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She is not with us anymore.
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Dan Patrick
Are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio final hour on this Monday. Best and worst of the weekend. It's been a worst weekend for Fritzi. Not only is Broncos losing, he lost a bet to Seton Patriot fan and whatever the callers say, Todd has to agree with and then expound upon that. So one more hour to go, Todd, and then you'll be done.
Todd Monkin
It's been a tough two hours.
Mark Schlereth
It's been tough.
Dan Patrick
877-3-Dp show email address dp@danpatrick.com Twitter handle @DP Show A lot of reaction to this. The caller is always right is a great segment. Well done. This has to be the longest three hours of your life. Fritzi the caller is always right. Easily the funniest show feature the past three years. This is hysterical. Thank you Todd for being a good sport.
Todd Monkin
Fun. It's fun.
Dan Patrick
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Seaton
Well, here, let me give you a quick update. Most surprising in the super bowl this year, Patriots are underway with that vote over the Seahawks. We have if you view a field goal in the red zone as adding three points or losing four, huge portion of that, say adding three points and not losing four. And who had the worst day yesterday? The Vikings franchise slightly. Slightly by about a point beating out Fritzi. The jets franchise has about 22% of that vote. Marvin's just sent over a poll question. Who should everyone know about before the big game?
Dan Patrick
Oh, it's Jackson Smith. Jigma. Absolutely. Are those the candidate? I mean how many candidates?
Seaton
Well, he would be a on there. Yeah. Jackson Smith and Jigba. Drake May. Kenneth Walker, the Junior III.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Seaton
And Mike McDonald.
Dan Patrick
Yes, I've. But yeah, we're, we're going to know all about Sam Darnold because I'm sure there'll be, you know, a feature or two on Sam Darnold. Yes.
Seaton
If you are the Patriots, do you double team JSN or do you put Christian Gonzalez on there and just give that head to head matchup that probably everybody wants to see but might not get the chance to?
Dan Patrick
Well, I would do what Belichick does and that is why not double team your best player and then single cover Your second player.
Seaton
That's a smart way to do it.
Dan Patrick
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Paulie.
Paulie
There's one touchdown player where the Rams didn't cover him at all. That was a really, really curious strategy to just let him run wild.
Dan Patrick
How do you lose sight of him?
Paulie
They're incredulous. The announcers.
Dan Patrick
Well, and Sam Darnold did a great job of, you know, kind of finding some time in there and he stepped up and then he threw it to him. But I'm thinking of all the guys you're going to throw to maybe not have him that wide open. Yeah.
Paulie
Paul Jason's one handed catch wasn't by necessity. He caught it, he held it and he chose not to bring the other hand and it wasn't being pinned behind him. That was a move.
Dan Patrick
Mark Schlerith, NFL and Fox analyst, three time super bowl champ with the Broncos. He was at the game in Denver yesterday with his former teammates joining us on the program. Hey, Mark, it's great to talk to you. We've been talking about this most of the morning and that is the fourth down moment there with Jared Stidham. Your thoughts in the moment when you're there watching the game?
Mark Schlereth
Yeah, you know, we were all sitting, we were all sitting and standing around in fate Manning's suite. And it was me and it was Stokely and it was Mike Shanahan, it was Peyton and we all looked at it go just like this. You got a backup quarterback, you got a chance to go up 10 nothing and you know, and your defense is balling out of control, like kick. All of us were in agreement at that point, just kick the field goal, just kick the field goal. And then, you know, you come out with a little roll out pass. And it was a debacle to begin with. And plus at that point you hadn't run the ball for 2 inches. So it's not like you feel like, hey man, they're really going to respect our run game, right? They're really going to respect what we're doing here as an offense. So we're just going to run the QB sneak or we're just going to run some power down the middle or ISO and really smash mouth these gu. They were kicking our ass up front. So I was, I was like, kick the field goal, take the points, man. 10 Nothing is a big score. Especially with the weather report that, you know, it was going to get nasty in the second half. That was the weather report that had been, you know, floated for the whole week.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, I wondered about that. I'm watching the broadcast. But I didn't hear Nansen Romo talk about impending doom with the weather because there was like a 40 minute period where it changed the whole look. Literally the look of the game.
Mark Schlereth
Yeah, yeah. You know, it's funny, on my radio show in Denver, we had our local weather guy on. I told him he was on notice, like if he wasn't right about the weather, then I was going to move to Kathy Saban because she is balls when it comes to weather. She knows everything that's going on. And. And he was dead on, man. Congratulations, Chris Bianchi because he told us in the second half, man, expect it to the temperatures to continue to drop. Snow flurries coming in could get nasty. I mean, he had it nailed. And of course that's exactly what happened.
Dan Patrick
I wonder about this whole going forward on fourth down. It almost seems like you're a failure if you don't go for it on fourth down and you take the field goal and you leave four points out there. But I don't know if the data is able to show, well, who's my quarterback? Who are we going against? What are the conditions? At what time of the game Am I doing all of this stuff?
Mark Schlereth
Yeah, Dan. You know, it's really funny. I get into arguments because I hate analytics. I hate all analytics people. I don't like nerds. And, and I, I always get into this with, with guys, you like the two point conversion play and we got to go for it on fourth down and all this stuff and you know, you get the sample size of data. But hey man, if I haven't blocked your defensive front all day long, right, that data changes. If my guards can't handle your three techniques, if my tackles can't handle your defensive ends, then we need to change like, like that Math has never made a tackle. Math has never blocked anybody. Math has never done any of that stuff. And I always say this to analytics guys, how many two point conversion plays do you think are in any given game plan? And they're all like, I don't know. I go, we go in with one that we like and one that we kind of like and we practice them on Fridays in hats and T shirts so you don't ever get a full rep. Look at a two point play. And so that math is that, to me, that math is faulty. And you gotta understand like that the feel of the game. And I thought Sean made a major gaffe not going for it or not kicking that field goal, but that has become endemic of the league in general. Like nobody Nobody. It's almost like you're, you're a wussy if you kick a field goal. And I hate the momentum shift. I hate it all. Like, take the points.
Dan Patrick
Talking to Mark Schlerith, NFL and Fox analyst, three time super bowl champ, before we kick the Broncos to the curb, looked going into next year, what are your thoughts?
Mark Schlereth
I love the way the team is built. I think they need some more weapons on, on the offensive side of the ball for Bo Nix. But I love, I love the way Bo Nix played and I love the, I love his ability to rise his game to a level that you have to have. I, you know, I said it on my show many times. When it's not cutting time, he cuts nuts. And I can't explain it any better than that. Like, he just is when the pressure is on and you have to be your best. He has been his best all year. He's going to continue to, to develop in the boring stuff. The boring stuff to me is, is the difference between winning championships and not winning championships. He's got to be better in the boring stuff. But they need running, need a, you know, they need more or premier tight end. They haven't had a tight end here since Shannon Sharp and we really haven't been able to figure that position out.
Dan Patrick
How good was it watching from Peyton Manning suite?
Mark Schlereth
It's awesome. It is. It's awesome because, you know, I do radio here in Denver with Brandon Stokely and so we've got this ongoing feud and I walked in the suite and Peyton Manning, the Broncos put a bunch of pictures of me, singular pictures of me on the wall, which really got under Stokely's skin because he was there with his boys. And you know what, we're still children. I turned 60 yesterday, Dan, and I said, hey, man, I look in the mirror, to me, I still see 30 and I act like a 15 year old. That makes me 45. I am right there in the prime spot for me.
Dan Patrick
What was your biggest takeaway from Seattle eliminating the Rams?
Mark Schlereth
I, I have just been, and I have been like the, the Pied Piper of what Sam Darnold has been through. And you know, I sat down with Kyle Shanahan and like just talked about Sam Darnold when Sam was a backup quarterback in San Francisco. And he said, first off, he gets drafted by the Jets. Jeremy Bates was there, was a Peyton Manning disciple. So he goes, he gets drafted by the jets and they put him in the Peyton Manning offense. There's one guy in the history of the National Football League that Could run the Peyton Manning office. That was Peyton Manning. Then he gets shipped off to Carolina and he's running, you know, Matt rules collegiate offense. And so when he had a chance to go to San Francisco, he had a chance to go to compete for starting jobs elsewhere. He said, I need to learn how to play football in the NFL. He humbled himself, went there as a backup, then did what he did in Minnesota. They kicked him to the curb. He was the destination spot in for John. Schneider said, that's the guy we want. And to watch him do what he did and then to out duel or to go toe to toe with Matt Stafford in an NFC champ game with all the weapons that Matthew Stafford had, I just, I thought that was phenomenal. What an unbelievable performance by that kid because, you know, I don't think a lot of people had that on their pingo card, him going toe to toe with Stafford.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. And you bring up an interesting point. It, it's, you know, Kyle Shanahan can make you a better quarterback. He can make you see the game differently and put you in positions where you're going to succeed. And he's carried that over to Seattle. But you look at Seattle's offense, I think people are going to be introduced to Jackson, Smith, Najigba. They're going to be like, who's this guy? Because they haven't watched Seattle probably most of the year. And he's right there with Pukinakua.
Mark Schlereth
He certainly is. He is so smooth in and out of breaks and no matter, like, no matter what they ask him to do, you watch it. And I did a Seattle game this year and you watch him play and as you're studying the film, like he just always finds the opening, whether he's in man, whether he's in zone. He's got a great feel. Unbelievable. The top of his route, his stems and just getting out and all of a sudden becoming a very friendly target. And he's so dynamic with the underneath stuff, you know, you dump it to him and he's going to get you an extra, you know, four or five yards, whatever it is. Like the kid is just amazing. And honestly, when you look at it, Dan, it's not like Puka, who's got Devonte Adams on the other side. He's got, you know, four tight ends that can all get down the seams and win. It's Smith and Jigba and then it's a bunch of other guys, you know, Bobo. And you look at obviously Cooper cup is unbelievable, but he does all the underneath Stuff, it just is. It just feels different. It feels like, hey, if you can shut down in Jigba, you can beat the Seahawks and nobody can do it.
Dan Patrick
The Tarek Lowlands taunting penalty, that could have gone down in history, that could, that could have been, you know, because Puka then scores a touchdown right after that. And you could even see his teammates were mad. They were livid at him for, you know, a stupid taunting penalty.
Mark Schlereth
Yeah, it's one of those things, Dan. You know, you talk about it, you talk about it, you talk about it. I always say, listen, man, we're a bunch of PE majors that play this game. None of us like genius and football, mutually exclusive events. But that's one of those things you go into and you say, hey, man, we can't have these penalties. We can't have this, we can't have that. And, and especially taunting. Hey, man, if you're going to get a penalty, get your money's worth, you know, late, hit late. You know, make somebody feel it in their ribs.
Caller
Right?
Mark Schlereth
I mean, what. And yeah, it sounds Neanderthal, but that's what I am. And so I'm like, I understand sometimes that's a good thing for a defense. I go Back to that 2015 Broncos defense, the no fly zone. They were, they were good for at least one personal foul a game, maybe two, just to let you know that they're going to be there. Right? But the taunting thing is that, that's just, it's, again, it's one of those stupid things. But the great news for Seattle and their fans, because all my boys from college are. I'm on a text thread. They're all live in Seattle, so they wanted him shipped out, like instantly. They're like, they were so mad at him. But he's a good player, man. He's been a really good player for them. I'm sure they'll clean that up. But that is one of those major gaps that you just can't have.
Dan Patrick
Drake May will be the second youngest quarterback to start a Super Bowl. Is he ready for this?
Mark Schlereth
I think so. I think, I mean, Denver shut that offense down and he made, he made, I think six scrambles. He made a couple of scrambles that were big time, I mean, big time scrambles that put them, you know, that swung field position or gave them a chance.
Dan Patrick
And so, but how often does a quarterback not tell the offensive line that he's going to change the play? And he's the only one. So that. That bootleg when he kept himself, he didn't tell his teammates, how often that happened?
Mark Schlereth
Not, not often. But it's the best, it's the best way to do it. Like sometimes when you put in some RPO stuff, like the offensive line never knows if you're going to hand it off or you're going to throw it. They don't. So that, that part in the RPO game happens quite frequently because the one thing you want when you're running a run, action play, action play is you want complete and total sellout by the offensive line. You don't want them to know because ultimately the defense then is going to buy into that and you can get things over the top. So a lot of times we used to have, we used to have plays in where it was just an automatic smokescreen if you know your slot receiver has got a defensive back who's 12 yards off and we're running 14 handoff to the right. And also the quarterback just pops up and throws it. You're just blocking and all of a sudden you're like the defensive line, like you're comboing up to a middle linebacker and all of a sudden he takes off across the field the opposite way and you're like, dude, what happened? Well, we threw it out there and the quarterback didn't tell you. But that, that play in particular was brilliant by a young court. I mean, brilliant because you knew they were going to sell out on that. What was it, a fourth down and short? You knew they were going to sell out on that. And, and Drake May keeping that thing was incredible.
Dan Patrick
Happy 60th to you Stink. Thanks for joining us, buddy.
Mark Schlereth
I appreciate Dan. Take care, buddy. Always great to be with you.
Dan Patrick
Mark Schlerith, NFL and FOX analyst, three time super bowl champ with the Broncos. More phone calls. The caller is always right. Today, Fritz, he losing the bet. He's got his Cancun shirt on. You're ready for vacation. You and Sean Payton.
Todd Monkin
Yeah. Unfortunately, instead of Santa Clara, we're taking a detour to an island instead.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Paulie
PA he brought that shirt with him yesterday.
Dan Patrick
Oh.
Paulie
Remember our discussion. Do you bring a losing outfit?
Caller
Wow.
Todd Monkin
I had Bronco stuff. I had the Cancun stuff. I should have learned my lesson. My wife always says, why do you hang all your Bronco stuff? It always brings you bad luck. The more Bronco stuff, the worse. And I didn't listen.
Dan Patrick
Cancun on three. We'll take a break. We're back after this with more phone calls.
Mark Schlereth
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Chelsea Handler
On Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler. We've got some incredible guests like Kumail Nanjiani. Let's start with your cat. How is she?
Dan Patrick
She is not with us anymore.
Chelsea Handler
Okay, great, great, great way to start. So this is a great beginning and hopefully you'll be able to, I don't know, maybe you will cry. Amanda Seyfried. Life is so short. If you feel something like that, you have that fire in you for this experience. It's not for a guy. It's for the experience of being in love and like it's bigger than a guy. Elizabeth Olsen. I love swimming naked so much. And I know you love taking pictures of yourself. Yes, I love to be naked. I just want to be in my bra underwear all the time. Ross Matthews. You know what kids always say to me? Are you a boy or a girl? Oh my God, all the time. I know. So I'm always like, hi. I try to butch it up for kids, you know, so they're not confused. Yeah, but you're butching it up. It's basically like an angry woman. Doris Day, right? No, I turn into Bea Arthur. Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. On June 11, 1998, a deputy from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department went missing. It's an all out manhunt for John AJAY every search and rescue team in LA county has been called in to help. Within days tips started flooding into the sheriff's department. They ruler around the drug scene. Was that a deputy was taken care of. Is this the story of a man who just got lost in the desert? Or of a cover up inside the nation's largest sheriff's department?
Mark Schlereth
A homicide captain saying detective, do not find out if this guy's guilty or innocent. Who does that?
Chelsea Handler
Valley of Shadows a new series from Pushkin Industries about crime and corruption in California's high desert. Do you have any advice for us while looking into this disappearance?
Caller
I wouldn't do it alone.
Chelsea Handler
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Nav Green
This show contains information subject to but not limited to personal takes, rumors not so accurate stats, and plenty more. What's up man? It's your boy Nav Green from the Broken Play podcast. Look, it's the end of the season. The playoffs are here. But guess what? It ain't the end of your season. You can always tune in with Broken Play podcast with Nav Green on the Black Effect podcast network. Not a team who ain't going to the playoff. The Chiefs. What's a wrap? It's time to rebuild. Who your MVP right now then Drake May up there.
Mark Schlereth
Josh Allen up there still. Oh my boy Matthew Stafford.
Dan Patrick
Where did Bo?
Mark Schlereth
Nick said he ain't too far behind.
Chelsea Handler
He did all this talking.
Mark Schlereth
What Matthew Stafford is doing statistically bro is crazy.
Nav Green
Bro, you know I ain't no Josh Allen fan, but Matthew Stafford got better web. Caleb Williams.
Mark Schlereth
Hey, he should be in that conversation.
Dan Patrick
In what conversation?
Nav Green
He should be in it. Listen to Broken Play with Nav Green from the Black Effect podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or whatever you get your podcast.
Dan Patrick
Aside from the football over the weekend, there was a guy who climbed a building on Netflix, Alex Honnold. He a free solo climber and he scaled Taipei 101, one of the world's tallest buildings. Here was the problem. I don't know if it got much attention here in the United States. He also said he whatever he got paid, it was like mid six figures. But if you're gonna climb a building like that, I would have thought you'd get a little more attention. Yeah, Seaton.
Seaton
Yeah, he. He didn't seem unhappy with what he got paid, but he was like man, in the grand scheme of things, considering what I'm doing, this is just not enough money.
Dan Patrick
He.
Seaton
He's the guy from that movie free solo.
Dan Patrick
Yes.
Seaton
Right?
Dan Patrick
Yes.
Seaton
Which was insane. That movie is crazy. It's about him climbing El capitan in Yosemite.
Dan Patrick
Yes.
Seaton
Holy smokes.
Dan Patrick
And he did it without any help, any ropes, like, nothing.
Seaton
That's what free solo means, that you do it without any type of safety equipment.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. And here he is climbing this building and I don't know. I don't. It was one of those where I saw it after the fact and I go, oh, wow. Now I wouldn't have watched it. Like, him standing on top of the building and taking selfies like that wigged me out. I'm like, you know, you start to have that pit in your stomach.
Seaton
I can't even watch those videos because I do. I start to, like, almost get dizzy.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Not good. Yeah.
Paulie
Paul, that's a job where you asked for the money up front, right? Alex Honnold.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Paulie
You don't wait till the end to see how it works out.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Paulie
They showed people. They allowed people to be in the building and they were yelling and taking pictures of him. And there's one moment where it was like this curved piece of the building. He had his legs like a crab around it. He leaned backwards out and no handed chalked up his hands.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Paulie
That was where I was like, oh, no, no.
Dan Patrick
Yes.
Todd Monkin
Todd, if you're watching from in the building, do you accidentally go high five? Oh, no, I didn't. Hold on. It could be very dangerous if you start high fiving somebody. Horrible thought.
Dan Patrick
Thank you, Todd.
Seaton
Imagine if you went to high five minute, pushed him up a building. That'd be crazy.
Dan Patrick
Steve in New Hampshire. Good morning, Steve. No, now if something happens to this guy.
Todd Monkin
The broncos didn't climb higher like they were supposed to. All outside empower field. That my life said climb higher. This guy's the one that did the climbing higher.
Dan Patrick
Anyway, was he a mile high?
Todd Monkin
He might have been.
Dan Patrick
Okay. All right. Hi, Steve.
Caller
Hey, guys. I have a best of the weekend, the worst of the weekend, and a question for Todd. Best of the weekend, obviously my patriots going back to the super bowl. And I'm going to echo Marvin's worst of the weekend. As a football fan, I would love to see Devonte Adams make it to a super bowl. And I would like to get Todd's opinion on the Beatles being one of the best to ever do it.
Dan Patrick
All right, Todd.
Todd Monkin
The Beatles are wonderful. I got a chance recently to look back to some of the old footage, and now I understand why women were screaming and yelling and passing out where am to come and take them out. Because just their lyrics and everything about them was so original and creative and interesting. And I think I've had it wrong all this time. The Beatles are actually underrated for what they've accomplished in the history of music.
Dan Patrick
Once again, the caller is always right.
Todd Monkin
They love you. Yeah, yeah, yeah she loves you hold my hand.
Dan Patrick
But the fact that you. Part of the reason why you don't like the Beatles is because you were jealous of how they got women to react to them.
Todd Monkin
Yes, I always wanted to. I aspired, which never worked out to me. That's why I went to the gym when I was younger, when I used to bodybuild, to get that kind of reaction. Or anything where someone gives you a second look or screams or wants to throw articles of clothing at you or passes out in your presence.
Dan Patrick
Girls. Girls have screamed in your presence before. Not for the reasons, you know, like, get away. Landon in Michigan. Hi, Landon.
Caller
Hey, Dan. First time, Long time. Look, this. This has just got to be the epitome of the genius of this bit, and it has to be a regular bit, but I'm not gonna. I'll just cut right to the chase because I'm a vocal instructor, a professional vocal instructor in Michigan. And, Pat, I don't know. You've been told this before. I know. Singing for. For laughs, that's a good thing. Todd, singing because you think you can do it as a profession, it's. It's a problem. And it's a problem that you actually believe you can do it is the problem.
Seaton
Wow.
Dan Patrick
Do you want to agree with the caller?
Todd Monkin
Well said.
Dan Patrick
I can't rhyme words.
Todd Monkin
I can't sing a lick in the shower. I've been led to believe, which most people think that they sound decent, but.
Dan Patrick
Said today, this hurts the most. I think that you can't sing in.
Todd Monkin
The spirit of what we're doing today. He really, you know, he hit a chord there, an emotional chord, but he might be just right about that. I have no business singing.
Dan Patrick
Be nice if you hit a chord. Becky in Wisconsin. Hi, Becky. What's on your mind?
Caller
Hey, guys. Good morning. I made the bet with Todd about a little over a month ago for that Broncos packers game, and obviously I lost, which I'm okay with. I didn't do the pie yet because I was using it as an opportunity to raise money for my Special Olympics team and agency. And so I am doing the Polar Plunge in two weeks, which I know you guys did in Minnesota a couple years back, and I am letting the top fundraisers for my two agencies Be the ones that deliver the pie in the face. And I was thinking, since, you know, it's obviously supporting such a great cause, Special Olympics is amazing and everything, that maybe it'd be a good idea if Todd made a donation for my plunge and ultimately for the two pies I'm going to be receiving instead of one. Todd, what do you think?
Todd Monkin
I would be happy to make a donation. I know they all tease me about how, like, I'm the last to pick up a check and I'm cheating.
Dan Patrick
Well, you are and you are.
Todd Monkin
You know, I could be very generous, especially when I'm put on the spot on national radio, tv. I could be a very generous person. And we'll have Tyler take down your information and let me know the website or how he can make a donation. And I can assure you I will donate the amount. That remains to be seen, but it'll be a donation I'll be happy to participate in.
Dan Patrick
All right. And Becky, I'll match whatever Todd donates.
Todd Monkin
That's a five bucks each. Lunch on me.
Dan Patrick
Thank you, Becky. Tyler will get your information. Todd will send out his donation. And so why Brian in Connecticut? Hi, Brian.
Caller
Hey, D.P. how are we doing?
Dan Patrick
Great. All right.
Caller
5, 10, 1 9, 9.9999, 9, 9 9. I got a best and a worst. And the caller is always right, simple on the best and worst. Best was obviously watching two great championship football games yesterday. Worse is football season's almost over. Seasons go faster every year for the callers. All right, Todd, I got your back this time. You've been doing an amazing job. Great sport. Today I want to go out there and say that you, along with Lee Corso and media, you guys are national treasures. So I want you to repeat after me, Todd. I am a national treasure.
Todd Monkin
I am a national treasure. I feel like I'm being set up for something at the end of this.
Caller
However, there's a group out there. We love you. You're a national treasure.
Dan Patrick
My man.
Caller
Keep up the good work, guys. Stay safe in the snow.
Dan Patrick
Thank you, Brian.
Todd Monkin
Very kind of Brian.
Dan Patrick
Yes.
Todd Monkin
I'm having a tough day today.
Dan Patrick
Do you want to talk a little bit more about being a national treasure?
Todd Monkin
I think I'm a kind, gentle, curious, fun person. I like to make people laugh. And I'll. I'll leave it at that. I just, I. I hopefully people enjoy being in being around me, and that's all I could really ask. If I can make people laugh and someone like Brian could take time to reach out and say that it makes me Feel good. It made me happy.
Dan Patrick
You're a national treasure who should be buried.
Todd Monkin
A national buried treasure.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Buried treasure.
Todd Monkin
Yeah. I knew this was going to end up being twisting in a negative way at some point.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Todd Monkin
Couldn't just leave it alone, what Brian said.
Dan Patrick
And neither could you.
Todd Monkin
Could not.
Dan Patrick
No, you could. Jesse in Kansas. Hi, Jesse. What's on your mind?
Caller
Hey, I'll give Todd a quick break here. Just want to get your opinion. Dan, you and Ross were talking about second second chance coaches.
Mark Schlereth
Yep.
Caller
And I was what? I know you like Brian Flores. I was wondering about him to the Raiders. There is that Patriot connection there. But the history of the Raiders, you know, they used to give lots of guys second chances in the 70s and 80s. So get your second chance head coach. Get your let' a quarterback going to super bowl in five years.
Dan Patrick
But I. And thanks for the phone call, Jesse. I saw where blind Brian Flores is probably going back to the Vikings, that he's probably not getting a head coaching job. I don't have any information on it. I thought that that might be a great landing spot for him, a connection with Brady. You bring in somebody who is established, well, thought of, maybe can set sort of the locker room culture the way Mike Vrabel did. But I don't think he's going to get that job. The way Tom Brady talked about Clint Kubiak, the offensive coordinator for the Seahawks, would lead me to believe he could be your next head coach with the Raiders. Plus, you get somebody who's coming in, you don't have to spend overspend and you're already paying, what, three coaches already? And you could bring in somebody. His dad was a head coach. Was he a head coach? Todd? I know he was an offensive coordinator. I would have to check Kubiak.
Todd Monkin
Gary Kubiak.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Yeah.
Todd Monkin
He was in the Broncos head.
Dan Patrick
Broncos head coach. Right. Yeah. So you didn't hear what I was saying. And that's why they said Clint Kubiak.
Todd Monkin
And Clint Kubiak definitely wasn't. But Gary Kubiak led Denver for every short period of time.
Dan Patrick
All right, so Clint Kubiak, who was mentioned numerous times, he was dialing up things last night.
Todd Monkin
Why. Why they need to mention the name so many times?
Dan Patrick
Well, I don't know. It's almost like when Kirk Herbstreet talks about Todd Monkin, he. Herbie loves Todd Monkin because Todd Monkin is dialing some things up.
Seaton
Not like Clint Kubiak, though.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Tom has this. What's the accent that he's got going on here?
Seaton
Not really sure, but he has a funny like, ah, a little bit of an affect going. Yeah. There's a play auction possum. What is that? Aaron Andrews has picked it up too. It's a very funny thing within the Fox broadcast broadcasting team, I would say.
Dan Patrick
Tom got it from Aaron.
Seaton
Yeah, maybe.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, she's been there. Play auction possum stoppered. Although I, you know, the reviews are. We're in with Tom and Kevin Burkhart that they did a really good job with the broadcast. Yes.
Todd Monkin
Todd, how do you feel about those Pizza Hut commercials?
Nav Green
I had a little.
Todd Monkin
Little much of that. Just me, but I found that a little routine after a while.
Dan Patrick
The Uber eats.
Todd Monkin
Oh, that's even worse.
Dan Patrick
I know.
Todd Monkin
Food, food, food, food, food, food, food.
Dan Patrick
What is that? What are they doing? These numbers have to be crazy for these AFC NFC title games. Just because you had the Midwest and the east and Southeast getting buried by snow and everybody was inside. So you'll. You're going to do probably at least 40 million for both of those games. Yeah. Paulie.
Paulie
I'm starting to enjoy Tom Brady partnering with. With franchises he would never eat at. It's like become his thing. He went with. He's gonna go all down through him.
Seaton
Like ones that go directly in conflict with the like TB12 brands.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Seaton
For the last 10 years.
Paulie
High sodium, a lot of bread.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Paulie
Fatty, let's bring it on.
Seaton
Yeah.
Dan Patrick
There's no way, no way, no way, no way.
Todd Monkin
20 piece chicken McNugget with a kale dip. Why not a Little Kale Dipper?
Seaton
20 million is 20 million.
Dan Patrick
Hudson in Albany. Hi, Hudson. What's on your mind?
Caller
Thank you for taking my call. First time, one time. 410, £87. I'm going for the best and the worst of the weekend.
Dan Patrick
Okay.
Caller
I have snow in my town. 3 to 4 inches and no school today.
Dan Patrick
Wait a minute. You live in Albany and you had three to four inches and you don't have school?
Caller
Hudson, Albany, Texas. Yes.
Dan Patrick
Oh.
Mark Schlereth
It's like, yeah, I got up.
Seaton
I'm in Moscow and today. Oh, no, that's Moscow, Arkansas.
Dan Patrick
Oh. What is your worst? Hudson in Albany, Texas.
Caller
The Rams losing against the Seahawks.
Dan Patrick
Well, thank you for calling in and enjoy your day off.
Caller
Yes, sir. Thank you.
Dan Patrick
That's Hudson from Albany. I'm thinking. What? Yeah, I'm calling from. From Rochester. Rochester, Florida. We got three to four inches. Damn.
Seaton
I'll tell you what. Texas does not know what to do with snow.
Dan Patrick
No. Well, well, I lived in. I lived in Atlanta and a hard rain. People Would just pull off to the side of the road. They wouldn't even drive in a hard rain. There was one snowplow when I lived in Atlanta. They might as well had Zamboni out there trying to clear things. Josh in San Antonio. Hi, Josh. What's on your mind today?
Caller
Hey. Hey, Dan. I can't wait for this show to end so we could all move on to things that are more fun and more lucrative and maybe win a sport to me. Don't you agree, Todd?
Dan Patrick
Wow.
Todd Monkin
This is what you're gonna do. Yeah, I think it's run its course. You know, we'll limp up to the. We'll limp around for these next two years and get to the finish line eventually. But, yeah, I could see where you would be. Kind of want to move on to other things.
Dan Patrick
Thank you, Josh. Eric in Michigan. Hi, Eric.
Caller
Oh, yes. I've been watching for 15 years, and this is just one of the funniest days I've ever seen with Todd. The only other day I could think of is sausage off.
Dan Patrick
Yeah.
Caller
And this with him taking all the hits. I just want to applaud him for that. And I just want to see. I just want to hear his thoughts and how he's unable to rhyme Sausage off compared to taking all these other calls.
Dan Patrick
Okay, so Eric's complimentary that this is as funny as you've ever been.
Todd Monkin
I've had a lot of trouble with rhymes, but he made a good point about that. I think I have some kind of tinnitus. Was that the little ringing in your ear? I'm gonna blame it on that. That every once in a while this coming through my ear that aren't there that are blocking my ability to rhyme words.
Dan Patrick
Keith and Chico. Hi, Keith.
Caller
Hey, Dan. I just wanted to comment and have callers always right with Fritzi. Sam Darnold, his redemption arc. How quick do you think Seattle needs to react and maybe give him an extension? Maybe another payday? And Fritzi, do you know about Game of Thrones? Because you look exactly like Varys from that show. Thanks, guys.
Todd Monkin
It sounds like that wouldn't be a cop. Not familiar with Game of Thrones, but I can't imagine that being something positive that he was trying to.
Dan Patrick
Does anybody know who this character is on Game of Thrones?
Seaton
Which one is it?
Dan Patrick
Is it Varys?
Mark Schlereth
What?
Dan Patrick
Is it Paul?
Paulie
Yeah. He's a big guy, Very, very bald, kind of thick.
Dan Patrick
Okay.
Paulie
Not a bad looking guy.
Dan Patrick
Okay.
Seaton
He's like the dude who. He sort of like, orchestrates things behind the scenes and sort of like is like the puppet master a little bit.
Dan Patrick
And what's his name?
Seaton
Varys.
Dan Patrick
Varys.
Todd Monkin
But visually he doesn't sound particularly appealing the way that was.
Seaton
He is not.
Caller
He is not.
Todd Monkin
But that was a shot, John.
Seaton
Yeah, he's not a looker.
Dan Patrick
Last call for phone calls. What we learn what's in store Getting personal now.
Todd Monkin
I don't. That's not what this was meant to be.
Dan Patrick
Well, who said what it's meant to be? I guess callers could say whatever they wanted to say. The callers are always right.
Todd Monkin
I thought we're keeping it to like sports topics or my fandom of music or teams.
Dan Patrick
But take a break. Last call for phone calls. What we learn what's in store tomorrow, right after this. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports.
Mark Schlereth
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Dan Patrick
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Chelsea Handler
On Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler. We've got some incredible guests like Kumail Nanjiani. Let's start, start with your cat. How is she?
Dan Patrick
She is not with us anymore.
Chelsea Handler
Okay, great, great, great way to start. So this is a great beginning and hopefully you'll be able to, I don't know, maybe you will cry. Amanda Seyfried Life is so short. If you feel something like that, you have that fire in you for this experience. It's not for a guy. It's for the experience of being in love and like it's bigger than a guy. Elizabeth Olsen. I love swimming naked so much. And I know you love taking pictures of yourself naked. I love to be naked. I just want to be in my bra underwear all the time. Ross Matthews. You know what kids always say to me? Are you a boy or a girl? Oh my God, all the time. I know. So I'm always like, hi. I try to butch it up for kids, you know, so they're not confused. Yeah, but you're butching it up. It's basically like an angry woman. Doris Day, right? No, I turn into Bea Arthur. Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. On June 11, 1998, a deputy from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department went missing. It's an all out manhunt for John Ajay. Every search and rescue team in LA county has been called in to help. Within days, tips started flooding into the sheriff's department. The rumor around the drug scene was.
Caller
That a deputy was taken care of.
Chelsea Handler
Is this the story of a man who just got lost in the desert? Or of a cover up inside the nation's largest sheriff's department?
Mark Schlereth
A homicide captain saying, detective, do not find out if this guy's guilty or innocent. Who does that?
Chelsea Handler
Valley of Shadows, a new series from Pushkin Industries about crime and corruption in California's high desert. Do you have any advice for us while looking into this disappearance?
Caller
I wouldn't do it alone.
Chelsea Handler
Listen to Valley of shadows on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Nav Green
This show contains information subject to but not limited to personal takes, rumors, not so accurate stats, and plenty more. What's up, man? This your boy, Nav Green from the Broken Play podcast? Look, it's the end of the season. The playoffs are here. But guess what? It ain't the end of your season. You can always tune in with Broken Play podcast with Nav Green on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Another team who ain't going to the playoffs. The Chiefs. What's a rap? It's time to rebuild. Who your MVP right now.
Dan Patrick
Then Drake May up there.
Mark Schlereth
Josh Allen up there still. Oh, my boy Matthew Stafford.
Chelsea Handler
Where did Bo Nicks at?
Mark Schlereth
He ain't too far behind.
Chelsea Handler
He did all this talking.
Mark Schlereth
What Matthew Stafford is doing statistically, bro, is crazy.
Nav Green
Crazy, bro. You know I ain't no Josh Allen fan, but Matthew Stafford got better web Caleb Williams.
Mark Schlereth
Hey, he should be in that conversation.
Dan Patrick
And what conversation?
Nav Green
Listen to Broken Play with Nav Green from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or whatever.
Mark Schlereth
You get your podcast Lines and Tines with Spencer Graves on the iHeartRadio app is a podcast designed for hunters and fishermen to enjoy success.
Caller
I like the idea of like, hey, put me on a big deer.
Dan Patrick
You know, hey, there's a big deer out here.
Caller
He's doing this. Be looking for this deer. But I also love doing it on my own. I love going out there and saying, running my cameras.
Dan Patrick
I love patterning the deer.
Mark Schlereth
I like showing up at the right.
Dan Patrick
Time, checking the wind, knowing what stand I need to be in.
Caller
And then whenever it all comes together and it happens, that's the most satisfying thing ever.
Dan Patrick
He said.
Caller
When you do it on your own, it's like, I then can hang my hat. But if I had somebody say, hey, pull up on these dots and catch them right here and you're going to win. And then when I go in, it's like, yeah, it's cool, I won the tournament. The ultimate goal is done. But it's like, dude, when you find them and you make them bite, that's the puzzle.
Nav Green
I love it.
Mark Schlereth
Listen to Lines and Tines with Spencer Graves on the iHeartRadio Apple Podcasts or.
Dan Patrick
Wherever you get your podcast. Last call for phone calls. What we learn what's in store tomorrow. We had a caller saying that Todd resembles varys from Game of Thrones and we weren't familiar with him. Now we find out that he's a bald unic. So I would say that's not a compliment. Not a compliment. Not a compliment.
Todd Monkin
Playing at home.
Seaton
Yeah, let'sd agree.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. You got got. You got 13 more minutes to put up with this.
Todd Monkin
It's like looking at the mirror. Now that I look at the pictures.
Dan Patrick
Online here, it's like looking at the trip in Vegas. Hi, Trip.
Caller
Hey, good morning, Dan. Always good to talk to y'.
Dan Patrick
All.
Caller
I got a couple for Todd. I was thinking with the in the Denver game with the weather conditions and short passing, I think Philip Rivers should have been brought in to play quarterback for a game.
Dan Patrick
What do you think about Philip Rivers instead of Stitty?
Todd Monkin
I think that would have been the way to go. I think we win by at least nine points if Rivers was under center.
Dan Patrick
Okay, fair enough.
Todd Monkin
Strongly about that, Brian.
Dan Patrick
In Texas, Philip Rivers took his name out of the running for the Buffalo Bills head coaching job.
Todd Monkin
As he should.
Dan Patrick
Yeah, Brian.
Seaton
A lot of only time he's ever pulled out of something. Jokes going on, lots of children.
Dan Patrick
Wow. Wow.
Paulie
Too soon.
Chelsea Handler
Dang.
Dan Patrick
That's funny though, that one.
Seaton
The coaching search. He pulled his name out of the coaching search.
Dan Patrick
I know.
Seaton
Job.
Dan Patrick
We talk about that all the time with 10 kids. Hi, Brian.
Caller
Hey, Fritz. These rant last week about the point spread in the Denver game. I was brainwashed in the taking Denver Moneyline. I would like to know Todd's thoughts on how important point spreads are.
Todd Monkin
Point spreads are everything if you think about it every waking moment. And when I'm dreaming at night, I think about the point spreads and how something would go from five and a half to four and a half to three and a half. And I still have no idea how that works. But you'll explain it to me at some point.
Dan Patrick
Todd has no idea how point spread.
Todd Monkin
It's where the money goes. As I do with the mafia deciding.
Dan Patrick
What the points Todd thinks that everything has to do with the mafia.
Todd Monkin
Really do.
Dan Patrick
Yeah. Marshall in Orlando. Hi, Marshall.
Caller
Hey, guys. Yeah. You know what's funny about this show today is that at some point this segment ceased to become a bit because hearing Todd articulate calmly about the Beatles, about not hogging the left lane or not berating bagel shop employees has actually. The callers were right all day. And it only makes Todd's normal takes even more neurotic. So the only thing I'll add for Todd, for him to comment that in no way, shape or form does he have any supernatural impact on the Bronco game outcome.
Todd Monkin
Ouch. All the screaming and yelling. I've invested since like age 7 thinking that when I'm yelling at the screen.
Dan Patrick
But you're in a hotel room and you've got all of your jerseys and you got your tchotchkes, your good luck charms. You're by yourself.
Todd Monkin
Yeah, I set up a bunch of stuff and I thought that was gonna somehow bring them good luck. I was wearing Bronco sweatpants and I had it all going, my wristbands. And it didn't work. And my wife told me that always goes badly for you. The more stuff you put out, it doesn't work out, especially in the playoffs or the Super Bowl.
Dan Patrick
And I. Layla, in Florida, you just cut me off. I just. I mean, you should be on a shot clock. You should be. Hi, Layla.
Caller
How you doing? You guys sound great today. Talk about a wonderful football season. Today I'm at 55 and weighing in at practically perfect in every way we wanted. Thanks, guys. I wanted to shout out to Fritzi to say you are a champ on and definitely a national treasure with Brian and what a great game waiting on that Super Bowl. And the topic in the Capone home this season has been the distance between the goalposts at 18 and a half feet since 1901. Do you think it should be changed?
Dan Patrick
No, I. I don't have opinion. You know, these guys are really good, and then they. You get really good at something, then they want to change it because you're really good at something. I. You saw what happened yesterday with missed field goals there with the weather. It. You know, you get to the post season, now all of a sudden those field goals, they are found money. So they're not. Not as much a given. Yes.
Todd Monkin
Todd, can they slowly make the field goal post turn360. Almost like a mini golf shot. We gotta time it so that when it comes back around and when you should start kicking it.
Dan Patrick
Well, I don't know if there's going to be a point where they bring goalpost in and depending, you know, or they raise the crossbar, maybe they do something. I just. It's like the Eagles with the tush push. I don't want to penalize you, take it away just because you're really good at it. Everybody can do this. It's not like they're the only ones who can run this. Is it aesthetically pleasing? No, but the game wasn't aesthetically pleasing. You know, back in the 50s, 60s, when they're just running it three yards in a cloud of dust. This day in sports history, Paul ZZ.
Paulie
Top, James Brown and the Blues brothers did the Super bowl in 1997. Packers vs. Patriots in oh three, the Buccaneers defeated the Raiders in the super bowl for John Gruden, becoming the youngest coach ever to win the Super Bowl.
Dan Patrick
86 Bears, they beat the Patriots. Richard Dent named MVP. Jim in Michigan. Hi, Jim. What's on your mind today?
Caller
Hey, Dan. Kind of a best of or more of a classy move. Matt Stafford searching out Cooper cup to congratulate him on the, you know, the move on there was kind of a classy move, I thought.
Dan Patrick
Yep.
Caller
And I do have something for Todd. Todd is before you started, you know, you know, the show there in the sports and that is it a tree that you tried out from Michael Flatley's river dance.
Dan Patrick
Did you. Did you triumph?
Todd Monkin
I have no idea how you found that out. I thought, you know, I told just a select few people. But I did try to do the river dance and I was the backup if someone got sick. Unfortunately, that never happened. But I was ready to dance.
Dan Patrick
You were the lord of the dance.
Todd Monkin
You should back up. You should have seen me.
Dan Patrick
Oh, can only imagine.
Todd Monkin
But I got plantar fasciitis now.
Dan Patrick
Of course you did. Todd, what did you learn today?
Todd Monkin
As CD points out, Matthew Stafford continues to play at a high level in the play playoffs. But often others around him let him down.
Dan Patrick
Seaton, what did you learn today?
Seaton
Good for Sam Darnold.
Dan Patrick
Marvin, did you learn anything today? There's an Albany, Texas and they got snow. Paul, would you learn?
Paulie
Agreeing Todd was very funny.
Dan Patrick
Todd, what did I learn?
Todd Monkin
Michael impressed with how Mike V's Patriots team plays clean, accountable, aggressive.
Dan Patrick
Oh, that was fun today, Todd. You were a good sport.
Todd Monkin
I actually enjoyed that in some sick way.
Dan Patrick
Seaton came up with a great bet there for Fritzi. Seaton, Marv, Polly, yours truly, and of course, the back room guys. Have a great Monday, everybody. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Chelsea Handler
This season on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler. We've got some incredible guests like Kumail Nanjiani. Let's start with your cat. How is she?
Seaton
She is not with us.
Chelsea Handler
Great, great, great. Way to start. Maybe you will cry. Ross Matthews. You know what kids always say to me? Are you a boy or a girl? Oh, my God. All the time. I know. So I try to butch it up for kids so they're not confused. Yeah, but you're butching it up. It's basically like an angry woman. Doris Day, right? No, I turn into Bea Arthur. Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On June 11, 1998, a deputy from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department went missing.
Caller
Hey, if they'll kill a cop and.
Dan Patrick
Bury him, what are they gonna do to me?
Chelsea Handler
What really happened to the missing deputy? Valley of Shadows, a new series from Pushkin Industries about crime and corruption in California's high desert. Listen to Valley of shadows on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Paulie
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Nav Green
Show contains information subject to but not limited to personal takes, rumors, not so accurate stats, and plenty more. What's up, man? It's your boy, Nab Green from the Broken Play Podcast. Look, it's the end of the season. The playoffs are here. Guess what? It ain't the end of your season. You can always tune in with Broken Play Podcast with Nav Green on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Not a team who ain't going to the playoffs. The Chief. It's time to rebuild. Listen to Broken Play with Nav Green from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or whatever, you get your podcast.
Chelsea Handler
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Dan Patrick
Guaranteed Human.
Date: January 26, 2026
Host: Dan Patrick
Notable Guest: Mark Schlereth (NFL on Fox analyst, 3x Super Bowl Champion)
The final hour of the show delivered classic Dan Patrick banter, highlighted by NFL playoff analysis, an insightful and humorous interview with Mark Schlereth, and playful interactions between the Danettes—especially at Todd Fritz’s (“Fritzi”) expense, as he completed his "Caller is Always Right" bet for losing a previous wager. The episode also touched on the viral Alex Honnold Netflix free solo climb, took lively calls from listeners, and explored both serious and lighthearted sports topics.
“All of us were in agreement at that point, just kick the field goal, just kick the field goal. And then … it was a debacle to begin with… Kick the field goal, take the points, man. 10-0 is a big score. Especially with the weather report…” – Mark Schlereth [05:59]
“Math has never made a tackle. Math has never blocked anybody… That math is faulty. You gotta understand… the feel of the game.” – Mark Schlereth [08:13]
“When it’s not cutting time, he cuts nuts… when the pressure is on and you have to be your best, he has been his best all year.” – Mark Schlereth [09:52]
“I don’t think a lot of people had that on their bingo card, him going toe to toe with Stafford.” – Mark Schlereth [11:34]
“He is so smooth in and out of breaks… the kid is just amazing… it just feels different.” – Mark Schlereth [13:25]
“None of us like genius and football, mutually exclusive events… if you’re gonna get a penalty, get your money’s worth… But the taunting thing is… one of those stupid things.” – Mark Schlereth [14:53]
“He made a couple of scrambles that were big time… brilliant by a young quarterback.” – Mark Schlereth [16:16–17:10]
“I turned 60 yesterday, Dan, and… I still see 30 and I act like a 15 year old. That makes me 45. I am right there in the prime spot for me.” – Mark Schlereth [10:52]
For losing a bet, Fritzi must publicly agree with any caller’s take—no matter how wild—and support it on air. This led to comedic gold, as listeners challenged him on everything from the Beatles to whether he’s a national treasure.
“The Beatles are wonderful… I think I’ve had it wrong all this time. The Beatles are actually underrated…” – Todd Fritz, forced agreement [26:19]
“I am a national treasure. I feel like I’m being set up for something at the end of this…” – Todd Fritz [30:51] “You’re a national treasure who should be buried.” – Dan Patrick [31:29]
“You look exactly like Varys from [Game of Thrones].” – Caller [38:47] (The Danettes: Varys is a bald eunuch, not exactly flattering.)
The bit is lauded as one of the funniest, most popular running segments of the past three years.
“Him standing on top of the building and taking selfies like that wigged me out. I’m like, you know, you start to have that pit in your stomach.” – Dan Patrick [24:21]
On analytics:
“Math has never made a tackle. Math has never blocked anybody. Math has never done any of that stuff.” – Mark Schlereth [08:13]
On Bo Nix:
“When it’s not cutting time, he cuts nuts.” – Mark Schlereth [09:52]
On Alex Honnold’s climb:
“Him standing on top of the building and taking selfies like that wigged me out. I’m like, you know, you start to have that pit in your stomach.” – Dan Patrick [24:21]
On being a “national treasure”:
“You’re a national treasure who should be buried.” – Dan Patrick [31:29]
On Fritzi’s luck with Broncos paraphernalia:
“My wife told me that always goes badly for you. The more stuff you put out, it doesn’t work out, especially in the playoffs or Super Bowl.” – Todd Fritz [47:01]
Dan Patrick maintains his dry wit, balancing real football analysis with radio show hijinks. Mark Schlereth delivers strong NFL takes, direct humor, and occasional gruff wisdom. The Danettes (Seaton, Paulie, Marvin, Todd) provide playful antagonism, community spirit, and self-deprecating laughter. Listener calls drive the unpredictable, inclusive energy the show is known for.
Hour 3 of The Dan Patrick Show is not just a sports recap—it’s a blend of sharp NFL insight (especially around the role of analytics and the pressure of big-game moments), genuine locker room stories, and unfiltered radio comedy. Even if you’re not caught up on every game, the show’s mix of analysis, personality-driven fun, and the unique “Caller is Always Right” bit provides both substance and entertainment for any sports or pop culture fan.