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Chapter 1: What happened at the US Open that embarrassed Dan Patrick?
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I like watching it with my dad.
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Chapter 2: What personal story did Chris Fowler share about Father's Day?
So listen to point game on the I heart radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio. Hey, it's Seton O'Connor, former Danette, digital presence ambassador, commenting on the comments influencer, diehard Hartford Athletic fan, and chairman of Hartford Visitation Bureau. Look who's here. It's Seton O'Connor. Yay! USA!
USA! What's up, dude? Hey, great to see you here. Good to see you, buddy. What is making Team USA, this team, different than previous teams, in your opinion? You know, I think it's not that they're winning, it's the way they're winning.
You know, this team has always had, or at least recently had some trouble generating offense, but this team is sort of pouring in goals, and it's the way they're manufacturing the goals. That's what I think has everybody so excited, not just that they're winning, but the way that they're winning. How surprised are you that they're undefeated, that they won both of these?
You know, it's one of those things where it's like they did what they're supposed to do, and that's surprising. You know, to go into this last game with Turkey A and not have to absolutely win this or come away with the three points in order to advance and to just know that we can coast through this one. You can rest some players. Everybody can get healthy.
You don't have to worry about yellow cards. Against a team like Turkey A, who I'm really surprised at how poorly they performed, but not having to get through them to advance is fantastic. And Christian Pulisic is still on the sidelines there. We saw him in the first match, but now you get more breathing room for him.
I mean, you're going to need him, but I'm just curious of how you kind of divvy out playing time for somebody like that, that you do need, but you need him for a bigger picture here. Yeah, he's an incredibly important player. He's like our most dynamic player. He's won on the biggest stage as possible to have an American winning Champions League, you know, like he did with Chelsea.
It was really incredible. So, yeah, he's just a crucial piece. And even though this is maybe one of our deepest moments teams that we've had recently, you still don't want to get too far down into that depth chart. If we want to have a real chance to move on and say advance through 32 to the round of 16 and get to the quarterfinals, you absolutely need him healthy and playing well.
We're talking to Seton O'Connor, former Danette, but also a diehard Hartford Athletic fan and digital presence ambassador to the show. Also, you start to look at, I don't know if there was an outcry when we went from two countries to 48, like we've done with March Madness. We're doing with college football. Did the purists get upset that we're letting too many countries into the World Cup?
Oh, definitely. I wouldn't really consider myself a purist necessarily, but lots of, you know, the thing about soccer is it's a game of opinions. Everyone has an opinion on everything, and everybody else is always wrong because you're right.
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Chapter 3: How does Chris Fowler feel about sharing his father's audio tapes?
And so, look, I like the storylines that come out of letting more teams in. I understand that, you know, watching, say, France beat up on somebody important 12 goals isn't really that much fun. But there have been a lot of really cool stories happening this year. So I think the tournament's been a ton of fun.
And it means so much to countries that don't typically get to play in the World Cup that I'm all for that.
how do they dispense money if you advance like is it like march madness where you got a certain amount for each win yeah yeah i think it's it's i think it's probably pretty comparable to how uh money is dispersed like that the further you advance the more money you would win it's pretty typical i think um and you know that stuff means a lot to soccer federations you know all over the world
how does this all play out? Like, should our hopes be higher? Should they be elevated? You know, I think yes, actually. I think that we should be going into this, especially the way sort of the group stages is falling. I think that the team looks good enough to beat some real heavy hitters that maybe before we could, and I think we could beat Belgium should we meet them coming up.
But then at the same time, you know, you might run into an Ecuador team that is like, surprisingly great, too. So I like our chances, actually, more than I ever have before, by far. But there are some teams that are just absolute monsters. Like, France is just insane this year. They have, I mean, aside from Kylian Mbappe, Michael Alisse might be one of the best players in the world right now.
Most people really haven't heard of him. He plays for Bayern Munich. And they have this other dude, Ryan Turkey, who... Ryan Turkey plays for Manchester City. He's like... If Neymar is Kyrie Irving, then Ryan Cherky is like Jason Williams. He's like white chocolate. He's an absolute magician on the ball. I don't know how the U.S. would stack up against them. Spain is really good.
Argentina is great. Germany, I think that we could hold our own against Germany. Once you start getting into that round, then you're looking at... advancing pretty far, I think. I asked Rebecca Lowe this last week, do Messi and Ronaldo... Messi gets a hat-trick.
It felt like Ronaldo wanted to score, and maybe to the detriment of his team, but we're kind of seeing the end of Ronaldo, it feels like, at this level, and understandably so at 41, but... Rebecca Lowe said Messi knows he's the GOAT. Ronaldo calls himself the GOAT. But has this been a fair fight? Like they have had reason for each other to call themselves the GOAT or be referred to as?
You know, I think the fact that Messi came in play... Well, one, he won the World Cup last time, which is obviously massive.
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Chapter 4: What insights did Chris Fowler gain from listening to his father's tapes?
That put him by far over Ronaldo. I think that he came to play in the United States, too, which is helping his perception a lot, versus Ronaldo, who, you know... at least for a U.S. audience, kind of disappeared for the last couple of years. He hasn't really been visible at all. So I think that hurts him a little bit, too.
Messi, his game is still so good, I think, because, Dan, you know, you always talk about in basketball how players play the angles. And I think that's what Messi still does really, really well. And I don't know that that's Ronaldo's game. Great to see you. We'll talk to you soon. Thank you for Soccer Breakdown in 3, 2, 1. Thank you, Seton. See you, buddy.
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I love the sounds. The buzzing from the stadium, the chanting from the fans, the announcers calling the place. Soccer. Football. It's home.
Why do I watch the World Cup? That's like asking me, why do I breathe?
I inherited that fandom from my mom.
I like watching it with my dad. It's a connecting force.
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Chapter 5: What are the current rumors surrounding the NBA Draft?
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I took an elbow to my head, which cracked my skull. It is an American game. The Brazilians don't like hearing that, though.
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Chapter 6: Who are the top prospects in the upcoming NBA Draft?
And he knows without Luka and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reed.
He has to guard Julius Randle. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on a night-to-night basis on offense.
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Steve Nash would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers while he got the ball. Like, after you go through a training camp with that Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you gonna get the ball.
So listen to Point Game on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Chris Fowler shared a deeply personal story about discovering audio tapes recorded before his father died of cancer. And he shared this last night. The Mothership did a wonderful job with this last night. And, man, I've known you a long time.
And I was really surprised you opened yourself up to this, sharing a pretty incredible journey. How did you come to that point where you ā you say to your wife or your brother, I'm going to share this with America. I was pretty surprised too, Dan. It's unlike me, as you just alluded to, to open up like this and be this vulnerable. This is about a year in the works.
We found the tapes actually about five or six years ago, cleaning out my mom's very cluttered basement. She was a pack rat and saved everything, and thank God she did. But she also never...
made us aware that these tapes and my dad's voice existed for a long time so my brother finds them um i was sort of reluctant to play him i don't know how others would react but i hadn't spent four decades wishing i could hear my dad or wanting to connect with him the longing had pretty much faded away he died when i was 16 right and um i
I hadn't moved on, but finding the tapes opened up a whole bunch of stuff, because I heard a voice that I barely recognized, a manner of speaking that was really strange. It was very dramatic. It sounded like Olivier or John Gielgud talking into this little cassette recorder, narrating his days as a cancer patient, hoping they would make a book out of it.
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Chapter 7: How does Giannis' future impact the NBA Draft?
ESPN didn't exist when he recorded those tapes, and I'm watching his face on SportsCenter. It was bizarre, but also made me feel really good. What was the original purpose of these tapes from your dad? to chronicle what his days were like as a cancer patient. Back in the 70s, not that many people talked about it, right?
We didn't have so many people sharing their journey, letting us know what each day was like, what chemo felt like, what radiation felt like. And he was talking about that in the tapes and also talking about stuff that he had learned through this cancer journey when your time is short. And that's what's such a mind warp of this though, Dan. I'm listening to tapes recorded by him
When he's 15 years younger than I am when I'm hearing him. If I'd heard those tapes as a college kid or if his death had been a recent event, it would have been very, very different. But now I'm listening to him and thinking that at this point in my life, I've lived longer than he did by a lot, my 15 years or so.
And I think I've learned a thing or two that he didn't know when he was recording these tapes. So it was a weird role reversal that way. How much contact did you have your dad leading up to his cancer diagnosis? Um... Oh, we were very close as a family. I mean, we were pulled apart. He was sent to Colorado for cancer treatment. We still lived in State College, Pennsylvania.
And in those days, there were no smartphones. There was no FaceTime, no emails, right? You just had that phone on the wall of the kitchen with a really long cord. And once a week, we'd hear his voice. And he'd talk about what he was going through or not. He kept a lot of stuff from us. So we were sort of in the dark.
what his days were like, and that's what was weird to hear these tapes, because my brother and I, when we sat there and listened in my house up in the mountains, and he talked about deep, dark stuff. It's in the piece. He talked about suicidal thoughts and wondering how many pills he would have to take. to end it, to get out of the suffering he was going through.
We had never heard any, we had no idea. We had never been clued in to how deep and dark that was. So that was just another aspect of it. That's why we got emotional hearing the tapes, to hear about the pain he was in. But it really helped us I wouldn't say closure, but gained some clarity.
I really, Dan, not just the tapes we heard, but I went on a shoot talking to people that he had taught as a theater professor and actors who had worked with him, hearing about sides of him that I never knew. He kept a lot of that stuff at work. And when he came home, the job was intense and he was very focused on it and driven and a perfectionist.
And he didn't share a lot of that stuff, those sides of him with us. And so to hear about that, and how excellent he was at his job and how people took lessons from him, they're now in their 70s, and they still use them in their lives 50 years later. That made me proud, man. It was pretty powerful. What do you want people or what do you hope that they'll take from this?
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Chapter 8: What final thoughts did Dan Patrick share about the episode's discussions?
There were a lot of things, as I heard the tapes that I realized were not. alike in a lot of ways, and that's okay. I mean, he always craved the spotlight, wanted to be a star. It was important to him, acceptance. He cared a lot about what others thought of him and his plays. That's really not me in a lot of ways, but it makes you sort of wonder.
A lot of things I did inherit from him that I'm very proud of, but we were also really different people. So had I had a relationship with him as an adult, How would that have gone? Would we have been buddies or would we have clashed? Those are unknowable things, but it's kind of been interesting to kind of explore it.
Yeah, I've mentioned on the show, my dad was 54 when he died, and he died of lung cancer. He was going through cobalt treatments, chemo. They gave him six months to live. He died six months to the day. In fact, when Jimmy V was dying, when he was there in Bristol, I remember telling him that I didn't want to get close to him because I didn't want to go through that again.
And he said, tell me about your dad. And I told him, he said, how long did they give him to live? I said, six months. How long did he live? Six months. And he was crestfallen. And that's when he had the famous line to me when he said, when I die, put a goddamn good picture above your shoulder when you do that story on SportsCenter. And I was like, And, you know, I told him, and I felt bad.
I couldn't go through that again. I could not go through that again of losing somebody. And I had to apologize. The last day he was there. I apologized to him. But, you know, you start to, I miss my dad. And it's, you know, I was 25 when he died. Like, you were 16. I mean... I mean, but early 50s, man, it's way too soon. My dad didn't even make it to 50, and that has shaped my life.
I don't know if it shaped how you live yours, but what I talk about in the piece a little bit at the end is what he figured out late in life, when he was running out of time, is, hey, we're guaranteed nothing. Savor the simple things, the small connections, the beautiful sunrise. Throttle back. Put aside the petty BS about...
jealousies and and and people that you resent that that stuff in the end is so unimportant i don't know if that shaped you it certainly has been one of the formative experiences of my life watching my dad die young Yeah, my brothers and I would celebrate once we got past the age of 54. Like, we had a big celebration. But, you know, I know you're doing other things sports-wise.
It just doesn't feel right to be talking about Wimbledon coverage, and we can do that another time. But thank you for sharing, Chris. I mean it. When I saw that you were doing the story, I read about the story, and I go... Of all people, I mean, it's great you did it because you don't know how this impacts other people, which is sometimes the beauty of this.
It's not why you're doing it, but the fallout could be that people reconnect in some way. That's very kind of you to say that. I guess that's another takeaway. It's never too late to melt the ice, you know, and be a little bit vulnerable and put yourself out there because people do connect and they do get something out of it. Thank you, Chris. Appreciate that. That's Chris Fowler, the mothership.
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