WEBVTT - Hour 1 - Reaction to Protests (06-01-20) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.560 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program. Hope had a safe weekend, 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:12.000 certainly an interesting weekend, A lot to talk about today. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:16.080 There's an expression that's become all too familiar in recent years. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.200 It's stick to sports. I hear it often when I 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.480 start to stray. It's the standard response when athletes or 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.120 journalists or talk show host stray from the game and 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:29.000 we dip our toes into the real world events. And 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.360 this weekend, sticking to sports became almost impossible to do. 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:37.440 Yet prominent athletes, former players, coaches, even leagues publicly addressing 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:42.480 these systemic racism the killing of George Floyd. Some drove 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:46.160 halfway across the country to stand with protesters. Others took 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:50.320 to social media to express their anger, their dismay, their concern. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.720 And you can question some people's motives or doubt their sincerity, 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.440 but the message was really clear. We have to do better, 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.600 do better when it comes to racism, and it's a 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:06.200 challenge for everyone. Athletes not only plan to be involved, 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.880 but they plan to be leaders. The games are on 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.080 a brief hiatus, but the men and women who compete 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.720 at the highest level sent a loud message this weekend. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:16.840 This is a battle that they have no plans to 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:21.560 set out. And I'm not here to lecture. I'm not 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:28.560 here to shout. I'm here to just talk. I've always 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:36.680 felt this show is for everyone. It's for people who 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.520 support law enforcement, for people who think George Floyd was murdered. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:44.480 It's for people who are outraged with the protesting, people 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.600 who are outraged and are protesting, people think looting and 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:54.640 burning buildings is wrong. We're the home for all of 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:59.040 these people. It's complicated, and it's okay if two people 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.760 regarding multiple subjects have different opinions. People can support you know, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.560 you can support the police, but you can think what 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.760 happened was wrong. You can support protesters, but you can 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:15.280 say looting is wrong. And we can't ignore the fact 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:19.200 that we're just five white guys discussing extremely sensitive issues 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:25.040 regarding race. But we're here to listen, to learn and 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.600 respect the struggles and feelings of everyone who's been affected 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.040 by this. And there were so many great things that 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:36.239 were said, so many poignant things that were written. Kareem 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:40.639 Abdul Jabbar had an op ed piece in the La Times, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:45.760 and I have such profound respect for Kareem, He says, yes, 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:50.080 protests oftener used as an excuse for someone to take advantage, 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.239 just as when fans celebrating a hometown sports team championship 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:58.480 burn cars and destroy storefronts. I don't want to see 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:03.000 stores looted or buildings burn. But African Americans have been 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.600 living in a burning building for many years, choking on 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.560 the smoke as the flames burn closer and closer. Racism 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.000 in America is like dust in the air. It seems 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.639 invisible even if you're choking on it, until you let 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.679 the sun in. Then you see it's everywhere. As long 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.320 as we keep shining that light, we have a chance 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.960 of cleaning it wherever it lands. But we have to 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:31.120 stay vigilant because it's always still in the air. Kareem 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.880 goes on to finish his column in the La Times. 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.880 What I want is not a rush to judgment, but 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:43.000 a rush to justice. I also thought that the Mayor 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:47.840 of Atlanta had a powerful, powerful message with her press conference, 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.200 Keisha Lance Bottoms. I just want to take a portion 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.680 of this, but she spoke to the heart of what 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.000 this is all about, as the mayor of a great 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:05.840 city of Atlanta. But also as the mother of children. Floyd, 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:12.360 I hurt like a mother would hurt. And on yesterday 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:17.000 when I heard there were rumors about violent protests in Atlanta, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.719 I did what a mother would do. I called my 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:24.520 son and I said, where are you? I said, I 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:28.240 cannot protect you, and black boys shouldn't be out today, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.479 So you're not gonna out concern me and out care 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:40.480 about where we are in America. I wear this each 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.920 and every day, and I pray over my children each 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:49.480 and every day. So what I see happening on the 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:55.719 streets of Atlanta is not Atlanta. This is not a protest. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.520 This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther King Junior. 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:07.279 This is chaos. A protest has purpose. When doctor Keane 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:12.599 was assassinated, we didn't do this to our city. So 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:18.360 if you love this city, this city that has had 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:23.560 a legacy of black mayors and black police chiefs and 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.080 people who care about this city where more than fifty 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:31.120 percent of the business owners and Metro Atlanta are minority 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:36.880 business owners, if you care about this city, then go 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:43.480 home and pray that somebody like Reverend Beasley will come 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.680 and talk to you and give you some instructions on 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.920 what a protest should look like and how you affectuate 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:56.479 change in America. That's the mayor of Atlanta, Kesha Lands bottoms, 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:03.680 very very powerful. It's illustrated. Michael Rosenberg had a column 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.240 that he wrote on si dot com and just at 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.279 the very end, he says, many white people pick apart 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.600 their methods instead of listening to their message. And please understand, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.800 every time you ask a black athlete to stick to sports, 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:21.400 you're asking that athlete to be selfish. This program is 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.400 brought to you by legal Zoom. Want to protect your 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.080 loved ones, You can do so. With legal Zoom. You 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.480 can set up a right estate plan without leaving your home. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.600 Take care of your family today the right State Plan 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:36.480 at legal zoom dot com. We've done this before. We've 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.919 talked about serious issues. There is no perfect transition. But 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:44.919 bear with me with this. 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Mercedes 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:26.400 AMG Driving Performance Mcloven will have a poll question for us, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.720 I believe coming up. What kind of options do you 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:33.760 have for me? Okay, there was This is obviously a 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.200 topic that's becoming up a live LA. Deshaun Jackson said 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.240 that instead of fake crowd noise, players should be miked 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.640 up in the NFL? Which would you rather hear? And 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.640 other people have said this too, which would you rather hear? 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.640 If there was an NFL game with no fans, fake 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.720 crowd noise or players mic up? Oh, I'd want mike up? 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.240 Is it even a debate? Well, I think we're going 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.920 to hear the players anyway, because these microphones on the 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.200 field are so powerful that they're going to pick up 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.520 a lot of this. I don't need you miked up. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.640 If you want to have the quarterbacks, I got to 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.600 be fair to these players when they play, because you 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:12.640 forget the microphone is on or you know how cumbersome 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.920 is it going to be? Can everybody get miked up? 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.200 Are we being fair to the quarterbacks if they're the 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.160 only ones miked up? Are the coach is going to 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.680 be miked up? What if somebody doesn't hit the mute button? 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.520 You know, it's got to be figured out there. But 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.360 if there's no fans, you don't have to mic up 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.640 we hear the quarterbacks. Right now, let me go to 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.320 the line of scrimmage. You can hear this center calling 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:39.320 out you know, blocking schemes. I don't need them miked up, 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.800 They're already miked up. Yeah, Pa, I think it kind 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.120 of goes sport by sport because not to listen to 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.040 Buddhist league, are watching Budhis league a soccer and soccer. 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.320 There's not a ton of conversation going on on the 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.240 pitch during the you know, while it's going on, there's 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.360 not and so the crowd noise is nice filler. The 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:58.319 NFL is full of talk. There's there's short plays where 0:10:58.360 --> 0:10:59.960 there's a lot of talk going on between the play, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.040 on the sidelines, on the huddle, and at the line 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.760 of scrimmagers even more talk in baseball. I might not 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.360 want to hear it, but in football I want to 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.679 hear it football specifically, I want to hear this is 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.400 a one time shot. This is never going to happen 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:12.920 again where they're going to have no fans in the 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.680 stands likely, so let's embrace it. Yeah. I think what 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.400 you're going to have is about fifteen to twenty seconds 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.720 where you're hearing what's going on in the football field. 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.160 Then the play starts. Then we're gonna have the analysts 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.680 do the replay and show you what we just saw, 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.800 and then we'll go back again. I don't think there'll 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:36.880 be large long portions of just you know, no noise whatsoever. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.360 You can listen to a baseball game and or at least, 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.439 you know, twenty years ago, when we weren't trying to 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.880 fill all the time, if you're listening on radio and 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:49.160 you could hear some ambiance, but you weren't hearing the 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.480 players as much. Now, if you have those microphones, those 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.040 directional microphones, you're going to be able to hear a 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.839 little bit more of that conversation there. If it's at 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.080 first base, if it's between the pitcher or you know, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.560 in the catcher, if it's the catcher and the batter, 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.360 the umpire, I think you'll have a little bit more 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.320 than Well, baseball has got to get back on the field. 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.440 Let's not even include baseball in this yet, because it 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.400 feels like every other sport is coming back and baseball 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.600 is tripping over to themselves here. Yes, mc lovin. You 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.160 bick up a great point though, about strategy and stuff 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.959 like extra mics, they already mike the quarterbacks, but you're 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.960 going to hear a lot of stuff that you shouldn't 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.440 be hearing, right because the team you met, the coaches 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.200 hold up things for lip readers, like is that a 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.880 problem football was? I think it's going to be. They're 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.439 not going to be able to make up the coaches. 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.320 But if the quarterback is on the side, if the 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:41.839 quarterback comes over to talk to the coach, you then 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.760 turn off his microphone. I think you have to have 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.120 professional courtesy there. And what will happen normally is with 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:53.000 the networks, they'll gather the sound and then they'll disseminate it. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.360 You know, they'll go over and make sure that okay, 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.520 what's in here? Okay, yeah, we can have that. There's 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.640 an exchange there, the fun exchange. Remember when on Harball 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:04.440 said to Lamar Jackson basically, you're going to be great. 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.079 He had he was lauding him with praise on the sidelines, 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.800 and we didn't see it in the moment. We saw 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.800 it like three or four days later, and it was 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.760 such a cool moment. But you've got to be fair 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.840 to the players and the coaches to have that real 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.400 moment now where they feel like Big Brothers always listening. Yeah, play. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.040 How about this idea. Let's say NBC Sports has Football 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.160 Night America Son and a football and they have the 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.319 Steelers versus the Ravens, and that game with pumped in 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:35.600 crowd noises on NBC NBC Sports, NBCSN has a game 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.800 with no crowd noise, and you have the option. Fox 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.880 Sports has Fox Sports one, CBS Sports has CBSSN. Everyone 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:46.000 has an alternative channel. ESPN has eighteen alternative channels, one 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.840 with pumped in crowd noise, one with the option of listening, 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.600 and then you can expand your ratings and be creative. Yeah. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.160 It really just depends on what you're going to allow 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.840 your audience to hear. I think you have to be 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.400 fair to these coaches. Like the NBA, You're gonna hear 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.719 everything in the NBA, But I don't I don't think 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.360 players have to be miked up. These directional microphones are 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.320 so good, so sensitive, You're going to hear a lot 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.120 more than you thought. I can already hear a lot 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:18.880 of these things. That's going to continue. What other poll questions? McLevin. Okay, 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.040 I read a column this weekend saying an eighty two 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.600 game MLB season won't be legit anyway because MLBS so 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.760 centered on awards, stats, records, that what is the point 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.000 of doing at two game season. Their example was, if 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.760 Jacob deGrom wins a cy Young, does that mean that 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.560 he is in the Sandy Kofax territory or is it 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.440 just like, oh, nice job, he won half of ci Young. 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.520 I think that's up to you and how you're I mean, 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.960 what records do we care about in Major League Baseball? 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:50.080 Individual records not much. Twenty five years ago we did, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:54.640 oh yeah, but the game has changed considerably, and you know, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.480 the Players Association didn't stand in the way of guys 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:03.520 who were cheating. Therefore, these records don't mean anything. Now 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.440 you can say, Jacob deGrom winning another cy Young, okay, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.000 if you choose to recognize him as a hey he 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:15.160 won three cy youngs okay. I like we we deal 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.840 with so much minutia. I just want games to come back. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.400 If you said, hey, there's an asterisk by whoever wins 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.280 the NBA title, that's on you. That's not the way 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:29.000 I'm going to view it. We have an entire sports 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:33.400 year that has an asterisk attached to it. It's just 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:37.440 just for argument's sake, it's there. Deal with it however 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.520 you want to. But if you're saying, oh, these how 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.000 you know these great records that we treasure here, I 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:48.640 don't know what records we treasure anymore. But it's different. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.440 The NBA had seventy games already, like they already did 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.800 a fully formed season, Like it's much more legitimate than baseball. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.800 If they can't get to a certain threshold, well no, 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.480 but they still want to attach an asterisk by whoever 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.720 wins the BA title. I don't understand that. Oh, this 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.880 is different with the playoff format and everybody's going to 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:11.800 be in Orlando. Okay, everybody is in Orlando. Oh well, 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.160 you know that's not going to be a if Lebron. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.640 All this is is that's for Lebron the NBA. The 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.560 asterisk is because of Lebron James. If he wins, God forbid, 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.760 people are going to be upset that he's got four 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:29.440 titles and somehow he's encroaching on Michael Jordan or whatever. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.680 The problem is there, But it feels like the asterisk 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.840 is only attached to Lebron James. Baseball, there's an asterisk 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:39.560 for everybody. The records you consume them the way you 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.680 want to. Yes, mc it feels like baseball has had 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.480 an asterisk on it ever since McGuire, So sa anyway, 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.360 I mean yeah, and the hand bonds and the aster 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:52.400 well is the astra is a little different though they 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:56.400 were gonna we put an asterix there right, Yes, I 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.080 mean people will. I don't know do they put a 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.320 partial one with the red sox? Do you put like 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.320 a third of an asterisk? Like, I mean, it's silly 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.919 after what I just want you to play. If we 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.879 look at this as a lost season from the you know, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:16.160 the bandage point of fans, then okay, it's an asterisk 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:20.280 for everybody's season here this year. Okay, so we move on. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:25.040 Not that big a deal of all the things to 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:29.040 worry about. If Jacob Degram wins his cy Young Like, 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.000 I'm not worried about that. I would love to have 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:37.199 that debate, that discussion. Yes, point ja, I forgot of 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.439 forgot that Jacob Degram won back to back cy Young 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.280 the Mets, and I knew he didn't get a lot 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.400 of run support and his win loss record wasn't that good. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.880 He won Cy Young's being ten and nine and eleven 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.600 and eight, that means this year, based if you pro 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:54.679 rate his stats, he could win the Cion being six 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:58.000 and four and a half. Okay, we're not going into 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.479 an era of pro raded stats. We're not doing that. 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.200 We're not doing that. You're anti rated. I'm pro rated. 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.280 He want to see ten wins. So what's worse here, 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:12.440 the sign stealing astros or somebody's crown champion after an 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:16.800 eighty two game regular season. I'm okay with the eighty 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.520 two game regular season. I am all right. A couple 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.399 of phone calls eight seven seven three d p shoo. 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.920 By the way, good buddy, Jeff Passon from the mother 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.480 Ship says, there's a new proposal here with a Major 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:33.000 League Baseball. Yeah. I know the clock is ticking, but 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.320 baseball has to understand, which I'm sure it does. These 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.920 other sports are all coming back and Baseball is sitting 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:43.639 there going Nope, we're not pro rated. Hey, we'll cancel 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.320 the season. We want one hundred and fourteen games, we 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:50.320 want eighty two. You're going back and forth. You're playing 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:55.119 tennis with your entire sport volleying back and forth, and 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.760 somebody is going to mishit it at some point. But 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:02.120 I'll have passenge details here coming up. Lenny and Indiana 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.720 joins us. Hey Len, Welcome to the program, Hey Dan, 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:12.200 Good morning, five undred sixty five. He found out Friday 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.639 lost a real good friend of mine whose battled numerous 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.840 health issues over the last five six years. He beat 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:25.000 brain cancer, then had some hard issues recently came out 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:29.080 of a medically induced coma back in late twenty nineteen, 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.520 and it was doing good then at home taking care 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.280 of himself. We talked every day, and the bulk of 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.840 our conversation was about what happened on your show. He 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.959 watched it every day and would asked me, Hey, did 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:42.600 you hear what Dan said? Or did you see what 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.280 happened on Dan Show today? And I'd always get a 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.280 chance to watch or listen, but he'd let me know, 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:49.920 and he made a comment that it's one of the 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.280 best parts of his day was having a three hours 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.159 listening to you and or watching you. His name is 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.639 Brian Hersey. He was my friend for almost thirty years, 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:02.639 and I'm still in show, and I just don't. I 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:04.840 just wanted to people to know what a great friend 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.520 he was, and also to let you know that I 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:10.520 appreciate you and your show and what it did for 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.280 him getting through each of his days. And that's all 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.320 I have and I appreciate the time. Lenny, thank you 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.399 for sharing those memories. We appreciate that. Frank and Ohio 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.600 joints us. Good morning, Frank, what's on your mind? Good 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.120 morning Dan? How are you doing? Good? God, I'm trying 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:28.800 to make amends from my last phone call because I 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:31.040 kind of fritzied it. So I'm gonna I'm gonna give 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:35.280 it a go again. Okay, all right, So I almost 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.080 hate to say this after what happened this weekend, but 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:41.399 I ended up watching the Lance Documentary Part two, and 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:43.680 I don't know if this is gonna be a popular 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:47.560 thing now because sports is slowly coming back when we 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:49.639 still have a lot of vacuum. But you got the 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:53.320 Last Dance and the Lance Documentary. We have two athletes 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.199 on top of their profession and there's not there's some 0:20:56.320 --> 0:21:01.359 unlikable qualities. Do you think that the trend continue for 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.359 maybe that someone like Roger Clemens or Berry bonds and 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:06.640 hopes that will maybe it helped him elevate to get 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:09.480 them in the Hall of Fame. Well, this doesn't help 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:12.560 Lance Armstrong at all. By the way, Frank, thank you. 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.200 It was the second part of the documentary last night. 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.919 Lance Armstrong is not going to apologize. You. If you 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:23.800 were watching that documentary or going into the documentary thinking 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.960 Lance is going to come clean and apologize, you are wrong, 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:33.840 he did the opposite. Lance's philosophy is, hey, everybody's cheating. 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:40.080 I'm better at that than they are. And he says 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:43.000 that he told us that, he said, if you're not cheating, 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:50.760 go home. Did it, did it better than everybody else, 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.960 and is not going to apologize. But this did not 0:21:56.119 --> 0:22:00.760 help the public image of Lance arm And I don't 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:02.480 know if he went into it going you know what, 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:07.360 maybe I can soften the edges here. He made him sharper. Yeah. See. 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:10.320 You know what's interesting too about that is that not 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:12.160 only was Lance like, hey, if you're not cheating, go home, 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:15.200 but everybody was like if you know, the coaches from 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:17.200 other countries and teams and stuff like that, where like, 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:19.080 if you're not on this stuff, then don't even bother 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:21.480 showing up because you have no chance at winning. It 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:25.680 was that pervasive in the sport culture. Yeah, I don't 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:29.400 have a problem if he's cheating. It's like baseball players 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:32.360 cheating as well. I do have a problem that says, hey, 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:35.199 if you want to be a competitive cyclist, then you 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:38.439 have to do it. But the sport is riddled with this. 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:43.439 It has been for decades now, and Lance said, I 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:48.240 gotta cheat. The sad part of this is how Lance 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.960 treated people. He was trying to ruin lives. It's one 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:54.960 thing to cheat, you know, Mark McGuire cheated. He didn't 0:22:55.040 --> 0:23:00.359 ruin somebody's life other than his own. Sammy's soci cheated. 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:04.679 He wasn't trying to ruin anybody else's life. Lance cheated 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:08.320 and was trying to ruin lives. Yeah, see that, he 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:12.280 looked at everything. He had said something in the documentary 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.359 last night about how you know, on the bike it 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:18.399 worked really well, that attitude off the bike, it was 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:21.320 a disaster, and that he had the same mentality of 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:24.400 like just win at all costs and like kill everybody 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:26.239 kind of thing. You know what I mean, you have 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:29.440 to do whatever you can to win and crush everybody else. 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:32.880 And on the bike it was great, it worked perfectly, 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:35.440