Hour 2- Dan talks ESPN layoffs, Matt Damon
The Dan Patrick Show
iHeartPodcasts and Dan Patrick Podcast Network
4.5 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Dan gets asked about the layoffs hitting the Mothership, and talks about his belief in letting someone go with dignity rather than haphazardly as ESPN is doing. Hollywood superstar Matt Damon joins Dan to talk about filming the Odyssey, getting cut for the role and trying not to get hurt; plus working with Christopher Nolan, how the movie was carried by Samantha Morton and reveals how much he’s bench pressing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:16.4 | Hour 2 on this Thursday, big-time movie star Matt Damon will join us in about 20 minutes from now. |
| 0:23.3 | Stat of the day is always brought to you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the program. |
| 0:28.3 | This week on Sunday night baseball, Ben Rice, who's one of my favorite players and the Yankees go to Philadelphia to take on the Phillies. |
| 0:36.8 | That'll be on NBC and Peacock. |
| 0:38.8 | You can watch this program on Peacock. |
| 0:40.7 | Thank you if you're watching this morning. |
| 0:42.9 | NFL training camps opening up. |
| 0:45.4 | And there are certain teams that show up at different times. |
| 0:49.9 | We'll tell you why. |
| 0:51.3 | Because I thought it would be just a universal. |
| 0:53.3 | Everybody's going to show up for that first day. |
| 0:55.5 | There's an official day of training camps. |
| 0:58.3 | And, of course, you have the Hall of Fame game coming up as well. |
| 1:01.9 | 8773DP show email address, DP at Danpatrick.com, Twitter handle at DP show. |
| 1:09.2 | Fritzie's here. |
| 1:10.1 | Dylan's here. |
| 1:10.8 | Marv, Pauli, yours truly in the backroom, guys. |
| 1:13.3 | I've been gone from ESPN for 20 years now. I'm asked a lot of times about things that are |
| 1:19.6 | going on at ESPN. And I always say, I don't know. Now, I have some friends who are still there. |
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