Hour 3 – The A’s Say Goodbye to Oakland, Wright Thompson

Published Sep 26, 2024, 4:12 PM

Tonight is the final game for the Athletics in Oakland and Dan has an amazing promotional idea for the stadium on their final night in town. And author Wright Thompson stops by to discuss his book about the story of Emmett Till’s murder, “The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi.”

You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio.

Final Hour on this Thursday.

We got football coming up tonight, the Giants at home getting six against the Cowboys. How important is this game for the Cowboys? Having lost two at home? Now you have a division rival against the Giants. The Giants have shown some signs of life here. They have a little bit of a running game here, and Devin Singletary he might be the guy that I would pick to score the first touchdown tonight, just saying, but if the Cowboys would lose this game, and if they would lose by giving up one hundred and fifty yards rushing, now we have an amber alert there in Dallas. But I'm looking at some of the numbers here. According to DraftKings over underpassing yards for Dak Prescott is two fifty seven, Daniel Jones is two to one, Ceedee Lamb and Malik Neighbors. That's what I'm really interested in because these are high end wide receivers CD through that temper tantrum in the end zone in the loss over the weekend. Malik Neighbors is for real, like he might be a rookie, but he's not a rookie, and I would go to him early and often if I was Daniel Jones. All right, good morning. If you're watching on Peacock, thank you for downloading the app. Our radio affiliates around the country Our Tailgate Spice Maple. Let's see Pumpkin Spice Maple Tailgate Moonshine. Order two bottles and receive a limited edition DP Show Panini card while supplies last. Available now at Danpatrick dot com.

Stat of the.

Days always brought to you by Penine America, the official trading cards of The Dan Patrick Show. Sunday Night, it's a matchup between two of the league's top playmakers, Josh Allen and the Bills, Lamar Jackson and the Ravens Sunday seven Eastern on NBC and Peacock. The Oakland A's last home game is tonight. I think that the Oakland A's should give you your seat if you go to the game and they say, hey, go pick your seat, I'm going to and then when I leave, if you stay for nine innings, they will assist you in taking your seat home with you or just take him if you want to, which is probably what's going to happen.

But I was trying to be civilized.

Here so it doesn't get ugly with the Oakland a's is they say goodbye to Oakland tonight and if you show up that would be a great promotion. Show up and get a seat, take a seat, literally, take a seat a seat. And poll question for hour three is going to be what we got a couple of them up there right now? Who had the best year?

Right now? Shoheo tan.

He's got thirty three percent of the vote, followed by Scotty Scheffler a strong twenty eight, Caitlin Clark at twenty one, Simone Biles at eleven, and Patrick Mahomes six percent of the vote.

Not great.

Yeah, well he's graduated to the we take you for granted now category.

Yeah, you're welcome, You're welcome. See.

I could make a case that Xander Shoffley has had a similarly great year to Scotty Scheffler. I could make a case Scotty had a better year, but Xander Schaffley had a pretty spectacular year as well. I think Caitlyn Clark living up to the hype and surpassing the hype. And we saw that last night. She played well. They lost, but you know, quite a season, a turnaround season for her and the Indiana Fever and what she meant not only to her city team teammates, but the league in general. And hopefully there's fallout from that as we move forward with the WNBA. But now you're down to the final four and I'm certainly interested in the liberty versus the aces.

Yes, Marvin, is this a two person race for all Sports Illustrated sports Person of the Year between Shell Hay and Caitlin Clark.

They both lifted up their sports.

We talk about MLB and WNBA like we've never spoken about before.

I get the feeling now once again. I had a problem with Sports Illustrated Sportsmen of the Year giving it to Dion Sanders. They won four games. There was nothing sportsman like to Dion's approach. I was disappointed. I was embarrassed for that award. Now, if Dion wins ten games and you wanted to give it to him, Okay, you won four games. I mean it wasn't Mother Teresa on the sidelines there. He had a great September. This is a failing magazine media company and you want to get some clicks there. And that's why I think my opinion Caitlin Clark would win the sports Person of the Year. But you know, it's such a great brand. They have new management. I hope they're coming back to prominence relevance, and I was involved with them for many years when Rick Riley left. There's so many great people, great writers down through the years, So hopefully they do have a comeback there. But if I'm to get clicks, I'm gonna get more clicks with Caitlin Clark for Sportsperson of the Year than I will show Hao Tony. Now, I would give it to show Hayo Tony. I just don't know if they will all right. Eight seven seven three DP show email address DP at Danpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at dp show. Also, Derek Rose quietly retired. There was nothing quiet about his career when he first started won an MVP is third year in and we thought that he was the future. He was certainly a Jah Moran type before John Morant. But and then we debated is he a Hall of Famer? I don't think he is. I think the college part of that that they vacated those seasons at Memphis, and he did have a really good start to his career. I think because he played after he got injured. I think he got injured twice, so it was a watered down version of him. Whether you know, if he had stopped after five years because of an injury, we might look at him differently. Grant Hill, Gale Sayers, Trell Davis type situation there. But he did win an MVP, and as Marvin pointed out, there's never been an MVP that didn't go into the Hall of Fame eventually. Yes, Marvin, you were going to say, well, Chris.

Webber went to Michigan and those you know, Final four appearances are vacated. Yeah, but he was a better pro. Correct, But you were just saying Memphis is gonna hurt him. I'm not even sure if it's all that important. Like Chauncey Billups is going in the Hall of Fame, I don't remember him to Colorado.

I'm talking about college.

Oh no, me too. I'm just saying, well.

Chris Webber was a Hall of Famer as a NBA player, right, Derek Rose was not. So if I take away Michigan from Chris Webber, I still have a pro career that's a lot better than Derreck Rose's.

No, you're right, but I think the MVP helps.

But you were saying Memphis might hurt, but I'm not sure if Memphis isn't even it's not even.

Well that his career at Memphis doesn't help, and it would normally have helped where it'd be like, oh, you got to championship game, correct, But yeah, we're taking that away. Chris Webber, same thing, you know, that would have helped his resume with what they did getting into a title game, and you know what the Fab five meant. But I don't know if you're supposed to disabowl any knowledge if you're voting on something like that that hey, you can't say anything about or you know, don't factor in what he did. It's a college player, yes, Mark.

Yeah, I didn't see anything he did at Memphis since they vacated it. It's almost like the men they tried to do the Men in Black, you know, memory eraser, I still remember what he did at Memphis. Okay, So when they tried to vacate those awards, Okay, great, you're vacated.

You know, whenever on the internet, on social media, they always do the athlete. You could wave a magic wand and remove an injury or make sure they were healthy for the entire career. And it's always bo Jackson. Bo Jackson's like emeritus, he's in one seed. But Dereck Rose has to be on that list of man we were robbed, and he was robbed clearly, but we were robbed. Chicago sports fans everyboy.

Yeah, but I think that's a hometown biased.

You know.

For me, loved watching him, but I never went, boy, what could he have been? He was great, but I mean I would say, obviously bo Jackson getting hurt, Grant Hill far more than Derreck Rose. Grant Hill could have been one of the all time greats. I truly believe that Derek was just so much fun to watch. But you know, I don't get caught up and go lament boy what could have been with Derek Rose?

Yeah?

Point and Grant Hill. He was really good for about five years, really good for five years. His last year before he got injured the leg injuries, twenty six points, six and a half rebounds, five and a half assists, steels, blocks, He was.

Like all purpose, Yes he was, and people forget I mean he was great at Duke. He had moments in the NBA and then all of a sudden, you know, and I don't know if it was misdiagnosed or how it was handled with injury. He's there, but it's a shame because what could have been for him. A couple of phone calls Katie and Oxford. Hi, Katie, what's on your mind today?

Well, good morning, Dan and the boys five ten mid one hundreds. Not the first time, but long time. As I am a locker room og with no g's, I have a bowling name for you, okay. I had the privilege of bowling in the bowling capital of the United States, Milwaukee, from junior leagues out to adults and even when a televised tournament once. But the bowling names are huge, and I wanted to share my influence on why he came up with his name.

It goes back to an.

Old soap opera and of course my national league son for winning Milwaukee Brewers, the Bold and.

The Brutiful, all right, the boll instead of the bold and the beautiful and the Brewtiful.

All right?

Thank you, Katie. We'll take that under invicement. We just need to form this bowling team and get in a league as well. Yes, sedon uh, and just to be clear Milwaukee is recognized as the bowling capital of the United States, although where is the Bowling Hall of Fame? Though that would be in Saint Louis. I believe, really, I believe.

Detroit often referred to also as the bowling capital of the United States. Some may even say the world Detroit, Michigan.

So there's a.

Little bit, uh now, apparently, like you said, Saint Louis is in there too.

Uh. I like a little territorial war here.

Heck.

Yeah, Jerome Bennett was a big bowler back in the Detroit days growing up.

Yes, he was. Thank you Todd, uh Tom and Cleveland. Hi Tom? What's on your mind today?

Hey Dan? How you doing today?

Good sir?

Hey quick shout out to Fritzy guy is so funny. I think you got to mix in a limerick maybe every once a quarter something like that. But just wanted to go back to last week. You were talking about shohe Otani and fifty and fifty, and you were talking about are there other comparable great games? Was this the greatest game ever? And one thing I wanted to bring up was back in the nineteen eighty one season, Gretzky was chasing Maurice Richard's nineteen forty four record of fifty goals in fifty games. On December thirtieth, Gretz went out and scored five and one night to break the game and just or break the record in just thirty nine games.

Pretty good.

I just wanted to share that.

Oh good, Yeah, I mean, I've taken any suggestions on this. I was just trying to find something in baseball that was relatable to show. Heyotani and I go back to Ted Williams and when he batted four oh six and have to play in the doubleheader did and ended up batting four oh six. Jimmy and Indiana. Hi, Jimmy, what's on your mind today?

Good morning, DP. I'm a frequent caller six foot two hundred. You were talking, well, first of all, I want to say I listen to you guys every day. You always make me smile, you make me laugh, You just put me in a good mood for the rest of the day. So thank you guys for that. It's really enjoyable. You were talking about the left handed well, they're all left hand betters, Ted Williams, Brett when and so Hey, do you think they were all right eyed? Dominance and do you think that gives them an advantage over the right handed batter. And then number two, when you're trying to determine between so Hey and Larsen for the greatest baseball performance, it's really hard to determine that because they were both just fantastic. How about categorizing it as the best offensive production so Hey the best defensive production Larson.

Yeah, I don't like categorizing, and thank you, Jimmy, because we do that, like with the NFL MVP, and then there's the NFL Offensive Player.

Of the Year, who is rarely the MVP.

It's always, Hey, we're going to give this to this guy, and then Christian McCaffery is going to be the Offensive Player of the year.

I don't like that.

But you know, as far as Don Larson threw a perfect game in the World Series, that's the greatest performance, singular performance. Probably it has to be in baseball history. It's a perfect They call it a perfect game, and it was a perfect game in the World Series. Sho Hayes was great regular season game, getting into fifty to fifty, absolutely, but Don Larson through a perfect game. Let me see Jamison in Colorado, Hey, Jamison, it's on your mind.

Add six foot right eye dominant. Obviously we have a mess here on this college footballity and anil stuff, but specifically to this UNLB quarterback. It sort of feels like a lot of people are automatically believing his story. And I'm wondering, does this open another door where players who are unhappy for any reason can just make up a story about not getting paid what they were promised. I mean, he's claiming he has an agent, but they didn't get this in writing.

This is all verbal.

I don't think they can put it in writing, not before he gets there. That's the problem. And you're right, there's two sides to this. All I know is when you ask for the other side, if they want to come on and talk and then they say no, then you try to get somebody else who can advance the story. We did reach out to the quarterback and his side didn't want to come on right now, we understand, So we are trying to get the I guess, to the core of this story here and find out, if you know, can we tell who's telling the truth. And you're right, but he could have just said, look, I'm going to transfer, and he transfers. He doesn't have to say it's an IL. He could just say, you know what I'm now it could be an IL, but he doesn't have to tell anybody that. And I know that it makes the you know, the school escapegoat here. But he's going to take some blame too that he's walking out on a top twenty five team that's undefeated as well to go to a higher bidder.

You know.

So I don't know if anybody wins.

Here, but perception wise, it sounds like this is happening a little bit more with players who go to a school. They're promised, they get to the school, and then all of a sudden, the university doesn't deliver. And as my source said in the first hour, I read what he said to me that UNLV wanted to play with the big boys. They just didn't pay with the big boys. That's the difference. You can spend twenty up to twenty two million dollars on your collective in Ohio State pretty much pushed the boundaries on that. Georgia doing the same thing. Alabama, there's a you know, there's a handful of schools that are able to pay that kind of money and then you do this on the day when you get a twenty seven million dollar payment to stay with the Mountain West. Ironic coincidental, not a good look for you on LV if you were supposed to pay this kid one hundred thousand dollars? Do I think he was promised something?

Yes?

I do, now is it one hundred thousand? I don't know. The assistant coach said, I never promised anybody anything. These stories eventually come out, may take a while, but they eventually come out. Then we find out exactly what happened. We'll take a break here. More phone calls coming up when we return. ESPN dot Com senior writer Right Thompson has written another great book. It's a heavy book, and he'll talk about that topic coming up right after this.

Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live.

Oh, I don't know if we riled up a hornets nest here. We were talking about bowling. Where is the bowling capital of America? Seaton brought up Milwaukee. We also threw in Detroit. I said, I think the Bowling Hall of Fame is in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Seaton, you got an update for me? Boy? Do I have an updates? Sorry? Dan? The Bowling Hall of Fame was.

In Saint Louis, Missouri.

Was in Saint Louis, OH.

It has since, as of twenty ten, relocated to Arlington, Texas, where I believe it merged with another bowling Hall of Fame. And now I think we've gone international. I think that the off it was the Bowling Hall of Fame of America or the Professional Bowlers of America Hall of Fame that has merged with the International Bowler Bowlers of the World.

Okay, this is gone global. This time is gone global. Okay, yes, yeah, Dan.

I've also heard from a lot of my people in Milwaukee that it's the hot bet of bowling. It's the bowling capital of America. They're saying because Milwaukee is such a German city, has a lot of German influences. Kegling was the forefather of bowling, and Milwaukee was the home of Kegling.

Is you know well there?

Then there's people in Detroit a saying it's a hot bed of bowling as well.

But wasn't John Candy in a bowling league in.

Milwaukee.

There wasn't Kenosha Kickers.

You mean from home alone?

Yeah?

Yeah, okay, yeah, and home alone.

He was in the box truck driving the mom home and he's okay.

So he came from Wisconsin to Chicago.

Yeah, he was on his way back to Kenosha trip.

Yeah, with the care Okay.

I believe that was a Polka band though polka.

I thought he was a kegler for some reason.

He may have been. It's spare time, but he was focused mostly on Polker.

Spare time.

Yeah, spare time got him. Okay, he's right.

Thompson new book The Barn, The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi, now available online wherever books are sold. The Barn tells the story of Emmett Till, fourteen year old African American boy killed in Mississippi in nineteen fifty five after being accused of offending a white woman, and writes investigation takes a deep dive into the case and cover up that followed. Great to talk to you again, heavy topic, but it's a wonderful story of how you tell it, investigate it, and pay tribute to Emmett Till and his family. When did you decide that you were going to take a deep dive into a topic that's been around for many, many, many decades.

I was working on a sports story about Avery Bradley from the Los Angeles Lakers, and he is from Mount Bayo, Mississippi, and one of the witnesses, it turns out, in the murder trial of the killers of m Mattil was last name was Bradley, and so I started trying to find out if they were related, and they weren't. But in the process, someone said to me, do you know about the Barn? And I said what Barn? And I got obsessed. I mean before this was a personal quest for someone trying to understand their home, long before there was a magazine assignment or a book assignment. Because it started to emerge to me that this barn and the way that it had been erased from the American story was a kind of vessel for American history.

I mean, it's you know, my.

Book publicist always tells me I was supposed to make comparisons so that people know if they want it, but you know, I mean, it really is sort of the intersection of like sapiens and devil in the White city. I mean, it's one of those stories that has a lot of threads that at the beginning you're going to wonder, what does any of this have to do with this barn and this murder, And by the end of it you're not entirely sure why this isn't how you were taught history in school.

Well, that's what I was wondering. They sort of this is a nondescript barn. There's not a landmark there that you know, it's not people can go to this, I'm guessing. And your family's farm is what twenty miles from this barn, so you you grew up not knowing that that was there.

I mean our family farm is, I mean our headquarters is exactly twenty three miles because I measured it and I didn't know what existed. It just sits there, and you know, it's somebody's barn. There's Christmas decorations and Johnson nine point nine horsepower motor And luckily for me and for activist and especially for the Till family, the guy who owns the barn is a really nice guy and so lets people, you know, lets people visit it, and was very open to all of this, and I just started going over and over again. And so I mean it's funny in a way that you know, a Los Angeles Lakers story turned into this, But I mean, it's been four and a half years of my life trying to tell the story of this murder. And more importantly, there's some real heroes man, who are working to keep memory alive in the face of a rasure. And like, I don't want to get madelin about it, but I mean, it's just a real honor to meet some of these folks. Reverend Wheeler Parker from Chicago, who was emmittt Till's cousin, best friend, next door neighbor, rode the train south with him in nineteen fifty five, was in the house with him the night that he was taking the kidnappers killers. Pointed to flashlight and a gun in his face first, and he is you know, he's a minister in Chicago and has spent the rest of his life trying to keep people from forgetting.

I mean, so you know it, don't I don't.

Again, I don't want to sound modeling, but like, it really was the honor of a lifetime to just get to meet some of these I mean, great Americans.

I don't know another way to put it.

What do you want to come out of this?

I would like I would like people to read a story that is entertaining and informative. Sure, but at the end of it, because the book focuses on thirty six square miles of the place where I'm from, I hope that people are inspired to want to know about the thirty six square miles around where they're from, or where you know, or where they live, and to you know, I'm a very proud, patriotic American, and I think it is incumbent on those of us who believe in the miracle and promise of the American experiment to always be trying to make it better and to always be willing to find, learn, internalize, and speak the truth about the place where we're from and the place.

That we love.

We're talking to right Thompson's The new book is called The Barn, available where you get your books. Have you heard from athletes about this, then you know your investigative work to tell the story?

You know? I have?

It was I guess it's not surprising to me, but I didn't know the degree to which athletes like Lebron James, for whom this story is central to his understanding of American history. You know there in Matila just turned fourteen, and I think you know it is it is sadly very much a part of education in black American homes to sit down and tell their children the story of Emmettil and to tell their children the story of Trayvon Martin and George Floyd and things that I never really had to worry about. And so, you know it is, this story is hugely important to many many American athletes who uh, you know, I came to understand better through this reporting, are not only expected to be great players, but also thought and almost spiritual leaders for a community. And so, you know, that was really it was really interesting and sort of affirming to know that in addition to being the second greatest basketball player who ever lived, Lebron James is is a real student of American history and in a really thoughtful, intellectual guy.

What did it feel like when you walked in the barn?

Boy, I've done a lot of interviews.

That's the first person who's ever asked me that, you know what, There was a and there's a real sense of menace and one of the reasons that I wanted to write a book not just about the history of that barn, but of the land around it and excavate the blood and the dirt is that, look, there's a life force and energy there that is absolutely palpable. And I know that sounds like hippy tippy stuff and I'm supposed to be burning incense and all of that, and I don't mean it that way.

There's a real sense of menace.

And everyone who's ever been out there that I've talked to since is it too. And you know, the other thing it did for me me was, you know, Mississippi and America is covered in barns, collapse barns, barns that are perfectly preserved. And the thing it did for me was fundamentally impact how I moved through the world, because every time I see a barn now anywhere, part of me wonders what happened in that barn that I don't know about.

We're talking to right, Thompson. I'm so used to talking to you about sports. Do you have anything on the horizon sports wise, profile or just an overall story.

Man, We got a lot of things going. I'm in the process of doing a story to documentary about a guy who's trying to catch the world's largest marlin. I was just on a fishing boat in the Azores for four days. It's a really hard job, Dan, and you know, I mean, some people go cover wars in Iraq and international poverty, but I have.

The real.

It was a really hard assignment to go on a fishing boat in Paradise for four days. But somebody has to do it. You know what a bunch of a bunch of profiles kicking around. I mean, we'll hopefully be back on to talk about them when they're when they're sort of emerging, but you know, those are my favorite things to do is to do deep dives into the lives of athletes. I mean, one of the the coolest parts of this job, frankly, is that you get to try on other people's lives, whether it's Michael Jordan or Caitlyn Clark, who who I've talked both of them I've talked about on this program. I was just texting with Caitlin because their season ended and was basically, you need to take a vacation now, and so that's that's the best part of my of my day. Job is really trying to understand what it takes to be great and what it costs, what.

It surprises us.

If I said you could go back and interview any sports person no longer with us, who would it be?

That's a.

I mean this sounds like a cliche, but probably Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio or Babe Ruth. I mean probably Babe Ruth. It's like Patients zero.

You know.

There's that great Jane Levy book about Mickey Mantle called The Last Boy that I really love because it like correctly places Mickey Mantle is the last star and hero in a pre ironic America, and like, you know, there just was a fundamentally different way people interacted with him than say, Aaron Judge, And so I would love to talk to a sober Mickey Mantle. You know, I've always thought it was interesting that Mickey Mantle and Jerry Garcia died so close to each other because they felt like Rushmore faces of a very specific America, you know, and like even though they had nothing to do with each other, they felt really tied together, like existentially to me in a way that actually would be a really good story for someone is to write about the intersection of Jerry Garcia and Mickey Mantle. Uh, you know but both addicts. You know, Mickey got clean and Jerry didn't. Uh and uh so No, I mean I would love and I would love to go talk to Joe Dimajia. I mean, I know you've read that famous gate to Lee's story, but like Silent Season of a Hero where it has that great scene where Marylyn they're on their honeymoon and Marilyn Monroe gets invited to go from Japan where they're hiding out, and you know, she loves being famous because it's new, and he hates being famous because it's old. And I think that's a pretty common story for athletes, both of us interview now, is that you agree to accept that before you understand what it takes from you. And so she gets asked to go to Korea to speak to soldiers, like a USO trip, And she comes back and they're having the breakfast the next morning and she's just gushing about the joy and she says, oh, Joe, you've never heard such cheering. And he looks up for and he looks up from his cheerios and just dead eyes are in dead pans.

Yes, I have yes, yes, yes, yeah.

And so I would love to go talk to Joe DiMaggio. I love that gate to Lee's story. I love that Richard ben Kramer Ted Williams story, and uh.

You know, I mean that would be great. I mean, let me ask you this, because who is the most.

Iconic athlete who's no longer with us, who you intersected with, Like, who's like, what's the story you have about one of these guys, Who's a Mount Rushmore guy that you ended up because of your place in the culture for so long being next.

To briefly Muhammad Ali.

That's a good one.

Oh, I.

Well, he didn't speak back then, so I met him at the ESPIS and talk to him and his wife. I was there when he checked in the hospital for Parkinson's. I was covering that they had fight night in Arizona and I was the host and I ended him with a ring that they were giving to him. And I was there in Atlantic City from Mike Tyson fight when Ali came in and it was Ali Boulaye and the entire, the entire it's one of the greatest moment. I'm getting goosebumps thinking about it. Just came he came in and everybody realized it was Ali. Everybody in the building started chanting this. And I was sitting with Danny Iello and Matt Dillon, the actors, and I remember turning you, Danny Iello, and I said, We'll never experience something like this again.

And he couldn't even speak.

He was like, like, you were frozen, dumbfounded because you really realized what somebody meant to so many people anywhere in the world. And here he is an Atlantic city walking in and I just remember, you know, so many things flashed before you. But to be there outside of the hospital and he's in there and dis diagnosed with parkinson So and I'd just been around Howard Cosell too, who had Parkinson's. I actually had to pour his water for him because he couldn't hit the glass. He was terrible. So, you know, the intersection. I've been very lucky over forty years to have quite a few of those. But I think Ali's impact on me because of the impact he had on others.

I walked into the media room at the Atlanta super Bowl. You know they had that sort of big lounge and then the area where all the computers were, and then radio row was on the other side of that, that would have been like two thousand, ninety nine, two thousand. It was the Rams Titans, okay, and Tyson was fighting on TV and there was a huge, big screen TV and like really leather couches setting around. And I walked into that press room and it was Muhammad Ali sitting by himself watching a Mike Tyson fight, and I just like, I can't go bother this, Like no one would go bother him. I mean, it was very much like an incredible sign of respect, you know. I just did that Mickey Hart documentary, Mickey Hart the Drummer from The Grateful Dead, and he and I worked on that for years, and we did all these interviews with athletes, and it was really interesting because he, you know, he's met every famous person in the world, and he was in The Grateful Dead and has his own center of energy and so not a starstruck guy, you know what I mean.

And he was on the phone with Laila Ali and you could.

Tell, I mean, Micky was about to cry just being in her virtual presence because of how much Muhammad Ali meant to him as as a brave warrior, as a great fighter, as someone who was willing to push all of his chips into the middle of the table to bet on something that he believed. It was really interesting to sort of see Mickey get really star struck. And then the other one was, you know, Bob Coosey is alive and well and living in Wooster and it was Mickey's childhood hero. But to see that him talking to Bob Coosey and Bob Coosey talking about liking The Grateful Dead was one of the most out of body experiences of my whole life. I was just like, this is crazy. I can't believe you know I We're on a zoom just like this one. You know, Hi Todd, he's down below us. His camera's off.

I was like that.

I was just my camera was off and my jaw was hanging open as Mickey Hart from The Grateful Dead is talking to Bob Coosey from the Boston Celtics.

He's right, Thompson And the new book is The Barn, The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi, and it's available now online wherever books are sold. Great to catch up with you. I hope the girls are treating you well and we'll talk to you soon.

Thank you. Buddy.

Thanks Dan, girls are great. Talk to you soon, man.

That's right, Thompson. We have a pretty good streak. Whenever he comes on. We make his book a bestseller. He's probably already a best seller, but always loved talking to him. We'll close up shop after this.

Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAPP.

In the movie Home Alone, John Candy was a polka band leader, Gus Polinski and Uncle Buck. He was in a bowling league. He was Buck Russell. I knew I had it right now.

Uncle Buck classic?

Yeah, Uncle Buck underrated, John Candy underrated. John Candy was great, Yes he was. The Cowboys are well. Dak Prescott twelve and two lifetime against the Giants, the only NFL quarterback to make at least ten starts against the Giants and post a better record than Dak Prescott. A fellow Cowboy quarterback, Roger Staubach, was sixteen and one. Al righty right the headline today, all for tomorrow with tonight's game, Todd, I'll start with you the Giants and the Cowboys. Right the headline, today they blinded deck with Giants.

That's good delivery.

That That is a real stretch with Thomas Dolby.

Oh wait, dude, that is that is a home run ideot.

That so good? Uh Connor right, tomorrow's headline they blinded deck with Giants. All right, I'll go to mine is how about uh blown star State Dallas?

Yeah, okay, squandering great season for the Giants so far, Marvin, I have big Dak energy.

Cowboys dominate the Giants.

Wow, Wow, Holy, that's not Nenaghborly Malik lights up.

The Cowboys.

Nailed that.

Though.

Mark Sanchez NFL former NFL quarterback, will join us on the program tomorrow.

Anybody else taught Bob Nightingaleill Jonas he's going to be at that last A's Ball of the USA today the Longtime Baseball columns.

Okay, the funeral, the funeral. So you've got a franchise funeral. Then you got a team funeral with the White Sox. Because it's not death to the franchise the Oakland A's it's death to the franchise once again. The White Sox are kind of sports version of hospice.

He'll be back there.

Yeah, you show up and You're like, it's still alive. Hey Tommy, how are you feeling better? This day in sports history, Todd, what do you or a Paulie, what do you have for me today?

Nineteen sixty two Morey Will's La Dodgers first player to steal one hundred bases. He finished season with one oh four, also a Dodger. Related nineteen eighty one, Nolan Ryan to the Aros first player to pitch five no hitters, five zero victory over the Dodgers.

Got that right, yeah, thank you. To nineteen ninety eight Mark maguire.

You may have heard of him, hit home runs sixty seven and sixty eight on his way to.

Seventy okay um she dug in North Carolina.

Good morning, Doug. What's on your mind today?

Groups singing? Dan?

You know how people call say their birthday, You guys mumble through a course of happy birthday. Well, it's not my birthday today, but it is a special day. I went on to Twitter and saw that seventy six years ago Olivia Newton John was born, and I think the show should end with the group singing of let's get quizzical.

All right?

Well, thank you, Doug Todd. I'm surprised that you didn't bring that up. This shame show history.

It's good loot.

It mixed good sports radio conversation.

You gotta answer.

Rich just right.

You know what me don't google.

Let's just try to do the thing.

Tell me so men, you know what you're talking about.

Let's let's.

Quiz Queisy.

Todd, what did you learn today?

Somehow in Las Vegas, un l we can't afford to pay our talented's notting QB.

One hundred thousand dollars. Come on, see no Connor. What did you learn? Marvin? What did you learn today?

Andy's getting engaged in Puerto Rico?

Yes, he had good luck Andy, Paulie, how did you learn?

I'm so glad Todd didn't listen to that and do a second take.

Todd, what did I learn?

There's a pick a Ball movie in the works with Dodgeball star Ben Store.

Tire rack dot com the official tire expert of the DP show. Go to tire rack dot com, slash stan use the Tire Decision Guide, full lineup of Kumo tires, special offers, free road hazard protection, mobile tire installation, tyrect The way tire buying should be by Thanks to the big German, Anthony, the Interurn, everybody making it possible to join you from Maine.

Have a great day.

The Dan Patrick Show

Listen to Dan's daily radio show. With exclusive insider access, Patrick brings A-list guests from t 
Social links
Follow podcast
Recent clips
Browse 5,360 clip(s)