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BT Unleashed All right, so 
school is in session and today 

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the student out of the shoot is 
my guy, J Rod. 

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J Rod, what's happened? 
I got a quick pop quiz for you 

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all. 
Right I'm. 

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Ready now? 
Did you like pop quizzes when 

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you were in school? 
You know what I think I, I feel 

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like I always ended up doing 
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because I feel like the pop 
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little easier than like the 
regular quiz. 

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So I feel like I always did all 
right on them. 

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Oh, God, I hate. 
I started sweating when I would 

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hear, you know, one of the nuns 
say, all right, boys and girls, 

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you got pop quiz. 
I'd start getting nervous, all 

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right, because I probably wasn't
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All right, So there's no right 
or wrong answer for this 

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particular pop quiz, right? 
And this will lead to our 

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conversation for the first 
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By the way, the show's going to 
be a little shorter today. 

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I know I mentioned yesterday, 
probably the day before as well.

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I've got to get out of here. 
I've got a big speaking 

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engagement with Verizon. 
So I got a suit up, I got a 

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shower suit up, and I got to get
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which I can't wait to do. 
It's going to be phenomenal. 

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So it's going to be a little 
shorter than usual. 

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All right there, Mr. Jared, Mr. 
J Rod, the question is this on 

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the pop quiz? 
If I say to you, Jared, what are

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the three built in inherent 
advantages that the NFL seems to

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enjoy over the other sports? 
So the three things that they 

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have going for that really 
without even trying, OK, that's 

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just kind of naturally fits 
their sport, you know, you know,

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a little residue of luck here. 
Give me let's take you through 

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the thought process. 
Let's get to a three, three-part

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answer. 
Three things. 

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No, no order, no right or wrong.
What are you thinking here, 

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buddy? 
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definitely their position as an 
American League. 

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I think that apparently just 
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fan base built in to your sport.
Interesting, interesting. 

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You know, so I guess a strong 
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sport would be one of my 
answers. 

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OK. 
I wasn't even thinking about 

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that. 
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back to that because that's a 
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ahead. 
I'd say the spacing out of 

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nationally televised games, I 
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audience, you know, sort of 
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watch. 
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games. 
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You're not going to have as many
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fewer games, more people 
engaging. 

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Got one more force here. 
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Although that's a good one, I'm 
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those. 
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absolutely on my list. 
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here. 
But do you have one more for us?

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I tell you, you're gonna 
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think of that? 
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I want to see if you can come up
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What do you got? 
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America and, and, and there's an
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it's it's not every day. 
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Good start. 
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Third one, let me let me try to 
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Let's get nervous. 
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is when I start looking over 
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get an answer in school. 
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kind of the mode I'm in right 
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Let me just let me give it a let
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I guess the marketability of the
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just because it kind of sets 
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physicality and the need or. 
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If I was to convince that, would
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space other than UFC or boxing. 
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So it. 
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one-on-one combat sports great 
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I don't know if you got an A, 
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great European influence, which 
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globalization of the game, 
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it's a joker out there in 
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as popular as the NFL, but it's,
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baseball, Dominican Republic, 
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Now that was an interesting 
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Let me give you, and again, no 
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my three very succinctly #1 
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scarcity. 
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are things that you can't really
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It's not like those are born out
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It's they kind of just got 
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way the game is set up. 
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We we love controlled violence, 
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And we love to gamble. 
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enjoyable sport to gamble on 
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I've gambled on everything, not 
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used to and always responsibly. 
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disclosure, a great lengthy 
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FanDuel going back to my days at
at WFAN, right? 

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So to me, when you're going to 
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to gamble on a baseball game 
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innings -1 1/2 run line. 
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win. 
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To me, it doesn't strike me as 
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If you want to bet the over in 
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there's a lot of points. 
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hockey, you know, four and a 
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might be. 
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whether it's fantasy fantasy 
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round Robins or reverses or 
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bet on with the NFLI think it's 
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the NFL inherently and 
profitable and incredibly and 

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inherently appealing. 
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here again, the violence, the 
gambling and the scarcity, do me

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a favor. 
Pop that up there the the 

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Barrett media. 
I know Schefter had this first. 

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I want to give some love to my 
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They always take care of us and 
they always take care of me. 

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So this report came out 
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Keep this up for a little bit, 
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considering Thanksgiving eve 
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season. 
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additional contest would take 
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would represent another step in 
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stretch its schedule across more
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Now you can take it down. 
Thank you, Jared. 

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So you think about those three 
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It's less violent than it used 
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necessity. 
I, I want to be fair to the NFL,

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concussions, head, head trauma, 
all that stuff. 

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And you, you want to keep your 
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You want to take your skill, but
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position guys healthy so late 
hits over the middle toward a 

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receiver, whatever. 
I get that. 

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The world's changed. 
There's more information, you 

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know, going back to the 
concussion movie years ago with 

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Will Smith, right? 
And the more we probe medically,

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the more we understand that 
obviously, you know, brain 

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trauma is irreversible and it's 
a real thing. 

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So while it's been softened a 
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violent. 
You're still getting hard hits. 

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And that's a good thing, right? 
The gambling has not changed. 

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But what I just read to you 
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illumination of #1 how greedy 
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That goes without saying. 
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how little they care about you. 
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about the, the, the word 
scarcity, the reason why the 

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NFL, one of the reasons is you 
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because you can Rev up, right? 
Your Rev up Now, I don't mean 

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like the, the national games, 
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Thursday, it's like twice within
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But for the most part it's once 
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And what happens with that? 
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energy that you can exert and 
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when you do that, you know, the 
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the tailgate, having people over
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or the Niners and the Raiders. 
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teams, all these different 
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There was a study that was 
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interesting that we'll get into.
But the again, the built in 

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advantage with that is that you 
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So you exert all this energy, 
but then the average fan is able

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to regenerate and the way it 
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has been my entire career and 
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although I've obviously done a 
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in in, in in San Francisco for a
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So it was all Niners and 
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But you have a game on Sunday at
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it's and even really Thursdays 
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the page, coaches talk, you get 
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injury reports and all that 
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And then the new week starts on 
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game. 
But specific to your team, you 

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know, you are just you are riled
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mass, especially if you have a 
good team. 

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Now, obviously there's an 
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to creep in all these years 
watching The Jets and you know, 

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the Giants who now have horrible
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there. 
And of course Mendoza is going 

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to be the first overall pick. 
And but there are bad teams and 

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even a fan base like the Browns 
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There's an element, they won't 
admit this and you won't 

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necessarily see this on social 
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with football, the monster, 
there's a little, you know, 

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apathy that that sets in when 
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It's just hard to conjure up 
that emotion that unless it's 

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just contrived the motion or you
want to sit around and have 10 

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beers and bet $2000 that you 
don't have it. 

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It's when when you don't watch 
and root for a good team, it 

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it's a little harder. 
But in large part, you know, 

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Thursday and Friday, you getting
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And then what you do on Monday 
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And then maybe there's a a 
quarterback controversy or, you 

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know, a coach begins to enter 
the sphere of being on the hot 

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seat. 
And now that kind of seeps into 

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the Tuesday conversation. 
And then by Wednesday, you know,

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because we're resilient sports 
fans, we start rolling up the 

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sleeves. 
We hear the coach speak and we 

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start getting ready for the next
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So when you're talking about 
violence, gambling and scarcity,

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those are things that no other 
sport in America has. 

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And the NFL, once again, is 
telling you that they don't give

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a rat's behind about you because
I don't know. 

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I don't know about you now. 
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basically always had 
Thanksgiving, right? 

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It was almost always at my, 
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Brooklyn, but it was always at 
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Brooklyn. 
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is from Texas, we go to Dallas 
every single Thanksgiving. 

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Now, sometimes, sometimes my 
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on a Tuesday and then I'll I'll,
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couple times because of work. 
I've had some Saint John's game,

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some tournaments over the year. 
Maybe I'll fly it on Thursday 

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morning, whatever. 
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about me. 
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largest travel day of the year, 
which is obviously Thanksgiving,

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the NFL, and it's not like will 
they do it? 

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It's when will they do it? 
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It's coming up this year, just 
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They just continuously interrupt
the family values. 

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And I'm not, I'm not trying to 
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got to be honest with you. 
As much as I love football, even

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like if, when, if The Jets are 
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Do I really want to be 
distracted with The Jets game on

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Thanksgiving? 
And they've had a couple. 

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I've gone to a couple. 
I went to the one at whatever it

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was 2010, something like that at
MetLife against the against the 

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Bengals on on Thanksgiving 
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Now that was different. 
No kids matter of fact that was 

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really different because I 
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Side Story. 
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I was working with ESPN 1050 and
Colin Cowherd big star obviously

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with with Fox for a long time. 
FS1. 

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you probably remember, and he 
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days and I was doing my local 
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station right, a couple of years
after I was working with Stephen

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A and they said, Hey, would you 
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host for common, you know, for I
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Wednesday before and Thursday 
100% in great opportunity, which

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also speaks to to the young 
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hungry and not just saying, 
well, it's Thanksgiving. 

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No, no, Yep, I'll be there. 
What what time you need me? 

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What's the accommodation? 
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like and my wife and I in this, 
no, we weren't even married yet.

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We were engaged in a extended 
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And I remember Thursday, we 
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with Calvin and we we ate 
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the way. 
That's that's actually sad and 

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and equally amazing. 
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from Bristol, CT into New Jersey
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the time to go to the game. 
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me. 
No kids. 

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It was a great work opportunity.
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But the dynamics then compared 
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they're very different for many 
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So I just, I, I don't want to 
say I don't understand why they 

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keep doing this because I 
clearly do. 

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Because they're greedy slobs. 
That's all they are. 

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That's all the NFL is. 
They don't care about you. 

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They don't care about you at 
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Think about the ticket prices 
and the PS:. 

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LSI told the story. 
I'm not going to get into a much

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now because it's a short one, 
but we went to The Jets Browns 

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game this past year went to two 
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My father-in-law is from Ohio. 
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and I got tickets for all of us.
They were in for their wedding 

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anniversary and I was able to do
a solid get good seats. 

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We had access to the club. 
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it was a great day. 
Jets won couple of special teams

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returns. 
Family had a great time. 

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I pull up. 
This is The Jets. 

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We're not talking about the 
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We're talking about the moribund
Jets and I pull into the parking

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lot in the latest he's like, 
that'll be $100 Sir, $100 to 

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park. 
Now I'm not cheap, but I'm also 

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not, you know, independently 
wealthy. 

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Now I I mean, I can obviously 
spare 100 bucks like I did the 

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tickets, but it's ridiculous how
they bend you over as fans. 

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You want to get a beer? 
12 bucks, 16 bucks, whatever it 

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is hot dogs, 7-8 bucks. 
PS LS as I said, exorbitant 

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ticket prices. 
Now you can circumvent that on 

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the secondary market. 
I understand it, but that's also

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a different, that's a different 
mindset. 

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The way I am is now, I think it 
would be different if it's just 

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me. 
But like, if I'm going to a game

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with my family, I don't want to 
be scurrying last second to 

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like, oh, OK, did I get the 
seats? 

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I want to have the tickets in 
my, you know, in my phone 

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digitally. 
And by the way, J Rod, look at 

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that. 
Look what we look what we're 

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starting to make here. 
You see that? 

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How always? 
Well, we got our ways I I got to

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get you one, but this will be 
available on the in the digital 

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store as we open that hopefully 
by first pitch Major League 

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season. 
The hats, the hoodies, the 

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beanies and all that stuff. 
But I, I just prefer to have 

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everything planned out because 
I'm a planned out kind of a guy.

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Many of you, I know Evan does 
this a lot like he'll wait it 

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out and I respect it. 
I, I just don't want to do that.

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So you could get a deal on 
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ultimate point is that they just
shove these games down your 

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throat. 
There's a game Sunday night, 

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there's a game Monday night, 
There's a game Thursday. 

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There's a game Saturday. 
As you get deeper in the season,

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obviously Sunday is basically 
from 1:00 until midnight if you 

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watch all the games, right. 
And then now, alright, 

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Thanksgiving, there's a 
tradition, the Cowboys, the 

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Lions, I love that. 
And I've been to both of those. 

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I went to the Cowboys game this 
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the, I went to a Lions game when
I was working in Detroit in the 

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early 2000s. 
And, and if you could do that, I

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would, I would recommend that 
you should. 

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It's pretty cool. 
But, and then they added the 

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third game, which is, which is 
at night, which is fine because,

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you know, you stuff your face, 
you have a couple of drinks. 

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Grandpa falls asleep with his 
mouth open on the couch. 

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At least my grandfather used to 
fall asleep. 

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His mouth will be open. 
Look it up at the sky. 

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And it's there if you want it 
and it's not. 

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And if you don't want it, just, 
you know, do it, play games with

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the family, whatever. 
But it's just too much. 

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And it's another reminder that 
they just don't care what you 

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want. 
They don't care what you need. 

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They don't care what you think. 
It's just football, football, 

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football, football because 
somebody's willing to pay for 

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it. 
Same with Black Friday and same 

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with all the the Games in 
London, which I absolutely 

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detest. 
I think it's ridiculous and I'm 

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not going to get this is a 
different rant that I'm not 

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going to get into it too much. 
Now. 

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I just can't because I've done 
it enough and it's exhausting 

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and I I can't replicate that. 
I can't faint emotion. 

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But when I do get into this, 
like I'm not going to fake it, 

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it drives me nuts because I've 
got inherently an issue with 

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taking our sport and giving it 
to other countries. 

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Now some of you will say, oh, 
look, look at the loudmouth 

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American. 
So territorial. 

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That's right, I am territorial 
and I I am American and it's our

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sport. 
It's nobody else's sport. 

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Like I'm not that I would even 
want it. 

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But do you see, you know, other 
European sports? 

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And I'm not talking about a 
soccer friendly, which is cool 

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giving us regular season games. 
I mean unless I'm wrong is 

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Liverpool instead of I don't 
know what they play in front of 

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100,000 people whatever they 
imagine them taking a regular 

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season game and just and again, 
if they have that, I stand 

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corrected. 
I don't think they have. 

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I know about the friendlies, but
playing a game at Levi Stadium 

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in San Francisco regular season,
not an exhibition or AT&T in 

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Dallas or MetLife in front of 80
or 90,000 people and depriving 

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the home fan base one regular 
season game. 

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Imagine that. 
Well, no, you don't because it 

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doesn't really happen, but it 
does happen in the NFL and it it

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started here's the here's the 
thing this This is why you know 

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it's only going to get worse and
worse and I love sports. 

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Okay, I've made a good living so
far doing sports, and I'm going 

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to make a better living doing 
this, talking about sports, but 

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I got to keep it real. 
And it's like, you give them an 

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inch, they're going to take 10 
yards because it started out 

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just just send the shitty 
Jaguars to London. 

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Nobody cares. 
And you're right, nobody did 

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care because it's a little tiny 
teeny piece of Florida. 

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And I love Florida, no 
disrespect. 

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And Duvall and I get it, they're
good fans, but when they started

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sending them, they were 
wretched. 

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So nobody really missed it, OK? 
Because you'd have empty seats 

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in Jacksonville anyway. 
But it went from the Jaguars 

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going to London to now the Green
Bay Packers. 

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The Green Bay Packers, one of 
our most cherished, cherished 

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American sporting properties. 
Now we're taking a game away 

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from the Lambeau faithful and 
giving it to people in London. 

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Why? 
To make money. 

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And that's all this is about. 
So Thanksgiving Eve, when you're

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trying to sit around and you're 
trying to enjoy your family, it 

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it's going to be a little more 
complicated Now maybe you're 

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lucky all right, and I'm lucky 
in this sense. 

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So my, my in laws, they're all 
massive football fans, big great

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sport fans. 
They understand the deal. 

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You know, so obviously we went 
to the Cowboys game this past 

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year, but the Cowboys game, we 
might, we might record it, we 

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might eat and then not not know 
what's going on and then boom, 

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we jump into it. 
We catch up through the 

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commercials, right. 
So that, that works for me, but 

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my, my sister is the opposite. 
All right, My sister is the 

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absolute and she's amazing, but 
she's the absolute definition of

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a scholar. 
She's working on a second or 

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maybe even a third degree 
currently at Oxford University. 

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I mean, she, I don't know why I 
really sometimes I question if 

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we came for the same family. 
I've said that before, I know we

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do and I know we did. 
And her, her room was 15 feet 

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down the hall from mine. 
But like what, what, how, how 

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she approaches academia compared
to what I I did. 

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I mean, I was looking for every 
shortcut. 

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She'd she'd be a professional 
student if you let her. 

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And I say that because I 
remember we got engaged, my wife

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and I, and we were living in 
Hoboken and my sister was had a 

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nice place in, in Manhattan, 
right. 

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And we had we didn't go to 
Dallas this particular year. 

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So my sister made a great, great
Thanksgiving beautiful 

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apartment. 
And I'm getting antsy. 

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I'm like, we got and she just 
doesn't like football. 

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And she really didn't want to 
put the game on while we while 

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we're eating. 
Meanwhile, my wife's a Cowboys 

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fan and the Cowboys are playing.
I'm like, what are we doing? 

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What's going on? 
So I say that and we didn't 

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really get to watch it the way 
we wanted to. 

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I say that because there are 
some families that just don't 

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want to interrupt the holiday 
for football, and I think it's 

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even less important than it used
to be. 

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So, you know, this, this is 
just, this is a problem and it 

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it really bothers me. 
And I just feel compelled to 

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stick up and stand up for many 
of you because you guys don't 

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have the voice to do it. 
Now. 

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The problem is there's no 
recourse. 

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I could bark at the moon like 
Ozzy Osbourne. 

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I could scream all day and 
night. 

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Ain't going to change it. 
They're not going to listen to, 

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they're not going to change 
their their business model 

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because BT Unleashed is unhappy 
and they didn't change it when 

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BT was unhappy with this on 
WFAN. 

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So they're not going to change 
it. 

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But it is just another reminder 
that they don't give a shit 

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about you and somebody's got to 
say it. 

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And I'm not the only one. 
To be fair, I'm not. 

446
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:22,880
All right, what's up, BT? 
What's going on, Justin? 

447
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,320
How you doing, pal? 
Can't wait for the live show. 

448
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,640
Oh, you're driving in from 
Delaware. 

449
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,360
That is awesome, ma'am. 
But you are from Long Island. 

450
00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:33,960
So cool with me. 
That is great. 

451
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:35,440
Hey, let's slap it up there. 
J Rod. 

452
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,600
See, if J Rod was on point today
like he was yesterday, the BT 

453
00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,720
and Sal promo page would have 
already splashed on that A boy, 

454
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,360
that very nicely done. 
Even though we do look like a 

455
00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:46,760
couple of I don't know what we 
look like in that picture. 

456
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,440
We we got to get a new picture. 
Carl Banks will be there. 

457
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,440
It's gonna be phenomenal. 
April 2nd. 

458
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,520
It's Apple. 
OK, He's awesome. 

459
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,760
Awesome venue. 
Long Island. 

460
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,120
So that's where sales from. 
So sales people better step up 

461
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,400
and represent and make sure we 
sell this thing. 

462
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,920
We got some more tickets to sell
off to a good start. 

463
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,520
Plenty of seats available, good 
sized venue. 

464
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,960
Sold out the first one April 
2nd. 

465
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,360
And it's going to be awesome 
with Carl because those of you 

466
00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,480
who follow BT and Sal and 
certainly follow me, you 

467
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,760
understand what happened back in
the day with Carl on WFAN. 

468
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,720
So it's a big coup for us to be 
able to come full circle, get 

469
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:25,040
Carl in and, and symbolically 
let everybody know. 

470
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:26,880
All right, got off the rails 
that day. 

471
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,760
But hey, we're going to break 
some bread, have a couple of 

472
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:29,880
drinks. 
Carl's a great guy. 

473
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:31,320
We've I've known him forever, as
I've said. 

474
00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,560
So that's coming up. 
Can't wait to see you drive 

475
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,120
safely from Delaware. 
I mean, am I, am I wrong with 

476
00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:38,280
anything that I just said? 
Like was there was there not an 

477
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,120
ounce of truth? 
And what was just said here? 

478
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,920
I just don't get it. 
I well, no, I take that bitch. 

479
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:44,560
I'm sorry, Jake. 
I get it. 

480
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,280
I understand it. 
I just resist it. 

481
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,880
Go ahead, buddy. 
No, I mean, you're telling the 

482
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,680
truth there. 
But like you said, nothing's 

483
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:57,280
going to change the the the 
conquest for for greater money 

484
00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,440
will never cease. 
Yeah, you're right. 

485
00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:01,800
It's sad. 
You know, you nailed it. 

486
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,120
I mean, it's it's all about, you
know, stretching the dollar as 

487
00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:06,800
far as you can. 
But but like at what expense? 

488
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,840
All right, so you welcome in 
another part of the world, which

489
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,880
which is fine, but if you start 
to alienate, which I believe 

490
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,040
that they have for a while now, 
if you continue to alienate, 

491
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,680
alienate the core fan base that 
helped elevate your sport to the

492
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,280
number one spot atop of the 
sporting pecking order, perch. 

493
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,160
Well, then what are you doing? 
You know, what are you doing? 

494
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:30,000
And and it just drives me nuts. 
I really, I just don't like it. 

495
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:31,840
I was thinking about this the 
other day, right? 

496
00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:34,880
And some people, because I've 
I've kind of gotten into this 

497
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,160
now this is new with 
Thanksgiving Eve, but like Black

498
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,800
Friday and Christmas Day and not
the NBA because the NBA, let me 

499
00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,840
let me be clear about something.
The NBA is a different watch. 

500
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:46,840
OK, You know what I'm saying, 
Jared? 

501
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:48,400
You love the NBA. 
That's your favorite sport? 

502
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,480
I love the NBA, but it's a 
different watch where even if 

503
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,080
you're a die hard, all right, if
you're like the biggest fan of 

504
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:55,920
of all time, you're not going to
miss a game. 

505
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,040
But even if you're like a die 
hard fan, you'll still probably 

506
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,920
end up catching 70 out of 82 
games or. 

507
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,680
Something well, you'll get yes. 
Oh, for sure. 

508
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,560
Like you're not. 
Clamoring to watch Knicks versus

509
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,720
Jazz like. 
I watched some of that last 

510
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,200
night. 
Knicks gave up 41 points in the 

511
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,680
first quarter and they came back
in once. 

512
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,080
I can't crush him. 
But you see, my point is like, 

513
00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:18,240
it's a different energy that you
exert when you watch basketball.

514
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,200
Same with baseball. 
The Yanks and the Mets and 

515
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,520
baseball there every night for 
me, the Knicks are there 82 * a 

516
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,000
year. 
I'm not a huge hockey fan, but 

517
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,880
you know, Rangers, Isles, 
Devils, every team 82 games as 

518
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,640
well. 
And, and, and again, that's why 

519
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,160
I use the word scarcity 
pertaining to this conversation.

520
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:33,880
It's a built in advantage for 
the NFL. 

521
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,920
But when, when the, when the 
NBA, even the Knicks, when the 

522
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,720
NBA is on, on Christmas Day, you
know, we do the whole tradition.

523
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,960
Everybody's gotten the flannel 
pajamas and sipping around 

524
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:47,920
having coffee and seeing what 
Santa brought, tearing through 

525
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,040
gifts. 
I can and then like my parents 

526
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,160
come over. 
I can watch the Knicks and be 

527
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,440
half dialed in. 
I really like it's, it's a 

528
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,640
different level of urgency. 
And again, it's a different 

529
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,600
level of energy. 
Like if The Jets were good in 

530
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,280
December and they're playing the
Patriots, or they're they're 

531
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,440
playing the Bills or they're 
playing Miami, or they're 

532
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,720
playing Mahomes and the Chiefs, 
or they're playing the Ravens 

533
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,080
and Lamar. 
And it's a game that matters and

534
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,560
it's The Jets and it's 
Christmas. 

535
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,080
I got a problem because now I'm 
either going to have to 

536
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,640
disconnect myself from my 
family, which I really don't 

537
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,280
want to do, or I've got to 
disconnect myself from the game 

538
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,880
that matters, which I also 
really don't want to. 

539
00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:25,480
Yeah. 
So sucks man. 

540
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,560
Sucks, you know, and, and I was 
thinking, I don't know why I was

541
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,000
thinking about this, but you 
keep that up. 

542
00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:33,200
I'll get to in a minute. 
I was thinking about this the 

543
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:35,640
other day. 
I think about very interesting 

544
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,320
things at very odd times. 
I'm coming. 

545
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:39,800
I don't know why this popped 
into my head. 

546
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,200
I'm coming down the stairs the 
other day and, you know, it's a 

547
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,520
flight where it comes down like 
maybe this from upstairs down to

548
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,680
our, our main rooms, maybe 10, 
yeah, maybe about 10 steps. 

549
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,960
Then it's got like a fairly big 
platform, right? 

550
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,000
Bannister looking over the big 
room to grant the, the, the, the

551
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,760
main room. 
And then it's got a platform to 

552
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,440
get together about 6 or 6 or 10 
more steps, right. 

553
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,760
And when I get to the platform, 
that's when I can see like, you 

554
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,320
know, because it opens up and 
we've got high ceilings in the 

555
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,840
fireplace and I just love it. 
I, I love to be able to look at 

556
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,080
that, not that I do it everyday,
but as, as a source of pride. 

557
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,640
I'm, I'm very proud of what we 
built because we built the home 

558
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,760
literally from the ground up. 
My wife and I and we've earned 

559
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,680
it and it, and it's, it's 
something that means a lot to 

560
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,720
us, right. 
And I'm walking down the other 

561
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,160
day. 
I don't know where I was going, 

562
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,240
what I was doing, why I thought 
about this and I never thought 

563
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,800
about it in these terms. 
Now for all the young kids out 

564
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,680
there, of course Santa comes and
does his thing. 

565
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:37,200
We know that every year. 
And, and I was saying just to 

566
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,080
myself, didn't communicate. 
I don't even know if anybody was

567
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,960
home. 
I'm like, wow, you, you really 

568
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:46,840
get about, if you really think 
about it, you really get about 5

569
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:51,880
or 6 Christmas mornings where 
Santa's front and center, if you

570
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:52,960
know what I mean. 
You know. 

571
00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:55,320
What I'm saying without, you 
know, without going, you know, 

572
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,640
the kids, without going too far,
you know, but let me just finish

573
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,600
that thought because when the 
child's born, yeah, Mommy 

574
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,640
dresses him or her up and lick 
the Santa suit, the reindeer 

575
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:05,960
head, you know, antlers, 
whatever. 

576
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:11,280
But from the, from the age of 
birth 1, 2, they have no 

577
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:15,280
recollection of Santa coming or 
Christmas morning three, you 

578
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,640
know, maybe you start and we 
will watch it before too, but 

579
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,800
you start watching like the 
Grinch and you got the Christmas

580
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,680
music. 
And I, I think that they sense 

581
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,320
that things are changing a 
little bit. 

582
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,680
And certainly at 4:00, they know
that Santa's covered with gifts.

583
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,440
And then five, it's on, you 
know, 5678. 

584
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,760
And then depending upon certain 
things with each family, 

585
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,000
whatever that we, you know, that
we'll just kind of gloss over 

586
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,920
here. 
You only get, you only really 

587
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:41,600
get about 5-6 years where it's 
full throttle with the kids and 

588
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,040
Santa and it, it goes fast. 
It just, it's gone. 

589
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,480
And I say that I, I'm not sure 
to be overly virtuous here, but 

590
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,640
I, I, I guess I'm just in 
protective mode here where I'm 

591
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,240
trying to protect the sanctity 
of, of things that matter to 

592
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,000
American families. 
And the more, you know what, And

593
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,600
the more that we just, and I 
love football, but the more we 

594
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,920
shove it down our throat on 
Christmas, on thanks. 

595
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,200
Well, Thanksgiving's fine. 
But now Thanksgiving Eve, Black 

596
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,080
Friday, it's just, it, it's, 
it's a problem. 

597
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,040
It's a problem. 
Big time. 

598
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,080
You know, I thought what I 
thought was funny there. 

599
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,800
This is BT Unleashed. 
But when it comes to Santa, we 

600
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,760
keep things under wraps. 
That's right, of course. 100% 

601
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,200
man, what does Stephen AR have 
to say? 

602
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,600
BT got the boys coming over for 
the jotties at noon. 

603
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,080
Oh, little day drinking little 
jotties. 

604
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:32,520
You're more than welcome. 
Allentown, PA. 

605
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,480
Well, I mean, if if I was doing 
the St. 

606
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:36,920
John's game, I would actually be
sitting at the garden doing the 

607
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,120
game. 
I Long story short, as I 

608
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,320
mentioned, I'm going to Verizon 
today, which I cannot wait. 

609
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,080
It's going to be a big room of 
executives, great people. 

610
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,160
I've had a long work 
relationship with Verizon. 

611
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,480
They've been very good to me. 
And I'm gonna go motivationally,

612
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,520
you know, speak to their, their 
upper upper level management, 

613
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,720
etcetera. 
And I, I can't do the St. 

614
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,440
John's game today. 
This was booked 2, two months in

615
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,120
advance or two months out. 
And it was supposed to be a day 

616
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,920
or two earlier than today. 
And then based on their 

617
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,600
schedule, which is fine. 
I, I totally get it. 

618
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,360
I totally respect it. 
They communicated to us. 

619
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,520
They said, hey, we've got a 
logistical issue. 

620
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,840
We need to push it back. 
And you know, it's it's it's a 

621
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,560
big commitment, one that I 
wouldn't bow out of. 

622
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,360
So I had to let St. 
John's know I can't do the game.

623
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,360
Otherwise I would have. 
I've, I've done every Big East 

624
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,080
game for basically 20 years. 
So I'll St. 

625
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,880
John's wins today if they do. 
And the rematch were Providence,

626
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,440
you know, with, with Bryce Hot 
with, with Bryce in the whole 

627
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:32,400
fight. 
Yeah, yeah. 

628
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,640
They're playing the Friars at 
noon and if they win today, I'll

629
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,800
I'll be there tomorrow doing the
game with Bank. 

630
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,080
And if they win tomorrow, I'll 
be back on Saturday called the 

631
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,560
championship like I did last 
year when they won the Big East 

632
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,320
tournament. 
And then of course, Selection 

633
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,880
Sunday, find out where we're 
going and I'll travel with the 

634
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,960
team and if they go to the final
four, travel for a month and 

635
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,080
I'll do all those games. 
So and I'll bring you a lot of 

636
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,160
content along the way. 
So enjoy the St. 

637
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,520
John's watch party. 
It's going to be, I would think 

638
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:00,840
it's going to be a pretty 
intense game. 

639
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,640
So that's cool. 
But no, I, I am not doing the 

640
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:07,040
game today. 
All right, let's slap this up 

641
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,240
here. 
So I came across this and and 

642
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,560
I've seen many different 
variations of it, right. 

643
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,800
And you talk about the the three
bullet points of what makes the 

644
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:20,320
NFL the NFL, you know, scarcity,
the violence and the gambling, 3

645
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:21,840
things a lot of other sports 
don't have. 

646
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,440
Well, and I, I, I just asked it 
out loud and, you know, you guys

647
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,920
could obviously text this J Rod,
I want you to get involved as 

648
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,240
well. 
Just slap this up on the screen.

649
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:31,120
I saw this. 
Yes, ma'am. 

650
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,400
Yeah, This will be fun to kick 
it around. 

651
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,800
Kick around for a minute the the
top 10 most loyal fan bases in 

652
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,520
the NFL. 
Now I'd like to know what's the 

653
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,760
determining factor here and how 
about my Jets? 

654
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,480
Have you got at least love that 
hey, we're good at something we 

655
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,440
don't bail. 
You guys suck. 

656
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,200
You give us nothing, but we're 
here for you that's our mantra. 

657
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,240
You stink, but we're here. 
You know that that we got to put

658
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,160
that on T-shirts. 
You got the Eagles, Jets, the 

659
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:58,080
Browns, Buffalo, the Bengals, 
Pittsburgh, Detroit, Green Bay. 

660
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,680
You got the Cowboys, you get the
Raiders, you know, keep this up.

661
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,760
So I want to go through a bunch 
of things here so J Rod and you 

662
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,080
can keep this up and speak over 
it. 

663
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,760
If I said to you what what are 
two or three things that you 

664
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,560
think would be behind this 
rating and these rankings? 

665
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,920
Like what makes a great loyal 
fanbase? 

666
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,040
Go ahead, hit me with something.
All right, great, loyal fanbase.

667
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,000
I think obviously comes down to 
like the sports fervor of the 

668
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,720
city itself. 
And you know, Philly's got that.

669
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,440
Obviously New York's got that. 
What I see a lot on this list, 

670
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:32,960
this is my #2 is like your team 
has faced some real trials and 

671
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,080
tribulations. 
Yes, yeah, that's the freaking 

672
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,680
Browns, Bills, bang everyone, 
pretty much everyone. 

673
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,880
I mean, Eagles obviously has a 
recent, they've been a little 

674
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,280
better. 
Like all these teams have faced 

675
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:50,560
like serious downtrodden periods
within recent memory. 

676
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,040
And so I guess something that 
calculates into it is like, have

677
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,280
your fans stayed through the 
storm? 

678
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:57,880
Have they weathered the storm 
with you? 

679
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,680
And then third. 
No, I think, I think you nailed 

680
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:03,520
it. 
I don't think we need a whole 

681
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,480
lot more than that. 
Now, listen, you could obviously

682
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,640
quantify this in terms of 
merchandise sold and, you know, 

683
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,120
the amount of empty seats versus
the amount of sellouts and 

684
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,040
ticket sales. 
Like there's a way to, to get a 

685
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,320
sense of, of, you know, from a 
numbers point of view to back 

686
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,720
this up a little bit. 
I, I think that this is, if I 

687
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,320
were to attack this largely 
perceptually, 1 pretty glaring 

688
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,040
omission to me. 
I think the Patriots should be 

689
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,360
on that list right there. 
I do now. 

690
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,320
I don't know who I would take 
out because Eagle fans are 

691
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:29,320
great. 
They're nuts. 

692
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,400
They've been rewarded. 
They've always, always been 

693
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,600
loyal. 
You know, they own WIP like my, 

694
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:39,200
my former boss Spike at at at 
obviously at the fan who's now 

695
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,920
with WIP. 
He's told us, me and Sal, I 

696
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,920
remember back in the day that we
could talk Eagles all day. 

697
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,200
I and they do like even during 
the offseason, like they'll talk

698
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:49,960
Eagles. 
The put it this way, the 

699
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,320
Phillies could play the Braves 
or the Mets in a, in a fairly 

700
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,520
big series. 
And if there's something, even 

701
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:57,360
if it's relatively benign, 
pertaining to the Eagles, 

702
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:58,440
they'll leave the show with 
Eagles. 

703
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,280
That doesn't happen in New York 
because of the the the placement

704
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,640
of baseball, you know, with the 
with the Yanks and the Mets. 

705
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,360
You know, I mean, are The Jets 
that I I I guess, you know, 

706
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:08,960
thank you. 
May I have another you keep 

707
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,560
coming back for more. 
That's got to that's got to 

708
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,240
constitute some loyalty for 
sure. 

709
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,240
The Browns in large part the 
same identity and tortured past 

710
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,680
to The Jets. 
I think Bills fans are great. 

711
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,240
I think you know, Bengals might 
be a little high. 

712
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,360
I've seen a lot of empty seats 
along the way. 

713
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,800
It's a nice looking stadium too.
I I would probably swap out, no 

714
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:32,000
disrespect, Cincinnati or Ohio. 
I would probably either drop the

715
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,680
Bengals seriously or just whack 
them from the list and put the 

716
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,720
Pats somewhere in there. 
The Steelers are a combination 

717
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,600
of tradition and current 
passion. 

718
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,680
The Lions, similar to the jet 
Lions, are more like the eagles 

719
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,560
because they you know, they 
they've now, even though last 

720
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,320
year was disappointing, they are
they've turned the corner. 

721
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,520
They've won a little bit. 
They've nice new, still not new,

722
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,560
but they've got a great stadium.
Packer fans in front of Packer 

723
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,280
fan should be higher, I would 
think, you know, And then the 

724
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,840
last two, I've got no problem 
with Dallas and the Raiders 

725
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,120
being on there. 
But of all these team, well, the

726
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,560
Steelers would fall into this as
well. 

727
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,480
That's also more of a national 
template. 

728
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,679
Like the Eagles is largely 
regional like this. 

729
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:12,920
I mean, I'm not saying there 
aren't any transplants around 

730
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,760
the country, but jeez, it's like
you've got these fervent jet 

731
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,120
fans walking around California. 
I mean, it's it's the lunatics 

732
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,239
in the northeast, in New Jersey 
and New York, right? 

733
00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:24,639
And the Jet should be on this 
list, the Browns or more 

734
00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:26,600
regional. 
The Bills, I think are 

735
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,120
completely regional, maybe 
changed a little bit with Josh 

736
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,600
Allen, who I love. 
And you know, you have a great 

737
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:32,560
quarterback. 
That's awesome. 

738
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,120
Where are the Chiefs? 
I mean, the more I think about 

739
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,760
this, I I said the Pats, I would
have to, I would get rid of the 

740
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,639
Bengals and I would put the Pats
and the Chiefs. 

741
00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:45,760
I've got to get rid of one more.
Geez, God. 

742
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,040
I mean, you know, who am I? 
I think the Bengals is the 

743
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,560
easiest one. 
Who's the other team? 

744
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,880
Because listen. 
I mean, all right, well, my 

745
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,840
thing, maybe their fans aren't 
not the most loyal, but I just 

746
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,600
think this team has had the most
fair weather fans just do to 

747
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,040
like back in the day. 
Also team logo like I think the 

748
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,080
Dallas Cowboys like you meet 
dudes from Boston who are like 

749
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,840
Cowboys fans just randomly. 
So that would be my other. 

750
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,360
That would probably be my other 
choice, but not on the fact that

751
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,160
they're not loyal, just the fact
that they have a lot of just 

752
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,440
like. 
Random things, that's true. 

753
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,360
I mean, of all that, you can 
take it down in a second. 

754
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,120
Of all these teams, there's 
really only, let's see, Raiders,

755
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,200
Cowboys, Raiders, Cowboys, 
Packers. 

756
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,080
That's certainly three. 
Steelers 4. 

757
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,400
I think there's only really four
teams. 

758
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,040
I don't mean with national 
appeal, like when the Eagles are

759
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,160
on, you're going to get a good 
number. 

760
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,960
When the Bills are on with Josh,
you'll get a good number, but I 

761
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,400
think there's four teams on the 
list that that that kind of cut 

762
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:43,440
through, you know, any any state
boundaries or any geographical 

763
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:45,920
boundaries as well. 
All right, you can get that off.

764
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,960
This was an interesting one. 
I wanted to get this question up

765
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:48,880
there. 
How do we get that up? 

766
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,000
All right, where's my guy Avery 
Summit BT What's going on? 

767
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,280
If you got vast sports 
knowledge? 

768
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:54,520
Thank you. 
I appreciate that. 

769
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,120
But how much more difficult was 
it doing a local drive time show

770
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,840
in San Francisco discussing 
teams you weren't a fan of 

771
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,880
versus a New York show 
discussing the teams that you 

772
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:06,680
are a fan of? 
That's that's a really good 

773
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,120
question. 
I'll, I'll take you behind the 

774
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,080
curtain a little bit here. 
So I was at 10:50 ESPN Radio for

775
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:18,120
almost 1010 1/2 years, right. 
And when that ended, it was kind

776
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,120
of mutual. 
I was there like I, I thought 

777
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:21,240
that I should be doing a more 
prom. 

778
00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:23,600
What else is new? 
A more prominent show. 

779
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,720
And and listen, it was, it was a
it was a great relationship. 

780
00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:30,080
They treated me well. 
You know, I was on outside the 

781
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,520
lines a lot. 
I was on cold pizza. 

782
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,240
Got to do the Knicks because of 
ESPN, love for ESPN, right? 

783
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,960
But it was kind of running its 
course at that point. 

784
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,960
A lot of different bosses, a lot
of different PDS, a lot of 

785
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,400
volatility, so whatever. 
So after 10 1/2 years, I was, I 

786
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:50,760
was out and, you know, WFN 
didn't need me because WFN at 

787
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,400
that point was still an absolute
monster. 

788
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,440
I mean, there's still a monster,
but it was the old FAN and there

789
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,560
was no spots. 
I mean, Joe was there, Mike was 

790
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:58,680
there. 
I mean, it's just different. 

791
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,880
So I think that was that 
boomerang card in the morning. 

792
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,960
I think it was which is which, 
which was a great monster of the

793
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:08,200
show. 
And I remember I was oddly 

794
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:09,560
excited. 
Avery, I'm going to answer your 

795
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,960
question in in a, in a little 
bit of a long winded way, but I 

796
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,880
think you guys will enjoy it. 
I was oddly excited, even though

797
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,000
I just got engaged, had a pretty
expensive apartment, just bought

798
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,400
an engagement ring, like made 
some big life purchases, really 

799
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,360
for the first time in my life. 
And I also had ATV show in New 

800
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,000
York, which was on SNY the 
wheelhouse, which I did for 

801
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,480
about 7 or 8 years. 
Now that wasn't enough to pay 

802
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,280
for everything was a nice, you 
know, supplement. 

803
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,880
But the main income was 1050 was
good money. 

804
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:41,240
And I remember even with that 
fear of a change in terms of 

805
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:45,360
economically for me, I was 
excited to see like, all right, 

806
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,480
you know, you now you're, you're
in your mid 30s or whatever I 

807
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:53,280
was at that point and let's see 
if anybody else values you the 

808
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,800
way you think. 
Maybe ESPN at that point should 

809
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,200
have valued you. 
And I was, I was curious and I 

810
00:37:58,200 --> 00:37:59,760
was excited. 
Really wasn't nervous at all. 

811
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,040
Maybe naive at that point. 
I just wasn't nervous and I 

812
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:04,560
really wasn't nervous this time 
either. 

813
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,080
So maybe I just don't get 
nervous. 

814
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,480
I believe in myself, which I do 
anyway. 

815
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,080
I remember getting 2 phone calls
right, like right away. 

816
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,280
One was from San Francisco. 
Jason Barrett, Barrett Media 

817
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,200
shout out one of the great minds
in the business. 

818
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:18,960
He used to be a program 
director. 

819
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,240
Brilliant mind and a great guy. 
He reached out right away. 

820
00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:25,440
They were launching because KNBR
is the big station out West in 

821
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,000
California. 
The Giants, the Niners, the 

822
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,880
Warriors. 
Absolute flamethrower. 

823
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,840
WFAN of the West, when you cross
the Mississippi Monster, right? 

824
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,920
And they were launching a, an FM
station that was going to be the

825
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,200
home of the A's and the Raiders.
And, you know, the ratings would

826
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:43,680
be different. 
And it was a lot of work. 

827
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,000
But I'm like, that's kind of 
appealing. 

828
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,800
FM stick when the FM stick was 
just getting popular. 

829
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,280
The contract was a good, healthy
offer. 

830
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:53,520
It was for drivetime, which I 
had never done yet. 

831
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,720
At that point, I hadn't done 
anything to drive yet. 

832
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,120
It was with a former football 
player, Eric Davis. 

833
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:02,560
That was one offer. 
And the other offer was at at 

834
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,280
WIP in in Philadelphia and there
was talk, I'm not going to 

835
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,880
mention names, whatever that I 
could do afternoon drive there 

836
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,280
now. 
And I didn't know who it was 

837
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,360
going to be with. 
I, I never got that far. 

838
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,640
I had conversations with them, 
but I never got quite that far. 

839
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,480
Anyway, at that point, Mark 
Chernoff, who was running WFAN, 

840
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:24,640
legend, legend, good guy legend,
quirky, but a really good guy. 

841
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,440
Still, still, still sends me a 
text on my birthday and Merry 

842
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,160
Christmas. 
Really good man and a great he's

843
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,960
a legend of the business. 
I, I remember talking to him and

844
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:38,800
WIP owned by the same company. 
All right, so I remember him 

845
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,320
saying, hey, this could be a 
really good move for because I 

846
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:42,520
leaned out. 
I wanted to get some wisdom. 

847
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,840
I want to get some advice. 
And he said, if you know, if you

848
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,800
go there and and do the 
afternoons, I could find out, I 

849
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,960
could carve out some time on the
weekends on WFAN and I always 

850
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,760
want to be on the fan. 
As you guys know, it was very 

851
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,240
appealing. 
I'm like, huh, afternoon drive, 

852
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,120
you know, Philly top five 
market, good money, great 

853
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:04,480
exposure, great vibrant city, 
awesome sports fans and I could 

854
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,400
do shows on the weekend on WFN, 
my hometown station. 

855
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,400
I think I got to do this. 
But what I ultimately, and I'm 

856
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,360
going to answer this Avery what 
I ultimately, I don't think any 

857
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,440
of you guys know that story. 
So I figured you might enjoy it.

858
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,280
Go fight and bore you. 
What I remember thinking at that

859
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,920
point, my life, because I was a 
little scarred by the way ESPN 

860
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,000
ended, even though I've got love
for him. 

861
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,160
I remember saying to myself, if 
I go down to Philly and I'm 

862
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,640
immersed in the day-to-day, the 
Eagles and the Sixers and the 

863
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,440
Phillies and Villanova and the 
Flyers, right? 

864
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,120
And I'm also doing work on the 
weekends on the Fan. 

865
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:42,680
Am I going to be as deeply 
immersed in the Philadelphia 

866
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,000
sports scene if in the middle of
the week, I'm starting up the 

867
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,440
wheels of churn for, you know, 3
or 4 hours, you know, maybe 

868
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,520
Saturday and Sunday on the Fan 
talking about stuff that's maybe

869
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,120
more personal to me. 
And I really thought about that.

870
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,520
I'm like, I don't know if it's 
the best move for me at that 

871
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,720
point in my life because I, I 
was just worried, you know, 

872
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:03,840
because the pressure in Philly 
and I wasn't afraid of that. 

873
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,000
But I thought maybe the 
distraction of trying to juggle 

874
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:11,240
two things, especially again, my
hometown station, it, it might 

875
00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:14,080
not be best for, for, for work. 
Like am I going to always 

876
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:18,560
constantly be looking back at 
WFAN when I'm on in Philly? 

877
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:23,440
So I turned it down, right and I
pivoted to San Francisco 

878
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,120
quickly. 
So to answer that, Avery, at the

879
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,120
end of the day, and and I really
mean this, and I think it comes 

880
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,240
out now because I I don't just 
talk about the Yanks or the 

881
00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:33,360
Mets. 
I talk about The Jets a lot. 

882
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,000
When I got something on Gino 
that Pete Carroll said that I'm 

883
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,360
going to get to in a minute, but
I just love sports and I love 

884
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,040
communicating. 
To me, there's nothing that I 

885
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:43,920
would rather do. 
And I'm not talking about family

886
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,480
stuff that's come on. 
But there's nothing that gets 

887
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:53,120
me, you know, as excited and as 
engaged and like, as fulfilled 

888
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,240
as as communicating. 
I love the art of communication.

889
00:41:56,240 --> 00:42:00,960
I love the challenges, you know,
I love that rush, that feeling 

890
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,080
when you drive home like a like 
a rant and he can't do a rant 

891
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,360
every day. 
But when you really, it's like 

892
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:10,920
maybe 3540 seconds of fury of 
fire and every syllable's on 

893
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,680
point that it's like you just 
pulling words from space and 

894
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,560
they're coming into your mind. 
There's not a single stumble and

895
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:18,800
everything is money. 
And then bang that last 

896
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,640
punctuation like that to me for 
what I do for a living is 

897
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:26,120
equivalent to barreling up a 
baseball and hit a three run 

898
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,560
bomb at Yankee Stadium and 
hearing 45,000 people cheer for 

899
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,760
me like that. 
That motivates me. 

900
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,760
That's my that's my professional
fuel. 

901
00:42:34,240 --> 00:42:38,480
So it really was easy in the 
sense that number one, it's a 

902
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:42,000
beautiful city. 
And it was we we had just gotten

903
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,440
engaged. 
So it was a really good chance 

904
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,800
for my wife and I to just say, 
all right, you know what, you're

905
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,200
from Texas, I'm from New York. 
Let's go together and start our 

906
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,160
life in San Francisco. 
And I remember we went to our, 

907
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:58,520
our 2nd wedding anniversary, we 
were in Sonoma, which was crazy.

908
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,840
Yeah, we biked over the the 
Golden Gate Bridge. 

909
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,160
We went to obviously all the 
other vineyards. 

910
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:08,120
We went to Warrior Games and Sad
Courtside and, you know, went to

911
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,160
the old Candlestick before they 
blew it up. 

912
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:11,920
And we were there when Levi 
opened as well. 

913
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,360
Levi Stadium went to 
Candlestick. 

914
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,440
We lived around the corner from 
where the Giants play, you know,

915
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,920
was that third and King I think 
is the, if I remember correctly,

916
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,480
right along the Embarcadero. 
It was a beautiful lifestyle and

917
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,080
like the Niners were coming up. 
They just hired horrible. 

918
00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:31,960
The Warriors would just start. 
Mark Jackson was there. 

919
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,160
One of my childhood favorites of
David Lee was on the team who I 

920
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,480
knew really well. 
So I used to interview him a lot

921
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:38,800
when I was doing the Knicks 
stuff. 

922
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,560
So it was kind of easy. 
And then obviously football's 

923
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,840
got a national imprint. 
And so it really wasn't that 

924
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,040
hard. 
Now I would carve out time on my

925
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:51,600
own to, you know, watch The Jets
and watch Yankee playoff games. 

926
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,800
But it wasn't that difficult. 
It it really was. 

927
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,720
It's very fulfilling. 
It was a great professional 

928
00:43:56,720 --> 00:44:00,640
challenge and you know, it 
showed me, I don't know that I 

929
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:04,600
needed this proof or this this, 
this evidence internally, but it

930
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:09,080
I think to myself unknowingly it
it reinforced that it doesn't 

931
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,720
really matter where I am or what
teams I'm talking about. 

932
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:14,320
I'm going to do a good job and 
I'm going to I'm going to bring 

933
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:15,880
it. 
You know, it's definitely a 

934
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,640
different market in terms of 
like, you know, I'm not saying 

935
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,800
there weren't any nuts calling 
up like, you know, like on the 

936
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,280
fan just screaming and yelling. 
You get a little bit of that, 

937
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,160
but a little different. 
Little different. 

938
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:27,840
It was it was really good. 
So hopefully, Avery, hopefully 

939
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:31,240
that'll answer your question. 
Avery, it's quite the long way 

940
00:44:31,240 --> 00:44:33,760
to answer a question here. 
What else we got here? 

941
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:35,480
Any other? 
I want to get to the Gino thing 

942
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,480
in a moment. 
I want to maybe read something 

943
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:38,440
else here. 
What do we got? 

944
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:44,360
Let's see, OK, let's get DP-971.
What up DP? 

945
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,200
Do people even watch weeknight 
games? 

946
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,320
If it's my team, I might watch 
the first half, but if it's on 

947
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:52,320
too late, if you work early on 
the East Coast, even baseball 

948
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,400
games that start after 8 or by 
the way, that's the other thing,

949
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,000
the living and working out out 
out West. 

950
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:03,080
I mean, you got the NFL starting
at 10 AM and you've got I've, 

951
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,400
I've always been a big fan 
because growing up, there's no 

952
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,800
football teams where I'm from 
in, in the, in New York City. 

953
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,200
So I always gravitated to the 
Big 10. 

954
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,960
You know, watch the Buckeyes, 
watch Wisconsin, watch Michigan 

955
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,080
for football, not basketball. 
It's always Big East with 

956
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,680
basketball. 
And a lot of those games are 

957
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,680
noon tips. 
So this is young BT getting all 

958
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,120
those bets in. 
And these games start at 9:00. 

959
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,720
I mean, I'm just waking up 
'cause it's probably out the 

960
00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:30,160
night before because there was 
no responsibility, no kids and, 

961
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:33,760
you know, just lazily lay on the
couch and, you know, have five 

962
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:35,880
games going. 
And it's, it's wild, man. 

963
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,520
Even like whether it was golf, 
U.S. 

964
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,480
Open or the Open Championship, 
which would be even earlier out 

965
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:43,160
there. 
No, it was pretty cool. 

966
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,600
And, and the other thing too, 
that I really enjoyed about 

967
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:51,280
living out there is that I got 
to get a little bit more 

968
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,640
immersed in the college football
culture because so think about 

969
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,240
this. 
So we were there two years and 

970
00:45:57,240 --> 00:45:59,080
then I was hired, but back to 
come to New York to do the 

971
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,640
national stuff for 10 years with
Tiki, CBS Sports Radio, right? 

972
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:05,400
And when we were there, they 
were, they were. 

973
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,040
I don't even call. 
You can't even call it a 

974
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:08,600
refurbishment. 
Like it was basically an 

975
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,040
overhaul of Memorial Stadium 
where Cal football plays, right,

976
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,200
The Cal band, great tradition, 
Aaron Rodgers, etcetera. 

977
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:20,200
And they played for one of the 
two years where the Giants play.

978
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,280
So they were playing at on a 
baseball field. 

979
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,240
I saw USC roll in, I saw Utah 
roll in. 

980
00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:28,080
Like it was just so different, 
man. 

981
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,120
And, and then I got to go to the
new stadium and they actually 

982
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:36,320
played Chip Kelly's Oregon team 
and we had pretty good seats. 

983
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:41,280
But I just remember watching the
like the wave of substitutions 

984
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,680
and just how Oregon's offense 
operated from with a different 

985
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,080
purview. 
It wasn't on TV. 

986
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,520
It was amazing. 
And then when I went to Stanford

987
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,560
for the first time, J Rod, how 
sick is this? 

988
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:55,200
I went to Stanford and I saw I 
saw Andrew Luck play 

989
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,000
collegiately. 
Yeah, I did. 

990
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:00,760
That's A and I got the tailgate 
there. 

991
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,480
And matter of fact, that game, I
think it was against you. 

992
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:05,800
I think it was. 
Yeah. 

993
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,280
So against UCLA, yo, I'm sure 
you can find this on YouTube. 

994
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:12,160
Andrew Luck made a reception. 
It was like some sort of flip 

995
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,520
and he ran a route. 
He made like a one handed 

996
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,320
reception. 
That was where he dotted his one

997
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,000
foot sprawling out of bounds. 
I believe it was the, if you 

998
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,440
watch it on TV to the right of 
the screen, maybe 1520 yards 

999
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,360
downfield. 
And then he was drafted first 

1000
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,640
overall. 
So it was a very vibrant scene. 

1001
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:31,120
It was very enjoyable. 
Yeah. 

1002
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:32,360
I mean, it was it was pretty 
cool. 

1003
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,920
Andrew. 
I mean, Andrew Luck and and then

1004
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,320
and Do you want to talk about a 
different tailgate scene? 

1005
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,880
So imagine tailgating in 
Berkeley, just walking around 

1006
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:41,400
Berkeley. 
Oh my. 

1007
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,360
Gosh, I mean, I'm sure it's. 
Beautiful. 

1008
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,040
It's beautiful. 
In many ways. 

1009
00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:48,440
Yeah, yeah. 
I mean, it's just one big smoke 

1010
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,600
fest. 
It's just it's party Phil and I 

1011
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,280
matter of fact, my wife and I, 
I, I forget, I think it was 

1012
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:57,560
somebody that she worked with 
passed away from breast cancer. 

1013
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,760
If I recall, and this is a long 
time ago. 

1014
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:02,920
I didn't, I never, I never knew 
this, this young woman, 

1015
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,320
unfortunately, but they had a, 
a, a breast cancer awareness 

1016
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:09,240
walk through Cal's campus. 
Gorgeous. 

1017
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,000
Like you look at the topography,
like, listen, I'm a New York 

1018
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:12,680
guy. 
I love it. 

1019
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:14,560
But there's a lot of things 
about New York that it grows. 

1020
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,560
And I don't mean when you get 
upstate, upstate's beautiful. 

1021
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:18,800
The city's absolutely revolting 
at this point. 

1022
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,240
It smells like this, it smells 
like weed. 

1023
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,960
There's garbage everywhere. 
People are flocking away. 

1024
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:25,760
They're leaving New York City's 
disgusting. 

1025
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,480
I love it and I could say that, 
but it's gross, right? 

1026
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:32,360
Subways are gross. 
But the topography of that part 

1027
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,320
of the country, I remember 
fishing. 

1028
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:35,960
I haven't talked a lot of 
fishing. 

1029
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:37,920
We'll get into that over time on
the show here. 

1030
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:42,200
I remember fishing right. 
And, and drop in line and 

1031
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:49,240
staring at, at, at, at at 
Alcatraz, like literally 150 

1032
00:48:49,240 --> 00:48:52,400
yards away from Alcatraz, 
catching sturgeon the size of my

1033
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,160
desk. 
It, it was cold. 

1034
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,720
Yeah dude, I caught a leopard 
shark and I've never even heard 

1035
00:48:57,720 --> 00:49:00,000
of that, nor have I have I ever 
seen one. 

1036
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:05,120
Do me a favor, can you pop up a 
quick Google image of of a 

1037
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,920
leopard shark? 
I remember finding one. 

1038
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,400
Pic of them before? 
They were big. 

1039
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:13,280
They were, I mean, not like a 
great white big or like, you 

1040
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,960
know, a bull shark or something,
like something really dangerous.

1041
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,960
But I, I, it just seemed I 
don't, it didn't seem very 

1042
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,000
threatening because the captain,
I remember the captain saying I 

1043
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:22,480
wash your hands, but it wasn't 
that big a deal. 

1044
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:26,320
I remember even catching a lot 
of halibut, like just probably 

1045
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:30,000
2025 LB halibuts, just like 
stuff you would catch in Alaska.

1046
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:32,600
It was absolutely awesome. 
Did you find a picture of a of a

1047
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:32,960
lemon? 
Yeah. 

1048
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:38,560
I'm gonna pop it up, pop it up. 
Pop it up. 

1049
00:49:38,720 --> 00:49:40,440
So let me just finish answering 
that question. 

1050
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:43,400
No, I mean, you don't really 
watch the way that you used to 

1051
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,200
or or the way that you'll watch 
your team. 

1052
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,800
What my biggest problem is, and 
I I juggle this with the Yankees

1053
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,480
or the Mets, right? 
I want to watch the Yankees 

1054
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:53,280
first and foremost. 
I want to watch the Mets for my 

1055
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:54,800
job. 
Plus, I love baseball, you know,

1056
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,920
but like when the Yanks are on 
Amazon and the Mets are on S&Y 

1057
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:00,160
or vice versa, and then you 
throw away, you get primed. 

1058
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:03,160
You got now you got Netflix 
opening day, which no disrespect

1059
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:06,000
to Netflix, it's it's UN 
American that you've got opening

1060
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,800
day that's not on available for 
some of the older generation. 

1061
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,920
I'll find it. 
I'll watch it if my mom is not 

1062
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:14,360
home. 
My dad ain't finding it. 

1063
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,080
My dad ain't watching it. 
I can promise you that. 

1064
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,600
So I always stand up for the 
older people who don't know how 

1065
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:19,880
to look at that thing. 
Yeah. 

1066
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,880
Now wasn't that big, to be fair.
Jeez, it was Oh, God almighty. 

1067
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:26,600
I mean, that's a big one. 
But that is what I hold in. 

1068
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,800
And my buddy Dan, who who came 
in to spend the weekend, I think

1069
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,480
Jen went back to Dallas. 
We had a boys weekend man. 

1070
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,040
And you want to talk about we, 
we went to a Cal football game 

1071
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,400
at AT&T Stadium against Utah. 
So we're tailgating, we're 

1072
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,360
hanging out there was great bars
across the street. 

1073
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:42,280
We went fishing one day. 
We played golf. 

1074
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,760
Awesome, absolutely awesome. 
But I it's an it's an additional

1075
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:48,640
problem because now the Thursday
Night Football games on cable 

1076
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,240
and you know, you got to and I, 
I know it's not a big deal and I

1077
00:50:52,240 --> 00:50:55,000
know how to do it finally, 
because my son was doing it for 

1078
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,560
the first year. 
I can toggle back and forth 

1079
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,720
between prime and between yes, 
but it's a pain in the ass And 

1080
00:51:00,720 --> 00:51:03,960
I, I really find myself not 
doing it unless I've got some 

1081
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,040
fantasy elements and my fantasy 
team usually stinks in football.

1082
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,240
I don't, I don't bet the way 
that I used to. 

1083
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,840
So I'm like, all right, I mean, 
unless it's a massive game of 

1084
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,840
consequence, am I going to 
really go out of my way during 

1085
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,280
September and October to go to 
go and watch, you know, a game 

1086
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,520
on prime between the Titans and 
the Jaguars? 

1087
00:51:21,720 --> 00:51:23,640
Or am I going to watch the 
Yankees or the Mets? 

1088
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:27,400
I don't watch baseball. 
All right, what are we doing? 

1089
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:29,240
BT fishing charters. 
Yeah. 

1090
00:51:29,240 --> 00:51:31,360
Clr 8810. 
Let's get the BT and Sal 

1091
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,440
celebrity golf tournament off 
the off the ground. 

1092
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:36,200
First, then we'll hit the boat. 
We'll. 

1093
00:51:36,720 --> 00:51:37,640
Hit the boat. 
Yeah. 

1094
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,080
I used to love doing this. 
And like, I wouldn't really. 

1095
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:41,560
I wouldn't. 
It wouldn't be a lot. 

1096
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,160
But when I would get up, 
because, again, no kids when 

1097
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:47,120
we're in San Francisco. 
So I'd get up at like 5:00 and I

1098
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,600
found the captain like this 
Irish immigrant when I moved 

1099
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,520
there. 
I remember walking along the 

1100
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,800
Embarcadero because I'm from 
Sheeps at Bay and there's boats 

1101
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:56,160
everywhere. 
That's in Brooklyn by 

1102
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,920
Kingsborough, if you guys know 
the area, fishing charters, blue

1103
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:02,120
fish, fluke, flounder, weak 
fish, stuff like that. 

1104
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:04,360
And you get a lot of sea Robins,
whatever. 

1105
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:05,920
And it's overfished at this 
point. 

1106
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:10,760
But that's what I did growing up
and I would love, I would love 

1107
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:14,040
to wake up And well, I had well,
first I had to find a boat. 

1108
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:16,520
So I remember when I'm I'm 
walking in the war for like I 

1109
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,320
meet this, like you reminded me 
of the captain in Jaws. 

1110
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:21,960
Remember the, the bro remember 
the brogue that he spoke with, 

1111
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:25,080
If you remember that right, 
forgetting the actor's name. 

1112
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,160
I know he died recently more 
somewhat recently. 

1113
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,400
Rest in peace. 
Great actor attitude. 

1114
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:33,080
His, his, his brogue, his 
dialect added to it. 

1115
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:37,240
Anyway, I, I see this guy and 
he's got very small boat. 

1116
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,000
It fit 3-4 people, not like one 
of these monstrosity, you know, 

1117
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:43,520
massive fishing charters. 
Hey, how much to go fish? 

1118
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:44,840
And I just moved here blah, 
blah, blah. 

1119
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:46,960
You know, give me 100 cash, I'll
take you out. 

1120
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,520
Done. 
So my parents were there for the

1121
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,560
weekend and and then I 
eventually went out with him for

1122
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:55,160
a couple, couple times and I 
would get up early and I 

1123
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:57,040
wouldn't put much in because I 
was obviously driving and I 

1124
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:58,760
wouldn't, I wouldn't drink it 
until I got there. 

1125
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,640
I would make a little Irish 
coffee, make a massive cup of 

1126
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:04,160
coffee. 
Just toss a little Baileys in 

1127
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:08,560
there and and you've got the the
fog that's hitting the the Bay. 

1128
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,440
Go and drop a line, catch all 
the things I just mentioned. 

1129
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:13,440
Absolutely awesome. 
All right, I got to read this 

1130
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:15,960
because I do have to wrap up the
show early today because I've 

1131
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:19,320
got to get out to Verizon. 
So Pete Carroll and we talked a 

1132
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,320
lot about Geno Smith on the show
yesterday, right? 

1133
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:25,440
Well, Pete Carroll was dropping 
some some Intel on the new gets 

1134
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,960
quarterback and here's what Pete
had to say. 

1135
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,960
He's a phenomenal quarterback. 
He really is. 

1136
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,640
He had a fantastic offseason and
preseason with us and he comes 

1137
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,360
out in the first game. 
He's got a great game. 

1138
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,120
That was all fitting. 
It was exactly the right time 

1139
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,160
for us. 
Then we just faltered and 

1140
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,160
faltered. 
We didn't do well enough 

1141
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:45,360
coaching. 
We should have had him better 

1142
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:47,840
prepared for the things that 
happened and that would have 

1143
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:48,960
happened. 
He continued. 

1144
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:51,040
I take a lot of responsibility 
in that. 

1145
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,800
We didn't prepare him well 
enough for the offseason, even 

1146
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,360
though he looked good and we 
felt we had everything lined up.

1147
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,480
It was a very, very 
disappointing, I guess, year for

1148
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:01,680
us both. 
And then there's there's one 

1149
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:03,720
more that I want to read there. 
I think there's another quote 

1150
00:54:03,720 --> 00:54:05,760
for there you go. 
We got killed. 

1151
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,760
We absolutely got killed, 
Carroll said. 

1152
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:10,960
Our offensive guys up front, 
their line was terrible, 32nd 

1153
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:14,400
out of 32 in the NFL online 
stunk last couple of years. 

1154
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,040
We got murdered. 
We needed to upgrade it out more

1155
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:18,760
than we did. 
It didn't happen in the draft. 

1156
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:20,120
It didn't happen in the 
offseason. 

1157
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,400
We didn't go for it in the 
offseason. 

1158
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,720
We needed to have a we needed to
have A to buy a line, a new 

1159
00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:28,080
line, give the guys a chance to 
at least be more competitive. 

1160
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,640
The only reason you get sacked 
that much is because you try to 

1161
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:33,880
throw it too much. 
The whole thing didn't quite 

1162
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:37,040
work out, and that's why you saw
the things change and all that 

1163
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,600
stuff. 
And quote, Pete Carroll, former 

1164
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:43,120
coach, Seattle, The Jets before 
that, the Patriots, obviously 

1165
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:45,880
coaching in college as well, all
that stuff. 

1166
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,160
So I think that that doesn't 
mean that Pete's going to be 

1167
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:51,840
right. 
And I don't think that Gino's 

1168
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:53,400
phenomenal. 
Maybe he's laying on a little 

1169
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,640
thick there, but I think he's 
talking about him as a person, 

1170
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,160
the character that he brought to
the building. 

1171
00:54:58,160 --> 00:54:59,640
And if you missed the 
yesterday's show, I'm, I'm not 

1172
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:01,160
going to get back into it. 
Just go find that. 

1173
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:03,560
It's on the channel here. 
You know, I think it was about 

1174
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:04,760
as good a pick up as you could 
have. 

1175
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:07,520
I mean, yeah, All right. 
It doesn't seem like they'll get

1176
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:09,200
Carson Wentz. 
It looks like those reports are 

1177
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,400
changing now. 
I know a few people had that, 

1178
00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:13,960
but if it was Carson Wentz, 
would you feel good about that? 

1179
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:16,760
Like you might you, you could 
cause it's subjective, feel 

1180
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:19,720
slightly better than you do 
about Gino, but you wouldn't 

1181
00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:21,720
feel good. 
I mean, Carson Wentz hasn't 

1182
00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:24,320
played a lot of football in a 
while and he hasn't played a lot

1183
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,360
of high level football even 
longer. 

1184
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,520
So it's not like they whiffed on
Carson Wentz, who would have 

1185
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,400
been some game changing 
quarterback. 

1186
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:34,240
You know, All right, you want to
Malik Willis, I was interested a

1187
00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:36,480
lot of money. 
Did you really want Tua, you 

1188
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:40,200
know, throwing 78 mile per hour 
fastballs into the wind at 

1189
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:41,520
MetLife. 
Did you really want that? 

1190
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:43,960
I don't want Tua, you know, and 
with the concussion history, 

1191
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,480
very injury prone, small, I'm 
not interested. 

1192
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:50,240
So to me just a button up the 
take from Gino yesterday. 

1193
00:55:50,240 --> 00:55:52,560
But I did want to want to read 
that stuff from, from Pete 

1194
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:55,440
Carroll. 
You know, like, the more that 

1195
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:59,000
you, you look at this and you 
look at it objectively and you 

1196
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:03,120
strip away emotion and you just 
say, all right #1 Where are The 

1197
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:06,440
Jets at this point in their 
rebuild #2 Who is truly 

1198
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,480
available? 
And #3 What's the purpose of 

1199
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:12,480
bringing in somebody like Gino? 
Well #1 where are they? 

1200
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:14,640
They're, you know, step one, 
they've revamped the whole 

1201
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:15,920
defense. 
They're trying to change the 

1202
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:17,720
culture. 
So they're just starting out 

1203
00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:20,200
with that. 
You know who else was available?

1204
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:23,880
I gave you an OP the options. 
There was a dearth of options. 

1205
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,560
There weren't many. 
All right, They settled on Gino.

1206
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:27,880
And then where do you go from 
here? 

1207
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:31,920
Well, where you go from here is 
hopefully just raise the floor 

1208
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:33,560
enough. 
We're now the culture slowly 

1209
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:34,960
starts to change. 
That's why you're bringing guys 

1210
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:37,040
like the Mario Davis. 
You're not bringing these guys 

1211
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,120
into win a Super Bowl. 
What you doing is you're 

1212
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,800
bringing in these kind of 
personalities and these kind of 

1213
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,000
diligent pros. 
And Demario Davis, by all the 

1214
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,600
counts and one of the absolute 
best humor I know, he's 37, 

1215
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,840
which is a weird number for a 
linebacker. 

1216
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:52,200
So one thing if you're a left 
tackle or guard or center, but I

1217
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,760
know 37's old for a linebacker, 
he could still play a little 

1218
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:55,800
bit. 
He could still tackle. 

1219
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,440
And I'm not the same in 
coverage, obviously, but he's 

1220
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,200
going to bring a level of 
accountability and 

1221
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,240
professionalism to the meeting 
room, to the practice field. 

1222
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,680
He'll help espouse Aaron 
Glenn's, you know, message 

1223
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:09,960
player to player, which a lot of
times is more effective than 

1224
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:13,200
coach to player because it's a 
peer, you know, and it's a it's 

1225
00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:15,440
a different level of engagement.
If you got a guy who's been in 

1226
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,600
the NFL for 15 years, you know, 
barking at you, saying, what do 

1227
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,280
you, Hey, we got to be here. 
What are you doing? 

1228
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:23,000
It's a little different than, 
you know, Aaron Glenn shining a 

1229
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,640
light on on on a board. 
Hey, you missed, you missed the 

1230
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:27,520
you missed the gap here. 
Where's the gap integrity, 

1231
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:29,520
whatever football verbage you 
want to use. 

1232
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:31,840
So that's where I stand on the 
Gino stuff. 

1233
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,760
I said most of it yesterday. 
The more I thought about it, 

1234
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:36,560
nothing changed. 
I like it. 

1235
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,440
I think he's a lot better than 
many of you think. 

1236
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:41,400
I think some of you, and that's 
fine. 

1237
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:43,040
You know, I'm not going to fight
City Hall with this. 

1238
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:46,320
I think some of you interpreted 
what I said as me believing that

1239
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:49,640
he's going to elevate The Jets 
to some crazy level. 

1240
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:52,520
No, he's not. 
But if they drafted Tie Simpson,

1241
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:55,880
if they draft somebody, you 
know, kid from LSU, whomever it 

1242
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:59,120
might be, right? 
Penn State Aller, if you get one

1243
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:01,680
of those kids in the second 
round, third round, maybe even 

1244
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,120
the fourth round and you get him
in the quarterback room with 

1245
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:06,480
Gino, don't you think he's a 
little and maybe Tyrod Taylor is

1246
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:07,920
the backup? 
Don't you think it's a little 

1247
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:10,080
bit better than having him in 
the room with Brady Cook and 

1248
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:12,680
then them kind of look at each 
other like, I don't know, what 

1249
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:14,880
do we do? 
So there's value there, All 

1250
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:17,320
right, Might not translate into 
the wind total matter of fact, 

1251
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:20,400
it probably won't that you guys 
are obviously desperately after.

1252
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,440
But that's how I feel about 
that. 

1253
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:26,600
One more thing with time we got 
here, Jay, it's 11 yet. 

1254
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:28,720
Yeah. 
So the other thing real fast is 

1255
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:31,320
that. 
Yeah, this was interesting. 

1256
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,360
So I'm not going to get into the
mechanics of the Knicks game. 

1257
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,920
I mean, they did give up 41 in 
the first quarter, which I 

1258
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:37,480
tweeted about. 
It was ridiculous. 

1259
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,280
But they did win the game, so no
need to shade them too much. 

1260
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:43,200
They won what I find 
interesting, who played great 

1261
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:44,240
last night for the Knicks, 
right? 

1262
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:47,120
Jordan Clarkson. 
Jordan Clarkson came in, scored 

1263
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:51,560
27 points in 26 minutes, and 
he's basically been out of the 

1264
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:54,280
rotation for the last 7 or 8 
weeks Now. 

1265
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:57,080
You might sit there and say, 
wow, that was a good move by 

1266
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,320
Mike Brown. 
You know, he had some faith in 

1267
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:01,160
Jordan Clarkson. 
You had to dust him off. 

1268
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:04,160
You threw him into a game where 
the Knicks had no energy and he 

1269
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,520
helped catapult them to a win 
that maybe they wouldn't have 

1270
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:10,080
gotten if Mike Brown didn't make
that move and put Clarkson in 

1271
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:12,480
for the first time in a while 
terms of healthy minutes, right?

1272
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:15,000
Well, the problem is it wasn't 
Mike Brown. 

1273
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:18,720
It wasn't his recommendation. 
It was assistant coach MO Cheeks

1274
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:21,120
and Mike Brown even said that in
the post game. 

1275
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:25,000
He's like credit to MO. 
Hey, Mike, you know I'm not I'm 

1276
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:29,160
not about I don't believe in 
taking the credit for somebody 

1277
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:31,600
else's success. 
I, I, I think the exact 

1278
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:33,640
opposite. 
But that's not a good look for 

1279
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:35,440
you because we're already kind 
of fed up with some of your 

1280
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:37,240
nonsense. 
You're too passive. 

1281
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,000
You have only one tech this 
year. 

1282
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:41,640
You lose too many games. 
You shouldn't you get punked by 

1283
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,160
Detroit. 
You hugging Draymond Green you 

1284
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:46,360
after you after you lose. 
You're hugging picker staff 

1285
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:48,000
after you get your ass kicked 
with Detroit. 

1286
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,080
Like you know, Mike Brown. 
That has not been very good. 

1287
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:52,280
And if Mike Brown doesn't get it
together, Mike Brown's gone 

1288
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:53,440
after one year. 
Fact. 

1289
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:56,280
It's just going to happen and 
rightfully so because we all 

1290
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,320
know where the bar is supposed 
to be for the Knicks this year. 

1291
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:01,800
So they they win last night. 
The guy who was instrumental in 

1292
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:05,520
the win wasn't even like 
directly connected to something 

1293
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:08,480
that the head coach did. 
It's just it's it's wacky. 

1294
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:11,120
My God. 
All right, J Rod guys, I hate to

1295
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:14,640
cut this short, but I told you I
had to big day over to Verizon. 

1296
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,360
Can't wait to hook up with them.
Love them. 

1297
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:19,560
Any questions any texts, any 
comments get it up in the chats 

1298
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:22,280
there get the likes up all right
spread it out yesterday. 

1299
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:26,080
The shorts were were phenomenal.
J Rod did a really good, really 

1300
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:28,360
good job. 
The percentage of views, the 

1301
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:32,440
shares, not that you guys really
need to know this, but it were 

1302
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:35,680
really, really strong. 
So I think we're starting to 

1303
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:36,840
take a little bit more root 
here. 

1304
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,560
You know, as the algorithm 
figures things out, that 

1305
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,960
unleashes here every day at 10, 
that unleashes pumping out 

1306
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:46,600
three, 4-4 or five shorts a day 
that we've got some other 

1307
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:49,400
individual content. 
If you missed my chat with Rick 

1308
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,040
Pitino, go for it. 
It's up there. 

1309
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:56,320
If you missed my my my content 
from last week, my all time Big 

1310
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,960
East team, 5 starters, 7 
reserves, honorable mention head

1311
01:00:59,960 --> 01:01:02,680
coach for that team as well. 
That is up there. 

1312
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:06,680
My old time Yankee and Met 
lineup post 1982 separate 

1313
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:10,760
videos, that is up there. 
The the LA Greca spot is up 

1314
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:12,200
there. 
And hey, we made some national, 

1315
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:15,200
national news with Donnie too. 
We made it with Kay, with the 

1316
01:01:15,200 --> 01:01:17,920
politics and we made it with 
Donnie when Donnie was like, 

1317
01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:20,920
yeah, I should have threatened 
to walk with when my name wasn't

1318
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,360
on the show. 
So we got some some nice 

1319
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:25,120
national traction with that, 
which is great. 

1320
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:28,240
I told you about Gary Vee. 
I was texting with him the other

1321
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:30,000
day. 
We're going to get him on soon. 

1322
01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:33,720
Texted with Stephen A and we 
left it where he said, hey, hit 

1323
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:35,800
me up on Sunday. 
I want to make sure my you know,

1324
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:37,880
he had a little medical 
procedure on the dental. 

1325
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:39,400
Want to make sure he's good to 
go. 

1326
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:43,920
If he is, and I hope he is, this
show aside, there's a great 

1327
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:46,520
chance a matter of fact, I would
I would say we'll have him on 

1328
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:49,280
early next week. 
I was texting with a rod 

1329
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:51,480
yesterday. 
Alex is coming on the show. 

1330
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,280
He said he wants to do it in in 
a in a line in alignment with 

1331
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:59,440
the WBC coverage for Fox as we 
get deeper in out of pool play, 

1332
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:01,240
which we are now. 
I mean, thank God the United 

1333
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:03,000
States made it. 
The Rosa would have been 

1334
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:04,280
roasted, man. 
Team Italy. 

1335
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:07,000
Oh, how about Pasquantino? 
3 bombs. 

1336
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:09,240
First time that's ever happened 
in the WBC. 

1337
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:11,560
Good for Italy. 
Oh, what do we got here? 

1338
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:14,560
Got to help out America. 
All right, I'm bouncing. 

1339
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:16,280
J Rod. 
Give me a salute, buddy. 

1340
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:17,920
BT unleashed fashion. 
Let's go. 

1341
01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:19,240
Salute it up. 
Let's go. 

1342
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:21,280
What do you got there? 
No salute it up, buddy. 

1343
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:25,160
I want you to salute. 
Did J Rod disappear? 

1344
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:26,320
There he is, 1. 
You're right there. 

1345
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:27,720
Jay. 
What's going on? 

1346
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:29,720
Alright, something something 
happened to Jay. 

1347
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:31,280
It's all good. 
You're glitching. 

1348
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:33,400
Out right now. 
You're you're glitching out now 

1349
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:34,960
alright it's better than 
crashing out there. 

1350
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:37,600
You go hey better late than 
never so you know we got we 

1351
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:40,040
appreciate you guys BT unleashed
every day at 10. 

1352
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:42,640
You know follow me on X follow 
me on Instagram. 

1353
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:45,720
I even have a Tic Tac TikTok 
account, haven't really used it 

1354
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:48,240
that much, but there's probably 
8 or 9 videos up there if you 

1355
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:50,760
missed it. 
I'll be a little bit more busy 

1356
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:52,840
with that. 
I've got the Johnnies tomorrow, 

1357
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:54,800
provided that they win. 
They're coming up at noon 

1358
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:57,720
against Providence, 5 1/2 point 
favorites, The whole Bryce 

1359
01:02:57,720 --> 01:03:00,640
Hopkins thing with that foul up 
in Rhode Island about a month or

1360
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:03,200
so ago, those scrap on the court
could get a little chippy. 

1361
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:05,600
We'll see. 
Big East on the way, tournaments

1362
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:07,440
on their way, Selection Sunday 
coming up. 

1363
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:11,400
All good stuff. 
So have a fantastic rest of you 

1364
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:13,600
Thursday. 
I appreciate you and I'll catch 

1365
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:16,960
you guys tomorrow at 10 right 
here on on leash peace. 

1366
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:28,880
This is on leash Are you 
listening? 

1367
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:29,840
Can you hear me? 
Hear me? 

1368
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:31,440
This is on leash. 
Are you listening? 

1369
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:32,360
Can you hear me? 
Hear me? 

1370
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:33,920
This is on leash Are you 
listening? 

1371
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:36,080
Can you hear me? 
This is on leash Are you 

1372
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:37,080
listening? 
Can you hear me?