Hour 1 – NFL QB Carousel, Hard Cap

Summary

The Dan Patrick Show – Episode Summary: Hour 1 – NFL QB Carousel, Hard Cap

Release Date: March 26, 2025

In this engaging episode of The Dan Patrick Show, host Dan Patrick delves deep into the tumultuous landscape of NFL quarterback transactions and the broader implications of salary caps in sports. Joined by co-hosts and panelists Laura Carrenti, Olivia Carville, and Tomer Cohen, the discussion spans from blockbuster quarterback signings to the evolving dynamics of college sports transfers.

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1. NFL Quarterback Market: Giants and Patriots Make Moves

The episode kicks off with significant updates in the NFL quarterback market. Dan Patrick highlights major team movements:

• New York Giants Sign Russell Wilson: A blockbuster acquisition, Wilson brings his seasoned leadership to the Giants.

  Dan Patrick [03:05]: "The Giants sign Russell Wilson."

• New England Patriots Acquire Stefon Diggs: In a strategic move, the Patriots bolster their receiving corps with Diggs.

  Dan Patrick [03:05]: "Patriots quietly grab Stefon Diggs."

These moves set the stage for a heated discussion on how these signings impact team dynamics and future prospects.

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2. Cleveland Browns' Quarterback Conundrum

A significant portion of the discussion centers on the Cleveland Browns' quarterback situation. Dan Patrick shares insights from a confidential source regarding potential signings and draft strategies.

• Potential Signings:

  • Russell Wilson: Initially considered, but recently signed by the Giants.
  • Jameis Winston: Viewed as an entertaining yet divisive figure.
  • Shador Sanders: A rookie with potential, facing uncertainty regarding his fit and long-term viability.

  Dan Patrick [08:00]: "Russ just signed with the Giants... the Browns could take Shador Sanders now."

• Trade-offs: Patrick debates the benefits of signing Sanders with the financial relief it offers versus potential long-term gains from other quarterbacks like Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter.

  Dan Patrick [09:30]: "If you take Shador Sanders now, you get a rookie contract that eases financial pain."

• Team Strategy: The Browns' management appears conflicted between immediate wins and building for the future, especially with high-profile yet short-term quarterback options.

  Dan Patrick [11:28]: "The Browns are tight-lipped about what they're doing at number two."

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3. Giants' Quarterback Strategy: Winston vs. Wilson

The Giants are navigating their quarterback choices between veteran Jameis Winston and the newly acquired Russell Wilson.

• Jameis Winston:

  • Seen as "entertaining" but also "extremely annoying" by panelists.

    Olivia Carville [12:37]: "Jameis Winston is extremely annoying."

  • His leadership style is debated—whether it's calculated or inherently goofy.

    Dan Patrick [13:17]: "I think he's goofy."

• Russell Wilson:

  • Portrayed as a motivational leader with a more serious approach.

    Dan Patrick [14:35]: "Russ wants to be something... the leader."

  • Wilson's fit within the Giants' system and his long-term prospects at 36 years old are scrutinized.

    Dan Patrick [17:10]: "Russell Wilson needs six to break Wayne Gretzky's all-time record."

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4. Poll Discussion: Best Pregame Speech for the Giants

Dan introduces a poll for listeners to vote on who provides the better pregame speech for the Giants: Russell Wilson or Jameis Winston.

• Poll Results:

  • An overwhelming 91% of the audience favored Jameis Winston over Wilson.

    Olivia Carville [49:49]: "91% of the audience have Jameis Winston."

• Panel Reactions: The panel engages in a light-hearted exchange about the poll results and the personalities of both quarterbacks.

  Dan Patrick [50:15]: "Somewhat clever."

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5. Hard Salary Cap in Baseball vs. College Transfer System

Transitioning from NFL discussions, the show dives into broader sports economics, comparing the implementation of a hard salary cap in baseball to the resurgence of the old transfer system in college sports.

• Hard Salary Cap in Baseball:

  • Explored as a potential solution to financial disparities among teams.

    Dan Patrick [28:20]: "Baseball is going to look at this hard salary cap at some point."

• College Sports Transfer System:

  • Debated for its impact on team stability and fan engagement.

    Laura Carrenti [35:54]: "The transfer portal hurts the fan experience."

• Fan Experience: The panel discusses how frequent player transfers disrupt fan loyalties and create an unpredictable collegiate sports environment.

  Olivia Carville [33:10]: "College basketball stinks because I don't know who any of the players are."

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6. College Basketball and the Transfer Portal: A Dilemma

The conversation further examines the transfer portal in college basketball, weighing its effects on team cohesion and fan investment.

• Increased Player Movement: With nearly 12,000 Division 1 and 2 players entering the portal, the stability of teams is in question.

  Dan Patrick [31:08]: "There's not an alarming rate, but it's been back to back years."

• Fan Engagement: Laura Carrenti emphasizes the negative impact on the fan experience, highlighting the difficulty in following players who frequently change teams.

  Laura Carrenti [35:44]: "It hurts the fan experience."

• Economic Pressures: Dan Patrick points out the financial motivations behind transfers and how they contribute to the growing divide between major and mid-major programs.

  Dan Patrick [40:51]: "The mid majors are never going to get that money."

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7. Potential Changes in NBA Scoring Rules

In a creative segment, caller Tomer Cohen proposes an innovative overhaul of NBA scoring to enhance the game's strategic depth.

• Proposal: Reverse the current scoring system by making all shots inside the arc worth three points and those beyond the arc worth two points.

  Tomer Cohen [51:15]: "Reverse the three and the two and make everything inside the arc worth three points."

• Panel's Take: The panel discusses the feasibility and potential impacts of such a radical change, considering both player skills and game dynamics.

  Dan Patrick [53:00]: "I don't want to have that get lost. There are always going to be room for the mid-range jumper."

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8. Final Thoughts and Upcoming Segments

As the first hour wraps up, Dan Patrick emphasizes the dynamic nature of sports and the importance of adapting strategies to stay competitive. The show teases upcoming segments, including guest appearances and further discussions on sports economics and player management.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Dan Patrick [03:05]: "The Giants sign Russell Wilson."

• Olivia Carville [12:37]: "Jameis Winston is extremely annoying."

• Dan Patrick [13:17]: "I think he's goofy."

• Dan Patrick [28:20]: "Baseball is going to look at this hard salary cap at some point."

• Laura Carrenti [35:44]: "It hurts the fan experience."

• Tomer Cohen [51:15]: "Reverse the three and the two and make everything inside the arc worth three points."

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Conclusion

This episode of The Dan Patrick Show offers a comprehensive analysis of current NFL quarterback movements and their broader implications on team strategies and league dynamics. Additionally, the discussion extends to critical issues in college sports and innovative ideas for enhancing other sports like basketball. With insightful commentary and interactive segments, listeners gain a nuanced understanding of the evolving sports landscape.

For those interested in the intricate details of sports management, player dynamics, and the economic underpinnings of major leagues, this episode is a must-listen.

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[Dan Patrick]

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[Laura Carrenti]

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[Dan Patrick]

Okay. We are eye candy, aren't we?

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[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. Well, I know I'm ear candy, but eye candy. If you would like to watch, you can download the app. Peacock. Say good morning to all of our radio affiliates around the country. We'll get phone calls, as we always do. We got play of the day poll questions. Stat of the day. Make sure you take advantage of our clearance [e-mail] Stat of the day is always brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. All right, in no particular order, the Giants sign Russell Wilson. Patriots quietly grab Stefon Diggs. Scary, scary time for Dame Lillard and the Bucks out with a blood clot. Oklahoma City is the first team to 60 wins. Ovechkin does it again. He's at 8, 8, 9, and he is 6 from the record. Couple of years ago, we had no Patinos in the Big East. Now we have two. Richard Pitino goes to Xavier and of course, his father at St. John's more than 1,000 players have entered the transfer portal. We'll talk about that coming up. We play in or out a little bit later on. And let me see, anything else? 8 7, 7, 3, DP show email address dpdanpatrick.com Twitter handle @DP Show. I was on the phone with a source yesterday talking about the Cleveland Browns. And I said, hey, you guys interested in Russell Wilson? He goes, russ just signed with the Giants. I go, okay, so you're not interested in Russell Wilson? It said we were. But And I said, okay, so that means you're taking Shador Sanders. And he goes, everybody is tight lipped about what the Browns are doing. They have the number two pick in the draft. And I was wondering about this. So this is where you get different agendas. The Browns could take Shador Sanders now, once again, don't take a quarterback. Take the quarterback. The quarterback who fits your style, your coaching staff, your system, all of those things. But if you take Shador Sanders now, I got a rookie contract now that eases some of the financial pain from DeShawn Watson's contract. You can let him kind of fade away. He'll never play for you again. And you get Shador Sanders as your quarterback. Now you're also going to pass up on guys who might be wearing a gold jacket when their careers are over. Abdul Carter and Travis Hunter. So you'd be passing up two guys out of this draft where you could probably say, if they play accordingly, according to, you know what, the scouts assess their talents, they'll be hall of Fame caliber players. You don't know that about Cam Warden. You don't know that about Shador Sanders. But then I asked my source. I said, well, what about Kirk Cousins? He said, well, he'd have to be healthy and he's going to cost us a draft pick. And I said, okay, but he's played with step Kevin Stefanski, your head coach before. He's, you know, been with him before. He said, yes. I said, okay, just help me understand this though, because you don't have a quarterback now. I mean, you don't have a true starting quarterback. And I keep feeling and hearing that maybe Kirk Cousins, once the draft is over. And this is what I keep going back to. If you're the Browns, you can get Russ, you can keep him in the division, and then you can decide what you want to do. Maybe you take Abdul Carter, the great edge rusher, out of Penn State, so you get him with Miles Garrett, and then all of a sudden you got something there. But if you don't and you take Shador Sanders, you're not ready to win now. But you still get your quarterback. Quarterback contract, quarterback of the future. Then you have the giant situation. They already brought in Jameis Winston, they had Tommy DeVito. And I kept thinking, okay, now this is where Shador Sanders is going. But I'm not so sure because you brought, you brought in Russ and Jameis Winston, and I'm thinking this coaching staff and this GM have to win. Now, if you bring in Shador Sanders, he might not play. You might have Jameis Winston out there if you didn't bring in Russ. That feels like, you know, they're probably on an eight or nine game schedule. This coaching staff in gm, like they have to be able to win now. They might not like Shador Sanders and maybe they end up with Travis Hunter, maybe they end up with Abdul Carter. Those are great, great players to have that fall into your lap. But that's where I'm wondering about the mindset of the coaching staff in GM. Now obviously John Mayer, the owner of the Giants, can see through this. Who's the best guy to take. Who helps us big picture? Not necessarily right now, because you're not right now, not in that division, but you have a coaching staff that better win, they better have a 7 and 2 record, 6 and 3 record. It feels like after nine games or if they have a three win, they're 3 and 6 after nine. Do you keep them? And I think their timeframe is we got to get somebody who can help us win now. James Winston, Russell Wilson, one year deals, no real long term commitments there. We're good. Maybe we don't like the other quarterback or other quarterbacks in the draft. Maybe we try to get Jackson Dart a little later on. Maybe Jalen Milroe out of Alabama. So I was, I was all over my source, just trying to get some kind of information on what's going on with Cleveland and I couldn't get it. Didn't know if they were sold on Shador. I didn't know if that's the place that he went to and he interviewed and the quarterbacks coach thought he was arrogant. I, you know, because does Dion want his son to go to the Cleveland Browns? And I wondered about that as well. I keep thinking New York because it feels like Shador. If he goes to New York, he already walks in. He's got a really good wide receiver there and he's billed for this. I go all of the players. If you're built for the media capital, if you're built for a spotlight, it would be Shador Sanders. His dad welcomed the spotlight. Shador seems to welcome the spotlight as well and doesn't always work out. I go back with baseball and I remember Greg Maddox didn't want to play in New York. Remember Ed Whitson, pitcher? He wanted out of New York. Zach Wilson, New York felt too big for him. Eli Manning was ready for it. His personality made him ready for New York. You know, Aaron Rodgers, he welcomed it. It's just his Achilles didn't and Even then, there was still thought that maybe he would end up with the Giants because he didn't want to leave New York. He loved going to the Rangers games, get standing ovation, going to the Knicks games. Like you go to New York, you better embrace it. If not, it'll steamroll you. But that's when I thought, with Shador Sanders, he's ready for New York if he's the right quarterback for you, which I still don't know. Cam Ward is a really good quarterback, but he's not a really good quarterback in the bigger picture of quarterbacks in the NFL right now. Because when we talk to draft analysts, they talk about. Cam Ward would be. Would have been the fifth or sixth quarterback taken last year. Okay, Matt Miller, great job at the mothership. He said that recently. I mean, that's not a knock on him. He's still. He's just the best quarterback now. It's timing when you come out, who are the other quarterbacks who are coming out? And he's the best quarterback this year. But he separated himself, it feels like, from Shador Sanders. So that, that was going on yesterday afternoon, and I kept thinking, I just spent 45 minutes talking to my source, and I didn't get anything out of it. I was like, dang, I got to get. I have to ask better questions. And I usually do pretty good asking questions. I couldn't get anything. Tight lipped. That's what I was told. Yep. Browns tight lipped on what they're doing at number two. Come on. Maybe they don't know. Maybe that's why they're the Cleveland Browns.

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[Olivia Carville]

Guy on the Giants, Russell Wilson. Jameis Winston.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, are you looking for inspiration or entertainment? Because Jameis might not inspire me, but he would entertain me. So I would say Russ would give you the rah, rah, rah. But I. I just wonder if it matters to these guys. You know, you're a grown up. You're in there and you got somebody going, we're going to tear their head up, and then you're like, all right, let's go. But I would say James would be entertaining.

[Olivia Carville]

I'm of the camp that Jameis Winston is extremely annoying.

[Dan Patrick]

He. We only see a little bit.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah.

[Dan Patrick]

I don't.

[Olivia Carville]

I don't find him amusing at all.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, I think he's. He's not trying to be amusing. He's one of those guys that like Fritzi. He's funny, but not when he's not trying to be funny.

[Tomer Cohen]

I think there's a complimentary somewhere if.

[Dan Patrick]

You dig really deep.

[Olivia Carville]

I think Jameis Winston is trying to be funny. I think he's, like, class clown kind of guy.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay. Yeah. Paul.

[Laura Carrenti]

I can't tell whether Jameis is in on the joke or not.

[Dan Patrick]

I think he's just odd.

[Laura Carrenti]

Yes. But is that controllable? Is he calculated, or is he just goofy?

[Dan Patrick]

I think he's goofy. I think Russ wants to be something. I think he wants to be motivational. I think he wants to be the rah rah guy, the leader. It just comes off a little too scripted. It's. It's not, like, truly emotional. And then what's he going to say at the end? You know, whenever he does his interviews, when he'd be with Seattle, you go, all right. Okay. Talk to you later. Go home. And then in Denver. All right. All right, good. We'll talk to you later. All right. Thanks for having me on. Let's Ride. So I don't know what he did for the. I don't think he did one for the Steelers.

[Olivia Carville]

Well, I mean, let's Ride didn't go over well.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, when you don't play very well.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah. But even right from before he even threw his first pass, we did about three straight weeks on let's Ride. Maybe there was the video of him, like, I don't know if he was practicing it or if it was like, whatever he used to, you know, I mean, let's Ride did not go well for Russia, fairly or unfairly. That whole catchphrase didn't work.

[Dan Patrick]

But I don't think he had one in Pittsburgh. And maybe somebody in Pittsburgh can let us know. But we didn't hear from Russ once he went to Pittsburgh, and for some reason, we. We lost contact with Russ. That's okay.

[Olivia Carville]

Focus on your craft.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Olivia Carville]

Let's write the ship.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe. Maybe. You know, you have a good week, Good month. Maybe we'll have him back on. Yes.

[Tomer Cohen]

Todd for Winston. Are you more likely to embrace or tune out? Odd. If we want to put the title on Jameis Winston. Each player, obviously, is different, but I wonder if the average football player would embrace that or find, like, this guy's.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, what would you do?

[Tomer Cohen]

I would embrace the oddness.

[Dan Patrick]

You usually ask a question, especially if.

[Tomer Cohen]

He'S the backup quarterback. I don't need to, you know, I don't need to be his best friend. I don't have. I don't have to have any strong feeling either way if Russ is our guy. But I would lean towards embracing the oddness as long as there's some entertainment.

[Dan Patrick]

But why don't you ask yourself the question and then you give me your answer? You know, just say, you know what it would. I would embrace the oddness.

[Tomer Cohen]

That is a thought. That is a.

[Dan Patrick]

What is that? Yeah. Because you can't spell Todd without odd.

[Tomer Cohen]

I was waiting for that.

[Dan Patrick]

Very clever. Yes. Thank you. Yes.

[Olivia Carville]

Seton, I'm okay with odd. Odd as a leader sometimes, especially when your leadership abilities should severely be questioned. Anyway, but, you know, like, if you're getting ready for the game and all of a sudden, like, Jameis is like, guys, guys, guys, get around, get around. You're like, oh, Jesus, James. Go ahead, dude.

[Dan Patrick]

Just.

[Olivia Carville]

I'm just trying to get out there and get one.

[Dan Patrick]

Here we go.

[Olivia Carville]

Jameis is going to do it.

[Dan Patrick]

He's going to eat a W. Oh, my. That to me was you lick your.

[Tomer Cohen]

Fingers and you put your fingers in a W. Let's eat a W. What are you doing?

[Dan Patrick]

What? What?

[Olivia Carville]

What are you doing?

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, what's Russell Wilson say at the end of every interview now that he's a New York Giant? Fritzi, do you have a few?

[Tomer Cohen]

I do have a few.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay. Of course you do. Okay.

[Tomer Cohen]

Be giant was one thought.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, Jersey boys, they play that metlifer.

[Laura Carrenti]

Be blue.

[Tomer Cohen]

And why? Because we can jint condition instead of mint condition. Because they call them the gins. Gint condition. Blue bloods. And then I also had We Men as opposed to G Man. They're the We Men. B Giant.

[Dan Patrick]

I think B Giant might be the winner there. Met life for the stadium. Yes.

[Olivia Carville]

Stephen, I'm seeing on the interwebs here that Russell Wilson, whilst in Pittsburgh, would close press conferences with the phrase, win the seventh.

[Dan Patrick]

Seventh Super Bowl.

[Olivia Carville]

Seventh Super Bowl.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, my goodness.

[Olivia Carville]

All right, guys, thank you for your time. Win the seventh there, you walk off.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, that's awkward.

[Olivia Carville]

I don't know that I've. That didn't really bubble up on the radar quite as much, but I don't know how often he said that or if he really did. But according to the Internet, he said win the seventh.

[Dan Patrick]

And then with the Giants, what do they have, two Super Bowls? Three Super Bowls.

[Tomer Cohen]

I think they have four.

[Dan Patrick]

Four. So win the fifth.

[Olivia Carville]

Hey, Big Apple, bite it.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. Oh, no. I mean my big Apple. Bite it. Bite it.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah, let's bite it.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes.

[Tomer Cohen]

Why didn't he say with the Big Apple, bite me.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes.

[Tomer Cohen]

Why didn't he say go forth then with the Broncos since they had three Super Bowls? If they're. If he's going to play up numbers like he did with the Steelers?

[Dan Patrick]

No, no. He truly knew they weren't going to win a Super Bowl.

[Laura Carrenti]

He was aware.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. He couldn't be that phony. No, he couldn't say.

[Olivia Carville]

Why didn't they talk about Arsenal? Why didn't you talk about Arthur? Well, that way.

[Tomer Cohen]

Let's ride. Definitely didn't make sense because anytime anyone got anywhere near him, he went right to the ground. So he's not riding anywhere.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh, now you turn on him. You turned on him.

[Tomer Cohen]

I watched every play. Oh, here comes the. Here comes the rush. Down he goes. Used to scramble with the Seahawks and pick up first downs. He just up. I'm down. Watch that. Let's punt again.

[Dan Patrick]

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This is a story about a technology that's moving faster than the law and about vigilantes trying to stem the tide. I'm Margie Murphy. And I'm Olivia Carville. This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeart podcasts Bloomberg and Kaleidoscope. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Ed Helms]

Prohibition. It's no secret that banning alcohol didn't stop people from living it up in the 1920s.

[Dan Patrick]

When we're five years into prohibition, the government is starting to go, okay, this isn't working.

[Ed Helms]

In fact, you might even say it backfired spectacularly. I'm Ed Helms, and on season three of my podcast SNAFU, we're taking you back to the 1920s and the tale of Formula Six. Because what you probably don't know about Prohibition is that American citizens were dying in massive numbers due to poisoned liquor, and all along an unlikely duo was trying desperately to stop the corruption behind it.

[Laura Carrenti]

They were like superhero crusaders turning the page on a system that didn't work, wasn't fair, and was corrupt.

[Ed Helms]

So how did Prohibition's war on alcohol go so off the rails that the government wound up poisoning its own people? To find out, listen and subscribe to snafu on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Dan Patrick]

Hi, I'm Bob Pittman, chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia. I'm excited to share my podcast with you. Math and Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing this week I'm talking to the CEO of Moderna, Stephane Bonsell, about how he led his team through unprecedented times to create, test and distribute a COVID vaccine, all in less than a year. It becomes a human decision to decide to throw by the window your business strategy and to do what you think is the right thing for the world. Join me as we uncover innovations in data and analytics, the math, and the ever important creative spark, the Magic. Listen to math and magic stories from the frontiers of Marketing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Jorge Cham]

Ever wonder what it would be like to be mentored by today's top business leaders? My podcast this is Working can help with that. Here's advice from Google CMO Lorraine Tuhill on how to treat AI Partner I.

[Olivia Carville]

See AI as an incredible co pilot.

[Dan Patrick]

You may use different tools or toys to get the work done, but ultimately.

[Jorge Cham]

As editor, as creator, as maker, you.

[Dan Patrick]

Own it and it needs to be good.

[Jorge Cham]

AI is just the latest flavor of that. You're still the judge of what good looks like. I'm Dan Roth, LinkedIn's editor in chief on my podcast this is Working. Leaders like Indra Newy, Ray Dalio and Rich Paul share strategies for success and the real lessons that have shaped them. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Dan Patrick]

Somebody in our audience sent us a tweet in that maybe we misinterpreted what Russell Wilson was saying when he would end his press conferences with the Broncos. It's not let's ride. It's let's. Let's slide. Oh, let's slide.

[Laura Carrenti]

Oh, no.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay.

[Olivia Carville]

Let's slide.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. I thought he was saying, let's ride, but you said all he does is slide. Maybe that's what he was saying. Let's slide.

[Tomer Cohen]

There was a lot of giving up on the play and taking a knee and punting.

[Dan Patrick]

The Giants are operating like a team that knows they're running out of time when you think about it. And your owner says his patience is running out. So you usually do two things. You either try to trade up for a quarterback or you get a veteran and you throw some money at a veteran. A last ditched effort to win. Now, now, they flirted with the first option. I think that there was genuine talk that they would try to move up. And they didn't know if Tennessee was going to take Cam Ward. I still don't know if Tennessee is going to take Cam Ward. If I'm Tennessee, I'm inflating his value right now because he had the pro day. They fawned all over him. He had some comments about why he should be. So now all of a sudden, you got some general interest in, okay, maybe he is legit. Maybe he is real. Maybe, you know, now it's gotten a little bit too expensive maybe for the Giants, because I'm going to guess, if you need a quarterback and you want to make sure that he is worthy of the number one overall pick, what are you willing to go up and get him? Now, if I'm the Giants, I would not go up and get Cam Ward unless I thought he was the second coming of Eli Manning. I would not be going up there. You need other. You need other players. I'm going to get a player at number three. Unless you take Shador Sanders, who I think has a chance to be a Hall of Famer. How many players in a draft do you say that like? A legitimate chance to be a Hall of Famer. Abdul Carter and Travis Hunter. I think the consensus would be yes. Now there's going to be players coming out of this draft that may go in the second round late in the first, and you go golly, look at how many teams passed on him. But you got a hit on these picks in today's NFL, you want that rookie quarterback contract, but you gotta hit on these. You don't know when you're gonna be back in the top five. Although with the Browns, you may be back here next year and the Giants could be back, but I think the Giants will be better. The Browns should be better. It's just sometimes the Browns do Browns like things and they don't get the right guy. If they get Shador Sanders, is he even going to play? So the curiosity. But you know, the Giants look like they're just going to sit back. So you get Jameis, you get Russell Wilson. Russ is 36. So it's not a long term answer there. This just feels like the coaching staff is saying we're going to be respectable this year. We're not going to win the division, we're not going to go to the playoffs. And maybe now I would think if you're one of those coaches, you do draft Shador Sanders because then you say to management, hey, he's the guy and we want to make sure we're coaching him for the next five years or however long it is. I wouldn't buy into that if I'm an owner because we saw that with Matt Eber Fluss in Chicago. Hey, you know, we got, we got our rookie quarterback. I guess you can't fire me. No, no, they can fire you. All right, Seaton, what's the poll question for the first hour of the program?

[Olivia Carville]

Well, we're putting up their better pregame speech guy for the Giants, Russell Wilson, James Winston, we have another one here from Paul. You can put one into place. A hard salary cap in baseball or a return to the old transfer system in college sports. It's interesting because I'm going to throw in a. Neither. Neither there. Because there may be some of us who don't want either of those things in sports.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, I think baseball is going to look at this hard salary cap at some point because of the disparity between what they spend in with the Oakland A's, Sacramento A's, what you spend with the Dodgers. I understand it. And, and most of these owners, they're, they just want to make money. They don't want to have to spend a lot of money. And they're kind of in their comfort zone. I think if you have. Let's raise the floor a little bit. You must spend at least this. I think that would be better for the game. But I don't know if you're going to get. Can you get enough owners who are going to say, and when you think about it, how many owners, how many teams can actually afford to spend 400, $500 million? Like not many. I think the Cubs have a player, then they Just sign somebody to like a 14 year, 600 million dollar deal.

[Laura Carrenti]

No, no, that's a guy who they think will be worth that when he's done. He's like a, got a one year deal now. Kyle Tucker with the Cubs and they think that he'll be on the market next year and someone will give him that monster.

[Dan Patrick]

Oh my God. You know, I'd be all in favor of fiscal sanity with some of these signings here, but I think and Jeff Passon of the mothership had a column about that that, you know, we're going to be headed to maybe a work stoppage in a couple of years. Look, it's not fun to talk about potential work stoppages or strikes because I covered them when I worked in New York. I covered, you know, NFL strikes, baseball strikes. Not fun at all. But you know, sometimes you need to have a reset here. And I wonder if baseball in the ownership groups will say, we need, we, we need to have, you know, hard cap in here. I'm all for whatever you can get, you get. You know, nobody ever says to the owner, hey, making too much money here. You know, it's supply and demand. It's timing, what you ask for, when you ask for it. How good are you? Comparing you to a player of yesteryear. I mean, this is what happens. It's same thing with the transfer portal. If, okay, if I look at the numbers now, let's say I took all of Division 2 and Division 1. I'm not going to put Division 3 in there because they're really not affecting the transfer portal. They're not getting money. But Division 2, we saw what those players did for Drake, so you have to factor that in. But let's say a thousand are transferring. What is the percentage of basketball players and those who are transferring, what do you have? 20,000 basketball players?

[Olivia Carville]

No, there's not. If you include D3, there would be 20,000 between D1 and D2. There's probably somewhere between 10 and 14,000 players.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay, so the percentage. Let's so a thousand so far. Let's say it's 12,000 Division 2 and Division 1 players. Is that an alarming rate? And what happens is, we think in our world this makes it tougher for me to follow the sport. Well, if you're in Connecticut or you're in Arizona, you're at ucla, you're following your team. You're, you're well versed in who your team is getting and who your team is losing. Now us on the outside, we're not following it day to day. But if you talk to somebody and say, hey, saw where you're getting a four star recruit, boom. That fan's going to tell you everything about that player. But we bemoan the fact I don't even know who these guys are. But the locals, local fan, that's your team, that's your player, that's your recruit, that's your transfer portal. They know. So I think, I think there's an alarmist. The sky is falling. It's still good basketball. Yes. Is it top heavy with chalk this year? It is. Do we miss a mid major? Do we miss an 11 seat? Yes, we do. I don't think this is the way it's going to be. I think, you know, this feels like it's an aberration, maybe anomaly. It's been back to back years. But okay, maybe we'll get that and, and then everybody will be a little bit better with this. But I think the, oh my gosh, the transfer portal, I can't keep track. Well, you can't keep track. And Jeff Goodman, a college basketball reporter, he said, you know, basically that what's going on here, this is terrible. It makes it tougher for him to do his job. But if I'm a local basketball fan, like a Connecticut basketball fan would be, Marvin knows who they're getting, who, who you're recruiting, who you're losing. Like you know that we don't and therefore. Oh my God, this is terrible here.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah, it, it is a weird thing because right now at the same time you have people complaining about college basketball stinks because I don't know who any of the players are. They move around so much and at the same time college basketball stinks because look at the tournament, there's no, there's no Cinderellas. Well, those, if it were, was a Cinderella, you know every Robert Morris basketball player. Of course not. Nobody has any idea who those kids are. You know, so it's like you, you're, you're kind of trying to have it both ways where you want to know all of the players and at the same time you want all of these surprise players too.

[Dan Patrick]

And then you have women's college basketball where they have to stay. Now they could transfer but they have to stay in college for four years. You have the familiarity with the women's game. Now, I believe the ratings, the viewership was up might be, you know, a record high for viewership with March Madness. So, you know, something's not right in the situation here. But I do think it's the get off my lawn. I don't know who these players are now. Would I love to see, you know, a guy be like Christian Laitner, you know, Cooper Flag plays four years. Yes. But he's not going to pass up on the money in the NBA or Tim Duncan stays in his entire career at Wake Forest. Yes, I would love it. I mean, I grew up where Lou Alcindor spent his entire career at ucla. Bill Walton spent his entire career at ucla. You know, Steve Alford at Indiana, Pete Maravich at la, like, yes, I get it. I loved it. The familiarity. It was great to see them play year in and year out, but that's not the. That's not life anymore. It's about money, opportunity, taking advantage of it and then move on.

[Laura Carrenti]

Yeah, Paulie, I'm kind of on the other side of this. I disagree. I think that the transfer portal, like last year, I think it was 600 players entered this year, it's almost 1200 today. And for me, I like storylines from year to year, players to support from year to year or follow from year to year, whether it be a team I like or just as a fan of college basketball altogether. And I think it makes it harder as a fan to make appointments to watch teams and learn it. I know it's, you know, I don't know every player every year, no matter what, but I think it hurts the fan experience, players jumping from team to team. If it's your team, you know that if your team is good, they're going to get pillaged by a bigger team. So there's not a lot to invest in from year to year. You got to start fresh every year. And I think consuming the sport, there's no storylines that follow from year to year except for Tom Izzo or Jay Wright or coaches that stay. So I think it hurts the fan experience. It hurts my fan experience.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. But once again, you're being selfish with how you view this. Whether a fan of a team knows who his team is bringing in and not bringing in.

[Laura Carrenti]

I'm all for players getting paid, but I'm also a little bit for players committing to a franchise, committing to an nil. I don't know. When you sign with your nil as a freshman at Marquette, do you have to make it to your sophomore year to get your nil money? It appears not. And in the NFL, when you sign your contract with the team, you have to make it to year two and three and four. I just think that the lack of commitment on either side, including the coaches, is. Hurts the sport altogether. For the fan experience.

[Dan Patrick]

For the fan experience. I would love to have that. That's why nobody cares about the regular season. But how many sports other than the NFL do you go? I'm locked in. In the regular season. I mean, let's be honest here. How many sports do we go? Golly, can't wait to watch, like last night. Now, Steph Curry was hurt, but I tuned in to watch the Heat against Golden State. That was must see tv. Good storyline there. When Luca goes back to Dallas. Okay, but how many of those moments do you go? God, the regular season's awesome. Hockey. No. Postseason's awesome. Baseball. You're gonna go day to day, night to night, game to game? No. The NBA? No. So college basketball falls in line. College football is week to week, and there's only, you know, there's a finite number of games. It's 15 games, let's say. Then it's interesting. The NFL, take them off the board. College basketball falls in line with the other sports. It's like, all right, we'll figure it out. I watch enough college basketball to at least be fluent in it, but I'm probably in the minority. But I watch it because I love it. But I watch it because I have to watch it. Yes, Marvin.

[Tomer Cohen]

But when it comes to schools like Duke and Kentucky and Kansas and ucla, you're watching because it's the school. You know they're going to have a top prize recruit. You don't know who the recruit is, but you know they're going to have a bunch of five stars. So you're going to watch because it's Duke versus Kansas, year in, a year out, and you're going to have to make the transition in players at least every three to four years. So it's going to be a nuke, you know, batch of guys.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, I. I'm. I used to rail on it, but it was for a selfish reason. Then I understand what Paulie is saying. I want basketball to be the way it used to be, but it's not. It can't be. It never will be.

[Laura Carrenti]

Yeah, Paul, I think there are ways to do it, but they're pretty extreme and they're not player friendly. And I'll get.

[Jorge Cham]

I'll tell.

[Laura Carrenti]

Well, because I don't think the players should be the priority of the sport, which sounds really weird, but the fans pay the bills. The fans supporting the sponsors pay all the bills. And I would. The NFL is not a players league. It's a fans league. They cater to the fans, and the players are a secondary citizen. And they're the most successful sports league in America. If you. If I could change one thing about college sports. You want to sign an nil deal?

[Dan Patrick]

Cool.

[Laura Carrenti]

You get all your money, most of your money, almost like a bonus, like a hedge fund guy. You get 80% of your money after your third year here. Great. So you sign at Marquette out of high school and we're going to pay you blank, blank, blank. Great. You get the lion's share of your money after you complete your third year with our program. Now you're staying. Now it's a better fan.

[Dan Patrick]

What if I do that with a coach?

[Laura Carrenti]

Great.

[Dan Patrick]

Coaches aren't going to sign up for that.

[Laura Carrenti]

I know.

[Dan Patrick]

So why am I asking the players to do something that the coaches don't have to adhere to?

[Laura Carrenti]

Because it's best for the fans. And I'm a fan, experience person.

[Dan Patrick]

But I can't go, hey, it's good for you. But the hell with these kids. It was never about the kids until it became about the kids. And now we're in this situation where everybody's, you know, bemoaning the fact that the players have power here. Do I like them jumping around? Ask Connecticut when they won two national titles, when they took in transfer portal players. You okay with the transfer portal? Hell yes. If you do it right, you love it. It's those who lose players. I feel bad for the smaller schools, you know, the mid majors where look at what we've got and then, you know, somebody is just waiting to pick you off. Robert Jones is the head coach at Norfolk State and he had this to say.

[Tomer Cohen]

This is now a glorified juco. You know, this is like Norfolk State Community College. Because it's like when I, when I say that, not because of the people or things like that, but it's just the way it is. Juco coaches, I have so much more respect for them these days because they're able. They have to get a new team every year or every two years or something like that. Right. You know, now we got to get a new team every year, every two. So we basically have glorified juco. Because these kids, you know, until mid majors and not just Norva State until mid majors, get the money that high majors have. We're never going to be able to keep kids here, you know, for a long time. I say it's easy to get them, it's hard to retain them. You know, you can get them because there's a lot of kids that want opportunities. A lot of kids want opportunities, but once they get the opportunity and then they blow up. It's harder to retain them because now the big boys are going to come.

[Dan Patrick]

Yes. And the mid majors are never going to get that money. They're not going to have the money to compete. So you're going to get a guy, you're going to develop a guy, maybe you get him for two years and then he's going to go someplace else. It's just supply and demand until you get to that point where you have the haves and the have nots. You separate them. Maybe you have salary caps, maybe you have the mid majors. Maybe they're not playing in March Madness. I mean there has to be. Everything's on the table with this as we move forward because it's not going anywhere anytime soon.

[Olivia Carville]

Yes, I think that the like, maybe it's not like in a psychological sense or whatever, but I think if I really boil down what I think people's problem is with the transfer portal and nil, I think that most grown men have a problem with kids that young making more money than them and having more freedom than you could ever possibly imagine. Nobody can move jobs like that. Cooper Flag has already made three times the amount of money that I've made in my entire life. Every cent I've ever earned that kid has already made at least three times that. And I don't have a problem with it. But I think that dudes who are out working hard digging ditches like real work and you sit down and you watch TV and these little diva kids get to jump around from team to team collecting check after check after check, more money than you could ever possibly dream of, more freedom than you could ever possibly dream of. I think that's really the root of the problem. I don't think it has anything to do with I can't tell who's on what team anymore. I think it's. How does this 18 year old kid have so much money and I don't.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, that doesn't, that doesn't impact me more, you know, other than I want the sport to be great and I don't think it's great. I don't think it's going to be great. And I miss that. For other fans who look at the sport and go, college basketball was wonderful. But it was wonderful because it was controlling these players and they didn't get an opportunity. Coaches could go wherever they wanted and I didn't look at that side of it. And now you have to look at all sides and there's many sides to this. And yes Do I want yesteryear? I do. But I gotta be fair. If my son was playing and he was good enough to transfer and he was good enough to get a million dollars, am I gonna go? You know what? Not in my day. We know. We wouldn't allow that. You got to be fair to the situation. And the situation happened because the grown ups allowed this to happen. Yes.

[Olivia Carville]

Somebody comes in and offers that Norfolk State coach three times his salary to go to Penn State, he's going to be like, you know, I don't think I'm done here just yet. I still have a mission here at this glorified juco.

[Dan Patrick]

All right, let's take a break. Good conversation. Play the day Next, be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show, weekdays at 9am EAS 6am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

[Jorge Cham]

Have you ever wondered, if your pet is lying to you, why is my cat not here and I go in and she's eating my lunch? Or if hypnotism is real, you will use this suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control for what's inside a black hole. Black holes could be a consequence of the way that we understand the universe. Well, we have answers for you in the new iHeart original podcast Science Stuff. Join me, Jorge Cham, as we tackle questions you've always wanted to know the answer to about animals, space, our brains and our bodies. Questions like, can you survive being cryogenically frozen?

[Dan Patrick]

This is experimental. This may never work for you.

[Jorge Cham]

What's a quantum computer?

[Laura Carrenti]

It's not just a faster computer.

[Dan Patrick]

It performs in a fundamentally different way.

[Jorge Cham]

Do you really have to wait 30 minutes after eating before you can go swimming? It's not really a safety issue. It's more of a comfort issue. We'll talk to experts, break it down, and give you easy to understand explanations to fascinating scientific questions. So give yourself permission to be a science geek and listen to science stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Margie Murphy]

In 2020, a group of young women in a tidy suburb of New York City found themselves in an AI fueled nightmare.

[Dan Patrick]

Someone was posting photos.

[Olivia Carville]

It was just me naked.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts on my body parts.

[Olivia Carville]

That looked exactly like my own.

[Jorge Cham]

I wanted to throw up.

[Margie Murphy]

I wanted to scream. It happened in Levittown, New York. But reporting the series took us through the darkest corners of the Internet and to the front lines of a global battle against deepfake pornography.

[Jorge Cham]

This should be illegal, but what is this?

[Margie Murphy]

This is a story about a technology that's moving faster than the law and about vigilantes trying to stem the tide. I'm Margie Murphy. And I'm Olivia Carville. This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeart podcasts Bloomberg and Kaleidoscope. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Ed Helms]

Prohibition. It's no secret that banning alcohol didn't stop people from living it up in the 1920s.

[Dan Patrick]

When we're five years into prohibition, the government is starting to go, okay, this isn't working.

[Ed Helms]

In fact, you might even say it backfired spectacularly. I'm Ed Helms, and on season three of my podcast, Snafu, we're taking you back to the 1920s and the tale of Formula 6. Because what you probably don't know about prohibition is that American citizens were dying in massive numbers due to poisoned liquor. And all along, an unlikely duo was trying desperately, desperately to stop the corruption behind it.

[Laura Carrenti]

They were like superhero crusaders turning the page on a system that didn't work, wasn't fair, and was corrupt.

[Ed Helms]

So how did prohibition's war on alcohol go so off the rails that the government wound up poisoning its own people? To find out, listen and subscribe to snafu on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Dan Patrick]

Hi, I'm Bob Pittman, chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia. I'm excited to share my podcast with you, Math and stories from the frontiers of marketing. This week, I'm talking to the CEO of Moderna, Stephane Bonsell, about how he led his team through unprecedented times to create, test, and distribute a COVID vaccine, all in less than a year. It becomes a human decision to decide to throw by the window your business strategy and to do what you think is the right thing for the world. Join me as we uncover innovations in data and analytics, the math, and the ever important creative spark, the magic. Listen to math and magic stories from the frontiers of Marketing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Jorge Cham]

Love at first swipe? I highly doubt it. What's your biggest red flag? No, no, no. What's your ultimate green flag? These days, reality TV and social media have us thinking love is instant. We're marrying strangers at first sight. We're finding love through walls, or we're even judging people by balloon pops. But what really makes a relationship last? On this episode, of Dope Labs. Poet, author and relationship expert, Young Pueblo breaks down the psychology and biology of loving better and he provides eye opening insights and advice that we all need, need. It's a big realization moment that you.

[Dan Patrick]

Should not be postponing your happiness.

[Tomer Cohen]

Like your greatest happiness is not necessarily.

[Jorge Cham]

Going to like come from a relationship.

[Dan Patrick]

Your partner, they should add to your.

[Jorge Cham]

Happiness, but your happiness is really coming from within you. Listen to Dope labs on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

[Laura Carrenti]

Oh my God.

[Dan Patrick]

The play of the day. This is the play of the day. Check this out. Tie up and a hash mark pro his weak side offense. He scores. Alex Okin scores from the left dots. This game is tied.

[Tomer Cohen]

And Ovechkin picks one up here in Winnipeg. It's goal eight, eight, nine.

[Dan Patrick]

He needs five to tie.

[Ed Helms]

He needs six to break Wayne Gretzky's all time record.

[Dan Patrick]

Wow. Save a little bit there. Caps radio 24 7. Alex Ovechkin scores the 889th goal of his career. That's brought to you by Express Employment Professionals. You want to speed up your hiring process, reduce time to hire, cut cost and find the right talent for contract and full time roles. Visit ExpressPros.com today and transform your hiring process. Seek and update the poll results from hour one, please.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah, we got up there. Better pregame speech guy on the Giants. Russell Wilson or Jameis Winston? Right now, 91% of the audience have Jameis Winston.

[Dan Patrick]

Good grief. Okay. Good grief. And you didn't ask for it. But there's a lot of things you don't ask for in this show, but you're still going to get it. Fritzi has a Russell Wilson limerick.

[Tomer Cohen]

It's been a while. The limerick thing.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah. Roll it out. Let's give it a go.

[Tomer Cohen]

They say I've lost some of my hustle and don't have quite as much muscle. Although I should be defiant. I'm not. I'm a giant. Come ride with me. I'm Russell.

[Dan Patrick]

Okay. All right.

[Jorge Cham]

Serviceable.

[Tomer Cohen]

Not gonna bring down the house or anything.

[Dan Patrick]

No, no. But somewhat clever. Yeah. We've actually lowered the roof because, you know, when you bring down the house, we'd.

[Tomer Cohen]

Okay.

[Dan Patrick]

It doesn't have to go up that high. I'm just saying.

[Olivia Carville]

Yeah. Ceiling is not that. Yeah.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Tomer Cohen]

And there it is.

[Dan Patrick]

Thank you.

[Olivia Carville]

Somewhat serviceable. That's what you said about your own work.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah.

[Tomer Cohen]

Content.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, he's trying to beat me to the punch somewhat. Serve. Yeah. Patrick and Buffalo. Good morning, Patrick. What's on Your mind today.

[Tomer Cohen]

Hey DP, same day podcast listener, first time caller 612 15. I wanted to share with you the fix that I have for the NBA. And before you, you know, reject it, consider that they've already made a major update to the scoring previously in the league's history. But essentially, you know, I consider the product to be watered down. There's a lot of bad shots being taken from beyond the arc. And it's essentially because it's incentivized. Right. The threes worth the two. So my theory is reverse the three and the two and make everything inside the arc worth three points.

[Laura Carrenti]

Wow, I'm so jealous of that.

[Dan Patrick]

I'll run that by the commissioner next time I have him on. I'll ask him that. Look, there are guys that are really, really, really highly skilled, incredible, incredible deep shooters. And I don't, I don't want to have that get lost. But there are other guys that want to emulate that or think they can be that kind of player. And I still think there's always going to be room for the mid range jumper. And I, I just wonder what happens to a basketball player who happens to be. I'm not going to say Shaq like, but you know, we had Yao Ming, like what happens to one of those players? I, it's discouraged to have a player like that. I just think eventually, as I said with the running game in the NFL, at some point it all comes back around and the running game becomes valuable. And it happened this year. Maybe it's a one off. You're going to have maybe two or three running backs taken in the first round. Maybe you have Ashton Genty taken by the Raiders at 7. But at some point do we get back to, I got a big guy inside and you can't stop him.

[Tomer Cohen]

Yes, Marvin, the best player in the game is a center. I know he shoots a little bit. He shoots maybe three to four three pointers a game. But down low in the post, there's nobody that can guard him.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, but he is. So he's at the top of the key where he's just a point center. He created a position. He's a point center. And he does have a really, really nice touch. He can shoot. Shaq can't shoot. Yao Ming had a nice touch. I don't, I don't want Yao Ming out on the perimeter like that 15 footer. Okay. I mean that's fine with Brooke Lopez, but what would happen if Shaq played today?

[Tomer Cohen]

He'd average 87 points if threes or twos 87 points a game.

[Dan Patrick]

I mean, no one could stop. I know we're, we're going to get to that moment. Yes, Mark.

[Tomer Cohen]

He'd also average eight assists because when they would double him, there'd be guys just waiting at the three point line ready to shoot in today's game.

[Dan Patrick]

One hour in the books on this Wednesday. That's just good sports radio conversation. Ernie Johnson will join us coming up. Hour two on this Wednesday. Okay, so we all need to get away from the world sometimes. Well, in the all new 2025 Nissan Murano, you don't even have to go anywhere. The Murano is the getaway. Just picture it. The Bose premium sound system plays your favorite music as the Murano's massaging leather.

[Laura Carrenti]

Appointed seats melt away your stress.

[Dan Patrick]

Yeah, that's a real getaway. Drive the all new 2025 Nissan Murano today. Bows and massaging leather appointed seats are optional features.

[Jorge Cham]

Have you ever wondered, if your pet is lying to you, why is my cat not here and I go in and she's eating my lunch? Or if hypnotism is real, you will use the suggestion in order to enhance your cognitive control. But what's inside a black hole?

[Dan Patrick]

Black holes could be a consequence of.

[Jorge Cham]

The way that we understand the universe. Well, we have answers for you in the new iHeart original podcast Science Stuff. Join me or Hitcham as we answer questions about animals, space, our brains and our bodies. So give yourself permission to be a science geek and listen to science stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Margie Murphy]

In 2020, a group of young women found themselves in an AI fueled nightmare.

[Dan Patrick]

Someone was posting photos.

[Olivia Carville]

It was just me naked.

[Dan Patrick]

Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts.

[Margie Murphy]

This is Levittown, a new podcast from iHeart podcasts Bloomberg and Kaleidoscope about the rise of deepfake pornography and the battle to stop it. Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast. Find it on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Dan Patrick]

What's up?

[Jorge Cham]

I'm Laura, host of the podcast Courtside with Laura Carrenti, a masterclass case study of the business of women's sports. I'll be chatting with leaders like tennis icon Alana Kloss.

[Laura Carrenti]

I don't do what I do only for women. I do it for everyone. And I want the whole market and.

[Jorge Cham]

Innovators like Jenny Nguyen. I would say 50% of the people that come visit the sports bra aren't sports fans. They come to be in community. They come to be part of this culture. Courtside with Laura Carrenti is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. Listen to Courtside with Laura Carenti Starting April 2nd on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Reality TV and social media have love all wrong. So what really makes relationships last? On this episode of Dope Labs, poet and relationship expert Young Pueblo breaks down the psychology of love and provides eye opening insights and advice we all need. You should not be postponing your happiness.

[Dan Patrick]

Your greatest happiness is is not necessarily.

[Jorge Cham]

Going to like come from a relationship.

[Tomer Cohen]

Your partner should add to your happiness.

[Jorge Cham]

But your happiness is really coming from within you. Listen to Dope labs on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.