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October 9, 2024 40 mins

Dan Patrick identifies a few other NFL head coaches who are at risk of not finishing the season with their team. Actor Patrick Schwarzenegger joins Dan to discuss his role as Tim Tebow in FX's Aaron Hernandez docuseries "American Sports Story." Plus, Master Distiller from Keeper's Heart Brian Nation joins Dan to gift another special bottle of whiskey!

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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's the final hour on this Wednesday, at least for
the Dan Patrick Show. Gang's all here ready to go
big time. Actor Patrick Schwarzenegger, Arnold's son. He's in a
TV series. He plays Tim Tebow. It's FX's American Sports
Story Aaron Hernandez and it airs every Tuesday on FX

(00:28):
and the next day on Hulu. So Patrick Schwarzenegger will
join us coming up here. In a moment, I saw
the Master Distiller, not distiller, the Master Distiller, Brian Nation
from Keeper's Heart. I saw him in the back. I said,
we talking whiskey today, and he said, yeah, I'll come
out and maybe talk some whiskey. This is a guy
who has Bono on speed dial, and he also has

(00:51):
the Prince of Monaco on speed dial. Yeah, I'm Pauline.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
I actually have a whiskey question. I'll save it, but
I want to ask you a situation. I told I
was making a glass for myself and I threw the
rocks in as they called him, Yeah, you gotta don't
throw them, and you don't want them chipping waters down
the drink. I'm like, really, I didn't give it that
much thought.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
But they do have those ice cubes that they they
you just freeze him. You get no water in it, yes,
but I like a little bit of water, right, Sometimes
it brings out the flavor a little bit more. Yeah,
see the uh.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
When I was in Las Vegas, I met a dude
from Ireland and we were talking and he pulled out
his uh. I think he worked at like another distillery.
Oh okay, And I was just like, okay, I don't
know what he did there, but I was just like, oh, yeah, you.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Got to tell that story, quicker. I met a dude
and he pulled out his and.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Then you got that it's called suspense painting the picture, yes,
and then changing it up on you.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
But anyway, I was just like, oh, yeah, you know
Brian Nation. And he snapped a look at me, like, yeah,
how do you know Brian Nation? Like hello, I'm plugged in. Yeah,
Brian Nation from a keeper's heart. He's a mass distiller.
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(02:11):
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Speaker 2 (02:19):
We did in and out last hour. We didn't get
into all of the topics are you in or are
you out? And we have two more so before we
bring in Patrick Schwarzenegger, who I don't I've been in
two movies with him. Really, I was in Benchwarmers and
I think.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
That was the other one, and you were in Terminator
two with his father.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
I was.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
I was Interminator too nice Nightfall walk. Yeah, I was reciprocating.
You know, Arnold brought me in, so I bring in
his son. What was I in the not House Mouney,
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I think it was, Oh, we're checking.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
It's so hard to keep the multituating it is.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
And I got my script yesterday for Happy Gilmore too.
Now I got it. They're called sides. I got my sides.
That means I got that part of the script that
my line's on it. And I got a lot of
lines in this and uh, I'm I'm hopeful that I
can I can nail these things. There's some potentially funny lines.

(03:28):
I mean, I'm going to have to take Sandler's words
and then make them my own to make them funny.
But I'm willing to do that.

Speaker 7 (03:34):
Yes, Tom, are you a cue cards kind of guy?
Or you're able to memorize the whole deal and just
try to do it on one table.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
We don't have que cards.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
Do you have a call for a line? Has it
ever gotten to that point?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
I have called for a line before. I have called
for a line.

Speaker 7 (03:48):
How's that go? Line like that?

Speaker 5 (03:50):
It works?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah? I might say line damn it right now? Line? Yeah,
I mean, depending on the role that I have. Yes,
but there's no cue cards. Now. I did hear that
Robert Downey Junior had a role where he had an
earpiece and he was fed lines, and I think that

(04:11):
was the movie with Robert Duvall, if that sounds right. Yes, Paul, I.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Actually saw something with Robert Duvall when he was in
The Godfather. They have pictures from behind the scenes of
the making of the Godfather, and Marlon Brando was not
big on memorizing. Why so the other actors who are
young and less established, they would actually wear like little
billboards on their chest with Marlon Brando's lines when they're
shooting it from behind them to get Marlon Brando. You

(04:37):
could find these pictures online. You see Marlon Brando doing
his thing.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, and there's.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Robert Duvall with words on his chest yeah, not his
actual chest, more so on the front of.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
His foot, his sport code. Correct. Yes.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
My wife was once on Pensacola Wings of Gold. Oh
and remember that, yeah, Bikini Girl number three, And she
said that nobody there knew their lines and that everything
was like line, hey you can't do that, line, want
me to arrest you? Line, that's book them Like it
was just like that, one after the other after the other.

(05:11):
It was just like, how is this such a quality show?

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Quickly? Was this the way they do this?

Speaker 3 (05:15):
We quickly went from Godfather to Pensacola Wings of Gold
and no steps.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's essentially the Godfather of We've never seen that episode
of your Wife?

Speaker 6 (05:24):
No, I haven't either.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
You've never seen it?

Speaker 5 (05:27):
No?

Speaker 4 (05:28):
She didn't like exactly like have it on VHS or
something like, hey you want to see this?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Do you want the IT team to get on that episode? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (05:36):
She had to run in slow motion like yeah, like
where you run run?

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Oh? Don't I know that from Pam Anderson? Yeah, yeah,
Pama number three bikini girl. That's how she was listed
in the credit.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
That's our credit.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yes ninety seven through two thousand. Pensacola Wings of Gold
did not get picked up for season four.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
James Brolin was one of the jim I.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Was trying to leave the old Uh, Jimmy didn't bother
learning his lines.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Line get Taos line, Yeah, two l pastor line.

Speaker 7 (06:13):
We're gonna have to ask her to memorize the four words.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Just not asking, all right, PAULI the final two in
or just to recap.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
You say you're in. If you're in, and if you're out,
you say I'm out. Okay, these are last two. Little quirky.
Now that he's a grown up, Bronnie James should go
by Lebron James Junior.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
The back of his uniform says James Junior on it,
and Bronnie is a nickname. I don't think it's his
given name. Would you go by Lebron James Junior now
that you're a grown up and getting paid as a professional,
or go by Brownie?

Speaker 2 (06:46):
I go Bronnie, I'm out, You're you're out?

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Call him Brownie. Yeah, some type of individuality.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
I'm out on that.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
I'm in okay, last one, this is just not based
on anyone around here or the building. Asking your girlfriend
to marry you at a sporting event or even on
the jumbo tron is a great thing. You see those
guys again on one knee.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
I'm out. No, that's terrible. No, out out, out, out,
out out out. Yes see.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
I don't think you could just say in or out
on this question because it depends the rules of the
game though, No, no, no, But for us, I'm out
on it because it wouldn't have worked in my situation,
but that doesn't mean that it doesn't work for other situations.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, I'm giving my opinion on this.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
I'll tweak it.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Then, what's your opinion of other people asking their girlfriend
to marry them at a sporting event.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
I think it kind of depends on the relationship. Like
my wife would be like, no, no, no, we're not
doing that.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
You have to have a girlfriend who's a hardcore sports fan, correct.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, or likes to be on camera on the Jumbo
Tron and you know, likes to be in front of everybody.

Speaker 7 (08:00):
You sure the person's gonna say yes? Would be helpful.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
To do, but I'm out, I don't I don't want
to do it. I did know somebody who did do that,
and she said no, but you know, she then said later,
I was saying no right now, but he was crushed.

Speaker 6 (08:17):
When they do, they're like no, no, no, stand up,
stand up?

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah no no no no, no no no.

Speaker 7 (08:20):
I thought this was just a kiss cam actually proposing
to me.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
No, we were on a kiss cam once Todd and
I and pretty hot and everything. Well, no, I didn't
know we were on a kiss cam. And then Todd
was saying like, hey, hey, and I'm going I planted.
You don't know me like that.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
You said to me, you don't know me like that?

Speaker 6 (08:42):
All right, we spoke with, uh, You're so lucky that
wasn't me, Todd.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
I know I immediately would have kissed you. We've had.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
You guys.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Did you did kiss on?

Speaker 6 (08:53):
I've done a shot out of his gel belly button.

Speaker 7 (08:56):
That was my surgically repaired stomach. He just went in there.

Speaker 8 (08:59):
Well we will always have that moment.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I'm an actor, but I could never do that more method.
I guess, yes, meth. It would take meth for me
to Patrick Schwarzenegger, actor model plays Tim Tebow in FX's
American Sports Story Aaron Hernandez Tuesdays on FX the next
day on Hulu. We spoke to him last week and

(09:22):
the first question I asked is what made you take
the role of Tim Tebow.

Speaker 9 (09:28):
Oh, that's a great question.

Speaker 8 (09:31):
I mean, first off, I'm a huge sports fan, a
massive football fan from college to NFL, So obviously I
knew a lot about this story, and obviously I knew
a lot about Tim Tebow. But from an actor's point
of view, I was, you know, it's always my goal
to kind of work on projects that are going to
hopefully elevate me that I can learn from other actors
or learn, you know, work with really great producers or directors.

(09:54):
And when I had the opportunity to work with Ryan
Murphy again, that was a you know, a blessing. It's
always great to work with him. He produces such great content.
So that was kind of what first drew me in.
And then it was just this story. I mean, it's
really just a heartbreaking, you know, fascinating true crime story,

(10:18):
and you know, Tim Tebow is just a sliver of
the story, but he really gets to kind of provide
this light at the end of the tunnel for Aaron
and for the story, and he's kind of this humanizing element.
So for me, it was a no brainer to play.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
But do you have to become Tim Tebow? I mean,
I know size wise you can't. But what are you
trying to emulate or represent with Tim Tebow?

Speaker 9 (10:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (10:44):
For kind of my research when I was doing Tim,
I mean I was listening to every single audio book
of his. I mean, for me, it was really the voice,
the physicality, like you said, although I couldn't get to
the size and such a short amount of time. Tim
kind of conducts himself as this this larger than life
teddy bear that's just full of energy and and and.

Speaker 9 (11:06):
How he talks.

Speaker 8 (11:07):
So I worked with a voice coach a lot on
trying to get elements of kind of his lisp and
then how he talks. He's always like this, and he's
just always bunched up and he's almost about to run
out of energy and run out of words, and it's
like he doesn't take a breath during his voice and
when he's talking. So that I watched probably hundreds of
hours of his sermons of him preaching at at at

(11:29):
different campuses and stadiums because we have some scenes like
that in the show. So I did my best to
try to, you know, emulate him in other ways besides
just the physical build.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
What about football scenes? Are there going to be any
that you have to be a football player, you have
to be Tim Tebow in the field?

Speaker 9 (11:50):
Yeah, so I think they were.

Speaker 8 (11:52):
It was pretty funny because I grew up playing football,
you know, I mean, I enjoy it. I love sports,
so I would call myself athletic. And when I went
for the football training camp, and on the first day
we had to do kind of some of the drills.
I'm very comfortable except for the fact that Tim is lefty,
so everything was kind of reverse from the three step

(12:12):
drop back to when you would go for the throwing motion,
and throwing a football lefty is the most awkward, weird
thing if you're a right hand person, you know. So
what they ended up having to do was I would
go to throw the ball, and right when I would
pretend to throw the ball, they would they would yell
out pause, and then a real you know, a real

(12:34):
performer could come in take my place throw the football lefty,
and then they would say pause again, and then I
would come back in and pretend I threw the ball.
So that was how we kind of got the Hollywood
way around me throwing lefty.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Did you meet Tim Tim Tebow?

Speaker 8 (12:49):
I've met Tim, you know, once in the past, and
he was such a great, you know, nice guy to me.
But I didn't meet him for this at all. You know,
I didn't obviously want to respect him. And this is
not a quote unquote documentary, you know, it's more of
a dramatized version of events that happened and stuff. So
but he's always been, you know, really kind and supportive

(13:11):
towards towards me, and I have a lot of mutual
friends with him.

Speaker 9 (13:13):
But I didn't I didn't reach out to him.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
For this American sports story. Aaron Hernandez ten episode limited
series had already premiered on the seventeenth, and it's a
ten Eastern Pacific and season finale November twelfth. What did
you find out about Aaron Hernandez that you didn't know?

Speaker 8 (13:33):
Well, I think that there were kind of like different
time periods for me of when I learned about this.
You know, obviously when it first kind of happened and
everything was coming out circulating in the news and then
there were you know, further podcasts which this show was
actually about, and then you know, even of recent there
was the documentary, and then there was stuff on the
Swampkins and on the Florida Gators.

Speaker 9 (13:53):
So I would say I knew a lot. I think.

Speaker 8 (13:58):
For me it was really since you know, I'm playing
Tim Tebow, was really learning about the Florida Gators and
kind of what else was happening behind the scenes during
this tenure there.

Speaker 9 (14:08):
I was pretty shocked about.

Speaker 8 (14:09):
All the arrests and the troubles within the football program
and at the school during the time. And then I
would also say it was pretty you know interesting to
learn about Aaron's childhood and kind of some of the
other events that happened in his life that I don't
want to say that led to where he kind of went,
but had impacts on who he was that probably the
general public didn't know from his family dynamic family situation

(14:34):
and what had happened with his father and just I
think that's what makes the show, you know, pretty interesting,
is that it covers all basises from you know, high
school up until you know the end.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
How much pressure was there on you to be a bodybuilder,
to lift weights oh zero zero in the household, not
at all.

Speaker 9 (14:56):
No. I mean, I think the thing with my dad
is he's been.

Speaker 8 (15:02):
There's a lot of pressure to find your your dreams
and your your goals and your passions, whether that is bodybuilding,
whether that's acting, or whether you want to be a
school teacher, or you want to be a podcast host,
or you want to be a you know, work at
the local church and do philanthropy, whatever that is. That's
what he's more of a believer in, and really like
kind of taking a step back in your life, having

(15:23):
this vision of where you want to go, and then
how do you utilize each and every day, or each
and every month, and so on and so forth to
get closer and closer towards those goals. But he never
pressured me at all to do to do bodybuilding. He
never put me into pressure to do acting. But I
fell in love with acting going to the sets with
him growing up. It was like my favorite activity. He

(15:43):
would always let me play hooky from school and go
and sit on his set back when they would film
everything in La but never towards towards bodybuilding.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
What movie or set moment stands out all those times
you went with Dad.

Speaker 9 (15:59):
When he was mister for that was that was the best.

Speaker 8 (16:03):
I have these photos of me with him with the outfit,
and I would have the before and after when he
would go into the trailer to hair and makeup and
he was Dad and then getting the bald cap and
the blue all over him and the huge you know,
mister Freeze suit and stuff like that. But yeah, going
to set growing up was like, you know, anytime he
had a break, we got to take the golf cart

(16:23):
and go over to the et Ride, or we could
go over to Jawzy Universal Studios.

Speaker 9 (16:28):
It was like it was it was the best.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Uh, if you can if you can wave a magic
wand and have your USC Trojans, your Dodgers or Lakers
win another championship, ooh would be.

Speaker 8 (16:44):
I'm maybe I'm I feel like this right now. I'm
gonna go with the Dodgers. I mean, we've just put
too much on the line this year. We've invested so much.
We've had heartbreak year after year the last couple of years,
and everyone says the asterisk with the twenty twenty season
and stuff, you know, So I'm going with the Dodgers.

Speaker 9 (17:02):
I mean, I think we have a bright future ahead.
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (17:04):
The Lakers future doesn't seem nearly as bright, so I'm
gonna go with the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
All right. Coolest actor you ever met growing up?

Speaker 9 (17:14):
Coolest actor.

Speaker 8 (17:16):
I don't think he's I don't know if you'd callify
him as a as an actor, but guy Fury.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, We've had had him on the show quite a
few times.

Speaker 9 (17:24):
I'm a huge fan. I love the flavor town.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Have you been on the show.

Speaker 9 (17:30):
I've never been.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
On his show.

Speaker 9 (17:33):
Say yeah, yeah, please do. I would love to do it.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Okay, but that'll like that'll go over well at home.
If a guy decides to come to your place or
it takes you out, you glad to a restaurant. You
know how this works.

Speaker 9 (17:44):
Yeah, bring him over, slap some meat on the grill.
Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Okay, it sounds great. Good luck with the show. Great
to catch up with you, and thanks for joining us.

Speaker 8 (17:54):
Patrick, Well, thank you, man, I appreciate it, and have
a great day, have a great.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Week, Patrick Schwarzenegger. The show is American sports story. Aaron Hernandez,
he portrays Tim Tebow. All Right, we'll take a break.
We'll get to more phone calls coming up back after
this Dan Patrick show.

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Speaker 2 (18:28):
You know, if you weren't with us in the first hour.
Diana Rassini, she's on the Jets story with the athletic
and I said, any other coach is going to be
fired mid season? She's like, yeah. Once you have one
organization firing a coach, then it kind of opens the door,
like you're not the first to fire your coach. I'm like, okay,

(18:49):
and then you start to look around, you go okay,
if it goes south or further south for Jacksonville the
Saints situation, like I don't know which teams would pull
the trigger because you also have to you could be bad,
but you're just going to ride this out, or you
have an owner like you do with the Jets. He's like,
that's it. I've seen enough. I got embarrassed. We went

(19:11):
to London. I have my friends there and I'm an
ambassador there, former ambassador there, and we end up losing
on firing you. I don't know how many like Jerry
Jones feels like he can do it, but Jerry is
so loyal, like he's been loyal to a fault, certainly
with Jason Garrett. I don't think if it went south

(19:33):
for the Cowboys that he would fire him. And you're
not getting Bill Belichick, as Mike frances has said last hour,
You're not getting Bill Belichick. Doesn't matter. He's not coming there.
Does Mike Rabile go there? Yeah? Maybe, but not during
the season.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
Yes, Marvin, is Kevin Stefanski in any trouble in Cleveland?
Or is that just Deshaun Watson?

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Wasn't he coach of the Year last then they make
the playoffs last year, won a playoff game. Yeah, that
one's tough because you gotta It feels like he knows
the best situation is to bench his starting quarterback, but
he can't. And I don't know if he'd pay the
price for that. I hope he wouldn't, But with that ownership,

(20:20):
I can't rule that out.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, Paul, Yeah, the Rams are one and four. There's
a long way to go. It feels like Sean McVay, though,
has a two year window of badness. He has to
have two bad seasons back back to back to be
in danger because Super Bowl five and twelve, A lot
of injuries last year, ten and seven, one in four
this year.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
I think he's on scholarship as long as he wants
to be there. It feels like they won a Super Bowl.
I think they have injuries, you know. I think what
happens after Matthew Stafford retires will be interesting with the Rams.
Does Sean McVeigh want to continue to do that or
does he go into the broadcasting booth because he was
going to make same money or maybe more money being

(21:03):
a broadcaster. But as we've seen with these coaches who
become broadcasters, that lure that poll is always going to
bring there to bring you back, because there's nothing that
can replicate that you can be out at the games.
I talked to Tony Dungee about it, and I said,
you know you're on the field, you're talking football. He says,
nothing replaces being on the sidelines.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Yes, Mark, is Zach Taylor on the hot seat in
Cincinnati at all?

Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'd say yeah, I'd say yeah, yeah. I mean I
don't like troubleshooting this because you know, Doug Peterson, should
he be fired? I don't know. I'm not urban Meyer
needed to be fired. Like there's certain situations where you
go that guy is not good for the team and

(21:55):
needs to be fired. Doug Peterson's won a super Bowl,
they've underachieved, But do you lose your job, that's I mean,
that's drastic. Then you get fired during the season. Now,
every year, how many coaches get fired on that Black Monday.
You know there's usually four or five, but you have

(22:16):
to really good. You have Ben Johnson, the offensive coordinator
with the Lions. He was the choice, the candidate, and
he was asking a lot, so he went back to
the Lions. But you're gonna have Belichick and you're gonna
have Mike Vrabel. If you're an owner, you're going, okay,
are we better with my coach or one of those coaches?

(22:36):
And if you go just top three, there chances are
those three are going to be better than your coach.
Chances are all right. Update the poll results. And I
saw Brian Nation out there, the master distiller with keeper's heart.
If we can have Brian come out, I got some
whiskey questions to ask him.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
Aaron Rodgers makes the jet job right now? Eighty nine
percent have that less attractive also more to blame for
the Jets struggles. The quarterback is thirty six percent of
the vote, followed closely by the owner. Head coach is
in last place. Oh on that one, last place.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Oh look who's here? Yeay, it's it's Brian Nation with
his fake accent. He's got his his Vikings jersey on.
Look at you of course, Keeper's Heart in Minneapolis, Saint Paul. Yeah,
and you look good. You got your you know. He

(23:33):
did text me after the Vikings one on Sunday and
I said, Oh, you're a longtime Viking fan. How long
you been a Viking fan for?

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Ever? Since I was two?

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Ever since you were too drunk? You're better than that.
You got here.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
I got here at twenty twenty one.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Okay, so you've been a Vikings fan for three years.

Speaker 10 (23:54):
I've been a Vikings fan for three years. Okay, it's
just been amazing.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yes, okay, So if you're new to the show, Brian Nation,
Master Distiller came over from Ireland and created a lot
of those great whiskeys there comes over to Keeper's Heart.
One of our favorite sponsors creates awarded the best Irish
whiskey in the world.

Speaker 10 (24:14):
Yeah, which was fantastic. Back in twenty twenty three when
our ten year old single malt was awarded Best Irish
Whiskey for twenty twenty three in the World by the
San Francisco International Spirits Competition.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
You know, it was one of those ones.

Speaker 10 (24:27):
It's like our Academy Awards when it comes to spirits
because it's the longest running award show and the most revered.
So it was a nice one to get in our bowl.
And you know, we keep getting lots of different awards
for our whiskey and we're really really happy with that.
But the most important thing for us, in the biggest
reward for us, it's more people that drink it, and

(24:47):
it is growing and it's great to see that growth
of keeper's heart around the US.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Okay, to become a distiller, but then to become a
master distiller, what makes you a master.

Speaker 10 (25:00):
Well, I mean for me, it was all about getting
experienced and I was one of the fortunate ones when
when you look at where I came from in terms
of being an Irish distillers, I was mentored by one
of the icons not just in Irish whisky but in
world whiskey, Barry Crockett. And to be mentored by him
for eleven years before I took over. His master distiller

(25:22):
was something that was I was very, very fortunate.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
But is there a test that you take to become
a master distiller?

Speaker 10 (25:27):
It's more a test of life experiences within the distilling industry,
to be honest, and getting to know the intricacies of
how you actually make the the finest quality distiller and
the best styles of whiskey. So it's all about the experience.
There are some courses nowadays that you can actually go
and become a master distiller, but for me, it was

(25:52):
more the heart's slog of experience and working your way
up to it.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
You know. So here I thought you took it test?
Did you just name yourself a master distiller? Like this? Polly?
You're a master distiller?

Speaker 5 (26:06):
Here we going?

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Why do you you?

Speaker 10 (26:08):
You know, let's have to tak me twelve months to
recover from my last time I was on your show.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Well, you came in and you told me that you
knew Bono.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
Oh Jesus, here we go. I did not, Yes, you did.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
You said that you were good friends with Bono.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Jah okay, and.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Prince Albert of Monaco. So you are you going to
go back over.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
No, no, no, this is.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Why you had a hard time because I called you
out on this by calling you out as a master distiller. Yeah,
I think you just called yourself well, I mean.

Speaker 10 (26:42):
Yeah, basically, I just I just christened myself master distiller.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
But no, I mean and you did try to contact
Bono when you were on the show that day, right.

Speaker 5 (26:53):
She's talking about rewriting history. Oh did you did you?

Speaker 2 (26:58):
I cannot, I bet I can't. Did you reach out
to Prince Albert.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
On the show?

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah? After the show?

Speaker 10 (27:05):
No, I told I told you that I wouldn't. I
wouldn't actually expose him to to.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
You what all?

Speaker 10 (27:11):
Like, I mean that I don't blame you guy exactly,
So why would I do that?

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Okay, but Bono, how did I come up with the
Bono story if you didn't tell me that you knew Bono?

Speaker 10 (27:20):
Well, I think you came up with the Bono story
because you took you took a story I was telling
that night, and you embellished it. You know, it's a
good way to it's good like you're good at it.
But I felt I won that battle on the show.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
But like embellishing calling yourself a master still okay, yeah,
fair enough, fair enough.

Speaker 10 (27:40):
I mean I I go around every day and I
just say hi, I'm the master.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Oh, I know when you go home, but I go home?
Yeah yeah. Does your wife go hello master?

Speaker 10 (27:53):
That is the last thing my wife, Yes, I can
see that.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Okay. The most common mistake made and drinking whiskey is.

Speaker 10 (28:02):
What is people feel they have to drink it in
a certain way. And for me, you know, that's the
worst thing a person can do with whiskey. I mean,
whiskey is about any drink, is about enjoying the way
you the way you want to drink it. And for me,
people ask all the time, what's the best way to
drink whiskey, And my answer is always you drink the

(28:22):
whiskey the way you enjoy it. Now, when you're doing
something like a tasting, you're always going to do it
in a certain protocol. But if you're there at home
and you want to enjoy a glass of whiskey, try
it the way you feel you'll enjoy it, Mix it,
drink it neat on the rocks, whatever, But don't feel
that you have to drink it a certain way, because
then it almost brings a trepidation to it, and that's

(28:45):
you know, it's that's not what whiskey is about. Whiskey
is about being able to sit down, relax and enjoy
with friends or even on your own one.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
But it's intimidating though, because you drink a beer growing up,
when you're younger, you might drink bad wine or whatever
it might be, have a bad experience with tequila, like
whiskey is like when you're growing like you're grown up
when you're drinking it? Or how do you drink it?
Do I put it? Do I put ice in it?
Do I put water in it? You know what's the

(29:15):
best way to actually know how you're drinking? I wouldn't know.

Speaker 10 (29:19):
Yeah, And I think one of the things about Keeper's
Heart and one of the things that we do even
at our distillery is we make it.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
We make whiskey.

Speaker 10 (29:27):
Very approachable in terms of the cocktails that we offer
at at our facility, but also the versatility of the
whiskey of Keeper's Heart makes it a whiskey that you
can actually mix very very easily with. But to back
to your question on you know, what's the best way
or what's the way if you want to if you
want to understand the full flavors of whiskey. The first

(29:50):
thing you do is you actually knows it's neat, so
you actually sniff the whiskey, try to feel what kind
of flavors you get. Everybody's palette is different, so they're
going to get different flavors. But that gives you an
idea of the different types of flavors that come in
the whiskey. When you add a drop of water that
will open the whiskey up, you'll get different flavors. If

(30:10):
it sits in the glass and it just sits and leaves,
it gets warm in the glass in a room, you
know again there'll be different flavors. So there is a
bit of a journey in whiskey because it's such a
complexity of flavor and such a great balance of flavor.
But also when you mix it in a cocktail like
an old fashion or of Manhattan, you're actually able to
see that the whiskey, particularly keeper's heart, is the is

(30:32):
the hero of the cocktail.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
And we are such I mean when we went up there,
I got Fritzy and I got Marvin, who were drinking whiskey,
and they did shots. Oh yeah, and I said no, no, no,
you sip it. So when I gave them the whiskey,
they were like boom, and I go, where's your whiskey?
And Marvin goes, uh, I dound it. I go, no, no, no,
we're not doing shots. It's just you're sipping it.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
Sorry about that. I didn't know, stumbling yeah.

Speaker 10 (31:02):
And he lets you know I was there. He lets
you know so many times that you shouldn't have had
that you should be shot.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
I kept saying, sipip, Paul. He's got a couple of
questions from uh from the Twitter.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Okay, if let's say this guy has said my wife
is hesitant to try whiskey, would you tell her to
mix it with a little bit of water, a little
bit of ginger ale or other to cut it?

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Okay, so what would you do if you're just his
wife wants to try.

Speaker 5 (31:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (31:27):
So so for me, if a person hasn't tried whiskey
before and are worried about the an intense flavor or whatever,
I would definitely try it, like in something like a
mule or a whiskey lemonade, because what it does do
is it allows the flavors of the whiskey to come
to life. But it also brings some of the the
robus flavors down a little bit by adding some lemonade

(31:49):
or or or some ginger ale.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
We like for us during the summer.

Speaker 10 (31:53):
Particularly our keepers Heart Irish plus American works great in
a whiskey mule, and an Irish plus Bourbon works great
in a whiskey lemon so again showing the versatility, and
that's definitely a great way to be introduced to whiskey.
And we find that at our distillery in Minneapolis as well,
is that when people come in and are intimidated by whiskey,
the first thing they do is they tried in a

(32:14):
cocktail and you'll find that a lot of people by
the end of the night then are actually kind of
brave enough for our wont to try it neat as well,
to appreciate the flavor more on in its concentrated form,
and they're surprised, which is great for us because they're
surprised in a good way and they walk away as
ambassadors for Keeper's Heart, which is, you know, great for us.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
When's the last time you were drunk?

Speaker 10 (32:42):
Okay, I was with Paddy Coffee last night.

Speaker 5 (32:49):
Marketing director.

Speaker 10 (32:50):
Yes from Dublin, Yes, I leave it there.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah. See, you should fire Patty because he drinks all
the profits.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
Paddy.

Speaker 10 (32:59):
Paddy is a Paddy is desperate, Like I mean, Jesus
every time you go away with Paddy.

Speaker 5 (33:03):
Actually, I'm never going to travel with Paddy again.

Speaker 10 (33:06):
Because we got on a flight yesterday at twelve thirty
a pm and we landed in Hartford at eight fifteen pm.
We'd have been to Ireland, so we were diverted. We
were halfway to Connecticut and we were diverted back to
Detroit because there was a problem with the wing, and
then we had to get on another plane. So I

(33:27):
reckon Paddy's jinx.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
How do you say thirty third?

Speaker 5 (33:34):
Thirty third?

Speaker 2 (33:37):
It's turny turn, turny turn. Yeah, yeah, turd.

Speaker 10 (33:40):
It's actually funny because when you're when you're doing tastings
and when you're doing tours at the distillery or you're
talking about the triple distillation process. I always talk about
the third distillation and some people are kind of looking
a bit queer at me, going, what did you say then?

Speaker 5 (33:55):
I got the third?

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Yeah, the third? Yeah, Wait, what do you put in
the turn? He's Brian Nation, He's a master distiller. Just
ask him. It's a keeper's heart, asked for it at
your favorite liquor stores. We'll take a break. You're gonna
show us how to make some cocktails during the lamp
on peacock.

Speaker 5 (34:16):
Yng, But I brought you present?

Speaker 2 (34:17):
What did you?

Speaker 5 (34:19):
I know? I know you know I shouldn't be telling
you. You brought you present?

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Why did you show me? When we go to commercial break? Okay,
and then we'll let people who are watching, they can
actually see it, okay, in my hand on peacock. Okay,
we'll take a break. Last call for phone calls. What
we learn, what's in store tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Right after this, be sure to catch the live edition
of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern
six am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAP.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Is this one of those artists Marvin? When you heard
him sing, you thought he was black?

Speaker 5 (34:51):
My entire life. I found this out when I was
made about twenty eight to twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
And this is Bobby Bobby Caldwell, all right, and you
thought he.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
Was black James in Virginia before James in Virginia.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, but I could understand that you're hearing this, But
you just talked about a podcast that rank of what
top ten.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
Top ten white songs that black people love? That all
bit yes, And it was like this song and it
was the Doobie Doobie Brothers, would a Fool Believes and
Careless Whisper Paramour.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Careless Whispers George Michael.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
Correct, yep. And uh there's a couple of others Queen
Bohemia Rhapsody.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Wait, that's big in the black community.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
I think Queen period. Really yeah, like another one bites
the Dust?

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Hey, hey, jam really Okay, So the number one white
song that the black community loves is.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
To them, they said in the air tonight, Phil.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Conninsil Collins, Well, Mike Tyson loved it.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Wait now to them?

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Wait, so you're not you're not part of the black community.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
What I am crazy enough?

Speaker 2 (36:07):
You're saying them?

Speaker 5 (36:09):
Well, Tony Baker and Kevin on stage, the guys that
run this podcast. I think that was their number one.

Speaker 6 (36:16):
Okay, that's the them you're referring.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
Y, Yes, them, Yes, those two. Yes we're not a monolith,
but yes, we are all a part of this thing
we call the black community.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Okay, I'm just going to say that. So and then
and then you have the whitest TV show with the
blackest theme song is that the category.

Speaker 5 (36:35):
Oh family Ties is number one. Seed that bass, that
bass is funky.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
That's like Stanley Clark stuff.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
It's also found it funky like Larry Graham like, oh
that's nasty.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
And it was just Michael J. Fox and Tina Youthers.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Tinas and Justine Bateman.

Speaker 6 (36:59):
Justine Bateman, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Who oh. Chris Berman is going to be on the
program tomorrow forty five years at ESPN. He'll join us
on the program. Let me see Shawn and Oregon. Hey Sean,
what's on your mind today? Nay Sean, Peter Tyler and

(37:29):
Grand Rapids Hi Tyler?

Speaker 11 (37:32):
Hey Dan six one. So I did propose to my
now wife about sixteen years ago at the Big House. Uh,
and I regret it certainly. It was the first game
that rich Rod coached for us, so all of us
Michigan fans were super super hyped for the game. A

(37:52):
new era, a new hostpense And I'm sitting there the
whole game with a ring in my pocket. And I
worked for I worked for company called the Rogers Zacoff Company.
And Roger was a Michigan legend back in the late forties.
He even played on the nineteen fifty seven championship, and
so we got to go down onto the field after
the game and do it under the scoreboard with a

(38:12):
bunch of friends. But it was just a bad environment
because everybody was sour. Michigan lost that game to Utah,
and so the pictures are kind of funny because, yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Why didn't you, Why didn't you say I'm gonna I'm gonna,
you know, pull a twenty second time out here. I
can't do it after a loss. You got to call
an audible.

Speaker 11 (38:31):
I should have, Dan, but I was flatting bullets. It
was the most money I had ever spent on anything,
and that ring was sitting in my pocket the whole game,
and uh, and we were able to get out on
the fields. I had it all planned, and looking back,
I definitely should have pivoted, though it was not great.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Good Thank you, Tyler. Yeah, Jumbo trun. Mario and Dylan
are going to the Mets game today. And then we
came up with the idea, was Mario going to propose
to his girlfriend? And then we all said, no, that's
not a good idea. But it turns out he's going
with his girlfriend. Got him tickets, so he's going with Dylan.
But it'd be great if they put those two up

(39:08):
on the kiss cam or something like that.

Speaker 7 (39:09):
Yes, Hud, he's not proposing to Dylan.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
No he's not. No, he's not.

Speaker 7 (39:13):
I don't think I ruined it. I've been known to
do that.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yes, Paul.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
To be clear, Maria's girlfriend bought him Mets playoff tickets. Yes,
that's marriage worthy there.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
I mean I don't even know that.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
I've bought the rest of it.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah. Yeah, But once you get married, don't expect things
like that, you know, Mary. This day in.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Sports history, nineteen nineteen, your Reds won the World Series.
The win would later be tainted, not because of the Reds,
but because eight Chicago White Sox players were charged with
throwing the series the Black Sox scandal. And this is
a gutsy move. You should have let this one play
out a little bit. Two thousand and two, the La
Kings decided to retire Wayne Gretzy's number ninety nine.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Jers.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Hmmm, we saw that coming. How long is that meeting?

Speaker 2 (39:56):
M Well, By the way, Red's beat the White Sox
in eight games. They played eight games, so they won
five to five games to three over the White Sox.

Speaker 7 (40:07):
Yeah, but everyone beats the White Sox.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Thank you, Thank you, Tom, even back then when they
were cheating. What did we learn on the program? Todd?
Would you learn today?

Speaker 7 (40:14):
Mike Francessa felt the jet should have also shown Nathaniel
Hackett the doing, not just Robert Sala Seaton.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
What did you learn today?

Speaker 6 (40:20):
It's not the coach's fault in New York?

Speaker 5 (40:22):
Marvin, you got the script for Happy Gilmore too? I do.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
I got my sides, PAULI.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
It's in or out?

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Todd? What did I learn?

Speaker 7 (40:30):
The San Diego Padre is the favorite right now to
win the World Series.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
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