Latest / Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk / October 6, 2026 (Hour 2)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Check out the original DG Designs at David Gardner's Jewelers
- 0:04Speaker 1: 911 University Drive in front of audio video.
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- 0:27Speaker 3: of the bend on Texas Avenue in Bryan.
- 0:28Speaker 1: You pay less, but you get much more. Great savings
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- 0:41Speaker 4: A tall, handsome stranger rode into town with fire in
- 0:45Speaker 4: his eyes burning red as sundown.
- 0:48Speaker 1: His boots were all dusty. Hey, welcome back. Thanks for
- 0:50Speaker 1: being with us on this Tuesday edition. It seems like
- 0:57Speaker 1: it's felt like a Monday. It started rough. That's okay
- 1:02Speaker 1: if you're just joining us. You're here for a really
- 1:05Speaker 1: good hour. Lizzie is coming up for entertainment news and
- 1:12Speaker 1: Two years ago, I got a chance to visit with
- 1:14Speaker 1: Dennis Francione. He wrote a book about his life, and
- 1:19Speaker 1: it was a terrific conversation. We're going to replay it today.
- 1:25Speaker 1: We found out this morning, right after I got to work,
- 1:29Speaker 1: that Coach Francione had lost a battle with cancer that
- 1:35Speaker 1: had been going on close to 10 years ago. Coached
- 1:41Speaker 1: A & M for five. Turned around programs at New Mexico.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Really had success at Alabama before coming here. TCU. And
- 1:55Speaker 1: won over 200 games in his coaching career. So let's
- 2:02Speaker 1: hear the interview that I did with him a couple
- 2:06Speaker 1: of years ago. Right now, we're going to jump out
- 2:09Speaker 1: to the Polaris Fund Center phone line and visit with
- 2:12Speaker 1: Dennis Franchoni. His book is called Tough Times Never Last,
- 2:17Speaker 1: The Coach Fran Story. Coach, it's great to catch up.
- 2:22Speaker 1: How are you feeling? How's your health right now?
- 2:25Speaker 5: Well, my cancer's kind of in remission right now. I
- 2:29Speaker 5: don't have any in my body. And so that's the
- 2:34Speaker 5: big thing. And, you know, I've I've got various things
- 2:40Speaker 5: to deal with, but all in all, I can't complain.
- 2:42Speaker 5: I'm doing pretty good.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Are you still undergoing treatment?
- 2:47Speaker 6: Yes.
- 2:48Speaker 5: I'll be undergoing treatment for the rest of my life.
- 2:52Speaker 1: Yeah. I only did that for a year and a half,
- 2:55Speaker 1: and I know what it felt like, so I kind
- 2:58Speaker 1: of have a little bit of an idea of what
- 3:00Speaker 1: you're dealing with.
- 3:02Speaker 5: Well, fortunately, I don't have to do chemo. I do immunotherapy.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Okay. And that hasn't had as many effects, maybe?
- 3:10Speaker 5: No, not at all. I mean, I have no side
- 3:14Speaker 5: effects really from it, and that's one reason she's kept
- 3:17Speaker 5: me on it.
- 3:17Speaker 1: Okay. Well, I know you've had like two bouts with it,
- 3:21Speaker 1: have you not?
- 3:23Speaker 5: Well, I've had three years of it. Okay. I got
- 3:28Speaker 5: it all gone, and it was gone for a while,
- 3:31Speaker 5: and then I got a little tumor in my arm,
- 3:34Speaker 5: and then we took care of that with just radiation.
- 3:37Speaker 5: And then I got a little tumor on my hip,
- 3:40Speaker 5: and we took care of that with radiation. It wasn't
- 3:42Speaker 5: very big. And so, you know, all in all, I've
- 3:47Speaker 5: been blessed.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a battle. Like I said, I wish I
- 3:54Speaker 1: didn't know how you felt, but I'm afraid that I do.
- 3:57Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I've been free for 18 years, Coach,
- 4:04Speaker 1: so I'm very thankful about that.
- 4:07Speaker 5: Yeah, that's super.
- 4:10Speaker 1: Did your daughter-in-law talk you into this, or is this
- 4:13Speaker 1: something you had thought about doing for a while?
- 4:17Speaker 5: No, I had thought about doing it, and I wanted
- 4:23Speaker 5: to do it for my grandkids. Sure. We didn't get
- 4:26Speaker 5: to see a lot of games or really experience all
- 4:29Speaker 5: the college coaching, and And so that's really why I
- 4:32Speaker 5: did it. And the reason that I got her involved,
- 4:36Speaker 5: she was a communications major in college. And when we
- 4:40Speaker 5: first moved back to go to my doctor, we spent
- 4:43Speaker 5: about four months in Wimberley, right across the street from them.
- 4:46Speaker 5: So it was easy for her to just come over
- 4:49Speaker 5: and we'd sit and do a chapter a day, maybe,
- 4:52Speaker 5: or half a chapter, whatever it might be. And I would,
- 4:55Speaker 5: I would talk and she would write and then she'd,
- 4:58Speaker 5: she followed up with a lot of the players and coaches, um,
- 5:02Speaker 5: you know, for the book and everything. So, you know,
- 5:05Speaker 5: it was, uh, it took 20 months to do it. Um, but, uh, I,
- 5:10Speaker 5: I feel like it turned out, you know, pretty decent.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, I, I really enjoyed it. I learned so
- 5:18Speaker 1: much about you and I, I promise we're going to
- 5:21Speaker 1: get to the really more fun stuff, but I, uh,
- 5:26Speaker 1: having to deal with the death of your parents, that
- 5:31Speaker 1: obviously changes anybody and affects anybody, and it certainly took
- 5:37Speaker 1: its toll on you for a while, did it not?
- 5:40Speaker 5: It sure did. You know, I always, I was a Christian.
- 5:45Speaker 5: I believed in God, and I, but when that happened,
- 5:49Speaker 5: it was like, you're such a great God. How did
- 5:53Speaker 5: this happen? How did you let these kind of things happen?
- 5:56Speaker 5: happened to us, and I was only 22 at the time,
- 5:59Speaker 5: so I wasn't strong enough to process all this. Later on,
- 6:08Speaker 5: Ken Horton, who was our team pastor at TCU, I
- 6:12Speaker 5: got up enough guts to talk to him about it,
- 6:15Speaker 5: and he helped me to put it to bed and
- 6:20Speaker 5: reconcile and get my life going. going the direction it
- 6:25Speaker 5: should be in regard to my faith.
- 6:28Speaker 1: In your own words, you were pretty angry at God
- 6:30Speaker 1: for about 20 years. Am I right about that?
- 6:33Speaker 5: Yes, you're right about that. I just could not digest.
- 6:38Speaker 6: Yes.
- 6:40Speaker 5: Finally, one day, we were at TCU. We had practice,
- 6:43Speaker 5: and there was a terrible shooting where people got killed.
- 6:46Speaker 1: At one of the shopping malls.
- 6:49Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember that. So that's when I started digging
- 6:53Speaker 5: in with Ken. How did this happen, and how did
- 6:55Speaker 5: mine happen? And, you know, there aren't great answers for suicide,
- 7:00Speaker 5: but he gave me a comfort with it at least,
- 7:04Speaker 5: and time helped me too. And my wife was a
- 7:08Speaker 5: huge factor in all of that. Kim really let me
- 7:12Speaker 5: be me, but also nudged me back toward the faith
- 7:18Speaker 5: that I should have.
- 7:21Speaker 1: And Coach Tommerdahl, I think you're right, played a fairly
- 7:24Speaker 1: substantial role in that journey, did he not?
- 7:27Speaker 5: He did. Mark is a great Christian, and he was
- 7:33Speaker 5: somebody on the staff that once in a while I
- 7:35Speaker 5: could go sit down with in a closed room and say, Mark,
- 7:39Speaker 5: let's talk about this. I need help here. And he
- 7:43Speaker 5: was just great. He always has been and always will
- 7:46Speaker 5: be somebody I cherish.
- 7:48Speaker 1: So how much have you leaned on that faith these
- 7:51Speaker 1: last four or five years during this struggle?
- 7:55Speaker 5: I bet.
- 7:56Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 7:57Speaker 5: Nobody's ever prepared, and as you know, to hear the words,
- 8:01Speaker 5: you have cancer.
- 8:02Speaker 6: Correct.
- 8:03Speaker 5: You know, you're kind of stunned. And, you know, so
- 8:11Speaker 5: when my first meeting with my oncologist happened, I didn't
- 8:15Speaker 5: know what to expect. I didn't know what she was
- 8:17Speaker 5: going to tell me. And she spent two hours with
- 8:21Speaker 5: me on Friday night from 6 o'clock to 8 o'clock,
- 8:26Speaker 5: which I thought was amazing. And she stepped out for
- 8:29Speaker 5: a minute and came. When she stepped out, I asked Kim.
- 8:31Speaker 5: I said, she sounds pretty optimistic on this. And so
- 8:36Speaker 5: she came back in, and I asked the doctor about
- 8:38Speaker 5: sounding optimistic. She said, well, I am, and you should
- 8:41Speaker 5: be too. And that's a statement that's... stuck with me
- 8:47Speaker 5: through all of that. You know, one day she told me,
- 8:50Speaker 5: she said, you know, like all of us, you're going
- 8:52Speaker 5: to pass away, but you're not going to die from cancer.
- 8:55Speaker 5: So that was, that was a pretty huge statement too.
- 8:58Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 8:59Speaker 1: That's, uh, I had some of those and sometimes those
- 9:02Speaker 1: are a little bit hard to believe, aren't they?
- 9:04Speaker 5: They are. All of that is hard to believe. I mean,
- 9:09Speaker 5: when I, uh, first started my immunotherapy, I had a
- 9:13Speaker 5: little tumor on the back of my neck, kind of
- 9:16Speaker 5: like your thumb sticking up a little bit. And a
- 9:21Speaker 5: couple months in, it was gone. You know, it wasn't
- 9:24Speaker 5: there anymore. And I asked her about it. She said,
- 9:27Speaker 5: that's just your immunotherapy. How well your body's responding to it.
- 9:31Speaker 5: And that was the first thing that made me think, okay,
- 9:38Speaker 5: we can fight this.
- 9:41Speaker 1: When you write quite a bit about your relationship with
- 9:46Speaker 1: former President Bush in the book, and I know everybody
- 9:50Speaker 1: that's come through here when he was here holds him
- 9:53Speaker 1: in the highest regard. How would you describe him as
- 9:58Speaker 1: just like a supporter of the program? when you were
- 10:00Speaker 1: here and and the things that that you were able
- 10:03Speaker 1: to to visit with him about.
- 10:07Speaker 5: Well he was he was a great individual and um
- 10:11Speaker 5: a lot of fun conversations with him kim sat in
- 10:16Speaker 5: the box with him uh at games and uh you know,
- 10:20Speaker 5: not every day you like a good Aggie, you kiss
- 10:23Speaker 5: after a touchdown. And, uh, him and Barbara were just
- 10:30Speaker 5: so much fun and we enjoyed them so much. He,
- 10:33Speaker 5: and he was a good, good supporter and, um, you know,
- 10:36Speaker 5: probably his best supporter if we lost a tough one.
- 10:39Speaker 5: And you really, uh, respect those kinds of people a lot.
- 10:43Speaker 5: And he would come to practice. Players love to see him. And, uh,
- 10:47Speaker 5: I only saw him get serious one time when his
- 10:50Speaker 5: son was dealing with 9-11 and everything, and I asked
- 10:54Speaker 5: him how his son was doing. That was one time
- 10:58Speaker 5: he really took a step back and talked without humor
- 11:03Speaker 5: and very seriousness in his voice, and I felt for him.
- 11:08Speaker 1: A lot of coaches, Fran, tell me that they remember
- 11:13Speaker 1: the losses more than they do the wins. that the
- 11:18Speaker 1: losses are lower than the wins are higher. Was that
- 11:22Speaker 1: the case with you?
- 11:24Speaker 5: Well, I think certain losses, not all of them.
- 11:27Speaker 1: Okay.
- 11:29Speaker 5: I have a lot of wins that I cherish. Sure. But,
- 11:32Speaker 5: you know, there's one that gets away that shouldn't have
- 11:35Speaker 5: got away or one that eats at you. Probably the
- 11:39Speaker 5: worst one I had, we were at TCU, and we
- 11:43Speaker 5: were going to be the first BCS Bowl buster. We
- 11:45Speaker 5: went 10-1. And we got upset late in the season
- 11:50Speaker 5: at San Jose and that knocked us out of it.
- 11:52Speaker 5: And that was, that was a tough loss. It would
- 11:57Speaker 5: have been nice to be the first team to get
- 11:59Speaker 5: into the BCS. It was not in a BCS conference.
- 12:02Speaker 5: So I remember that one. I remember the sun bowl
- 12:06Speaker 5: when we took BC to the sun bowl and won
- 12:09Speaker 5: and we were a head dog. I mean, I, there's
- 12:12Speaker 5: so many great games that I win or that I
- 12:15Speaker 5: still remember that I love. And, But losses, they always
- 12:21Speaker 5: stick with you, that's for sure. The tough ones.
- 12:25Speaker 1: This week coming up, obviously, there's, I would say, a
- 12:29Speaker 1: little bit of excitement around here. Yeah, I bet. You
- 12:35Speaker 1: were part of this rivalry while it was still going on.
- 12:39Speaker 1: How did you describe it?
- 12:43Speaker 5: Well, you know, there's rivalries, and then there's... There's real rivalries,
- 12:49Speaker 5: and A & M Texas is a deep-seated, real rivalry. Now,
- 12:56Speaker 5: I do respect both the Longhorns and the Aggies in
- 12:59Speaker 5: the fact that, for the most part, they keep it
- 13:04Speaker 5: between the lines and things, where Auburn and Alabama, that
- 13:11Speaker 5: baby there, that thing is 724-365. Yeah. If you moved
- 13:16Speaker 5: to Alabama today, you would have to declare which one
- 13:19Speaker 5: you are. Even if you were a Texas A &
- 13:22Speaker 5: M Aggie, you would still have to declare. So the
- 13:25Speaker 5: respect for the rivalry is good. It's healthy. It's a
- 13:30Speaker 5: good rivalry. I'm sure there are a few people that
- 13:32Speaker 5: go over the edge a little bit. But all in all,
- 13:37Speaker 5: it's what a rivalry should be about.
- 13:39Speaker 1: How– is it impossible to prepare– any coach for what
- 13:46Speaker 1: he stepped into at Alabama. And I, I certainly know that,
- 13:51Speaker 1: you know, what coach DeBoer is going through right now.
- 13:56Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, it, I, I was fortunate. I had coached
- 14:01Speaker 5: in the South of Tennessee tech and had gone down
- 14:04Speaker 5: and visited some Southern schools in the spring. So I
- 14:07Speaker 5: had a little idea what I was getting into, but
- 14:11Speaker 5: there's no place quite like Alabama. It's, It's they love
- 14:16Speaker 5: Alabama football or maybe Auburn football, but most of my Alabama, um,
- 14:21Speaker 5: they expect to win a national championship every year. Um, they, if,
- 14:27Speaker 5: if you lose the game early, it's like, Oh no,
- 14:29Speaker 5: we might not win the national championship. The fact that you,
- 14:33Speaker 5: you really don't, you can't go out in public. Um,
- 14:37Speaker 5: you know, you'll be signing autographs and taking pictures for
- 14:39Speaker 5: the rest of the night. Um, you know, you just,
- 14:43Speaker 5: your personal life, you have to leave town if you
- 14:46Speaker 5: really want to, you know, go out and eat or
- 14:49Speaker 5: do many things. So there was one restaurant in Birmingham
- 14:51Speaker 5: that would kind of shelter us so we could have
- 14:54Speaker 5: a nice dinner together. But I remember on our 25th
- 14:57Speaker 5: wedding anniversary, I asked a restaurant downtown, and we were
- 15:02Speaker 5: at a football campus in June, and I asked them
- 15:05Speaker 5: if they could, you know, put us somewhere where we
- 15:08Speaker 5: could enjoy our meal by ourselves. And And they did.
- 15:12Speaker 5: They took good care of us. But most of the time,
- 15:16Speaker 5: restaurants couldn't do that. You know, you're just out in
- 15:18Speaker 5: the open with them. And it was difficult. But the
- 15:21Speaker 5: Alabama fans love their Alabama football like nobody ever before.
- 15:27Speaker 5: I mean, they don't take a breath without thinking Alabama football.
- 15:31Speaker 5: It's amazing. I would get a gift every day. And
- 15:36Speaker 5: I would sign.
- 15:38Speaker 5: About 50 to 100 items every day. You know, those
- 15:42Speaker 5: are just things that take up your time. You don't
- 15:47Speaker 5: expect to have that much of.
- 15:48Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. When you came here in 03, Mack Brown
- 15:56Speaker 1: was in the middle of his run in Austin. I
- 15:59Speaker 1: think he won at least 10 games, 9 or 10
- 16:03Speaker 1: years in a row. You got there in the middle
- 16:06Speaker 1: of that run. and recruiting had been flipped a little
- 16:10Speaker 1: bit in the state. What was your mindset when you
- 16:15Speaker 1: stepped onto this campus, Fran?
- 16:22Speaker 5: Well, I felt like we could recruit with anybody. I mean,
- 16:27Speaker 5: we just had to get out and do it and
- 16:28Speaker 5: work hard at it, and we had to evaluate well.
- 16:31Speaker 5: As we were gaining steam, we had to pick the
- 16:35Speaker 5: right players, you know, Nothing hurts you worse than choosing
- 16:39Speaker 5: an athlete to be one of your 20 or so
- 16:42Speaker 5: recruits at the time. And then you made a mistake.
- 16:46Speaker 5: I mean, that's on me. It's not on anybody else.
- 16:49Speaker 5: But you've got to really study and you've got to
- 16:54Speaker 5: put time into recruiting and evaluating especially. And, you know,
- 16:59Speaker 5: I mean, we had a couple of kids, nobody else
- 17:01Speaker 5: offered scholarships to. Ryan Tannehill, he was a good example.
- 17:04Speaker 5: I think he might have had. an offer from tech,
- 17:07Speaker 5: maybe it turned out to be a pretty darn good
- 17:10Speaker 5: player and played a long time in the NFL. And, and, um,
- 17:14Speaker 5: you know, you, I've been fortunate in my coaching career
- 17:17Speaker 5: to be able to evaluate well, or Danny and Tomlinson
- 17:19Speaker 5: didn't have hardly any offers and Brian or Lacker didn't
- 17:23Speaker 5: have another offer. So, you know, you use those skills
- 17:28Speaker 5: and you stick to your evaluation because Texas had offered
- 17:32Speaker 5: them that, um, That didn't matter to us.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Sure.
- 17:36Speaker 5: We want to offer them. Does it fit in our
- 17:39Speaker 5: style of football and everything? And, you know, the first
- 17:44Speaker 5: three years was tough against Texas. We got a little
- 17:46Speaker 5: closer each year. And then finally, you know, the fourth
- 17:50Speaker 5: and fifth year, we were able to beat them.
- 17:52Speaker 1: Yeah, back-to-back years, there's probably less than a handful of
- 18:00Speaker 1: coaches here that have done that. Um, and I guess
- 18:08Speaker 1: your reward, the second year that you beat them was,
- 18:12Speaker 1: was to go look for another job, right?
- 18:15Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 18:16Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 18:17Speaker 5: I'm being second time and you're out of here.
- 18:20Speaker 1: Thanks for beating Texas and don't let the door hit
- 18:23Speaker 1: you on the way out.
- 18:25Speaker 5: Yeah. They, they told me before the game and, and I,
- 18:28Speaker 5: I'm like the Texas game don't matter. Nope.
- 18:32Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 18:33Speaker 5: But I, coached my tail off, and all our coaches did, too.
- 18:36Speaker 5: We wanted to win.
- 18:38Speaker 1: You have a reputation, speaking of that, of, I guess,
- 18:43Speaker 1: for lack of a better term, being a grinder. Do
- 18:46Speaker 1: you consider yourself that in terms of how you went
- 18:50Speaker 1: about the job every day?
- 18:52Speaker 5: Yeah, probably. I wanted to make sure that the I's
- 18:57Speaker 5: were dotted, the T's were crossed, and if we lost
- 19:01Speaker 5: the game, it wasn't because of something we didn't do
- 19:05Speaker 5: or something we should have done that we didn't do.
- 19:09Speaker 5: By kickoff, I wanted everything to be in place so
- 19:12Speaker 5: that we had our best chance to win. My wife
- 19:16Speaker 5: called at 7-11. You get there at 7 and you
- 19:18Speaker 5: stay until 11. We didn't really have a clock we watched.
- 19:22Speaker 5: We did what we needed to do to have our
- 19:25Speaker 5: team prepared for every situation. Some of our coaches that
- 19:30Speaker 5: I see out there today, they're much more concerned with
- 19:34Speaker 5: how soon they get home at night, and how little
- 19:37Speaker 5: time they can get by with. And if they can
- 19:39Speaker 5: be a success and do that, that's more power to them.
- 19:42Speaker 5: I couldn't do that. I had to make sure everything
- 19:46Speaker 5: was in place, Even on Friday nights at the hotel,
- 19:50Speaker 5: sometimes we were still coaching and teaching kids and showing
- 19:54Speaker 5: them things on film. The more you watch the film,
- 19:57Speaker 5: the more you see and the more you figure out
- 19:59Speaker 5: how that other coaching staff is coaching this position to
- 20:03Speaker 5: do this on this. Like an outside linebacker, what does
- 20:07Speaker 5: he close on the down block? Does he in your reaching,
- 20:10Speaker 5: you know, what are, what are the things that you
- 20:12Speaker 5: can do that, that, you know, hopefully you've seen it
- 20:17Speaker 5: all during the week, but invariably by Friday night, I
- 20:20Speaker 5: find one little thing about a corner or somebody that, Hey, we,
- 20:25Speaker 5: we can change this just a little bit, this move
- 20:27Speaker 5: here or whatever, and maybe get a little advantage on
- 20:30Speaker 5: the guy. So we, we, we did a lot of that.
- 20:33Speaker 5: We were grinders.
- 20:35Speaker 1: Um, You write about kind of the last year and
- 20:40Speaker 1: the story came out with the newsletter and all of that.
- 20:44Speaker 1: And I just like you. I mean, I don't want
- 20:48Speaker 1: to put words in your mouth. I read the chapter.
- 20:50Speaker 1: But I'd like, from your perspective, what happened and the
- 20:56Speaker 1: fact that maybe that was used as an excuse to
- 21:00Speaker 1: get rid of you.
- 21:02Speaker 5: Well, it was. and to get out of my contract. And,
- 21:09Speaker 5: you know, there was nothing there in the end. They
- 21:11Speaker 5: went through it with a fine-tooth comb. Bill Byrne knew
- 21:14Speaker 5: about the newsletter the whole time. We didn't ever try
- 21:18Speaker 5: to hide anything. And, you know, it cost quite a
- 21:23Speaker 5: bit to run that website, but I thought it was
- 21:25Speaker 5: a great communication device with people and that it really
- 21:30Speaker 5: served a purpose, you know, on things. But, uh, you know,
- 21:37Speaker 5: when they're, when they're tired of you, um, they can,
- 21:40Speaker 5: they'll find a reason. Yeah. It's really, are you not
- 21:46Speaker 5: winning enough or whatever, this or that. And it's always
- 21:50Speaker 5: the bottom line, but they can use other excuses to
- 21:52Speaker 5: get out of things that they want to get out of.
- 21:54Speaker 5: And that's kind of what happened. I mean, you know,
- 21:58Speaker 5: it was, I always heard Aggies don't like cheaters feel.
- 22:02Speaker 5: I felt like, um, we were caught in a little
- 22:06Speaker 5: bit of a crossfire there that really didn't need to
- 22:09Speaker 5: be the way it was. But, you know, at the time,
- 22:12Speaker 5: we were probably on the hot seat and the media
- 22:16Speaker 5: was making their way with that. And, you know, when
- 22:21Speaker 5: the fire gets started, sometimes you can't get it put out.
- 22:24Speaker 6: Yes.
- 22:25Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you've been in coaching long enough. It's
- 22:28Speaker 1: the profession you chose. Probably when you chose it, especially
- 22:33Speaker 1: when you were, coaching high school, you weren't ever thinking
- 22:36Speaker 1: about meeting presidents and, and having to deal with donors
- 22:40Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. That's my guess anyway.
- 22:44Speaker 5: Well, you always, you don't have donors much in high school.
- 22:49Speaker 5: You have to act like donors. And, you know, I,
- 22:55Speaker 5: I always enjoyed that part of it. I mean, the
- 22:57Speaker 5: crazy ones, um, drive you a little nuts, but, uh, um,
- 23:02Speaker 5: You know, you're trying to create passion in your program,
- 23:05Speaker 5: and that was the great thing in my career. I
- 23:07Speaker 5: finally got to places like TCU and Alabama and Texas
- 23:13Speaker 5: A & M where I didn't have to create passion.
- 23:15Speaker 5: I had to manage it. Yes. That's what you're trying
- 23:19Speaker 5: to do is be able to put yourself in one
- 23:22Speaker 5: of those positions where if you do well, you can
- 23:24Speaker 5: win a national championship and, you know, you understand what
- 23:29Speaker 5: the repercussions are if you don't do well enough.
- 23:32Speaker 1: How long did it take you to wind down, gear
- 23:37Speaker 1: down mentally, emotionally after working 18 hours a day, seven
- 23:41Speaker 1: days a week for 30 or 40 years?
- 23:47Speaker 5: Oh, that's a good question. I know it took a
- 23:50Speaker 5: good three months just for me to kind of find
- 23:53Speaker 5: a routine. I was so out of routine. And then
- 23:59Speaker 5: I remember that first fall, I wasn't coaching, and I
- 24:03Speaker 5: was doing ESPN. We had a game. There was a
- 24:07Speaker 5: game on a Friday, and I'm sorry I haven't gone
- 24:11Speaker 5: to the site yet. Maybe it was Thursday, but anyway,
- 24:14Speaker 5: I'm helping Kim dry the dishes, and I'm watching the game,
- 24:19Speaker 5: and I go, what am I doing? Game going on,
- 24:24Speaker 5: and I'm drying the dishes.
- 24:26Speaker 1: You know.
- 24:32Speaker 5: It was good. You found out that there was a
- 24:34Speaker 5: life beyond coaching that I didn't get to enjoy a
- 24:38Speaker 5: great deal. Um, but, um, I, I have no complaints. I,
- 24:44Speaker 5: I got to coach for 40 years. I never got
- 24:46Speaker 5: up a day in my life and went to work.
- 24:48Speaker 5: It is in for two, uh, any, anybody that can,
- 24:54Speaker 5: then chip, you can probably say that about your career. I,
- 24:56Speaker 5: I bet, uh, you've gotten to do a lot of
- 24:59Speaker 5: what you love to do and you're so good at it. And,
- 25:01Speaker 5: When you love to do it, you know, it's not
- 25:03Speaker 5: like work.
- 25:04Speaker 1: You're right. I promise you, Coach, I'm not working 18
- 25:09Speaker 1: hours a day, seven days a week.
- 25:12Speaker 5: Well, that never bothered me. You know, my job was
- 25:16Speaker 5: to get the team as ready to play as I could,
- 25:20Speaker 5: and I would have been bothered if I hadn't done that.
- 25:24Speaker 5: Every once in a while, after a game's over, you
- 25:27Speaker 5: stop and think, well, in retrospect, maybe we should have.
- 25:30Speaker 5: done this instead of this. I mean, you always guess
- 25:34Speaker 5: yourself really. It's not second guessing. It's really just evaluation
- 25:38Speaker 5: so that you don't make the same mistake again, or,
- 25:40Speaker 5: you know, that you make sure you have things in
- 25:43Speaker 5: perspective to give your team the best chance you can.
- 25:47Speaker 1: I can't thank you enough for, for the time. I
- 25:49Speaker 1: want to mention that the book tough times never last
- 25:52Speaker 1: is through TCU press and coach. I wish you the best.
- 25:58Speaker 1: I wish you good health and, long years with your grandkids.
- 26:03Speaker 5: Well, thank you. And I might mention that you can
- 26:05Speaker 5: get it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and I think Target.
- 26:09Speaker 9: Awesome.
- 26:10Speaker 5: And if anybody wants one signed, they can send it
- 26:13Speaker 5: to me and I'll send it back or, you know,
- 26:15Speaker 5: maybe I'll meet him somewhere. And I think now that
- 26:20Speaker 5: you've got to read it, you can comment on this,
- 26:22Speaker 5: but it seems like most people have enjoyed the book
- 26:25Speaker 5: and there's a lot of humor in the book and
- 26:28Speaker 5: the I wanted there to be some things in there
- 26:31Speaker 5: that a guy like you might say, gosh, I didn't
- 26:34Speaker 5: know a Division I head football coach had to do that.
- 26:37Speaker 1: Well, I tell you, I learned a lot that I
- 26:44Speaker 1: did not know, and I learned a lot about, frankly,
- 26:51Speaker 1: what you had to overcome, which nobody should have to do.
- 26:56Speaker 1: It was substantial, and Got a deep respect for what
- 27:02Speaker 1: you've been able to navigate and how you've come out
- 27:05Speaker 1: on the other side.
- 27:07Speaker 5: Well, thank you. That's nice of you to say that.
- 27:09Speaker 1: Thank you, Coach.
- 27:11Speaker 5: Appreciate you having me on.
- 27:13Speaker 1: That was an interview that I did with Coach Fant
- 27:15Speaker 1: a couple of years ago when his book came out,
- 27:18Speaker 1: and I would recommend you grab it and read a copy.
- 27:21Speaker 1: Our condolences to Kim and all the family and the
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- 30:00Speaker 11: My hat don't hang on the same nail too long.
- 30:05Speaker 11: My ears can't stand to hear the same old song.
- 30:10Speaker 11: And I don't leave the highway long enough to balk down.
- 30:15Speaker 4: In the mud.
- 30:17Speaker 11: Cause I've got rambling fever in my blood. I caught
- 30:23Speaker 11: this rambling fever long ago.
- 30:28Speaker 1: When I first heard a long... Mallory is brought to
- 30:32Speaker 1: us by Southwest Card World.
- 30:35Speaker 8: Nope.
- 30:37Speaker 1: It's not brought to us by Southwest Card World?
- 30:39Speaker 8: It's not Mallory.
- 30:41Speaker 7: Doggone.
- 30:42Speaker 1: I need to. We need to start doing this in
- 30:44Speaker 1: the same room. Mallory lost her voice and she can't.
- 30:50Speaker 1: Find it.
- 30:51Speaker 8: She's having a difficult time locating it.
- 30:53Speaker 1: She has promised to quit talking until this time tomorrow.
- 30:56Speaker 8: Come on, man.
- 30:57Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it's difficult.
- 30:59Speaker 8: I think we both know her.
- 31:00Speaker 1: I love that woman. We've got a little bet going.
- 31:03Speaker 1: I'm also sad.
- 31:04Speaker 8: I love hearing that.
- 31:05Speaker 1: Yeah, she's promised to quit talking and try to get
- 31:09Speaker 1: her voice shaped up for tomorrow. But we're glad to
- 31:13Speaker 1: have Lizzie here.
- 31:13Speaker 8: Hello.
- 31:14Speaker 1: I hate to start this way, but as you know,
- 31:17Speaker 1: when people die, this is how we start the show. Cool.
- 31:20Speaker 1: Jim Baker has died. Built a Christian television empire with
- 31:28Speaker 1: the PTA Club. He and wife Tammy Faye in the
- 31:35Speaker 1: 1970s built a theme park in South Carolina, but the
- 31:42Speaker 1: empire collapsed in the 1980s amid sex and money scandals.
- 31:50Speaker 1: Baker was convicted of fraud and conspiracy for misusing funds,
- 31:55Speaker 1: selling lifetime memberships to a hotel that was never built,
- 32:00Speaker 1: sentenced to 45 years in prison.
- 32:03Speaker 8: But did he?
- 32:05Speaker 1: Sir Five. Tammy, of course, died of cancer. Yes. He remarried.
- 32:12Speaker 1: Lori announced his death last night. And he was... 86.
- 32:20Speaker 4: Wow.
- 32:21Speaker 1: But, you know, it's been a long time ago. People
- 32:24Speaker 1: younger don't know what the heck I just said.
- 32:27Speaker 8: I mean, that's probably true.
- 32:28Speaker 1: But I do. They were a big deal.
- 32:31Speaker 8: Makes me want to get my blue eye shadow out.
- 32:33Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
- 32:34Speaker 1: And cry. Oh, yes. And cry. It's got to cry.
- 32:36Speaker 10: I have to cry.
- 32:36Speaker 1: It's got to run.
- 32:37Speaker 8: I have to have the mascara running.
- 32:39Speaker 1: Down my face. Absolutely. It's got to run. It kind
- 32:43Speaker 1: of makes me want to put some on, too, to
- 32:45Speaker 1: be real honest with you.
- 32:46Speaker 8: Hey, you know, I do make up. I can't help you.
- 32:47Speaker 6: Oh, I know.
- 32:48Speaker 1: I got that one for you last time. I know
- 32:50Speaker 1: you can.
- 32:50Speaker 8: Yes.
- 32:51Speaker 1: You can take care of me.
- 32:54Speaker 8: What's next?
- 32:56Speaker 1: So we talked a little bit about Digger last week. Yes,
- 33:00Speaker 1: we did. I'm excited to talk about this. Wide release.
- 33:03Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
- 33:05Speaker 1: Been buried at the box office.
- 33:07Speaker 8: Major flop.
- 33:08Speaker 11: Yes.
- 33:09Speaker 1: Yes. being called a major flop. Costs about $ 125 million.
- 33:16Speaker 8: Just to make it? To make it. And then also
- 33:19Speaker 8: to promote it another $ 100 million?
- 33:22Speaker 1: Wow, they sure did.
- 33:23Speaker 8: How much did they make last weekend in the U.S.?
- 33:25Speaker 8: The U.S.
- 33:26Speaker 1: Made $ 8 million.
- 33:27Speaker 8: And only $ 12 in the international market.
- 33:29Speaker 1: $ 12 in the international market.
- 33:30Speaker 8: So what is that? That's $ 20 million.
- 33:32Speaker 1: Yeah, out of $ 225 million. But there are rumors.
- 33:40Speaker 1: They said it cost $ 125 million. There are rumors it
- 33:43Speaker 1: cost much $ 180 million.
- 33:45Speaker 8: You know what? I believe it. I believe it. But
- 33:50Speaker 8: do you think he's still going to get that Oscar
- 33:52Speaker 8: nod that he's going for? Probably.
- 33:54Speaker 1: I think so, too.
- 33:55Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 33:55Speaker 1: Hollywood will love it.
- 33:57Speaker 8: I'm just saying.
- 33:58Speaker 1: No, no, no. When the Oscars come along next year,
- 34:02Speaker 1: it'll be the greatest movie ever made. Doesn't matter that
- 34:05Speaker 1: people don't like it, don't see it. That's not what
- 34:08Speaker 1: Hollywood does.
- 34:09Speaker 8: I heard there's a twist. I'm not going to get
- 34:11Speaker 8: into it.
- 34:12Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know about any of that. I was
- 34:16Speaker 1: actually curious because this guy does make weird movies. We
- 34:21Speaker 1: talked about that. There's going to be some love it,
- 34:23Speaker 1: some hate it. There's not much in between. I would
- 34:28Speaker 1: just I'd like to see a movie with maybe no
- 34:33Speaker 1: political elements. implications that could just entertain me that's not
- 34:37Speaker 1: this movie that's not this movie did you see it.
- 34:41Speaker 8: No okay i mean i can no no i from
- 34:43Speaker 8: the oh.
- 34:43Speaker 1: No no no it's definitely not this.
- 34:45Speaker 8: Movie uh so some people put their head in the
- 34:50Speaker 8: sand yeah there are political yeah so anyway uh it's
- 34:54Speaker 8: it's a bomb yeah uh we'll see how it goes
- 34:57Speaker 8: maybe it's a slow burn.
- 34:59Speaker 1: He hadn't had many of those Bombs?
- 35:01Speaker 5: No.
- 35:02Speaker 1: What will happen is next February, whenever, when they release
- 35:06Speaker 1: all the awards, it'll gain a bunch of awards. And
- 35:10Speaker 1: then they'll re-release it. And a few more people will
- 35:13Speaker 1: go see it. But you can't make people go. Yeah,
- 35:16Speaker 1: a few more.
- 35:16Speaker 8: We'll see. It's going to be in streaming.
- 35:18Speaker 1: It'll be streaming. It probably will.
- 35:20Speaker 8: I'll stream it before then.
- 35:21Speaker 1: It'll be streamed before then.
- 35:23Speaker 8: I got something.
- 35:24Speaker 1: Good. Wedding bells.
- 35:24Speaker 8: Wedding bells. TJ Holmes and Amy Robach.
- 35:27Speaker 10: Oh, good gosh.
- 35:28Speaker 8: From Good Morning America.
- 35:29Speaker 1: Oh, good gosh. Thank goodness.
- 35:32Speaker 8: Their scandalous relationship start.
- 35:33Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 35:34Speaker 8: Yeah. Well, they apparently applied for.
- 35:36Speaker 1: They fired themselves.
- 35:37Speaker 8: Yes. They applied for a marriage license and it was confirmed.
- 35:41Speaker 1: It was denied.
- 35:42Speaker 8: Oh.
- 35:46Speaker 1: They applied for a marriage license and the guy said,
- 35:48Speaker 1: no way, you sleazeballs, get out of here.
- 35:51Speaker 8: Yeah, because that was the thing that was crazy is
- 35:54Speaker 8: how they started.
- 35:54Speaker 1: They were both married, right?
- 35:55Speaker 8: They were both married. They were spotted in public holding hands.
- 35:58Speaker 8: Now they are getting married. So, I mean, their wedding
- 36:02Speaker 8: has to be happening very soon. It does say that
- 36:05Speaker 8: they want to make a wedding that is very special
- 36:09Speaker 8: to us.
- 36:10Speaker 1: What does that mean?
- 36:11Speaker 8: I think it means they're going to go to Vegas
- 36:13Speaker 8: and one of them is going to dress up as Elvis.
- 36:16Speaker 1: Hopefully it's Amy. I think that'd be perfect. And I
- 36:22Speaker 1: think they should. I think this one's going to last forever.
- 36:26Speaker 12: Oh, sure.
- 36:26Speaker 8: Man, I think we've talked about what a cynic I
- 36:29Speaker 8: am before.
- 36:30Speaker 1: Okay. Michael Douglas has a memoir out. It's making lots
- 36:37Speaker 1: of headlines. Behind the curtain of his five-decade career. He
- 36:43Speaker 1: opens up about his battle with throat cancer, 2010. His
- 36:48Speaker 1: strained early relationship with Father Kirk. Douglas is 82. About
- 36:56Speaker 1: his separation.
- 37:00Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 37:02Speaker 1: Did we even know about that? Did we know about
- 37:04Speaker 1: the separation? From what's-her-name? His wife?
- 37:07Speaker 8: From Catherine Zeta-Jones.
- 37:08Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
- 37:09Speaker 8: I didn't know they were separated.
- 37:10Speaker 1: Well, I don't think they are. I think they were
- 37:12Speaker 1: at one point. Talked about doing drugs with OJ.
- 37:17Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 37:18Speaker 1: Everybody should have done that. I mean, you know, that's
- 37:21Speaker 1: no big deal.
- 37:21Speaker 8: I just wasn't old enough.
- 37:23Speaker 5: Right.
- 37:25Speaker 1: How he and his Romancing the Stone co-star, Kathleen Turner.
- 37:33Speaker 1: Fell hard for each other while he was still married
- 37:36Speaker 1: to his first wife.
- 37:38Speaker 8: Hence the storied past.
- 37:41Speaker 1: Yes. While I was in L.A., I wasn't exactly a saint,
- 37:46Speaker 1: he wrote. If things aligned, I'd run into singer Harry Nelson. Sorry.
- 37:53Speaker 1: Harry Nelson garnered quite the reputation in Los Angeles. With
- 38:00Speaker 1: John Lennon and Ringo Starr. I don't know if he
- 38:03Speaker 1: dealt the drugs, but he was heavy into them. Yeah, participation.
- 38:08Speaker 1: Everyone knew that if they wanted to participate, just find Harry.
- 38:12Speaker 5: Right.
- 38:13Speaker 1: Because he always had them.
- 38:14Speaker 8: He had that gold medal participation.
- 38:16Speaker 1: He said, I'd go out at night, sleep four hours,
- 38:19Speaker 1: go back to the office early in the morning, work
- 38:21Speaker 1: all day, do it all over again. It was a
- 38:23Speaker 1: different time.
- 38:24Speaker 8: But did he do it while he was working, though?
- 38:25Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, he did say. I never drank or did
- 38:31Speaker 1: drugs while working. In general, he says, and this is
- 38:37Speaker 1: going to shock you and all of our listeners, drugs
- 38:41Speaker 1: were easily accessible.
- 38:44Speaker 8: What a shock.
- 38:45Speaker 1: Both on and off Hollywood sets, and one of the
- 38:49Speaker 1: large talent agencies would slip you cocaine when you valeted
- 38:53Speaker 1: your car.
- 38:56Speaker 8: That's the most shocking part.
- 38:57Speaker 1: Those were the days.
- 38:58Speaker 8: Man, the 80s.
- 38:59Speaker 1: Those were the days.
- 39:01Speaker 8: Coke just lined the streets. I got a Taylor Swift
- 39:06Speaker 8: and a Travis Kelsey.
- 39:07Speaker 1: Let's go. Good gosh. I can't. Am I the lighthearted?
- 39:11Speaker 1: We're nine minutes into this thing, and you're holding out
- 39:14Speaker 1: on us.
- 39:14Speaker 8: Oh, they stepped out in style.
- 39:16Speaker 9: Good for them.
- 39:17Speaker 1: They were coordinated.
- 39:18Speaker 8: They're that newlyweds. They're coordinating their outfits.
- 39:20Speaker 1: Gag me. They probably have dressers, don't you think, like
- 39:24Speaker 1: the Royals do?
- 39:25Speaker 8: I don't know.
- 39:27Speaker 1: Oh, Taylor's got people that- Yeah, but Travis, do.
- 39:29Speaker 8: You really see- yeah taylor is.
- 39:31Speaker 1: Travis yeah taylor uses what i'm wearing travis yeah yeah
- 39:36Speaker 1: no no no taylor goes here's what i'm wearing here's
- 39:40Speaker 1: what you're wearing okay i promise.
- 39:42Speaker 8: You well they went out for his birthday his 37th birthday.
- 39:45Speaker 1: In kansas city because that's where he's working no they
- 39:47Speaker 1: were in new york What, Kansas City's not good enough
- 39:51Speaker 1: for the birthday?
- 39:53Speaker 8: Maybe not. They can probably hop on a flight at
- 39:55Speaker 8: any time.
- 39:56Speaker 4: You think?
- 39:58Speaker 1: Private?
- 40:00Speaker 8: Which jet should we use this time? Sorry. Yeah, so
- 40:06Speaker 8: they went out Monday for his birthday in New York.
- 40:09Speaker 1: So wait a minute. Wait a minute.
- 40:11Speaker 8: Yes.
- 40:12Speaker 1: They were out last night in New York. I guess
- 40:16Speaker 1: he was off. I guess they're. They're usually off. Well,
- 40:21Speaker 1: this makes sense. Generally speaking, the NFL schedule, if you
- 40:25Speaker 1: have games on Sundays, come in on Monday for treatment.
- 40:29Speaker 1: Tuesdays are off. So they flew Monday, or he did.
- 40:37Speaker 1: Tay-Tay's probably already up in the apartment.
- 40:39Speaker 8: You think she is?
- 40:40Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 40:41Speaker 8: Who knows?
- 40:42Speaker 1: With her handlers.
- 40:43Speaker 8: They went all black, like they.
- 40:45Speaker 1: Were wearing black lace-trimmed dress. And where were they? Do
- 40:48Speaker 1: we know? Where did they celebrate the birthday?
- 40:51Speaker 8: They went to Teresi. It's an Italian place in Soho.
- 40:54Speaker 5: Oh, of course.
- 40:55Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm sure you've been.
- 40:57Speaker 1: That's a great place.
- 40:57Speaker 8: Great breadsticks, I hear.
- 40:58Speaker 1: Yeah, but they charge you for them. And that makes
- 41:03Speaker 1: me so furious when they do that.
- 41:06Speaker 8: I guess it depends on where you go.
- 41:07Speaker 1: It's bread.
- 41:09Speaker 8: Yeah, that's true.
- 41:09Speaker 1: Come on. Now, I'm going to my favorite Italian restaurant
- 41:14Speaker 1: here in about a month. And they do charge for bread,
- 41:20Speaker 1: but it's worth it. They'll give you some just normal bread.
- 41:24Speaker 1: But this garlic cheesy bread, the best. The best, Jerry.
- 41:31Speaker 1: The best.
- 41:32Speaker 13: No.
- 41:32Speaker 8: Okay.
- 41:33Speaker 1: Out of state. We'll talk about it later.
- 41:35Speaker 8: We'll talk about it later.
- 41:37Speaker 1: You're going to a big concert.
- 41:39Speaker 8: Oh, wait, I think we did discuss this.
- 41:41Speaker 1: Yeah, probably a little bit. Okay, what else you got?
- 41:45Speaker 8: I've got Tim McGraw and Faith Hill celebrating 30 years
- 41:48Speaker 8: of marriage.
- 41:48Speaker 1: No way.
- 41:49Speaker 8: Yeah, and he posted online about it.
- 41:52Speaker 1: That's like dog years. That's like 210 years of marriage.
- 41:57Speaker 8: Seriously, in their industry?
- 41:58Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 41:59Speaker 8: Absolutely. 30 years.
- 42:00Speaker 1: Good for them.
- 42:00Speaker 8: So that was just this morning he posted about it.
- 42:03Speaker 9: Really?
- 42:04Speaker 1: What'd he say?
- 42:05Speaker 8: Let's see. Oh, he just was posting nostalgic clips and
- 42:09Speaker 8: photos and he put the music behind it was my
- 42:12Speaker 8: best friend. That song that he wrote is so cute.
- 42:15Speaker 8: And even their kids were like, oh, good for them.
- 42:19Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 42:19Speaker 8: So it's cool. It's also good when you're old enough
- 42:22Speaker 8: and you have kids together and you're married that long
- 42:24Speaker 8: and they still want to talk to.
- 42:27Speaker 1: You. You're right about that. For real. You're right about that.
- 42:31Speaker 8: So, yeah, I mean, that's the gist of it.
- 42:34Speaker 1: Good for them.
- 42:35Speaker 8: But congratulations to Tim and Faith.
- 42:39Speaker 1: You don't hear about their kids making trouble, or we haven't,
- 42:43Speaker 1: that I remember, right?
- 42:45Speaker 8: Yeah, they're not super in the limelight.
- 42:47Speaker 1: They're not super in the limelight.
- 42:48Speaker 8: And I like that. I think that's probably why they've
- 42:51Speaker 8: continued to be married.
- 42:51Speaker 1: Unlike a couple we just talked about who are always
- 42:54Speaker 1: in the limelight.
- 42:55Speaker 8: But everybody's different. It could work for them.
- 42:57Speaker 1: I'm sure it will. Martha Stewart.
- 43:00Speaker 8: Oh, I love Martha.
- 43:02Speaker 1: Who doesn't love Martha? How can you not love Martha?
- 43:05Speaker 8: I love the dryness of her humor and her relationship
- 43:07Speaker 8: with Snoop.
- 43:08Speaker 1: Do you know she's 85? Yeah, it's incredible. Parts of her.
- 43:12Speaker 1: Parts of her, yes. Appears in the first episode of
- 43:15Speaker 1: Other People's Business, the new Masterclass weekly podcast spotlighting untold
- 43:22Speaker 1: business stories to discuss the business of influence.
- 43:27Speaker 8: But I wonder, is her story untold?
- 43:29Speaker 1: Well, let's see. CEO David Rozier, the entrepreneur, marvels at
- 43:36Speaker 1: the breadth of Martha's own career over 40 years, highlighting
- 43:40Speaker 1: her focus on being authentic to herself and creating good products.
- 43:44Speaker 1: In the episode, she detailed the profits she has made
- 43:48Speaker 1: over her career from catering to writing to starting Martha
- 43:53Speaker 1: Stewart Magazine. She reflects on the return she gained from
- 43:58Speaker 1: partnering with Kmart. I was clearing $ 65 million a year
- 44:03Speaker 1: in royalties, she says. Just in royalties from that alone.
- 44:06Speaker 6: Kmart.
- 44:07Speaker 8: That doesn't include the other money she was making.
- 44:09Speaker 1: Kmart. $ 65 milsky.
- 44:13Speaker 8: Can't spend that in royalties.
- 44:14Speaker 1: Also in the trailer, Stuart utilizes her signature humor, as
- 44:19Speaker 1: you were talking about.
- 44:20Speaker 8: Yes, she's so dry.
- 44:21Speaker 1: I love it. While discussing an example of how she
- 44:24Speaker 1: tries not to critique friends when she goes over as
- 44:27Speaker 1: a guest. You know, I would invite Martha to dinner.
- 44:31Speaker 8: Could you imagine?
- 44:32Speaker 1: No, no, I would do it. And I'm not going
- 44:35Speaker 1: to do anything special. I'm just going to do what
- 44:39Speaker 1: I do, and she's going to love it.
- 44:43Speaker 8: Do you have a favorite thing that you make?
- 44:45Speaker 1: I have several.
- 44:46Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 44:46Speaker 8: I'd order pizza. Just kidding.
- 44:51Speaker 1: From Domino's.
- 44:52Speaker 8: How do you like my table dressing?
- 44:54Speaker 1: I thought it was iced coffee because it was murky,
- 44:58Speaker 1: she says to Rozier. What is she talking about? Gesturing
- 45:01Speaker 1: to a mug in front of her, but it's water.
- 45:03Speaker 1: And I don't know, is it clean water or not?
- 45:06Speaker 1: Rozier laughs with Martha, confirming with someone out of view
- 45:11Speaker 1: that the water is in fact clean and drinkable. Stewart
- 45:15Speaker 1: is later seen in the trailer making a shocked sound
- 45:18Speaker 1: into clasped hands saying, I fell in a hole and
- 45:22Speaker 1: I lost a billion dollars.
- 45:26Speaker 8: Wow.
- 45:26Speaker 1: Now, that's a big hole when you lose a billion dollars.
- 45:31Speaker 12: Right.
- 45:32Speaker 8: When was that?
- 45:34Speaker 1: Part of the insider trading scandal of 2004, which spent
- 45:40Speaker 1: five months in the hooscow, as we know.
- 45:43Speaker 5: Right.
- 45:44Speaker 1: She became the first self-made female billionaire in the United
- 45:49Speaker 1: States when Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia went public in 1999. Wow.
- 45:55Speaker 1: After selling her stake in biopharmaceutical company Emclone in 2001,
- 46:05Speaker 1: investigators questioned the sale. Following a trial, she was found
- 46:08Speaker 1: guilty of conspiracy, obstruction, two counts of lying to federal investigators.
- 46:13Speaker 1: In other People's Business episode, Martha reveals her appreciation for
- 46:18Speaker 1: Ballerina Farms' Hannah Nealman while highlighting how content must be
- 46:24Speaker 1: central to an influencer's business like it has been for
- 46:30Speaker 1: her own. In other words, you can't just talk about anything.
- 46:36Speaker 1: You have to have stuff. She encourages modern influencers... not
- 46:42Speaker 1: to diminish themselves in their content by including their husbands
- 46:47Speaker 1: for no reason. Adding she thinks independence is important as
- 46:53Speaker 1: a woman in business.
- 46:54Speaker 8: And they're probably not that interesting anyway. You know what?
- 46:58Speaker 1: Martha's had her issues with men over the years.
- 47:01Speaker 8: What got me is her talking about that water. And
- 47:04Speaker 8: I'm like, you were in jail. You probably drank toilet wine.
- 47:06Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. But she doesn't have to anymore.
- 47:10Speaker 8: That's true.
- 47:11Speaker 1: God bless her. She came back and just went right
- 47:14Speaker 1: back to work. I know. And she came back strong.
- 47:17Speaker 1: And made more money.
- 47:18Speaker 8: Absolutely.
- 47:19Speaker 1: Because she knows how.
- 47:20Speaker 8: Exactly.
- 47:21Speaker 1: Because she's Martha freaking Stewart.
- 47:23Speaker 8: We got time for one more?
- 47:24Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
- 47:25Speaker 1: No, absolutely.
- 47:26Speaker 5: Great.
- 47:26Speaker 8: Hayden Panettiere is ex-Vladimir. Klitschko.
- 47:30Speaker 1: Yes yeah the boxer.
- 47:32Speaker 8: Yes he believes someone in her orbit has sold some
- 47:35Speaker 8: of her stuff to a pawn shop oh good gosh
- 47:37Speaker 8: yeah he's apparently the uh.
- 47:39Speaker 1: He's the executive guardian of their daughter yes he got guardianship.
- 47:43Speaker 8: Yes and so he is.
- 47:45Speaker 1: Before she died.
- 47:46Speaker 8: Yes yeah he's trying to figure out a way to
- 47:50Speaker 8: get those things but the pawn shop won't talk to him.
- 47:53Speaker 1: Well he's gonna have to get an attorney.
- 47:55Speaker 8: Yeah, but they won't even start an investigation because they're
- 47:59Speaker 8: saying he doesn't have the rights to do that.
- 48:01Speaker 1: Maybe he doesn't have power of attorney.
- 48:03Speaker 8: So he's working on getting that so that he can
- 48:06Speaker 8: start an investigation, but he's just very worried that those
- 48:10Speaker 8: things are going to get sold to.
- 48:11Speaker 1: Third parties before anything can happen. That's horrible.
- 48:14Speaker 8: Which I'm like, why bring attention to it? Because that's
- 48:17Speaker 8: the fastest way.
- 48:18Speaker 1: To get people to go by. You're right. Unless he's
- 48:21Speaker 1: trying to smoke somebody out.
- 48:22Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, that's true. But it's very sad.
- 48:26Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this about the Emmys
- 48:29Speaker 1: or not, but today.
- 48:30Speaker 8: Sure did.
- 48:31Speaker 1: They reached an agreement with Prime.
- 48:34Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 48:35Speaker 1: They're streaming. No more ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC. They used
- 48:41Speaker 1: to rotate. I didn't know that. They rotated. The historic partnership.
- 48:49Speaker 1: By shifting from a rotating model to a dedicated long-term agreement,
- 48:55Speaker 1: the Television Academy has secured a permanent home for the
- 48:58Speaker 1: gold standard of excellence available to audiences worldwide. I don't
- 49:04Speaker 1: think the Emmy Awards is the gold standard of anything.
- 49:08Speaker 8: You don't?
- 49:09Speaker 1: No, it's an award show.
- 49:10Speaker 8: Sure, but it's the gold standard of TV, right?
- 49:12Speaker 1: I'm reading a biography of Bob Newhart right now. I'm
- 49:15Speaker 1: going to have the author on soon. He never won
- 49:18Speaker 1: an Emmy for his TV show.
- 49:21Speaker 8: That is a shame.
- 49:21Speaker 1: Is that crazy?
- 49:22Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 49:24Speaker 1: His first show, the original show, when he was a
- 49:27Speaker 1: psychologist in Chicago, was nominated for three non-acting Emmys, that
- 49:36Speaker 1: kind of stuff.
- 49:37Speaker 7: Right.
- 49:38Speaker 1: The second show, Newhart, Yes. Was nominated for 25 Emmys,
- 49:43Speaker 1: including a couple of the big ones. And never won.
- 49:47Speaker 1: Never won. Is that incredible?
- 49:49Speaker 8: That's a shame.
- 49:50Speaker 1: It's incredible to me. I mean, it's Bob Newhart.
- 49:53Speaker 8: Bob Newhart is someone that had the Daryl with the
- 49:55Speaker 8: other brother Daryl, right?
- 49:56Speaker 5: Yes.
- 49:56Speaker 8: I love that.
- 49:57Speaker 1: Larry with his brother Daryl and his other brother Daryl.
- 50:00Speaker 10: Yes.
- 50:01Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
- 50:01Speaker 8: That's right.
- 50:02Speaker 1: And one of the greatest. Series endings in television history.
- 50:07Speaker 1: Some people have voted it the greatest series ending in television.
- 50:12Speaker 8: I need to rewatch it.
- 50:13Speaker 1: You do.
- 50:14Speaker 8: I know.
- 50:14Speaker 1: Because Suzanne Plachette showed up. Oh, it was awesome. Okay,
- 50:20Speaker 1: let's do birthdays.
- 50:22Speaker 8: Okay. What do you got?
- 50:24Speaker 1: Let me start with Sunday. Leroy Van Dyke, country music star,
- 50:29Speaker 1: 97 years young on Sunday. Lori Saunders, who played one
- 50:34Speaker 1: of the sisters on Petticoat Junction, turned 85 on Sunday.
- 50:40Speaker 1: That's how old that show is. Susan Sarandon. I love her. Oh,
- 50:45Speaker 1: she could act in her day.
- 50:46Speaker 8: She can act now.
- 50:47Speaker 1: She turned 80 on Sunday.
- 50:49Speaker 8: She's awesome.
- 50:50Speaker 1: Parts of her. Uh, Amanda Sante turned 77 on Sunday.
- 50:56Speaker 1: Christoph Waltz. Oh my gosh.
- 51:00Speaker 8: He's so talented.
- 51:01Speaker 1: Glorious bastards. What a movie. Turned 70 on Sunday. Congratulations. Uh,
- 51:09Speaker 1: let's see. I don't need that. I don't need that.
- 51:14Speaker 1: I don't need that.
- 51:15Speaker 8: I actually thought he was older.
- 51:16Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 51:17Speaker 1: Um, Oh, Liv Shriver. He's had some issues.
- 51:23Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 51:24Speaker 1: He turned 59 on Sunday. I hope he didn't get
- 51:27Speaker 1: drunk to celebrate because he's had lots of issues.
- 51:34Speaker 8: Talented guy, though.
- 51:36Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess.
- 51:36Speaker 8: It's a shame.
- 51:37Speaker 1: It is. I'm just looking if I can find someone
- 51:42Speaker 1: that I care about and know. Oh, Dakota Johnson.
- 51:48Speaker 13: Oh, okay.
- 51:49Speaker 9: Okay.
- 51:49Speaker 8: 37. What?
- 51:52Speaker 1: 37. You thought she was younger, didn't you?
- 51:55Speaker 8: No, I didn't.
- 51:55Speaker 1: You thought she was older?
- 51:56Speaker 13: I did.
- 51:57Speaker 1: She was pretty young when she did the Fifty Shades
- 51:59Speaker 1: of Grey thing. Yeah, I guess she was. That's been
- 52:02Speaker 1: a while.
- 52:02Speaker 8: But she's actually so funny.
- 52:05Speaker 7: Really?
- 52:05Speaker 8: Did you see her on SNL?
- 52:07Speaker 1: No, I don't think I did.
- 52:07Speaker 8: She's done it a couple of times, and she's actually
- 52:10Speaker 8: very funny. Her deadpan is incredible.
- 52:12Speaker 5: Okay. Yeah.
- 52:14Speaker 1: I'll believe you. Yesterday, the great Steve Miller turned 83
- 52:18Speaker 1: years young. Fly like an eagle. I saw him at
- 52:23Speaker 1: Austin City Limits Theater about, I don't know, six, seven
- 52:27Speaker 1: years ago. Oh, man, he was good. Still good.
- 52:30Speaker 8: Great memories.
- 52:32Speaker 1: Let's see. Daniel Baldwin, one of the lesser-known Baldwin brothers,
- 52:37Speaker 1: turned 66 yesterday.
- 52:37Speaker 8: Guy Pearce.
- 52:41Speaker 10: L.A.
- 52:41Speaker 1: Confidential turned 59 yesterday.
- 52:44Speaker 10: Let's see.
- 52:49Speaker 1: If there's anybody else I need to talk about. Kate Winslet.
- 52:53Speaker 8: Oh, how old is.
- 52:56Speaker 14: She?
- 52:57Speaker 1: She was in My Little Dinging, I believe. Turned 51 yesterday. Yeah,
- 53:00Speaker 1: I was going to say.
- 53:01Speaker 8: She's just in her 50s. She's very outspoken.
- 53:04Speaker 1: Jesse Eisenberg turned 43 yesterday. I thought he was older.
- 53:10Speaker 8: All right. No, I didn't think he did.
- 53:12Speaker 1: Let's do today's.
- 53:13Speaker 8: Today.
- 53:14Speaker 1: Britt Eklund. Oh, she could act in her day. 84 today.
- 53:18Speaker 6: Wild.
- 53:19Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 53:20Speaker 8: Kevin Cronin from REO Speedwagon. 75.
- 53:23Speaker 5: Okay.
- 53:24Speaker 8: And Elizabeth Shue, 63.
- 53:25Speaker 1: I like her. I like Elizabeth Shue.
- 53:27Speaker 8: How old was she?
- 53:28Speaker 1: 63. 63.
- 53:29Speaker 5: Okay.
- 53:32Speaker 1: Let's see.
- 53:32Speaker 8: Ooh, I got one.
- 53:33Speaker 6: Okay.
- 53:34Speaker 8: Tommy Simpson of Guns N' Roses.
- 53:36Speaker 1: No way.
- 53:36Speaker 5: 60.
- 53:37Speaker 1: 60?
- 53:38Speaker 13: 60.
- 53:39Speaker 11: 60.
- 53:39Speaker 1: It was a late addition to Guns N' Roses. Yeah. Yeah.
- 53:42Speaker 8: Because I'm pretty sure Axl's a little bit.
- 53:44Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. He's older. This is not a great day
- 53:49Speaker 1: for birthdays.
- 53:50Speaker 11: Whoa.
- 53:51Speaker 1: I got to tell you.
- 53:52Speaker 8: Brett Gellman from Stranger Things.
- 53:53Speaker 1: Okay.
- 53:54Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 53:54Speaker 1: You say so.
- 53:55Speaker 8: And, oh, Melinda Doolittle. She was an American Idol contestant. Okay.
- 54:00Speaker 8: She's 49.
- 54:00Speaker 1: All right. So that's about it. I think that's probably it.
- 54:05Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 54:05Speaker 1: It's not a great birthday day. It was a good
- 54:07Speaker 1: birthday weekend.
- 54:08Speaker 8: We can talk about mine next month. Oh, excellent.
- 54:11Speaker 1: You have to remind me.
- 54:12Speaker 8: Oh, I will.
- 54:13Speaker 5: I'll remind everyone.
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- 55:19Speaker 7: Following their win over the in-state foe Houston Texans, the
- 55:22Speaker 7: Dallas Cowboys will have a little bit of time to
- 55:25Speaker 7: prep for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a short week.
- 55:27Speaker 7: Here is head coach Brian Schottenheimer on the matchup with
- 55:29Speaker 7: yet another winless team.
- 55:32Speaker 13: Oh yeah, we address it. I mean, you can't look
- 55:33Speaker 13: at their roster and know that they, they have talented
- 55:35Speaker 13: players at every level. Uh, whether you go Vito Van,
- 55:38Speaker 13: Tristan Wirfs, and start naming receivers that are elite, all
- 55:41Speaker 13: pro type players and Irving, the running backs, a special player, um, very,
- 55:45Speaker 13: very talented team. And, uh, and one that's very, very dangerous.
- 55:48Speaker 13: Parodying the National Football League is exactly where the league
- 55:52Speaker 13: wants it to be.
- 55:53Speaker 7: On the short week, the Cowboys will likely beat without
- 55:55Speaker 7: corner Kobe Durant, but quarterback Dak Prescott is expected to
- 55:58Speaker 7: be fine after taking a cleat to his throwing hand
- 56:00Speaker 7: in Sunday afternoon's battle. And more good news as it
- 56:03Speaker 7: was announced that Cowboys will officially open the practice window
- 56:06Speaker 7: for star guard Tyler Smith this week after missing the
- 56:09Speaker 7: start of the season with a thumb injury. Thursday night
- 56:11Speaker 7: football in Arlington with kickoff against the Bucs is set
- 56:14Speaker 7: for 7-15.
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