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Dan Patrick
This is an iHeart podcast.
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Ross Tucker
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Dan Patrick
On the podcast Health Stuff we are tackling all the health questions that keep you up at night. I'm Dr. Priyanka Wali, a double board certified physician. And I'm Hari Kundabolu, a comedian and someone who once googled do I have scurvy at 3am and on our show we're talking about health in a different way. Like our episode where we look at diabetes in the United states. I mean 50% of Americans are pre diabetic. How preventable is type 2? Extremely. Listen to Health Stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. On an all new episode of iHeartRadio's Las Culturistas, Jennifer Lawrence is dishing Jennifer Lawrence from her hilariously awkward run ins with a listers. I don't know what I was expecting but he was just like nice to meet you. To her unfiltered take on beauty treatments. I'm so upset I didn't get botox before that and a jaw dropping reveal. You won't coming. I don't know if I can announce this but I'm just gonna open your free iHeartRadio app. Search Las Culturistas and listen to the full podcast now. She said Johnny, the kids didn't come home last night.
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Ross Tucker
Along the central Texas plains, teens are dying, suicides that don't make sense, strange accidents and brutal murders in what seems to be a plot ripped straight out of Breaking Bad.
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Dan Patrick
Drugs, alcohol, trafficking of people there people out there that absolutely know what happened.
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Ross Tucker
Listen to Paper Ghosts, the Texas teen murders on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Robert Smith and this is Jacob Goldstein and we used to host a show called Planet Money and now we're back making this new podcast called Business.
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Dan Patrick
History about the best ideas and people.
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Ross Tucker
And businesses in history and some of the worst people, horrible ideas and destructive companies in the history of business.
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Dan Patrick
First episode, how Southwest Arizona airlines use cheap seats and free whiskey to fight its way into the airline business.
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Ross Tucker
The most Texas story ever.
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Dan Patrick
Listen to business history on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. You are listening to the Dan Patrick.
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Ross Tucker
Show on Fox Sports Radio, hour number two on a meat Friday. Absolutely love. Any chance I get to be up here in Connecticut with the Danettes talking about meat, talking about football, somehow talking about paprika pronunciation because Fritzi pulled a Fritzi at the end of our number one. By the way, this is what's so great about life and the Internet. There's a lot of bad stuff about the Internet. There's a lot of bad stuff about social media, but the instantaneous access to feedback and to information is incredible. We got to talk about last night's game because it was one of the worst games I've ever seen. And Fritzi is wearing a blonde wig for some reason as a result. So we got to get to that. I got to tell you about what I'm doing Monday night because I want every single one of you to put it on your bucket list. But first, let me do two things. Let me welcome in everybody listening on all the different Fox Sports radio affiliates over 4 or 500, which is incredible, including one where I reside in Harrisburg, which is very cool. We're live on Peacock. I know. At least my mom and my mother in law Rachel are watching. Thank you guys for watching. That's the great thing about grandmas, my daughter's grandma's. You can check us out@dan patrick.com you can call in 877-3-DP-SHOP. You can always hit us up on social media at DP show on Twitter X. I'm @ross Tucker NFL and I promise I check during every commercial break. Love those of you that check us out when you get a chance later via podcast. Mine is the Ross Tucker football podcast. So this is what's so funny. We go to break, okay? And Steve Stone hits me up on social at Ross Tucker NFL and says might be a regional thing Paprika down south, such as Fritz, he was saying John Light Jr. Paprika. I'm from central Virginia, okay? So we're getting several people that are backing up Fritzi on this. You know what I did? I did the little Google machine, okay, on my phone and I said paprika. Pronunciation. Paprika. Did you guys hear that? Was that loud enough?
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Paulie
Was it pap or pup?
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Dan Patrick
Paprika.
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Seaton
It's definitely a puh puh situation.
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Ross Tucker
Paprika. Paprika. And then I Feel like I'm. I feel like I'm in my cousin Vinny, you know, I feel like I'm presenting my evidence, you know, like Joe Pesci. And then I. It was brought to me document number 2703.
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Seaton
I'm sorry, what is his name?
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Ross Tucker
Okay. Uh. Oh, yeah, there was a little something there. What'd I say? It's Joe Pesci.
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Dan Patrick
Joe Pesci.
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Paulie
Correct.
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Ross Tucker
What did I say? Pesci.
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Seaton
You said Joe Pesci.
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Dan Patrick
Yeah.
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Paulie
That's irony.
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Ross Tucker
Oh, my gosh. Guess what.
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Dan Patrick
All right, check it out.
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Ross Tucker
Joe Pesci instead of pesci would be worse than saying paprika instead of paprika. All right, but listen, it's pesci. All right, here's the deal. According to Alibaba.com. i don't know what that is. That's one of the sites I came. I looked at a few different place.
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Dan Patrick
And they all had the same design.
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Ross Tucker
Is that like reputable? Alibaba. I wouldn't buy any goods. That's where you go for information. Todd. I got a bad basketball jersey I think once from them from overseas.
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Seaton
Alibaba's a big deal.
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Ross Tucker
Thank you, Todd. All right, the connect pronunciation of paprika is paprika. This three syllable word places emphasis on the second syllable. Second syllable, Fritzi, with a soft A sound at the beginning. Many English speakers mispronounce it as pa, prika or paprika. So anyway, you know, you know, people in life say, I hate to say I told you so. I don't. I love it. I love saying I told you so. All right, so last night, your Broncos, Fritzi won 10 to 7, bad win. But you're wearing a blonde wig. Please explain. We had a call the other day, wanted it to have a. I don't know what he was going to get in return if it didn't work out, but basically he said if the Broncos don't win by at least 10, I would have to wear a Mark Davis Raiders owner wig. Was there any chance that that was a guy named David in Ohio? That's very likely who that was.
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Dan Patrick
I think there was actually a tweet.
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Ross Tucker
A little while ago saying he looks forward to seeing me in the wig. 8773 DP Show. Let's go to. Oh, wow, there's so many callers who I could pick all of the. Oh, you know what? I'll go to David in Ohio. Hello, David. Hey, what's up, Ross?
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Dan Patrick
Happy me Friday. Yeah, Todd. I was watching the game last night and I thought the Broncos were going to go down and score and cover that 10 and it was going to be a push, but they ended up not. But I love the rhyme time you do on the show, and that hairpiece looks very flattering on you, so thank you.
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Ross Tucker
Thanks, David. I like that you just accept bets from callers like that and you can't wait to. A pie in the face with a caller. Remember that guy in Central PA that reached out to me and wanted me to smash a pie in his face? So I did it outside of Costco.
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Paulie
Yeah, you showed up and did it.
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Ross Tucker
That was amazing. All right, so enough about the last night's game. I don't even know what else to say. It was a terrible, terrible game. You know what it reminded me of? Of what a lot of the Thursday night games used to be like. Thursday Night Football used to be bad. It's been good as of late. Monday Night Football is typically pretty good. Monday night, I'll be in the radio booth with Kevin Harlan. What will he say to me when I walk into the booth? Fritzi, how's it going? Ross, this is the NFL on Westwood One. We'll step aside. That's one of the best things you do. You book. Yes. And you do Harlan. He gets very excited. I have a question, Paulie. After Kevin Harley says that to me when I walk into the booth, what will I say? I love Lambo, I love. I love mustard, I love brats, and I love football. In that order? In that order, yes. Seaton.
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Seaton
When you go do a game at a. I'm going to call it a classic stadium, one that's been around for a very long time, right. When you go sit down and you're in, I'm assuming, a booth, Right. And you're going to sit there and there's a table and stuff, is the inside where you're working more modern than what the stadium appears? Or is it like, hey, guys, we're all here in the press box and like, oh, the only outlet is over there. And we're all plugging into that one outlet.
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Ross Tucker
It is a great question, and the answer is Lambeau Field is amazing. And I mean this as sincerely as I mean anything else. Everyone listening, everyone watching, please put it on your bucket list. Please try to get to a game at some point at Lambeau Field Seton, they have done the most unbelievable job I've ever seen, where if you're sitting in the stands and looking at the field, it feels like it's still 1960, and Bart Starr and Jerry Kramer and Forrest Gregg and Jim Taylor and Paul Horning. I could do this all day. Ray Nitschke, that they're going to come out there. And then the outside. What's the outside of a stadium called? The facade.
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Paulie
Yeah, the facade.
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Ross Tucker
The facade.
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Dan Patrick
Look at you.
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Ross Tucker
The facade looks like it's from the 1950s or 60s. Very well done. Looks like it's redone. Almost looks like an Ivy League stadium. Right outside.
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Seaton
Yeah.
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Ross Tucker
But then the guts of it, it's really modern. They have all these nice luxury boxes. The booth, the press box and booth are amazing. I don't know what that is. That called retrofitting it. I don't know what they did, but somehow they made the inside and the outside look just the way you would expect it to. But then the middle. The middle part looks. Is as modern as anything.
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Seaton
Oh, wow, that's really interesting. So they kept sort of like the. That, like, same classic charm, but modernized everything for the actual workings of the stadium.
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Ross Tucker
Yeah. And I can't emphasize this enough. Okay.
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Seaton
Because it really doesn't show that. It looks like it's been like in a glass case since the day was built.
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Ross Tucker
Incredible. And the grass is so amazing. And the craziest thing about it, packers fans are in the stadium an hour before the game when the punters and kickers run out 55 minutes before kickoff. The crowd goes crazy. It's the wildest thing I. I can't emphasize enough. I remember going there as a rookie, okay. It felt like we were driving down my street in Wyoming, Pennsylvania. It felt like we were in just your normal suburban town, Delaware Avenue in Wyoming, Pennsylvania. And then we made a right turn and it would be like, picture right next to your best friend's house in your neighborhood, there's an NFL stadium. I mean, now I know that there's probably bigger roads you can take to get there. And I think because it was the team bus for the Redskins, they took us on back roads, but it still is wild. Now, in fairness, they have bought some of the surrounding real estate and they have, you know, commercialize it a little bit more. So it's not quite what it was my rookie year 24 years ago, but it is still incredible. Paulie?
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Paulie
Yeah, I've been there once in the 80s and twice in the past 10 years. And like Seaton said, they haven't changed the tone. There's that street, it's called Shadow Lane. It's right by the field, right by Lombardi Ave. And there's a bunch of little houses and they have tailgates in the back. But they did renovations for Lambeau Field. They started them, I think maybe 20 years ago, was a big one. And they kept the entire tone, the color and the outside does not look like it was completely renovated. Now they added modern amenities, but it's kind of the opposite of what the Chicago Bears did with Soldier Field. They basically landed a spaceship on Soldier Field and it doesn't match at all. And like what, they kept the outside of Soldier Field in the park area, but Soldier Field did not go the same tone as Lambeau Field and tried to match the outside, the facade.
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Ross Tucker
So here's my question for all four of you and everybody listening or watching on Peacock. You can hit us up 8, 7, 7, 3, DP show, or you can hit us up on Social at DP show. I am at Ross Tucker, NFL. What's your number one bucket list? Sports venue. Not event venue. What's the one venue you haven't gotten to that you really want to. I will start. This is actually kind of a combo platter, I would say, because I feel like you have to go there for the actual event, but it's the Rose bowl in Pasadena. I don't think it would be the same if I just went to a random UCLA home game. I think it's gotta be the actual Rose Bowl. I have watched that game every January 1st my entire life. I have seen how it's dark on the east coast, but out there, the sunset in Southern California, it looks amazing. I. There might be others, but right now, for me, in terms of ones I haven't seen yet, number one on my bucket list would be the Rose Bowl.
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Paulie
Paulie, I worked three games at the Rose bowl and it's very similar to what you said. It's a neighborhood. And you're driving through this middle class neighborhood in Pasadena and all of a sudden you go down a hill and there it is out of nowhere. It looks like it doesn't look really. Yes. It's a complete middle.
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Ross Tucker
I never knew that.
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Paulie
Yeah, you go down a hill, you turn right, and there's the parking and there's the stadium and it's old school. Light on the amenities and they do the flyover. It's. It's worth it. Totally worth it.
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Ross Tucker
Fritz, you have one. I do. I don't know if it's a little less about, as you were saying about the actual facility, more about, like the.
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Dan Patrick
Specific game I'd want to see there.
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Ross Tucker
But I'd love to sit next to the Cameron Crazies and go to a North Carolina Duke basketball Game at Cameron Indoor is something I would really like to experience. You know what? You're a thousand percent right. That. That might almost even beat out Rose bowl for me. Now that you say that, I. You know, how many of those games have we watched over the years? All right, what about Seaton?
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Seaton
Yeah, Cameron Indoor was going to be one of mine. I've always wanted to go to more racing events, you know, so, like I. Or whether it's Kentucky Derby or Indianapolis, you know, Motor Speedway, I went to Daytona.
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Ross Tucker
That was awesome.
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Seaton
Yeah, I haven't done much of that. A lot of mine, for me are soccer stadiums because I really like soccer. And, you know, it's weird, though, because we're fortunate enough doing this that we've probably all been to quite a few stadiums. You know, I've never been to a Dodger game, though. I would love to go to a Dodger game.
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Ross Tucker
You know what's interesting, Seaton? I'm not a soccer guy at all. Okay. Not at all. I really want to go to, like, a Premier League match. I really want to go to some type of international soccer in the UK or in Spain or whatever, and I want to feel the passion and the energy. I want to feel what that do, you know, off the top of your head, Seaton? Like, is there one I should go to?
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Seaton
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot for.
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Ross Tucker
Sure, but, like, what's like, the most.
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Seaton
Well known, like, if you're going to say in Spain, like, Burnabout is Real Madrid, Camp Nou is. Is Barcelona. Those are pretty iconic sports venues.
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Ross Tucker
You know, I've done a couple. I've been in Europe a couple times. It's never matched up where there was a Premier League match I could go to.
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Seaton
You know, the crazy thing is, is that there's so many tiers, and it's almost like people probably kill me for saying this, but even like, almost like the lower you go, in some ways, the more passionate it gets in the tears. So you could go. You could have just as good a time in a smaller stadium that holds five or 10,000 people than you would in a place that holds 60,000.
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Ross Tucker
Got it. Marv, what do you got? I was going to say the Rose bowl, but Fog Allen Field House at Kansas. Okay, I would love to go there, see the Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk, that entire thing. But the Rose bowl, like you said earlier to me, it's really kind of about the building. I kind of liken it to Madison Square Garden, where LeBron and Kobe don't play. The Knicks, they play at The Garden. Yeah. Like the, like the arena or the stadium is the star. So what's so interesting is I feel like we're definitely missing some. I mean, we had multiple Cameron Indoor. We had multiple Rose Bowls. There's got to be like five that we're totally missing on Seaton.
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Seaton
Well, yeah, I mean like nobody has said Wrigley. Nobody has said Fenway probably.
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Ross Tucker
Well, we've all been to this right now.
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Seaton
Right. But that's what I mean. Like there's so many listening.
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Ross Tucker
Yeah. People listening. Go ahead.
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Paulie
I'm lucky enough. I've been to a lot of them. A lot of the ones we mentioned, you know, Notre Dame or Wrigley and all that stuff. There's one that popped in my head. I want to see a Pirates home game. Every time I see the Pirates stadium on tv, it just looks gorgeous. It's very well done. The city and back. I've never been to Pittsburgh and it just looks like a great game day experience. I know they're not a great team, but you're talking about the stadium. I think that's a cool stadium and a cool looking city from afar that I've just never been to.
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Ross Tucker
8773 DP show is the number. We want to know your number one ranked bucket list venue. We also want to know if you got any thoughts on your favorite mustard. Someone is guilty. No one is innocent. In the new drama series All Her Fault. A seemingly perfect family's world is shattered when their young son goes missing. That doesn't sound good. Streaming now only on peacock. Andy Staples from On3Sports is not missing. He, he's here. He's a college football superstar. Love talking with Andy. He'll join us to talk about the first CFP rankings, all of these head coaching openings and a really fun weekend in college football when we return. 18 minutes past the hour here on the Dan Patrick show.
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Dan Patrick
Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show weekdays at 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific on Fox Sports.
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Ross Tucker
Radio and the iHeartRadio Apple. Hey, it's Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington from the Odd Couple on Fox Sports Radio. And in addition to hearing us live weeknights from 7 to 10pm Eastern on Fox Sports Radio, we are excited to announce brand new YouTube channel for the show.
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Dan Patrick
That's right.
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Ross Tucker
You can now watch the Odd couple live on YouTube every day. All you got to do, search Odd Couple FSR on YouTube again. YouTube. Just search Odd Couple FSR. Check us out on YouTube and subscribe.
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Dan Patrick
On the podcast health stuff. We are tackling all the health questions that keep you up at night. Yes. I'm Dr. Priyanka Walley, a double board certified physician. And I'm Hari Kondabolu, a comedian and someone who once googled do I have scurvy at 3am on health stuff, we're talking about health in a different way. It's not only about what we can do to improve our health, but also what our health says about us and the way we're living. Like our episode where we look at diabetes in the United states. I mean, 50% of Americans are pre diabetic. How preventable is type 2? Extremely. Or our in depth analysis of how incredible mangoes are. Oh, it's hard to explain to rest of the world that like your mangoes are fine because mangoes are incredible. But like you don't even know. You don't know. You don't know. It's going to be a fun ride. So tune in. Listen to health stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. She said Johnny, the kids didn't come home last night.
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Ross Tucker
Along the central Texas plains, teens are dying, suicides that don't make sense. Strange accidents and brutal murders in what seems to be a plot ripped straight out of Breaking Bad.
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Dan Patrick
Drugs, alcohol, trafficking of people.
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Seaton
There are people out there that absolutely know what happened.
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Ross Tucker
Listen to Paper ghosts, the Texas teen murders on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Dan Patrick
What do you get when you mix 1950s Hollywood, a Cuban musician with a dream, and one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time, you get Desi Arnaz, a trailblazer, a businessman, a husband, and maybe most importantly, the first Latino to break primetime wide open. I'm Wilmer Valderrama. And yes, I grew up watching him, probably just like you and millions of others. But for me, I saw myself in his story. From cleaning canary cages to this night.
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Paulie
Here in New York, it's a long ways.
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Dan Patrick
On the podcast, starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama, I'll take you on a journey to Desi's life. The moments it has overlapped with mine. How he redefined American television and what that meant for all of us watching from the sidelines, waiting for a face like ours on screen. This is the story of how one man's spotlight led the path for so many others and how we carry his legacy today. Listen to Starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama. That's part of the My cultura Podcast Network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
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Ross Tucker
I'm Robert Smith, and this is Jacob Goldstein, and we used to host a show called Planet Money. And now we're back making this new podcast called Business History, about the best.
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Dan Patrick
Ideas and people and businesses in history.
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Ross Tucker
And some of the worst people, horrible ideas, and destructive companies in the history of business. Having a genius idea without a need.
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Dan Patrick
For it is nothing. It's like not having it at all. It's a very simple, elegant lesson. Make something people want. First episode, how Southwest Airlines use cheap seats and free whiskey to fight its way into the airline business.
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Ross Tucker
The most Texas story ever.
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Dan Patrick
There's a lot of mavericks in that story. We're gonna have mavericks on the show. We're gonna have plenty of robber barons.
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Ross Tucker
So many robber barons.
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Dan Patrick
And you know what?
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Ross Tucker
They're not all bad.
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Dan Patrick
And we'll talk about some of the classic great moments of famous business geniuses, along with some of the darker moments that often get overlooked, like Thomas Edison.
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Seaton
And the electric chair.
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Dan Patrick
Listen to business history on the iHeartRadio.
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Ross Tucker
App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Dan Patrick
In the new podcast, Hell in Heaven, two young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one will end up dead, the other tried for murder. Not once. People went wild, not twice, stunned, but three times. John and Anne Bender are rich and attractive. Attractive. And they're devoted to each other. They create a nature reserve and build a spectacular circular home high on the top of a hill.
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Ross Tucker
But little by little, their dream starts.
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Dan Patrick
To crumble and our couple retreat from reality. They lose it.
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Ross Tucker
They actually lose it.
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Dan Patrick
They sort of went nuts until one night, everything spins out of control. Listen to Hell in Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Ross Tucker
You know, I love the quick response time of social media at Ross Tucker, NFL. Getting some really good ones, by the way. You know, this is kind of a different category, but somebody said the Army Navy game, which is a great point. It's not a venue, though. That's. That's an event, not a venue. But yes, absolutely, put Army Navy on your bucket list. Bob Frable said, my uncle and aunt turned me on to Penn State football years ago. So West Shore home field at Beaver Stadium, that's a unique one because that's like you got to go for a whiteout. That's like, that's a venue. That's an event at a venue. It's kind of like the Rose bowl at The Rose Bowl. It's the white out at West Shore home field of Beaver Stadium at Penn State.
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Paulie
Yes, Paul, and it's great as the Army Navy game is. I'd suggest you go to an army home game and then a Navy home game against a random opponent and see West Point and Sienapolis games. You've worked, You've been at West Point before. It's great experience.
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Ross Tucker
Wembley Stadium overseas. And Lombardi. What's Lombardi?
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Paulie
Lamb. I think he means Lambo.
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Ross Tucker
Oh, I think he meant Lambo. All right, let's find out. I think Andy Staples has probably been to every cool college football venue you can possibly go to. I'm sure there's some that. You know what, even Andy probably has one or two. And maybe it's group of five stadiums that he hasn't been to. Maybe he wants to go to that dome at North Dakota State. I guarantee Andy has some that he hasn't been to yet that he wants to. He's a good friend of mine. He does an unbelievable job. In all sincerity, if you are into college football and you're not following Andy's work or following him on social media, at Andy underscore Staples, you are doing it wrong. Andy, really appreciate the time. Great to see you. I guess I gotta start out with these two questions. So one of which is, what's on your bucket list? College football venue that you have not been to yet.
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Dan Patrick
I've got a few, and you actually just mentioned a couple of them. So, Mikey Stadium at Army. I've never covered a game there. Want to do that? The Fargo Dome you mentioned at North Dakota State. The Kibbe dome at Idaho. 17,000 seat dome, Moscow, Idaho. I have driven, driven through the parking lot when I was in Pullman to do some Washington State stuff. And obviously Moscow, Idaho is eight miles away. So I drove. I was like, I got to see the Kibbe Dome, but I want to see a game in the Kibbe Dome. And then, yeah, those. Those would be my 3. Also, I need to commend you, Ross, on the impassioned defense of spicy deli mustard because it is the world's greatest condiment.
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Ross Tucker
You know what? I gotta tell you, I already knew. I liked Greg Cosell. I liked Andy Staples. I had no idea they were part of the spicy mustard tribe. Old school. I didn't know they were part of the family. Although they're really smart, successful people, so you would assume that they know that spicy mustard's by far the best mustard. All right, here's the second part of that question. Andy and by the way, I've done a bunch of games at Mikey Stadium. I couldn't possibly more highly recommend it.
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Dan Patrick
I believe I've heard you and Jason Horowitz doing games at Mikey Stadium before, so.
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Ross Tucker
And honestly, Andy, the crazy thing about Mikey Stadium is it's actually probably best observed from the press box because it's so elevated that you can then see the reservoir and the water and the Hudson River. It's actually better to almost the higher you are, if that makes sense. But you got to tell me, give me one or two or three that I probably haven't been to that, you know, power four, whatever. What should be on my college football venue bucket list.
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Dan Patrick
If you've never been to a game at lsu, if you've never been to Tiger Stadium, that is. It's the best tailgating in college football. And when they're good, it's probably the best overall stadium experience in college football. It's just so cool. And the tailgating is incredible. The people go all out. It's not. You know, we talk about the Ole Miss tailgating, but Ole Miss doesn't allow open flames, so it limits what you can cook. Like, they're. They're grilling Gator. Like when they play Florida, they're grilling Gator at lsu. So it's. It's incredible going into the one that people maybe don't think about. If you get a chance to go to a K State home game, a Kansas State home game, Manhattan, Kansas, Bill Snyder Family Stadium, they. They do it right there. Like, that's a great crowd. It's a great town. Just a great little college town. The Aggieville district, with. With the bars and the restaurants and everything. That's an. That's a fun one that, that I don't think people think about when they're like, oh, these are the best atmospheres in college. One of the best atmospheres in college football. And the other one, you'll never believe it until you actually get there to Austin stadium in Oregon. 60,000 people sound like a hundred thousand people. I don't know how they do it, but it's incredible.
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Ross Tucker
There's something weird about the Pacific Northwest and the acoustics, because I guarantee you the people in Seattle are not louder than the people in Philadelphia. But yet when you're in that stadium in Seattle, it is so loud. They've done a nice job with the acoustics.
- [30:59]
Dan Patrick
The Seahawks stadium, I've driven past it. I've never been inside it, but it does look like it's just built perfectly to Capture this. Maybe Austin's secret. Austin is sort of like an extreme version of the old sombrero in Tampa.
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Ross Tucker
Yes.
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Dan Patrick
And so you've got these two really high middle parts that just kind of bounce off each other. I think that's what, what helps.
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Ross Tucker
All right. So, Andy, we are, I guess a year and a half into the new college football playoff tournament structure. And I know it could be changing, but I guess. Has it been a good thing or a bad thing so far? Are you a fan or not a fan of it so far?
- [31:38]
Dan Patrick
I love the 12 team playoff. I don't want them to go any bigger. I. If they go 16, fine. I know they talked about that because that just. That doesn't really add another round. It just keeps it the same general structure. But don't go any bigger than that. Like, this is. This is good. I like the stress and the agita that it causes among the teams from, from 12 to 20 that still have a chance. I like the fact that if you win the Big 12 or if you win the ACC, even if you didn't have the greatest year you're in, I think that's pretty cool. So I like this format. I thought four was too small. Like, it's still the most exclusive playoff format in, in. In major American sports. Like the fewest number of teams get in, the lowest percentage of teams get in, and I think that's great. But it needed to be bigger than four. So this, this feels like the perfect number to me.
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Ross Tucker
You know what? I also think when it was four, we really only talked about who was five, six, and seven and maybe eight. Now that it's 12, people are looking at who's 14, who's 16, who's 18. I saw on your show you were apoplectic that Miami's that much further down than Notre Dame. Is that the biggest thing that jumped out to you?
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Dan Patrick
Yeah, because why'd they bother playing the game? Like, if they're going to have the same record? And it's not like Notre Dame's played much better competition than Miami throughout the year. They haven't.
- [33:08]
Ross Tucker
Their.
- [33:08]
Dan Patrick
Their schedules are fairly comparable and they have the same record and they played and Miami won. How in the world can they be eight spots apart? That makes no sense at all. And that's, that's what bothered me. If you're going to do that, just simulate the whole season on a computer. Don't even bother playing the games because the results of the games need to matter at some point.
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Ross Tucker
How much do you wait, what happened recently versus what Happened at the start.
- [33:34]
Dan Patrick
It all matters, Ross. It doesn't matter when you played the like. It all matters. It doesn't. Just because you played it in September doesn't give you a mulligan for losing.
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Ross Tucker
I would agree, but wouldn't you agree if two teams are 10 and two and one of them lost the first two, won the next 10, the other won the first 10, lost the last two, don't you think that there should be some nod given to the team.
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Dan Patrick
Lost the first two, where there's their only two really good games and everybody else was not very good?
- [34:12]
Ross Tucker
You hate.
- [34:13]
Dan Patrick
I'm not. I love Notre Dame. I love Notre Dame. Will defend their independence till the day I die.
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Ross Tucker
We'll.
- [34:18]
Dan Patrick
We'll fight anybody who says Notre Dame needs to join a conference. I love Notre Dame. I think Notre Dame is a really good team. I think Notre Dame's probably going to wind up in the College Football Playoff mostly because I think Miami's going to lose another one along the way and, and Notre Dame's not. Like, they're both gonna. They're both gonna play Pitt and maybe Pitt beats Miami and doesn't beat Notre Dame.
- [34:37]
Seaton
But.
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Dan Patrick
You gotta. You gotta have results matter. You can't just say, well, it didn't matter. Same record, whatever. They play like you, you have the ultimate evidence. What if they played while they played?
- [34:53]
Ross Tucker
All right, maybe the bigger question in college football right now is with all these guys getting fired, why has there not been any hires made yet? Like, why. Why hasn't Virginia Tech jumped on James Franklin? I mean, he would be.
- [35:10]
Dan Patrick
Maybe James Franklin's waiting for Florida State to open up. Maybe James Franklin wants to go coach at Auburn.
- [35:17]
Ross Tucker
So you think it's. There's a pecking order of available candidates and those guys are waiting until they see what all their options are.
- [35:28]
Dan Patrick
Oh, yeah. James Franklin's going to have options. If he, if he thought his best option was Virginia Tech and Virginia Tech was offering in the job, he would have already taken it. But I think he's going to have quite a few options. So we don't know yet what all the options are going to be because we'll. We'll see what happens with Florida State. That's still very much up in the air. They're playing Clemson this week. If they want out, Mike or, well, would be fine. But if, if things go badly that their, their fan base is itching for a change, even though it'd be very expensive. Kentucky's another one. You know, Mark Stoops beat Auburn. That got Hugh Freeze. Fired last week. If they lose, you know, to Louisville, if they lose to Florida, I don't think Mark Stoops is all that safe, even though he has the most school unfriendly buyout in the country of $37 million due within 60 days of the firing, all in one. One lump sum.
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Ross Tucker
Wow, that's incredible. I mean, I almost try to get fired at this point. That would be. All right, so what about, like, I guess, what's the value in firing these guys so early if you're not going to then make a hire? I mean, I live in central Pennsylvania. Penn State's losing recruits left and right. I thought the whole point of firing him early if you're going to do that was to get somebody else in there and rally.
- [36:50]
Dan Patrick
But you're not going to hire somebody who's actually coaching another team right now. They're going to finish their season. So, like, who. Who are you going to hire? You hire an NFL coach, they're just going to leave their NFL team like.
- [37:02]
Ross Tucker
So then what's the. Well, you get Pat Fitzgerald.
- [37:05]
Dan Patrick
You could get Pat Fitzgerald now, and I think he's one who has multiple options and is waiting to see.
- [37:10]
Ross Tucker
Could you.
- [37:11]
Dan Patrick
What where it winds up.
- [37:12]
Ross Tucker
Could you agree, like, with an agent for a guy like Bob Chesney from jmu, but just not announce it, but kind of know that, hey, that's.
- [37:21]
Dan Patrick
That has happened many, many times. That's. That happened with Scott Frost when he went from UCF to Nebraska. And you fire the coach during the season to tell your fan base that you're making the change that they're clamoring for, to tell them. You hear them. That's why you do it. A lot of schools do it because they see a ton of empty seats and they're like, oh, God, the fans are not even going to come back this season if we don't do something and show them we care enough to make a change.
- [37:47]
Ross Tucker
Do you think Kurt Signetti has kind of ruined this whole thing?
- [37:53]
Dan Patrick
I love it. I think he has broken every bad coach's excuse. Every bad coach who makes excuses. You just point to Kurt Signetti, you know, like, he can do it. Why can't you?
- [38:03]
Ross Tucker
Right? But how much of that is. I don't want to say, Fluky, because obviously they've accomplished it. All right? They've accomplished what they've accomplished. But I guess my point would be, you can't all be 12 and oh, you can't all be 11 and one.
- [38:20]
Dan Patrick
You can't all be 12 and oh, but you also can't be in year three or year four where your trend line is heading down, your trajectory is heading down and you're saying, well, we just need more time to build. No, you don't. You know, by year two, if you got, if you made the right hire or not, you know.
- [38:39]
Ross Tucker
Do you feel though, Andy, like we should be at the point in college football, especially when I look at some of these SEC schedules and like who Florida had to play this year or who Texas has to play, I feel like this is just my perspective. I don't think it should be. As soon as you get a third loss, we're going to fire you.
- [38:58]
Dan Patrick
When you have the schedule was 22 and 23 in three plus seasons at Florida. I, I'm a, I'm a Florida grad.
- [39:05]
Ross Tucker
Yeah.
- [39:06]
Dan Patrick
I can tell you Right now, 500 football is not acceptable at the University of Florida. Three and a half years is more than enough time to get better than 500.
- [39:17]
Ross Tucker
Man it. So the way you're making it sound, this is going to be the new.
- [39:22]
Dan Patrick
You either have standards or you don't. That's really what it is now. The Penn State one. Yes, we can argue about that one all day because James Franklin was winning, was successful, but he wasn't getting them what they wanted. What they want are national titles. And if that's what you want, I'm not one to tell the consumer what they do and don't want. The Penn State fans want national titles. Now getting that is going to be difficult. Like I think the Penn State job, of all the ones open, is the toughest one to take right now because you will be judged against what James Franklin was doing, which means you'd better start winning double digit games immediately. You'd better start competing for the Big Ten title and in the College Football Playoff immediately. It's kind of like when Georgia fired Mark Richt and hired Kirby Smart. He was in the national title game in year two. Great. But here one, when he was, you know, he, I think he was 7 and 5 or 6 and 6. It was like, oh boy, what is this? So you have to succeed immediately if you're in that job. But like the Florida job, he was, he was not getting it done, so they fired him. Auburn, he was not getting it done, so they fired him.
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Ross Tucker
Yeah, I guess it's a great point about landing spot because entry point means a great deal. Franklin, by all accounts, Andy, it was a top 10 program over the last 10 years. They just weren't top five. Penn State believes they have the resources to be top five. I guess, you know, Franklin used to say this all the time, but I'll get your opinion. I'm not sure people realize how hard it is to go from top 10 to top 5 because top 5 exactly right. It's Georgia, Alabama, it's Ohio State. Like there can only be five in the top five.
- [41:05]
Dan Patrick
It's the hardest part. It's the hardest move. Dan Mullen mentioned that when he was at Florida where He, he wins 10 games, he wins the Orange bowl and they interview him on the field after the Orange bowl and he said it's that 11th and 12th, they're the toughest step. And he was right. And I mean, he ended up getting fired at Florida. It is very hard. The places where they expect national championships. The, the, the margins are so thin. And they're going to make mistakes too because look at what Georgia did. They fired a really good coach in Mark Richt and they hired an even better coach in Kirby Smart. That's not going to happen most of the time. Most of the time the person you hire is not going to be as good as the person you just fired. If that person's winning 10 games a.
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Ross Tucker
Year, check him out on social media. He's fantastic. He's all over college football at Andy underscore Staples. We got a good weekend this weekend. Indiana's double digit favorites against Penn State. That's a real thing in society. It's unbelievable. Thank you, Andy.
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Dan Patrick
Thanks, Ross.
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Ross Tucker
Love diving into some college football. I'm a big college football guy. I'm also a big meat Friday guy and I like this little segment that we do now or you guys do, I should say. What is it called? Best in the week. Best weekend.
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Paulie
Best week in sports.
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Ross Tucker
Best week in sports led by Paul. And we come back 42 minutes past the hour here on the Dan Patrick show. Fox Sports radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows@foxsportsradio.com and within the iHeartRadio app.
- [42:42]
Dan Patrick
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Ross Tucker
There's nothing like a Kings Hawaiian slider Sunday to enjoy NFL games with friends and family. Make that watch party or tailgate special and pick up a pack of Kings Hawaiian this weekend. We are sliding in the weekend. One o' clock on Sunday eastern. You got the Patriots and the bucks. How about 4 o'? Clock? Rams, Niners is a juicy matchup. Sunday night. Steelers, Chargers, Monday night the game. I'll be in the booth for Westwood One national radio. The packers and the Eagles with Kevin Harlan and then college football has some fun matchups, too.
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Paulie
It's saucy.
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Ross Tucker
Yeah. I mean, number seven, BYU. Number eight, Texas Tech, number nine, Oregon. At number 20, Iowa. That's a legit tough test for Dan Lanning and the Ducks. And then I love that Navy and their name play every year. The 98th time. Navy has a really good team. This year. They kind of. They lost the game last week to North Texas. We'll see if they can give the Irish a better game than they did last year. Is there one of those that you guys are most looking forward to? Seaton.
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Seaton
You know, I hate to say it because I love Oregon as a state. I love Portland, even though I know Oregon's not located there. I think that might be like an upset of the week. Iowa over Oregon. Sure.
- [44:19]
Ross Tucker
Iowa is playing very, very well. I love watching Iowa play. They might be as well coached. You know, like, you talk to guys that come to the NFL from Iowa or you watch their tape. It is their technique. They're like pros when they get to the NFL. Yes.
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Seaton
They feel like Iowa is the kind of team, too, that like, it feels like they like to punch you in the mouth a bit. And I don't know that Oregon likes getting punched in the mouth very much.
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Ross Tucker
You know, I will say this. Oregon, I think, is more physical than perhaps they're getting credit for. Paulie.
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Paulie
Not against Indiana, they weren't. You know, I would say that the Navy, Notre Dame game. Notre Dame can. He can't afford a loss of any type. But Navy's good for like once a decade, once every 12 years. Taking down Notre Dame. I think the last time was 2016. They did in 2010. So it's. It's not inconceivable. This is as big as it gets for Navy.
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Ross Tucker
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Dan Patrick
It'S within the calendar week.
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Ross Tucker
The Steelers defense forcing six turnovers. 27:20 Home win over the Colts. I think that was pretty impressive. Steelers defense had the best week in sports. Seaton.
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Seaton
You know, I'm gonna go back to last weekend, too. To last Sunday, I'm gonna say the Buffalo Bills, that's pretty good performance against the Chiefs. You limit Patrick mahomes to like 250 yards. I think no touchdowns in an interception. I know that they beat them in the regular season and struggle in the postseason, but for the Bills, I feel like every time you could beat the Chiefs and remind yourself that you can beat them, it's a win. It's a huge win.
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Ross Tucker
Marv, going off the football board, I got the LA Lakers. I know super early in the season. They won four straight games. Luka Dodgers had a great game against the best player in the NBA, Victor Wen Benyama. So I got the Lakers.
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Paulie
Paulie, I'm gonna go with Drake May, the quarterback of the Patriots. He's having a good season, but this past week a lot of people are getting on his bandwagon as being the best quarterback from that draft. 2024. Jaden Daniels is banged up. It's receded a little bit. Kayla Williams still searching for it. Drake May is having a fantastic season.
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Ross Tucker
All decent answers, but all also wrong. Wrong. I think you guys are going to be stunned by mine. It happened last Saturday night, so that's still this week because it's, it's not Saturday yet. Me, Ross, the football guy, I am gonna pick a baseball player. I'm gonna go with Miguel Rojas. This guy is 36 years old. It's his last game, okay? He hits the game tying home run, then he has the game saving out and the play of the plate from second base. Then they end up winning the game. Who had a better week? I mean, Marv saying the Lakers. When in the first week of the season, Paulie's saying Drake May. You think Drake May had a better week? Then he got to celebrate the whole week. They won the game Saturday night. Miguel Roas has been parading around and having gallivanting. The man is gallivanting around. And you guys think that these other people, you think the Steelers defense had a better week? They had to practice all week. Miguel Rojas is on a boat in the Pacific Ocean drinking whatever he wants. Go ahead, Marv. Do you think Miguel Rojas is going to be like the baseball equivalent of David Tyree where he'll forever be known for this one play? Yes. Now he had a much longer career and better career than Tyree, but yes. I don't know anything about Miguel Rojas other than that that he made that play. And that's what I will know moving forward with him forever. All right, we got a fun final hour. Who are the best college quarterbacks to actually have your team draft next year if you're a Saints fan or jets fan. Plus, we got to get some of your calls on the venue. That's on your bucket list. Next.
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Dan Patrick
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