The Dan Patrick Show
Hour 1 – World Cup Giving March Madness Vibes, Parade Prep, Dan Hicks
18 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Guaranteed human. It's that time to put on your jersey and wave your flag, whoever you root for.
Why do I watch the World Cup? That's like asking me, why do I breathe?
Chapter 2: What gives the World Cup its March Madness vibes?
and it's beautiful. The guys are young and cute and fit.
It's not just a game. It's your culture.
I like watching it with my dad.
It's a connecting force.
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Chapter 3: Why do fans feel connected to the World Cup?
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We're down a pair of backroom guys. Anthony and Rob, diehard Knicks fans. I gave them the day off to go into the parade. The parade's scheduled to start. In an hour from now, and from what we've been told, it's a mess. It's chaos. But it might be organized chaos right now. Weather, a little overcast, but expected to get a little bit warmer. But we'll check in with those two goofballs.
I jokingly said yesterday... Because somebody said, hey, do you think that the Knicks fans can go to the parade? I said, yeah, if they take off their shirts and one puts N on his chest and one paints Y on his chest and they hold hands walking through the parade. And they go, okay. And I went, all right. So I sent them on their way.
They went really early this morning, but police are calling it holding pens. I don't like that. That sounds soccer-like. Holding pens during the parade route there. They're expecting over 4 million. I think it'll be more than that. The Cubs, I think, are on record as having 5 million when they won the World Series, but this one feels to be bigger. Yes, Paul?
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Knicks parade for fans?
I was looking at this yesterday, actually. Checking. Checking. Check with Ray in the back. Yeah, Paulie. I had the list of people who've walked on the moon to Phil. Buzz Aldrin. James Irwin. By the way, remember when Phil Mickelson lost his mind when he had a putt and then it kept rolling and then he just putted it and it hadn't stopped yet?
Oh.
Oh, you know, one was Raymond Floyd. I was there in 1986. What am I talking about? I actually was some little pimply-faced kid for a cub reporter there for CNN out there on the island. When I was at CNN, I covered two U.S. Opens. One was at Shinnecock, and the other one was Fuzzy Zeller and Greg Norman at Wingfoot.
Famously, Fuzzy waving the white flag he thought he had lost, and then they had to have an 18-hole playoff on Monday. Yes, Todd?
If you weren't married and you were in the prime of your dating days, what would be more impressive to the lady saying that to you, assuming you can prove it somehow, that you walked on the moon and you were under par at the U.S.
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Chapter 5: What challenges do golfers face at Shinnecock during the U.S. Open?
Open? How would that change if it was in your earlier days?
I was just joking. I'd rather be walking on the moon.
You would?
Yeah. I don't think there's a woman. No. That's the actor in me. That was impressive. Yeah, that's what I do. I'm an actor. Yeah, walking on the moon. Because you'd have to have somebody understand, man, you were under par at Shinnecock? I don't know who's going to be that excited. Nellie Korda might go, wow, I'm impressed. Well, I also walked on the moon. So what? So have 12 other guys.
Yes, Dylan. If you ask Bryson DeChambeau if there's been more people to shoot under par at Shinnecock, it's an obvious yes because no one's walked on the moon. Okay. All right. All right. Let's see what you did with that. All right. Yeah. Going early. Yeah, Paul. Those Apollo astronauts, they slayed. Oh, they did? Slayed. Astronauts were heartthrobs, man. They won seeds. They came back.
They were boy band hot. You know? Yeah. Everybody wanted to date an astronaut or marry an astronaut. Yes, Dylan. Didn't Buzz Aldrin punch some guy in the face a couple years ago? Yes, he did. What was that for? The guy didn't believe that he had walked on the moon. It was Bryson. No, it was not. But, yeah, Buzz punched him right in the face. Yeah. And that was only a couple of years ago.
Yes, Todd.
Imagine looking up at the moonlight with your friend and you can actually say I was up there, that I was actually on that thing up there. Wouldn't that be pretty romantic and amazing?
I have no idea.
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Chapter 6: How does the expanded World Cup field affect competition?
I think they had about an hour and a half delay due to fog there. You know, it's conditions and the course. And you combine those two, and that's why they've had, what, three players? And all of the golfers who have played this course during the U.S. Open that have broken par. Yes, Paulie.
got a question for a casual golf person like myself and those listening what makes a course impossible like this what is the general setup that makes it so tough the wind that you could get it up to 25 to 30 miles an hour and then is that going to dry out the greens it dries out the greens can you know these shots hold the green but
You'll have to be a little more generous with some of the hole placements here because there are places on the green. And if you watch Golf Channel at night, they're out there hitting shots and saying, look, if you put it here, it's going to roll off the green. And you're thinking, boy, you'd think that you'd be in great shape there. Let's bring in Dan Hicks.
He's at Shinnecock here, NBC's lead golf play-by-play announcer. Let me ask the important question here, Dan. Would you rather, now 12 people have walked on the moon, And what, do we have three or four people broken par at the U.S. Open at Shinnecock in history? Would you rather break par or be like the ninth man on the moon? Break par, not even a doubt. Because I would join the select few.
I'd be four guys out of like 690 guys in the history of Shinnecock's U.S. Open to break par. And I think that's fewer than the guys, obviously, that have walked on the moon. So I'm good with breaking par at Shinnecock and a US Open. How much of this is the conditions? How much of this is the course, if you were going to try to put a percentage on this?
You mean the history of the toughness of Shinnecock? Yeah. I'd say it's a combination of everything. And that's what makes Shinnecock Shinnecock. It's probably the hardest championship course in the game to set up. in this case, the USGA's perspective of dealing with the elements. The weather's crazy. It sits on a sandy soil.
So it dries out a lot quicker than, say, Pebble Beach, which obviously is a TrueLynx course. But I just think it's a combination of everything. It's the undulation of the greens, the fescue, the weather, and then the pressure of a U.S. Open. It all kind of conspires to make it Just the toughest. I think it's the greatest championship test in golf, certainly here in the United States.
And there's a guy named Rory McIlroy that agrees with me on that. So he has the ultimate respect of the players. Obviously, it's gotten out of control in previous U.S. Opens, and we all know about that. But that's that fine line of you want this to be the toughest championship. Like, you come out of this like you're the fife and drum bugle corps. Like, you just survived this.
But then I don't know how many golf fans want birdies. You know, when I watch the Masters, we want birdies on the back nine. At a U.S. Open, aside from Tiger at Pebble in 2000, for the most part, it's a slog around the course. Where do you weigh in on, A, one under par, two over par to win it, good, or you want 15 under?
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