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Dan and the Danettes discuss the legacy of “The Shawshank Redemption” on the anniversary of its theatrical release. And they take an in-depth look at some of the more interesting upcoming college football matchups.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Final Hour on this Tuesday, Dan and the Dan Net's
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Dallas and it's the Packers and the Dallas Cowboys, a
rivalry renewed Sunday seven, eas Fron on NBC and Peacock.
By the way, we will do a streaming party with
Shyan Irving and I don't know if Nick Wright is

(00:27):
going to join us from Fox Sports, but we will
do what we did a couple of weeks ago. Now,
it's not going to be stream live because I can't
trust Shay, especially watching the Cowboys, but we're going to
do that on Sunday Night. It'll be sort of the
Danning Cast that we'll have Shan Irving on watching his
Cowboys against the Packers. That'll be a Sunday Night eight

(00:50):
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dot com, Twitter handle it DP show super Bowl odds
case you're curious this According to dres Kings, the Bills
are your favorites, then the Ravens, the one and two Ravens,
and then it's the Eagles. Eagles and Packers are tied.

(01:10):
Then it's the Lions, the Chargers, and then the Chiefs,
and further down you'll find the Commander's Niners and the Rams.
MVP odds, Josh Allen is your favorite, follow it closely
by Lamar Jackson, then Justin Herbert, and then a big
jump down to Jordan Love, Jayden Daniels or Baker and

(01:30):
Baker Mayfield Junior. The third hm my MVP pick is
not on there. Mm hmm, especially off one of the
best performances that Jalen Hurts has had in a while
throwing the football. Now, yes, I am curious when I

(01:50):
see those stats with Jalen Hurts, but I just think
he's like Troy Aikman, what do you need me to do?
And then I'll do it. When it's all all said
and done, He's not going to have impressive numbers, but
he's on his way to the Hall of Fame. It's
hard to win an MVP, but when you think value

(02:11):
to a team, we always equate that to stats. Look
at my stats, and that's why I always say with
the qbr Okay, did you win the game? That's the
most important thing. Did you win the game? And I
think he does what they ask him to do, what
he needs to do, and he wins every place he's

(02:31):
been he wins. Now, he's not going to be the
MVP this year because he's not going to put up
those kind of numbers. He's a guy that you have
to watch him play a game because if you're watching
for highlights, there's another Tush push, and there's another Tush push,
and there's Saquon Barkley and the Eagles win again. Okay,
he's not meant for the highlight generation, Yes, Marvin.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Unfortunately for Jalen Hurts, he's got an embarrassment of riches.
So they would have to go sixteen and one, seventeen
and zero for him to even be considered a top
three MVP candidate with that roster.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, the same. You know, there's quarterbacks who have Jared Goff,
same way with the Lions. You know, Troy Aikman when
he was with the Cowboys. Troy didn't put up big numbers,
but he finished top five one time. But his value
to the team, and that's hard to equate. Where you go, Man,
he's really valuable. Okay, but what's he do? He just

(03:28):
really good. He's a good field general or whatever. Yes, Paulie.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
I went back and looked at Hurt's breakout season of
twenty twenty two, and he was second in the MVP
voting to Mahomes because he was a great story. He
was the new story. His stats were half of Mahomes.
Mahomes had forty one touchdowns, Hurts had twenty two. But
there was a fresh story around Hurts and he pitshed second.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, all right, So last night the Lions over the
Ravens and they did it by running the football, and
they kept running the football. This would be the concern
I have with the Ravens. They used to have or
they normally have a average better than average defense. Sometimes
they've had great defenses. They've had a defense where, hey,
if you score ten points, will win the game. That's

(04:12):
how good their defense was. The Lions rushed for two
hundred and twenty four yards. That's the most of Ravens
defense has allowed since twenty seventeen. And they had two
drives of over ninety five yards. That doesn't happen very often,
and they did that like that's when you take over
a game. When all of a sudden that defense is

(04:35):
out there, they're going to be spent. You had the
fumble Derrick Henry. They sacked Lamar seven times. I mean
that they did give up a lot more points than
you know. I'm gonna say that that's a great game
on both sides of the ball. It's hard to say that.
And they give up thirty points, but seven sacks. They

(04:55):
had the strip sack strip of fumble with Derrick Henry.
They ran the football. That was That's one of those Hey,
we're going to take your heart out. We're going to
your place and we're going to run the football. And
now the Raven's got to go to Kansas City coming
up next week. Thirty one years ago today, Shawshank Redemption

(05:16):
was released thirty one years ago this week. I want
to talk a little bit about it because I think
it's more than just a film a movie that there's
so much in this and the fact that Tim Robbins,
who plays Andy Dufrayin said that this was such a
big movie in China because it allowed Chinese people to

(05:41):
have hope to get out of what they were in.
And I just remember that it stayed with me because
you're thinking about how long do movies last, or that
we could watch it again and again and again, and
it wasn't a hit when it came out. I think
it lost money at the box office.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, the budget this is nineteen ninety four. The budget
was twenty five million. In its first month, it was
released for basically six weeks. It made fifteen million and
was pulled from the box office. Now it got very
good reviews and was re released and made another ten million,
so it kind of broke even. It did very well
with the awards, very well with but then they shipped
all the DVDs to Blockbuster and the following year, nineteen

(06:22):
ninety five, it was the number one DVD rented at
Blockbuster for the entire year, and that's the audience that.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Found Tim Robbins talked about how little money he makes
on Shawshank Redemption residuals. Yeah, but you've talked about it before.
Was Shawshank Redemption that you guys basically you don't get
paid for the like the reears of this movie. You
got a one time flat fee for Shawshank.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
I did.

Speaker 6 (06:49):
I think the other guys have got to said we
get paid a little bit.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
Because of the union. But it was when it was
sold into syndication. Ted Turner sold it to himself from
one or two to say, his networks, so he bought
it the lowest rate, so it goes on. Every time
it goes on. There's really I mean, they have to
pay residuals, but not much. It was no nominated for

(07:13):
seven Academy Awards, and he sold it for Beach Blanket,
Bingo Prison.

Speaker 7 (07:20):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
And then I asked Tim Robbins this question, like, did
you take anything from Shawshank Redemption or I did?

Speaker 6 (07:31):
I took the rocks. The guys are the extras, the
extras who were prison inmates actually the local prison there,
the more well behaved ones were allowed to be extras.
And so they actually made a collection of rocks for
me and gave it to me at the end.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Of the movie. It's just a it's a great movie
that you can continue to watch even though you know
what the ending is going to be. They reshot the
ending because I think it originally ended with Morgan Freeman
on the bus going to go see Andy. But then
they realized that people actually wanted to see those two reconnect,

(08:12):
and they got a hold of Tim Robbins, and as
the story goes, they say, hey, we got to reshoot
the ending, He's like, why we do they want to
see you and Red together and it's going to be
shot in Saint Lucia, and Tim Robbins goes, I'm in
got to go there for a week. But just the
fact that they were reconnecting on the beach and a

(08:33):
great way to end the movie. But there's there's so
much and I don't even think Tim Robbins was the
number one choice to play Andy Dufrang.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah, PAULI No, there was a bunch of people considered
before him. The movie was offered to Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp,
and Kevin Costner and Tom Hanks. Cruise read for it
and didn't get didn't sign up for it. Hanks was
too busy with Forrest Gump. Kevin Costner had to pass
on it due to water World. Then they went out

(09:03):
to Johnny Depp, Nicholas Cage, even Charlie Sheen was considered.
Then they got around to Tim Robbins. The character of
Morgan Freeman. It was supposed to be a white Irish guy,
but they fell in love with Morgan Freeman decided to
put him in the movie. James Gandalfini was going to
be the really bad guy, in prison, the prison prisoner

(09:24):
who attacks Andy Dufrain. Gandalfini passed on it, and this
was early James Gandalfini, before he had done anything. So
among the players that were involved.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
In it, and the way it shot, it shot where
it's always dark. I mean, it just very well. You
don't want to have sunshine and great days when you're
showing a prison movie. Plus you're trying to sell a
prison movie, and it's not really it's a relationship movie.

(09:52):
It's not necessarily prison. It's like all these sports movies.
It's not Hoosiers isn't a basketball movie. It's a relationship movie.
Bull Durham is a relationship movie. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (10:05):
One of the things that the movie does best is
it humanizes people in prison, which societally we kind of
forget about. There's kind of normal dudes that happened to
be in prison. And one of the best examples of
that is the day that they're sitting on they're towering
the roof and they all just got just to have
a bucket of beers. You know, that is probably one

(10:25):
of the more powerful scenes in that whole movie, just
just for fifteen minutes, being able to be a normal
guy again. Yeah, it's a hell of a scene. Yeah, Paul,
you'll like this.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
The weekend was released, they decided to leave Stephen King's
name off all promotions. He wrote a short story that
became Shawshank Redemption. But they were worried that people thought
Stephen King, he's a horror movie guy. He Kujo and
Christine and so they took Stephen King's name off it.
Guess what movie they went up against in the theaters
their opening weekend that blew their doors off.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
So this is nineteen nine.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, Fall of ninety four. It's a movie with similar
staying power, but a different kind of film.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Dumb and Dumber nailed it.

Speaker 7 (11:11):
Pulp fiction.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Oh, pulp fiction made two hundred and twelve million dollars
in six months.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
I saw that in the theaters. I did not see
shaw Shank in the theaters. Yes, Marvin, Yeah, Shawshank's one
of those movies.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
If you recommend it to somebody, no one's gonna say, man,
you sold that way too much. It was gonna be like, man,
you were right because somebody told me about Shawshank Redemption.
Mean you got to watch this movie, all right? And
so now it's my favorite movie ever. And I always
recommend that to anybody who's never seen it. I don't
know anyone that's never seen it.

Speaker 7 (11:44):
As a matter of fact.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, it's hard to not see some of it. And
it doesn't matter where they are in the movie. It's
one of those where you go, all right, I'm gonna
watch Yeah, Paul, So.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
The name Shawshank Redemption didn't test very well, but they
kept it. People floated out things like breakout for the
name like die Hard to make it seem like it
would be more of an action film, and they poop
pooed that poo pooed for a breakout.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, that does sound like something Hollywood would do, Like,
all right, how do we explain this movie? It's cold
breakout that spoils the end. Yeah, so you're sitting saying
it gets out.

Speaker 8 (12:22):
It's like in that movie Free Willie. In the trailer
that they would show on TV, they show a whale
jumping over a gigantic brick wall and the.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Kid raising his arms. We do wonder what scene.

Speaker 9 (12:37):
We didn't say Freed Willy. We just hoping.

Speaker 8 (12:40):
Sure it looks like the whales getting out. The kid
seems happy about it.

Speaker 9 (12:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Craig in clear Water. Hi Craig, what's on your mind today?

Speaker 10 (12:49):
Hey, guys, I appreciate the call.

Speaker 11 (12:52):
It was good to talk to you. So nineteen ninety four,
I'm working in Clearwater. I'm working in Cranberry, New Jersey,
at the Cranberry Inn. And they're filming a movie called
IQ and Tim Robbins Walter Mathow meg Ran and it
was a knight of the infamous Jersey Devil's Rangers game

(13:13):
where Messia promised a win. And so they're supposed to
be filming this scene on a chef in the kitchen
and everyone's looking for Tim Robbins, and all of a sudden,
like I go into dry storage and Tim Robbins is
back there in dry storage with the transistor radio, listening
to the hockey game, and he looks at me and

(13:34):
he says, don't tell anyone in here. I'm in here.

Speaker 10 (13:37):
There's only five minutes left in the game.

Speaker 12 (13:40):
The Rangers are about to win.

Speaker 10 (13:42):
And that's my Tim Robbins story.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Thank you, Craig. Yeah, Tim, you'll see him at the
Rangers games. Sean and Maryland. Hi, Sean, what's on your mind?

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Hey?

Speaker 12 (13:53):
I just heard an interview with the Bucks Rookie a
Mecca Buka and they asked me a favorite movie and
to prove how time it was, it was Saw Shank.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Okay, yeah, good, I'm glad it's thirty one years. That's
staying power and it's not thirty one years at a
time of the calendar like Christmas, story comes out and
it's wonderful. You know, there's certain movies that come out
at certain times of the year. This is how many
times do you think Shawshank has played? How many times

(14:27):
has it been on TV? Because it's it feels like
ten thousand times. All right, let me take a break.
More phone calls coming up. We're back after this Dan
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Speaker 2 (15:54):
I guess the Cowboys aren't gonna do anything special for
Micah Parsons when he comes back, and I thought, uh,
maybe block maybe block him, that would be something special.
The Cowboys defense can't continue to be this bad, can it.
I want to make a bet, are they okay? Are

(16:16):
they the worst defense in football? Right now?

Speaker 4 (16:18):
I have the current defensive rankings. Points given up the
Cowboys are ranked twenty seventh. Yards given up the Cowboys
are ranked thirtieth. Guess who's the worst in yards given up?
The Ravens is correct.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Their defense is horrible.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
This just a tackling defending the past. Other than they
seem like nice people. Kyle Hamilton's a very likable guy.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yes, Marvin Monday morning, we're gonna say, man, I is
Jordan Love an MVP candidate? Because we've been saying about
everyone that plays the Cowboys defense, We're like, oh, it's
Russell Wilson back Caleb Williams, Oh my god, he's making
the turn.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
But I don't think the Cowboys are one of the
five worst teams in football. And and and maybe I'm
a little bit more optimistic about because they do have talent.
Although CD Lamb's going to be out for maybe three games,
maybe a month with that high ankle spring. It's never
a low ankle spring, by the way, it's always a
high ankle spring.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yes, if it's a high ankle spring. Is it still
on your ankle?

Speaker 2 (17:18):
It's it's the highest part of your ankle above the bone.
I guess.

Speaker 7 (17:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Mcclevin had a high ankle spring for years, right too, Yeah,
grade two ankles spring, yes, yes, But just.

Speaker 8 (17:33):
The fact that we're talking about the Cowboys. Are they
bottom five?

Speaker 2 (17:38):
I don't know? Are they bottom eight?

Speaker 15 (17:40):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (17:41):
Yeah, it could be if we're looking Dower ranking wise.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Oh, we could bump it up to two. Do ranking?

Speaker 8 (17:49):
I mean, I've got I actually have week three Power
and Dour rankings up right now where you could go vote.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Go to Dan Patrick dot com. You can vote on them. Okay,
the Cowboys are in there for Dower. Do we think
that they will end up Okay? If I said, what
was the over under seven and a half?

Speaker 4 (18:07):
Maybe yes, they were not expected to make the playoffs. Okay,
before you judge it, ceedee lamb out how long do
we know?

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Three weeks? Maybe four weeks?

Speaker 4 (18:20):
But with that defense they have to be in a shootout.
Without him, there's no shootout.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, well you got George Pickens.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Great as one a Yeah you said I'm actually having
a nice year.

Speaker 12 (18:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (18:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Do we think they'll end up with one of the
five worst records in the NFL. You're gonna have the Saints.
Where are all those Saints fans when I brought up
the Saints we're going to be bad at the beginning
of the year, and they're all mad at me. I'm like,
I I hope they're good. I love the city. I
don't have anything against you. Oh you're gonna find out.

(18:55):
I'm like, no, I'm I already know they're not going
to be good. Browns aren't gonna be Browns will be
bottom five? Are the Giants gonna be bottom five? Uh?
Tennessee bottom five?

Speaker 7 (19:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (19:11):
See, I'm pretty sure the Titans fans got mad at
us too.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
None of this is personal. This isn't Hey, you're in
that city and you don't you know we play against you.
It's it's not I'm not I'm not biased against anybody
or for anybody.

Speaker 15 (19:30):
Yes, Todd, Other than the Jets, Giants, and Panthers, Dallas
has a kind of a nightmare. They got obviously got
to play the Commanders, then they got to Denver they're
the Cardinals, which they should win.

Speaker 9 (19:40):
But then you got you gotta play the Rates. But
you don't know what you're gonna get if the Vikings.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
I can't say they should beat the card is that
that's a winnable game.

Speaker 9 (19:49):
But they got to play the Chargers. They gotta play
the Vikings.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Where's the where's the Cardinals game?

Speaker 9 (19:55):
The Cardinals game? You don't want to go there is
in Dallas?

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Okay, Well then they have a better chance of winning
that game. I don't know if there's any four gone
conclusion where you go, oh, Dawnas will win that game.
They don't have any defense. If Jackson Dark plays for
the Giants, when he plays for the Giants, that defense
can be really good. That maybe you know, they proved

(20:19):
to be a little better than what they only won
three games last year. Maybe they're a six win team, yes, Todd.

Speaker 15 (20:26):
Starting November twenty third, the host the Eagles, host the Chiefs,
at the Lions, host the Vikings, host the Chargers at
the Commanders, and then they finish at the Giants.

Speaker 9 (20:37):
But that's a disastrous Wow.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, they might finish with one of the five worst records.
Yeamp Paul.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
The Dolphins, the Titans, and the Saints are all oh
in three and they've all been outscored by more than
forty points. Those are the three worst teams in the league.
The run differential as I call it point difference.

Speaker 7 (20:55):
Yes, Mark, Yeah, I got the under. I'll take a
pie of the face.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
With what Dallas? Yeah what seven and a half?

Speaker 7 (21:03):
I got them winning six games?

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well, that's not a big leap.

Speaker 7 (21:06):
I got them winning five games.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Does anybody want a piece of Marvin? He's got the
Cowboys winning five?

Speaker 7 (21:14):
They are, so.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
The over under they have to win four more games? Yeah,
now you should take six, right because you're I'll take six. Okay,
So you think the Cowboys will win six at best? Okay? Wait,

(21:38):
are we approaching this bet correctly? Because I'm trying to
You went from six to five, and I'm going, well,
you said you could take six.

Speaker 7 (21:46):
I was like, you know what, I will take.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
The over under was seven and a half.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
I don't think they'll get the seven games they Okay,
I think they'll just get six games.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Six games. Okay, they're gonna win six. I'm with you, Yeah, pulling.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
That over under was set before the Parsons trade.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Okay, yeah, but they got a run stopper.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Oh yeah, one third of a win. H I feel
bad for Kenny Clark.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
I do tooll And by all accounts. He's a wonderful person,
he's a great teammate, great in the locker room, all
of those things, and all of a sudden, you know,
he's got to be the next Reggie White.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yes, Marvin, it's like the guy that was traded for
Kareem abdul Jabbar, like, oh, what was his name? I
just feel bad for Him's always going to be a
jeopardy question.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, there were a few guys who got traded for Kareem,
so it's not just one guy.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
And you don't know any of them, at least I don't.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Junior Bridgeman I think was in then, but they got
draft picks out of that. He wanted out of Milwaukee.
I remember when Wilt got traded, and that's where I
think Philadelphia got, like Archie Clark and Darrek m Hoff.

(23:01):
I remember when Oscar Robertson was traded for Charlie Poulk
and Flynn Robinson. Charlie Paulk I think was a sergeant
in the Marines as well, like he had another job.
Was he better at that than basket? He was probably
better at being a marine than he was at basketball.

(23:21):
And Flynn Robinson I think he was the Electric Eye. Okay,
I he had. He was a deep shooter, Flynn Robinson,
and I think that's his name, but I don't that
sounds weird. The electric Eye, cyborg, Flynn Robinson. Can you

(23:42):
see what his nickname was? That's good, this great radio
Flynn Robinson.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
We're doing a deep dive. Yeah, I got Flynn James Robinson,
electric guy or instant point.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
There you go, Electric Eye?

Speaker 4 (23:58):
Why why electric Eye?

Speaker 2 (23:59):
I have no idea. I have no idea. I was
little at the time. I didn't question those things. Yeah,
it's like ice Gervin. I don't know. He just had
ice water in his veins, I guess. Or whenever he
went to a restaurant he always asked for ice. A
lot of ice there, Tom yes Todd saying one.

Speaker 15 (24:22):
Story that says Markey Bucks broadcaster Eddie who set the
uncanny marksmanship and pure shooting ability of Flynn Robinson.

Speaker 9 (24:29):
They called him the electric Eye.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah, and then Charlie Polk. Can you see if he
was like a sergeant in the Marines. Now, those are
the two guys you got for Oscar Robertson. And Oscar
goes to Milwaukee and wins his one championship there, and
I think it was Archie Clark and darryl Imhoff for
Wilt Chamberlain. You never get dollar for dollar, you know,

(24:51):
you just never do. Fidel in La Hi Fidel.

Speaker 16 (25:00):
And how are you doing, long time listener, You guys
are great. Just kind of wanted to come in on
the Shawshank Redemption. Just share my quick little story. I
ended up getting into some trouble in early two thousand.
I ended up getting locked up, so I came across
the book of the Shawshank Redemption, and I actually read
the book and great book. So when I got released,
got out, went ahead and saw the movie. Awesome movie,

(25:24):
great movie, fell in love with it. And I think
that's the only movie and book that actually match up,
or that that is, I guess, you know, very similar.

Speaker 12 (25:35):
I read a lot of other books, none of them
come close when they make a movie.

Speaker 10 (25:39):
But I just thought I share that with you guys.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
You yeah, Stephen King. Stephen King wrote the book JC
and Indiana.

Speaker 17 (25:46):
Hi, JC, Hey, Dan, thanks for taking my call first time,
long time five six one eight and shrinking. I appreciate you,
thank you taking my call today. I am a member
of the d DS. My dad seventy fifth birthday would
have been today, and so I'm calling an honor and
memory of him. Shawshank Redemption was one of our favorite

(26:10):
movies to watch together, so I appreciated you replaying that
Tim Robins interview.

Speaker 18 (26:15):
And then Jim Harball. I've always loved him as a player.
I love him as a coach. In the very first
NFL game that I went to, my dad took me to,
and the Indianapolis Colts, who were quarterbacked by Jim Harball,
beat the Green Bay Packers thirty five to thirty one.
Thanks again, and have a great day.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
JC. Your father's name was Joseph Joseph. All right, how
about a belated happy birthday for Joseph.

Speaker 7 (26:41):
Happy birthday.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Remember, thank you, Jac. Let me see Jim in Michigan. Hi, Jim,
what's on your mind today?

Speaker 12 (26:55):
I just wanted a touch base. You had a conversation
regarding the close notes. Yeah, And I worked for a
company out of blank in Nebraska. A sign okay, okay,
because I'm on a phone from Cliff Anyway, I worked
for this company in Lincoln, Nebraska called Nebraska Book, which
originated they used textbook business. Cliff, that's his first name.

(27:18):
I don't recall his last was an employee of that
company who developed the cliff Notes and went on to
make a lot of money doing it. Hired a bunch
of readers to condense these books. So he was worked
for Nebraska Book and also developed the cliff Notes.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Well, thank you, Jim. I'm not sure what Jim is
doing at work there. Don't want him to get fired, Paul.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
And on Q is a nice short story.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Cliffs Notes Clifton Hill Glass Hill Gas born in nineteen
fifty eight from Lincoln, Nebraska. He started cliff Notes.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Okay, thank you helped me considerably. But you know what
teachers knew if you read the book or all they
have to do is go to the cliff Notes cliffs Notes,
and then they could go Okay, yeah, you learned that there,
you learned that there, you learned that there. Yes, Tom,
where was that guy yellow at?

Speaker 15 (28:08):
Jim?

Speaker 2 (28:08):
I said, barbecue sauce?

Speaker 9 (28:10):
You want a sports talk show where.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
I'm on the phone.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
Yes, the cliff Notes, guys. Is was his obituary?

Speaker 9 (28:17):
Very short?

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Soon do we do? We get to the obituary and
somebody else that just give us the cliffs Notes. Okay,
the actual guy, don't go forever?

Speaker 8 (28:29):
Yes, yes, died, family donations, that's it.

Speaker 9 (28:34):
It was a great dad.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Okay, yeahs and prayers.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Do you think whenever he and his wife went to
like dinner parties, get to the to the story, get
to the story.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
It takes forever.

Speaker 5 (28:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Everything about him asked is to have brevity. Yeah, Hi, honey, Hi,
just the cliff notes version. Okay, how was your day? Fine?

Speaker 9 (29:01):
They just sent me a smiley face. You got to
say the whole word fun.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah. He didn't have emoji's back then.

Speaker 7 (29:05):
I was good.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Good. Yeah, I mean, come on, you can you can
expound upon that. I'm just giving you the cliffs notes
version of everything. Cliffs notes. Yeah, imagine his wife probably
got tired of hearing that. Oh honey, it's cliffs notes.
That's I drive my wife nuts. Well, a lot of
things I do drive my wife nut.

Speaker 8 (29:27):
But she uh will go out to dinner all the time,
and I'll order the Brussels sprouts and she's like, would
you just at first it was really funny? Uh, And
I think now she'll see it on the menu shell
be like, don't don't do it.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Excuse me, how are the Brussels sprouts? Prepared well, I
do the Jimmy skunjeeal and Tommy Calamari and it drives
my wife crazy. We went to the Italian Feast a
couple of weeks ago and I said, oh, Jimmy Skanjeal
and Tommy Calamari and she goes, no, I don't think
I do it. I go, oh, yeah, yeah, Jimmy Skin,

(30:04):
who's coming over? Jimmy Skin, g you?

Speaker 7 (30:06):
Where is it?

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Tommy Calamari? Yes, Doud.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
What would the.

Speaker 15 (30:09):
Cliff Notes version be or Cliff's Notes version be? In
the bedroom, so there's no foreplay at all. You gotta
get it right to it, in and out pretty match.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
How do you think you're doing today, miss cliff?

Speaker 2 (30:20):
What are you doing?

Speaker 15 (30:21):
The cliffs Notes version of intimacy would be okay with
do what happened again?

Speaker 9 (30:25):
This keeps happening to You should really see the doctor.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
I have to kind of lead up to stuff.

Speaker 15 (30:29):
You gonna kiss my neck for a second before you
finish up cliff Notes version of Intimacy.

Speaker 7 (30:36):
M hmm, I don't have anything after that.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Okay, that's good. How do you think you're doing today? Yeah?
They did himself?

Speaker 9 (30:43):
Did do it to myself. We got to put the
code of the silence down the cone.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
We gotta hit a how do you think you're going?

Speaker 9 (30:48):
You're doing you know, see it best. And that's being generous.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
For somebody who prided himself on his grade point average.
You don't happen. You do not take great pride in
your grades. On this show, I did so well.

Speaker 9 (31:02):
I had all kinds of you know.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
You know what, maybe maybe we do a calendar and
then I put it a grade each day at the
end of the show. That's a little harsh, but it
might be a subtle reminder.

Speaker 9 (31:14):
Yeah, I might have to talk to human resources about that.
Very intimidated.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
I'm human resources.

Speaker 9 (31:20):
That's true. I forgot all about that and making it
a place stare at that every day. Here's what you
got to see.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
And there's a deep block and it's not resources. It's
not a z resourcesource. My tongue at yes, Marvin see.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
And this is for everybody that says, oh, may you
guys pick on Fritzy. I consider this place. Everyone's got
a close fist and sometimes you guys swing and sometimes
Fritzy runs right into it full speed.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
That is true. It's not going to change. That's it
doesn't matter what I say.

Speaker 15 (31:52):
And it's NASCAR, right, not Nascar with an ass as,
not a naskar.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Okay, I guess everyone says everything. No one's ever made
a mistake.

Speaker 9 (32:01):
That's going right in the suggestion box.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Now, we do make mistakes, that's but we point them
out when we make mistakes.

Speaker 9 (32:07):
Diggestion box.

Speaker 15 (32:08):
Let's not grade people personally put up on our board
and have to stare at every day and get mocked.

Speaker 9 (32:12):
Gestion box.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
I'm gonna talk to human Resources first of all.

Speaker 9 (32:17):
Sir, it's not resources. And what's your problem with Dan?
What did you want to call about.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
I'm the HR.

Speaker 15 (32:24):
I can't even go over your head or anything because
I'll be like, you gotta talk to Dan working out.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
It's like I'm older, white and breaking bad. You know,
I'm the one who knocks God. I love that scene.
I love that all right, let me take a break.
It's just regroup. It's all fun. Everything, everybody's having fun.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
We are, yeah, until dinner time at the Fritz's house
and then you know.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
What else he said, And then he was going to
grade me every day.

Speaker 9 (32:54):
And it's for Russia. Shut at dinner at night too.

Speaker 15 (32:55):
It's supposed to be a big you know, Jewish festival
of New Year's and you gotta put damp on it.

Speaker 17 (32:59):
Now.

Speaker 9 (32:59):
I got hawk my wife about how the day went.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
What is tonight all about?

Speaker 9 (33:04):
So that is the second night.

Speaker 15 (33:05):
Of Russiashana, and you know, you get together with family
and friends. I'm going up the road to my friend's
house and again it's all part of the Russishana to
yum kipor high holidays. I don't really have any more
details on that. It's been a while since I was
in the Hebrew School. But I know I'm eating some
kosher food, and.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Uh, do you know more than we do? And we're
not even Jewish.

Speaker 15 (33:24):
You guys probably know very similar about that. I now,
maybe I know slightly more, like I know a couple
of Yiddish words like schitzing, But.

Speaker 9 (33:30):
You know I don't. I don't have a lot. Yes,
one of you, at least in this room, may know
more than I do.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Okay, say a break, last call for phone calls, what
we learn, what's in store tomorrow right after this.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
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Speaker 2 (33:55):
Last call for phone calls, what we learn watch in
store tomorrow. By the way, I'm looking at my Saturday
seven am, Ryder Cup noon USC Illinois more Ryder Cup,
LSU Old Miss at three thirty, Ohio State, Washington three thirty, Indiana,

(34:16):
Iowa three thirty, lsu Ole Miss three thirty, seven thirty Oregon,
Penn State seven thirty, Alabama and Georgia. What no, no,
but no, everybody can see that. I'm just saying that
that's that's your Saturday, right there. Ryder Cup. And then

(34:39):
college football, Yes, Paul.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
College football always has the big Week one and that
dip Week two or three where they mix in a
couple of cupcakes and it ramps up.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah, that's pretty good. That's pretty good, pretty spicy. Do
you think they ever thought about Shawshank Redemdemption two.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
Made a lot, Yeah, made a lot of money.

Speaker 8 (35:03):
They get stopped for a traffic ticket and red does
any outstanding warrants?

Speaker 2 (35:07):
No, yes, Toddy still redeeming.

Speaker 9 (35:11):
You gotta have a little kick. I can't just put
it too. You have to have a little phrase.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Back back back back to swank. Yeah, but the Warden. Uh,
he wouldn't be able to be in it. No, no,
he would not be able to and he do fright,
that's pretty good just now, was it?

Speaker 9 (35:29):
That's pretty good bugging.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Front, thank you.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Yes, I don't know the actor that played the Warden
at Shawshank, but that's an all time great job.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
I him, Yeah, was very great. Bad guy Seton's been
working on his Chris collins Worth impersonation. Oh man, you
can you can you dial it up here with a
Patrick Mahomes throw.

Speaker 19 (35:51):
I mean, look at this guy right here. I mean,
who make that bad? Is just unbelievable. I mean look,
I mean threw the ball backwards is a bad pass,
not even in his receiver.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Then he recovers the pot. Mean, nobody else is only
can do that?

Speaker 9 (36:04):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Uh that's what hungry is this guy? I know. That's
where I wanted to say to Chris.

Speaker 8 (36:11):
Uh, I love Chris collins No, he's great or what
he does, and yeah, he's great, but.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Not every throw that Mahomes makes is god him.

Speaker 8 (36:21):
Meant a lot of times when I see his chiefs
and it's and uh, this is not going to be gear.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Up for this.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
I mean, who else could make that throw of the
yards over the battle.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
I who could do that?

Speaker 17 (36:33):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Trip in Vegas? Hi Trip? What's on your mind today?
Hey DC? I was thinking, instead of a grade for Fritzi,
why don't we put a stock ticker up in the
in the uh peacock so I can watch his rating
for the day. Say how he's doing? Mmm? So you're
you'd be a stock ye like a bull bear market? No? No,

(36:55):
I I mean we would only have fun with this.
I I don't want to have your stock price fluctually.

Speaker 9 (37:01):
What's my stock like abbreviation?

Speaker 5 (37:03):
Then?

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 9 (37:05):
I'm sure you'll come up with something mean. There's a
couple of minutes.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Do you consider me mean?

Speaker 15 (37:11):
Not mean?

Speaker 9 (37:11):
Playful?

Speaker 7 (37:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (37:12):
I am. But it can't be just TJP or f
z Y for Fritzi. I don't know. It has to
be three letters, four letters. How does it work?

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Fritz potato chips?

Speaker 9 (37:22):
Oh you're gonna bring that up, Just the.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Fact that one of your school man.

Speaker 9 (37:27):
Fritz upper body part for your potato chips. Hilarious.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Jimmy in California, Hi Jimmy, what's on your mind today?

Speaker 10 (37:37):
Hey Dan? I actually met you in two thousand and one.

Speaker 12 (37:41):
You're not gonna remember, but I remember it well. You
were very polite, very cordial.

Speaker 10 (37:45):
I met you at the Cubby Bear. It's just post
nine to eleven. You were upstairs in the corner. My
only trip to Chicago ever. What a great bar and
really cool.

Speaker 18 (37:55):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (37:56):
Bruce Willis's band was playing downstairs that night, yep, and
John Goodman was guesting. It was awesome. So thanks for
being great when I met you.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Yeah, I do remember that, and then I remember I
think John Goodman was fell asleep up on the stage
with the band, Bruce Willis's band, And right, I loved
going to Wrigleyville a lot, a lot of fun times.
David in Phoenix, Hi David, what's on your mind?

Speaker 7 (38:27):
Hi?

Speaker 16 (38:27):
Dan, I have a hot take?

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Okay, ouz for drama.

Speaker 11 (38:34):
The Steelers Mike Tomlin will retire and they will hire Jay.

Speaker 10 (38:40):
Harbaugh as their next head coach starting next year.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Okay, Well, thank you, David. You heard it here first.
Uh So Jim Harbaugh's son gets hired by the Steelers.
Is that what David is saying? And Jim Son is
the special teams coordinator the with Seattle. I believe, Okay,
I mean I think There's a lot of ways to

(39:06):
look at this. Are Tomlin and Aaron Rodgers kind of
a package deal? If it goes well? Do they come
back again? If it doesn't, Does Mike take time out?
Time off? Maybe getting in TV? I had the source
suit former TV executive who said he could see Dabo

(39:26):
Sweeney doing what Nick Saban's doing, and that would be
interesting because I think he would have a fun personality
if he decided that he wanted to do it yes time.

Speaker 9 (39:42):
But he just did that rant thing. I'll just coach
somewhere else if we don't want me here. I've got
a lot of years up. I'm young. I'll coach somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Is that your Dabo Sweeny.

Speaker 15 (39:49):
It's just what he said more than an actual post.
But he did make it sound like he's got several
years of coaching still in moving he does.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
He's only fifty five. This day in sports history, Paul.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
September twenty third, nineteen oh eight Giants, San Francisco Giants,
No New York Giants versus the Chicago Cubs. Fred Merkle
failed to touch second base, cost the Giants the pennant
the Cubs and end up winning the Pennant and winning
their World Series in nineteen.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Oh eight, and his nickname was Bonehead. Yep, you know
it didn't go well if somebody calls you by your
nickname Bonehead, Fred Bonehead Merkle Jose Canseco nineteen eighty eight,
first player to steal forty and hit forty home runs
in a season. Dan Hurley of the Yukon Huskies tomorrow,

(40:39):
I think is there a memoir out?

Speaker 15 (40:41):
He's got a new memoir out and he's looking forward
to chatting with you. Comes out next week, so we're
gonna actually chat with them a few days before it
even gets released.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
How old should you have to be to put out
a memoir?

Speaker 9 (40:53):
Fifty seven and a half.

Speaker 2 (40:54):
At least he's fifty two. That's early. It feels like
there's gonna to be a memoir to a sequel?

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Todd?

Speaker 2 (41:03):
Would you learn today the name Ruth's Chris.

Speaker 15 (41:05):
Steakhouse wasn't done totally out of arrogance by good old Ruth.
A fire caused them to move location. She couldn't keep
the name legally as just Chris's Steakhouse?

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Seaton? What did you learn?

Speaker 8 (41:14):
According to the Internet, the quarterback we were referring to
in the first hour of the show. Who kept getting
punched in his arm by Max Crosby was Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Oh not Aaron Roight. Okay, thank you.

Speaker 7 (41:23):
Marvin Jack Harbaugh can take care of himself.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Paul Cliffs notes, thanks for joining us. A lot of
fun today for Fritzie Seat and Mars Paula. Yours truly
in the backroom. Guys, we'll talk to you tomorrow.
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