Hour 2 – Justin Tucker Tries Again, Tony Petitti

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3:08Where's game day and all of the former players and celebrities? Everybody wanted to go out there and get a piece of Dion and the Colorado Buffaloes. Well, Dion doesn't have anymore kids and there's no more Heisman trophy winners. And all of a sudden, nobody's showing up there for Dion anymore. Man, that was quick. Yes, Marvin. That was a phenomenal. My goodness. I remember vividly. I always remember this just staying up until two o'clock in the morning, watching Colorado, Colorado State and my wife at the top of the stairs. Marvin, Marvin, what are you doing? Watching Colorado. She goes, you think Colorado? Your wife doesn't sound like that in my story. She sounds just like that. Yeah. Okay. Sounds like a truck driver. Yes. Yes, Dylan. Yeah, historically, if you're up at two watching a Colorado game, you're a degenerate gambler. Smoking like one. Yes, Paulie.

4:08That was a wild fall, though. I think big noon kickoff went to Colorado two weeks in a row in September. All hands on deck. Just saw where the jets are working out Justin Tucker. There was a time between 2010 and 2020 that he was first or second team all pro every single year from 2016 to 2022. He made 89% of his field goals. That's third all time, but you go back to 2024 when he started to struggle. The Ravens released him. And of course, there was more baggage to go along with that because at the time, there were allegations at Tucker and massage therapist that he apparently was nude brushing up against two therapists. And there were a few more of these massage therapists who came forward. The Ravens released him in May of 2025. NFL suspended him for the first 10 games of 2025.

5:12Saints and Colts gave him a tryout. I think that was last year or the last two years, but Tucker is one of three kickers. The jets hosted and they're going to have to make a decision here pretty soon. I would imagine. I thought cut down day was this past Sunday. I don't know how you have guys coming in to work out. Maybe because you haven't signed anybody that you can you still have 53 and maybe he can win that job and then you drop somebody from the roster. I guess I don't know. I just saw the story so don't have many details on it. But Justin Tucker, is he a Hall of Famer? Just football wise. Hall of Famer. You're not supposed to include or factor in at least what the voters tell me of what happens to you off the field. Yes, Todd. I think he is without having the numbers in front of me.

6:13When I hear that name again, we do that a lot like does that name resonate or make you think, yes, Hall of Famer, what is your initial reaction? And I think yes, Paul, he may be the best kicker of all time. He was a weapon for that team. He wasn't just a kicker. And I think he would cruise into the Hall of Fame just as is. I think he's going to get the you're going to wait a year to because of the off field. But you're not supposed to. Supposed to. And then the room is a bunch of a bunch of older guys. Stad of the day brought to you by Penini America, the official trading cards of the program. Labor Day weekend, you got baseball on Sunday, NBC and peacock. You got Braves Phillies, twins, white socks, then on Monday, Cardinals, Giants, Labor Day weekend, NBC and peacock, which is where you'll find this program peacock and NBC sports. Now we'll recap our poll question for the first hour and we'll have a new one for the second hour of the program. He's probably a Hall of Famer. And I don't know, like kickers are now viewed as weapons.

7:16That was like, you know, Brandon Aubrey is a weapon. You get, you know, somewhere between 55 and 60 yards, I wouldn't even think twice. Be like, come on in, go, go give me three points here. And I think we've looked at, they were kind of a necessary evil. We looked at kickers and we're like, oh, God, it's still amazing that Mark Mosley, a kicker for Washington Redskins was the MVP. Now it was a strike season, but still that offense was going to score. It didn't matter who was kicking. How does a kicker win the MVP? It'll never happen again. Can't imagine that unless somebody wins three or four games at the horn and kicks a 73 yard field goal with one of them that maybe you would get MVP consideration, maybe, but kickers are a weapon. Certainly now because they've made it look easy, but nobody, I mean, you're trying to replicate

8:20the winnitary what he did. I never knew how many field goals he made. I don't even know what his longest field goal was. I just know super balls on the line, a chance to go to the Super Bowl. Venetary made those field goals and then went from there to the Colts. I had no problem with that. Morton Anderson, John Stenner-Rude. I mean, there were so many kickers that I remember growing up, but I didn't view them like Ray Guy as a punter. I thought that guys could probably play a couple of positions and he was a great punter, but punters are weapons too. Does that, that feels like something that Rich Eisen would wear. I'd think, he'd have a t-shirt. I think he had punters or people too. Yes. So I'm saying punters are weapons too. Yes, Todd. There used to be a kids show called Wonderama with Bob McAllister than you guys remember that and the kids are people too, it was the big song from that.

9:22I know it's a dated reference of like the 70s, but that was kind of a big deal back in the day. Thank you, Todd. Alrighty, your phone calls always welcome. How about the poll question or questions from Hour 1, Dylan? How will we remember Kauai Leonard, Dan? Load management, Clippers, debacle, two-time finals MVP or other, just for, you know, a control variable. 53% say load management. Yeah. Kind of the face of load management. Yeah. All right. For this hour, well, we can ask the question is Justin Tucker, a Hall of Famer. I mean, he was, he was making like $6 million a year, which in kicker money is insane, but it felt worth every single penny for a long time. Um, I mean, your first or second team all pro for what's seven years? Yeah. But it's hard not to factor in what got him released from the Ravens. I don't know.

10:23No, they don't make him wait. Yeah, yeah, yeah, pulling a couple of years ago, I just looked this up. 2024, we did a poll question when Derek Henry, the running back, joined the Ravens, who's more important to the Ravens this upcoming season? Derek Henry or Justin Tucker and it was 5050. And Derek Henry, by the way, ran for 1,900 yards out here. Just a caveat. But games come down to field goals. Like, the number of games that are six points or less, and it feels like you need two first downs after the kickoff to be in field goal range. I mean, Brandon Aubrey is awesome. How many years do you have to have sustainable greatness? And what is considered sustainable greatness for a place kicker? Like, if you make 90, 2% of your field goals, 90% of your field goals, you make all your

11:27extra points. Yes, Mark. Hey, you also have to do something big in the postseason or the Super Bowl, almost like a, oh my goodness, Devon Hester. Yeah. If you're a special teams guy, you got to do something big that people remember in the postseason. Yeah, Paul. Brandon Aubrey, he joined the Cowboys. He was 28 years old, but he's three time all pro in his first three years. He's well on his way to one of those careers. Yeah, I need to have a long way. Seven more years. Yeah. Seven more years. Vanity Fair magazine. They still have a few of those. He's been a Christian excerpt in a new book about Lane Kiffin. And the excerpt covered his time as Alabama's offensive coordinator in which the then head coach Nick Saban told the staff members regarding Lane Kiffin, quote, keep him away from the sorority girls, unquote, make sure they've graduated college or are working a job.

12:30An associate of Kiffin also said a local bar owner called him and said, quote, your boy lanes backed in here asking where the hotties are. I don't know what else is in the book. I don't know if Kiffin was asked about this. I'm sure somebody's going to bring it up to him. I don't know if he talks to the media today or does he talk to the media every day? This is not a surprise to people in Alabama at the university. This is not a surprise. Just let you know. Now, what else happened after that? I'm not sure. But this is not a surprise. It happens at the elephant club. Yeah. Where are all the hotties? Who says that? Yes, Paul? It was Hottie Tottie. It was one of his old myths to people are confusing the two.

13:33There might have been a misunderstanding there. Where are all the hotties? Coach, I know you're prepared for Clemson, but are you curious where the hotties are here in Baton Rouge? Thoughts on the hotties, coach. Yes. Could you compare the hotties at LSU to Alabama, please? Coach, I'll hang up and listen. Oh, boy. Hotties are hilarious. Now if I'm a sorority, I get t-shirts that say hotties in your colors. Your sorority colors you just have hotties on there. Lanes hotties? Well, I don't know if I do that. I don't know if I do that. Okay. Do we have a poll question for average? Who has a better hottie? That would be a tough question. Oh, hotties of the SEC. Yes. I'm going to go Ole Miss. I might go Ole Miss to start.

14:33It might be a draw. Florida. Yeah. You know what? They're all, they're just beautiful people in the SEC. We're in either the hour. My daughter-in-law, sorority, I guess, hottie at Alabama. I'm going to have to ask her about this. She wasn't there when Lane was there. I don't think. But I have to ask her about Lane's hotties. How about them Clippers? Yeah. How about that? Pablo Torrey will join his next hour. He's the one who had all the stories, all the information, all the drama, and it finally came to a head. The NBA dropped a hammer on the Clippers. We'll have more on that. Quiet Leonard. That's not a bad trade-off. You know, you've got to pay 700 grand for probably $50 million beside deals. He's not worried about his legacy. He couldn't care less. That kind of money? You can say whatever you want. Yes, Dylan. Yeah, I actually crunched the numbers on both of those fines, just, you know, me being

15:35a mathematician. So quiet on the court has made about $375 million in his career. And then I added on the alleged $28 million for mass operation. So I got $5700K, that is .16 of a percent of that learnings. And then Balmer was worth about $152.7 billion per Forbes. Got to find 30 million. That is .019 of a percent. And we invited everybody just so you know, we invited the commissioner. We invited Steve Balmer. Quiet. You know Todd, Todd will invite anybody, everybody. And we didn't hear back from anybody. Not surprised. No way. Now go figure. Did we invite Lane Kiffin just to talk about Hotties? We have not just yet. That's strongly considered. No football hall of fame, basic eligibility requirements. There is no statistical minimum like the certain number of probals or yards. You must be out for at least five seasons, at least five years of service.

16:37After that, the big question was he one of the greatest players in the history of professional football. Let's see. They say they don't have a formula. There's nothing in here about off the field. At least I don't see that with hall of fame eligibility. To be fair, this is from chat GPT, which I know we rely on for a lot of our information. I have sent a note to the NFL as well in case anything's more updated on specific behavior that would keep someone from being eligible or to be voted on as a hall of fame. Okay. All right. Oh, I see this NBC peacock bus outside the big 10 headquarters. That's gorgeous. Look at got all the school logos there. And Todd just sent those to me. They got the big 10 bus, the peacock NBC bus right out front there. We'll talk to the commissioner and the big 10. You'll join us coming up. We'll get to more phone calls here as well. Hour two of the program. We'll take break. We're back after this Dan Patrick show.

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23:47year, that's an interesting question. I mean, on the field, it couldn't have been any better winning the football championship and both basketball and total of 13 national championships across everything we play. I think it was probably the most successful year in the history of the big 10 on the field. I think for our student athletes, it was nothing better. Obviously, college athletics deals with all kinds of challenges every day around legal cases and there seems to be a new idea, new challenge coming every time you come to the office. That part has been difficult. I would say the main thing is we're really fortunate in terms of attendance and viewership. Those things are still remarkably good for us and so that's the core of what we do. So thank God that's still going as good as you could possibly hope. Why do you feel so strongly about the rostered NFL players not being able to return to college football? There's a bunch of reasons. I think look, this is supposed to be. The system was always about you come, you play your time here and then you kind of give

24:48a way to the next group coming up. I think people sort of forget that when kids come back, there are kids that have been practicing since the spring. They're trying to win jobs, trying to be starters, trying to be the first backup and then that goes on all summer and they're working really hard. I think no, we sort of forget about that piece of this and we talk about kids coming back. So the system is built on that kind of movement. It was meant to be a place where you have your time, you compete. If you can go on and play professionally in any of the sports, we play that's great. That's part of the journey. You're going to do other amazing things in your life with all the benefits you've had of being in the Big Ten. So I think that's the core of what this is supposed to be. I think we shouldn't be disrupting that. But Tony, I've been saying for a while now a couple of years that you have professional players playing in Europe, basketball, and then able to come to the United States. Why do we allow professionals in basketball to be able to come and take roster spots in the United States? I mean, you're raising a really good question about what happens pre-enrollment, right? Football is unique. It doesn't have that pre-enrollment problem, Dan, right? You're not coming out of high school playing professional football.

25:50So there's no pre-enrollment issue. But in college basketball, there is. And I think you get a lot of coaches who agree 100% with what you're talking about. I think we have to get into a sense of we've been in this kind of waiver environment where some kids get to have that exception based on what you actually did when you're in Europe. And as you know, like not every kid is exactly the same when they play over there. And then when they come here. So I think with your point, it's something that's just an absolute necessity. We just have to get clarity. We have to get into having rules and not having exceptions and waivers that make it really hard because then kids are going to think, well, I look like that student athlete who got that. Why is that? Why don't I get the same waiver this kid got? And that's when you end up in court every other day. So I totally agree with you. We've got to have more bright lines, you know, more simple rules and make a decision about, you know, what we want post enrollment and what we are willing to allow pre-enrollment and be consistent. Why can't we have a commissioner for college? Let's say college football, a commissioner for college basketball. I mean, look, it's, there's been a lot of talk about that. And I think when you see some of the things about that happen, and look, the tradition

26:51has always been this way. The conference system is the way this has been built. You know, as you know, you know, for many years, the NCAA really controlled the way football was operated in this country back into the 80s. And then it became a conference system, you know, in the 90s. And that's what's really survived. And over the last 30 years when I was at ABC Sports, you know, we sort of went from having like the CFA College Football Association, that broker part, and that gave way, gave rise to this whole structure of, you know, conference media deals. So, look, I think the CFP is a good place for us to start to do more of what you're suggesting, which is to come together and use the structure of the college football playoff to come together and use that to make rules. How we manage the game, competition committees, at least start with empowering that organization because all of the, you know, we all compete for the championship in that organization. To use that to do more, I think it would be a great start. I think it's the big 10 commissioner, Tony Petiti. How is big 10 football different from SEC football? You know, I think our, I don't really usually try to compare what we're doing, big 10 SEC. I think what we've got is great programs.

27:52We have really good coaching across everything. We're attracting great student athletes to play. I'm really excited about, you know, the returning quarterback play we have this year, I think 10 of our 18 are returning to starting quarterback this season. So we have great depth. I think the way I look at it is that we're blessed to have this rivalry. I think anything you want in sports is you want competition. You want your fans to deeply care about something. So not only do we have rivalries inside the league, but this is sort of competition with the SEC. I think it's a great thing for college football. It's in all the other sports we play. So we kind of lean into that. But at the same time, like every season's different, every week tends to be a little bit different. I would just say we have great depth and strength. You know, we've been super successful the last three years. We know that we've played in 14 of the 22 CFP games the last two seasons. The 2014 playoff feels like the SEC might be warming to this. You would know better than me. I'm only gone by a source saying that, you know, the SEC is, you got to convince them. So what role can you play in convincing Greg Sanky and the SEC to warm up to 24 teams?

28:59Yeah. We work together on this, you know, not on every day basis, but very frequently about the future of the playoff and what the formats should be. The way it's structured is the two leagues have control of any of the changes to the formats. We've got to come together. I think there's been an evolution across these ideas. I think there's a lot more momentum for 24. It's definitely, there's definitely, you know, people warming up. I think a lot of coaches and ADs across all conferences really support the idea of 24. I think look, we got more than 100 teams playing trying to compete. It's not a high percentage. You know, I typically go to practices in camps in the summer. I'll go see five or six schools every summer. And you know, you want all those teams to be playing for something meaningful. Once you want to a 12 team playoff, you basically said this is it, right? This is where you need to be successful. And we just got to increase the opportunities for student athletes, for our programs and the other piece of it at the investments that are being made, you know, that justifies having more access. Access is really key. I think, I don't think Greg disputes any of that. I think his league feels the same way. He's got to work through the details of how he actually would do it.

30:01But I feel good about the evolution over the last six months about how people are sort of directly realizing the benefits. I actually think it would drastically change regular season schedule. How close do you think we're to a model like the Premier League, or maybe the NFL where, you know, you have divisions, conferences, the same thing. And maybe you've got 35, 40 teams, maybe less than that. How far off is that model in your, your opinion? I mean, we don't talk about that. We're happy with the 18 members that we have. We feel the structure that we have to compete and schedule works well. I think what we're focused on is I think there's a lot on the table that we can still do inside college football. I think in the big 10, we can really improve our schedule. I think fans want us to, we can play more of these games. I think we've got to solve the postseason access issue. Once we do that, you know, we can sort of solve the other issue, which is to have more, you know, impactful matchups in the beginning of the season. I think everybody's pointed to that. There's a lot being written about, you know, this year and what's scheduled next year. We can make that better.

31:02It's right in front of us. And we don't need to change our structure to do that. We just got to, we got to solve the access to the postseason. The coach is comfortable that an early season loss isn't going to wreck your season. I love the rival over you though with the SCC. I like when you jab, you know, a little bit, and Greg Sankie's got a sense of humor. But you have a sense of humor if he's jabbing you back if the SCC wins the national title. Yeah, I mean, look, that's that's part of it. We have some fun, you know, our social media teams like the Lane Into it and fix some fights and have our fans pick up on it. There's lots of memes that get sent to me every day. I'm sure he gets them as well. Like, that's the beauty of it. You couldn't write a better storyline. If you're trying to script this, you would want this, right? You'd want this rivalry between the leagues about who's better and when and, you know, who's deeper and who's better at the top. Like, yeah, go ahead and go have a battle. Let's go play on the field. And I think that's why we should play more in the regular season. Like, if we did that, it would just inspire more of it. It's just, like I said, it's an easy thing to accomplish. We know it works. We, you know, we look, Texas and Ohio State in just a couple of weeks. Like, we know the impact that game's going to have.

32:03We saw it last year. You know, that'll just be a, you know, a great event for college. But we just need to do more of that. You know, you got to go home and go on a Michigan. So there's some, there's some opportunities there. And we know when we play those games, we get tremendous audiences, lots of buzz. And it makes the whole game in the sport better. Could you do a week where it's the SEC Big 10, like we have in basketball? I know there's more games, but could you do that based off last year's record or, you know, this team is going to play this team and, you know, all the way down to, you know, I don't want Rutgers, you know, playing LSU. I want somebody who maybe is kind of commensurate to their talent level. But can we do that for a week? Yeah, you're raising a really interesting scheduling thing. Not only for the way you schedule, like non-conference, grassy schedule, the NFL does a really good job. The reason why, you know, you saw the Brady Patriots and the Manning Coles play so often is because they were playing because of where they finished in their division standings. Right. And there's something to learn from that. You know, I think it would take time to get there. But you could do what you're talking about is exactly the conversations we have here.

33:05We model all those things out. We have to have, you know, we have to come together to do that. But I think all of those things are in play. Like you don't necessarily have to schedule home and home. So like you can say, one year you're playing in this SEC team, and the next year, you're on the road, but you're going someplace different. Those are all great ideas that I think fans will lead into. You know, and there's also something like we have some really historic stadiums in both of our conferences, especially on the Big 10. And having fans have an opportunity to travel and see those, you know, see those stadiums go play at some of these places would be great. I think they, I think it would inspire a lot of road trips in both directions. No matter how many teams, if you add new schools to the Big 10, it's always going to be the Big 10. We're not going to actually have the exact number. That'll never happen. Not the Big 18. I don't think so. I think everybody sort of likes the Big 10. And we've got a logo that sort of, you know, allows us to sort of not like highlight the one likes right behind my head here. The B1G. I give Jim Delaney credit for that. Thanks for joining us, Tony. Have fun this year. This season. Thanks so much, Dan. That's Tony Petiti, Big 10 commissioner.

34:05Yet it is weird to explain. There's certain things that if you're, your wife asked you or your daughter asked you, your son, you know, when you go, how many teams are in the Big 10? And you go, I don't know, 18. Why is it called the Big 10? I don't know. I remember the pack eight. And then they were the pack 10 and then the pack 12. And so it's like, Hey, we got a great logo here. Okay. But you're the big 18. Yes, Tony. The pack 12 has eight football teams. And somehow Pacific Texas state is in the pack 12, which I don't think is near the Pacific. Check it. Well, I remember the nationally blessed, the braves and the reds were the nationally blessed with the Dodgers. Go figure that one out when I was growing up. Yes, Mark. I mean, to this day, the Dallas Cobb was an NFC each. It's awesome. It makes perfect sense. Yeah. Okay. Speaking of making perfect sense, the gambling podcast,

35:09Bada Bullton, Patrick, dot com, Shane Irving, Dylan, of course, Big day, we taped a new episode for this week. And he hears just a portion of Shane Irving being asked by Dylan, a question about his daughter is in sixth grade and he thought all sixth graders, they have their own bus. He didn't realize junior high bus at six, seven and eight. And then it got into Shay in kindergarten. Hey, what do you think, grade 12? 14. Maybe you were. I was 12. No, no, no, she's 11. She's in sixth grade. Was she held back? No. I was 14. That's normal. That's normal. 11 and sixth grade. Yeah, that's normal. I'm sitting right here. If you're in eighth grade, you're typically between 13 and 14. Yeah, thank you. I was 14 in eighth grade. They didn't help me back. They held me back in kindergarten. Yes. I got to kindergarten twice. Well, I was, I couldn't hold the pencil. Wait, here, what about, can you do it now?

36:12I can do it now. I can do it now. What did it look like back then? We're like, oh, yeah, no, but I can hold it now. Like, I get this mouth. Okay, but how often are you using your pencil or pen? I guess enough to hold you back. They probably saw it once. Why didn't they give you crayons? What? I think because you got a whole. He ate them all. They were edible crayons. That was the paint. Those are lead paint. Yeah, that's a damn Patrick takes a gamble. Shane Irving getting held back in kindergarten because he couldn't hold a pencil. I think there's more to that story. Maybe get the IT on that. Yeah, run it. But we did find out though, Shane Irving went from bipolar to bipolar one and they changed his meds. And there were a lot of people who thought that maybe Shane was on something else when he was doing the latest episode. Yes, Dylan. It is funny just to imagine. Shane lives in a small town. There's a different school bus for each grade.

37:13There would be school buses everywhere. Like you can be able to drive anywhere. He lives in a nice area. But I said, no, you have a bus for junior high because I thought they'd have one for six graders. No. And then seventh graders and eighth graders. Yeah, freshmen get their own bus. Sophomores get their own bus. Yeah. So that's the gambling podcast available. Damn Patrick dot com Zach and Knoxville. Good morning. Zach, what do you have for me today? 80 p. Thanks for taking my call. Someone questioned Ryan Leath yesterday. I thought he looked great and sounded great. Other than saying that there are 30 teams that can win the national championship and that Jay Jay McCarthy was a really not playing that bad. That made me question whether he's off the wagon. But I wanted to ask you, do you think nice.

38:14I do think Zach, you ever think? Yes. I thank you, Zach. Yes, Paul. Just to be fair to Jay Jay McCarthy. And I know it's stats don't tell the whole story. His first 10 games are almost equal stat wise to Josh Allen's first 10 games. 11 touchdowns, 12 picks. 57% passer. Josh Allen in the next two years became galactic, but we never saw it with JJ. Yeah. And you saw glimpses. But you know, when when he was Josh Allen's at Wyoming, he was a Superman. You, you got to see him try to do everything. Now the competition was nowhere near what Michigan faced, but JJ was never featured that way at Michigan. I at least understood Josh Allen's athleticism. Like I understood the it factor that he possessed. But I was critical of him his first year. I didn't think he knew how to play the position. And he would probably agree to that. Now he's morphed into the best quarterback in the NFL. But JJ McCarthy will get a chance.

39:16This is the spin cycle. Two years, uh, kick to the curb, find another team. Maybe you find another team after that. Maybe you get a chance when you're 26 years of age. Uh, let's see. Brian in New Jersey. Hi, Brian. What do you have for me? Oh, I already missed a Patrick. Good. Um, just wanted to, uh, thank you. Brian Leif, um, the community, whatever. Just for bringing levity and, uh, bringing some insight and sharing a perspective on mental health. I know I have experienced it. Um, and, uh, it's just great to hear people in high standing and high regard such as yourselves, the deal with it every day. And it's a daily struggle. And, um, it's something that, uh, we should really recognize and you have. And just thank you and thank Mr. Leif for that. Thank you, Brian. Um, it took a while before I wanted to share.

40:17And, you know, when you reveal yourself, you know, sometimes, you know, you're like, uh, how far do I go with this? What do I want to share? How much do I want to share? And, and I always go back to my wife because she's always the smartest person in the room and she'll give me clarity and she'll say, it might be uncomfortable for you, but you're helping other people. If you have a chance to help people, why wouldn't you do that? I said, I know, but I feel like I'm exposing myself and she said, you're okay. Your ego's okay. You're fine. Share with people and maybe one person, even if it's one person, maybe you help change their life or give them hope or maybe they understand they're not alone. And I think that resonated with me. And that's, you know, I've been accused of oversharing. It's okay. And so I'm fine with if that's the criticism you're oversharing, then guilty is charged.

41:18But I have three hours. We talk about a lot of different things. I mean, I can break down the Seattle Seahawks secondary. It's just maybe another day. But if we can say something, you know, when people were critical and saying, yeah, I'd enough with the wedding. Okay. If you don't want to listen, you don't have to listen. But this is who I am. And this is what I'm sharing. And the number of people, men who will go through this moment or maybe they already have like the goal is to connect every single day somewhere, somehow through someone or something, a topic, a person, an interview. That's the goal every day. And if I can connect with you on taking your daughter to school and saying goodbye, Paulie's going to have that coming up. Todd went through that. I went through that three times with daughters. Or maybe you're given a speech at their wedding.

42:20And I got to do it two more times. And you know what? If they're getting married before I leave, I'll be talking about it on the show. But we all talk about it. And you get to listen and you can comment. You can call in. That's the fun part of this, the reciprocation. You let me into your car, your home, your life. It's personal. And that's how I view it. Every single day, how do you connect with people? That's what this is all about. Well, take a break. Phone calls coming up. We'll dive into the Clipper situation. Pablo Tore, he gets to take a victory lap. Mr. Pulitzer prize winner. He doesn't have to give it back now, apparently. So he'll join his top of the hour back after this. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio.com. And within the IHARDS Radio app search FSR to listen live.

43:23That call was really pivotal for me. Hey, it's Emily Tish Sussman. And this season on She Pivots, the podcast where women share bold career moves and personal turning points that changed everything. I sit down with culture shifting women who share their pivots like Para Olympian, Ali Truett. I was like, I'm on out from a shark attack. There's no way in 11 months I'm making the verilandics. Advocate Elizabeth Smart. I still feel that drive that I can still make a difference. So I'm going to keep going celebrity chef Carla Hall was that scary to walk away from such a stable career after just two years? No, I was more afraid of being unhappy than I was broke and in a dead and job that I didn't enjoy and feminist legend, Gloria Steinem. All of us were trying to express women's real lives. We need a meeting place of our own. And if I can contribute to that, I'd like to maintain that and leave this house for that purpose. Listen to She Pivots on the I Heart Radio app Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

44:23College football will hijack your weekend, ruin your sleep and break your heart. And that's why we make the Sullivan verbal college football show. I'm Ty Hildenbrand. He's Dan Rubenstein. How's it going? Every week we preview the games that matter, sort through the biggest storylines and tell you what to watch before kickoff. There's a lot to keep track of. Who's for real? Which upset is hiding in plain sight? And which storyline is about to take over your group chat? And when the games are over, join us in the aftermath too. We're going to react to what happened, talk about the biggest results. Of course, we'll cover the playoff picture. And all the little details you might have missed while flipping between like 12 games at once. Whether you know every coach and coordinator or just want to understand why everybody is yelling, we're here to help make sense of the madness. Listen to the Solid Verbal College football show on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

45:23You know the feeling. You make a pick in your fantasy draft in the entire room, groans because they wanted that player. Or you grab a small school rookie off waivers and you start in right before he goes off in prime time. There's no better feeling than crushing your fantasy football league. I'm JJ Zacharyson, host of the Late Round Fantasy Football Podcast. Before your draft, our players to target and players to avoid episodes tell you exactly who to circle and who to cross off. We've got data-driven analysis, historical trends, and the strategies that separate winners from the rest. And your dominance doesn't stop with the draft. All season long, we have our 15 transactions, 10 trends, sleepers, and the mail back. Data-driven, quick hitting episodes to help bring home that league trophy. Listen to the Late Round Fantasy Football Podcast on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there everybody, Amy Robock and TJ Holmes here from the Amy and TJ podcast with mid-term

46:23elections just around the corner. We're breaking down the biggest political stories leading up to November. And some of those big political stories aren't just what's happening on Capitol Hill. Yes, we just saw Lindsey Graham, the death of a long time senator. Also, we've got a couple of missing members of Congress. Also, we got a lot of members of Congress behaving badly. We got accusations, allegations flying all day long on Capitol Hill. It's just like a reality show. We're going to cover everything you need to know during this heated political season. And it starts with our morning run. Yes, go for a run with us. Maybe you can take us along when you're on your actual run outside. Or if you don't feel like going out still, you get what we're saying. It's our morning run. It's our daily news rundown of the top stories that'll get you going before you even finish that first cup of coffee. Listen to Amy and TJ on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. I'm Jake Brennan and on my podcast Hollywoodland, I revisit some of the biggest stories from

47:25Hollywood history separating the myths people want to believe from the reality underneath them. Like how the story of Marilyn Monroe isn't just the story of a Hollywood icon. Marilyn Monroe has become so iconic that her death can only be explained through conspiracy theories. And for some fans who can't let go, these stories have metastasized from conjecture to accept it. So on August 4th 1962, Marilyn Monroe died. Then the rumors started and she died again. And now we're going to set the record straight and learn about the way Marilyn Monroe actually died. The third way. Learn more about what happens when fame, media obsession and conspiracy collide. Listen to Hollywoodland on the iHeart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Update the poll results there, Dylan. It would be an honor, Dan. It's just in Tucker Hall of Famer.

48:2757% say, yeah, it is. Okay. He is getting a trial with the jets. That's why we brought it up. The by-law stipulate that Hall of Fame selectors are to consider only on the field performance. It's been argued that the locker room is an extension of on the field as it can affect the individuals or the team's performance, but at present there is no, quote, morality clause in the Hall's by-laws for off-the-field matters, positive or negative. Being a boy scout does not improve a candidate's resume anymore than being a problem child hurts it. So thank you to the Hall of Fame for giving me that information. Let's see, Lucas in Texas. Hi, Luke, what's on your mind? Hey, Dan. Good morning. Good morning. Two quick things for you, and let me, please, let me give you the second one. But first,

49:28I want to talk about the Clippers punishment coming down from the NBA yesterday. I think that so many fans resonate with this because I don't want to get too meta on society and politics and whatnot, but it feels like people worth a lot of money get a whole lot more leeway than everyone else, and it feels like for the first time in a long time someone who's worth a ton of money was hit in a way that actually impacted them, and it wasn't monetarily. It was fame and influence. You guys have done a great job talking about how sports owners are really trying to buy fame, and he was kind of put into that time out really for about a year. So that was, it really felt like an actual bit of meaningful accountability. And with your permission, Dan, I would actually like to apply for a change of name or a change of moniker request. Last year or last semester, I got accepted into a new university. I'm going to be moving with my family next Monday over to St. Andrews Scotland to get my PhD. So I'd like to be now formally known as Lucas in Scotland with your

50:32permission. Absolutely, Luke. Good luck. All right. That's a great university. Wow. Friend of mine, daughter went there, did come back with an accent though, which was kind of cool, but yeah, St. Andrews, that town is awesome. It's great. College town. Great. Good luck with that, Luke. Tripp and Vegas. Hi, Tripp. What are you on for me today? Hey, good morning, David. I was good to speak with you all. Two things. I got a preview because I got more of it in my slides for tomorrow. So that's Friday. But today, I got to play on words for Fritz. You can see appreciates this. Now that he has had stitches, will he learn to actually put us in stitches? Okay. The question make people laugh. Yeah, it's difficult. David in Phoenix. Hi, David. Hi, Dan. I enjoyed the Coach Tomlin interview and it seems like he is very happy. And it reminded me of Coach Power. It seems extremely happy except when you

51:36kicked your moth, everyone's wild. He think it's me weight of a fan base off of him, the daily grind, and the love of these coaches. Oh, yeah. I mean, he's been doing this for over 30 years. And these guys don't realize how much pressure they carry. He can actually hit the snooze button. I mean, how about that? He said home for dinner? Crazy. He can go on a vacation if he wants to. Yes, Mark. Yeah, during the interview when Coach Tomlin was saying, I'm trying to get myself in better shape because the hours, it probably just eating whatever at all times of night, it's probably really unhealthy. Yes, Dylan. Yeah, he seemed like he snapped out of a football coma. He was smiling and giggling the entire time. I was like, who is this Mike Tomlin? But he seems, I mean, that's exactly how I'd be. I'm like, I don't have to do anything all summer and I get to just hang out. Yeah, Paul. Also, he could talk to

52:39you without coach speak, without worrying about repercussions about saying one thing wrong about some linebacker. Yeah, because when I talked about Rothless Burger, power can tell me stories about Ben and have fun. Mike is not even a year removed here. And even the question about if Aaron Rodgers would have come back, if Mike was coming back or if Mike, who's the coach? Dorothy. McCarthy. Mike McCarthy wasn't coming in. He answered it, entertained it. If that was a press conference, who knows what I would have gotten? Yes, Mark. Yeah, just his tone was more jovial. Yeah. Well, it's a breath of fresh air. And I would see that with coaches who came into ESPN. If they took a year off, had a gap year, just the sense of relief. Pablo Torrey coming up in 10 minutes from now, Dylan will be in the confessional.

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54:44On August 4th, 1962, Marilyn Monroe died. Then the rumors started, and she died again. And now, we're going to set the record straight and learn about the way Marilyn Monroe actually died the third way. I'm Jake Brennan, and on my podcast Hollywood land, I revisit some of the biggest stories from Hollywood history, separating the myths people want to believe from the reality underneath them. Hollywood land is part of the exactly right network. Listen to new episodes every Monday on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On Big Lives, we take a single cultural icon. People like Jane Fonda, George Michael, Little Richard. And we pull apart the story behind the image, discovering forgotten interviews that change exactly how we see these giants of our culture. We're here for the messy, the brilliant, the human version of our heroes. I'm Emmanuel Jochi. I'm Kai Wright. And this is Big Lives. Listen to Big Lives on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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