550: Dan Patrick - The Art of Interviewing, Leaving ESPN, Working With Dave Matthews & Adam Sandler, Asking Better Questions, & Taking Care of Your Team
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Ryan Hawk
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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- What makes a great interview?
- They tell stories
- It feels like your eavesdropping on their conversation (he takes you inside)
- He disarms them with humor
- Ask shorter questions…
- Take care of your people… Dan has had the Dannettes with him for many years. He listens to his teammates, Makes them part of his show, and truly cares for him. In return, they are there for him every day. It seems obvious, but it's not. Dan is evidence that this approach works…
- Dan has been influenced by Howard Stern's interviewing style of always being curious... And he makes his staff part of the show.
- "I love being a voice in your head. You're in your car, driving, and I love being that voice in your head."
- Interviewing... Manage the tension. "Shorter questions get better answers."
- Dan met Adam Sandler at Madison Square Garden and agreed that he would be cast in his next movie... He has since been cast in many more.
- Dan shares the story of meeting Dave Matthews, spilling his beer on him, and then later singing karaoke with him.
- Dan is the author of The Occasionally Accurate Annals of Football: The NFL's Greatest Players, Plays, Scandals, and Screw-Ups (Plus Stuff We Totally Made Up)
- Leaving ESPN – Dan admitted he was hurt when good friend, Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly (who would move to ESPN) wrote, "Patrick was making one of the top 5 biggest career mistakes in entertainment history," ranking right under Shelley Long's leaving Cheers and Katie Couric's leaving NBC's Today show for the CBS Evening News.
- Life/Career advice:
- Be humble, be hungry, have humility, and be ready to go when your opportunity presents itself. The old adage rings true, "You don't have to get ready if you stay ready." Always be ready for your opportunity.
- Retirement Tour – Dan Patrick announces he plans to continue the Dan Patrick Show for the next four-and-a-half years with the intention of retiring at the end of 2027.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Learning Leader Show presented by Insight Global. |
| 0:07.6 | I am your host, Ryan Hawk. |
| 0:11.1 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:12.4 | Text Hawk to 668. Hawk. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:12.5 | Text Hawk to 66866 to become part of Mindful Monday. |
| 0:18.3 | You, along with tens of thousands of other learning leaders from all over the world, |
| 0:22.1 | will receive a carefully curated email |
| 0:24.7 | for me each Monday morning to help you start your week off right? |
| 0:28.7 | You'll also receive details about how my book, The Pursuit of Excellence, will help you become a more effective leader |
| 0:35.2 | text hawk to 66866 now on tonight's featured leader the legendary Dan Patrick is a Hall of Fame sports broadcaster and |
| 0:47.1 | host of the Dan Patrick show prior to that he spent 18 years at ESPN hosting the 11 o'clock Sports Center |
| 0:56.6 | affectionately known as the Big Show. Dan went on to become the three-time host of the Olympics for NBC Sports. |
| 1:06.8 | He's also been cast to act in many Adam Sandler movies. During this wide-ranging and enlightening conversation which |
| 1:16.8 | Dan gives me tons of advice which is great. We discuss what makes someone a great interviewer as well as a great guest. |
| 1:27.0 | Then he shares how he builds such great rapport with both his colleagues, the people he works with, as well as the people he interviews. |
| 1:36.7 | He shares why he left ESPN and how he became such great friends with Adam Sandler. We talk about that and so much more |
| 1:46.1 | ladies and gentlemen please enjoy this master class from Dan Patrick. |
| 1:55.0 | Patrick. Dan Patrick, great to have you here on the Learning Leaders Show. |
| 1:58.0 | Welcome. |
| 1:59.0 | Welcome, thank you. |
| 2:00.0 | So, uncommon commonality, man. |
| 2:02.0 | I had season tickets to UD basketball games growing up. |
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