(01:09):
and Seaton and Paulie and Frank. Yes, Saton, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
We actually had half of the dinner with William Shatner
that you're there, but that's yes.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, Frank was doing William Shatner for about twenty minutes
there and then he did Charlie Sheen. There's always Oh,
John Gruden would joined us last night, so I can say, hey,
who'd you go to dinner with last night? John Gruden?
William Shatner? Wow, Charlie Sheen. Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
There's like six place settings but twelve people at the table.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Somehow, that'd be great if Frank went in and said,
I'm gonna need one more place setting for William Shatner here. Yeah, Paulie.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
What's funny about talking to Frank is that he really
knows sports. So we were talking about like, what do
you think Lane Kiffen's gonna do? What do you think
do you think John Gruden be a college coach? And
he has to go yeah, John jant Ger and he
just gives you a little he can't do.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
It's like a tick. You have to give you a
touch of Gruden.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Eight seven seven three D P show. We'll get some
phone calls coming up. Football starts tonight. Bill's at the Texans,
Bills favored by five and a half. We have a
football game, I believe is this the lame Kiffin game? Paulie,
We're gonna play.

Speaker 5 (02:17):
We are gonna play it. Do you want to do it?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
An?

Speaker 6 (02:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
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(02:43):
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Engle wouldn't want to see that one? Oh no, man,
you are just struggling. Don't like that one? Sis at Englewood.

Speaker 7 (02:56):
They play at Inglewood.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
This is the big game, Bucks, Like you're opening for
Frank Kelly Endo right now? Yeah, ear, And the audience
is not going to stay for Frank I'm opening for
the opening act, Frank Kelly. Yeah, there was another one
where there's groans out there in the audience. They're not
on my side, right, they are not. But I try
to try to get people on your side. You just

(03:20):
I can't help you help yourself.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
Oh, Ingle, wouldn't want to see Bucks ramps.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
That's not good. Okay, Uh, pull question seating for the
final hour. Bro, you know it's guilt by association with
you being in the back row with time. I know
all about it. Cooler profession F one Pro Surfer or Rodeo.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
F one this is recency bias because they got fifty
five percent of the vote.

Speaker 8 (03:42):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Pro Surfer has a solid thirty one fifteen percent for Rodeo.
That's a song that's good showing.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Okay, does it say something about this sport if we
may know more of the athletes in that sport? Surfing
is always Kelly Slater, bull riding don't know, but we
do know some of these Formula one and the lifestyle
of that as well.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I think TV shows have helped that a lot. Oh
my god, I mean that's you know, I mean Drive
to Survive. Yeah, was incredible for that sport, but the
way it's presented. I mean it's presented to be you're
in the car. It's really it's almost.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Like a pinball or game video game that you're watching
with real people in real time doing real scary things.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, Paul, I would say though from a lifestyle standpoint,
it's surfing.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
It's a fun sport.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
It's very competitive to be one of the best in
the world, but you can also do it leisurely when
you're off duty, and you can go to the beach,
like you're not race car driving when you're off If
you're Orlando Norrish, like, let me get in a car
this weekend. You want the weekend off. If you're a
bull rider, you're like, let me grab a bronco this weekend.
But if you're a surfer, the lifestyle is whether you're
surfing competitive or not, you're still probably doing it.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (04:59):
See, yeah, you know the other two things.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
One of two of those sports potentially have wild animals involved,
which for me is a real adds a whole other
level of like I don't know if I really want
to do that, but also puts them up into the
danger category higher for me. Okay, so sharks and bulls
sharks and bulls. That's serious. That's it's gonna be tough

(05:22):
to do that. You know, I get that driving you
know two hundred miles an hour is dangerous, but you're not,
you know, dodging buffalo while you're doing that, it might
be attacking you. If there's live animals on the track
and you're like the lion, that would be really cool.

Speaker 5 (05:39):
Are we playing the game?

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Would you rather be gored by a bowl or bitten
by a shark but survive? Because we never played that
game before. It's painful and you gotta get surgery, but
you do survive.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
Which would you prefer?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
You gotta play, well, where am I getting Gord? And
where am I getting big?

Speaker 4 (05:53):
You're gonna get Gord in the ribs or bitten in
the thigh?

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Ooh, that'll well, where's the thigh? Like what part of
the cant we be.

Speaker 9 (06:02):
Gord in the same place we're bitten?

Speaker 5 (06:04):
That's how the game is best.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
To just take a chunk out of you know, ribs
that's awfully close to lungs and other signature and.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
You're gonna survive both.

Speaker 7 (06:15):
Yes, Todd, do you get to keep all your body parts?
It's one of those where are like, Oh, you know
you got the shark. You pick it, but you have
one arm for the rest of your life.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I just say, you have scars.

Speaker 7 (06:24):
Get some scars.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
That's all.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
See.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
I would do running with the bulls. I just don't
want to run with the knuckleheads who run with the bulls.
Just got to be faster than a couple bigs. I
gotta be faster than Fritzy. That would be it.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
That's hard.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
I go get him. I don't care about him. You know,
yes to, but just for the.

Speaker 7 (06:41):
Story, I'd rather tell, like the ladies or someone that
I got bit by attacked by a shark, as opposed
to I put myself in a position where I got Gord.
That just seems like you really went out of your
way to do something kind of foolish.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
But that doesn't happen in everyday life. We would get Gord. Well,
all you want to do is say you want to
see my stitches, you want to see my scars. That
would be it. And if you said, oh, I got
gourd by a bull, Oh you a matador?

Speaker 7 (07:04):
How that happened on West fifty, Well I decided to.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Run and go to Pamplona. Yes, Bally.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
You walk into a bar in shy and Wyoming and
you show the girls eighty stitches from a bullgar you're walking.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
Out with ten or twelve?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Easy, Okay, I research this, Okay, Yeah, Marvin, you offering something,
same thing.

Speaker 10 (07:23):
You go to Malibu. Oh, I got bitten, but oh
where the thig? You don't see it come back?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (07:31):
The surfing, you're like chasing the thousand year storm. You know,
if we go point break on him or one hundred
year storm or whatever, he's not coming back. Those are
all pretty awesome things. That's pretty epic. Like you go
to Maverick and ride there, Dude, that's serious.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Man.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't get how many people actually have the guts
to even paddle out.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Body would.

Speaker 9 (07:52):
Oh but yeah, Body's a legend, that's why.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
But he never came back. Yeah he's immortal. Yes, Paul,
he's on forever.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
There's more bull riding movies, and there are race car
movies and uh, surfing movies. If you think about it,
like the Last Rodeo, Longest Ride eight seconds, Urban Cowboy.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
There's been a lot of bull riding.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Movies, classic, ton of race car movies. I want it.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
Yeah, Days of Thunder f one.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Those are the biggies you've had.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Uh what was the one, Ricky Bobby, Ricky Bobby.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Yeah, that's a film. It's a stroker Ace with Burt Reynolds.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Back in the Smoking the Bandit. Oh yeah, there's so
many racecar movies. I don't know if those bull riding
movies are great for Grand Turismo Ford versus Ferrari. Yeahs,
that's good movie. Rush, Yes, Ron Howard did rush? Did
he do that? Was that? Uh? Was that Helmsworth? Hemsworth? Yes,

(08:56):
way too good. Look did you say cars the animated?
Oh yeah, cars the animated? Yeah, yes, Ton Diesel movies
where they made thirty seven. I'm gonna I'm gonna include that.
Now that's race car drives, street racing. They laugh at that.
They laugh at street cars.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
Race car drivers, true race car drivers think those guys
are posers.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Find me, we're racing for pinks where you're saying that
they're posers.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
I'm not making fun.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
I'm gonna lose my car. Imagine if I said to
Leonard Lando Norris, You're gonna lose your car. So if
you don't beat max Verse stopping, you lose your car.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
So in the Winter Circle he has to sign.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Has to sign over the papers. That's good TV. That's
like racing for Pinks. Like they didn't Grease a little
high pitch there, thank you. I just said that. I
just said that, that's funny. Oh my gosh, you said
the movie Grease. No, I said, racing for Pink.

Speaker 7 (09:44):
Okay, I was, but I just for those of us
a certain age, they may not know that's from Grease.
That's a big line in the movie Grease.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
But Dan said, wait, god.

Speaker 9 (09:54):
Sorry, let's just try it on.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Eleven surfing movies and the Summer Blue Crush, Chasing Mavericks,
Point Break of course, Riding Giants.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Point Break remake too.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Oh that I won't watch that.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well, they had white Men Can't Jump on the flight
the remake, and so there the woman next to me,
I could see she was watching it and they we
got landed in Vegas, and I said, how was the movie?
And she goes, Okay, if your expectations are really low,
it wasn't bad. And I said, she goes, it's all
in how you you know you're going into that movie

(10:30):
you don't expect it to be good, and it wasn't.
So I lowered my expectations, so I I don't need
to watch the remake of White Men Can't Jump. Wasn't
that guy Jack Harlow Harlow he is he still a
big deal because he was a big deal when he
did that movie? Is he a rapper Jack Harlow YEA yeah,

(10:51):
big deal? I think so.

Speaker 9 (10:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
He kind of like is in that down time right
now between album cycles. I guess he might be in
the lab as they say, oh, he might currently be
in the left.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Let's do the Lane Kiffin game that I didn't know
we were going to play today, but I'm glad we are well.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Things are spiking up a little bit.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Lane Kiffin's answering questions about his future and won't be
decided in the next few weeks, but we want to
go on record today. In three months from now, Lane
Kiffin will be coaching LSU Florida, Ole Miss other who
would like.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
To go first? Todd go first. He will remain at Ole,
Miss Kinks, Satan Florida, Melvin Florida. I'm gonna go Florida.

Speaker 5 (11:31):
Oh man, I'm gonna go LSU. You don't get to
call that often.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Seems like there's too many, too many people involved. In
that governor got involved that, I'd make me nervous.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
LSU is a wounded animal right now, no pun intended
with a tiger. They can afford it, and the recruiting
base is always there for LSU.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
I know it's hard to I just don't want. I
wish he's governors involved, and then your athletic athletic directors
gonna you know, they're gonna hire somebody else or they
promote somebody, and then all of a sudden you're looking
over your shoulder waiting for the governor to go, you know,
thumbs up or thumbs down with this. I don't like
that at all.

Speaker 10 (12:09):
Yeah, Marvin, Now, if LSU was offering the same money
as Old Miss, do you leave for the prestige of
having the LSU or Florida job or do you keep
Ole Miss because they're the best team out of all
three currently constructed.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
So if you're saying is if the money was the same,
given everything that's involved with LSU, I would look at
LSU just for the talent. I just don't want to
deal with kind of the preifhery. God, if you bring
a national title to Ole Miss, They've had national titles

(12:47):
at LSU in Florida, Ole miss this is like the
Red Sox winning their first World Series. That'd be incredible.
You'd be like Dabbo Sweeney. That would be that he'd
be bigger than Dabbos Sweeney.

Speaker 10 (13:00):
Saying a team that you would you wouldn't expect to
win a national title.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
And Clemson has won a national title before Dabbo got there.
I wasn't born then, So in my head, I was like,
are you gonna do what my kids do when they say, well,
if I said something about history, I wasn't born that,
Like it didn't happen because you weren't alive. Yes, but
listen it. Perry Tuttle, Yes, Perry Tuttle, Yeah, wide receiver

(13:25):
And I'm taking made right now. I'm on drugs right now.
Yes you are, Yes, I am, yes. Ston.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
You know what I kind of like though about LSU
over those other programs that we mentioned l S. This
is just my own perception necessarily, but uh, they have
an edge to them as a school and has a
program that I think is pretty awesome that I don't
know that uh, like say Florida or Ole Misha, LSU

(13:50):
has a certain cool factor to them that I think
it's pretty.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Rad a night game in l s Uh, there's still
something to be out of. Yeah, yeah, bully.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
I do wonder if a guy like Lane Kiffin is
hoping for the best scenario, almost like Kawhi Leonard in Toronto,
if I could somehow pull off a title for Old
Miss and walk away, I serve both masters. I did
it for everybody, and he would they give him a
statute Old Miss and they'd be mad that he's gone.
But he could go with like I did it, I
did a fore you guys, and you'll you'll have it forever.

(14:23):
I mean, that's an ideal situation, and there's a long
way to go.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
He's got to hold off all of this conversation, all
of these questions for another month and a half because
he can't take the job. While Old Miss is having
its best season.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Ever, He's never had this much leverage. Like the Old
Miss fans, they probably don't want the press, local press
jumping on him to bother him, like, let coach do
his thing and trust the process.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, how about he does his thing and he doesn't
send his family to Florida in LSU. That'd be doing
your thing with what you're paying him for I don't
think his wife need ex wife needs to take a
tour of Florida or l.

Speaker 5 (14:59):
Sh that and rouge in the fall lovely guest Ton.

Speaker 7 (15:03):
Does link if and if all the money is the same,
need one of those jobs ego or resume wise, as
far as positions he's already held and where he is
in the landscape of you know, coaches to have to
take the lsu.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
FLA, I don't know. I mean, you know the ego
of these coaches is how long do I stay? Do
I jump before I'm forced out? What's my next challenge?
I think they they're not inclined to be somebody who
sets up roots. It's kind of it. It feels like
rent not by. But there's certain coaches that's what they think. Hey,

(15:38):
if I don't take this job like Kirk Farens at
Iowa for years, Oh you got to include Kirk Farens
for NFL jobs or other college jumps. He wasn't going anywhere.
And I do have respect for that that you have
a job, you want to make that job. Joe Paterno
at Penn State. You know, Mike Krzyzewsky flirted with the
NBA with the Lakers, but building something and maintaining something.

(16:00):
It feels like it's easier to build something and then
leave as opposed to build something and maintain something. It's
like Danny Hurley staying at Connecticut. That made more sense.
That's who he is. But your ego goes I can
coach the Lakers, so what you can coach a team
and become one of the greatest college coaches of all time.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yes, bo, I think Fritzi's got a good point though
about ego. Lane Kiff in sixteen seventeen years ago was
the hot young candidate.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
He got the Raiders job. But was he thirty one?

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (16:31):
I mean that was unprecedent. He was the future of
football coaching college or pro. He got Tennessee and he
left for USC by choice, and then he had to
coach at Florida Atlantic.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
No offense, but that is it's a minor league. It
was a temp stop.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
And I think a guy like him can see the
ego thing of I want to be pursued by the
number one job in college football, which is LSU as
my recornation, whether it's conscious or subconscious.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, I'm sure you know everybody has an ego and
he probably once he got humbled. He got humbled a
couple of times. He got fired on the tarmac by
USC Al Davis treated him like he was a kid.
Didn't give him any authority to do anything there what
happened to Tennessee? Hey, where are you coaching? Florida Atlantic?

(17:18):
But old miss gave him a job, gave him an opportunity.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yeah, Poland here's my Hollywood comp for Lane Kiffin. Ben
Affleck great early career, going well in his twenties, and
then he has a couple of hiccups, more than a
couple of hiccups. Then he becomes the town, he becomes
a director, and he's back on top of Hollywood again.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
When does Jlo come into this picture?

Speaker 5 (17:36):
Florida Atlantic?

Speaker 2 (17:37):
I like that? Oh she was already there. I thought
You'm in Florida, Florida Atlantic, Jala, Jlo's Florida Atlantic.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
Well, the last days at USC are the Ji Lee
for Lincoln h I'm work shopping this.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
I can tell ye good thing it wasn't Todd doing this.

Speaker 5 (17:57):
Someone's going to steal that. Colin's going to steal that one.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Colin coward steal and take the penn afflick. How about
we take a break the many personalities of Frank Kelly
Endo next year on The Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2 (18:49):
We'll try to sneak in a few phone calls here
on this Thursday. Michael Douglas. Yeah, that Michael Douglas, big
Formula one fan. We saw him yesterday and invited him
on the show show and he will join us coming
up tomorrow. It is surreal, though, when you're kind of going, okay, hey, Michael,
I want to call him mister Douglas these eighty one

(19:10):
years of age, and I thought, all right, hey, Mike,
you want to join us on the show. And he goes, yeah,
I'll talk to some formula one. So he'll join us
on the program tomorrow. Frank Caliendo, where as Terry Bradshaw
say is Frank Kella DNDO. He's performing New Year's Eve
at the Tempe Improv in Arizona doing shows. He's at
the Funny Bone in Omaha January twenty third, twenty fourth,

(19:32):
Off the Hook Comedy Club in Naples, Florida, January thirtieth,
thirty first. All tickets can be purchased at Frank on
stage dot com. Great to see you again. I mentioned
that going to dinner with you is like going to
dinner with five or six different people. So well, it
happens a lot, like little.

Speaker 6 (19:49):
Bits of stories happen, right like we were talking about that.
I'll get to the full story eventually on here. But
just hanging out with William Shatner. I was with him
at an event the other day. I kept trying to
lock eyes with him and try to get him to fight.
There was a kind of like, yeah, what's the problem.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (20:07):
He's like, I don't talk the way people say I talk.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Why do they do that?

Speaker 6 (20:11):
Why do they say I speakless way? I'm like, you're
ninety four, I know, why was wagerhead ninety four? But
people tend to do that Captain's lug that kind of thing,
and when he just talks, he just looks like this.
But you can't help from wanting to talk like it.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
But point of view, when you impersonate somebody, imitate somebody,
But then what are you going to say when you
use that voice like the context of it? How difficult
is that?

Speaker 6 (20:41):
I think that's one of the most difficult things, because
otherwise you're just a parrot. Right if you're doing the
voice of the person, you're not trying, you're not finding
something funny with it. We were talking about Charlie Sheen
on the show a couple when he was on the
show a couple of weeks ago, and you, I was
a setan that noticed the same thing I did. He
would repeat the question back that you would ask, yeah,

(21:01):
so I uh I uh, I asked that, huh. I
said that okay, and did that go well no, all right?

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
And then if people watch this you say, so you're
seeing people, saw people saw me and you didn't enjoy it?

Speaker 5 (21:18):
Or you did did I? Did I kill somebody?

Speaker 6 (21:21):
Did somebody die?

Speaker 2 (21:22):
But in fairness to him, he doesn't remember, though.

Speaker 6 (21:25):
Friend, No, that was the amazing I made it. I
did a little social media post that was based on that.
It was Halloween candies and he would he had pixie sticks.
I was like, those straws with sugar in them. That
is sugar. That's what that is, is that sugar. And
it was from this your interview with him that I
was like, I picked up that he says something. The
questions it afterward, like is.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
That is that right? Or not? Okay?

Speaker 6 (21:48):
All right? I was alive during this, right. So it's
it's it's finding those little pieces. Terry Bradshaw was easy,
not fun if Frank not funny.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Charles Barkner thinks everything is terrible, not damn, that's really
bad and the shot is not cheating, you know.

Speaker 6 (22:04):
So it's you you find those little things. What does
the person do? The old school ones seem.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
To be a lot easier.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
I think the newer people are a little more difficult
because people have like the wide rate, like de Niro's
become uh, you know, a caricature of himself. Everybody does that. Okay,
what doings?

Speaker 5 (22:23):
Now?

Speaker 2 (22:23):
He does that.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
He's in the movie Here we Go.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Samuel L.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
Jackson has a cadence. They the writers write the cadence.
It's the dud duh dea du da da and you
you know there's certain words in there too, right, But
that's the that's the song about how many Christopher Walkins
have you heard? Low Hi in the middle? But you
know who it is, right because of that little song
that they sing.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Does Gruden know that he's doing Gruden when he talks?

Speaker 6 (22:51):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (22:52):
I think, I think No.

Speaker 6 (22:54):
I don't know why. I can't really tell. But he's
he's into it so much. I mean, he is Gruden
times a million. I mean when he was a coach,
there were a lot of people that you know, it
was it was a love and hate kind of thing.
Now people just seem to love him. He's opening boxes
every year. We gotta here, man, let's open this thing up.
It's gonna be pretty good right here.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Man. I tell you what, He's one of.

Speaker 6 (23:17):
Those guys that gets excited out of nowhere when I
when I did that Hard Knocks with him, I'm gonna
yell for no reason.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Man, Why am I mad?

Speaker 6 (23:23):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (23:25):
So you don't think Gruden's playing Gruden.

Speaker 6 (23:28):
I think he just is free. I think he's free
in just doing what he wants to do. I think
that's kind of it. He's just free to be himself,
like he would do crazy things on Monday Night Football
when when he was there there were some certain and
he just is doing that type of stuff all the time.
But you can't. It's one of those guys that hit
you when he talks.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Man, you like that.

Speaker 6 (23:48):
Huh yeah, be careful. You ever see his hands, his
hands something like wreck at Ralph for something like that,
They're just massive, you know, he puts them up. He's
doing this kind of thing like he's doing a magic
reveal here.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Call this the Prestige.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
You ever get thirteen minutes into that movie, man, I'll
tell you what, it's a pretty good one. It should
see the ending tricks.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yet, when do you know when to retire somebody?

Speaker 6 (24:10):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (24:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (24:12):
I bring him back little bits. I mean, that's that's
one of the things.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Is like, is John Madden always going to be.

Speaker 6 (24:19):
Well with the Madden movie coming back? And I think
I'll talk to you guys about that. That'll be big again.
It's like and they I don't know if I brought
this up to you guys before, but they asked me
to audition for that movie for the part of Howard Kosel.
Like I wasn't gonna get it, but I think they
just wanted me to talk to Nicholas Cage about being
Do you know if I talked about this? But I
guess I could just tell the story again, but it
was it was.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
I got a text.

Speaker 6 (24:40):
From my agent, Nicholas Cage and the director want to
call it. You want to do a zoom call with you.
I'm like no, Like, what do you mean No, I'm
like no, I want to hang out with Nicholas Cage
if I'm gonna give him the recipe of the Madden
I want to hang out with Nicholas Cage in Vegas.
I want to do Leslie Stall Walk and Talk. I
want to write sidecar to the ghost Rider. I want

(25:01):
to be there. I want him to show me his
exotic animals. Like here's my monitor lizard. What would John
Madden say to this monitor lizard?

Speaker 2 (25:09):
We're gonna steal the Declaration of Independence? Ool?

Speaker 6 (25:12):
So it's like I wanted that kind of a thing.
I didn't want to do a zoom. Its static, you know,
and he could get out of at any time. I
wanted to force him to have to. And that's probably
why they didn't do it. Was they they didn't want
to take that time. But John Mann never liked me.
He finally kind of turned around when I met him
at the Super Bowl years later, but it wasn't I
didn't know anything about him like that. I think they

(25:32):
were trying to do research, and that's what it was
going to be. They were going to try and ask
me a bunch of questions about John Man, like I
didn't really know him. I just met him once.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Do you do a Howard Cosell I don't.

Speaker 6 (25:41):
And it was this as Howard coach. I mean, it
would be that and bad the whole time. And one
of the reasons I don't do is because it's so
old that some of the impressions I've done throughout the years,
I'm like, well, this is like you said you when
you retire them. Well, that Howard Cosell was, you know,
two generations before John Madden, So I don't know. It
gets a little weird there, and who remembers only the

(26:04):
oldest of people remember that you do Howard Cosell on
a TikTok video. Nobody cares.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
I mean that.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
Then the next thing that plays, because you're in the
algorithm is uh, Billy Crystal doing it from forty years
sixty years ago. I didn't even know you could do
it anymore. So I threw Billy Crystal.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
And you know, with a comedian, it's trickier. If you're
in a band and you play the hits, well, then
you get to play the hits the next place, in
the next place. But as a comedian, like in a
year from now, you can't have the same stand up
act of saying.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
It has to evolve and and people and people's voices changed.
By the way, this this the fond of Blue Hotel.
I told you this when you texted me about coming here.
This is my go to hotel and it's because of
your show. I listen, when you guys were here at
the Super Bowl a couple of years ago. I heard
you there. We were coming for NBA uh Summer League,

(26:56):
and I was like, where should we stay? My son?
I look, oh, that's uh, that's blue, and I'm like
that's where Dan was. It's got it's gotta be good
if the if the if Dan's there, so uh, and
we looked at the price and like, holy cow, we
were here. We actually booked another place to go afterward,
like we're going back to Founder Blue, like because we
didn't know what it was going to be, like we
checked out, we ended up coming back and now this

(27:16):
is this is where I stayed most of the time.
So where was I going with?

Speaker 2 (27:20):
That? Was it we were we were talking about that.

Speaker 6 (27:23):
Oh well, voice has changed too, So here's here's another
thing too. So if you heard on the TV's that's
what made me think of Mountain Blue. On the TV's
the Hall of Uh. I was gonna say, Brady uh,
but that's playing and it's Morgan Freeman narrating it. But
he's ninety year old Morgan Freeman. Look how Liza Shatner's like,
he's a young man. But if you listen to Morgan Freeman,

(27:45):
now he's much older man. He's like that, this is
Morgan fra It's not that thing, you know. Truth of
the matter is, it's not that anymore. It's even and
not this isn't a political thing. But if you listen
to Donald Trump. Now he doesn't have the same voice
he had ten years ago. Everybody, A lot of people
do that.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Well, you know that, big I do.

Speaker 12 (28:01):
The quiet one, the very quiet the library Trump with
the tremendous books in the library, the great books. They're
with some of the best words, and they get the
greatest words, and these words form something called sentences, and
the sentences they end up making sense.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
And we done, we done? We don't I like when
he does that? Then I got to eaven it out
with a little Biden, right, Folx, come on, what are
we doing?

Speaker 3 (28:24):
The thing?

Speaker 8 (28:25):
I don't have to tell you when as young man
grow up ascribe Pennsylvania thirty forty five six.

Speaker 6 (28:30):
It's like a drunk auctioneer to get her anything.

Speaker 8 (28:34):
Six hundred e d's follow the Roman Empire. The Romans
l by the salad Gay Caesar defeated by Mario Luigi.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
The Romans.

Speaker 12 (28:46):
Folks, Ah, we're not sure what's going on.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
But how often here's the true bide?

Speaker 6 (28:53):
Folks come on like it?

Speaker 2 (29:00):
But it's your shows. Wait where are you going? No,
we're not done yet, mister president. We're not done yet.
What at your shows? Though, at the very end you
get this, everybody just starts yelling out names.

Speaker 6 (29:17):
People do if I don't get them, like I forget
to do steven A Smith sometimes and I understand I do,
I do, uh steven A talk. I think you guys
talked about the show stephen A talking about Browny after
the fact. I understand where you're going with super serious
stephen A. Oh yeah, where we're going with some of
these things. And we have to contemplate in perpetuity where

(29:40):
it just trails down the end and nothingness and we're
wondering where it is.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
And then once you go down low then it gets
real serious.

Speaker 6 (29:48):
Jay Farrow has like the super hyped up version, so
he's got that great. By the way, when we're walking,
I listened to the beginning of the show because I
wanted to hear how you guys talk about when Matt
friend walked by and I never say hello to I
don't know him, but he's he's a very good Like
there's some he's great. There's him, there's Jay Farah, there's
a kid named Cameron Logs and my friend John Holmberg

(30:09):
might be one of the best I've ever seen. But
these there's like all kinds of impression people people doing
impressions on the internet now. But when Eric was like, oh,
looks my friend, like you're walking with me and the
most awkwardly, oh lookst front, he's a great impression.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Over he's free, I was like, I was like, what
is going on here? This is the most of it.
I thought it was kind of cool. So we're coming
back from dinner. We go into the hotel and the
big German is there, and all of a sudden he
sees this twenty seven year old Matt friend who's blown
up the last.

Speaker 6 (30:37):
Fantastic he's very, very good.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
And here's Eric the big German, going, oh my god,
that's my friend. He's the best impression. And then all
of a sudden, Frank was there. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:46):
Eric's like, oh wait a second.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
There's very Spirits, he's incredible. There's Jay Farrell, what's he
doing here?

Speaker 6 (30:51):
There's Ross markwa They're incredible.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Well, these are some of the best people I've ever seen.
Oh freak, what are you doing tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (30:58):
Well, I'm already on the show as a friend of
the show, but now it seems that I've gone down
the ladder.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Do you know that I'm texting with Fritzy as we're
walking in the lobby to say, Matt friend I think
is staying at the hotel. We need to get him on.
Paulie is walking and texting Fritzie at the city. So
we're walking with you, talking to you while we're going, Hey, Todd,
Matt friend is I think in the hotel. Let's see
if we can get him on. And then Fritzy goes, yeah,

(31:26):
I just heard from Paul, and Paul's right there next
to me. So we're we're doing that when we're walking
with you last night, I.

Speaker 6 (31:32):
Think it's funny. I'll walk by you guys at the
super Bowl and the guys, hey Frank, everybody keeps going
nobody text me yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
We walked into the lobby last night and Fritzy wasn't
gonna go to dinner, and all of a sudden, we
see Frank there.

Speaker 6 (31:44):
Oh no, this is what you don't know. I planned it, no,
see on. That was me conniving my way in that
I was with Marvin. We were watching the Yukon game,
which is why I where the Crton s Creton.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Pull over today.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
I wanted you to ask me why what's with the
What's with the Creighton? They won?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Last night.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
Uh something Connecticut didn't damn he out of the blue
Marvin texted me last week or early in the early
last week. It was he wanted to do a bet Arizona,
which I should have taken. They wanted a pie in
the face bet.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Out of that.

Speaker 6 (32:16):
I was like, oh no, no, no, were supposed to
be talking about F one. We're supposed to be talking
about Max for stapping. I'll tell you what Oscar Piastre.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
I'll tell you what I mean. These guys. You ever
see Chuck Leclerk, I'll tell you.

Speaker 6 (32:30):
It's Charlotte Clair Chuck Leaclurk.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
That's what I said.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
Man, I don't do French.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Is that where he's from?

Speaker 6 (32:36):
Where's he from? You guys don't even know. Man, nobody
knows where Charlotte Leclore is from. But I'll tell you
what this guy's We do a thing called the uh.
You gotta go to the break as I saw you
grabbing the paper. But we do this thing called the
uh the f what experiences And I take My daughter
is a huge F one fan, and that's how I
get most of my information, so I know all types

(32:59):
of She knows every thing. But I'm fifty one years
old at this point, and I get all the information right,
so I know little pieces and that's about it. But
this is the first Vegas race I've missed because I
got to go work in Jackpot, Nevada tonight, which is
gonna be cool. But the uh going to Jackpot, Yeah yeah,
which is much better than lose your house Novada.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
I'll tell you I got a million pro U.

Speaker 6 (33:21):
Yeah, so where you were there and lose your house Nevada.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
I know it's not good for radio, but it is
good for TV. You've been working on your Fritzy impersonation you.

Speaker 6 (33:30):
Got, Yeah, it's not doing any radio.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
I gotta get the voice that is like a weird thing,
like you swallow the bottom part of your face.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
You're that guy who could eat his face. It's kind
of like that.

Speaker 6 (33:44):
I've realized that Fritzi basically when he talks, he gets himself,
digs himself into a hole. Then he's like you're in
college doing an essay and trying to fill a two
thousand word essay and you've only got five hundred words,
and he's just feeling He's changing the margins and filling
in words and saying the same thing over and over
and over. He actually we were talking over there. He
decided he was done with the conversation.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
He's going to be clapped, and okay, all right.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yeah, if Frank was telling me about the texts and
the emails he gets from Fritzy that are just the
minimum of care.

Speaker 6 (34:16):
I don't understand, Like, I think you really believe you're
being nice, but it's so abrupt, is really Yeah, like
I told you about that. I told you about doing
Jim Gray's fiftieth birthday party years ago. Muhammad Ali was there, Uh,
doctor j Bill Walton, all these shapes, he goes, uh,
pretty relevant party, fun to.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Be at, Like it's I thought, I said, that would
have been a great thing too.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
It would have been fun, would have been a fun.

Speaker 5 (34:42):
Would have been a great experience. So I try to
be extra nice that it comes across, and somehow kind
of h it does.

Speaker 6 (34:49):
I don't know why I got work because that's not
what I want to do. That's not who you are.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
I think you're kind descending like kind descending like you're
not necessarily you don't mean it, but you you're but
you it's sound lo somehow morphs into.

Speaker 7 (35:03):
Fake kindness or something which is not a good thing.

Speaker 6 (35:05):
It's just the opposite of kindness.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
By the time it's done, he's Frank Caledendo. You can
see him New Year's Eve in Tempe at the Improv
there and you'll be at the Funny Bone in Omaha
January twenty third, twenty fourth off the Hook Comedy Club
in Naples, Florida, January thirtieth and thirty first. All tickets
can be purchased at Frank on stage dot com. Thanks
for being a friend of the show. Thanks guys, And

(35:33):
there he goes, It goes, there he goes. President Biden
is leaving, leaving the show. We'll be back here from
Las Vegas right after this. Fox Sports Radio has the
best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of
our shows at Foxsports Radio dot com and within the

(35:54):
iHeartRadio app search FSR to listen live. Frank is such
a big fan of the show, and he's listening all
the time living in Arizona. He'll send Paulie notes or
Fritzy notes during the show and he fits right in.
So we appreciated that that he came in and made
it a point to join us here in Las Vegas.

(36:16):
Before he goes on to his next show, but you
do go to dinner with him, and you really feel
like William Shatner was there last night at dinner and
Charlie Sheen and John Gruden. But he does it, and
he's telling stories about these people, but he can't tell
a story without actually putting himself in that story of
being those people, and just the fact that he was

(36:40):
with William Shatner, who's ninety four years of age but
as tough as can be, you know, and he's telling
you stories and then he goes, I can't tell that
on the air. I said, okay, but when you do
tell that, then you know, make sure you tell it
on our show. Yeah, Paulie.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
And Frank's face is so expressive when he starts. It's
the imitation a one beat before the word comes out.
His face goes into President Bush or whoever may be,
and you see it coming like, oh, he's going to
do and then it happens.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
It's wild.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
And you talk to impressionists and they will talk to
you about body language, and you know, what's the first
thing you can get into that character because you're using
your hands or you're using your face. If I said,
do John Gruden, But you can't do John Gruden's face.
Be hard to do that then, I think, you know,
even if John Madden was very expressive with his hands

(37:32):
as well. But you know, impressionists will talk about the
the face or the hands or the gestures and it
helps him get into character. Yes, Tom Jim Carrey is
probably the best at that.

Speaker 7 (37:42):
To actually be able to contort your face and look
like a totally different person, it's like spooky, amazing how
you do it.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
I thought Frank was the best that ever did. That's
awkward to say. I mean, he's right here now, he's
far enough away.

Speaker 7 (37:54):
I'll give him second place on that.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
I'll put him characters.

Speaker 10 (37:56):
Matt Friend, who's the best?

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Matt Friend playing us tomorrow on the program that al
was that rude of us last night? We're coming into
the Fountain Blue and the big German notices Matt Friend,
who is a young impression is very very popular on
social media, and all of a sudden and we're walking
in with Frank. Just had a wonderful dinner two hours
with him, And next thing I know, the big German goes,

(38:20):
there's my friend, And I didn't know Matt Friend found
out a lot about him, and then all of a sudden,
I'm on my phone. So we're walking with Frank and
Frank's doing impersonating, just being Frank, and I'm going fritzy.
I think Matt Friend is staying, you know, we just
try to get him on the show on Friday. Paulie
is doing that at the same time to you as well. Meanwhile,

(38:40):
Frank is talking a great dinner and hey, you know
Matt Friend, he's really really good. And then all of
a sudden, we're not even listening to him. Yeah, PAULI, I.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
Don't think it's wrong or rude to Frank. Was Frank
made it, he did it.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
He's had a monstrous career Fox TV, touring all that
stuff TV shows.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Should we have waited until we got to the elevator
and said goodbye?

Speaker 5 (39:02):
That's not what we do though. We got to strike
while the iron's hot. We just saw this guy.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
It is a better story that we did it right
in front of Frank. But the big german like that
was schoolgirl took his phone out.

Speaker 10 (39:17):
Guys, look at this, look at this TikTok, Frank, Frank,
look how good this guy is.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
I was like, damn, that's not nice. The big German
didn't react that way when his son was born. No, no,
he was like, oh, okay, we got a boy. Okay,
his name's Jacob. Oh. Just you see Matt Friend.

Speaker 10 (39:32):
I'm like, wow, I thought he's gonna took his phone
out there.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
He's gonna show his son. Yeah. No, no, no, no,
it's a Mat Friend, not my son.

Speaker 12 (39:38):
Eh.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yeah, but he looked like a million bucks. He'll be
on the show tomorrow with Michael Douglas. He will join
us as well. Of course. You come to expect Michael
Douglas on the program. Uh, David Croft. They call him crofty.
He covers Formula one really funny. He's like Roger Bennett
is to soccer, he is to Formula one. He'll join

(39:59):
us the program tomorrow. Again. Thank you to the Fountain Blue.
If you get an opportunity and you come to Vegas,
think of the Fountain Blue. They are great people to
work with. Seaton final results of the poll question.

Speaker 9 (40:13):
Yeah, we got up there right now. Coolest job.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Dot dot dot f one pro surfer or rodeo f
one right now running away with that one. About fifty
five percent of that boat.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Okay, let's go around the room. What we learned on
the program? Todd? We will do your rime time tomorrow
at some point. That sounds good, Okay.

Speaker 7 (40:35):
Formula one cars don't have win shild wipers or a
windshield for that matter, is what I learned.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Why don't you go look at the car? It's over
my left shoulder there, go over and look at it. Seaton,
what'd you learn today?

Speaker 9 (40:47):
Nicole Brisco had been with ESPN about seven or eight
years before.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Our first sports center. Yeah, she said, nothing prepares you
for that, Paulie. Would you learn today?

Speaker 5 (40:58):
Goring versus shark bite?

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Marvin? What did you learn today? Cardiac bulls?

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Yeah, cardiac bulls since Wayne, I know, since this year.
Good story, Todd? What did I learn? Ross?

Speaker 7 (41:10):
Tucker Confused by the group of social media detractors looking
to scrutinize your door any chance they get.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
Thank you again to everybody who came out today. We
appreciate that. We'll do it again tomorrow. We're seating Paulie, Fritzchen,
Marvin
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