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apologize for that. 
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things obviously that I want to 
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like colic today, a little NBA 
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Got a couple of NFL picks for 
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Obviously drop the comments, 
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Hey, the the first week I was 
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week we are already so we 
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did not do 1 yesterday and we 
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hit and I want to explain this 
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because I spent about 25 minutes
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not to mention YouTube support, 
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quite a bit. 
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right, basically the the digital
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obviously the subject, I mean, 
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but how many hours have been 
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certain requirement before I can
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obviously is a big vehicle for 
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get sponsorships and start to 
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platform and do more and more 
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So I was getting frustrated 
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I'm saying we've got all these, 
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a lot of interaction. 
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it said it, it, it showed me 
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to be able to launch into the 
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this, but I, I just wanted you 
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some of the things that you guys
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chats, the supers and and and 
the other stuff, the 

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subscriptions, because I guess 
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for YouTube to, you know, make 
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this is on the up and up. 
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doing that. 
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But again, I just wanted to 
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It's been, you know, it's been 
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confusing as I navigate this 
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feels fairly old to me. 
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I'm going to do daily. 
I'm going to dig into this. 

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You've also asked about calls 
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guests all coming. 
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So that's just some stuff that I
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with in, in terms of maybe 
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Now, a few other things I 
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website, there's I think there's
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the BT and Sal live show with 
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It's in red, it's in Red Bank, 
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which is an amazing. 
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for yourself. 
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And that's why we wound up 
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The difference with the VIPII 
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little bit higher, but after it 
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honestly, I'm going to interact 
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but you'll get it and so will 
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chance to meet Boone, have some 
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So that's the value of the VIP. 
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Number two, make sure you guys 
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Sunday at 10:30 on FOX 5 Sports 
Extra. 

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I will be on with my friend who 
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her talent, I love her heart. 
She's just a good person in this

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industry. 
Tina Servacio reached out to me,

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as many people did when things 
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And then she said, Hey, you 
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where you can come in and come 
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talk, some Johnny's, talk, some 
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I, I thought she meant it 
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that maybe it was like, you 
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get this out there. 
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basically got right back to me. 
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a little rough, but it's all 
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All right, so let's get to the 
content here and keep subbing, 

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keep spreading the word, keep 
liking, keep commenting, keep 

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getting that digital imprint, 
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I'm learning how all this hits. 
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shoots all over the world, then 
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the bigger this will become. 
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get into the content, obviously 
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have questions about that, what 
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my thoughts on that. 
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get into this and regurgitate 
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There's no need to because I'm 
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Just like they're moving 
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I'm moving forward and I have a 
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I do, I'll still do some shows 
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different it's it's the 
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there's no bad blood. 
It's but it's it's something 

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that I've also said, you know, 
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was making the best decision for
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get B teen sound on the show, on
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That's how much I believed in 
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But I am an employee. 
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This in, in terms of, you know, 
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was wired. 
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the show. 
You know how much I loved it. 

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You know how much I believed in 
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This is business. 
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morning show had no idea how to 
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director of the station, which 
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they thought that $16,000 was a 
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I have no idea what I'm doing. 
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long journey and outside of 
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Francisco to do afternoon drive,
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I'm proud of it. 
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changes and adjustments and new 
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could just I know that this is 
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because I feel it from you All 
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Hopefully the food was awesome. 
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great and plentiful and what the
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Christmas is, as we all know. 
Hopefully that was not lost and 

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you guys had a great time with 
your family so far. 

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I know I did and Christmas Eve 
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My wife to learn from my mom 
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All the fishes. 
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day and then yes, we did the, 
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on Christmas Eve and then the 
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lasagna. 
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the sauce. 
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lasagna, we had some red wine, 
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Oh my God, I can't I really 
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more. 
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grind and we start now. 
All right, little bit on Tyler 

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Kolek. 
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What an what an awesome win by 
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Now I can and I I want to 
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Just to substantiate some 
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think many of you have to let 
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you believe Kolek should play 
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them and the, the Yanis angle 
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out there. 
The I, I do think it's important

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to validate those thoughts and 
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Not that I want to bombard you 
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little numbers oriented in a 
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use your eyes. 
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increased role. 
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with Tyler Kolek is that number 
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stones. 
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he's got the ability. 
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when somebody does not with some
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situation gets more intense, 
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viable, but seemingly slows 
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itself is, you know, a lot of 
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players make, they make the 
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up unnaturally and the 
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They are forcing that young 
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young hitter is, is expanding 
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does this way too much. 
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Anthony Volpe. 
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forget about for the Yankees. 
He's not going to be a a 

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starting shortstop for anybody 
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And I'm rooting for him. 
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And I think that those are 
that's a good example of of a 

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young player that just has not 
been able to resist veterans 

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making him do what they're 
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Now to bring it back to Kolek, 
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He was on the court twice. 
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I'll hit you with the numbers 
now twice during 15 point 

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deficit comebacks. 
And to me, I think about that 

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when you're down 15, even though
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couple of threes, the other team
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Like really no lead is safe in 

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the NBA. 
But it wasn't once, it was 

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twice. 
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whether it's turnovers or missed
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sliced up on defense where 
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it's not really believable that 
you can come back from whatever 

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deficit it might be. 
He was in the middle of all the 

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action and at heart rate was 
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And more importantly, you can 
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You could see how his teammates 

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So the the thing about big 
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Knicks right coming out party 
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picture for the Knicks was all 
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Should they blow it up, make 
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Giannis. 
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And at this point, I said this 
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I'm going to give this Group One
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championship together with 
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And I don't think the Knicks 
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here, suddenly the Thunder can't
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what, 3 or 4 and four of six, 
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Timberwolves and three to the 
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the cup. 
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sample, but I I think you can 
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from that. 
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I just got to find it on my 
phone. 

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This is wild, man. 
So this speaks to the depth. 

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This speaks to the way the 
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Leon Rose. 
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year, I'm going to in in just 30
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they've already had ten 
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points or more in a game. 
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team can say that. 
I'm pretty sure you can't. 

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But so let me give you the high 
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players and I'm going to buzz 
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to colic. 
Big picture Brunson 47, Towns 40

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Shabbat. 
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Shaman had 36 a couple of weeks 
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Bridges 35 OG 28 Clarkson 25 
another guy guy who Brown is 

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letting stay on the court when 
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there. 
That will get me the tibs in a 

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moment. 
Deuce who's been hurt a lot this

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year, but I love him 25 for him.
Josh Hart 22 Mitch with 21 and 

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now Colic with 20. 
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a lot of different ways and, and
really do things that I don't 

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think a lot of other teams can 
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playing at different speeds, 
different sizes, different, 

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different rotations. 
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this to the point where you 
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but there comes a point where, 
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information you've been 
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have to just kind of trust you 
got whatever it might be. 

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And really me trusting my gut 
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this. 
And the early dividends have 

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proven to me that it's the right
move. 

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You guys feel this, I feel it. 
I know I can grow it. 

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And we're going to, we're going 
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So you got to understand when 
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time to jump, when it's time to 
go, whatever it might be. 

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And the thing about Tom 
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that it wouldn't have changed 
this year, but I don't believe 

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it would have. 
That's just my opinion. 

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The thing about Tom Thibodeau 
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who he was. 
Now, good thing for for us for a

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couple of years is that, yeah, 
he showed us who he was and that

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was a hell of a basketball coach
who held you accountable, made 

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you play hard and really treated
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very few people value anymore. 
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that that there's a residual 
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heavy minutes and injuries, 
whatever. 

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But if you watch Tom Thibodeau 
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even a Bulls fan go or or T 
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coming here, you didn't see a 
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transferable to the modern NBA. 
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to Tom Thibodeau because I do 
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his foot off the gas a little 
bit overtime. 

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Certainly embrace the 
three-point shot more. 

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There was a little bit of a lean
into the the modern NBA. 

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But the thing that drove me the 
most nuts about not even that he

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didn't go deeper into the bench 
and give young players a chance 

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to show that they could do 
something. 

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The thing that that really I 
thought was detrimental to the 

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team's growth in their ceiling 
was that you'd be in the middle 

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of a game and you'd have. 
I'm just trying to whether it's 

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Deuce and Mitch and I don't 
know, sham it, whatever. 

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I'm going back to last year and 
that team is flowing and they 

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either get the Knicks back into 
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And what does he do? 
Like clockwork and just all 

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right, let me hit the button. 
Let me go back to the guys that 

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I know, the guys that I trust, 
the rotations that I set. 

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Mike Brown's the exact opposite.
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needed. 
Like if you're rolling like Karl

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Anthony Towns, his ass was on 
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comeback. 
I think he came back for the 

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final three minutes and I want 
to say 343 something like that. 

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Like, there's no predisposed, 
all right, this is my guy and 

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this guy's making 40 or $50 
million, and he's an all and not

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just cat, whomever it might be. 
Your bridge is a bridge is an 

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OG. 
He's making X amount of money, 

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which must mean it's got to be 
commensurate with the minutes 

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that you get. 
No, you do what's best for the 

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team. 
And Mike Brown's willingness to 

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do that is so apparent and so 
refreshing. 

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So I am at the point now, and I 
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emboldened even more based on 
Kovic's performance and Clarkson

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USA. 
I'm not making a trade for 

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Giannis. 
I'm giving this Group One shot 

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unless there was a devastating 
injury. 

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From now on to the trade 
deadline, I'm not touching 

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anything and I'm definitely not 
going out and getting a backup 

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point guard. 
You don't need to see Tyler 

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Kolek. 
Where was it? 

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Yeah, So Kolik last year, I 
can't find it. 

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That's the other thing about it,
because like in my studio, I've 

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actually, I had a little bit of 
a different set up. 

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Now I've I've one thing that 
I've got take it behind the 

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curtain, I've got to get a 
little bit more used to where I 

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place things and even the 
microphone and everything just 

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set up a little bit differently.
So we'll get there. 

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But I just remember from doing 
the notes before the show, he 

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averaged 7 minutes a game last 
year. 7. 

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Now, this was not somebody who 
came from Europe, who was 

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untested and, you know, didn't 
really deserve a look. 

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He never got a look despite 
leading the Big East in assists,

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not one, not 2-3 years in a row 
and playing 121 games in 

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college. 
Do you understand the value of 

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that, guys? 
You know, the way the NBA is 

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gone is that really you get 
think about the two kids from 

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Rutgers, think about any young 
player. 

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You get drafted based on what 
you're going to be, not what you

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already are. 
And I understand it and I 

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because I understand it and I 
understand the direction of the 

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modern NBAI don't really push 
back too much because it is what

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it is. 
Otherwise you're going to sound 

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like the old man on the lawn. 
No, I get it. 

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That's fine, because the, the 
contract structure, particularly

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that second contract is so 
exorbitant that, you know, you, 

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you want that second contract to
come, not when the players, you 

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know, 29, which never happens 
anymore, unless it's like a 

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unique outlier kind of a 
situation. 

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But you know, you get drafted, 
you're 19/19/2021 qualifying 

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offers, blah, blah, blah. 
By the time you're 232425 bank, 

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there's the second contract and 
it's more palatable for the team

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to grow things out and and and 
be not even financially solvent,

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but just to just to be able to 
structure the roster better 

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money aside just from a a sheer,
you know, player and team, team 

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building perspective, right, 
talent, talent evaluation. 

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So I don't understand why Kolich
didn't play at all. 

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Now I also get it. 
He put some more time in the 

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weight room this offseason that 
you could tell his body's 

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changed just a little bit from a
year ago, even from Marquette. 

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And and that's what happens. 
I mean, now it's your job, but 

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to play 7 minutes and now you 
see him out there. 

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You don't go like this to the 
crowd and and banging threes and

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people's faces and being in the 
middle of an epic Christmas 

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national game comeback. 
I mean, that's not happening. 

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If Tom Thibodeau is the coach. 
It's not. 

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So I here's what I believe. 
And again, I won't use the word 

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no, I won't be that arrogant. 
I strongly believe, which is why

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I got on the air on WFAN and it 
hurt me to do this, but I had to

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do what I had to do. 
I got on the air the day the 

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Knicks go find it. 
It's out there. 

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Maybe I don't know if they 
deleted all my stuff. 

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No, they didn't. 
I'm just kidding. 

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It's out there and I said, God, 
I hate to be the guy to do this 

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because I love him because man, 
he brought us back and he re 

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instilled Nick pride and I'm 
going to love him forever for 

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that and I'm going to always 
respect him no matter what. 

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You got to move on from Tom 
Thibodeau. 

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You're not going to win a 
champion. 

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I've seen the ceiling. 
See, I've know the limitations. 

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He's in his 60s. 
He's not going to radically 

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change. 
He's he's he's he's no change 

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incrementally a little bit over 
the years, but what he needs to 

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change, he never will. 
And if Tom Thibodeau is coaching

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this team? 
Colic's not playing, Clarkson's 

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not on the floor. 
He's going to yank those guys 

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and go back to the names that he
knows and that he trusts. 

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You think Dor is getting that 
run by the way the kids? 

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Good. 
He's 20. 

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He's showing a little ability to
shoot. 

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He can guard one through 5. 
Tom Thibodau wasn't giving him 

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that latitude, that trust, that 
stage, that rope, you know? 

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And you know what, if you lose a
few extra regular season games 

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because of it, which they might,
the greater good. 

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May, June is what I'm about. 
I've seen the Knicks, you know, 

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win 50 something games, be a top
seed, win the first round, win 

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the second round, get to the 
conference championship and 

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lose. 
I want to win a championship. 

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And I don't believe that Tom 
Thibodeau was that guy. 

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I'm sorry. 
When you're around for when 

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you're coaching for 20 years and
your championship lists and 

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you've had some really, really 
great players and in certain 

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spots the team's gotten better 
when you've moved on, like 

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Minnesota, there's a lot of 
evidence and ammunition for me 

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to say what I just said. 
And it's born out of respect. 

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But I've got to be transparent. 
So I don't believe he would ever

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win. 
Now, I'm not going to be so, so 

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forward to say that I think that
Mike Brown's going to win the 

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championship. 
But what I will say is I believe

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Mike Brown will put this Knicks 
team in a better position to win

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a championship then Tom 
Thibodeau. 

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And right now that's all I can 
ask for. 

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Like what else can I really say?
Now it's December 26th, play 30 

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something games, top seed. 
We know they're really good. 

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We know they're a little 
vulnerable in certain spots, but

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I think we're past the the 
exploratory stage of this team. 

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I think where things are 
happening in a in a good way, in

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a very defined way, role 
allocation is still evolving, 

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admittedly, but that's something
that wouldn't have happened with

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Tom Thibodeau, with all due 
respect. 

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So that's why I'm where I am 
with that. 

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I love Tom, but Mike Brown was a
really good hire. 

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And listen, sometimes you have 
to get lucky. 

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Mike Brown was not the New York 
Knicks first choice. 

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You know that. 
I mean, they went through a 

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couple of different people, got 
turned down, got ridged, not not

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interested, not the one to 
interview. 

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And, you know, sometimes, I 
don't know, Joe Torry, Joe 

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Torry's brought in by the 
Yankees after Buck couldn't get 

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him over the hump at 95. 
And Buck was the perfect coach. 

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Pardon me, Joe was the perfect 
manager at the perfect time for 

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that group. 
That remains to be seen. 

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But I think there's a chance, 
chance. 

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And go on that Mike Brown's the 
perfect coach at the perfect 

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time for this crew. 
All right, let me check some of 

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the comments here. 
Yeah. 

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And no doubt Ormond Duffield 
will always be grateful for what

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Tom did, Tibbs did versus no 
down. 

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How are there no sports on this 
afternoon? 

443
00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:02,960
I what's up, Ira? 
How you doing, buddy? 

444
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,440
I were from Staten Island. 
I was a big Jets fan. 

445
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,120
I got to tell you the story and 
I will this week, Monday, next 

446
00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:12,440
week, if I should say, days are 
all wacky after the holidays. 

447
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,280
I got to tell you the actual 
story, how I became a Jets fan. 

448
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,520
And seeing Ira from Staten 
Island's name up there, that 

449
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:22,480
just sparked something. 
All right, how about Tyler 

450
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:23,440
Wellmore? 
Let's go. 

451
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,840
Knicks love the steps Kolik has 
taken. 

452
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,120
He showed him summarly true, but
Dibs has never gave him the 

453
00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:31,320
chance to shine. 
Happy New year, BT Happy new 

454
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:32,880
year to you as well. 
Merry Christmas. 

455
00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:35,000
All that great stuff. 
Happy holidays. 

456
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:39,600
Yeah, at John 202834. 
Knicks only chance for for a 

457
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,040
chip. 
Well, I don't know if it's their

458
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,480
only chance because with Brunson
and all the other guys in their 

459
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,760
prime and contractually, you 
know, I know you got to see what

460
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,440
you can do with Cat with the 
extension. 

461
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,880
But like, there's urgency, but 
it's not a one year window, 

462
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,560
which is why I'm willing to give
them the runway to see if this 

463
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,920
group could win. 
Like if Brunson's contract was 

464
00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:02,360
up or, or whatever. 
I'm just throwing out a 

465
00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:04,440
situation that would make it 
very different from now. 

466
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,320
I would be very willing. 
I'd say, you know what, we've 

467
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,120
seen this crew for a couple of 
years. 

468
00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:13,560
Not it blow it up, whatever you 
have to get get Giannis in here.

469
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,600
Take one big swing. 
If that doesn't work, it's time 

470
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:16,920
to rebuild. 
We're not there yet. 

471
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,720
And I think many of you smart 
Knick fans, not those who are 

472
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,680
just like, oh, let me get 
Giannis who don't really watch 

473
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:28,280
the NBA. 
Yeah, by the way, you know, very

474
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:29,960
basic premise of doing what I 
do. 

475
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,560
You'd be surprised how many 
people don't actually watch this

476
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,880
stuff that pretend that they do.
It's actually embarrassing. 

477
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,240
Go and check my last week or one
of my last tweets. 

478
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,880
And it's recapturing what I 
wrote about Tyler Kolak the 

479
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:48,480
night that the Knicks drafted 
him June maybe 27 in 2024. 

480
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,720
Go check it out. 
Go check it out because you you 

481
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:53,960
have to watch games. 
You have to understand this 

482
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,840
stuff. 
You have to dig in and dive in 

483
00:24:56,080 --> 00:25:00,240
and not just parachute in and 
then gloss over headlines and 

484
00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:04,000
and forge an opinion that way. 
Let me let me take a little, 

485
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,600
just a very little quick side 
turn that that I think is going 

486
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,080
to be synonymous with this show.
You know one thing that I do, I 

487
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,160
will take side turns. 
I will always get back to where 

488
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:15,960
I was. 
So we'll get back to the Knicks.

489
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,560
I want to do a little something 
on the NFL, which bothered me 

490
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,080
yesterday playing games on 
Christmas. 

491
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,280
They they're so greedy, the NFL.
I'll get to that in a minute, 

492
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,600
but I will take some side turns 
When when, when, when something 

493
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,920
pops into my head and and this 
just popped in my head talking 

494
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,680
about, you know, watching games 
and structuring a show. 

495
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:38,480
The beautiful thing about this 
format and it's nobody's fault 

496
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,160
really. 
This this is I'm I'm not 

497
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,560
throwing shade at anybody. 
I'm just giving you the real on 

498
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,520
how terrestrial radio there. 
There's a little bit of a 

499
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,320
limitation and I've I've got 
love for it. 

500
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:49,360
I'm still going to do some of 
it. 

501
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,960
I, I, I said that, but when you 
do a show for four hours right 

502
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,640
when Mike and Chris started and 
they were and they are legends 

503
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,320
and icons and the face of FAN 
along with a few others and the 

504
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,800
face of talk radio, sports 
radio, not just the fan. 

505
00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:10,200
But when you do that back then 
you don't have to come out like 

506
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:15,680
right away, right away and, you 
know, make an aggressive point 

507
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,960
and making A and, and present 
that a compelling debate. 

508
00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:22,680
Listen, it's my belief. 
Now this might not be good for 

509
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:26,120
everybody, for every PD or 
whatever, but I believe it's 

510
00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,000
good for you, which to me is 
what really matters. 

511
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,040
I think one of the mistakes and 
I, and I was guilty of it a 

512
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,120
little bit and, and Sam and I 
talked about this like we had a,

513
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,880
we had to work through it. 
There were times we were getting

514
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,320
on the air, and not that we ever
said anything. 

515
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,440
We didn't believe neither one of
us would ever do that. 

516
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,160
No, there's no chance that was 
ever happening. 

517
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,240
But there were early on, special
when Spike, who I've got massive

518
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,880
love for because he brought me 
to WFAM, spiked him. 

519
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,680
But one of the Spikes, they just
like a managerial style. 

520
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,680
So imagine a coach playing a 
certain style of basketball or a

521
00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,840
manager utilizing the bullpen a 
certain way. 

522
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:05,000
This was Spike's style, all 
right, Spike wanted within 10 to

523
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,200
fit. 
And he's he's so good at this. 

524
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,560
He's so good at this business. 
But I did not fully 

525
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,680
fundamentally agree with this. 
It was very foreign to me and I 

526
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,960
struggled with it with with 
myself. 

527
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,440
And I think also our show early 
on, Sam and I where within the 

528
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,080
1st 1015 seconds. 
He he wants the audience to 

529
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,760
know, here's what we're hitting 
here. 

530
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,760
Here's here's like the strong 
statement and here's the debate 

531
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,960
and let's go. 
And I get it. 

532
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,000
I get it. 
Because if you don't do that, 

533
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:37,320
yeah, you're bullshit for, you 
know, 5 what's going on? 

534
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:38,920
Here's the phone number. 
What are you doing? 

535
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,280
Ah, traffic was heavy today. 
Oh my God, it was raining. 

536
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,920
Oh, I forgot my umbrella. 
I ate this for. 

537
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,920
I mean, that's boring and people
are going to tune out. 

538
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,520
And as I started to say before, 
unlike Mike and Chris, who are 

539
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,040
the best, you could do that back
then because there was nowhere 

540
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,040
else to go, You know, now, if 
you don't like what we were 

541
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,960
saying, you know, you go to the 
other radio station. 

542
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,680
If you don't like what either 
one of us are saying, you go to 

543
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,280
your favorite podcast, you go to
first take with my guy Stephen A

544
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,360
well, I'm going to get on as a 
guest, no doubt. 

545
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,520
You, you can just bounce around 
and you go to Sirius, listen to 

546
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,360
music, go to Mad Dog, listen to 
shine. 

547
00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:17,440
Like there's a there's so many 
ways to consume. 

548
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:22,840
So I understood fundamentally 
for sure what Spike's mission 

549
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,400
was. 
I think where it hurt us a 

550
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:30,680
little bit is that as a new show
with two very strong 

551
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,520
personalities, alpha 
personalities on the air and 

552
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,400
you, you we weren't able to 
present ourselves in a very 

553
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,680
human way. 
And and you know, I think what 

554
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,920
are the strengths of of our 
show? 

555
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,000
What when we got going and 
certainly I think one of my 

556
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,720
individual strengths, I'll speak
for myself with this now, is 

557
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,120
that, yeah, I am relatable. 
I do come across hopefully is 

558
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,880
likable and somebody you want to
hang out with, certainly 

559
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,640
somebody you want to support. 
That's evidence what you guys 

560
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,760
are doing for me and I'm 
eternally grateful and thankful 

561
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:02,800
for it. 
Thank you. 

562
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:08,000
But if you're not given that 
window to do it, it's it's it 

563
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,400
maybe you get off a little bit 
on the wrong foot. 

564
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,400
How do you think about the early
days, the Carl bank situation, 

565
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,120
you know, which we own. 
Then we you know, we resolved. 

566
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,160
I've got love for Carl. 
I talked to him and so did 

567
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:19,600
Salvador. 
Listen, it's all good. 

568
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,440
This is not again to re litigate
my days there. 

569
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:27,360
But this format allows me to 
just go with a more I think it 

570
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,040
more of a speed. 
Trust me, when there's something

571
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,360
to hit, no one's going to hit it
like me. 

572
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,280
I'd like to think that you guys 
know that by now. 

573
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,000
When there is something to 
hammer and there's something to 

574
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,320
be a lunatic about, you're going
to get it. 

575
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,720
You're going to get unfiltered, 
unleashed, obviously unkillable.

576
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,680
BT that's the essence of this, a
rawness and a transparency. 

577
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,280
But you can't, you can't force 
it. 

578
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,240
All right? 
That's one of the things I'm 

579
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,240
really enjoying about this. 
I just wanted to get that out of

580
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,520
the way, All right, like and 
subscribe it. 

581
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:58,840
Let me get a couple of comments.
I want to give you something on 

582
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,920
the NFL. 
Let's see here it is the it's 

583
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:05,000
the hook. 
I'm not sure what that means. 

584
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:10,560
Can we we can't trade Kolek. 
That's woh man 4766. 

585
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,160
We finally have a point guard 
off the bench that we can't let 

586
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,720
go. 
I wouldn't even trade him for 

587
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:17,520
for Devo. 
Yeah, I got to be honest with 

588
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,240
you, I'm not so sure that I 
would trade him for Dante di 

589
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,440
Vincenzo either. 
Nobody loves Dante di Vincenzo 

590
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,280
like me. 
You know, I love Dante di 

591
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,280
Vincenzo, love him. 
See, here's what had to happen 

592
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,440
#1 Kolak had to prove that he 
can play in the NBA, did it #2 

593
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:37,400
He had to prove that he can kind
of, you know, run an NBA offense

594
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,800
and, and slightly elevate, 
stabilize where it needed to be 

595
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,640
stabilized. 
And, and he's done that check. 

596
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,680
And then the other thing that he
had to prove, and he started to 

597
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,280
prove this now that you can't do
this every night. 

598
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,080
It's going to be dictated by 
matchups for sure. 

599
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,760
But he had to prove that he can 
coexist and, and, and then 

600
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,400
eventually flourish with Jalen 
Brunson together on the court. 

601
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,280
And you're seeing an inch and 
very interesting dynamic between

602
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,360
those two guys, which I love. 
So I want more of it. 

603
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:06,680
I think that Mike Brown trusts 
it. 

604
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:13,040
And you're starting to see, 
you're starting to see the, the 

605
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:17,040
dog that Tyler Kolak has in him.
You know, I was messing around 

606
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:22,040
the other day where I guess this
was maybe maybe Christmas Eve or

607
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,960
maybe the the show before that. 
And I remember saying, you know,

608
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,400
about my son and, and the 
basketball team. 

609
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,520
I'm like, Hey, you know, when, 
when, when it's when it's all 

610
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,240
white kids on the court. 
You're playing basketball. 

611
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,360
But you're not really playing 
the basketball that if you're 

612
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,680
good enough and you work hard 
enough that you're eventually 

613
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,960
going to play like there's 
suburb basketball, then there's 

614
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:46,120
basketball, right? 
And and I say that respectfully,

615
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,200
you know, that that's, that's 
just the way it is. 

616
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:54,280
The numbers back that up. 
But I also think that the some 

617
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,160
of the stereotypes that that 
still exist, it's either a 

618
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,840
laziness or just a lack of 
awareness. 

619
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,920
There are so many. 
Like you see a you see a white 

620
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:08,080
guy who could shoot Larry Bird. 
I remember when Van Horn was 

621
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,480
coming up. 
Oh, player comp, you go to a 

622
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:11,960
website, Larry Bird. 
Why? 

623
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,480
Cuz he's 69 and white. 
I mean, Van Horn was soft as 

624
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:20,320
whatever Bird was a killer. 
There was no comparisons at all.

625
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,720
Tip skin color, right? 
And I think when you look at 

626
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,640
somebody like Tyler Kolick, you 
know, he's got he's got the hair

627
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:26,680
part. 
It looks like he's going to be a

628
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,160
choirboy, like he's going to be 
up there singing Christmas Eve, 

629
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,680
Christmas carols, you know, the 
first OL. 

630
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:37,400
And I think what's been lost 
with Tyler Kolick is if you're 

631
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:42,080
an NBA player today, right? 
And I don't mean European 

632
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,880
players, If you're if you're a 
white American player, I can 

633
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:50,840
promise you that you grew up 
AAU, which is the best of the 

634
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:56,160
best, which means I can promise 
you that you were one of two if 

635
00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:00,520
that many white players on the 
team like you might be saying to

636
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,800
yourself, wow, how is Tyler 
Kolek doing this? 

637
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:04,840
Because he's an absolute 
boulder. 

638
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,520
That's how he's doing it. 
And because he's been doing it 

639
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,720
from the time he was 10 or 11 
years old. 

640
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,240
This is natural. 
Anything else that you might 

641
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:13,800
think? 
Not not many of you, but some of

642
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,800
you might think or might say, 
you know, stereotypes on the 

643
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,880
white point guard. 
This is his world. 

644
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,920
This is all he knows. 
So I really think that he is 

645
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,800
that guy. 
He is that guy to play 18 to 22 

646
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,560
minutes a night. 
He is that guy. 

647
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:31,760
God forbid Brunson tweaks an 
ankle. 

648
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,720
Brunson picks up a couple of 
fouls early like he did in the 

649
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,360
playoffs, Pistons and some other
games. 

650
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,000
All right, Tyler, let's go. 
Can't miss a beat. 

651
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,520
Can't miss a beat. 
I mean, it's it's not like, you 

652
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,160
know, Jaylen Brunson's Derek 
Harper or some great defender 

653
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,800
back in the day locking you 
down. 

654
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,000
I mean, you're not really losing
much on defense because Jaylen 

655
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,880
Brunson is not a good defensive 
player anyway. 

656
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,560
So I just think this is the 
evolution of these Knicks, and I

657
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,040
love it. 
And I love that Mike Brown is 

658
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:02,400
here and I love that he is just 
letting them evolve organically.

659
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,440
And when something good is 
going, he's not messing with it.

660
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,800
He's not forcing things. 
He's not stuck in his old ways. 

661
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,080
He's been a good fit so far. 
Leon Rose has done a lot right 

662
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,280
for these Knicks. 
It's amazing. 

663
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,960
I had another number on SO, and 
I want to get something on the 

664
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,960
NFL. 
Yeah, yeah, I already gave you 

665
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,880
this. 
So to me it wasn't about like 

666
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:27,360
the 16 points or the 9 assists 
or a + 24 team high plus minus. 

667
00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:29,320
It's about the presence I talked
about. 

668
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,120
It's about the clutch, it's 
about the heartbeat. 

669
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,320
Those are things that jump out. 
Those are the first things I 

670
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,719
look for. 
The numbers, you know, if you 

671
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,960
are 5-6 years in, are kind of 
what you are. 

672
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,600
I know we had a little success 
there, but you know, Mitchell 

673
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,440
Robinson, free throw shooter is 
what he is like. 

674
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:47,920
That's that's not what I'm 
talking about. 

675
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,679
Like I think that there's, 
there's a lot of young guards 

676
00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:53,920
that come in the NBA that coming
in from college, like the 

677
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,360
closeout speed is just 
different. 

678
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,400
The length is different, the 
speed is different. 

679
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,240
So you might have that extra 
tick to gather yourself and and 

680
00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:04,320
go in college, but in the NBA 
you're rushed, which means your 

681
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,280
mechanics are compromised, which
means your efficiency is going 

682
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:11,520
to drop And you need a 
laboratory to figure that out. 

683
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,400
And I believe the colic and I 
believe the others really are. 

684
00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:20,840
Yeah, what else here? 
I talked about Tibs. 

685
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,520
The bottom line, guys, I think 
Tom Thibodeau's biggest issue, 

686
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,280
his core deficiency is the thing
that was going to always keep 

687
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:30,800
them back. 
And if you just tuned in, I 

688
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,120
touched on that earlier. 
And obviously you guys want to 

689
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,200
jump in, hit the comments, like 
it, subscribe it, go from there,

690
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:39,800
spread the word. 
I'm going to miss you and Sal 

691
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,560
together. 
Hope you guys do a podcast here 

692
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:42,560
and there. 
Absolutely. 

693
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,160
Listen, of course I want to get 
Sal on the show. 

694
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,080
I love Sal. 
We're doing the live show, BT 

695
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:51,200
and Sal January 22nd, 
myconcerts.net is where you get 

696
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,240
the tickets. 
There's only about 11 or 12 VIP 

697
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,320
tickets. 
Love great seeds, great venue. 

698
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,840
Aaron Boone's going to be there.
Of course, I plan on getting Sal

699
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,360
on as a guest. 
But you know, listen, we've got 

700
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,000
families and we've got things 
and he's doing some stuff and 

701
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:08,720
and I'm doing some stuff. 
The goal is to, I never want to 

702
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:12,040
speak for him because he's his 
own person, obviously, but I, I 

703
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,040
think it would be a shame not to
do something once in a while 

704
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:19,080
just to capture that BT and 
Sapphire and, and, and just give

705
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:20,800
that to you because you want 
that. 

706
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,360
So I, I think would be foolish 
not to try to tap into that. 

707
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:29,160
How, where, when not sure, 
logistics have to work them out.

708
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,760
But of course, I mean, the door 
is open. 

709
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,400
I just got to set up some things
behind the scenes to get any 

710
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,400
guest on, whether it's Sal or 
Stephen A or Boone or whomever. 

711
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:40,880
That'll be next week. 
We're going to roll some stuff 

712
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,920
out next week here, get a couple
of guests up for you. 

713
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,520
Now we're tweaking some stuff. 
But of course, I mean, I, you 

714
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,160
know, an unfiltered conversation
with him would be absolutely off

715
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:50,800
the charts phenomenal. 
There's no doubt about it. 

716
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,000
I let me get this off my chest. 
This is bothering me. 

717
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:58,440
So the NBA started playing 
Christmas games in 1947, since 

718
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,760
2008 is when they started, and I
love when they did this. 

719
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,760
They started to showcase five 
games. 

720
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:10,080
Whether it's a rivalry thing or 
just the best players in the 

721
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:14,240
game, it's a great thing, right?
Let me that's the track record 

722
00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:16,200
of the NBA pertaining to 
Christmas. 

723
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:20,200
Christmas stuff, football, very 
different. 

724
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,800
Football was basically 
incredibly infrequent until 

725
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,400
2020. 
Now it's a regular occurrence. 

726
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:31,880
As we know now, they went out of
their way from 72 to 1988 to 

727
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,280
avoid playing anything on 
Christmas Day. 

728
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,800
When they got from 19 from 1989 
to 2019, right before COVID, 

729
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,160
they they had the occasional 
game. 

730
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:45,440
And listen, if it was, if it was
a regular Sunday Christmas game,

731
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,440
clearly you're going to roll 
that out there. 

732
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,920
To me, though, I think it's such
a disservice to families. 

733
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:57,800
I, I, I absolutely loathe, I 
detest the fact that the NFL has

734
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,600
forced their way onto the 
Christmas schedule. 

735
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,680
You know why? 
Number one, it's all rooted in 

736
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,400
greed. 
That's the obvious answer. 

737
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:08,880
But to me, like, and I remember 
as a kid, Bernard King scored 

738
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:13,320
60, although that was at night. 
Bernard King scored sixty 

739
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,680
against the Nets in 84. 
And then, and I referenced this 

740
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:20,320
the other day in 85 Patrick 
Ewing's rookie season where they

741
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,440
came back from 25 points down 
against the Boston Celtics at 

742
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:27,040
Madison Square Garden. 
And yeah, that was Byrd, McHale,

743
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,320
Parrish, you know, Dennis 
Johnson, older Danny Ainge, Bill

744
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,240
Walton coming off the bench, 
Jerry, Sheesh, Sting, Casey 

745
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:36,040
Jones, one of the best teams in 
the history of basketball, the 

746
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,400
mid 80s Celtics. 
And I remember watching that 

747
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,000
game in my basement and the 
Knicks were awful. 

748
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,160
I I think they won 23 or 24 
games that year. 

749
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,280
Patrick won the rookie of the 
year. 

750
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,520
And then he he hyperextended his
knee, something with his knee 

751
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,640
and he missed the final 18 to 20
games, still won the rookie of 

752
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,560
the year. 
But the point is they had this 

753
00:38:54,640 --> 00:39:01,160
epic comeback game and it was so
unexpected and so amazing. 

754
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:08,080
And it was such an amazing, for 
me, entry into the Knicks on 

755
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:12,440
Christmas Day because now, you 
know, 85, obviously Pat's a 

756
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,440
rookie, 86, They still were 
horrible. 

757
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,880
Then 87, Pitino came in, my guy 
Rick came in, got him to the 

758
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,000
playoffs for the first time 
since Hubie Brown. 

759
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:23,520
All right, couple years before 
that. 

760
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,880
And then the Ascent was on. 
And then, you know, they started

761
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,040
shooting threes and you had Mark
Jackson. 

762
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,320
And then, you know, the late 80s
became the early 90s. 

763
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,560
And now obviously, way before 
that, you have the Oakley trade 

764
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:37,720
for Cartwright. 
So the whole DNA, they changed 

765
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,080
and now all of a sudden the 
Knicks were championship viable.

766
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:44,560
So as a young kid, I guess I was
11 or 12 in, in 85, watching, 

767
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,040
watching that game. 
That was just cool because the 

768
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,000
Knicks were on Christmas Day. 
But then it became appointment 

769
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,000
TV where, you know, I would just
go up and come down, see what 

770
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,960
Santa brought. 
And, you know, then, yeah, my 

771
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,160
mom would make a Big Breakfast 
and then I I'd run downstairs at

772
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,440
like 6:00 AM on Christmas. 
So we'd be done with everything,

773
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:08,880
presents and stocking and. 
Mom and dad would have coffee, 

774
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,960
which now I do. 
I sit there and have coffee 

775
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,040
watching the kids do their 
stuff. 

776
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:16,440
And then, you know, by the time 
the Knicks were on, my dad and I

777
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,960
were like, all right, time to 
break away, time to watch our 

778
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,440
Knicks. 
But the reason why I'm OK 

779
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,800
because I don't want to be 
unfair to the NFL. 

780
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:27,640
I don't want to contradict 
myself. 

781
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,160
I want to tell you exactly why 
I'm more OK with the NBA on 

782
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,160
Christmas and not the NFL number
one. 

783
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,880
It's root and greed. 
That's first and foremost. 

784
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:40,640
But when you watch the NBA, 
don't you watch the NBA with a 

785
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:45,600
different energy? 
Like a different urgency more 

786
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,400
leisurely. 
Now, I'm not saying during the 

787
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,480
comeback yesterday we weren't 
hooting and hollering down the 

788
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,800
basement. 
We were I mean Kolex banging 

789
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,200
threes Mitchell. 
I mean Mitchell with that sick 

790
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:56,400
Donna. 
First of all, that Donovan 

791
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,040
Mitchell dunk was wow, that 
three pointer. 

792
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:00,960
I don't think that that was a 
travel. 

793
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,480
I thought he held his pipitfoot.
I thought they got it right. 

794
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:08,480
Hits that crazy 3 and then Cat 
misses the free throw and 

795
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,160
obviously he throws one which 
was online about 70 feet. 

796
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,440
Whatever was, if that's higher, 
that's going to hit the front 

797
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,800
rim or that may have actually 
gone in. 

798
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,840
That was online. 
So crazy finish point being, of 

799
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,800
course, we're into it, so we're 
not sitting there leisurely as 

800
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:28,600
the comeback is mounting. 
But when you watch football, if 

801
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,040
your team is playing now, my 
team never plays important games

802
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,480
because we suck. 
And at this point in the season,

803
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,480
it's a wrap who we draft in, who
we fire in, who we hire in 

804
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,560
whatever. 
How much free agent money do we 

805
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,640
have? 
Who's available for free agency?

806
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,520
Like that's our Super Bowl. 
And you know, last night, 

807
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,120
Cowboy, yesterday, Cowboys, 
Commanders means nothing because

808
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,200
the Cowboys are out of it, 
Commanders out of it. 

809
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:53,040
You know, obviously Broncos fans
had a lot going on last night. 

810
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:59,280
The the intensity that you watch
football with, to me it is so 

811
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:04,480
different and I just think it's 
unfair to families to wedge that

812
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,480
in because I got news for you. 
Like if The Jets were playing 

813
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,360
yesterday, my whole attitude 
it's and it was a big game and 

814
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,920
it mattered. 
I'm on edge and there's a chance

815
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,440
even if I don't want it, which 
of course I don't want to do it,

816
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,800
even if I unknowingly do it. 
I think there's a little bit of 

817
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,840
disengagement from Christmas 
morning because you're getting 

818
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,440
ready to watch your football 
team, which is a different 

819
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,680
emotion than basketball and much
different than baseball. 

820
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,680
And, you know, again, you're a 
little bit on edge. 

821
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,320
And, you know, I myself, and 
this is a little bit of a fault 

822
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:40,920
of mine, but it is what it is. 
I can't watch big games with a 

823
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,720
lot, with a lot. 
I just can't with people and 

824
00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:46,560
stuff going on around me. 
And I'm like, you got to know 

825
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,440
the deal. 
You got to know when to shut up.

826
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,480
You got to know when to cheer. 
You got to know when to ask a 

827
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,840
question. 
You know, I, I, it's just, 

828
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,240
that's how I am. 
I'm not going to apologize for 

829
00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:57,520
it, Mike. 
I got a big game. 

830
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,120
My team's playing and it's 
football. 

831
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,440
And when you're watching 
football and it's a big game, 

832
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:04,600
you feel like running through a 
brick wall. 

833
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:10,000
And you should not have to feel 
that way on Christmas Day. 

834
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,840
You really shouldn't, like, 
think about this. 

835
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,200
Think about if the Cowboys are 
playing yesterday. 

836
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:20,760
America's team, millions of 
Cowboys fans, if not millions, 

837
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:25,000
certainly hundreds upon hundreds
upon hundreds of thousands of of

838
00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:28,640
in in the United States. 
Dallas Cowboy fans, think about 

839
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,880
all the people going to 
grandma's house, going to their 

840
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,200
aunt's house, going to their 
brother's house, going to their 

841
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,400
sister's house. 
And think about how many times 

842
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:41,400
the doorbell is ringing, how 
many conversations with people 

843
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,080
that you haven't maybe seen in 
them since Thanksgiving, maybe. 

844
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,320
Is that the way you want to 
watch a football game? 

845
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,640
That matters because it's not 
the way that I want to watch a 

846
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:52,320
football game that matters. 
I just think it's unfair and 

847
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,760
it's all because of money. 
And listen, there's things that 

848
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:58,560
the NBA does that drives me 
nuts. 

849
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:03,280
I think Adam Silver, though, I 
do give him credit for some 

850
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:08,800
level nuts here. 
I think the Cup was a kind of a 

851
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,560
lame concept to start. 
I'm getting behind it a little 

852
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,240
bit. 
And I think for the younger 

853
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:16,000
generation, as that becomes more
and more ingrained in their 

854
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,040
viewing habits of the season, 
it's going to have a little more

855
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,960
prestige. 
So I think that that's a good 

856
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:22,520
thing. 
And that too raises money, 

857
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:26,240
etcetera, but it also raises the
competitive value of the sport. 

858
00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:28,920
So that's a check in the good 
column for Adam Silver. 

859
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,840
Adam Silver's problem to me is 
that he's a number 2, not a 

860
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:34,240
number one. 
I've never thought he was an 

861
00:44:34,240 --> 00:44:37,560
authoritative enough figure to 
be the commissioner of the NBA. 

862
00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:40,480
I I just think that he lets, I 
think he's soft. 

863
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:44,080
I think he lets the players run 
the show and I think the product

864
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:45,560
has suffered. 
Even though they're incredibly 

865
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:48,560
talented and I still love the 
NBAI think a lot of people have 

866
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,720
been turned off by it. 
It's a 3 point Chuck fest, which

867
00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:54,200
isn't necessarily his fault. 
That's more stylistic. 

868
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,000
Defense is optional maintenance 
days. 

869
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:00,240
You know, I don't think he was 
at the front of it when maybe he

870
00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:03,080
could have been more assertive 
and more creative and more 

871
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,320
aggressive. 
Like you'll never be Sterns, you

872
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:06,600
know what I mean? 
That's that's the best 

873
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,040
commissioner in the history of 
sports, in my opinion, The old 

874
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:10,800
NBA commissioner. 
Rest in peace. 

875
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:15,960
So while I've been critical of 
him, at least the Cup is good. 

876
00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:19,160
And he's carried on the 
tradition since, oh, you know, 

877
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:23,240
08 when there's five of these 
games on, you know, staggered. 

878
00:45:23,240 --> 00:45:24,800
Next. 
Here's Lebow, here's Kobe, 

879
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,720
here's Shaq, here's Carmelo 
Nick's against the Heat, here's 

880
00:45:28,720 --> 00:45:31,400
Paul Pierce and Garnetti Celtics
against whomever. 

881
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,280
Like that's great. 
But again, you could watch it 

882
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:39,480
and the doorbell can ring and it
doesn't necessarily interrupt 

883
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:43,040
your inner motor. 
And if you know what I mean, you

884
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,000
know what I mean? 
Football does. 

885
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:46,600
You can't watch a big game that 
way. 

886
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:51,280
And I really don't like the fact
that they did it again for all 

887
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,560
those years they went out of 
their way to avoid it from 80, 

888
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:59,000
from 72 to 88, they pretty much 
did anything they could not to 

889
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,320
put it on to avoid it, like 
proactively avoid it. 

890
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,440
Now they're doing the exact 
opposite. 

891
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,320
They're doing anything they can 
to proactively shove it down 

892
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,920
your throat, which I think is 
inherently weak. 

893
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,240
Bothers me. 
Really, really does. 

894
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,400
Let's see. 
This one's from Mackenzie 

895
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:21,320
Joseph, 35 O 5. 
Glad a man I don't know what, 

896
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,480
Glad a man who knows BT talk 
about the textbook. 

897
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,200
How to break a full court press.
I don't really know if I 

898
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,400
understand that. 
I agree with your take. 

899
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,000
Different energy watching the 
NFL. 

900
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,760
Yeah, Come on, guys. 
Love the Knicks on Channel 9. 

901
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:36,440
Love Bernard King. 
I got a frame Bernard King 

902
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,240
jersey downstairs in the 
basement autographed. 

903
00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:41,480
It's awesome. 
What I what I might do as I get 

904
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,440
this thing going, build it out 
further. 

905
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,520
I might actually have to 
incorporate and take a little 

906
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:47,880
work on my part, but it's all 
good. 

907
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:49,600
This is what I want to do for 
the channel. 

908
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:54,600
I might actually just start 
swapping jerseys out and putting

909
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,320
things. 
So you got to Yeah. 

910
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,000
Listen, if I'm launching 
something, you know, I got to 

911
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,200
launch with my guy Donnie 
Baseball, my all time favorite 

912
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,480
athlete. 
But I've got a framed Ewing. 

913
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:09,880
I've got a frame Nameth. 
I've got a framed, I've got a 

914
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,040
framed Stoudemire that's 
autographed that I love. 

915
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,880
Amari. 
That's that's that doesn't quite

916
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,920
make the rotation. 
My wife wanted part of a sales 

917
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:18,560
thing. 
I don't know if that would make 

918
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,720
it yet, but I've got some cool 
things I can throw behind me 

919
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,120
that that I that I will 
certainly do for you. 

920
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:28,840
What else here? 
NBA has been exciting has been. 

921
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,520
Yeah, no doubt. 
Let's see. 

922
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,760
I miss the old days when players
always played and didn't, Yeah, 

923
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:36,840
didn't do the load management 
nonsense. 

924
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,800
Understood. 
I get it. 

925
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,960
That's that's just something 
that, you know, I, I it is what 

926
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:43,920
it is. 
We're kind of too, too deep into

927
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:47,720
it, which I think is an issue. 
And when you're not at the 

928
00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:51,440
forefront of something early, 
well, then I, you know, I think 

929
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,120
it's almost too tough to, to 
undo it. 

930
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,920
You know, you're not. 
Once you let the gates down and 

931
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,760
people are, you know, the 
money's coming in and they 

932
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:03,120
become a little bit accustomed 
to it just to, you know, 

933
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:05,760
abruptly stop it. 
I think it's very, very hard to 

934
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,360
do. 
And I don't think that they're 

935
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:11,040
going to be able to do that. 
Let me ask you a question for 

936
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,840
those of you who That's a good 
question. 

937
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:15,160
You know, hold on, I'm going to 
jot that down. 

938
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,280
Do I still speak to anybody from
ESPN New York anymore? 

939
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:19,920
I assume you mean 1050 ESPN 
Radio? 

940
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,280
Yeah, absolutely. 
I've got a couple of friends in 

941
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,240
the building and I've got 
respect for him. 

942
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:26,680
Listen, the business is what it 
is. 

943
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,240
You compete against each other, 
but at the end of the day, it's 

944
00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:32,200
a very small fraternity. 
There's only so many 

945
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,640
microphones. 
So I was with Michael K last 

946
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:37,920
Saturday at Alex's Christmas 
party. 

947
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:42,080
Spent a lot of time with Michael
and his wife Jody, who I love. 

948
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,000
Haven't seen Mike in a while. 
Before that. 

949
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:46,680
We were at his wedding. 
It was a while ago. 

950
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:52,120
Jeez. 
We, we we do text a lot, share 

951
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:53,680
stuff on our kids. 
Matter of fact. 

952
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,200
When? 
So my son, I think he was five. 

953
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,680
I think this was during yeah, 
this was during COVID because 

954
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,160
he's 10 now. 
I sent him a text, right? 

955
00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:04,120
And it wasn't out of nowhere. 
Like we were communicating a 

956
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:06,840
little bit and I was in the 
backyard and we were working on 

957
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,760
baseball and doing some stuff 
and, and I shot him a text. 

958
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:12,520
I'm I don't, I don't know why 
this popped in my head. 

959
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:14,480
I'm like, he'll, I think he'll 
do it for me. 

960
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,800
Maybe it's a little forward, but
I've known Mike forever. 

961
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:19,520
I love Mike and he's got love 
for me. 

962
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:20,880
I'm going to ask him as a favor,
right? 

963
00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:24,640
Said, hey, if you get a chance 
and they're probably going crazy

964
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,440
at home during COVID, if you get
a chance, is there any way that 

965
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:33,280
you can record a, you know, you 
doing, you doing with my son's 

966
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,200
name, a Yankee home run call. 
Because he was so young. 

967
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,880
And like, when he'd hit a tennis
ball over the fence, he would 

968
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,200
run around the bases and then I 
would, I would pitch it and then

969
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,160
I'd run to like where third base
would be and I'd give him a high

970
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:47,320
5 and, you know, celebrate or be
at home play, wait for him. 

971
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,360
So we were, you know, really 
sparking that baseball love and 

972
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,440
the celebration and, and trying 
to, you know, ingrain that in 

973
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:56,360
him and, and teach him baseball.
And I thought that he would find

974
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,600
it so cool because I've got 
speakers in the yard where I 

975
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:04,440
play music where if I could pump
in a call from Michael K and 

976
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,920
with his name in it, how sick 
would that actually have him 

977
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:10,400
emulate As he's running around 
the bases, the ball's going over

978
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:12,120
the fence. 
And I'm thinking that maybe 

979
00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:13,600
you'll get, you know, get around
to it. 

980
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:18,680
If I tell you in in 2 minutes, I
had it back and it was Chris 

981
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:21,320
Sale pitching for the Reds. 
He's like, here's the pitch from

982
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,560
Sail at the stretch. 
Here's the pitch to Tierney. 

983
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:28,240
It is high. 
He went to his whole Michael Kay

984
00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:31,560
home run shtick. 
It was absolutely awesome. 

985
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,000
Mike's a great guy. 
I really. 

986
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:35,080
I love Michael. 
I do. 

987
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:36,440
I love Don. 
I've known Don. 

988
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:39,240
I was at Don's wedding. 
I have loved Don forever. 

989
00:50:39,240 --> 00:50:41,760
I'm so happy I let him know 
this. 

990
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,400
So happy. 
Got the devil's job and it's one

991
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:47,000
of his dream jobs. 
I got a funny story is how long 

992
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,960
Don and I go back. 
I don't know if any of you will 

993
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:54,240
remember this, but around I 
would say 2005. 

994
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,000
Yeah. 
This is a minute 2O5O6 and on 

995
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,560
MSG they came up with this new 
concept, right? 

996
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:04,040
So this one I'm a 1050 and at 
that point home of the Knicks, 

997
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:09,040
home of the Rangers, right, and 
they asked Don to do like a wrap

998
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:12,720
around hockey show and they 
asked me to do a wrap around NBA

999
00:51:12,720 --> 00:51:14,400
show. 
This is this is funny. 

1000
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:15,920
You guys, you guys appreciate 
the story, right? 

1001
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,960
Hockey season starts before 
basketball. 

1002
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,360
And I remember sitting in my 
apartment in in the city 

1003
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:25,480
watching MSG, watching Don. 
Now, they basically just threw 

1004
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:29,120
them out there and they threw 
them out at the play by play. 

1005
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,240
Remember the play by play right 
from right next to Cosby's up 

1006
00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:34,520
the escalator at the old garden,
right? 

1007
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:38,160
You do, if you do, you do. 
And I'm, I'm like nervous for 

1008
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:39,880
Don. 
And I had, I had done TV at that

1009
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,280
point, but never really as a 
host, always as a guest or a 

1010
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,400
contributor. 
And pretty much same with him. 

1011
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:48,120
So I'm watching Don, I'm sitting
there and like, it's hot as 

1012
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:49,600
hell. 
I think he's sweating a little 

1013
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,120
bit with something I could 
relate to. 

1014
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,720
The lights are on him. 
There's like it's not even a 

1015
00:51:53,720 --> 00:51:55,840
Purdue show. 
So he's just talking whatever 

1016
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,480
he's talking about. 
I'm like, man, this is you want 

1017
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,520
to talk about starting a new 
endeavor with with no no 

1018
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,520
tightrope, but no net. 
Like it was bare bones. 

1019
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:08,840
So now that was done their plan 
for me because you know, then 

1020
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:10,760
them thinking the Knicks are 
more pot, not because they 

1021
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,720
thought I was better than Don, 
but just because the Knicks are,

1022
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,120
you know, Knicks, even though 
the Rangers have great fans, 

1023
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,360
Knicks have more fans. 
It's basketball, right? 

1024
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:23,280
So I forget who it was opening 
night, say November 4th, 

1025
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,680
whatever it was, they're like, 
no, no, you're not going to do 

1026
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,880
it from the restaurant. 
You're going to do it from we're

1027
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:31,400
going to build a big studio desk
and you're going to be in front 

1028
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:35,000
of about 3000 people and we're 
going to do a live show and 

1029
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,760
you're going to host it and 
Junkyard JJYD, junkyard Jerome 

1030
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,720
Williams from Georgetown, from 
the Knicks, Raptors, etcetera. 

1031
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:43,160
He's going to do the show with 
you. 

1032
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,360
I'm like, all right, great. 
I'm like, so this is like a 

1033
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:48,200
month before I go and then after
it they're like you go do the 

1034
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,720
post game show where Don did it 
at the play by play restaurant 

1035
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:53,760
and it'll be great. 
I'm like, awesome. 

1036
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,240
Yeah, I'm nervous, I'm excited. 
You name it, I'm it. 

1037
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,720
And I'm like, well, we got a 
month to prepare. 

1038
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,440
One week passes, two week past 
the three-week nothing. 

1039
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,960
Finally like 2 days before the 
the game and the show. 

1040
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:09,920
I I think I didn't text him. 
I don't even know how I got in 

1041
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:12,760
touch with somebody at MSG. 
I'm like you guys, what you 

1042
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:14,560
know, what's the plan here? 
What are what are we doing? 

1043
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,920
I have no idea what we're doing.
Help me out a little bit. 

1044
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:18,120
You know, whatever you need, I 
got you. 

1045
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:19,480
But I really don't know what 
we're doing. 

1046
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:21,840
So the Oh yeah, come on, we'll 
have a little meeting. 

1047
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:25,200
So I go to MSGI, sit in a in a 
little boardroom with them and 

1048
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:26,600
we're kind of plotting out the 
show. 

1049
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:32,440
Now keep in mind I have no 
literally 0 I'm a radio guy and 

1050
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:37,760
for TV just a guest guy. 0 
awareness of the verbiage of TV,

1051
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:42,080
let alone the actual usage of TV
equipment. 

1052
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:47,680
So I am sitting on a massive MSG
desk on the steps of the old 

1053
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:52,520
garden and there's got to be 
3000 people in front of me at 

1054
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,120
least. 
And it is mayhem, right? 

1055
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,920
And I got the earpiece, man, I'm
nervous. 

1056
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,680
I I was absolutely thank God it 
was cold out, otherwise I would 

1057
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,920
have been dripping from sweat, 
right? 

1058
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,480
And they go, all right, you 
know, we're live in 60. 

1059
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,040
I'm like, oh God, 60 seconds 
till I end my career here. 

1060
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:13,560
This should be an absolute shit 
show. 

1061
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:17,120
This is going to be horrendous. 
I just, oh, yeah, hey, by the 

1062
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:18,880
way, we're going to start the 
show. 

1063
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:22,640
Just follow the jib camera on 
7th Ave. and just start talking 

1064
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:24,680
and you'll be, you'll be great. 
The show's going to start. 

1065
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:27,000
I have no idea what a jib camera
is. 

1066
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,440
I've never heard that expression
in my life at that point. 

1067
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:33,360
Now the jib is like the thing 
that like kind of moves like 

1068
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:34,880
this. 
It's got this big arm and it 

1069
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:37,400
kind of gives you more of an 
overhead shot. 

1070
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:40,680
So I guess they had a jib camera
on 7th Ave. 

1071
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,360
They're like 5. 
I'm like, all right, They said 

1072
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:45,520
something about a jib camera on 
7th Ave. 

1073
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,080
All right. 
Oh, it had to be Old forks. 

1074
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:49,920
It was Larry Brown's first and 
only year. 

1075
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:55,480
They're like, you're live now. 
I all I see is 7th Ave. and I 

1076
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,800
don't see myself yet. 
God, if I saw this tape, I think

1077
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:00,680
I would I think I would die from
embarrassment. 

1078
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,720
But I actually and I think other
components of the show because 

1079
00:55:03,720 --> 00:55:06,480
of me were horrible. 
But I actually was able to 

1080
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,440
execute the first part of what 
they told me to execute 60 

1081
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,280
seconds before they told me to 
execute it. 

1082
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:15,280
And I just remember sitting 
there next to JYD and all this 

1083
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,320
throng of people nervous out of 
my mind, all my friends 

1084
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:21,200
watching. 
I'm like, this is going to be 

1085
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:25,720
and Joe Beningo, what a disaster
is going to be a disaster, 

1086
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,320
right? 
And when I see the, the sirens 

1087
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:31,200
and they, the police and the 
FDNY and then the taxis and the 

1088
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,840
people, I'm like, oh, there it 
is a live shot. 

1089
00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,200
And I somehow I just, I just 
went into like, I don't know, 

1090
00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:38,840
whatever. 
I went into a live 7th Ave. and 

1091
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:40,760
everybody's pumped up there. 
A new era. 

1092
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:42,000
Nick's something like the new 
era. 

1093
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,760
Nick's basketball. 
Larry Brown here to help get the

1094
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,680
Knicks back on track. 
And then I can actually see now 

1095
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,000
they're pointing to the jib 
because I didn't even know where

1096
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:54,760
it was because I evidently once 
they went from 7th Ave., the jib

1097
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,920
was going to come to me and then
I had to find the so I'm not 

1098
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,200
looking at the wrong like the 
jib's here and I'm looking 

1099
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:01,800
there. 
You look like an idiot. 

1100
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:03,840
Trust me, I was going to look 
like an idiot anyway that night.

1101
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,720
So I'm like, they're pointing 
frantically and those guys were 

1102
00:56:07,720 --> 00:56:10,640
awesome. 
They once I got like the crew 

1103
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:13,800
was great, great crew, awesome 
people. 

1104
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,440
And they knew I needed some 
help, but I don't think they 

1105
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:18,560
knew before I started the show 
that I needed some help. 

1106
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,160
Once they figured it out, they 
were awesome and they were 

1107
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:22,800
really helpful. 
So they're pointing at the 

1108
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:29,560
camera and I somehow with an 
element of grace, somehow look 

1109
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:32,000
at the camera. 
And now I'm like, now I'm like 

1110
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,440
welcoming everybody and I'm 
like, holy shit, this thing's 

1111
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:36,760
going, we're doing ATV show. 
I have no idea what. 

1112
00:56:36,800 --> 00:56:38,640
I don't know what I've got to go
to commercial break. 

1113
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:40,200
I don't know how long the first 
segment is. 

1114
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:44,320
I'm not even really sure how to 
introduce everybody figured my 

1115
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,600
way through it. 
And that that just triggered the

1116
00:56:47,240 --> 00:56:50,120
the question about am I still 
friendly with anybody from, you 

1117
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:54,160
know, from ESPN and Don and, and
Michael obviously at the 

1118
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:57,440
forefront of that. 
And you know, Tim McCarthy, who 

1119
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:00,240
is an icon in the business, 
hired me. 

1120
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:04,440
I own a guy love Timmy. 
He actually called me as soon as

1121
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:08,760
the news broke with with WFAM. 
And Timmy is just a great 

1122
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:10,920
person, you know, a lot of good 
people there. 

1123
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,840
Pete Doherty, who was, you know,
running up the sales forever. 

1124
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,760
I was worked with Pete for about
10 years. 

1125
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,960
So, yeah, the answer to that 
question is, is absolutely yes. 

1126
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:23,440
But that little Side Story that 
I just gave you, I think that's 

1127
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,520
one of the things you're going 
to get a lot of with it. 

1128
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,960
And I hope you appreciate that, 
You know, full transparency. 

1129
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,440
You know, my wife's like, hi, 
come on. 

1130
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:32,960
It takes forever to tell the 
story. 

1131
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:36,040
Hey, that's what my dad, that's 
that's the way my dad tells the 

1132
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:37,880
story. 
And when you grow up with 

1133
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,200
somebody telling the story that 
way, right? 

1134
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:41,960
I think that that's how you 
going to tell this. 

1135
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,520
I think I tell good stories. 
I mean, sometimes I get a little

1136
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:46,200
long winded, but I think I tell 
good stories. 

1137
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,040
I really do. 
I think I keep your interest. 

1138
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,320
Remember the year Nick said, 
Chris? 

1139
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:57,160
Oh, well, I was talking about 
that Ewing game back in 1985 and

1140
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:01,520
I remember, I don't know if it 
was the post of the news, but 

1141
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:05,960
like one of the one of the 
headlines was Jolly Saint Nick 

1142
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:11,040
Knick or Mary Nick Miss. 
It was just so awesome. 

1143
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:15,040
So I love the Christmas games. 
I just don't like that the NFL 

1144
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,720
is is doing that as well. 
ASBT going to have tiki on? 

1145
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:20,200
Yeah, I would have. 
I would have tiki on. 

1146
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:21,800
Yeah, I think I would do that at
some point. 

1147
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:23,880
Yep. 
Let's see. 

1148
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,640
Get the NFL off. 
Yeah, Get the. 

1149
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:28,200
I think many of you are with me 
here. 

1150
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,160
It just takes away from what 
we're trying to do as a family. 

1151
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:33,040
I get it. 
It's a business. 

1152
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:35,680
And I also understand that it's 
our right not to put it on. 

1153
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,600
But if your team's playing, 
you're now putting a very 

1154
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:43,680
unfair, specific, you know, 
specific situation that there's 

1155
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:46,680
really only one of two options. 
You either don't watch it and 

1156
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:49,680
you penalize yourself to 
celebrate Christmas, or you do 

1157
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:52,480
watch it and you don't really 
enjoy watching the game and 

1158
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,720
you're certainly not enjoying 
Christmas, you know? 

1159
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:56,080
And that bothers me. 
Me. 

1160
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:00,160
What else? 
Well, a lot of you guys want 

1161
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:01,600
Tiki as a guest. 
Yeah, I got you. 

1162
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:02,880
Let's see. 
Remember, not everybody 

1163
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,600
celebrates Christmas. 
That's true. 100% says so. 

1164
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,800
Having something to watch on TV 
or go to see is great for us. 

1165
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,200
Understood. 
But, you know, Christmas is the 

1166
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,720
is the biggest Christian 
holiday, you know, that's what 

1167
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,200
we celebrate. 
I understand. 

1168
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,080
Clearly not everybody celebrates
Christmas. 

1169
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:20,440
Of course not. 
I get it. 

1170
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,360
I just think there's such a 
thing as overkill, you know, and

1171
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:27,600
I think that we've gotten 
further and further and further 

1172
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:32,160
away from what really matters. 
And it it bothers me, you know, 

1173
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:37,040
not that my one or two-minute 
statement on this is going to 

1174
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:39,360
change the world, but I'm going 
to let you know how I feel. 

1175
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:41,680
I don't like it. 
I watched the NFL all yesterday 

1176
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:42,920
here. 
I've watched a little bit of 

1177
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:44,000
Denver. 
Otherwise, no interest. 

1178
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:47,240
That's it, although I will give 
you a couple of picks after. 

1179
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:49,000
Can I say one more thing about 
this? 

1180
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:52,640
Right? 
Is anybody else tired of LeBron 

1181
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,280
James? 
I, I, I probably shouldn't even 

1182
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:56,640
start this now because I'm going
to rap soon, fairly soon. 

1183
00:59:57,160 --> 00:59:59,720
You know, his comments the other
day really bothered me. 

1184
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,880
LeBron sitting there saying, 
yeah, you know, I'd really 

1185
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:04,720
rather not be playing on 
Christmas Day. 

1186
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:07,760
And I'd rather be on the couch. 
And do us a favor, dude, don't 

1187
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,040
go. 
Go sit on the couch. 

1188
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:13,360
See, the LeBron fatigue for me 
is a real thing. 

1189
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:18,400
And like the I do think that the
GOAT conversation. 

1190
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:21,960
Number one, it's a little 
frustrating because there's no 

1191
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:25,560
right or wrong answer. 
Yeah, it's it's metrically 

1192
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:29,120
driven to an extent and 
optically driven, but it's 

1193
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:32,080
really opinion based. 
I believe it's MJI believe it's 

1194
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:34,520
LeBron. 
I think it's I think it's Kobe. 

1195
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:37,000
I think it's Bill Russell. 
Nobody won more than Bill. 

1196
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:39,320
All right, well, how am I going 
to refute that? 

1197
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:45,280
I'm not All I'm going to tell 
you is it is my opinion that 

1198
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,040
it's definite. 
Excuse me, definitely Michael 

1199
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:47,840
Jordan. 
There's no doubt. 

1200
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:52,920
And like, LeBron James too often
acts like he's doing us a favor.

1201
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:54,720
Dude, you don't want to play, 
don't fucking play. 

1202
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:57,160
Don't play. 
Don't care. 

1203
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:01,480
Like the NBA world's going to 
stop spinning if LeBron James 

1204
01:01:01,480 --> 01:01:03,920
doesn't show up and play. 
Like, if you're that 

1205
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:07,880
uninterested in playing on 
Christmas, just retire already. 

1206
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:11,080
The way people kiss his ass is 
insane. 

1207
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:14,200
I get it. 
I think LeBron is amazing. 

1208
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:16,840
That's, I mean, jeez, if you 
can't give him that, you're, 

1209
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:21,360
you're just being unfair. 
And the other thing, excuse me, 

1210
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:24,360
the other thing that I think 
that really does need to be said

1211
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:28,480
about LeBron James, and I mean, 
this LeBron James has been in 

1212
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:32,480
the the global spotlight. 
Now, part of it is because he 

1213
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:34,120
puts himself out there a lot. 
That's cool. 

1214
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:35,960
His brand and all that stuff. 
I get it. 

1215
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:39,000
Won't begrudge him for that, but
when he was coming out of high 

1216
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:42,840
school in Ohio and then 
obviously early in the NBA in in

1217
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:46,560
the early mid 2000s with the 
Cavs and the social media world 

1218
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:50,200
was just starting to pop. 
And there's no guide. 

1219
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,440
There's no like Cliff notes 
version on how to navigate that 

1220
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,800
without making mistakes. 
And I've got profound respect 

1221
01:01:56,800 --> 01:02:01,080
for LeBron James. 
I do amazing all time player and

1222
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:04,720
for a guy who has been in the 
spotlight as long as he's been, 

1223
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:09,360
you know, never got a Dee Wee, 
never got pinched with drugs, 

1224
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:11,400
never had a domestic violence 
situation. 

1225
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:14,440
Like he's he's an obviously very
present dad. 

1226
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:16,600
I think he's I think he's a he's
a great person. 

1227
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:20,280
But like, you know, you got to 
read the room a little bit here.

1228
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:24,160
Like if you don't if if you're 
that over plan on Christmas, 

1229
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:28,800
then just do us a favor and 
retire because the NBA doesn't 

1230
01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:31,680
really need LeBron. 
A matter of fact, I I can always

1231
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:34,640
speak for myself. 
I don't really think that many 

1232
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:36,640
of you enjoy. 
I could be totally off on this, 

1233
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:38,360
really. 
I don't think many of you enjoy 

1234
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:41,080
watching LeBron James play the 
way you used to enjoy watching 

1235
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:42,720
LeBron James play. 
I don't. 

1236
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:47,440
It's boring, you know, like I 
never made him play as long. 

1237
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:51,360
I never, ever got tired watching
Kobe Bryant play. 

1238
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:55,000
I never got to and I still 
haven't get tired watching Steph

1239
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:56,480
Curry do his thing. 
Never. 

1240
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:59,920
Obviously going back in the day,
you know, the Jordans, the 

1241
01:02:59,920 --> 01:03:04,640
birds, the magics, never I just 
I don't know. 

1242
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:07,600
And he has played a lot longer 
understood and that is part of 

1243
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:10,240
the fatigue, I'm sure. 
But some of the things that he 

1244
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:18,000
says about how like 
disinterested he is in you can't

1245
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:21,680
competing on certain things. 
You can't miss the mark more 

1246
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:25,480
like I get it why I don't cuz I 
can't relate to it. 

1247
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:30,080
But when you've got that net 
worth, you live in a world that 

1248
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,280
is nowhere, you're on a 
different planet, you're not 

1249
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:35,000
even in the same stratosphere 
solar system that we're 

1250
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,600
necessarily in. 
We can't relate to you and the 

1251
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:39,440
thing you can't really relate to
us anymore. 

1252
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:42,680
And that's fine. 
Happens to a lot of people, but 

1253
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:45,720
you can't lose the core of what 
got you here. 

1254
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:49,360
And that's just I, I, I think 
playing both now, he's kept 

1255
01:03:49,360 --> 01:03:54,000
himself in amazing shape, which 
is an incredible testament to 

1256
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:58,160
his competitive being. 
I just really, I was bothered by

1257
01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:00,120
that statement. 
I really was. 

1258
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:03,720
I thought it was weak. 
I thought it was unnecessary. 

1259
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:07,200
Just this would have hurt you to
say, hey, it's a real honor to 

1260
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:11,160
play on the NBA and on Christmas
for the NBA and represent the 

1261
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:14,440
brand. 
And, you know, you just just 

1262
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:16,760
regurgitate something from the 
past and keep it moving. 

1263
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:20,560
Didn't like that too much. 
I was never a LeBron guy anyway.

1264
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:22,960
I'm not even looking to turn 
this into slander, LeBron, but 

1265
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:27,480
that bothered me. 
What do we got here, James? 

1266
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,440
Wrestle talk at Giants talk 
steps the best player since 

1267
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,960
Michael Jordan and he thinks 
athlete is going to be the next 

1268
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:35,800
head coach for the Giants. 
If the Giants hire him, they're 

1269
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:37,520
idiots. 
I said the other day when I was 

1270
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:41,360
giving out gifts for the New 
York local teams, what I said 

1271
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:44,240
Santa needed to bring the New 
York Football Giants was a big 

1272
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:48,360
heaping pile of bold because the
Giants need to be bold and who 

1273
01:04:48,360 --> 01:04:51,800
they hire as their head coach. 
And I know athlete is very 

1274
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:53,920
respected. 
There's other coordinators. 

1275
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:56,160
I get that. 
Giants can't mess up around. 

1276
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:59,960
You cannot roll the dice and 
hire somebody that you hope will

1277
01:04:59,960 --> 01:05:02,800
grow into the coach that you 
need to pull out of the abyss. 

1278
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:05,960
You go out and you get that 
person by being bold. 

1279
01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:09,680
By the way, if you guys missed 
it, go check out the the other 

1280
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:11,320
shows. 
Only a few of them are up there 

1281
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:13,560
here. 
Let's see. 

1282
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:15,360
Unless you were gambling 
yesterday, there was really no 

1283
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:17,560
reason to watch the NFL. 
Yeah, that's fair. 

1284
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:20,000
I'd see that a little bit. 
I don't know if I'd agree on 

1285
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:22,320
that Curry thing about he's the 
second best player behind 

1286
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:25,720
Jordan, maybe the second most 
influential maybe you can terms 

1287
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:28,360
of shooting. 
And you know globally how that 

1288
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:33,040
has now changed the game. 
It's amazing when I was a kid, 

1289
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:36,440
you know, we'd walk in the rent,
we'd walk in in the gym and you 

1290
01:05:36,440 --> 01:05:39,120
know, maybe put one through your
legs if you could and shoot a 

1291
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:40,600
layup. 
Now, for the most part, the 

1292
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,000
first thing every kid does when 
he walks in the gym is fire up a

1293
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:45,920
20 footer, whether it's from 
their their their waist, if 

1294
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:48,520
they're a little guy or if 
they're, you know, obviously 

1295
01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:51,320
physically more mature and they 
could reach they do that. 

1296
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:54,400
It's crazy, you know, so that's 
something I'll that might be a 

1297
01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:56,000
different pod at some point 
there. 

1298
01:05:56,000 --> 01:06:00,120
But like the influences of the 
NBA incorporating, you know, the

1299
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:03,080
size and the evolution of the 
athletes, you'd have to get a 

1300
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:04,320
little rough. 
You have to actually go back to 

1301
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:08,320
George Miken, who truly was the 
first big in the NBA with the 

1302
01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:10,800
Minneapolis Lakers. 
And then how that position 

1303
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:13,080
evolved. 
And, you know, Magic is a big 

1304
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:15,880
point guard and the shooting 
prowess, which Steph Curry is 

1305
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:19,400
absolutely responsible for. 
So that's, that's something 

1306
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:22,520
we'll do at some .1000% agree 
about the LeBron stuff. 

1307
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:25,120
Love you, BT This podcast is 
going places. 

1308
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:31,960
Yeah, I, I believe I, you know, 
it's, it's not about some of you

1309
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,600
said, well, you know why at 
10:00 you're going right up 

1310
01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:37,000
against WFAN. 
No, that's not the mission. 

1311
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:39,120
I'm just kind of, I'm routine 
oriented person. 

1312
01:06:39,680 --> 01:06:43,400
My, my goal is not to go against
WFAN. 

1313
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:45,360
My goal is to go against the 
world. 

1314
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:51,120
That's, that's my mission. 
I, I have been, I am as 

1315
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:57,720
motivated now as I've ever been.
You know when when you do a show

1316
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:02,600
and you have energy and I'm 
definitely an energy based host,

1317
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:05,640
right? 
You can't fake it. 

1318
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:09,200
You can't because there's going 
to be days where invariably it's

1319
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:11,280
not there. 
You don't feel well, somebody's 

1320
01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:13,560
sick and something wrong with 
the kids, something up with the 

1321
01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:15,240
wife like this. 
That's real life stuff that I've

1322
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:17,360
talked about. 
But you've got to be able, if 

1323
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:21,840
being highly energetic and 
passionate is who you truly are,

1324
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:25,400
it's easy for a cup. 
Maybe not easy, but it's doable 

1325
01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:29,080
for a couple of hours to kind of
just almost block that out and 

1326
01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:33,440
do your job and just fire right.
And I'll, I'll, you know, again,

1327
01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:37,040
totally honest, there's most 
days I leave the station when I 

1328
01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:39,400
would leave the station, 
especially with Sal who would 

1329
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:42,640
match that intensity and in 
certain places even go higher in

1330
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:45,520
certain things that I would. 
So, you know, we volley back and

1331
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:47,920
forth depending upon the topic, 
whatever might be great energy 

1332
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:49,680
from Sal. 
One of the many things I love 

1333
01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:51,560
about him, one of the many 
things I love about working with

1334
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:53,440
him. 
But when you do that, it's, it's

1335
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:55,320
exhausting, It's mentally 
taxing. 

1336
01:07:55,640 --> 01:08:02,400
So I don't want to present the, 
the, the wrong illusion that I 

1337
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:05,880
ever took my job for granted. 
The moment that microphone went 

1338
01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:10,960
open, I was, I was like, I had 
the same passion that I did in 

1339
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:13,680
99 when I first started, I had 
no idea what I was doing. 

1340
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:17,279
Getting ready for a show. 
Same passion, same focus. 

1341
01:08:17,279 --> 01:08:20,359
But when you're in a routine, 
this is my point, you know, and 

1342
01:08:20,359 --> 01:08:23,800
it's 13 years, 10 down the hole 
doing national with Tiki, same 

1343
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:25,720
building before. 
If you're not aware, we were 

1344
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:30,160
here on the national side, 345 
Hudson, where WFA is right by 

1345
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:33,120
the Hudson, by the Holland 
Holland Tunnel and then 

1346
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:35,319
literally you, I would come out,
make a right. 

1347
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:39,479
And then within 10 feet is the 
studio that I was using for 

1348
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:43,720
three years, boutique and 
Mattel, when you do that, it's 

1349
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:45,359
the same route. 
All right, let me leave the 

1350
01:08:45,359 --> 01:08:47,640
house at the same time. 
Let me know when I have to guess

1351
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:50,840
up like you wrotely do things. 
OK, here's the here's the 

1352
01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:53,200
traffic flow. 
OK, here's where I parked my 

1353
01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:55,160
car. 
Here's where I want to be at my 

1354
01:08:55,240 --> 01:08:58,080
I would like to be in the studio
and pretty much was every day 

1355
01:08:58,279 --> 01:09:00,479
for all those years, an hour and
a half before the show. 

1356
01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:02,920
I'd like to get in there. 
And that's where I get some, 

1357
01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:07,319
some private time before we meet
as a show, kind of get my ideas 

1358
01:09:07,319 --> 01:09:10,080
going, do my reading, connect 
some dots for me. 

1359
01:09:10,359 --> 01:09:12,479
And then obviously do it as a, 
as a joint team. 

1360
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:15,120
So that was never taken for 
granted. 

1361
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:17,840
But you, you do, you get in a 
routine and it's kind of like, 

1362
01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:19,800
all right, you know, the same 
thing every day. 

1363
01:09:20,279 --> 01:09:26,120
Now, this abrupt change for me 
has, has inspired me in a way 

1364
01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:31,240
that I haven't felt in a while. 
I, I like, like that, you know, 

1365
01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:35,520
like that the unknown. 
And when I use the word mission,

1366
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:38,520
that's why I, I very carefully 
select that word. 

1367
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:41,359
It is my mission. 
I can't do it alone. 

1368
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:43,920
You, you got to follow me. 
You got to like it. 

1369
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:46,120
You got to subscribe. 
If you, if you just jump in, 

1370
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:48,520
trust me, I've got the requisite
hits. 

1371
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:51,520
I've got the, the, the followers
and I've got the, the hours 

1372
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:53,840
viewed, but they're not letting 
me monetize it yet. 

1373
01:09:53,840 --> 01:09:57,440
So the Super chats and the, and 
the and the and the what not the

1374
01:09:57,440 --> 01:09:59,720
subscriptions, whatever the 
hell, the other, the, I don't 

1375
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:02,720
know, whatever the word is, all 
the other things you can do from

1376
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:06,120
a monetary point of view. 
We will, we will do right. 

1377
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:08,520
But that also includes building 
out my studio like I've got a 

1378
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:09,880
concept. 
Let me see if I can show you 

1379
01:10:09,880 --> 01:10:13,120
this year. 
This is something that I'm 

1380
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:15,480
toying with. 
You know what I want your 

1381
01:10:15,480 --> 01:10:17,160
opinion on this. 
All right, I just got to find it

1382
01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:19,840
on my phone, so look at all 
these Christmas pictures. 

1383
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:24,720
Oh my God, it was so awesome. 
The one of the things that I'm 

1384
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:29,320
seriously contemplating would be
so I I do like this. 

1385
01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:31,960
This is a clean look. 
Some days I might put my name of

1386
01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:34,360
the jersey behind it. 
Some days I might put up my 

1387
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:38,120
Bernard King jersey or, you 
know, maybe my Guns and roses 

1388
01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:40,360
signpost away. 
I might rotate that. 

1389
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:45,800
But what I'm also thinking about
doing is from the entire length 

1390
01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:49,120
of the wall and and and height 
of the wall, creating something 

1391
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:52,280
like that. 
OK, where you will see that I've

1392
01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:55,160
already taken the steps to get 
prices, how long it would take 

1393
01:10:55,160 --> 01:10:58,160
to build in where basically, you
know, I would it would be 

1394
01:10:58,160 --> 01:11:01,600
installed and I would pull it 
down and you have a very, very 

1395
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:04,000
different studio look. 
So that's something that I'm 

1396
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:08,720
thinking about like every single
day, every every moment I get a 

1397
01:11:08,720 --> 01:11:11,960
chance to come in here. 
I am plotting out how to make 

1398
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:16,120
this the best, you know, and a 
lot of you have said like, you 

1399
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:19,000
know, take Joe Rogan as as a 
template here. 

1400
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:22,240
I mean, I mean Joe's, that's 
amazing. 

1401
01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:26,040
I mean, so, but you know, to put
a limit on whatever we can 

1402
01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:27,280
accomplish, I'm not going to do 
that. 

1403
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:31,360
I'm going to be realistic, which
is why when I say 10,000 Subs by

1404
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:35,120
January 1st, 2026, to me that's 
realistic. 

1405
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:38,080
Although now that I see, you 
know, we're already 85, maybe 

1406
01:11:38,080 --> 01:11:40,600
it's going to be 12,500. 
Maybe I've got to up that. 

1407
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:46,200
But it is a mission to do this. 
And doing this will be couple of

1408
01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:49,240
the topics I want to hit each 
day, couple of the stories woven

1409
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:52,320
in, a couple of personal things.
I'm going to get my dad on as a 

1410
01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:53,840
guest. 
He was talking about the flip 

1411
01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:56,640
phone again today. 
My God almighty, the flip phone.

1412
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:58,440
Can't believe it. 
I don't know how that even came 

1413
01:11:58,440 --> 01:12:01,200
up. 
But oh, he's talking about the 

1414
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,840
flip phone. 
Oh man, he's such a creature of 

1415
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:05,040
habit. 
What else I got for you? 

1416
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:06,520
Let me give you a couple pics 
for the weekend. 

1417
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:09,400
You know, right, That's the one 
thing too. 

1418
01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:12,040
We were doing the as we did all 
the years here. 

1419
01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:16,600
The the perfect parlay, BT and 
Sal perfect parlay with Hoff, he

1420
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:20,400
would do it our own producer and
that was fun because the stakes 

1421
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:23,360
were pretty high and you could 
if you if you didn't see that, 

1422
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:25,600
Google it and it's coming up 
right. 

1423
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:32,880
So basically we would do it each
week and then if you got like A2

1424
01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:35,200
teamer, that's one denomination 
of points. 

1425
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:38,640
If you hit a three, that's more 
if you had, you know, 4 and I 

1426
01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:40,320
think 4 was 100 points, I 
believe. 

1427
01:12:40,360 --> 01:12:42,880
I think it's 150 thirty 
something like that. 

1428
01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:45,720
Then we would do The Jets and 
the Giants no point straight win

1429
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:47,760
and that was 5 each way. 
So we would add it up right. 

1430
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:50,320
So it was a good way to get some
some picks in there. 

1431
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:51,440
We took a lot of pride in it 
too. 

1432
01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:57,280
And the winner OK, got to pick 
and Hoff won the first year he 

1433
01:12:57,280 --> 01:13:00,280
hit a four or five teamer late, 
same 1. 

1434
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:05,720
He got to pick what Sam and I 
dressed up as in terms of WWE 

1435
01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:13,800
characters. 
Oh my God, Sal was was Doink and

1436
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:17,360
I was gold dust, right? 
Just absolutely insane. 

1437
01:13:18,760 --> 01:13:21,920
And the the only saving grace 
was that now if you finish 

1438
01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:24,480
first, you picked it and they 
you had to do it like it wasn't 

1439
01:13:24,480 --> 01:13:26,960
like, Oh, I don't know if Nope, 
this is what I picked. 

1440
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:28,400
You got it, but you got to do 
it. 

1441
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:31,440
That was the rules of the of the
game. 

1442
01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:35,560
Now, at least if you finish 
second, which I did two years in

1443
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:39,280
a row, I got this. 
Whoever finishes second gets to 

1444
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:43,880
pick the least of the of the 
options. 

1445
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:47,000
Now I give half credit. 
He put us in a pretty good 

1446
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:50,720
corner. 
Do I want to be a clown or do I 

1447
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:54,000
want to be a gold dust? 
Neither. 

1448
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:57,000
I'm gonna be either one of them,
but I I pick one of them. 

1449
01:13:57,040 --> 01:14:01,360
I'm like the means that I think 
are going to come my way. 

1450
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:04,480
If I'm a clown, I'm like, I'm 
going to pass on the clown. 

1451
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:09,160
And that would that would sound,
which led me to what are the 

1452
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:11,840
it's out there. 
They're one of the funniest, the

1453
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:14,080
funnest. 
And I I actually had tears in my

1454
01:14:14,080 --> 01:14:17,760
eyes looking at him as he's 
doing this and I'm three feet 

1455
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:20,360
from him in the studio. 
So he's dressed as Doink and we 

1456
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:22,880
went all out like we did the 
make up ourselves like it was 

1457
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:25,560
on. 
I'm looking on Amazon black and 

1458
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:29,160
gold paint and like gold dust 
jewelry and whatever the hell he

1459
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:31,960
was was wearing and other stuff.
And he did the same with Doink. 

1460
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:35,600
So we're in the in the in the 
state in the station's bathroom,

1461
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:36,640
really getting ready for the 
show. 

1462
01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:37,800
And I'm like, God, look at us, 
man. 

1463
01:14:38,160 --> 01:14:41,080
And then at one point we were 
having a debate or I think he 

1464
01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:44,080
was getting into it with a cold 
or maybe and he he actually 

1465
01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:47,000
goes, he goes, you know, I am 
not in fact a clown. 

1466
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:48,240
You know, he was mad at 
something. 

1467
01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:50,280
I may have been probably like a 
met Yankee thing. 

1468
01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:53,320
And I'm sitting there saying, Oh
my God, it's out there on 

1469
01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:55,920
YouTube and it's everywhere. 
Like, dude, I wish you didn't 

1470
01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:59,120
just say that because literally 
sitting there dressed as a clown

1471
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:00,480
saying I'm not a clown. 
It was awesome. 

1472
01:15:00,840 --> 01:15:03,880
And that that, you know, that 
was about, you know, that was 

1473
01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:07,360
about being, I think, a little 
vulnerable. 

1474
01:15:07,360 --> 01:15:10,960
That's something that when I 
started my career, I don't know 

1475
01:15:10,960 --> 01:15:14,720
if I would have wanted to to do 
that, you know, And then I think

1476
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:18,320
being around Hoff, being around 
Sal, I think that that opened 

1477
01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:20,760
that up a little bit where when 
I lost the next year, I'm like, 

1478
01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:23,840
all right, big damn deal. 
I got to get dressed up. 

1479
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:27,240
So I think it loosened up. 
I think it loosened me up. 

1480
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:30,080
I think it loosened up the show.
But God, that was absolutely 

1481
01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:33,720
insane. 
I got to get BT a sick coffee 

1482
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:34,880
mug. 
Yeah, I've got to make some 

1483
01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:36,760
shirts. 
I got to do some stuff. 

1484
01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:38,440
So you do like the also the 
logo. 

1485
01:15:38,440 --> 01:15:40,160
All right, So the logo is 
awesome. 

1486
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:41,760
Keep it up, BT. 
You're welcome. 

1487
01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:45,800
What about some BT swag? 
Yup, that's gonna come with 

1488
01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:49,160
time, I think. 
Different segments on different 

1489
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:54,360
stuff. 
This one's from Fab 5 Suns, Fab 

1490
01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:57,520
5, Fred with the booming system.
I think segments on different 

1491
01:15:57,520 --> 01:15:59,680
stuff like wrestling, movies, 
Mount Rushmore. 

1492
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:01,920
Yeah, we're gonna weave all that
and I'm just just getting this 

1493
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:06,520
thing going here. 
BT Yeah, BT tried to cut his 

1494
01:16:06,520 --> 01:16:08,720
commute down to 30 seconds by 
having a home studio. 

1495
01:16:08,720 --> 01:16:10,840
You're right. 
If I told you what I paid each 

1496
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:13,120
month for a garage, which I 
wouldn't because that's tacky, 

1497
01:16:13,320 --> 01:16:16,120
your head would spin because I 
couldn't get AI, couldn't get a 

1498
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:18,200
spot on the street. 
I couldn't. 

1499
01:16:18,200 --> 01:16:22,480
And I couldn't risk trying to 
get one driving around because 

1500
01:16:22,480 --> 01:16:24,840
it's not like, you know, if 
you're a lawyer, you know, 

1501
01:16:24,840 --> 01:16:27,680
unless you're in the court. 
But if you're a lawyer and you 

1502
01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:31,400
walk into the law firm, you 
know, 4 minutes late, all right?

1503
01:16:31,480 --> 01:16:33,200
I mean, there's no real 
consequences. 

1504
01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:35,600
Go and do your job. 
But if you're a host and you 

1505
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:38,720
walk in the studio 4 minutes 
late, it's ten O 4, the show 

1506
01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:41,720
started, you're in trouble by 
your boss, and rightfully so. 

1507
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:44,960
So I couldn't run that risk. 
So the amount of money that I 

1508
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:49,440
burned on that garage and not to
mention the tolls and the gas, 

1509
01:16:49,440 --> 01:16:51,760
Yeah, 32nd commute, no doubt 
about it. 

1510
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:55,840
Can I consider more than an 
hour? 

1511
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:59,720
Show 2 would be perfect. 
And that's at pity, right? 

1512
01:17:00,200 --> 01:17:02,480
Fair. 
I've thought about that. 

1513
01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:05,200
Now, right now, I don't when I 
fire this up and right now, 

1514
01:17:05,200 --> 01:17:08,240
what, a minute, a minute, an 
hour and 17 minutes. 

1515
01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:11,720
I don't start a show saying, all
right, I've got an X amount of 

1516
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:13,560
time that I want to do and then 
I'm going to bounce there. 

1517
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:17,040
I just, what I don't want to do 
is get boring, get repetitive 

1518
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:19,840
and just search for content and 
have this drone on and on and 

1519
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:22,000
on. 
That's not what I want to do. 

1520
01:17:22,440 --> 01:17:24,080
Some of you maybe said that I 
already did this today. 

1521
01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:26,240
Hopefully it didn't, but that's 
not that's not the mission like 

1522
01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:28,760
the mission is to cut it off 
once there's nothing fresh. 

1523
01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:32,680
Goodbye, see you tomorrow. 
Now, I do think that I would be 

1524
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:34,880
more than amenable to do it a 
two hours. 

1525
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:37,000
Matter of fact that is the 
target. 

1526
01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:42,200
But I think to do the two hours,
I won't do that until and this 

1527
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:44,840
is something I think we're going
to roll out Monday, a little bit

1528
01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:46,960
of a different presentation. 
Many of you, many of you have 

1529
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:49,400
talked about Stream Yard. 
That's something I think we'll 

1530
01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:51,120
do Monday. 
That's the guest. 

1531
01:17:51,120 --> 01:17:52,720
That's different look, a 
different feel. 

1532
01:17:53,480 --> 01:17:55,920
I mean, same me, but I think 
this will look different guests 

1533
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:58,320
and all that stuff. 
I think to do 2 hours, I think 

1534
01:17:58,320 --> 01:17:59,960
I'd have to be able to punch up 
some calls. 

1535
01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:02,880
I mean, not nothing, I'd have to
because I can obviously just go 

1536
01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:05,560
on for two hours. 
I mean, talking is, you know, 

1537
01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:07,800
whether it's entertaining, it's 
a different story. 

1538
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:10,640
But I can clearly just yap for 
two hours. 

1539
01:18:11,240 --> 01:18:14,320
I, I think if I when we get the 
calls and that that's going to 

1540
01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:16,920
be a little arduous there got to
get a got to get a phone number,

1541
01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:18,920
got to, you know, have a 
producer to answer the phones. 

1542
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:22,720
I can't feel like, hold on, 
guys, let me it's more than you 

1543
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:25,160
think and it's in the works. 
And it's something that I 

1544
01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:28,560
absolutely aspire to do that I 
know will take this show to the 

1545
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:30,920
next level. 
I mean, us pumping in calls 

1546
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:33,080
here. 
I'll I mean, that's that. 

1547
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:34,760
I love the calls. 
I missed the calls. 

1548
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:39,320
I really do BT and Sal is my 
morning show here in Socal. 

1549
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:40,800
Glad you guys are going to be 
doing something. 

1550
01:18:40,800 --> 01:18:41,960
Well that I'm doing something 
daily. 

1551
01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:46,760
No doubt I am 2 hours thumbs up 
BT Mike, we ever see you and 

1552
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:50,120
Francesa do a show together 
since you're both on YouTube 

1553
01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:52,440
now. 
I I mean, I wouldn't, I wouldn't

1554
01:18:52,440 --> 01:18:55,840
think so. 
I mean, if Mike invited me to be

1555
01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:59,080
a guest, which I doubt he ever 
will, then of course I would go 

1556
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:00,320
on. 
I mean, I've got great respect 

1557
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:01,760
for Mike. 
We played golf this summer. 

1558
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:04,640
He almost killed me when he hit 
me with a ball, golf ball that 

1559
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:07,240
was right in my chest standing 
next to JJ. 

1560
01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:10,560
And if that's in the face, I'm 
literally getting airlifted from

1561
01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:11,920
the green. 
And I really think I'm 

1562
01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:15,440
undergoing cosmetic surgery. 
Major it was. 

1563
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:17,440
It was that scary or God forbid,
dead. 

1564
01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:20,040
If I get hit, if it's if it hits
me in the throat or the temple. 

1565
01:19:20,480 --> 01:19:22,080
Now he tells a little bit of a 
different version. 

1566
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:24,160
I'll tell you the real version 
sometime in depth. 

1567
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:26,720
I got love for Mike. 
He's a good guy, and he's been 

1568
01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:28,360
good to me. 
You know, I know Mike's a little

1569
01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:30,640
quirky with certain people. 
Mike has been good to me. 

1570
01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:34,200
And I only judge people how they
treat me or how they treat my 

1571
01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:35,120
family. 
All right? 

1572
01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:38,640
And Mike has treated me well. 
Would he come on here? 

1573
01:19:38,640 --> 01:19:41,360
I doubt that he would want to. 
I would love him to. 

1574
01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:44,920
I'm not just gonna lie and say, 
oh, yeah, I'll get Mike on. 

1575
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:46,320
I mean, I've got Mike's phone 
number. 

1576
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:49,160
Don't text him very often. 
Text him before golf. 

1577
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:52,200
Text him after to thank him, you
know, once or twice or three 

1578
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:55,760
times along the way. 
Very, very infrequent, but I 

1579
01:19:55,760 --> 01:19:58,960
could and and and I would ask 
him to come on. 

1580
01:19:58,960 --> 01:20:00,200
I don't think that he will 
though. 

1581
01:20:00,200 --> 01:20:02,160
That's just my guess. 
He really didn't like coming on 

1582
01:20:02,160 --> 01:20:05,320
FAN. 
He did when he wanted to set his

1583
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:07,640
version of the story straight 
when he hit me with the shoe 

1584
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:10,120
with the golf ball. 
But I think Mike is of the 

1585
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:13,840
mindset that's in the past. 
Let the new guys do their thing 

1586
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:16,800
and and and I respect that. 
So I don't think he would come 

1587
01:20:16,800 --> 01:20:19,040
on here and I really don't think
he would ask me. 

1588
01:20:19,440 --> 01:20:21,320
I think of the two which is a 
better chance? 

1589
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:24,160
I think it's. 
Me having him and I would 

1590
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:29,760
probably put that at, you know, 
from an odd perspective, Mike 

1591
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:35,480
coming on my show, I'd say about
plus 390, me going on Mike's 

1592
01:20:35,480 --> 01:20:37,840
show plus 600 or maybe even off 
the board. 

1593
01:20:38,520 --> 01:20:40,520
So you like the logo? 
All right, I'm seeing a lot of 

1594
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:43,120
this year call Dove to run the 
board. 

1595
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:44,920
Love Dove. 
Great guy, just a good human 

1596
01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:48,240
being, really, really good guy. 
Quick thoughts on The Jets road 

1597
01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:51,880
map this season? 
I see that that's Ricardo BN 5 

1598
01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:53,280
kW. 
Thank you for that. 

1599
01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:55,600
I'm not going to do it now, 
Ricardo, because I've already 

1600
01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:57,920
done it. 
And just go to some of the old 

1601
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:00,440
videos I've touched on that. 
I gave you the whole plan. 

1602
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:04,400
I'll do it again. 
Obviously this one from at Jacob

1603
01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:07,320
under score Ball. 
Find the sponsor you believe in.

1604
01:21:07,320 --> 01:21:09,360
No doubt. 
I'm only going to associate 

1605
01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:12,160
myself with sponsors that I 
believe in. 

1606
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:14,880
I believe in their product. 
I believe in their mission. 

1607
01:21:15,200 --> 01:21:16,920
I believe in the way they treat 
people. 

1608
01:21:17,080 --> 01:21:18,400
That's not going to happen 
overnight. 

1609
01:21:18,440 --> 01:21:21,160
I mean, obviously I do have 
people who have reached out to 

1610
01:21:21,160 --> 01:21:25,200
me that I believe in. 
But to get that happening, it's 

1611
01:21:25,200 --> 01:21:28,080
it's it's a deeper business 
model, which were I'd say 

1612
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:30,280
slightly past the exploratory 
stage. 

1613
01:21:30,760 --> 01:21:32,320
There will be sponsors on the 
show. 

1614
01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:35,760
I just, I'm not gonna try to 
even give you a timeline as to 

1615
01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:37,760
when I'm gonna roll them out. 
I honestly don't know the answer

1616
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:39,320
to that. 
But we will have some for sure. 

1617
01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:43,000
Gotta get JJ on as well. 
Yeah, JJ actually text me the 

1618
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:45,280
other day and and he could tell 
the story. 

1619
01:21:45,720 --> 01:21:49,000
But when when Mike hit me, he 
actually asked me to go on his 

1620
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:51,520
pod I believe this weekend at 
some point. 

1621
01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:54,400
So JJ will definitely come on 
here. 

1622
01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:56,320
I'm definitely going on JJ show.
He's a good guy. 

1623
01:21:56,720 --> 01:22:01,880
And not only is he a good guy, I
think JJ is incredibly talented.

1624
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:04,400
I really do. 
JJ to me, while he's younger 

1625
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:09,480
than me is more along the line, 
like how I grew up in the 

1626
01:22:09,480 --> 01:22:12,320
business. 
He, he is incredibly, and this 

1627
01:22:12,320 --> 01:22:15,040
is not to prop myself up. 
I, I don't, it's more for him. 

1628
01:22:15,400 --> 01:22:17,080
But I, I see this and I respect 
this. 

1629
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:19,800
This is what I think. 
You know, I try to subscribe to,

1630
01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:22,080
he's locked in #1 he's locked 
in. 

1631
01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:23,320
He's locked into what's going 
on. 

1632
01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:25,840
I think he's relatable, you 
know, mess around with the 

1633
01:22:25,840 --> 01:22:28,560
gambling, have a little fun, 
little zany, a little wacky 

1634
01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:32,920
personality, incredible passion 
for what he talks about. 

1635
01:22:33,280 --> 01:22:36,760
That is really good stuff. 
I'm AJJ fan, I'm AJJ believer, 

1636
01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:40,560
and we'll definitely get him up 
at some point and I will either 

1637
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:43,360
tweet or put something up here 
about when I'm going to be on 

1638
01:22:43,360 --> 01:22:46,720
his pod because he just asked me
to go on, which I would happily 

1639
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:49,240
do, There's no doubt. 
Let's see. 

1640
01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:50,720
Keep it organic like you have 
been. 

1641
01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:54,960
Love that you take the time to 
actually think and it's not 

1642
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:57,120
scripted. 
This channel's phenomenal 

1643
01:22:57,120 --> 01:22:59,320
already. 
That's an incredible compliment.

1644
01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:03,280
Thank you very much. 
I'll let you say that and I will

1645
01:23:03,280 --> 01:23:08,800
humbly accept that, you know, 
mission again, the word mission 

1646
01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:11,560
is to make this as good as it 
gets. 

1647
01:23:12,440 --> 01:23:15,880
One of the biggest sports 
podcast in the world. 

1648
01:23:16,440 --> 01:23:18,080
Really. 
That's that's my mission. 

1649
01:23:18,400 --> 01:23:21,320
I got no boundaries. 
I got no barriers knowing 

1650
01:23:21,320 --> 01:23:26,440
whenever I want somebody gets 
hurt crazy finish fire GM hired 

1651
01:23:26,440 --> 01:23:28,720
coach. 
I walked yeah, 32nd commute 

1652
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:31,320
bang, let's go. 
That is the beauty of being able

1653
01:23:31,320 --> 01:23:34,600
to do this. 
But I also, I also think it's 

1654
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:38,640
really important to do to have a
daily connect you guys, because 

1655
01:23:38,680 --> 01:23:41,560
I that's that's in my blood, 
like just doing one or two a 

1656
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:46,040
week, even if even if I was, you
know, a multi multi, multi 

1657
01:23:46,040 --> 01:23:49,680
millionaire and just raking in 
money hand over fist doing this,

1658
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:54,000
which I'm not, I haven't made a 
penny doing this yet, but I 

1659
01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:55,640
would not enjoy going on once a 
week. 

1660
01:23:55,640 --> 01:23:59,840
Like I'm still a trench guy. 
I'm still, I am still I, I love 

1661
01:23:59,840 --> 01:24:01,720
that daily flow. 
So I'm going to be doing this 

1662
01:24:01,720 --> 01:24:03,760
daily. 
You know, most will probably be 

1663
01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:06,400
a 10. 
My son said, Hey, why'd you 

1664
01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:08,920
schedule for noon to, you know, 
tomorrow, you know, usually go 

1665
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:10,880
on a 10. 
I said, well, you know, and in 

1666
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:13,160
my mind, I said, well, what up? 
My parents were here. 

1667
01:24:13,160 --> 01:24:14,640
They slept over for a couple of 
nights. 

1668
01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:17,880
And I wasn't just going to get 
up and say, all right, guys, 

1669
01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:19,360
see, I'm done. 
No, no, I'm going to enjoy 

1670
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:21,320
Christmas. 
They're on their way to Atlantic

1671
01:24:21,320 --> 01:24:24,560
City, the two of them. 
And my dad's going to roll the 

1672
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:28,040
dice for a little bit. 
He's like, I have no idea what 

1673
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:30,080
to do with the craps table. 
I mean, you want to talk about 

1674
01:24:30,080 --> 01:24:35,160
being lost? 
I, I am lost on the craps table.

1675
01:24:35,600 --> 01:24:37,440
I like going to AC. 
It's been a while because, you 

1676
01:24:37,440 --> 01:24:39,040
know, I've got more 
responsibilities now. 

1677
01:24:39,040 --> 01:24:42,520
Dad, husband, coaching obviously
work first and foremost with 

1678
01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:44,280
that. 
But man, I used to go a lot with

1679
01:24:44,280 --> 01:24:47,480
my boys before I got married. 
Used to go to Harrah's a lot. 

1680
01:24:47,480 --> 01:24:52,040
They'd hook me up with rooms and
I and I'd play but craps, I play

1681
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:54,880
blackjack. 
Craps is just and and I do I 

1682
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:57,200
like let it ride even though 
it's the worst odds in the house

1683
01:24:57,200 --> 01:24:59,400
here, but craps I just I don't 
know. 

1684
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:02,720
There's a million things 
happening and if I like, I know 

1685
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:04,200
dealer could have any 
combination. 

1686
01:25:04,200 --> 01:25:06,480
I could have any combination. 
I know what I'm splitting, what 

1687
01:25:06,480 --> 01:25:09,080
I'm doubling down on. 
I'm I'm trying to track all 

1688
01:25:09,080 --> 01:25:12,160
right, picture cards versus low 
cards of kind of I can't count 

1689
01:25:12,160 --> 01:25:13,440
cards. 
I don't know how to do that, but

1690
01:25:14,240 --> 01:25:16,360
I, I know how to play the game. 
You know, if there's a side bet 

1691
01:25:16,360 --> 01:25:18,760
to be had, I'm doing it. 
If there's enough space at the 

1692
01:25:18,760 --> 01:25:21,440
table, I'm playing two hands. 
Like when I play blackjack, I 

1693
01:25:21,440 --> 01:25:24,600
play to win. 
So, and that's really how I try 

1694
01:25:24,600 --> 01:25:26,480
to do everything in life. 
I try to do well. 

1695
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:30,880
And when I'm at the grabs table,
which has been maybe 3 or 4 

1696
01:25:30,880 --> 01:25:33,520
times in my life, like I'm just 
throwing my, I don't even know 

1697
01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:36,920
what I'm betting. 
Like I if they either take the 

1698
01:25:36,920 --> 01:25:39,840
chips or they put chips in front
of me, that's how I know if I 

1699
01:25:39,840 --> 01:25:41,920
won. 
Honestly, I don't even really 

1700
01:25:41,920 --> 01:25:45,600
know if I won until, until they 
tell me I can't even celebrate. 

1701
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:49,000
It's absolutely ridiculous. 
What's here, what's here. 

1702
01:25:50,200 --> 01:25:53,040
I know you, you're planning to 
make, you have to make video 

1703
01:25:53,040 --> 01:25:54,760
shorts to help gain traction on 
YouTube. 

1704
01:25:54,760 --> 01:25:56,320
Yep, already did one the other 
day. 

1705
01:25:56,320 --> 01:25:58,880
And actually I think we did 2 
shorts out there learning, you 

1706
01:25:58,880 --> 01:26:01,480
know, to, to put the words out 
there and find the content that 

1707
01:26:01,480 --> 01:26:04,080
we want to put out there. 
I understand that that's part of

1708
01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:05,600
the algorithm. 
There's no question. 

1709
01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:08,600
I know the titles matter. 
I understand all that. 

1710
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:11,120
Starting to incorporate it, no 
doubt about it. 

1711
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:13,760
BT and chat Modell's or Sports 
Authority? 

1712
01:26:13,760 --> 01:26:15,880
Modell's absolutely. 
Modell's kid. 

1713
01:26:15,880 --> 01:26:17,520
That Sports Authority was pretty
sick too. 

1714
01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:20,120
I remember there's one that I 
used to go to in Long Island a 

1715
01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:22,840
lot, but Modell's we kidding me?
Like when the Yankees won 

1716
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:25,840
something or the Knicks won 
something to have AT shirt for 

1717
01:26:25,840 --> 01:26:28,360
Modell's. 
Oh my God, love walking in 

1718
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:31,400
there, no doubt about it. 
Let me see, maybe I get a couple

1719
01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:32,920
of more comments. 
Get ready to wrap up. 

1720
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:35,440
I do have the three football 
picks that I told you about. 

1721
01:26:37,160 --> 01:26:41,680
Let's see here, he's going to be
sponsored by gambling and 

1722
01:26:41,680 --> 01:26:44,400
gummies. 
Can I get Susan on? 

1723
01:26:44,440 --> 01:26:47,920
Yeah, that's a really good idea.
I would love to had a chance to 

1724
01:26:47,920 --> 01:26:50,960
spend a lot of time with Susan. 
I mean, well, what I say a lot 

1725
01:26:51,360 --> 01:26:56,160
at a party, some real valuable 
individual time with Susan at 

1726
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:59,320
Alex's party. 
And she sent me and Sal the very

1727
01:26:59,320 --> 01:27:02,000
heartfelt text about, you know, 
what was going down at the 

1728
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:04,640
station. 
And I introduced it to my wife 

1729
01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:07,800
and she's just awesome, man. 
Spent the, I'd say a good 1520 

1730
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:10,440
minutes just away from 
everybody, the three of us just 

1731
01:27:10,440 --> 01:27:13,160
just getting to know each other 
a little bit, a little bit more.

1732
01:27:13,160 --> 01:27:16,120
I mean, I've, I've known her a 
little bit, but the Wiz are Sam 

1733
01:27:16,120 --> 01:27:19,200
Goody. 
Oh, man. 

1734
01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:21,760
I mean, to me, the Wiz is 
synonymous with the Knicks and 

1735
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:25,320
on the boards at the Garden and 
Boomer and who else? 

1736
01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:27,600
Joe Namath doing the 
commercials. 

1737
01:27:28,920 --> 01:27:31,320
That's a tough one. 
I'd probably have to say. 

1738
01:27:31,440 --> 01:27:33,280
I'd probably have to say the 
Wiz. 

1739
01:27:33,320 --> 01:27:35,720
I probably, yeah. 
Ron darling. 

1740
01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:37,720
Yeah, I remember Ronnie. 
I know Ronnie a little from a 

1741
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:40,920
little bit from my days at SNYI 
mean, guys, these are all things

1742
01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:42,560
I'm thinking about. 
I mean, I've only done a couple 

1743
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:44,200
of the shows here. 
I'm not going to have 9 guests 

1744
01:27:44,200 --> 01:27:45,320
in. 
First of all, I don't know how 

1745
01:27:45,320 --> 01:27:47,000
to do the guest yet. 
We're working on that. 

1746
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:49,440
But I'm going to have a lot of 
guests. 

1747
01:27:49,440 --> 01:27:51,000
I think that that's part of the 
conversation. 

1748
01:27:51,280 --> 01:27:54,680
You know, the other thing, too, 
and maybe I'll do this. 

1749
01:27:54,680 --> 01:27:57,880
Maybe I'll do this some point 
over the weekend. 

1750
01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:02,040
You know, I love coaching. 
You know, I love youth sports. 

1751
01:28:02,040 --> 01:28:03,720
You know, I believe in that. 
You know, I also believe 

1752
01:28:03,720 --> 01:28:05,920
fundamentally it's broken on a 
lot of levels. 

1753
01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:08,800
I've gone through this already. 
My son's 10, my daughter's nine.

1754
01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:11,200
He plays football, basketball, 
baseball. 

1755
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:13,920
He even had soccer for a couple 
of years while doing all that. 

1756
01:28:14,240 --> 01:28:14,760
It was. 
Yeah. 

1757
01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:16,600
And a little jiu jitsu. 
It was just too much. 

1758
01:28:17,240 --> 01:28:21,120
My daughter plays soccer, 
basketball, softball, dance. 

1759
01:28:21,880 --> 01:28:27,120
So I'm, I'm very immersed in in 
the youth culture from a rec 

1760
01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:31,280
level to the absolute highest 
level that you can play for club

1761
01:28:31,280 --> 01:28:33,960
baseball, right? 
And then basketball somewhere in

1762
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:36,960
between, more on the, you know, 
lower side than the highest 

1763
01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:38,760
level, but competitive enough, 
right? 

1764
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:44,680
The there is so much wrong and 
not to sit here and pontificate 

1765
01:28:44,720 --> 01:28:48,240
and just you know from the 
pulpit, just you know bestow 

1766
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:52,680
upon you my almighty, you know 
thoughts on the failures of 

1767
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:54,560
youth sports cause a lot of good
things right. 

1768
01:28:55,040 --> 01:28:57,320
But I do think that once because
Santa just came. 

1769
01:28:57,600 --> 01:29:01,280
I promise many of you watching 
Santa just brought your child 

1770
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:06,720
and I mean 678 ish years old, 
their first glove or maybe their

1771
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:11,320
first real glove, not the little
plastic one from, you know, one 

1772
01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:14,640
of the stores, Amazon, whatever 
it might be a real glove, you 

1773
01:29:14,640 --> 01:29:18,760
know, not the little blue baby. 
What was that? 

1774
01:29:18,760 --> 01:29:21,520
What was that? 
Bam bam from the Flintstones bat

1775
01:29:21,720 --> 01:29:23,720
like a real bat that getting 
ready to use. 

1776
01:29:23,720 --> 01:29:28,240
I'm going to do a pod on. 
There's a couple of things as 

1777
01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:29,960
you're getting ready because 
winter training is starting 

1778
01:29:29,960 --> 01:29:31,880
already. 
We start up January 13th at 

1779
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:34,600
first baseball practice as a 
team and he's already been 

1780
01:29:34,600 --> 01:29:38,400
doing, you know, like a lot of 
players hitting and and and 

1781
01:29:38,400 --> 01:29:41,880
pitching lessons, you know, 
really since the season ended so

1782
01:29:42,280 --> 01:29:44,160
that there's really no real 
stoppage there. 

1783
01:29:44,160 --> 01:29:46,960
But I've got a lot of thoughts 
and and I think I think that 

1784
01:29:46,960 --> 01:29:49,600
you're going to want to hear 
this on how to actually launch 

1785
01:29:49,600 --> 01:29:53,920
into playing baseball, what to 
look for and and what to really 

1786
01:29:53,920 --> 01:29:56,000
avoid. 
And then the other dilemma. 

1787
01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:57,720
I'm not going to do this now. 
It's just too much. 

1788
01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:00,040
It's a separate show. 
Maybe I don't even know if it'll

1789
01:30:00,040 --> 01:30:04,360
be live. 
The juggling of multiple sports 

1790
01:30:04,880 --> 01:30:10,120
because man, it's so different. 
The pressures of doing 1 and 

1791
01:30:10,120 --> 01:30:12,360
focusing. 
What's a money grab, how to 

1792
01:30:12,360 --> 01:30:15,120
detect it, what's right, what's 
wrong. 

1793
01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:19,000
I have a few of those little 
reels on my Instagram page 

1794
01:30:19,200 --> 01:30:21,920
because I kind of always knew 
that this was going to be a 

1795
01:30:21,920 --> 01:30:23,480
format that I was going to tap 
into. 

1796
01:30:23,720 --> 01:30:26,640
So it's kind of experimenting. 
I've got so much to say about 

1797
01:30:26,640 --> 01:30:32,040
that and there's so many good 
people that that weigh in on 

1798
01:30:32,040 --> 01:30:35,160
this. 
Like Mark DeRosa, I know is very

1799
01:30:35,160 --> 01:30:39,160
outspoken about this and Sean 
Casey's talked about this, guys 

1800
01:30:39,160 --> 01:30:42,440
who I see on MLB Network, guys I
respect, guys who played, guys 

1801
01:30:42,440 --> 01:30:44,960
who I watched. 
So that's going to be in 

1802
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:48,520
addition to just a Daily Show 
and obviously jumping on after 

1803
01:30:48,520 --> 01:30:50,520
games, big moments, hammering 
out some content. 

1804
01:30:50,720 --> 01:30:52,960
That's going to be, it's going 
to live here, but it's going to 

1805
01:30:52,960 --> 01:30:55,520
be a little bit more specific. 
And I can't wait to do that. 

1806
01:30:55,880 --> 01:30:57,960
All right, let me give you the 
three picks here. 

1807
01:30:57,960 --> 01:31:02,880
Couple of comments and then I 
will absolutely bounce let's see

1808
01:31:02,880 --> 01:31:08,000
here all right so I got 3 for 
you you know what if I can find 

1809
01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:12,000
it let me see I should be able 
to hold on You know I can't do 

1810
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:16,840
this I I can't I can't do this 
without without music. 

1811
01:31:16,840 --> 01:31:20,480
I almost feel that I need some 
music, like I'm doing it back in

1812
01:31:20,480 --> 01:31:23,080
the in the studio. 
Give me a second here, guys. 

1813
01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:25,560
I'm gonna pop something up here 
that you know, you probably know

1814
01:31:25,560 --> 01:31:26,880
what song. 
I'm going to go to him. 

1815
01:31:28,040 --> 01:31:30,440
All right, let's go with this 
guy here. 

1816
01:31:32,320 --> 01:31:34,880
There you go again. 
Not the highest level of 

1817
01:31:34,880 --> 01:31:36,960
production value. 
Literally from my phone. 

1818
01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:42,200
No money talks. 
There's Pink Floyd money. 

1819
01:31:42,440 --> 01:31:44,440
There's ACDC. 
Money talks. 

1820
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:49,080
I can't wait to see ACDC in 
August at MetLife. 

1821
01:31:49,080 --> 01:31:51,560
It's going to be awesome. 
One of the bands I really want 

1822
01:31:51,560 --> 01:31:53,320
to see that I have not had a 
chance to see. 

1823
01:31:53,320 --> 01:31:54,920
All right, let me just drop that
down. 

1824
01:31:54,920 --> 01:31:59,200
Make that a little bit lower. 
All right, pick #1 Cardinals at 

1825
01:31:59,200 --> 01:32:02,840
Cincy now at this point of the 
season, you've got to be very 

1826
01:32:02,840 --> 01:32:05,360
selective, all right, because 
half these teams are checking 

1827
01:32:05,360 --> 01:32:06,560
out. 
They don't give a shit what's 

1828
01:32:06,560 --> 01:32:07,760
going on. 
They're already done. 

1829
01:32:08,160 --> 01:32:10,560
So you, you got to be sure about
that. 

1830
01:32:11,040 --> 01:32:13,520
But there's also something to 
glean from that. 

1831
01:32:13,640 --> 01:32:16,600
When you look at over unders, 
first pick Cardinals 3:00 and 

1832
01:32:16,600 --> 01:32:18,200
12:00. 
That's Cincy 5 and 10. 

1833
01:32:18,520 --> 01:32:22,440
It's a fairly big #53 1/2 over 
under right now. 

1834
01:32:22,720 --> 01:32:24,360
Check the weather. 
All right, that's one thing you 

1835
01:32:24,360 --> 01:32:26,000
got to do. 
Looks like I checked earlier. 

1836
01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:26,960
It looks like it's going to be 
OK. 

1837
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:29,800
I don't think it's going to be a
massive issue, but to me, 

1838
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:33,720
Cardinals have no interest in 
playing football and the Bengals

1839
01:32:33,720 --> 01:32:35,800
at this point have no interest 
in playing football. 

1840
01:32:36,200 --> 01:32:38,560
So, you know, I don't know if 
the Bengals will cover the 

1841
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:41,120
number, what I do feel. 
So I'm not touching that. 

1842
01:32:41,320 --> 01:32:45,040
I feel fairly confident saying 
both of these defenses are #1 

1843
01:32:45,040 --> 01:32:47,960
they're not good. 
And #2 I don't know how Battle 

1844
01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:49,520
did. 
I'm really, are you really 

1845
01:32:49,600 --> 01:32:53,200
locked into film the week of 
Christmas, Christmas Eve with 

1846
01:32:53,200 --> 01:32:56,200
kids and Danielle, all the 
family responsibilities? 

1847
01:32:56,400 --> 01:32:58,760
I think you show up. 
I think there's a lot of sloppy 

1848
01:32:58,760 --> 01:33:00,640
plays. 
I think there's a lot of broken 

1849
01:33:00,640 --> 01:33:02,440
plays. 
And when you have that, when you

1850
01:33:02,440 --> 01:33:04,600
have those broken plays, guess 
what? 

1851
01:33:04,720 --> 01:33:09,960
Shore field, pick sixes, punt 
return, kickoff return generally

1852
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:12,760
put you in a position to tilt it
toward the over. 

1853
01:33:12,760 --> 01:33:18,000
So pick #1 cards at Cincy over 
53 1/2 #2. 

1854
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:25,040
Come on, come on. 
Saints 5 and 10 at the Titans 3 

1855
01:33:25,040 --> 01:33:28,360
and 12. 
Now the Saints are laying 2 1/2 

1856
01:33:28,360 --> 01:33:30,560
on the road. 
Tennessee, you know, has played 

1857
01:33:30,560 --> 01:33:32,920
a little bit better lately. 
The Saints have won three 

1858
01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:34,520
straight games. 
They're still playing hard. 

1859
01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:37,520
Now that's a team that I think 
is if they're at home, they're 

1860
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:40,680
probably, you know, 455 and a 
half, six point favorites here. 

1861
01:33:41,800 --> 01:33:43,760
I think it would be a lot more 
because they're on the road. 

1862
01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:45,560
The three points built in for 
the home team. 

1863
01:33:45,760 --> 01:33:48,960
That's why they're only laying 2
1/2, which to me is a very 

1864
01:33:48,960 --> 01:33:51,320
nominal lay. 
I mean, just win the game, just 

1865
01:33:51,320 --> 01:33:53,520
kick a field goal late, which I 
think they'll kind of win. 

1866
01:33:53,880 --> 01:34:01,360
About to take a guess at 2713, 
you know, 241424, maybe 20 if 

1867
01:34:01,360 --> 01:34:03,080
they get, I don't know if 
Tennessee scoring 20, but 

1868
01:34:03,280 --> 01:34:05,640
somewhere in that neighborhood I
feel pretty good. 

1869
01:34:05,640 --> 01:34:07,360
Saints modest, 2 1/2 at 
Tennessee. 

1870
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:10,600
And finally, I'm going to take 
the giants -1 1/2. 

1871
01:34:11,080 --> 01:34:14,720
All right, I think that the 
Giants are are better slightly. 

1872
01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:20,600
I think that the Giants are 
going to unleash dart a little 

1873
01:34:20,600 --> 01:34:21,800
bit more this week as they've 
got. 

1874
01:34:21,800 --> 01:34:23,600
I think they're kind of 
sensitive to all the, you know, 

1875
01:34:23,640 --> 01:34:28,320
the way they the the 33 yards 
they ran 15 straight times last 

1876
01:34:28,320 --> 01:34:29,800
game. 
I think there's a little bit of 

1877
01:34:29,800 --> 01:34:32,320
a market correction 
recalibration there. 

1878
01:34:32,560 --> 01:34:35,600
And I think when you let Dart be
Dart, I think Dart's better than

1879
01:34:35,600 --> 01:34:37,320
anything that the Raiders are 
throwing out there. 

1880
01:34:37,320 --> 01:34:40,040
So give me the Giants lay the 
point and a half. 

1881
01:34:40,040 --> 01:34:45,360
G men win, G men cover. 
So in summation and summation, 

1882
01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:51,120
give me the over 53 1/2 cards at
cincy #1 #2 Saints -2 1/2 at the

1883
01:34:51,120 --> 01:34:57,040
Titans #3 give me the team men 
-1 1/2 to beat and to cover 

1884
01:34:57,040 --> 01:34:59,240
against the Raiders. 
All right, so there you go. 

1885
01:35:00,120 --> 01:35:01,920
I have no idea how that music 
sounded there. 

1886
01:35:01,920 --> 01:35:03,720
May have drowned me out. 
Maybe he couldn't hear it all. 

1887
01:35:03,720 --> 01:35:04,920
Hopefully it worked out. 
All right. 

1888
01:35:05,640 --> 01:35:08,200
Yanks are killing me. 
BT I'm here for the journey. 

1889
01:35:08,200 --> 01:35:10,360
Let's go. 
Yeah, I appreciate that. 

1890
01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:16,520
Again, That's Ricardo. 
B KB NBN 5 kW let's see here SBT

1891
01:35:16,520 --> 01:35:20,400
or as Susan, I'll I'll handle a 
few more of these and then I'm 

1892
01:35:20,400 --> 01:35:26,160
going to get on my day at James 
wrestle talk giants talk. 

1893
01:35:26,160 --> 01:35:28,960
That's quite the handle, James. 
That is hopefully you copy and 

1894
01:35:28,960 --> 01:35:30,640
paste that. 
That is a lengthy Twitter. 

1895
01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:32,880
I will just and I'm sure it's 
your Twitter handle as well. 

1896
01:35:33,160 --> 01:35:36,120
General YouTube handle. 
This pods going to be the best 

1897
01:35:36,120 --> 01:35:37,960
sports podcast out there. 
Love it. 

1898
01:35:37,960 --> 01:35:40,160
BTI hope so. 
That's the goal. 

1899
01:35:40,200 --> 01:35:43,120
That's the mission. 
All right, what else we got 

1900
01:35:43,120 --> 01:35:47,000
here? 
Yeah, the Joe Shane fired 

1901
01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:49,320
reaction going to hit hard. 
We'll do everything we got to do

1902
01:35:49,320 --> 01:35:52,440
when we got to do it. 
My thoughts on Shane getting 

1903
01:35:52,440 --> 01:35:53,720
fired. 
He should be. 

1904
01:35:53,800 --> 01:35:55,880
I think he will be. 
I've already hit that. 

1905
01:35:57,000 --> 01:35:59,000
Yeah. 
Couple more here. 

1906
01:35:59,080 --> 01:36:00,400
Little money talks. 
That's right. 

1907
01:36:00,400 --> 01:36:01,720
God, I love him. 
You know, I love my. 

1908
01:36:01,760 --> 01:36:06,960
I'm a very eclectic music lover.
Like I can't get the get the 

1909
01:36:06,960 --> 01:36:09,680
snow blower, get the snow 
blowing the shovel ready 

1910
01:36:09,680 --> 01:36:10,120
tonight. 
Be. 

1911
01:36:10,120 --> 01:36:11,520
I know. 
Poor little Scotcher. 

1912
01:36:11,520 --> 01:36:14,520
I got this for you. 
Poor little something, maybe 

1913
01:36:14,640 --> 01:36:17,400
maybe do some other stuff when 
I'm when I'm shoveling, I think 

1914
01:36:17,400 --> 01:36:21,280
that the well, a couple of 
things from that. 

1915
01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:25,240
I think that the I can't I can't
say that hold on certain things.

1916
01:36:25,240 --> 01:36:27,360
I don't want to just curse just 
just to curse here. 

1917
01:36:27,360 --> 01:36:30,160
Hang on, where was it? 
Why that? 

1918
01:36:31,320 --> 01:36:32,840
Well, I know about the music. 
There was something else. 

1919
01:36:33,200 --> 01:36:35,400
See, that's the other thing too.
Sometimes I see something I want

1920
01:36:35,400 --> 01:36:38,080
to address it and it just and I 
love that you guys are hammered 

1921
01:36:38,080 --> 01:36:40,320
in the the comments. 
That's awesome, awesome, 

1922
01:36:40,320 --> 01:36:42,520
awesome, awesome. 
But I got to figure out a way 

1923
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:46,080
maybe slow that down a bit. 
But I mentioned about my my 

1924
01:36:46,080 --> 01:36:49,480
eclectical music tastes, man, if
you heard some of the stuff that

1925
01:36:49,480 --> 01:36:52,920
I listen to in the car, it is 
some of it's just weird, Like it

1926
01:36:52,920 --> 01:36:56,080
could be a disco song. 
It could obviously be something 

1927
01:36:56,080 --> 01:36:58,200
like ACDC. 
It could be a little Beastie 

1928
01:36:58,200 --> 01:36:59,080
Boys. 
It could be the role. 

1929
01:36:59,160 --> 01:37:00,840
I mean, that's not weird. 
That's mainstream stuff. 

1930
01:37:00,840 --> 01:37:05,160
But there are some songs that 
I'm like, I'm, you know, Céline 

1931
01:37:05,160 --> 01:37:07,080
Dion, you know, from, from the 
movie. 

1932
01:37:07,080 --> 01:37:08,920
Like, I'm sitting there, I'm 
driving, it comes on. 

1933
01:37:08,920 --> 01:37:11,400
I'm like, you know what? 
Make this a little louder. 

1934
01:37:11,800 --> 01:37:15,560
Keep the windows up there. 
But I'm going to, I don't know 

1935
01:37:15,560 --> 01:37:17,520
that I'm going to sing it, but 
I'm going to keep it on and I'm 

1936
01:37:17,520 --> 01:37:21,640
going to feel it. 
I've got a very vast A-Z musical

1937
01:37:21,640 --> 01:37:24,640
taste there. 
So I mentioned ACDC coming to 

1938
01:37:24,640 --> 01:37:26,560
MetLife. 
Yeah, I think it's August 25. 

1939
01:37:27,360 --> 01:37:29,680
That's really one of the only 
concerts that I want to go. 

1940
01:37:29,720 --> 01:37:31,880
They running out of time. 
I mean, how many more options 

1941
01:37:31,880 --> 01:37:33,600
are there to see these guys? 
God bless them. 

1942
01:37:33,760 --> 01:37:35,560
Hope they make it to August. 
I really do. 

1943
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:39,560
So that's on tap. 
I'll do a couple of things on 

1944
01:37:39,560 --> 01:37:43,480
music here, primarily driven 
through sports, real life stuff,

1945
01:37:43,480 --> 01:37:45,640
being a dad, all the things that
we do. 

1946
01:37:45,640 --> 01:37:48,560
But again, keep a lookout, keep 
you going to want to see this. 

1947
01:37:48,560 --> 01:37:52,440
Really keep an eye out for the 
content about what I think will 

1948
01:37:52,440 --> 01:37:54,360
really help you guys as you get 
ready. 

1949
01:37:54,840 --> 01:37:57,560
Not I don't mean if you give 
your kids like 131415, you're 

1950
01:37:57,560 --> 01:38:00,280
obviously entrenched in sports. 
You you know what you're doing 

1951
01:38:00,280 --> 01:38:01,880
at that point. 
They're beginning to gravitate 

1952
01:38:01,880 --> 01:38:04,320
to one or you know, to Max 
sports. 

1953
01:38:04,600 --> 01:38:06,840
Talking about those those 
parents who have young kids, 

1954
01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:10,040
Santa dropped off a boatload of 
baseball stuff or softball 

1955
01:38:10,040 --> 01:38:11,320
stuff. 
I got you. 

1956
01:38:11,320 --> 01:38:13,760
I'm going to help you. 
I didn't make a ton of mistakes 

1957
01:38:13,760 --> 01:38:15,040
with that. 
There was one that I made that 

1958
01:38:15,040 --> 01:38:18,040
I'll tell you when I get into 
it, but there's definitely some 

1959
01:38:18,040 --> 01:38:20,760
things to avoid and and I will I
will let you know what they are.

1960
01:38:20,760 --> 01:38:23,560
So I gave you the pics, a lot of
Knicks stuff, a lot of Vogel 

1961
01:38:23,560 --> 01:38:25,720
stuff. 
I appreciate the comments coming

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in. 
You guys are doing a money job. 

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I want to get to this will be a 
given. 

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I can't I can't imagine any 
circumstance we don't get to 

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10,000 Subs by by January 1st. 
But now that I think about it, I

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want to I want to blow by it. 
I don't know, it was 12,000 too 

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much is 12,500 too ambitious? 
I don't know with with with with

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the BT army behind me. 
I feel like I don't know. 

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I don't think there's any 
boundaries with you guys. 

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You have really lifted me up and
I have felt it. 

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And that's why, even though it's
still a holiday, that's why I'm 

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like, Nope, I'm getting on. 
We're doing something big win 

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for the Knicks. 
Kolek, I got things to say. 

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You know, I got a rant and rave 
a little bit on the NFL kind of 

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jumping into football to 
watching viewing viewing habits 

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on Christmas. 
So that's why I did it. 

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Like and subscribe follow me on 
all the social, obviously 

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Twitter, of course, Instagram. 
Really appreciate you guys and 

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the the next show will be Monday
at 10 AM All right, promise you,

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but there might be another 
content drop, as I said about 

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some of the youth stuff and then
reminder Sunday night 1030 

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sports extra fox 5 myself going 
to join my girl Tina, who's 

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great Tina Servasio. 
I'm going to jump on J JS pod at

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some point this weekend. 
He asked me. 

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Hopefully it doesn't conflict 
with with with with going to do 

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Tina show. 
If it does, I'll make good on JJ

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will do that working on the 
guests and hopefully trot 

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something out next week that is 
even a step more enhanced in 

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this. 
So enjoy the rest of your 

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Friday. 
Have a fantastic weekend and be 

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safe out there. 
The snow is coming hard. 

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Go out there, shovel. 
I suggest you do the two shifts.

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Don't be lazy. 
Don't let 9 inches come down and

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hammer you. 
And then you got to come out 

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tomorrow when they plow the 
streets, and now it's like cold 

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and wet and they can't even lift
that up and it's harder. 

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Do it I I think I'm doing shifts
go out 3-4 inches, clean it up, 

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throw a little salt down, come 
back in all right, couple of 

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more go back out and finish it 
and and hopefully you guys do 

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the same. 
So catch you Monday or at some 

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point on on the weekend with the
with the other stuff. 

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Have a great day. 
I love you guys. 

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I appreciate it. 
I feel it and it's awesome and 

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the mission is is well underway.
Have an awesome weekend guys. 

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I'll see you.