December 7, 2024 • 38 mins
The new General Manager of Stanford Football, Andrew Luck joins the show to talk about returning to his alma mater. Dan reacts to the release of the latest College Football Playoff rankings, reminding us that the spirited discussions we are having about which schools were snubbed are exactly what they hoped for when expanding the field to 12 teams. And movie mogul Adam Sandler joins the show to discuss the shooting of “Happy Gilmore 2” and Dan's role in it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
He's Andrew luck the general manager of Stanford University Football.
And I can honestly say I didn't think I'd ever
talked to you again, So welcome back. Where have you been?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
We've been living the dream. You know, I didn't think
I'd ever talked to you again. That has well. I
gotta be honest, I'm not sure I can help in
the D and double D conversation that I was listening
to the show, So I don't know what I'm walking
into the show.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okay, how does this happen? How did this job come about?
And that you were willing to take it?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, my wife and I we moved back to Palo
Alto with our daughters to a little over two years ago.
I came back to do a master's in education. We
didn't know what we wanted to do with life, but
we knew, you know, the roads probably ran back through Stanford,
and Frankly had a meeting with the president of university
see about some stuff on athletics. I've been volunteering and
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helping out and volunteer coaching high school football across the
road at Palo Alto high school. The Vikings was sitting
with the president, and I think through the course of
a conversation, and through the course of some of his
conversations with other folks in the athletic department around the university,
realized that this probably made sense. And it did make sense,
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And when I was asked, I didn't hesitate. I love Stanford,
I love Stanford football. I'm a product of this place.
I believe in this place. I believe in the pursuit
of competitive excellence across the board and academics, athletics, socially
and happy to be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Now officially, okay, what is your job? Officially?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, general manager of football. So I oversee and lead
the football department. And this is officially day two. So
he took up to speed. I could not be more
excited to work with Troy Taylor. He's an innovative of
offensive mind. I think he's laid the groundwork for sustained
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success here. It couldn't be more excited to work with
the rest of the coaching staff, the players on the team.
I mean, it's a hot and heavy recruiting cycle right now.
I am learning a lot on the fly. It's a
little bit of drinking from the fire hose. I'll be honest,
I think I feel like a rookie again in the NFL.
And I remember, you know, Bruce Arians having very colorful
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allegories for what it was like to be a rookie
that I can't repeat on your show. But I keep
thinking of those because I haven't felt this combination of
excitement and also being overwhelmed. I mean, it's incredible, but
just trying to play my part, trying to be a
good team player.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
The challenges of NIL and the transfer portal at Stanford
are what.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, they exist, certainly, and like any challenge, I think
we're viewing it as an opportunity I believe deeply, and
the unique value proposition of the athletic and academic experience
here at Stanford and that's not being sacrificed in any way,
shape or form, and we're doubling down on that. And
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also you know we're I'm under no illusion, We're under
no illusion about what the current state of college football
and college athletics really writ large but especially college football
is and I think we also know it's going to
keep changing. No one knows where this is going in two, three, four,
shoot one year, two year, three or four year, five years.
But we realize we need to be competitive and we
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will be. And I would not have taken this job
that I not think we could be competitive and getting
the best, the brightest, the toughest, really good football players.
And at the end of the day, if I learned
anything through you know, my high school, college and NFL career,
is that it's all about the players. At the end
of the day, it's all about the players. Everything needs
to point to make sure that they are set up
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to succeed. And we realize, I realize, and we realize
here that nil is part of the game.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Where is college football headed Let's say in five years, Oh.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Gosh, I think I think there are too numerous a
paths that that could be taken. But I tell you what,
we know it's not going to be the same as
it is today. You know that That's that's what we know.
And and part of part of this role, in my role,
and I think the setup, the structure of this is
that that President eleven here at Stanford is realizing our
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athletic director, but our mirrors realizing that that you know,
we've got to be able to adapt to change. Everybody
is going to have to be able to adapt to change.
That's part of why we're taking this step with having
a general manager sort of a top a top the
football organization, so that when change comes, we're flexible enough,
we're nimble enough to take the appropriate steps that are
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best for our university, in our athletic department, in our
in our student athletes.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
But you see an NFL format coming up with college football.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You know it's this is speculation, Dan, anything, You as.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
A GM have to think down the road mode of
how do we fit into the landscape here?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Absolutely and one. And we got to win to fit
in the landscape. We gotta win, I mean like period,
you know period, and that's that is the north star.
And winning you know, in in in constance, in in
in alignment with the values of this university, which I
did deeply believe in. So we got to win, period,
and we're gonna win. Uh And and I know I
lived it here against you know the odds, and and
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and and we've lived it and and won at this university.
And where is it going? Does it Does it end
up looking like a professional model? I mean it's it's
starting to today, it's starting to this year or so.
I certainly see that being one of the roads that
that that you know could could could be taken.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
He's Andrew luck GM of Stanford Football. How much do
you miss competition?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Oh? You know. Part of volunteer coaching at Pally High
for the past two years was was to to sort
of tend to that fire, if you will, within me.
And and you know, watching the last couple of games
of Stanford last three games, knowing that I was gonna,
you know, probably assume this role, Uh was a feeling
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I hadn't had for a while. And I'll be here, I'll
be honest, I got nerve this. I mean I hadn't.
I haven't had butterflies like that in a while. And
I realized, Man, I can't, I can't. You know, it's
the fourth court. I can't go out on the field
anymore and take a snap and you know, call a play.
I think I can't do that. I gotta sit up,
sit up here in the stands with my five year
old daughter and cheer. So it's a uh, it'll it'll
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be a it'll be a new learning experience and in
that way as well. But yeah, you know, I I
I was curious what the competitive fire would be like
when when retiring from the NFL. Uh frankly and and it's, uh,
you know, honestly, it feels a little bit life affirming
to have that, to have that full body get into
it feeling during a football game again, I uh looking
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forward to that.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
What's it like though? You take off that uniform, you
get rid of that career, You go home and you're
raising babies, you're a stay at home dad. How would
like give me the you know, the transition. How long
did it take for you got into dad mode where
you're raising daughters, You're changing diapers, there's daycare, there's feeding,
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there's all of these things.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Let me tell you, there aren't seventy thousand people cheering
for you change a diaper three am and then have
to go get a you know, a yogurt out of
the fridge for your wife's hungry. And so you know,
and you know, our daughter Lucy, she didn't care what
was going on in my life. She needed the support.
So it was, Yes, it was a transition. I am
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thankful and grateful. I can't imagine my life without it.
I think it brought a perspective that I certainly needed
at a very deep level.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And you know, we have two beautiful daughters. I would
not have changed my time in the world with them
over the past five years for anything, anything, but this
time now made sense for us as a family. Uh.
And it wasn't And yeah it was. You know, I
feel like I lived the domestic life for five years
and and supported the supported the family in different ways.
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And again I'm thankful for it and grateful for it.
Wouldn't wouldn't change it for the world, and and we
as a family, we're ready for this opportunity back at
Stanford as well. Look, I met my wife here, you know,
we met as freshman in the dorm. She was a gymnast.
So Stanford Stanford athletics, football, gymnastics, the rest of the sports.
This is this is the greatest athletic department, I'd I'd
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say in the world. Like, you know, you look at
the Olympics. We had fifty nine athletes, we had over
thirty medals. You know, we we supported Team USA in
a way that I think folks don't quite appreciate or realize.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
And I'm I'm excited for Stanford football to continue to
do It's part to support the greatest athletic department in
the in the world, or at least the country.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Let me go deep with you here. Were you a
football player or a guy who was really good at
playing football?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You know, that's a great question. Uh, And I and
I have I have reflected on that. Yeah, when when
I when I retired from the NFL. And I think
I've noticed in talking to other folks who have retired,
and you know, I think, and no matter whatever the circumstances,
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it's difficult. Whether it's after college, after a short career,
after a long career, it's a it's a it's a
difficult and challenging process. And there was a grieving period
and a grieving period because a part of my identity died,
you know, and and that part of me was a
football player, and that was a huge, huge part of me. Uh.
(09:44):
Certainly I was more than just a football player, just
like everybody out there doing I mean, you know, you're
more than just the host of the Dan Patrick Show,
the illustrious Dan Patrick Show. But there's a grieving period.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And and and of course life goes on and daughters
and family and and and other things you know, begin
to fill that void, but you have to fill that void.
Was something positive.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It almost felt like there were more questions about your
retirement than the end of the Sopranos.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I don't know if that's a good or bath fit.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, your career died, and somebody may have died in
the Sopranos. But it was just one of those where
it's like, wait, what happened? Because they finally got around
to giving you an offensive line they I mean, you know,
and I I guess everybody was shocked that you could
walk away from that when it felt like the Colts
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finally caught up to you and protecting you and giving
you a good team around you.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, I'll push back. I don't view it that way
with the Colts at all. I always viewed that, I.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You got beat up so much earlier in your career,
and I said, this is a war of attrition. This
is when Quentin Nelson got there. I go, yes, he's
got an offensive lineman. There. You got beat up too much.
I think fall out of love with football.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Well, you know part of Well, I will push back again. Frankly, Dan,
I never doubted the support I got from anybody in
the Colts building, including how we built things and what
we did. I I know, I played with teammates that
that were ass kickers, that were great, that that worked
their butts off. I I certainly, And if I got
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beat up a little early, it's because of how I played,
you know, and and and what I did and how
I ran around.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Were you like Josh Allen? Though? Did you you see
similarities with Josh Allen of you know what a little reckless?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah? Maybe maybe perhaps? And I'm I'm hesitant to make
any comparisons. I think some oftentimes we end up devaluing
somewhere along the line. So shoot, if if i'm if
I'm now retroactively compared to Josh Allen, that's a good thing.
He's amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
He's doing so pretty so were you?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah? But and I'll say this too, Quenton Nelson is
an amazing football player. My my one year of playing
with Quinton was a dream. You could tell that he's
a leader as a rookie. There are not many people
built like him physically, there's not many people with the
emotional intelligence and the football intelligence of a Quentin Nelson.
And when I think of when I think of interior alignment,
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that we're looking for here at Stanford. I think of
two guys. I think at Quentin Nelson, who had played
with or played with an Indianapolis, who's a notre damer
who we could care less about in that way. And
I think a David Dicastro, who I played with here
at Stanford, who had the amazing career in Pittsburgh. I mean,
you gotta be tough to play football. You gotta be big,
you gotta be nasty, and you gotta be smart. So
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that's what we're looking for. So you know, I had
to turn that in for a recruiting plug for Stanford
somehow somewhere in the question.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Dam where is Captain Andrew Luck?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Now you know what, I have never met Captain Andrew Luck.
I wish I wish I had the humor and wit
to pool a social media account off like whoever the
person is doing it, I hope, I hope they continue
to tweet.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
So now you're a general, You're General Andrew Love. You've
got promoted.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Great, needed it, needed it.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
How would you recruit if you were coming out of
high school?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You got nil? Now your dad has means, so I
don't know how important would nil have been to you?
Coming out of high school and would it have changed
maybe where you went instead of Stanford.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well, it's an absolutely, it's a part of it's a
part of the process, and it's part of the game,
you know, it's it's part of the game of big
time college football.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Where would you have gone?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I think with NIL, I would have gotten to Stanford.
And look, I think there's a misconception that Stanford is
not not competitive in the NIL space, and I can
tell you it's not true. We are competitive and very
much looking forward to this recruiting class. And again that's
why I think with the unique value proposition at this place,
as with the combination of athletics and academics and being
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part of the greatest university of the world, in my opinion,
in the greatest athletic department in the world. And with NIL,
I know we can compete with everybody for every great
academically strong football player in the.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Where would you have gone? Where was your second choice?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I had no second choice.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
What maybe made it easier was that my hometown or
home state university, the Texas long Oorns, did not offer
me a scholarship, So that made it easier.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Wow are you still there?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, but it's a good story.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Good luck, Good luck general, good luck John. What about
the Book of the Month club? Is that going to
be brought back? We did have somebody who called in
yesterday knowing you were going to be on.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
That's a great question. It's been dormant. I'll be honest,
haven't thought about it. But it warms my It warms
my general luck that someone out there wants to know
what what I'm reading.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But here you are on campus, now all that higher learning,
smart kids, you're going to have your Book of the
month is going to be different than the way maybe
it was when you were in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
You know what, I wouldn't devalue the NAA.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
It was Pat McAfee never read a book.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Pat?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Pat Mackison. I bet Pat McAfee read a book, and
it is intelligence is off the charts.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I think McAfee read a magazine. Maybe he didn't read
a book.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Pat's crushing it, that's all he is. He was a
great he was a great teammate, and he is doing
a heck of a job out there and bringing a
lot of joy to people's lives.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Was he this goofy when you played with him?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You know what? Pat? You know, people ask a lot
about Pat. I mean Pat's famous, I mean capital F famous.
There's no doubt, you know. I always come back to
two things. One, he said he has a big personality
and was not afraid to talk right period, So it's
no surprising where he is. Whereas two, he was a
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great teammate and a great punter, And a punter is
an offensive and defensive weapon when they're really good. And
he was really really good. And you know, I had
a kid at Pally High. Our punter would still do
the Pat McAfee celebration if he in practice or in
a game, you know, downed it within the ten yard times.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
So did you have to worry about McAfee on a
bye week though?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Okay at all? Yeah? Yeah, well, congratulations, welcome back home.
Appreciate it, and don't make it five years the next
time we talk. Okay, wasn't that long. It was over
five five years and four months.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Five years and four months. You've got you've got good data, folks, then, man, yes, yes,
real good.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
My analytics department, I got an nil I even have
a transfer portal group here. I just need a GM.
So good Luck, thanks for joining us for sure. That's
that's General Andrew Luck, the general manager at Stanford.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
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Speaker 2 (17:27):
So Alabama's back in Miami is out and you have
some buys here with Boise Steak. You have Oregon, SMU
and Texas and that's subject to change, all right. See
poll question for the first hour is going to be
what well I think we start with the college football Playoff.
The t O Dubs sent in a couple that are fun.
Alabama will ultimately make the twelve team playoff because dot
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dot dot they deserve to be in or they're Alabama. Okay,
I would say it has a little bit more to
do with their Alabama. The brand is going to get
you in. And there was a whole lot of word
salad going on last night with Who's my guy? Who's
running the playoff committee? Ward Emmanual, So he was talking
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about these conference championship games coming up this weekend. He
was on with Rhys Davis and this is what's happened.
College football had conference championship games because it was a
cash grab. Now you don't have to have that. You
have a twelve team playoff, not a four team playoff.
When the four team playoff, not everybody was sharing in
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all the moneies. And now you have teams that can
go to a conference championship, and the teams and the
conference's benefit, well, they don't want to screw up what
happens with the twelve team playoff by having one of
their teams lose in a conference championship game. So it
feels like they're slowly trying to diminish or get rid
of conference championship games. So here is ward manual the
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College Football Selection Committee chair.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Any team that is not playing right now, we don't
have a data point to rearrange where we have those
teams ranked, and so that is set in terms of
how we see them going into the final week of
championship week.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
There's nothing that's going.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
To change rees for us to evaluate them any differently
than we have now. Those teams who are not playing
cannot be adjusted in terms of where they are compared
to other teams that are not playing.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
But the championship.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Teams, we will evaluate that data point to determine if
there's needs to be any movement based on how the
performance of the game goes.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Would you like some ranch dressing with that word salid
because I have no idea what we're talking about here.
I think it's just a polite way of saying, hey,
if you're in, we want to keep you in, just
don't get blown out. And if you're out, you got
no shot of getting in unless somebody gets blown out. Yeah, Seaton.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
It feels like, if Paul correct me if I'm wrong,
it feels like he was saying the teams who were
not playing this weekend, they're set. Sorry, not a lot
we could do for you, but if you are playing
this weekend, maybe we'll see some movement. It was a
lot of words to say basically that, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
I think Seaton's right. It was very He took a
long way to get there, and even Reese pushback, are
you saying that this weekend doesn't matter that much? And
he kept not saying it didn't matter, but didn't say
it mattered very much? For example, if Georgia gets waxed
by Texas, I think they can go down. Can they
go down to past Ole miss which gets Old Miss in.
That's confusing. If if SMU gets loses in any way,
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I think they're out. And then a team like Miami's
back in, I think.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah in side, I think. All I know is I
pushed for the twelve team playoff. We got the twelve
team playoff. It was going to mean more games, had
more meaning late in the season. I got that. The
other part of that I can't be responsible for. The
grown ups are supposed to take care of that. Miami's upset.
You know what, Miami, you got upset. That's why you
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shouldn't be upset. You lost two of three once again,
you can handle your future. I would say control your
own destiny, but you can't do that. But you could win.
If you beat Syracuse, then we're not in this position.
You lost to Syracuse. Okay, you lost to Georgia Tech. Okay, yeah, poem.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
But Miami fans, if I'm going to be pro Miami
for a minute here, just take that play that role.
Miami lost to a Syracuse team that had eight wins
going in. They were an above average team, right, Oklahoma
got I'm sorry. Alabama got murdered, not literally by Oklahoma
and average team this year wasn't even close. Alabama's resume
in November is getting waxed against Oklahoma, beating Mercer, which
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does not count, and a decent win over Auburn. They
didn't help themselves in November. They hurt themselves.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Alabama's a brand that you used to be a brand,
not anymore. And you lose to Syracuse. Win the game, yes,
Syracuse is good.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Win the game.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I mean Old Miss loses to Florida. Florida, of course,
started to play a whole lot better. I mean South
Carolina might be playing as good as anybody right now.
It's not fair. I know that, but it's not meant
to be fair. It's about entertainment. It's getting brands in there, unfortunately.
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But I like that you have Boise State in there,
Arizona State's in there, SMU's in there. It's a lot
of fun. But if I look at these conferences, SMU
wasn't in the ACC last year, Arizona State wasn't in
the Big twelve last year, Oregon wasn't in the Big
ten last year Texas. Like, we're seeing these teams that
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just came into conferences winning these inferences and I know
you start to look at resumes and we're eventually going
to get to the pro model. It might be the
Premier League model. I'd love to have relegation, or it
might be the NFL model. We're eventually going to get
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to that. There's so much money to be made. It's
just like March madness. You know, when we had the
commissioner or the NCAA commissioner on Charlie Baker on he
was talking about maybe we add four more teams, six
more teams. Okay, didn't make headlines. You go to ninety six.
Now all of a sudden, you're going to get people going,
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wait a minute, it's going to be watered down. Yes,
yes it is. You might say it's already watered down.
But college football went from two teams to four teams
to twelve teams, and I'm already told that we're probably
going to fourteen teams as early as next year. That's
how quickly this is happening. Wait, aren't there contracts in
place in pencil? They can't do that.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
First of all, Okay, there's contracts put in place, so
that will never happen.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
This is the problem when college football people are do
you know that's still a source subject. With me seton,
these insiders came after me. There's contracts, there's the pageantry
of the bowl games, and I go, dude, you got
a lottery ticket right in front of you. You're holding
a lottery ticket. They're going to change college football. What
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about the pageantry? What about the bowl games? Well, wait
a minute, there's contracts. I know, what about the contracts.
You had people who were covering these meetings and missed
this story. I'm not even in there, and I was
told by an impeccable source on this. But they were
going to do with the college playoffs, and it proved
to be true. And now they're going to go to
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fourteen just because of the math. There's so much money
being made here and you're just discussing college This is
what they want. Just so you know, they love that
you're discussing college football. There's controversy. People are upset. It's
not fair. They want you to talk about their sport.
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When there were two teams playing, maybe you complained about
the third team, fourth team didn't make it the four
team playoff. Maybe it was the fifth team or sixteen.
Now you have twelve, and now you're talking about maybe
eighteen schools that can discuss where they should be, should
they get a buy, should they be in? Why aren't
they in? Now we're going to go to fourteen and
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then we're going to go who knows after that. It's
just going to happen. It's trying to stay you know
in mainstream media that you discuss this, like the Heisman
race is over. There's no race whatsoever. You want to
talk about. What's going to happen in college football? Alabama's
going to go to Notre Dame right now, go oh,
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two brands. Can't go wrong with that. You're going to
have some weird matchups, but it's going to be great.
This is what college football wants. They want you to talk.
I mean, March madness. What are you talking about? You
know the sixty ninth team is going to complain. You're
(26:21):
like so wide, Who cares this?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You care?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
More teams, more schools, more opinions, more conversation, more dialogue,
that's what you want. Everybody's dwarfed by the NFL. You know,
Baseball has this gold knit bat that just came out.
Baseball just wants to be talked about. Juan Soto six
hundred million dollars like, that's everybody's fighting for airspace here.
(26:47):
That's it. It's what you want. You don't want to
get left behind. And college football has done a great
job kind of reinventing itself and it's just getting started.
This is going to a span. It's gonna go in
directions where you go, wait a minute, here, what are
we doing in five years from now, We're gonna look
(27:08):
back and go dang. College football moved at a rapid
not a glacier base. This is moving moving fast and
that's what's happening because of the money that's involved. Look
at the NFL, ah player safety. How about an eighteenth game? Sure,
(27:28):
oh you know, we'll have one game in London? Okay,
maybe two games. How about one in Germany? How about
one in Dublin, how about one in Rio. It's all
moving fast. Everything's moving fast. WNBA, let's expand more teams.
Everybody wants to have a team. Now. Caitlin Clark is
(27:48):
to the WNBA what Gretzky was to the NHL. He
expanded hockey southern part of the United States. Who would
have thought it's because Gretzky, Caitlin Clark, everybody wants a
frame and trice down. This is what sports is doing.
This is happening right in front of us. Now you
can say, is this the Golden Age? Well, that's open
to your interpretation. But this is where we're going. It's
(28:12):
about money. It's always been about money.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
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Speaker 7 (28:27):
Matt Lafleura said, well, when we're down there in the
red area, we need to be I feel like I've
heard that a little bit more lately, the red area.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I think that's something you find on your body, like
down in the red area. Oh yes, I went.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
To the dermatologist for that a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You give me a little cream, You're fine, thank you.
Is that a red area? Yeah? Yeah, I haven't heard
the red area before.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
I feel like if I sat here on the show
and I was just like, well, you know, they're down
in the red area, social media would.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Be like, you don't know anything. You're stupid. You're so stupid.
How did you get this job? As we make the
smooth segue to Adam Sandler, Happy Happy, Gilmore two set
to call in. I believe, Oh, Todd's on the phone
with sand Man. Now this is where Todd does his impersonation.
(29:12):
I killed doth. Oh, let me get Danny for you.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Danny's gonna be ready for you.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Okay, all right, here we go. All right, Todd, did
you do your Sandler impersonation to Sandler?
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I did not?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
I saw that on the Thanksgiving especially when he's playing
his guitar with Kevin Neil, and I just love that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Okay, I love it, Sammn.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I love you. Good, good, good, Hi Danny, how are
you feeling.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I'm good, Okay. I have I have to tell you
that I stole my sweatshirt. That that first scene that
I'm in, I have it on today.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Oh no, Danny, No, they were looking for it all morning.
Oh guys, Tod Dad.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I know that you guys get caught up in wardrobe
and you can't take anything. But it was the next
to last day, and I loved it so much that
I decided I was just going to take it with me.
I also, I told these guys, you were on the phone.
I don't know if you're talking to your wife. I'm
done with my scene. I'm leaving last night, and I
grab a chair and You're going, Danny, what are you doing?
And I go, I'm taking a happy Gilmore two souvenir chair.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Yes, yes, no, no, no, there was no doubt you
deserved the chair. You did good work last night. I
just think I was a little shocked at the amount
of M and m's.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Just are we allowed to talk about some of the
people in the movie, Like, what can we talk about
here since the movie raps today?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Yeah? Are we on the air right now? Yes we are, Okay, Yeah,
we can't talk about anything. No, no, no, no, Yeah,
you can say who was there? Shooter was there and.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
He was hanging out right, yes, Shooter McGavin. Okay, but
can I talk about some of the camps.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I don't know if they they're gonna yell at me
no matter what, because they asked me not to do
any any press. But but yeah, what do you want
to say? What do you say it? And I'll tell
you if it's good or bad to talk about?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Like can I talk about Eminem having a cameo?
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Okay? Yeah, yeah you can't. You know, Eminem was cool
he he came by and he was he was great.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Okay, wait a minute, how do you reach out to
Eminem and what role does he play in Happy Gilmore too?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
I can't tell you. Okay, okay, I know Eminem pro
time and he's a great guy. And he came in
was funny as hell and was just it was just
I think we just hung out a day with Eminem
and he just shot and shot and was insane, said
said a million things. We can use in a million
things that we just we're glad we have him on tape.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Jack Nicholas, Yes.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Jack Nicholas, Yes, he came by for a couple of days.
All all the all these great joppers came by and
we we yes, they did a great scene and we
all we all hung out and he was amazing and
he hung out with us and his wife was was
awesome and we we in the scene. I sit next
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to Jack, so I got I got to talk to
him and he was he was so nice to me, man,
he was, he was. He did literally to me. I
talked to him on the phone and I was right before, like, uh,
a couple of weeks before we shot, and I was
It reminded me of growing up so much, and what
he meant to my dad and what he meant to.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
The whole world pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
I was like, well, I think the only other boys
said on the phone that would make me feel what
I'm feeling was Johnny Carson this and just kind of
felt like this he calmed you down. Everything he had
to say was so sweet and calm, and he felt like,
just just I better listen to this man because he
just knows everything.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Okay, here's another thing. I'm not sure if this is true.
I think John Daily brought this up that the movie
was coming out in March or April. I thought it
might have been a blockbuster Fourth of July weekend. But
I'm wondering if you're trying to have it aligned with
Masters week where you have Happy Gilmour Too come out.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
I it's not coming out then it's I don't know
one hundred percent, but I think around July, okay, July fourth,
but they were trying to get it done in time
for July. Yeah, I just you never know what's gonna happen.
We're just just finishing today at the last day. You
(33:45):
will phenomenally Yesterday, Danny, seriously, we all talked about you
just you. You were just so smooth and everything you
said was funny as funny as hell. We're going to
use it all over the place. And uh and thank you.
And you look hands the mattel in the must desk.
You look like the strong, look like you're hitting the
way hard, buddy.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
But you know what, sam Man, I just had somebody
say I look like maybe a younger thinner Andy Reid.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't say thinner, but.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yes, wow, I don't know if you should be calling
me out chunky Colemandina.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Yeah, no, Andy Reid. By the way, he's a handsome basher.
That'shing wrong with that. And he says super star and
he's punning on those commersals. He does the twinkles and
steals some nugget or something easy. I think he eats
my homes last nugget or something.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
How much pressure do you feel but the build up
and trying to deliver on something like this.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Well, you know, a lot, a lot, a lot. I
want I want it to be great. Me and Hurla.
He's next to me right now. We're in the trailer
going over the movie, just talking about the thing and
what what how we're going to put it together and yeah, yeah,
it's on your mind. You just you just we got
a lot of good stuff and we just want to
make sure that it all comes together and and and
(35:09):
and keep keeps it going from start to finish. And
that's that's the goal. We'll see, we'll see. We're definitely nervous,
but we feel some sort of confidence.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
We're talking Adam Sandler. The movie Happy Go More to
probably in July. They wrap it up today. I did
get yelled at by one of your producers, Eli, I
found out that you can't use the F word in
the movie.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Well, no, this this you never know, you never know.
Maybe maybe if it makes total sense that wort is
gonna be so Eli, I'm gonna Eli just got fired.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
The movie ends today, so you can't Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah, yeah, I guess. So this is the last God
damn you don't like that. Oh, by the way, Eli
got fired. In case his parents are listening, I love you.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Like no great once again, it was fun. Great to
see you a lot of the familiar faces there, and
and I know I know you've been told not to
talk about the movie, So thank you for at least
volunteering if you wanted uh if I wanted you on
the show today, So thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
I wanted to be with you, dad, just to celebrate
how great you were last night. And and uh all
the boys say hi to them, and uh have a holiday.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Well wait, wait a mine, hold on, Samon, there is
a little bit of a problem.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
What.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I'm sure you had a lot of golf galleries. You
got a lot of people extras there, and you have
been nice to get the Dants into movies, and I
waited for the invitation to hand it to them so
they can be.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
The dan Nets are in the water Boy. If we
do The water Boy again, they're in that. I didn't
want that. I know none of them like golf, so
that is true.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Is there going to be a sequel to The Water Boy?
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Okay, I don't know in what order, but I think
next sequel. I know no matter what I say, people
are gonna think I'm serious. So but I'm gonna start off.
I'm gonna start off with we're doing a sequel to
the Bedtime Stories next, then it's sequeling. No, I'm not.
I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Okay, Okay, So there's no sequel to Water Boy. You're
just joking.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
I mean, no, I don't know. You never know. I
probably not. But uh, Bouche tackling anybody at age fifty eight,
it's a little weirder than them hitting a golf ball,
you know what I mean. Bouche would be dead, would
be dead right now if you hit anybody in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
Yes, Sam oh, yes, Seon sounds like Adam is writing
The Sun of the Water boy.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Ooh, that could be good. That could be good. And
who's playing the sun?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Uh Timothy Shall marry Keho.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Yeah, all right, Well we'll figure out.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I can't I can't imagine. Okay, So Sandman played pick
up with Timothy shallow May on a New York City playground.
How what kind of game does Timothy shallow May have?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Oh that's a very smooth operator on the on the court.
And I played ball with them. I played all of
them a few times out in l A too. He's cool.
I think I remember Timmy came over to the house.
He had some good three on three to get eat
it up man. The kid likes to win. He's good.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
How were your daughters when Timothy challow May came to
your house?
Speaker 4 (38:37):
They were They held it together. He was so cool
to him, so so that they held it together. But
it was a night. It was a good. Three days
after it's still smiling, you know what I mean. It
felt good.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Thanks again, Thanks again for the opportunity and talk to
you soon. Save travels.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Way to go, Danny, Thanks for your time, Love you boys,
see you as soon.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
That's Adam Sandler.
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
He's Andrew luck the general manager of Stanford University Football.
And I can honestly say I didn't think I'd ever
talked to you again, So welcome back. Where have you been?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
We've been living the dream. You know, I didn't think
I'd ever talked to you again. That has well. I
gotta be honest, I'm not sure I can help in
the D and double D conversation that I was listening
to the show, So I don't know what I'm walking
into the show.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Okay, how does this happen? How did this job come about?
And that you were willing to take it?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, my wife and I we moved back to Palo
Alto with our daughters to a little over two years ago.
I came back to do a master's in education. We
didn't know what we wanted to do with life, but
we knew, you know, the roads probably ran back through Stanford,
and Frankly had a meeting with the president of university
see about some stuff on athletics. I've been volunteering and
(01:02):
helping out and volunteer coaching high school football across the
road at Palo Alto high school. The Vikings was sitting
with the president, and I think through the course of
a conversation, and through the course of some of his
conversations with other folks in the athletic department around the university,
realized that this probably made sense. And it did make sense,
(01:24):
And when I was asked, I didn't hesitate. I love Stanford,
I love Stanford football. I'm a product of this place.
I believe in this place. I believe in the pursuit
of competitive excellence across the board and academics, athletics, socially
and happy to be a part of it.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Now officially, okay, what is your job? Officially?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, general manager of football. So I oversee and lead
the football department. And this is officially day two. So
he took up to speed. I could not be more
excited to work with Troy Taylor. He's an innovative of
offensive mind. I think he's laid the groundwork for sustained
(02:04):
success here. It couldn't be more excited to work with
the rest of the coaching staff, the players on the team.
I mean, it's a hot and heavy recruiting cycle right now.
I am learning a lot on the fly. It's a
little bit of drinking from the fire hose. I'll be honest,
I think I feel like a rookie again in the NFL.
And I remember, you know, Bruce Arians having very colorful
(02:25):
allegories for what it was like to be a rookie
that I can't repeat on your show. But I keep
thinking of those because I haven't felt this combination of
excitement and also being overwhelmed. I mean, it's incredible, but
just trying to play my part, trying to be a
good team player.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
The challenges of NIL and the transfer portal at Stanford
are what.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, they exist, certainly, and like any challenge, I think
we're viewing it as an opportunity I believe deeply, and
the unique value proposition of the athletic and academic experience
here at Stanford and that's not being sacrificed in any way,
shape or form, and we're doubling down on that. And
(03:10):
also you know we're I'm under no illusion, We're under
no illusion about what the current state of college football
and college athletics really writ large but especially college football
is and I think we also know it's going to
keep changing. No one knows where this is going in two, three, four,
shoot one year, two year, three or four year, five years.
But we realize we need to be competitive and we
(03:31):
will be. And I would not have taken this job
that I not think we could be competitive and getting
the best, the brightest, the toughest, really good football players.
And at the end of the day, if I learned
anything through you know, my high school, college and NFL career,
is that it's all about the players. At the end
of the day, it's all about the players. Everything needs
to point to make sure that they are set up
(03:51):
to succeed. And we realize, I realize, and we realize
here that nil is part of the game.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Where is college football headed Let's say in five years, Oh.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Gosh, I think I think there are too numerous a
paths that that could be taken. But I tell you what,
we know it's not going to be the same as
it is today. You know that That's that's what we know.
And and part of part of this role, in my role,
and I think the setup, the structure of this is
that that President eleven here at Stanford is realizing our
(04:25):
athletic director, but our mirrors realizing that that you know,
we've got to be able to adapt to change. Everybody
is going to have to be able to adapt to change.
That's part of why we're taking this step with having
a general manager sort of a top a top the
football organization, so that when change comes, we're flexible enough,
we're nimble enough to take the appropriate steps that are
(04:45):
best for our university, in our athletic department, in our
in our student athletes.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
But you see an NFL format coming up with college football.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
You know it's this is speculation, Dan, anything, You as.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
A GM have to think down the road mode of
how do we fit into the landscape here?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Absolutely and one. And we got to win to fit
in the landscape. We gotta win, I mean like period,
you know period, and that's that is the north star.
And winning you know, in in in constance, in in
in alignment with the values of this university, which I
did deeply believe in. So we got to win, period,
and we're gonna win. Uh And and I know I
lived it here against you know the odds, and and
(05:25):
and and we've lived it and and won at this university.
And where is it going? Does it Does it end
up looking like a professional model? I mean it's it's
starting to today, it's starting to this year or so.
I certainly see that being one of the roads that
that that you know could could could be taken.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
He's Andrew luck GM of Stanford Football. How much do
you miss competition?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Oh? You know. Part of volunteer coaching at Pally High
for the past two years was was to to sort
of tend to that fire, if you will, within me.
And and you know, watching the last couple of games
of Stanford last three games, knowing that I was gonna,
you know, probably assume this role, Uh was a feeling
(06:09):
I hadn't had for a while. And I'll be here, I'll
be honest, I got nerve this. I mean I hadn't.
I haven't had butterflies like that in a while. And
I realized, Man, I can't, I can't. You know, it's
the fourth court. I can't go out on the field
anymore and take a snap and you know, call a play.
I think I can't do that. I gotta sit up,
sit up here in the stands with my five year
old daughter and cheer. So it's a uh, it'll it'll
(06:32):
be a it'll be a new learning experience and in
that way as well. But yeah, you know, I I
I was curious what the competitive fire would be like
when when retiring from the NFL. Uh frankly and and it's, uh,
you know, honestly, it feels a little bit life affirming
to have that, to have that full body get into
it feeling during a football game again, I uh looking
(06:55):
forward to that.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
What's it like though? You take off that uniform, you
get rid of that career, You go home and you're
raising babies, you're a stay at home dad. How would
like give me the you know, the transition. How long
did it take for you got into dad mode where
you're raising daughters, You're changing diapers, there's daycare, there's feeding,
(07:17):
there's all of these things.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Let me tell you, there aren't seventy thousand people cheering
for you change a diaper three am and then have
to go get a you know, a yogurt out of
the fridge for your wife's hungry. And so you know,
and you know, our daughter Lucy, she didn't care what
was going on in my life. She needed the support.
So it was, Yes, it was a transition. I am
(07:41):
thankful and grateful. I can't imagine my life without it.
I think it brought a perspective that I certainly needed
at a very deep level.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
And you know, we have two beautiful daughters. I would
not have changed my time in the world with them
over the past five years for anything, anything, but this
time now made sense for us as a family. Uh.
And it wasn't And yeah it was. You know, I
feel like I lived the domestic life for five years
and and supported the supported the family in different ways.
(08:12):
And again I'm thankful for it and grateful for it.
Wouldn't wouldn't change it for the world, and and we
as a family, we're ready for this opportunity back at
Stanford as well. Look, I met my wife here, you know,
we met as freshman in the dorm. She was a gymnast.
So Stanford Stanford athletics, football, gymnastics, the rest of the sports.
This is this is the greatest athletic department, I'd I'd
(08:33):
say in the world. Like, you know, you look at
the Olympics. We had fifty nine athletes, we had over
thirty medals. You know, we we supported Team USA in
a way that I think folks don't quite appreciate or realize.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
And I'm I'm excited for Stanford football to continue to
do It's part to support the greatest athletic department in
the in the world, or at least the country.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Let me go deep with you here. Were you a
football player or a guy who was really good at
playing football?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You know, that's a great question. Uh, And I and
I have I have reflected on that. Yeah, when when
I when I retired from the NFL. And I think
I've noticed in talking to other folks who have retired,
and you know, I think, and no matter whatever the circumstances,
(09:24):
it's difficult. Whether it's after college, after a short career,
after a long career, it's a it's a it's a
difficult and challenging process. And there was a grieving period
and a grieving period because a part of my identity died,
you know, and and that part of me was a
football player, and that was a huge, huge part of me. Uh.
(09:44):
Certainly I was more than just a football player, just
like everybody out there doing I mean, you know, you're
more than just the host of the Dan Patrick Show,
the illustrious Dan Patrick Show. But there's a grieving period.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And and and of course life goes on and daughters
and family and and and other things you know, begin
to fill that void, but you have to fill that void.
Was something positive.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It almost felt like there were more questions about your
retirement than the end of the Sopranos.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I don't know if that's a good or bath fit.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well, your career died, and somebody may have died in
the Sopranos. But it was just one of those where
it's like, wait, what happened? Because they finally got around
to giving you an offensive line they I mean, you know,
and I I guess everybody was shocked that you could
walk away from that when it felt like the Colts
(10:38):
finally caught up to you and protecting you and giving
you a good team around you.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, I'll push back. I don't view it that way
with the Colts at all. I always viewed that, I.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
You got beat up so much earlier in your career,
and I said, this is a war of attrition. This
is when Quentin Nelson got there. I go, yes, he's
got an offensive lineman. There. You got beat up too much.
I think fall out of love with football.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Well, you know part of Well, I will push back again. Frankly, Dan,
I never doubted the support I got from anybody in
the Colts building, including how we built things and what
we did. I I know, I played with teammates that
that were ass kickers, that were great, that that worked
their butts off. I I certainly, And if I got
(11:23):
beat up a little early, it's because of how I played,
you know, and and and what I did and how
I ran around.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Were you like Josh Allen? Though? Did you you see
similarities with Josh Allen of you know what a little reckless?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah? Maybe maybe perhaps? And I'm I'm hesitant to make
any comparisons. I think some oftentimes we end up devaluing
somewhere along the line. So shoot, if if i'm if
I'm now retroactively compared to Josh Allen, that's a good thing.
He's amazing.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
He's doing so pretty so were you?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yeah? But and I'll say this too, Quenton Nelson is
an amazing football player. My my one year of playing
with Quinton was a dream. You could tell that he's
a leader as a rookie. There are not many people
built like him physically, there's not many people with the
emotional intelligence and the football intelligence of a Quentin Nelson.
And when I think of when I think of interior alignment,
(12:16):
that we're looking for here at Stanford. I think of
two guys. I think at Quentin Nelson, who had played
with or played with an Indianapolis, who's a notre damer
who we could care less about in that way. And
I think a David Dicastro, who I played with here
at Stanford, who had the amazing career in Pittsburgh. I mean,
you gotta be tough to play football. You gotta be big,
you gotta be nasty, and you gotta be smart. So
(12:37):
that's what we're looking for. So you know, I had
to turn that in for a recruiting plug for Stanford
somehow somewhere in the question.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Dam where is Captain Andrew Luck?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Now you know what, I have never met Captain Andrew Luck.
I wish I wish I had the humor and wit
to pool a social media account off like whoever the
person is doing it, I hope, I hope they continue
to tweet.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
So now you're a general, You're General Andrew Love. You've
got promoted.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Great, needed it, needed it.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
How would you recruit if you were coming out of
high school?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
You got nil? Now your dad has means, so I
don't know how important would nil have been to you?
Coming out of high school and would it have changed
maybe where you went instead of Stanford.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well, it's an absolutely, it's a part of it's a
part of the process, and it's part of the game,
you know, it's it's part of the game of big
time college football.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Where would you have gone?
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I think with NIL, I would have gotten to Stanford.
And look, I think there's a misconception that Stanford is
not not competitive in the NIL space, and I can
tell you it's not true. We are competitive and very
much looking forward to this recruiting class. And again that's
why I think with the unique value proposition at this place,
as with the combination of athletics and academics and being
(14:03):
part of the greatest university of the world, in my opinion,
in the greatest athletic department in the world. And with NIL,
I know we can compete with everybody for every great
academically strong football player in the.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Where would you have gone? Where was your second choice?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I had no second choice.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
What maybe made it easier was that my hometown or
home state university, the Texas long Oorns, did not offer
me a scholarship, So that made it easier.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Wow are you still there?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, but it's a good story.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Good luck, Good luck general, good luck John. What about
the Book of the Month club? Is that going to
be brought back? We did have somebody who called in
yesterday knowing you were going to be on.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
That's a great question. It's been dormant. I'll be honest,
haven't thought about it. But it warms my It warms
my general luck that someone out there wants to know
what what I'm reading.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But here you are on campus, now all that higher learning,
smart kids, you're going to have your Book of the
month is going to be different than the way maybe
it was when you were in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
You know what, I wouldn't devalue the NAA.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
It was Pat McAfee never read a book.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Pat?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Pat Mackison. I bet Pat McAfee read a book, and
it is intelligence is off the charts.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I think McAfee read a magazine. Maybe he didn't read
a book.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Pat's crushing it, that's all he is. He was a
great he was a great teammate, and he is doing
a heck of a job out there and bringing a
lot of joy to people's lives.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Was he this goofy when you played with him?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You know what? Pat? You know, people ask a lot
about Pat. I mean Pat's famous, I mean capital F famous.
There's no doubt, you know. I always come back to
two things. One, he said he has a big personality
and was not afraid to talk right period, So it's
no surprising where he is. Whereas two, he was a
(16:12):
great teammate and a great punter, And a punter is
an offensive and defensive weapon when they're really good. And
he was really really good. And you know, I had
a kid at Pally High. Our punter would still do
the Pat McAfee celebration if he in practice or in
a game, you know, downed it within the ten yard times.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
So did you have to worry about McAfee on a
bye week though?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Okay at all? Yeah? Yeah, well, congratulations, welcome back home.
Appreciate it, and don't make it five years the next
time we talk. Okay, wasn't that long. It was over
five five years and four months.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Five years and four months. You've got you've got good data, folks, then, man, yes, yes,
real good.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
My analytics department, I got an nil I even have
a transfer portal group here. I just need a GM.
So good Luck, thanks for joining us for sure. That's
that's General Andrew Luck, the general manager at Stanford.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
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Speaker 2 (17:27):
So Alabama's back in Miami is out and you have
some buys here with Boise Steak. You have Oregon, SMU
and Texas and that's subject to change, all right. See
poll question for the first hour is going to be
what well I think we start with the college football Playoff.
The t O Dubs sent in a couple that are fun.
Alabama will ultimately make the twelve team playoff because dot
(17:50):
dot dot they deserve to be in or they're Alabama. Okay,
I would say it has a little bit more to
do with their Alabama. The brand is going to get
you in. And there was a whole lot of word
salad going on last night with Who's my guy? Who's
running the playoff committee? Ward Emmanual, So he was talking
(18:15):
about these conference championship games coming up this weekend. He
was on with Rhys Davis and this is what's happened.
College football had conference championship games because it was a
cash grab. Now you don't have to have that. You
have a twelve team playoff, not a four team playoff.
When the four team playoff, not everybody was sharing in
(18:36):
all the moneies. And now you have teams that can
go to a conference championship, and the teams and the
conference's benefit, well, they don't want to screw up what
happens with the twelve team playoff by having one of
their teams lose in a conference championship game. So it
feels like they're slowly trying to diminish or get rid
of conference championship games. So here is ward manual the
(19:02):
College Football Selection Committee chair.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Any team that is not playing right now, we don't
have a data point to rearrange where we have those
teams ranked, and so that is set in terms of
how we see them going into the final week of
championship week.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
There's nothing that's going.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
To change rees for us to evaluate them any differently
than we have now. Those teams who are not playing
cannot be adjusted in terms of where they are compared
to other teams that are not playing.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
But the championship.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Teams, we will evaluate that data point to determine if
there's needs to be any movement based on how the
performance of the game goes.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Would you like some ranch dressing with that word salid
because I have no idea what we're talking about here.
I think it's just a polite way of saying, hey,
if you're in, we want to keep you in, just
don't get blown out. And if you're out, you got
no shot of getting in unless somebody gets blown out. Yeah, Seaton.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
It feels like, if Paul correct me if I'm wrong,
it feels like he was saying the teams who were
not playing this weekend, they're set. Sorry, not a lot
we could do for you, but if you are playing
this weekend, maybe we'll see some movement. It was a
lot of words to say basically that, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
I think Seaton's right. It was very He took a
long way to get there, and even Reese pushback, are
you saying that this weekend doesn't matter that much? And
he kept not saying it didn't matter, but didn't say
it mattered very much? For example, if Georgia gets waxed
by Texas, I think they can go down. Can they
go down to past Ole miss which gets Old Miss in.
That's confusing. If if SMU gets loses in any way,
(20:43):
I think they're out. And then a team like Miami's
back in, I think.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah in side, I think. All I know is I
pushed for the twelve team playoff. We got the twelve
team playoff. It was going to mean more games, had
more meaning late in the season. I got that. The
other part of that I can't be responsible for. The
grown ups are supposed to take care of that. Miami's upset.
You know what, Miami, you got upset. That's why you
(21:11):
shouldn't be upset. You lost two of three once again,
you can handle your future. I would say control your
own destiny, but you can't do that. But you could win.
If you beat Syracuse, then we're not in this position.
You lost to Syracuse. Okay, you lost to Georgia Tech. Okay, yeah, poem.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
But Miami fans, if I'm going to be pro Miami
for a minute here, just take that play that role.
Miami lost to a Syracuse team that had eight wins
going in. They were an above average team, right, Oklahoma
got I'm sorry. Alabama got murdered, not literally by Oklahoma
and average team this year wasn't even close. Alabama's resume
in November is getting waxed against Oklahoma, beating Mercer, which
(21:57):
does not count, and a decent win over Auburn. They
didn't help themselves in November. They hurt themselves.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Alabama's a brand that you used to be a brand,
not anymore. And you lose to Syracuse. Win the game, yes,
Syracuse is good.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Win the game.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I mean Old Miss loses to Florida. Florida, of course,
started to play a whole lot better. I mean South
Carolina might be playing as good as anybody right now.
It's not fair. I know that, but it's not meant
to be fair. It's about entertainment. It's getting brands in there, unfortunately.
(22:34):
But I like that you have Boise State in there,
Arizona State's in there, SMU's in there. It's a lot
of fun. But if I look at these conferences, SMU
wasn't in the ACC last year, Arizona State wasn't in
the Big twelve last year, Oregon wasn't in the Big
ten last year Texas. Like, we're seeing these teams that
(22:57):
just came into conferences winning these inferences and I know
you start to look at resumes and we're eventually going
to get to the pro model. It might be the
Premier League model. I'd love to have relegation, or it
might be the NFL model. We're eventually going to get
(23:19):
to that. There's so much money to be made. It's
just like March madness. You know, when we had the
commissioner or the NCAA commissioner on Charlie Baker on he
was talking about maybe we add four more teams, six
more teams. Okay, didn't make headlines. You go to ninety six.
Now all of a sudden, you're going to get people going,
(23:40):
wait a minute, it's going to be watered down. Yes,
yes it is. You might say it's already watered down.
But college football went from two teams to four teams
to twelve teams, and I'm already told that we're probably
going to fourteen teams as early as next year. That's
how quickly this is happening. Wait, aren't there contracts in
place in pencil? They can't do that.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
First of all, Okay, there's contracts put in place, so
that will never happen.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
This is the problem when college football people are do
you know that's still a source subject. With me seton,
these insiders came after me. There's contracts, there's the pageantry
of the bowl games, and I go, dude, you got
a lottery ticket right in front of you. You're holding
a lottery ticket. They're going to change college football. What
(24:30):
about the pageantry? What about the bowl games? Well, wait
a minute, there's contracts. I know, what about the contracts.
You had people who were covering these meetings and missed
this story. I'm not even in there, and I was
told by an impeccable source on this. But they were
going to do with the college playoffs, and it proved
to be true. And now they're going to go to
(24:52):
fourteen just because of the math. There's so much money
being made here and you're just discussing college This is
what they want. Just so you know, they love that
you're discussing college football. There's controversy. People are upset. It's
not fair. They want you to talk about their sport.
(25:16):
When there were two teams playing, maybe you complained about
the third team, fourth team didn't make it the four
team playoff. Maybe it was the fifth team or sixteen.
Now you have twelve, and now you're talking about maybe
eighteen schools that can discuss where they should be, should
they get a buy, should they be in? Why aren't
they in? Now we're going to go to fourteen and
(25:38):
then we're going to go who knows after that. It's
just going to happen. It's trying to stay you know
in mainstream media that you discuss this, like the Heisman
race is over. There's no race whatsoever. You want to
talk about. What's going to happen in college football? Alabama's
going to go to Notre Dame right now, go oh,
(26:01):
two brands. Can't go wrong with that. You're going to
have some weird matchups, but it's going to be great.
This is what college football wants. They want you to talk.
I mean, March madness. What are you talking about? You
know the sixty ninth team is going to complain. You're
(26:21):
like so wide, Who cares this?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You care?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
More teams, more schools, more opinions, more conversation, more dialogue,
that's what you want. Everybody's dwarfed by the NFL. You know,
Baseball has this gold knit bat that just came out.
Baseball just wants to be talked about. Juan Soto six
hundred million dollars like, that's everybody's fighting for airspace here.
(26:47):
That's it. It's what you want. You don't want to
get left behind. And college football has done a great
job kind of reinventing itself and it's just getting started.
This is going to a span. It's gonna go in
directions where you go, wait a minute, here, what are
we doing in five years from now, We're gonna look
(27:08):
back and go dang. College football moved at a rapid
not a glacier base. This is moving moving fast and
that's what's happening because of the money that's involved. Look
at the NFL, ah player safety. How about an eighteenth game? Sure,
(27:28):
oh you know, we'll have one game in London? Okay,
maybe two games. How about one in Germany? How about
one in Dublin, how about one in Rio. It's all
moving fast. Everything's moving fast. WNBA, let's expand more teams.
Everybody wants to have a team. Now. Caitlin Clark is
(27:48):
to the WNBA what Gretzky was to the NHL. He
expanded hockey southern part of the United States. Who would
have thought it's because Gretzky, Caitlin Clark, everybody wants a
frame and trice down. This is what sports is doing.
This is happening right in front of us. Now you
can say, is this the Golden Age? Well, that's open
to your interpretation. But this is where we're going. It's
(28:12):
about money. It's always been about money.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
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Speaker 7 (28:27):
Matt Lafleura said, well, when we're down there in the
red area, we need to be I feel like I've
heard that a little bit more lately, the red area.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I think that's something you find on your body, like
down in the red area. Oh yes, I went.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
To the dermatologist for that a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You give me a little cream, You're fine, thank you.
Is that a red area? Yeah? Yeah, I haven't heard
the red area before.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
I feel like if I sat here on the show
and I was just like, well, you know, they're down
in the red area, social media would.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Be like, you don't know anything. You're stupid. You're so stupid.
How did you get this job? As we make the
smooth segue to Adam Sandler, Happy Happy, Gilmore two set
to call in. I believe, Oh, Todd's on the phone
with sand Man. Now this is where Todd does his impersonation.
(29:12):
I killed doth. Oh, let me get Danny for you.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Danny's gonna be ready for you.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Okay, all right, here we go. All right, Todd, did
you do your Sandler impersonation to Sandler?
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I did not?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (29:34):
I saw that on the Thanksgiving especially when he's playing
his guitar with Kevin Neil, and I just love that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Okay, I love it, Sammn.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I love you. Good, good, good, Hi Danny, how are
you feeling.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
I'm good, Okay. I have I have to tell you
that I stole my sweatshirt. That that first scene that
I'm in, I have it on today.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Oh no, Danny, No, they were looking for it all morning.
Oh guys, Tod Dad.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I know that you guys get caught up in wardrobe
and you can't take anything. But it was the next
to last day, and I loved it so much that
I decided I was just going to take it with me.
I also, I told these guys, you were on the phone.
I don't know if you're talking to your wife. I'm
done with my scene. I'm leaving last night, and I
grab a chair and You're going, Danny, what are you doing?
And I go, I'm taking a happy Gilmore two souvenir chair.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Yes, yes, no, no, no, there was no doubt you
deserved the chair. You did good work last night. I
just think I was a little shocked at the amount
of M and m's.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Just are we allowed to talk about some of the
people in the movie, Like, what can we talk about
here since the movie raps today?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Yeah? Are we on the air right now? Yes we are, Okay, Yeah,
we can't talk about anything. No, no, no, no, Yeah,
you can say who was there? Shooter was there and.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
He was hanging out right, yes, Shooter McGavin. Okay, but
can I talk about some of the camps.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I don't know if they they're gonna yell at me
no matter what, because they asked me not to do
any any press. But but yeah, what do you want
to say? What do you say it? And I'll tell
you if it's good or bad to talk about?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Like can I talk about Eminem having a cameo?
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Okay? Yeah, yeah you can't. You know, Eminem was cool
he he came by and he was he was great.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Okay, wait a minute, how do you reach out to
Eminem and what role does he play in Happy Gilmore too?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
I can't tell you. Okay, okay, I know Eminem pro
time and he's a great guy. And he came in
was funny as hell and was just it was just
I think we just hung out a day with Eminem
and he just shot and shot and was insane, said
said a million things. We can use in a million
things that we just we're glad we have him on tape.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Jack Nicholas, Yes.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Jack Nicholas, Yes, he came by for a couple of days.
All all the all these great joppers came by and
we we yes, they did a great scene and we
all we all hung out and he was amazing and
he hung out with us and his wife was was
awesome and we we in the scene. I sit next
(32:19):
to Jack, so I got I got to talk to
him and he was he was so nice to me, man,
he was, he was. He did literally to me. I
talked to him on the phone and I was right before, like, uh,
a couple of weeks before we shot, and I was
It reminded me of growing up so much, and what
he meant to my dad and what he meant to.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
The whole world pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
I was like, well, I think the only other boys
said on the phone that would make me feel what
I'm feeling was Johnny Carson this and just kind of
felt like this he calmed you down. Everything he had
to say was so sweet and calm, and he felt like,
just just I better listen to this man because he
just knows everything.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Okay, here's another thing. I'm not sure if this is true.
I think John Daily brought this up that the movie
was coming out in March or April. I thought it
might have been a blockbuster Fourth of July weekend. But
I'm wondering if you're trying to have it aligned with
Masters week where you have Happy Gilmour Too come out.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
I it's not coming out then it's I don't know
one hundred percent, but I think around July, okay, July fourth,
but they were trying to get it done in time
for July. Yeah, I just you never know what's gonna happen.
We're just just finishing today at the last day. You
(33:45):
will phenomenally Yesterday, Danny, seriously, we all talked about you
just you. You were just so smooth and everything you
said was funny as funny as hell. We're going to
use it all over the place. And uh and thank you.
And you look hands the mattel in the must desk.
You look like the strong, look like you're hitting the
way hard, buddy.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
But you know what, sam Man, I just had somebody
say I look like maybe a younger thinner Andy Reid.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't say thinner, but.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Yes, wow, I don't know if you should be calling
me out chunky Colemandina.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Yeah, no, Andy Reid. By the way, he's a handsome basher.
That'shing wrong with that. And he says super star and
he's punning on those commersals. He does the twinkles and
steals some nugget or something easy. I think he eats
my homes last nugget or something.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
How much pressure do you feel but the build up
and trying to deliver on something like this.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Well, you know, a lot, a lot, a lot. I
want I want it to be great. Me and Hurla.
He's next to me right now. We're in the trailer
going over the movie, just talking about the thing and
what what how we're going to put it together and yeah, yeah,
it's on your mind. You just you just we got
a lot of good stuff and we just want to
make sure that it all comes together and and and
(35:09):
and keep keeps it going from start to finish. And
that's that's the goal. We'll see, we'll see. We're definitely nervous,
but we feel some sort of confidence.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
We're talking Adam Sandler. The movie Happy Go More to
probably in July. They wrap it up today. I did
get yelled at by one of your producers, Eli, I
found out that you can't use the F word in
the movie.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Well, no, this this you never know, you never know.
Maybe maybe if it makes total sense that wort is
gonna be so Eli, I'm gonna Eli just got fired.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
The movie ends today, so you can't Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:49):
Yeah, yeah, I guess. So this is the last God
damn you don't like that. Oh, by the way, Eli
got fired. In case his parents are listening, I love you.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Like no great once again, it was fun. Great to
see you a lot of the familiar faces there, and
and I know I know you've been told not to
talk about the movie, So thank you for at least
volunteering if you wanted uh if I wanted you on
the show today, So thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
I wanted to be with you, dad, just to celebrate
how great you were last night. And and uh all
the boys say hi to them, and uh have a holiday.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Well wait, wait a mine, hold on, Samon, there is
a little bit of a problem.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
What.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
I'm sure you had a lot of golf galleries. You
got a lot of people extras there, and you have
been nice to get the Dants into movies, and I
waited for the invitation to hand it to them so
they can be.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
The dan Nets are in the water Boy. If we
do The water Boy again, they're in that. I didn't
want that. I know none of them like golf, so
that is true.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Is there going to be a sequel to The Water Boy?
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Okay, I don't know in what order, but I think
next sequel. I know no matter what I say, people
are gonna think I'm serious. So but I'm gonna start off.
I'm gonna start off with we're doing a sequel to
the Bedtime Stories next, then it's sequeling. No, I'm not.
I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Okay, Okay, So there's no sequel to Water Boy. You're
just joking.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
I mean, no, I don't know. You never know. I
probably not. But uh, Bouche tackling anybody at age fifty eight,
it's a little weirder than them hitting a golf ball,
you know what I mean. Bouche would be dead, would
be dead right now if you hit anybody in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
Yes, Sam oh, yes, Seon sounds like Adam is writing
The Sun of the Water boy.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Ooh, that could be good. That could be good. And
who's playing the sun?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Uh Timothy Shall marry Keho.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Yeah, all right, Well we'll figure out.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I can't I can't imagine. Okay, So Sandman played pick
up with Timothy shallow May on a New York City playground.
How what kind of game does Timothy shallow May have?
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Oh that's a very smooth operator on the on the court.
And I played ball with them. I played all of
them a few times out in l A too. He's cool.
I think I remember Timmy came over to the house.
He had some good three on three to get eat
it up man. The kid likes to win. He's good.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
How were your daughters when Timothy challow May came to
your house?
Speaker 4 (38:37):
They were They held it together. He was so cool
to him, so so that they held it together. But
it was a night. It was a good. Three days
after it's still smiling, you know what I mean. It
felt good.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Thanks again, Thanks again for the opportunity and talk to
you soon. Save travels.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Way to go, Danny, Thanks for your time, Love you boys,
see you as soon.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
That's Adam Sandler.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.