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Backroom guys as well. Phone calls. 877 3DP show. It's round two coming up tonight, and I have a homework assignment for one of the Dan s. Now, Fritz, he said he only watched the first 10 picks. I'm going to have to ask you to watch the second round tonight. Do that to me. Did anybody watch less than 10 picks last night? Okay, Todd, it's your homework assignment. My daughter's back from school. We're supposed to watch love. What is that called? Love Island. Love island marathon. This is a work assignment. This isn't for pleasure. This is what. That would be very painful. That's like a punishment, though. That's not an assignment. Are you refusing your assignment? Sir? No, sir. Okay, that's. That's asking a lot, though. How can I confirm that you're watching the second round of the draft? I will take a random picture. Okay. And then you'll have to assume that I was watching all of it. And I'll just take one moment in time and lie and say that I watched the whole thing. That's exactly how that'll work. I'm gonna just go on the honor system. I'm gonna go on the honor system. Your honor. You'll quiz me tomorrow. Remember, on the 43rd pick, who was that? Like, hold on. Let me go Google that. Now. I know Marvin will watch. I know he'll watch the entire second round. Oh, okay. I saw my guys get drafted last night. Liam McNeely and. Oh, the Huskies. And my favorite, Danny Wolf. Yeah, man, you had a crush on Danny Wolf all year. DP I used to tell you, we did watch a random Michigan game against Marquette. Like, did you watch? Are you taking all the white guys from me? That wasn't my goal, Jack. And all the white guys here. That was not my. You're gonna take Cooper flag, too, aren't you? No. You guys can have con. Knipple. You guys can keep. I'm just gonna keep. Liam and Danny. Liam and Danny. Get over here. My. Our boys. I'm old enough to be their dad, Sue. So come on, kids. All right, let's See poll question for the final hour. Dylan, do something today. Try and Dan. Well, should the NBA switch from hats to visors? Well, I thought a visor at least worked with their hair. The hat doesn't. The hat's stupid. And if you want to do a sash or maybe a, you know, a large chain, an ascot. No, I don't want that. I just need something that it's easy to put on. You can. You can move some product because that's what the. The NBA is doing that, like put on a hat. Now they're going to buy the hat. Like, okay, yes. Todd, why don't you just take it under adviser mint and, you know, figure it out. Maybe you don't have to give an answer right now. This will be good opportunity to hit that thing you got there. I think it's under advisement. Not adviser. Advisor. We're talking about advisor. I was doing a little play on. You got me Blue. Blue gave me an opportunity with the gong there. You didn't want to go for. No, no, no, no, no. Do you want the go? Like, do you want to be gone? I don't want to be gone, but I know there'll be a number of times as we move along. Well, deserve it as I have in the past. Yes, absolutely. But final hour of the program, we'll have a poll question. We'll get to more phone calls as well. The commissioner, Adam Silver, he was talking about the epidemic. Now, that's my word. But the growing concern about Achilles tears and had this to say. We are looking at it. And in fact, we had already convened a panel of experts before Tyrese's most recent Achilles rupture. So we had seven this year. We had zero last year under the exact same circumstances. And the most we've ever had in a season is for NFL has had a rash of Achilles issues as well. So the purpose of convening those experts is to try to figure out what's going on. You know, it's interesting when we look back at the last 10 years, the majority of the Achilles injuries have happened before the All Star break. So it's not clear. It's the number of games. And as you know, modern NBA players, even when they're not playing games, sometimes in the summer, they're working harder than they are during the season. When they're playing three games a week, they're often playing every day. All right, so that's the commissioner, and they've been working on this for a little while. Got some data on this as well. I think artificial Intelligence is being used or is going to be used to go back and look at all of the highlights, all of the games and try to single out if there's one thing that led to another. At least that's what I read. But it, it's. I don't think it's a coincidence, I don't think it's load management. But then what is it? And I think that's really the biggest key here to understand moving forward. How are you proactive? How do you protect? Is there something you can wear? You know, I think this is kind of, I don't know, let's explore. Let's, let's question. Let's try. Because these guys are younger. Get getting this. It used to be like Isaiah Thomas at the end of his career or you know, Durant was in his 30s when it happened. But you got Tyrese Halliburton and Jason Tatum. You know, Dame is older. Okay, so you can use Aaron Rodgers older when it happened, him. I understand that. But then you got the younger guys as well. I thought there was a groundswell and I have a very good friend and he works for a team and during the draft, you know, we're kind of texting back and forth, especially after the Pelicans and the Hawks. Like I don't, I have still, I don't know what happened there. I'm trying to understand the logic because the Pelicans sent the 23rd pick and their 20, 26 first round pick to move up 10 spots to take Derek Queen of Maryland. Okay. You know, good player, good team. I don't think New Orleans going to be in the playoffs. There's a chance that could be a top five pick, maybe number one. Why? Trying to understand that? Yes. Marvin. No, I'm with you completely. I just don't understand like what's their plan? There's certain NBA teams where you don't even know what their plan is. And I wonder about, you know, Zion long term. Like how much longer are they going to put up with him or he wants to stay there. Like, I don't, I don't know. Like this feels like that's make or break year for him. They get rid of CJ McCollum, they bring in Jordan Pool. I could just kind of look at the roster and you know, they got Joe Dumars running things there. Great respect for Joe, but I'm not giving up next year's unprotected first round draft pick to go up 10 spots. Derek Queen's not a superstar. It's not even One of those, man, in a couple of years, that guy is going to be incredible. You know, take a flyer on this guy. He might develop into something. I don't know. I just. One of those where you go, I don't get it. Don't get it. Yes. Mark, is there anybody in the draft that you maybe watched in college? And you think to yourself, man, if he puts it all together, he can be something special. Cooper flag. And it's hard because these guys aren't in college long enough for us to even know these guys. Yeah. And that's what the draft served a purpose for. You tuned in and you go, okay, you might have saw somebody in March Madness. Maybe you saw them in a Maui Invitational. Whatever it is, you. There's a glimpse there, but for the most part, you know, you may not know. And then, you know. Brooklyn Nets drafted four guards, three point guards. Two guys are from ones from Israel and one's from maybe France. Like, you don't even know who they are. But it's sort of the introductory offer to, hey, you want to follow this team next year, the Brooklyn. And with Brooklyn, I'm fine with what they did. Maybe you find two players out of the five you drafted who you can build with. Maybe you can use them as assets to trade. But my NBA fan said, a friend, I should say said this whole Jaylen Brown topic, he felt or feels is real, but what are you giving up to get Jaylen Brown? Like, he feels like this was a real topic last night, that Jaylen Brown people are kicking the tires, just wondering, okay, what's it going to be? Because there was talk Derek White was going to be moved last time. It just feels like the Celtics are. I don't know if it's a clearance sale, but it's certainly going to be. We're going to have a reset after this next season. You know, you get rid of Porzingis and Drew Holiday. And I know a lot of that is, you know, second apron and salary cap. I understand all that. But the Jalen Brown, who's got enough and who. Who would want to go get Jalen Brown? Could. Could the Hawks put something together? Could the Hawks put something together? Could San Antonio put something together? And those were the two teams that I thought of last night. You got three guards there in San Antonio. Imagine Jalen Brown with that team like that. That, to me, could be a really, really fun, dangerous team. Now, what do you give up? That's the key. And Atlanta as well. Like, Atlanta is going to be in the mix with the Playoffs next year. It feels like they got a couple of really nice young players. I'm assuming they're going to keep Trey young re. I thought played pretty well as a rookie. I think Quinn Schneider's done a nice job there. Yes, Marvin, but if you're the Celtics, especially with Jason Tatum out, you, you'd be willing to give up Jaylen Brown? No, but I, I don't know where, you know, what is their short term philosophy here or game plan now. What's it going to be in three years? You're spending a lot of money, they're clearing a lot of money. And I just wonder and I don't know what Tatum's going to be like when he comes back. We just assume that they all bounce back and they're all great after these kind of injuries and surgeries. I don't know. And how long have we been saying, yeah, they should break up those two? If they didn't win the title last year, they probably would have broken them up to say, yeah, you know, we got to break them up. Jalen Brown is equal footing with Jason Tatum. And you'll find NBA executives who like Brown because he's different. He's, he's more aggressive, he's not afraid of the moment. Not to say the Tatum isn't great and all those wonderful things there. I'm just going by what I was told. They like his approach, his, his mental toughness, whatever that means. Yes, Marvin, but isn't that an even bigger reason to keep Jaylen Brown? If Jason Tatum, you don't know what he's going to be like when he returns. Well, you can't trade him. But like, what do you want? Do you want to be in middle of the pack, which is no man's land, but then I don't want to just take a year off or, you know, maybe something that probably forces us to take a couple years off. Maybe it's just one year. Like, okay, it's going to be a bad year. We'll do the best we can. Tatum comes back and then we start to build out again. But I don't know, it just felt like, or feels like the Jalen Brown could be available. I feel like he's more available than Giannis now. Once again, this is somebody who works for an NBA team. And he, I said, what, what about Giannis? And he said, I don't think he's going to be moved because I, I think it's, it's going to be year to year. I said, okay. And then he did call Me out. He goes, I think he overreacted to the Joker, could get traded by Denver. I said, I'm just going off the comments of the president of the Nuggets. That's all. I said, why would you say that? He goes, well, no, you should never say that. Never. I said, that's all he was going on. I said, plus, it's late June and I'm looking for topics here. You know, you should have left with that. Yes, just leave me alone here. Damn it. This job can be difficult sometimes. All right, time to play Good Idea, Bad Idea. Paul, you're the host of Good Idea, Bad Idea. Yeah, this rarely works out well for me, Dan, but we'll give it another try. Is it a good idea or bad idea that we have? Good idea or bad idea? Don't answer that. Okay, then this segment will go away. All right. All right, here we go. Marvin. With the rash and the coverage of Achilles injuries in the NBA, one of the big basketball shoe companies should bring back 80s 90s high top style Air Force shoes with more ankle support and market those shoes as a preventative measure for ankle calf injuries. Good idea. Bad idea. Oh, I brought it up yesterday that I wondered if it was the shoes, if there's something that can be done with shoes. Remember those shoes were those Yeezys that Durant wore that were a little bit higher. Higher, high top. Do you remember that, Marvin? Weren't there shoes that were. That went up a little bit higher? Yes. Nike also had the Marty McFlys that are super duper high up. Yeah. But guys like Durant and Kobe and Tyrese, they were all wearing low top sneakers, I think, when they tore their Achilles. So good idea. Okay. Yeah. Paul, I'm looking back at the 80s and 90s and like the David Robinson and the Patrick Ewing, the country, all different companies, but they're really high. They kind of peaked. And then in the mid-90s, they started going lower. Shoes almost like a three quarter cut. And that's kind of what it is today. There's very. I can find almost no active basketball player that wears a true 80s 90s high top. Yeah. And I. And I'm okay with that as a starter of, of. Okay, maybe this is an exploratory point here because I see guys wearing low cuts more than I ever thought. Used to be, man, you wanted to have high top so you didn't get sprained ankles, but these guys have low cut shoes and there could be something to that of the support you get. And of course, the marketing of helping protect Your Achilles. Yes, Dylan. Oh. Even like LeBron, I feel like his first shoes were much higher top than they are now. Like they've sort of progressed to lower top shoes. I kind of like the high top, personally. The big Reebok pump guy. Yeah, yeah. Paul. I think the byproduct of this, if New Balance or whatever company did it, it's under the guise of this is going to help you for your ankles and stuff like this market around all what's going on right now. And if one player does it or one cool player does it and it catches on with the young community, you'll sell. You'll corner the market until that guy blows out his Achilles wearing those shoes, and then it's done. There's always an exception. Thank you, Todd. Yes, Paulie. So we're leaning towards yes. Good idea. Yes, good idea. But you did have a bad idea with the step back jumper yesterday. I stand by that. Yeah, I don't. I don't think the step back has led to the Achilles. To recap that, I believe that over the past 10 years, players doing the step back jumper and probably thousands of times in practice has caused an increase of stress on the ankle calf area because that move was not popular in the 80s 90s and today. 80s and 90s, J Bill has called you out on that. Yeah. And the doctor did as well. And Mark Addicts. Yeah. But it's a theory. It can't be wrong. It's more. So wait, a theory can't be wrong? Theory? By, by nature, a theory cannot be wrong. It could be disproven, but I would need these guys to disprove it. Okay. Yes, Todd. I think it's all the traveling that. Taking that many more steps, you're more likely to injure your Achilles. Oh, no, here it comes. For bailing me out, Todd. Exactly what I did there. Guess Dylan. Yes. Still, Todd really hooked you up. Paul. I was gonna say, I have tons of theories and almost all of them are wrong. Give me. Do you have a real theory? The moon landing, I think the Achilles, I think the shoes. I, I'm. I'm open to that. And I would be open to a conversation, a further discussion. Conversation. I see all the. Look at you. You are. Okay. We're all trying to think, how do we get rebound? I know. Kiss my Adidas. Yes. There you go. Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. How about we take a break? I would have got the gong, by the way, if I said it das for sure. But you're the host, so you don't have To. Are you gonna get a self imposed? Think I'd love to see that. You watch your mouth. You get sassy on me conversing. All right. And it's only Thursday. It feels a little like Friday. Okay, we'll take a break. More phone calls coming up. More theories as well. Back after this and the Dan Patrick show. Fox sports radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows@foxsportsradio.com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live. Hi, this is Jay. I'm the producer of the Paulie and Tony Fusco show. Usually in these promos they ask you to listen to the show. 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A little actual magic in our underrated story. The single greatest marketing campaign the music business has ever seen. I decided to ask people how they felt about the penny going away. Listen to everybody's business wherever you get your podcasts. We're going to play the Cooper Flag game coming up. By the way, Carmelo Anthony was on the podcast with Paul George. It's podcast P and he talked about what Cooper Flag needs to work on. To me, he doesn't do anything great. He just do a lot of very good. You know what I'm saying? He offensive rebound very good. He in the passing lanes very good. He's a weak side defender. Very good. Very good on ball defender. He got a lot better. I want to see him against you, I want to see him against kd, I want to see him against Luca, I want to see him against an Edwards because you coming in as that guy. If he got to develop the right way, he got to get a skill set. You can't be in the pros and don't have a skill set. So you have to have a skill set. Like your skill set have to be something. Yeah. A1 drill, pull up like something floater like you have to have something that's your go to. Right now he don't have a go to to. Okay. This is coming from an offensive minded guy. Cooper Flag has a well rounded game. So he does have tools. He doesn't have a signature move. How many guys in the NBA have a signature move? How many 18 year olds have a signature move? Now I know in fairness to Carmelo, he's saying this is what he needs to work on. Okay. He probably would say I have a lot of things to work on. But to be able to play defense, willing to play defense and you're considered a very good defensive player, you're a good passer and you have the ability to score. Will he need a signature move? Probably. Or at least a couple of. I can go here if that's not there. I can go here. Can I beat you off the dribble? Can I hit the mid range jumper? Am I going to be a three point shooter? I mean he might be more of a Durant feel of that 15 to 18ft, like find your living in there. And that feels like that's the new sweet spot in the NBA. Either that or if you're able to go down low and use big man moves. But that mid range jumper, it feels like you have more players. You know Shay Gilchrist, he lived there. If you can and you can get your shot consistently, why not? I mean, not everybody is meant to shoot threes. They all think they are, but if you're able to get in that area, take advantage of it. Yes. Mark, you see that this is a copycat league because when the Celtics won, they take a million threes a game. And then that was the big complaint with a lot of NBA fans was, man, all they do is shoot threes. And, and now you see the NBA chant where their best player just takes mid range games. Now it might go back to the way it was. And according to DraftKings, the over under prop bets for the rookie season of Cooper flag, 16 and a half points and six rebounds. Those are nice numbers. If he was 16 and 6, I think that that would be. Now, I don't think that's up to expectations, but those should be the expectations. And I, and I, I brought this up. It was misinterpreted, but maybe I allowed it to be misinterpreted. Where I said if he has a career like Kevin Loves, people might view that as a disappointment. Kevin Love is a Hall of Famer. I'm just saying that with Cooper Flag, he played against the Olympic team. He has no flaws. He's the number one pick. He's 18 years of age. You had scouts who said he could have played in the NBA at 16. I think the expectation level is going to be greater than that. But if you said Cooper Flag has a Kevin Love career, I'd sign up for that. Yeah, Paulie. And I think people still don't realize Cooper Flag skipped his senior year of college. So he's basically high school. I'm sorry, high school? Yes. He's basically the same age as Kevin Garnett was when he was a rookie. Kevin Garnett averaged 10 points and six rebounds as a rookie. That's not bad, but that's not great. Kobe Bryant was six months younger than Cooper Flag as a rookie. I think Kobe averaged like nine. He started two games all right, let's play the Cooper flag game. Some music. Okay. You can strike up the band a little more than that. Okay. Yeah. Here we go. Simple game, Dan. All right, now, we're gonna have to reconvene in 15 years to check on the results so everyone could clear their calendars. How many All Star teams will Cooper flag make? Well, we don't know what the new format's going to be, so it might be tougher for him to make the All Star team because they're going to have the world against the US Players. Let's say it's the. The All Star honor, I guess, of whatever it may be. Okay. Sort of like a Pro bowl selection. Yeah, kind of. All right, Todd will start with you. How many All Star teams does Cooper flag make in his career? 13 time all star. All right. Dylan. Seven. Marvin, eight. I'm gonna go five. That's it. That's a. Oh, okay. I was waiting for you to make a prediction. Yeah, I will go. I'll go nine. All right. Yeah. Who votes on that? Those aren't the fans, right? It used to be the fans for the starters. Okay. And now I think it's a combination of fans and coaches. Okay. Yeah. That's another thing of who's voting, because you can get in by popularity contest. Yes. Yes. Paul. If everybody in Maine votes, he's in every year. Well, it's not a lot of people. Your people. Yeah, that's not a. It's not a big group to pull from, but that's an intense. Very. Everybody will vote for him. I don't think there's anybody in Maine that's going to go. I don't know. I need to see a little bit more. They love them some Cooper flags. Craig in Fort Wayne. Hi, Craig. What's on your mind? Hey, good morning. Sort of a best and worst. Do the Cavs have the distinction of having the best overall number one pick in LeBron and the absolute worst overall number one pick and Anthony Bennett. Is it possible to be on both ends of the spectrum? Well, certainly with LeBron, that's a possibility. You know, if you're factoring both of those in. Of the best and worst number one overall picks. Yeah. I don't know who would be a close second, because if LeBron's greatness, that'd be like the Bulls. Well, Mike wasn't taking number one overall, so you got to get number one overall pick. Marvin, you got a second to that? I gotta look in the crates. Yeah, just. Okay. Number one overall is a team that's had the number one one overall pick at least twice, so you got to start there. But, yeah, Anthony Bennett. Man, that was a rough year, at least at the top. When. And I watch a lot of basketball, and when I started to look at these mock drafts, and they go, anthony Bennett, unlv. And I go, I've watched unlv, and I never would have thought he'd be the number one pick. I keep. He was built like a star. It just. I kept going, wait a minute. What am I missing if he's going number one? I know nothing about basketball. It's like Michael Oluwa candy. And that was back when, well, you're tall, so we'll take you number one. Or you'll get teams who do this. Well, we already got two forwards. We don't need another one. And I always go back to the Portland Trailblazers. You know, we got Clyde. We don't Clyde Drexler. We don't need Mike. Let's take the big guy in Sam Bowie. And Sam Buoy, if healthy, could have had a prosperous NBA career. But you're passing on somebody because you feel like you've got somebody at that position. There's nothing wrong with having talent. Like, talent will work with talent. You know, if you get that right, then you get something really special. Imagine if Mike had gone there to Portland with Clyde Drexler. Yes, Pauline. Of that extremes with draft picks, the Philadelphia 76ers drafted Allen Iverson number one. They also drafted Markel Fultz number one. Oh, that's extreme. Wow. Okay. Was Markel Fultz better than Anthony Bennett? Quite a bit. Because LeBron was quite a bit better than Allen Iverson. All right, all right. We at least have a plan or a. A second candidate here. I like that. Thank you, Craig Ryan in Austin. Hi, Ryan. What's on your mind today? Hey, DP I. We have the firehouse today, and I was talking to guys about how awesome having kids is and how it should hopefully change your world perspective for the better. So I kind of have two questions. One, I was wondering how your career changed after kids, because I'm sure it's very cutthroat and how much of the. Maybe the BS stuff at work subsided. And was there any NBA guys or kids? In my eyes, have you seen any athlete change dramatically? Almost do a 180 once they had kids when they're kind of perspective on the world has. Has changed. I'll hang up and listen. You guys are awesome. Yeah. I don't know, Ryan. I mean, for Me, work became less important. There are things that you missed out on. I'd be at the NBA Finals every year, and my daughter was born on June 21st. And I remember, you know, then you started rooting for a game. I love Jordan because I got a game six. I didn't have to go to game seven. But, yeah, I, I think there were. There were moments where I was working second shift. I missed an awful lot of things. And then I realized, thanks to my wife making me realize, you're gonna miss everything. And my kids were 9, what, 9, 12, 14, 16, somewhere like that, all four of them. And she said, they're all going to be gone if you sign another contract at espn. And I've talked about this, and it made me, you know, it crystallized, what are you doing? Like, how much success or how much money or you got to be around. I have three daughters. You got to be around. And I just kept thinking ESPN was the most important thing. And I'm sure as an athlete, you have a finite amount of time to make your money. I could do this for 40 years. Athletes can't do that. And I think that that was the eye opener of, yeah, I could have been still working at ESPN and was planning on being a lifer until. And all I wanted to do was one Friday a month, do the show from my attic. That was it. And they said, it's precedent setting. If we let you do it, then we let everybody. If they had done that, I might still be there. I thankfully, in a weird way, I'm glad that they said no, because I, I just, I was so selfish with my job that I realized they don't give a damn about me, but I give a damn about them. It was a bad. I was in an abusive relationship that I created. They were just being management, you know, they didn't care. Like, they love you. Like, I got a football that had a mission statement on it. I brought it home and I said to my wife, I said, look at this. They gave me a mission statement. Football, work, life, balance. And she goes, they don't care about you. Yeah, they gave me a football. And it's got a mission statement on it, hun. And you got that Cal Ripken Jr. VHS. Yes, I did. I got the Dale Earnhardt Senior movie. It's more than enough. You got plenty. Plenty of. Yeah, so priorities, boy, they change. And hopefully they don't change after you change. But I, I would still be there probably if they said, you know, every Friday you do the show from home. Because they couldn't tell the difference. The sound quality was great. And, you know, they said that was the infamous. You got to come in because you're good for morale. Oh, I just remember Paulie would make fun of me. He goes, oh, go. Okay, here's. Here comes morale. Mr. Morale. And we'd all like, he's here. Yay. Just call me Al. But it was counterproductive because you would come in in a salty mood. I'd be miserable. As opposed to being home going, hey, guys, let's do a show. Yes. Yes, Dylan, that's definitely changed, too, with the times. Like, I feel like if you went to them today with, like, work from home being such a big thing. Van Peltz in D.C. exactly. They let him go. Boom. It gets old, you know, but they. They realized that, you know what? Talent just doesn't come walking through that door as often as they thought it was going to. And therefore, we were all treated the same. And, you know, they found out, they got a real slap in the face of reality of. Of that. But, hey, I got 18 years there. Fifteen were wonderful, and you can't argue with that. But thank God they didn't let me do the show from home, or I'd still be there. I would be. I would have been a lifer. I was never going to leave. Okay, how about we take a break? Last call for phone calls. 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When you go to France or you go to England or you go to Hong Kong, those kids are wearing Jordans. They're wearing Kobe's shirt. They're watching Black Panther and the challenges of being a black founder. Close your eyes and tell me what a tech founder looks like. They're not going to describe someone who looks like me, and they're not going to describe someone who looks like you. I created. There are no girls on the Internet because the future belongs to all of us. So listen to There are no girls on the Internet on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Big Dumpers joining us tomorrow. Let's go. Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh. The big stop hitting home runs. This guy, the Big Dumper, gonna join us on the program. Maury Povich has a podcast and you are not the father. Your brother is. What? What? Maury Povich has a podcast, a golf podcast, and reached out one no. If he could talk to us. And of course, daytime tv. I think people confuse Maury Povich and Jerry Springer because Springer was. That was wild. Jerry's was wild. You could get hurt on Springer. But with Maury, it always felt like there's three women or two women and A guy, and you're not sure if he got both of them pregnant. Is he the father? Then you have the DNA test. You are not the father. Yes, Marvin. Then Maury says, please welcome Michael. Shut up. Whatever, whatever. Y' all don't know me. Yes, Tom. If a show has a bouncer that you know by name, like Steve with the Jerry Springer, you know, it's a little violent, there's violence happening. Steve has got his own show. Had his own show for a long time. What's his last name? Wilcow. Steve Wilco. Great story, though. I met the Preakness in Baltimore and there were a lot of luminaries there. The Under Armour was holding a party and Steve Spurrier was in there. Cal Ripken was in there. Steve from Springer was in there. Oh, no, he wasn't there. That's, that's. Let me get the story straight. So I'm with Cal Ripken, and this woman comes over. She's staring at Cal Ripken, staring. And I'm going, okay, Baltimore, okay. Probably, you know, had a crush on him as an Oriole. All of a sudden, she just staring and then walked over and she goes, I know you. He, you know, and he's very sheepishly, you know, like, oh, yeah, you know, you're with Jerry Springer, your name is Steve. And I go, cal, she doesn't know who you are. And if you look at Steve and you have cow. I guess I could understand how you could make that mistake. But that was, that was kind of humbling, I think for Cal, maybe in a good way, where he thought it was funny. But she, she knew that that was Steve from Jerry Springer. Yes, Dylan, that's way better if you're Steve Wilkos and you get called Cal Ripton. For sure. All right, so the big dumper tomorrow. Maury Povich tomorrow. It's a meet Friday tomorrow. That's a random show late June here on the Dan Patrick Show. Round two tonight. And did they do a mock. There have to be round two mock drafts. There's nothing that makes you feel worse about yourself than reading over a round two NBA mock draft. Okay, round two mock draft. Let me see. Well, having the boss assign you to watch it. Let's see. I don't know. It's a lot of guys who are like 23 year old seniors in college. Okay, yeah. All right, so the, the mock draft, round two. Well, the real draft coming up tonight, Tom in North Carolina. Hi, Tom. What's on your mind today? Hey, DP Calling you from the road, going out of Town for a little mini vacation. Shout out. Happy birthday. Shout out to my beautiful wife. Actually sleeping wife. Doesn't matter if it's 18, it's 12 to 18 hours at night. Gets in the car, falls asleep right away. Anyway, I want to chime in on the little hat discussion that you guys were doing earlier today. I noticed last week that Todd1 Todd Fritz, was wearing a North Carolina University of North Carolina hat. And he's publicly made it known that he has ties to Syracuse and Wake Forest. And the very next day he was wearing a Blake towards hat. I don't know if this is it, Morgan, but is he anticipating UNC maybe having a good year this year? Maybe jumping on the bandwagon early? Why did you have a UNC hat on? Brendan Haywood was one of our guests. That was a shout out to him. So I decided to grab a UNC hat that I found in the house. How about this day in sports history? Paul? I just got one good one. The 1916 White White Sox versus the Cleveland Indians. They appeared in the game where the numbers on the sleeves matched. The numbers on the scoreboard is the first time players in a baseball game had numbers on their jerseys. On this day in 2003, LeBron James is the first pick in the NBA draft. Let's see, what else did I have? Oh, there were seven shutouts Wednesday in baseball. That's the most on any single day since 2015 when there were seven. Only once in baseball history have there been more shutouts on a single day, and it occurred in 1972. There were eight shutouts. Stat of the day. Of the day. Stat of the day. Here comes that. What Stat of the day. Also 2015, the Eerie Otters take Connor McDavid as the number one pick in the draft. I wonder if Connor McDavid will be with Edmonton much longer. Let's see. Dylan in Orlando. Hi, Dill. Thanks for holding. What do you have for me? Hey, Dan. First time, long time. 6 foot 2, about 155. Thank you for that. Thank you for getting my call. I had an idea about the hat. I've noticed someone earlier said something about a Swiss army hat and an idea popped into my head about how about instead of having to switch hats, you have a generic hat with a big Velcro spot on it and each team has a little Velcro sticker so that way they can switch out the logos easier instead of having to switch out the whole hat. Yeah, I just don't like taking away that moment. The photo op of you and the Commissioner, you just got drafted and you're wearing the hat of the team that just traded you. That's all. But see, a lot of these deals don't go down until you. If you get that guy, then we'll trade you this guy. If you get that guy, we'll trade you our draft pick and then you're going to give us a draft pick. The follow up. I mean, that's how it works. I know there's really no way around it, but it did bother me last night. All right, let's go around the room, see if we learned anything. Todd, you learned anything today. I did. Carmel Anthony says Cooper Flag's very good at different things, but doesn't do any one thing. Great. No skill set or signature move. All right, Dylan, Visors might be the option for the NBA draft. Marvin, what did you learn today? Florio is the outsider of insiders. That is true. That is true. Paul, we're going to fix the hat situation. Todd, what did I learn on today's program? We all learned. Paulie reminds us the only thing worse than entering the NBA draft as a college senior being a fifth year senior. What? They're going to be some 22, 23, 24 year olds drafted tonight. Thanks for the phone calls, emails, tweets, the all around support. Dylan, filling in for Seaton, the minister of humor, Fritzi, Marv, Paulie, yours truly. We'll talk to you tomorrow on our meet Friday. Welcome to Pretty Private with ebony, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebony and every Tuesday starting July 1st, I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. Listen to Pretty Private with ebony starting Tuesday, July 1st on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Why is a soap opera western like Yellowstone so wildly successful? The American west with Dan Flores is the latest show from the Meat Eater Podcast Network. So join me starting Tuesday, May 6, where we'll delve into stories of the west and come to understand how it helps inform the ways in which we experience the region today. Listen to the American west with Dan Flores on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The OGs of uncensored motherhood are back and better than ever. I'm Erica. And I'm Mila and we're the hosts of the Good Mom's Bad Choices podcast brought to you by the Black Effect Podcast Network every Wednesday. Yeah, we're moms, but not your mommy. Historically, men talk too much and women have quietly listened. And all that stops here. If you like witty women, then this is your try. Listen to the Good Mom's Bad Choices podcast every Wednesday on the Black Effect podcast network, the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you go to find your podcast adventure should never come with a pause button. Remember MoviePass? All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are no Girls on the Internet, and this season I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told, starting with Stacey Spikes, the Black founder of MoviePass who got pushed out of the company he built. Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not gonna work and no one's gonna like it. And then, boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to There Are no Girls on the Internet, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I also wanna address the Tonys. On a recent episode of Checking in with Michelle Williams, I open up about feeling snubbed by the Tony Awards. Do I? I was never mad. I was disappointed because I had high hopes to hear this and more on disappointment and protecting your peace. Listen to Checking in with Michelle Williams from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart podcast.