1 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:12,480 This is on leash Are you listening? 2 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:13,400 Can you hear me? Hear me? 3 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,040 This is on leash. Are you listening? 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:15,960 Can you hear me? Hear me? 5 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:17,480 This is on leash Are you listening? 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:18,400 Can you hear me? Hear me? 7 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:20,000 This is on leash Are you listening? 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Can you hear me? What's up everybody? 9 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:29,640 How's everybody? Interesting day. 10 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,119 Anything new going on today? Anything new going on? 11 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:35,200 What's happening? BT Unleashed with you off the 12 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:39,720 red eye and the Jodies are going to the Sweet 16. 13 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,360 It's absolutely amazing. So you better believe I will 14 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:46,200 spend a lot of time on that. I am not going to spend well. 15 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,080 Then again, I say I'm not going to spend a lot of time on what 16 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,680 was said on WFAN this morning. Who knows, I might. 17 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,400 We'll see where this goes. All right, so I get off the 18 00:00:54,400 --> 00:01:02,120 plane and I get hit with text, text, text, text, text, tweet, 19 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:07,840 tweet, tweet, tweet, obviously about some things that that Geo 20 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:13,480 said about me on the air today. So I, I listened to him. 21 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,200 I did a lot of people sent me snippets, right? 22 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,680 And I listened to him and I said, all right, how, how do I, 23 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:20,200 how do I want to attack this, right? 24 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,760 I could go in lunatic mode, which I think a lot of you are 25 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,840 are probably expecting. And I might like at some point I 26 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:30,000 might. But the first thing that I 27 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,520 really feel that I have to do is dispel some things that were 28 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:43,520 said now by Greg himself #1 So I went into that interview right 29 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,360 on Friday with Evan and Tiki, my old buddy Tikka. 30 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,400 And you know, I've got love for Evan and, and I did text Ryan 31 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:53,560 Hurley. I said, hey, this was a couple 32 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,480 of days ago. I said if I said if anybody 33 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:59,280 wants me. And I didn't think that Gio and 34 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,600 Boomer would want me. Not because I didn't have a 35 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,960 decent relationship with them. I had no problems with them, 36 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,000 although evidently we do now, at least me and Greg. 37 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:12,400 But I wanted to offer up my services, talk some Saint Johns, 38 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,480 you know, And if they accepted it, great. 39 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,640 And if they didn't, they didn't. So I don't think I heard back 40 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:19,160 from Hurley. You got to understand, I've 41 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,200 known Ryan Hurley for 20 something years before it became 42 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,920 the, the, the brand ambassador at WFN. 43 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:30,040 Ryan, did I go back? Ryan was my old producer at 44 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,120 10:50 SPN Radio. So you know when Greg says I was 45 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,240 begging Hurley nonsense, straight up lie #1 it's a lie. 46 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:38,600 I mean, I'm not going to rant and rave and yell. 47 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,000 It's just a mistruth. I offered my services. 48 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:44,080 I think I know a lot about Saint John's. 49 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,560 It's a big story it's the biggest story hey and I've said 50 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,080 many times by the way, I've got no issue with WFN. 51 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,200 I've got love for WFAN doesn't seem like the morning show's got 52 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,960 any love for me at this point, but that's fine OK, so that's 53 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:01,080 that's that's lie number one now the other thing too, when I went 54 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,920 into the interview, I just because I know the way radio 55 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:08,560 works I get it and I and I somebody sent me the clip. 56 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,560 I think it was last week where where Greg was talking about, I 57 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,120 guess how you know, he came be. Oh yeah, a year ago that was 58 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:19,680 that was I'm pretending I'm him a year ago that was me prank and 59 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,400 BT right now there were a lot of things that were said this 60 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,480 morning, lot of things that were said this morning. 61 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,760 All right. I do admit that that younger me 62 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,680 would be taking a different route, like just with a totally 63 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:36,040 different energy. So what I have learned, and I 64 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:40,160 really mean this, what I've really learned in life is to 65 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,400 really not give a flying fuck what anybody thinks about me 66 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,000 that doesn't really know me, all right? 67 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,160 And Greg doesn't really know me, like, and I don't really know 68 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,280 Greg, to be fair, right? We don't, we work 10 feet down 69 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,440 the hallway from each other for a couple of years, The three 70 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,960 years I was at the Fan, I was down the hall doing National for 71 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:02,280 a long time. Always cordial, always what's 72 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:03,800 up. Couple of texts here and there. 73 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,160 You know, I listen to the morning show going in. 74 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,200 Sometimes they would say something like, oh, I think you 75 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,240 missed this or something with me and Sal little context, Like I 76 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,160 had a good relationship. Not not amazing, but, but good 77 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,240 enough, right? But the, the, the character, 78 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,440 like the character assassination, like, I don't, I 79 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,800 don't care if Greg thinks I'm not good on the air. 80 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,800 That's fine, all right. I don't care if Greg takes a 81 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,160 little jab that I got fired. Which brother? 82 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,640 I wasn't really fired. My contract wasn't renewed. 83 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,120 That's fine. Like I don't talk about that 84 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:35,480 stuff on the air. I never have. 85 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:38,000 If Greg wants to do that, knock yourself out. 86 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,080 It's all good. I'm 52 years old. 87 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:42,840 Do you think I really care what he thinks about my employment? 88 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:45,560 I really don't and I never will. I never have, right? 89 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,760 But I went into the interview with Evan and Tiki. 90 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,080 I was not going to bring that up, you know, But I will say 91 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,000 that it bothered me. Like I'm not going to lie to you 92 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,800 guys. That bothered me now when when I 93 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,800 said that Greg was not a good teammate, I was talking about 94 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,040 the prank. But let's be very clear about 95 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,560 that. The reason I took that so and I 96 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,800 didn't know because Greg never told me. 97 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,240 I never knew. I I didn't know until the other 98 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:14,640 day. So I guess I'll give him props 99 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,200 for a pretty good not know, right? 100 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,120 The only reason I was so bothered by that is to me that 101 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,800 this is this is what for me. I'll speak to my character. 102 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,920 There's certain things that I don't do and there's certain 103 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,480 things that I would never do, and that's one of them right 104 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,240 now. I also get like how I present 105 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,000 myself on the air what Greg does 2 very different, you know, 106 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 modes of operation. I'm a sports guy who likes to 107 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,600 mess around. Secondarily, Greg is funny. 108 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,600 Greg is a big guy. Greg's good at his job too. 109 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:45,680 Like I'm not going to say he's not good. 110 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,160 He's good, very successful and at times very funny, right. 111 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,160 But when when you prank a teammate, a guy down the 112 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:58,000 hallway, when you call on the air and you say that and and you 113 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,320 keep the story going or you keep the story going, right? 114 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,720 That I was out perpetuating a story that, by the way, was 115 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:11,480 false, that I was out drinking with college players who are 116 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:16,320 underage, That's not cool. And, and and I don't even if 117 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,360 it's funny, it's not cool. Like there's a line that you 118 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:22,240 don't cross. And to me, that's crossing a 119 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:24,640 line. So yeah, that did bother me, but 120 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:29,560 I was still going to have enough respect for WFAM and the people 121 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,600 who work there full time. I wasn't going to bring it up. 122 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,280 I wasn't now when Evan asked me, I'm not going to lie, because 123 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:36,560 I'm going to be authentic like that. 124 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,200 If I if, if I'm anything, I'm authentic, right? 125 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:40,960 I think you guys always know how I feel. 126 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,360 I think I wear my emotions on my sleeve. 127 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,520 I think that's one of the reasons why I've done what I've 128 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:49,040 done in my career so far. Like, I'm going to tell you 129 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,040 what's in my heart. I'm going to tell you how I 130 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,040 feel. And that did bother me. 131 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,760 And you know, if like if, if I was still working at the station 132 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,040 and I'm, I'm not, trust me, I'm not saying I would have busted 133 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,720 in the studio like a lunatic, but I would be like, yo, that's 134 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,360 pretty fucked up, man. I, I would have said that to his 135 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:06,320 face. That's fucked up. 136 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,480 Because when you have a job for 20 years as as I have had with 137 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,720 St. John's and you try to comport 138 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,520 yourself a certain way, right? And it's a Catholic University 139 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,640 and, and now you're crossing a line and you're again, he didn't 140 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:24,200 make it up, but he added to it. And I didn't appreciate that. 141 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:28,480 OK, So if Greg has a problem with me saying that I didn't 142 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,280 think that he was a good teammate at that point, well, 143 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,480 then that's Greg's problem. That's not my problem. 144 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,920 I'm I'm sorry that he feels that way, but that's the only way 145 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:40,160 that I could feel what I found out about that now, few other 146 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,360 things here, right? Well, you know, nobody liked 147 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,920 working with them at WFN, OK, I mean, what now you start talking 148 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,120 about character guys like I I do the I do sports. 149 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,240 I do this for a living. I'm not into the gossip. 150 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,600 I'm not into the drama. I'm not even talking about Greg 151 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:55,600 now I'm talking about in general. 152 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,080 I'm not into the radio beeps. I've never played that. 153 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,560 You've always heard me say that to the point where when things 154 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:07,120 come up on the tech stream on this show and some of you have 155 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,480 taking a shit on WFN because it bothers you that they got rid of 156 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,880 me, I don't play into that. I always say, hey, you know, 157 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,080 let's go. We don't need to do that. 158 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,080 This is my thing. I've got love for the fan. 159 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,400 So I I think if anything that I've comported myself like a 160 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,480 professional now when Greg's and Greg's opinion, I might not be 161 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,680 good enough to still be on WFAN and that's fine. 162 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,760 That's Greg's opinion. But what, what I do know is that 163 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:40,520 the person that I was on the air is always going to be the person 164 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,880 that I'm off the air. Like I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm true 165 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,160 to what I believe in and I'm authentic to me. 166 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:49,840 And I believe that I'm authentic to good things. 167 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:53,400 I try to do right by people. Now I'll see this too, like, and 168 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,080 I'll, I'll even be, I'll even be and I don't know if I would have 169 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:59,720 been able to do this years ago. I'll be fair, I'll even be a 170 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:02,640 little vulnerable here. I really will when he says like, 171 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:07,160 oh, he's got no sense of humor. There was a point where I, I 172 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,320 really didn't know how to laugh at myself. 173 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,080 I think that that's fair. I think that that's true. 174 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,640 And I think that one of the ways that I've grown doing this is 175 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,520 that I have learned to laugh at myself. 176 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:20,800 And I don't take myself very seriously. 177 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,720 I take my job seriously. I take the content very 178 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,240 seriously. I take my responsibility to you, 179 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,920 my fans, my audience, very seriously. 180 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:34,880 I don't take myself seriously. Now think about, think about 181 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:37,600 the, think about the, the jobs that I've had. 182 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,960 I was at ESPN Radio for 10 years, OK, 10 years. 183 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,360 Ryan Hurley was my producer. Ryan Hurley will be a friend 184 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,800 until the day that we are out of the business and no longer here. 185 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:51,880 Check. Michael Kay. 186 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:55,760 I was at Michael's wedding, OK Michael was one of my first 187 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,960 guest on this show. Love Mike and Mike's got love 188 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,520 for me. Don was a guest on the show. 189 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:04,200 I love Don and Don's got love for me. 190 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:08,200 Stephen A's probably coming on this week and has been one of my 191 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,320 biggest champions in the business that the mutual love 192 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:14,400 that we have for each other and the respect is undeniable. 193 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,120 I worked with Stephen A right. So that's 10 years at one 194 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,560 company, pretty good track record. 195 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:25,280 And then, you know, 13 years at at, you know, CBS. 196 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,760 I want to see what you know, but I'm very proud of the run and 197 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:31,120 I'm very proud of how I finished. 198 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,280 And this is not to re litigate like my last show, like the 199 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:37,280 chapters been written, man, but the way that I walked out of 200 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:41,880 that studio, I walked out to me the way I would want my son or 201 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:46,320 my daughter to walk out if they were not, if when they face 202 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,760 adversity in their life, you know, and I I wasn't going to 203 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:54,720 say this, but I am going to say this all right, because there 204 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,440 were times when Greg was a good teammate and he said that today 205 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,760 and that bothered him. And I can even respect that 206 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,120 because he did go to bath for me and Sal with Carl Banks and I 207 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,680 salute him for that. And I saluted him in real time. 208 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:07,600 I told him that I walked into the stood. 209 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:09,400 I said, appreciate that man Thank you. 210 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,120 That's a stand up move right there. 211 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:17,400 But like being a good teammate to me is not being a good 212 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:23,480 teammate when it fits. And when Sal and I found out on 213 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:28,440 air live that Craig was coming back, all right now, they were 214 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,760 already gone that day. And I didn't have the 215 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,840 relationship with them where I expected some long text like, Oh 216 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,400 my God, I just feel like we weren't friends friends at all. 217 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:40,600 We were cordial and that was it. Kept it moving, right? 218 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:45,000 Never 1 issue with Greg and never 1 issue with Boomer until 219 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,080 until now with, with, with Greg with this stuff, right? 220 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:52,440 So the next day, and, and maybe this was overly presumptive on 221 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:57,160 my part, maybe, but I'm sitting there saying, man, if one of my 222 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:02,360 teammates just found out on the air that they lost their job, I 223 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,760 know what I would do. And I would pop my head in and I 224 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:10,000 would say, even though you probably think Craig's better 225 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,840 than me and it's justified, and that's fine. 226 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:13,880 Craig's a rock star. I got no problem with Craig at 227 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,560 all. But to, to me the human thing, 228 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:20,960 the decent thing at that point if you're a good teammate, if 229 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:23,680 you're a good teammate would be to walk down. 230 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:27,200 Cuz I when I tell you my studio was here and theirs was right 231 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,760 there, right there like 5 feet away. 232 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,160 And to leave the, the station, you've got to walk past our 233 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,640 studio. And I was at the studio 234 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,400 everyday, bar none, by 8:30. That was my process. 235 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:43,520 Get ready, you know, get ready for crazy Sal and the four hours 236 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,680 of yelling and the four hours of awesomeness. 237 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:47,920 All right? And he could say whatever he 238 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:48,760 wants. Yeah. 239 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,160 I don't think we were fired because the show wasn't good. 240 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:52,680 I think he said we couldn't cut it. 241 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:54,320 Or I'll say I don't want to get sound bombed. 242 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:56,600 I couldn't cut it. I don't believe that that's 243 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:58,400 true. I think the show was really, 244 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:00,360 really good. And so did management. 245 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,520 It was unique circumstances. But that's fine. 246 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,480 I'm a big boy. I've moved on. 247 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:10,720 So that day, the next day, now it's in the newspapers and it's 248 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,320 everywhere. Nothing. 249 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,680 And again, I'm not even like, I'm not waiting for it. 250 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:22,680 But when it was, when it didn't happen, I was like, wow, that, 251 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:28,120 that OK, that's interesting. And then the next day, and then 252 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,160 the next day, and then the next day and then the next day. 253 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:36,440 Not a word, not a word. So yeah, there were times you 254 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,640 were a good teammate. I I agree with that. 255 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:43,720 But I know that and you're very entrenched there and you got 256 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,160 great ratings and you're making a good living and you've earned 257 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:47,600 it. You're good at what you do. 258 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,600 We we're very different talent wise, but you're very 259 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,280 successful. I've always said that we go go 260 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:58,520 and Google any article, all right, that was written about me 261 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:03,520 going to FAN or me talking and espousing about WFAN. 262 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,320 I mean, the first go to line was Boomer and Gio are a monster. 263 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:10,240 Like I always gave love. I always showed respect to the 264 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,840 morning show because I show respect to everybody. 265 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:18,040 So then now it's like wow, like a week or two, I guess. 266 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,280 I guess he really doesn't care that I'm basically getting fired 267 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:28,360 and that's fine. All right, so then the then Sal 268 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,960 finishes up and now I do, as many of you know, I do last show 269 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,120 by myself, right? The last week by myself. 270 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,400 And there were five chances. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 271 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,520 Thursday, Friday. I don't need you to come in and 272 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,160 tell me something you don't believe. 273 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:48,040 I don't need you to come in and even emotionally prop me up 274 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,200 because I'm pretty resilient. But again, I know what I would 275 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,800 have done. Yo, Gio, that's a tough break, 276 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:56,520 man. Honestly, good luck, dude. 277 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:58,120 Miss you. That's it. 278 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,360 Even if you don't mean it like to me being, being a good 279 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:06,520 teammate is not selective. Being good, a good teammate is 280 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,800 when somebody that you worked with for a couple of years 5 281 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,680 feet away and the show right after you, they lose their job. 282 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,120 And you know, I've got two kids, you know, I've got a pretty 283 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,840 expensive mortgage because you've been to my home once, but 284 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:20,280 you've been here, you've seen it. 285 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:21,880 It's nice. It's not cheap. 286 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:27,000 Not a word. So I didn't forget that because 287 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,440 I, I, I wouldn't have done that. I would have done the exact 288 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,680 opposite. So he went on a little rant 289 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:32,840 today. That's fine. 290 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,520 You know, you know, that's that awesome. 291 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:39,720 Knock yourself out, All right? You know, we, if you had any 292 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,960 real issues with me over over the years that we were together, 293 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,760 you can walk down the hall to talk to me because I think I'm 294 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,000 very approachable. That's what grown men do. 295 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,240 I've done that with other people. 296 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,040 You know, I, I believe in that kind of communication. 297 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:56,160 If I ever did something so wrong to you, come and come and 298 00:15:56,160 --> 00:16:00,000 address it, you know, and you know all the other stuff too, 299 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:05,240 you know, like the, the not once did I ever a matter of fact, I 300 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:06,640 laughed. I thought it was hysterical, 301 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,520 like the drops, the a gap. And you know, Brian Cashman, 302 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:12,280 that didn't bother me. I laughed. 303 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,040 I laughed. You know what? 304 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,760 I didn't laugh when you pranked your teammate. 305 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,960 You called me on the air and kept the story going. 306 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:25,880 That one wasn't true and two, was potentially dangerous for me 307 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,400 in terms of employment. So that's where I'm at with 308 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,120 that. So I mean, there's a good chance 309 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,640 that I'll never see Greg again the rest of my life unless I 310 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,720 bump into him in the game. I mean, we, we, we, we have no 311 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,480 bearing on each other's lives. I don't need him. 312 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,280 He obviously doesn't need me. I don't care. 313 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,560 He doesn't care. But don't come off as Mr. 314 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:48,440 Rennison here. You actually picked up the phone 315 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,320 and you punked a teammate is what you did. 316 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,480 And for a whole year, you never told me. 317 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:56,080 And that was the story that bothered me. 318 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:01,480 All right, so I'm going to start dialing it down now before I get 319 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,560 too worked up and really say the wrong thing. 320 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,680 All right, Again, years ago, this probably would have been a 321 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,319 very different presentation. I'm very comfortable where I am. 322 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:16,560 I'm very comfortable how I'm pivoting and making something of 323 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:18,319 my situation. Very proud of that. 324 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,760 It's not easy, you know? And Greg, I hope someday you 325 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:23,400 don't have to do it. Maybe you won't. 326 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:25,880 You know, you're you're WFAN royalty. 327 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,560 It's different for you. You know, you got Boomer, you 328 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,360 got a rock store next to you. You guys are coasting and you're 329 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,400 going to coast as long as you want because everything, the 330 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,400 ratings are there and the revenues there. 331 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,280 All right. So as you sit in your tower and 332 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,600 you view downward on on the rest of us peasants understand. 333 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,720 I never once had a problem with you at all until that one time. 334 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,000 And if you didn't like what I said with Evan, I'm sorry. 335 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,080 You shouldn't have done it. That's on you that that's not a 336 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:56,960 me thing. That's a you thing. 337 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,320 I didn't pick up the phone and prank you. 338 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:02,080 I didn't pick up the phone and prank Boomer. 339 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:06,480 I didn't. I didn't prank you and pretend I 340 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:11,160 was Mike Francesa when Mike called your show and blasted 341 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,600 you, eviscerated you. I didn't do that. 342 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,160 I kept my mouth shut because that's not what I do. 343 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:23,000 You know what I mean? Like I Gen. like and I I I don't 344 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,400 want this to be misconstrued because I'm not wired this way 345 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,640 when the I don't even not meltdown because I don't think 346 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,160 that that's fair. I'm trying to be respectful. 347 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,800 The the show where you even said you, you had anxiety, whatever 348 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:38,920 it was like I felt so I felt for you. 349 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,600 I'm like, wow, I'm like, he's really dealing with some shit 350 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:42,920 here. I hope he's going to be all 351 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,840 right. You know, so being a good 352 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:49,920 teammate is not just making good radio, shitting on Carl Banks 353 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,240 and shitting on other people. And I did appreciate it because 354 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:57,000 you did have my back. But when nobody was watching, 355 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,480 where there was no bit to be done on the radio, when there 356 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:05,360 was nothing funny to be said, no drop to hit by Eddie Scissari, 357 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:09,720 who, by the way, did come into the studio and gave me a hug. 358 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,320 I won't forget that. Eddie's been there since day 359 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:15,320 one. That meant something to me. 360 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,120 I'm like, and I even told him like, wow, I'm really touched by 361 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:19,600 that. Eddie, thank you very much, man. 362 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,240 Thank you. And I don't keep score about who 363 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:26,440 did what because I'm moving on. You know, Evan asked me a 364 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,440 question. I answered it honestly. 365 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,840 You didn't like it Too bad. I don't know what to tell you. 366 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,640 You're the one who made the call, not me. 367 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,040 Not me, you know? And by the way, since since I 368 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:42,600 have such a rough time working with people at WFAN, why don't 369 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:46,080 you go and ask Sean Morash how I've treated Sean since he got 370 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:50,040 every promotion. Check Sean's text chain, every 371 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,800 promotion that that dude's gotten. 372 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,560 Dude, I'm so happy for you. Keep killing it. 373 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:57,320 This was after they let me go. Now I don't. 374 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:58,680 I don't have that relationship with Tommy. 375 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,280 I don't have Tommy's number. But I remember walking out of 376 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:04,640 the studio that day and you know, he, everybody was kind of 377 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:06,920 waiting and I said, dude, knock him out, man. 378 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:08,200 This is your shot. Go get it. 379 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,760 Like I, I, I don't operate with grudges or bias or jealousy. 380 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,960 And I'm not even saying that you do I'm not, I'm not, I'm not 381 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,320 pulling you into that. But you could say whatever you 382 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:24,160 want about my lack of humor or anything that you want. 383 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,480 When you talk about my character now, you're fucking dead wrong. 384 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:30,960 Now you're dead. That's the one thing that I will 385 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,280 defend to the end of the earth, because there's not a part now 386 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,240 there might be a few people there that we I'll beat. 387 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,200 You know, he, he, he wants a certain thing on the air or you 388 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:44,080 know, he's, he's a little hot. You know, whatever hot, intense 389 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:47,360 with certain things. Ask Rami about the text I sent 390 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:50,440 Rami, you know, when I found out he was taking over for Eddie, 391 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,000 thrilled for him. Talk to Connor. 392 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,440 Hey, Connor, how you doing, buddy? 393 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:55,680 How's everybody treating you here? 394 00:20:55,720 --> 00:21:00,760 Has I have always gone out of my way to make sure people below me 395 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,760 and just in terms of money, like in terms of status on the on the 396 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,240 on the pecking order of radio, which I am no longer a part of, 397 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:12,040 right? I have always gone out of my way 398 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:17,520 to try to do the right thing by people, by people, you know, 399 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,000 it's just a genuine care for others. 400 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:25,080 And you know, I'm not attacking your character like I'm not. 401 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,400 I'm not even doing that. But what I am saying is, and 402 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,560 I've said this now three times. That was your straight up week, 403 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,480 what you did with that prank call. 404 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:35,680 And now you got a problem because I didn't like it. 405 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,440 I don't know what to tell you, buddy. 406 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:41,920 That's that's just the way it's going to be, you know, So I'm 407 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,600 going to eventually move on from this and have a blast with the 408 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,480 Johnnies and the Sweet 16 for the first time in forever. 409 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,800 But some of those things that were said, yeah, maybe one or 410 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,840 two are true. And he'd always laugh at 411 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,760 himself. Yeah, I got it. 412 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,160 I own it, you know, And you know what it's called? 413 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:02,960 It's it's also Greg for me. It's also called looking in a 414 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,440 mirror, Right. And for me, trying to be better 415 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,800 at certain things, Right. I'll tell you something else. 416 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,360 And I wasn't even going to say this. 417 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,280 And I didn't say it in real time and you didn't bring this up. 418 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,480 So I want to be, I don't want anything miss something because 419 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,080 I know you're going to be talking about this again on the 420 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,400 show tomorrow, right? Are we just going to go back and 421 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,480 forth with this? I mean, I, I, I prefer not to, 422 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:28,520 but you know, guy calls you up, right? 423 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,520 Guy calls you up. Oh, I heard BT got kicked out of 424 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,360 the game. I'm on vacation. 425 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,480 I am on a beach in Florida, Rosemary, Florida with my 426 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:39,400 family. Negan, I'm not saying you 427 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:43,520 started this. I won't be clear, but if I like, 428 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,800 if I was you in that moment, I would have shot that down out of 429 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:50,880 respect to you, you know, and, and maybe you did, maybe you did 430 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,360 more than I'm giving you credit for, but that's something that I 431 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:57,240 would not have leaned into because to me, you know, that's 432 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,960 I, I look at the things that I try to do for people and it 433 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,920 wanted and you know, and all you guys know at the station how 434 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,560 much I love coaching, right? And to get pulled into that 435 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,000 while I'm on vacation, standing up for my team when we were 436 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,840 wronged. And it's like a bit on WFAN, 437 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:17,080 like I wouldn't have done that. I just would have done it and 438 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,600 you know, it, it bothered me, but you know, just kept it 439 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,160 moving. You do your show. 440 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,880 I do my show. But the the thing about like, 441 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:31,160 even if you would have said and it I didn't know it was you, if 442 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,440 you would have been like, as we're getting ready to hang up 443 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,600 BT you're an idiot. How do you not know it's Gio? 444 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,960 I would have left but for a year. 445 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:44,520 So again, when I look at teammates and when I look at, 446 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,880 you know, foxhole people and you were foxhole guys sometimes you 447 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:50,640 definitely weren't. I, I'm giving you that. 448 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,520 You were. But when I lost my job, you 449 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,680 didn't even say goodbye. And I don't think anybody knows 450 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,600 that. So if you want to, you want to 451 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:04,080 attack my character. I want people to know just how 452 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,880 flippantly you ignored somebody losing their job. 453 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:15,560 Not even goodbye, not even good luck, nothing. 0 not AP. 454 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:21,520 So I am perfectly fine with what I've said, how I've responded. 455 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:24,800 You know, you can make the jokes and you guys can play the drops, 456 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,280 and those drops will be funny, I'm sure forever. 457 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:29,680 Knock yourself out. And I think that that's 458 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,520 genuinely funny, but I think that there's certain things, 459 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:37,400 even in radio, you know, with bits and with ratings, to me, 460 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,320 there's certain things that are off base. 461 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:44,640 And and I just gave you one was the call to me and Sal. 462 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,280 So that's that's where I'm at. I mean, J Rod, I get off the 463 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,720 air. Where's my guy? 464 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,440 What's up? I I get off the airplane today, 465 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:55,840 right? I'm half asleep. 466 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:01,720 We are on the tarmac for. Let's see a we so the game put 467 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,640 like we, they wound up getting, they gave up the rooms, but then 468 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,800 they got the rooms back because we had like 3 hours. 469 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,560 And then we go to the to the to the private airport and we're on 470 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,320 the we're in the bus still for like 2 hours. 471 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,640 Then we get on the plane. It's like, Oh my God, I landed I 472 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,480 think it was like 8 O3 812, whatever the hell it was right? 473 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,960 Something like that, barely. I got Minko like this next to me 474 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,000 snoring. He's got, you know, he's got 475 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,440 drool covered. No, man, he doesn't have drool. 476 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,880 But he was like it was an uncomfortable, believe it or 477 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,840 not, it was not a good charter. Like it was the NCAA chief down 478 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,800 on the truck, very tight, very tight, awesome weekend chief 479 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,440 charter. So I'm, I, I, I literally slept 480 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,800 about 36 minutes and then I opened my phone because I wanted 481 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,920 to try to see the kids before I, you know, I, I thought that 482 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:47,920 there was a chance. I was trying to time this out. 483 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,720 If daddy gets home around 8:00, they leave for school around 484 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,480 8:20. I haven't seen them for five 485 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:53,600 days. I want a couple of hugs and 486 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,000 kisses there. I missed the heck out of them 487 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:56,800 and I'm like, I'm not going to get. 488 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,680 So now as I'm texting my wife and I text my son, he's having 489 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,640 breakfast. I text my daughter on her iPad. 490 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,360 Daddy's not going to see it. All of a sudden, Ding, Ding. 491 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:06,360 You know how like you get on a plane thing start popping off, 492 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,320 Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding. 493 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,280 I'm like, and I and I and I, and I figured I really did. 494 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,240 I figured. I figured that that Greg would 495 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,320 probably address that. I figured that he would. 496 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:21,520 What he failed to address and the manner in which he addressed 497 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,840 my character is the only thing that I care about. 498 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,960 Anything else? Knock yourself out, radio 499 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,520 fodder. Have fun. 500 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,240 That's cool. We never had a deep relationship 501 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,480 and we never will. And I don't need it and you 502 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:35,960 don't need me. And that's OK. 503 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,680 That's OK with the character stuff. 504 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,280 I'm I mean, that's what that's the only thing that you take to 505 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,880 your grave and I don't give a flying fuck what you think about 506 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,840 me. I really don't I just I don't 507 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:51,120 care because there's enough evidence with the kids that I 508 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:54,440 coach and the people that I've worked with for a long time that 509 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,560 will say, you know what, it's a good dude, man. 510 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,720 He generally try to do the right thing independent of is he great 511 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,200 on the air? Is he good on the air? 512 00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,560 Did he get screwed by the fan? Was the fan just, I'm not 513 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,560 talking about that subjective radio and interpretation stuff. 514 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,880 I'm talking about the reliable emotional, be like the 515 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:16,120 emotionally reliable person who genuinely cared about somebody's 516 00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:19,560 daughter at the station or their son's first game or God forbid, 517 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,320 if somebody passed away. Shoot the tag. 518 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:22,520 I'm not saying I'm the only one who does that. 519 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,080 I don't mean that. But you would make it seem like 520 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,000 I'm walking around, you know, the way Greg planned this or 521 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,200 plotted this or or laid this out today, like I'm walking around 522 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,840 the station and I'm taking mics and everybody's back. 523 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,800 And it couldn't be. It's the complete antithesis. 524 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,520 Like I generally have great pride and and I will look back 525 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,000 with great fondness at my time at WFAN. 526 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,200 I really, really will. But I got pulled into this today 527 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,720 and again, I wasn't even going to get into this when evident 528 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,560 tiki, you know, And yeah, I I texted Ryan. 529 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,560 I've known Ryan for 20 years. Yo, hurls you. 530 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,600 Hey, if anybody. It wasn't even like, oh, I got 531 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,560 to get on the fan. No, I don't have to. 532 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,360 If anybody wants to talk Saint John's, it's the story. 533 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:03,840 Dicks aren't in the playoffs yet. 534 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,480 Yanks and the Mets haven't started yet. 535 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,720 Giants hired horribaugh, Jets haven't drafted anybody yet. 536 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,800 Rangers suck. Like it's St. 537 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,680 John's. So I'm thinking, OK, you know, 538 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,600 if there's one person that could really talk St. 539 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,520 John's, it would be me. I'm not saying men can. 540 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,080 I'm not saying that there aren't others. 541 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,760 Of course there are. But that's been one of my 542 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,200 connections for two decades. So I volunteered my services. 543 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:27,120 He, I think he said like, yeah, we'll see. 544 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,320 And then I think, I think this was after going into the Big 545 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,000 East tournament. I think I texted him and then I 546 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,120 circle back said, hey, listen, I'm not gonna, I did say so I'm 547 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:37,160 not gonna keep asking. I said, if you want somebody, 548 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,000 let me know. And then he's like evident Tiki 549 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,680 said they love to have you on Tiki's. 550 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,280 My guy worked with him for 10 years. 551 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,560 And I, I, I want, I, I really do want like Greg failed to miss. 552 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,240 He missed this. He just didn't incorporate this 553 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,880 in what he was saying. I was not at all. 554 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:55,680 I was not going to bring that up at all. 555 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,080 But how weak would it be and how disingenuous and inauthentic of 556 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,520 me would it be when Evan asks me? 557 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,480 Oh yeah, it was funny. I didn't think it was funny, no. 558 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,360 I, you know, that kind of thing messes with your career. 559 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,760 I mean, I could go on a whole tangent, right? 560 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,120 I mean if, if you'll allow me. By all means, did you? 561 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:16,160 I just want to make sure I treat. 562 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:17,720 You're right here, Jared. Yeah, yeah. 563 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:22,000 So, so whatever, I wake up this morning, and I said this before, 564 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,000 it was like Paul Revere running through Boston going the British 565 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,520 are coming. I wake up in like a sweat to you 566 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,440 calling me going, you see what Gio said, You see what Gio said. 567 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,640 So I see it. And this is my thing with the 568 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,520 character assassination as well. It it just led to here's a big 569 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,440 word. It led to like a cognitive 570 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,160 dissonance when I'm watching it because the way he described you 571 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:47,160 is just not the human being I've interacted with whatsoever in 572 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,000 terms of how he's treated his producers, how he's treated 573 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,800 people around him, how he can't laugh at himself. 574 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,880 I feel like 90% of this show is you laughing at yourself having 575 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,360 a good time, neither here nor there. 576 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,920 Try to, you know, I mean, I'm not saying I'm the funniest guy 577 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,720 in the world, but jeez, I I take a lot of things seriously. 578 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,000 Taking myself seriously is not one of them. 579 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:11,400 Yeah, yeah. So it just it felt strange like 580 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,640 at least to somebody maybe looking in from an outside 581 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,440 perspective and I just I didn't see it. 582 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:22,880 And then another thing, he just completely twisted the Joe B 583 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,320 common thing about you talking about the fan. 584 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:31,920 Like he clearly just saw the 33 second Instagram clip of you 585 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,280 talking and clearly didn't see the episode where you louded the 586 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,440 fan, where you you gave them their flowers always. 587 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,680 And you and, and you were more so talking about, you know, the 588 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,640 radio landscape and all that, you know, and how it's kind of 589 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,160 shifted to the more of a digital sort of thing. 590 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,560 So you just completely missed there too. 591 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:56,160 I just, I, I can't believe it, you know, onward and upward. 592 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,120 Turn the other cheek. Come on now. 593 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,120 Well, I mean, listen, even the I'm happy that you bring that up 594 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:06,400 with Joe like, and I'm not going to say that Greg didn't see the 595 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,120 whole thing. I don't I don't know, but it 596 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,080 sounds like maybe he didn't, but I'll leave the door open. 597 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,920 Maybe that he did. Maybe that's his subjective 598 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,120 interpretation of what I said and that's his right. 599 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,840 That's fine. Like that's his opinion. 600 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,920 One thing I learned a long time ago, you can't tell somebody 601 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,440 that their opinions not right. You can say I don't agree with 602 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,560 your opinion or maybe you have it wrong or you construe this, 603 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,240 you know, incorrect misconstrued this. 604 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,080 But I I don't know. I doubt that he saw the whole 605 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,320 thing because I don't think that he's going out there watching 606 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,560 BTL least YouTube shows. You know, maybe you see a short, 607 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,960 maybe stick with that. So maybe it was of the shorter 608 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,200 variety, whatever, but what I said was true. 609 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:50,000 There has been and it was after much lauding of the almighty 610 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:51,600 FAN. It's the greatest sports radio 611 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,640 station in the history of sports stations. 612 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,920 I said that forever. Chris Olivero is one of the most 613 00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:04,720 brilliant, you know, decision makers and just voices that are 614 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,240 he's a Titan of our industry, man, and before that, so is Mark 615 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:09,600 Chernoff. Like I'm not going to re 616 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,760 litigate how amazing FAN is. That's not the point, you know, 617 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,760 or, but, but the, the point from that day where he pulled me into 618 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:21,080 the Joe stuff today with, with Boomer was that I was shitting 619 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,960 all over the fan and I and I didn't it was called, it's 620 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,960 called contextualizing the evolving marketplace. 621 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,120 I mean, and even W, even when I was there, WFAN leaned very 622 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,520 heavily into the digital aspect for a reason. 623 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:35,920 They're not doing it for their health. 624 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,880 They're doing it because digital, like the digital 625 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,280 traction that they get on YouTube, they got 100,000 626 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,400 followers, I guess a month or so ago and a lot of the clicks and 627 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,560 that you monetize that they're not idiots. 628 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,880 It's another revenue stream. So to me when I say that the, 629 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:56,400 the, the, the radio relevance and the radio revenue is 630 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,720 slightly diminished from what it was in its heyday, that's fact. 631 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,880 That's a, that's not a knock at anybody. 632 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:03,800 That's not saying this show is not good. 633 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:08,080 That show's not good. I never once, I never once 634 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:14,280 criticized a show publicly. There were times and you know, I 635 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,240 I I don't need that public validation, but I will just 636 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:18,840 communicate to you. And how many times there are, 637 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,600 especially now, like since things went down with the fan 638 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,000 where I'm coaching third base or I'm at one of my kids basketball 639 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,880 games or I'm coaching a basketball game. 640 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:29,640 And you know, I don't mean my friend. 641 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,080 So I know like my real close friends in town, but you know, 642 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:35,000 maybe other towns that playing out, whatever they're like, 643 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,760 dude, you know, what are they doing? 644 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:38,480 How do they get rid of you? And and and keep. 645 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,480 I'm like, yeah, it's their decision. 646 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,880 Like, I never leaned into it. Like I never walked around with 647 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,840 an ounce of animosity. I walked out of the station with 648 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,160 great gratitude for the platform. 649 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,520 Now I earned it. I fought my way there. 650 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,640 They didn't give me a fucking gift and say, this guy really 651 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,240 wants to work here. Maybe we should put them. 652 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,160 They put me on the air because I'm good. 653 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,640 That's why they did it. And if you want to say they took 654 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,600 me off the air because I'm not good, if that's what Greg 655 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,760 thinks, that's what Greg thinks, that I don't care. 656 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,480 I don't think that that's true, but that's his opinion. 657 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,320 Evidently, you know? No, but any and anything that I 658 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,600 said about the fan too, like I was reacting to what Joe said, 659 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,159 which by the way is what you do in the content era, like Greg 660 00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:24,239 always reacts to things that are said on Barstool and other 661 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,480 outlets. So to me, for a place that I 662 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,040 worked for three years and it was in the building for 13, you 663 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,800 know, over 345 Hudson. You know, I'm not saying to Mike 664 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,480 and Chris or or even those guys in the morning, I'm not an FAN 665 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,639 lifer, but I kind of am based on the fact that I listened to it 666 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:41,040 from day one and I did work there. 667 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,840 I I know a little bit more about the station than the average 668 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,480 person. And to me, what what I did say 669 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:51,280 was that those guys back then, they had a, it was almost 670 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:52,760 easier. And I'll put quotes around the 671 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,480 word easier, easier to be a star because there was no ESPN 880. 672 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,360 There was no, you know, bar stool. 673 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,720 There was no SNY there just there's nothing. 674 00:35:00,720 --> 00:35:02,760 It was, I mean, there was just WFAN. 675 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,040 So if you wanted to listen to sports, you listen to WFAN, even 676 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,840 if the person that you listen to you thought was terrible or you 677 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,440 hated them. And by the way, I know for a 678 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,280 fact that some people got pleasure listening to me and Sal 679 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,840 because they hated us. I'm not an idiot. 680 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,080 I understand that we rub people the wrong way based on our 681 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:22,640 rawness. Come on. 682 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,640 But that was, you know, that was just being authentic to the job. 683 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:27,280 Like that's I was telling you what I was feeling. 684 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,920 So I'll never apologize for the effort because I don't need to 685 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,240 the effort that I put into during my time there. 686 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,640 I'm proud of it. I walked out with my head held 687 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,520 high. I don't have any beefs with 688 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,800 anybody there, but Greg was off base. 689 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,160 Greg was out of bounds today. And you know, listen, if Greg 690 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,200 now this I'll be Greg wouldn't have done this if I didn't say 691 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,320 what I said with evident tiki. But and if and, and that's why 692 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:53,160 I'm also mad enough to say that he was a good teammate at times. 693 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,720 That's why I want to make sure because he did say this. 694 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,640 I heard this part when he was on his little rant today about the 695 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:03,600 Carl Bank stuff And, and, and maybe my Gary Myers, he did have 696 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,520 her. He had our back, no doubt. 697 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,760 But you know that that's, that's only one side of the coin. 698 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,880 The other side of the coin is you call up and you know, you 699 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:14,720 keep a story going. That's not true. 700 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,840 That could have got me in a lot of trouble and and maybe lost a 701 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,720 job, but I choosed tremendously. So that's what I'm pushing back 702 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:22,920 on. That's it, Jay Rod. 703 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:24,680 Otherwise, dude, I just want a piece. 704 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,360 I don't want any problems man. I mean, I mean. 705 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,480 Hey. Listen, I feel like a big a big 706 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:36,400 line of the unleashed mantra has been the listen, I don't do the 707 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,600 radio beef thing. I don't want to get into this 708 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,240 whole thing. Obviously here, you know, you 709 00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:43,960 got to address it and it's just ridiculous. 710 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,680 It's just ridiculous. I I mean, I, I couldn't have 711 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:52,400 seen something that, and the word isn't disagree, but just 712 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:57,240 that I haven't found to be my experience with you whatsoever. 713 00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:01,400 Like I mean, listen, I, I could, I could go on right now. 714 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,600 Yo, BT he's a tyrant. He's a tyrant to the producer, 715 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,960 but not at all, not at all. This guy, this guy's giving me a 716 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,280 platform. This guy's genuinely tried to 717 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:15,320 lift me up as his producer, give me a space to speak, give me a 718 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:19,720 space to do my thing, get comfortable on Cam, work, learn, 719 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,680 turn, grow, turn this thing into a monster. 720 00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:25,840 So I, I, I couldn't see any other differently. 721 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,720 I I'm not sure who this is. The Good Shepherd Shep, he's one 722 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:32,400 of your producers. He said produce for BT back in 723 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,040 2013 at the network. Good man, good teammate. 724 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:37,520 I know Shep. Criticism. 725 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:39,200 I was with Shep for a couple of years. 726 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,320 Yeah. I mean, yeah, let's, let's, 727 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,360 let's get all the old producers come on in. 728 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,920 I mean, let's, let's, let's get a scoreboard going here. 729 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,840 Yeah, I mean. I'm such a bad dude to so many 730 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,760 people, you know, I'd like to hear him speak out. 731 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,960 I mean, I, I really well, you know, I mean, if they want to 732 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,520 be, maybe I don't, I don't know. No, listen, I'm also not going 733 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,280 to sit here and say that there were at times that I was the 734 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,040 always the easiest person to ask my wife. 735 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,280 I'm not the easiest person to live with, you know, I mean, 736 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:10,240 when you are a high energy, very opinionated, you know, type a 737 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:13,000 kind of personality who is used to doing it a certain way. 738 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,200 You know, if you bump into certain people that aren't as 739 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,280 you know, malleable, maybe moldable, like where you know, 740 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:21,680 they push back and you push back. 741 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,160 I'm not saying it's it's it's always rainbows and and sunshine 742 00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:28,600 every single day, but I really I like I'm I'm not even saying 743 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:32,120 this to make myself feel good. I really genuinely do feel good 744 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,800 about, you know, the relationships that I had there, 745 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,840 that I had there. Some were deeper than others, of 746 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,520 course. By the way, I just got a text 747 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:40,800 message. I'm not going to tell you who 748 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:45,480 it's from that would not do that from somebody at WFANI. 749 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:50,280 Just caught up this morning on drama and and me, but I want to 750 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,280 make sure because if I read certain things, then it might 751 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,520 divulge who it is. Never had issues working with 752 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:59,720 you, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I mean, again, guys, this 753 00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:02,160 at the end of the day, what what are we talking about here, man? 754 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,200 I mean, life, life is hard, all right? 755 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,200 If you think about how think about how hard life is, right? 756 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,080 Life is hard. And not to get overly deep and 757 00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,840 overly dramatic here, but life is hard. 758 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:14,600 It's not easy. You know, whether it's a job, 759 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,000 whether it's covered somebody in your family is sick or you know, 760 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,200 your, your, your kids are having a rough time learning 761 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:21,840 disabilities. I'm just throwing things that 762 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,640 are afflicting so many people like I'm not going to take this 763 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,560 very seriously and I'm not going to keep playing this game going 764 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,760 back and forth with Geo every. I've got no interest. 765 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,160 No, I don't know. I don't know if he does, but 766 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:34,640 he's going to be violin to himself. 767 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,320 Like unless he says something that's a complete overt lie, 768 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,160 like to me, the character stuff, then I'm always going to defend 769 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:41,960 myself. But I'm not, I'm not turning 770 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,480 this into a bit. And yeah, I would probably have 771 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,480 a few more viewers today. And the crazy thing is, is that 772 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,160 this kind of stuff, sadly, this shit actually drives the medium. 773 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,960 And that's one of the reasons. We got 600 live viewers. 774 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,520 Yeah, Well, well, we've had more than that, but yeah, we've had 775 00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:58,680 1000. We've got AG. 776 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,720 Oh yeah, no, I know. But no, it's it's a decent 777 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:01,320 number. Whatever. 778 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:05,080 I've never been in the. Business to say things that I 779 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,560 don't believe in and, or, or to start friction and start 780 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,520 trouble. And I, I just, that's not my 781 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,400 world, man. There's too many other things 782 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,840 that are just very important to me that I just don't. 783 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,600 I've never jumped into that. I remember saying to salve a 784 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,360 couple of times like, yeah, I, I just, I'm, I'm not a radio beef 785 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:24,760 guy. I'm not a radio war guy. 786 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,600 It's just, it's boring to me. I don't know. 787 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,200 It's, it's just not me. Like I didn't get into this to 788 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,520 try to be Howard Stern. I got into this to talk sports 789 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:38,160 and over the course of talking sports, I think that when I let 790 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,360 my guard down and I fuck around, I can fuck around as much as 791 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,480 anybody. And you started seeing more and 792 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,040 more on this channel, but I'm not going to force it. 793 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:47,520 I'm not even talking about Greg now. 794 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:48,640 I'm just talking about in general. 795 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:49,880 Like I'm not going to force stuff. 796 00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:52,680 I wouldn't do what comes natural and that's it. 797 00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,520 So here we are. You can, by the way, you can pop 798 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,040 up, pop up some text here. I know people want to jump in 799 00:40:58,360 --> 00:40:59,800 and you know. Yeah. 800 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:02,480 I mean, there's a, there's a million we'll. 801 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,360 Let's. Go once I'll get to the party. 802 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,040 Don't worry. All right, well, let's just go. 803 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,360 Let's go with our main man Omar, real quick. 804 00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:09,520 All right, Omar, what do we got here? 805 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,160 Another new low for FA. And one thing. 806 00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:13,880 I like Craig. I like Craig. 807 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:15,040 I do. Sorry, sorry, sorry. 808 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:16,360 No, no, sorry. No. 809 00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:20,280 You sync to a new low when you shamefully bash people who did 810 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:21,640 good, honest work at your station. 811 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,200 I mean, I tried to, I tried to do good, honest work. 812 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,240 I, I should have probably said like, I don't want to pull other 813 00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:28,840 people's names into it. Like I, I actually, I really do 814 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:32,840 like Craig and Craig's talented. And I also said, you know, I 815 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,160 don't know if other talents would be so transparent, but I 816 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,320 even said in one of the interviews, I forget which one, 817 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,400 maybe Barrett Media, one of the one of the one of the articles 818 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,440 that was written at the end, I said, hey, if I was running the 819 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:46,200 fan and Craig wanted to come back, I get it. 820 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:48,560 You know, you talk a business, you're talking about a an FAN 821 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,000 superstar. And and that that was never me. 822 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:56,720 I was a guy who got there late, but I'll tell you this, I, I 823 00:41:56,720 --> 00:42:00,320 will, I will take a lot of pride in in for a guy being there for 824 00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,680 a fairly short amount of time in a midday slot. 825 00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,840 I'm not talking about Joe and Evan that they were they had a 826 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,640 long, great run together where there was a lot of volatility 827 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,960 and there was a lot of changing voices and a lot of changing 828 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,720 teams. You know, we Salvati, we're not 829 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,760 going to wind up being there 57101215 years. 830 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,440 But I'll tell you what we carved out a little identity. 831 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,400 Show had some juice. Show had some balls. 832 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,920 Show had some range. Show made a lot of headlines in 833 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,040 the midday. So, you know, I, I don't know 834 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,680 what Greg's ultimate barometer is for a good show. 835 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,880 I mean, of course rating, sure, but you know, the midday ratings 836 00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,960 are never going to be like the morning show or the afternoon 837 00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,840 drive ever, historically ever at any successful radio station. 838 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,360 That's just not how it goes based on the amount of people 839 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,320 who are in cars and the, the meter exposure. 840 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,360 Like, I'm not going to lift up the curtain and I'm not even 841 00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:46,760 trying to take away from those guys. 842 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,160 They do a good show. They do. 843 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:51,800 But what Greg said today was bullshit, man. 844 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,200 A lot of it was off base and just not right. 845 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,920 It's not accurate, you know. All right. 846 00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:00,720 You can tell that you had problems with BT when they 847 00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:03,000 brought up the Stephen A Smith and Tiki beef years ago. 848 00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,360 Yeah, I don't. I remember that vaguely. 849 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,400 What did Stevie did Steven take a shot of tiki? 850 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,960 What did Greg said? I didn't defend tiki enough. 851 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:13,360 Is that what it was? I don't even remember. 852 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:13,800 What? The story. 853 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,880 Something like that. Whatever, we're going to drudge 854 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,360 up all the other stuff. I, you know, I don't, I don't 855 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:20,840 know. I don't know. 856 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:25,280 All I know is that, you know, I'm about at my point where I'm 857 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,280 getting ready to go into the St. John's talk here. 858 00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,720 I want to make sure that I didn't miss anything here 859 00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:31,440 because this is important to me. Really. 860 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,000 Again, if it was something stupid, if it honestly, if it 861 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:40,560 was a story where Geo pranked me, was like, oh, yo, I heard 862 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,280 you were, you know, I heard you had seven shots of Jameson with 863 00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,760 a couple of boosters last night. You fell asleep in the hotel 864 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,400 lobby. What do you want? 865 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,440 Come on, What kind of like that? Like, that's one thing. 866 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,440 Because it's not. It's not with underage students. 867 00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,600 You know, I'm saying like people here. 868 00:43:55,600 --> 00:44:00,320 Hold on, Jay, people hear stuff and they no longer sadly, sadly, 869 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,720 the way people consume our medium now, they no longer take 870 00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:08,160 the time to really delve into the actual meat of the story. 871 00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,600 It's surface headlines. It's a click 20. 872 00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,840 It's a quick 22nd pop. It's alright. 873 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,800 Let me read this lifted, extrapolate this and move on. 874 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,480 You know, and sometimes when you move on, there's some collateral 875 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,400 damage that that can be done. And to me, there's just a 876 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,080 distinct difference between being funny. 877 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,760 And I do think he's funny and I do think he's talented. 878 00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,520 But being funny and being talented and being a morning 879 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,680 guy, which is different than doing middays and afternoons, I 880 00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:33,480 get it. It's a different speed, it's a 881 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:34,960 different energy. It's a different, it's more 882 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:36,680 light. And he's very good at that. 883 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,840 But that was crossing the line. And I did. 884 00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,120 And again, I wasn't even going to say anything because Greg is 885 00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,240 no longer in my world. And I did not know about, I did 886 00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:49,520 not know it was him until three, 4-5 days ago. 887 00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:54,760 Now I'm trying to put myself in the shoes of if I was still 888 00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:58,240 working there because there were times I would like, I would walk 889 00:44:58,240 --> 00:45:00,520 in and I would say what's up to those guys a lot and just 890 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,760 bullshit with them, right? Whether it's about a Jets game 891 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,520 or, or Saint John's. Like I know Geo's mom is a big 892 00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:07,480 Saint John's fan. I know Greg's a Saint John's 893 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:08,840 fan. Like little things like that. 894 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:14,200 Never too deep obviously. But if I was still working there 895 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,520 and it came out that it was Greg, like, again, I wouldn't 896 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,600 have kicked the door open like it like a maniac, but I, I, I 897 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,720 would have addressed it in my own way, in my own more mature 898 00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:25,000 way. I would have been like, dude, 899 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:27,200 that's fucked up, man. Like that's fucked up. 900 00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:28,640 He could have gotten me in real trouble there. 901 00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,520 You know, it may have been funny to you, but not that funny, you 902 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:33,880 know? And again, I would have 903 00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:35,960 presented in a way where he would have known where I was 904 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,240 coming from. And then, you know, the onus 905 00:45:38,240 --> 00:45:41,080 would have been on him to, you know, I'm sure we would have had 906 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:42,600 a laugh over it. We would have been throwing 907 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,880 fists. But, you know, if I was still 908 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:48,360 there, I, I would have said something within bounds for 909 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:49,680 sure. I would have, yeah. 910 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:53,000 I guess here. Here's another from Robert 911 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,240 Huerta. So yeah, this is kind of like 912 00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:57,960 how he ended it, like when he was like, yeah, if I ever need 913 00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,800 you, like if I ever need a motivational speech, I'll hit 914 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,160 you. So like, yeah, like Robert, here 915 00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,360 he goes. Gio tried to take a shot about 916 00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,840 your speaking engagements. How the fuck is that something 917 00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,920 to knock with you, Gio? Yeah, to me, dude, like. 918 00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:16,400 This is a man making his living, doing his thing, giving people, 919 00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:22,320 not only himself, his talents, his communication skills in both 920 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,160 the digital landscape, but bringing them to other people. 921 00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:27,600 How can you knock that? This is a man just trying to, 922 00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:30,840 like you said, feed his family, pay his mortgage. 923 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,160 What kind of shit is that? And that just takes it to 924 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,400 another. Just weird. 925 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:39,360 Again, high school personal level that has nothing to do 926 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,520 with this is Jack shit shit. Well, I mean, you know, listen, 927 00:46:42,720 --> 00:46:44,800 I'm very proud of the motivation speaking number one. 928 00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,360 I love it. And #2 I think I'm pretty good 929 00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:50,480 at it because I think I have a lot of, a lot of messages to, to 930 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,360 share, especially given what's happened the last four or five 931 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,080 months. And you know, one of my, one of 932 00:46:55,080 --> 00:47:00,360 my core messages is resiliency. You know, listen, Greg is, is a 933 00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:05,200 very successful, highly successful New York radio talk 934 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,000 show host. And, and I'm not petty like I, 935 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,680 I, I, I don't, I don't wish ill will toward him professionally 936 00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:13,080 and certainly not personally at all. 937 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:17,840 But, you know, for Greg's sake, let's hope that he doesn't have 938 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:19,640 to do this. You know, let's hope that he 939 00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:23,480 could do this another 1520 years and keep banking that fat check 940 00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:27,120 that he's earned, that he's earned, OK, and not have to be 941 00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,440 at home and look into a camera and start over. 942 00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:34,800 Because to me that to me, that's emblematic of being a man like 943 00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,760 that. I'd take immense pride in that. 944 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:42,960 So to walk into a room like I did last week of 150 high level 945 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:48,120 Verizon executives, OK and communicate to them and, and be 946 00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:52,600 asked to come and speak to them to help elevate them and, and, 947 00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:56,760 and like their mindset, that room is a room of winners. 948 00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,560 I mean massive winners for a massive company. 949 00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:02,360 They thought enough for me to go there and it was awesome. 950 00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,760 And couple of weeks before that I was over at Cross Country 951 00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:09,200 Mortgage, which is the highest in terms of volume mortgage 952 00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:13,360 lending company in America. And there was about 100 high 953 00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,000 level mortgage executives in the room. 954 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,760 They asked me to go and speak to them to motivate them to share, 955 00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,560 you know, preparation. How do you know resiliency, 956 00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,040 pivoting from when you think you have something that's gone, What 957 00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:27,320 do you do? Where do you dig? 958 00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:31,760 So, yeah, I mean, if people want to take shots at that, that's 959 00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:34,360 now we're getting a little different now we're getting a 960 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:37,680 little different level of personal and and that's, that's, 961 00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,640 that's going to set me off in a different way. 962 00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:41,360 So I'm going to ignore that part. 963 00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,120 I'm going to ignore that part now. 964 00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:45,080 I'm going to ignore that. I'm going to, I'm going to 965 00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,000 choose to ignore that part now. And I'm just going to say that 966 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,720 I've got great pride in that and I love it and it's awesome and 967 00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:53,280 it's great. It's a great opportunity. 968 00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,000 So I mean, if people want to shit on that, man, that that's, 969 00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,120 that's pretty low to go reaching for that. 970 00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:01,880 Yeah, I know. So Sam and I put together a show 971 00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:03,240 with with Carl, right? I know. 972 00:49:03,240 --> 00:49:05,040 So I think he took a dump on that as well. 973 00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,920 It's it's called providing for your family. 974 00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,640 Like you do not get that. I know you, I know you're in 975 00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:13,400 your your bubble. I get that your successful 976 00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,040 bubble. And I hope that you don't have 977 00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,760 to do this. Some people don't have that 978 00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,840 opportunity like they they aren't afforded that, that, that 979 00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:22,480 that comfort right now. And again, you've earned it. 980 00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:23,960 I'm not taking anything away from you with that, Greg. 981 00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:25,840 I'm not. But yeah, that other stuff. 982 00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:30,040 I just it just that that's that's the stuff that I don't do 983 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,160 that and I've never done that. So you know that here we are. 984 00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,320 And I'm already tired of talking about this and I'm going to move 985 00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,320 on after a few more texts here. What does this one say? 986 00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,120 What do we got? He's all talk. 987 00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,200 His whole tone changed when Francesa called it and pressed 988 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,000 him. Keep rocking, BT you have a 989 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,240 whole community behind you. Listen, I feel the community, 990 00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:48,320 right? I do. 991 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:49,040 I do. Yeah. 992 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:50,880 I mean, he didn't really say much to Mike that day, did he? 993 00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:54,640 He didn't say anything really. At least when Carl called up me 994 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,480 and we fought back, at least we fought back and and defended our 995 00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:00,320 show. I mean, Greg just kind of sat 996 00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,760 there, didn't do anything. Right. 997 00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:05,000 Yeah, yeah. I mean, so. 998 00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,360 That's a rhetorical question. We all know the answer. 999 00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:08,720 You don't. You don't even have to answer 1000 00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:12,600 that. But you know, it's, it was an 1001 00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:16,040 interesting morning. And listen, I'm 52 years old, 1002 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:17,000 right? 52. 1003 00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:23,920 And my first job was in 1999, my first radio partner, Tommy, 1004 00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:28,080 Tommy Foundlin just literally texted me a week ago because he 1005 00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,880 does Lehigh basketball. And they finally got to the 1006 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:34,120 first four and he texted me and he, he knows, you know what I do 1007 00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:37,440 for Saint John's all these years later, still friends, all right? 1008 00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,520 Guys that I worked with in Las Vegas and lived with in Vegas 1009 00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,960 and worked with in Vegas to the we're at my wedding to this day, 1010 00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,240 still friends. You know, I'm talking about guys 1011 00:50:46,240 --> 00:50:49,440 like Kay and La Greca and Stephen, A guys I worked with at 1012 00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:54,320 10:50 friends, you know, so I, it's, it's just, you know, I 1013 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,960 think a lot of it's unfounded. If that's if that's it. 1014 00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,200 Now listen, he's also more deeply entrenched there. 1015 00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,600 If you, I'm not going to be so naive to like, if, if we were 1016 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:05,320 all working there, if I was still there and you walked 1017 00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:07,680 around, you said, you know who's I don't know who's a better 1018 00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:08,920 team, However you want to frame it. 1019 00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,680 I mean, Gio's known these people for 20 years when he was an 1020 00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:12,480 intern. I don't know. 1021 00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,760 I think he intern certainly was a producer, worked his way up, 1022 00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:17,800 respected. I always respected his grind. 1023 00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:21,880 Man went to Pittsburgh. I always have always have, but 1024 00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,600 you know to to to not respect my grind. 1025 00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:26,640 That's on you. That's that's that's you. 1026 00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:27,840 That's definitely not a me thing. 1027 00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:28,440 You know what? I. 1028 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:33,280 Mean yeah, and and also just on that last comment before we get 1029 00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:37,920 to this one, I think that's the my main take away is just that 1030 00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,080 last sentence. You have a whole community 1031 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,040 behind you and that's, you know, that's really how this feels is 1032 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,960 listen, they can say whatever the fuck they want on the radio 1033 00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,320 or whatever, like right here, right here in this YouTube. 1034 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,600 We're actually building a community community catered 1035 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:58,200 around, yes, catered around true sports talk and also genuine 1036 00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:02,480 honesty, good being good people. I think that's, I think that's a 1037 00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:06,640 big mantra of what we've been building here is like an honest 1038 00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:10,680 approach to speaking and an honest approach to communication 1039 00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,960 and being a good person. I meant something you espouse as 1040 00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:18,400 well along with the sports talk. So that's something to to look 1041 00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:22,600 at like a moment like this where you've got a guy who's on radio, 1042 00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:26,680 on professional radio acting less professional than a than a 1043 00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:30,520 guy who's at the crib on YouTube, building a true 1044 00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:34,640 community based on being a good person and loving sports. 1045 00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,240 That's my main take away. Yeah, I, I appreciate that. 1046 00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:38,520 That's certainly what we're doing here. 1047 00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:41,360 I mean, listen, after a crazy jet loss, you're going to get on 1048 00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:43,520 Hinge BT you're going to get on leash beat, that's it. 1049 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,640 Like that's, those things are never going to change. 1050 00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:51,800 But you know, I, I've got a very, for me, I've got a very 1051 00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:55,640 clear mission with this show and #1 it's obviously to be able to 1052 00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:59,960 provide, but it's also for me, it's a next level thing where, 1053 00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,320 you know, and, and, and I've always talked about like not not 1054 00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:05,440 shoving politics down people's throats. 1055 00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:09,240 I don't do that. But, but I do believe that we're 1056 00:53:09,240 --> 00:53:13,080 at a very, we're a very bad spot as as a country, as a world. 1057 00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,000 A lot of lot of reasons that I'm that we all know, just watch the 1058 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,840 news for a second. And to me, like, all right, I 1059 00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:23,360 don't think I'm on the 15th hole of my career, you know, but I've 1060 00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:25,280 made the turn. I'm not on the 3rd hole. 1061 00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,800 I mean, I'm smart enough to know that I made the turn. 1062 00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,960 You know, I bet, I think I'm, I think for me, I'm on the Earl. 1063 00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:33,160 I'm in the early stages of the back nine. 1064 00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,080 You know, I teed off, probably didn't get a par, that's for 1065 00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,280 sure. Probably, you know, probably 1066 00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:42,120 going to the 12 hole, I got a snowman and a bogey and all this 1067 00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:45,720 on the card, but I got a lot of holes to play still not as many 1068 00:53:45,720 --> 00:53:48,680 as I've played already just based on my age, but I've got a 1069 00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:52,880 platform to try to do something good and, and, and, and that 1070 00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:54,440 that's what this is about really. 1071 00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,800 It's about sports, of course, and let it RIP and taking pride 1072 00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,520 and, and, and knowing a lot and caring a lot and being able to 1073 00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:03,360 communicate to you in a very different what I think is a 1074 00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,680 unique way, you know, that that I take pride in that. 1075 00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:10,240 But the, you know, the other stuff, I've been in this 1076 00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:14,120 business since 99 and, and I really don't think that I've had 1077 00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,120 one single radio beef. I, I, I really, I really don't. 1078 00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:20,120 And I'm not about to start now. I got no interest in it. 1079 00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:22,280 I've got no energy for it. I won't run from it. 1080 00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:25,880 This I won't run from this I won't run from because this got 1081 00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,800 personal. But I'm moving on. 1082 00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,040 Like I've said what I've said, I've also said good things about 1083 00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:34,120 Greg here today. You know, he's talented, he's 1084 00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,040 earned it. He's successful, he's funny, but 1085 00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:40,760 you know that, that, that, that thing you, you know, you, you 1086 00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:43,040 can do, you can do a lot of things, right? 1087 00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:44,680 I'm not even talking about him. You can do a lot of things, 1088 00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:46,640 right? My, my mom told me this. 1089 00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:50,720 She said, you know, as a parent, you can do so many things well, 1090 00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:52,280 right? And like the one time that you 1091 00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,960 overreact as a parent unnecessarily is kind of the one 1092 00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,240 thing that they remember, you know what I mean? 1093 00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:03,600 So, so that's why I wanted to be transparent and not just come 1094 00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:06,440 out with some hit piece on Greg, because I'm not a hit piece guy. 1095 00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:10,520 And that's why I made sure that I said, yes, you did have our 1096 00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:13,280 bank with our back with Carl and, and some other and Gary 1097 00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:14,480 Myers. And there's something else. 1098 00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:17,320 I forget what it was, but you did and you, you did have our 1099 00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,680 back more than anybody else really at the station. 1100 00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:25,360 And, and I, I, we appreciated that we did, but you know, you 1101 00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,520 also did something that could have got me fired. 1102 00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:31,480 And you also didn't even say good luck when I got fired. 1103 00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:34,720 So and to me, that kind of usurps the other stuff, but 1104 00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:36,480 that's it Ready, you know what I mean? 1105 00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:38,240 That's it. I'm tapped out with this now. 1106 00:55:38,240 --> 00:55:41,400 Jay tapping out. You know, I'm going to end the 1107 00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,560 match here. So I'm sure he'll keep talking 1108 00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,320 about it and that's fine. You know, I don't think. 1109 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:47,880 Did Boomer chime in? No, you know, I got no problem. 1110 00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:51,560 With I got no problem with prank until I found out about the 1111 00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:55,720 prank. As a meezy BX5O43, I think 1112 00:55:55,720 --> 00:55:59,520 Boomer was just kind of menacingly sitting there just 1113 00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:02,520 like smirking wow like a little gremlin. 1114 00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,560 Yeah, what a big gremlin it was. That's part, but that's part of 1115 00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:07,720 the dynamics of a morning show, you know what I mean? 1116 00:56:07,720 --> 00:56:11,800 Like again, there were there were four guys on the show and, 1117 00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,480 and Eddie Skuzaria was the one who came and gave me a hug and 1118 00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:15,480 I, you know, I didn't forget that. 1119 00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,200 So shout out to Eddie and and listen shout. 1120 00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:20,200 Out to Tom. Always shout out to Eddie. 1121 00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:21,120 Love Eddie. Yeah. 1122 00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,120 Yeah, no doubt he's going to have a great retirement. 1123 00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:25,440 He's probably going to be wandering the wilderness, 1124 00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:29,120 tripping on mushrooms, you know, having a good time. 1125 00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:30,000 Man. Oh, man. 1126 00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,360 Oh, man. All right, guys. 1127 00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:35,640 So aside from the fact that I didn't think I was going to get 1128 00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:38,320 pulled into whatever the hell this was this morning on the 1129 00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:43,040 morning show, I also didn't really think for most of my to 1130 00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:45,120 the last decade that I would ever see St. 1131 00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:49,400 John's do this ever. I, I, I, there was, I can't tell 1132 00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:56,440 you, man, how many times I walked out of that arena of 1133 00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:59,200 beaten man. I'm like, it's over. 1134 00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,600 It's over it. There's no going back. 1135 00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:05,920 All we have is memories. Like I was telling the story. 1136 00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:07,920 I went live from the hotel room yesterday after the win. 1137 00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:11,480 I was telling the story How I Met my wife in 2008 and like, 1138 00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,640 oh, you know, of course I talk about the Yankees and The Jets. 1139 00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:16,840 She's a Yankee fan and she knows my fan, my teams and she knows 1140 00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:19,200 when I met her. I'm doing Saint John's right. 1141 00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:20,840 She's like, man, you love Saint John's. 1142 00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:22,880 I'm like, you don't understand because she's from Dallas. 1143 00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:27,240 You don't understand. When I was growing up, it was 1144 00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:29,600 we, every one of us had a starter St. 1145 00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,480 John's jacket, unless of course, you had a Hoyas 1 and it would 1146 00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:34,080 Georgetown Hoyas and St. John's. 1147 00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:36,480 We hated each other is what it is right now. 1148 00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,600 We're kind of apathetic toward the Hoyas because they're 1149 00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:40,520 they're where we were for so many years. 1150 00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:44,280 I'd like to see him battle back. But the point is, is that when I 1151 00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:50,080 was at my most impressionable age, 10/11/12, like right where 1152 00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:53,680 my son is now, right. Saint John's was bigger than the 1153 00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:55,400 Knicks. You had to live it. 1154 00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:57,800 No, But if you didn't live it, you don't understand it. 1155 00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:01,400 And then, you know, I would tell her about this like wax poetic. 1156 00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:03,560 Oh, Chris Mullen, the final four. 1157 00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:05,840 Louis, this one's for you. Louis, we ain't done. 1158 00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,040 We're taking down Duke, too. We ain't done. 1159 00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:09,760 Saint John's going to push Duke around. 1160 00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:11,360 They're going to get in their chest. 1161 00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,120 We'll do more preview like later in the week here. 1162 00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,760 But the big grown man strength in the front court for St. 1163 00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:19,800 John's, I think it's a pretty good match up. 1164 00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,760 Like don't tell me that St. John's can't be Duke. 1165 00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,080 I actually think that they will. But we'll do that more. 1166 00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:29,400 So all these years. Excuse me where you know, I'm 1167 00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:31,560 propping up St. John's and she's like, my God, 1168 00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:34,040 they stink like nobody's at the game. 1169 00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:36,320 St. John's like it was a complete 1170 00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:38,920 nothing to her. And I get it because she born 1171 00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,920 and raised in Dallas, TX, you know, and I would walk out of 1172 00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:46,960 the arena and I would just be despondent, just beaten down. 1173 00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:51,440 Like one of the things that I know hyperbole like this, the, 1174 00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:55,440 the St. Saint John's where they were at 1175 00:58:55,440 --> 00:59:00,120 that pivotal point in my sports fandom and my brain developing 1176 00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:03,400 and wanting to 1st replaced automatically be a first baseman 1177 00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,120 for the Yankees, which of course, it never came close to 1178 00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:06,840 doing. But then eventually want to be a 1179 00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:10,440 sports host. Like Saint John's is so much of 1180 00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:14,480 the oxygen and and the wind behind my sails that that gave 1181 00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:21,680 me this passion, right? And the, the, the, the fall was 1182 00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:25,920 just it, it was swift and it seemed fatal. 1183 00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:29,480 It seemed final, like there's just no more coming back from 1184 00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:31,720 this because the game had changed. 1185 00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:35,720 And, you know, the the teams left the conference and they 1186 00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:37,960 didn't have the football money and they hadn't evolved 1187 00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,320 monetarily. They didn't look at football. 1188 00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:43,360 They don't look at basketball as a vehicle to make money. 1189 00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:44,800 This is the older administrations. 1190 00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:46,720 They were hanging on to the good old days. 1191 00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:50,440 And it was just exhausting and it was tiring and it was sad. 1192 00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,960 OK. And you know, I remember my 1193 00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:57,720 first year was the year that Mike Jarvis got fired and that 1194 00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:59,080 was my first year ever doing St. John's. 1195 00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:01,720 It was after they so they won the NIT in O3 and I was at the 1196 01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,240 game. I've just been I just been hired 1197 01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:09,400 at at 10:50 ESPN Radio from Detroit and St. 1198 01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:13,400 John's won the NIT March, whatever it was, something like 1199 01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:17,440 that. And I was just hired and 10:50 1200 01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:21,600 fifty was the rights holder to Saint to St. 1201 01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,640 John's basketball. And I remember, I don't really 1202 01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:26,240 know anybody at the station yet, but they're like. 1203 01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:29,600 How do I came up around the office. 1204 01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:30,640 You have a huge Saint John's fan. 1205 01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:31,440 They're like, oh, you want to go? 1206 01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:32,960 You want to go to the game? I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1207 01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:36,280 So I went with like 3 of my boys that I grew up with and we go to 1208 01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:39,160 the game and they win the end. They beat Georgetown, the NIT, 1209 01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:44,120 and I remember I'm on the floor. Not that like the 20,000 people 1210 01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:45,800 stormed the court. It was only like 10,000 people 1211 01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:47,280 there. But I remember being on the 1212 01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,400 court. I've called my dad and I'm like, 1213 01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:50,640 pretend that I'm shooting a foul shot. 1214 01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:52,680 I'm like that's I'm like, I'm on the garden floor. 1215 01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:56,880 Johnny's won the NIT, right? And then right after that, I get 1216 01:00:56,880 --> 01:01:00,080 the gig the next year. And I'll never forget my first 1217 01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:04,960 game was the Coaches versus Cancer Classic against 1218 01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:07,560 Marquette. And it was at the Garden. 1219 01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:10,840 I'm in the Marty Glickman Memorial radio booth and I'm 1220 01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:12,760 sitting there and I'm I'm calling a St. 1221 01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:14,960 John's game. And it was like, wow, I'm at the 1222 01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:17,320 Garden and I'm actually calling a St. 1223 01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:19,760 John's game. And you know, I was one of those 1224 01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:21,680 guys, quite frankly, I was probably one of those guys who 1225 01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:23,600 talked about St. John's on the air too much 1226 01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:27,320 because they didn't really merit and they didn't warrant that 1227 01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:29,200 kind of exposure most of the years. 1228 01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:31,920 Like going back to 10:50, I didn't really talk about it much 1229 01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,760 on the fan with Tiki. But then Rick came, obviously 1230 01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:36,840 and, and me and Sal, we'd have Rick on whatever. 1231 01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:41,400 I am so happy for the university. 1232 01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:45,360 I am so happy for the old guard, you know, and I've said, man, 1233 01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:47,720 they travelled out there. There was a good contingent of 1234 01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:50,120 St. John's fans in San Diego. 1235 01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:53,720 I mean, it was it was a good sea of red behind the bench, behind 1236 01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:57,120 the broadcast area. They were going freaking bananas 1237 01:01:57,120 --> 01:01:59,440 when Dylan Darling hit that shot. 1238 01:01:59,960 --> 01:02:02,960 I mean, first of all, he was over his last 15 shooting 1239 01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:06,520 threes. Now I'm pretty confident, but 1240 01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:10,400 I'm not that confident. Like if I'm over, let's let's 1241 01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:14,640 keep it real if I'm over 15 or more specifically if I'm like, 1242 01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,800 oh, from my last nine in baseball and I got like 5 1243 01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:21,680 strikeouts and A and a roll over to second base and a pop up foul 1244 01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,160 out to the catcher. You know, putting myself in my 1245 01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:27,440 playing days, I can lie and say, yeah, I want to be up there 1246 01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:29,040 about with the bases loaded down too. 1247 01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:32,120 I don't know how confident I would have been in that 1248 01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,600 situation. Dylan Darling, the way the story 1249 01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:38,320 went, because they kept fouling, fouling, fouling, fouling and 1250 01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:40,680 they had like 3.9 to go. So when they inbound the ball, 1251 01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:43,400 you would have had passed you, you would have had time for one 1252 01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:45,840 pass in a shot. But when they go to the huddle, 1253 01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,880 it wasn't even Pitino who said, hey, we're gonna run this play 1254 01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:52,240 for Darling. It was Darling who said run this 1255 01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:56,040 play for me, talk about the stones on this kid. 1256 01:02:56,280 --> 01:03:00,440 And then he's a lefty to finish with his right hand in traffic. 1257 01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:03,600 Wow. And then when they jumped on 1258 01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:06,680 him, there's a picture of I think that the photographer 1259 01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:11,200 buried beneath a mass of euphoria and excitement. 1260 01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:18,760 And it was just wild, man. It like, I mean, this is going 1261 01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:20,600 to sound incredibly corny, but it's the truth. 1262 01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:22,280 I mean, I, I dreamed the stuff like this. 1263 01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:24,760 I just dreamt of it. I'm like, you know, when am I 1264 01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:27,760 going to get a little taste of, of March Madness, my goodness 1265 01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,000 gracious. And the first game. 1266 01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:31,920 So again, the first year I did it was O3. 1267 01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:36,480 And in 2015 they made it barely. I was with Lavin and I remember 1268 01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:42,960 we were watching the selection show in the basement and they 1269 01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:45,840 were, they barely got. No, wait, hold on. 1270 01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:48,640 Yeah, they barely got in and they lost to San Diego State. 1271 01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:49,680 Whatever. We went to Charlotte. 1272 01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:51,760 But I was like, man, I finally got to call the game. 1273 01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:53,800 Awesome. Like, check. 1274 01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:56,480 And then, you know, went went sideways. 1275 01:03:56,480 --> 01:03:58,320 And then it didn't really work with with Mullen. 1276 01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:01,800 But then Mullen got to the first four and I got smacked by Bobby 1277 01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:03,800 Hurley's Arizona State, Arizona State team. 1278 01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,640 All right, hey, at least I got to go to a building that I watch 1279 01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,320 on TV date and historic old building. 1280 01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:10,920 You know, I appreciate the history. 1281 01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:12,480 Check. They lost, but check. 1282 01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:15,080 And then Mike Anderson, there was like a little flicker of 1283 01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:18,320 hope, like some good players, but just never got over the then 1284 01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:21,320 COVID when they were beating Creighton at the end and the Big 1285 01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:22,800 East tournament, they were beating him at the half. 1286 01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:24,200 Who knows? Maybe that would have been the 1287 01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:24,640 year. I don't know. 1288 01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:31,840 But what see and, and, and I, I, I didn't want to say it because 1289 01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:34,360 I didn't want to really. Not that I was afraid to say it. 1290 01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:38,240 I just I didn't want to jinx anything because I thought it 1291 01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:40,240 would have been misinterpreted. Not by the school. 1292 01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:42,000 The school has never once said, don't say. 1293 01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:43,800 The school just gives me the latitude. 1294 01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:47,320 One of the reasons I love Saint John's is they they let me be me 1295 01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:50,400 during the down times. I mean, I would absolutely crush 1296 01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,840 them on the air, crush them. And they never once said, hey, 1297 01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:56,200 we've probably pulled this back. They always let me be honest 1298 01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:59,120 because they knew. But you don't think I was 1299 01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:02,080 thinking going out to San Diego, I'm like, you got to get to the 1300 01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:03,440 Sweet 16. Not for me. 1301 01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:07,920 You've got to get to the Sweet 16 at least to validate the 1302 01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:10,640 coverage, the energy, the juice, the excitement. 1303 01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:13,840 You have to do it. Because if they would have lost 1304 01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:18,360 to Kansas yesterday, even though we all know what they've done 1305 01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:21,720 and they've they've never done this back-to-back regular season 1306 01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:25,240 championships, back-to-back Big East tournament championships. 1307 01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:29,360 31 wins last year, I mean, but 30 again this year. 1308 01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:33,320 Pitino coach of the year last year nationally, Zubi player of 1309 01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:36,240 the year, defensive player of the year, scholar athlete of the 1310 01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:38,080 year. There's only been two players in 1311 01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:43,000 the history of the Big East since 79, going back to the the 1312 01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:46,040 inception till now, that have been the player of the year, the 1313 01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:49,280 DPO Y and the Scholar. And that was a Mecca Okafor in 1314 01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:51,600 O4 with UConn and that was Zubi this year. 1315 01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:54,320 And all those things are amazing and I've lived them because I've 1316 01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:57,680 called a lot of the games and I've done the TV show every week 1317 01:05:57,960 --> 01:06:02,360 with Rick every every, every three years, the Red Storm 1318 01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:03,680 report. And it's it's an honor. 1319 01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:07,080 I mean, it's, it's an education. I mean, the way Rick treats me 1320 01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:09,160 is phenomenal. Like the the stories about the 1321 01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:12,360 Knicks before we start shooting, Bernard King because he was 1322 01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:14,960 coached with Hubie Brown. Like I'm in heaven, I'm in 1323 01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:18,360 basketball heaven. But I know how the story goes 1324 01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,880 and I I know how the story goes in New York with St. 1325 01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:23,360 John's. Like there was a point in the 1326 01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:25,880 80s where they were bigger than the Knicks before Ewing got 1327 01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:28,120 drafted and went to the Knicks because the Knicks were awful 1328 01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:30,120 after Menard King ripped up his knee. 1329 01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:33,640 They were like 10, eleven, 12,000 people at these games, 1330 01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:36,360 right? But you're really, yeah, you 1331 01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:42,480 have to when if unless you're a die hard Saint Johns fan, the 1332 01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:45,240 skepticism would have been well, and I and I would have 1333 01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:49,080 understood this to an extent, you know, Hey, listen, great 1334 01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:50,920 story. But I mean, come on, you won one 1335 01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:52,560 game and you got bounced. You didn't even get to the Sweet 1336 01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:54,080 16. So I wanted it. 1337 01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:56,880 Yes. I'm pumped to go to DC. 1338 01:06:56,880 --> 01:07:00,280 And there's going to be a throng of red and white fans now. 1339 01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:02,240 I mean, if they made it out to San Diego, there's going to be 1340 01:07:02,240 --> 01:07:06,240 thousands of fans, St. John's fans in in in Washington, 1341 01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:07,720 DC. It's going to be absolutely 1342 01:07:07,720 --> 01:07:10,280 awesome. So, so I personally, it's going 1343 01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:12,640 to be a highlight. Never done a Sweet 16. 1344 01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:15,040 Like I'm honored, I'm blessed, I'm truly thankful. 1345 01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:17,640 It's great. My whole family, they're all St. 1346 01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:19,920 John's fans. Like it's just, it just, it 1347 01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:24,200 makes my heart happy. It really does, but I'm really 1348 01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:27,560 just happy for the university cuz there's so many good people 1349 01:07:27,560 --> 01:07:31,520 there, like people like Melissa in the ticket office and Eddie 1350 01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:37,200 Cole, who's the AD now, who started out as you know, I don't 1351 01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:41,400 know if it was an intern, but like my first year in O3 O 4 was 1352 01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:43,840 his first year at St. John's and he went on to become 1353 01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:45,480 the AD at Fordham. Came back home. 1354 01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:47,560 Mike, I met Mike Ropoli over the weekend. 1355 01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:50,520 Like I gave him a high five. I think maybe the Biggies 1356 01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:52,040 tournament, but I actually got to talk to him. 1357 01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:56,160 We were having breakfast in the in the hotel on I guess 2 days 1358 01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:59,400 ago and Mike was there with Ed and and a bunch of boosters and 1359 01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:01,680 we got to know each other a little bit out of his mind. 1360 01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:02,800 I mean, talk about energy. Wow. 1361 01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:04,960 I mean, it's tough to get a word with Mike. 1362 01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:09,400 Awesome dude. I'm so happy for for a Catholic 1363 01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:13,520 school that lost its way in the big business of college 1364 01:08:13,520 --> 01:08:17,800 basketball was an afterthought and was left for dead to be 1365 01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:22,120 resuscitated to this extent. It's just awesome for the city. 1366 01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:27,479 And, you know, if they would have lost yesterday, the air out 1367 01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:30,319 of the balloon would have been palpable and it would have been 1368 01:08:30,319 --> 01:08:33,760 very hard for me to fend it off like it would have been, you 1369 01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:35,720 know, would have been tough to, you know, hey, but we did this, 1370 01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:38,399 we did that, we did this, but Rick did this and we won 31 1371 01:08:38,399 --> 01:08:41,560 games and zoo be this and you know, the Big East championship 1372 01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:44,479 and banner, but you didn't even get to the Sweet 16. 1373 01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:47,120 So it is on. Who knows where this story is 1374 01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:48,479 going? I don't know where it's going to 1375 01:08:48,479 --> 01:08:50,240 go. I don't know where it's going to 1376 01:08:50,240 --> 01:08:52,000 go. I mean, could it go all the way 1377 01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:53,439 to Indianapolis? Why not? 1378 01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:57,000 You know, the thing about Saint John's, I was saying this to 1379 01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,800 Mink. Was it during the pregame show? 1380 01:09:02,399 --> 01:09:05,880 I think it was. I think it was. 1381 01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:09,880 And by the way, don't think for a second I was not possessed to 1382 01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:14,160 make sure that I laid out and gave Mink as, as every color 1383 01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:17,359 commentator should. But they they don't, you know, I 1384 01:09:17,359 --> 01:09:21,120 wanted to Mink, this is you. You are the voice of Saint 1385 01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:23,840 John's. You are the sage voice that's 1386 01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:25,760 been doing the play by play forever. 1387 01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:29,399 You're an industry legend and a just a hell of a good spirited 1388 01:09:29,399 --> 01:09:32,760 person and a great human being is your call, brother. 1389 01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:35,840 But don't think for a second I was like, come on, hurry up man, 1390 01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:37,120 let's go. I want to jump in here. 1391 01:09:37,359 --> 01:09:40,080 He's going on and Saint John's. And I'm like, I even gave it the 1392 01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:42,920 extra beat to make sure he was done because the last thing I 1393 01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:46,040 was going to do was step on that man's call because you hear it 1394 01:09:46,040 --> 01:09:48,080 all the time. You hear it all like here in the 1395 01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:51,240 NFL, like if you listen to these national calls, you know, I 1396 01:09:51,279 --> 01:09:53,640 don't know why. I know the Bengals team does 1397 01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:55,320 this quite a bit. You know, here's Joe Burrow back 1398 01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,720 to pass, you know, so and so wide open down there. 1399 01:09:57,960 --> 01:09:59,720 Oh, touchdown. Oh, he's got him. 1400 01:09:59,920 --> 01:10:03,160 Like you got the color guy just jumping on the play by dude, 1401 01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:07,120 Shut up, know your role, be quiet, let the play by play man 1402 01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:09,360 do his job. So I think Mink nailed it. 1403 01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:11,680 But I I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could jump in a 1404 01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:13,640 little bit. My own little piece of history. 1405 01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:17,520 That's a forever moment for me. But I did say that to Mink 1406 01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:20,720 during the pregame show. I said, and I think you guys 1407 01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:23,440 will appreciate this. As golfers, most of us are bad. 1408 01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:27,040 Every one of us. And I don't mean if you were 3 1409 01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:32,040 or 4 handicapped, right? Every one of us has a shot or a 1410 01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:37,480 club that we just try to avoid. Just now, unfortunately I have 1411 01:10:37,480 --> 01:10:40,200 more than one. But you know, for a while it was 1412 01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:43,400 like the mid irons where you know, it was before I hurt my 1413 01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:46,880 back. I would swing like a lunatic and 1414 01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:50,560 when I'd catch it, I'd smash one off the tee, say like a par 5 1415 01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:54,560 and then say if I have like 230 in or, or or 220 instead of hit 1416 01:10:54,560 --> 01:10:56,960 like 4 iron. Like I just I, I just couldn't 1417 01:10:56,960 --> 01:11:00,360 hit it well. So I would hit the wrong club or 1418 01:11:00,360 --> 01:11:05,320 like even if I was like 170 out and it was too, too much for a 1419 01:11:05,320 --> 01:11:07,720 hybrid, I would hit a hybrid and try to hit it soft because I 1420 01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:09,800 thought I could hit the hybrid better because I would always 1421 01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:12,080 kind of clip the irons and not pure it anyway. 1422 01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:15,640 There's shots in your bag and clubs that you just don't want 1423 01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,080 to touch. Whether it's a flop shot, you 1424 01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:21,040 know if you're short sided, you got to get it up quick and get 1425 01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:22,920 it over a bunker and you're short sided, you got to get some 1426 01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:25,040 heightened let's stick fast or whatever. 1427 01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:26,720 Whatever shot it might be, bump and run. 1428 01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:29,320 You might not like or some people hate drivers. 1429 01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:31,680 They go 3 woods or hybrids or irons off the tee. 1430 01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:34,600 What I would say to Mink that that that. 1431 01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:37,360 By the way, Jared, this is a short story made long by 1432 01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:38,040 faculty. Yeah. 1433 01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:41,480 There we go. Instead of a Long story short, I 1434 01:11:41,480 --> 01:11:44,200 I am the I am a Wizard of making a short story long. 1435 01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:47,080 Anyway, I think there's usually pay off at the end. 1436 01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:48,360 Then I think you'll like to pay off fears. 1437 01:11:48,360 --> 01:11:49,600 There we go. A little verbose. 1438 01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:52,480 What do you want? And I'm also like half asleep 1439 01:11:52,480 --> 01:11:55,240 and also in an interesting mood from what I woke up to today. 1440 01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:57,240 Yeah, you. Might be going through it right 1441 01:11:57,240 --> 01:11:59,160 now. I'm, I'm good. 1442 01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:01,360 I'm good. So I'm a little tired, but I'm 1443 01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:04,160 definitely good. So when I said to Mink, I said, 1444 01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:07,400 you know, St. John's has a couple of clubs in 1445 01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:10,880 their bag that if you touch them, you don't know how they're 1446 01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:13,000 going to respond. And I was really talking about 1447 01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:15,680 Ian Jackson and Satin, to a lesser extent. 1448 01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:17,560 Satin, who's been playing better than Ian Jackson. 1449 01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:21,000 Now, what I meant by that was as good as the front court is 1450 01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:23,320 Zoby's an animal. Bryce Hopkins the last two 1451 01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:25,400 months has been on an absolute Bender. 1452 01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:27,920 He's been playing great, phenomenal. 1453 01:12:28,320 --> 01:12:29,960 And and Rick called him out a little bit. 1454 01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:32,520 I just a little Side Story. I remember interviewing Rick for 1455 01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:35,560 the for the TV show and you know, I was feeding into it like 1456 01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:37,200 Bryce was playing OK, but not great. 1457 01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:40,920 And I said, and this was live on the air and I see, you know, I 1458 01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:42,680 see, you know, Bryce still still, you know, learning to 1459 01:12:42,680 --> 01:12:45,000 trust his knee because many of you know, he had ripped up his 1460 01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:46,240 knee in Providence. Yeah. 1461 01:12:46,240 --> 01:12:47,840 Still trying to learn to trust his body. 1462 01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:50,360 And Rick's like, no nonsense. Like, got a little agitated. 1463 01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:52,120 He's like, he's past that. He's fine. 1464 01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:53,600 He's like, he's got to learn. He's got to jump. 1465 01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:55,600 He's got to jump higher. It's exactly what he's saying. 1466 01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:57,440 He got to jump higher. He's got to move quicker. 1467 01:12:57,680 --> 01:12:59,000 Like, he's fine. He's healthy, all right. 1468 01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,240 He's got enough time. I'm like, OK, you would know I 1469 01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:04,000 got you. So since then, I'm not saying my 1470 01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:06,360 question was the impetus to the rise of Bryce Hopkins, but 1471 01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:09,160 surely I'm sure Rick was in his ass every day in practice. 1472 01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:10,840 Bryce Hopkins started playing great. 1473 01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:13,520 And then Dylan Mitchell was inserted into the starting five. 1474 01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:18,680 And really the front court for Saint John's is as good of it's 1475 01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:21,000 as good. It's not, I don't know, another 1476 01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,600 one that's better in the entire country because they're 1477 01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:25,480 athletic. They can defend everybody. 1478 01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:28,080 You know, Bryce can shoot a little bit, Dylan can handle. 1479 01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:30,560 Zubie's a monster. They rebound, they block shots, 1480 01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:33,880 they finish on the break. They're all Zubie's a very good 1481 01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:36,320 interior passer. Bryce can create with his 1482 01:13:36,320 --> 01:13:37,800 dribble a little bit more than Zubie. 1483 01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:39,920 Like, it's just they're wildly talented. 1484 01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:42,920 But the back court and then Darling's ascension kind of 1485 01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:45,600 mitigated the inconsistencies from Ian Jackson. 1486 01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:48,280 So anyway, now we finish up the short story long. 1487 01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:51,120 My point was that like Ian Jackson was like the club that 1488 01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:53,960 you don't want to really touch. But if you want to break 100 for 1489 01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:56,640 the first time or if you want to break 90 or whatever that 1490 01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:59,200 benchmark that you want to break, you want to break 80 or 1491 01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:01,680 you want to get in the set, you know, 75, whatever, wherever you 1492 01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:04,720 are relative to your game, eventually you're going to have 1493 01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:08,120 to stare that beast and say, all right, damn, the flop shot shit, 1494 01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:12,240 man, I'm pinched in and you got to just trust it and you can't 1495 01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,280 be jerky. You got to just open up that 1496 01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:16,320 club face. You got to get some some grass 1497 01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:19,000 or whatever he got pop that puppy up and you got to let it 1498 01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:20,800 sit on the green and he got to make the putt. 1499 01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:22,360 And if you do, you going to break the benchmark. 1500 01:14:22,360 --> 01:14:27,040 If you don't, you're not. So to me to see Ian Jackson now 1501 01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:30,840 start to have some moments and he scored against Northern Iowa 1502 01:14:31,160 --> 01:14:33,400 and and I didn't minimize it. I remember saying to make up 1503 01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:36,320 like filed it even though they routed Northern Iowa. 1504 01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:39,000 I'm like file this away is very interesting for the next game 1505 01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:42,720 where he had 9 points in 9 minutes and like for his 1506 01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:45,800 confidence that Serge and he was also the first man off the 1507 01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:46,520 bench. I believe you. 1508 01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:48,640 I believe he was the first player that Rick went to. 1509 01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:52,680 And after the game when they were leaving the court against 1510 01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:55,880 northern Zubi because they wrote stories about the Zubi said to 1511 01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:57,960 him, pull, pull them aside. He said we're going to need you 1512 01:14:57,960 --> 01:14:59,840 to win this thing. We're going to need you. 1513 01:14:59,880 --> 01:15:04,040 So I look at him as the hybrid or the wedge or the whatever, 1514 01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:09,040 the putter that you don't like. If he plays well, Saint Johns 1515 01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:11,280 can win the championship. They really can, yeah. 1516 01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:16,040 I mean a great, a great 1010 point performance yesterday to 1517 01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:20,160 follow up a 9.9 point game. Feel like, you know, showing 1518 01:15:20,160 --> 01:15:26,560 some consistencies out here. So let's go Ian Jackson, Big 1519 01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:31,040 Three from Prey yesterday too. Yes, that was one that was from 1520 01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:32,520 the corner. Yeah, yeah. 1521 01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:35,960 I remember that one. Yeah, you know what I something 1522 01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:39,720 else I remember saying the Mink too, I think 20, they're 23 1523 01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:45,360 shots to start. I think 15 were threes and 1524 01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:47,760 Hopkins hit one early. Now they're not a three-point 1525 01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:50,000 shooting team. They're right around 34.7%. 1526 01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:52,680 So they're slightly below average what Rick wants. 1527 01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:54,080 I understand Rick's point of view. 1528 01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:55,800 He's like, we got to get it in volume. 1529 01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:58,800 You're like, we're not going to take 11 and hit five, you know, 1530 01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:01,120 and, and be, you know, just just over 50. 1531 01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:03,600 We're just under 50%. Like we're going to have to 1532 01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:06,400 shoot X amount. And if we can stick 8 or 9 with 1533 01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:09,440 our inside play and our defense, that will be enough to get a 1534 01:16:09,440 --> 01:16:11,080 separation from whomever we play. 1535 01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:13,480 So he's always imploring these guys shoot, shoot. 1536 01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:16,440 They shot like 4 air balls. Dylan Darling shot a couple air 1537 01:16:16,440 --> 01:16:19,080 balls from three. Bright shot an air ball. 1538 01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:20,440 I think Zubi shot an air ball as well. 1539 01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:23,480 And I was a little worried because, you know, each game is 1540 01:16:23,480 --> 01:16:25,440 different. And don't forget, Kansas is 1541 01:16:25,440 --> 01:16:27,720 trying to get make St. John's do things as well. 1542 01:16:27,840 --> 01:16:29,920 It's not just St. John's trying to make Kansas do 1543 01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:31,640 stuff. Kansas is trying to make St. 1544 01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:33,880 John's do things that they don't do very well either. 1545 01:16:34,240 --> 01:16:36,200 So I'm like, all right, they've got the lead. 1546 01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:38,840 They look good. But man, 15 out of 20 threes 1547 01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:42,360 attempts or threes, that's that's that's untenable. 1548 01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:45,880 That is not sustainable in my opinion and and it worked out. 1549 01:16:45,880 --> 01:16:50,680 So they've got to be, you know, very cognizant of the ratio of 1550 01:16:50,720 --> 01:16:55,560 of now Kansas is also big inside and that was going to have to be 1551 01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:57,600 they were it was going to be a bit of a deterrent. 1552 01:16:57,600 --> 01:17:00,840 Like you can tell right away and it's easier to see like when 1553 01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:04,280 you're on the court, the like the resistance that they were 1554 01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:07,800 like Zubi number one of his run. It was a little tough for Zubi 1555 01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:10,280 to get to his spot in the post because he was getting pushed 1556 01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:12,280 off the post. And then you know, he's got 1557 01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:15,280 sublime footwork and up fakes and all that and he's strong. 1558 01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:19,240 But you know, he kept getting pushed out a little bit and a 1559 01:17:19,240 --> 01:17:21,600 lot of his shots were like double pumps and he didn't look 1560 01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:23,920 very comfortable. So I don't think it's going to 1561 01:17:23,920 --> 01:17:25,960 be that way against Duke. Now Duke is is going to try to 1562 01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:29,000 beat you different ways with a few pros, but just an amazing 1563 01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:30,800 win. It feels better to be It's not a 1564 01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:33,960 vintage Kansas team, but to beat Kansas? 1565 01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:36,360 A blue blood of college. Squad. 1566 01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:39,200 Yeah, it just looks good on the resume. 1567 01:17:39,560 --> 01:17:45,440 Oh, big times, Week 16. Yeah, I mean, just such a great 1568 01:17:45,440 --> 01:17:47,120 win. I was saying I was with like my 1569 01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:51,440 friends in a restaurant and like multiple guys are going, oh, 1570 01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:54,840 guys went nuts. Yeah. 1571 01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:59,160 Oh, my gosh, we went nuts. New York was certainly up last 1572 01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:01,120 night. Like, like in the moment that it 1573 01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:04,280 occurred, like you could just see there's excitement on a on a 1574 01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:06,800 bunch of people's faces all around. 1575 01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:09,960 So just a great way. And then I mean it, you know, 1576 01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:13,920 similarly to when the Knicks are good, like I think this is like, 1577 01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:16,200 Bree, what's the word? Breathe? 1578 01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:20,960 Given a breath, given a breath of life into the, into the, you 1579 01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:23,560 know, New York basketball. Yes, in a way gives you. 1580 01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:26,440 Gives you something to like, really look forward to every day 1581 01:18:26,440 --> 01:18:28,920 where? OK, me, I went to Syracuse. 1582 01:18:28,920 --> 01:18:31,840 Syracuse basketball is awful. Although shout out GMAC. 1583 01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:35,640 Yes, huge, absolutely huge. I'm going to be great. 1584 01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:39,400 I'm excited, hopefully return, hopefully return to form. 1585 01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:41,960 You know, he did awesome with Sienna. 1586 01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:44,480 But yeah, I mean, you know, there's nowhere else to look 1587 01:18:44,480 --> 01:18:46,080 for. Obviously I've got, you know, 1588 01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:50,400 some biases tied into Saint John's now where I've got a root 1589 01:18:50,400 --> 01:18:52,160 for him. But yeah, I mean it just like, 1590 01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:55,200 like feels like everyone I speak to, you know, even if they went 1591 01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:58,160 to a different university, they want to see the Johnny succeed 1592 01:18:58,160 --> 01:18:59,360 out here. So Yep, Yep. 1593 01:18:59,440 --> 01:19:01,520 And listen. And how about this region too? 1594 01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:05,720 You got Rick Pitino, you got Tom Izzo, you've got Dandy Hurley. 1595 01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:07,680 And why might? What was the 4th 1? 1596 01:19:07,680 --> 01:19:11,560 Hold on, Rick Hurley, Izzo? Why am I forgetting the 4th? 1597 01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:15,400 Who else is out there? I've got to remember in a 1598 01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:16,960 second. I mean, you got Titans. 1599 01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:19,520 I mean, a lot of ways it. Oh, Shire from Duke, What am I 1600 01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:21,320 saying? He's not quite, you know, 1601 01:19:21,320 --> 01:19:25,920 because he's younger, but I mean, absolute Titans of the 1602 01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:27,640 game. And it's funny because think 1603 01:19:27,640 --> 01:19:29,960 about how much college basketball, college football 1604 01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:31,280 too. But college sports has changed, 1605 01:19:31,280 --> 01:19:33,640 right? You know, the NIL and that's 1606 01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:34,960 obviously bolstered Saint John's. 1607 01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:36,680 There's no question. I mean, anybody who doesn't 1608 01:19:36,680 --> 01:19:38,720 admit that is just not being truthful. 1609 01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:41,800 One of the main reasons is that's like the main reason 1610 01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,680 Saint John's is here is because they're finally spending money 1611 01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:47,960 which enabled them to hide Rick, which enable them to hire a 1612 01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:50,080 roster. And now you've got, I think the 1613 01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:52,760 greatest coach of all time coaching them and here we are. 1614 01:19:53,040 --> 01:19:57,560 But think about the the the older coaches that are coaching 1615 01:19:57,560 --> 01:20:01,280 in DC this weekend coming up, think about their ages. 1616 01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:05,400 Rick is in the 70s, Tom Izzo's in the 70s Danny Hurley's been. 1617 01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:08,520 You know, he's not in the 70s, but he's not in his 30s or 40s. 1618 01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:10,280 He's in his early 50s. Been doing it for a minute. 1619 01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:12,680 And, and Shire's on the younger side too. 1620 01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:16,760 But you know, the adaptability of of these coaches should not 1621 01:20:16,760 --> 01:20:20,640 be overlooked because they won one way back in the day when the 1622 01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:23,400 college landscaping game was totally different. 1623 01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:26,160 And they're still winning at an incredibly high level. 1624 01:20:26,480 --> 01:20:28,760 And it just shows you that. That's why I always look at 1625 01:20:28,760 --> 01:20:31,960 adaptability is one of the great characteristics for any coach 1626 01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:35,320 and that's why I always know I this will be a short story 1627 01:20:35,320 --> 01:20:36,880 short. That's why I always reference 1628 01:20:36,880 --> 01:20:40,640 Pat Riley. Pat Riley Lakers try to win 140 1629 01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:44,320 to 97, fast break you out of the gym with Magic Johnson, Worthy 1630 01:20:44,320 --> 01:20:47,480 and Byron Scott and Cooper and obviously cream in the post, but 1631 01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:48,840 run you out of the gym. Bang. 1632 01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:51,360 That's how Pat Riley won there. Then he comes to the Knicks. 1633 01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:54,400 They've got nothing like that. They have a 33 year old point 1634 01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:57,080 guard in Derek Harper. They got Pat, you know who's 1635 01:20:57,080 --> 01:20:59,800 amazing, but you know, plotting a little bit up and down the 1636 01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:02,520 court a little bit. And they got a bunch of guys who 1637 01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:03,600 want to beat the shit out of you. 1638 01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:06,520 You know, he's like, OK, that's what we're going to win. 1639 01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:10,480 We're going to win 87 to 79. And then he went, when he went 1640 01:21:10,480 --> 01:21:13,120 to the Heat, you know, he had a little bit more of a hybrid 1641 01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,880 where eventually, you know, with Wade and those guys, they wound 1642 01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:18,640 up winning differently. And obviously as a president, 1643 01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:22,000 he's built out a a team that that's won and can score more 1644 01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:24,720 than those old Nick teams did. So he was adaptable to the 1645 01:21:24,720 --> 01:21:26,960 personnel, adaptable to the times. 1646 01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:30,840 And I saw something and nano man, some people are really just 1647 01:21:30,840 --> 01:21:33,600 so soft. There was I can't believe that 1648 01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:36,440 this actually offends people. There was something. 1649 01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:40,200 Let me see. St. 1650 01:21:40,200 --> 01:21:44,280 John's was up 20 to 3 going to time out against Northern Iowa. 1651 01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:45,480 Did you see this clip? Jay, Rod. 1652 01:21:46,480 --> 01:21:49,880 No. Potentially lay it out. 1653 01:21:49,880 --> 01:21:51,280 Probably did. I'll lay it out for you. 1654 01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:54,720 So they going to break and the Johnnys looking good back to San 1655 01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:56,840 Diego in a second. And as they're going to 1656 01:21:56,840 --> 01:22:04,440 commercial break the music, you see Rick Pitino absolutely 1657 01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:07,920 eviscerating Lefty left topless. I actually thought it was 1658 01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:10,160 darling, but then I it was Lefty. 1659 01:22:10,440 --> 01:22:13,080 I think he missed it, went under the screen or over the screen, 1660 01:22:13,080 --> 01:22:15,360 whatever it was. And there were people now, 1661 01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:18,120 people like me loved it. And, you know, a lot of the old 1662 01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:20,160 heads loved it. They were actually people who 1663 01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:23,080 were like, Oh my God, look at him. 1664 01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:25,800 This is so bad for the game. How do you coach? 1665 01:22:25,840 --> 01:22:28,000 He's so mean. You're up by 17 points. 1666 01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:32,040 Oh, get the fuck out of here. Are you serious, man? 1667 01:22:32,480 --> 01:22:34,520 That's why Rick Pitino's amazing. 1668 01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:37,640 What's a coach supposed to do? You get a lollipop. 1669 01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:40,040 Yeah, Yeah. But I want to give you context 1670 01:22:40,040 --> 01:22:42,360 here. Like, they're like, if you're a 1671 01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:44,520 tyrant, OK. And that, that's not Rick. 1672 01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:45,720 I'm just saying that in general, right? 1673 01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:48,000 Because a lot of people react to the imagery of that. 1674 01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:51,240 Oh, my God, did this. You could still do this in 2026. 1675 01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:52,640 Yeah. If you want to win, you could. 1676 01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:54,360 Yeah. And if you recruit, if you 1677 01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:57,760 recruit young men who are amenable to being coached hard, 1678 01:22:57,760 --> 01:22:59,640 yeah, you could, because they are. 1679 01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:04,320 And the thing about Rick and about any coach, if you're going 1680 01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:09,080 to be that way, it will be well received as long as the guys 1681 01:23:09,080 --> 01:23:13,400 know that you have their back. Now, when I tell you they 1682 01:23:13,440 --> 01:23:17,080 freaking love him, they really look at him as like the the Don, 1683 01:23:17,080 --> 01:23:18,600 like the head of the mafia, like they do. 1684 01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:22,120 I mean, he's got. That vibe the suits everything. 1685 01:23:22,280 --> 01:23:25,040 The way he dresses, even when he wears a sweat suit, you know, 1686 01:23:25,040 --> 01:23:27,480 like I love that he wears a regular suit when he coaches. 1687 01:23:27,480 --> 01:23:30,840 But the way he's dressed, the way he walks, just the hair, 1688 01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:32,960 the, the way he really doesn't care what he says in a press 1689 01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:35,800 conference. And he's just so loose and so 1690 01:23:35,800 --> 01:23:37,680 honest and so transparent at this point. 1691 01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:41,960 And it's, it's beautiful to see. Now if you are now Danny Hurley 1692 01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:43,920 can get away with that as well because he's got 2 1693 01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:46,520 championships. And Danny Hurley, his guys know 1694 01:23:46,800 --> 01:23:49,840 that, that they love him, that he loves them and that he has 1695 01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:51,840 their back. And when push comes to shove, 1696 01:23:51,840 --> 01:23:53,640 Danny's going to be right there standing up for them. 1697 01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:56,680 Much like remember when I remember when Hopkins got fouled 1698 01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:58,840 up in Providence and you had that little melee. 1699 01:23:59,280 --> 01:24:00,400 Rick was right in the middle of it. 1700 01:24:00,440 --> 01:24:02,000 I'm not throwing punches out, thank God. 1701 01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:05,520 But he, he was, he wasn't on, he went Jeff Van Gundy on you on, 1702 01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:07,800 on Alonzo. He jumped in there a little bit. 1703 01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:11,480 So it's just, it really is the perfect storm. 1704 01:24:11,480 --> 01:24:14,960 It's the perfect timing where, you know, it just seemed like a 1705 01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:21,280 basketball renaissance to this extent was not achievable #1 #2 1706 01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:26,840 the fact that it's Rick and that it's a New York guy and it's 1707 01:24:26,840 --> 01:24:29,040 full circle. Come on. 1708 01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:33,440 Queens, Long Island Billy Donovan, 87 Providence, you 1709 01:24:33,440 --> 01:24:37,040 know, coach the Knicks, Mark Jackson, rookie of the year 1710 01:24:37,040 --> 01:24:41,760 under Pitino and, you know, gets got in trouble and he owned it. 1711 01:24:41,760 --> 01:24:44,000 You know, Rick messed up. He's very transparent about 1712 01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:45,360 that. He's come back a very humble, 1713 01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:48,280 very different person. He's told me that in interviews. 1714 01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:50,640 Like I've learned humility. I think we all do as we get a 1715 01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:51,840 little bit older. It's a great thing. 1716 01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:54,320 Humility and and awareness, self-awareness. 1717 01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:58,760 And he's like, yeah, I'm not going anywhere. 1718 01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:02,000 So all these stories that were written and maybe Rick at a 1719 01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:04,160 jump, Rick's not going anywhere. Rick's coaching Saint John's 1720 01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:07,800 until he's done coaching. I do remember asking him when 1721 01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:12,800 when was this? When. 1722 01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:14,680 Oh, it was up in Providence. Not this year. 1723 01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:18,840 Last, remember the viral clip where he just he I don't want to 1724 01:25:18,840 --> 01:25:21,040 just keep throwing F bombs out there, but he's like where the F 1725 01:25:21,040 --> 01:25:22,720 is your heart? How the F will you raise? 1726 01:25:24,840 --> 01:25:27,040 I just. Watched that the other day. 1727 01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:29,800 I don't know, just to get me a little like give me a little 1728 01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:32,680 juice to threw my veins and it literally. 1729 01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:36,200 Got me injected baby. And now that night, that night 1730 01:25:36,200 --> 01:25:38,520 was one of my old. I'm sure Rick, you know, barely 1731 01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:40,280 remembers it. It was one of my all time 1732 01:25:40,280 --> 01:25:42,440 favorite nights because that night Zubi hit a game winner at 1733 01:25:42,440 --> 01:25:44,400 the buzzer. It was an 830 tip up in 1734 01:25:44,400 --> 01:25:47,440 Providence and it was like December 23rd, I want to say. 1735 01:25:47,840 --> 01:25:50,640 And so it was right before Christmas and get like 1736 01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:54,160 83930103011 post game, get in the car. 1737 01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:57,000 I would have been getting in the car around 12:30, you know, And 1738 01:25:57,360 --> 01:25:59,200 my wife said just get a hotel, like just yeah. 1739 01:25:59,200 --> 01:26:00,280 And I'm like, you know what I'm going to. 1740 01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:02,320 But the team went back on the bus. 1741 01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:07,280 But the university got me a room, right, So I'm like, I got 1742 01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:09,160 no responsibility. I go take my suit off. 1743 01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:11,680 I I go down to the bar. I'm like, let me at least enjoy. 1744 01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:13,520 I don't know anybody. Let me just have a beer. 1745 01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:15,840 And you know, I wound up talking to a few Providence fans, great 1746 01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:18,480 people. And I look across the bar and 1747 01:26:18,480 --> 01:26:21,560 there's Rick Pitino, right? It was right before Christmas, 1748 01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:25,200 as I said, and the his charter, the engine was frozen. 1749 01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:27,480 They couldn't de ice it. He was going to go to his one of 1750 01:26:27,480 --> 01:26:29,880 his other homes in Miami to spend Christmas with his family 1751 01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:32,200 and and fly. You know, the team was going 1752 01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:34,280 back to school and and and he was going to Miami. 1753 01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:37,360 So he wound up making a night of it and I'm like, and I and I 1754 01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:39,160 knew him, but I didn't know him great yet. 1755 01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:41,400 I don't want to bother. I don't want to be up his ass. 1756 01:26:41,680 --> 01:26:44,800 And finally, I'm like, come on, you do the TV. 1757 01:26:44,800 --> 01:26:45,960 She got to go have a drink with him, right? 1758 01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:48,760 So I go over there and we wind up. 1759 01:26:48,920 --> 01:26:51,240 I mean, we closed the bar, right, And I never forget. 1760 01:26:51,240 --> 01:26:52,080 He's like, what are you drinking? 1761 01:26:52,080 --> 01:26:53,520 I'm like, I'm like Scotch, right? 1762 01:26:54,360 --> 01:26:55,840 So I think he I think he was having martinis. 1763 01:26:56,040 --> 01:26:59,240 So I go to grab my my wallet just like the Don puts it. 1764 01:26:59,240 --> 01:27:00,600 He's like, no, no, he's like, I got you. 1765 01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:02,760 I got you. And I remember asking him. 1766 01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:07,840 I'm like I said, would you ever coach anywhere else? 1767 01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:09,360 And we talked about St. John's and all that stuff. 1768 01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:12,000 I said, what about the NBA? Because I wasn't sure about 1769 01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:13,200 TomTom. Thibodeau was still the coach. 1770 01:27:13,200 --> 01:27:16,040 But I'm like, if it doesn't work out with Tom Thibodeau and the 1771 01:27:16,040 --> 01:27:18,320 Knicks ever called you, would you ever do it? 1772 01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:21,120 And he's like, I can't, he's like, I'm, I'm, I don't have the 1773 01:27:21,120 --> 01:27:22,240 energy anymore. He said. 1774 01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:24,920 He said, you see me coach every possession. 1775 01:27:25,160 --> 01:27:27,440 He's like, he can't do that in the NBA 82 times. 1776 01:27:27,440 --> 01:27:30,520 I just, I'm, I'm too old. I don't have that that level of, 1777 01:27:30,560 --> 01:27:35,000 of, of engagement necessary to coach in the NBA. 1778 01:27:36,160 --> 01:27:38,760 You know, and, and, and I got to, I got to really know him. 1779 01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:42,320 So when I saw him this morning, he, you know, the, the, the 1780 01:27:42,320 --> 01:27:45,400 coaches sit up front like the band and the cheerleaders are in 1781 01:27:45,400 --> 01:27:46,840 the back, the players right behind the coach. 1782 01:27:46,840 --> 01:27:49,840 And then it's like some boosters and some wives and some family 1783 01:27:49,840 --> 01:27:51,280 members. And I was right next to make 1784 01:27:51,280 --> 01:27:57,160 Madge was behind me and I, I, I was walking out. 1785 01:27:57,680 --> 01:27:59,800 Meanwhile, I'm looking at I'm looking at my, as I'm walking 1786 01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:03,120 out, I'm looking at my phone, seeing an interesting day here. 1787 01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:06,200 And Rick is the only one outside. 1788 01:28:06,200 --> 01:28:09,960 I think he was waiting for a car to come pick him up and it's 1789 01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:11,240 just two of us. And he was like, he had his 1790 01:28:11,240 --> 01:28:13,560 Saint John's track jacket on, his track suit on. 1791 01:28:13,960 --> 01:28:16,080 And I looked, I go, I just go, I go, you're the fucking man. 1792 01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:17,200 I go, you're the man. I go. 1793 01:28:17,200 --> 01:28:20,520 This is awesome dude. I never gave him so cool I. 1794 01:28:20,520 --> 01:28:22,040 Just gave him a hug. I'm like, this is awesome. 1795 01:28:22,040 --> 01:28:24,680 I said I'll see you in DC. And he told me like he and I 1796 01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:26,320 didn't want to bother him. I thought he was tired. 1797 01:28:26,640 --> 01:28:28,320 That's the thing about Rick, like he never gets. 1798 01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:32,720 He always has time for people. He says something like he goes 1799 01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:34,480 and I was starting to walk away again. 1800 01:28:34,480 --> 01:28:37,880 I had other things on my mind. And as I'm walking away, he 1801 01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:40,240 goes, how about, how about big bells, darling? 1802 01:28:40,320 --> 01:28:43,160 He goes, how about darling? And he tells me again, because I 1803 01:28:43,160 --> 01:28:44,720 don't know if he, maybe he didn't see me at the press 1804 01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:46,720 conference, maybe he didn't. He didn't know if I heard the 1805 01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:49,080 story. He's like, yeah, He's like he 1806 01:28:49,080 --> 01:28:51,160 came into the huddle. He said, coach, run the play for 1807 01:28:51,160 --> 01:28:52,320 me. I forget what the play's called. 1808 01:28:52,720 --> 01:28:55,440 Not stack, whatever it's called. Let's just say it's stacked. 1809 01:28:55,640 --> 01:28:59,200 Coach, run stacked for me. I got it and one of the coaches 1810 01:28:59,200 --> 01:29:01,520 actually said to Rick, he's like he hasn't made a shot all day 1811 01:29:01,840 --> 01:29:04,760 and Rick's like go for it. Yeah, I saw that press 1812 01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:06,920 conference. I I had to hit that with a like, 1813 01:29:06,920 --> 01:29:09,680 it was probably like 1:00 AM just seeing that. 1814 01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:11,240 Oh, man. Yeah. 1815 01:29:11,360 --> 01:29:12,520 Man, I'll tell you the other thing too. 1816 01:29:13,640 --> 01:29:16,320 Good. OK, no, I mean the thing that I 1817 01:29:16,320 --> 01:29:20,080 saw last night, my favorite, I think Clipper moment was just 1818 01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:23,280 him, just the stone cold expression. 1819 01:29:23,480 --> 01:29:27,440 And then he does like a little like a little lip quiver, little 1820 01:29:27,440 --> 01:29:32,440 lip like scrunch when darling hit that hit the buzzer beater. 1821 01:29:32,440 --> 01:29:34,920 Just cold, stoic. A man. 1822 01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:39,560 A man absolutely possessed. Absolutely, dude. 1823 01:29:39,560 --> 01:29:42,040 This is a big week, by the way, so we got to find a way to make 1824 01:29:42,040 --> 01:29:44,320 sure we weave in a lot of Saint John's and a lot of Yanks and 1825 01:29:44,320 --> 01:29:45,520 Mets here. Man, Yeah, wait. 1826 01:29:45,520 --> 01:29:47,360 I am ready for some baseball too. 1827 01:29:47,400 --> 01:29:49,600 Let's go. I mean, it's so exciting. 1828 01:29:49,600 --> 01:29:50,560 I can't wait. It's going. 1829 01:29:50,560 --> 01:29:53,960 To be I am ready for some baseball I think tomorrow. 1830 01:29:54,400 --> 01:29:58,720 I started working on this on the plane. 55 things for each 5 for 1831 01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:02,880 the Yanks, 5 for the Mets, like 5 season defining things that 1832 01:30:02,880 --> 01:30:04,880 I'm that I'm really looking for. We'll do that on the show 1833 01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:06,600 tomorrow. A lot of baseball tomorrow. 1834 01:30:07,880 --> 01:30:11,120 God, I but is it I I believe that maybe somebody could text 1835 01:30:11,120 --> 01:30:12,200 this. I know that the Yankees are on 1836 01:30:12,200 --> 01:30:14,400 Netflix. I don't I don't believe that 1837 01:30:14,400 --> 01:30:17,800 Gary and the Mets crew has do they have the game on Snyi feel 1838 01:30:17,800 --> 01:30:21,800 like I saw that on social media. Somebody confirmed that. 1839 01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:23,520 I don't, I don't, I don't want to be out of bounds on that. 1840 01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:25,080 But if that I know the Yankees aren't. 1841 01:30:25,080 --> 01:30:30,840 So to me that's a problem like. The Yankees Winston is crazy. 1842 01:30:31,480 --> 01:30:33,000 Yeah. Well, James Winston, he's well, 1843 01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:35,040 he's doing the baseball stuff now, which is not a bit higher. 1844 01:30:35,320 --> 01:30:36,640 He played college baseball, Florida. 1845 01:30:36,640 --> 01:30:39,560 OK, yeah, yeah. And he's a great personality. 1846 01:30:39,760 --> 01:30:41,680 Kind of odd that you got to tap into football to bring 1847 01:30:41,680 --> 01:30:44,920 personality into the booth, But, and I think Bonds is going to be 1848 01:30:44,920 --> 01:30:47,200 good actually doing this stuff too. 1849 01:30:47,440 --> 01:30:48,120 Bonds. Oh yeah, that'll. 1850 01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:49,240 Be cool. I do. 1851 01:30:49,480 --> 01:30:52,560 But the fact that you know, and if you can, I just want to know 1852 01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:56,120 where the Mets opening day, what channel they're on but for the 1853 01:30:56,160 --> 01:30:59,120 Yankees to be on. And I love Netflix, but come on, 1854 01:30:59,240 --> 01:31:00,880 how UN American are we getting here? 1855 01:31:01,320 --> 01:31:04,080 Like you got to have the you got to have every Major League team. 1856 01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:05,720 I know things are changing with streams. 1857 01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:07,960 I get it. I we stream all the time here, 1858 01:31:08,160 --> 01:31:14,200 big stream family, but to not have on conventional television 1859 01:31:14,560 --> 01:31:17,000 opening day, the Yanks and the Mets. 1860 01:31:17,120 --> 01:31:20,840 I know the Yankees aren't, but either way, and and also 1861 01:31:20,840 --> 01:31:21,920 because, you know, I've been busy. 1862 01:31:21,920 --> 01:31:24,920 Shout out to Howie Rose. I saw that Howie last year in 1863 01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:26,240 the booth. I think Howie's great. 1864 01:31:26,240 --> 01:31:28,400 I love him. I think the thing that how he 1865 01:31:28,400 --> 01:31:36,760 does probably better than than anybody really that that I've 1866 01:31:36,760 --> 01:31:40,440 heard do baseball and I don't know how we very personally very 1867 01:31:40,440 --> 01:31:42,440 well at all. I think Sam and I may have had 1868 01:31:42,440 --> 01:31:46,520 him on once or twice. Just always been an admirer from 1869 01:31:46,520 --> 01:31:48,440 a distance. Don't pretend to have any sort 1870 01:31:48,440 --> 01:31:50,800 of relationship with Howie outside of admiration, good at 1871 01:31:50,800 --> 01:31:52,920 his job, all timer, stuff like that, right. 1872 01:31:53,360 --> 01:31:57,560 But even as a obviously Yankee fan, like I love listening to 1873 01:31:57,560 --> 01:32:01,320 Howie Rose on the radio. I think his best skill and I 1874 01:32:01,320 --> 01:32:03,200 think the thing that he does better than everybody in the 1875 01:32:03,200 --> 01:32:05,240 business, not that I've heard everybody, but everybody that 1876 01:32:05,240 --> 01:32:11,200 I've heard, is that he so seamlessly weaves in a story and 1877 01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:16,320 then and the pitch, like his history and his ability to 1878 01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:22,680 expand and like it'll be a whole story woven within like 2 at 1879 01:32:22,680 --> 01:32:24,560 bats. Here's the pitch, foul ball 1880 01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:27,960 Tapper, right side, pop up left field, back to the story. 1881 01:32:28,240 --> 01:32:30,440 Like you really just feel like you're listening to a guy tell a 1882 01:32:30,440 --> 01:32:33,160 story and he's happening. He's doing a game as well. 1883 01:32:33,720 --> 01:32:37,240 Very he's awesome. So I hope someone confirmed. 1884 01:32:37,280 --> 01:32:39,960 It, NBC and Peacock has the Mets open. 1885 01:32:39,960 --> 01:32:43,400 Yeah, I mean, come on, man. Between St. 1886 01:32:43,400 --> 01:32:45,520 John's and UConn being on Peacock, the Mets being on 1887 01:32:45,520 --> 01:32:48,960 Peacock and the Yankees being on Netflix, I mean, my God. 1888 01:32:48,960 --> 01:32:52,960 A little different from Dix. Yeah, yeah, a little different 1889 01:32:52,960 --> 01:32:55,600 from the Scooter and and Connor's corner back in the day. 1890 01:32:55,760 --> 01:32:58,120 Channel 9. Oh, my God. 1891 01:32:58,120 --> 01:33:00,520 I have not slept at all. You know, my, my, my least 1892 01:33:00,520 --> 01:33:03,840 favorite thing is, and I get, I don't get anxious about much. 1893 01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:08,800 I don't get much anxiety. I get anxious about packing and 1894 01:33:08,800 --> 01:33:11,480 I get anxious about unpacking. I, I don't know why. 1895 01:33:12,240 --> 01:33:14,600 Like I'm already thinking now I'm going to drive down to DC. 1896 01:33:14,600 --> 01:33:18,960 That'll be much easier. But I was like all my shorts 1897 01:33:18,960 --> 01:33:19,960 are, I don't even know where though. 1898 01:33:19,960 --> 01:33:21,400 I don't even know where my wife puts them. 1899 01:33:21,400 --> 01:33:24,720 Like somewhere like like in our workout room, there's like to 1900 01:33:24,720 --> 01:33:27,400 the side, there's like these big buckets of shorts and shirts. 1901 01:33:27,960 --> 01:33:30,640 Like I'm, I'm, I'm thinking San Diego is going to be 80 every 1902 01:33:30,640 --> 01:33:32,720 day, you know, do I try to play golf? 1903 01:33:32,720 --> 01:33:35,560 Do I bring a couple of shorts? I, I didn't, I couldn't find 1904 01:33:35,560 --> 01:33:37,280 them and then I just got busy and I didn't bring them. 1905 01:33:37,280 --> 01:33:39,160 So I didn't pack, right? Yeah. 1906 01:33:39,200 --> 01:33:41,840 Yeah, I get old, man. You're not comfortable with that 1907 01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:43,160 stuff. Sure, sure, sure. 1908 01:33:43,440 --> 01:33:45,240 What else, Jay? Did we miss anything? 1909 01:33:45,240 --> 01:33:48,800 Do we need to circle back to anything You you tell me there. 1910 01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:51,600 Like, do I treat you well as my producer, Jay? 1911 01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:57,000 No, I'm in a sweatshop chained to a wall until I create a 1912 01:33:57,000 --> 01:33:59,320 certain amount of clips. And that, no, of course you 1913 01:33:59,320 --> 01:34:01,800 treat me well. Of course you treat me well. 1914 01:34:01,800 --> 01:34:05,720 I mean, this has been even thus far, and I've said it before on 1915 01:34:05,720 --> 01:34:08,760 the show, so I don't mean to, you know, as the kids say, be a 1916 01:34:08,760 --> 01:34:11,720 Glazer here. Oh, Glazer. 1917 01:34:11,960 --> 01:34:13,320 Yeah, the kids say that. I hear the. 1918 01:34:13,440 --> 01:34:15,120 Yeah, I don't. Mean to be sunset, I don't 1919 01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:16,760 think. He's a BT Glazer. 1920 01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:20,080 Here I know nobody glazes me. I mean, I'll take. 1921 01:34:20,560 --> 01:34:21,840 A. Little glaze here. 1922 01:34:21,840 --> 01:34:24,600 I guess if anything, somebody was trying to shit on me today. 1923 01:34:24,600 --> 01:34:28,600 I'll take a little glaze. No, I like you know, I'll say 1924 01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:31,800 this again and again. This experience producing this 1925 01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:38,200 show has thus far been an the not only the career experience 1926 01:34:38,240 --> 01:34:41,720 of my my lifetime so far where, you know, you really feel like, 1927 01:34:41,720 --> 01:34:44,280 OK, we're doing something where we're taking off, you know, 1928 01:34:44,440 --> 01:34:47,200 where it really feels like I'm getting a starting point, but 1929 01:34:47,200 --> 01:34:50,640 it's also just it's been. It's been such an. 1930 01:34:50,640 --> 01:34:53,960 Addition to my personal life, into my life as well. 1931 01:34:54,080 --> 01:34:57,160 I look forward to it every day. That's awesome, dude. 1932 01:34:57,240 --> 01:34:59,120 I mean, of course, of course, dude. 1933 01:34:59,320 --> 01:35:01,360 So there's not like there's no question about that. 1934 01:35:01,520 --> 01:35:04,760 I look forward to it every day. Such an additive to my life. 1935 01:35:04,920 --> 01:35:06,840 And also I just love getting to know you. 1936 01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:10,640 It's a it's a great time. I love the fun we have so. 1937 01:35:10,840 --> 01:35:12,640 I'm so happy you're here, man. I mean that. 1938 01:35:12,640 --> 01:35:14,680 I really, really mean that. Like one. 1939 01:35:15,160 --> 01:35:16,680 Yes, there's no doubt. I feel it. 1940 01:35:16,680 --> 01:35:18,800 I feel it. You're a you're a soldier, man. 1941 01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:21,520 You're a foxhole guy. You're, you know, I text you 1942 01:35:21,520 --> 01:35:23,600 something, you know, it's done right away. 1943 01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:26,440 You're invested in the show emotionally, you're connected. 1944 01:35:26,440 --> 01:35:28,200 We're connected. It's just starting out. 1945 01:35:29,440 --> 01:35:32,840 And and, and, you know, I, I generally don't get involved in 1946 01:35:32,840 --> 01:35:34,280 the stuff, guys. I I really don't. 1947 01:35:34,280 --> 01:35:36,240 But I had to talk about that one aspect here. 1948 01:35:36,680 --> 01:35:39,240 And, you know, listen, there, there were a couple things that 1949 01:35:39,240 --> 01:35:40,600 that Greg said they were probably true. 1950 01:35:40,640 --> 01:35:42,480 Yeah. I think I did take things too 1951 01:35:42,480 --> 01:35:44,480 seriously when I was a little bit younger, you know, didn't 1952 01:35:44,480 --> 01:35:45,680 really know how to laugh at myself. 1953 01:35:45,680 --> 01:35:49,600 But I think, I think I've grown. I think I've evolved a little 1954 01:35:49,600 --> 01:35:50,600 bit. I'm proud of that. 1955 01:35:50,600 --> 01:35:53,240 Still work in progress, you know, But the one thing that I 1956 01:35:53,240 --> 01:35:57,920 will take to the grave is that, you know, I do try to, I do try 1957 01:35:57,920 --> 01:36:00,120 to treat people the right way. And I think that that's pretty 1958 01:36:00,120 --> 01:36:01,840 evident. I think that I think that you 1959 01:36:01,840 --> 01:36:04,440 guys can feel that. I think people that know me know 1960 01:36:04,440 --> 01:36:08,240 that no one's perfect. No doubt I've had my explosions 1961 01:36:08,240 --> 01:36:11,360 like everybody. You know, I, it's funny, I tell 1962 01:36:11,360 --> 01:36:15,480 my kids what what you do, what you do when nobody's watching. 1963 01:36:15,720 --> 01:36:17,520 I say this to them. I mean, I say a lot of stuff to 1964 01:36:17,520 --> 01:36:18,400 them. They're probably they're 1965 01:36:18,400 --> 01:36:21,280 probably exhausted of it. Work hard, have fun, be a 1966 01:36:21,280 --> 01:36:22,600 leader. I've got all these sayings in 1967 01:36:22,600 --> 01:36:26,800 the morning, right. Say more to more to my son, like 1968 01:36:26,800 --> 01:36:29,480 when we're practicing baseball, like, hey, you know what you do 1969 01:36:29,480 --> 01:36:31,800 when when nobody's watching determines what happens when 1970 01:36:31,800 --> 01:36:34,400 everybody's watching. But that's really that's just 1971 01:36:34,600 --> 01:36:37,720 like pertaining to sports in the grand scheme, that doesn't mean 1972 01:36:37,720 --> 01:36:40,000 much. I think that that's very 1973 01:36:40,360 --> 01:36:42,640 transferable to life. I believe that, you know what, 1974 01:36:42,640 --> 01:36:46,320 what you do when nobody's watching, you know, really 1975 01:36:46,320 --> 01:36:50,440 determines, I think how people will most people will view you. 1976 01:36:50,440 --> 01:36:53,280 And I've always been, I got this from my parents and I'm proud of 1977 01:36:53,280 --> 01:36:55,800 this. And I try to instill this in my 1978 01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:58,560 kids. And you know, I'm just, I'm 1979 01:36:58,560 --> 01:37:01,560 going to be the guy where if I'm getting into an elevator, I'm 1980 01:37:01,600 --> 01:37:04,440 going to hold it for you. Not just the women and children, 1981 01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:06,880 grown man as well. I'm going to say thank you, 1982 01:37:06,880 --> 01:37:09,120 going to say excuse me if I bump into you by accident. 1983 01:37:09,120 --> 01:37:11,760 I'm going to try to be a good dude, you know, and I'm 1984 01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:15,000 confident that I am. So the character stuff that that 1985 01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:17,200 Greg got into, that's the only thing. 1986 01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:20,120 If it wasn't that, I wouldn't, I wouldn't have even touched it 1987 01:37:20,120 --> 01:37:23,600 because I would not have cared. So that's a wrap on that. 1988 01:37:23,720 --> 01:37:25,320 All right, there we go. Let. 1989 01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:31,120 Me bounce more super chat Funny. Gio needs to be a boomer Glazer 1990 01:37:31,120 --> 01:37:34,080 to be relevant. Uh oh, that's kind of cruel. 1991 01:37:34,080 --> 01:37:36,520 The second line. See, but I I don't get it. 1992 01:37:36,520 --> 01:37:37,840 What did you say? You got bullet I, don't I. 1993 01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:39,160 Don't. But now he thinks he's caught 1994 01:37:39,280 --> 01:37:41,160 45. You know, but then if I start 1995 01:37:41,160 --> 01:37:43,840 doing that, you know, or, or like kind of leaning into a game 1996 01:37:43,840 --> 01:37:46,680 that, that I'm, you know, that I'm not gonna play, you know 1997 01:37:46,680 --> 01:37:48,640 what I mean? So I don't know. 1998 01:37:48,640 --> 01:37:51,920 I, I don't know him again up until today or up until I found 1999 01:37:51,920 --> 01:37:55,000 out that he pranked me, I never had never had an issue with 2000 01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:56,160 Greg. I really didn't. 2001 01:37:56,160 --> 01:37:57,400 I'd never had an issue with Greg. 2002 01:37:57,720 --> 01:37:59,880 And you know, I'm done saying what I had to say. 2003 01:37:59,920 --> 01:38:03,600 He could keep going. I, I, I said what was important 2004 01:38:03,600 --> 01:38:07,120 to me because I wanted you to hear that from me. 2005 01:38:07,120 --> 01:38:10,160 So we're going to bounce. I got to unpack. 2006 01:38:10,160 --> 01:38:12,200 I got a lot of stuff to do, a lot of homework here. 2007 01:38:12,200 --> 01:38:15,880 Sweet 16, which is what really matters for Saint John's 2008 01:38:15,880 --> 01:38:19,320 baseball this week. My God, now the channel starts 2009 01:38:19,320 --> 01:38:20,800 to blow up. I can't wait. 2010 01:38:20,840 --> 01:38:23,440 I cannot wait. I felt bad that I was a little 2011 01:38:23,440 --> 01:38:25,480 bit out of pocket when I when I was in San Diego. 2012 01:38:25,480 --> 01:38:28,000 Like with the live show. I know I did some live hits with 2013 01:38:28,000 --> 01:38:30,760 Mink and I did some stuff. I did a live reaction after the 2014 01:38:30,760 --> 01:38:34,840 game yesterday, but don't think for a second that my mind wasn't 2015 01:38:34,840 --> 01:38:36,960 on unleashed. I'm like, you know, the live 2016 01:38:36,960 --> 01:38:38,160 show. I got to get back to it. 2017 01:38:38,160 --> 01:38:42,400 So I was a little little uneasy about that because we we did lay 2018 01:38:42,400 --> 01:38:44,000 a nice foundation. You guys have been great. 2019 01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:47,080 You guys been rolling with me from day one and let's keep 2020 01:38:47,080 --> 01:38:49,400 growing like it. Subscribe it, get that traction 2021 01:38:49,400 --> 01:38:51,040 out there. Let's have a little fun. 2022 01:38:51,200 --> 01:38:54,040 Lot of baseball tomorrow, lot of Yanks, lot of Mets. 2023 01:38:54,920 --> 01:38:57,120 Obviously Johnny's a theme all week. 2024 01:38:57,120 --> 01:38:59,680 Cannot wait. So Levy bounce, I got to come. 2025 01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:01,200 I don't know if I'm going to take a nap. 2026 01:39:01,200 --> 01:39:02,040 I don't know if I'm going to work. 2027 01:39:02,040 --> 01:39:04,760 I don't know what I'm going to do man, but I am definitely 2028 01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:06,040 going to go. So have an awesome. 2029 01:39:06,040 --> 01:39:06,960 Is it Monday? What is it? 2030 01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:08,680 Monday? It's Monday, right Monday it's 2031 01:39:08,720 --> 01:39:09,800 Monday. It's got to be Monday. 2032 01:39:09,800 --> 01:39:12,360 It's Monday. Have a great rest of you Monday. 2033 01:39:12,360 --> 01:39:16,200 I appreciate you guys and I will check you out tomorrow at 10 2034 01:39:16,200 --> 01:39:18,160 right here on unleashed. I'll see you. 2035 01:39:18,240 --> 01:39:29,880 Bye. This is on leash. 2036 01:39:29,880 --> 01:39:31,120 Are you listening? Can you hear me? 2037 01:39:31,120 --> 01:39:32,400 Hear me. This is on leash. 2038 01:39:32,440 --> 01:39:33,680 Are you listening? Can you hear me? 2039 01:39:33,680 --> 01:39:34,920 Hear me. This is on leash. 2040 01:39:34,920 --> 01:39:36,160 Are you listening? Can you hear me? 2041 01:39:36,160 --> 01:39:37,400 Hear me. This is on leash. 2042 01:39:37,480 --> 01:39:38,680 Are you listening? Can you hear me? 2043 01:39:38,800 --> 01:39:41,000 This is on leash. Are. 2044 01:39:43,120 --> 01:39:43,600 You listening?