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is on you. 
Hear me, hear me. 

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Hear me on everybody, BT on 
leash with you on this Friday 

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got a big show for you pumped up
lotsy. 

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I am absolutely jacked today. 
So for me, the challenge today 

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is to make sure that I don't 
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tonight I'm going to be in the 
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basketball game of the year and 
that place is going to be on 

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fire. 
St. 

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John's and U Conn, the number 
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straight. 
St. 

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John's riding an 8 game win 
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So I was looking at the 
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yesterday. 
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$540 in the two hundreds, kind 
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baskets at the Garden. 
So I mean, the city is on fire. 

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We obviously have the Super 
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Got something for you. 
I think you'll really like this.

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I'm going to get a it's a little
it's kind of sounds odd at the 

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beginning, but I think it'll all
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I think you guys really enjoy 
Leon Rose where he schools 

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Brian, I'm going to kind of 
juxtapose that. 

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I think you guys will love it. 
Let me start with this. 

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So when WFAN did you guys know 
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I had, I had a choice. 
I could just kind of chill. 

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I can relax. 
I can wait till after the 

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holidays or I can really just 
roll up the sleeves and get to 

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work and start digging. 
And you guys know which route I 

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took. 
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month now, I've been saying and 
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by the mantra click by click and
brick by brick. 

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And the click by click is on 
your end. 

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The brick by brick is on my end.
That if I handle the brick by 

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brick, then the click by click 
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OK. 
And if you go back to that early

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show, I was in the basement, as 
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great. 
It was a little fuzzy. 

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I didn't have this microphone. 
I didn't have this beautiful 

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webcam, which is very clear, 
although it does show, you know,

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blemishes and some wrinkles. 
I'm like, yeah, oh, man, maybe 

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cameras too good. 
Yeah, go back to the old camera.

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Anyway, I, I told you that as, 
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right and as we start to grow 
the brand, the BT Unleashed 

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brand, there's going to be 
things that I'm going to be able

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to roll out. 
Matter of fact, I just had a 

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text. 
My good buddy Mike was setting 

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up the entire backdrop. 
I told you last week they came 

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to measure it. 
It's being printed today and 

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it's a it's massive. 
It takes up the entire wall. 

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So it's not like you just 
printed up something from, you 

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know, from bottle Microsoft Word
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It takes a while, but it's it's 
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they're coming next week and 
it's going to be installed 

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officially. 
So I won't have to tell you 

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anymore. 
Hey, it's coming. 

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Hey, it's coming. 
Hey, it's coming. 

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That is coming next week now. 
Great news for you. 

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And I got to tell you, man, I, 
I, I'm really, really proud of 

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this. 
I am really truly proud of this.

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I think one of the and I don't, 
I don't mean this in an arrogant

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way. 
I truly don't. 

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But when you do what I do for a 
living and you, when you do what

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I've done for a living for a 
long time, creating compelling 

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content, getting you guys to 
react, getting you guys to 

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think, get you guys to, you 
know, to, to feel whatever I'm 

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pushing, even if you disagree, 
just to kind of feel me and, and

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feel what I'm about. 
That's been pretty natural 

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because that's what I've been 
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And that's really what I was 
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day. 
This communicate, provide some 

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thought provoking content, get 
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and, and really just pique 
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admittedly, because sometimes 
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there's not. 
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getting in the weeds and coming 
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provide that compelling content.
That's on me. 

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All right, And I will take that 
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will just, I will roll up my 
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provide that stuff for you guys.
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the thing that you can't 
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other people to see that vision.
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actually having people to jump 
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because let's face it, I'm not 
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it is fun. 
I'm doing this to pay for my 

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mortgage, to put away more money
for the kids, for college, to 

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pay for cars, to pay to live, to
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nowhere. 
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there's always one person, 1 
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you first. 
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want to get behind the vision. 
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working on for a while. 
So I would love, I am, I am 

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honored. 
This means the world to me to be

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able to welcome the BT Unleash, 
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here. 
Sullivan Propane is officially 

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on board. 
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it up right there. 
Absolutely, absolutely a big 

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moment for the show. 
My buddy TJ McManus, his entire 

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law firm, great people, big 
Saint John's fans. 

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We did some work on the fan 
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what, we got you, we believe in 
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And they didn't sign on for 
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They didn't sign on for two. 
They signed on for all the 2026.

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And I am incredibly thankful and
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earth to reward them for that 
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the toughest thing to do. 
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You can come out here and you 
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studio and you can have 
compelling thoughts and you can 

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have a great producer, which I 
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and, and, and people who follow 
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But if I can't monetize stuff, 
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So thank you Sullivan for pain. 
It's going to be awesome. 

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Now we rolled out the official 
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questions. 
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segment and what I'll just 
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I'll find a couple of things 
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things that we need answers to. 
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gangs, could be the Mets, could 
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diverse. 
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Listen, we've been working 
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you talk contracts, you talk 
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You got to it's not just, hey, 
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bucks and you support the show. 
It is a real process that that 

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we've been cranking away on day 
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really thankful for them. 
So that again, that without 

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being overly repetitive, means 
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going to reward you, you know, I
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me and what we're doing here. 
It is just it, it, it's, it 

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emboldens me even more to just 
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and to keep making this, this 
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as it's going to become. 
This is, this is the early 

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it. 
It's when you build the house, 

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right? 
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fancy, you know the doorknobs 
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furniture and the light fixtures
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island, you know the tile and 
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stuff and the sod and the deck 
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the backyard tile wise, right. 
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foundation and Sullivan propane 
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this early foundation and I'm 
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aboard. 
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All right, let's get to the show
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I mean, I, I got to be honest, 
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much and I may have bought into 
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old and tired at this point. 
There's two things that are 

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bothering me about the Super 
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Oh, there's no buzz. 
There's no buzz in the Super 

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Bowl. 
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The buzz is the Super Bowl. 
We have become such prisoners of

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these narratives, these stupid, 
mundane, generally useless 

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conversations and debates, right
about specifically about the NFL

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and Goats and legacies and about
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championships. 
We've become so single minded, 

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right? 
Chasing answers to stuff that is

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largely nebulous and very 
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OK, I know that Tom Brady's got 
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time? 
No, I mean, it's really just a 

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debate point, which listen, at 
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for sure, But at times it's 
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It's really it's it's lazy 
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I saw something this morning and
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out because I I know people on 
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And they're good at what they 
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You got to provide content when 

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you're talking football every 
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Bowl. 
I saw a segment before which I 

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quickly turned off. 
If Sam Darnold wins the Super 

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Bowl, is Sam Darnold elite? 
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to the elite conversation, is 
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without a World Series 
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Like the bottom line validation 
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these moments of these games. 
It's real. 

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I really, you know what I think 
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I'm just going to be totally 
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I think it is people being lazy 
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I'm a prisoner of it as well. 
Of course. 

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I mean social age, social media,
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age. 
Like everybody's on their phone.

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So nobody really just sits there
and watches a game and processes

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a game and digests what happens 
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the air and talks about it. 
Now, to be fair, that's also 

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kind of 1990s Mike and Chris, 
you know, WFAN and other 

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templates that obviously took it
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I, I know that there's an 
expiration point on that, but 

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the thing that drives me, we go 
from A-Z immediately. 

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There's no buzz. 
What? 

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What buzz do you need? 
It's the freaking Super Bowl. 

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Sit down with some friends, have
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couple of wings, put down a 
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going to root for and watch the 
Super Bowl. 

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What is so hard about this? 
There's no buzz. 

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There's no buzz. 
It's always a referendum on some

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big grand historical context or 
conversation and it's lazy and 

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it's tiring. 
So I don't really engage in 

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that. 
Now I have, I have been to a lot

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of Super Bowls, right? 
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I, I, I really did right. 
But Radio Road to me is a 

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colossal waste of time unless 
you're a big show that is able 

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to carve out and and I'll try to
take you inside for a moment, 

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like what radio role looks like.
And by the way, I've been on 

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both sides. 
So I'm not disparaging one or 

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the other or trying to elevate 
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I'm merely pointing out the 
differences when you go to the 

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Super Bowl. 
So in some massive convention, 

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Convention Center, this one 
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average stadium. 
You know, they're very, you 

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know, when you think about 
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the, the surge of technology 
Levi Stadium is, is getting 

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largely, you know, benign. 
I'm, I'm just, and I've been 

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there a few times. 
Either way, you go to the Super 

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If you do what I do for a living

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and you're affiliated with a 
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in the middle of this massive 
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humanity. 
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table after folding table after 
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table. 
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from San Francisco. 
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you know, from from Charlotte. 
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Detroit. 
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Boston, there's the show from 
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And I'm not saying it's not fun.
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I'd see a lot of people that I 
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career. 
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you go to AI. 
Remember I was at one party. 

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It was the was it the EA Sports 
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EA Sports, because I don't think
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Maxim party. 
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was, but it was it wasn't that 
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was definitely EA Sports. 
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little Side Story, little swipe.
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a date. 
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jump into a different part of 
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enjoy. 
Then I'll get back to the main 

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story. 
So we're at this big. 

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It was in Indianapolis, right? 
I forget the name of the joint, 

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but it was huge upstairs 
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They had obviously Madden and 
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I remember seeing Cam Newton. 
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Brady was there. 
Every big name was there, right?

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And we're hanging out. 
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producers when I'm working in 
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sudden at like 12:00 at night, 
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Snoop Doggy is banging out the 
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So the parties at the Super Bowl
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But the interviews so they will 
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think of a loom and everything 
Anthony Munoz is the name that 

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always pops up right? 
Anthony Munoz former teammates 

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with Boomer Zeissim champ, great
great play, great player, one of

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the great offense 11 of all 
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to city with APR person and he 
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pain, knee replacement. 
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impotence, whatever he's 
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know, certain drink for 
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And all right, you get the plug 
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football for a couple of 
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next. 
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boring. 
It's so boring. 

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stuff, it was a little different
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Tiki would go on the same stage 
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like, you know, whether it was 
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Newton when he was playing, when
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the TV sets and you get a little
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limitations. 
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conversation. 
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thing, to me, it's, it's just 
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I've got no interest. 
Well, I don't need like 

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storylines to gravitate to, to 
enjoy the game. 

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I'm going to enjoy the game, 
although I do have a few 

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storylines for you obviously, 
but I don't need that to get 

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sucked in. 
It's the biggest game of the 

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year. 
It's just well behind St. 

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John's, UConn today, of course, 
it's it's the biggest game of 

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the year. 
It's the biggest spectacle. 

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It's the biggest worldwide, 
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World Cup event in the entire 
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And with somebody like Bad 
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Now when you get international 
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obviously grown and grown and 
grown. 

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I'm sure you guys told the story
yesterday. 

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You got an NFL game in Australia
next year. 

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I love Australia, I hate the 
concept of that. 

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I think it's idiotic. 
I mean, this is going to sound 

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very territorial and probably 
like that up like an American, I

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don't know, block headed 
American. 

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I've always said this, it's our 
sport. 

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Like it's our sport. 
And to take a home game away 

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from great. 
I mean, Packer fans have had a 

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game taken away from them at 
Lambeau to go play some game in 

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Germany or in London. 
Like what are we doing? 

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Like there's got to be an 
expiration point on how much 

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we're willing to give other 
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I mean, I'm all about sharing in
the sandbox here, but not to the

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point where you get more sand 
than me. 

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And I know that some people are 
bothered by that. 

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I don't really care though, 
because that's, that's genuinely

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how I feel. 
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forever, even now if you want to
take like some regular season 

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NBA game and go to London, like 
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okay. 
But to take like 1 of 17 home 

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games in the NFL where each game
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I think it's at the service to 
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So the entire NFL experience has
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it's morphed into. 
And if you allow the nonsense to

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bother you, you're going to, I 
think your enjoyment is going to

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be stripped away a little bit 
for the game. 

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Let me start getting some 
texture. 

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I want to finish the thought on 
on why I don't need the buzz and

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why those whining about no buzz 
really sound like dopes here. 

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Ridgefield, CT. 
I've got a buddy who's a die 

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hard Yankees fan but roots for 
the Pats. 

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What, because he says they're a 
regional team. 

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Any thoughts for this confused 
individual? 

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Well, yeah, Brandon, I 
appreciate that. 

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Thank you very much. 
Shout out to you. 

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This guy might be he might be 
beyond help. 

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I mean, I'm certainly willing to
help people. 

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I'm all about humanity. 
But if this dude is that 

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confused, I'm assuming he's a 
grown man. 

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He's not a kid. 
He's an adult. 

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And if he's latching on to the 
Patriots because he's a Yankees 

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fan and that that like the the 
regional aspect, I think that 

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that guy's beyond salvation. 
How am I going to help that guy?

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I mean, you know, here's what I 
root for. 

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I think many of you are like me.
I root for the Yankees, I root 

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for the Knicks, I root for The 
Jets, never with reward, but I 

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root for The Jets and I root for
St. 

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John's after that. 
And then of course with golf, I 

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root for certain guys like the 
Scheffler and Nicholson. 

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He was playing the Tiger, of 
course, when he came back. 

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I'll gravitate to certain 
individual stories there, maybe 

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even in tennis once in a while, 
you know, stuff like that. 

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But then the next thing that I 
root for is storylines. 

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What I what I deem compelling 
and interesting and obviously, 

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like, I want to see the Mets be 
relevant. 

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I want to see the Giants be 
relevant. 

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I don't care about the Nets. 
They mean nothing. 

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But like the the other baseball 
team, the other football team, 

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because now it produces content 
and it it drives the machine, 

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which I'm all about. 
But is this guy a Jet fan now? 

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I wish you would have, I wish 
you would have clarified if he's

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a Jets fan, I'm I've got to 
assume he's a Giants fan. 

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If he's up in Connecticut. 
And I can only deduce this, I 

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could be wrong. 
If he's a Yankees fan and he's 

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rooting for the Pats based on, 
again, the, the, the regional 

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aspect of it, there's no way 
this guy's a Jets fan. 

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And if he's a Jets fan, he's not
a good one. 

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And if he's a Jets fan, he's 
not. 

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He's a Jets fan I can't hang out
with because I can't relate to 

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that guy. 
If you're a Jets fan, you're 

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rooting for Sam Darnold 100%. 
I mean, the Patriots stop. 

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I just and watch Patriots will 
probably all good, although I'll

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give you my pick at the end of 
the show here. 

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I'm sure the Patriots will find 
a way to win. 

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And if they don't win this year,
they'll get back next year or 

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the year after it, eventually 
win another one, and then just 

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going to reboot the dynasty. 
Minus Brady, minus Bella Chick. 

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I can tell you what's coming. 
I can tell you what the next 10 

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years of my football life is 
probably going to look like, but

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no way in hell do I want the 
Pats to have that moment. 

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There's no chance, you know, I 
can't stand Kraft. 

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I can't stand the path. 
I do like Drake May and I do 

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like Mike Frabel, but I'm not 
going to root for him. 

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Yeah, that's a weird one, man. 
So really guys, just to just to 

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wrap up that thought about 
really what the Super Bowl has 

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become like we've been 
programmed to, you have to talk 

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about the Super Bowl. 
Oh my God, the Super Bowl. 

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And I'm talking about like 
Monday of this week. 

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The hell am I going to talk 
about the Super Bowl on Monday 

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for? 
It's not till Sunday. 

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I'm not going to talk about it 
on Tuesday unless there's like a

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story or an injury. 
I'm not going to talk about it 

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on Wednesday. 
I'm not even going to really 

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talk about Thursday. 
It's Friday. 

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I'll talk about it a little bit.
And when I talk about the 

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laziness, right, that is 
permeated sports and, and not 

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all of you listen, anytime I 
speak in, in broad generalities,

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obviously I'm not talking about 
everybody, but it is a growing 

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faction of you where you you 
just can't help yourself. 

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And you know, you, you within a 
phone call or text or a 

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conversation with your buddies, 
you know, invariably very fast, 

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you're going to hear GOAT 
legacy, no buzz. 

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You're just going to hear that. 
Like, I've got no interest. 

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I'm never going to be that guy. 
It's not interesting to me when 

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I want to talk about that. 
I'll have somebody on the show 

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that knows a whole hell of a lot
more about football than I do. 

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I'm not wasting my time. 
On this show. 

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Nor did I do it on the fan or in
other spots. 

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Even when I was at the Super 
Bowl, I wouldn't talk about it. 

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Like unless I had a guest on. 
I am not on a Wednesday before 

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talking about third and seven 
blitz tendencies from Mike Rabel

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or McDonald. 
Stop doing it now. 

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Here's why I actually think it. 
It is interesting. 

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By the way, at KJ 7457 KJ what's
happening, buddy? 

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Appreciate the pop there. 
BT what's what sports movies do 

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you have to watch anytime it 
comes on TV? 

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God, that could derail the 
entire show. 

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I mean, there's a couple that I 
stick with. 

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Obviously, if I if I want to 
laugh, which I which I do may 

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anything with Major League is 
phenomenal. 

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If I want to think or get 
touched emotionally. 

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I love the natural with with 
with Robert Redford feel the 

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dreams, you know. 
Hey dad, you want to have a 

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catch? 
Honestly, hand to Bible as I 

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just said that I actually felt a
a twins of emotion right there 

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as I just said that. 
Hey dad, you want to have a 

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catch? 
Yeah, I mean I still cry when I 

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see that Hoosiers. 
I watched that the other about a

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month or so ago with my son for 
the first time. 

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Blue Chips is a great movie with
Shack and Penny and Nick Nolte. 

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There's a couple of good golf 
movies out there. 

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I mean, obviously you talk about
Sandler tin cup, sure. 

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Or or a Sandler or tin cup with 
with Kevin Costner. 

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There's a lot, I mean there's a 
lot of great. 

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I think there's a few underrated
ones. 

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Like I happen to like Cobb. 
It's it's a really under the 

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radar baseball movie. 
Cobb with with Tommy Lee Jones, 

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eight men out, the Black Sox 
scandal, phenomenal league of 

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their own. 
I thought was phenomenal about 

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the the Women's professional 
League with Tom Hanks when the 

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men were at war. 
Was that World War Two? 

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Yeah, that that would have been 
World War Two. 

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Yeah, that was in the 40s. 
I'm pretty sure. 

444
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,880
Anyway, there's a lot. 
Appreciate the question. 

445
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,880
So here's what's going to happen
this weekend. 

446
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,880
Sam Darnold is either going to 
punctuate one of the most unique

447
00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,080
runs to a championship. 
And let's face it, unless 

448
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,880
somebody has like 3 sacks and A2
defensive touchdowns, if Seattle

449
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:04,920
wins, Sam Darnold's going to win
the MVP. 

450
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:09,240
So not only will he punctuate 
this very nomadic road to 

451
00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,040
football, immortality, fatality,
I mean, you want to talk about a

452
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,280
transient path. 
Last four years has been on four

453
00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,880
teams. 
But I, I, you, when you listen 

454
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,480
to people talk about Sam 
Darnold, you would think that he

455
00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,720
was drafted in the sixth round 
or he was Mr. Relevant or he was

456
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,560
not drafted at all like he was 
the 3rd overall pick. 

457
00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:28,920
He was supposed to be good, you 
know, So I'm really happy for 

458
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,920
Sam. 
Every time Sam's had a chance to

459
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,760
just throw a little jab at The 
Jets, a little dagger, a little 

460
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,840
needle, he abstains. 
That's because Sam was right, 

461
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,760
was raised the right way, 
because Sam's a class act. 

462
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:42,000
And that's why I'm rooting for 
Sam. 

463
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,480
Even if they were playing 
anybody other than the Patriots,

464
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,920
like, you know, my, my Patriot, 
you know, bias, obviously not in

465
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,680
terms of pick, not about like 
who I think is going to win. 

466
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,400
But I'm not like rooting, yo. 
That's where the bias comes in. 

467
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,640
Even if they weren't playing the
Pats, like I'm going to actively

468
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,320
be rooting for Sam Darno. 
Like generally when I watch the 

469
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,560
Super Bowl, I'm rooting for my 
bets to pop. 

470
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,160
Like, what props do I have? 
What do I have in the first 

471
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:07,320
half? 
What do I have in halftime? 

472
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,680
Adjustments. 
Coaches make adjustments. 

473
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,800
We make betting adjustments. 
All right, what's the adjusted 

474
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,600
spread? 
What's the second-half spread? 

475
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,200
But the Sam Darnold story to me 
is enough buzz to get me through

476
00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,400
the week. 
Like I, I, I get, I don't need 

477
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:26,240
these mundane, just like 
regurgitated lazy, just 

478
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:28,800
narratives that everybody 
reaches for. 

479
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,120
It's old. 
I can't stand it. 

480
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:31,800
And then that's why I don't 
engage in it. 

481
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,600
The other thing too, that's very
interesting here. 

482
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,600
I mean, you know, one of these 
coaches, man, is, is going to be

483
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:38,920
a first time Super Bowl 
champion. 

484
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,720
Now Vrabel's one as a player, 
Vrabel had a lot of success with

485
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,400
the Tennessee Titans. 
Couple of playoff games, couple 

486
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,280
of, you know, 10 or 11 win 
seasons with Ryan Tannehill. 

487
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:49,880
Look how we turned around the 
Pats. 

488
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,200
Like that's why I wanted The 
Jets to hire him and McDonald. 

489
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,440
Like if McDonald wins, you're 
talking about a guy. 

490
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,240
Mike McDonald was the last head 
coach hired in the head coaching

491
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:00,400
cycle. 
Think about that. 

492
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:01,760
When he was brought in by 
Seattle. 

493
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,680
The last one, so is everybody 
else was checking their boxes 

494
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,800
and doing their homework and 
going through the routine, the 

495
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,960
Zooms, the in persons. 
Yeah, yeah. 

496
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,360
The agents throwing out 
nonsense, trying to hype up 

497
00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:16,040
their guy. 
Seattle was the last team to say

498
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:17,720
that's the guy that we're going 
to settle on. 

499
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,600
Look at McDonald's defense. 
That defense is ridiculous. 

500
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,040
I mean, as much as we talk about
Sam Darnold, who's been really 

501
00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:24,960
good certain games, he's been 
great. 

502
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:29,160
But that Seattle defense has 
really carried Seattle most of 

503
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,000
the season, as many of you know.
So if McDonald wins now, you 

504
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,800
talk about a young coach who 
wins right away. 

505
00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:38,720
And now, not that I really feed 
too much into this, but it's at 

506
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,320
least a byproduct of an of an 
interesting conversation. 

507
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,920
Is he in the early stages of 
becoming one of those great 

508
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:46,760
coaches? 
I mean, think about this. 

509
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:51,440
Let's say McDonald wins Sunday 
and never wins again. 

510
00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:55,480
And but he coaches for a long 
time, makes a lot of playoffs, 

511
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,520
you know, a lot of 10/11/12 win 
seasons, you know, but never 

512
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,920
gets back or maybe does get back
but never wins again. 

513
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,760
Basically he's John Horbaugh or 
Mike Tomlin. 

514
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,400
But if he wins that second, I 
know you got to win the first 

515
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,600
before he win the second. 
But now that puts you in a 

516
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,040
different, more exclusive 
conversation, much like a, you 

517
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,360
know, a major winner in golf, 
Like a lot of guys have won. 

518
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,640
A lot of guys, you know, pop 
through at the PGA Championship,

519
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:24,880
which is kind of a random major.
You know, generally that's the 

520
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,520
one where like, wow, that dude 
won. 

521
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,920
Or you go back to look at 
history, Wow, how did how did he

522
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,360
win? 
What happened to him? 

523
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,160
Like that's the event where that
usually happens more more so 

524
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,320
than the The Open Championship 
or the US Open. 

525
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,720
We're certainly a Masters. 
But you know, when you win one, 

526
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,800
all right, it's kind of viewed 
as an anomaly in certain 

527
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,600
regards. 
When you win two, well, now you 

528
00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:47,160
carve out a very different path.
So I'm very interested in the 

529
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,280
Super Bowl. 
I'm just not interested enough 

530
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,720
to just bombard you and, you 
know, just hit you over the head

531
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,560
with these stories that are 
manufactured. 

532
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,960
We got the game coming up. 
Going to sit down, going to have

533
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,720
a couple drinks, going to stuff 
my face, going to have a couple 

534
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,160
of bets, going to be with a 
couple of friends, going to be 

535
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,600
obviously with my family and 
watch Super Bowl. 

536
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,520
That's it. 
But this nonsense, My, my good 

537
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:13,040
God, I saw it this morning. 
If Sam Darnold wins, is he 

538
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:14,520
elite? 
Like, why do we have to jump 

539
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,040
right into that? 
And why the hell are we talking 

540
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,600
about that before it even 
happens? 

541
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,160
I mean, what if Sam Tardo goes 
out there and throws 2 picks, 

542
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,640
coughs one up, puts one on the 
turf with a fumble, get sacked 3

543
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,960
or 4 times, you know, hits on 
53% of his passes and Seattle 

544
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,600
scores 13 points and gets 
hammered? 

545
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,720
Like what a waste of airspace we
just had there. 

546
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,160
So that's how I generally like, 
I just gave you as as honest 

547
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,400
assessment of the Super Bowl as 
I can give you the the amount of

548
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,560
fluff and the it's just then you
get guests on. 

549
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,200
You got to like, you almost have
to give him the courtesy lab, 

550
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,800
that guy that was good. 
Meanwhile, you're bored out of 

551
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:51,840
your mind. 
You're like, when is the show 

552
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,000
over? 
Honestly, not because I want the

553
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:57,520
show to end because I want this 
procession of boring guests to 

554
00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,800
end. 
You know, and like that's one 

555
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,720
thing that I've always guarded 
against, whether I was in San 

556
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,000
Francisco doing afternoon drive 
or with tiki doing, you know, 

557
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,080
Nashville afternoon drive. 
Like we're not bringing on a sea

558
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,240
let seat, like we're not going 
gas, gas, gas, gas, gas, gas, 

559
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,320
gas. 
All right, Jim Harbaugh wants to

560
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,000
come on, amazing. 
Aaron Rodgers wants to come on 

561
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,520
amazing. 
Brett Favre, Tim Tebow, Joe 

562
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,640
Montana had them all. 
Marino, great, fantastic. 

563
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,160
Come on in. 
But like, if you're if you're 

564
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,040
the 17th best wide receiver in 
the NFL and you got some PR 

565
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,520
person and they're doing their 
job, I'm not taking a shot now. 

566
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,800
Like you're pushing him now. 
We're good, we're good, we're 

567
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,120
good. 
And then you see all the 

568
00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:37,720
picture. 
I got to laugh at this too. 

569
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,480
And again, not that I've never 
done this. 

570
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,480
I have right. 
So I'm kind of calling myself 

571
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,920
out as well. 
But like, you do a picture, you 

572
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,520
do an interview, and then of 
course, you get the requisite 

573
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:48,920
picture. 
Hey, can we get a picture before

574
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,600
you go? 
And of course you post it to 

575
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,120
social media. 
You have your arm around the guy

576
00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:55,200
or you got a good pose. 
Look who I'm hanging out with. 

577
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,360
And like, like, dude, the guy 
came on your show because he got

578
00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:00,320
paid. 
He didn't come on your show 

579
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,520
because he finds you incredibly 
interesting or because he thinks

580
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,040
you've got an amazing show. 
He literally went on your show 

581
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,200
because that week his PR guru 
constructed a list of 30 

582
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:15,920
interviews that he's going to do
to sell product XY or Z and he 

583
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,320
going to do the dance, you know,
and he going to say the same 

584
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,600
thing every interview. 
The one thing that I I took a 

585
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,840
lot of pride with and and I 
thought we were very good with 

586
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,680
this is getting this made me 
very proud when this happened. 

587
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:31,120
When you make national news at 
the Super Bowl, because the the 

588
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,280
the dudes go with everybody. 
But when they clip something 

589
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,440
from your show, because you were
just better at crafting a 

590
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,600
conversation and getting them to
open up on something that you 

591
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,400
know the world finds 
interesting, That's that's where

592
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,200
you make some noise and that was
always a good challenge. 

593
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,680
All right, so let me give you a 
little something on the Super on

594
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,800
the on the MVP. 
All right, I don't get too 

595
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,560
wrapped up baseball MVPI always 
love. 

596
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,600
It's just different. 
It's more, it sounds weird to 

597
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,320
say that it's like more revered 
than the NFLMVP. 

598
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,800
But I just feel, I don't know. 
I feel like it is, you know, the

599
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,440
NFLMVP is always going to be a 
quarterback. 

600
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,160
That guy's going to always win 
13 games. 

601
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,320
You know, very rarely is it 
somebody that comes out of 

602
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,280
nowhere like like like how 
Raleigh almost beating Aaron 

603
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,400
Judge, not that he didn't have a
good year the the previous year,

604
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,800
but you know what I mean? 
It's just I find the baseball 

605
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,520
MVP more interesting. 
The NBA. 

606
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,520
It's, you know, two or three 
guys, you can pretty much put it

607
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,640
in a hat and a year and just 
jiggle it up and say, all right,

608
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,080
this, this guy's probably going 
to win and they usually do. 

609
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:34,560
But the NFLMVP whatever. 
Honestly, I did find this one 

610
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,960
fairly compelling counter to 
what I usually think. 

611
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,560
First of all, the bite the, the,
the vote was very tight, 366 to 

612
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:45,320
361, which is one of the closest
votes in decades, in decades. 

613
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,080
And I think it should be. 
Now if you told me the Drake May

614
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,360
1, he didn't. 
Stafford did 366 to 361. 

615
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,320
I'd say that makes sense. 
I got no problem with that. 

616
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:58,160
OK, to me, this really was a 
coin flip. 

617
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:04,080
At the end of the day, when when
you see 46 touchdown passes to 

618
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:09,200
31, when you have a 5th A + 15 
touchdown disparity favoring 

619
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,120
you, you're going to win. 
Now you want to dig a little 

620
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:13,760
deeper. 
You can make a very good case 

621
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,520
for May, which is why the vote 
was only 5. 

622
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,960
You know, 5 votes apart. 
Led the NFL in completion 

623
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,960
percentage, had a better passing
rating Drake May did than 

624
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,160
Matthew Stafford. 
Higher yards per 10th means you 

625
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,720
throw the ball down field a 
little bit more. 

626
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:28,920
I mean, Stafford doesn't run at 
all. 

627
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:30,160
I think he had two rushing 
yards. 

628
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,560
I think something like that. 
And Drake May is a real threat 

629
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:37,200
with his wheels over 400 rushing
rushing yards ran a bunch in and

630
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,840
Drake May also won 14 games 
compared to 12. 

631
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:44,760
Now the the Rams have been a 
very, very, very stable, very 

632
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,560
good recently crowned champion 
as well. 

633
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,960
So to me, when I think about the
word Most Valuable Player or, or

634
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,240
you know, or the letters, the 
acronym, however you want to 

635
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,000
frame it, I, I look at a little 
different and, and I really wish

636
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,520
that it would be this way more. 
We've gotten away from this. 

637
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:06,240
It's more about stats, But to me
it's very simple equation. 

638
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:11,280
If you take player X off a team 
Y, which team is most adversely 

639
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,200
affected? 
OK, to me, that's a great road 

640
00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,320
map to get to who's really the 
most valuable. 

641
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:22,280
I remember, right. 
So this is way before like this 

642
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,880
onslaught of club and travel 
baseball, this explosion of 

643
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,280
youth sports. 
But you know, I'm really into 

644
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,840
obviously. 
But when I was coming up, it 

645
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,480
was, I mean, I played on a 
travel team, but I played on a 

646
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,880
good one. 
But the the team might might 

647
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,440
like my church to my school team
one through 8. 

648
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,120
They had these awards and I 
loved it. 

649
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:43,600
Awards night was always great. 
They would have the MVP and they

650
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,360
would have the most outstanding 
player. 

651
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,360
And in my mind, I wanted to get 
both. 

652
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,120
And I still have a lot of those 
trophies in my parents attic. 

653
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,800
My God, I got to show my kids 
that someday. 

654
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,880
And you know, to me, I don't 
know if this is what the manager

655
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,160
really thought The I don't know 
if he gave it that much thought,

656
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,440
but you know, I've got probably 
four or five of those MVPS at 

657
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,560
home. 
Does that mean that the other 

658
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:09,040
guy who got the MOP was better? 
No, it doesn't. 

659
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,800
It doesn't mean the stats were 
better, but there was some sort 

660
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,160
of demarcation there, right? 
I almost wish we and we have the

661
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,800
offensive player of the year. 
So I guess that's the little 

662
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:22,840
separation there. 
But Drake made me elevating the 

663
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:27,800
Patriots from a moribund, 
floundering 4 win team this 

664
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,480
quickly. 
Doesn't that under score the 

665
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,320
absolute value of him? 
Now I can hear the other 

666
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,080
argument where you take Matthew 
Stafford off the Rams. 

667
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,880
What are they? 
Well, let me ask you this and I 

668
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,560
don't know the answer. 
It's a rhetorical question. 

669
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,600
I I don't know if you put, I 
mean, let me think of a league 

670
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,520
average quarterback. 
This is probably not the year to

671
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,240
throw his name in the hopper, 
but maybe take another year from

672
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,200
Tua. 
All right, take Tua and put Tua 

673
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,760
on the Rams. 
What are the Rams? 

674
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,360
Put 2 on the on the on the 
download. 

675
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,680
They can't get rid of them. 
Put the put 2 on the Pats. 

676
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,040
What are they? 
Probably kind of the same thing.

677
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:07,160
Is there any elevation either 
way? 

678
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,240
I don't know because both 
defenses are really good. 

679
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,120
So it might equate to a very 
similar result minus the Gordy 

680
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:16,640
stats, but the team win totals 
probably in the same 

681
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,280
neighborhood. 
If you put Drake May on the 

682
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:20,960
Rams, may be a better way to 
look at it. 

683
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:25,680
And you put Stafford on the 
Patriots, it's probably pretty 

684
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,800
similar. 
Like that's why this was a very 

685
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:32,400
tough boat, 366 to 361. 
But again, you just see that 

686
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:39,160
#4646 touchdown passes and that 
that jumps off any website that 

687
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,600
jumps off Matthew Stafford's 
amazing love them. 

688
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,640
Drake May's amazing. 
Love them. 

689
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,560
It's going to be really 
interesting to see how Drake May

690
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,440
handles the pressure Sunday. 
I think he'll be fine. 

691
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,240
I think he's coached up. 
I think he's got a slow 

692
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:52,920
heartbeat. 
It's going to be very 

693
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,240
interesting to see how Sam 
handles the pressure, and I 

694
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,160
think Sam too will be fine. 
I think we got a good game, a 

695
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:02,000
tight game, and I think we got a
fun game at the Broadway Blue 

696
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:07,040
225 and MVP over 162 was far 
meaningful, more so than an MVP 

697
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:08,840
over 17. 
I've got no problem with the 

698
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,320
NFLMVP process. 
All right, I get it. 

699
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,600
You don't have to have a problem
with it, but I would like to 

700
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,280
know why you believe that it's 
much more important over 162. 

701
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:22,600
I actually think it's the other 
way because in think about this 

702
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:26,400
in Major League Baseball, you 
could have a bad Juan Soto had a

703
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,080
bad start to his first Met 
season. 

704
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,280
Now Juan Soto, Juan Soto's 
ultimate numbers weren't where 

705
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,199
they were the year before with 
the island talking about power 

706
00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:35,920
average OPS. 
They weren't where they were 

707
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,800
with the Yankees when he was 
with Judge and doing damage 

708
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,280
because he got off to a rough 
start and he wasn't very clutch 

709
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,120
whatever for most of the year. 
So some of those numbers were 

710
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,199
adversely affected, but he still
got there statistically. 

711
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:54,639
But if if Matthew Stafford and I
don't know what the exact like 

712
00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:56,159
it's it's never going to be 
apples to apples. 

713
00:34:56,159 --> 00:35:00,960
But let's say Soto or you know, 
a great hitter in baseball has a

714
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:06,360
month and he hits two O 3 and 
he's a power guy, nominal power 

715
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,200
OPS 720, which were great 
players awful. 

716
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:14,920
You know, the the team can still
win because you're not as 

717
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,960
dependent on that one guy. 
You just not. 

718
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:21,040
I mean the one example might be 
counter to that, the Yankees, 

719
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,520
which is one of my real issues 
with the Yankees because God 

720
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,720
forbid if Aaron Judge doesn't 
smack 55 home runs and driving 

721
00:35:26,720 --> 00:35:31,040
$1.30, whatever it is, and hit 
320 and OPS over 1100 win the 

722
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,640
MVP. 
The Yankees to me, even with 

723
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,040
their great pitching potentially
when they get back healthy, 

724
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,480
Yankees look like an 8384 win 
team. 

725
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,000
So he's probably the one example
counter to what I'm talking 

726
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,040
about. 
But imagine Matthew Stafford 

727
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,320
having one month or Drake. 
And I know that there's slight 

728
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:51,200
fluctuations, but I mean, a 
month that is commensurate with 

729
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,720
whatever the baseball example 
would be of a really down month,

730
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,200
you know? 
So let's say you play four 

731
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:57,400
games. 
I mean, I guess you could play 

732
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,200
5, whatever, but we'll save the 
standard four games in a month. 

733
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:09,120
And Stafford goes, Stafford 
goes, 7 picks, 3 touchdowns. 

734
00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:10,640
How many of those games are they
winning? 

735
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:12,200
How many games are they going to
win? 

736
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,680
But conversely, how many games 
did the Mets win when Soda was 

737
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:17,840
over 4? 
How many games do the Yankees 

738
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,160
win even though they they depend
on him over 162? 

739
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,240
Yankees still win games when 
Judge doesn't hit a three run 

740
00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:27,400
home run. 
I mean, Jazz might hit one, 

741
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,280
Christian might hit one, Rice 
might hit one. 

742
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,320
You know, you can kind of spread
the wealth a little bit here. 

743
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,240
So I would disagree with your 
text. 

744
00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:34,640
I get it. 
I appreciate you weighing in. 

745
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:40,960
I don't, I don't really feel the
same way, but the, the MVP 

746
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,680
voting is something I very 
rarely get into. 

747
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,640
I thought this was a little 
different #1 the, the tight 

748
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,360
nature of it and I do find it 
compelling enough to bring up. 

749
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:49,440
So hopefully you guys enjoy 
that. 

750
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,640
If you want to jump in, by the 
way, start getting those Super 

751
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,160
Bowl picks in. 
I'm going to be reading a bunch.

752
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,480
I'll give you mine at the end 
here. 

753
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,800
We'll take care of that. 
All right, so I gave you the 

754
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,320
Stafford stuff. 
I gave you the obviously the 

755
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,440
McDonald, the, I mean, one of 
these coaches going to be on a 

756
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,360
because they're both young, 
going to be on a trajectory to, 

757
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,840
you know, really, and I hate the
word legacy and it's it's it's 

758
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,680
overused, it's misused, it's 
lazy, as I've said, but it is 

759
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,840
applicable once in awhile. 
And whomever wins on Sunday is 

760
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,760
going to be set up to have a 
legacy that's going to get 

761
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,440
separation from his peers. 
So I do find that really, really

762
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,120
interesting. 
All right, before I get to this,

763
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,120
I think you guys are like it. 
I really do Little Leon Rose, 

764
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,400
Brian Cashman contrast and 
everything. 

765
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,800
Let me say what up to my Guy J 
Rod, J Rod Friday night. 

766
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,400
What's going on here J? 
Rod, what's up? 

767
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,080
What's up? 
How we doing? 

768
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,960
How's my How's my connection 
looking right now? 

769
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:41,360
Well, I mean, your connection's 
good. 

770
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:43,200
I don't know how you look, but 
your connection's good. 

771
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:45,160
Go on. 
Why did? 

772
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,640
You think he's a little fuzzy? 
Yeah, I just a little bit since 

773
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,360
I'm since I'm from the work from
since I'm calling in from the 

774
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,160
work spot, it might be a little.
Off. 

775
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:54,000
You're good. 
You're good. 

776
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,240
Oh, you know what? 
I meant to ask you. 

777
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,480
So I was watching, I was 
watching the show yesterday just

778
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,120
kind of as I said, I'll go back.
I'll look at some of the 

779
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,120
messages, take some notes, try 
to tweak some things and, and 

780
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,720
you know, fix some things that 
maybe you guys can't see, but 

781
00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:08,240
things that I want to, you know,
work on and implement and all 

782
00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:10,920
that stuff. 
And I've noticed now your work, 

783
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,760
you probably don't have it here.
You were, you drink water a lot,

784
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,680
which, which I do as well. 
I, I, I just bang back water 

785
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,240
left and right. 
Already had two bottles this 

786
00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:22,440
morning and you were drinking 
out of a very weird cup. 

787
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,840
It always looked like a little 
like a little baby pot. 

788
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:26,800
What the hell? 
So this. 

789
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,800
Is this is like a very, I'd say 
Gen. 

790
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,360
Z sort of thing. 
People my age love the Mason 

791
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,280
jars. 
Like that's like their big sort.

792
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:37,520
Of is it really? 
Yeah, like. 

793
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:39,920
People just love drinking out of
just like. 

794
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:47,520
The huge uh oh, uh oh. 
Thick glass and. 

795
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:48,840
There he goes. 
Got you. 

796
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,280
You actually chopped up for a 
little bit. 

797
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,560
I you froze for a SEC. 
I got you the Mason jar. 

798
00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:55,560
Like something you find in, you 
know, if it, if you're, if 

799
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,000
you're, I don't know, one of the
characters on Little House on 

800
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,960
the Prairie or exactly there's 
like syrup in it. 

801
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,760
Yep, that's where it's it's like
when you go to the thrift store 

802
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,520
and they've got the little beans
or the little pasta in it. 

803
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,960
Exactly. 
One of those listen, if you tell

804
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,840
me Generation Z Gen. 
ZS got a little old soul to him,

805
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,080
I'm all about it. 
That's good. 

806
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,080
I like. 
That's hope. 

807
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,840
That's hope for the future. 
There we go. 

808
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,880
Yeah. 
Thank you, J Rod, thank you. 

809
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,840
And by the way, how excited are 
you about our new sponsor, 

810
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,240
Sullivan, The pain, How come on?
I mean, it's it's beautiful. 

811
00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:30,240
You know, maybe lead into some 
things down the line and, you 

812
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,040
know, more, more sponsors, more 
support. 

813
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,360
Always great to I feel like get 
that first one really down. 

814
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,880
Hammer it in, and only more to 
come. 

815
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:40,480
When it rides a no doubt about 
it. 

816
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,200
All right, Jay, check out those 
texts. 

817
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,400
Let me know what's coming out. 
Pop some good ones up there. 

818
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,600
We got big. 
Look at him right on right on 

819
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:47,520
spot. 
Pop him up. 

820
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,720
He puts him up. 
I mean, see, when you get a 

821
00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:52,360
young guy like J Rod, right? 
I'll get to this text in a 

822
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:53,440
moment. 
Victoria, hang on. 

823
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,680
Get a young guy like J Rod, what
you have to do? 

824
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,440
You got to mold him properly, 
right? 

825
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,000
And it's an equal balance of 
letting him know the 

826
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,400
expectations, right? 
And this is this is big point. 

827
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:07,240
Just serious business here. 
But also give him that freedom 

828
00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:11,880
and that latitude to show who he
is and have some creative input.

829
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,320
So I am very happy now. 
He also didn't need a lot of 

830
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,160
molding because he's good at 
what he does. 

831
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,240
Otherwise I wouldn't hired him. 
All right, I've worked with him 

832
00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:23,760
prior, but at the molding of J 
Rod, I I'm I'm very I'm very 

833
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,760
happy the direction that J Rod's
going into he gets it. 

834
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,360
He gets the BT brand. 
He's he gets the whole social 

835
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,760
media thing. 
He understands all this stuff. 

836
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,640
He's got a good loose, easygoing
personality. 

837
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,520
And I even told him right, I 
told him not today, but where, 

838
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,080
where it matters, right? 
Or where he thinks he can do 

839
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:46,280
this is if I say something 
that's wildly outrageous, by all

840
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,160
means push back, you know, but 
make sure you have your stuff 

841
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:51,040
buttoned up there. 
J Rod. 

842
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:52,800
We don't want exposure for the 
whole world to see. 

843
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:56,400
So I would, I would 
strategically place that, that 

844
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,760
combative, that little, you 
know, the first time you come at

845
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:01,800
me, make sure you got things 
lined up, brother. 

846
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,000
Make sure you got things lined 
up. 

847
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,160
All right. 
This one's from Victor's Garage,

848
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:06,880
5814. 
What up, Victoria? 

849
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,120
BTI grew up going to rolling 
roast every Saturday with my 

850
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,760
pops. 
What's the BT go to? 

851
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:17,280
Roast beef or cheeseburger and 
fries and let's go. 

852
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:18,560
Nick's always. 
Let's go. 

853
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:19,160
Nick's. 
Victoria. 

854
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:20,760
Thank you very much. 
Brooklyn's in the house. 

855
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,000
Yeah, that was actually my first
job. 

856
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,920
That was my first job. 
If you know Roland Roaster, 

857
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,480
maybe a a better point of 
reference if you guys know 

858
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,240
Sheepshead Bay. 
I was talking about Ginger Rose 

859
00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:33,760
where I used to get my hair cut 
like the the flat tops and the 

860
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,560
lines put in the head and all 
that stuff back in the late 80s 

861
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,680
and early 90s and even a little 
bit past that. 

862
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,000
But there was a diner across the
street, which has been gone for 

863
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,080
a long time that I go to after. 
And Sheepshead Bay's awesome. 

864
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:47,840
That's why that's the first 
place ever went fishing. 

865
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,040
So we go blue fishing, we go 
weak fishing, which back then 

866
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,160
there was a lot of weak fish in 
the waters. 

867
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,240
I don't really see as much. 
Obviously fluke and flounder and

868
00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:58,440
stuff like that go on the big 
party boats, bring a case of 

869
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:00,640
beer. 
Oh my God, just get after it. 

870
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,080
Awesome. 
But when I was younger, rolling 

871
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:06,120
roaster, I guess. 
I was a freshman in high school 

872
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,680
and I got a little freshman. 
Yeah, I think it would have been

873
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:10,680
a freshman got a little. 
So maybe a sophomore got a 

874
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,760
little summer job. 
And I was bussing tables at 

875
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:17,200
Roland Roaster and it was 
hysterical because a lot of the,

876
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,040
I was young, I think I was 1514 
or 15. 

877
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,560
And a lot of the people, 
basically all the people who 

878
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,920
work there outside, like the 
managers and the bosses, they 

879
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,760
were all young. 
They all went to Kingsborough, 

880
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:28,920
which is a Community College 
right across the street. 

881
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:30,560
If you know the area, you know 
what I'm talking about. 

882
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,680
And they would, they'd be, they 
would, they'd get off the, I 

883
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,360
once said that they'd get off 
the air, we'd get off our shift.

884
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,200
And, you know, they would hang 
out, you know, and I would want 

885
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:40,680
to hang out. 
I'm like, I want to hang out 

886
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,640
here. 
Oh God, kill a piece of the 

887
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:47,080
action, you know, 14 year old BT
and I'll never forget way before

888
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:51,280
phones, Mom or dad had to pick 
me up way before I could drive. 

889
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,760
And I was too young to take a 
couple of buses there because it

890
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,360
would have been, you know, a 
complete pain in the ass. 

891
00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:00,280
Anyway, one night I'll never 
forget, I had no chance with 

892
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:01,600
her. 
I mean, she may have been 20, I 

893
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,400
was 14. 
Whatever I was enamored with, 

894
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:04,680
I'm like, Oh my God, she's 
beautiful. 

895
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,560
She didn't pay me any mind. 
But anyway, I remember them all 

896
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:11,240
hanging out on the car, you 
know, like the T bird, whatever 

897
00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:14,440
they had out of some, you know, 
tricked up souped up car with 

898
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,240
the tinted windows and the 
music, you know, Stevie B 

899
00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:20,320
blasting, probably doing a few 
things they shouldn't do, if you

900
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,160
know what I mean. 
And I'll never forget. 

901
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:29,000
I guess maybe I don't know how I
was supposed to get home because

902
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,120
it wasn't the bus. 
I I guess it was my mom. 

903
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,960
But maybe that was one night I 
was taking car service home, 

904
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,360
maybe because all I remember and
I was late, evidently because I 

905
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:39,680
was hanging out, I wasn't doing 
anything. 

906
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:44,560
I was, you know, 14. 
And I remember just seeing from 

907
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,920
about a block away on Emmons 
Ave. my mom walking toward the 

908
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,320
car. 
And, you know, she didn't 

909
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,480
embarrass me in front of any 
everybody, thank God. 

910
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,600
But when I tell you, when I, 
when I, when I, when we kind of 

911
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,560
turned the corner, I, I think I 
got AI used to have curly hair. 

912
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,240
I got a little, little little 
twist of the hair, like don't 

913
00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:03,640
ever do that again. 
Like I was just, I was pushing 

914
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,320
the envelope like you do, you 
know, she came to get me. 

915
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,680
And when, when you have an 
Italian mom, as I do, thank God,

916
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,840
still with us and and healthy 
and amazing and awesome. 

917
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,400
When you have that now it, it, 
it's all the good, the meals, 

918
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,480
the warmth, the love, the 
traditions, but the worry, much 

919
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,320
like a Jewish mom. 
They, they say Jewish and 

920
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,440
Italian moms very serious in 
this regard or, or very similar 

921
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:29,640
in this regard. 
They worry about everything. 

922
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:34,400
I mean everything to the point 
where you almost can't help it 

923
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,680
coming into your world. 
And thank God my dad didn't 

924
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,440
worry about anything except 
school and respect and sports, 

925
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,480
everything else like whatever. 
So thank God I got that balance 

926
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,640
because my mom would shoot. 
So you're going to get 

927
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,600
kidnapped. 
I mean, you talk about. 

928
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,880
Oh, man, I remember. 
You know, if if me and Sal were 

929
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,240
still together right now, he 
would be chiming in too because 

930
00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:57,840
I know his mom was the same way.
Like, just they worry. 

931
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:59,600
They worry because they love you
so much. 

932
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,600
But yeah, I don't even know what
my favorite food was there. 

933
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,200
I love the roast beef. 
And there was something where if

934
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,000
you would go to rolling roaster 
and I think if I was a million 

935
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,640
years ago, I think if you either
wiggled your finger or I don't 

936
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:16,520
touch something touched your 
nose or said some word, I think 

937
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,160
you got free cheese on the 
fries. 

938
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,960
If I remember that right. 
Shout out to rolling roaster. 

939
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:26,040
First job and phenomenal food. 
Awesome Brooklyn staple at I 

940
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,800
guess that's an L dash Bosox 
dash L. 

941
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,480
What's up there? 
I wish I knew your real name, 

942
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,200
but there you go. 
What up BT big fan, die hard Red

943
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,080
Sox fan as well. 
Watch every the Yankees game to 

944
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,520
sort of hate watch, but I love 
the listening to you and Sal 

945
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,080
appreciate that man. 
Keep up the great work love of 

946
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:44,520
the new show. 
Go Pats. 

947
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:45,960
I will let you say that last 
part. 

948
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,800
I will not say that part, but I 
will say enjoy the Super Bowl 

949
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,760
and I will also say I'm jealous.
I'm jealous. 

950
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,560
I like it's not even hatred. 
I mean like it is, but it's just

951
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:59,160
it's jealousy. 
It is jealousy and sometimes if 

952
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,880
it comes across as hatred, it's 
just rooted in jealousy. 

953
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,280
Understand that. 
Like I'm jealous of how you 

954
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:07,680
build a franchise, how you 
always find the quarterback, how

955
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,920
you always have a great coach, 
had great stadium, great fan 

956
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:13,840
base, got no problems up there. 
The one thing that I would 

957
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:18,240
question this is kind of odd is 
that you tell me that you hate 

958
00:46:18,240 --> 00:46:19,760
watching. 
I I know what you mean there. 

959
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,840
You hate watch something, right?
You indulge in something that 

960
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:26,280
you hate and it satisfies some 
weird part of your fandom. 

961
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,440
Understood, but you tell me that
you always hate watching the 

962
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,440
Yankees, but the Yankees and the
Red Sox play a lot at the same 

963
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,640
time. 
So if the Red Sox are playing in

964
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,440
Baltimore at 7:10 and the 
Yankees are playing at home 

965
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,760
against the Rays at seven O 5, 
who you watching? 

966
00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:45,640
That's a little kind of not 
congruent on the timeline there,

967
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:46,480
but I think I know what you 
mean. 

968
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:47,480
Good job. 
Thank you, buddy. 

969
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,800
How about rape? 
6531 Greenpoint here. 

970
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:52,760
It's where my grandparents were.
I'll tell you. 

971
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:54,560
I'll tell you a quick Greenpoint
story the moment. 

972
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,240
Congratulations on your first 
sponsor. 

973
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:02,840
Yes, thank you, Sullivan. 
Excuse me, Sullivan Propane, my 

974
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,680
good buddy TJ McManus. 
I'll see him tonight at the St. 

975
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:07,800
John's game, massive St. 
John's sponsor. 

976
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,960
They signed on for the entire 
year and I was so proud to 

977
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,000
unveil that and let you guys 
know about that this morning 

978
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,240
when we start the show. 
Any thoughts on BT Unleashed 

979
00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:19,760
merch? 
I think it will be great to rock

980
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,440
ABTU hat or a hoodie. 
It's so funny you say that, Ray.

981
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:25,520
Thank you very much for that, 
bro Appreciate that. 

982
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,960
Let me just write down 
Greenpoint so I don't forget 

983
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:33,280
Greenpoint. 
All right, So yes, yes, we have 

984
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,520
actually said it's not public, 
but we have taken the steps and 

985
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:39,200
and this is one of the things 
that I I mean, when I talk 

986
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,760
about, you know, brick by brick,
click by click, doing the work, 

987
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,080
building the foundation things 
that you can't even see yet. 

988
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,280
Like you don't, you don't know 
what it took to get this 

989
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:51,200
sponsorship to secure that, that
belief in them to, you know, 

990
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:55,560
literally pay me to talk, you 
know, to incorporate them within

991
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,520
the show. 
I mean, that's, that's a deep 

992
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:00,680
amount of trust that that I will
never be reckless with. 

993
00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:02,720
I mean, profound respect and 
gratitude. 

994
00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:05,480
That goes without saying. 
But it's an arduous process. 

995
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,720
And we're in process with others
as well that aren't quite closed

996
00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:11,120
yet, but we believe will for 
sure eventually. 

997
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:12,640
But they're #1 they're our first
one. 

998
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:14,360
So that's phenomenal. 
Never get you first, right? 

999
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:20,440
So I think that with the merch, 
we have that set up again, not 

1000
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,000
public, but we have created a 
shop here. 

1001
00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:28,120
We have concepts and you've seen
the logo before, obviously. 

1002
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,920
So whether it's hoodies, I don't
know if I would actually do a 

1003
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,360
baseball cap that I guess I 
could. 

1004
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,000
I was thinking more skull caps. 
I think that's a little bit more

1005
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,760
of the BT Unleash brand there. 
I think you guys would dig that.

1006
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,400
You know, like with dark, 
obviously, like a dark wool hat 

1007
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,520
and the BT Unleash logo, 
obviously some hoodies, maybe a 

1008
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,160
couple of golf shirts. 
We've got to see, we've got to 

1009
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,320
see what the demand is. 
I think, you know, the last 

1010
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,800
thing you want to do is to 
invest all these resources in 

1011
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,440
something and then have the 
entire, you know, store, if you,

1012
00:48:56,440 --> 00:49:00,040
the digital store sit there and 
collect dust, I do believe 

1013
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:01,360
there's going to be a demand for
this stuff. 

1014
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,960
I do and just buy your, your, 
your text right there. 

1015
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,000
I, I think that I'm on to 
something to what extent I don't

1016
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,640
know. 
But yes, that from a creative 

1017
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:13,800
point of view, from a logistical
point of view about finding the,

1018
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,440
you know, the, the, the 
relationship to have this stuff 

1019
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:18,840
made, it's already done like 
that. 

1020
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,320
We already have that stuff. 
So now it's just a matter of 

1021
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,240
actually doing it. 
And it will come maybe by the 

1022
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:26,320
start of baseball season, maybe 
earlier, actually. 

1023
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,200
But yes, absolutely on the radar
and very quickly about 

1024
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,240
Greenpoint. 
I was in Greenpoint pretty much 

1025
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,600
every Sunday, my grandma's house
and grandpa, right? 

1026
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,560
I used to love going there, man,
I used to love going there. 

1027
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,400
They used to, and even, even 
when I'd go there, my mom would 

1028
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:47,240
be worried because the, I mean, 
my God, I was just worried about

1029
00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:49,600
everything, as I said, but I 
would want to go in the backyard

1030
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:51,280
and they didn't have a yard. 
It was an apartment. 

1031
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,480
So I'm, I just remember it was 
like some trucks were parked 

1032
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:56,920
back there. 
I, I don't even know why. 

1033
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,000
I mean, it wasn't like part of a
business, but there were 

1034
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,960
definitely a couple of trucks 
and there was a, there was also 

1035
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,680
like a concrete wall, which for 
me represented Yankee Stadium, 

1036
00:50:05,720 --> 00:50:08,880
so always brought my myth. 
And I really didn't sleep over 

1037
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:12,480
there much unless my parents 
like had a, a wedding or went 

1038
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:15,160
away, which they didn't really 
do because it didn't really have

1039
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,120
the means to do it when I was 
young, quite frankly. 

1040
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:21,440
But when we would sleep there 
and my grandfather would worry 

1041
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,000
and my grand like all the 
Italians would worry and I would

1042
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,960
just throw the ball off this 
wall and I'd pretend I was, you 

1043
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,880
know, Ron Guidry. 
And then like Mattingly and 

1044
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,400
Sunday meals were the best. 
I mean, the neck bones and 

1045
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:36,200
obviously, you know, the pasta, 
the meatballs and the, the salad

1046
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,000
after you, after you have all 
that stuff. 

1047
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,800
That's an Italian tradition. 
Absolutely awesome. 

1048
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:44,400
And it's funny too. 
My grandfather, right? 

1049
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:49,000
I, I tell you, this is funny. 
He used to call him Little 

1050
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:50,480
Louie. 
No longer with us. 

1051
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:52,680
God, God, rest is so great guy. 
Great guy. 

1052
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:58,240
Lived to almost 80, got to see a
lot of what my sister and I 

1053
00:50:58,240 --> 00:51:02,160
account not professionally, but 
certainly high school and for my

1054
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:04,040
sister early in college a little
bit. 

1055
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:06,680
So he was around a long time, 
which was a blessing. 

1056
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,880
Same with my grandma who lived 
to 94, which was even better. 

1057
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,000
She got to see even more. 
Anyway, my grandfather will wake

1058
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:13,920
up. 
You want to talk about old 

1059
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,640
school Italian? 
He would wake up every day. 

1060
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:19,800
Now I don't have a hair in my 
eyes, will shave it, but full 

1061
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:23,440
head of hair, not one Gray. 
Didn't dye it, didn't dye it 

1062
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:26,400
right. 
Would wake up right, slick that 

1063
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,640
thing back in the mirror. 
He'd had the little tiny Italian

1064
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,600
mustache, like from Goodfellas. 
I mean, they call him Little 

1065
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:34,320
Louie. 
Like he really could have been a

1066
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,120
Goodfellas, but he wasn't. 
He wasn't connected and he'd 

1067
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:40,880
have the, the, the white, you 
know, T-shirt sleeveless with 

1068
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,880
the gold chain in the cross 
hanging and he'd shaved. 

1069
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:47,000
You never have stubble except 
the Mustang shaved everyday. 

1070
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:50,960
And I remember one time, is it 
Grand Ave. 

1071
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,400
My grandmother used to love 
going to OTB. 

1072
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,800
She bet the horses. 
My grandmother was amazing. 

1073
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:58,840
Like she introduced me to 
wrestling. 

1074
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:02,680
She really was the one and I 
used to watch wrestling when it 

1075
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:06,120
was on a midnight on Channel 9 
back like Morocco. 

1076
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:10,200
Snuka Backland was the champion.
That was my first four range WWF

1077
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,120
right after brought him. 
I think Bruno was commentating 

1078
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,920
at that point and then Andre and
Big John Studd and those guys, 

1079
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:20,320
the Samoans, Fuji Saito, like 
that was my entry into WWF. 

1080
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,920
It was because of my grandma and
she used to love to bet the 

1081
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:24,400
horse. 
So she loved wrestling, which my

1082
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:28,000
dad hated, and she loved the 
horses, which my dad also liked,

1083
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,200
right? 
So if I would stay there, which 

1084
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,120
was kind of rare, we'd go to 
Grand Ave. or even Jackson Ave. 

1085
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:37,320
I forget where OTB was. 
Anyway, she'd go into OTB and my

1086
00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:40,320
grandfather hated going in 
there, but he also hated when 

1087
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:41,960
she went in there. 
Cuz let's face it, at that 

1088
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:45,880
point, it's pretty much all men,
everybody's smoking. 

1089
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,480
I mean, it's, it's a smoke shop 
and it's gross, right? 

1090
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:52,280
And he just, I understand like 
if my wife's going in there and 

1091
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:55,400
there's 300 people in there and 
there's one woman, I'm not 

1092
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,120
comfortable with that. 
Nothing's going to happen. 

1093
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,640
But the language, just you, you 
don't need it, right? 

1094
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:01,720
So anyway, Long story short, 
before I get back to the Rose 

1095
00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:05,240
and the, the Cashman stuff, he, 
I'll never forget any talk like 

1096
00:53:05,240 --> 00:53:06,960
this. 
Then smoke, then just just, 

1097
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,320
that's how he spoke. 
And he goes, I said, you know, 

1098
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,960
Papa, I have a dollar. 
I want to get some candy, so I 

1099
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:14,680
go next door to the candy store 
at OTB. 

1100
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:16,360
He gives me a dollar. 
I come back out, I give him 

1101
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,800
change. 
He goes give me change and I 

1102
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:22,520
give him a penny. 
He goes, I'll never forget this.

1103
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:26,920
He goes, Jesus Christ, how much 
candy do you need? 

1104
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:30,400
But you got so mad, how much can
a penny you would? 

1105
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:32,560
And he just launched into this 
tirade. 

1106
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:36,280
He was so angered by the fact 
that I don't know if it was the 

1107
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:39,320
candy that I was about to 
consume or the fact that I only 

1108
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,800
gave him 1 penny back. 
I really don't know. 

1109
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:43,720
Oh my God, Greenpoint. 
Love it. 

1110
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:47,840
All right, so good job by Leon 
Rose yesterday getting Jose 

1111
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:49,120
Alvarado. 
Love it, love it. 

1112
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:50,520
Love it. 
Told you Giannis was not going 

1113
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,160
to get dealt or Giannis not 
Giannis. 

1114
00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:53,880
Giannis was not going to get 
dealt. 

1115
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,880
Didn't Now this sets up before I
get into Rosen Cashman. 

1116
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,960
This sets up to very two very 
obvious routes. 

1117
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,400
The Knicks either win the 
championship and they never 

1118
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:05,520
pursue Giannis, or they don't 
win the championship and they go

1119
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:07,000
full bore and they get them this
summer. 

1120
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:08,840
Now, I didn't think it was going
to be dealt. 

1121
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:12,120
I don't think it's very smart to
make decisions when you're under

1122
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,920
pressure. 
I've often said like a clear 

1123
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,320
mind clarity presents you with 
the best opportunity to make the

1124
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:20,440
right decision. 
When you're rushed, when you're 

1125
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,960
fumbling around, when you got to
do something cuz there's a time 

1126
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,680
restraint, you're generally 
going to be sloppy. 

1127
00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:28,160
So I did not think that it was 
really wise for the Bucks to 

1128
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:29,880
make that move now and they 
didn't. 

1129
00:54:30,240 --> 00:54:33,920
Now, I do think that they'll 
revisit it this summer, although

1130
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:37,280
maybe you leave the door open 
slightly that maybe they are 

1131
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:40,440
able to get another superstore 
to play with Giannis and then 

1132
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:41,680
maybe that changes Giannis's 
mind. 

1133
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:43,720
Whatever. 
I do think eventually he's off 

1134
00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:45,440
the Bucks. 
And I do think if the Knicks 

1135
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:47,520
don't win, the Knicks will get 
him this summer. 

1136
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:49,800
Didn't think they'd get him now,
didn't think he would be dealt 

1137
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,040
Now this summer, different 
story. 

1138
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:57,000
So a couple of things here. 
Number one, you've got to really

1139
00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,240
appreciate the way Leon Rose 
does business. 

1140
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,960
There's no like there's just no 
noise around the Knicks. 

1141
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:07,040
There's never like I'm hearing 
this or you got this issue like 

1142
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,080
the Deuce McBride injury, which 
sucks that that's a devastating 

1143
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:11,680
injury. 
He's been playing really well 

1144
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:14,080
and I love him. 
And the problem with Deuce now 

1145
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,320
is that he's he's becoming, he's
got that injury prone tag, been 

1146
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:19,520
around a couple years, had a 
couple of injuries here. 

1147
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,640
He's had a lot of interruptions 
in his play and it's kind of 

1148
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,320
stumping what what could be. 
You know, I'm not saying an all 

1149
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:27,640
NBA career. 
I don't mean that at all, but 

1150
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:31,080
like an incredibly valuable, 
useful role. 

1151
00:55:31,240 --> 00:55:33,000
Like think about when Leon Rose 
signed him. 

1152
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,240
I think it was three years, $13 
million that came out of 

1153
00:55:35,240 --> 00:55:37,080
nowhere. 
And that was before he really 

1154
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:40,720
started to pop as a player. 
They knew he knew very wise 

1155
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,880
early investment, right? 
Rather be there early and pay 

1156
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:47,600
less than late and pay more. 
That's business one O 1. 

1157
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:53,920
And I really think that like if,
if Deuce is playing 25 to 27 

1158
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:58,400
minutes a night, I think that 
Deuce McBride winds up getting, 

1159
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:01,280
you know, 80 or $100 million 
contract from somebody at some 

1160
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,280
point. 
I think he's that good because I

1161
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:05,320
think if you give him that 
money, even if it's not the 

1162
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,920
Knicks, he's going to go 
wherever he would go with the 

1163
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:12,040
intent to play him 313233 
minutes could shoot, you know, 

1164
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,960
could defend and he's no 
nonsense and he's all basketball

1165
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:18,560
and he's low maintenance. 
So but but about Leon Rose, 

1166
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,480
like, you know, you hearing 
ankle that you know little 

1167
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,480
maintenance, like they knew the 
severity of this. 

1168
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:29,800
But the ability to keep that in 
house speaks volumes about how 

1169
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:32,800
the Knicks are run right now 
compared to contrast the two how

1170
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,520
they were run for so many years 
when it was just an absolute 

1171
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:38,600
circus where everything was out 
there for public consumption, 

1172
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:43,760
problems, issues, agendas, 
right, all that stuff or 

1173
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,840
discord. 
So Leon Rose acts very 

1174
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:48,040
stealthily. 
Stealth. 

1175
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:49,920
That's a tough word to say. 
Stealth Lee. 

1176
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:51,240
There you go. 
You almost have to break it up. 

1177
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,160
Stealth Lee. 
He's done that very well, and 

1178
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:58,120
that's one of his M OS now. 
Good job pivoting to Alvarado. 

1179
00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:02,040
And I say that because if the 
NBA community knew that Deuce 

1180
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:05,200
was really jacked up and just 
about to hit the surgical table,

1181
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:08,480
well, now the ability to 
negotiate from a position of 

1182
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:11,280
power is weakened. 
And maybe you don't get Alvarado

1183
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,600
or maybe you've got to give up 
Shaman, which they asked for. 

1184
00:57:14,240 --> 00:57:17,480
And Leon Rose rightly and 
smartly rebuffed, right? 

1185
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,400
And he was able to keep Shaman, 
who's playing great, playing 

1186
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,680
fantastic shooting, being up. 
I've always been a Shaman fan. 

1187
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:27,720
You guys know that. 
So that's just operating with a 

1188
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:32,320
championship, you know, like the
culture for the Knicks is really

1189
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:33,960
good and I and I'm proud of 
that. 

1190
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,680
It's good to see. 
Now I want to incorporate 

1191
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:41,160
Cashman here. 
All right, Think about another 

1192
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:44,480
thing that Leon Rose does very 
well is that he doesn't double 

1193
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:47,520
down. 
When Leon Rose makes a mistake, 

1194
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:52,840
he very swiftly moves on and the
pivot is almost always a 

1195
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:54,520
productive one. 
It really is. 

1196
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:57,480
So whether it's, I just wrote 
and I mentioned, I mentioned a 

1197
00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,560
few of these the other day, but 
think about these and I'm not 

1198
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:01,000
going to expand on it because it
doesn't matter. 

1199
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,840
It's in the past, but it does 
illuminate how Leon Rose 

1200
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:05,080
operates. 
And then I'm going to get into 

1201
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:07,400
Cashman and contrast it right, 
because that's one of my biggest

1202
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,920
issues with Cashman. 
I wish he did this like a Leon 

1203
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:11,880
Rose. 
So you give 48 that ridiculous 

1204
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,360
four years, $80 million 
extension Cook, but didn't 

1205
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:17,800
workout, couldn't play the see 
it bench gone right, moved on 

1206
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:20,880
very fast. 
I mean, this is a lesser mistake

1207
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:26,240
for sure, but giving Randall the
big money when he did off 1 all 

1208
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,360
NBA season, a little bit of a 
rush to the party, but 

1209
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,880
eventually Randall's gone and I 
think the Knicks became better. 

1210
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:33,400
Maybe not champion. 
I don't think they're going to 

1211
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:36,720
win the championship this group,
but more championship viable in 

1212
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:39,400
my opinion, then they would be 
if they still had Julius Randall

1213
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:43,040
smart pivot, quick pivot, right,
Brianna Campbell Walker was 

1214
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:46,960
early and that was I mean that's
just he just come play and boom,

1215
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:50,320
quick pivot bang got rid of him.
Then you extended RJ Barrett 

1216
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,680
probably earlier than you needed
to and let's face it, puts up 

1217
00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:55,920
some numbers. 
But or and and RJ Barrett was 

1218
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:57,320
interesting early and I liked 
him. 

1219
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,920
He he's going to be 1/3 or 1/4 
option on a on a really, really 

1220
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,480
good team, probably 4 on a 
really good team. 

1221
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:04,600
He's good. 
That's it. 

1222
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:07,680
But they paid him like he was 
really good and like was maybe 

1223
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:11,240
on the precipice of stardom. 
Quick pivot there, passed on 

1224
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:14,320
Tyrese Halliburton in the draft,
gave up a protected first round 

1225
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:16,960
pick for Cam Reddish. 
But then he was able to spin all

1226
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:20,080
those things. 
And those are that's 123456, 

1227
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:23,120
that's 6. 
And there's others. 6 mistakes, 

1228
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:28,320
varying degrees of mistakes for 
sure, but was able to quickly 

1229
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:31,480
maneuver. 
And by the way, unlike Cashman, 

1230
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:35,760
he's got to do it with the 
restraints of a salary cap, with

1231
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:39,840
a salary cap sport hard caps 
and, and real stuff that you've 

1232
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:43,080
got to do rather than just 
luxury tax threshold wish, which

1233
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,720
if you're willing to blow by and
eat mistakes, you can. 

1234
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,840
Now we get to Brian Cashman. 
So what? 

1235
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:52,440
And I've always separated 
Cashman from Aaron Boone. 

1236
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,360
Not because I, I know Aaron, not
because I like Aaron. 

1237
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,360
Even before I ever talked to 
Aaron Boone, I always had 

1238
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:00,000
distinct separation between the 
two. 

1239
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:03,440
I have right? 
And Cashman's biggest issue is 

1240
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:05,720
he's stubborn. 
It's the biggest problem. 

1241
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,000
He sticks with his players too 
long and he's really too 

1242
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:12,200
inflexible with his vision. 
Like he it's almost like he does

1243
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:16,320
something and then he tries to 
prove to us that he's right 

1244
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:21,000
rather than take it on the chin.
Quick pivot, boom, bye, bye. 

1245
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:23,320
You're out of here. 
I messed up a little bit. 

1246
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:24,560
I'm going to take it on the 
chin. 

1247
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:26,960
I'll own it. 
But I will now do something that

1248
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,480
I perceive to be a better move 
that will strengthen the Yankees

1249
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:32,680
and invariably put them in a bit
of better position to win the 

1250
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,600
championship. 
He just doesn't do that. 

1251
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:38,040
I mean, he kept running out. 
Donaldson stamping still on the 

1252
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:40,520
team. 
You know, gamble wasn't like 

1253
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:42,880
forever, but even that was a bit
of an issue. 

1254
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:45,440
Aaron Hicks. 
I mean, this is a regurgitation 

1255
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:48,400
of all the things that bother me
and you by extension, about 

1256
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:50,240
about the Yankees and about 
Cashman here. 

1257
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:52,680
But I thought it was a good time
to insert it here because think 

1258
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:54,640
about this. 
Leon Rose, what? 

1259
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:57,000
Look at how he operates. 
And the Yankees, by the way, are

1260
01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:59,560
pretty quiet as well. 
Like you hear about the Yankees.

1261
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:02,280
I'm not just trying to bag on 
Cashman unnecessarily. 

1262
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:04,520
He does a lot of good things, 
and the Yankees are always a 

1263
01:01:04,520 --> 01:01:06,920
good team. 
But I wish that Brian Cashman 

1264
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:11,360
had a little bit of that, that 
honesty and that, that not even 

1265
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:14,600
sensibility, but just that, that
awareness that, hey, if it 

1266
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:18,560
didn't work out, it's OK to 
swallow your pride because if 

1267
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,840
the next move works out, 
nobody's going to be bagging on 

1268
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:24,560
you. 
The reason Cashman gets pounded 

1269
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,640
in the court of public opinion. 
I, I hasn't won since all nine. 

1270
01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:30,400
That's the easy stuff. 
But I think when you get into 

1271
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:33,040
the that's the macro, when you 
get into the micro layers here, 

1272
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:36,360
it's the stuff like running out 
Donaldson or not really ever 

1273
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:39,760
having a third basement or not 
having a suitable fielder or not

1274
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:42,160
really having a viable lead off 
man or not having great 

1275
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:46,440
protection, always consistently 
behind Aaron Judge or not really

1276
01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:48,520
ever having a first baseman. 
I mean, see that those are a lot

1277
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:49,960
of issues. 
I mean, think about that. 

1278
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:55,080
So I find it very interesting 
where, by the way, he also 

1279
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:59,640
overvalues his prospects, 
probably to the point where if 

1280
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:02,640
he does want to move on from 
somebody, their values diminish 

1281
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:05,040
where what you could have gotten
back for that player is no 

1282
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:07,120
longer there. 
Now I see something yesterday 

1283
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:08,960
who had it? 
Was it Heyman and may have been 

1284
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:12,360
John Heyman who said that he 
believes or was reporting. 

1285
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,120
And if it's not John, I 
apologize. 

1286
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:15,840
I'm not trying to, you know, 
throw this on his doorstep. 

1287
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:19,240
But I thought it was John. 
That Dominguez is going to start

1288
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:21,520
the year in triple AI mean, what
are we doing? 

1289
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,120
I understand that you got to 
play to get better. 

1290
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:27,960
Jason Dominguez is a Major 
League Baseball player. 

1291
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:30,280
I can't say that about Spencer 
Jones and I won't because I 

1292
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:34,040
haven't seen him do it. 
I've seen Dominguez be a viable,

1293
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:39,480
productive player, hit 260 ish, 
steal 20 bags, hit ten home runs

1294
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:41,480
and Oh yeah, by the way, never 
really play. 

1295
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:46,840
Now you want to tell me it would
be different if he starts in AAA

1296
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,600
and he's in center field Like 
that might be a little different

1297
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:54,120
or they exclusively have him hit
lefty and say, you know what? 

1298
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:55,600
And maybe that's part of the 
plan here. 

1299
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:56,840
So I want to, I don't want to be
unfair. 

1300
01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:58,600
We're going to beg the right 
side. 

1301
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:02,200
He's an above average lefty 
hitter with patients, with pop, 

1302
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:04,960
with wheels. 
Let's just have him be a lefty 

1303
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:09,040
and let's let him face lefties 
as a lefty hitter rather than 

1304
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:12,800
try to push the envelope as a 
righty where that aptitude and 

1305
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:14,880
and that ceiling is not very 
visible. 

1306
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:17,640
All right, if there's a greater 
plan, all right, maybe I'm open 

1307
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:20,080
to it here, but Dominguez is a 
Major League player. 

1308
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:22,040
That's all there is to it. 
And when I saw that, I'm like, 

1309
01:03:22,040 --> 01:03:25,080
what? 
So you got Leon Rose who makes a

1310
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:27,840
mistake and says, all right, I 
messed up, I'm moving on. 

1311
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:32,080
And you got Cashman who makes a 
mistake and hangs on for dear 

1312
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:33,880
life. 
Hangs on for dear life. 

1313
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:36,560
And and I really, I'm going to 
use the word again. 

1314
01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:38,080
Now, I'm not trying to get 
personal. 

1315
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:39,600
This is never personal. 
I like Brian. 

1316
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:43,720
I invited him on the show hasn't
responded yet, but I invited 

1317
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:45,160
him. 
Make no mistake about it the 

1318
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:47,960
other day when he said I 
challenge anybody to, you know, 

1319
01:03:48,160 --> 01:03:51,520
say that this is the same team 
or this is not a World Series 

1320
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:53,960
championship type of team. 
I challenge anybody, but I 

1321
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:56,080
challenged you. 
I invited you on the show 

1322
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:58,440
respectfully challenge you 
haven't heard back yet. 

1323
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:00,160
All right, So it's never 
personal. 

1324
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:02,120
I don't want anybody to think 
that if it's personal, you'll 

1325
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:03,680
know. 
But I really don't play in the 

1326
01:04:03,680 --> 01:04:05,640
weeds with that. 
I I I think that's petty. 

1327
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:10,960
And even, you know, if even even
if you look at my career, I 

1328
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:12,680
don't have radio wars. 
Like I don't get to that 

1329
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:14,240
nonsense. 
It's bullshit beef. 

1330
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:16,640
Radio beef. 
I'm gonna have radio beef with 

1331
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:18,040
some dude on the air. 
What? 

1332
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:20,360
Like if there's really an issue,
come talk to me. 

1333
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:22,680
We'll flush it out. 
As men, we don't have to talk 

1334
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:24,960
about it on the air. 
Like, I'm not into gossip. 

1335
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:26,600
I'm not into beeps. 
I'm not into radio. 

1336
01:04:26,680 --> 01:04:30,040
Never have been, never will be. 
It's boring, it's infantile, 

1337
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:32,760
it's petty, and it's a waste of 
their time, in my opinion. 

1338
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:35,800
Now, others are very good at 
that and and they enjoy it. 

1339
01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:38,520
I don't lean into it and I never
have and I never will. 

1340
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:42,920
So I'm not that guy that that 
attacks, I'll get nuts and I'll 

1341
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:45,440
let you know how I feel about 
certain things, but it's never 

1342
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:47,360
personal. 
I do want to, you know, 

1343
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:49,720
reinforce that. 
But I'm going to use the word 

1344
01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:52,760
again. 
The man is stubborn. 

1345
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:56,560
He's not stupid. 
He's not lazy, all right? 

1346
01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:59,960
He's not unfit for the job. 
He is stubborn. 

1347
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:04,160
And when you're stubborn, you 
generally don't evolve, whether 

1348
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:07,400
it's as a human, whether it's as
a husband, whether it's as a 

1349
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:10,720
dad, whether it's as a Co 
worker, whether it's a content 

1350
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:13,560
create, as a content creator, 
radio, TV, whatever might be. 

1351
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:16,880
If you don't evolve, then you 
just not getting better. 

1352
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:20,240
And while others are evolving 
and they're getting better, 

1353
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:24,000
you're getting lapped. 
And, and I do think that there's

1354
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:28,160
been many times where, from a 
philosophical point of view, the

1355
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:30,800
Yankees have been lapped here 
because other teams have gotten 

1356
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:34,560
better at what they used to be 
great at drafting, developing, 

1357
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:37,320
getting the best players in. 
No one went to get rid of 

1358
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:39,760
somebody. 
That's all things that they did.

1359
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:43,120
Don't do it anymore. 
And, you know, I I I think it 

1360
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:45,800
would be unfair not to 
incorporate Hal here. 

1361
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:47,760
I mean, yeah, All right. 
You want to tell me. 

1362
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:50,720
I don't know this to be true. 
And I don't believe this, but at

1363
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:52,800
least leave the window open a 
little bit here as a 

1364
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:55,960
possibility. 
You want to tell me that the 

1365
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:58,800
reason why Hicks was here for so
long and maybe even like a 

1366
01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:03,240
Pavano or Kobe Ellsbury or even 
Stanton to Stanton. 

1367
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:06,120
Stanton is not lumped in with 
those guys, but to a lesser 

1368
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:08,520
extent Stanton Donaldson for 
sure. 

1369
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:11,600
You know 9000 different first 
baseman they've had that really 

1370
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:13,040
don't work third base left 
field. 

1371
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:14,080
All the things I've talked 
about. 

1372
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:18,080
It's because how is the message 
from above is Nope, I'm not 

1373
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:19,960
eating that money that remains 
on so and so's deal. 

1374
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:22,400
All right, that's that's that's 
a little different, but I really

1375
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:23,520
don't believe that that's the 
case. 

1376
01:06:23,520 --> 01:06:27,040
Like I believe that Brian 
Cashman really thought that 

1377
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:29,840
Aaron Hicks was worth buying out
the years of arbitration. 

1378
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:32,480
And when you when the Yankees 
very they only do it, they did 

1379
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:34,040
it with Seve and they did it 
with him. 

1380
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:36,040
So they don't really do it. 
It's not a common practice for 

1381
01:06:36,040 --> 01:06:38,240
the Yankees. 
So when the Yankees do it, 

1382
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:41,440
Cashman is going to run to the 
top of the mountain and hold on 

1383
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:43,080
for dear life to be proven 
right. 

1384
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:45,320
When what you're really doing is
hurt is you're hurting your 

1385
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:48,840
team, you hurt your team. 
And it's the exact opposite 

1386
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:51,880
approaching Leon Rose. 
He tries to strengthen the team,

1387
01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:53,800
he tries to push the team 
forward. 

1388
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:57,000
And that's one thing about 
Dolan, who's been very quiet 

1389
01:06:57,000 --> 01:06:58,600
last couple of years. 
And I appreciate that. 

1390
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:01,800
If there's something awry, hey, 
I'll cut, get rid of him, I'll 

1391
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:03,600
cut the check. 
Want to fire this guy? 

1392
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:05,640
Move on. 
You want to cut this guy, move 

1393
01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:07,480
on. 
And really, what else can you 

1394
01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:13,080
ask for from an owner except to 
let the people that they hired 

1395
01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:16,160
do their job and cut the checks 
and stay out of the way? 

1396
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:19,760
And really, if the Dolan era 
didn't get off to such a bad 

1397
01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:22,440
start, and I know there's other 
elements to it, the Oakley 

1398
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:24,840
incident, I get it. 
He doesn't really project a 

1399
01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:27,680
whole lot of personality. 
You see him sitting courtside at

1400
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:29,520
the Garden like this, he looks 
miserable. 

1401
01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:31,840
You know it. 
If he projected maybe a little 

1402
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:34,280
bit differently early and the 
Knicks had a little more success

1403
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:38,080
early rather than us hating what
was happening with Isaiah, Phil 

1404
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:41,000
Jackson and everything in 
between, I think Dolan would be 

1405
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:43,200
revered because he's everything 
that you want. 

1406
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:45,240
Like think about contrast that 
to Woody. 

1407
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:49,200
Woody cuts the checks, but Woody
can't keep his his his grubby 

1408
01:07:49,200 --> 01:07:51,120
football fingerprints off the 
product. 

1409
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:52,920
He doesn't know what he doesn't 
know. 

1410
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:57,880
And that's very dangerous. 
Whereas, you know, Dolan does 

1411
01:07:57,880 --> 01:07:59,640
that. 
And and I think that for the 

1412
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:03,400
most part, how does that for the
most part, how does that? 

1413
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:08,360
So I think anything from a 
baseball point of view, I do 

1414
01:08:08,360 --> 01:08:11,480
think that I've got to leave 
that at Brian Cashman's doorstep

1415
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:14,480
because I think how let's his 
baseball people do their job. 

1416
01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:19,040
I really do at MO cage Eli for 
the Hall of Fame. 

1417
01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:21,200
Yeah, he'll get in eventually. 
He'll get in. 

1418
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:23,080
He's going to have to wait. 
I mean, what do you want me to 

1419
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:24,439
get up here and start stumping 
for Eli? 

1420
01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:26,840
I mean, didn't get in the first 
year, didn't get in the second 

1421
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:28,160
year. 
Shouldn't I mean, Drew Brees 

1422
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:29,840
should get him when he when he 
like he did. 

1423
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:34,240
You know, guys like that get in 
and I was watching. 

1424
01:08:35,359 --> 01:08:37,800
I had first, was it first? 
No, I had to get up this morning

1425
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:40,760
for a little bit and then they 
got some stuff I just had like 

1426
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:42,880
is Sant Arnold kid if he wins, 
he going to be a lead. 

1427
01:08:42,880 --> 01:08:44,640
No, I'm I'm good change the 
channel. 

1428
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:47,680
But I generally like a lot of 
the guys on the show there and I

1429
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:49,240
love Bart. 
Like Bart's a great dude. 

1430
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:52,840
I did TV with Bart Scott. 
I watch him the jet stuff on 

1431
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:56,279
S&Y, you know, with Willie and 
the crew after the games does a 

1432
01:08:56,279 --> 01:08:58,520
good job is good guy man with 
Barts. 

1433
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:00,560
I really like Bart actually. 
I got to get bored on the show 

1434
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:01,040
here. 
I will. 

1435
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:02,600
I'll reach out to him at some 
point. 

1436
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:06,840
And they were talking about Eli 
and he's like, listen, you know,

1437
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:10,880
you never he said what I what I 
have always said you never had 

1438
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:14,279
to worry about Eli and in that 
regard he was never one of the 

1439
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:17,279
top five quarterbacks in the 
NFL. 

1440
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:20,040
So listen, I get it. 
You stumping for your boy, two 

1441
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:24,279
time champion, 2 time Super Bowl
MVP class act, you know, as 

1442
01:09:24,279 --> 01:09:27,040
class as it gets. 
And I know he's got a lot of the

1443
01:09:27,040 --> 01:09:30,080
numbers, the passing yards and 
the touchdowns, but I'm not 

1444
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:33,040
going to reset this whole thing.
But you know, Eli Manning will 

1445
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:35,920
get into the Hall of Fame. 
He will and he should. 

1446
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:38,439
He eventually will be coronated 
a Hall of Famer. 

1447
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:42,760
But anybody who's out here 
saying Eli was great or Eli, you

1448
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:45,800
know, week to week or year to 
year was one of the best 

1449
01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:47,800
quarterbacks in the NFL, you're 
flat out wrong. 

1450
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:49,439
You just straight up wrong. 
It's not even close. 

1451
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,200
I mean, Eli Manning never 
received AI did this the other 

1452
01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:56,440
day, never received a single MVP
vote in his entire career. 

1453
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:59,880
Now, I don't need you to win the
award, but I mean, if you're a 

1454
01:09:59,880 --> 01:10:03,120
Hall of Famer and you listen, 
most Giant fans have the proper 

1455
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:04,640
perspective, but some are off 
the map. 

1456
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:07,320
Just I mean, just get them back 
in the insane asylum here 

1457
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:08,840
because their reeds are so off 
base. 

1458
01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:12,400
If you are one of these Giant 
fans, there's no if you're not a

1459
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:15,120
Giants fan, you're not pushing 
Eli's an all time great. 

1460
01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:17,760
You're acknowledging he's going 
to get in only the Giant fans 

1461
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:21,120
because of the, you know, the 
sentimentality and the, and the,

1462
01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:24,520
the closeness and the, the, what
he did for you, which I get, you

1463
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:26,240
know, you're going to carry 
that, that cross from a little 

1464
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:28,120
bit and maybe push it a little 
bit too far. 

1465
01:10:28,120 --> 01:10:29,760
Nobody else is saying Eli was 
great. 

1466
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:33,360
Only giant fans. 
And I really do think that some 

1467
01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:38,360
giant fans overstate who he was.
I mean, you can wind up in a a 

1468
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:42,000
place with the legends of the 
game, but don't tell me based on

1469
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:45,480
the circumstances, but don't 
tell me in real time that you 

1470
01:10:45,480 --> 01:10:47,240
were ever a legend of the game. 
You weren't. 

1471
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:49,880
You led the league in pick three
time picks three times. 

1472
01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:52,480
You know, you won the same 
amount of games that you lost. 

1473
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:54,800
I'm not saying it's all your 
fault, but come on, man. 

1474
01:10:55,160 --> 01:10:56,640
I mean, Matt Ryan wanted to be 
paid. 

1475
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:58,880
Eli never got a vote. 
I mean, look at some of his 

1476
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:03,480
years and I'm not here to bag on
Eli, But you brought it up. 

1477
01:11:03,480 --> 01:11:05,680
So I'm, you know, in touch on it
here. 

1478
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:12,400
What else we got here? 
Yeah, I got the the Cashman 

1479
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:13,920
roast up. 
I think that that's really 

1480
01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:14,920
interesting. 
I really do. 

1481
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:17,760
At Rod Power 78. 
What's up, Rod? 

1482
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:21,080
All right, BT ask BT. 
How would you feel if St. 

1483
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:23,520
John's was paired with your? 
That's a good question. 

1484
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:25,800
I've gotten this before. 
I've never really answered it. 

1485
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:28,200
How would I feel if St. 
John's was paired with my alma 

1486
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:31,480
mater Marist, who's in fourth 
place in the Mack in the first 

1487
01:11:31,480 --> 01:11:36,280
round of the NCAA Tournament? 
My God, that is that's a great 

1488
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:39,120
one. 
Now, the chances of that ever 

1489
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:41,960
happening are minuscule. 
That's not going to happen this 

1490
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:43,840
year. 
Because even if St. 

1491
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:47,280
John's like beat UConn tonight, 
like, look, they're 22 right 

1492
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:48,960
now, right? 
Uconn's about a point and a 

1493
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:50,960
half, two point favorites, as 
they should be, right? 

1494
01:11:51,560 --> 01:11:55,440
If they if, if St. 
John's wins tonight and even if 

1495
01:11:55,440 --> 01:11:59,400
they run the table and win the 
regular season Big East 

1496
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:02,000
championship again and win the 
Big East champ, which would mean

1497
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:04,600
you're beating UConn also 
beating them up at stores. 

1498
01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:06,720
Like that's a lot to I don't 
think that that's all that's 

1499
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:08,520
going to happen. 
It's not going to sweep UConn. 

1500
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:12,080
I don't and then beat UConn. 
I don't think in what would be, 

1501
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:13,840
you know, the regular the 
championship. 

1502
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:16,120
I just that would be a lot. 
That would be a lot for me. 

1503
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:17,640
But even if they did that, I'm 
not sure. 

1504
01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:20,640
I don't think they get a one 
seed and where Marist is based 

1505
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:23,720
on the Mac, although Coach 
Brady, Coach Dunn, who I'm good 

1506
01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:26,040
friends with has done a great 
job up there. 

1507
01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:28,720
Rockaway guy played at 
Archbishop Malloy. 

1508
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:32,160
Love Dunn, reach out to him, you
know, encouragement. 

1509
01:12:32,240 --> 01:12:34,920
You know, I went to the Saint 
Peter's game in Jersey City. 

1510
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:38,240
I took my son and a few of his 
buddies about a month and A and 

1511
01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:40,720
they lost about a month and 1/2 
or so ago just to support 

1512
01:12:40,720 --> 01:12:42,080
Marist. 
I love marriage, you know that. 

1513
01:12:42,480 --> 01:12:46,720
But if they ever did play, and I
will answer the question and 

1514
01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:50,480
you're gonna hate the answer, I 
don't think that they would play

1515
01:12:50,480 --> 01:12:54,960
because the only way they would 
play is if Maris got in, which 

1516
01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:56,640
is possible. 
They're one of the better teams 

1517
01:12:56,640 --> 01:12:59,920
in the Mack for sure. 
So they could win the Mack 

1518
01:12:59,920 --> 01:13:01,560
Championship this year and get 
the automatic bid. 

1519
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:02,800
They're one of the three or four
best teams. 

1520
01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:05,080
There's no question about that. 
And they're on a nice run. 

1521
01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:07,080
They got a good coach, play 
defense, could score more than 

1522
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:10,280
they usually do, right? 
But Saint John's to play them 

1523
01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:12,200
would have to be a one seed. 
I don't think they'll be a one 

1524
01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:14,520
seed this year. 
You know, if Saint John's is a 

1525
01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:16,400
right now, they're about a six 
seed. 

1526
01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:20,440
I do think that they will get 
higher before it's all said and 

1527
01:13:20,440 --> 01:13:22,360
done. 
I think Saint John's will wind 

1528
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:26,880
up maybe a possibly a low for a 
high 5. 

1529
01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:29,160
And at that point, like Maris 
wouldn't be you wouldn't play 

1530
01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:31,640
them in a 512 game or a 413 
game. 

1531
01:13:32,040 --> 01:13:35,880
Who would I really root for? 
You're not going to like this 

1532
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:37,000
and I'm going to reach for 
something here. 

1533
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:38,400
Hold on a SEC. 
You're not going to like this. 

1534
01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:43,840
You're definitely not going to 
like this because I, I wore, I 

1535
01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:47,400
wore, I wore these colors, man. 
And I wore these colors with 

1536
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:51,040
amazing pride. 
Like Marist means so much to me,

1537
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:54,560
so much to me. 
You know, wasn't a great player,

1538
01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:57,960
We weren't a great team. 
But man, having that logo on my 

1539
01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:00,800
chest and, and the other 
uniforms and script and, you 

1540
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:04,360
know, that battle with my boys 
that I love that I'm still 

1541
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:06,960
friends with to this day, still 
support the program, baseball 

1542
01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:08,480
and football, women's hoops as 
well. 

1543
01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:13,240
St. 
John's, St. 

1544
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:18,880
John's, because #1 before I ever
even knew about Marist, St. 

1545
01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:20,840
John's was there. 
And St. 

1546
01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:24,080
John's is a big reason why I'm 
the sports fan that I am. 

1547
01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:27,280
The connection to Coach Carter, 
second, rest in peace, the great

1548
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:29,240
Chris Mullen. 
Like if St. 

1549
01:14:29,240 --> 01:14:33,040
John's was really down and I 
don't know if I love basketball,

1550
01:14:33,040 --> 01:14:35,600
I don't know, Like, it was the 
perfect time. 

1551
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:40,760
I had just started playing CYO 
and CYO back then was amazing, 

1552
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:43,360
you know, really tough and 
really competitive. 

1553
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:46,600
Played with a lot of guys who 
played college basketball, great

1554
01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:50,880
high school players, Bishop 
Ford, Xavarian Xavier Mcclancy, 

1555
01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:54,080
Holy Cross, like it was on and 
St. 

1556
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:57,040
John's was great. 
Mulden was the first round pick,

1557
01:14:57,480 --> 01:14:59,200
you know, Wooden Award winner, 
St. 

1558
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:02,800
John's, Georgetown. 
That, that fire and that, that 

1559
01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:07,520
perfect combustible synergy, I 
really think is a large part of 

1560
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:10,040
the reason why I decided to do 
what I do now. 

1561
01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:12,440
And it's different. 
It's more intimate with Maris 

1562
01:15:12,440 --> 01:15:14,320
because I, I played for them. 
I went there. 

1563
01:15:14,320 --> 01:15:17,240
I've got my degree that I'm very
proud of from a great university

1564
01:15:17,440 --> 01:15:21,080
hanging on my I'm looking at it 
right now, you know, but the 

1565
01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:24,040
other thing too is St. 
John's, if they play and then 

1566
01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:26,240
say if St. 
John's wins, well, now I'm 

1567
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:29,920
deeper in the NCAA tournament 
and I'm working like even if 

1568
01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:33,880
Maris were to win, like I, I, 
you know, just just based on the

1569
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:37,400
limitations and IL, they're not 
going to the final four. 

1570
01:15:37,680 --> 01:15:39,400
We're like one of these years 
with Rick. 

1571
01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:41,440
I expect St. 
John's to pop through and get to

1572
01:15:41,480 --> 01:15:43,640
a final four or released an 
elite 8. 

1573
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:45,240
And that's something I want to 
do. 

1574
01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:47,560
Like I've called a couple of 
NCAA tournament games. 

1575
01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:50,720
I finally called the win, you 
know, last year and then a 

1576
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:53,240
second round loss against 
Arkansas up in Providence. 

1577
01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:56,280
I want to be at the Sweet 16 
calling games with Mink. 

1578
01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:57,320
I want to be in the middle of 
that. 

1579
01:15:57,320 --> 01:16:00,400
I want to be at an elite 8. 
I want to feel that like I 

1580
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:03,480
that's something I really, I 
want to say I need it because 

1581
01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:06,360
I'm thankful for what I have and
I've had a chance to do some 

1582
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:07,920
great things. 
But there is a part of me that 

1583
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:12,000
does need that. 
Not even validation, just to 

1584
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:14,720
scratch the itch. 
Like I needed to see St. 

1585
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:18,320
John's win a Big East regular 
season championship. 

1586
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:21,760
I needed to be in the broadcast 
booth and actually see St. 

1587
01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:25,080
John's cut down Mets and be on 
the floor, which I was during 

1588
01:16:25,080 --> 01:16:28,080
the celebration with confetti 
and the trophy and the 

1589
01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:31,600
commissioner and Gus Johnson out
there interviewing Rick when 

1590
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:33,360
they won the Big East 
tournament. 

1591
01:16:33,480 --> 01:16:35,240
Like that's I've watched the 
Biggies tournament my whole 

1592
01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:39,760
life, you know, and the last 
time they had won and it was a 

1593
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:43,120
long time ago. 
So, yeah, it's a hard answer. 

1594
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:44,680
It's a tough question, but I 
would say St. 

1595
01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:46,680
John's. 
I feel guilty saying it. 

1596
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:50,320
I I really do. 
Sweet Lou, Punta Gorda, What's 

1597
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:51,280
up there? 
Sweet Lou? 

1598
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:54,440
BT did you finally get around to
watching the Rambo series? 

1599
01:16:54,440 --> 01:16:55,760
You did. 
Tell me about that. 

1600
01:16:56,080 --> 01:16:57,800
You're missing out if you 
haven't. 

1601
01:16:57,800 --> 01:17:01,000
You know what? 
No, I haven't. 

1602
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:03,600
Just going to be totally honest 
with you that came up with me 

1603
01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:06,600
and Sal were still on the fan. 
And it's funny because like nut 

1604
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:10,480
jobs like we love Rocky, we love
Rocky music. 

1605
01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:14,440
We you know, I love Rocky five. 
He doesn't, you know, there's 

1606
01:17:14,440 --> 01:17:17,200
other things that he likes more 
than than me and vice versa. 

1607
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:20,880
But with our affinity for Rocky 
is about as high as anything 

1608
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:24,560
that you could have affinity for
in terms of sharing is from from

1609
01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:28,200
a former radio partner, right? 
And you would think because we 

1610
01:17:28,200 --> 01:17:31,520
love Stallone and we love Rocky 
that we would have gotten into 

1611
01:17:31,520 --> 01:17:33,960
Rambo. 
I never got into it. 

1612
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:37,560
I really, and I think I would 
appreciate it a lot more now, 

1613
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:40,760
even though I played a little GI
Joe when I was young, again, it 

1614
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:42,680
was more about being in the 
street, although I did play with

1615
01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:43,920
the Star Wars figures all the 
time. 

1616
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:46,520
I love that I had the Millennium
Falcon, I had the Dagobah 

1617
01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:48,520
system. 
I had the, the Hoth, the ice 

1618
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:51,840
thing like that, that the little
tiny fake ice thing, the land 

1619
01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:52,960
speeder. 
I had it all. 

1620
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:56,360
And I used to take the Star Wars
figures and take like thread for

1621
01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:59,600
my mom's sewing kit and like tie
it around their their ankle or 

1622
01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:03,400
their not their head, their arm 
and like hang them from, I don't

1623
01:18:03,400 --> 01:18:07,040
know, like my fan in my room, 
like Princess Leia and then hot 

1624
01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:08,880
and Luke without a cup cup and 
save them. 

1625
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:11,520
So I love this up. 
But and I did have some GI Joe 

1626
01:18:11,520 --> 01:18:13,280
figures, but I didn't play with 
him as much. 

1627
01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:16,200
I wasn't as into GI Joe as I as 
I was Star Wars. 

1628
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:19,360
And I know the GI Joe is not 
Rambo, but it's kind of the same

1629
01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:21,440
genre. 
And I didn't find that very 

1630
01:18:21,440 --> 01:18:25,520
interesting when I was young. 
I don't know why I think I would

1631
01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:27,320
find it a whole hell of a lot 
more interesting now. 

1632
01:18:27,320 --> 01:18:29,920
So I know that you said that and
it's something that I would like

1633
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:32,760
to do. 
I just got to find the time and,

1634
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:34,080
you know, when is that time 
going to come? 

1635
01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:36,440
I'm not sure. 
It's certainly not going to come

1636
01:18:36,440 --> 01:18:37,840
tonight. 
Jay, Ron, let's get it up. 

1637
01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:39,800
You know what time it is, little
Johnny. 

1638
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:41,240
'S Yes, Sir. 
St. 

1639
01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:44,960
John's, UConn at the garden. 
Let's get after it. 

1640
01:18:45,120 --> 01:18:47,400
Yeah. 
I mean, I'm going to watch it. 

1641
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:49,400
Well, I mean, what time is it 
on? 

1642
01:18:49,480 --> 01:18:51,960
I'll get off of work at six. 
It's on 8. 

1643
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:54,360
It's on at 8:00. 
We're there, We're there. 

1644
01:18:54,680 --> 01:18:56,680
All right, all right, so I'm 
going to get a little Johnny's 

1645
01:18:56,680 --> 01:18:58,840
and UConn talk here at this 
point. 

1646
01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:01,480
Then we'll start wrapping things
up for the show here on this 

1647
01:19:01,480 --> 01:19:03,280
Friday. 
The the St. 

1648
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:06,440
John's UConn game tonight is 
it's it's the hottest ticket in 

1649
01:19:06,440 --> 01:19:08,560
sports right now. 
I mean, there's not going to be 

1650
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:12,840
a game out there that's going to
be at least up until the even 

1651
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:16,000
UConn for me, even UNC and Duke,
it just doesn't have this juice.

1652
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:18,040
I mean, you got 18 straight 
wins. 

1653
01:19:18,200 --> 01:19:20,440
Huskies are 22 and 112. 
I don't want a Big East. 

1654
01:19:20,440 --> 01:19:21,520
St. 
John's won eight straight. 

1655
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:25,320
They're 17 and 5:10 and 1:00. 
And I really didn't know which 

1656
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:26,680
way St. 
John's was going to go. 

1657
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:29,240
I've, I've talked about this, 
like when they lost some of 

1658
01:19:29,240 --> 01:19:32,240
those, that Auburn game, that 
Kentucky game, the Providence 

1659
01:19:32,240 --> 01:19:34,560
game, last time they lost there 
at the Garden, I did the game 

1660
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:36,480
with bank. 
I remember leaving the Garden. 

1661
01:19:36,480 --> 01:19:38,960
Like man, this, this might not 
be the right crew. 

1662
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:41,440
There's something off whether 
it's chemistry or I, I don't 

1663
01:19:41,440 --> 01:19:43,760
think it's talent, but it's 
just, it ain't working. 

1664
01:19:44,040 --> 01:19:47,480
And since then it's worked. 
Dylan Mitchell's a starter and 

1665
01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:49,160
and obviously St. 
John's's front court is 

1666
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:52,080
phenomenal here. 
So I cannot wait for this game. 

1667
01:19:52,120 --> 01:19:54,640
And I mentioned the top of the 
show there, the secondary 

1668
01:19:54,640 --> 01:19:56,800
market. 
So not all of them, but I saw a 

1669
01:19:56,800 --> 01:20:01,160
couple seats over $500 in the 
two hundreds at the Garden 

1670
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:03,360
tonight. 
It's on National T, it's not on 

1671
01:20:03,360 --> 01:20:07,760
FS1, it's on Fox. 
So you got Gus, who is the best.

1672
01:20:08,080 --> 01:20:09,120
I got to make sure I say hi to 
Gus. 

1673
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:11,920
I love Gus. 
Jimmy Jackson. 

1674
01:20:12,280 --> 01:20:15,760
That's the team. 
Massive games, the A-Team and 

1675
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:18,040
you know, I'm, I'm trying to get
a sense of. 

1676
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:19,600
I'll give you a little 
prediction. 

1677
01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:21,880
I won't I won't predict the game
because I do the games here. 

1678
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:25,960
I do think that's that UConn 
slightly slightly better and I 

1679
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:28,440
do think they should be favored.
And you got to respect the 18 

1680
01:20:28,440 --> 01:20:30,520
game win streak and Hurley's 
champion two time. 

1681
01:20:30,520 --> 01:20:32,160
He's phenomenal. 
And so is Rick. 

1682
01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:33,360
It's it's just going to you know
what it is. 

1683
01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:37,080
There's something about these 
these two and they respect each 

1684
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:38,280
other. 
Like they've talked about it 

1685
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:40,200
openly. 
Rick respects him and Hurley 

1686
01:20:40,200 --> 01:20:41,520
respects Rick. 
There's no question. 

1687
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:46,320
But there was something, I don't
know if inflamed this the right 

1688
01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:50,840
way, but let, let's put it this 
way, just use common sense. 

1689
01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:54,960
If you're Rick Pitino, who was 
indisputably and for my money, 

1690
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:57,120
he's he very well might be the 
greatest college basketball 

1691
01:20:57,120 --> 01:20:58,560
coach in the history of college 
basketball. 

1692
01:20:58,680 --> 01:21:01,080
All right. 
But if he's not number one, he's

1693
01:21:01,080 --> 01:21:04,840
certainly on the short list. 
OK, Wooden Coach K Jimmy 

1694
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:06,880
Calhoun. 
Yeah, a few others, 8 OfferUp. 

1695
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:08,520
But I've I've, I've done this 
recently, I'm not going to do it

1696
01:21:08,520 --> 01:21:09,560
again. 
But Rick is there. 

1697
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:10,760
And for me, he's number one, 
right? 

1698
01:21:11,440 --> 01:21:12,560
But it's subjective. 
I get that. 

1699
01:21:13,040 --> 01:21:15,680
But if you're Rick and you're in
your early 70s and you have that

1700
01:21:15,680 --> 01:21:18,720
place in the game and you just 
won 900 and he said that he'd 

1701
01:21:18,720 --> 01:21:20,760
love to be healthy enough. 
And he said it's in God's hands,

1702
01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:22,040
which I think is a great way to 
put it. 

1703
01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:24,880
If he wants to get to 1000, he 
wants to coach a couple of more 

1704
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:26,480
years. 
He wants to finish and get St. 

1705
01:21:26,480 --> 01:21:28,120
John's a championship and all 
that stuff. 

1706
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:31,880
Like if you're him, there is a, 
there's a level of pride and, 

1707
01:21:31,880 --> 01:21:36,360
and territoriality of, of you 
holding on to, to what's yours. 

1708
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:39,240
And that is the general thought 
that you're the greatest coach, 

1709
01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:42,320
certainly coaching now and for 
many in the history of the game.

1710
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:46,240
And you're protective of that. 
And you respect Danny Hurley. 

1711
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:49,640
But he's young and he's coming 
for what what you have, or at 

1712
01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:51,720
least you think he's coming for 
what you have, right? 

1713
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:54,280
And let's face it, Danny keeps 
winning. 

1714
01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:56,720
And I think events eventually 
Danny's going to go to the NBA 

1715
01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:59,640
like Rick did. 
So I don't know how much longer 

1716
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:02,040
Danny will coach at UConn. 
He's flirted a few times already

1717
01:22:02,040 --> 01:22:05,400
with the Lakers, as we know. 
But if he coaches long enough, 

1718
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:07,400
he very well might win four or 
five championships. 

1719
01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:10,920
And at that point, he surpasses 
Rick just in terms of, you know,

1720
01:22:10,960 --> 01:22:14,800
level of accomplishment. 
So Rick is protecting his turf, 

1721
01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:17,600
you know, the old dog, the old 
guard, right? 

1722
01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:20,600
Then he got the young pup and 
not the Danny's 30, but you 

1723
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:23,360
know, the younger pup who's 
already got, you know, 2 

1724
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:27,680
championships and a ton of 
moments and is generally thought

1725
01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:30,480
to be and he said it himself 
when he was when he was blasting

1726
01:22:30,480 --> 01:22:32,160
the ref. 
He's like, I'm, you know, I'm 

1727
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:34,160
I'm I'm the greatest bleeping 
coach in the game. 

1728
01:22:34,160 --> 01:22:35,680
Like that was that was that was 
wild. 

1729
01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:37,520
He's like basically show me some
respect. 

1730
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:39,880
I'm the I'm the greatest epic 
coach in the game. 

1731
01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:43,240
He's a wild man. 
Like he is absolutely bonkers. 

1732
01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:46,480
And Rick is more controlled, 
probably comes with age, but 

1733
01:22:46,480 --> 01:22:49,360
they're both fiery. 
They're both great. 

1734
01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:52,240
And they're what, 150 miles 
apart, whatever it is. 

1735
01:22:52,480 --> 01:22:54,520
And they're both now chasing the
same thing in the same 

1736
01:22:54,520 --> 01:22:57,560
conference. 
So there is there is an energy 

1737
01:22:57,560 --> 01:22:59,800
there. 
There is a friction there, even 

1738
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:03,600
though there is outward respect.
They both said it, but they're 

1739
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:05,920
both chasing the same thing. 
Rick's trying to hold on and, 

1740
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:08,920
and keep climbing. 
And Danny's trying to discard 

1741
01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:11,280
him and say, and I say this 
respectfully, all right, old 

1742
01:23:11,280 --> 01:23:13,000
man, step aside. 
It's mine. 

1743
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:15,400
It's my show. 
And when you had that energy, 

1744
01:23:15,400 --> 01:23:19,320
much like an old WWE champion 
who's hanging on, you know, you 

1745
01:23:19,320 --> 01:23:21,600
can respect the guy who, you 
know, is getting the push from 

1746
01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:23,680
the company. 
But you know, eventually you're 

1747
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:25,240
going to have to lay down for 
the guy and he's going to have 

1748
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:27,280
to pin you. 
And your shoulders will be on 

1749
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:30,120
the mat and that other guy's 
going to lift up the trophy. 

1750
01:23:30,600 --> 01:23:32,840
You know, not that you can't win
it back at some point, You know,

1751
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:34,160
it's scripted. 
So anything can happen. 

1752
01:23:34,160 --> 01:23:36,640
But at that moment, you lose 
your place. 

1753
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:41,000
And Rick is as prideful. 
He's become more and more humble

1754
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:44,720
as he's gotten older, which I 
think is a great any very, very 

1755
01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:46,440
common quality. 
I think for a lot of people as 

1756
01:23:46,440 --> 01:23:48,080
you age, you become more humble,
which is great. 

1757
01:23:48,400 --> 01:23:51,480
He's definitely been very, very 
outward about that. 

1758
01:23:51,480 --> 01:23:54,200
You know, he's learned he's 
become more humble from mistakes

1759
01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:57,120
and asked for forgiveness and, 
and I respect it, but make no 

1760
01:23:57,120 --> 01:24:00,560
mistake, Rick is an assassin. 
Rick is a killer and he is 

1761
01:24:00,560 --> 01:24:04,960
looking to to slice Danny Hurley
in half tonight. 

1762
01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:09,400
And Danny Hurley is looking to 
slay and slice St. 

1763
01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:11,360
John's on the Garden floor 
tonight. 

1764
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:14,440
It's going to be amazing. 
I can't wait to get there. 

1765
01:24:14,440 --> 01:24:16,240
I wish the game was earlier. 
Like it sucks I got to wait till

1766
01:24:16,240 --> 01:24:20,320
8:00 here, you know, at JT 
Bombers, BT it's imperative 

1767
01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:22,160
Mitchell and Hopkins bring the 
ball up the court tonight. 

1768
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:23,400
Tomorrow he's going to be a 
problem at St. 

1769
01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:25,440
John's. 
Needs to defend the three. 

1770
01:24:25,440 --> 01:24:27,000
Let's go. 
Yeah. 

1771
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:28,320
The other thing Saint John's 
needs to do. 

1772
01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:30,320
I got to start making some 
layups here now. 

1773
01:24:30,320 --> 01:24:32,960
They they're doing a lot of good
things with this winning streak,

1774
01:24:32,960 --> 01:24:34,160
obviously. 
Thank you for that. 

1775
01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:37,800
I appreciate it, JT, The the 
evolution of St. 

1776
01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:39,880
John's with Mitchell in the 
starting five in their front 

1777
01:24:39,880 --> 01:24:43,080
court has allowed them to hit a 
level that, as I said before, I 

1778
01:24:43,080 --> 01:24:45,080
didn't really know if it was 
necessarily there. 

1779
01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:47,960
Listen, St. 
John's, the good thing about St.

1780
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:50,480
John's, and you can't say this 
about every good team, they 

1781
01:24:50,480 --> 01:24:52,200
don't have to hit a ton of 
threes to win. 

1782
01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:54,880
Like it helps and they've got a 
couple of like Jackson could 

1783
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:58,520
shoot, Sannon could shoot. 
I I thought he'd shoot better, 

1784
01:24:58,520 --> 01:25:01,600
but by trade he's a shooter. 
You know, if you leave Zubi up 

1785
01:25:01,600 --> 01:25:05,120
top open, he'll stick a few. 
Same with Bryce Hopkins. 

1786
01:25:06,480 --> 01:25:08,800
Obviously Sellers I think is the
best shooter on the team, but 

1787
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:10,640
they're not relying on that. 
And I thought that the pole 

1788
01:25:10,640 --> 01:25:12,400
game, which I was worried about 
as a trap game. 

1789
01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:16,880
I thought that that to me was, 
was part of the problem. 

1790
01:25:16,880 --> 01:25:20,560
Like I, I was worried about that
game where, all right, you know,

1791
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:24,680
if you're looking ahead to UConn
and you're on the road, it's not

1792
01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:27,320
a great environment, easy to 
kind of be lulled into a 

1793
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:29,480
competitive game. 
And then if you look it up and 

1794
01:25:29,480 --> 01:25:32,160
it's 234 points either way 
against the tough to ball team 

1795
01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:36,080
at home, well coached ball team 
and a physically tougher to ball

1796
01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:37,280
team. 
It's not the doormat that they 

1797
01:25:37,280 --> 01:25:39,880
were basically for the last 
however many years they're 

1798
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:41,120
they're they've gotten a little 
bit better. 

1799
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:43,200
And I was worried about that 
game. 

1800
01:25:43,440 --> 01:25:45,000
And if you go back to that game,
St. 

1801
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:47,760
John's couldn't make a shot 
early and they wound up leading 

1802
01:25:47,760 --> 01:25:51,600
by a point, I think it was 2726 
at the half because of their 

1803
01:25:51,600 --> 01:25:53,080
defense. 
And that. 

1804
01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:54,920
And UConn can obviously do this 
as well. 

1805
01:25:55,480 --> 01:25:58,040
But the best teams in the 
country, they don't need to 

1806
01:25:58,040 --> 01:26:00,960
drop, you know, 12 threes to 
play, play their style. 

1807
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:04,080
If shots aren't dropping early, 
their defense could keep them in

1808
01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:07,240
the game before eventually the 
numbers kind of, you know, 

1809
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:09,560
gravitate to the means and 
eventually you start making some

1810
01:26:09,560 --> 01:26:13,720
shots because good teams do. 
Now, one thing that's it's odd 

1811
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:16,160
because they're very good around
the rim and their front courts 

1812
01:26:16,160 --> 01:26:17,840
great. 
They just missed too many 

1813
01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:19,640
layups. 
They got to start putting some 

1814
01:26:19,640 --> 01:26:21,800
of these bunnies down. 
Saint John's needs to make more,

1815
01:26:21,960 --> 01:26:24,320
more easy shots. 
And I mean everybody. 

1816
01:26:24,320 --> 01:26:25,760
Dylan Mitchell's missed a 
couple. 

1817
01:26:26,040 --> 01:26:28,760
I think Bryce Hopkins has been 
probably the the biggest culprit

1818
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:30,920
of them all. 
Even Zooby's missed a couple of 

1819
01:26:30,920 --> 01:26:33,080
stick backs and really right at 
the rim. 

1820
01:26:33,080 --> 01:26:37,440
And I don't understand why now 
Zooby more than Bryce will raise

1821
01:26:37,440 --> 01:26:39,520
up and flush it. 
And when you flush it, you're 

1822
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:42,080
not missing that. 
Mitchell's a great athlete, but 

1823
01:26:42,080 --> 01:26:44,480
he's not as tall as Zoobie, so 
he's got to have a little more 

1824
01:26:44,480 --> 01:26:47,880
space. 
And Hopkins is more, he's a good

1825
01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:51,400
athlete, not a great athlete. 
He's more like some girth and 

1826
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:52,960
and you know, carve out some 
space. 

1827
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:54,320
Nothing. 
He can't dunk, of course, but 

1828
01:26:54,560 --> 01:26:57,280
he's kind of more going up some 
pump fakes in traffic. 

1829
01:26:57,280 --> 01:26:58,720
And I guess that's why you miss 
some layups. 

1830
01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:01,600
If that happens tonight and they
miss some bunnies and they don't

1831
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:04,320
hit any threes when they don't 
defend the three, they'll lose. 

1832
01:27:04,440 --> 01:27:07,520
I mean, it's that simple. 
It's that simple. 

1833
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:11,160
Now, if they lose tonight, from 
a Saint John's perspective, it 

1834
01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:13,520
really doesn't hurt them. 
Matter of fact, you know, if 

1835
01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:16,600
it's a very close game 
metrically because of where 

1836
01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:22,480
Utah, Utah, because of where 
UConn is in the NET rankings and

1837
01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:25,400
in the rankings and all the 
other numbers that matter there.

1838
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:28,040
I matter of fact, I think you 
could elevate them a little bit.

1839
01:27:28,040 --> 01:27:31,560
Like right now, St. 
John's around 23 NET ranking, 

1840
01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:34,080
they're thought to be a 5 or a 
six seed. 

1841
01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:35,760
They're 22 in the country in the
rankings. 

1842
01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:39,920
If Saint John's loses and they 
don't get whacked, I don't think

1843
01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:41,600
anything changes. 
I think they're still ranked, 

1844
01:27:42,280 --> 01:27:44,280
maybe drop a spot or two 
depending upon what happens. 

1845
01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:46,560
But I don't think they'll be 
unranked if they lose, you know,

1846
01:27:46,880 --> 01:27:49,000
a one or two possession game to 
U Conn, right? 

1847
01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:51,720
And they're underdogs. 
So that I think that would 

1848
01:27:51,720 --> 01:27:54,880
validate that. 
And if they win, if they win 

1849
01:27:54,880 --> 01:27:57,280
tonight, I would have to. 
I was thinking about this view 

1850
01:27:57,280 --> 01:27:59,320
of my buddies have asked me, 
hey, if they beat, if they beat 

1851
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:01,720
UConn, where do you think the 
John is will be ranked on on 

1852
01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:04,080
Monday when the AP poll comes 
out in the coaches poll. 

1853
01:28:04,480 --> 01:28:08,280
I would say with a now with a 
resounding win, which I don't 

1854
01:28:08,280 --> 01:28:10,400
expect. 
That's one thing with with with 

1855
01:28:10,400 --> 01:28:12,760
a tight close win. 
I think St. 

1856
01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:17,240
John's would go from 22 to about
God. 

1857
01:28:17,240 --> 01:28:19,720
I think there's a chance they 
jump double, double spots. 

1858
01:28:19,720 --> 01:28:21,920
I think that they could get 
bunted right into the top 12 or 

1859
01:28:21,920 --> 01:28:24,520
top 13. 
I don't think that that's overly

1860
01:28:24,520 --> 01:28:27,360
ambitious if they win tonight, 
because I think they're under 

1861
01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:28,960
right now. 
I really don't think that they 

1862
01:28:28,960 --> 01:28:33,160
should be closer to like 2019. 
I think that they, they are on. 

1863
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:35,360
I, I think that they were over 
ranked to start the season at 

1864
01:28:35,360 --> 01:28:37,560
#5. 
I think they've been undervalued

1865
01:28:37,640 --> 01:28:39,680
a little bit the last week or 
two. 

1866
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:41,560
But if St. 
John's wins tonight, you're 

1867
01:28:41,560 --> 01:28:43,520
inside the top 15. 
You could book that. 

1868
01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:45,720
And I think there were a couple 
of spots better than that. 

1869
01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:49,800
So it's going to be absolutely, 
absolutely bonkers. 

1870
01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:52,600
It's going to be wild. 
So nice diverse show for you 

1871
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:53,920
today. 
Oh, let me let you know guys, 

1872
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:57,120
let you guys know about this. 
So if you're a fan, Jimmy Fala 

1873
01:28:57,120 --> 01:28:59,280
from Fox across America, 
hysterical. 

1874
01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:01,680
His story's awesome. 
Now, Jimmy, Jimmy's a fun. 

1875
01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:04,400
He does politics, but he is 
funny, right? 

1876
01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:08,920
And he was, I think he's no, 
he's a Long Island guy, but he 

1877
01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:12,000
was driving a cab for a while. 
So you want to talk about a regs

1878
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:14,400
to riches story. 
He he is, he's a man. 

1879
01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:17,520
He's funny as hell. 
So they reached out, they 

1880
01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:20,120
invited me on today to talk 
about I know we'll talk about 

1881
01:29:20,120 --> 01:29:22,040
the Super Bowl and it was a big 
Yankee fan. 

1882
01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:24,840
We'll talk some baseball. 
I know his son plays football. 

1883
01:29:24,840 --> 01:29:26,240
So we'll do a little youth 
sports. 

1884
01:29:26,480 --> 01:29:30,520
So that's today it is 1:00 PM 
Fox across America. 

1885
01:29:30,520 --> 01:29:32,520
Jimmy fella, you guys want to 
check that out. 

1886
01:29:32,520 --> 01:29:35,400
By all means, go and do it. 
Looking forward to that and with

1887
01:29:35,400 --> 01:29:38,440
that, with that mind, maybe I'll
do a couple of texts before I 

1888
01:29:38,440 --> 01:29:40,200
get out of here. 
But let me hit you with the 

1889
01:29:40,200 --> 01:29:42,120
Super Bowl. 
Let's go there, J Rod, hit me 

1890
01:29:42,120 --> 01:29:44,080
up, buddy. 
Who is going to win the Super 

1891
01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:46,160
Bowl? 
What's the score going to be? 

1892
01:29:46,280 --> 01:29:48,600
What's going to happen flashing 
up? 

1893
01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:49,440
I'm not for. 
You. 

1894
01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:51,120
Oh, you're not looking for me. 
I need. 

1895
01:29:51,200 --> 01:29:53,680
You now I need what? 
You know where we go. 

1896
01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:58,280
You know what we need, J Rod? 
I'm going Seattle in a relative 

1897
01:29:58,280 --> 01:30:00,720
route of the Patriots. 
Now that you can keep it up 

1898
01:30:00,720 --> 01:30:04,040
there, Jay, that doesn't mean 
that I don't have great respect 

1899
01:30:04,040 --> 01:30:06,040
for the Pats. 
That doesn't mean that I think 

1900
01:30:06,040 --> 01:30:08,400
that the game starts and it's 20
to 3 Seattle. 

1901
01:30:08,640 --> 01:30:11,960
I actually think it looks more 
like a route than it really is. 

1902
01:30:12,160 --> 01:30:16,160
I think Seattle might score late
and kind of get that from 2417 

1903
01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:18,960
to 3117, and it looks worse than
it is. 

1904
01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:21,800
I just think now Seattle's 
defense is great. 

1905
01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:24,400
The Patriots defense is 
terrific. 

1906
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:27,160
Obviously May is really 
talented, young and young. 

1907
01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:32,640
Donald's talented and he's he's 
on a, just a, an amazing run 

1908
01:30:32,640 --> 01:30:34,720
here. 
I and they're both great 

1909
01:30:34,720 --> 01:30:36,640
coaches. 
The fan base will probably be 

1910
01:30:36,640 --> 01:30:38,960
pretty split. 
You know, a lot of Pats fans 

1911
01:30:38,960 --> 01:30:40,320
going to make the trek out 
there. 

1912
01:30:40,560 --> 01:30:43,680
In terms of proximity, it's 
easier for Seattle fans to get 

1913
01:30:43,680 --> 01:30:47,200
down from Washington, which is a
beautiful state by the way, just

1914
01:30:47,440 --> 01:30:49,280
gorgeous state topography. 
It's gorgeous. 

1915
01:30:49,680 --> 01:30:52,560
Washington is beautiful. 
So you, you move down there, you

1916
01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:55,720
get to California rather than 
coming across the country. 

1917
01:30:55,960 --> 01:30:59,760
So I think it's going to be 
maybe, you know, 50-60, forty 

1918
01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:01,720
Seattle fans somewhere in that 
neighborhood maybe. 

1919
01:31:02,240 --> 01:31:05,560
But I do think Seattle wins. 
And I do think that Sam Darnold,

1920
01:31:05,560 --> 01:31:08,640
even though I think the defense 
turns over may once and either 

1921
01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:12,240
leads to a score or a short 
field that leads to a score, I 

1922
01:31:12,240 --> 01:31:15,840
believe Seattle wins and I 
believe Sam Darnold will be the 

1923
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:19,560
MVP. 
And now we can get my boy J Rod 

1924
01:31:19,560 --> 01:31:20,480
back in there. 
J Rod. 

1925
01:31:20,480 --> 01:31:22,200
Much to the chagrin. 
What's up? 

1926
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:25,840
Of J Rod, who know who he's 
rooting for Sunday, of course. 

1927
01:31:25,960 --> 01:31:28,320
Disagreeing on this one, but you
know what? 

1928
01:31:28,520 --> 01:31:33,840
We'll see how it plays out. 
I'm going to go, I'm going to 

1929
01:31:33,840 --> 01:31:38,520
go, I'm going to go. 
Pats, 2117. 2117, you know 

1930
01:31:38,520 --> 01:31:40,560
what's funny? 
Yeah, OK. 

1931
01:31:40,560 --> 01:31:42,560
I do think it's going to be a 
battle and I think it's going to

1932
01:31:42,560 --> 01:31:44,480
be a real four quarter game. 
I don't think it's a snooze 

1933
01:31:44,480 --> 01:31:46,040
fest. 
I don't think anybody pulls away

1934
01:31:46,320 --> 01:31:48,760
except maybe late, which is what
I said with Seattle here. 

1935
01:31:49,080 --> 01:31:53,560
I think that the as I was really
pondering my final score there, 

1936
01:31:53,680 --> 01:31:58,080
I almost went like 2017. 
I was thinking more low scoring 

1937
01:31:58,080 --> 01:32:02,360
than I wound up eventually 
going, but I said along 3117 

1938
01:32:02,360 --> 01:32:05,120
you've got a a score in the 
different team than me. 

1939
01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:08,880
Your score is more in the 
ballpark of what I was initially

1940
01:32:08,920 --> 01:32:11,120
thinking, but it's going to be a
blast. 

1941
01:32:11,120 --> 01:32:12,960
Now you going back home to watch
the game with your pops, you 

1942
01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:13,880
hanging out with buddies? 
What are? 

1943
01:32:13,880 --> 01:32:14,400
You doing? 
Yeah. 

1944
01:32:14,400 --> 01:32:17,200
I think I'm just going to have 
some buddies over either at my 

1945
01:32:17,200 --> 01:32:21,600
place, go out some like Boston 
fan kind of guys and we'll watch

1946
01:32:21,600 --> 01:32:22,840
the game. 
We'll get locked in. 

1947
01:32:23,320 --> 01:32:25,800
I'm jealous, man, I'm I'm so 
jealous. 

1948
01:32:25,960 --> 01:32:28,200
So you know what sucks about 
being AI mean? 

1949
01:32:28,200 --> 01:32:30,320
You know what sucks about being 
a jets fan? 

1950
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:32,080
Everything can get me besides 
that. 

1951
01:32:32,720 --> 01:32:37,000
Like when they do get to the 
Super Bowl, I mean, I'm, I'm 

1952
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:39,760
going to be too old to go nuts. 
Like, I mean, I'll still like. 

1953
01:32:40,400 --> 01:32:43,720
Hey, you never know, maybe it'll
like bring some, bring some 

1954
01:32:43,720 --> 01:32:46,400
vigor to you. 
You'll go. 

1955
01:32:46,400 --> 01:32:49,080
You'll go wild. 
Hey, I can pick my spots. 

1956
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:52,320
I mean, if you saw my my 
Instagram post over the weekend,

1957
01:32:52,560 --> 01:32:56,440
you know, I'm a fire pit guy. 
And I mean, I shoveled, I 

1958
01:32:56,440 --> 01:33:01,000
shoveled the path just to be 
able to go stand out there, you 

1959
01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:03,280
know, with my buddy who lives, 
who lives down the street. 

1960
01:33:03,280 --> 01:33:05,240
Great. 
Yeah, I need my fire. 

1961
01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:07,600
I need a couple of drinks. 
I need a little bit of whatever.

1962
01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:09,160
I need one. 
I got unplug a little bit. 

1963
01:33:09,160 --> 01:33:10,760
So you're not the only one 
having fun. 

1964
01:33:10,760 --> 01:33:14,000
The difference is you can walk 
in at 3:30 in the morning and it

1965
01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:16,280
provided, you know, you don't 
have worked in next day, you 

1966
01:33:16,280 --> 01:33:18,680
could sleep in. 
I got to get up. 

1967
01:33:18,800 --> 01:33:21,960
I got to deal with the kids. 
I got real life responsibility. 

1968
01:33:21,960 --> 01:33:24,480
But not that you don't more real
life responsibility. 

1969
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:27,160
And then I'm going to feel like 
shit if I go too hard. 

1970
01:33:27,160 --> 01:33:30,080
I'm going to like, if you drink 
at that honestly, that that's 

1971
01:33:30,080 --> 01:33:32,360
why those seltzers are money. 
You have a couple of those 

1972
01:33:32,360 --> 01:33:35,040
seltzers, you feel great. 
You're #1 they're fun and you 

1973
01:33:35,040 --> 01:33:38,520
don't feel hungover. 
But if I was to have, you know, 

1974
01:33:38,520 --> 01:33:41,080
like I used to pound beers back 
in the parking lot when I had 

1975
01:33:41,080 --> 01:33:44,800
Jet season tickets a million 
years ago, or, you know, right, 

1976
01:33:45,080 --> 01:33:47,800
even before the kids were born, 
like I was really into Scotch, 

1977
01:33:47,800 --> 01:33:48,840
right. 
I still like Scotch. 

1978
01:33:48,840 --> 01:33:51,880
But, you know, one or two, if I 
suck down four or five scotches,

1979
01:33:51,880 --> 01:33:55,440
which I have at some points in 
my life, I mean, you, you need a

1980
01:33:55,440 --> 01:33:58,920
spatula to just scrape me out of
bed the night I can't move. 

1981
01:34:00,360 --> 01:34:02,960
Yeah, you'll be having. 
That I'm, I'm, I'm sure it gets 

1982
01:34:02,960 --> 01:34:06,280
brutal, honestly, that's why, 
you know, you got to stay away 

1983
01:34:06,280 --> 01:34:10,960
from those sugary drinks. 
Keep it, keep it, keep it chill.

1984
01:34:11,640 --> 01:34:14,600
All right, J Rod, I want you to 
have a good time, man. 

1985
01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:18,040
You know the other thing, too. 
I've seen a lot of this. 

1986
01:34:18,480 --> 01:34:21,560
I should stay there so we know 
who you look like. 

1987
01:34:21,560 --> 01:34:23,480
You look like a few people. 
You look like a few people. 

1988
01:34:23,480 --> 01:34:25,640
You look like most prominently. 
Who do you look like? 

1989
01:34:25,960 --> 01:34:29,560
Mr. Gatton Matarazzo, Mr. Dustin
from Stranger Things. 

1990
01:34:29,560 --> 01:34:32,800
Yes, yes, Dustin J, Rod and, you
know, brothers from another 

1991
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:34,560
mother or maybe brothers from 
the same mother. 

1992
01:34:34,560 --> 01:34:36,520
I mean at that point. 
Honestly. 

1993
01:34:36,720 --> 01:34:41,680
I don't know, but what we're 
doing is so my nephew is an 

1994
01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:43,440
actor and he's a very 
accomplished. 

1995
01:34:43,440 --> 01:34:47,280
He's younger, was he 14? 
And he's been in a lot of stuff.

1996
01:34:47,280 --> 01:34:50,560
I was in one of his movies. 
He was the star Rally Caps, 

1997
01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:52,120
which is now out on Prime Video.
If. 

1998
01:34:52,200 --> 01:34:54,520
You guys got to check it out. 
You got to check it out, man. 

1999
01:34:55,080 --> 01:34:57,560
Just a quick aside, if you guys 
are looking, somebody asked me 

2000
01:34:57,560 --> 01:34:59,680
before about my favorite movies,
my favorite baseball movies, 

2001
01:34:59,680 --> 01:35:03,560
like what's a baseball movie 
that when I see it, I've got to 

2002
01:35:03,560 --> 01:35:06,040
stick with it. 
And if you're and I, I gave you 

2003
01:35:06,040 --> 01:35:08,600
a bunch, if you guys are looking
for a good movie, maybe before 

2004
01:35:08,600 --> 01:35:11,640
the Super Bowl, going to be cold
out again this weekend. 

2005
01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:13,800
And it's wholesome. 
There's not a single curse. 

2006
01:35:13,800 --> 01:35:16,920
There's not a single, you know, 
there's not a moment with any 

2007
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:19,320
sort of sexual innuendo or 
content like that. 

2008
01:35:19,320 --> 01:35:23,320
It is a wholesome movie about 
baseball and then obviously core

2009
01:35:23,320 --> 01:35:26,080
issues of growing up and stuff. 
It's almost like Stand By Me. 

2010
01:35:26,080 --> 01:35:28,840
If you think it's a little bit 
of Stand By Me with it's got a 

2011
01:35:28,840 --> 01:35:31,520
great soundtrack and baseball's 
the backdrop and it's awesome 

2012
01:35:31,520 --> 01:35:34,040
anyway. 
My nephew who's a great kid and 

2013
01:35:34,040 --> 01:35:37,680
a great actor, his name is 
Carson Veneer. 

2014
01:35:37,680 --> 01:35:40,640
He's done a lot of great things 
legitimately not like, oh, he's 

2015
01:35:40,640 --> 01:35:42,360
trying to be an actor. 
He's an actor and he's 

2016
01:35:42,360 --> 01:35:43,720
phenomenal. 
He's a great kid, more 

2017
01:35:43,720 --> 01:35:47,280
importantly. 
So he was in Stranger Things. 

2018
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:50,280
He was on, I forget how many 
episodes, but he was in a couple

2019
01:35:50,280 --> 01:35:52,680
of seasons. 
So he knows he knows him. 

2020
01:35:53,040 --> 01:35:56,560
So we're going to, we're going 
to get, I'm going to call him 

2021
01:35:56,560 --> 01:35:58,680
Dustin for this. 
We're going to get Dustin on the

2022
01:35:58,680 --> 01:36:01,360
show and we're going to have a 
three Screener and I'm going to 

2023
01:36:01,360 --> 01:36:03,120
be in the middle and you and 
Dustin. 

2024
01:36:03,120 --> 01:36:05,760
Oh my. 
Goodness, I can't wait. 

2025
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:08,040
Listen, hopefully he's got some 
ball knowledge. 

2026
01:36:08,040 --> 01:36:11,120
I'm sure he does. 
It's going to be like, have you 

2027
01:36:11,120 --> 01:36:13,360
ever seen it like the Spider man
meme? 

2028
01:36:13,760 --> 01:36:18,760
And it's like the 2 Spider man 
literally just like that. 

2029
01:36:18,760 --> 01:36:23,120
But yeah, if we can get it done,
This has been genuinely years in

2030
01:36:23,120 --> 01:36:24,640
the making for my life. 
So. 

2031
01:36:24,640 --> 01:36:26,040
Oh. 
We will, don't worry. 

2032
01:36:26,360 --> 01:36:29,200
Now let me ask you this does 
does that work for you with the 

2033
01:36:29,200 --> 01:36:30,480
ladies? 
I mean, that's got to be honest.

2034
01:36:30,840 --> 01:36:32,720
It's got to be a good 
conversation starter. 

2035
01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:35,360
It's a good conversation 
starter. 

2036
01:36:35,440 --> 01:36:38,760
I just don't know if he's the 
best comparison. 

2037
01:36:39,840 --> 01:36:41,960
Like I just don't know if he 
he's been the best. 

2038
01:36:41,960 --> 01:36:45,960
Like oh man, you know this kid 
looks like the guy from Stranger

2039
01:36:45,960 --> 01:36:48,360
things. 
Oh wow, he's a he must be a real

2040
01:36:48,360 --> 01:36:54,000
looker, like, but always been a 
great conversation starter and 

2041
01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:56,920
really like, I mean, I'm sure 
I'm about to go out to work 

2042
01:36:56,920 --> 01:36:58,880
today and get it at least three 
times. 

2043
01:36:58,880 --> 01:37:01,920
You get it that much? 
Oh my God, at least once a day, 

2044
01:37:02,280 --> 01:37:04,840
every single day of my life. 
It's it's insane. 

2045
01:37:05,080 --> 01:37:08,400
Wow. 
Yeah, You know, I never, I never

2046
01:37:08,400 --> 01:37:10,360
really got, I'll give you a 
couple. 

2047
01:37:10,360 --> 01:37:13,520
I got 2 when I was younger. 
And then I don't think either 1 

2048
01:37:13,520 --> 01:37:15,120
is going to resonate with you. 
I don't think that you'll be 

2049
01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:17,760
like, Oh yeah, I can see that. 
And then another one more 

2050
01:37:17,760 --> 01:37:21,040
recently, right? 
Well, Jason Statham so far. 

2051
01:37:21,360 --> 01:37:22,600
OK. 
Yeah, yeah. 

2052
01:37:22,600 --> 01:37:25,920
A little bit, right. 
I've gotten like a a slimmer 

2053
01:37:25,920 --> 01:37:27,400
version of the Rock, which I 
don't. 

2054
01:37:27,400 --> 01:37:29,840
I don't really see whatever. 
I mean, you bowled and Bruce 

2055
01:37:29,840 --> 01:37:30,800
will. 
OK, yeah, you bowled. 

2056
01:37:30,840 --> 01:37:32,560
I get it. 
But what I used to get when I 

2057
01:37:32,560 --> 01:37:35,240
was younger, two things you used
to get, Jeter. 

2058
01:37:35,680 --> 01:37:37,840
I know that that sounds crazy, 
Jeter. 

2059
01:37:38,280 --> 01:37:40,680
I can see it. 
Really like when I was tanned 

2060
01:37:40,680 --> 01:37:42,120
'cause I get really tanned 
during the summer. 

2061
01:37:42,440 --> 01:37:44,400
Got a little? 
Jeter yeah, yeah. 

2062
01:37:44,440 --> 01:37:47,640
Like especially like the younger
when his face was a little like,

2063
01:37:47,640 --> 01:37:49,600
slimmer. 
At the bottom, I yeah, yeah, 

2064
01:37:49,720 --> 01:37:51,320
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 
yeah, yeah. 

2065
01:37:51,600 --> 01:37:54,440
So I would get a little Jeter 
like in college, whatever. 

2066
01:37:54,440 --> 01:37:56,120
And then especially when I 
started really going short with 

2067
01:37:56,120 --> 01:37:57,520
there not like this, but like 
shaved. 

2068
01:37:57,960 --> 01:37:59,920
And then I, I don't even know if
you'll know the name. 

2069
01:37:59,920 --> 01:38:02,840
You ever hear the name Joey 
McIntyre from New Kids on the 

2070
01:38:02,840 --> 01:38:05,360
Block? 
Oh yeah, I mean, I've heard the 

2071
01:38:05,360 --> 01:38:07,520
name for sure. 
Yeah, he's got he had like the 

2072
01:38:07,520 --> 01:38:11,240
real curly hair. 
I think he was I was he I don't 

2073
01:38:11,240 --> 01:38:13,680
even I think he was. 
He had the really high voice. 

2074
01:38:13,680 --> 01:38:15,640
He was a very good. 
Most of the guys couldn't sing 

2075
01:38:15,920 --> 01:38:18,440
him and I think Jordan or. 
He could sing. 

2076
01:38:18,560 --> 01:38:20,840
One of the other the night, one 
of the night brothers was like 

2077
01:38:20,840 --> 01:38:23,000
the main, I don't know, but he 
could see he could hit the high 

2078
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:25,880
note and all the girls in my 
neighborhood loved them. 

2079
01:38:26,280 --> 01:38:29,240
And but even though some of them
said that I looked like him, 

2080
01:38:29,240 --> 01:38:32,480
they didn't love me. 
I and I I had that curly hair. 

2081
01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:34,760
You got to I I got to find the 
picture. 

2082
01:38:35,360 --> 01:38:37,480
I don't really, I don't get it 
that much. 

2083
01:38:37,920 --> 01:38:41,880
You know, like a doppelganger. 
Oh, you look like this guy. 

2084
01:38:41,880 --> 01:38:46,120
I I don't know if I would like 
being you and getting that all 

2085
01:38:46,120 --> 01:38:47,520
the time. 
It's not great. 

2086
01:38:47,600 --> 01:38:51,040
I mean, I don't, I don't listen.
I don't hate it, but you just 

2087
01:38:51,040 --> 01:38:55,840
hear it and you go like like 
there's nothing else to say 

2088
01:38:55,840 --> 01:38:59,760
because it's like, so what's 
funny is when I was on Boomer 

2089
01:38:59,760 --> 01:39:03,480
and Geo like a year ago or 
whatever, I just did like 10 

2090
01:39:03,480 --> 01:39:05,720
minutes with them when I was in 
the in the studio. 

2091
01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:06,400
What? 
The heck? 

2092
01:39:06,400 --> 01:39:09,360
What were you talking about? 
I don't even remember that. 

2093
01:39:09,520 --> 01:39:11,920
Bull crap. 
Like it was like 5. 

2094
01:39:11,920 --> 01:39:14,760
It was like 5 minutes. 
We talked about this like Geo 

2095
01:39:14,760 --> 01:39:18,200
was like, hey, you ever get you 
ever get like you look like the 

2096
01:39:18,200 --> 01:39:21,560
kid from Stranger Things? 
And I was just like, I was just 

2097
01:39:21,560 --> 01:39:23,480
put in like this awkward 
position where I was just like, 

2098
01:39:24,080 --> 01:39:27,080
thank you. 
Like I don't know what to say. 

2099
01:39:27,560 --> 01:39:32,000
Well, OK, so this is a little 
little devious here. 

2100
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:34,280
I don't know if I would 
necessarily recommend this, but 

2101
01:39:35,440 --> 01:39:37,720
maybe the problem is you're not 
using it to your advantage. 

2102
01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:40,560
I'm not just. 
I'm not pretending to just well.

2103
01:39:41,360 --> 01:39:42,920
Hear me out for a second. 
Hear me. 

2104
01:39:43,000 --> 01:39:43,560
Out. 
Let's hear it. 

2105
01:39:43,560 --> 01:39:46,480
Let's hear. 
It you're at a bar and somebody 

2106
01:39:46,480 --> 01:39:48,840
comes up to you. 
Oh wow. 

2107
01:39:49,560 --> 01:39:51,080
God I love you on Stranger 
Things. 

2108
01:39:51,120 --> 01:39:54,920
Just go with it dude. 
And just go, Yep, I've only 

2109
01:39:54,920 --> 01:39:59,560
gotten a genuine somebody 
believed it was me one time it 

2110
01:39:59,560 --> 01:40:02,520
was at a concert and they were 
like, did they fly this kid out 

2111
01:40:02,520 --> 01:40:03,800
to play the. 
Bass did they? 

2112
01:40:03,840 --> 01:40:07,480
Fly Dustin out. 
And I was like, no, so it's 

2113
01:40:07,520 --> 01:40:08,760
funny. 
Oh, man. 

2114
01:40:08,760 --> 01:40:11,360
All right, bro, enjoy it. 
I'm going to sign off here in a 

2115
01:40:11,360 --> 01:40:12,800
second. 
I might try to get a couple of 

2116
01:40:13,160 --> 01:40:15,160
let's see if anything pops up. 
Get some scores here. 

2117
01:40:15,160 --> 01:40:18,440
A lot of you were picking 
Seattle 31 to 3. 

2118
01:40:18,440 --> 01:40:19,840
Brooklyn born. 
Come on, man. 

2119
01:40:19,840 --> 01:40:23,240
Lenny 31 three I bet anything 
it's not going to be 31, but 

2120
01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:26,440
then again again, that's when 
Seattle's defense is playing 

2121
01:40:26,440 --> 01:40:28,240
downhill and when they got a 
lead I mean, again, it's not 

2122
01:40:28,240 --> 01:40:30,280
going to be 31 free point 
taking. 

2123
01:40:30,280 --> 01:40:32,160
You like Seattle, you like 
Seattle bigs here. 

2124
01:40:32,160 --> 01:40:33,960
Obviously, if you're betting 
you're going to lay the 4 1/2 

2125
01:40:33,960 --> 01:40:36,720
points that's fluctuated a bit. 
I can check this morning it's 

2126
01:40:36,720 --> 01:40:38,800
right around 4 1/2. 
So you like Seattle. 

2127
01:40:38,880 --> 01:40:43,320
All right, all right, what else?
We Dustin, we got a little bit 

2128
01:40:43,320 --> 01:40:46,640
of this Happy Friday, BT back to
you guys here some more Seattle 

2129
01:40:49,400 --> 01:40:52,240
Johnny's Yep. 
You know, I I know St. 

2130
01:40:52,240 --> 01:40:53,920
John's played Alabama. 
Understood. 

2131
01:40:54,080 --> 01:40:55,720
Understood. 
That was a good game didn't win.

2132
01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:59,120
I got that boy, people really 
jump into this dust and stuff. 

2133
01:40:59,120 --> 01:41:02,280
It's absolutely amazing. 
Absolutely amazing. 

2134
01:41:03,200 --> 01:41:05,440
What else? 
Here, let me see here one more 

2135
01:41:05,440 --> 01:41:06,440
thing. 
What is this? 

2136
01:41:06,440 --> 01:41:11,160
Why is that not popping up? 
There we go, John, 62834 BT 

2137
01:41:11,160 --> 01:41:14,640
pods, fire all the hard work you
really put in shows love the set

2138
01:41:14,640 --> 01:41:15,680
up. 
Great things to come. 

2139
01:41:15,680 --> 01:41:18,560
J Rod's a great addition. 
Now that's how you end the show.

2140
01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:20,360
Thank you very much, John. 
I appreciate that. 

2141
01:41:20,360 --> 01:41:22,520
Good stuff, man. 
Yeah, If you guys just miss it, 

2142
01:41:22,520 --> 01:41:26,680
I'm going to wrap it up. 
Welcome and sincere gratitude 

2143
01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:30,480
and thanks to Sullivan Papain, 
who is the official first 

2144
01:41:30,480 --> 01:41:33,120
sponsor of BT Unleashed. 
They start Monday. 

2145
01:41:33,120 --> 01:41:35,960
All right, we've got a segment 
every Monday. 3 questions that 

2146
01:41:35,960 --> 01:41:37,320
I'll answer coming from the 
weekend. 

2147
01:41:37,320 --> 01:41:40,480
Some real pertinent stuff all 
around the the sports spectrum. 

2148
01:41:40,480 --> 01:41:42,520
Could be local, could be 
national, could be whatever. 

2149
01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:44,720
It really doesn't even have to 
be sports. 

2150
01:41:44,720 --> 01:41:46,760
It can be something that I just 
find really interesting. 

2151
01:41:47,080 --> 01:41:48,840
And then every Wednesday, the 
Johnnies report. 

2152
01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:51,160
So they have signed on for the 
entire year. 

2153
01:41:51,640 --> 01:41:54,120
Hopefully I get a chance to run 
into my buddy TJ McManus 

2154
01:41:54,120 --> 01:41:55,200
tonight. 
He's a big St. 

2155
01:41:55,200 --> 01:41:56,840
John's fan. 
The entire, well, maybe not the 

2156
01:41:56,840 --> 01:41:59,240
entire Firm, but the Firm is a 
mess. 

2157
01:41:59,480 --> 01:42:02,760
Massive, massive St. 
John's contingent of fans there.

2158
01:42:02,760 --> 01:42:05,960
So, so that's how I actually 
came in touch with them. 

2159
01:42:06,600 --> 01:42:09,560
They are big St. 
John's supporters and by 

2160
01:42:09,560 --> 01:42:12,280
extensions and by an extension 
supporters of what we're doing 

2161
01:42:12,280 --> 01:42:14,240
here. 
So phenomenal to be able to 

2162
01:42:14,240 --> 01:42:16,880
announce that I got a text right
before I got on the show this 

2163
01:42:16,880 --> 01:42:19,360
morning. 
They are officially, it's being 

2164
01:42:19,360 --> 01:42:21,120
printed now and it's a big 
process again. 

2165
01:42:21,120 --> 01:42:25,880
It's not some little tiny logo. 
It is the entire wall and it's 

2166
01:42:25,880 --> 01:42:27,400
being printed and takes like 2 
hours. 

2167
01:42:27,400 --> 01:42:30,440
Just the fabric and and all the 
colors, whatever it's being 

2168
01:42:30,440 --> 01:42:33,240
printed today and then they're 
coming next week to install it. 

2169
01:42:33,240 --> 01:42:37,120
So next week will be the last, 
the last week here as I spin you

2170
01:42:37,120 --> 01:42:40,520
around a little bit that you 
will get to see, you will not 

2171
01:42:40,520 --> 01:42:42,960
see any of this stuff here. 
You will not see any of that 

2172
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:45,600
stuff there. 
You will not even see sadly the 

2173
01:42:45,600 --> 01:42:49,040
Don Mattingly jersey. 
What you will see is the massive

2174
01:42:49,040 --> 01:42:51,800
BT Unleashed logo which I cannot
wait to unveil. 

2175
01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:54,360
So I don't want to just keep 
talking for the sake of talking.

2176
01:42:54,360 --> 01:42:57,160
Have a great week and everybody 
thanks again to Sullivan for 

2177
01:42:57,160 --> 01:42:58,440
pain. 
You know what that means to me. 

2178
01:42:58,440 --> 01:43:01,880
Thank you everybody, enjoy the 
Super Bowl, be safe, get out 

2179
01:43:01,880 --> 01:43:04,200
there if you get a bet, be 
smart, don't be stupid. 

2180
01:43:04,480 --> 01:43:06,880
And what you really shouldn't do
in terms of betting, which I 

2181
01:43:06,880 --> 01:43:09,520
learned my lesson a long time 
ago, what you probably don't 

2182
01:43:09,520 --> 01:43:12,680
want to do is at halftime when 
you got 5 drinks in you or have 

2183
01:43:12,680 --> 01:43:16,280
whatever in your system, don't 
just start hitting buttons and 

2184
01:43:16,280 --> 01:43:18,320
just start betting. 
You know, understand what you 

2185
01:43:18,320 --> 01:43:20,080
want to do. 
If you want to bet, have a 

2186
01:43:20,080 --> 01:43:22,960
couple props, understand what 
you like, do your research, be 

2187
01:43:22,960 --> 01:43:28,320
smart, you know, don't don't let
a wager amount that you probably

2188
01:43:28,320 --> 01:43:30,560
shouldn't do affect how you 
enjoy the game. 

2189
01:43:30,600 --> 01:43:33,160
All right, And then after the 
Super Bowl, they start to get 

2190
01:43:33,160 --> 01:43:35,480
the dribs in the, you know, 
little dribbles and a little 

2191
01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:39,240
stories here from Tampa, from 
Port Saint Lucie, little Yanks, 

2192
01:43:39,240 --> 01:43:41,560
a little Mets. 
Once the studio was done. 

2193
01:43:41,840 --> 01:43:44,960
I've got a long list of guests 
that I'm going to roll out. 

2194
01:43:44,960 --> 01:43:47,160
I had Sal on the other day, 
which was awesome. 

2195
01:43:47,440 --> 01:43:49,400
Going to have Stephen A he's 
already committed. 

2196
01:43:49,400 --> 01:43:51,720
Can't wait to do that. 
And I don't even look at it as 

2197
01:43:51,720 --> 01:43:53,920
an as an interview. 
It's going to be a conversation,

2198
01:43:53,920 --> 01:43:57,080
going to be free flowing. 
I'm like also Michael K. 

2199
01:43:57,080 --> 01:43:59,160
Michael, what do you think about
the Yankees rotation? 

2200
01:43:59,160 --> 01:44:00,640
I've known Michael for 20 
something years. 

2201
01:44:00,640 --> 01:44:02,840
I was at his wedding. 
I used to work at the same 

2202
01:44:02,840 --> 01:44:04,400
station as Michael, love 
Michael. 

2203
01:44:04,760 --> 01:44:07,600
So when I have Michael on, we'll
have a conversation. 

2204
01:44:07,800 --> 01:44:11,600
Don, the Greg is coming on. 
Obviously you don't want to get 

2205
01:44:11,600 --> 01:44:15,200
Alex Rodriguez on Aaron Boone, 
Rick Pitino conversations. 

2206
01:44:15,360 --> 01:44:17,600
It's kind of waiting. 
I told Sal, I said, listen, no 

2207
01:44:17,600 --> 01:44:19,440
offense, buddy. 
I said, you know, you're my guy.

2208
01:44:19,440 --> 01:44:21,840
I don't need the studio to look 
fresh to have you on the show 

2209
01:44:21,840 --> 01:44:24,480
for you and I to do what we do. 
The other ones when we start 

2210
01:44:24,480 --> 01:44:28,640
bringing out the A Listers, when
the A listers start coming in, 

2211
01:44:28,640 --> 01:44:31,000
which they will, we got to look 
tight with the studio. 

2212
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:33,520
So have a great weekend, enjoy 
the Super Bowl. 

2213
01:44:33,520 --> 01:44:36,280
I got Seattle, I got Darna 
winning the MVP. 

2214
01:44:36,560 --> 01:44:39,200
Go Johnny's. 
The Garden will be on fire 

2215
01:44:39,200 --> 01:44:41,680
tonight. 
Can't wait to see you at the 

2216
01:44:41,680 --> 01:44:44,400
Garden if you go in. 
Have a great weekend Monday at 

2217
01:44:44,400 --> 01:44:46,400
10 right here on Unleashed. 
We'll see you. 

2218
01:44:46,840 --> 01:44:48,320
This is on leash, are you 
listening? 

2219
01:44:48,400 --> 01:44:48,960
Can you hear me?