Dan Patrick
Lieutenant Governor of Texas
28
APPEARANCES
20
PODCASTS
Nov 3, 2026
Dan PatrickGUEST
Hey, I'm great, Mark, and I'll be doing even better this time tomorrow when we have all won and pushed back the socialists.
Dan PatrickGUEST
I was on a teletown hall call with the president last night, and our call, Mark, was out to Republicans who have not voted yet.
Dan PatrickGUEST
Some people have voted in four straight primaries or three out of four, two out of four, one out of four.
Dan PatrickGUEST
Yeah, so I don't want to use the word panic, but I will use this word, weekend, or these words.
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Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
that.
Dan PatrickGUEST
That's a lot of money for the average worker or not on your Social Security or not on your tips.
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Dinesh D'SouzaHOST
Uh, I mean, this is, um, this is, first of all, it's, it's irresponsible behavior, uh, and it could be, it could end up being catastrophic.
Mark DavisHOST
In view of what I've just described, do you think that Election Day, however early voting goes, that Election Day itself will have a decidedly heavy Republican flavor?
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Dan PatrickGUEST
Uh, one of my favorite stories, when I built my first, the fi- or the tractor I ran 5, 7, 9, and 12, you know, getting two iron motors and 30-inch tires in a 5,000 pound tractor was, was pretty big back then 'cause it wasn't...
Dan PatrickGUEST
I mean, they had upped it to the 5,200 pound class because of safety stuff, things we had to do, and they added that weight.
Dan PatrickGUEST
Well, so I was one of the very f- few that was in the five with two blower motors.
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Dan PatrickGUEST
Well, first of all, the polling that I trust in the state has 10 down by 1, not by 6 in that poll that was flashed up.
Dan PatrickGUEST
You know, Brian, this is the third existential threat to our country, the beginning of our country, the Civil War, and now.
Dan PatrickGUEST
because people have to understand, every Fox viewer out there has to understand what's at stake.
Dan PatrickGUEST
It's beyond Tallarico or Abbott's opponent or my opponent or any opponent in the country.
Dan PatrickGUEST
It's about what direction do you want to have for your life or for this country.
Brian KilmeadeHOST
Why don't you think they're in your corner, or at the very least, harder to win over in these midterms? Is there a sense that it was too aggressive in Texas for you?
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Dan PatrickGUEST
In the southern part of Texas, in the town of San Anton, there's a fortress all in ruin that the weeds have overgrown.
Dan PatrickGUEST
But sometimes between the setting and the rising of the sun, you'll hear a ghostly bugle as the men go marching by.
Dan PatrickGUEST
You'll hear them as they answer to the roll call in the sky, Colonel Travis and Davy Crockett, 180 more, Captain Dickinson and Jim Bowie, present and accounted for.
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Dan PatrickGUEST
They may not root for you, but so what? Go out there and prove you can play because the last time we saw him play where we thought he was a legitimate starting quarterback was in Houston.
Dan PatrickGUEST
And now you have a chance to at least be entertaining, competitive, not an oh, woe is me, uh, team going in, you know, to the meat of your schedule here.
Paul PabstHOST
And whenever people say he's the best player of all time about certain people and, and Jabbar's name doesn't come up, it bothers you.
Daniel GreerHOST
Do you think that the PUC is being unresponsive to the legislature, similar to the Lottery Commission? And then we can go from there.
Dan PatrickGUEST
So on those two issues, the Lottery Commission, we found it was just pure corruption.
Dan PatrickGUEST
And it turned out that one person bought 26 million tickets in a matter of three days, which is impossible because the lottery commission sent out all these machines.
Dan PatrickGUEST
And the person who was in charge of doing all that is now actually in court facing charges.
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Craig CollinsHOST
Do you mind starting there with your belief on what will happen over the next two days?
Dan PatrickGUEST
It's a jam-packed schedule the next couple of days, and I'm I'm honored to have a chance to speak at the convention tomorrow afternoon sometime.
Dan PatrickGUEST
But the president came up with this idea, and I know you said you watched the podcast, so I'll plug that in a second.
Dan PatrickGUEST
You know, whether it's Trump accounts, it's, you know, the Gulf of America, you know, Lake America, it's the space force, it's now the Space Academy.
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Dan PatrickGUEST
You know what? Disrespect us, disregard us, uh, it, and we'll, we'll play on the field.
Dan PatrickGUEST
And plus, if this team was in Denver, then we would probably fawn all over them, or they were, you know, Buffalo or Dallas or Minnesota.
Dan PatrickGUEST
It's just Seattle feels like, you know, it's their own little portion of the world, and they're fine with that.
Dan PatrickGUEST
But talking to their head coach, Mike McDonald, this summer, uh, in Lake Tahoe, what an impressive guy.
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Dan PatrickGUEST
You know what? Disrespect us, disregard us, uh, it, and we'll, we'll play on the field.
Dan PatrickGUEST
And plus, if this team was in Denver, then we would probably fawn all over them, or they were, you know, Buffalo or Dallas or Minnesota.
Dan PatrickGUEST
It's just Seattle feels like, you know, it's their own little portion of the world, and they're fine with that.
Dan PatrickGUEST
But talking to their head coach, Mike McDonald, this summer, uh, in Lake Tahoe, what an impressive guy.
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Kara WaglandHOST
Are you in the camp where you think it's better for the game if markets like the Dodgers and the Yankees are in the World Series and competitive, or are you just fatigued on the Dodgers just getting everybody all the time?
Dan PatrickGUEST
Because growing up or covering sports in the Northeast for a, a, you know, almost my entire career, the Yankees were the evil empire.
Dan PatrickGUEST
And then all of a sudden, the Yankees came back to earth, and then everybody was okay.
Jeff O'NeillHOST
Are you in the camp where you think it's better for the game if markets like the Dodgers and the Yankees are in the World Series and competitive, or are you just fatigued on the Dodgers just getting everybody all the time?
Dan PatrickGUEST
They just took advantage of an opportunity, because growing up or covering sports in the Northeast for a, a, you know, almost my entire career, the Yankees were the evil empire.
Dan PatrickGUEST
Everybody hated the Yankees, and then all of a sudden, the Yankees came back to earth, and then everybody was okay.
Mark DavisHOST
What's going on right now, and, and what might happen on that battlefield, like, this summer?
Dan PatrickGUEST
All down the list, Mays Middleton, Don Huff, Bill French, everybody running statewide is going to talk about that issue.
Dan PatrickGUEST
But the most important thing, besides talking about unity here, was letting the voters know, the Republican voters know, of what the math is.
Dan PatrickGUEST
And I didn't have phone service, and I said to management, "You guys make the decision.
Dan PatrickGUEST
Who do you wanna see when you're watching? Who do you think would pair well with me?" Because, you know, I'm thinking of you or Linda Cohn sitting there next to me, and then I realize, I forget who in management said they were picking Kenny Mayne.
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Rich EisenHOST
It just leaves you a little bit wondering about what's next and what's, so I don't blame you for telling people stay put.
Dan PatrickGUEST
I'm in my attic with three other guys And doing a national radio show with animals running around us and barking and cats on desk there.
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Dan PatrickGUEST
that? So, Mark, what happened, and I was actually acting governor the first day the storm hit because Abbott was out of state on the 4th.
Dan PatrickGUEST
And so I was there early, and I went up to Camp Mystic on that Monday to kind of get a lowdown on what happened.
Dan PatrickGUEST
And they walked me through the timeline, sync up to what they told me back then, except the second timeline.
Dan PatrickGUEST
And that was, they had informed me that they got the first warning to go to high ground after 1 a.m. And the way the story was told then, not purposely, I think they were still in shock from what everything happened, but it seemed like everything was seamless.
Dan PatrickGUEST
totalitarian regime, any communist movement, the first thing when they take over a country is to get rid of churches, close them down, get rid of God, because they don't want anyone superior to them.
Dan PatrickGUEST
Well, we know that the march has been owned by the radical left and the Marxist left.
Dan PatrickGUEST
You know, Lenin said, give me your children for four years and I'll have them for their lifetime.
Dan PatrickGUEST
We know we've lost the schools to the teacher unions, to Randy Weingarten over the years.
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Rick GreenHOST
You guys are highlighting some of the good stuff, but also pointing out the bad stuff.
Dan PatrickGUEST
You know, Rick, this is really unbelievable to think that what we've heard testimony on actually happens in America.
Dan PatrickGUEST
And the stories have just not only make you angry, but break your heart because the people in the Biden administration specifically who went after people for religious liberty, They didn't just stop them from whatever they didn't want them to do.
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Rick GreenHOST
Just by having these hearings, it brings attention to it where, like you're saying, a lot of people don't know where the lines are.
Dan PatrickGUEST
President, let's do a, a, uh, c- committee, uh, on religious liberty, because Americans don't know where to pray, when to pray." And it's an all faith community, and so, I mean, committee, and, you know, in terms of the issues, it's not just about Christians.
Dan PatrickGUEST
Um, but, uh, Cardinal Dolan, Reverend, uh, Graham, uh, Rabbi Slatwick, um, uh, Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Phil, you know...
Dan PatrickGUEST
And so now what do they do? You can't have a civil society if you don't have law and order.
Dan PatrickGUEST
This is- th- they're committing felonies every day when they're attacking our, our police.
BlakeHOST
And he said, "Blake, I think it is existentially important for all of Western civilization that Texas remain Republican." [chuckles]
Dan PatrickGUEST
But in those early days, Texas has a lot of faithful people, a lot of conservatives, a lot of money, and so he would raise money there, and we got to know each other.
Dan PatrickGUEST
Long story short, for radio time, at the inauguration in January of 17, I was going to the Trump Hotel, and Charlie happened to be walking in the door at the same time, held the door for me, and he said, Dan, I've got something I want to share with you.
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Dan PatrickGUEST
You got a McDonald's, a Friendly's that closed down, but you're kind of running a, a good portion of the sports world, you know, that... every single night.
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Dan Le BatardHOST
Uh, when you think of the things about your show that make you proudest, the 20 years, you're retiring in, uh, two and a half years, what is it about your show that gives you the most personal pride when you allow yourself the moment to feel personal pride?
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