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The Pro bowl, you have to add the a Pro bowl alternate so we can differentiate between those who were true Pro bowl selections and those who are just filling out a roster to play dodgeball. And maybe the NBA can look at 10 minute quarters, 40 minute games. Therefore you'll have more players maybe taking less time off. Load management might be something of the past internationally there, that's the way they play. 10 minute quarters, 40 minute games. And the commissioner of the NBA just said now, he said that they've talked about this. Now I said give me a wild idea. And he said, well it's not really a wild idea but they have talked about it. Now he says that he's in favor of it. He knows what he's doing. You wouldn't float that out there unless you probably wanted to get the reaction here. And our reaction was I'm not worried about the stats, I, I'm worried about the aesthetics of the game. Are they going to play? I just mentioned that Joel embiid has missed 400 games in his career. He's played in around 466 games. So he's missed 45% of all the games. I know that he's had a lot of injuries, Anthony Davis, a lot of injuries. There's certain players that they get banged up more than others or maybe they don't play through pain like others. You got the Kawhi Leonard situation. Does this alleviate that? Can that help the situation where if you buy a ticket, you know somebody's going to play. The fact that it's a, maybe a two hour game, like it's, it's, you know, bite sized portions where you'll be like, hey, I got two hours, I can watch the game instead of you tune in and you know, like Major league Baseball used to be. I don't know how long it's going to be. Baseball understood that pitch clock sped up the game. I thought baseball had an unbelievable year and I think the NBA has to have a little bit of that. The in season tournament. Okay. Like the only thing I liked is the courts were different. You know, they look lively, fun. I would have even more fun with that if I'm the NBA. But you got to start thinking outside the box. You know, the NFL with the kickoff, who would have thought? Now you may not like it, but they still put the kickoff back in. So it did matter a little bit more. And still until you can have an on site kick without telling people you're going to have an on site kick. Then you know, the kickoff to me is like it's a means to an end. We got to start the game, you got to kick off the game. But they did think outside the box with that. Baseball certainly did. I think the NBA has to at least look at this. Now. They may not, might not think that anything's broken, but you want to have preemptive strikes. You want to be ahead of the game. And look, I know we get caught up in the three point shot. Too many three pointers. I just don't like bad three point shooting. I mean, I'll watch Steph Curry in warmups. I'd watch Caitlin Clark just shoot. I did the other day when she made 50 out of 54 in practice. I like seeing great shooting. It's just there are some teams and players who aren't good. And that's why I wondered what would a game look like if you didn't have the three point line? Just to see what it will look like, how they would play, would they play differently? And I think that might be fun. But you, you have to start thinking about the aesthetics of this. Not oh, what are the stats going to be. If your stats are attached to a incentive clause, a bonus, I understand that you'd have to modify that. All you do is modify it, you know, with a 40 minute game as opposed to 48 minutes. But I want more players playing harder. We can keep the three, but I would, I would even toy with that, of having fun with it. But sounds like the commission. I'm sure there are a lot of things that come across his desk, but that's what I wondered like was there anything wild and I wonder what the reaction is going to be. Whether it's NBA players or analysts, coaches who are going to read this danpatrick.com or when it gets filtered out to these other websites of would they consider 40 minute games? And I think there are a lot of positives there. But that's his job. His job is to be thinking not now, but down the road. You're thinking that with your business partners, you're thinking about that with expansion. What about Nils players now go into the, into college, you're making more money. Maybe you don't come out, you know, after one and done. Do they go back to an 18 year old instead of going to the G League? Does the G League even matter anymore? Because it's not about attendance there. But you can go to college, make money and then go to the NBA as opposed to going to the G League. But you know, these are all the things that he has to be thinking about of growing your game. And it's globally. You know, this is truly a global sport. It's not like baseball or the NFL. You know, the NFL has pockets in, you know, these certain cities, certain countries. But this is, basketball is global. I mean, just look at China, all the people in China, you know, in Europe, you know, the number of people. You got a couple of billion, billion people that would be interested in this. And I think it gets back to do we just consume clips? It feels like it's just, hey, did you see that on social media? I think a lot of people watch also. I wonder, you know, the deeper we get into gambling and this is really a deep dive on this. But I've thought about it. Do we get away from true fandom like this new wave of fans who are going to grow up on gambling, Are they going to grow up on being a fan of a team or are they going to grow up just thinking about the gambling aspect of this? Are you going to be invested in a player because he helps you over unders, things like that? Are we going to have dynasties as we move forward? Like so these are a lot of things that I've thought about with the NBA and I still love the sport. I just think that there are a lot of things that could be added or subtracted that maybe would benefit the game in the long run. But I'm not concerned about, you know, somebody averaging 30 or 15. I, I want to know are they playing hard? Are they playing? Are they playing hard? What's the game look like? Those are the things that I'm curious about. Like I was worried about the NFL, that there was too much passing, everybody was passing and I kept saying somebody's going to go counter to that. And now you've seen teams go counter to that. I don't know if we get back to the big man in basketball can truly like if, if you had Shaq or some of these other Shaq's not on the three point line, how are you going to cover Shaq man to man if everybody's on the perimeter? So there's going to be players, it feels like eventually who will be that back to the basket or play down low? Yes, Marv. Well, you just talked about the, the international game. The international game is the big guys are skilled. That whole back to the basket, hey, let's pound the ball three times and then throw up a baby jump hook. That is not how they do it over there and now with Jokic and win Benyama, it's going to go far, even further away than it is now as far as traditional big man basketball. But they are so skilled at other things. And that's what's amazing when you watch them. Like, the evolution of that position is really incredible. Really incredible. And, and I don't want to diminish that because watching Wemby, I watch any game he plays in Jokic, the way he plays basketball. I love watching it because I mean, this is they. They teach pure basketball. They don't teach highlight basketball in Europe. It's pure basketball. And you see that the number of players not born in the United States and the game that they bring for the most part is pure basketball. Shea, Gilgis, Alexander in Canada, I mean, you could. It's not just. Not in the United States, it's not just Europe, but what Jokic does. That's the way they played basketball, you know, in the 50s or 60s, not to that skill level. And Wemby. Wemby's going to be the best player in the game. Probably in three years. Wembanyama will be the best player in the game. And he's extremely skilled at both ends of the floor. I know that the talent level is incredible. And I was watching a Phoenix Suns game last night. I know. What a life. You're the one. This was a 1970. I. You know what, for some reason I watched Ricky Sobers, who was a guard, and I always loved Ricky Sobers for some reason. So I'm watching the Suns and the Celtics and you know, the game is obviously different, but you know, it. It's what I grew up on. But I'm trying to embrace this where it is just social media clips. Try to watch a game. How many times have you watched a game? How many times do you watch a baseball game? All the way through. We don't do that anymore. Football we do because you can bet on everything. Your team fantasy, all that's attached. And it's once a week. So you're not like, you know, I'm going to get tired of this. The NBA. I watched the Lakers Sixers last night. It doesn't mean I go, man, can't wait to watch the Sixers again, their next game. But last night I was entertained by Tyrese Maxing. Okay. It's a long winded way of saying final hour here. Good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, thank you for downloading the app. Dylan, you're doing the poll question duties with Seaton on the road. Yes, I am. So for our two recap, which career would you rather have? Long. Okay. NFL career or short? Awesome. 63% want the long career. Okay. And then for our three poll question, keep it simple. Would you be in favor of 40 minute games in the NBA? Yes, no or don't care? All right, let's go around the room. Todd, would you be in favor of 40 minutes instead of 48? I would. All right, Dylan, I like it. Yeah. Marv, I'm in. Paul, I see nothing against it. Yeah, I'm, I'm okay with it. Like, I don't go, golly, I'm missing eight more minutes here. If the games are. Now, here's one thing that might bother people if they're not scoring 100 points. You know, if you have games that are, you know, 80, 91, 89, I mean, hopefully you would adjust. College games don't go into triple digits. But in the NBA that might bother people. The final score and they'll be scoring 100 points. But other than that, I don't see a real downside. By the way, we talked about the Pro bowl and that, you know, they just want people to participate in this. In fact, J.J. watt said that it's basically a participation bowl when you get to like the fifth or sixth alternate, like, come on in. Do you want to play dodgeball? We had Max Crosby on this is two years ago. No, three years ago. So right after the Pro bowl and the Raiders defensive end and I asked him that, it looked like people were just slow dancing out there in the Pro Bowl. Who lets everybody know what was the agreement where we go, we're just going to have two hand touch. Honestly, there wasn't an agreement. Once the game started, I got off the ball and I noticed everyone was kind of moving in slow motion. So I was trying to like, act in a way to try to, you know. But as the game went on, you know, there was a big bonus. So, you know, Vrabel is a competitive guy. He wanted to win. Everybody on our team was like, all right, we're gonna like, kind of go with the flow. But we, we wanted to win. So, yeah, you know, there's a couple third downs and fourth downs where we kind of were rushing a little bit. Okay. But for the most part, somebody had to go. We put our, the officials had to know this as well. When Mac, Mac Jones is running and then they put their hands on, they blow the whistle, I'm like. And Mac, he keeps jump, you know, he's going towards the End zone. Yeah, that was a tough thing, is short yardage was the hardest thing of the whole game because you get to fourth and two or third and two, whatever, you run the ball and someone just touches the running back. It was done. So you basically had to throw the ball every single play. So it's kind of a fine line. Did you talk amongst each other? Not really. There wasn't any agreement or, like, a common ground. It just. Everyone was just kind of chilling the whole time. So it was. Yeah, it was different. And that's why we have the participation bowl, and that's why you have tug of war and dodgeball, flip and slide. Yeah, it's like family. Double dare. Yeah, Jack, double dare. Blake in Illinois. Hi, Blake. What's on your mind today? Hey, good morning, Dan. How are you guys doing today? Good. I just had a theory that I wanted to run past you guys. How do you feel about if. If you play in the Super. Excuse me? If you play in the Pro bowl, the incentive to play would be that you get the chance to play in the Olympics coming up for flag football. But that's the only stipulation you have to at least play in the Pro bowl to be considered for the super. For the Olympics. I don't know if players would want that. Like, you got to play hard to play in the Olympics flag football. I don't think they would go for that. Plus, you got a lot of guys who are professional flag football players who don't want the NFL involved in this. Like, they're guys who. They think, hey, you know, we do this all the time. Don't be bringing in your NFL. Yeah. Paul, the phrase professional, professional pro flag football player sounds like jumbo shrimp. I can't even believe that's a real thing. Josh in Nebraska. Hi, Josh. Hey, thanks for taking my call. Six foot, £210. So I'm a high school teacher, so my class is being quiet. We have a rotating study hall, so don't worry, it's not actual instructional time. I'm a decent teacher. I promise. So I've been dating this girl since September, and we're Both in our 30s, and my brother told my family that we were getting engaged. I didn't know this. I wasn't around when he said this. But just out of curiosity, when do you suggest is a good time when you're in your 30s to get engaged and how much do you. How much do you suggest spending on a ring as a high school teacher? I was just curious your advice and if you had any thoughts for me, I'm a Catholic, she's a Lutheran, so we'll probably have a Catholic wedding. Just as an aside, she's not real thrilled about it, but she'll get over it, I think. Anyway, thanks for taking my call. Let the show, guys. Thank you, Josh. I don't want to tell you what to do with the ring because I didn't have any money when I got my engagement ring and my. Fine. My wife was fine with it, but, you know, we picked it out. Like, if you're going into a marriage, then, you know, you got to establish a friendship, teamwork, you know, where, like, hey, let's be realistic. I can always upgrade if I do better, you know, in life. But the important part is getting engaged or getting married there. But as far as, how long do you wait before I would suggest you go on a trip together and then see how you are when you come back from that trip. Go on a road trip, let's say 10 days together. And then let me know how you're doing when you get back, because that's when you can get on each other's nerves. And day to day, hour to hour, you know, stopping for gas, not stopping for gas, went the wrong way. You don't listen to directions. What's wrong with you? Yes, Todd, when he said, when is a good time to get engaged? I thought you'd say something like Thursday at about 2:30. Yeah, I'm more of a, you know, a Wednesday afternoon guy. When I get engaged. Yes, Marvin. All right, so when you get engaged, do not get engaged. This is. This is my suggestion. Do not get engaged on a holiday or somebody's birthday. I. I got engaged on April 28th. You know what that day is? April 28th. That's it. It's just a day. Yeah. Don't do Christmas. Valentine's Day. Don't do Valentine's. No, no. That's me doing it at someone else's wedding. Oh, that happened to me, the hijack that. Somebody did that at my wedding. Brutal. Yeah. Your wedding? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Even I know that's like a Taboo family member did. Somebody in the family tree did that. That's not cool. Yeah. Are they still in the family? Yeah, but the. As I got got to the reception, I. The following was said to me. Don't mean to upstage you, but we just got engaged. So they acknowledged it, too, that they were upstaging. Well, they didn't mean to upstage me. Right? That's like, no offense. They just got engaged. I went. I just got to the reception. I just got married. And then, not to upstage you, but we just got engaged. Enough about you guys. How about us? 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So, for example, they have a curried gumbo, and like, with their lamb chops, they take the best of New Orleans spices and the best of Indian food spices, and they mash it together. And he has all these experimental foods and cocktails. My number two is Pesh. I'm not sure if you've ever been to Pesh. It's a seafood and steakhouse. It's probably, like, five minutes away from the Superdome. They're open Sundays. And my final one is called Risotto's. They're, like, in a neighborhood restaurant, another steak and secret restaurant. Uh, you can't go wrong with any of those three restaurants. But my favorite is Saffron. Well, thank you. Thank you for the recommendations. Yeah, we're looking for a place where I can bring the Danets and the backroom guys Sunday. Um, I don't know, can we get that many people in a restaurant here on a Sunday? And we're going at 5 o'clock because if I'm paying, we're going early. We're thinking of doing four tables of three, actually. So thank you. Thank you, Dylan. I'm fine with that, too. I don't care. I don't care. The math. Just as long as we can get in there, have a dinner, and I don't have to sit next to Todd, like, speed dating. Like six tables of two, just switching off every 15 minutes. Yeah, he could just get up, move to another one. Get up, move. That'll be adorable. Great content. Well, the problem is you'd have to take your plate with you. Yeah, I don't think you'd be going to somebody else's plate or I'd be coming to your plate. Yeah, that's part of the fun. We get a little messy. It would get a little messy. All right. Mike McCarthy, Cliff Kingsbury, wait till next year. I don't know if it was by choice, but it was probably by the Saints choice that neither is going to get that job. And looks like Kellen Moore is the leading candidate, but he's got the super bowl ahead of him. Super Bowl's over. You stay in New Orleans and do a press conference. Jalen Milroe of Alabama decided to come out, and I think he could have used another year in college, but if somebody's going to take him maybe in the first two rounds. The problem, though, was it's almost hand size season. That's usually at the combine, the Senior bowl, they all of a sudden jumped the shark here. They. They went hand size before the combine, and Jalen Milroe has small hands. You have the official measurement here. I'm reporting this as a journalist. I'm not besmirching his hands or Jalen Milroe. He measured his hands at 8.68, which is less than 8 1/3 inches for his hand size. Okay. Which is Kenny Picket esque. Okay. Oh, we went back. So after Kenny Pickett went to the combine and it came out that he had small hands. Every picture. Every picture that we saw, he's got his hand in his pocket. So he. He was a hand hider, as Paulie likes to say. He's hand hiding. That's what he's doing. He's hand hiding. And he's there with his girlfriend. He's got his hand in his pocket, so you can't see that his hand size. Yes, Marvin. You can call him Kenny Pocket. Oh, okay. Blue. Yes, Todd. And what's wrong keeping your hands in your pocket at all times? Well, you got on stage when you were singing hall of Notes. Hands in your pocket. Now, how to make it about me? I was going to just lick this. Yes. Paul is the upside for Jalen Milroe that he has two months until the combine and can expand his hands for that measurement, the official measurement. Is there a hand spreading expert in the south that can help them? There are people who do help you. They do. The niche industry. It is, it is. I mean, I don't know how often it comes up where, you know, people go, yep. Hey, you got to stretch my hand. Okay. How busy are you at work? I don't know. I don't know how I'm Hoping you have something else like that. Your side hustle is stretching hands. Should be like a coffee shop hand stretching business. The coffee will carry you. Yes, Marv, where can you find these people? I'm asking for a friend. I was just going to ask myself. Yes, Paul Todd. Does that apply to other areas is exactly what I want. Wow. Wow. Might as well just get it out there. I think if it's 8.68 you're doing. Yeah, kill that segment. Thank you Dylan. I was also asking for a friend. Of course you were. Of course you worked. Todd. Thank you. Karsten in Orange County. Hi Karsten, what's on your mind? Hey Carsten, how you doing? Dan? Good. What's on your mind? Well, I was thinking that the 40 minute change to the NBA might not have the intended effect. You might just have the stars playing the same number of minutes. Well yeah, there's always that possibility but I don't think it can get any worse though with load management. This to me it at least you're thinking you're trying. Thank you for the phone call. Yeah, I, I don't know what the downside would be with that. We already see it. I just mentioned Joel embiid has missed 400 games in his career. He's played in 466. Kawhi Leonard I don't know if it means that these players will be able to play longer then we would all benefit from that. Ed in Chicago. Hi Ed, what's on your mind? Hey guys, I think fourth time caller six two or rising two forty. Unfortunately thing I love most about the show is all the inside jokes. You guys did kill that last segment. Dan, I go back the timely assorted sound bite of him calling dibble Ron. Yes, crack me up every time. Hey Ron, it was just the best. I mean your laughter is just makes my day. Anyway, reason I was calling as you mentioned, is gambling the culprit for perhaps making people root for outcomes or players or their parlay or whatever as opposed to their team. Fantasy football ruined that for me. I'm a Bears fan, poly self hating and I was rooting for packers because if I had Farver Rogers who were studs as a QB in fantasy, guess who I was rooting for? The Bears weren't going to pay me. My fantasy team would. So I think it goes back to fantasy before gambling. Yeah, because if you want that guy to lose, if he's you know, your arch rival but you want him to play well, if you have Aaron Rodgers on your fantasy team, you may not want him to Win the game against your team, but you want him to score a lot of points. It's, it's weird now what we root for now. Gambling, you know, it's prevalent. It's, it's, now it's commonplace. I don't know if you're going to have that fandom where you root for a team as much as you're rooting for situations or your fantasy team. And that's why I wonder about that with all of these leagues, you grow up as a fan of a team. I don't know if this next wave of football fans or baseball or basketball fans, and you're gambling on everything. Are you rooting for your team or you're rooting for a situation? Yes, Marv. But on the flip side, if you're a Tennessee Titans, not a Tennessee Titans fan, if you had Chris Johnson 10 years ago, you're watching the Titans, a game you normally wouldn't watch. So it brings eyes, eyeballs to every single game. If you have Trevor Lawrence on your fantasy team, you're watching the Jaguars game because Trevor Lawrence is on your fantasy team. So it brings eyeballs to every single game, no matter who's playing. Well, but you're watching. I mean, you can watch the red zone. You don't have to be watch. I mean, I could love Trevor Lawrence. He's on my fantasy team. That doesn't mean I want to watch Jacksonville. I mean, let's be honest. Come on on. You can still check the box score after the game. Yes, I can check in on that. They got apps for everything there. Paul in North Dakota. Hi, Paul. What's on your mind today? Hey, Dan. First time, long time. Six foot, 265. Hey. And I just had an idea, a potential idea for the Pro Bowl. I wanted to hear your thoughts. So what they could do is just select the players like they normally are for their performance during the, during the regular season. And rather than those starters or those, the All Stars playing in the game, those players could select somebody from their team or from their practice squad to play in their place. And that way you could get like a competitive, competitive game. They would give those players some more exposure. I don't, I don't want to see another football game that resembles the NBA All Star Game. Like, I, I don't, I have no interest in it. Like, I'll watch the All Star Game because there can be some fun highlights there. I don't need a exhibition football game. You know, I don't. And even when the Pro bowl was played in Hawaii, I'D be like anything else on. And then you might watch just a little bit. I just love that it was in Hawaii, but that was basically it. Eric in LA. Hi, Eric. What's on your mind? ADP 5, 8 and a hard 185. I had a couple rule changes that could impact load management. I was thinking that the NBA, when it comes out with a schedule, can set games where teams are allowed to load, load, manage. But on other games, if an independent doctor picked by the league and the player says that a guy is managing and you accumulate enough of those, you get added a loss to your loss call. Oh, my God. No, we can't. You can have an upset stomach. Like you can have a, you know, a tight hamstring. I don't know if doctors can go, yep, I'll keep you. You got an upset stomach there. I don't think so. Yeah. Paul, how about a new thing where we all show up to work what we're paid for? Yeah, I like that. I see. Here's another thing. This is going to happen soon. I brought this up, but imagine somebody making $100 million a year in the NBA because that's going to happen. You're going to notice every time they don't play, the first guy you're going to notice. Shea Gilchris, Alexander, $100 million. How many games did he play? Oh, he's not playing. Just the. You got the old school people. We're going to die over that. A hundred million dollars and she, Gilgis, or whoever it is. But man, it's a lot of money. A lot of money. But somebody's got to get that money because there's only, you know, what, 12, 13 players on a roster and you're getting all. They're getting billions of dollars from all these streaming partners. Somebody's getting the money. Yeah. Paulie, I'm curious what the reaction to this was. You might remember it better than us. In November of 79, Nolan Ryan got a four year, $4.5 million contract. Headlines on the newspapers. First million dollar player. Yeah, but I, you know, when Ricky Henderson became, I think, the first $3 million player, I. I don't think it registered because I thought that those guys were great. Now you're going to have players that are going to make $50 million and you're going to go, who is he? Yeah, Marv. Yeah. When otto Porter got $100 million, I mean, come on. I was like, who in the blue hell is Otto Porter? And I'm an NBA geek, a Donald Foil. Oh, like you just like Mark Jackson. No, not the point guard, post player. Yes, Mark Jackson. Was that Mark with a C? I think it was M A R C. Warriors legend. Yeah. Oh, gosh. But it's going to happen. You know, we do this now with our quarterbacks where you're like, God, I can't believe that guy makes that. But you're going to have a hundred million dollar a year guy in the next five years, you're probably going to have $100 million. Kevin in Vegas. Hi, Kev. What's on your mind? Hey, guys, I'm going to get right to it. The commissioner came on and he didn't want to say anything wrong. There's never going to be a shortage. They're never going to shave two minutes off. It's all about money. And if you think about shaving two minutes off all the time, that they will lose, I'm going as far as to say they're going to add two minutes. It's all about the money. Thank you, Kevin. Well, the commercial inventory is what's important. That's what they want to make sure that they're able to sell that. But he's taken eight minutes off the game, not two minutes. I mean, two minutes a quarter. But he sounded like he was into it. I want to be fair to the commissioner. He didn't say that that was happening. He wouldn't have revealed that. It's like, you know the NFL commissioner, when he started talking about 18 games, this is a while ago, I said, yeah, we're going to 18. Well, nothing's affecting. We're going to 18 games. And I'm curious what the headlines are with the commissioner saying this and what the reaction is going to be. I don't think it'll be a negative reaction that they want 40 minute games like they do in Europe and 10 minute quarters. I don't know if anybody, the players are going to go, wait, we still get paid the same. Yeah, I'm in favor. All right, we'll take a break. Last call for phone calls. What we learned, what's in store tomorrow, right after this. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick show, weekdays at 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app. Oh, that was nice. Heard back from the commissioner's office. He said, you know, if I can help with reservations in New Orleans, you let me know. So that's very nice, very thoughtful. Yeah, I appreciate that. We probably ruined his day though by having this come out, that maybe he's considering 10 minute quarters and now 40 minute games instead of 48. Once again, he just said it's a wild idea. He didn't say that it's something that they're putting into motion. But I do think that he would certainly appreciate the reaction because that's what happens a lot of times with these commissioners. You know what, you're going to see a headline that's going to say NBA remodeling, question mark. And then it'll be something about that. This is how this works. But the commissioner is very bright, so I'm guessing that he knew or knows what the reaction is going to be. Mad in South Carolina. Hi, Matt. What's on your mind? Hey, Dan, first time caller. Six foot, 250, old school. What is the best super bowl host city? Thanks. Love you. All right, let's go around the room. Best host city, Todd, that you've been in. I think it might very well be New Orleans. All right, Dylan, have you been to many super bowl sites? A few of the ones I've been to. I thought Scottsdale was actually a lot of fun. Okay. All right. Well, that was a great setup that we had at Scottsdale Stadium. Yeah, that combined. That helped. Yeah, that big time. That helped. Marvin, how about you? Recency bias, Las Vegas. All right, Paulie. New Orleans can handle a lot of people. They're used to conventions. It's a very spread out city with different areas. There's a one seed, you know, Indianapolis was surprisingly easy. Did a great job. Very centrally located, easy to walk and it had great weather. Yeah, that helped that they caught a break with the weather. But Minneapolis was great. Great. Like it was freezing. But you know that you like to be able to walk and there were so many great places to go. Restaurants, bars, the people. Yes, Todd. Yeah, I was going to second that. Indy was really nice. We had a nice steak and shrimp dinner and stuff. There was good stuff. Yeah. Thank you, Todd. Paulie has a movie review. I hesitate to recommend this movie. It was on Netflix. It's called Carry on with Jason Bateman. I describe it as this without Die Hard 2 meets Phone Booth. If you saw either of those movies. Yeah, but Bateman is a bad guy. Yes. Bruce Willis is a good guy. Right. Bateman plays the bad guy role in an airport and it's. If you ever saw Phone Booth. Who's the actor? Colin Farrell. Farrell. Very phone Booth. Ish person in your ear. Fun. It's a fun movie. They don't have phone booths anymore. No, they're all done. Yeah. No Phone Booth Two on the Scrap Heap. It's one of those movies where you get about halfway done with it, you're like, I'm gonna see how this finishes up, how Bateman gets taken out. Yeah, I watched it a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. I wouldn't watch it again. And I like him. I would have liked if he was the good guy. Maybe. Maybe he doesn't like that. Oh, I gotta be the good guy again. I want to be the bad guy. Yeah, I. I can't watch that. I mean, I watched it, but I. I kind of recommended it to my wife because I said, you might like this. And she kept saying, what's that movie? Baggage Claim. I go, no, no, hon, it's Carry On. There is no baggage claim. He's carrying on. That'd be a Liam Neeson movie. Baggage Claim. Just running in laps around the baggage claim. Baggage Claim. Liam Neeson, I will find your bag and then kill you. I will kill you. Yes. But. Yes. Was he believable as a bad guy? He's such a good guy. Yeah. You were able to suspend disbelief and go with that? I do it every day on this show. Well said. Fake laugh. Yes, Marvin, There is a movie called Baggage claim, released in 2013, starring Paula Patton, Derek, Luke. Oh, Paul. Had the former Mrs. Robin Thicke. Yeah, yeah, I met her. I was in a movie with her. Yeah, yeah. Baggage Claim. No, I wasn't in Baggage Claim. That's too bad. But I was in a Sandler movie with her. Oh, yeah. Very striking. Yeah. Very striking. Yes. Todd, you're just dying to get your bags. Thank you. That was a little tagline. Thank you. Oh, is that what that was? Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Greg in Wisconsin. Hi, Greg. What's on your mind tonight? Hey, Dan. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, second time. Long time. 6 foot 2, 20. Just wanted to make it. Just want to make a comment on what you said about viewership and loyalty to your team versus gambling. I'll tell you what. When me and my buddies are all sitting around watching the game, we got money on the game. We don't care who wins as long as we win. I know. That is your loyalty. Now, I didn't have that growing up. Now, I did bet, but I. It wasn't one of those where I would never bet on a team that I liked. Like, I didn't want to have them involved in the bet because then I couldn't watch the game. This Day in Sports History. Paulie, Dan, are you ready for a this Day in Sports History quiz? Yes. Ish. Ish. 1936, the first members of Major Leagues Baseball's hall of Fame Cooperstown, New York. There was five of them. Okay, who are the first? First ballot guys. So babe is there. Correct. Ty Cobb. Correct. Walter Johnson. Yep. Christy Matheson. Correct. Do you need a hint? Yes. His card was probably the most expensive card. Honest. Wagner, I wouldn't have gotten that one. Here's one for you. 1980, you know you want to talk about load management. This guy played 64 minutes in the Lakers four time overtime. Four overtime loss to Cleveland. Norm Nixon played 64 minutes in that 154, 153 loss. Also on this date, our good buddy Steve Young throws six touchdown passes. The Niners beat the Chargers. Decent day. It could be a like a stat of the day. This is the stand of the day brought to you by Panini America. Steve will join us I think the Monday after the super bowl to recap things. That is correct. I think when he was driving back in the limo after that game, he threw up. Steve Young did. I think Kerry Collins was in the car because he was being entertained by Steve's agent. I think Lee Steinberg. Lee Steinberg and Kerry Collins of Penn State in the car. And Steve I believe throws up on Kerry Collins shoes. Todd, what'd you learn today? Roger and Iowa suggest with Dylan now in the mix we should have hour by hour Dan at relegation. Dylan, what did you learn? The Pro bowl alternates get the scarlet letter. A Pro bowl alternate. Marvin, what'd you learn today? And beat has missed 400 games. Paul, Gary Collins was booted upon. Thanks for joining us. Our pleasure to serve you. We'll try to do it again. Talk to you tomorrow.