Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Final Hour. On this Wednesday, Dan and The
Speaker 1: Dans Dan Patrick Show will check in with the NHL Commissioner,
Speaker 1: Gary Bettman. You'll join us in about fifteen minutes from now.
Speaker 1: While the NBA is still trying to iron out details
Speaker 1: of how they're going to finish this season, the NHL's
Speaker 1: going straight to the playoffs. NHL announcing they plan to
Speaker 1: hold a twenty fourteen tournament in two hub cities. While
Speaker 1: their details are still to be decided. Here it appears
Speaker 1: eight teams will get buys, everyone else will have a
Speaker 1: play in round. Now, critics are going to argue that
Speaker 1: it's not the same if you don't complete the regular season.
Speaker 1: I don't know if whoever wins the Stanley Cup Final
Speaker 1: is going to have an asterisk by it. I don't
Speaker 1: know why that we want to just arbitrarily throw an
Speaker 1: asterisk by certain teams here, because everybody is under the
Speaker 1: like the same umbrella here, certainly with the NBA. Now
Speaker 1: you can make an argument, well, eight teams are getting
Speaker 1: buys here and then everybody else has a play in round. Okay,
Speaker 1: HL is just like the NBA. The season's too long.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna miss fifteen games, but it's
Speaker 1: not ideal, the commissioner said. Hockey fans overwhelmingly want to
Speaker 1: finish this season, and it's a good bad NBA fans
Speaker 1: feel the same way. But these leagues have to get
Speaker 1: creative here, and if everybody is under the same rules,
Speaker 1: there's no asterisk by this. And I still go back
Speaker 1: to the San Antonio Spurs one an NBA title and
Speaker 1: the strike shortened season of nineteen ninety nine, and I've
Speaker 1: never heard one person say, yeah, but we're going to
Speaker 1: do that to Lebron James. We shouldn't, but we will
Speaker 1: if the Lakers, if we come back and we have
Speaker 1: basketball and Lebron wins a title. I can guarantee you now,
Speaker 1: if you're a Laker fan, you're gonna go, hey, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what to do with your asterisk, shove it
Speaker 1: up your asterisk. But I think that if Lebron wins
Speaker 1: the title, people are going to try to say, well,
Speaker 1: this one doesn't count as a full title here. Hey,
Speaker 1: yes it does, absolutely. But with the NHL, I don't
Speaker 1: know if anybody's going to go, well, do they really
Speaker 1: deserve it? Yeah? I think you'll be fine with that.
Speaker 1: And Major League Baseball is going to go through this
Speaker 1: as well. They shouldn't, but they will if they come back,
Speaker 1: if they get their act together. Here, do you know
Speaker 1: how many days it is until the opening night of
Speaker 1: the NFL regular season? We have one hundred and six
Speaker 1: days until the opening night of the regular season with
Speaker 1: the NFL. Does anybody want to bet? Do we start
Speaker 1: on time? It's either yes we do or no we don't.
Speaker 1: How many are in the yes we start on time? Oh?
Speaker 1: So I got mclovin, Paulli, and Fritzie Seetan O'Connor. You
Speaker 1: don't think we start on time? No, all right, Paully,
Speaker 1: I will double down and say we start on time
Speaker 1: with fans and stands. Wow, anybody when I were betting?
Speaker 1: I know I'm not trying to trivialize it. So not
Speaker 1: trying to trivialize it. You asked my opinion the double dog?
Speaker 1: Dare you? I think it makes a lot of sense
Speaker 1: that they would start I think that there's probably for
Speaker 1: any sport, the NFL probably has the most pressure on
Speaker 1: them to start on time with fans in the stand. Yep,
Speaker 1: that's so. I think. I think that makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. I think the last time where we didn't
Speaker 1: start on time, you have to go back to following
Speaker 1: nine to eleven, and that's when that was the first
Speaker 1: time the Super Bowl was played in February, I believe
Speaker 1: because the super Bowl date was changed in two thousand
Speaker 1: and one. Game scheduled for September sixteenth, that weekend, we're
Speaker 1: moved to the end of the season, and then you
Speaker 1: had the Patriots Rams super Bowl pushed back a week. Therefore,
Speaker 1: that game was played February third of two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: The first Super Bowl that was played in February. Now
Speaker 1: we're talking about middle of February, even late February, if
Speaker 1: we have to. Yes, yeah, they got in one game
Speaker 1: before nine to eleven, so the start was on time.
Speaker 1: They played September ninth. I just look at it. And
Speaker 1: then they came back. Remember, okay, start on time, But
Speaker 1: then they had one week, they had one game and
Speaker 1: that was it and then they shut down. Then they
Speaker 1: were the first to come back, right. But people liked
Speaker 1: tag Leeboo for coming back, as I recall, well, I
Speaker 1: think we wanted to show what it represented. But we
Speaker 1: were coming back, and I remember when the President was
Speaker 1: their Yankee Stadium. I think he had a bulletproof vest
Speaker 1: on when he threw out the first pitch, and like
Speaker 1: we we wanted to say to terrorism, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: We're still going to be who we are. That's different
Speaker 1: than this, like we're you can't say to the coronavirus, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna show you. You want to, but you can't.
Speaker 1: That was one of those Hey we're gonna come together
Speaker 1: and we're gonna play because we want to show that
Speaker 1: we're still unified. We don't want to take this away.
Speaker 1: We don't want this taken away from us. And those
Speaker 1: were emotional moments. Those were powerful moments. They won't be
Speaker 1: the same because of what's at stake here. You know
Speaker 1: what happened at nine to eleven in New York City
Speaker 1: and Washington, d C. But it's still going to have.
Speaker 1: In fact, I don't know what that feeling is going
Speaker 1: to be, Like I can only imagine. And I've said before,
Speaker 1: when we play highlights of you know, an event that's
Speaker 1: years ago, I hear the crowd now more than I've
Speaker 1: ever heard it before because we took it for granted.
Speaker 1: But when you don't hear a crowd noise, and then
Speaker 1: I hear a clip from you know, somebody doing something incredible.
Speaker 1: The crowd noise is what comes through loud and clear,
Speaker 1: all right. Eight seven seven three d P show email
Speaker 1: address DP at dan Patrick dot com. Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: the owners a sliding pay scale could put higher paid
Speaker 1: players in a tough spot, and now is not the
Speaker 1: time to make labor noise. But it seems like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of noise being made, and Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: keeps leaking information to the media. Three people with knowledge
Speaker 1: of the proposal told USA Today Sports the proposal to
Speaker 1: pay players a pro rated percentage of their salaries, with
Speaker 1: the players who make the most taking the biggest salary cuts.
Speaker 1: And the three people spoke on the condition of anonymity
Speaker 1: because the negotiations are ongoing. That hasn't stopped anybody from
Speaker 1: leaking all this information. But this is the bottom line
Speaker 1: with this. The owners are concerned about the postseason. That's
Speaker 1: when they stand to make generate the most revenue on
Speaker 1: TV rights, and that could be wiped out if the
Speaker 1: second wave of the coronavirus comes back in October or November.
Speaker 1: This is what's being discussed, and I don't know how
Speaker 1: many owners are going to say, yeah, let's try to
Speaker 1: get this season. How many players, these guys who are
Speaker 1: making you know, over twenty million dollars, are they going
Speaker 1: to want to come back if you're going to reduce
Speaker 1: it to five million dollars? Mike Trout, you know, what
Speaker 1: is it? Thirty six million? Now seven million? You got
Speaker 1: a baby on the way. I don't know. We haven't
Speaker 1: heard about the health portion of this. Only with Blake Snell.
Speaker 1: It feels like now we're talking about just money. Blake
Speaker 1: Snell was talking about his health. He was talking about money.
Speaker 1: He said it's not worth it with the health risk.
Speaker 1: Now it just feels like this is about money and
Speaker 1: hopefully Baseball can keep their business inside and unless their
Speaker 1: goal is to disrupt the Baseball Players Association, because they've
Speaker 1: done it. If that's their goal, mission accomplished here. If
Speaker 1: you want the ranks a little bit in disarray here,
Speaker 1: they've certainly done it. Because you're gonna have a lot
Speaker 1: of guys who are making the minimum and percentage wise,
Speaker 1: it won't look it's not going to feel like that
Speaker 1: big a hit like Mike Trout's going to take. But
Speaker 1: if you're making two hundred now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're making eighty still pretty big hit. The guys who
Speaker 1: make minimum have to come back and play. The guys
Speaker 1: who make all the money don't have to come back
Speaker 1: and play. I don't know if you're going to have
Speaker 1: a stance by some of these, you know, the halbs
Speaker 1: and the havens. I don't know that that's where we're headed,
Speaker 1: but it certainly feels that way. I had some phone
Speaker 1: calls here Dustin in Texas leads us off. Hi, Dustin,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? Hey there, Dan Gentleman six flat
Speaker 1: two and a coda, Proud Red Raider alumni and no
Speaker 1: intervention required. Back in three h four, we had a
Speaker 1: nose tackle on the football team named Fred the Wheat,
Speaker 1: and he had the most beautiful calves you've ever seen,
Speaker 1: And we ran around with some guys on the team
Speaker 1: and across campus they were known as baby heads. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you, Dustin. Wasn't there? Are seen in Entourage where
Speaker 1: Johnny Drama was looking at lamar Odom's calves and he
Speaker 1: wanted to of calf h Yeah. He Actually he's at
Speaker 1: a party and he sees some guy and he starts
Speaker 1: asking about his calves and the guy gets all upset,
Speaker 1: Tim and Ohio joints us Hi, Tim, what do you
Speaker 1: have for me? Greatest Mafia movie? But five to ten
Speaker 1: of Cold one ninety greatest Makia movie of all time?
Speaker 1: Thanks to your back when I won't know this, thanks
Speaker 1: to do in Denver when you're dad. Okay, all right?
Speaker 1: And yeah, yeah I remember that with Andy Garcia. But
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the best gangster movie of all time.
Speaker 1: I'm not an expert on gangster movie. But it's funny.
Speaker 1: There's a dark comedy angle to that. Yeah. Christopher Walkins
Speaker 1: really good in it. He's a he's like the mob guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: organized crime boss. That's all right, It's it's niche. It's good. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: we got on this topic because the great writer Stephen
Speaker 1: King tweeted out something about good Fellas and where it
Speaker 1: ranked on the all time list of great mobster movies.
Speaker 1: And I haven't seen many of them. I've sampled some
Speaker 1: of them, but I haven't seen them all the way through,
Speaker 1: including The Godfather, like just a little bit. Yeah, mclemen.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to you have not seen all the Godfather.
Speaker 1: It's another thing to tell Sonny Corleone that you didn't
Speaker 1: see all of the Godfather. I can't believe you said
Speaker 1: told him that. Well, I just I wanted to say
Speaker 1: I was trying to joke with James Kahn. I talked
Speaker 1: to him last week and I said, you know, and
Speaker 1: I was going to say, hey, after you got shot,
Speaker 1: then I didn't want to watch the rest of the
Speaker 1: movie as But it was true. I had to research
Speaker 1: the interview and I went back and I watched it,
Speaker 1: and that I realized, you know, he didn't get to
Speaker 1: be in Godfather too, as great as he was. And
Speaker 1: the story is al Pacino wanted to play Sonny Corleone
Speaker 1: because he thought it was a more interesting role. And
Speaker 1: I don't think James Kahn made more than fifty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars off Godfather one. I mean, they you can check.
Speaker 1: I don't think he made more than fifty. He probably
Speaker 1: didn't make fifty thousand dollars off that movie. Yeah, mclub.
Speaker 1: It's probably a generation who knows him as the dad
Speaker 1: in Elf, which is like Christmas movie you see all
Speaker 1: the time. Yeah. Yeah. He was also in Brian's Song.
Speaker 1: He played the role Brian Piccolo, the former Chicago Bear
Speaker 1: fullback who died where Billy d Williams was Gail Sairs
Speaker 1: and James Kahn. He dies in the end, as you know,
Speaker 1: it's a true story. Brian Piccolo. But yeah, they probably
Speaker 1: remember James Khn for that. Wasn't he in Honeymoon in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas movie? Sarah Jessica Park, Yes, very good movie. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: MC club. He was over se Bottle Rocket Wes Anderson's
Speaker 1: first movie with Luke Wilson. Yeah, he was the bad
Speaker 1: guy in that. Oh, I don't remember. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: long time ago, but little role. Yeah, I remember. Didn't
Speaker 1: Luke Wilson not Luke Owen had a flat top? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's a one. James Con was the okay, the boss. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got a salary poll. Yeah. For the movie The Godfather.
Speaker 1: The actors Robert Juval got thirty six thousand. Alpaccino, James
Speaker 1: Con and Diane Keaton each got thirty five thousand. Marlon
Speaker 1: Brando got fifty thousand dollars for six weeks of work.
Speaker 1: He's paid one thousand dollars per week for expenses, and
Speaker 1: then he got five percent of the film's take. He's
Speaker 1: the only actor got that, which was capped at one
Speaker 1: point five million dollars. So James conn made thirty five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars and worked for twelve weeks. I think still though, Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: would you rather if you didn't make a lot of money?
Speaker 1: At least you were one you were part of a
Speaker 1: one of the great movies in history? Would you rather
Speaker 1: make more money for a bad movie or less money
Speaker 1: for one of the great movies of all time? In
Speaker 1: the sequel, Alpaccino because he was in both, Who Callari
Speaker 1: was five hundred thousand dollars, it jumped to five hunder
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for a sequel. That's a big more you
Speaker 1: needed him, Yeah, Jason and Nebraska. Hey Jason, what do
Speaker 1: you have for me? Hey Danny danets Lobb, you guys
Speaker 1: are the best um staying with the mafia saying, um,
Speaker 1: I'm not beating him as well, Dan, But I'll tell
Speaker 1: you there's one out there that's great, Corky Romano. There's
Speaker 1: a scene in there that will bring you the absolute cheers. Uh.
Speaker 1: But also want to ask you do you watch uh,
Speaker 1: I know you watch Netflix. Have you have you looked
Speaker 1: at Narcos Mexico. There's uh, you know, it's a great series,
Speaker 1: but there's also a woman in there. Isabella. Wow, whoa
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you Jason. I started watching Narcos and
Speaker 1: then I just said, now I can't. I couldn't. What
Speaker 1: what's the one Cicario that's a movie? I watched that one?
Speaker 1: That's uh. John Krasinski's wife is in Eli Blot. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I watch that. Did you fail? Oh? That is rough
Speaker 1: at the end? Yes it is. Yeah. Did you write
Speaker 1: these movies never end well? No? No, and I end
Speaker 1: up rooting for the bad guy. I watched I just
Speaker 1: finished Unorthodox, and I was surprised to realize there's only
Speaker 1: four episodes of Unorthodox, and I seton goes, hey, how
Speaker 1: many episodes? I go, I don't know, probably eight, maybe ten.
Speaker 1: I finished yesterday and I go wait, Usually it says
Speaker 1: hey five seconds before it goes to the next episode.
Speaker 1: It was like, nope, this is it. It's done. They
Speaker 1: wrapped it up in four and I went he left
Speaker 1: me hanging there a little bit. But Unorthodox is uh.
Speaker 1: It's certainly interesting. It's about the acidic Jews and a
Speaker 1: woman who wants to get out of her arranged marriage,
Speaker 1: and she goes to Berlin where her mom is living,
Speaker 1: and her husband follows her. Just that world of the
Speaker 1: Hasidic Jews. I'd never I didn't know anything about that world. Yeah, mclovin,
Speaker 1: it's way different with the Jewishness that I grew up with.
Speaker 1: But that's like two blocks from my house that in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: You see that particular sect. Yeah, I've read what they're called,
Speaker 1: but they're all over Williamsburg, right right around where we
Speaker 1: hang out. Yah set. The worst Mafia ending might be
Speaker 1: Donnie Brascoe because he not only do you spend the
Speaker 1: whole movie watching the cop, he goes undercover and his
Speaker 1: whole life is turned upside down. I mean it's like
Speaker 1: completely destroyed. He's kind of losing his identity for a
Speaker 1: little while where he can't tell if he's an FBI
Speaker 1: agent or if he's a mobster Johnny Depp, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he does all of this stuff his whole life. His
Speaker 1: family hates him, his kids hate him, his wife hates him,
Speaker 1: like everybody hates him. Then he has to turn on
Speaker 1: the buddies that he's made within the mafia. And then
Speaker 1: at the very end of it all, when you watch this,
Speaker 1: just guy just absolutely go through hell and back. At
Speaker 1: the end of it all, he gets a hand shake
Speaker 1: and a little plaque that says thanks for your work
Speaker 1: in like a ten second ceremony of like, hey, all right,
Speaker 1: thanks a lot, to see you later. And that's it,
Speaker 1: and it's like, all right, now go pick up the pieces. Holymoally,
Speaker 1: is that brutal? Why is watching Serpico the other night
Speaker 1: with Al Pacino? And you know the very end he
Speaker 1: basically fearing for his life from his fellow police officers
Speaker 1: and then he went into hiding. I think he lives
Speaker 1: in upstate New York, but watching that and you're thinking
Speaker 1: Al was in trouble. He was great in Serpoco. All right,
Speaker 1: eighteen after the hour, We'll check in with the commissioner
Speaker 1: of the National Hockey League, Gary Betman. Morphone calls as well.
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Speaker 1: National Hockey League. Season stopped on March twelfth. The NHL
Speaker 1: will now move to a twenty four teen conference based
Speaker 1: postseason format that was approved by the National Hockey League
Speaker 1: Players Association last Friday, and the commissioner joins us now, commissioner,
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. Why did you think going
Speaker 1: into the playoffs and that playoff format was the right move? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, I want to know where I can
Speaker 1: buy that bubble ahead of you playing hockey, And thank you. Secondly,
Speaker 1: and more importantly, thanks for having me. And I hope
Speaker 1: you and all your viewers and listeners and all your
Speaker 1: colleagues are well and staying safe. You know, we have
Speaker 1: extraordinary competitive balance. Our regular season races to the playoffs
Speaker 1: go down to the wires with lots of teams in contention.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the standings as of March twelfth,
Speaker 1: and we took the pause, there were a lot of
Speaker 1: clubs on the bubble and we thought it was only
Speaker 1: fair since we couldn't complete the regular season. We were
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty nine games away from completing the
Speaker 1: regular season, that we had to give those teams a
Speaker 1: chance that might very well have made the playoffs if
Speaker 1: we had been able to conclude the regular season, and
Speaker 1: instead of concluding the regular season when we came back,
Speaker 1: we were also mindful of the fact that the players
Speaker 1: are going to have to be away from home, and
Speaker 1: we didn't want to have that experience to be prolonged
Speaker 1: any longer than really necessary. I saw where about seventeen
Speaker 1: percent of the NHL our players from outside of North America.
Speaker 1: What's the biggest concern with getting them into the States
Speaker 1: tested and just the safety precautions. Well, actually it's seven
Speaker 1: we have more of it's probably closer to twenty five
Speaker 1: percent of our players or from outside of North America.
Speaker 1: But seventeen percent of our players right now are in
Speaker 1: locations outside of North America and we have to bring
Speaker 1: them back. Obviously, there are immigration issues, although since they
Speaker 1: all have valid visas, that shouldn't be an issue. The
Speaker 1: bigger issue is the fact that they were going to
Speaker 1: have to quarantine for a couple of weeks, and we're
Speaker 1: going to when we open our training facilities, which we
Speaker 1: hope to do the first week of June, they're going
Speaker 1: to be subject to some testing. As we move to
Speaker 1: the training camp phase, there'll be more testing, and then
Speaker 1: when we get to the actual playing tests playing stage.
Speaker 1: We're being told by our medical people who are giving
Speaker 1: us all the advice on this and whose advice we're
Speaker 1: following players if they're not being tested every day, they're
Speaker 1: going to be tested at least every other day. But
Speaker 1: is this the NHL doing the testing or will it
Speaker 1: be individual teams doing the testing? Well, actually, it'll be
Speaker 1: individual teams in the training camp and training facilities phase,
Speaker 1: although we have backup for clubs that can't arrange to
Speaker 1: do it locally. And any of the tests we're doing,
Speaker 1: whether it's the clubs the backup, or what we're going
Speaker 1: to do when we're actually playing the competition, we're not
Speaker 1: going to do anything that would interfere with the medical
Speaker 1: needs that may be required for testing. And we're being
Speaker 1: told by the experts that by the summer, by the
Speaker 1: summer there will be such an abundance of testing, our
Speaker 1: needs will really be infantessable relative to what will be available.
Speaker 1: Could the format of twenty four teams in the playoffs
Speaker 1: stay after this season? No? What we like, what we
Speaker 1: have our regular season puts teams in the playoffs virtually
Speaker 1: all season. We love the way the regular season plays out.
Speaker 1: It's every game is meaningful our regular playoffs, so sixteen
Speaker 1: teams hits just the right note. The competition is the
Speaker 1: entertainment value, the sitement, the passion couldn't be better. And
Speaker 1: so we're doing something extraordinary in response to an extraordinary time.
Speaker 1: Fans in the stands any possibility with them, you know,
Speaker 1: that's something we're not going to have any control over.
Speaker 1: Everything we're doing is going to be subject to the
Speaker 1: guidance and requirements of what the medical people tell us
Speaker 1: and what the governmental leaders are telling us at all levels,
Speaker 1: whether it's federal, state or a local And if they
Speaker 1: tell us, we can have fans, and obviously nothing would
Speaker 1: make us happier. But I think everybody should assume that
Speaker 1: as we play this out over the summer and into
Speaker 1: the fall, it's probably most unlikely that they'll be fans
Speaker 1: in the buildings, not because we wouldn't want them, but
Speaker 1: it's safety. It's a health issue, and we're listening to
Speaker 1: the experts. I know, you have to look at the
Speaker 1: worst case scenario. What if what if a player test
Speaker 1: positive in the middle of the playoffs, then one, Well,
Speaker 1: that's a question. I've been getting a lot for obvious reasons.
Speaker 1: The medical people are telling us one test would require
Speaker 1: that player to be isolated, and you don't need an
Speaker 1: overreaction if you have an outbreak. That's a completely different story.
Speaker 1: What constitutes an outbreak, what procedures we need to follow.
Speaker 1: That is something that the medical people are going to
Speaker 1: tell us. That's not a judgment that I'm going to
Speaker 1: make saying, well, just keep playing. We'll be doing what
Speaker 1: with the medical people tell us is appropriate under the circumstances.
Speaker 1: How often do you consult with government officials. We're in
Speaker 1: regular dialogue, whether it's it's the Prime Minister of Canada
Speaker 1: or some of his ministers, or the President of the
Speaker 1: United States, or governors or premiers or mayors. We're hearing
Speaker 1: from lots of them, in part because we want to
Speaker 1: get squared away on the ability of getting players in
Speaker 1: and out of the countries. And then we have a
Speaker 1: lot of communities that are lobbying to be one of
Speaker 1: the two hubs where we're going to play this out. Now, we,
Speaker 1: as I think people have heard, have nine or ten
Speaker 1: places under consideration, all of which we think can do
Speaker 1: this for us. We're not making a decision yet because
Speaker 1: we want to do this in real time when we
Speaker 1: have to, because the information flow based on the state
Speaker 1: of everything that's going on is changing. This isn't a
Speaker 1: decision in terms of which location that I have to make,
Speaker 1: probably for another three to four weeks. At that point,
Speaker 1: I'm going to want to see what the state of
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen is in the communities we're considering, because obviously
Speaker 1: we've reduced the risk of any of our personal getting
Speaker 1: infected if we're in a place that has very little COVID,
Speaker 1: the availability of testing, and the issues relative to moving
Speaker 1: personnel across the border either to or from Canada from
Speaker 1: the United States. So that's why we didn't going to
Speaker 1: put all of our eggs in one basket. We think
Speaker 1: it's better to have a lot of options so that
Speaker 1: at the time we have to make a decision, we
Speaker 1: can make the best decision possible. Talking to the NHL Commissioner,
Speaker 1: Gary Batman, I remember doing an interview with Pete Roselle,
Speaker 1: David Stern, Peter Eubroth, and Larry Ziegler, and at the
Speaker 1: time everybody was commissioners. He was the president. When when
Speaker 1: did when did you be? They decide that you're going
Speaker 1: to be a commissioner instead of the president of the
Speaker 1: National Hockey League. Actually, in addition to being president as
Speaker 1: opposed to commissioner, I think its name was John, not
Speaker 1: John Zigler, but I think that might be a golfer,
Speaker 1: Larry Ziggler. When I was hired to come join the NHL,
Speaker 1: the view was there were lots of things that needed
Speaker 1: to be done to modernize the way the league was
Speaker 1: operating at the time, and part of that was part
Speaker 1: of my arrangement was I was going to be a
Speaker 1: commissioner consistent with what the other three major leagues were
Speaker 1: doing as part of moving the league forward, and my
Speaker 1: powers got a little increased, and it was really to
Speaker 1: modernize the structure of how we were conducting ourselves. It
Speaker 1: sounds more impressive, though, I think commissioner than president. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know it is what, it's a word, but you
Speaker 1: know Rose by any other name. The best piece of
Speaker 1: hockey memorabilia you have in your house is what the
Speaker 1: best piece of hockey memorabilia? Well, I have my plaque
Speaker 1: from the Hockey Hall of Fame's nice, but that's that's
Speaker 1: pretty subjective. I have for my sixty for my sixtieth birthday,
Speaker 1: I had by that point my sixty fifth birthday had
Speaker 1: by that point had presented the cup. I don't know
Speaker 1: over twenty times, and a montage was made up by
Speaker 1: Coolie Campbell in the Hockey Operations Department of each of
Speaker 1: the pictures of me doing that. Because the best thing
Speaker 1: I get to do is present the Stanley Cup. I
Speaker 1: give you credit. You know you're getting booed, but you
Speaker 1: still love taking that trophy out there. When do I
Speaker 1: get booed? Yeah? When did that? You know what, as
Speaker 1: long as they're not quiet, it's a good thing. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a motion, there's passion, and hockey fans are the best. Hey,
Speaker 1: but you know what, if you don't have fans this year, Commissioner,
Speaker 1: you won't get booed. I'd rather get booed. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what, we can pipe it in. How's that we
Speaker 1: may do that? Commissioner, thank you for joining us, Good
Speaker 1: luck with the proposal and the format. We appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. I hope you, your family, all
Speaker 1: of your colleagues, and all your viewers and listeners stay safe.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's the commissioner of the National Hockey League,
Speaker 1: Gary Batman. Yeah. I think Larry Ziggler was a golfer,
Speaker 1: and I pour the late great John Ziggler was the president. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Eton speaking of piping in sound, as I'm sure you know,
Speaker 1: Daniel Byron Munich played yesterday and they on the TV
Speaker 1: broadcasts they piped in crowd noise and it was infinitely better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I said, I was listening on radio to the Bundeshliga
Speaker 1: and I thought it sounded natural, like I wasn't offended
Speaker 1: by it or you know, I didn't have sensory overload.
Speaker 1: I thought it was okay, No, it was great. You
Speaker 1: just you don't realize how much that sound just adds
Speaker 1: to the enjoyment of the game. Yeah. I still would
Speaker 1: like to hear a football game or a basketball game
Speaker 1: or baseball game with no crowd noise, just to hear
Speaker 1: what Now. I've been close enough to hear what is
Speaker 1: said on the field, but to have people have that
Speaker 1: experience of you're actually going to be hearing a lot more.
Speaker 1: It'll be different and it could be interesting. It might
Speaker 1: not be you might get tired of it after a while.
Speaker 1: A couple of phone calls here, Jim and Virginia joins us.
Speaker 1: Hi Jim, Hello, Hey, Hello, that's Jim. Hey Jim. Hey,
Speaker 1: So I have a TV show for Fritzy's Conomedy, and
Speaker 1: it's sort of what y'all are talking about. Fritzie writes material.
Speaker 1: You get pros and amateurs to try to get laughs,
Speaker 1: and that way they won't just be laughing at the pros,
Speaker 1: you know, they'll laugh at unknowns if they're good. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Jim. Here's the problem. Fritzie doesn't really write anything, right.
Speaker 1: I kind of share like experiences that I have, which, yeah,
Speaker 1: it may not be funny to other people when you're
Speaker 1: talking about your medical issues and things like that, but
Speaker 1: your act is not written down. I write down notes,
Speaker 1: and you know, like a like a not word for word.
Speaker 1: I'll put a little outline together and memorize the order
Speaker 1: of the sequence of how I want to share things.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't say I write down all the jokers.
Speaker 1: Why don't you give me a copy of section row
Speaker 1: Seat so I could the notes, so I could frame it,
Speaker 1: just so people can understand the architect behind this observational humor. Okay,
Speaker 1: that'd be nice if you be a nice little piece
Speaker 1: of memorabilia for the studio. Yes, it would. It be
Speaker 1: right up there with all the great in the attic,
Speaker 1: all the way up it'd be. It'd be right up
Speaker 1: there with Carson Palmer's Heisman Trophy, right up there, good stuff. Yes.
Speaker 1: But Toad does make an interesting point, though, is that
Speaker 1: you wonder if say, Will Farrell got up there and
Speaker 1: was doing like I got these people coming up to
Speaker 1: me and they don't know where they're going with their seat.
Speaker 1: I know he's not really a stand up comic, but
Speaker 1: you are already primed for laughter when you see him coming.
Speaker 1: You know, you're just sort of like ready, like all right,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be funny. Now. Maybe that's because it
Speaker 1: eventually gets to a punchline, it does actually get to
Speaker 1: something funny. But I strongly believe that if Chris Rock
Speaker 1: or Standle or Farrell or anyone else that we find
Speaker 1: funny consistently, they'd find a way to take that to
Speaker 1: it another. But you just didn't have an end to
Speaker 1: it because you sort of trail off anyway and let's
Speaker 1: just get it together. And then I went, oh no,
Speaker 1: and then I dropped an F bomb out of desperation. Yes,
Speaker 1: but I think if you had the like if you
Speaker 1: said and then I find out I'm actually in the
Speaker 1: wrong seat, you know, or something like that, then at
Speaker 1: least you have a period. You went dot dot dot
Speaker 1: dot dot and just trailed off, and I went, we
Speaker 1: are in trouble. I'll take another jack on the rocks, please,
Speaker 1: and I get hear that loud and clear jack and coke. Nope,
Speaker 1: I'll just take the jack here. And I did not
Speaker 1: say that. I like that. Todd's desperation F bomb came
Speaker 1: about seven seconds into the routine too, and I might
Speaker 1: have turned to mclovin because I went, oh, like as
Speaker 1: soon as I heard the F bomb when he went blue,
Speaker 1: and I went, oh boy, Yeah, I did save the
Speaker 1: day by having the tablecloth tucked into my waist, as
Speaker 1: I got five minutes later. The only laugh we got
Speaker 1: of the night was mclovin had actually tucked the tablecloth
Speaker 1: into his face and he got up and you could
Speaker 1: just hear all these glasses crashing. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a napping. I'll take any laughs I can get in
Speaker 1: the background. And it wasn't even your laugh. It was mclovin.
Speaker 1: Got mclovin wasn't on stage and he got more laughs
Speaker 1: than you did. Ah, that's very true. Yes, it is
Speaker 1: Mike and Ohio. Hey Mike, what do you have for
Speaker 1: me to day? Hey Dan, great show as usual, Lakota
Speaker 1: High School brand. I know you're familiar with that. The
Speaker 1: Tea Birds. You got a brother graduating class of two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty wow nine. All right, and I think
Speaker 1: we launt him, Mike and Ohio, the Lakota Lakota Tea
Speaker 1: Birds legend. Yeah, they had a guy named Dave Gushwin.
Speaker 1: Did you snap his ankles? He was good. He was
Speaker 1: good and uh he was good. Matchup, Dave Gwin. Let
Speaker 1: me see Pa in South Dakota. Hey Pa, Hey, good morning, DP.
Speaker 1: How are you right, dant So what are you doing? Good? Good?
Speaker 1: Thank you Hey. First thing I wanted to mention is
Speaker 1: I've never been to a pro football game, and for
Speaker 1: the first time, I bought tickets to the Broncos game.
Speaker 1: My grandson is a great fan of the Broncos and
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of the Saints. So we're hoping
Speaker 1: Paul's right. I really do. But the thing I wanted
Speaker 1: to mention was for the Mafia usual suspects that's kind
Speaker 1: of sneaky good. It really is. I liked it, but
Speaker 1: Seton doesn't think it holds up. Yeah, I'm sorry. Why
Speaker 1: doesn't it hold up? I'm not sure. It's just it's
Speaker 1: it's hokey. When you watch it back, you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: this movie is so cheesy. Yeah. I think there's some
Speaker 1: movies that the experience the first time you watch it
Speaker 1: is so good it can't keep up, like usual suspects.
Speaker 1: Remember Memento. Oh, yeah, great movie the first time you
Speaker 1: see it, the movie get Out, Jordan Peel's movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a very good movie, but the first time you
Speaker 1: see it, it's unbelievably powerful. Yeah, but that once you
Speaker 1: know the surprise or the bit or the hook that
Speaker 1: the second watching can't keep up. And you think because
Speaker 1: kaiser So say that. Once you learned Kevin Spacey spoiler
Speaker 1: alert is kaiser soz Yeah, then it's yeah, I know
Speaker 1: first you didn't watch him. Yes, I love Benissa laturo So.
Speaker 1: That was his breakout role, right where he was the
Speaker 1: mumble mumbley knobster finst Finsta and then Gabriel Byrne Nice.
Speaker 1: He was married to Ellen Barkin Remember Ellen Barkins Paul
Speaker 1: and his the other Baldwin. Yeah, Stephen bald Stephen Baldwin.
Speaker 1: At the time, you were like, oh man, he was
Speaker 1: really good in this. Yeah, I watch it back now,
Speaker 1: Oh wow, watch it back now. Well, Stephen Baldwin's daughter
Speaker 1: is married to Justin Bieber, right, one of the Baldwin's.
Speaker 1: I think it's Stephen Baldwin's daughter is married to Justin Bieber.
Speaker 1: Always come back to babes with you. No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I remember Seaton came in one day
Speaker 1: and he goes, this Biber album is awesome, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be and I went really, goes yeah, and it turned
Speaker 1: out to be a big album. I just that's not
Speaker 1: really my playlist, No, no, but there there were great
Speaker 1: songs on that and a great story. There was a
Speaker 1: documentary on Justin Bieber that I watched and it was
Speaker 1: about when he would be, you know, on the street
Speaker 1: playing guitar just to make money. And I mean it's
Speaker 1: a great story, but uh, yeah, he's not not in
Speaker 1: my wheelhouse. There take a break here, last go off
Speaker 1: for phone calls. You know, if people look at just
Speaker 1: the topics we talked about today on the show, like
Speaker 1: if somebody just gave you a list of these were
Speaker 1: the topics. Man, You're gonna go There is no way
Speaker 1: that they were talking about all those things. And you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you go crazy in this role. You do. There
Speaker 1: are times when I go a little goofy, and I
Speaker 1: did today a little bit. Take a break back after this.
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Speaker 1: keeping track. Among the references made on today's program, the
Speaker 1: looks of James Marsden, Justin Bieber's wife, James Kahn, Vigo
Speaker 1: Mortenson naked, Phil Mickelson's calves and Stephen Baldwin's acting career,
Speaker 1: Brad Pitt's accent Bratt Yeah, his accent in Snatch, Pikey,
Speaker 1: Michelle Pfeiffer making a cameo, also Al Pacino. Then we
Speaker 1: did talk a little sports as well. Tony Dungee joined us,
Speaker 1: Phil Mickelson joined us, and of course the NHL commissioner
Speaker 1: Gary Betman. Yeah, when John Ziegler, he was the president
Speaker 1: of the National Hockey League and I'm working at CNN.
Speaker 1: First time the all the commissioners of all four sports
Speaker 1: that ever sat down together for an interview. Pete Roselle,
Speaker 1: Peter Eubroth was the commissioner Major League Baseball, David Stern
Speaker 1: and just started that year. I think it was nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty four when I sat down with everybody, and John
Speaker 1: Ziegler was he was the president, so he wasn't the commissioner.
Speaker 1: He was the president. And then Gary Bettman eventually said no,
Speaker 1: I want to be a commissioner, but he was the president.
Speaker 1: They all gathered, they were getting their makeup on, and
Speaker 1: I asked the makeup artist at CNN after they all
Speaker 1: got their makeup on, I said, what did they talk about?
Speaker 1: He said, they all agreed that like they were kind
Speaker 1: of conspiring to not tell me anything, like they wanted
Speaker 1: to make sure that everybody realized we're in this together
Speaker 1: as commissioners. Let's not kind of sell somebody else out
Speaker 1: or somebody tried to be the star apparently. But and
Speaker 1: they pretty much shut me down as far as anything
Speaker 1: controversial in that But they did sit down. I have
Speaker 1: this photo of me. I look like I'm twelve, elve
Speaker 1: in there with these guys. And that's when I first
Speaker 1: I went out on the street and man on the
Speaker 1: street to ask people if they knew who the new
Speaker 1: NBA commissioner was, and somebody said Howard Stern instead of
Speaker 1: David Stern. And and you know, the commissioner would bring
Speaker 1: it up to me occasionally goes, yeah, yeah, I remember, Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: who's the commissioner, who's the new Howard Stern? I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: in commission I was just trying to try a little
Speaker 1: with humor there, Brenton Texas Joints. This, Good morning, Brent,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind? Hi, good morning, Dan. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you in the Dan Netts. Yeah, I was just gonna
Speaker 1: throw out Copland and also Carlito's Way, a couple of
Speaker 1: favorites of mine. Okay, Copland I liked, I didn't love.
Speaker 1: I liked, but I don't know that. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: we're talking about organized crime. That's obviously a cop movie there.
Speaker 1: But in Carlito's Way, I never watched that. Really. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Benny Bunkle from the Bronx, Yeah, John Legazamo.
Speaker 1: You got Sean Penn. Sean Penn crushes up he does,
Speaker 1: he crushes in them. Maybe he is awesome. Yeah, ah, dude,
Speaker 1: I know what did you say? You didn't like it
Speaker 1: or didn't see it? I didn't see it? And you know,
Speaker 1: what are you doing to night? Like? What do you
Speaker 1: got planned? What are you gonna watch? Half of? Oh?
Speaker 1: I watched half a super Bad last night? Of course,
Speaker 1: well the good half, that's the only part worth watching. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the beginning, yeah, yeah, not the back end, um building
Speaker 1: off the grid? Watch that. Um, there's probably I probably
Speaker 1: watch a little bit of about fifteen things. I'm a
Speaker 1: big life below zero guy, I watched that a lot,
Speaker 1: and there there's like thirteen seasons of that, and somehow
Speaker 1: I still keep seeing the same episodes over and over again,
Speaker 1: Like dang, and I do that. That's a great show.
Speaker 1: There are too many channels. Who would ever thought that?
Speaker 1: You'd say there's too many channels now At times there's
Speaker 1: too many channels and nothing on. But I'll breeze by
Speaker 1: and I'll find something and I'll stay there for like,
Speaker 1: you know, ten minutes, fifteen minutes super Bad, I probably
Speaker 1: did a thirty minute yeah, McLevin. How you guys see
Speaker 1: Kajens came up on that. Yeah, yeah, I told that.
Speaker 1: I said my wife, I said, you got to watch this,
Speaker 1: and so I might be watching that tonight. I said that.
Speaker 1: The woman who is Sandler's girlfriend in there, I don't
Speaker 1: know if she's acted before. She was great, spectacular and
Speaker 1: and Sandler is this is this is great acting by
Speaker 1: sam An and Uh. I don't know if he ever
Speaker 1: gets an opportunity like this again where he gets he
Speaker 1: could have should have gotten nominated for an Academy Award.
Speaker 1: I still think that would have been bad for his reputation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the underdog Reggie in Mississippi. Hey, Reg, what do
Speaker 1: you have for me? Hi? You Dan? How are you good? Sir?
Speaker 1: What's on your mind? Reg? Just want to throw one
Speaker 1: out there. Nineteen eighty nine Harlem Nights Now you talk
Speaker 1: about camp? Yes, check this out? Okay? Richard Pryor, Red Fox,
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy, Our Citeo Hall, Deliveries, Robin Harris, Charlie Murphy,
Speaker 1: and Stan Shaw, who played heavyweight champion Jack Jenkins, who
Speaker 1: suffers from this boxing related speech impediment. The funniest scene
Speaker 1: in the movie Nights okay, all right, thank you, reg Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm aware of it. I just I know. I look,
Speaker 1: I don't like movies about super heroes, space, Star Wars,
Speaker 1: Star Trek. I just don't Marvels, Were the Earth, the Space?
Speaker 1: What are you down to? But superhero movies come on
Speaker 1: like Star Trek, Star Wars? Boring? Not interested? Yeah, see,
Speaker 1: no Marvel movies, No, no, no, I can't No, I'm
Speaker 1: just not interested in it. I did like No. One's
Speaker 1: great Guardians of the Galaxy. You might like Guardians of
Speaker 1: the Galaxy because it's got a great soundtrack. The soundtrack
Speaker 1: is like a is a great part of the movie.
Speaker 1: You might actually like that one. What was the Ryan
Speaker 1: Reynolds one? Yeah, yeah, the first one, second one. I
Speaker 1: didn't like it at all. First one was great because
Speaker 1: it's spoofed the Superhero movie, A great movie. I thought
Speaker 1: he was wonderful. Yeah see that's an Academy Award. I
Speaker 1: know that he's in a costume, but I thought he
Speaker 1: was brilliant in that role. He was funny. What do
Speaker 1: I know, Todd? What did you learn on today's program?
Speaker 1: I'm simply too handsome to expect to get laughs. As
Speaker 1: a stand up comic, McLevin, What did you learn today?
Speaker 1: Phil Nicholson's calves are emblazed on my brain now, Seaton O'Connor, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Phil's calves made an appearance. Yeah, Paull Todd has seven
Speaker 1: months to write five minutes of comedy. I'll take the
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