The New Dan Patrick Show: Where’s Waldo Dan?
OK, Christmas is over. I can tell because the local radio station that has been playing Christmas carols since Halloween played “Maggie May” and “Hotel California” this morning, two decidedly non-Christmas-sy pieces. Wandered over to the KLAC podcast site to download DP’s Christmas Eve and Christmas shows; only caught the last hour of yesterday’s show.
But, lo. The cupboard is bare.
Perhaps KLAC will get around to posting those shows. I don’t know. I don’t think they ever got around to posting DP’s Thanksgiving week shows (the Thursday and Friday ones). I kept checking back, but gave up after a couple of weeks. Maybe I’m the only person who is dedicated/obsessive enough to want to catch up on all the shows I miss. I’m kind of dreading DP’s union with Sports Illustrated because I don’t like the SI Web site. (Pretty darn fugly.) But I hope they do a better job providing technical support for his show.
The last show I heard is last Thursday’s. I’m two hours into it. I already gave the big thumb’s up on Palaver to DP’s autograph stories bit last week, but I really liked DP’s interview with Howie Long. I’m old enough to remember Howie from his playing days with the Raiders (heck, I’m old enough to remember John Madden as a coach, not just a video game) and he was always one of those hard-nosed, no-nonsense guys. Well, linemen have to be. But he’s also a very articulate, funny guy and a good analyst. And I love the unconventional answer he gave to DP when asked (18.59 into the segment) “Give me a woman who would distract even the great Howie Long” — a là the Tony Romo-Jessica Simpson thing. Without missing a beat he answered “Sophia Loren” and even cited two of her movies, El Cid (one of my all-time favorites) and Houseboat. Seton, ring the home run bell for Howie! DP clearly expected him to answer with something like Scarlett Johansson or Halle Berry or some Babe-of-the-Week. Way to throw DP a curve, Howie.
And DP backed the car over Lou? (35.21 into the segment.) It happened a couple of years ago; it’s nice to know that he made a good recovery. And you thought Lou was mad at Michael Vick ….
Wow! Music by Miklós Rózsa! My parents had the soundtrack album and I listened to it a lot as a kid. Man, I think I have to run out and buy the dvd right now.
It is particularly a shame that some of the best interview stuff is not available at KLAC. I even emailed a complaint about the Dan Naulty interview not being available. I imagine that will eventually be available at DP’s site. The Year in Review show will probably never madke it up, though the parts I heard were really excellent, so that is a shame.
I forgot to put that Howie Long inteview up on the weekly thing. He was very good. I like him on the fact that he is willing to use the name “Howie” alone, but the Sophia Loren thing was indeed awesome. I also liked that Dan countered with Raquel Welch.
Yeah, the Lou under the car thing is old. The pup seems to have made a full recovery, which is luckly. He is a very little guy.
Comment by hawaii — 26 December 2007, Wednesday @ 17:00:38
KLAC treats the show like just another of their properties. DP needs to get away from them. He’s supposedly establishing his own brand, not being a KLAC bit-player. I hope SI will do good by him. Don’t think they can do worse, though.
Comment by Karl — 27 December 2007, Thursday @ 13:51:48