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Speaker 3: Let's recap shell alrighty, that sounds good. Okay, This one's
Speaker 3: about Nick sixers. The most frustrating part of last night's game.
Speaker 3: If you're a Knicks fan, it's either fouling on the three,
Speaker 3: not fouling on the other three or missing the free
Speaker 3: throws right now, it's a runaway, absolute runaway. Sixty one
Speaker 3: percent of the audience with the free throws. Oh, hit
Speaker 3: your free throws and you win the game. I completely agree.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, But even if you don't hit your free throws,
Speaker 2: if you don't foul on the three point that was
Speaker 2: made by Maxi, or you foul before he takes the
Speaker 2: three and then he makes two free throws, you're still
Speaker 2: going to win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but those are like to me, it feels like
Speaker 3: there was are errors in judgment rather than like there's
Speaker 3: I was always raised to think there's no excuse to
Speaker 3: miss a foul shot. Yeah, there's no excuse other than
Speaker 3: like lack of concentration. There's no excuse. So you have
Speaker 3: to knock those down. You knock those down, the game's over,
Speaker 3: or maybe it gets a little tight like it did
Speaker 3: for Josh Hart used sort of short armed bows. Neither
Speaker 3: of these teams shot well from the line. Both shot
Speaker 3: sixty seven percent. But the knicks at home make your
Speaker 3: free throws. Yeah, Paulding, I disagree with the results of
Speaker 3: this so much. Like free throws, Yes, there's only so
Speaker 3: much control you have making or missing a stupid play.
Speaker 3: The four point play opens the door for a one
Speaker 3: possession game. If they don't foul him, they have to
Speaker 3: they have to foul, and then it's a four point
Speaker 3: or five point game. It's two possessions with twenty seconds
Speaker 3: to go. I mean that stupidity trump's inability. I guess
Speaker 3: the foul shots. You have one hundred percent control if
Speaker 3: they go in or out. There's no other factors other
Speaker 3: than you either make it the right way.
Speaker 4: But they're not a choice. You mean, you can't choose
Speaker 4: to make You don't need a choice. You're choosing to
Speaker 4: foul the guy.
Speaker 2: Well, but you have to make sure that you do
Speaker 2: the right thing in fouling him when you foul him,
Speaker 2: and making sure that you don't foul him while he's
Speaker 2: shooting his three. If you make your free throws, then
Speaker 2: the game is over. Like, hey, it's not my fault.
Speaker 2: I missed all and it doesn't matter what Maxi does.
Speaker 2: But you miss your free throws. Now you've brought in.
Speaker 2: We got to make decisions with Maxi. And like, really
Speaker 2: good teams don't do that where you're crowding somebody shooting
Speaker 2: the three and then you let him draw contact and
Speaker 2: then he gets over. They set a screen at half
Speaker 2: court because Embiid knew that Maxi was going to take
Speaker 2: that shot there, and even Nick Nurse said, yes, we
Speaker 2: have a couple of options off that play, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't going back to anybody else. That's where if you're
Speaker 2: the Knicks, who's the guy. I gotta stop Maxi. That's it.
Speaker 2: I don't have to worry about anybody else. And if
Speaker 2: Nicholas Buttoom hits a shot, okay, I'll live with that.
Speaker 2: The hottest guy on the planet. I got to make
Speaker 2: sure that he doesn't have the shot. And Tyree's Maxie
Speaker 2: was not going to pass. It's just like the seventy
Speaker 2: six ers said, we're going to make somebody else other
Speaker 2: than Jalen Brunson beat us. And Jalen Brunson still tried
Speaker 2: to beat the seventy six ers and he did not
Speaker 2: have I mean, he had good numbers, but he did
Speaker 2: not have a good game. If you look at the
Speaker 2: totality of that, what happened when they needed him the most,
Speaker 2: they did not play well at all, and Joe Ellenbiid
Speaker 2: was a detriment to his team in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: but he had a triple double, almost had a quadruple
Speaker 2: double with nine turnovers. He just didn't look comfortable. He's
Speaker 2: kind of dragging himself up and down the floor. I
Speaker 2: can't imagine how much energy he's going to have. He've
Speaker 2: got one day rest and then they got the game
Speaker 2: Thursday night. Before the playoffs started, there had been three
Speaker 2: games in the last twenty five years that had Senior
Speaker 2: team come back from a deficit of at least five
Speaker 2: points inside the final thirty seconds and win the game.
Speaker 2: So three of those games in the last twenty five years.
Speaker 2: After last night, we've had two in this series.
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Speaker 2: I mentioned Jalen Brunson had numbers. He's the third player
Speaker 2: in NBA history with at least one hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: five or more points and twenty five or more assists
Speaker 2: in a three game span in the playoffs. There's only
Speaker 2: two other players who have done that in NBA history.
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan and Lebron James. Of course. Yeah. Lebron did
Speaker 2: it with the Cabs in twenty eighteen, Mike did it
Speaker 2: with the Bulls in nineteen eighty nine. And he's averaging
Speaker 2: thirty four point four points per game in the series,
Speaker 2: and that's the most since Bernard King averaged forty two
Speaker 2: points per game in the nineteen eighty four Conference quarters
Speaker 2: against Detroit. If he did not have that knee injury,
Speaker 2: caly was he He was unstoppable. To be six six,
Speaker 2: and he was unstoppable. And I don't know if history
Speaker 2: will be has been as kind to Bernard King's greatness
Speaker 2: as maybe it should be.
Speaker 6: Yes, Marv is Bernard King the last generation's version of
Speaker 6: Derrick Rose.
Speaker 2: Oh, if he didn't get an injury, right, Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 6: Like we just had a two or three year stretch
Speaker 6: where you were just unbelievable, and an injury just stopped
Speaker 6: all of it.
Speaker 2: God, Bernard King was so good. I remember going to
Speaker 2: those games the Garden and the Celtics did not want
Speaker 2: to see Bernard King. He did. Nobody could guard him,
Speaker 2: no one. And I remember doing an interview with Bernard King,
Speaker 2: and if you were familiar with his game, he would
Speaker 2: do this devastating turnaround jumper, and I said, how do
Speaker 2: you get that shot off? Because he would shoot it
Speaker 2: over Kevin McHale, who was seven feet tall, and he
Speaker 2: said that he started shooting before he turned around. So
Speaker 2: a lot of guys will turn and then shoot. Bernard
Speaker 2: figured out that he could start to shoot while he turned,
Speaker 2: and then he was getting a shot off before he
Speaker 2: had an opportunity to block it. And then I started
Speaker 2: watching him and I realized what he was doing, and
Speaker 2: it was just fascinating because you go back to Tennessee.
Speaker 2: I remember when he was in high school in New
Speaker 2: York and his brother was more famous, Albert King was
Speaker 2: more famous than Bernard King. But he goes to Tennessee
Speaker 2: and you know, you're just you're watching somebody where you go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that size, though, I wonder if he can play and
Speaker 2: you know, dominate in the NBA. Then he got there
Speaker 2: and he could score. Yeah, poem.
Speaker 4: Bernard King in eighty four and eighty five was twenty
Speaker 4: eight years old and hitting his peak. He was thirty
Speaker 4: three points a game without the three point line. Basically
Speaker 4: he didn't take any threes. Yeah, and he injured himself
Speaker 4: towards the end of that season. They drafted Patrick Ewing
Speaker 4: two months later. If he stays healthy, you had Bernard
Speaker 4: King at twenty eight and Patrick Ewing at twenty two
Speaker 4: for the next five years in New York City.
Speaker 2: It was nice that Patrick Ewing was there at the
Speaker 2: Garden and got his flowers with the crowd there. John
Speaker 2: Starks was there. Yeah, I had a lot of your celebrities.
Speaker 2: John McEnroe was there, John Stewart was there.
Speaker 6: Yes, Marmon, I'm loving this for Patrick Ewing and John
Speaker 6: Starks and those guys that didn't win. They feel like
Speaker 6: the Buffalo Bills, where you appreciate what they did thirty
Speaker 6: years later.
Speaker 2: Okay, that was all I had. Thank you, mar Just
Speaker 2: appreciate him hating the Celtics. Game five tonight, the Celtics
Speaker 2: without Christops Porzingis and the mAbs at the Clippers. That'll
Speaker 2: be Game five. Cabs up three to two on the
Speaker 2: Magic Bucks win. Surprise, surprise, Pacers still up three to two. Now,
Speaker 2: good chance you're getting Dame back and Janni's back. The
Speaker 2: Pacers blow that opportunity, all right, pull question Seaton. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we got up there from Paulie. If you could get
Speaker 2: courtside tickets to MSG and you can sit with. You
Speaker 2: have two options of who you could sit Patrick Ewing,
Speaker 2: John Starks, Mellow, Larry Johnson, or you could sit with
Speaker 2: Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Morgan, John Stewart. Oh, I would
Speaker 2: sit with the the actors, Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 3: Would Comics making jokes would be pretty fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd rather be with those guys. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they're making jokes, but when we go to the
Speaker 2: green room, I get to hang out with them. I
Speaker 2: love Patrick Ewing and sitting next to him would be fun.
Speaker 2: But I don't need to sit next to Mellow or
Speaker 2: Grandmama watching a game John Starks. But I would go
Speaker 2: the actors and the comedians. Anybody going for the players, Hollywood.
Speaker 4: I love you going too much. It's a close one,
Speaker 4: Chris Rock, but Ewing in a close race.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll get some phone calls here coming up.
Speaker 2: The Angels have lost Mike Trout indefinitely with a knee injury.
Speaker 2: You you know, you start to look at this, it's
Speaker 2: hard to feel sad for somebody who's got three MVPs
Speaker 2: going to the Hall of Fame. He's got four hundred
Speaker 2: million dollars, But I do because I feel like, you know,
Speaker 2: we get cheated. You want to see the best players
Speaker 2: get the opportunity to play on the biggest stages, and
Speaker 2: he's not getting that opportunity and probably won't because he's
Speaker 2: been injured the last couple of years. But it feels
Speaker 2: like he's been in the top five for MVP maybe
Speaker 2: eight of his eight of his years with the Angels.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no doubt. And they're not getting any better.
Speaker 2: They missed their opportunity. I mean they tried. You know,
Speaker 2: they have Josh Hamilton and Albert Pooholes. You know, you
Speaker 2: get o Tani a gift. But he's going to be
Speaker 2: thirty three this summer. He's got three playoff games to
Speaker 2: show for. But that was ten years ago that he
Speaker 2: had playoff games. You're like, oh my god, so.
Speaker 3: And that's a long that's a fast ten years. Well
Speaker 3: maybe not for him, but for the rest of us,
Speaker 3: that was that's a very fast ten years.
Speaker 2: At what point does he entertain the possibility of going
Speaker 2: someplace else? Do the Angels I don't even know why, Well,
Speaker 2: does he want to go back maybe to Philadelphia? Does
Speaker 2: he like how important is winning? How do you broach
Speaker 2: that topic with the Angels, or let's say the Angels
Speaker 2: are like the Mike, what do you think like East
Speaker 2: Coast bias? You know, maybe go play the Phillies. Maybe
Speaker 2: we could accommodate you there, because the Angels need to
Speaker 2: move on at some point. But I mean they got
Speaker 2: other bad contracts, Rendon. I mean they tried, it just
Speaker 2: didn't work. What is the value of the Angels franchise
Speaker 2: now as opposed to what it was, say a year ago,
Speaker 2: when you had Trout, you had Otani. Even though we
Speaker 2: kept saying, if I'm already moreno and I own the Angels,
Speaker 2: I'm going to try to trade Otani and get something now,
Speaker 2: they wouldn't got, you know, a dollar for a dollar there.
Speaker 2: But still we wondered this was not going.
Speaker 3: To end well.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll get to some phone calls here coming up.
Speaker 2: We'll take a break then in a little bit. Ryan Reynolds,
Speaker 2: Rob mclehanney. It's season three of Welcome to Wrexham, great
Speaker 2: series on FX. So they'll join us. Coming up, Dan
Speaker 2: and Iowa joints us. Good morning, Dan, what's on your
Speaker 2: mind today?
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Speaker 7: First time, long time, five eleven and three quarters in
Speaker 7: a real fleshy to twelve. Thanks for taking the call
Speaker 7: real quick. Before I get to my point, I do
Speaker 7: want to thank you for your Vegas deals. I was
Speaker 7: at the one with Brent Musburger, and to be able
Speaker 7: to meet and talk to Brent and Jim nance was
Speaker 7: oh cool right up there, we're I mean, that was
Speaker 7: so cool right up there with you know, kids being
Speaker 7: born and getting married and all that crap. But I
Speaker 7: really appreciate that. It was a lot of fun. Hey,
Speaker 7: new York, New York, New York. Greatest song about a
Speaker 7: city in state.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 7: And then my question for you guys, and I really
Speaker 7: don't have an answer for this, but if you could
Speaker 7: have attended any of the greatest sporting events, whether you
Speaker 7: were alive or not at the time, you know, bay
Speaker 7: Ruth called shot Tiger Woods Masters, Game seven of World
Speaker 7: Series anything like that, what would you have wished that
Speaker 7: you could have attended in person?
Speaker 2: I'd have to give that some thought, Dan, I've been
Speaker 2: lucky to have gone to quite a few of these legendary,
Speaker 2: memorable events, you know, when Tiger won at Augusta the
Speaker 2: first time, you know, being there. World Series eighty six
Speaker 2: ball goes through Buckner's legs. Magic. It's the skyhook and
Speaker 2: the Boston Garden, whether it's Olympics, super Bowls, been very,
Speaker 2: very fortunate. But now i'd have to give that some thought.
Speaker 2: Mark and Michigan. Hey Mark, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 7: That is great?
Speaker 8: And how you doing good?
Speaker 7: First time?
Speaker 8: Long time? Appreciate everything you guys do. Five ten card
Speaker 8: two twenty, heyk you. I just wanted to give a
Speaker 8: shout out to my Detroit Lions. Been an amazing year.
Speaker 8: Crazy in the off Dave was great. The draft. Everybody's
Speaker 8: showing up with the draft. It's not amazing. I also
Speaker 8: look at my Wolverine. I work in Mount loves At Michigan,
Speaker 8: home of the Chippewas, and I was at the launched
Speaker 8: last week. Got up to leave. I saw some CMU
Speaker 8: staff on my left looked like athletic trainers, and so
Speaker 8: I asked the guy that just between me and you,
Speaker 8: what's that kind of saliens on the sideline at the
Speaker 8: Michigan State Games? And he said absolutely not. So there
Speaker 8: it is caters case boat.
Speaker 2: Let's move on doing it. Yeah. Well, NCAA didn't see that.
Speaker 2: Harball left, Michigan got got their wrists slap there, So
Speaker 2: something was going on there. See if I'm Michigan, just
Speaker 2: you guys keep bringing it up, trying to defend this.
Speaker 2: I don't. I moved on from it, and you know
Speaker 2: they've changed the you can now correspond, you can talk
Speaker 2: to your quarterback through his helmet. So now that doesn't
Speaker 2: you know You're You're not there on the sidelines trying
Speaker 2: to steal signals, but somebody went through an awful lot
Speaker 2: to get some kind of information there. Whether it helped
Speaker 2: you or not, it's gonna stay with you, and I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, eh, like if I'm an Astros fan
Speaker 2: and like he deal with it, we want it. You
Speaker 2: ain't taken away from us. And if you're Michigan still
Speaker 2: won the national title, it seems to bother you more
Speaker 2: that people haven't, you know, knighted you. Hey you're the
Speaker 2: national champ's congratulations it's yeah, but so what who cares?
Speaker 2: It's like when fans call up and say, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: we get no respect. Who cares? Why do you want
Speaker 2: respect from somebody If you don't respect what their opinion is, like,
Speaker 2: if they don't give it to you, then you're begging
Speaker 2: for it. Who cares. Congratulations Michigan, you won the national title.
Speaker 2: When you got on the football field, you were a
Speaker 2: great team. That is a dominating team. And we saw
Speaker 2: all the players going into the draft. But it just
Speaker 2: feels like there's this insecurity of I'm going to keep
Speaker 2: bringing this up until you finally admit you got punished
Speaker 2: by it. So there was something there, all right, let
Speaker 2: me take a break and we'll talk to Ryan Reynolds
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Speaker 2: up Season three of Welcome to Wrexham. It premieres with
Speaker 2: two episodes tomorrow. That's a ten Eastern end Pacific on FX,
Speaker 2: also available the next day on Hulu. We got a
Speaker 2: chance to speak to the owners of Wrexham AFC and
Speaker 2: the executive producers of Welcome to Wrexham, Ryan Reynolds and
Speaker 2: Rob McIlhaney. We talked to them a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: ago and here is our conversation. That's a handsome contest
Speaker 2: and I think I'm kicking ass right now?
Speaker 10: You sure are sure?
Speaker 2: Are all right?
Speaker 10: I didn't wear my Monster Energy drink colors today. I'm
Speaker 10: glad you did.
Speaker 2: Do you have a problem with that?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 10: No, that is a solid sweatshirt.
Speaker 12: Actually most I do not own a neutral colored sweatshirt anymore.
Speaker 2: It just feels like we're setting the tone here, and
Speaker 2: I don't know if I like the tone that's being set.
Speaker 2: I would give you a yellow card right now, right, Yeah.
Speaker 10: I know much.
Speaker 12: I know better than to anger, mister, mister Dan Patrick,
Speaker 12: I would never never even dare.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, now, let's play nice.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, I believe what you're wearing is brave. Now
Speaker 13: that's worse than what I said.
Speaker 2: That's a shot too. That's a shot too.
Speaker 11: It's not what are you talking about?
Speaker 10: Bravery?
Speaker 2: I could kick both of your asses if I wanted to.
Speaker 11: I do not doubt that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's not do that, Okay, all right? How close?
Speaker 2: Did this almost not happen? Rob uh?
Speaker 10: On the entire endeavor?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Uh not at all?
Speaker 13: I mean I think it was. It was something we
Speaker 13: were going to figure out how to do. It was
Speaker 13: just a matter of how to do it. But once
Speaker 13: the pieces started coming together. It was it was clear
Speaker 13: that it was that it was going to happen.
Speaker 2: Ryan, your best day has been what with this this club?
Speaker 10: My best day?
Speaker 12: You know, it's you, you know the automatically I think
Speaker 12: you might think that it was being promoted. But but
Speaker 12: I have two best days that are tied. One is
Speaker 12: I think when the club drew against Sheffield. I just
Speaker 12: the the you know, there's the Championship League club that
Speaker 12: went up to the Premier League that same season, and
Speaker 12: you know, the kind of heart and soul that we
Speaker 12: saw in that field that day was one of the
Speaker 12: most beautiful things I've ever seen. And then the other
Speaker 12: moment I think was probably Ben Foster save against Notts County.
Speaker 12: You know, and also you know, I'd been privy to
Speaker 12: Ben's doing an interview a year before where he said,
Speaker 12: they said, what would be your fictionalized greatest moment in
Speaker 12: a football game that you could ever dream up, no
Speaker 12: matter how ridiculous, and he described that moment I think
Speaker 12: to the letter.
Speaker 10: Which happened to him a year later.
Speaker 12: You know, coming out of retirement like that was I
Speaker 12: don't think I've ever been that emotional in my life.
Speaker 2: Worst day, Rob, oh.
Speaker 11: Wow, I would say that that loss, the.
Speaker 13: Loss against Grimsby Town in the playoff at the end
Speaker 13: of the first season was was pretty low.
Speaker 11: That was that was that was pretty low.
Speaker 13: I would I would probably have to rank that as
Speaker 13: one of the worst days of the of the experience.
Speaker 2: When did you guys decide or did you decide to
Speaker 2: ship the focus from you two to the actual team,
Speaker 2: the actual club from the outs.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that was that was That was the sure thing,
Speaker 12: mainly because and and and it wasn't because we were
Speaker 12: being falsely modest that the real the thing that is
Speaker 12: so compelling about this town is its inhabitants and people,
Speaker 12: I mean, and in their relationship to this club and
Speaker 12: how so many of their benchmark moments, hopes, dreams, and
Speaker 12: feelings are uh, that corollary between that and the club
Speaker 12: is just unbelievable. So and and also the stories are
Speaker 12: just falling off the trees out there. I mean, it's
Speaker 12: it's incredible to walk around talk to people. You just
Speaker 12: you can't believe the kind of character they have.
Speaker 13: It's really and we knew that that would maybe draw people,
Speaker 13: that we would be able to draw people to at
Speaker 13: least attention to to come and watch the first episode,
Speaker 13: but that it really would get old very quickly just
Speaker 13: watching the two of us bumble around, and ultimately those
Speaker 13: weren't the stories we wanted to tell. We wanted to
Speaker 13: tell the stories that we believe in as a sports fan.
Speaker 13: That most sports fans don't understand is that actually sports
Speaker 13: are not about triumph.
Speaker 11: They're actually about loss and despair.
Speaker 13: And because that's the vast majority of what being a
Speaker 13: fan is, and how do you overcome adversity and if
Speaker 13: you can transcend sport and talk about that as people
Speaker 13: are going through cancer or going through difficult things, mental
Speaker 13: issues in their lives, or literally just trying to get
Speaker 13: through the day on a basic wage through as the
Speaker 13: cost of living is being raised, we thought that that
Speaker 13: would be a much more compelling show and that and
Speaker 13: A Fish.
Speaker 10: Out of Water is really a sea plot. You know,
Speaker 10: how you're going to can take you can't?
Speaker 12: Sustainability isn't there with that sort of mindset, So yeah,
Speaker 12: it was it no brainer.
Speaker 2: Well, also, we look at sports movies like Bull Durham
Speaker 2: or Hoosier's and they're not really sports movies. It's about
Speaker 2: relationships and trying to capture those relationships is why we
Speaker 2: invest like I want to invest in somebody that I
Speaker 2: would never invest in. And that's what you guys were
Speaker 2: able to capture. Like there was a Leads United documentary.
Speaker 2: I watched it, Sunderland until I die. I watched it.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't even care, but I cared so
Speaker 2: damn much about it. And that's yeah, Like you guys
Speaker 2: go from scripted, this is nonscripted. How much do you
Speaker 2: can you control anything or do you want to control anything?
Speaker 2: With that?
Speaker 12: One thing I could speak today is that you know
Speaker 12: Wrexham is is Yeah, it's a town in North Wales,
Speaker 12: but it's also a town in Pennsylvania. It's a town
Speaker 12: in Saskatchewan, Canada, It's it's it's Australia, it's Brazil, it's all.
Speaker 12: It's everywhere. I mean, there's working class to people see
Speaker 12: themselves in that, and that story to me is quite
Speaker 12: quite evergreen.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 12: But you know the thing that I I I probably
Speaker 12: you know, will never ever forget is that first step,
Speaker 12: that first time we went to Wrexham because what I
Speaker 12: think the thing that's most insane about the story is
Speaker 12: we couldn't go there because it was the apex of
Speaker 12: the of the pandemic, we couldn't actually go there, so
Speaker 12: we had sort of assumed stewardship of this club before
Speaker 12: ever you know, touching a blade of grass in the racecourse,
Speaker 12: which is you know, this is the most financially irresponsible
Speaker 12: endeavor you would ever possibly find. It's just absolute idiocy
Speaker 12: on paper. But you know, we don't know that much
Speaker 12: about financial investments. Said, but what we do love, and
Speaker 12: something we've loved a whole adult lives is emotional investment.
Speaker 12: And emotional investment can kind of create that moat around something.
Speaker 12: And I feel like that mode is around Wrexham and
Speaker 12: and and it is special for that reason.
Speaker 13: Have you got people ask people ask me all the
Speaker 13: time to like, well, what are my one of my
Speaker 13: favorite documents sports documentaries, and like what are the biggest
Speaker 13: influences in making the show? And then I'll say, it's
Speaker 13: actually not a documentary, And then they'll say, oh, it's
Speaker 13: got to be Rocky because we make a lot of
Speaker 13: Rocky references. And clearly there's a lot of Rocky in
Speaker 13: my life and a lot of Rocky in the story.
Speaker 13: But the truth of the matter is that the movie
Speaker 13: that has been the most influential and the one that
Speaker 13: I want the show to feel most like is Field of.
Speaker 12: Dreams, which is not a movie about baseball, and of
Speaker 12: course it's you know.
Speaker 13: Of course not it's about a father and a son.
Speaker 13: And that is exactly the story that we want to.
Speaker 10: Tell about every movie I've ever produced. I've stolen the score.
Speaker 12: From Field of Dreams, and that's been our temp score
Speaker 12: for the whole thing. And I realized the last couple
Speaker 12: of years that it's just cheating. Nothing will ever live
Speaker 12: up to it, So stop doing it, So I don't.
Speaker 2: They are the owners of Wrexham AFC. We're talking to
Speaker 2: Ryan Reynolds, Rob mclihanny joining us. Season three of FX
Speaker 2: is Welcome to Rexham premiers with two episodes on May
Speaker 2: second at ten pm Eastern End Pacific on FX, available
Speaker 2: the next day on Hulu. If you guys played in
Speaker 2: an exhibition match, how would you fare? Oh God?
Speaker 12: I mean if the exhibition match was in the lobby
Speaker 12: of a hospital, I think.
Speaker 3: I'd be all right.
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, given how close the proximity is
Speaker 10: for medical attention, But no, what position would I play?
Speaker 13: I mean I think that the thing that because you
Speaker 13: just can't help it, you're like, wow, I'm in pretty
Speaker 13: good shape.
Speaker 11: Maybe I could keep up a little bit.
Speaker 13: No, And at the end of one of the games,
Speaker 13: we had Charlie Day and the rest of the cast
Speaker 13: of Sunny come out and the guys that already played
Speaker 13: the game, and what they do is they warmed down
Speaker 13: at the end of the games, which is tragic that
Speaker 13: they just run six miles at full speed, but they
Speaker 13: still have to warm down.
Speaker 10: So they're running a very slow pace.
Speaker 13: And Charlie's like, I'm gonna rent with these guys to
Speaker 13: see if i can keep up, and they're they're running
Speaker 13: at half speed and he is running at full speed
Speaker 13: and he could barely make it across the pitch.
Speaker 12: The greatest song ever written was the sound of Charlie
Speaker 12: Day's hamstring snap for the center line at the Wrexham
Speaker 12: Racecourse ground, like a beautiful harp.
Speaker 2: Uh, Ryan, are you going to have Blake maybe be
Speaker 2: your Taylor Swift with the franchise here?
Speaker 12: Well, there is only one Taylor Swift and there will
Speaker 12: never be another Taylor Swift.
Speaker 10: So but but but.
Speaker 12: Blake is as emotionally invested as anyone. I mean, she's
Speaker 12: been a ton of matches.
Speaker 2: Well, can you get Taylor to show up maybe as
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 10: That would be a coup. Yeah, I would love that. Actually,
Speaker 10: I know for sure the Kelsey Brothers are coming out
Speaker 10: to a game.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that season four.
Speaker 10: That's our that's our door plan.
Speaker 1: That's dude.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's how you how you lure the Queen Bee?
Speaker 2: Are you are? Are you still trying to buy a
Speaker 2: hockey team? Right? No, sir, No, not at all? Ottawa?
Speaker 12: Uh no, No, I love Ottawa. I spent time there
Speaker 12: as a kid. I lived in Vannier. Uh And but no,
Speaker 12: that is a that is a not not happening.
Speaker 2: All right, So just one franchise is all you can have?
Speaker 12: This is I mean, look, I wake up in the morning.
Speaker 12: Eighty percent of the emails in my inbox have to
Speaker 12: do the Wrexham. I mean it's this is a I'm
Speaker 12: chewing and blowing bubbles with Wrexham all the livelong day.
Speaker 10: I don't there's nothing, there's no room for anything else.
Speaker 2: But if you ever said, hunt, I just bought a midfielder, Like,
Speaker 2: do you ever have one of those days where you know, wait,
Speaker 2: what are you doing? Ah? I got a striker?
Speaker 12: You know, Well, it's like beer, you're borrowing it really Uh, yeah,
Speaker 12: you're I don't think you're buying or owning, but yeah, but.
Speaker 13: Yeah, but we are investing heavily into those players. But yes,
Speaker 13: it's the same. It's it's actually a lot like golf,
Speaker 13: where like you could have as everybody know that plays golf,
Speaker 13: nobody cares about how you played golf, and so I'll
Speaker 13: come home and I'll be like, honey, i shot an
Speaker 13: eighty and she's like, oh my god, do the dishes.
Speaker 10: And I'm like, I get it. So but it's a
Speaker 10: similar thing where.
Speaker 13: I'm like, honey, we just we just like signed a
Speaker 13: midfielder and she's like, oh my god, congratulations. She's actually
Speaker 13: really legitimately excited. So that that's a really a really
Speaker 13: good feeling there. She's very much invested in the pan.
Speaker 2: Well, hopefully you guys are are you still acting? You
Speaker 2: guys gonna actor? You've given up acting, So.
Speaker 10: I'm sorry, Dan, we're out.
Speaker 2: Oh well, that's a cliffhanger.
Speaker 13: Let me say one Let me say one thing before
Speaker 13: you go, because I've met you in person many times
Speaker 13: and I've said this to you already, but i'd like
Speaker 13: to say it on your show. And I'm sure you
Speaker 13: you hear this from so many people, but you are
Speaker 13: such a huge part of my generation and so many
Speaker 13: people younger than me and maybe a little bit older,
Speaker 13: in bringing the story of sports to life in a
Speaker 13: way that I'd never scene before, to bring you literally
Speaker 13: created it the comedy but also the excitement, and to
Speaker 13: present it in a way to a whole new generation
Speaker 13: of sporting fan I believe actually like change sports, and
Speaker 13: so I think that you in particular have just been
Speaker 13: a beacon and a guiding force for us.
Speaker 10: To be able to do what we do.
Speaker 12: One of the great storyteller that I know we're run
Speaker 12: out of time a long time ago. But I also
Speaker 12: want to say that I was so nervous the first
Speaker 12: time I got to meet you, and is at Super
Speaker 12: Bowl twenty sixteen in San Francisco, and I sat on
Speaker 12: your show there, and I was utterly geeked out because
Speaker 12: You've been one of the great sports storytellers of a generation.
Speaker 12: And I'm we're very grateful to have got to actually
Speaker 12: sit down in the hot seat with you.
Speaker 2: And I don't like Rob was sincere. You weren't as
Speaker 2: sincere with that. Ryan.
Speaker 10: No, I'm just competing Rob. I wasn't at Super Bowl
Speaker 10: in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: That was it has been affleck Okay.
Speaker 11: I like that. I love that.
Speaker 10: You can't take a compliment, just just like we can't.
Speaker 11: So that's fine.
Speaker 10: You just the flat. You just the flat.
Speaker 2: You go ahead, have a great day, everybody, and good
Speaker 2: luck to season three. Thank you, guys, thank you. That's
Speaker 2: Ryan Reynolds, Rob mackleil hanning Season three of FX is
Speaker 2: welcome Direction. You know, the moderator interrupts us.
Speaker 3: His face, Ryan Reynolds's face, I'm sorry, Dan, we're at time.
Speaker 3: His face was absolutely pit. That was priceless.
Speaker 2: Welcome Direction tomorrow at ten eastern end Pacific on FX.
Speaker 4: Yes, Paul, do you remember this happened a long long
Speaker 4: time ago. We Fritzy worked for like six months to
Speaker 4: book Tom Cruise, and we got Tom Cruise on and
Speaker 4: we're four minutes into the innery, six minutes in and
Speaker 4: the moderator jumps. He goes, Tom has to move on
Speaker 4: to entertainment side or whatever, and you will whoa, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 4: and Tom Cruise jumps, he goes, We're good. I'm good
Speaker 4: with Dan. Dan, go as long as you want. And
Speaker 4: you did another like eight minutes with Tom Cruise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's cool interrupting us. We were on a roll.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry Dan.
Speaker 2: And then Rob.
Speaker 11: Rob.
Speaker 2: I've had private conversations with about, you know, doing some
Speaker 2: business together, and this is a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: and he's always been very nice. But I thought that
Speaker 2: he was being sincere. I thought Ryan was maybe acting
Speaker 2: like he was sincere, and that's why I called him out.
Speaker 2: But it was good acting.
Speaker 11: Though.
Speaker 3: It's tough to be the second guy, yes, in that
Speaker 3: it's tough to be sincere after following the person who
Speaker 3: seems more sincere.
Speaker 2: It would have been nice if Ryan started it instead
Speaker 2: of Rob. I think Ryan was sincere. I do.
Speaker 3: I think he just unfortunately was second man in.
Speaker 2: Well, the only actor in this room. I would say,
Speaker 2: I think he was acting sincere, but he's a good actor. Todd,
Speaker 2: were you buying then?
Speaker 8: I was?
Speaker 13: But I understand the thought of the piggybacking thing where
Speaker 13: whoever said it first?
Speaker 2: We've had that here too. You do that all show?
Speaker 2: Who said good show and that got Yeah, good show
Speaker 2: to youre too? Yeah what is that right? Man? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Your nickname is piggyback. That's what you do. You just
Speaker 2: piggyback somebody else.
Speaker 10: I miss Piggyback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, how about we take a break? Take
Speaker 2: a break? Baseball game delayed by bees? Have that for
Speaker 2: you coming up?
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAP. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of bees on top of the back stuff.
Speaker 1: And at first it's like, oh wow, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of bees.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: But now it's like, this game's probably not going to
Speaker 1: start on time.
Speaker 2: That's what happened last night the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 2: It was delayed by a nest of bees for a
Speaker 2: couple of hours. Matt Hilton was the star. He sucked
Speaker 2: up all the bees with a shop vacuum and then
Speaker 2: took them off site. And for his heroics, he got
Speaker 2: to throw out the ceremonial first pitch. If you've ever
Speaker 2: been around people who love their bees, and uh like
Speaker 2: you know, they put on the whole outfit. My my
Speaker 2: wife wanted honey for her ice cream store, so she
Speaker 2: wanted to have her own bees. Well it's kind of
Speaker 2: hard to have bees out by the pool when you
Speaker 2: have kids coming over. And I said, Hunt probably not
Speaker 2: the best area to have bees there. I mean they
Speaker 2: don't care because there to you know, support the queen,
Speaker 2: and I of course was there to support the queen
Speaker 2: as well. And uh, but you know that I'm fascinated
Speaker 2: with what we do with bees and and the importance
Speaker 2: that bees have in our in our world. Yes, poem.
Speaker 4: People were asking is there a bee keeper on staff
Speaker 4: at Major League ballparks?
Speaker 2: And there's not.
Speaker 4: So the director of operations for the Diamondbacks got an
Speaker 4: update from someone on the field that said, we have
Speaker 4: an issue just before first pitch, and and they had
Speaker 4: to call this guy, Matt Hilton. He works for a
Speaker 4: Blue Sky Pest Control.
Speaker 2: Of course, or the best, the best for bees, removing
Speaker 2: bees from a baseball part been.
Speaker 4: Using them forever. He was at his son's little league
Speaker 4: t ball game and he got the call. He jumped
Speaker 4: in his car. He had to drive forty five minutes
Speaker 4: to downtown Phoenix, grabbed his beekeeper gear.
Speaker 2: Because you got to be ready to rock. What isn't
Speaker 2: Jason Statham didn't he have a movie called The Bee Keeper?
Speaker 4: Yes, not based on this.
Speaker 2: Oh it's not because he could have been there to
Speaker 2: help them out the dangers of beekeeper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what happens when a beekeeper goes rogue?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: There as he got done, the PA announcer played Bonnie
Speaker 4: Tyler's holding out for our hero as he walked off
Speaker 4: the field.
Speaker 2: That's a good synergy. Okay. Is there a better song
Speaker 2: for the guy, you know, taking out the bees?
Speaker 1: There?
Speaker 4: Something by sting?
Speaker 2: How about the bee?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 2: Sting? I'm going to give you a blue that one.
Speaker 2: I was going to go the bees fifty two's fifty
Speaker 2: two yeah, beg's Yeah, Todd, you got Anything's is the
Speaker 2: way to go. Thank you, Todd. Piggyback.
Speaker 11: I did it again.
Speaker 2: Yeah you did. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Imagine doing your job that you normally do in private
Speaker 4: in front of like what thirty thousand at a diamondbackscine.
Speaker 4: I don't know how many people are there, but you know,
Speaker 4: and everyone's just sitting there looking at you, staring at you,
Speaker 4: waiting for you, because everything hinges on you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: There is a football game, maybe seven or eight years ago,
Speaker 4: Big twelve title game or Big ten Title game Wisconsin.
Speaker 4: Somebody there was a rip in the turf, the field
Speaker 4: turf right at the goal line. The greenskeeper had to
Speaker 4: run out on the field and on National TV in
Speaker 4: the middle of the game. I think it was like
Speaker 4: second quarter had to patch the field together and everyone's
Speaker 4: just sitting there waiting.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's tough. The turf guy, go out there,
Speaker 2: people watching you normally you're doing that at anonymity. I
Speaker 2: got all these people. Come on, turf guy, let's go.
Speaker 3: How many beekeepers can there be in the area.
Speaker 2: I don't know. In Phoenix, I don't know is there?
Speaker 3: I mean if and if the one that they found
Speaker 3: was forty five minutes away at a t ball game.
Speaker 3: Is that something that you have regular are set hours for?
Speaker 3: Probably not be keeping.
Speaker 2: Are you dealing with bees at night? You may have
Speaker 2: to be on call. It's a serious thing. Someone's going
Speaker 2: to attack my Is that.
Speaker 3: Something you do for a living?
Speaker 4: You get a little buzz on your phone?
Speaker 2: Oh own her are by the way? We uh? Somebody
Speaker 2: unearthed some video from Billy Joel's concert last Friday night,
Speaker 2: and I of course him in third row, right in
Speaker 2: front of Billy, and they play Uptown Girl and his
Speaker 2: ex wife, Christy Brinkley, who the song is about. And
Speaker 2: you can see me on camera in my puffer coat
Speaker 2: and I'm pointing down the road because Christy Brinkley is
Speaker 2: probably I don't know, thirty feet away from me, as
Speaker 2: if people wouldn't know that she was there. But I
Speaker 2: of course in pointing like she's right uptowner.
Speaker 3: Do you think at any point he Billy Joel was
Speaker 3: like singing and he's like, hey, Dan Patrick.
Speaker 2: No, no, I don't think so. I hope not. I
Speaker 2: hope not.
Speaker 3: There's that guy who keeps pointing at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Dan Patrick, who's the guy who's drinking iced tea?
Speaker 2: It's jack and coke? He says on the keys, Da
Speaker 2: da da da da d Yeah. Mario said that some
Speaker 2: people in social media were like, how soft is Dan
Speaker 2: Patrick's drinking iced tea at Billy Joel concert? It's a
Speaker 2: double jack and coke? Do for forty three dollars?
Speaker 3: You drink whatever you want?
Speaker 2: But I thank you. See you have nothing to prove you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you got nothing to do.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: You'll bring a cup of milk here if I want?
Speaker 3: Did you guys get out of here?
Speaker 2: David in Bakersfield, Good morning, David, what's on your mind?
Speaker 14: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 14: The first time caller. I'm a DP in Baco or
Speaker 14: David Paul in Bakersfield five foot nine, one hundred and
Speaker 14: ninety five quick pickleball pound.
Speaker 2: M.
Speaker 14: Now you mentioned the the Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owen
Speaker 14: song The Streets of Bakersfield. Yeah, and my choice is
Speaker 14: the Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight and the Pips.
Speaker 2: All right. Uh, there's also we had somebody saying what's
Speaker 2: the best city or state song? Uh? Brian Baumgartner, Kevin
Speaker 2: from the office. He sent in, I think Georgia on
Speaker 2: my mind, there's also Georgia. Any other submissions there that
Speaker 2: George is Ray Charles right, Yes, Georgia. Wow.
Speaker 3: Why Georgia why? Uh?
Speaker 2: John Mayor, John Mayor, John Mayor, Yes, yes.
Speaker 6: I would say it's the best. Mcgarth Brooks had a
Speaker 6: song called Baton Rouge, which was very good.
Speaker 4: Calling Baton Rouge. Yeah, last train of Clarksville bout the Monkeys, Yes.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, it's Clarksville. A real place, Clarksville, Tennessee.
Speaker 4: I think so there's a few clarks Bill's. There's one
Speaker 4: in Mississippi as well. We're guessing don't go back to Rockville.
Speaker 2: R E. M. Yes, yes, Marv Coocomo by the Each Boy.
Speaker 3: Not a real place.
Speaker 2: Folesome Prison Blues Indiana. Yeah, yeah, that's what they were
Speaker 2: talking about. Yes, they were a Aruba Jim make.
Speaker 6: Great song.
Speaker 4: Johnny Cash has a song I've Been Everywhere. We mentioned
Speaker 4: eighty towns in the song.
Speaker 2: Now, I wonder when he was doing that, like just
Speaker 2: trying to keep the order of that, you would probably
Speaker 2: have a prompter. Now, Billy Joel had a prompter when
Speaker 2: he was singing, which people I think might be surprised
Speaker 2: that you know these artists, but if you have so
Speaker 2: many songs and you're trying to remember the words to it,
Speaker 2: But he's got a prompter right there on the floor
Speaker 2: in front of him. We didn't stop Weed did the fire?
Speaker 14: The fire? Why do you.
Speaker 2: Think you've done? You're not great? Okay?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking at Variety mag and they did a
Speaker 4: pick piece on why they use them. Sometimes in concert
Speaker 4: they play an old song that hasn't been played in
Speaker 4: forever just to mix up their set list. Also, some
Speaker 4: of the songs, the lyrics are changed, either shortened or
Speaker 4: lengthened for a concert version, which is not the recorded version.
Speaker 2: Got to you Okay, that was not scripted. The geniuses
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