Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. We did it.
Speaker 2: We made it to a meet Friday. It's hour two.
Speaker 2: The gang is here, Todd, the Minister of human Marvin Humor,
Speaker 2: Marvin Paulie, Dylan. Dylan not only sitting in the back
Speaker 2: row with Todd, he's also whipping up a feast or resistance.
Speaker 2: It's Porterhouse Steaks. Is this Peter Luger style? Yes, one
Speaker 2: of the most famous steakhouses in America. They don't take
Speaker 2: credit cards, I believe at Peter Luger's in Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker 3: Yes, it will be cash only today.
Speaker 2: Alrighty. We have Tomahawk ribis, we have tableside caesar salad,
Speaker 2: and we have o'grotten potatoes. Who has it better than
Speaker 2: we do?
Speaker 4: No body?
Speaker 2: Steaks provided by Heartland Steak Co. Taste the Heartland difference there.
Speaker 2: Uh so you're going to do a table side caesar salad.
Speaker 1: We are.
Speaker 3: That'll be the first course, Dan, and then fought up
Speaker 3: with our steak and potatoes.
Speaker 2: Do you have the little cart that you're going to
Speaker 2: roll out that they do at steakhouses?
Speaker 3: I found something that'll work in the back.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, there's a lot of things in the garage
Speaker 2: that have been out there for a long time, even
Speaker 2: before we got here.
Speaker 3: Yep, there's a lot of heavy machinery back there.
Speaker 2: Yes there is all right, or yes there are eight
Speaker 2: seven seven to three. DP show email address DP at
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Speaker 2: good morning. If you're watching this program, you can watch
Speaker 2: it all unfold with all of the cameras. We we've
Speaker 2: added new cameras. We have more cameras. It basically, wherever
Speaker 2: you go in this building there is a camera, except
Speaker 2: for the bathrooms. Although Chrissy Teagan, the swimsuit model, she
Speaker 2: kept saying, you swear, you swear you don't have a
Speaker 2: camera in the bathroom. I go, I don't have one
Speaker 2: in the bathroom. That's illegal. She goes, so oh, and
Speaker 2: I go, I do not have a camera in the bathroom.
Speaker 2: I mean, Todd's creepy, but not that creepy. No, we
Speaker 2: have to draw lines somewhere, yes we do. But yeah,
Speaker 2: cameras all around, and you can explore the man cave.
Speaker 2: Our director, the eyes and ears of the program, Mario
Speaker 2: is here to guide you through with all the different places.
Speaker 2: We got the bullpen, we got the director's room. We
Speaker 2: have the basketball court pickleball court there as well. We
Speaker 2: have Tyler in there answering your phone calls. We have
Speaker 2: the dogs that are in there as well, a couple
Speaker 2: of dogs, and we have me, yes, Balie.
Speaker 5: When people visit the man Cave for the first time,
Speaker 5: they love look at the field house, the outside area.
Speaker 6: They love the stuff.
Speaker 5: Though they start looking on your desk and behind you
Speaker 5: and on our side and like.
Speaker 6: Who's shoes are these? Yeah, whose surfboard is this?
Speaker 2: I think what happens is it looks larger in person
Speaker 2: when when you're watching on TV, it doesn't look as big.
Speaker 2: That's what she said. But you have the man Cave
Speaker 2: and it is. It's an embarrassment of riches. This is
Speaker 2: considering where we were with the old man Cave that
Speaker 2: was basically two three rooms. This has got I don't know,
Speaker 2: twelve thousand square feet.
Speaker 3: Yes, Dylan, I remember one of my first times going
Speaker 3: over to the old studio and I think you guys
Speaker 3: had just had meat Friday and Tyler was doing the
Speaker 3: dishes in the pedestal sink in the bathroom like there
Speaker 3: was no The grill had to be brought outside onto
Speaker 3: the fire escape.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had Alan our it guy who
Speaker 2: also doubled as the chef, and we were out on
Speaker 2: a fire escape and whipping up meat Friday. All right,
Speaker 2: pull question results from our one. We will talk to
Speaker 2: the CEO of the PGA tour, Brian Rollout. He'll stop
Speaker 2: by a few questions to ask him about. And Nate Bargatzi,
Speaker 2: the comedian. His movie bread Winner comes out today in
Speaker 2: I believe theaters around the country. All Right, what do
Speaker 2: you have?
Speaker 3: What's worse? Being underdressed or overdressed? Seventy eight percent of
Speaker 3: the public say being underdressed is worse. Okay, and what
Speaker 3: is your reaction after Game six last night in San Antonio?
Speaker 3: Now I think the Spurs are going to win. I
Speaker 3: always had the Spurs winning, Or now I think the
Speaker 3: thunder are going to win, or I always had the Thunder.
Speaker 3: Forty percent always had the Thunder. So they're still believing.
Speaker 2: Well, there's still the favorites to win the title at
Speaker 2: minus one five, the Knicks at plus two ten, the
Speaker 2: Spurs at plus five point fifty and Saturday night Game seven,
Speaker 2: Thunder they will be giving three and a half to
Speaker 2: the Spurs. We like to look at experience when you
Speaker 2: get this far, no matter what the sport is. You know,
Speaker 2: if you have somebody who's a rookie or first year,
Speaker 2: second year player that experience, well, you can't look at
Speaker 2: Oka See any different than you can San Antonio this
Speaker 2: year because okay See hadn't won it last year and
Speaker 2: we were win wondering. You know, you get to those
Speaker 2: games sevens pressure situations trying to win a championship. Well,
Speaker 2: they were the youngest team in the NBA and they
Speaker 2: ended up playing well. Sga played well in the Game
Speaker 2: seven against Joker and the Nuggets. He had thirty five
Speaker 2: Game seven in the finals against the Pacers, he had
Speaker 2: twenty nine and twelve assists. Did not play well. He
Speaker 2: hasn't played well in their losses. He's played really well
Speaker 2: in their victories. Victor Wendanyama has played well in San
Speaker 2: Antonio's victories and not so well when they've lost. Is
Speaker 2: there a direct correlation. Yes, as SGA goes, Okase goes,
Speaker 2: as Wemby goes, so did the San Antonio Spurs. Can
Speaker 2: you be as aggressive? They were more aggressive than I'm
Speaker 2: seeing them. But SGA only had three free throws and
Speaker 2: that's where I wondered was it a market correction. Was
Speaker 2: there something where consciously, subconsciously this topic comes up with
Speaker 2: the officials with the NBA. I don't know that, but
Speaker 2: it did feel like there was more play on moments
Speaker 2: last night. And this is what I want to see.
Speaker 2: I will if you get fouled, called the foul. But
Speaker 2: if you're hunting fouls, then I'm gonna I'm gonna really
Speaker 2: be tough on you, and I'm going to say play on.
Speaker 2: But if it's something that happens in the course of
Speaker 2: a game, that is in the flow of a game,
Speaker 2: then call it. I have no problem with that. But
Speaker 2: I also wonder does SGA care how he's being viewed.
Speaker 2: Does he consciously subconsciously not hunt those fouls last night? Now,
Speaker 2: I would tell him do what you've been doing. Don't
Speaker 2: stop just because people are saying, hey, this is going
Speaker 2: to affect your legacy or however they want to frame this.
Speaker 2: Go out and play the way you play, because in
Speaker 2: twenty years from now, if you have two titles and
Speaker 2: two MVPs, it's okay if they say, yeah, but you
Speaker 2: were and fowls, Yep, you're right. I want to be
Speaker 2: criticized for winning I'm okay with that. I remember I
Speaker 2: one a Sports Emmy for Studio host and Bob Costas
Speaker 2: wasn't in the category. And I remember somebody saying, hey,
Speaker 2: you won it, but Costas wasn't in it, and I go,
Speaker 2: I don't give a bleep. I couldn't care less. Bob
Speaker 2: wasn't in the category. He wasn't doing a studio show.
Speaker 2: I couldn't care less. I just wanted to win. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6: And the funny thing is it was Bob Costa.
Speaker 2: That's weird. I wasn't going to say.
Speaker 6: That third person.
Speaker 2: Yeah awkward, Yeah, Oh that was awkward. That was nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety six and I was up against Chris Berman, and
Speaker 2: I'm sitting at the table, so all the people at
Speaker 2: ESPN are there, and I get nominated, and it was
Speaker 2: kind of an oh, by the way nomination because Chris
Speaker 2: is there and he's telling the producers for like NFL Countdown,
Speaker 2: who he's going to thank when he wins the award.
Speaker 2: So I'm sitting at the table and I don't say anything.
Speaker 2: And I do think Chris is going to win, and
Speaker 2: I would have no problem if he did, but he's
Speaker 2: saying I gotta thank and he started going around telling
Speaker 2: these producers and then at the very end he comes
Speaker 2: back to me and he goes and good luck to you,
Speaker 2: and the winner is Dan Patrick. Yeah, I grabbed the
Speaker 2: Sports Emmy. I walked by and said, you know, thank
Speaker 2: you to everybody at the table with ESPN who was there.
Speaker 2: And I went to Clark's, which is a bar that's
Speaker 2: a couple of blocks down there. I sat there because
Speaker 2: I was like, I can't hold this trophy at that
Speaker 2: table with Chris Berman, who is responsible for ESPN. And
Speaker 2: I was like, I am gone and I'm gonna sit
Speaker 2: at the bar with my Sports Emmy by myself for
Speaker 2: I don't know how long. But and then everybody came.
Speaker 2: That was where the after party was, and then I
Speaker 2: left soon after that. Yes, Dylan, did.
Speaker 3: You throw the Emmy up on the bar like it's
Speaker 3: a beer league softball let's put some down.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: I did want to put it down by my feet,
Speaker 2: but then I thought, I if it breaks, then somebody
Speaker 2: will say, oh yeah, he didn't even care. So I
Speaker 2: did put it on the bar, and you know, the bartender,
Speaker 2: you know, said do you want me to put this
Speaker 2: behind the bar? And I said yes, but don't let
Speaker 2: me forget it. You know, yes, tom and you're just
Speaker 2: supposed to be the Charlotte observer. You're not supposed to
Speaker 2: be beating him in any kind of categories. Hey, what
Speaker 2: he did at ESPN. They should be naming a building
Speaker 2: or putting a statue up without Chris. There's no ESPN
Speaker 2: and Bob Lee and Tommy's not great respect. My first
Speaker 2: Sports Center was with Chris, but it was such an
Speaker 2: awkward moment. I also got up one time because I
Speaker 2: thought I had won, and Bob costUS won that one,
Speaker 2: so I awkwardly went on stage. I accepted bob Emmy
Speaker 2: and I remember grabbing it from Melissa Stark and I said, here,
Speaker 2: let me have that. She goes it's Bob's and I well,
Speaker 2: I was already moving towards the stage, so I thought
Speaker 2: I'd go up there and give a speech because I
Speaker 2: hadn't won in a long time, so I'm thanking people
Speaker 2: that had died. And I walked off the stage. I
Speaker 2: have that Sports Emmy here. Bob never never came back
Speaker 2: and got it. I don't think, Yeah, PAULI.
Speaker 6: That's what's funny about it.
Speaker 5: As part of a bit, Bob Costas brought US Sports
Speaker 5: Emmy up here and forgot he left it here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, yeah, you can have it and and
Speaker 2: I have it somewhere. He was like, probably didn't have
Speaker 2: any room left on his shelves. All right. A couple
Speaker 2: of phone calls here eight seven seven three DP show.
Speaker 2: Do we have a new poll question for hour two? Dylan,
Speaker 2: We do.
Speaker 3: We've got a few more of those ones, Toddson over earlier.
Speaker 6: Which would you rather make people do?
Speaker 3: Laugh like a stand up comedian, cheer like an athlete,
Speaker 3: sing and dance like a musician, Be physically or mentally
Speaker 3: healthier like a doctor or a therapist, Be inspired or
Speaker 3: energetic like a motivational speaker, or make people smarter like
Speaker 3: a teacher or professor.
Speaker 2: Todd What would you like to be.
Speaker 7: One day I helped to make people laugh on a
Speaker 7: regular basis. I know, I know I walked right into that.
Speaker 7: But for me, I would get most joy out of
Speaker 7: making people laugh like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, pull Maybe someday you'll have an outlet to do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like a platform in three hours to be able
Speaker 2: to make people laugh, or.
Speaker 7: To get an opportunity to be on the grandest of
Speaker 7: stages and not bomb.
Speaker 3: At comedy clubs in New York and La Yes, Dylan,
Speaker 3: I think to I can make a decent therapist. They're
Speaker 3: most therapists. You don't really want to look under their no,
Speaker 3: because it becomes about him. It wouldn't be about your problems.
Speaker 3: Todd would say, yeah, but that reminds me, and then
Speaker 3: he would tell you about his ill.
Speaker 7: Get depressed too, And I have that whole obsessive, compulsive,
Speaker 7: that sort of thing, I just like you reminds me,
Speaker 7: I think worse than yours.
Speaker 2: I think being a musician that'd be pretty cool. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And you know when you factor in when you're a comedian,
Speaker 2: you can't tell the same jokes like two years from now.
Speaker 2: You know, David Spade famously says, hey, musicians can play
Speaker 2: the same song. Springsteen can play the same songs for decades. Now,
Speaker 2: you can play it differently, you know, Billy Joel can
Speaker 2: still play piano. Man, we didn't start the fire. Where's
Speaker 2: a comedian? It's like then you say that like two
Speaker 2: years ago, Yes, Dylan, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Think that's actually kind of a debated thing in the
Speaker 3: comedy world because there's some there's like the Jerry Seinfeld's
Speaker 3: of the world who will play the hits even later on,
Speaker 3: and then there's like the Luis c Ks who are
Speaker 3: have a new hour regularly. But I think it's kind
Speaker 3: of it can be viewed as kind of being hack
Speaker 3: if you're just like, all right, let me pull out
Speaker 3: some of the old.
Speaker 2: Is Louis c k still don't stand them?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah he's back.
Speaker 3: Oh he is still hilarious.
Speaker 2: Oh I haven't seen anything. Yeah he was.
Speaker 3: He just did a big tour in Europe.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: Oh, and then he's gonna chill out, yes.
Speaker 2: Ton, Yeah.
Speaker 7: A lot of people be like, you know, oh, we've
Speaker 7: heard that joke.
Speaker 2: Don't you have any new material?
Speaker 7: But as you were saying, for a musicians like play
Speaker 7: that again, play they can't get enough of some of
Speaker 7: your hits.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Todd, Well Lucas and Texas, Hey Lucas, Hey.
Speaker 8: Dan, good morning, good morning, happy to meet Friday, to
Speaker 8: you and the boys. And I don't know if I've
Speaker 8: ever actually properly introduced myself to Dylan, so just glad
Speaker 8: to have you on the show and formally suck it.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 8: I have a quick question for you, Dan, and it
Speaker 8: relates to sports fandom. You know, I'm a proud Houston
Speaker 8: sports fan, which means you know, all the way down
Speaker 8: the line baseball, football, basketball, which means I'm kind of
Speaker 8: stuck as a Rockets fan and growing up in Texas
Speaker 8: watching the Spurs, It's always been fun to cheer for them.
Speaker 8: But I feel because of my you know, presupposition as
Speaker 8: a Rockets fan, I can't really fully be a fan
Speaker 8: of the Spurs. At the same time, I just feel
Speaker 8: like you can't be a genuine fan of two teams,
Speaker 8: you know. Do you guys ever feel do you guys
Speaker 8: have any basketball or football teams where it's almost like
Speaker 8: you wish you could be a fan of that team,
Speaker 8: but you were kind of trapped by your fandom that
Speaker 8: you inherited or that you had early on as a kid.
Speaker 2: I think you have to have that bias build up
Speaker 2: that you just can't root for certain teams, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's territorial. I get that, but it I was always
Speaker 2: amazed the number of fans who wanted to root for
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bulls, even if it meant at the expense
Speaker 2: of their team. Now, I'm not talking about Phoenix Suns
Speaker 2: or the Utah Jazz or Seattle SuperSonics. When they would
Speaker 2: get to the NBA Finals, But I am talking about
Speaker 2: regular season. When the Bulls would go to Atlanta, it
Speaker 2: would be a home game for the Bulls. If the Bulls,
Speaker 2: you know, pick a spot and chance of people came
Speaker 2: out to see them. And it's the only team that
Speaker 2: I truly remember where if you lost, it was okay
Speaker 2: as long as Jordan played well, you got to see
Speaker 2: him play. And I don't remember any other team except
Speaker 2: for the Harlem Globetrotters, where you tune you came out
Speaker 2: to see them win, have fun. Now granted that was scripted,
Speaker 2: but the Bulls people were you were seeing a boy band.
Speaker 2: It was that important. You were seeing something you had
Speaker 2: never seen before. You had never seen somebody like Mike before,
Speaker 2: and they were great and they were winning championships. And
Speaker 2: then you had the commercials attached to that. You've had
Speaker 2: individuals where I think people would show up to see
Speaker 2: show Heyo Tani and root for show Heyo Tani. But
Speaker 2: the Bulls were a dynasty. Now, people in Detroit weren't
Speaker 2: rooting for the Bulls, that's for sure, and Boston they
Speaker 2: weren't rooting, and La they weren't. But I was always
Speaker 2: amazed the number of people who and parents who would
Speaker 2: bring their kids out so they could see the Bulls
Speaker 2: and get Bulls gear on the road. And I don't
Speaker 2: remember another team in my lifetime covering sports where I
Speaker 2: saw that, Yes, Dyling, Yeah, my mom.
Speaker 3: Who thinks of football field is like forty yards long.
Speaker 3: She even knows like all of the nineties Bulls players,
Speaker 3: and that is so outside of her world.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if the Chiefs fell into that category,
Speaker 2: because it felt like there was a pushback of Travis
Speaker 2: Kelce and Taylor Swift. They're on all the time. Mahomes
Speaker 2: gets preferential treatment. Chris Collinsworth can't tell you how much
Speaker 2: he loves Patrick Mahomes. So there was like, okay, enough,
Speaker 2: you never had that with the Bulls. People did not
Speaker 2: tire of hearing from the Bulls about the Bulls. And
Speaker 2: then when they broke up, we were We're like, why
Speaker 2: not run it back one more year? But I can't remember.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'd have to think about it. But even Boston,
Speaker 2: you know, when the Celtics would go on the road
Speaker 2: back in the mid eighties and the eighties sixteen, like
Speaker 2: that was a true great team. When the Lakers went
Speaker 2: on the road, you're watching something that you had not seen.
Speaker 2: I don't think they were beloved. The Bulls were the
Speaker 2: Celtics and the Lakers. I think we were just fascinated.
Speaker 2: Look at that point guard, look at that center, look
Speaker 2: at those uniforms with Bird and the Celtics. There was
Speaker 2: a fascination there as well. But I just don't remember
Speaker 2: any other team being like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Paully, it's not an exact comp But when people
Speaker 5: say the LA Dodgers are bad for baseball, no, they
Speaker 5: are not. Not for ratings, not for reach with Otani,
Speaker 5: They're global. They're bad for your team's chances to win
Speaker 5: the World Series, they're not bad for the sport of baseball.
Speaker 2: And we're hearing those words cap, and then when I
Speaker 2: hear salary cap, I hear workstoppage. They tend to go
Speaker 2: hand in hand. Go back to nineteen ninety four, the strike,
Speaker 2: the last time they were bringing up salary Cap. Take
Speaker 2: a break. Talk to the CEO of the PGA Tour,
Speaker 2: Brian Rolett, got a lot of things talk to him about,
Speaker 2: and Nate Borgotzi will be in the final hour of
Speaker 2: the program. We're back after this.
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Speaker 6: No way, no how.
Speaker 2: It's me Friday. But Dylan wants to do a table
Speaker 2: side caesar salad. They do that those high end steakhouses.
Speaker 2: I remember the Golden Steer in Vegas, wonderful place. They
Speaker 2: just opened one in New York, but they did the
Speaker 2: table side caesar salad. And that's what you're gonna do
Speaker 2: here coming up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Actually, and I saw a video of one of
Speaker 3: the guys at Golden Steer on Instagram where they asked
Speaker 3: him how many Caesar salads he's made in his life
Speaker 3: and he's like over ten thousand.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, also banana Foster they're famous because Sinatra always
Speaker 2: wanted banana Foster's. That was his dessert.
Speaker 3: Yes, Dylan, Yeah, we actually when we were in New
Speaker 3: Orleans for the Super Bowl, some of us went to Brennan's,
Speaker 3: to the famous restaurant there. They actually invented the bananas
Speaker 3: Foster and they do a table side, you know, flambay
Speaker 3: and everything.
Speaker 2: Is it Flambay or Flambay?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 3: Probably Flambey Okay, but I'm an American Dan, Yes. Paul
Speaker 3: Dylan brought this up the other day when we were
Speaker 3: talking steaks. If someone takes you out to dinner or
Speaker 3: the host, do you not order something more expensive than
Speaker 3: what the host orders?
Speaker 6: Out of respect?
Speaker 2: You're supposed to not order something more expensive than the host.
Speaker 2: I've been led to believe that you can't go like
Speaker 2: market price on everything that you're going to order. There.
Speaker 2: You know what, Todd, what if.
Speaker 7: The host doesn't get an appetizer but you really wanted
Speaker 7: to get salad or sup or something.
Speaker 2: Calamari, I know that you have no decorum, like you
Speaker 2: don't care. I try to do the right thing. No,
Speaker 2: you do not.
Speaker 7: Why is no one getting an advertise? I'd like to Callamari
Speaker 7: and the lobster bisk cause you can.
Speaker 3: Get both of them.
Speaker 2: Yes, do.
Speaker 3: There's nothing worse than going to eat with people you're
Speaker 3: not maybe super close with, and you're like, well, I
Speaker 3: guess I'm gonna figure out what to order after the
Speaker 3: person order first, Like you're gonna see what they get
Speaker 3: and be like, Okay, I've got a steak too, you know,
Speaker 3: like or am I getting the chicken?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 2: I usually don't take social cues from what somebody else
Speaker 2: orders are really no, no, like, well I'm using pains.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's different island.
Speaker 2: Oh, there he is. Brian Rolla is the PGA Tour CEO,
Speaker 2: joining us on the program. I apologize for our stupid
Speaker 2: discussion there. Let me start out with maybe what sounds obvious.
Speaker 2: What's the biggest hurdle facing the PGA Tour Brian.
Speaker 4: I think the biggest hurdle.
Speaker 12: Is how we take this momentum and this popularity we have.
Speaker 4: Around the sport of golf and around the PGA Tour
Speaker 4: and turn that.
Speaker 12: Into long term sustained success and stability. So a lot
Speaker 12: of the work we're doing is not only make it
Speaker 12: better for fans, both golf fans and sports fans, but
Speaker 12: also built something that has lasting power in a world
Speaker 12: that's changing all the time. That's and I don't think
Speaker 12: that's just a PGA Tour challenge. I think that's a
Speaker 12: challenge for anybody in the sports business.
Speaker 2: Quite frankly, is there anything positive that Live Tour did
Speaker 2: for the PGA Tour.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've said this.
Speaker 12: I think, you know, competition makes everybody stronger. I think,
Speaker 12: you know, there was this a bit of a narrative
Speaker 12: around that Live was in competition. It was it was
Speaker 12: competing for people's attention and time and certainly competing for
Speaker 12: players before I got here. But I've said it often,
Speaker 12: this was a little bit of golf had their AFL
Speaker 12: NFL moment, they just had it late. And is the
Speaker 12: NFL better because of the AFL NFL moment?
Speaker 4: I think so. I don't think it's the modern NFL
Speaker 4: without it.
Speaker 12: So I don't know about the ABA NBA history, but
Speaker 12: there's probably a parallel there to be drawn. So I
Speaker 12: think I think they got that right and and sort
Speaker 12: of push the PGA Tour to to get better. So yeah,
Speaker 12: I think that hads the satilllasting impact if.
Speaker 2: You look at it. I don't know if the Formula
Speaker 2: one model can work in golf where everybody is showing up,
Speaker 2: the best are showing up at each event, But how
Speaker 2: close can you get to that?
Speaker 4: I think we can get close.
Speaker 12: I think we're working hard on it, and we'll have
Speaker 12: more to say about this and in less than a month.
Speaker 12: But it's clearly what fans want. This is not a
Speaker 12: sport and we're not a tour where we're gonna put
Speaker 12: guys under contract. It's not in their DNA, it's not
Speaker 12: how it's built. And I think that's okay. But I
Speaker 12: do think we can create a competitive model where the
Speaker 12: best show up, and they show up because they want
Speaker 12: to play against the best, and that they're working towards
Speaker 12: a postseason that awards the best.
Speaker 4: So I think we get getting close.
Speaker 12: Well we have a model where every single players in
Speaker 12: every single event, I don't think so.
Speaker 4: I don't think we need that.
Speaker 12: I think we'll have a set of really compelling tournaments
Speaker 12: where almost all the top one, twenty guys show up
Speaker 12: and they're competing in a competitive model.
Speaker 4: That's a lot easier to understand than today.
Speaker 2: Talking to Brian roll Up, the PGA Tour CEO, I've
Speaker 2: said this for years, where I thought the Masters could
Speaker 2: say we're going to give you a golf ball to
Speaker 2: use when you come here to play. So and you
Speaker 2: know how many of these courses around the world that
Speaker 2: you know, distance, technology, equipment, And I don't know what
Speaker 2: input the PGA Tour has if let's say Augustus says
Speaker 2: if you come there, you've got to use our golf ball,
Speaker 2: if any power over them, well.
Speaker 12: I mean, I think you're getting to the golf ball debate,
Speaker 12: which is really a debate about distance, and even a
Speaker 12: finer point on it, it's a debate about distance off
Speaker 12: the tee.
Speaker 4: I think is what really people are talking about. And
Speaker 4: this is a.
Speaker 12: Debate I've learned since I've been here, not even quite
Speaker 12: a year, and I'm still learning. I think there's two
Speaker 12: big questions facing the golf world. One is distance a problem?
Speaker 12: And when we say the golf world, I really mean
Speaker 12: professional golf is distance the problem? Is it not good
Speaker 12: for the game? Is it ruining the game. Is it
Speaker 12: making courses obsolete or whatever you want to pick. That's
Speaker 12: open question number one, and open question number two is
Speaker 12: if it is, does impacting the golf ball solve that problem?
Speaker 12: And I think depending who you talk to in the
Speaker 12: golf world, the answer to those questions are are an
Speaker 12: open debate.
Speaker 4: I think, in one hand.
Speaker 12: You've got courses that are shorter and older, and on.
Speaker 4: The other hand, you have these athletes who keep getting better.
Speaker 12: Every every year, and and you know, that's great to see.
Speaker 12: And I think there's some people on the side of
Speaker 12: the debate who say that's not what golf should be.
Speaker 12: I think there's other people on the side of the
Speaker 12: debate who say that's exactly what golf is. And you know,
Speaker 12: you don't make it the one hundred and ten meters
Speaker 12: dash because you seeing vaults really fast, and so I
Speaker 12: think I think it's very much an open debate. I
Speaker 12: think what's really interesting dan is who have very strong
Speaker 12: feelings about it, or the guys who are doing this
Speaker 12: every day, which are the professional golfers, and they are,
Speaker 12: since I've been here, are inserting themselves in this debate
Speaker 12: a little bit stronger than I think I've seen historically,
Speaker 12: but I think is I think it's I think it's
Speaker 12: better for the golf world to have one set of rules.
Speaker 12: What makes it so great is, you know, you and
Speaker 12: I could go out here on eighteen at TPC Sawgrass
Speaker 12: and spend all day trying to replicate Cam Young's three
Speaker 12: hundred and seventy five yard t shot in the Players
Speaker 12: Championship and never do it. And you gain an appreciation
Speaker 12: for that because you're playing with the same equipment under
Speaker 12: the same condition.
Speaker 4: So I think we'll see.
Speaker 12: I think this debates far from over, but I think
Speaker 12: everyone's trying to do the right thing.
Speaker 2: We like to see things that we've never seen before.
Speaker 2: We like to be fascinated like Wemby Steph Curry. And
Speaker 2: you need personalities. I look at Mike Trout with the Angels.
Speaker 2: He was the best player in baseball, but people said, well,
Speaker 2: he has no personality. Scotti Scheffler is not Tiger Woods
Speaker 2: in personality in draw, but results might be. So I
Speaker 2: don't know how how can you, as the CEO encourage
Speaker 2: or bring out personality And how much would that move
Speaker 2: the needle?
Speaker 4: I think it, I mean, I think it could move
Speaker 4: the needle.
Speaker 12: You know, people do love sports and sports personalities in sports,
Speaker 12: whether that's the loud guy, whether that's the guy he
Speaker 12: just goes about doing his business quietly. I mean that
Speaker 12: runs the gamut in sports. I do think professional golf
Speaker 12: we can do better telling the stories. There's this, I
Speaker 12: think there's this been, this false narrative around the sport
Speaker 12: of golf that a tournament where a competition only matters
Speaker 12: if four guys are in it, and you could probably
Speaker 12: name the four guys or five guys and whatever everyone's
Speaker 12: list of similar when the reality is you look at
Speaker 12: any given professional golf tournament on the weekend, and the
Speaker 12: difference in winning or losing is a stroke or two
Speaker 12: over four days, and the competitive parody of the sport
Speaker 12: of golf is incredible.
Speaker 4: As good as Scotty is, Scotty can't win.
Speaker 12: Every week, That's how much competitive parody there is out there.
Speaker 12: I think we have to do better job telling the
Speaker 12: stories about that, and I think we have to do
Speaker 12: a better job in our telecasts, in our social media
Speaker 12: content about telling the stories and showing the personalities of
Speaker 12: these guys, because there's quite a bit and you never
Speaker 12: see it. One thing we did do when I was
Speaker 12: here about a month and a half and I called
Speaker 12: the NFL films guys and I said, hey, you know
Speaker 12: what we did for hard knocks for decades, why don't
Speaker 12: we try it at the Players Championship. Come down and Mike,
Speaker 12: these guys fall him around for four days and see
Speaker 12: what we get.
Speaker 4: And it resulted in a show called Chasing Sunday.
Speaker 12: Which is you could watch it on YouTube, but it
Speaker 12: is a hard knocks look at the Players Tournament or
Speaker 12: Players Championship and you see personalities like in a way
Speaker 12: you've never seen before. And so I think we just
Speaker 12: have to do things like that to let people know
Speaker 12: who these guys are, because they're pretty extraordinary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I was going to ask you about that,
Speaker 2: trying to bring the NFL to the PGA Tour. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how can you do that?
Speaker 4: Well, Look, the NFL is one of one, like you, don't.
Speaker 12: I mean, I think in this job, it would be
Speaker 12: a mistake to say everything we did in the NFL
Speaker 12: is going to work at the PGA Tour, or even
Speaker 12: to say that professional football professional golf are the same thing.
Speaker 4: They're not.
Speaker 12: They're different, and and that's a good thing, that's great.
Speaker 12: But I do think there are things we learned at
Speaker 12: the NFL that I was part of that. I think
Speaker 12: we can bring the professional golf. I think what we're
Speaker 12: talking about is, you know, the NFL, we obsessed about
Speaker 12: the competitive product, like how do you make it better
Speaker 12: on the field, And not only do you just think
Speaker 12: NonStop about making the game better, making the game better,
Speaker 12: honoring tradition but not being overly bound by it, but
Speaker 12: not only just do that once, but constantly do that.
Speaker 12: I mean, we change rules every year for the for
Speaker 12: the benefit of the sport, and I think that can
Speaker 12: help here. I think, so this is this commitment to
Speaker 12: innovation and just thinking like a fan and thinking about
Speaker 12: the product.
Speaker 4: I think we're gonna do more of that here.
Speaker 12: I think about how you present the sport on television
Speaker 12: and media. We obsessed about that and not only just
Speaker 12: when the game was on, but also during the week
Speaker 12: and in the off season. And that's some of the
Speaker 12: things we're talking about. And so I think, you know,
Speaker 12: some things we're talking about when we talk about the
Speaker 12: personality of the players, I think that's something we can do.
Speaker 12: But you know, we we were you know, we had
Speaker 12: a great saying at the NFL, is only the paranom
Speaker 12: we'd survive. And I think that just means you got
Speaker 12: to keep keep changing, keep innovating. And I think we're
Speaker 12: trying to bring a little to that here.
Speaker 2: Can we do something about the piped in birds sounds, Brian?
Speaker 12: Come on, honestly, I don't know a ton about the
Speaker 12: I don't even know if that's a real thing.
Speaker 2: Just listen to the Quail Hollow coverage and there was
Speaker 2: a bird that followed the leaders the entire round.
Speaker 4: Listen, you got to ask the guys in the truck
Speaker 4: about that. I don't. I don't know about it.
Speaker 2: I'm the CEO, you got power. I don't Listen.
Speaker 12: There's some things I don't understand. I don't I don't
Speaker 12: get into production truck and I don't know you know, the.
Speaker 4: Bird population in Charlotte, North Carolina. So I do have
Speaker 4: limits to what I can do.
Speaker 2: Uh the galleries, Uh issues, I know, we we have
Speaker 2: waste management, we encourage that. But issues with end gambling. Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a it's a vocal everybody knows prop bets.
Speaker 2: You know, people are vocal there. People get angry too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I think this is an issue for all sports. Any
Speaker 12: sport you go to, there's a there's a fan code
Speaker 12: of conduct, right, and maybe it varies from sports to
Speaker 12: sport based on the tradition and and everything else, but
Speaker 12: golf should be no different. I mean, people, people should
Speaker 12: share and be excited, but there's going to be a
Speaker 12: line of inappropriate behavior that you know shouldn't be tolerated.
Speaker 12: And that's no difference in the football game or baseball
Speaker 12: game everybody out anywhere else. And I also think the
Speaker 12: issue of gambling and sports and integrity of the sports
Speaker 12: has been an issue, and let's let's let's.
Speaker 4: Be honest, an issue.
Speaker 12: Way before league sports, gambling was legal in this country.
Speaker 12: I mean this, this is oldest time. And so I
Speaker 12: think you just have to be really villaigent about those
Speaker 12: things and being willing to enforce it because you know,
Speaker 12: bad fan conduct or even much much worse gambling scandal
Speaker 12: is the first thing that could negatively impact sports. And
Speaker 12: so listen, I think there's always a line there, and
Speaker 12: I think, you know, sports organizations should be always prepared
Speaker 12: to enforce whatever that fan conduct is.
Speaker 2: What's your golf handicap?
Speaker 4: Not good? Well, you know I would tell you worse worse.
Speaker 12: Since I took this job, I actually play a lot
Speaker 12: less golf in this job than I did before.
Speaker 4: I actually made.
Speaker 12: This rule when I got here, is that I wouldn't
Speaker 12: play golf for work, because that's probably a pretty.
Speaker 4: Good rule anywhere you go.
Speaker 12: But in this industry, you know, everybody wants to have
Speaker 12: a meeting and they're like, let's go play golf and
Speaker 12: have a meeting. I'm like, well, why don't we just
Speaker 12: have the meeting and giving my four hours back?
Speaker 4: Because golf is.
Speaker 12: For like what I do with my boys, my my
Speaker 12: my girl on the weekend. So uh, it's it's gotten worse,
Speaker 12: but I at some point I'll come up for air
Speaker 12: and work on it a little bit.
Speaker 2: If you've played golf against Roger Goodell, who wins?
Speaker 4: Oh, I think Roger beats He's really good. He's good.
Speaker 12: I've never I've never played with him, but but he uh,
Speaker 12: he's certainly been playing longer than I have. And and
Speaker 12: he's a he's a he's a pretty good player. He's
Speaker 12: too modest, he won't brag about him.
Speaker 4: He's a good golfer.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe he's taken those meetings on the golf course.
Speaker 4: No that that he does it, I you know he doesn't.
Speaker 12: I worked with Roger long enough to know you know
Speaker 12: he works hard, uh, and so I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think he spends a lot of time on
Speaker 4: the golf course.
Speaker 2: Great to catch up with you, Brian. Good luck in
Speaker 2: the job. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 4: All right, Dan, great to see you.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, Brian, roll up, PJ tour CEO.
Speaker 2: How about we take a break. Who had the best
Speaker 2: week in sports? More of your phone calls coming up
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Speaker 2: best week in sports? Todd, let me start with you.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna give it to the Las Vegas Your in
Speaker 7: Las Vegas, Vegas sweeping the abs the President Cup champions
Speaker 7: That is quite impressive and deserves that the conolgement.
Speaker 3: Okay, Dylan, h My best week in sports is everyone
Speaker 3: not named Jonnick Center at the French Open the Road
Speaker 3: to the Championship. It's got a lot easier yes to say,
Speaker 3: as he lost in catastrophic fashion.
Speaker 2: And Alcarez is in playing and he could have completed
Speaker 2: the career Grand Slam. I believe yep. Oh boy, Marvin.
Speaker 7: The New York Knicks winning on Monday, Mollywopping the Cleveland
Speaker 7: Cavaliers sweeping him in four games, and they've had the
Speaker 7: entire week off to get ready for the finals.
Speaker 5: Paul, I'm gonna go with Shrey Park, fourteen year old
Speaker 5: from California who won the scripts National Spelling Bee last night.
Speaker 5: He won in a ninety second spell off tiebreaker, which
Speaker 5: I had never seen before.
Speaker 2: Was this like a shootout?
Speaker 6: Exactly? It was a shootout at the end.
Speaker 2: Are you allowed to ask for origin?
Speaker 5: No, it's word spell, word spell and as a clock
Speaker 5: so he spelled, spelt or spelled. He spelled thirty two
Speaker 5: words in ninety seconds. Oh boy, I can't spell thirty
Speaker 5: two words in an hour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's impressive. But they know the words that you're
Speaker 2: going there's probably five hundred words and they study those words.
Speaker 2: Remember when we had Samir Patel who won the Spelling
Speaker 2: Bee contest a legend, Yeah, like fifteen years ago, twenty
Speaker 2: years ago, And I said, spell Shrzhevski, A J. Perzinski like.
Speaker 2: He couldn't spell those. Now, I know those are names,
Speaker 2: but you know we were asking if you how well
Speaker 2: can you spell like Chris fuamatu ma foua. He couldn't
Speaker 2: even come close. Yes.
Speaker 5: According to the Script's National Spelling Bee, the official study
Speaker 5: guide that all competitors get at all levels the words
Speaker 5: of champions. It's called four thousand words you have to
Speaker 5: look through.
Speaker 2: So I was off by a few a couple. Yeah,
Speaker 2: uh Levi and utah, Hi Levi? What's on your mind today?
Speaker 11: Ay?
Speaker 4: DC? Second time?
Speaker 6: Long time?
Speaker 10: I'm just curious what you and the guys have.
Speaker 4: Is your biggest pet peeve from callers?
Speaker 2: I would say when you go on too long, and
Speaker 2: I equate it to giving a best man speech. You
Speaker 2: think what you're saying is really interesting. When just get
Speaker 2: to the point that's less is always better. I've never
Speaker 2: been at a wedding where I go, man, that best
Speaker 2: man's speech was short? Yes, tom He.
Speaker 6: When they ask you how's it going today?
Speaker 2: How you doing well? That's why we would always say,
Speaker 2: you don't have to ask me. I'm doing great, I'm
Speaker 2: doing this, Uh Phil? And Iowa, Hi Phil? What do
Speaker 2: you have for me one thirty two?
Speaker 11: Uh, regarding the poll question, I think comedy. The instant gratifude,
Speaker 11: gratific gratification that comes comes with it is really hard
Speaker 11: to be but like as a parent, teaching, like just
Speaker 11: the fulfillment that comes with that is way way better
Speaker 11: than comedy. But I also wanted to thank you guys.
Speaker 11: Being on the show a few times has helped with
Speaker 11: with my fear of public speaking. Uh so much so
Speaker 11: that I was able to knock out an open mic
Speaker 11: in Des Moines and the transitioning wasn't quite there. But
Speaker 11: as I was walking off the stage, I got a
Speaker 11: few crickets, but I was thinking, like, yeah, surely, like
Speaker 11: Todd Fritz can't feel like this five.
Speaker 4: Days a week, righty?
Speaker 2: But he does. Congratulations on that film. I have problems
Speaker 2: with public speaking, believe it or not. I don't know
Speaker 2: what it is. I don't know if speaking into a microphone,
Speaker 2: but for it's weird. It's weird. And my wife keeps
Speaker 2: bringing this up about my speech at my daughter's wedding reception.
Speaker 2: She goes, you speak to millions of people, I said,
Speaker 2: but I don't know them. This is my daughter. It's different. Uh,
Speaker 2: Dustin in Alabama, High Dustin, Dan.
Speaker 10: Fellas question for you. We live in a beach down
Speaker 10: down here got Fores, Alabama, so we always hot tail
Speaker 10: it on big holiday weekends. Last weekend Friday, we had
Speaker 10: about four hours north to the lake and my sixteen
Speaker 10: year old son, they just started driving in Anuary.
Speaker 2: I drove us.
Speaker 10: That was probably the most nerve wracking trip I've ever
Speaker 10: taken with my you know, five month nearly licensed driver.
Speaker 10: Did you guys have any experiences like that with your
Speaker 10: kids When I first started driving on a long trip.
Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't let them drive on a long trip,
Speaker 2: but going out with them and uh, usually going to
Speaker 2: a parking lot at the mall or a school and
Speaker 2: you want to there's no break on your side, but
Speaker 2: you push down anyway. But you know there there's it's
Speaker 2: sensory overload with kids now, like they're they're so used
Speaker 2: to uh music, check your phone, they're talking to somebody,
Speaker 2: and you really have to get tunnel vision with them.
Speaker 2: And that that was the biggest challenge is just focus
Speaker 2: on that, nothing else, just that. And I remember we
Speaker 2: took out I mean I'd have cones there. I mean
Speaker 2: we if cones were spectator. My daughter was a mass
Speaker 2: murderer because we were banging into everything there, and I say,
Speaker 2: it's okay, these are cones. It's the other things that
Speaker 2: you know when they're buildings and other cars. That's what
Speaker 2: you have to worry about. Final hour on the way
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