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The Dan Patrick Show

Hour 2 - Mike Breen, Worst To Firsts

27 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

0.031 - 3.763 Dan Patrick

This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human.

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5.228 - 12.618 Mike Breen

Hey guys, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick. And guess what? We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas.

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12.979 - 26.117 Unknown

We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. We get to ask other people questions because we're sick and tired of being asked questions. Well, sick and tired is a strong way to put it, but you know. Tired and sick. Tired and sick.

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26.458 - 32.005 Mike Breen

Listen to Hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen.

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32.045 - 33.227 Unknown

We don't care where you hear it.

33.764 - 52.397 Robert Smigel

Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy. Not quite. On Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends, me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guests, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel, help an acapella band with their between songs banter.

52.377 - 57.326 Unknown

Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter.

57.546 - 65.641 Robert Smigel

Listen to Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

65.661 - 88.73 Theo Henderson

For years, The Unhoused has been presented as a monolith in mainstream media. We The Unhoused is a podcast that's changing the narrative. I'm Theo Henderson, and I created this show while I was unhoused on the streets of Los Angeles. We've grown into a two-time Webby Award-winning podcast, the only podcast that shares unhoused stories and news from the unhoused perspective.

Chapter 2: What does Mike Breen think about the Knicks advancing to the Finals?

886.9 - 904.616 Mike Breen

And both teams present major problems. Both teams are going to be very, very difficult to play against. They did have some success against San Antonio, but the Spurs are a different team, but so are the Knicks. And Oklahoma City, the only question with Oklahoma City is who's going to be healthy. If Jalen Williams and A.J.

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904.636 - 929.484 Mike Breen

Mitchell can't play, that's two really huge pieces for the Thunder, even a team that's as deep as OKC is. I don't know how you handle this, but watching OKC and SGA and getting fouls called, drawing fouls, it feels like it's dominating social media. They're not talking necessarily about the series. They're talking about that SGA is getting these calls.

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930.666 - 956.088 Mike Breen

How big of a problem, how big of an issue do you think this is? Well, first off, I think the audience that's watching that comes from social media is a lot smaller than we think. So it always seems like, oh, my goodness, everybody's talking about it. But in my conversations with NBA fans who aren't social media, and most of them are my age or around the vicinity of my age, it's not a high topic.

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956.128 - 979.948 Mike Breen

Now, does he sell calls sometimes? No. Absolutely, but so do 287 other players in the NBA cell calls. And quite frankly, it's a strategy to win. And also, the other thing, too, when they weren't a championship contender, he was doing the same thing and nobody was complaining about it. They're complaining now because they're winning and they're beating teams. And I think...

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979.928 - 996.266 Mike Breen

People also don't understand. He drives to the basket more than any other player in the league. That's who he is. Here's a guy that averaged this year 31 points a game and shot 55% from the field. He's an incredible player. He's got high character. He's a great teammate.

997.127 - 1020.599 Mike Breen

I hate the fact that this dominates the conversation about him because he's one of the truly special players that I've, in my 30 years of covering the NBA, had the privilege to call games of. Well said. Mike Breen, you'll be calling the NBA finals for ABC and the Mothership, and he won't be talking even to your wife for the next five days? Yes, I'm going to commit to that.

1020.659 - 1050.18 Mike Breen

I will not talk to my wife for the next five days. Thank you, Mike. Okay, see, he stopped talking right there. Stopped talking right there. It starts right now. That's Mike Breen. He's won three sports Emmys. Let's see. Do we have a poll question for hour two? Yes, Paul. I think he went 0 for 7 before winning three straight. I think we're 0 for 6. Yeah. There you go. Maybe we got to be 0 for 7.

1050.22 - 1083.813 Mike Breen

Right. That'd be great. And then we win in the final year. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Right after my retirement, and then I come back, and then I walk in, and then I raise the trophy, and then I say, I'm coming back. To the sports Emmys every single year they invite me. Thank you and good night. Drive home safely. Dylan, do we have a poll question for hour two? You know what? Why don't you save it?

1083.833 - 1099.183 Mike Breen

You want to save it? Yeah, why don't you save it? All right. Go check on the pizzas. All right. All right. All right, we'll take a break. Back after this. Thanks for listening to the Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning, 9 to noon Eastern or 6 to 9 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio.

Chapter 3: How do teams transition from expansion to championship status?

1463.536 - 1470.585 Mike Breen

I didn't know if you were awake. I wanted to see. Brunel over Elway and Denver just was shocking. I've just seen a few. You're awake.

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1470.605 - 1471.306 Unknown

I was in tears.

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1471.747 - 1498.701 Mike Breen

I don't have any details on the Packers running back, Josh Jacobs, charged with domestic violence. Certainly doesn't sound good for him. And a lot of different charges in there. So keep an eye on that. OTAs are right around the corner. Keep that in mind with NFL teams. The NFL season is going to be here quickly. We're going to be like, wow. I think we're under 100 days.

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1498.761 - 1520.86 Mike Breen

Does the mothership have a countdown? Because normally they would have a countdown for this. I think it's under 100 days before the NFL season. Yes, Marvin? I do know they have the Super Bowl, if you didn't know. Oh, yeah. So I heard. Yeah, Paul? I got 106 days until the NFL kickoff, but I have 97 days until college football starts. Oh, wow.

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1521.548 - 1543.448 Mike Breen

They're still trying to work out this college football expansion. Oh, my God. You get grown-ups in a room, and that doesn't necessarily mean they act like grown-ups here. Here is Kirby Smart, Georgia head coach on expansion. If you ask enough people, they want an opportunity to be in the party. If they don't make the party, they get fired.

1543.869 - 1559.39 Mike Breen

So then they're worried about the party, not the dilution of the market. So there's competing interests here that I think are unfortunate. You know, I don't want it to be a diluted market. I think there's going to be more blowouts if that happens. It's going to happen. But that happened in the old model. I mean, let's be honest. It's happened to its well before.

1559.891 - 1581.709 Mike Breen

So you're not going to get perfect games, perfect scenarios. But there will be games that lose some of their meaning leading up to that. But maybe there's more great games in a 2014 model than there are in the 12 or the 16. I don't know. I'm not here to decide how many teams should be in it. I would much rather talk about how the teams are decided that are in it. All right. That's fine.

1582.651 - 1599.7 Mike Breen

Seems well thought out there. We have blowouts in March Madness. Anybody get upset? No, nobody does. You know, when you got a team that's an 11 seed and they get blown out by 30, nobody cares. It's like, ah, how's my bracket?

1600.625 - 1623.982 Mike Breen

You know, it feels like, you know, the SEC is the holdout here, and it feels like they're the holdout until they figure out how they can best take advantage of a 2014 playoff, in my opinion. I would like to think that it's altruistic that they really care about the sport, but I don't think... Oh, that's so cute. That's not happening. Everybody, you know, it's... How do we get ours?

Chapter 4: What are the highlights of Jalen Brunson's performance this season?

1808.834 - 1841.261 Mike Breen

Se cayó. Se cayó. All right. That's SGA's new nickname. Es cayó. Not escarol. Escarol. Yes, Dylan. Thank you, Jorge. So I guess Danette in Spanish is Daniela. That's tough. Hey, Reggie Miller is the one who came up with the name Danettes. Because the number of people who will just randomly go, you know, Danettes is women. And I go, and? That's the idea. We're aware of that. But thank you.

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1841.681 - 1846.768 Mike Breen

Thank you. Nico in Texas. Hi, Nico. What's on your mind today?

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1846.788 - 1875.476 Unknown

Oh, man, Dan. I will get straight to the point. I have beef with your Marvin and a pie to the face that does not involve me, only him. Let me explain. Ever since he removed Castle's jersey off his chair, he's had 11 turnovers game one, nine turnovers game two. It took nuns in game four to fix him and me lighting a candle at my local Catholic church that Sunday morning.

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1876.177 - 1881.007 Unknown

So I blame Marvin for jinxing and cursing a fellow Uconian.

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1881.768 - 1884.894 Mike Breen

Uconian. Marvin, you got an answer for this?

1884.954 - 1893.141 Unknown

Forgive me. I was supporting our Golden Knights, but you know what? UConn's got to stick together. I'm putting the castle jersey back on.

1893.161 - 1910.662 Mike Breen

Wow. Okay. Thank you, Nico, for the call. Let's take a break. The great comedian, Nate Bargatze. He's got a movie coming out on Friday. He'll join us next. Thanks for listening to the Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning, 9 until noon Eastern, 6 to 9 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio.

1911.002 - 1927.399 Mike Breen

And you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at FSR or stream us live on the Peacock app. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, Nick? Huge news. We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast?

1927.62 - 1936.349 Unknown

Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Yeah, a pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special.

Chapter 5: What makes Madison Square Garden a unique venue for basketball?

1953.487 - 1956.791 Mike Breen

This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this.

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1957.191 - 1961.336 Dan Patrick

We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast where people could call in and say, Hey, Jonas.

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1961.656 - 1967.823 Unknown

And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey, Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast.

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1967.843 - 1976.615 Mike Breen

Oh, wow. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it.

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1977.557 - 1996.144 Robert Smigel

Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy. Not quite. On Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends, me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guests, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel, help an acapella band with their between-songs banter.

1996.124 - 2001.071 Unknown

Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter.

2001.251 - 2009.483 Robert Smigel

Listen to Humor Me with Robert Smigel and friends on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

2009.503 - 2019.537 Unknown

Keith Giamonca seemed like a mild-mannered suburban dad. But secretly, he became someone else. A master of disguise who went on a crime spree.

2020.539 - 2022.942 Mike Breen

At the time, did it seem like a crazy idea?

Chapter 6: How does Mike Breen feel about calling NBA Finals games?

2517.545 - 2527.234 Unknown

Yeah, I feel like nowadays more than ever that happens with the trade deadlines for the various sports. It used to feel like things would just go haywire for a couple days, and they've been pretty benign recently.

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2527.534 - 2553.378 Mike Breen

Yeah, but I think because you have more people talking about this and then you want to talk about something different and then, therefore, hey, Austin Reeves is going to stay with the Lakers? Well, I don't know. What if they traded him too? Sign and trade, you know. We start to create these, this could happen or what if this happened. Not exactly journalistically sound, but we like to do that.

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2553.418 - 2557.163 Mike Breen

We like to create what could happen in the offseason. Yes, Marv?

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2557.183 - 2565.712 Unknown

Every single summer, before the Knicks became really good, they would always Photoshop a potential free agent in a Knicks uniform, whether it was Kyrie or LeBron.

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2565.732 - 2567.674 Mike Breen

Well, that was Stephen A. Smith who was doing it.

2567.914 - 2577.485 Unknown

I mean, but the New York Post, I mean, look, when they thought they were going to get Zion Williamson with the first pick in the draft, They did the same thing. Like, oh, man, can you imagine this tandem if they got together?

2578.066 - 2600.19 Mike Breen

I know, but Steve and I would always say, you know, I'm here and the Knicks could get, and then you'd be like, and then they don't get. I don't think he was hearing they were going to get Jalen Brunson, you know. It was Donovan Mitchell. They're going to trade Carl Anthony Towns, and then, you know, they're going to get Giannis. Or Sharunas Marshalonis. Ooh, Sharunas Marshalonis.

2600.31 - 2617.216 Mike Breen

I know you like to name him. He was a great player. He was different. Created the Eurostep. He was different. Sharunas was not a soft European player. Nobody ever said that he was soft. Now, Europeans did get labeled that. They never said that about Sharunas, Marshall Onas.

Chapter 7: What are the challenges of calling games without a live audience?

2617.356 - 2618.038 Mike Breen

Yes, Dylan.

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2618.879 - 2624.507 Unknown

Yeah, remember when KD was going to go to the Knicks, and then he winded up in the same city, but just a different team.

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2624.987 - 2651.544 Mike Breen

But I thought that he was going to. I thought him and Kyrie would go to the Knicks. I truly thought, because you can win a title in Brooklyn and nobody cares. You win a title with the Knicks, they'll care for the rest of your life. Yeah, still. It is funny that the Nets went from Jersey to New York and got less relevant. It's the weirdest thing. Yeah, Paul. I saw the New Jersey governor.

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2651.744 - 2681.235 Mike Breen

She recently said she'd love to have the Nets back in New Jersey. Okay. Who would notice? Good luck with that. Yeah. Good luck with that. Yeah, I remember making that trip out when it was the Brendan Byrne Arena. I remember seeing Jay Kidd. Calipari was coaching the Nets when I went out there. He was the same guy back then. He didn't have the success, but he was just...

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2681.738 - 2688.804 Mike Breen

He was always questioning you. He was entertaining. I've always gotten a kick out of Calipari. Yes, Paul. You'll remember this.

2688.884 - 2709.263 Unknown

The day after Coach Cal was fired by the Nets, they had an NCAA regional at that arena. And I went. I got a pass. I worked at CBS Sports at the time. And I had a seat. Coach Cal sits next to me. And I didn't say a word. The guy had just been fired. And eventually, after like two hours, I got to say something. I introduced myself. And I go, what are you doing here?

2709.283 - 2719.494 Unknown

He goes, I had to come pick up some stuff from my office. And he also had his per diem money. He got a bunch of per diem money that he was owed as the coach of the Nets. He bought ice cream sundaes for the entire section.

2719.534 - 2729.806 Mike Breen

He starts peeling off $100 bills and giving it to the concession guy. It's pretty cool. Scott in New York. Hi, Scott. What do you have for me? Hey, Dan.

2730.386 - 2743.774 Robert Smigel

A couple of things regarding, first, boxers. Marvin Hagler retired. He stayed retired, right? One of my favorites. And now going on about Jalen Brunson last week, you were talking about comparable players.

Chapter 8: What are the implications of social media on NBA player performances?

3159.079 - 3164.786 Mike Breen

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3181.105 - 3187.992 Dan Patrick

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