Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Final Hour. On this Tuesday, the great actor
Speaker 1: Matt Damon will join us. Coming up a little bit.
Speaker 1: He portrays Sonny Viccaro, legendary sneakerhead executive with Nike and
Speaker 1: Reebank got all those coaches, you know, instead of schools
Speaker 1: buying their shoes, it was you know, Sonny reaching out
Speaker 1: on behalf of Nike saying no, we're gonna give you
Speaker 1: the shoes and we're gonna pay the coaches, and it
Speaker 1: changed college basketball. He plays. Matt Damon plays Sonny Vicaro,
Speaker 1: who is largely given credit for recruiting Michael Jordan too Nike.
Speaker 1: And you also have Viola Davis who plays Michael Jordan's mom.
Speaker 1: And we'll talk to Matt about that because from what
Speaker 1: I'm told, Ben Affleck flew down to Florida to see
Speaker 1: Michael at his golf course and they I think he
Speaker 1: waited for Mike's blessing here and then it was, hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta have this, and you gotta have that. You
Speaker 1: got to have Viola Davis as my mom. And the
Speaker 1: only problem with that is you had to go get
Speaker 1: Viola Davis then to play his mom. And we're trying
Speaker 1: to confirm that that's what happened. So we'll talk to
Speaker 1: Matt Damon about that. He'll be joining us coming up
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Speaker 1: tooth changing just a little bit where more entertaining. NCAA
Speaker 1: tournament this year men's or women's women are now up
Speaker 1: to twenty seven percent of Okay, I feel like that's
Speaker 1: pretty good. I hope that you watch on Friday night
Speaker 1: because you do have a great South Carolina team going
Speaker 1: against Iowa and Caitlyn Clark, who I think is the
Speaker 1: best shooter man or woman in college basketball. Right now,
Speaker 1: she'll have her hands full. South Carolina is going to
Speaker 1: rough her up. The point spread right now is eleven.
Speaker 1: South Carolina is looking to go undefeated again and they
Speaker 1: are the odds on favorite. Also, yeah, the two best
Speaker 1: players at least the two players finalists for College Basketball
Speaker 1: Player of the Year Leah Boston with South Carolina, of course,
Speaker 1: Caitlyn Clark. All right, yes, poll question for our three Okay, possibly, okay, possible, Okay.
Speaker 1: Would you rather have the skill set of Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: or Jason Bourne? Both super impressive? I would rather have
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's skill set. Really yeah, I love Jason Bourne.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, I'm not saying you're wrong, Okay,
Speaker 1: but I Marvel I would love to have Jason Bourne's
Speaker 1: driving skills because those are some of the best chase
Speaker 1: scenes in movie history. Have you ever seen. I saw
Speaker 1: him kill a man with a rolled up magazine. Yeah okay,
Speaker 1: and that's an amazing skill to have. How often does
Speaker 1: it come into play? I don't know. But you know what,
Speaker 1: if I was like a billionaire, I would pay the
Speaker 1: government one hundred million dollars and be like turned me
Speaker 1: into that dude, give me you'll let me. You know
Speaker 1: all tho those he's not real. Yeah no, but it's
Speaker 1: a it's fun. Yes, you're waiting at the dentist's office,
Speaker 1: someone gets out of line. You're grabbing us weekly and
Speaker 1: the next thing they're gone. That'd be a great Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: Can't do that. Can't do that. Imagine you go into
Speaker 1: like an embassy and all there is people training to
Speaker 1: protect the embassy and you can kick everyone's button. Second
Speaker 1: where you go to a safety deposit boxing, there's a
Speaker 1: gun in cash And I felt like mcguiver was real,
Speaker 1: whereas Jason Bourne is created. It feels like there's a
Speaker 1: mcguiver up. It's created by the Treadstone Project. Exactly are people.
Speaker 1: I have to admit. If there's a Born identity movie on,
Speaker 1: I am watching. I don't care where it is. When
Speaker 1: I you know, I go through my you know movies
Speaker 1: there on drug TV. It's like, oh, there's Jason Bourne,
Speaker 1: and I got to ask him, could we see a
Speaker 1: Jason Bourne version of Top Gun Maverick that maybe we
Speaker 1: wait like twenty years, Damon will be in his seventies
Speaker 1: and then he's got one more movie. Jason Bourne. We
Speaker 1: got to bring him back for whatever reason. Like Paula,
Speaker 1: you're pretty good at coming up with scripts. Here, you
Speaker 1: told me what Maverick Top Gun was going to be
Speaker 1: about a year before it came out. All right, so
Speaker 1: the last Born Identity movie, I don't do you want
Speaker 1: to wait until after No, I want to do it now,
Speaker 1: get on record. Jason Bourne is living like in Malta,
Speaker 1: all by himself and other things. Well, he's been out
Speaker 1: of the public eye. He's been out of the private eye,
Speaker 1: off the grid, as they say, for decades. There's a
Speaker 1: new version of tread Stone, the bad guys with the
Speaker 1: CIA whatever it is. There's that the new operative. He
Speaker 1: wants to get out. It's like the new Jason Bourne.
Speaker 1: He tracks down Jason Bourne says, help me, help me
Speaker 1: get out, help me get out, and right before Jason
Speaker 1: Bourne is able to help this young kid get out
Speaker 1: who's the young Jason Bourne? Basically the bad guys kill him,
Speaker 1: and then the next hour and a half Jason Barren
Speaker 1: goes on and ask kicking Fest and everyone makes a
Speaker 1: billion dollars. There's the movie. Yeah, there's a movie. You
Speaker 1: need one insighting incident and there it is. Now it
Speaker 1: was the bad guy in Born movies? Was that Brian
Speaker 1: Cox who's now in succession? He was one of them? Yeah,
Speaker 1: wasn't he the guy who was heading it up with
Speaker 1: Chris Cooper part two? Yeah, Chris Cooper the Great Eye
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah. I watched the first episode of the
Speaker 1: final season of sixth Session all very good. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great, Yeah, it really is. Spoilers, No, No, it's great.
Speaker 1: It's one of those where you always feel good about
Speaker 1: yourself because every one of those people they're all despicable.
Speaker 1: So it's who do I Who's the worst person that
Speaker 1: I like the most? Is kind of how I sort
Speaker 1: through it all. But there's some great dialogue, really really
Speaker 1: well written. Aaron Rodgers was on this show November twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and I kind of stumbled onto something here
Speaker 1: because I was going to ask him, you know, about
Speaker 1: his teammates and eventually getting to Jordan Love being drafted.
Speaker 1: So this is after the draft, well after the draft,
Speaker 1: November twenty five, twenty and I ask Aaron Rodgers, what
Speaker 1: do your linemen get you for Christmas? Every now and
Speaker 1: then they might give me a ball of Scotch? Um? Wait,
Speaker 1: is that what you were drinking on draft night? Scotch
Speaker 1: or tequila? I was drinking tequila, mixed up a little
Speaker 1: bit I liked. I like Scotch, bourbon and some sipping tequila.
Speaker 1: The friend of mine got me on. So it was
Speaker 1: tequila that night. Did did the glass get Did you
Speaker 1: put more in it when the packers were on the
Speaker 1: clock or after the packers were off the clock? I
Speaker 1: would say after probably yeah, But I didn't to my credits,
Speaker 1: I didn't refill. Um. I started with a strong poor
Speaker 1: So I could just imagine you there that you're you know,
Speaker 1: you got tequila there and the packers and they're gonna
Speaker 1: take a wide receiver. Here of course we are, and
Speaker 1: the packers take Jordan Jordan Love. Did you know they
Speaker 1: were taking him prior to the pick? Oh? No, I
Speaker 1: found out just like we did about five seconds. Worthy. Wow,
Speaker 1: so you found out five seconds before. And you know,
Speaker 1: somebody said who works with the NFL, that the Packers
Speaker 1: probably didn't want to tell Aaron because if you're Aaron,
Speaker 1: you don't want them to draft your successor. But they're
Speaker 1: you know, they're trading up to get him. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, do you think, hey, we got
Speaker 1: to get a hold of Aaron. I I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know who makes that call. Who's gonna call Aaron?
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not going. I'm busy over here. How
Speaker 1: about you? Anybody want to call Aaron? Tell him we're
Speaker 1: gonna take Jordan, and the Packers select Jordan Love. Oh
Speaker 1: wouldn't you have loved to have been there? How many?
Speaker 1: How many moments where you look and you go, God,
Speaker 1: I wish I would have been there, just to actually
Speaker 1: here see the reaction of something. And that's one of
Speaker 1: those where you go, wait what, I don't know what Brett.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know how he reacted. I
Speaker 1: would love to have been there with John Elway when
Speaker 1: the Broncos they selected Tommy Maddox how a UCLA and
Speaker 1: Maddox was like twenty years of age, he was really young.
Speaker 1: I remember. That would have been interesting. Probably a few
Speaker 1: of those. I don't know if you know. Farb's ego
Speaker 1: was like, I don't care who they dravity ain't better
Speaker 1: than me, or he's not gonna be my successor. But
Speaker 1: you know, Aaron Rodgers went from he could go one
Speaker 1: to the end of the first round, which he did,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how Farve reacted to that, but
Speaker 1: I mean he might have been caught up in something
Speaker 1: else and didn't really care. All right, let me see
Speaker 1: a couple other headlines here, South Carolina, Virginia Tech, the
Speaker 1: women's final four, Joe Ellen pid you know, and maybe
Speaker 1: it's on his fault. It's just the NBA collectively that
Speaker 1: you know, play a couple of games, set out a game,
Speaker 1: play a couple of games, set out a game. He
Speaker 1: had a showdown with the joker. God, that's what you want.
Speaker 1: And maybe he's hurt, But I'm sorry, you don't get
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt because of everybody else in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Ah, you're gonna play, I don't know, you're
Speaker 1: gonna sit out. Yeah, I played last night. I can't
Speaker 1: play today. Why no, I just can't. I can't do
Speaker 1: back to back like okay and Joe Wellenbie's a wonderful player,
Speaker 1: and you can give him the MVP. I'm fine with that.
Speaker 1: I just wanted I wanted those two to go at
Speaker 1: each other one more time and maybe you know we
Speaker 1: had JJ Reddick on last hour and he was great.
Speaker 1: He had a lot of information, said that this won't
Speaker 1: change his vote that you know, Embid wasn't there, talked
Speaker 1: about all the great things that Embid does. I think
Speaker 1: voter fatigue has factored in to this. I think Jannis,
Speaker 1: although Yannis has missed a lot of games, so I
Speaker 1: would have Imbid and Joker one one A and then
Speaker 1: Yannis after that. But the Joker, you know, he went
Speaker 1: through the motions, put up a triple double. You didn't
Speaker 1: have Hardened there, didn't have in Bed there. We miss
Speaker 1: out in these moments we as fans, and this is
Speaker 1: part of the problem of the NBA. I can't count
Speaker 1: on it. And you want to see how many times
Speaker 1: do they face each other? Twice a year? That's what
Speaker 1: you want. You want to see that, yes more. I
Speaker 1: saw a stat recently Kevin Durant hasn't played Lebron in
Speaker 1: three seasons, so they haven't gone head to head in
Speaker 1: three seasons, which is nuts. By the way, the MVP
Speaker 1: odds Joe l n B plus one oh five. The
Speaker 1: Joker is plus one ten, so this is snug and
Speaker 1: then it's Yannis after that. I don't think you'll get
Speaker 1: co MVPs. I don't think we've ever had that. In
Speaker 1: the MBA, you did have co Rookies of the Year.
Speaker 1: I think that was Dave Cowens and Jeff Petrie, and
Speaker 1: you also had Jason Kidd and Grant Hill. I think
Speaker 1: we had co Rookies of the Year. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever had co MVPs. Yes, Marth, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think there was one more. I want to say, maybe
Speaker 1: out in brand I got to look it up. I
Speaker 1: think there may have been one more Coworkie with you,
Speaker 1: but never comvps, not to my knowledge. Yeah, let's say
Speaker 1: I've got time to get let me get Andrew and Washington. Andrew,
Speaker 1: thanks for holding What do you have for me? Good morning, Dana, Danna,
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call again. Hey real quick, just
Speaker 1: wanted to put a bow on all the final four
Speaker 1: stats from yesterday from the men's tournament. I know that
Speaker 1: you had the nineteen seventy nine since nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: no one, two or three seed being in the Final
Speaker 1: four this year. But also it's since nineteen seventy that
Speaker 1: three out of the four Final four teams are making
Speaker 1: their debut in the Final four this year. So that's
Speaker 1: just putting a bow on it. Follow my idea here
Speaker 1: after yesterday's program, and you have Dan Patrick Takes a
Speaker 1: Gamble podcast. Now, mister Seaton O'Connor is the president of
Speaker 1: the Relegation president of the Relegation fan club. And if
Speaker 1: somebody is down the most units, maybe they get relegated
Speaker 1: off the podcast when one Aaron O'Connor takes their place
Speaker 1: to make picks with the guys. And from what he
Speaker 1: told me, she could probably hang with that group. So
Speaker 1: maybe a little switch up there to get those guys
Speaker 1: to pay attention to their tips. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think Aaron might be a one and done. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would never fell out another bracket if I'm Seaton's wife.
Speaker 1: She's got the Final four, she's got Connecticut winning at all.
Speaker 1: And didn't we look at the amount of money if
Speaker 1: she had putting down, if she had put down one
Speaker 1: a dollar one hundred dollar on those four teams, and
Speaker 1: you would have made just under nine million dollars. She
Speaker 1: talked about that all day, yesterday, all night, nine million dollars.
Speaker 1: I would not fill out another bracket the rest of
Speaker 1: my life because you are in the zero zero zero
Speaker 1: zero zero three percent time. It's like as close to
Speaker 1: a winning lottery ticket as you've ever come. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we did a little math yesterday based off like ESPN
Speaker 1: having twenty million people, you have about a one and
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand chance to have a perfect You have
Speaker 1: the final four correctly. Yeah, nailed it. And it's about
Speaker 1: guard plays, your wife said, And just for the record,
Speaker 1: she could absolutely hang with those fellas in the gambling podcast.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, yeah, she could get after it, okay, but
Speaker 1: but not drinking. Well, I wasn't saying gambling. Oh I
Speaker 1: thought you said gambling. You're talking about that she could
Speaker 1: Your wife could party? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, which Shay
Speaker 1: and Irving, Yeah she can. She can handle herself. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: sounds like sounds like a challenge that Shay and Irving
Speaker 1: and Bad Larry and Dylan the graphics guy would love
Speaker 1: to take her up on. I'm not not challenging anyone.
Speaker 1: I'm just sounds like that she could fit into that group. Yeah, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she can handle herself because we always talk about gambling
Speaker 1: every Thursday with these guys and it always morphs into
Speaker 1: devolves into drinking or something else. With Shay and Irving,
Speaker 1: and you find out the fact that Shaye and Irving
Speaker 1: has a Revolver tattoo on the side of his skull
Speaker 1: that you know, he got a really short haircut, much
Speaker 1: like my wife she has. Yeah. And then what's the
Speaker 1: other tattoo on the other side of Shay's head? Something
Speaker 1: with his kids names? Of course, yes, I thought it
Speaker 1: was the Revolver with his kid's name. But you know,
Speaker 1: Marvin goes, he's got a tattoo on his head. I go, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, he goes, it's I keep staring at it,
Speaker 1: and it's okay. I thought he went to New York
Speaker 1: and he got it big. Yeah. I look over and
Speaker 1: because he had his head shaved and I'm looking, I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, did you just get a tattoo on
Speaker 1: your head? No, I've had that. Yeah. He's a real dealer, man,
Speaker 1: he is. He is the real deal. But the podcast,
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick takes a gamble with Bad Larry and Shay
Speaker 1: and Irving and Dylan the graphics guy. Well take a break.
Speaker 1: Matt Damon will join us coming up next year. On
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Speaker 1: updated odds from DraftKings odds to win the NCAA title,
Speaker 1: Connecticut is the prohibitive favorite. Anybody want to guests? Who
Speaker 1: has the second best odds to win the Men's NCAA
Speaker 1: Tournament Seaton, Miami, Miami, San Diego State, Oh, then Miami,
Speaker 1: then Florida Atlantic. Yes, yeah, I should have consulted Aaron.
Speaker 1: She has Yukon beating San Diego State? Does she really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, they'll be odds too, apparently, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she'll be. She's incredible. Yea, yeah that she is. Yeah, alrighty,
Speaker 1: I'll get a couple more phone calls in here. Oh.
Speaker 1: There he is Matt Damon, Big Time former Sexiest Man
Speaker 1: of the Year, and actor film producer course Goodwill Hunting.
Speaker 1: He plays Sonny Viccarroll in the new movie Air that
Speaker 1: hits theaters on Wednesday, April fifth. At what age did
Speaker 1: you get your first pair of Air Jordan's. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: a good question. Late late I couldn't. I didn't really
Speaker 1: have the disposable income for them in high school when
Speaker 1: they came out, So I think I got I would
Speaker 1: have got them after college. Actually, I was wondering, though,
Speaker 1: you grew up a Celtic fan. They wore Converse, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if you wouldn't have worn Air Jordan's
Speaker 1: because Celtics they didn't wear Air Jordans. Now he transcended
Speaker 1: the game. Those were definitely the hottest shoe, Like you know,
Speaker 1: before that it was you know, Adidas and Puma and
Speaker 1: you know, the fat laces and all that kind of
Speaker 1: that was very much what Ben and I in our
Speaker 1: in our high school we went, you know, there was
Speaker 1: one school in our in our city, so there were
Speaker 1: three thousand kids. It was really like, you know a
Speaker 1: good kind of cultural touchstone for kind of what was
Speaker 1: going on, like what was the cool music, what was
Speaker 1: the cool And then I remember those shoes specifically just
Speaker 1: before the Jordan's, and then the Jordans came and just
Speaker 1: changed everything. Were you an athlete? No, I was the first.
Speaker 1: I was in the first class to letter in theater.
Speaker 1: I have varsity letter in theater. You need a letter
Speaker 1: jacket for that, you know, you had to buy the jacket.
Speaker 1: But I got the letter and it had the little
Speaker 1: face comedy and tragedy on it. But uh, but we
Speaker 1: had a great, great, great high school. And but again
Speaker 1: it was a really big school. So you know, for
Speaker 1: some contexts, you know, Cambridge where I grew, where Ben
Speaker 1: and I grew up, was a basketball city like Pat Ewing,
Speaker 1: Uh lived on my street where I should say I
Speaker 1: lived on Pat Street. Um, so Ben and I weren't
Speaker 1: making that basketball team obviously. You know when we were there,
Speaker 1: it was Ramal Robinson and we'd win the state championship.
Speaker 1: We were we were in it every year. What do
Speaker 1: you remember about Ewing on your block? Well, Pat, the
Speaker 1: first game I ever saw in the Boston Garden, I
Speaker 1: was ten and that was Pat senior year. So he's
Speaker 1: I guess eight years older than me. So uh, and
Speaker 1: I remember going to the garden and I knew, you know,
Speaker 1: it was like this guy was from my hometown. He
Speaker 1: lived at the end of my street. He was you know,
Speaker 1: he's a superstar already and he you know that someday
Speaker 1: I was going to go to school where, you know,
Speaker 1: and so I was cheering with the high school kids. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it was really exciting. I just remember it
Speaker 1: being really exciting. And I I remember walking by him
Speaker 1: at like the River Festival down on Memorial Drive and
Speaker 1: just you know, being all of four foot ten and
Speaker 1: walking by a seven foot dude. It's like, it's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, how does this movie get How does
Speaker 1: this script get to you? I got Ben Uh sent
Speaker 1: it to me. He goes, he Ben found it. I'm
Speaker 1: you'd have to ask him how he found it. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I don't remember how he found it or how he
Speaker 1: came across it. But he said, I read this thing.
Speaker 1: He goes, it's great. He goes, we should do this.
Speaker 1: We can do it really quickly. You know, it's ready
Speaker 1: to go. And um and uh. And I read it
Speaker 1: and it was And I had that same every time
Speaker 1: I picked this script up. I was stuck for It's
Speaker 1: like when you bump into Good Fellows on TV. It's like, up, well,
Speaker 1: I'm here for two hours. I got, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch the rest of this. But the script felt like that.
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, it's just it was a page turner,
Speaker 1: and it was really exciting with all these characters. Really,
Speaker 1: it was a great yeah, a great kind of ensemble
Speaker 1: group to you know, it was fun think about, all right,
Speaker 1: who are we going to get to fill out this cast?
Speaker 1: And the parts were all just terrific. Well, you talked
Speaker 1: about this after the screening in New York that working
Speaker 1: with Violda Davis, it's like, this is easy. I mean,
Speaker 1: she's we're wrapped by ten thirty in the morning, and
Speaker 1: now we got to figure out what we're doing for lunch.
Speaker 1: She was, she was that great as she placed Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan's mom. Yeah. Yeah, and that actually came from Michael.
Speaker 1: You know, Ben went to see him before, you know,
Speaker 1: before we got too pregnant with the movie. We basically
Speaker 1: Ben said, well, I really need MJ's blessing, like I don't.
Speaker 1: You know, we we didn't want to do if he said, look, guys,
Speaker 1: that's not how anything happened. Don't just just leave it alone.
Speaker 1: We would have left it alone. But actually what ended
Speaker 1: up happening was Ben went to to to talk to
Speaker 1: him and he ended up Ben called me after I
Speaker 1: was in New York. I couldn't go down to Florida
Speaker 1: to see him. My kid had something that day I
Speaker 1: can't remember, but I was waiting for Ben's call to
Speaker 1: see if we were going to go forward with this thing.
Speaker 1: And he goes, He goes, I got amazing news. He goes,
Speaker 1: I got great news, and I got some bad news.
Speaker 1: I go, okay, and he goes. The great news is
Speaker 1: he goes, and he started to detail what Michael had
Speaker 1: told him. Michael was very specific about George Raveling being
Speaker 1: in the movie like that was where he first heard
Speaker 1: about Nike, who he heard it from. Uh and Howard White, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, as as being these absolutely pivotal people in
Speaker 1: at that time and beyond, but but specifically at that time.
Speaker 1: And then he Ben was trying to get details about
Speaker 1: how everything went down, and and and Michael talked about
Speaker 1: his mother, and he talked about his mother and with
Speaker 1: such reverence, UM, and you know that it really was
Speaker 1: really moving for Ben. And and Ben started to realize
Speaker 1: how pivotal she was like for him and this deal
Speaker 1: in his life and everything. And uh and Ben said, okay,
Speaker 1: well all right, well was it clearly thinking to himself, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we gotta we gotta re you know, we
Speaker 1: got to rework the script. But he goes, who should
Speaker 1: who should play your mom? And before he got the
Speaker 1: sentence out, Jordan was like, Viola Davis. And he seems
Speaker 1: like absolutely, that's it, And so Ben said, the the
Speaker 1: great news he goes, I know exactly what we gotta do, Like,
Speaker 1: I have great direction for our rewrite. We have these
Speaker 1: two new characters to bring it, and we really need
Speaker 1: to expand Dolores Jordan and really make this hers. And
Speaker 1: I said, well, great, what's the bad news? He goes,
Speaker 1: we have to get violent. We don't get La Davis,
Speaker 1: we can't do the movie. I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, and I was like, I think I said
Speaker 1: to him at that point, I was like, that's like
Speaker 1: having to get Michael Jordan on your basketball team. You know,
Speaker 1: she's an American treasure. So U but we rolled up
Speaker 1: our sleeves and really went to work on the rewrite
Speaker 1: and and uh and tried to write her a part
Speaker 1: that was worthy of her, you know, and uh, and
Speaker 1: thankfully she she she agreed to do it. And I mean,
Speaker 1: as you saw, she's just, I mean, she's just and
Speaker 1: it is that thing. I mean, I joke, but it's
Speaker 1: you know, I'd show up for work and do you know,
Speaker 1: a seven page scene with her? And when you do
Speaker 1: a seven page scene, normally in movies a two page scene,
Speaker 1: it's the longest you'll do. But I do with a long,
Speaker 1: long scene with Viola, and you know, we'd be gun
Speaker 1: by ten thirty in the morning and I'd have just
Speaker 1: been in one of the best scenes I've ever been
Speaker 1: in in my career, and she's like, you know, we're like,
Speaker 1: what else are we going to do today? Like I
Speaker 1: think that just happened, Like it's really awesome working with
Speaker 1: somebody of that caliber. How important is it to meet
Speaker 1: the person that you're going to portray in the movie.
Speaker 1: It's depends. You know, I've done it both ways where
Speaker 1: I've played someone and not met them, and played someone
Speaker 1: and met them. You know, you're never it's not an imitation,
Speaker 1: and it's not what this movie really was trying to
Speaker 1: do was capture the spirit of these people, right. It's
Speaker 1: you know, we don't look like them, we're not. You know,
Speaker 1: we're not. It's not about specifically who said what and
Speaker 1: I you know, because forty years later everyone's got their
Speaker 1: own narrative of how exactly everything happened, and um, but
Speaker 1: I did speak with Sonny and and and what was
Speaker 1: really interesting, um, because you know famously this you know,
Speaker 1: after this whole Landmark deal, I mean this, I mean
Speaker 1: completely historic deal happened. Um. You know, these relationships all
Speaker 1: frayed and fractured, and you know kind of people got
Speaker 1: fired and people left, and but you know there was
Speaker 1: like sense of betrayal and acrimony and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: But what Sonny said was, look, this time that you're
Speaker 1: making this movie about was the most joyful time. You know,
Speaker 1: this was just he goes, We were the just great friends.
Speaker 1: And I think they all understand now. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Sonny and Phil are they're in their eighties and looking back,
Speaker 1: like at what an amazing thing that they accomplished, and
Speaker 1: that all that stuff feels like it's kind of water
Speaker 1: under the bridge. At least when they kind of look
Speaker 1: back now, I think they it's not all jumbled together
Speaker 1: the way it might have been thirty forty years ago.
Speaker 1: It's it's like they're very generous about each other, at
Speaker 1: least in the conversations I've had with them. It's not
Speaker 1: exactly de Niro in Raging Bull. But you did gain
Speaker 1: some weight here playing Sonny. But Carrol. How hell, it's
Speaker 1: not stressful gaining weight. It's stressful losing weight. Yeah, no, exactly.
Speaker 1: I can look at a pizza and gain twenty pounds.
Speaker 1: That's easy. But I but Ben also had a body
Speaker 1: suit for me. He wanted to put a little extra
Speaker 1: heft on me, so so I put on probably twenty
Speaker 1: and then put on a body suit on top of
Speaker 1: that too, because there was really it was mostly just
Speaker 1: for this one for one joke in the in the
Speaker 1: movie where Phil and I are having a conversation about
Speaker 1: running and we just like the idea that you know,
Speaker 1: this guy worked at a running company, right, never ran
Speaker 1: and never ran, and uh, you know the idea was
Speaker 1: so loathsome to him. Um, So it was really all
Speaker 1: for that kind of physical gag we're talking about. Damon
Speaker 1: the movie is Air. He portrays Sonny Vicarrol. Last time
Speaker 1: we had John, I think we got you in trouble
Speaker 1: in Boston. What did I do? Uh? You got Brady
Speaker 1: as a buccaneer and you were going to root for
Speaker 1: Brady in Tampa, Like I think you apologetic? I am
Speaker 1: unapologizicut it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that guy. I
Speaker 1: love that guy. It didn't mean I didn't root for
Speaker 1: the Pats. Of course, obviously watched the Pats and root
Speaker 1: for the Pats, but I just really cheer on you know,
Speaker 1: had David Ortiz been traded to another team, I still
Speaker 1: would have kept an eye on him and cared about
Speaker 1: how he did. You know, when someone does that much
Speaker 1: for your team in your city, who's made you cry,
Speaker 1: Who's made you cry with joy? More Brady or your
Speaker 1: Red Sox, well, the two thousand and four Red Sox.
Speaker 1: I think I said this when it happened. When when
Speaker 1: I back up to Boston for the parade, and I
Speaker 1: remember running up to Boylston Street and by myself because
Speaker 1: my dad and my brother, everybody, we were getting my nephews,
Speaker 1: We were getting everybody to gather to walk down to
Speaker 1: the river to watch the duck boats as they went in.
Speaker 1: But I sprinted up to Boylston Street to see the
Speaker 1: sea as they came down that way by myself, and
Speaker 1: found myself outside like a shaman or some bank, just
Speaker 1: standing on the side of the road and crying out
Speaker 1: of gratitude for those guys. I loved those guys that
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and all the subsequent teams, but
Speaker 1: that but that first one was I can't even and
Speaker 1: I think people from Boston could tell you. It was
Speaker 1: like it relieved a kind of psychic It changed, It
Speaker 1: changed us at a fundamental level, because you know, my
Speaker 1: grandfather didn't see the Red Sox win. But it's like
Speaker 1: the Cubs, Matt. It changed the lovable losing Cubs, and
Speaker 1: it changed those fanilis like, it's weird that you almost
Speaker 1: embrace who you are and then it's gone, and now
Speaker 1: who are you? Yeah? But who we were were not
Speaker 1: just people who lost, but people who came so heartbreakingly
Speaker 1: close and lost right, which was a painful state to
Speaker 1: live in. Right, And so it did, and I agree
Speaker 1: it changed, it changed. I probably I follow it less now,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But I don't know that
Speaker 1: that's a bad thing, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: feel like I have a healthier I don't know it really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the story that I told myself I was thirty four
Speaker 1: when they won, they're thirty three. The story that I
Speaker 1: told myself for all those years was it's never gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It's never gonna happen. So yeah, I mean it did.
Speaker 1: It brought me to tears, for sure. I'll leave you
Speaker 1: with this. Could you see a scenario where you do
Speaker 1: what Cruise did for Top Gun with Jason Bourne, that
Speaker 1: maybe Jason Bourne is sixty and comes out of retirement
Speaker 1: or hiding. Yeah, I could certainly see if we could,
Speaker 1: if we could think up a good story, you know
Speaker 1: it would um, I would definitely do it. I love
Speaker 1: that character. I love It's been great to me and
Speaker 1: I love the story. So you know, if there was,
Speaker 1: if there was a way to do it, I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not against it. It's nice to see. You know,
Speaker 1: a sixty year old Tom doesn't look sixty, by the way,
Speaker 1: I don't know how old he is. He's looks like
Speaker 1: and he's doing all of his own stunts. I mean,
Speaker 1: he ruins it for you guys, I don't even try.
Speaker 1: I mean I I had dinner with him fifteen or
Speaker 1: so years ago and I asked him about the one
Speaker 1: where he ran around the outside of the building, you know,
Speaker 1: and that mission impossible. And he started the story by saying,
Speaker 1: the safety guy told me I couldn't do it, and
Speaker 1: I go, okay, and he goes, so I get another
Speaker 1: safety guy. You lost me already, Like you win. You
Speaker 1: You're you're the King. Yeah, congratulate the movie. Enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Always great to talk to you again. Yeah, thanks, Dan,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Matt Damon, all right, he didn't pooh pooh
Speaker 1: your script there born identity. Bring it back. Maybe wait
Speaker 1: like seven more years, ten more years, come back and
Speaker 1: then he could be his version, Jason Bourne's version of
Speaker 1: Maverick a top gun Maverick Camp Jason Bourne back for
Speaker 1: one more pay day. Yeah, get right to it. I
Speaker 1: like the Tom Cruise didn't hear what he wanted to
Speaker 1: hear from the safety guys, so you just get another
Speaker 1: safety guy. It's like going to another doctor, you know.
Speaker 1: Lebron went to two doctors, said you should probably have surgery,
Speaker 1: so he just went to the Lebron James of Feet.
Speaker 1: All right, last call for phone calls. What we learned,
Speaker 1: what's in store tomorrow right after this. Thanks for listening
Speaker 1: to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch
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Speaker 1: Glazer and you may know me for the world of
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Speaker 1: you don't know is for my entire life, I have
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Speaker 1: Last Gonfer Phone calls what we learned once in store. Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: the commissioner in Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred, will join us. Okay,
Speaker 1: do I bring up the situation in the Phillies game
Speaker 1: that happened yesterday in spring train. The catcher jt Ria Muto,
Speaker 1: he was getting a new ball from the Empire. So
Speaker 1: this is the second time, and he puts his catcher's
Speaker 1: mint back and he was waiting for the umpire to
Speaker 1: put it in his glove. Now, the previous time he
Speaker 1: threw the ball to the pitcher himself. The umpire did,
Speaker 1: but the catcher is, you know, you're trained to just
Speaker 1: put your glove back. He'll put the ball in there,
Speaker 1: and then you throw it back to the pitcher. Not
Speaker 1: all umpires going to throw it out to the mount. Well,
Speaker 1: the catcher, an all star catcher, puts his glove back
Speaker 1: and he doesn't think he's going to put a ball
Speaker 1: in it. Then the umpire gets ready to put a
Speaker 1: ball in it, and it goes to the ground, and
Speaker 1: then the umpire thinks the catcher is trying to show
Speaker 1: him up in spring training in the fourth inning. He
Speaker 1: turns and goes, yeah, runs him, and I go, you
Speaker 1: have got to be kidding me. Are you that sensitive
Speaker 1: in spring training in the fourth inning that you're going
Speaker 1: to throw the catcher out. Couldn't you just say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know why, why didn't you leave your room mint
Speaker 1: up there? Well you threw it out to the mount
Speaker 1: last night. Okay, you know what. My bad. But the catcher,
Speaker 1: he's the reasonable one. He turns to the umpire, it's like, what,
Speaker 1: you're gonna throw me out for that? And it became
Speaker 1: the Hey, that's what it is. I'm going to run you.
Speaker 1: And I think this is a guy who was in
Speaker 1: Triple A. This is an umpire who is trying to
Speaker 1: get to the major leagues. This doesn't help you get
Speaker 1: to the major leagues. I don't need to see ego
Speaker 1: in spring training in the fourth inning and you're gonna
Speaker 1: throw somebody out because he put his catcher's mit back.
Speaker 1: You didn't put the ball in time. He brings his
Speaker 1: catcher's mit back and the ball goes to the ground.
Speaker 1: Should I bring that up to the commissioner? No? Yeah,
Speaker 1: first not first question? Or knock it out? Well, we
Speaker 1: could do that because he's having a good month. Because
Speaker 1: how much he might not have any say over this.
Speaker 1: They got, you know, umpires got their own union. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna say, you know, we'll wait
Speaker 1: to hear a ruling, or let's let's see if the
Speaker 1: discipline this on part. But it's spring training. Everybody has
Speaker 1: a great time in spring training. And I'm guessing the
Speaker 1: catcher's probably like, all right, you're gonna throw me out
Speaker 1: of a spring training game, all right, get an early
Speaker 1: start to my afternoon playing golf? Yes, yes, time? Could
Speaker 1: he play the well, I didn't see that. We got
Speaker 1: opening day coming up in a couple of days. But
Speaker 1: I'll you know, I'll take your word for it that
Speaker 1: I'll have to take a look and see what that
Speaker 1: was all about but it well, it sounded like I
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been a big deal. He can't say that
Speaker 1: he didn't see something that has to do with this sport,
Speaker 1: a spring training little catchers mid thing. Every time someone
Speaker 1: gets ejected, does that go on? We all saw it, Todd, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But he could say I'm not a big social media guy.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that whatever that is that you guys saw that.
Speaker 1: You know, so you think that he could use that excuse. No,
Speaker 1: he can't. I heard about it. I didn't actually see it. No,
Speaker 1: it's no, no, no, you shouldn't have been. It's the commissioner.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw you out for that. Find a result
Speaker 1: of the poll question setan Dan's controversy along, who would
Speaker 1: you rather have the skill set of Michael Jordan or
Speaker 1: Jason Bourne. My guy Mike here put it perfectly, Killing
Speaker 1: people day after day has to weigh on your soul
Speaker 1: and I couldn't live with that. So I'd have to
Speaker 1: say Jason Bourne. Well, well played. Jason Bourne right now
Speaker 1: fifty eight percent of the vote, winning over Michael Jordan,
Speaker 1: winning a very poorly spelled Michael Jordan. By the way,
Speaker 1: how'd you screw up? Michael apparently it's not. Mike Kelle
Speaker 1: Michale am I C H E. L. Michael Michael, all right,
Speaker 1: you got it close. This day in sports history nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty three, the Jets owner, actually the New York Titans
Speaker 1: owner at the time of the AFL, announced he's changing
Speaker 1: the name of the New York Titans to the New
Speaker 1: York Jets. On that play, I wonder if that was
Speaker 1: a popular now well, because they were Chase Stadium, and
Speaker 1: I'm guessed with those planes flying over her. Oh, it
Speaker 1: was so annoying trying to trying to do an interview
Speaker 1: Chase Stadium with the Mets or a team that was
Speaker 1: in town, and he'd be like, and then you go
Speaker 1: hold on, and then he'd have to reask the question,
Speaker 1: what else? Filling a great tough guy moment. Two thousand
Speaker 1: and two, Greco Roman wrestler who was a champion in
Speaker 1: the Olympics. By the way, Roulin Gardner had his middle
Speaker 1: toe on his right foot amputated due to frostbite. He
Speaker 1: had been stranded overnight in Wyoming on a hunting trip
Speaker 1: for two days. You don't need a toe like a wrestler.
Speaker 1: You can lose a digit. I think we talked to
Speaker 1: him not long after that. Yeah, we had him on
Speaker 1: yeah old nine toes Gardner. Yeah, I mean he could
Speaker 1: still pick up a phone. I think the middle one
Speaker 1: is the one you'd want to lose, don't you think
Speaker 1: the middle one? I'm really thought of that. We'll look
Speaker 1: into it all right. Back to you, by the way.
Speaker 1: On this date, nineteen ninety two, Christian Latner turn Around
Speaker 1: Jumper beats Kentucky and overtime one four one three East
Speaker 1: Regional Final. Also in this day, the first team to
Speaker 1: win the NCAA and the n I T in the
Speaker 1: same year. Yeah, it happened. In nineteen fifty City College
Speaker 1: of New York beat Bradley to win the NCAA title.
Speaker 1: Was there another school that won the NCAA and n
Speaker 1: I T in the same year. It just says the
Speaker 1: first team to win. I guess they're leaving it open
Speaker 1: to if a team decides to. Let's say, Yukon wants
Speaker 1: to play in the n I T and win the NCAA.
Speaker 1: Is the n I T over yet I haven't, I've
Speaker 1: only followed it. Yeah, when you were a kid, was
Speaker 1: the n I T little kid? Were you the the
Speaker 1: NT bigger? Yeah? Yeah, do you remember which point in
Speaker 1: your life were that kind of morphed sixties? Um, well,
Speaker 1: I remember Maravich in LSU played in the n T
Speaker 1: in the Garden against Marquette, and that was a big deal.
Speaker 1: But LSU wasn't that good to be able to be
Speaker 1: in the field of thirty two. But I remember sixty
Speaker 1: just a little bit of Texas Western, just a little
Speaker 1: bit because it was such a big deal on all
Speaker 1: black team versus an all white team in Kentucky, and
Speaker 1: I remember that being a big deal, but I don't
Speaker 1: remember watching it. I think sixty seven with lul Sendor
Speaker 1: was the first time I really started watching the NCAA tournament. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got nineteen sixty eight, your Dayton Flyers beat in
Speaker 1: Kansas in the n I T Yeah, I was been
Speaker 1: a big deal off locally and they ended up playing UCLA.
Speaker 1: I think the next year they played or sixty seven
Speaker 1: they played UCLA in the NCAA title game. I think
Speaker 1: it was sixty seven Dayton against UCLA. Yeah. See, I've
Speaker 1: got NI T games tonight, doesn't matter. Oh okay, Well
Speaker 1: you got North Texas versus Wisconsin and Utah Valley versus UAB. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it might might give that a spin. All right, so
Speaker 1: it's nit over yet. Okay, thank you nit wit and yeah,
Speaker 1: and thank you too. Uh. Let's see anything else on
Speaker 1: this program, yes, seating anything. It's like fun day, all right,
Speaker 1: fun day day. Tomorrow. We'll try to do better tomorrow. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yes we will. Every day is a super Bowl, Yes
Speaker 1: that is. Let's go around the room what we learned
Speaker 1: on the program. Imagine if Viola Davis said, you know what,
Speaker 1: scheduling conflict, I can't do this movie, or you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't want to play that role, then they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have had the movie that happens. Yeah it does. I mean,
Speaker 1: I clear my schedule to be in all those Sandler movies.
Speaker 1: But one of these days he's going to learn I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be available for all those movies. Thank you.
Speaker 1: You're not going to turn down this stay man, that's right,
Speaker 1: chuck out. I still he's got a new movie coming
Speaker 1: out on Friday, him and Anniston Murder Mystery Too or something.
Speaker 1: She's not as well coming in as Sandman. He is
Speaker 1: because I'm like, hey, Sam Man, he goes Danny Anniston,
Speaker 1: I go, okay, aren't you do a car to my
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