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Iron Eagle was on the call at the Garden last night with Steph Curry and the warriors, who have another game in New York. They play Brooklyn tomorrow night, then they go home for a seven game homestand. I mean, they start to put together a great run here. And with Jimmy Butler now, granted you, you're looking at teams saying, when are you peaking? If you're Golden State, you'll peak whenever you can peak. Because at the All Star break or around Christmas, we're like, what's going to happen with this team? Same with the Lakers. The Lakers are playing great. They roughed up Inferior Pelicans team. Although Zion played really well last night, he's played really well in the last month. But small sample size. But still. If you're the Pelicans and you're looking at Zion Williamson like, I don't see him as a career pelican. I don't know if his next contract would be in New Orleans. It doesn't feel that way. But I wonder where that franchise is headed. But with the Lakers, they could be headed to the NBA Finals and you know, I wish they would have a bigger guy. I wish they had a big man. I mean The Thunder are going to be formidable. It's a very deep team. You're going to have a couple of those matchups where you go, that team is a whole lot better because we tend to focus shows like this. The networks, they focus on their top heavy on a couple of teams. Therefore, that's why when you saw Minnesota, you know, like, man, Minnesota's a good team. Going to the NBA Finals, yes. But sometimes like the Celtics, we've sort of forgotten about the Celtics because it's been a lot of love for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Now do you believe in Cleveland when there's a seven game series, when you have to win a game on the road? Because that's what it's going to come down to. Boston's already proven this. Boston to me should be the favorites to go back in either conference, but they're not. But I look at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City is going to have one of those moments where SGA has to act like the MVP or somebody else has to. Because you can look back when Denver won the title, Joker was great, but Jamal Murray had one of those coming out parties where people forgot how good he could be. And they had a, they had depth, they had a really good bench. I mean there's, it's formulaic in my opinion. It's really rare when you go, boy, they won and they didn't check these boxes there. You got to play defense. You got to have a guy that you can go to when the game is on the line and he doesn't melt. You got to win a game that maybe you're not supposed to win. I mean, there's a lot of different things, a lot of different factors that go into this. But I think the Lakers have the elements to be able to go back and win a championship. I truly feel that. But it comes down to LeBron and Luka, Luca and LeBron. Now everybody else has to figure out their roles because they didn't have this before. Luka and LeBron, ball dominant now, what's it mean for the other players? And while you probably are saying, well, I got to do a stand around and wait for them to throw you the ball, no, it's not as easy as that. Like you'll, you'll have a role in. Your role might be different than it was. And I think there, JJ Redick's done a really good job with that and I think defining roles, so it's not open to interpretation. But those two, like if I say give me the best duo in the NBA right now, Jalen Brown Jason Tatum certainly should come to mind. Joker, Jamal Murray, Jimmy Butler, Steph Curry. Like, where does LeBron and Luca rank of the best duos in the NBA? And I would put them as the best duo in the NBA because their battle. LeBron is battle tested. There's nothing that is going to come up where he's going to go. I haven't seen that before. And he might be, you know, an influential figure. When Luca. When Luca ends his career, he may look back and say, thank God I got traded to the Lakers because I was around LeBron for X number of years. I got to see a professional. And it's not to say. And there was a smear campaign with Luca because, you know, the Mabs. Then there was a story that came out that, hey, you know what? We also wanted to know if Minnesota wanted to swap Anthony Edwards for Luka Doncic, which I still go back to. If they called me and they offered Luca, I go, why are you offering him? Why? Why? And maybe there's more to the story. There probably is more to the story, but that'd be the first thing I'd say, Wait, is this a trick question? Like, why do you want to get rid of this guy? Now, that would raise eyebrows. But, you know, the Lakers probably thought, if it's about conditioning, we got a guy who can. Who can and not babysit, but certainly mentor. And I think you're seeing that. Like, Luca injured his calf on Christmas Day. There was no real rush to get him back or didn't feel like there was a real rush. Now, I don't know if anybody's brought up his calf. Is that, you know, does he have to sit down minutes restriction because of his calf? And then you look at the Mavs now. So Kyrie's out. I think they're going to shut down Anthony Davis. There's no reason to play him play for a draft pick. But, you know, you start to look at some of these teams that got better at the trade deadline. And Golden State is a different team because Jimmy Butler can compliment Draymond Green. From the perspective of, I can do all the little things. Steph can be Steph. I can. I take care of the ball. You know, Golden State used to be top heavy with turnovers. You know, Jimmy Butler takes care of the ball. He goes to the free throw line. He plays really good defense. So you combine that. Now you gotta. Now it's a different team, a different feel to them. Okc sometimes you're so good that nobody's really threatening you, and then you get into that first tough series and that's when you can be surprised. I hope SGA because he's going to win the mvp. He shouldn't, but he's going to. I hope he has a great playoff run because we always do this. Yeah. Never should have won the mvp. You know, Ask Lamar Jackson. No, he was greater. SGA has been incredible during the regular season, but Joker's numbers are better than when he won the MVPs. And he. It's scary. Here's a pass. First guy who's averaging 29 again. If he stopped passing, what would he average? And I know there are a lot of guys averaging 29, 30, 31. You know, it's. Guys are scoring points, but guys aren't putting up assist numbers like he is. He's averaging a triple double. Now. I know that we're numb to it. Not a big deal anymore. But it should be because of the assist numbers. You have a seven foot guy who's averaging what, 11 assists a game, 12 rebounds, 29 points. He shoots great from three point range. His numbers are better. He shoots 44% from three point range. It's the best he's ever shot. But I think there is voter fatigue. I think it's real. And this is, this is where the get off my lawn guy comes out because he doesn't want somebody to get more MVPs than, well, he's not better than Larry Bird. He can't have more MVPs than Larry. He can. Yeah, he can. I mean, it's not Joker's fault. Bird, Bird got hurt. In fact, on this date, I think back in the 80s, didn't he have fusion surgery for his back? Yes, Marvin. Yeah. And I think that was the big thing with joke is not winning his third straight MVP. LeBron James and Michael Jordan, neither of them won three straight MVPs. And they're thinking themselves. Those two didn't win three straight MVPs. There's no way this guy can win three straight MVPs. 1993, Larry Bird undergoes back fusion surgery on this day. And he just couldn't stay healthy. And the way he played, couldn't stay healthy. But if you said at age 30, you can have Larry or LeBron at age 30, I would have taken Larry over LeBron. Now, over the length of the career, Certainly you're taking LeBron, but it's. How great were you when you were great? That's always fun when you look at a window and you go, golly, you know, it was, you know, you always had magic with, with Larry and vice versa. But there are times when they had those windows. You know, what Magic did his rookie year mean is spectacular. You go from a national championship to an NBA championship. We'd never seen anything like that. But that's the fun part of it, where you're seeing these players and I hold on for dear life with Durant, LeBron and Steph. Now there's a new wave coming. But this opportunity, as I said during the Olympics, when I watch them on the floor, you had all this young talent on the bench, and I was, I'm not going to say it was emotional, but it was really rewarding for me to watch them, as great as they are in that moment. Those were the guys Steve Kerr wanted on, on the floor with the ball. And what a, what a, what a tribute, a testament to them. When you have all this young talent and it's not about who's got the talent, it's those guys know what they're doing when they need to do it. And Steph, you can look like Steph has had great moments in his career. Like, where does the Olympics fit in with great moments in his career? Because that is global. We talk about the NBA being global. That was truly global. It's live worldwide, and all of a sudden you're learning curse words in French, you know, like, wow, they're mad at him. He was so great. So great. Yeah. Pulling that last five minute stretch by Curry in the Olympics, it was dizzying. You're watching it, it felt like that's not what human beings do. He's the only human who could have done that. Yep, yep. And he had, he had one shot where you go, I don't know how he got that shot off, I have no idea. But to be able to see that and, you know, you miss him. I mean, I miss seeing Bird play. I miss seeing Magic play. Certainly my, you know all these great players because you take it for granted and then all of a sudden it's gone, it's done. Yeah. Yeah. Marvin, is 1986 Larry Bird 1 of the greatest players you've ever seen? Like just that one year? Yeah. Like in real time. Did you guys know what you guys were witnessing with Magic and Bird, like, in real time? I know there wasn't all these sports shows and debate shows and stuff like that, but did you guys know in 85, 86, 87, like these guys are two of the greatest that have ever done it? Yes. Yes. Because it felt like there was really a. There were two great players, transcendent players. And then there were really good players underneath Bird and Magic. But what Larry did back to, back to back, and I'm curious, Bill Simmons documentary on the Celtics, looking back on that, I mean, Larry was the baddest guy on the planet. He was. And, and brought up interesting debates between races where, you know, Magic's better. No, Larry's better. Spike Lee has this in one of his movies. Might have been Crooklyn or one of those where they're arguing over, you know, Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. You did have those discussions. And they would have that now on first take or any of these other shows like who's Better, Magic, Larry Now. And it was depending on the week or the month or the year, you could say, no, it's Magic. No, it's Larry. But Larry had a run there that you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who was better than him over a 3, 3 year period. Statistically, it might, you could find people, but that's where you saw great, great player. And the Celtics were a running team back then. Like you wouldn't think that. McHale and Parrish and Bird, even DJ like Danny Ainge. Danny Ainge, probably the best athlete in the starting five. But they ran, they had fast breaks. Larry out on the break, you're like, I thought, that's Magic. That's what they did. Yes, Paulie. When they were rookies, Larry Bird won rookie of the Year, Magic finished second. Nobody else in the league got a vote. Larry got 63 votes, Magic got three. Not one other player got a rookie of the year vote. Another thing for Larry Bird, Starting with age 24 to 32, he either finished first, second or third in the MVP voting, but I don't remember. Voter fatigue. Now, I wasn't a voter back then, but I did go, I did see all three of Larry's championships and I got to go to the guard. I was there when Magic hit the sky hook. You know he was going to win another one. But I, I just remember at that time, that was some great, great basketball. And they were loaded, both of those teams. You know, you look at the Laker team and coming off the bench, you know that that wasn't a negative. Bob McAdoo was one of my favorite players. You know, you just, it was fun, fun basketball, but they both moved. It wasn't know, sort of half court offense, even though they could play that as well. All right, taking a trip down memory lane. Wow, we're living in the crates. Let's go. I know, I know. A long winded way of saying appreciate LeBron and Steph and Katie. Katie, Last night the Suns came back to beat the Clippers. I think they were down, what, 15 or 19 going in the final quarter. These are, you know, three of the greatest players, scorers of all time right in front of us. Yes. Yes. Mark. Three generational players in the same generation. Yes. Yeah. They are all doing it differently. All doing it differently. All right, take a break. Iron Eagle was on the call with Steph Curry at the Garden and we'll talk to him about that experience last night. More phone calls as well. We'll take a break. Back after this 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. Search FSR to listen live. 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This Madison Square Garden, it speaks for itself. This is a place that brings. Oh, it just naturally has great, unique, authentic basketball energy. And, like, the fans are unreal, like the who's who of celebrity row and all that, but just everybody's anticipating great basketball. And from my first game here in college to now, like, it's always delivered. So. And for us on the Western Conference, we only get one chance here and try to make the most of it. And they did. Iron Eagle was on the call. Tnt, Nick's Warriors. What is it about the Garden and why is it different? There is a palpable buzz before the game even starts, and it's nothing that's being pumped through the speakers. It's not artificial in any way. It's real. There is something special and unique about it. Even during the lean years, you would go into the Garden, and maybe just the way the arena in captures the sound, it just bounces in a certain manner. So as the game was about to get going, you could feel it. You could feel that. That energy. It's. It's tangible. And I know what Steph is saying. It is special for him, and he makes it even more special when he's there because it creates an. An added layer of electricity. How do you know when you've done a good job doing a game? I know. I know if I've covered the storylines. I know if I've met the moment. I know if I've hit the right beats. I think it's based on just doing so many games. There's a way to view it. For me, the amount of games that I do helps me because it keeps me in that mindset. It keeps me locked in. I don't ever drop off because I'm not off for three weeks, and then I got to get back into it. I'm doing sometimes 5. 5 games in a week. And there's a certain standard that comes with that. You want to do your best. It doesn't matter if it's a Wednesday night for a local Nets Washington game or a Thursday night for a big Lakers Boston game or a Sunday in the NFL or a Thursday night on the radio. It doesn't matter. You just get to a point where you can gauge it in the moment if you're doing your job correctly and you're hitting all the high notes. I still find it interesting that when a player or team plays New York, they're playing the Garden. They're not playing the Knicks. Yeah, they're playing the Garden. I don't know if we do that in at Any other venue or any other sport. Can you think of anything where you go now? It used to be the Garden. Boston Garden. Yeah. You know, then it became like the Fleet center and TD bank, and so kind of lost a little bit, you know. Yeah. Playing the crypto. Maybe the Forum. Yeah. Great Western Forum, But I don't know if there's any, like, Fenway. You don't say, oh, you're playing Fenway. You're playing the Red Sox. Even Yankee Stadium is not the original Yankee Stadium, even though the Garden's not the original Garden. But, yeah, you're playing the Garden as opposed to. It's like you're a musical group. Yeah, we're on tour, and then we play the Garden. Yeah. Billy Joel is. Is no longer doing it once a month. But you're right. Billy Joel is playing the Garden, and Warriors were playing the Garden. I don't know if it's an extension of Broadway in some way that you're in New York and it's this historic venue. You're right about the ever changing names. That is a part of it. That chips away at the mystique a bit. I remember I did a game years ago, NFL on cbs, game in Oakland. And at that point, it was a revolving door of names. And literally, I'm not exaggerating, Dan. Fifteen minutes before kickoff, someone. I'm not sure if they were affiliated with the Raiders or the State, they walk in, they hand me a sheet of paper, and they say, hey, just to let you know, we're going by this now. Fifteen minutes before the game, I go, the o. Co What. What is this? And that. That takes away from. From the. The sense of place and the sense of history. You're right. Even with the Boston Garden, once they went down that road, the Boston Garden became a thing of the past. And now you've got to rack your brain and say, what is it now? Is it TD Garden? What? It's still Madison Square Garden named after, by the way, James Madison, the former president. That was the connection. I was going to use that over the weekend in regards to the St. John Seton hall game and make the point that. That Bill Raftery was actually classmates with James and that he knew him quite well, but we never got there. Who is more unexplainable? Steph Curry Success or LeBron's Steph Curry? Steph Curry, he was the number seven pick in the draft. There were major questions as to whether or not his style and approach would translate to the NBA. Would he get his shot off? Like, think about that. For a moment. If we go back and check the scouting reports, it would say, great three point shooter, creative offensive player, but will the NBA be too physical for him? Is he big enough to handle the wear and tear of the NBA? Those were questions coming out of Davidson. That was the other part of it. He was coming out of Davidson, he was not coming out of Duke. His brother had gone from Liberty to Duke. So you saw him on a bigger stage and thought, oh, okay, he can do it, it'll translate. And obviously he's had a nice career. Steph has had an all time career. And I think at this stage, the rejuvenation that we're seeing with Jimmy Butler now on the team. Dan, I'm sensing that there's even a greater appreciation for Steph than ever before. Because as you see, these incredible athletes hit the NBA, these physical specimens, these Adonis is Steph. It just feels like he could be anybody. And he's obviously a terrific athlete and he's in great shape, but he would blend in if you didn't know who he was. And that's part of the charm of it. This guy is doing it in a manner that I don't know if we're going to see it again, the way he does it. And just again, Dan, my experience, they're playing in Brooklyn, so I'm going to see this for the second time this week. I just happened to walk out onto the court to my broadcast location as he was going through his warmup and the groundswell of people that want to watch him warm up, warm up. That to me says everything you need to know, that there is a special quality. And people realize that this is just something a little different. This is just not a normal NBA player. He's Iron Eagle. He was on the call last night. Tnt, Warriors, Knicks. He's got the warriors nets tomorrow night and then Michigan, Michigan State coming up on Sunday. Is that right? That is right. Thank you. I didn't know where I was going until you mentioned it, so I better book that flight. Is there a backup plan in case you can't show up at a game? Yeah, it's a hologram. We've worked that out. They have a soundboard of all my calls and then they just project me onto the screen. We're actually trying to do that with Raph at this point. We don't even need him to be at the games. We just have onions on a loop, double order on a loop, and then you're good, you're good to go for the tournament. Bill Raftery is. And people will find him entertaining on a game. He's a million times more entertaining when he's not doing a game. And that's saying a lot. But the first time I met Raph, I was in Atlanta. Craig Sager's bar jocks and Jill. That's right. And I just got through. I was working at cnn, and I went over to Sager's bar. I come in, and Raph has the corner of the bar. As you walk in the corner of the bar, there had to be 25 beers. And he had ordered 25 beers. Yes. And it was just. If you came up to talk to him, just grab a beer. That's the first time I met him and him. And he is a delight. Can I interject one thing, Dan? Because it just spurred a memory of mine. We were in Seattle for a net game, and we ended up going to dinner. Large group. And then the group got a little smaller. We went out to a bar afterwards, and we got to the bar, and literally 10 minutes into our stay at the bar, they call out last call. And I see, like, Bill's whole demeanor change in that moment, and he just leaves the group, and he goes to the bar, and he obviously gets in an order for last call. And. And normally, last call, what ends up happening, they still let you hang around a little bit. They did not. They kick us out of this bar. We spill out into the street. It's not even that laid out. And Bill's a bit upset about it. And I understand they cut off his evening. So he's wearing a long trench coat. And we get outside now, and our director, who passed away, great guy Dave Hagen, he shows us that he snuck one beer out to the street, and we all laugh, like, oh, that's amazing. Rap opens his trench coat. He has eight years that he has snuck out. Two in each side pocket, two on the interior in his pants. This guy is at another level. I'm wondering. I brought this up when I interviewed Sonny Vaccaro. I. I said I. I hoped that he would get into basketball hall of Fame contributions to the game. And there's certain. Like, Dick Vital. Yeah, contributions. And Bill Raftery. Yes. You know, because he was a former college coach. He's in. Yeah, but. But to have. But Sonny Vaccaro is not. Yeah. And I don't know if we look at the shoe business and the CD underbelly of this and that, like, he had contributions to the game. He signed Michael Jordan, he signed Kobe, almost signed LeBron. And you got these coaches who Got paid. I mean, he changed college basketball. You may say, maybe not for the better, but where do you stand on contributions to the game and, you know, people getting inducted? Yeah, he should be in. He should be in. He played a large role in the development of the game. And you're right, there were some things happening that nobody was completely aware of and it changed the sport, but it was inevitable. If it wasn't him, it was going to be somebody else. I do think the fact that he had a big personality was a big part of what made college basketball what it was. And I don't know if that's lost now a little bit. Just like everything in life as it, it goes to a different level, financially, business wise, commerce, you lose a little bit of what made it so special. But the personalities made college basketball. Coaching personalities, behind the scenes, broadcasting personality, larger than life. Dick Vital obviously played a big role. Raf, as you mentioned. And I think it is a little bit of a lost start now when it comes to sports because it's much more corporate and we're not going to have that kind of visceral reaction like we used to have to people that had the impact that, that Sonny had. He, he belongs in there. No doubt about it. Your thoughts on Rick Patino still making, making Matt, it doesn't matter. He's. He's on the short list of greatest basketball coaches of all time. I mean, he really is, you know, the Celtics, he couldn't control the roster, didn't get Tim Duncan, but every place. Yeah, like we plugged him in at Iona and we thought, oh, that's a cute little story. He wins, Dan, he wins. This is who he is. And as the rules have changed, look, he's adapted to them. He recognized way back when you may have to do things in your way in a certain manner, maybe you bend it when the situation calls for it. I think that Rick was so far ahead of his time in the 80s that eventually others picked up on it and figured it out. But the thing about Rick that still strikes me to this day is he always adjusts. He's just a great coach. He's an incredible motivator. He's a tremendous tactician. His X's and O's are through the roof. He's smart, he gets it. He understands the media side of it. He gets all of it. And you could find great coaches that get some of it. He understands every aspect of this job and the fact that he's done it so quickly at St. John's I was at the Garden this Past weekend, it was sold out. Dan, it is a happening again. You have to go back, really, to my youth in the 80s when it felt like this around New York. They've had good teams. They've had competitive teams. They haven't had this. They haven't had this kind of buzz and this kind of chain reaction in the city. And it's Rick that's done it. Safe travels to Brooklyn tomorrow for the. Thank you. For the Nets tilt. Appreciate it. With Golden State. And then. And then just to let you know, on Sunday, you have to do Michigan and Michigan State. Hold on, let me. Yeah, Michigan. Michigan State. Michigan. That is in East Lansing. Lansing. Okay. Yeah. Okay. And they. They got a player. You know, Jason Richardson's son, Jace is. He might be a top five pick in the. In the draft. Yeah, I had them earlier this season at the Garden against Rutgers. He was coming off the bench. He is not coming off the bench. How do you explain. Rutgers will have two of the top four players drafted and may not make the tournament? Yeah. Chemistry means so much. You. You play basketball. Growing up, it was important to you. I'm sure there were years where you thought, oh, man, we have great individual talent. And then it didn't fit, unfortunately. It just doesn't fit or it doesn't translate into wins. But you're going to hear about those two guys, Harper and Bailey, for a long time, because they're going to play in the NBA for a long time. But they're going to look back at the fact that they didn't take advantage of the opportunity in college, and there's nothing they can do about it. It's like Ben Simmons didn't make the tournament at lsu. Make the tournament? Yep. At lsu. I. I actually had a game of his his freshman year. I was wowed by his skill set. Their team just wasn't that good. Tell Tom Izzo I said hello. I will. Yeah, I will. Please do. He's great. Tell him I said hello. Done. I will say it. Tell him it's, you know, getting about that time that maybe steps down and lets somebody else. I'm not gonna say that. Oh, no, no, no, don't say it. No, no. Hey, D. Hello. And maybe it's time to step aside. He would appreciate it. He's got a second, probably. Of course, I'm going to deny it when he says, why did you. I didn't said it. I said I'll produce. You can produce the tape. All right, thanks. The tape doesn't lie. All right, thanks, Dan. All right, That's Iron Eagle or Ian Igel. He did the Knicks game last night. And you go from the Garden to Barclays in Brooklyn. It's going to be a whole different vibe there for that game tomorrow night. Matthew in la. Hey, Matt, what do you have for me today? Dp Long time. First time. You were talking about Steph and his Olympic performance, which I think topped his NBA championships. He saved a country a recommendation for you. Court of Gold on Netflix. It is amazing. All the superstars that are in there. You got Patoum, Patoum ripping his France team. Jokic going at his team. Really, really well done. I agree with you. The emotional aspect of Kerr leaving all of our quote unquote Avengers out there, our superstars. The shot over France, the three point barrage by Steph against Serbia, it was really, really amazing. And the documentary is really well done. Yeah. Marvin, Marvin talked about it like you got true passion out of players and it. You can't help but go, gosh, I wish they had that passion with their day job. And it, you know, it's trying to do it every single night. You're playing for your country and you, you see that Joker winning a bronze felt more important than winning an NBA title to him. Yeah. Paul or Marvin. Yes. Because Joker didn't grow up in Denver. Yeah. So it means a lot more to him to play with his countrymen, guys he's probably played with since he was 14, 15 years old. We'll take a break. Last call for phone calls. What we learn what's in store tomorrow, this day in sports history. After this, be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show, weekdays at 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. In the iHeartRadio app, it's Julie Stewart Banks. I'm doing a new podcast from iHeart Podcasts and the National Hockey League. And I'm paired up with one of my favorite players, the always quotable Nate Thompson. I wore nine NHL sweaters and I have story after story to share. And believe it or not, I have plenty to say. And not just about hockey. Believe me, he does. Energy Line with Nate. And JSB is the name of the podcast and it's going to be, well, it's going to be quite the ride. We're officially linemates, Nate. We're the Energy Line. We'll have plenty of folks join us, current players, some of my former teammates, hall of Famers. And wait till you see some of the connections that Julie has. She has quite the Rolodex. Okay, we'll lean into Nate's playing Experience and tap into our interests away from hockey and try to do what energy lines are supposed to do. Provide an emotional boost. How do you feel about all that, Nate? I'm vibing Julie. I'm ready to roll. Listen to Energy Line with Nate and jsb on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, Will, do you ever get overwhelmed by how much science happens these days? Constantly. I'm like, ah, there's so much science, I can't keep track of it all. Then it's a good thing. Our podcast Part Time Genius is counting down the 25 greatest science ideas from the past 25 years. That's right, Mango. We're talking animals in a paper called Chickens prefer beautiful humans. This was actually the title of the paper. They all discovered that much like humans, chickens are attracted to symmetrical faces. Got it. We're talking medical miracles. He's an endocrinologist who found a way to stimulate insulin producing cells using. Wait for it, the saliva of a Gila monster. There's no way to make that not sound crazy. We even talked to some of the experts behind these breakthroughs. It's a week full of fact packed stories you won't want to miss. So listen to the part time Genius countdown of the 25 greatest science ideas of the past 25 years starting Monday, March 3rd on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Mark Seal. And I'm Nathan King. This is Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli. The five families did not want us to shoot that picture. Leave the Gun Take the Cannoli is based on my co host Mark's best selling book of the same title. And on this show we call upon his years of research to help unpack the story behind the Godfather's birth. From start to finish, this is really the first interview I've done in bed. We sift through innumerable accounts. 35 pages isn't very much. Many of them conflicting. That's nonsense. There were 60 pages and try to get to the truth of what really happened. And they said we're finished, this is over. Not only is not going to work, you gotta get rid of those guys as that Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli features new and archival interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans, James Kahn, Talia Shire and many others. Yes, that was a real horse's head. Listen and subscribe to Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's chief product officer. If you're just as curious as I am about the way things are built, the insights behind what it takes to create a world renowned product, then tune in to my podcast Building One. There's so much to learn, like how Patagonia innovates with its supply chain. We had to go out to farmers and convince them it was really damn hard. Or the way Adobe thinks about the first interaction somebody has with Photoshop. 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Stat of the Day has Been brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of the Dan Patrick Show. James in Virginia. Hi, James. How are you, buddy? Nobody. Let's go, boys. Shout out to Buddha in San Francisco, man. Thank you for taking my call, brother. Happy Wednesday. DP Dan X. You know the best thing I like about the Devo Traders? It shows Washington fans that they are going all in for 2025. I hope to see Devon Adams Miles there down the road. We'll see how it goes. But I love the conversation today, guys. I tell you what. For me, the best baseball movie all time is nostalgic. Standlot all day, every day. Sit down and watch it whenever. And one last thing. Crazy, man. I went into a movie theater with a girl. She said, you want to go see this new Jamie Foxx movie? I'm like, yeah, I love Jamie Foxx. And needless to say, we were the minorities in the group, and it was Django. And in the first couple minutes, you find out real fast what that movie's about. Great mov. Caught off guard. She was the minority in the movie. Yeah. You was with your folks? Yeah. If you. If they heard you speaking, James, if, you know, if the theater's dark, then they're not going to be able to see you. And they'll be like, all right, lights come on. And they're like, whoa. If you hear, oh, hell no. That's right, brother. I hear you. Oh, hell no. Brent in Des Moines. Hey, Brent. Good morning, sir. 59165. Okay, I've kind of been waiting for the right morning to ask you to rank three shows in order. Number one, of course, being the best. I do think I know how you'll answer it, but I'm curious to hear your answer. So the three shows, in no particular order, are the Wire, Ozark, and Breaking Bad. Okay, you want to tell me your guess on my top three? Sure, I will. I don't have to, but if you want to just tell me yours, that's fine, too. But I'll tell you my guess, if you'd like. Okay, so I think you're going Breaking Bad, Ozark and Wire. Okay, let me see. I think it's really close. I would say Breaking Bad, then I would do the Wire, and then I would do Ozark. There's no wrong order on this, but, like, Breaking Bad was a chemistry teacher who had cancer and all of a sudden became this drug lord. You imagine pitching that. Okay, and. And they always talk about an elevator pitch, that you should be able to make your pitch while the elevator is you're talking to somebody on an elevator. So you're, you know, starting on the first floor and you're going up to the ninth floor. I got, I got nine floors to get my pitch. So just like what I did. Chemistry teacher, he's got cancer and he wants to make money for his family. When he dies and he becomes a drug lord, that's it. We're not even at the fourth floor yet. And then all of a sudden they pull it off. The wire felt like that was, it was voyeuristic. The first season, you're. You're like closed circuit cameras watching a neighborhood, watching everything that was going on. Ozark was just, you know, and, and a lot of these shows and certainly this was with Breaking Bad. What can they get into that? The writers have to write a script to get them out of it. Felt like every episode you go, he's never going to get out of this. And the same with Jason Bateman and Ozark. Marty Bird, he's. How's he going to get out of this? And I always found that fascinating that, yes, the actors have to pull this off, but the writers and what they did. Awesome. This day in sports history, Paul 1964, the NFL purchased Blair Motion Pictures, which was renamed NFL Films. It was owned by Ed Sable and his family. Wow. 1994, Michael Adams of the Washington Bullets at the time became the third player in NBA history to hit 900 career three point field goals. Right now there's over 200 players in their career who have hit over 900 career threes. Michael Adams, one of the ugliest shots in NBA history. But hey, he knew how to play. Was he? Boston College Michael Adams. Yeah. Yeah. There's some of those guys that you watch and you go, I don't know how they did it, but they did it. You know, it's truly, it's like batting stances, your shot or how you pitch. They're just uniqueness there. And I always had great appreciation for that. On this date, 1973, the Yankee pitchers Mike Keckich and Fritz Peterson announced that they were trading wives. They also traded children and they traded the family dogs. True story. We had Matt Damon on the show a while ago and I did ask him because I think there was a time when Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were looking at purchasing the rights or developing that movie because, okay, once again, two players trading wives, trading children, trading dogs. I think one of the couples stayed together for quite some time. Yes, Paulie Affleck and Damon bought the rights to it. In 2015. Nothing has come of it yet. Who brings that up about swapping? Yes. I don't. I don't know. That's why we need a movie. Those mortgage rates are really hitting. Oh, yeah, baby. Yeah. Let's get it on. Yeah. I think you could just do a family vacation. I don't think I need to take your wife and your kids and your dog. Well, how about we take a test drive here, Todd. What did I learn today? When he's not pitching, Justin Verland plays a lot of chess with his new Giants teammates. TireRack.com the official tire expert of the DP Show. Go to TireC.com dan try the tire decision guide. Full lineup of Firestone tires. Special offers, free road hazard protection, mobile tire installation. Tire rack.com the way tire buying should be. Have a great day, everybody. We will talk to you tomorrow. Hey, Will, do you ever get overwhelmed by how much science happens these days? Constantly. I'm like, ah, there's so much science, I can't keep track of it all. Then it's a good thing. Our podcast, Part Time Genius is counting down the 25 greatest science ideas from the past 25 years. That's right, Mango. We're talking animals in a paper called, quote, chickens prefer beautiful humans. Right? This was actually the title of the paper. They all discovered that, much like humans, chickens are attracted to symmetrical faces. Got it. We're talking medical miracles. He's an endocrinologist who found a way to stimulate insulin producing cells using, wait for it, the saliva of a Gila monster. There's no way to make that not sound crazy. We even talked to some of the experts behind these breakthroughs. It's a week full of fact packed stories you won't want to miss. So listen to the Part Time Genius countdown of the 25 greatest science ideas the past 25 years, starting Monday, March 3rd on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up everyone? Julie Swerbinks here along with former NHL player Nate Thompson. We're doing a new podcast together. Here we go. The name Energy Line with Nate and jsb. Each week we'll get together and talk about hockey life. All topics are fair game, right? Exactly. And you'll never know who will drop by to join us. Julie is pretty well connected. She has text threads going that you wouldn't believe. Listen to EnergyLine with Nate and JSB on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Bob Pittman Chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia I'm excited to introduce a brand new season of my podcast, Math and Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing. I'm having conversations with some interesting folks across a wide range of industries to hear how they reach the top of their fields and the lessons they learned along the way that everyone can use. Being a rock star is very fun, but helping people enjoy living is way more fun. I figured out the formula, you just have to work hard, then that's magic. Join me as we uncover innovations in data and analytics, the math and the ever important creative spark, the Magic. 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