The New Dan Patrick Show: Marathon!
OK, I’m one-third of the way through my DP Marathon. Trying to get through the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday shows this weekend while I do Christmas things at home. I listened to most of the Monday and Tuesday downloads earlier in the week. Wednesday’s show was really quite good, especially after all the time and handwringing spent on the Michael Vick story during Tuesday’s show. I enjoyed the interview with Mark Cuban. DP has great chemistry with Cris Carter; he should be on the show more often. With the great editing done at KLAC I never heard the full story behind DP’s new sidekick, Seton. And someone else chimed in with comments during the third hour of the show, but I never heard an introduction for the guy, nor did I clearly catch his name. Pat? Pabst? DP’s new posse boys are named after a college and a beer? Also, the last bit where DP was going to talk about the SportsCenter ads special that aired on ESPN was chopped out.
Hawaii commented in I once tried to order an egg cream at a kosher deli …:
… As for your post yesterday. If DP is not catching your interest lately, I have noticed through trial and error that the second hour is the best for non-hardcore sports fans (or at least off season baseball fans). The first hour is top sports stories and related interviews and the third hour often rehashing everything and a last minute athlete interview grab. But in the second hour Dan relaxes, muses about the stories of the day, adds his side own stories, and has the non-athlete interviews.
I was thinking of adding a “worth listening to” daily post over at Palaver on whatever item or interview from that day’s show was particularly good with the hour link. But I often catch up on the podcast the next day or the weekend and I only catch a portion of the show live, so it would be somewhat untimely. Maybe a weekly one for Friday? …
An hour-by-hour ebb and flow never occurred to me, but I think you have a point. Dan seems most hyped at the opening of the show when he does his monologue and introduces what I call the Topic of the Day, a theme that he returns to during that show. It could also be that his Starbuck’s is having its greatest effect during the first hour. They do repeat a lot of interviews; sometimes I’ve felt that all I need to do is listen to the last hour in order to know what the entire show was about. To me, this reflected a lack of content on the show. But the Wednesday edition was loaded with guests; perhaps this is what we can expect from now on.
Re the “worth listening to” item: I’ve been hoping you’d do a daily recap, much as you did for The Big Show on ERT. That way I could take a look at his guest list (the write-up on the KLAC podcast page is useless) and decide which parts I could skip and which parts were must-listen. But it detracts from the enjoyment of the show if you’re taking notes while you’re listening to it (which is what I find myself doing sometimes). A weekly “Best of DP” would be a nice addition to Palaver.
