Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What insights does Dan Patrick share about enjoying his career?
Now, all of a sudden, the dynamic has changed. And everything was about a job and holding on to the job and savoring a job, working hard at the job. And so it kind of got ingrained in my head of don't take anything for granted and keep going.
Do you realize, though, that you don't give any of that off? You're such a polished television person. I don't know how much anxiety there is there, but no one would ever see it unless they were in your home.
Oh, yeah, it's all internalized. I mean, I'll be around my guys, and I'll say, we can't let these small things, I mean, they can't fall through the cracks. I mean, we have to do this. It's little things, but I want them to understand those little things. Because we focus on the big things. And in this business, the little things can really trip you up.
But other than that, I mean, they know that I want it to be great. I think I'm difficult to give a compliment to. And therefore, I don't know if they, like they'll say, hey, that was a really good interview. I'll go, I mean, I'm already on to the next thing. And so maybe we don't even go through the machinations of doing that. Are you good at giving compliments? Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes, because I know what it can feel like.
But you're not receiving them, right? Or you're not showing people who are, you're not doing very much in the way of receiving.
Yes. But it's, I got to the point where it didn't matter. Like you're looking for it, you're waiting for it, and it wasn't coming, and therefore you just become kind of numb to it. This goes back to being a middle child. I was just kind of in the middle. Nobody cared. I mean, there's six kids. Nobody cared. You know, it's like, where's Dan? I don't know. He'll be home.
So I think that's kind of how I see myself in the sea of broadcasters or radio shows. Like we're in it.
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Chapter 3: How does Dan Patrick define success in his career?
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Chapter 4: What lessons has Dan Patrick learned from his family?
Like, the cadence was what I wanted. I wanted it melodic. And, you know, I got way... I was way in under the covers with this. But that's the only way I knew how to do it. I had no other way other than do it great. Do it the best you can. And then, because you don't cheat yourself. You've got this opportunity. Five years prior to being on SportsCenter in Dayton, Ohio. Don't have a job in TV.
And I'm thinking about, I'm going to stay in radio. Didn't get the weekend job in Dayton, Ohio. Go to see an ex-girlfriend in Atlanta. Hey, bring a resume tape. CNN's hiring. I couldn't get hired in Dayton. Now I'm going to get hired at CNN? And then I did. And then six months later, I replaced Oberman in New York as the New York Bureau reporter.
Five years later, I'm sitting next to Bob Leon Sports Center. Maybe my mom was right. I am lucky.
Well, she was right about that, Ty. It was shit. You... What you're describing sounds like a plague, though. You understand that, right? The way that you're describing this, even though it results in great success and probably fulfillment, but not necessarily joy, it sounds like a bit of a plague, the way that you're describing it.
Because if you're doing SportsCenter with that kind of timing, you're doing the best show, it's a pioneering show, and yet... you're noticing all of the mistakes and every night you're noticing all the mistakes and you're never going to be perfect and you're never going to meet your standard. That sounds like not good enough is going to be the undercurrent on just about everything you're doing.
We didn't get good feedback from management. That didn't help. I mean, now, many, many years later, they all take credit for it. But back then, they didn't want us to be successful. It was weird. And I've said this before. A member of management said, we don't want another Berman. And that meant... They didn't want somebody to be successful who they couldn't control.
And I thought, why wouldn't you want somebody? Chris Berman is the founding father of ESPN. Yes, Bob Lee and Tom Meade, but without Chris, there's no ESPN. And I thought, that guy has put in the time and the sweat equity. I mean, to make this place stand out and not be all that little network thing You know, it became more than that.
And Keith and I were able to ride, you know, those coattails, inhale some of those fumes. But management, they wanted everybody to be the same. The four letters are more important. And I realized that, you know, that was another problem. You know, you're looking for acknowledgement that was never going to be there. Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right?
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Chapter 5: How does Dan Patrick cope with the pressure of high standards?
He's an albino. Well, Mike goes over to the Radisson Hotel and goes into the lobby. There's an albino convention going on. He goes, they're all albinos when he called back. I just love that story. But, I mean, we were in the middle of nowhere, Bristol, Connecticut. You got a McDonald's, a Friendly's that closed down.
But you're kind of running a good portion of the sports world, you know, every single night. And it was exciting. It was fun. It was you. We're making it up as we go along. Management wasn't well versed. We weren't well versed. You know, we're just figuring it out all along. I mean, I was with Oberman for five years. I mean, we never had arguments, never had fights, nothing. A total team effort.
But I knew it was going to end. And I was really disappointed. Because I'd never get that again. Didn't matter if I was with Kenny Mayne or Bob Lee. It just wasn't going to happen. And they were all really good anchors, co-anchors. And it was sad. It was the first time where I was like, God, I'll never get that back. But Keith was done. Keith had other things that he wanted to accomplish.
And I just remember one day, I thought, oh, God, I'm going to be the old guy on SportsCenter. Like, I looked around, and I was the old guy on SportsCenter. And then I started doing the 6 o'clock, and I go, that's where they put the old guys. And that's when I realized I had stayed too long. And I was 50. I had stayed too long.
And I remember coming home and telling my wife, I said, I got to get my ass kicked. She goes, by who? I said, me. Either I've outgrown ESPN or ESPN's outgrown me, but I got to do something. And that kind of set in motion like a myriad of things where you're going, I got four kids. Like, what am I going to, I got to challenge myself. What am I going to do?
And I remember I was leaving, and I wanted to do the Olympics. Dick Ebersole had always wanted me to work with NBC. So I'm leaving ESPN, and then they said, you can't do TV for six months. They wouldn't let me do the Olympics. And I was like, oh boy, game on. Game on. So I started doing some radio. We were doing it in my attic. out of my house for three years.
But it was maybe the best three years I've had in the business because it brought us all together literally in my attic every single morning. My wife's getting kids out to school in her bathrobe and I got Fritzie and Seton and Paulie going up the back stairs and you're doing a national radio show and forever indebted.
that those guys took a chance because they were, you know, Fritzie was established at the mothership and Seton was. Paulie was working for Tony Stewart as a producer on his radio show. But I'm asking them to take a leap of faith. And I wouldn't have done that if I was in their situation, but they, you know, they did it.
And I mean, that's the true, I'm going to take, you know, Butch Cassidy, Sundance kid, I'm going to jump off the cliff and, and they did it. And they're still with me all these years.
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