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Rick Neuheisel (4:01)

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Dan Patrick (4:05)

Final hour in this Monday Dan and the Danite Stan Patrick Show. Come on in. Seaton's on the road headed to Vegas in the Mako van. Dylan's in his seat this week. Todd's here. Marvin Polyers truly in the brgs as well. Rick Neuheisel, the college football analyst for cbs, former college coach, will join us coming up in a little bit and we'll answer the question, did Fernando Mendoza win the Heisman this weekend with the throw against Penn State? Talk to him about that. Also have some information about Brian Kelly, the exit strategy that LSU is trying to pull off with Brian and paying him off. Also a lot of lot of coaching rumors right now. The stuff that I heard over the weekend, I'm thinking that can't happen. There's a lot of openings and everybody's trying to navigate and there are a couple of major players in college football, whether it's a coach or an agent or an athletic director. And I just think we're headed for a wild off season here. So Rick will join us coming up here. You got a game coming up tonight. Eagles at the Packers. Eagles on the road favored by one and a half. 8773 DP show. We'll get to more phone calls. Best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked, you didn't like. Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, that's our streaming partner and we say good morning to our radio affiliates around the country. You know, football started early yesterday and people missed Jonathan Taylor rushing for 244 yards. The overtime win had three rushing touchdowns. So that is now 64 rushing touchdowns for him. Now he went up to 66 touchdowns. So he passed Marshall Falk for the most rushing touchdowns in Colts history. So he is going to be the favorite for the offensive player of the year. I don't think he's going to win mvp and I think it's because he's a running back. Although we had Gerald McCoy of the NFL Network and he said you don't have that runaway performance by a quarterback. Drake May. I don't think anybody can tell you his numbers other than he looks really good. And the Patriots are one of the surprise stories this year. You don't have Lamar Jackson numbers, you don't have Josh Allen numbers. Matthew Stafford has put up numbers. But Jonathan Taylor, to me, maybe he could win, he could win the MVP, but he's probably going to have to get over 1800 yards and probably how many touchdowns? He have like 17 touchdowns.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (6:38)

Paulie, he has 15 so far. He's averaging six yards of carry. He's projected at this pace to finish with 1936 yards, 6 yards of carry and 26 touchdowns.

Dan Patrick (6:49)

I think if he set the all time record for a running back. What was that? 29 priest homes? No, it was a Seattle Sean Alexander. Alexander. I think he had 29 touchdowns. Ladanian Tomlinson was up there too. Yeah, yeah.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (7:12)

Paulie Tomlinson broke the record in 2006 with 28 rushing touchdowns.

Dan Patrick (7:17)

Okay. Yeah. I mean, if he gets in that territory now, if he gets 2000 and gets to 28 touchdowns, I would hope, but I, you know, it's a quarterback award. It's just like the Heisman. I mean, we've had 2,000 yard rushers in college football. They were like, okay, but it doesn't matter. And this year, same way, you know, Fernando Mendoza, Julian saying, although Jeremiah Love had a couple runs over the weekend in the rain and snow and oh my gosh, he is. There's a different, you know, there's difference in, in quickness and different in speed. All of a sudden you go, oh my goodness. Like there's just a difference that you see with certain players. And same with Jonathan Taylor. Like he's got track speed. When he go and he gets through, he's gone. Yes, Marvin, so what if the Colts go 15 and 2 or 14 and 3 and he's the main reason. Do they have to have a phenomenal record for him to even be considered? Yes. Okay. If they would end up with the best record in the AFC, let's say he rushes for 23 touchdowns and he rushes for 1600 yards. Best player on the best team, best record. And look, I, I advocate for other positions because I think we just lock in with quarterbacks and we only talk about quarterbacks and we kind of forget that the game was built on running backs. I mean that's the foundation of the NFL. They wanted this to be a pass happy league. But Jonathan Taylor, with what he did against the Falcons, that's very impressive. Not so much for the Steelers as they did not look good at all. Mike Tomlin, the Steelers head coach, had this to say about Aaron Rodgers. We, we as an office of collective, we're off today and certainly he's a component of that. I'll let him speak for himself. But we certainly got to be better.

Caller or Listener (9:16)

Didn't feel like they did anything unanticipated.

Dan Patrick (9:18)

But certainly they outperformed us, particularly in possession downplay. I think Mike Tomlin was asked what did you think of Aaron Rodgers performance? And Mike Tomlinson, what did you think? Like, I don't, I don't have any words. It's just, you know, he didn't look threatening, but nobody did well and give credit to the Chargers and they, that's a team decimated by injuries and they played well. But you know, win those games, you're supposed to win those games. Got them on the road here. Let me see, what else do I need to get to? Let me get to Cody in Tennessee. Best and worst of the weekend, Cody, I'll get to you then we'll kind of hook up here with Rick Neuheisel.

Caller or Listener (10:02)

Hey, thanks, Dan. Just want to do instead of best and worst, I got two best. Obviously there's a lot of good football this weekend. Seahawks pulling it out. That was great. And then can someone check on Gus Johnson this morning? Him and Joel Clack calling that game at the end of Indiana. I've never heard. That's my favorite six seconds of the football season. I, I had to go back and rewind it. One check. Did Gus go to Indiana or did he have a million dollars on that game? He didn't. Full bladder But I. Yeah, if Marv can find that and play that for all the listeners that weren't able to hear that tree in real time.

Dan Patrick (10:40)

Yeah, we'll see what we can do. I do worry about Gus sometimes. He gets really, really, really excited. But that was a great finish. I certainly understand that. There he is. Rick New Heisel, former head coach, analyst for CBS Sports all right, Did Fernando Mendoza win the Heisman this weekend?

Rick Neuheisel (11:05)

Listen, in any other year, I would have said yes, because that was quite a stage and quite a dramatic finish and one that got all kinds of play across the country. But this year has been so different with the names that we're seeing and with the drama unfolding with guys like Diego Pavia, who had an overtime thriller, and Trinidad Shambliss, these names that I think are going to be fun for voters to vote for going forward. And Julian saying, you know, playing Robin Hood and splitting apples with the arrow. I mean, the guy's 82% passer. I don't remember anything like that. So I don't think we're done yet.

Dan Patrick (11:42)

Jeremiah Love, there's another one.

Rick Neuheisel (11:45)

There's another one. I mean, that play against Navy where he looks like he's down and then kind of twitch spins off the pile and goes 45 yards further for the touchdown. All he does is just keep scoring touchdowns. And the Notre Dame machine we have all kinds of respect for. So can't count him out either.

Dan Patrick (12:04)

All right. Right, let's start to handicap this. Do you have trends now where you go, okay, this is going to like, you can make declarative statements here. Let's start with the sec. What do you think happens?

Rick Neuheisel (12:18)

I think the SEC is going to get five. I think we're to the point where we can say five teams are going to come out of the sec, which five are still going to be up for grabs. But I think, and I think that Texas, with the schedule as it lays out with Georgia this week and then follow the, the, the finale with A and M, I think they might be the one team that can get there with nine and three.

Dan Patrick (12:43)

How about the Big Ten?

Rick Neuheisel (12:45)

Big Ten is going to have to push to get to the four number right now. I think the top three, the two undefeated Ohio State and Indiana are in obviously finishing off what they expected to finish. And then I think that Oregon, by virtue of that win in Kinnick, is in obviously pending a big game against sc and they've got Washington at the end, assuming that they split those, at worst they're in. The question will be the SC Michigan thing, if SC or Michigan, obviously SC has the win over Michigan and they do get Iowa this week and they get Oregon. Winning both of those games will make science a potential 10 or 11 seat.

Dan Patrick (13:35)

Big 12 looks like they're getting one. Maybe ACC is going to get one.

Rick Neuheisel (13:40)

I think Big 12 has a chance for two based on Utah starting at 13 because I think Utah is playing good football. The fact that Texas Tech won that game was great for Brett York. Had Texas Tech taken a loss, I think it would have been one. ACC for sure.

Dan Patrick (13:56)

Is one talking to Rick Neuheisel, CBS Sports college football analyst former college football head coach A lot of rumors out there.

Rick Neuheisel (14:05)

Always a lot of rumors where you. How about, how about Lane Kiffin having Florida come to town legally? You think there's going to be a 24 hour security around his home?

Dan Patrick (14:22)

What do you think Lane does?

Rick Neuheisel (14:24)

I think he stays. You know, the sec, based on the paradigm we've got right now where you just kind of pay, there's really no advantage any longer to have the blue blood reputation as long as you got the greenbacks in your pocket. And Ole Miss has proven and shown Lane that they'll go out and do what he thinks is necessary. He's got the acumen and the energy to go out and recruit guys like Trinidad Shambliss and go and check on him rather than just reading it off the film. So I think he stays. You know, he's saying how happy he is and he's got a chance to prove it.

Dan Patrick (15:01)

I was talking to somebody who said get ready for chaos this off season with the college coaches. Now, I don't know what chaos, how you would define that. Yeah, but he says that coaches that you don't think would move or athletic directors who you don't think would move their coach, things are going to happen.

Rick Neuheisel (15:20)

Yeah, I think we're at a point of affordability. I think if Lincoln Riley, for instance, wanted to go back to Texas, if there was a place in Texas that he could go and get a great number, I think he'd leave Los Angeles and I think the Trojans would be happy to say that's okay. Because it's expensive to have a guy that's making, you know, eight figures as your coach. I think that we have Jed Fish at Washington, I think will have his eye open. That doesn't mean that he doesn't like Washington. I think he's just looking around. That loss to Wisconsin hurt that. Cause there, there's some other guys out there that I think are going to.

Dan Patrick (16:02)

At least Test the waters like Jeff Braum at Louisville.

Rick Neuheisel (16:07)

Yeah. He and Clark Lee and Eli Drinkwitz all have not inked anything. You know, the Sexton clients are going to use this leverage to kind of peruse and see what makes sense to them. Obviously, Brent Key at Georgia Tech has already said, cut me open, you see what I bleed. That's kind of given us a tip that he wants to stay, but maybe a little early in the. In the negotiation to be saying such a thing.

Dan Patrick (16:35)

Yeah, but I. I can't remember when we had all of these openings during a season.

Rick Neuheisel (16:42)

Yeah.

Dan Patrick (16:42)

Nobody think everybody used to this.

Rick Neuheisel (16:45)

Well, I think so because everybody's trying to get to the head of the class because we've got an early signing date coming up on one of these early Wednesdays in December. We've got a transfer portal, and now we've only got one transfer portal, and that's going to start January 2nd through the 16th. So all these teams that are kind of trying to position themselves for the cfp, those coaches are going to be late to the dance if they get another job, which is going to be really chaos. This is why most of the athletic directors wanted the one transfer portal to be at the end of April. But all the coaches want to know who's going to be on my team so I can build for the entirety of the year. We're bass awkward, as they say in this business. And it spends for some time that that's been the case.

Dan Patrick (17:27)

How would you feel if you were the opposing coach when USC swaps out their punter and with a different jersey number?

Rick Neuheisel (17:37)

Thinking that this might be a topic of conversation with you, I read from the hymnal. Otherwise, the NCAA rule book. The following are considered unethical practices. Changing numbers during a game to deceive an opponent. Now, to be fair to Lincoln, he did this before the game. But the Big Ten is saying you can't have two guys at the same position wearing the same number. And so now this is going to be like Dan Lanning last year putting the 12th guy on the field against Ohio State. This is going to be a rule change. It may be within the week that we'll get the rule change, but you. Some would call that clever. Some would call that a dirty, dirty trick. I. I pat David Braun on the back for. For making no such claim.

Dan Patrick (18:23)

Good to talk to you as always.

Rick Neuheisel (18:25)

Always a treat, my friend.

Dan Patrick (18:26)

Have a good.

Rick Neuheisel (18:26)

Games they remember are played in November.

Dan Patrick (18:30)

You owe me a song here soon.

Rick Neuheisel (18:32)

Oh, next time. Next time I'll have something.

Dan Patrick (18:35)

Yeah. How about. Yeah. Before Christmas. The games in November are the ones we remember.

Rick Neuheisel (18:40)

There you go. Something just sultry like that.

Dan Patrick (18:43)

Yeah. Thank you, bud.

Rick Neuheisel (18:45)

You got it, pal.

Dan Patrick (18:46)

Rick Neuheisel. Yeah. We haven't had a song from Rick in a while. Marvin, while I was interviewing Rick, you went and found the Gus Johnson sound. The game winning touchdown. Mendoza in trouble. That's the world. Unbelievable. Give him the eyes of drove me down out. See, we can laugh at that a little bit. When you're in the moment and you're calling a game and it's back and forth the importance that that might be the biggest play in college football so far this year, when you realize what was at stake there and to stay in the national title picture, to be able to go toe to toe with Ohio State and you know, Penn State was going to eventually show you that they still do have a lot of talent. Even though James Franklin got fired. They've lost their quarterback as well. And they gave Indiana a incredible match, you know, a test.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (19:51)

Yeah, Paulie, I still go back to. It's still so surreal to see where Indiana football is. If Penn State held on, the headline would be. Would be Penn State upsets number two Indiana at home. If I told you that 20 years ago, that that would ever be a headline.

Dan Patrick (20:06)

It's.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (20:06)

It's surreal.

Dan Patrick (20:07)

Even five years ago, three years ago, now the pressure's on Indiana basketball. Oh, by the way, Marvin, you were watching a little Indiana basketball yesterday.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (20:17)

I was like, man, the football school.

Dan Patrick (20:18)

Indiana, they play basketball too, man. Look at them. But it's got to be pressure because it's like, wait, wait, Indiana football's this good. The Indiana brass is like our basketball. Step it up. How about we take a break here? We'll come back more phone calls as well. Got a little college football news for you. The Brian Kelly situation at lsu. We will address that after this.

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Dan Patrick (25:58)

I asked Fritzi. Reach out to Jeff Passon does a wonderful job covering baseball. Their MLB insider. I know he's busy because they have the, I think the GM meetings in Las Vegas, but you also have a controversy here with a pair of pitchers with the Guardians, and they could be headed to prison. Jeff Passon kind enough to join us. Jeff, thanks for joining us. Bring us up to speed. Can you explain the situation with the Guardians pitchers?

Jeff Passon (26:27)

Yeah, it's not great, Dan. And this is really the intersection of gambling and sports and where it allegedly can go wrong. An indictment was unsealed yesterday by the Eastern District of New York, which the same U.S. attorney's office that indicted Damon Jones and Terry Rozier and others involved in a separate alleged gambling scheme. In this case, Luis Ortiz, a Cleveland Guardians pitcher, and Emmanuel Clase, who is widely regarded as one of the best closers in Major League Baseball, three time All Star, two time Mariano Rivera reliever of the Year in the American League, allegedly conspired with betters to place proposition bets on individual pitches. So, for example, you can bet whether a single pitch is going to be a ball or a strike. And they would get together, according to prosecutors, beforehand and say, this pitch in this inning is going to be a ball. And what would happen is, you know, 10,000 or so dollars would be wagered. Sometimes it was more, sometimes it was less. This allegedly happened a significant number of times, up to the point where the government alleges that more than $400,000 was made on Emmanuel Classe's pitches alone. And then this is something that's going back, Dan, allegedly to May of 2023. Ortiz came in, according to prosecutors, joined the scheme this year, and on June 15th threw a ball, then was paid $5,000 to do so. And Class A got $5,000 for Facil on June 27th, did that one more time, and the payment was $7,000. Now, Ortiz's attorney came out and said he is completely innocent of all charges. Fosse's attorney was not quite as vociferous, but said, essentially, we will have our day in court. And the whole thing. It's just really interesting to me, Dan, that I'm in Las Vegas right now for a Major League Baseball event when this is happening and it shows the way that gambling has infiltrated professional sports. And you really do wonder, can the toothpaste be put back in the tube, or is this the new norm?

Dan Patrick (29:05)

They don't cap, prop it.

Jeff Passon (29:09)

I think it just depends on where you're doing the gambling. And the reason that this was caught in the first place is because they're betting integrity firms out there that track this sort of thing. And they saw that Luis Ortiz had a pretty significant amount of money placed on one of his pitches. And they're like, that's interesting. You know, with Class A, I suppose it's a little bit different because he's as good as he is. He's as well known as he is with. With Ortiz, a little bit different. Who, you know, nobody knows who Luis Ortiz is. And so it happens a second time. And once it happened the second time, the betting integrity firms flagged the books and Major League Baseball was informed and almost immediately both Ortiz and Classe were placed on non disciplinary paid leave and have been gone from the guardian since July. And you know, regardless of how this turns out in court, the notion that they are going to be back pitching at any point in Major League Baseball seems unlikely.

Dan Patrick (30:20)

And I've mentioned this before, that you'll have guys, you're on the periphery, they live in a vacuum because they're probably thinking nobody's going to be tracking this. You know, I'm, I'm nobody. I can throw this pitch. My, my buddies can make some money. I get a little kickback here. It just like John Tay Porter with the Raptors. He's a no name player. And hey, I got an over under and I'm gonna, you know, be under. I'm gonna take myself out of the game. Terry Rozier, that's the problem. It's not star players, it's the guys who don't think anybody's watching. But Vegas has to watch.

Jeff Passon (30:59)

Of course Vegas has to watch. And frankly, all of us as sports fans should be apoplectic about this. Games are only as good as they are believable.

Dan Patrick (31:14)

Yeah.

Jeff Passon (31:15)

And the second that you start chipping away at the idea that what we're watching is real, what we're watching is on the up and up. What's the point of watching sports if you don't feel like there's real competition? And it's so interesting to me that it's almost taken gambling to remind us of this point. Why people were so angry about the Houston Astros cheating is because the expectation of fair play of both sides doing this the right way. And I don't think I even need to use air quotes for that. There is a right way and there is a wrong way. And what the Astros did was wrong. And even though Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, if they did this, could say, hey, it's just one ball, I can get back into the count. Class A in 2024 had one of the best relief seasons in major league history. Even though all of those things are true, it's just the fact that if this exists at one point is not a slippery slope. Hey, I, you know, I threw one, but I, I can come back from a 20 count. Or if it's the third pitch of in at the guy is down 0 2, I can waste a pitch, I can waste two pitches. And then you get to the point, Dan, where it's like if you open the door to that, then you're just inviting More and more and more.

Dan Patrick (32:46)

Talking to Jeff Passon, ESPN Senior Baseball Insider. What's the spicy topic there in Vegas?

Jeff Passon (32:55)

Oh boy. Well, it's Major League Baseball off season, so spiciness, it's, it's muted. Like we don't have a ton of spice going on. We need some more, we need some more flavor to the offseason. I don't anticipate there's going to be any big free agent signings this week. I don't think that frankly we're going to have a big trade go down. This week is more about just feeling out what the market is going to look like. And because MLB does not have a salary cap that's off season, is accordingly slow. Teams, you know, they are able to maneuver around and respond to the market and don't feel like they have to go out and spend all this money early on to take up their cap space. And it's one of the things I appreciate about baseball. Like it's, it's an actual market and it operates that way without those sorts of restrictions.

Dan Patrick (33:46)

You got a couple of Japanese players who I think are being posted. Is it just a pipeline to the Dodgers if they want them?

Jeff Passon (33:55)

I don't anticipate that this offseason because if you look at. No, if you. I think it's twofold. Number one, if you look at what the Dodgers need, of course they could always use another starting pitcher. But among the four that they had starting for them this postseason with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, Tyler Glass now and Shohei Ohtani, you add to that two more guys on their roster, Justin Robleski and Roki Sasaki who are starting pitchers and you throw Gavin Stone and River Ryan coming back from major arm surgeries in there. The Dodgers have pitching depth, like real pitching depth frankly, from which they can trade. And Murakami, they just signed Matt or they just picked up Max Muncie's option. Now that, that does not keep them from pursuing Lunatica. Murakami, who is a massive power left handed hitter, hit 56 home runs in a season, 22 years old and has a chance, just an enormous ceiling. But between him and Tatsuya Mi, who's a right hander who's about Yamamoto and has that kind of high octane fastball, really good command and good off speed stuff as well. I think the bigger thing, Dan, other teams want Japanese players too. Other teams understand there's enormous talent to be mined in Japan and you're not going to get those top end guys in the future. If you haven't illustrated in the past that you're a landing spot for Japanese players, that you are friendly to the Japanese culture, that you understand the mindset of Japanese players coming over the Dodgers, one of the best things that they did was corner the market in Japan and say, we want everyone in Japan to be wearing Dodger blue. It was brilliant. Not just in a baseball sense, but in a financial sense as well. And I think all the other teams around the league are like, well, you know, if you can't beat him, join him.

Dan Patrick (35:57)

Behave there in Vegas. Jeff. Okay?

Jeff Passon (36:00)

I make no promises, Dan.

Dan Patrick (36:03)

You already look guilty. Thank you, bud. That's Jeff Passon joining us from Vegas. The GM meetings there. Yeah, I was wondering what the topic's going to be. But there are a couple of Japanese players and their rights have been posted there. But maybe the Dodgers go, no, we're good. We like what we have. I mentioned some college football information here and let me give you what I found out about Brian Kelly. So Kelly is owed the amount based on his contracts provisions that he receives 90% of his pay as he was fired without cause. Under the contract, monthly payments will be made through the year 2031. Now they, Brian Kelly and his representatives, they were initially given 25 million dollars. That was the former AD at LSU, Scott Woodward. They were going to negotiate a 25 million dollar settlement with Kelly. Woodward then got fired or left four days later. And then LSU said, All right, we'll give Brian Kelly 30 million dollars. He rejected both of those. And now they got to figure this out here. They hope to resolve the issue by this afternoon. So you got that going on then. College Football News. There's a lot of rumors out there and I want to be careful I not spreading a rumor, you know, opinions. Jeff Braum at Louisville, I was told is the top choice at Penn State by my source. The situation at USC is, is fluid, it feels like, because you have somebody who hired Kaylin DeBoer at Washington, she's now at USC. Maybe there's speculation of a bigger picture of Kaylin DeBoer. Lincoln Riley may be leaving USC. So once again, this is just somebody's opinion on Penn State's leading candidate. And Brahm has done a really good job at Louisville and that's been mentioned before, that he would be one of the top two candidates. It looks like the situation, you know, does Texas Tech change? Does somebody take a bigger job? The LSU situation, Florida situation, you know, so there's a lot of things going on here and that's why I was told you got a couple of people who are basically controlling the monopoly board in college football and who is going where. And it's ads, it's presidents, it's agents, and of course the coaches themselves. But I was told if you thought the regular season was chaos with all these firings, wait till the off season. Once again, that's somebody's opinion on what could happen. All right, we'll take a break. Last call for phone calls. What we learned, what's in store tomorrow. We'll do that right after this.

Rick Neuheisel (39:10)

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Wilmer Valderrama (40:21)

What do you get when you mix 1950s Hollywood, a Cuban musician with a dream and one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time? You get Desi Arnaz, a trailblazer, a businessman, a husband, and maybe most importantly, the first Latino to break primetime wide open. I'm Wilmer Valderrama. And yes, I grew up watching him, probably just like you and millions of others. But for me, I saw myself in his story.

Dan Patrick (40:45)

From cleaning canary cages to this night.

Caller or Listener (40:47)

Here in New York.

Wilmer Valderrama (40:48)

It's a long ways on the podcast starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama, I'll take you on a journey to this Desi's life, the moments it has overlapped with mine. How he redefined American television and what that meant for all of us watching from the sidelines, waiting for a face like ours on screen. This is the story of how One man spotlight lit the path for so many others and how we carry his legacy Today. Listen to Starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama as part of the My Cultura Podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

Dan Patrick (41:22)

Here we go.

Kal Penn (41:24)

Hey, I'm Cal Penn, and on my new podcast, Here We Go Again, we'll take today's trends and headlines and ask, why does history keep repeating itself? You may know me as the second hottest actor from the Harold and Kumar movies, but I'm also an author, a White House staffer, and as of like 15 seconds ago, a podcast host. Along the way, I've made some friends who are experts in science, politics and pop culture. And each week one of them will be joining me to answer my burning questions, like, are we heading towards another financial crash? Like in 08, is non monogamy back in style? And how come there's never a gate ready for your flight when it lands like two minutes early? We've got guests like Pete Buttigieg, Stacey Abrams, Lilly Singh, and Bill Nye.

Rick Neuheisel (42:09)

When you start weaponizing outer space, things can potentially go really wrong.

Kal Penn (42:15)

Look, the world can seem pretty scary right now, because it is. But my goal here is for you to listen and feel a little better about the future. Listen and subscribe to Here We Go Again with Kal Penn on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Podcast Host or Narrator (Hell in Heaven) (42:33)

In the new podcast, Hell in Heaven, two young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one will end up dead. The other tried for murder. Not once. People went wild, not twice, stunned, but three times. John and Anne Bender are rich and attractive and they're devoted to each other. They create a nature reserve and build a spectacular circular home high on the top of a hill. But little by little, their dream starts to crumble and our couple retreat from reality.

Dan Patrick (43:13)

They lose it. They actually lose it. They sort of went nuts.

Podcast Host or Narrator (Hell in Heaven) (43:18)

Until one night, everything spins out of control. Listen to Hell in Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Dan Patrick (43:31)

To beat the champ, you gotta knock em out. The Dodgers stand tall and win. And back to back titles. I'm Richard Parks iii. My show Dodger Blue Dream captures all the drama, tension and ecstasy of the.

Kal Penn (43:47)

Best World Series win of all time.

Dan Patrick (43:50)

In our new episode, Game seven, no way Out. Now listen to Dodger Blue dream on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Reggie Miller will Join us on the program tomorrow. Last call for phone calls. What we learn, what's in store tomorrow. Football coming up tonight, Eagles at the Packe. The eagles favored by one and a half. Segue. And DePauli says he has a Monday night Football bet.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (44:16)

Yeah. If you remember, in the off season, it was the packers that proposed banning the tush push.

Dan Patrick (44:21)

Yeah.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (44:22)

Does Nick Sirianni get a little cute, a little snarky, a little Payback over. Under 4.5. Tush pushes in the game tonight.

Dan Patrick (44:32)

Wow.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (44:32)

Who wants a piece of that?

Dan Patrick (44:34)

Marvin, I'll start with you. You're a tush pusher.

Caller or Listener (44:37)

Wow.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (44:38)

I mean, and he doesn't even play football.

Dan Patrick (44:41)

Under. Okay, I'm gonna go under. Dylan. I would also go under, but maybe a fake tush push. Oh, really? Throw him off. Okay. So that the formation doesn't count as a tush push.

Rick Neuheisel (44:55)

Complete the process.

Dan Patrick (44:56)

Yes, Todd. I'm going under. Yeah, I think I'll do under as well. But I. I don't know if Sirianni gets cute to get cute. I think it's just that's part of their playbook. Yeah.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (45:07)

Paulie, I'm going over and I'm going early next. Sirianni is not a. A guy who forgets grudges.

Dan Patrick (45:15)

Well, it'd be silly if he's going to go. We're going to rub it in over here. Matt Leflore and the Packers. I would just win the game. Just win the game. You get a couple of tush pushes. Enjoy it while it's here, because I don't think it's here next year. Yes, Dylan. We have to make sure there's, you know, integrity with this bet. So if they're running the tush push.

Kal Penn (45:35)

On, like, second and nine, we'll know.

Dan Patrick (45:36)

Paulie got to them for the over. Who exactly would he have gotten to? Dylan? You're asking the wrong guy. His contact. Big. Big Dom. Big Dom. Allegedly Big Dom. All right. I think we're having a meet Tuesday, tomorrow.

Anabe Sofas Advertiser (45:54)

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Dan Patrick (45:55)

I think I. Because the people from Heartland Steak are coming in now. Do they want their steak if they're coming in on the road to the man cave? Because I said to Dylan, shouldn't we make something different for them? Yeah. Like do they want sushi instead of steak that they eat all the time? I think they do, yeah. But they have steak all the time. Yes, Todd, There's a lot. Like a cannibalism kind of thing from a sponsor standpoint. Like, you're eating your own. It seems a little weird, but I'll eat steak every day. Okay, well, I think we'll have a meet Tuesday. Tomorrow. I saw those Tomahawk steaks out there defrosting.

Rick Neuheisel (46:32)

They looked.

Dan Patrick (46:32)

We got Tomahawks and porter houses. Wow. Wow. No. Nobody. No buddies. Final results for the poll question, Dylan. All right, then it was. The last poll question was worst weekend Bills, Jaguars, Panthers or Steelers? The Bills running away with that one at 65 and a half percent. Okay. That was. It was more than a loss. It was like, wow. They weren't the. Like, the Dolphins were the better team. You know, sometimes you have a loss and you go, we were the better team. But you know what breaks went their way. That was. Was it like 16 to 3? I'm going, hello.

Rick Neuheisel (47:11)

Yeah.

Dan Patrick (47:12)

And the Bills were still slightly favored. Hello? Sixteen, three. Yeah. Yeah.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (47:16)

Paul, I text you guys.

Rick Neuheisel (47:17)

Group text.

Dan Patrick (47:18)

With eight minutes to go.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (47:20)

I said, I'm still picking the Bills to win this.

Rick Neuheisel (47:22)

The next play.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (47:24)

Josh Allen.

Dan Patrick (47:24)

Boom. And then Paulie goes. Never mind. As you were. Because. And then you said at one point the Bills were favored to win that game. According to Vegas. Yeah, they. They were down at 16 to 3. They were either like plus, like 105 or slightly like minus 105. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Mark in Indianapolis. Hey, Mark, thanks for holding. Best and worst of the weekend. Hey, Dan.

Caller or Listener (47:53)

My best is the Lions. And turning over the play calling to the head coach there, Dan. It just seemed like last year's Lions, like, unstoppable. I wish they would have done it a couple games before. And the worst what is the Pacers? I don't know what's going on. It's essentially the same team without Halliburton, and they're like literally the worst team in the league. So it's kind of shocking they're that bad.

Dan Patrick (48:17)

Yeah. Big difference though, when you're watching. Yeah, Paul.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (48:22)

Yeah, I. I don't think I noticed this. The Pacers are one in nine.

Dan Patrick (48:25)

Yeah. Wow. Not good. Not good. Let's see. Adam in la. Hi, Adam. Welcome back.

Caller or Listener (48:34)

Happy Monday, Dan. Dan, I hope your weekend was great. Have a best and worst of the weekend. Worst being the Pittsburgh Steelers and Aaron Rodgers Sunday night performance. Wow, that was really bad. I've got a funny worst real quick. The Rams new place kicker yesterday, Harrison Nevis, AKA is known as the thicker kicker who looked thicker than a snicker in his uniform yesterday. So check that out if you haven't seen it. Also, a best of the weekend, of course, is my Los Angeles Rams going up to no cow, beating the Niners convincingly, bringing me to my stat of the day, which is correct. So check it this time. Damn, my tequila hangovers wore off. Matthew Stafford became yesterday the first quarterback in NFL history with three consecutive games of four passing touchdowns and zero interceptions. You're the best tv.

Dan Patrick (49:17)

Have a great week. Thank you, Adam. You're right. Stat of the day. Stat of the day. Stat of the day. Stat of the day. This is the stat of the day. Stat of the day brought to you by Panini America. The official trading cards of this program. Brad in North Carolina. Hi, Brad. Best and worst of the weekend.

Caller or Listener (49:43)

Hey, what up, dp? I've got a best investor. My best of the weekend was meaningful. Basketball in November with Carolina handily taking care of Kansas. Caleb Williams, he'd be a lot of fun for us this year. My bester is just that, that series. Hopefully they can keep the home and home going those K's first trip to Chapel Hill. But just the lineage of the programs, they just. That goes all the way back to Dr. Naismith, to Dr. Allen, to Dean Smith, to Larry Brown, all the way to Roy Williams. So I think those two really to continue that home and home.

Dan Patrick (50:15)

Yeah, I watched it and Kansas was up comfortably, I think at halftime, maybe by eight, nine points. And then North Carolina came back. I'm. It's going to take me a little while to get into college basketball here. I'm flipping through and I see Indiana basketball. I'm like, all right, I watch a little bit of this and that's what I did. I watched a little bit of that. Can't get there yet.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (50:41)

Yes, Paulie, by the way, Tar Heel football, two wins in a row. Beaten Syracuse, almost bowl eligible.

Dan Patrick (50:48)

Yeah.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (50:50)

Duke's Mayo Bowl.

Dan Patrick (50:51)

Hello. This day in sports history.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (50:55)

Paul, I got a bunch for you, Dan. 1928, Newt Rockne did the win. One for a Gipper speech at halftime in a tied game between Notre Dame and Army. Spoiler they won't. 1940, the Steelers and the Eagles played in a penalty free NFL game. 1957. 103,000 people attended a Niners Rams game. Biggest crowd in NFL history. Still is. The Phoenix Suns. 1990. Scored 107 points in the first half against the Nuggets. 173. 143. In 1996, Dan Marino of the Dolphins became the first quarterback in NFL history to pass for more than 50.

Dan Patrick (51:34)

Backup quarterback Frank Reich in 1984 led Maryland on six consecutive scoring drives as Maryland. Maryland was down 31 to nothing to the U. They ended up winning 42, 40. Frank Reich involved in two of the greatest comebacks in football history. One when he was in the NFL with Buffalo against the Oilers. And then the one in college with Maryland against the U. But down 31 nothing and end up coming back to win at 42, 40. I don't know what they were down. So that was a Super bowl year. Kelly was injured, Frank Reich came in and they were down big against the Houston Oilers. And they ended up winning that game and they went to another Super Bowl. Does that sound right, Marvin? Yeah, they were down maybe like. Like 35 to 3. It was something ridiculous. Yeah, like a divisional playoff game.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (52:30)

They were down 28, three at half. Oh, boilers, bills, January 3, 1993.

Dan Patrick (52:36)

I love those Oilers, man. That Ernest Givens, I think, was one of the wide receivers. Yeah. Marv Spencer, Haywood. Heywood Jeffries. Heywood Jeffries. Got my Haywoods mixed up. Yeah, you got one basketball and one one football there. Heywood Jeffries. Yeah. I remember having both of those receivers on my fantasy team. And Warren Moon, the quarterback.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (53:04)

Yeah, Paulie, also on that team. Lorenzo White, the running back.

Dan Patrick (53:07)

Oh, Michigan State.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (53:08)

Webster Slaughter on that squad.

Dan Patrick (53:09)

Webster Slaughter. Cleveland Brown.

Kal Penn (53:11)

Yeah.

Dan Patrick (53:11)

Great name. Yeah. Webster Slaughter. Good Halloween name. Thank you, Todd. Once again, no more Halloween names. It's over. It's over. Very upsetting. Now I might stay an extra year just to.

Jeff Passon (53:25)

Just for that.

Dan Patrick (53:26)

Wow. That's a commitment out of you. Respect. Yeah. How's the cold? You got a cold? I'm run down today. You're run down? Yeah, I got a cold and then just stuffed up. What'd you do that got you run down? Well, my wife teaches, so I'm sure one of the elementary school students. Who knows what they're carrying around. So she was sick first. I guess she passed her cold on to me. Okay, well, I like that you're fighting through it. I'm trying to keep my distance from everybody so I don't bring anybody down with me. I'm guessing you had contact with your wife this weekend.

Kal Penn (53:56)

There was some contact.

Dan Patrick (53:59)

I don't kiss until I don't cough until. What did you learn today, Todd? Rick Neuheisel says controvers these days. With the way the transfer portal is currently set up up. Dylan, what'd you learn? It's the big game at Super Week. Yes, it is. Marvin, what did you learn? Gerald McCoy thinks you're smart. Thank you, Paulie. Would you learn the game is going.

Marvin (Marvin Polyers) (54:21)

To be super, Todd.

Dan Patrick (54:23)

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Rick Neuheisel (54:54)

Right now and well, you're sweet and.

Dan Patrick (54:55)

All, but I found something more fulfilling, even kind of cheesy. But I like it.

Rick Neuheisel (55:00)

Sure you met some of my dietary.

Dan Patrick (55:02)

Needs, but they've just got it all.

Rick Neuheisel (55:04)

So farewell Oatmeal so long you strange.

Dan Patrick (55:07)

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Kal Penn (55:35)

The best World Series win of all time in our new episode, Game seven.

Dan Patrick (55:41)

No way Out. Now listen to Dodger Blue dream on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Wilmer Valderrama (55:49)

What do you get when you mix 1950s Hollywood, a Cuban musician with a dream, and one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time? You get Desi on the podcast starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama. I'll take you on a journey to Desi's life, how he redefined American television and what that meant for all of us watching from the sidelines, waiting for a face like ours on screen. Listen to Starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer valderrama on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Kal Penn (56:19)

On an all new episode of iHeartRadio's.

Dan Patrick (56:21)

Las Culturistas, Jennifer Lawrence is dishing Jennifer.

Kal Penn (56:25)

Lawrence from her hilarious seriously awkward run.

Dan Patrick (56:28)

Ins with A Listers. I don't know what I was expecting.

Podcast Host or Narrator (Hell in Heaven) (56:31)

But he was just like nice to meet you.

Kal Penn (56:34)

To her unfiltered take on beauty treatments.

Dan Patrick (56:36)

I'm so upset I didn't get Botox.

Kal Penn (56:38)

Before that and a jaw dropping reveal.

Dan Patrick (56:40)

You won't see coming. I don't know if I can announce this, but I'm just gonna open your.

Kal Penn (56:44)

Free iHeartRadio app, search Las Culturistas and listen to the full podcast now. Hey, I'm Kalpen, and on my new podcast, Here We Go Again, we'll take today's trends and headlines and ask, why does history keep repeating itself? Each week, I'm calling up my friends like Bill Nye, Lilly Singh, and Pete Buttigieg to talk about everything from the space race to movie remakes to psychedelics.

Rick Neuheisel (57:09)

Put another way, are you high?

Kal Penn (57:12)

Look, the world can seem pretty scary right now, but my goal here is for you to listen and feel a little better about the future. Listen and subscribe to Here We Go Again with Kal Penn on the iHeartRadio app app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Dan Patrick (57:26)

This is an iHeart podcast.