I dunno. I get that there was a family emergency but a 5 week pre-wedding honeymoon in the middle of the busiest part of the sports calendar seems like both a flex and a sign that he's kind of checked out at this point.

I put the long vacation in the context of his speech during the summer when he rightfully called out the network for not doing anything after the "send them back" chants at the trump rally. He clearly doesn't like the direction the network is heading, had his "art of the conversation" show bomb, and is kind of just muddling along on Highly Questionable

The radio show is still very good and he's put on some of the most important rising talents that the has (Bo, Pablo, Mina, Dominique, Spain) but Dan is pretty clearly mailing it in and is looking to do something else to do at this point.