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2:10The entire draft room groans because you just took the guy they wanted. There's no better feeling than crushing your fantasy football league. I'm JJ Zacharyson, host of the award-winning Late Round Podcast. Before your draft, our players to target and players to avoid episodes tell you exactly who to circle and who to cross off. Listen to the Late Round Fantasy football podcast on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You are listening to the Dan Patrick's show on Fox Sports Radio. A lot of build up to the wedding. I spent way too much time discussing it, certainly my speech. And I got through it. I did bring in my son. I brought him up. He was going to be kind of my comfort animal that if I needed help down the stretch and I did, I was starting to crumble a little bit, held on tightly. And he came in and finished the last paragraph.

3:11And I ended it with muzzle tough. And that was it. I was done sat down and I had myself a beer or two. But thank you for all the advice. I did take a beta blocker. And I think it helped. So somebody had suggested that to a beta blocker. And I think it helped me become less emotional there. But it was still there. Does everybody kept saying, you're going to take a beta blocker? You got to cry. I'm going to cry. 15 beta blockers. Not going to stop that. But I did take it. Kind of chilled me down a little bit there. We had a walk that was probably 250 yards for the wedding. So it's my wife and I. And we're side by side with my daughter. We're walking down. We're walking through this field. And you know, we're going down a hill. If we fell, we would have just kept tumbling there towards the ceremony.

4:13But we did. It was long, long walk. So I was able to cry. Stop crying. And then cry again when I got ready to go to the ceremony. I got my steps in that day. And I was tired by the time that I got up to the actual ceremony. But beautiful day. Beautiful bride. Love her husband. And by all accounts, I think we did okay. No casualties along the way. But celebrity sightings. I was confused by a couple of people for a couple of different celebrities. And I'll let you guys guess that. Yes, Todd, you had your hand up while I was giving this emotional recap of the wedding. I was just fascinated by the two and a half football fields worth of walk. That was about that. The facility. That's what they offered us. Did you ask for an extra long walk? Was there something dramatic about wanting to walk almost three football fields? That's what I was curious about. Thank you, Todd. You get sweaty and hot out there in California.

5:13Yeah, I know. I didn't ask for it, but there was a place by a tree where it was shaded. And everybody could sit there, but we had to walk down this hill. And then when we got there, and then it was a lovely ceremony. Yes, yes, Dylan. The way it was the shady tree partway through the walk like they had a halfway house. No, no, no, that's where the ceremony was. Oh, okay. Everybody was seated down by this big tree. And I kept saying to my daughter, that's a long walk. And she's walking in a wedding dress. My wife is all dressed up. And I'm going, okay, you know, who am I? I'm just here. I'm just financing this thing. Nobody factored in me. My health walking all the way down there in 85 degree heat. Yes, Paul. Is this like the PGA tour? You can't use a cart? That would be the senior tour. Yeah, the senior tour would allow me to, but they didn't allow me to use a cart. Yes, Paul.

6:13America has a lot of questions. I'm going to pull the bandaid out now. Okay. All right. The speech you said you did get emotional, but you made it through a lot of it. Would you say you got a quality start? Yes. I went five and a third. Oh, nice. I went a third. I would get the win. Yeah. And you know, everybody would come up afterwards and they say, hey, you did a great job. One person came up to me. Oh, no. Yes. Her name's Audrey. She comes up to me and she goes, speech was good. And I go, what? And I go, okay. I wasn't going to criticize her dad's speech and her wedding that I went to. So it stayed with me. I was like, damn, she gave me your speech. It was good. I go, okay. Yeah, Paul. You could only say that if you're completely making a joke, like your speeches, like if Rich Eisen, funny guy went up and said, that's funny because you guys know each other.

7:15But Audrey, even then it would bother me if Rich Eisen did that. So Audrey just gave you a C plus. Yeah. It was like, yeah, it was good. And I go, I'd rather you didn't say anything than that. Like I gave, I poured my heart out in front of people. I cried in front of people. Yes, Todd. And if you feel compelled to say something about the speech to you directly, at least you know, that's a must lie situation. This is a big day for all of you. Yes. Well, just say great speech and move on and go get your free food and drink and get out of the way. You're right. Thank you. Yes, Dylan. See, I kind of respect Audrey here because everyone is going to come up to you and just say, how amazing you did. You know, it's a wedding, et cetera. I like a little bit of, you know, come back to the earth. No, not when you're up there giving the speech. When you're the father of the bride and you're up there giving the speech, you, now look, my wife didn't say I did a great job in fairness. Yeah. I think it was when somebody said, oh, man, you did a great job and then she just acknowledged.

8:17Yeah. So it wasn't one of those, man, come here. You're incredible as a speaker because she kept saying, you've handed out the Super Bowl trophy and I said, hun, I don't know any of those people when I hand out the Super Bowl trophy. I knew everybody here. Yes. Dylan. It is funny to picture sitting there being like, I could say nothing. I feel compelled to go talk to her. I would rather you didn't say anything. Oh, yes, Todd. If you dropped the mic after your speech and told everyone, is that the greatest speech everyone on one or you would still be wrong for saying what you said? It wasn't the greatest speech. I'm glad I got through it and I pointed out a couple things. I did drop an F bomb and my wife was surprised at that. I was recapturing a moment I had with the groom when he asked for my daughter's hand in marriage and then he said, do you have any advice? I said, don't eff it up.

9:18He said, what? I said, don't eff it up. You got a lifetime guarantee with that woman. She'll be by your side the rest of your life. So I was telling a touching story and then my wife goes, yeah, I kind of surprised you use the F word. I go, hun, I'm a journalist. I had to tell the whole story as it unfolded in front of me. Yes, Todd. To her credit, you could have said, don't mess it up. Don't screw it up. You got blue and I can relate to a pound. No reason going blue. That's what you get. But I wasn't struggling with the audience there. I didn't lose the audience like you do. Yeah. But when you do drop an F bomb or the S word, people do react to that and they get a laugh out of that. Yes, Dylan. Is it sort of like how you can't tell the story of football without Eli Manning? You could not possibly tell the story without the F bomb. Good comparison. Thank you. Actually, Eli won two Super Bowls. I dropped two F bombs.

10:18So yeah, very, very similar there. Celebrity sighting. Don Cheetle. Now, not at the wedding. But at the venue, like I saw him, he was playing golf. And our buddy, Anthony Anderson, Blackish, saw him. Did you give him the courtesy invite if you want to stop by? No, the lighting was over. Oh, yeah. That was the next day when I saw him. He was up there to play golf as well. And then I was mistaken. You guys want to guess? Two different people thought that I was two different celebrities. Yes, Marvin. Steve Martin. Yes. Got that. Got that a couple of times. Yeah, that was going to be my guess. I will pivot to Jim Lampley, the broadcast. No, no, but that used to be. I'd get confused with Jim Lampley. Yes, Dylan. This might be a recent Z bias, but Don Cheetle. Wow. Yes. Yes, Todd.

11:20He passed away, like I think, over six years ago, but then anyone figured you were Fred Willard walking around. Fred Willard, no. No. This person is on Daytime TV. Daytime TV. And I had somebody come up and she hugged me. Drew Carey from Price is right. No. I don't see that. Well, that's what I got. She was like so excited. And I said, I could have had that job. I turned it down, but no, I'm not Drew Carey. Yes, Dylan. I could see like a doctor drew. That would look a little more. That seems a little more accurate to me. Okay. All right. So it's done. It's over with. I survived. I have two more daughters and I told them do not get married anytime soon. Financially, I can't do it and emotionally, I can't do it either. But all the well-wishers and all the denettes did reach out to me. And actually, you know, back room people that they reached out to make sure that I was

12:24doing okay. Everything was great. Beautiful weather. Beautiful people. So one weird moment, the DJ, he canceled the day of the reception. What? Yes, the DJ had to cancel the day of. I don't know who they got, but you know what the father-daughter dance that I made a big deal of, like, oh my God, it's going to be fly me to the moon, Frank Sinatra. Well, all of a sudden, I'm just, I'm having a drink. And I hear fly me to the moon and my daughter goes, uh, dad, we're up. And I go, there was no announcement there. And so we go up and start dancing. And I think we're halfway through the song. And I go, I got cheated with the father-daughter dance. The DJ, you know, okay, they had to get somebody that got somebody and music was questionable.

13:28Just put it that way. Yes, Paul. To be fair, the replacement DJ had no time to learn the set list and get ready. The person who bailed, that's a violation. Yeah, that one was tough because the party went to almost three in the mornings. Yeah, there was some, now my wife and I kept saying, man, Josh, my son-in-law has terrible music days. But it was the DJ who had his own set list there. Like you would hear a song and you go, oh, that's Abba with that. Okay. And then all of a sudden you'd hear something. You got to have no idea who that is. Yes, Mark. This might be a generational divide for you. Did your daughter and her new husband, did they like the set list? Did they like the music? They did not. They did not. That was the problem after the fact that they kept talking about the music and that the music wasn't what they wanted. Yes, time. Was there a vow to excuse how I'm canceling the day of? I think you're entitled to an explanation. He's got to either make up something horrible happened family-wise.

14:29That's just, you can't be doing that. Well, it was something health wise for him. That was sounded serious. So we obviously fighting with that. But they've got to still got to show up even if you're with serious- But you could have just taken my phone and done my playlist and it would have been better because you would at least go, okay, I know that song. Yes, Dylan. Did you have like a doctor's note from the DJ? They did not. I want to see a hospital report. They did not get a doctor's note. Okay. So that's it. But thank you for all the well-wishers there except for Audrey who thought my speech was good. Yes, Marvin. Did you drop a F-bomb on her? I did not because I really like her and her husband. That doesn't. No, but she was honest and then you know what? Her husband goes, hey, you know, I mean, she's honest. I go, I don't need honesty right now.

15:30Yes, Ty. Any awkward moments, someone too much to drink, someone to be escorted out a little, anyone to get a warning about their behavior? Yeah, some people in my family tree. There were some one person went sideways. Drop a guest to break. Yeah. My oldest brother went sideways. But it was, he's a great man. So I was right there with him the whole time. You know when you're drinking wine and you got it to the side, like you're holding it to the side and I kept thinking, the reason why you need to refill is you're not holding your wine glass straight up. You're pouring it in my lap. So other than that, no casualties. Everybody's good. Be sure to catch the live edition of the Dan Patrick Show. Meet days at 9 a.m. Eastern 6 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the I Heart Radio app. Hey, it's me, Rob Parker. Check out my weekly MLB podcast inside the parker for 22 minutes of Python hot baseball

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20:43I'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 I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Dolly Parton. Is there anybody who is or was more beloved when you think nobody said anything negative about Dolly Parton?

21:44And I thought she was gorgeous. 80 years of age and I just got the biggest kick out of her. I thought she was. You couldn't help but be in a good mood when you heard her song or you heard her interviewed or her acting. She was just a treasure and passing away at the age of 80. Yes, Marvin. I always thought to myself, if Dolly Parton looked like that, what did Jo-Leen look like? Well, she's talked about Jo-Leen. Didn't look that good later on, but Jo-Leen took her man, but Dolly Parton passing away at the age of 80. By the way, we found out yesterday that Marvin had a mug shot, but we can't find the mug shot conveniently, taken away in handcuffs from college at the University of Connecticut. You had a warrant out, I believe. You know showed, is that how this happened? That is correct. There was a promise to appear and I didn't hold up to that promise and the state police

22:45came and got me at the University of Connecticut. Oh my God. That must have been, now I don't know if you get any street cred when they show up at your door and they put you in handcuffs and lead you away. No street cart. I want no street cred. I wanted to go to college and be a college student and my girlfriend now wife was in the bed and she was like, oh my God, Marvin, I have to call your mom. I was like, don't call my mom. Call anybody else. Literally. Yeah. You'd rather see the police than your mom. Absolutely. Yes, Dolly. I did like when you were asking what we got arrested for and Marvin said, failure to appear, which implies that you were arrested for something else. He didn't show up for the follow-up court date. He was trying to get around it. You know, I just didn't show up for a court date. Yeah, but why were you supposed to go for the court date to begin with? So charged. Uh, Paulie is here and of course the backroom guys. It's a pizza Wednesday. We have pepperoni pizza, buffalo chicken pizza and we have Todd's famous classic.

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24:49Glacial pace or glacial? I think. Checking. All right. Who's the smartest guy in this room? No. No. The limit does not exist. Well, Todd had the best grade point average. Which doesn't mean a whole lot. I just memorized that very well. I know. I used to think, God, you graduated second in a class of 600. You've got to be really smart. I memorized pages of notes and spit back the answers of a long essays. I learned that it was quantity, not quality in school, which is should be the other way around. Yes, Paul. According to us. GS.gov. It's glacial pace. Okay. So it's on a glacial pace. It's a glacial pace. Close. All right. Thank you. Yes, Marvin. I think Bill is the smartest person outside of the big German in the building. Oh. Oh. At least I think he does incredibly stupid things, but his actual IQ, I think is off the charts. Okay. How about SAT scores, anybody? I took the ACT and it didn't go well.

25:53Dylan, SAT scores. I did pretty good. I think I got like a 2000. I mean, I definitely, my grades weren't getting me into college, so the SAT actually helped me. So 2000 out of 2400? Yeah. Okay. Marvin. 1140. Out of 16,000. 1600. Todd. I got 1120. I took it again. I got a 1050. Part of two parts to it is like 1130 and it's 800, 800 for reading and math. I guess you could get it. Yeah. They had writing. When I took it, writing was the third section, which I think they've actually gotten rid of again. I think it's back to 1600. Yeah. Paul. I only took the ACT and I got a 26, which that's good. It was actually, I got red flagged. Because I was a 2.0 student and I actually, it's a true story. Overachieved. I overachieved. I did not cheat on the ACT and I had to like explain myself. I said, I don't try during school. I actually did okay on the test. I think at first time I took the ACT, I got a 14 to which my parents said that's impossible.

26:59They said, take it again. I think I got a 16. So this is kind of like the Wonderlick test scores when they come out and you go, you've got like a 9. And then I had to take it again just so I could go to college and I think I got an 18. And then my dad said, how about you don't sleep? Maybe you stay out all night. Maybe and I got an 18. I go, I can get into college, dad. I'm proud of you son. Yes. Yes, Dylan. Well, I'm going to take a wild guess for the entire room that the math section of both tests is what killed everyone because that's what brought me down. I would say by my score, everything brought me down. It's a whole package. No, it was and I was all of my friends were really smart, like really smart, B plus A minus. And then I was just kind of there, you know, kind of drafting off their fumes and I just man, it's biggest regret of my life that I didn't.

28:00Unlike the Shawn Watts and I do have regrets and one regret is I just didn't care about school and looking back. And then whenever my kids say whenever I would criticize their grades, they go, well, you didn't have good grades. And I said, yeah, but look where I am now. Shut up. Yeah, Paul. But you got a 14 in the ECT. Pete Rose was 14 with the reds. There's something cool about that. Yeah. Okay. No moreology. Yes. Yes. I'm interested in, let's see, we would have had a good number for me. Swordsky. I don't know. Hank Aaron had a 44 more number 44. Hey, yes, Marvin. Quick question for Paulie. Was your mother upset about your high ACT score because you just were so lackluster as a regular student? She gave up. She gave up at some point during high school. I just kept the C plus average and didn't get in trouble. And that was enough for her. I would always hear it. Why don't you just apply yourself, Danny?

29:01If I had a dollar, I would have been rich. Every time my mom said, why don't you just apply yourself, Danny? I said, I don't know, Mom. Can I go up and shoot hoops? Okay. Yes, Marvin. My mom said something similar. Marvin, I'm on you because they'd be different if you were stupid. The teachers tell me you're bright and I don't believe him. Prove me wrong. Yes, Todd. I love that Paulie. He's told the story a number of times, but it's worth repeating that he knew a young age that he was all about sports. He wanted to do something in the sports business and he was not afraid to be looking at his sports illustrated magazines. You know, hiding it, I guess, in the back while he's got the textbook around it. And I just, he always loved that story. No, thank you, Todd. Well, all righty. Uh, Paul question for the first hour. Todd's telling stories about me. Can't you just pull Paul to the side and say all that we're talking about school and everything. I just think that's great. I'm picturing Paulie in the back looking at his sports illustrious. All right, Dylan, what's Paul question for the first hour? Do you consider the start of college football season to be tomorrow or Saturday?

30:04It begins tomorrow. Don't disrespect the FCS or Saturday. There's no other answer here. This is from Todd clearly. Um, you know, I don't like week zero. I just, I don't like Coke zero either. Week zero. I just don't think it's fair. Is it a week? Are they playing football? Don't call it week zero. Uh, so you want to have it Thursday? Sure. I have no problem starting it on Thursday. Yes, yes, Paulie. You could both not like week zero, August college football and watch every game simultaneously. Yes. Yeah. Which is what we do. Yeah, Dylan. Is this a more philosophical question about is zero a number or not? Is it that? That now back to who's the smartest in the room. Okay, Dylan, I don't know the answer is zero a number. Yeah, Todd. I would say yes, because if I put a one in front of it, it's 10 and that's a number. If I put two in front of it, 20, 30, I don't know if that's going to hold up a card.

31:08Dan. Yes, it has to be. There was like part of math problems like anything time zero is zero. You know, it's got to be a number zero is a number. Okay. Matt Liner from Fox Sports, a big noon kickoff former USC quarterback. He'll join us a little bit later on as well. Phone calls operator Tyler sitting by 877 3DP show email address D.P. at Dan Patrick.com Twitter handle at D.P. Show. We'll get to your phone calls coming up. Let's settle on a poll question for the first hour of this program, Dylan. So we got the when does the football season start as a FCS or not. And then Todd sent me another one. Okay. Which team has to at least reach the Super Bowl or it's a failed season? Oh, okay. Give me the nominees and then we'll talk about that. We've got bills, rams and ravens and there is room for a fourth spot if we want to throw it in the mix. Nobody talks about Seattle.

32:09I kind of truly amazed if now it wouldn't be the same in Buffalo or Detroit if they want a Super Bowl. But think of another city where you won the Super Bowl and then nobody's talking about you the next year. And yes, did they lose their running back in Kenneth Walker? Yes. But that still is a great defense. And all indications are they will still be might be the best balanced team in the NFL. They were all last year. It felt like. The rams we expect them to be great. I just, I just, I'm amazed. And maybe it's where Seattle located. They don't have a coach that you remember his name. You get confused with maybe, you know, is it McDaniel, Mc Donald? Is it Mike, Mark, Luke, and John? Yeah, Pauling. But like the CX didn't, they weren't sneaky last year. They were 14 and three. They didn't, they weren't like a wild card that came out of nowhere. They outscored their opponents by 191 points last year.

33:11They were better than the Rams in the regular season. Yes, Mark. But should they be a part of this conversation since they won the Super Bowl? Are we talking about teams that need to get there at least? Okay. So this is about those who didn't get there, haven't got there. Is that what we're saying in a while? Like, I understand the Rams because of the hype. Seattle to go back to back would be, you know, pretty magnanimous. Yes, Todd. And it's, to me, and it's so hard to repeat. And I don't think it's disrespecting the Seahawks. They're basically, which team has to at least reach the Super Bowl or it's a failed season. They already just did it last year. They won the whole thing. If the summary's in, they don't get to the Super Bowl. I don't think everyone's going to be like, what happened to the Seahawks because they don't get to the Seahawks to the championship or win back to back Super Bowls? Look at you. Yeah, Paul. Yeah, Paul. I would like to throw the Detroit Lions into this because it feels like they're getting further on the Super Bowl. Yeah. The Niners.

34:11Get a worms. Wouldn't that be great, though? The Niners. Still getting a lot of information about their owner. You know, there's a lot of franchises where you don't know the owner. This is a situation where if you're that owner, you don't want to be known, known around the country for this because he's always going to be known as that guy. All right. We'll talk about the poll question coming up. Also, there was this study that was released and I'm not the least bit surprised, but maybe you are because new research shows that 25% of all NFL players who died during a recent six year period had the degenerative brain disease known as CTE. We'll talk about this situation. This epidemic really is what it is. The NFL will never say that, but it is an epidemic. And is there a way to combat those numbers?

35:14Because once we got through with the concussion lawsuit and it was basically, hey, now you know, we paid out the money. And if you, we know it's a violent sport. If you sign up for it, you know exactly what could happen. But the fact that this would be one in a one in one hundred is considered an epidemic in other facets of life. This is what one in 25. I mean, that's far more than an epidemic with the NFL. I don't know if the NFL even acknowledges this. What do they say? What's the players association say? What do those networks that carry the NFL? How deep do they go on this? Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at FoxSportsRadio.com. And within the IHARDS radio app search FSR to listen live. You know the feeling.

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39:23And what happens when a forgotten place decides it's had enough. I'm Ben, that of Half-Rate. For my new series on revisionist history, I took a deep dive in the Staten Island's attempt to succeed from New York City in the 1990s. And what it all has to do with the politics of resentment that dominate America today. Listen to revisionist history, the Staten Island problem, on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Bobby Bones. Join me and former NFL quarterback Matt Castle every Wednesday on our podcast, lots to say with me, Bobby Bones and Matt Castle. We also bring in friends, they're mostly match friends, who are current or former NFL players. Some of the biggest names in music and entertainment, and then we have some really great conversations

40:26that can pretty much go anywhere. The great. Pac-Man Jones. After the game, the whole national task force for police officers was at the stadium. Like, hey, buddy, yeah, you out of… Come on. And one of my favorite segments we do is called situational awareness. Where Bobby and I give each other real life situations and figure out what we'd actually do. And the Rookie quarterback has one good throwing session in front of the media. Suddenly, everybody online says he should start over you week one. How do you handle this? You just go back out to practice the next day and we affirm the mess up. Listen to lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. He's a Bishon Robinson the Falcons running back to Time Pro Boer, and I was the eighth overall pick in the 2023 NFL draft there. 1,400 yards last year, seven touchdowns rushing for touchdowns receiving. Good to see you back on the program. How you feeling?

41:26I'm feeling great, man. It's good to see you back too. Down here in Miami, just trying to finish up his last three season game, but it's all as good to be back on the show with you. Okay. We want to play, guess the poster that Bishon had on his wall growing up of a running back. Okay. Don't don't okay. Did you have a poster on your wall of a NFL running back? I didn't have a poster, but I had a I had like an actor figure of him. Okay. Okay. Todd, I'll start with you. Adrian Peterson. All right. Dylan Eric Dickerson. Oh, Marvin. Lydanian Tom Linton. Oh, Paul. Bishon's from Tucson. I'm also going Lydanian Tomlinson. I'm going to say Barry Sanders. Yes, I had both. So I had Barry Sanders and L.T. So you have an overriding. Okay.

42:26Now you, so you met both of them? I have met Bob Womit. Yeah. They're, they're pretty cool, man. Like just some of our first time, some of our first time actually talking to Lydanian was on a text message. And some of my game is number. And it was in college. And I was like, this can't be real. Like some of my attacks. She just, you want to talk to them? And I was like, what? It was a, it was a pretty cool moment. And then me and Barry Sanders was, I've heard the lines the first year. So it was cool. Like kind of meeting them both. How I did it. And it was, I mean, they're both, they're both the idols right there. Can you explain Barry Sanders? If somebody didn't see him run, how would you describe that? I mean, I think if you've never seen Barry Sanders or heard of his name, like you think he's just a normal, normal dude. Like he's just a very down to earth guy, very respectful. And I mean, we were just talking about life for a minute, just how everything's going.

43:27But I could tell if you didn't know Barry Sanders as a legend that he is and all that is accomplished, like you would think he just, another man just long on the street, they gave his family, which is pretty great. That's kind of how I live my life too. So it's pretty cool. I remember when I saw him in, I met him in college when he was in college. And so you're just seeing somebody we had not seen before. And I've seen all the running backs going back to Jim Brown and Barry to me, I, he made people look silly. Yeah. Yeah. Do you ever have you ever felt sorry for a defender? Never. Okay. Like if you made somebody in bear, you know, like when they have an arm tackle and the whiff on you or you jump over somebody, but you never felt bad. That's, that's, that's the, that's the joy that it brings. Like after it happens, you know, you're, you're just smiling. Everybody's energy's up. But it's just that moment in your, you, you know, you, you were one in that moment once,

44:32one you got past him, but it's just the way you did it. And even the way that Barry Sanders did it, like it just brings so much joy and confidence. And that next play, I think it's crazy. Anybody asked if they could tackle you? Like somebody on the street, does somebody, you know, fans, does anybody want to try to tackle you? Nobody. I mean, there's been like a couple, a couple of kids that's like, you know, if it was me and you want to open to, I put on my shoes. Wait, this is just a fan. Yeah. And I'm just like, there's a lot of things that you, that you might be able to do in life. And I don't think that's what. Last time I was on or you're on with us, you talked about still pursuing acting, Matthew McConaughey with the Texas connection. So is there any update on that or do I need to maybe kick Matthew McConaughey to the curb and hook you up with Adam Sandler? No, no, no. So I've been, I've been going the commercials, which, which have been fun.

45:37I've been about, or for this, this light year, that's on TV. So that those have been like really cool. And you know, you got to start somewhere. And just for me, starting at that level has been a blessing. But now that Matthew McConaughey, we still talk all the time. And I'm actually going to see him next week at Texas game. So it's been fun to set, like, use my chops a little bit in space. Okay. Yeah, acting chopper. I think Adam said we're going to go. Okay. All right. Yeah, introduce Derek Henry to Adam Sandler. Yeah. So Derek Henry gets first shot at any acting roles, you know, for running backs. But I can put in your name. I can, I can say to Sandman. I would appreciate it. Okay. Help me understand what was going on. Jameer Gibbs and you, it felt like who's going first to sign their new contract?

46:39Yeah. Okay. Who went first? But what strategy did you and your agent have of, it felt like whoever was going second was going to make a little bit more money than who went first? Yeah. And I mean, we knew that. There was more just like, you know, for her, the cold, like she was going to make sure everything was great on the contract side that people I really don't see. But we were in me, like I was like, you can't see where it's getting ready to go. I was like, I want to get the field. And they were almost done. So that all helped as well. But yeah, I knew like when we got done, you know, and then Jameer, if whoever would go second, like that would be the case. But I mean, it didn't affect me at all. Like I'm actually very happy for him because we are close. Like that is one of my really good friends, really outside of the game too, as much as we could beat against each other.

47:40But you know, it's cool that he has that title, the highest paid because I know that. I got a lot of work to do now to get there. He doesn't make that much more than you. Okay. You're going to be fine. I know. I know. It's just it's just a cool feeling to know like that position is, is you know, getting in some of them in up that was cool. How good can the Falcons be this year? And who is going to be your starting quarterback? You know, I think that this guy's living for us. We have a lot of great talent on the team. You know, I'm at this point now where I'm not trying to put anything in the world that like, oh, it's the playoffs, super bowl. Like we have to compete for it. We have to, you know, do it one day at a time, obviously, because every summer of the year, I say we're one game away or we're so close. We need it this way and that way. But now I think that with the unit that we have now and the group that we have at the

48:41team, like we just want to just go one day, one play, one game at a time, because we know if we just have that mentality, we'll be fine. But for your question on the starting quarterback, it kept us advancing tough on this show. After me, you should ask me that question, could I have no idea? No idea. Where is he right now? He's probably in the middle room or somewhere. Okay. Okay. You did a good job trying to jook me, fake me out there. Okay. So I'll let you off the hook there. You can guarantee that your quarter back, starting quarterback will be left handed, correct? Correct. Correct. Okay. I just want to make sure. Yeah. You're left handed too, aren't you? Yes, I am. Okay. Wait, do you have a touchdown pass?

49:41I don't. I don't. So it's in the playbook. I mean, not yet, but I still think I still think I should show a little bit more. They see what I can do. But you know, it's the confidence level. They're not going to, they're not going to know that you're left handed like this. Well, they do now. Tomlinson threw seven touchdown passes in his career. People said that they all have it all been from the 10 yard in or have it been past 10 yard. Oh, do you want to throw a bomb? I mean, I, I aspire to have that dream. So Paul, Paul, how many touchdown passes does L.T. Lydanian Tomlinson in his career as a passer was eight for 12 with seven touchdowns and three of them were over 20 yards. Wow. Wow. Yeah, I mean, Tommy has to talk about. Come on, Stofansky offensive minded guy.

50:41Yeah. Now they're very creative. Like Kevin and Tommy, very creative. But what they do, and I really appreciate that. So you never know what you can see. It's a week. Okay. I think Gail Saras was, was he left handed to? Yeah. Yeah. The classic is Gail Saras. I want to ask you, do you think Gail Saras can be, can be who he is in today's game? Yes. Okay. Because of the way he ran, like Jim Brown probably couldn't be, like he may be a smaller Derek Henry. Yep. But Gail Saras was Barry Sanders before Barry Sanders. Got it. His moves were nobody had ever seen something like that. I know we get caught up in generations like that guy couldn't play today. Gail Saras would be able to play today. Jim Brown was still an unbelievable athlete, but he wouldn't be running over people the way he did back in the 60s.

51:42Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Any other running back you want to ask me about? Well, he, Walter Peyton, like, he'd be well played in today's game. Like what he'd be his exact same self right now. He would be maybe a Christian McCaffrey. Because Walter Peyton didn't have great speed, but he had so much determination. Like you just weren't going to bring him down. And I, yes Paul, Walter Peyton, Vijon, eight touchdown passes. So there's a trend. Dude, you got to get caught up here. I'm on. And you call yourself a great running back. Come on. Yeah, that's somebody I'm talking about. Does Christian McCaffrey have any touchdown passes? He probably does, honestly. Who's the best running back in the NFL?

52:43Um, I'm not sure. I say, uh, are you? I probably say like, Jim, you're Christian Christian. Christian McCaffrey has two touchdown passes. Yes, yeah, I'm at zero. D. I think while I'm okay. So, I don't know that count. No, no, you didn't throw it. No, I want to touchdown pass out of you this year. At least one. Okay. Okay. Jameer Gibbs hasn't thrown a touchdown pass. I so we're I guess with the same boat. Yeah. Are you playing tonight? Uh, I think they'll let me know. Um, I'm up here in our in our meeting. So we'll see. I'm regardless. Ready. Ready or not? Uh, would you prefer not to get all taped up and, you know, go through the motions and play like one series? I'm out.

53:44I know like me going out there would be great. Uh, I just like, like, give my key role and give my people a little bit. Uh, that's that time. I can understand, you know, being healthy and getting ready for week one. So that's all that's kind of been my thing. The past couple of years is, is getting ready for week one. Uh, so that's probably the key. Right. In my case here tonight. Do you even take a shower after the game? Like if you don't play, do you eat? Right. So if I got beautiful long, because I like that. You start to have a uniform. Then yeah, I'll take a shower. OK. All right. I just want to make sure I understand everything goes along with the preseason. Go talk to Stefanski and say, Hey, coach is a half back pass in the playbook. And if not, I want to be like Gail Sears, Lydany and Tom Linson. Chris, yeah, Chris McCampry and, and just tell coach that I suggested that you should throw a pass.

54:44OK. At least the 20 yard out. What's not getting greedy? Let's go 10 yards. And then you want to go 20. Then I'm fine with that. OK. OK, cool. Cool. But, yeah, good. Good luck this season. And we hope to catch up with you during the season. But thank you again, Bishan and congrats on the contract. Yeah, thank you, Dad. It's great talking to me. There he is. The guy who's never thrown a touchdown pass in the NFL. Why are you listening to Armstrong and getting on demand? We're not boring. Lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world. About something about a comedic tone. We have a winner. Yes. Listen to Armstrong. You get a on demand on the I heart radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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