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He joins us coming up in a little bit here. But what a mess. And then, you know, Luka, after a loss in OKC where they lost by 30, Lucas asked about Nico Harrison being fired. Basically like, you know, I'm, I'm just here moving forward. You know, he did talk about his love of Dallas and the fans and all that. But it did feel like a move of let's give the fans something here that they can cheer about and that's Nico Harrison being fired. The Anthony Davis situation. I guess the owner has to okay when Anthony Davis can come back and play. You know, Kyrie's out for a while and they may be back in the lottery again. And. And there are some really good players in this draft coming up. You probably got five guys who could be the number one overall pick. But this is not going as scripted for Cooper Flags inaugural season. Someone is guilty. No one is innocent. Now, I'm not talking about the Mavs here. In the new drama series All Her Fault, a seemingly perfect family's world is shattered when their young son goes missing. Streaming now only on Peacock, which is where you can see this show. And apparently on Monday, you'll be able to see us on the NBC Sports Network as well. I just got the press release. They mentioned us in the press release. All these great things that the NBC Sports Network is going to have on baseball, basketball, horse racing, pro football, talk with Mike Florio, Dan LeBatard show and the Dan Patrick show. Yeah. So if you're not able to get Peacock, the NBC Sports Network, we will be open for business on Monday. Yes, Todd, can we say we're as proud as a peacock? Is that a thing or is that from the 70s or 80s or is that. That's. That's on brand still can say proud as a peacock. Yes. Yes, you can. I don't know if that was just from our younger days that they would always refer to it as. Yes, Paul, Dan, I've got some more deets as a kids like to say it's gonn NBC Sports Network 24 7. And you could start with YouTube TV on Monday, then Xfinity and many other outlets on the way. We're going to be really, really popular now. You can tune in now on Peacock to see us. Fritz, he's here. Dylan's in for Seaton. Seaton will join us from the road coming up a little bit later on this hour. Marvin is here. Paula, yours truly, and of course, the backroom guys. Our one poll question and the results. Dylan. So our one poll, Dan, was who would you bet now to make the hall of Fame? Jaden Daniels, Drake May, Caleb Williams or None of the Above. Okay, none of the above is leading with 58%, followed by Drake May with 30. Well, if you're looking at that position, you can put up great numbers, but it feels like you're judged by your super bowl appearances and you got to have at least one Super Bowl. It feels like now Josh Allen's going to be a Hall of Famer and Lamar Jackson's going to be a Hall of Famer, but they have put up incredible seasons. If you're going to be a quarterback who plays 15 years and you're in the playoffs, you put up really good numbers and feels like you, you'd need a Super bowl in there and, and try to stay healthy. I mean, there's so much, you know, the ebbs and flows of how good your team is. You know, Tom Brady went 10 years without winning a Super bowl, which seems impossible for the Patriots to, you know, not be able to do that or get back there. So I would, I, I would say I would lean towards none of those three make the hall of Fame. Even though Jaden Daniels had as good a rookie season, maybe the best rookie season a quarterback's ever had, staying healthy and certainly with him, that's going to be the issue. Staying healthy, Caleb, all of his talent, Drake may have shown promptly it's only year two. So, I mean, Bo Nix was going to the hall of Fame last year the way he was playing now this year, people are like booing Bo Nix and the Broncos offense and they're leading the division. So I at that position. Pretty tough. Pretty tough. All righty. 8773-DP-SHOP Email address dp@danpatrick.com Twitter handle @DP-SHOP Football Tonight jets at the Patriots. And the jets are getting 12 and a half. Paul Skeens is your Cy Young winner. Unanimous. Tarek Scubal won the Cy Young again. That's back to back for him. If you look at Paul Skeins, here's the last 28 months, he won the College World Series. He was named the most outstanding player. He was the number one overall pick. He's been the all Star game starter. Now back to back years he was rookie of the year and now he's won the National League Cy Young. I had mentioned that there was a report out there yesterday that somebody was saying that he has talked about the Yankees going to the Yankees, an anonymous teammate and tweeted this out. Paul Skeens has come out, I don't know if it was last night or this morning and said that's not true. I'm here to be a Pittsburgh Pirate. Which even if he was interested in the Yankees, that's the right thing to say that he is a Pittsburgh Pirate and he hopes that they can, you know, be winners and bring a winner to Pittsburgh. I get has to be frustrating when you, you're not going to win many games. But like his 10 wins this year felt like 25. And his numbers, even when he loses, I mean it, he, he put up some incredible numbers here and at some point either he, his agent or maybe the Pirates say what is going to be best for the Pirates. And that's tough because you're going to say to your fan base, you know, one of the guys that you come out to see or you're watching or listening on the radio is not going to be here. Now do I look at Skiings the way I do? Garrett Cole schemes is a personal, I mean he's not a personality. I think his presence, his girlfriend, like it's, that's a thing he's known in social circles. Garrett Cole was just a great pitcher for the Pirates, but you don't want to lose somebody. You want to get something in return. And what can you get in return? And how much trust do you have in the front office of hey, we got five draft picks, okay? And maybe those five draft picks, four of them develop and then maybe you have something for a couple of years at least before they end up going to other teams. It's, it's going to continue to happen. It's unfortunate that Pittsburgh, you know, it's, which is a great baseball city and having grown up watching the pirates in the 70s, I mean they were the Cincinnati Reds, you know, arch rivals. I mean that was their nemesis, the Pirates. Pirates were bad dudes. And now you see them occasionally get a player, but you're not holding on to those players with the amount of money. I mean Bo Bichette's going to get a 10 year, 300 million dollar deal probably from Toronto. And this is where we're going you know the Pirates, what could they give Paul schemes? What if they said we'll give you a 10 year, 300 million dollar deal and you do it right now? Can you do it? Should you do it? Would Paul Skeens want to do it? Yes. Martin? Yeah. When you see guys like o', Neill, Cruz, you're like, look, he'll look good in pinstripes. Yeah, because you can't afford those guys. I always feel that way about who's my man from Cincinnati? De La Cruz. I say man, I really hope he stays in Cincinnati. But they made the playoffs so at least you know they're making the Pittsburgh's not making the playoffs. Oh no, true, but it's just like the Athletics in the early aughts they were getting to the playoffs, they were winning division titles, but they couldn't afford to keep Giambi and the rest of those guys. We talked a little bit about the Eagles situation with A.J. brown and it just seems like this is a constant storyline. Whether it's above water or below water, it's there. You can't get rid of him. You do need him. But it forces Nick Sirianni to have a moment yesterday in the press conference where he's asked about the A.J. brown situation. It was kind of business as usual with AJ I mean, his latest comments, I mean, made it seem like it's not business as usual. Like how do you kind of reconcile that with him? Yeah, guys, I, I'm, I'm close to being done answering these questions with us. Like he's working hard and he is a big part of this game plan and it'll be a big part of the game plan going forward. And he's working like crazy when he's here and I'm excited to have him. You might be done talking about this. The media is not done. The media didn't create this. Your player created this. Yes, Todd, since you said you're close to being done, if I can ask a follow up question, Coach, before you're done, officially done. I got just one more here. How about coach, you and Jalen Hurts and A.J. brown maybe get in a room together and talk about this. What is missing? Why is he unhappy? Last I looked, he makes $30 million. He's playing for the defending super bowl champs. Is it something as selfish as my targets? Oh my gosh. My targets. Is that it? So he got over six targets last year. Now it's down to four targets, maybe less than four. So that means if, if we, if we bring it up to, to seven Is he really happy? Kind of happy? Yes, Marvin. But maybe not even targets catches. Well, you got to start with being targeted before you can catch it. Yes. Dylan, do we know that A.J. brown finished reading Inner Excellence? Because maybe he missed an important last year. Maybe a chapter there. Yeah. Yes, Paul. The entire Eagles offense is down this year, though it's not like everyone else is flourishing. Last year they were top eight, top 10 year before, top 10 year before that they were the third ranked offense in yardage. This year they're 23rd. They're also top five and three and outs this year. So the entire Eagles offense is stagnant. Here is Zach in Knoxville. Hi, Zach. What's on your mind? Hi, adp. Thanks for taking my call. You know, we talk about good locker rooms, police themselves. And going back to one of my favorite DP rewinds during the commercial break when Carson Palmer would talk about how Ocho Cinco would come back to the huddle every time and say he was open and he was able to kind of manage that. How much of this situation do you think is on Jalen Hurts? Because we see him as the calm, cool, collected guy, but do you think that the onus should be on him to kind of try to figure this out with his teammate? Well, I got to bring the coach in on this and I got to bring the offensive coordinator in on this. Like, let. Let's discuss this instead of, you know, having these sort of cryptic messages that are put out there. That's the problem that I have with this. Discuss it. And if you're going to bank on Jalen Hurts being Matthew Stafford, you are on the wrong team. But you got a chance to win another Super Bowl. You're getting paid. If they wanted you to have 10 targets, they would target you 10 times. Apparently they don't want to be that kind of offense, but I don't know. Is Devonte Smith upset? Is he getting the targets now that AJ Brown got Saquon Barkley's not getting the number of carries he had before. Did they get lucky last year, changing coordinators? I don't know. Just feels like there's a lot more there than it needs to be. Let's see. Wyatt in Florida. Hi, Wyatt. What's on your mind? Dan? How are you? Thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I. I was just getting some breakfast and I sat next to a Cardinals pitcher down here in Florida. Okay. And I'm like, all right, you know, how do I approach this? Because I was going to ask, you know, how is it like pitching against Shohei and so I asked, and, you know, he was a little standoffish. He's like, you know, you just want to try to stay low and away. That's the safest place to be. Low and away. He said he got a couple grounders off of him, but no dingers. So it was. It was just a really cool interaction with him. And he actually went to high school with him down here, so he said it was good bumping into you and have a great day. So it was pretty cool. All right, well, thank you, Wyatt. Yeah, I would stay low and away from Shohei Ohtani. It's just for some reason, that ball eventually drifts over the plate and then over the wall, trying to be down and away. Alan in South Carolina. Hi, Alan. What's on your mind? Hey, Dan, thanks for taking my call. This is about Dylan's betting strategy. It's not unprecedented. Do you recall a movie with Richard Dreyfus called Let It Ride? Yes. Okay. Do you remember the one time he went through the entire race track asking, who are you going to bet on? Strikes every name off, and the only name that's left, he bets on it. And of course, he comes in as a winner. So I just wanted to. Dylan, maybe watch that movie last night or recently. It's worth seeing again, though. All right, thank you, Alan. But Dylan is. He has to deal in reality. That's what I'm trying to do, Dan, now. But Alan is totally right. That is. I'm doing basically the live action version of the analyst jinx, where they all. Monday Night Football. They all pick the Eagles. The Eagles are favorites. They lose outright. I win some money. Chris in Syracuse. Hi, Chris. Hey, thanks as always, Dan. Hey, in the first hour, you guys were talking about NFL coaches who had bad opening press conferences and never really recovered. The one outlier I can think of is Dan Campbell of the Lions. I mean, he was universally mocked for that biting, the kneecap comment and overall enthusiasm. And now his enthusiasm is really embraced. His pressers and. Yeah, I guess winning helps. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we played those sound bites from his press conference. We had fun. You know, we're going to be biting kneecaps. Once you start winning, then people laugh less. They're. They're more of a Hulk. Did. Did you hear where that guy. Yeah, they're winning a little bit there. Oh, wow. They do play in kind of his image. Yes. Dylan, if the Giants go on a little run here with Jamis do, all of a sudden, the. The antics seem a little less antiquy. No, they're still crazy. No, no, they're still crazy, but good crazy. Yeah, but as long as he just plays football, I mean, he has the talent to be a starter in this league. He's proven that. It's just, I think it hurts him by being as goofy as he is. Yes, Dylan or yes, Marv? I was nod my head completely. Jamis Most must win Game of the no, no, no, no, no. It's Notre Dame against Pittsburgh. I thought it was the Eagles against the Lions. No, no, for me it's the jets against the Patriots now. Of course it is. All right. Tim McMahon covers the NBA. He said a lot to write about with the Mavericks and boy, what a mess. What a mess. But is there hope? Is there hope for the Mavericks? So we'll talk to him. Kevin Love will join us next hour and Chris Sims, on loan from NBC Sports, will try to help us understand exactly what's going on with the Eagles. We're back after this Dan Patrick Show. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show, weekdays at 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. Fox Sports Radio is taking over YouTube and you can be a part of it. Pay attention. Just go to YouTube and search Fox Sports Radio. 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Top of next hour. Chris Sims will try to make sense of what's going on with the Philadelphia Eagles. How can you have that much drama when your record is, what, seven and two and you got a big game coming up with the Lions? By the way, Dan Campbell, in true Dan Campbell fashion, said he has no problem with the tush bush. And of course he would say that, but they are playing the Eagles. Imagine if he said, you know, I have a problem with it. And then all of a sudden the Eagles say, oh, you got a problem with it? Well, we'll keep doing it here. Tim McMahon, ESPN NBA reporter. He gave us the wonder boy, the book on Luca Doncic and the curse of greatness. He's been covering the Mavs as of late because we got some drama there. Nico Harrison gets fired. Was that just to placate the fans, Tim? Howdy, Dan. I'd say there's a lot of justification for that one, including the fact that the reason the fans were outraged is because the man made the most shocking, the most controversial trade in NBA history. And it's been a complete disaster. I mean, this thing could not go worse. The Mavericks have the worst offense in the league, while Luka Doncic is lighting it up for the Los Angeles Lakers. Anthony Davis came into camp a little bit heavy, has a calf strain. You know, I mean, they traded Luca for, for those exact reasons last year. Honestly, this is. It was just a horrendous case of general manager malpractice. And it reached a point where there was no justification of Nico Harrison continuing to be the general manager of Mavericks. It was only doing harm. The fury from the fans, that was the primary focal point. That like, that was the dominant vibe. When you walked in their arena. The players felt like they had a home court disadvantage. You know, one player said, it feels like our fans don't want us to win. And he was right because the fans wanted them to lose. So Nico would, would get gone. And so it's a complete message. They do have a chance to pivot out of it because the basketball gods gifted them the number one overall pick. Just complete luck. Obviously not part of the plan, but it's going to take a lot of winning in the margins and a lot of, you know, smart moves to be able to build a sustainable contender around Cooper Flack. But that has to be the priority now, not trying to contend in this three to four year window. Nico Harrison thought he created. Okay, but I can blame Nico Harrison. But doesn't ownership have to sign off on this trade as well? Absolutely. And listen, the firing of Nico Harrison is an admission of the obvious. The Mavericks made a colossal mistake when they traded Luka Doncic. And not just that they traded them, but that the way they went about it, you know, no tr. You don't trade a five time first team all NBA selection entering his prime, fresh off of finals appearance. And I could put a period there, but you don't trade that guy, especially as a pocket listing like, hey, up secret. We're not going to. We're not going to create the biggest bidding war in NBA history. And so Patrick Dumont allowed Nico Harrison to be the one basketball voice in his ear, he got bamboozled. Oh, my gosh. Nico Harrison took us to the finals. That's what he thought. No, dude, Luka Doncic took you to the finals. There, yes, there were some moves to put some pieces around him, but come on. And it was, it was new owner syndrome. Just a complete disaster. My advice would be for Patrick Dumont to, whether it's a press conference, whether it's a, preferably a one on one sit down with me, but to take verbal visual accountability for it and not kind of some, you know, he put the letter out there. It was, it was vague. It kind of danced around it. But what I would tell you is, yeah, it's also on Patrick Dumont. Absolutely. And he was less than a year into being an NBA governor. He was listening to one person, one person only, which is not the way to go about doing business. It's been a very difficult learning experience for him. And he understands there's a lot of work to be done to get this fan base fully back on board. Why did Mark Cuban get kicked to the curb? And did he have any say in Nico Harrison getting fired? Let me start with the last part. Cuban's been lobbying for Nico to get fired for a while. He was not alone. He had a lot of people lobbying with him. I'm not going to, I'm not going to say that Cuban's lobbying was a primary reason or even a major factor. But listen, he laid out a logical case why they needed to move on. It wasn't difficult to do. And Patrick Dumont, one thing he realizes, hey, I, you know, Cuban's been doing this for a while. It's been in his world for a while. I should at least listen to what he has to say, have dialogue with him instead of, we're going to be trading the face of the franchise, Mark. Oh, actually, it's already done. Hey, I'm just giving you a courtesy call before it's about to be reported in two minutes, which is that was Cuban's involvement in that trade. Now, why did he get kicked to the curb? There's a lot there. One thing I will tell you, Cuban didn't help himself when he sold this franchise or the majority share of the franchise and, you know, cashed multi billion dollar check and then told everybody who would listen, hey, I'm still in charge of basketball operations. These people, it's just a real estate play for them. They don't know what they're doing with basketball. I do. I'm still in charge. Don't worry. When that was not part of the discussion of the deal. I don't know if he was trying to speak it into existence or, you know, Cuban. I don't know how well you know Mark Cuban, but I don't think he'd do real well on polygraph tests on a regular basis. He tends to be a little bit full of, you know, excrement. But that. That didn't help because it's like, what kind of dummy do you think I am? I. We gave you all this money, and you're telling everybody you're in charge when that's not the deal. So that didn't help. And I think Nico Harrison realized, wow, Cuban says he's in charge, Dumont says he ain't. Let me go cozy up to the guy who is in charge. And Nico Harrison, you know, former college basketball player, did a hell of a job boxing out. Great boxing out there. And, you know, Cuban was complete. I called him the world's richest mascot. That was Mark Cuban's role, you know, for the first probably year plus of Dumont's tenure as the governor. Talking to Tim McMahon, ESPN NBA reporter, Band McMahon, podcast on the Hoop collective and wrote the book literally, on Luka Doncic and the curse of greatness. How would we know if Luca is getting better? I know he's in better shape, but what would you see since you wrote the book on him? What. What is different about him this year than maybe in previous years? Well, one, let me just remind you, his last year with the Mavericks, he led the league in scoring, was rounding up, averaging a triple double, and took a roster that wasn't loaded with star town around him. You know, Kyrie is a co star, but took that roster to the NBA finals. So pretty high bar to get better from that. Now, I will say that I believe that this trade, and frankly this, the way he was backstabbed and fat shamed and all those kind of things on the way out the door. And look, I reported on the. On the fat shaming. The condition concerns are real, but it was embarrassing for him. It was a slap in his face. He has committed to conditioning in a more consistent way than he ever has before. You saw the body change. It's funny, the lakers list him at 244. It's actually 14 pounds heavier than the Maz list. Them. The maths just never updated the list. The guy was in the 260s a lot of times in Dallas. So you see the commitment to conditioning. He's also, I think, grown up a lot in terms of understanding the Importance of being a leader. Exactly what a face of the franchise means, you know, having a working relationship with the front office. Luca never wanted anything to do with front office stuff early in his career. He didn't start giving input until the Mavericks completely bungled the Jalen Brunson situation and, and lost his co star from the west finals team for nothing. Now he's, he's not only is involved on, you know, like, consistent dialogue with Rob Pelinka and Jeannie Buss, but he's making phone calls. He's calling deandre Ayton, hey, you know, we need you here recruiting. Same thing with Marcus Smart. All things that a face of the franchise needs to do, you know, to maximize their chances of success and things that, you know, early in his career and even before the trade, you know, that wasn't part of, of the Luka Doncic experience in Dallas. I'll leave you with this. I'm wondering if ownership will just blow this up in Dallas. You look at, you know, this draft coming up, there's probably five guys who could be the number one overall pick. There's a lot of talent there. And I wonder, you don't want to go into the next three, four years thinking you're going to get Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving. You got Cooper Flag and almost admit, you know, we, we need to start over. Would there be any sentiment towards trying to do that? Well, it's complicated. Okay. Because in successfully building a contender around Luka Doncic, you gave up your first round draft capital either outright or via swap. 27, 28 and 30. Okay. And hey, 28 OKC Houston has now 30. The spurs have it. So not only did you give up, but your closest geographical rivals. Yeah, the downfall here. So, but you've got, you got gifted Cooper Flag and this kid. Look, but did he go to the wrong place though? Like, Wemby went to the right place? Did Cooper flag go to the wrong place? So far now, hey, they've, they've really got to get a lot of things right to be able to build a sustainable contender around him. Okay, to your point, bottoming out this year, which they're, they've done unintentionally so far, like, hey, that, that's probably in the best interest long term in the franchise because this is their one and only chance to get a high, you know, mid to high lottery pick and that type of talent to pair with Cooper and you know, to, to grow with him. And I think there's, look, there's, they will have discussions at least Internally about exploring the trade market for Anthony Davis. He's got to get back on the floor. They got to make sure he's not in a situation where he's going to aggravate the calf injury or worse. He will have some type of trade value. They've got to explore that. Kyrie Irving, it might be mutually beneficial for him just to take the whole year, focus on getting 100% healthy, not help them win a few pro games down the stretch. But they can't do a complete rebuild, Dan, because if they're bad next season, they don't benefit. The Charlotte Hornets do. If they're bad the year after that, OKC is going to get a high pick out of it, you know, and then Houston, then San Antonio. So you can benefit from being bad one year and one year only. And the other thing is, Cooper Flag wants to compete asap. They've got to get a lot of things right to give them that chance. It's obviously not going to be as a rookie. Would you rather have Victor Wembanyama or Cooper Flag? I mean, listen, would I rather have Victor when Benyama or any other player name. Okay, that's not a. Don't know. That's not a fair question. All right. I like the All Star format. I didn't see the Hoop Collective if you guys were talking about it, but I do love that there is a chance that they play for pride. Yeah. And the world will play for pride. And maybe, maybe we have an All Star game that feels like it's an actual game. Your thoughts? I can. You gave me a little bit of a grimace there. If we're playing poker, you don't like your hand? Well, listen, here's the deal. I don't give a crap about the All Star Game. I don't. I'm not Dan. All Star. That's the problem, though, Tim. People don't care about the All Star guy. I'm the wrong guy. You know why, Dan? Here's what I do on All Star Weekend. I cash in Marriott points and airline miles and I take my wife to a beach somewhere. I'm not the target demographic. Now, the product has been poor, but I think it's an overblown thing because, like, the Pro bowl, it's awful. The Major League Baseball game, like, they're not competitive games. The NBA is the only league that acts like it's some kind of insane crisis. But what if baseball did this and had the United States players against the world? It does add some intrigue to it. And I was talking to somebody. I was in LA recently and I was talking somewhere close to Luca. And like, Luca has shown zero interest in All Star Games. Same with his buddy Joker, right? And they said, hey, you know, I think these guys are going to compete. Now, like, to your point, the, the international players, I, I do think there's like, okay, hey, us against us against America. And you know, for the Americans, maybe it is like, dude, we can't just, like, these guys are already winning all the MVPs. I know. We can't let these guys just come in and dominate us. That's a bad look for us. So, look, it can get worse. And it's, it's an, it's an interesting idea. I'll give them that. I don't know that I'll tune in as I'm sipping a cerveza on, on, you know, with my toes in the sand. Thank you, Tim. Adios, amigos. Tim McMahon ESPN NBA reporter Band McMahon podcast on the Hoop Collective. I like it, you know, but I just remember what it used to be. Now I know it can't be that, but I would have baseball. I would do the same thing with baseball. Imagine Otani. You know, you got Japan, you got the doctor. I mean, you got other countries against the United States. That could be fun as well. Let's take a break. More of your phone calls coming up. Seaton's gonna join us from the road. Kevin Love at the top of the hour. We're back after this. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows@foxsportsradio.com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live. The rich Russians falling out of Windows podcast is back. Sad oligarch season two. Since we left you in 2023 after season one, many politically motivated Russian millionaires have continued to die in suspicious circumstances. 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I think that's how you say it. I don't know. I got a lot of time to myself. A lot of time with my thoughts. So. Yeah, it's been good. It's been really good. It's a beautiful day here. It's gorgeous. I can tell. It looks, you know, sunny and a whole lot of cornfields there. Behind you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know, not to get all poetic or anything, but last night the sunset here was really, really gorgeous. I don't know that we spend enough time talking about a Kansas sunset, but it is, it is. Yeah. It's Beautiful piece of the country. Okay, so timeline. Are you. Where, where are you stopping later today? Later today I'll be in Denver. Okay. And then tomorrow morning I'll be at about 8 o'. Clock, 8am I'll be in North Glen, Colorado, which I think is about 10 or 15 miles north of Denver. And people can come out and say hello and touch the Mako van. They can? Yes. Yes, they can touch the Mako van. Yeah. Yeah. No more accidents, no more scrapes, no more scratches, no more nothing. Correct. No, no, no, no, we're good, we're good. We're. It's smooth sailing from here. No scrapes, no accidents. I just got to survive the Denver parking garages and then I think we'll be okay. Snow in Denver, you know, I don't know. I looked earlier today, see what the weather was like, and it looked like everything was going to be all right. So I haven't updated, though, since then. Not a lot of traffic there on the road that you're on, is there? No, not a ton. It's awesome. You know what? I better. Can I ask you guys a question? Do we have time to. If I could ask you a question. Okay. Because I don't get to talk to a lot of people, so this is really my only outlet right now. So I've been listening to this band, right? And I don't, I don't want to say the name of the band because I feel like this is going to be negative. And over the course of the last, say, 30 years, this band has released 10 albums. The first two albums I love, absolutely love. They're super important to me from, like when I was younger. Like, great third album. It's kind of like, I don't know, this feels like a different band, but there's still some bangers on there. Every album since then, I really haven't paid attention to because I don't like. But if you were to ask me, hey, do you like this band? I would be like, oh, my God, I love this band. They're so good. They're what a great band. Can you really love a band if you only like about 20% of their music? I only like 2 out of their 10 albums. But if you were to ask me, do you like that band? I would be like, ah, Love them. Great bands. Awesome. Marvin. Yes. Because you love them a lot. At one point, there's some stuff in their catalog that you love. So I say, yeah, but it's past tense. You. You loved. You don't love them now. You love them. It's like an old girlfriend. You loved her, but you don't love them. Love her now. Dylan, what do you think? I think you can. You can. You know, if it's a girlfriend, you can love her earlier work, but maybe not her password. It sounds like the Red Hot Chili Peppers to me. That was going to be my guess. Oh, now that might be. That might be too mainstream for Seaton. Todd. I'm going to say yes. If you love them at one point and felt that strongly about them, yes. Okay. Paul. Yeah. It reminds you of a point in your life when you're younger and you love that band. And I. Knowing Seaton, I'm going to guess Foo Fighters. No, so far, it's definitely not Red Hot Chili Peppers. There was never an era that I was like, I love that. Oh, come on. And no, not the Fruit Fighters either. They are a little less popular than that band, though, for sure. I don't want to name them just because I feel like it's so negative, but they. I don't know, I feel like there was a point in time that I really loved them. And even if you just love those two albums, it still counts, right? You're a lonely man, aren't you? 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