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May 30, 2025 42 mins

Former NFL lineman and sports broadcaster Ross Tucker joins Dan to discuss storylines with the NFL less than 100 days away, what he’s seeing so far and which team he thinks has the most pressure on them. Actor Bryan Cranston joins the show to talk the secret to getting courtside tickets, the various underwear he would wear for playing various characters and the odd gifts he’s given to Dan.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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(00:27):
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(00:48):
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It's the Oilers versus the Panthers. College football closing in
on a tweaked playoff model. There have been a couple
of different scenario and from what I'm told from my source,
it's gotten heated. It's gotten heated because the Big twelve
in acc are trying to stand up to the Big

(01:09):
ten and the SEC and that's that's where the kind
of the fracture lies here, but we're talking about a
lot of money at stake here, and the ACC in
Big twelve, you know, tired of getting kicked to the
curb and you know, losing teams that they're trying to
hold on for dear life. So they get at least

(01:30):
two automatic berths from their conferences. But that we hope
to have Greg Zanke, the SEC Commissioner, on next week,
and he seems to be the one kind of in
the crossfire here trying to defend the SEC. Also the
Big Ten as well. They seem to be partnering here,
and I think the rest of college football saying, hey,

(01:52):
wait a minute, what about us. Ross Tucker, CBS Sports
Westwood One, NFL college analyst and host of the Ross
Tucker Football podcast. You can check him out on social
media at Ross Tucker NFL. We were talking about pressure.
Now it's ninety eight days until the start of the
NFL season, and Paulie said it to me yesterday. He goes,

(02:14):
you know, we're ninety nine days away, and I was thinking,
all right, now's the time who has the most pressure?
And then we started coming up with different levels, different
tiers of most pressure. Player, team coach. Let's start there.
Who has the most pressure going into this upcoming season.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Ooh, that is an interesting one, and I have been
paying attention on social media and listening a little bit.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
I kind of agree, by the way, what Paulie was
saying earlier. I don't want to think that the.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Giants Joe Shane and Brian Dable, I don't think they
have that much pressure. I don't think anybody really thinks
them that they're going to keep their job after this year.
I mean, they have the hardest schedule in the NFL.
I think they'll probably put Jackson Dart out there by
week eight.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Dan.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
I mean, it's funny when you really.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Know the way the NFL works, which is that it's
all about job preservation, right, you understand why teams operate
the way they do. The Giants bring in Russell Wilson
and Jamis Winston. They're gonna take a shot, and this
is their first shot this year to try to be good,
try to be competitive, have Russell go out there. Maybe

(03:26):
they can get to five hundred and that's enough for
another year.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
If it doesn't go.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Well midway through the year, you put in Jackson Dart,
you hope that he shows enough or does enough that
ownership wants to give you another year. It really is
funny to me to see how many of these moves
are made really with self interest in mind. So that's

(03:51):
a different kind of pressure because I think that most people,
myself included, I don't expect either one of those to work.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
I think that.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Shane and Dable probably will be gone this year. Maybe
I'm wrong, we'll see. Then there's a totally different pressure
for like the Josh Allen Sean McDermott combo, or the
Lamar Jackson John Harball combo. Neither one of those quarterbacks
are going anywhere, but you know, we do frame the

(04:22):
conversation differently if they keep coming up short in the
postseason for those guys. The interesting thing there, Dan is
if neither one of them makes it to the AFC
Championship Game this year, you wonder if at some point
either Terry Pigoula, the owner of the Bills, or Steve Bishetty,
the owner of the Ravens, says man, we got a

(04:45):
really good team, We've got a really good roster.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
We have one of the three or four best quarterbacks
in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Maybe we just need to change something because it feels
like both those teams have kind of been banging their
head against the wall the last five years trying to
get past the Chiefs, trying to get to the super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's a lot there. I would say definitely Lamar Jackson
and John Harball. Hardball's career is similar to Mike Tomlin.
You know, when you look at they always have a
good product out there. You know five you know, always
over five hundred. It feels like, and they both have
one Super Bowl. Would Mike Tomlin still have his job

(05:28):
if he didn't have that one Super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (05:33):
I don't think with many franchises, but I think the
Pittsburgh Steelers are just so consistent and so stoked in
trying to keep as much loyalty as they can.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
And I think, to be honest with you, I give
him a lot of credit.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
It's funny because where I live, I know a lot
of Steelers fans, Dan, and a lot of them are
really down on Tomlin, right, They really do not like Tomlin.
And I guess I would say to them, is he's
won a lot of football games.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
I heard you talking.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Earlier, Dan, without really having a top half of the
League quarterback.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
I mean, that is so hard to do. Now.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
What's interesting there is how much power does he have
over the personnel over the last few years? In other words,
how much of that do you put right and directly
on Mike Tomlin. I think that him winning that Super
Bowl obviously helps quite a bit the difference between the
Ravens and the Steelers. As I know, you know, Steelers

(06:37):
haven't won a playoff game in a long time. However,
Steelers haven't had Lamar Jackson either, so you could actually
have a really healthy debate and discussion as to which
coach is better.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
I think Tomlin or Harbaugh. I think both of them.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
If they were ever let go, there'd be a dozen
teams that would look to hire them because they're considered
top ten, if not top five coaches in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
We talked about the pressure on Trevor Lawrence. At some
point he has to show are you one of the
top five seven quarterbacks? You're being paid that way? The
pressure on Tua and Mike McDaniel in Miami that this
might be a make or break year for at least
the coach. Which one has more pressure Tua the Dolphins

(07:26):
or Trevor Lawrence with Jacksonville.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
So I think Trevor Lawrence has more pressure because this
is now his third head coach right, Whereas Tua I
think has played pretty well. It's been more of the
injury issues and the concussions. But if the Dolphins have
a down year, I think they fire McDaniel and I
think Tua is still the starting quarterback with a new

(07:51):
head coach. If Trevor Lawrence really struggles, then you kind
of wonder what Liam Cohen and Tony Vasselli and Glad
Stone and the new regime starts to think. Now, I
think Trevor just.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Got a deal.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
They maybe both just got contracts before the twenty twenty
four season, if memory serves, might have been twenty twenty
three for one of those guys, So they got money
fairly recently, so it would be a little bit messy
to move on. But I think out of those two
players in particular, I think it's on Lawrence, and I

(08:25):
think he gets a pass nationally way way more than
he should.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
He's Ross Tucker with the Ross Tucker Football Podcast. Also
you can hear him and see him on the NFL
in college football with CBS Sports and Westwood One pressure
on Justin Herbert or do we look at it's Jim
Harbaugh who has that pressure? Like who has more pressure?
If you're gonna divvy it up with the quarterback and

(08:53):
the coach with the Chargers.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
I'm gonna say it's fifty to fifty. If anything, though,
I would probably lean to Herbert because again, this is
a scenario where this is a second head coach for him.
You know, Harbaugh kind of comes in the Chargers were down,
he leads him to the playoffs. And Harbaugh has a

(09:17):
significant track record of success with the Niners, with Michigan,
even going back to Stanford. Right, Herbert not as much,
And in particular, there's a perception, right or wrong, that
Herbert doesn't play his best when it matters the most.
I almost felt bad for him in that playoff game

(09:38):
against the Texans because I knew what was coming. And
so I like to go into a year and look
at which quarterbacks. Man, it's really it's more on them now,
and I think.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Herbert's one of those guys. I think Caleb Williams.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
I know it's only a year two Dan, but the
Bears did something they've never done before, which is paid
top dollar for a head coach.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
They redid the whole old.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Line, okay, interior offensive line in front of him. The
first two picks, Colston Lovelin with the tenth pick Luther
Burden with a top ten second round pick, are both
skill guys. The Bears are doing everything possible to try
to set up Kayleb Williams for success. Now, you got
those quotes from the book with Wickersham, which will come out,

(10:25):
you know, the day after the Bears first game. I
think there's a little bit of sneaky pressure on Williams
because those quotes and that book have kind of put
even more of a spotlight on him than there already was.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
And it feels like whenever you're one of these.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Number one pick guys, Trevor Lawrence, Kayleb Williams, whoever, people
want to blame everybody else as long as they can,
especially the fans, right like Jacksonville fans. It's almost like
franchise quarterback Stan It's like a religion and people people
want to hang on.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
To that belief as long as they can.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Jaguars fans want to believe in Trevor Lawrence until they
absolutely can't. Bears fans want to believe in Caleb so
so badly, but with the microscope on him this year,
if he struggles, I think that could be interesting as well.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
I'm also wondering about you know, the Niners were on
the clock with a lot of pressure the last couple
of years. You know, they do make it to a
super Bowl, you make it to you know, conference final,
But I don't know if we're applying the pressure that
was on them before.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
It's weird.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
We kind of moved on. Now it's the Lions that
it feels like there's more pressure on Detroit than it
is San Francisco. Do you see it that way?

Speaker 4 (11:46):
I understand why some people do. I don't think that
should be the case at all.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
I mean, the Niners are coming off of a six
and eleven season. If they have another down year, they
have some serious question to ask because their core isn't
getting any younger, right, I mean, Trent Williams at left tackle, McCaffrey,
you know, we don't know if Christian will ever come
back and be the guy he was.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
We know they've now locked up party, but Kittle's not.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Getting younger, you know, And I wonder, you know, I
applaud organizations that show patients, and even after the Niners
have a down year here or down year there, they
recognize they have a good coach and Kyle Shanahan. Two
down years in a row, things get a little bit different.
Then things get a little bit tighter. I don't think

(12:37):
it's gonna happen, because I think they're gonna be very good.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
They have the easiest schedule in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
I think the Niners are actually gonna bounce back in
a major way. But if they don't, if they have
another losing season, things will get very interesting there. That
there is some in Detroit, Dan but and maybe because
of the fact they lost both coordinators and there's this
feeling that, man, this is their window to get over
the hump. But I have a tough time picturing them

(13:06):
making any major change in Detroit after this season, barring
something totally unforeseen, because you have to remember, it's been
a long time since we were even talking about there
being pressure in Detroit, because they're even good enough to
have pressure.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
I'll leave you with this with the flag football with
the US team, this has been suggested, could we get
an NFL team that goes against the best flag football
team that's out there, and then the winner gets to
go and represent the United States in flag football. I
think it'd be musty TV if people are going to

(13:45):
be shocked when they look at guys who do are
professional flag football players, just how different it is, how
different they play than the NFL. But if you did,
here's your NFL team, and I'm going to get the
best flag football team. The winner represents the United States
and the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
I think it's an incredible idea. I think I saw
where you know, maybe my buddy Jason Kelcey was talking
about that as well. I think the guys that have
been playing flag football for years, I think they deserve
that opportunity.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
I would watch that game.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
That would maybe be like the second flag football game
I've ever watched, because I watched a couple of years
ago if you remember, I can't remember what it was,
but these full time flag football guys they played against
former NFL guys like Seneca Wallace was the quarterback for
the other team, you know, for the former NFL.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
And they beat him, and they beat him bad. You know,
the flag current flag football guys beat the former NFL guys.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
That said, I don't know how much time the former
NFL guys put into it, if you gave actual NFL
players a month to really understand the game the rules,
because the rules are.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
Different, they're unique.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
I'm pretty confident that they would beat the flag football guys,
but it still.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Would be very entertaining to watch.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
And I think it's like it's like a pros versus
Joe's thing, right.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
Everybody would kind of tune in to.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
See how these guys would do against the guys that
are used to seeing in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Stefan Diggs didn't invite you on the yacht, did he? No?

Speaker 4 (15:25):
I was not invited on the yacht.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
I will say this, I am open to any yacht
invitations ever.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
I'm a big yacht guy.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
I just don't know enough people that have yachts or
super yachts.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
You're a boat guy, You're not a yacht guy.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
I'm a pontoon boat guy with a cooler full of
beer and just floating down the river.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
I don't need a yet. What Okay, let me ask them.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Why would you pay hundreds of millions of dollars for
a yacht when you can just go in the river
or even in a stream on like a kayak. And
have a cooler of beer there, and it's the same thing.
You're in water, you're drinking beer either way, what's the difference.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
The shorties don't like a kayak, I'm just gonna be
honest with you. But a pontoon, you know, they might
be interested in a floating living room there, but uh.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Pontoon boats are the party boats, man, They're awesome.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
That's what I got. Yeah, that's that's what I got.
All aboard. Great to talk to you, have a great weekend.
Thank you as always always you too. Thanks Dan Ross Tucker,
host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast, and you can
check him out on social media at Ross Tucker, NFL.
Ryan Cranston, great actor, got a new movie. They'll join

(16:43):
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(18:16):
Oscar nominated actor as well. He was Malcolm in the Middle,
he was Breaking Bad. Now he's got two more movies
coming out, Diehard Los Angeles Sports Fan. He's got the
Phoenician Scheme that opens up May thirtieth, nationwide June second,
and then Everything's going to be great opens up June twentieth.

(18:37):
Look at you, miss dir actor there, how do you
have common? Thanks? Thanks for spending some time with us.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
Brian, Yeah, I don't have a lot of time for
these these opening remarks.

Speaker 8 (18:47):
We got to get right to the meet DP.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
Okay, and by the way, I miss I miss saying
the opening stats. I always like to go seven foot
four one and fourteen times?

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Give me what is your what is your height? Wait?

Speaker 8 (19:01):
My height and weight?

Speaker 5 (19:02):
Well, I used to be six foot but I'm probably
five to eleven now my weight is one eighty two.

Speaker 8 (19:11):
I'd like to get that down.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
But do you why about your height or weight? Do
actors do that?

Speaker 8 (19:18):
Of course we do? Why why would you not?

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Okay? Now I was told this before that it's harder
to be a better actor, great actor if you're taller.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
Any truth, there are few actors of great height who
are actually who actually became stars, much many more who
were smaller. But it is also true that most actors
who become stars have large heads, elephant titus heads, you know,

(20:02):
they have to have prop prop them up over there.
And blue eyes if you have light eyes.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Really yeah, okay, who's got a big noggin? That's a
great actor. Well you just think about any brando grab
a big head.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
Oh well, enormous like a coconut.

Speaker 8 (20:23):
Yeah, he was.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
And all I mean, all these people, even even the women,
the women who have larger heads have a better chance
to be a movie star.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
That's not true. That's not true.

Speaker 8 (20:38):
Well I'm trying.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
You know, David Hasselhoff had a big head, but not
a great actor.

Speaker 8 (20:47):
He was. He's a lovely guy. I was gonna say
he was a lovely guy. But he's still alive. Nice guy.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
I did an episode of bay Watch back in the
day where I played I think my character name was
like drunken boat captain or something like that.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
But you didn't have a speedo on like you weren't
running in slow motion on Baywater.

Speaker 5 (21:13):
No. No, when I'm in a skimpy underwear, it's full
on motion everything you want to see everything, apparently.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
But did Walter White have to wear tidy whities?

Speaker 8 (21:26):
No?

Speaker 5 (21:27):
You know, it was interesting because after seven years of
Malcolm in the Middle, where Hal wore tidy whities because
I thought it was appropriate because he was just a
big boy, so he never really grew up. And for
some reason, Vince Gilligan wrote that Walter White wore tidy whities.
And I went to the wardrobe call and I said, well,

(21:49):
I just did seven years. So I tried on boxers
and I tried on law and it's like, you know what,
there's some reason that he did this, and I'm just
gonna go with it. And that image of him in
the desert, that first poster of the gun and his
tidy whities, is so pathetic that I thought, oh, that's

(22:11):
I think that's the image he wanted.

Speaker 8 (22:12):
To go for.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
But how often do you question when you have a
director or there's something on the page where you offer feedback,
or you're going to stand up for what you think
might be right all.

Speaker 8 (22:26):
The time, all the time.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
Yeah, you're constantly making adjustments. I just did a couple
episodes of the show of the Studio where my character
at the end shows up in leopard, very skinny bikini
briefs which I chose, and stockings with garter clips and
a girdle, and where he wears a Dicky is the

(22:51):
most ridiculous looking guy in the world.

Speaker 8 (22:54):
And I wanted all.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
Of those things, and so we just adjusted it to
those and I surprised seth Rogen when I walked out
of the room and he saw me for the first
time on camera.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
It's a great character because it came out of nowhere,
you know, first episode and I'm like, oh my god.
It's like, you know, this combination of you're gonna try
to bring in every studio head of all the things
that are negative about them or over the top about them,
and you just kind of combined it with one character,
and it was like, all right, Yeah, that's Hollywood right there.

Speaker 8 (23:29):
It is kind of patterned.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
I patterned him after Robert Evans, famous studio head of
the Paramount in the seventies, did great movies, but he
was always super tam bleached, his teeth, he always wore
very masculine clothes.

Speaker 8 (23:47):
He was that kind of guy. His shirt was unbuttoned.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
To his navel, you know, and it was hey, maybe
you know that, dude, So that's more fun to play
a guy like that.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
I got the picture here from Baywatch, PAULI sent it
to me. Wow, okay, those are short shorts you got on,
by the way.

Speaker 8 (24:08):
Those were the times. Don't tell me you didn't.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Have short shorts in that I did in this idea.

Speaker 8 (24:13):
Everybody did remember the NBA back in the day.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yes, yeah, I you know, growing up I had short shorts.
And John Stockton I think was like the last holdout,
like you know, he was the last guy to wear
short shorts. Do you have on this episode? Yeah? With
Brian on.

Speaker 9 (24:31):
Babas that fine episode of Baywatch November eighty nine, Brian
Cranston played Captain Tom Logan and he was wearing like
op shorts and like those croaky glasses and his hair
was completely down the middle and feathered.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
I could looks good? Were you at that time?

Speaker 4 (24:49):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (24:50):
Yeah, yeah, I've been Robin and I have been married
for thirty six years now.

Speaker 8 (24:54):
Yeah yeah, okay eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, but you're there on Baywatch.

Speaker 8 (24:58):
I mean, oh yeah, those they're out there.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Did did anybody notice Captain Tom Logan of you know
the women they did you catch anybody's eye there?

Speaker 8 (25:15):
You know, I don't know. I don't know whose eye
I caught.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Oh my god, were you born in Hollywood?

Speaker 5 (25:23):
I was born in the city of Hollywood, Yes, right
in Hollywood and raised in Los Angeles in the San
Fernando Valley.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
And famous classmates.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
No, I didn't have any famous classmates, uh in the area.

Speaker 8 (25:42):
I think.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
Well, Kevin Spacey went to the same high school a
couple of years after me, but then transferred out to
go to a better theater school. But outside of that,
they're really no, no, no famous, No.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
I'm famous tougher to get Nick's tickets courtside or Laker
tickets court.

Speaker 8 (26:05):
Side Laker tickets, court side.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Tougher, tougher.

Speaker 8 (26:10):
Yeah, it's just process, it's just jam.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
Well, first, there is a way I can give advice
to all the listeners and viewers about how to get
court side seats first. Become a television star or a
movie star. Do that first. Then you'll have a lot
better chance of getting court side seats. But I did

(26:34):
get court side seats last year to mix pacers had
a great time, had a great time watching it, and
they're back.

Speaker 8 (26:43):
At it again.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
I know.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
But you know your sitcom famous with Malcolm in the
Middle and then breaking back, like you know, I'm going
to guess breaking bad you got it was easier to
get the tickets than with Malcolm in the Middle.

Speaker 8 (27:00):
Yeah. It gave me a higher profile absolutely.

Speaker 5 (27:04):
Okay, so yeah, that's what I get mostly recognized for.
I would say, i'd say like seven out of ten
people who approached for you, Okay, there.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
I think I just broke something. My mic collapsed here.

Speaker 8 (27:22):
And that's how about seven out of ten people recognize
me as Walter White.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, so I want to talk about the Phoenician scheme. Yeah,
because Wes Anderson does things differently than anybody else. How
would you describe what he does as a filmmaker.

Speaker 8 (27:43):
Well, he is the truest sense of the word auteur.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
There is no way that anyone can say, oh, I
think I know what Wes is thinking on this. I
think I know where he's going to go with this.
You just don't know at all. It is a unique
journey when you do a Wes Anderson movie, because it's
always clever, it's always surprising, and it's just it's so

(28:14):
much fun. But the thing about from an actor's point
of you doing the Phoenician scheme or Asteroid City before that,
or it's the experience of being with him and all
the actors at the same table at the dinner every
night after you work, and that kind of camaraderie was

(28:36):
so much fun. In fact, Tom Hanks calls it actor camp.
It's a good hang and we and all the actors
are there. We're having wine and cocktails and food, and
we're talking about things that were worried about or families
and things like that.

Speaker 8 (28:52):
Without worrying about.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
Prying eyes or ears around us, and we can just
be open and it's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
So Tom Hanks, I believe plays your brother. You got
Michael Sarah in there, Scarlett Johansson, Benicio del Toro, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 (29:09):
Pretty good, Benedtt and Cumberbatch, Rez Ahmed.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
I mean it's a big, big cast, uh, And Tom
and I are playing brothers. Well, well we think we're brothers.
It was never actually established, but there they're so so alike. Now,
there's a basketball sequence in the movie that Tom and
I are involved in.

Speaker 8 (29:30):
And when we.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
Got to the set where where asked, Okay, who can
do this?

Speaker 8 (29:35):
And who could do that?

Speaker 5 (29:36):
And so Tom Tom's going, I can't really dribble very well,
I'll go I'll dribble. And I said, look, I got
problems with my shoulders. I got art right. And it's
like if you went to the assisted living center, they
get two basketball players.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
People sent me that clip of you got of you
shooting basketball, wondering if you were trying to model You're
shot after me for some reason, and I said, well,
if he if he was trying, he didn't do a
very good job.

Speaker 8 (30:07):
Because because I made it dripping.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
No, it wasn't dripping with athleticism. I'm just going to say,
you know, as a basketball player, you're a great actor.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
Uh yeah, No, I wasn't modeling myself after you. You're
You're They broke the mold.

Speaker 8 (30:25):
Dan Patrick.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
The Phoenician scheme that comes out May thirtieth and then
nationwide June second, and Everything's going to be Great that
comes out June twentieth. Yeah, did you shoot these around
the same time.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
No, Phoenician scheme we shot last year. Everything's going to
be great, we shot before it. But it's it's like
jockeying for position and who's going to and what's the
right time to come out with a movie, and you
know it's those decisions are made by someone else. But
everything's going to be great is also a really it's

(31:02):
a beautiful film with Alison Janning and myself and it
reminded me of Little Miss Sunshine from years ago. It's
funny and sweet and sad and engaging him.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Anyway, little Miss Sunshine. That final dance scene, Yeah, fun
stuff brings down the house, yes, Alan Ark, I mean
there's so many great performances in there. Yeah, it's one
of those little sneaky surprise movies where you're like, damn,
I don't I don't. You know everybody when you watch

(31:37):
movies like I don't know it's going to be nominated,
everything's gonna be nominated. Instead of just watching movies, I
think we're always like, well, what's going to do at
the box office? Is anybody gonna go see this in
the movie theaters. It's kind of like the pressure. I
don't know how different it is now than let's say,
you know, fifteen years ago.

Speaker 8 (31:53):
It's a lot different when you and I were kids.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
Every show, every morning show, every news show had a
movie and television reviewer specifically to relate to the audience
what they felt was good of high quality. They fired
all of those people, and so now the newsreaders just
read off what made the most money last weekend at

(32:18):
the box office, as if that's the indication of quality.

Speaker 8 (32:22):
And so it's it's kind of sad.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
So you really need the word of mouth to be
able to say, don't miss this movie or that movie.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
PAULI told me that there might be uh, we're bringing
back Malcolm in the Middle, is there a.

Speaker 8 (32:35):
Yeah, we did it. We shot it already.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
You shot it.

Speaker 8 (32:41):
We did.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
We did four episodes for Disney and we just finished it.
So that'll be out probably either later this year or
early next year. And man, I got to tell you,
it was so much fun.

Speaker 8 (32:56):
All the all the kids came back.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
And you know, it's funny because the boys for Malcolm
in the Middle are all around the same age that
I was when we first started the show twenty.

Speaker 8 (33:09):
Five years ago.

Speaker 5 (33:10):
Wow, they have kids of their own. It's so great
to see and the and the adults that they've become.
It's really fantastic.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
When you do the race walking scene, do you do
you still have that outfit because I'd love to put
it in a mandicate.

Speaker 8 (33:27):
Oh would you? It would have to be on it,
It would have to be on a mannequin.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yes, yes, I'd get a mannequin.

Speaker 5 (33:34):
Well, let me see if I can get it for you,
because i'd love to see it on your show.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Well, why don't you drop everything that you're doing and
like do something for me, like right now?

Speaker 8 (33:45):
Like that was that was implied. Of course I'm gonna
drop everything. Yes, absolutely absolutely.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
I don't like nothing else. No, don't read any scripts
or anything. It's like, nope, I can't. I'm an outfit
from Malcolm in the Middle to Dan Patrick.

Speaker 8 (34:03):
I'm wondering if they still have it.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
I don't know. But man, that was a funny, funny thing,
and I was, you know, I was real trim then
I was like one seventy two or three something.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Well, I'm not gonna wear it, and I'm gonna put
it on the mannequin.

Speaker 8 (34:19):
But I think you should wear it. I think you
should put it off.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Will Ferrell brought the testicles from step Brothers that he rubbed.
He brought him to Ireland and we were doing our
show over there, and he brought the testicles that he
rubbed on William c Riley's drum set. Yeah, yeah, okay,
I'm just saying.

Speaker 8 (34:43):
I also I also brought you a treat.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
You did you brought me? Yeah, that was a fake
penis thing that you had for the covers.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Yes, exactly, an erection toy.

Speaker 8 (35:01):
Where is that? I don't see that anywhere on the set.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
It's it's it's uh, it's in here, yes, Paul. Oh,
it's prominently displayed.

Speaker 9 (35:07):
People always ask what it is.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
It's on the other side. It's I'm up in Maine.
So this is in the the main or the regular No,
it's all the way on the other side by the
account we're getting it. Yeah, you'll be able to just
see it. Hold on, Well, I got my cameraman walking
over there. But oh yeah, they're there there it is.

(35:31):
It's it's right by my l a charger helmet and uh,
I've got your whatever that thing is that you gave me.

Speaker 8 (35:39):
But I've talk about it getting a charge. Oh yeah.
That was from a movie called uh what was that called? Jeez? Uh?

Speaker 5 (35:55):
That was called The Upside. The Upside with kevil Heart
okay and and Nicole.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
You in your upside right there. It's like, hello, well,
good luck with everything. Thanks brother, thanks, thanks for joining
us as always.

Speaker 8 (36:15):
Well, thank you. It's always good to see you.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
And whenever you get out to LA or down to
New York, give a holler.

Speaker 8 (36:24):
I'd love to have you buy me lunch.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Why don't you give me a holler when you're.

Speaker 8 (36:27):
In New York. Well you're not in New York, I.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
Know, but I can get to New York.

Speaker 8 (36:34):
Okay, I will. I will give you a holler, as
they said in the.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Old day, and I'll buy you dinner.

Speaker 8 (36:41):
Lovely, lovely, all right.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
He's Brian Cranston, The Phoenicians Scheme Wes Anderson, and if
you're a fan of those movies, then you know what
you're getting. It opens nationwide June second. Everything's going to
be great. That opens on June twentieth. Will take a break,
last call for phone calls what we learned once in
or tomorrow right after this.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
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 (37:13):
Wait what are we doing here? This is what we're
doing DP.

Speaker 8 (37:18):
I want to run through the hasm.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
I do want to scream the top of my long
Connecticut rock.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, this is what we're allowed to use because Todd Rungren,
who gives us. I don't want to work. I just
want to bang on the drums all days from Philadelphia's
therefore according to sit and we're not able to or
we shouldn't be able to use somebody who's not Connecticut based. Wow,
it's going to take a little getting used to this.

(37:47):
See it's Friday. You want to bust down the double
doors or whatever? Yes?

Speaker 4 (37:54):
For anything better?

Speaker 2 (37:59):
I think I'd rather have your body as a wonderland
than this that heads hard. Yeah, well this doesn't hit
too hard either. I've been driving pe Ferving.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
The morning.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Last Stoll after nine in the morning. That lasts all
Afternoon's a great line. Yeah, great line. Let me get
a couple of phone calls Matt in Alaska. Hi Matt,
thank you for holding what's on your mind?

Speaker 10 (38:30):
Hey Dan, how are you doing this morning? It's good
to talk to you. Love the show, love the Dan Attes.
But I got a quick a couple of quick questions
from Marvin. I heard the story about you know, he
was doing some work in the studio and all of
a sudden, you guys are like, this guy knows sports
and we need another dan Atte. And so Marvin, what
was it like when Dan was like, hey, you want
to be a dan at And then my last question
is what was that first day on the radio? You know,

(38:51):
you go from pulling cable or installing wire whatever you doing,
to all of a sudden on the radio with the
legend himself and talking to millions of us. Anyways, you
got enjoy you meet Friday, have a good weekend, take
care of guys, go.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Back, Thank you, Matt, Marvin shocked. I wasn't going for this.

Speaker 10 (39:08):
I was just a BRG in the first day, maybe
the first few months I had to call it unsmooth.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
But hopefully I've gotten comfortable with you guys, so that's
what then what ended up happening? Yeah, and we've got
comfortable with you John Mayer all the time now.

Speaker 8 (39:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Mitch in Panama City, Hi Mitch, Hey.

Speaker 11 (39:32):
Dan, thanks for taking my call. Yeah six two, first
first time caller, a long time listener. I wanted to
hit on the songs as a Gator fan. Obviously we've
got Tom Petty locked down. Being from Gainesville, but the
song Country Roads is actually about not about West Virginia,

(39:55):
but about the western Virginia, hence the Shnandoah River and
the Blue Ridge Mountains which are located there where West
Virginia is actually the Appalachian Mountain range. So the stirred
up a little bit before Friday ends having good weekend, guys.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
And enjoy Thank you Mitch. A lot of response to
teams can or schools can only use the music from
somebody who is from that area, and that probably takes
away a lot of music from certainly colleges and you
know some of the pro teams. Yes, Paul are Seaton.

(40:34):
The Blue Ridge Mountains, by the way, also part of
the Appalachian Mountains, get them. Not really a big difference there, Okay,
all right, this Dane sports history.

Speaker 9 (40:46):
Nineteen eleven, Ray Haroun won the first Indianapolis Sweepstakes five
hundred mile auto race became the Indiapolis five hundred Guess
what his top speed was in nineteen.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Eleven, seventy seven miles an hour, give you bonus points
eighty two miles an hour. Nice job.

Speaker 9 (41:03):
Nineteen seventy voting for Baseball's All Star Game was returned
to the fans. In nineteen eighty one Prime Dodgers. The
LA Dodgers became the quickest to a million fans to
attend games in a season. It took only twenty two
games to get a million in attendants.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Carvel Bama Roll hit a ball that shattered a clock
at Ebott's Field and the ball stayed inside the clock.
The players, I guess supposed to be the inspiration for
Roy Hobbs home run in the natural. That's what we
learned today. Looking to get more out of your car washed,

(41:40):
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Speaker 4 (41:52):
Bye.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Thanks to Anthony who has been with me up here
in Maine. Did a great job. All the dan Ets,
Todd Seat and Marv Paul the back room guys, have
a great weekend. Talk to you Monday.
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