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Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the air everywhere yet again,
Speaker 1: back at it after a week hiatus. More on that
Speaker 1: in a future podcast. But it is the fifth Hour,
Speaker 1: because four hours or not enough, eight days a week.
Speaker 1: This our Friday podcast, And if you looked at who's
Speaker 1: coming on, you know this is an interview podcast. So
Speaker 1: we will welcome in here chef it in, a colleague
Speaker 1: of ours, a friend of ours, a big TV guy,
Speaker 1: radio guy, the whole thing in a second. But David
Speaker 1: Gascon is back. He's actually been away for almost a
Speaker 1: month and no one's complained at all. But none of
Speaker 1: the panels that go your way, no, not at all.
Speaker 1: I know people were very a lot of direct messages
Speaker 1: and a lot of emails. It was very encouraging to
Speaker 1: see and hear how shitty it was last week. I
Speaker 1: would I would argue that you can argue but talk
Speaker 1: about this coming up. But we found a new star here,
Speaker 1: a new breakout some my Ryan Smith of all people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a wrestler who I think he body slammed you is
Speaker 1: what he did. It was wonderful to hear and uh
Speaker 1: so that Well, we'll get more to that on the
Speaker 1: Saturday podcast. But today is all about Rob Parker, my
Speaker 1: man Rob Parker. No, I love Rob, I've admired like
Speaker 1: this is like a mutual admiration thing because I've always
Speaker 1: enjoyed Rob's work because we have similar east in radio
Speaker 1: and broadcasting, where you have to go full weaponized when
Speaker 1: you when you do and you don't want to go halfway.
Speaker 1: You don't want to just put your toe on the water.
Speaker 1: You want to go all the way in the deep end.
Speaker 1: You don't want to go into kiddie pool. You want
Speaker 1: to go in the deep end. And Rob's always done that,
Speaker 1: very passionate. He backs up what he says, and he
Speaker 1: makes some people uncomfortable because a lot of the media
Speaker 1: these days and Mr Softies and uh and I love it.
Speaker 1: So you know Rob from Fox Sports Radio and he's
Speaker 1: been doing a great job him and and Chris Broussard
Speaker 1: on The Odd Couple, and he's on TV. He's regularly
Speaker 1: on with Skipping Shannon on Fox Sports One. He's a
Speaker 1: professor at USC. He's got my old producer wrong button,
Speaker 1: Bob Gara, who's working on his show. So let's welcome
Speaker 1: in now the great Rob Parker and Rob. Why don't
Speaker 1: we start with the fact now Gascon has been busting
Speaker 1: my balls here because we are both following the company
Speaker 1: mandate of working from home. We have home studios and
Speaker 1: doing these shows during the apocalypse. So I actually kind
Speaker 1: of wasn't that into it at first. I've kind of
Speaker 1: come around to it. Where are you at, Rob Parker?
Speaker 1: Are you are you settling now to working from home?
Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy, Ben, It's it's at first I
Speaker 1: was like, this is great. You don't have to go anywhere,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like like you could. I
Speaker 1: got my sweats on and my slippers and I'm just
Speaker 1: turning on, cranking on, and I'm ready to go and
Speaker 1: there's no commute home afterwards. So you think it's cool,
Speaker 1: But after a while you just realize you mr camaraderie
Speaker 1: and being around some other people. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're married or have a house full of people,
Speaker 1: it might be different. But as a single guy, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, it's it's kind of tired after
Speaker 1: a while, you know. So, yeah, I liked it in
Speaker 1: the beginning. I don't think I like it as much now.
Speaker 1: You know. It's I'm actually the opposite because when I
Speaker 1: when I started, I remember I had a lengthy conversation
Speaker 1: with our boss and when Scott chap here and I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, I want to keep going to
Speaker 1: the station, and he was like, no, he wants you
Speaker 1: to do the show from home for a while until
Speaker 1: this gets settled. And I was like, no, no, I
Speaker 1: got in the radio. I like going to the radio station.
Speaker 1: But I got it's weird, Rob, I'm used to it now,
Speaker 1: like it's my routine. I have my whole my routine's changed,
Speaker 1: and because we don't have to drive anywhere and do
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. But it's I'm really I'm
Speaker 1: used to I'm sure I'll get used to it and
Speaker 1: when eventually this ends it we'll go back to the studio.
Speaker 1: But it is much different when you're sitting in your
Speaker 1: home studio compared to being at the radio stage. I mean,
Speaker 1: the whole the vibe is just it's you can't and
Speaker 1: for you. For you as different too, because you're doing
Speaker 1: you know, you're one man that you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: You're not playing off of anybody. I think for for
Speaker 1: Chris and I, it's just you know how it is
Speaker 1: when you're in the when you have a partner and
Speaker 1: you're in the studio and and you can be ready
Speaker 1: to jump in and you can see the guy's expression,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean, it's just a little different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Christen's march. I mean we're almost we're
Speaker 1: coming upon what's the I haven't seen Chris. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: need that eye contact right when you know you just
Speaker 1: kind of get that que. You don't even need the
Speaker 1: verbal que. You can just look at them and know
Speaker 1: it's your your time to bail them out, right because
Speaker 1: exactly you already know that's like a full time job
Speaker 1: bailing out, Uh, Chris Broussard, that's the prisoner at the moment.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. The show is kicking ask
Speaker 1: but I mean, you guys have been doing great, right,
Speaker 1: what's the secret? What's the secret? Sauce there? Because that's
Speaker 1: like the talk of I Heart Media and Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio and everyone's been saying how great the show is doing,
Speaker 1: and the downloads and the the whole thing has been going, well,
Speaker 1: what's the secrets? I need that? I need the secret.
Speaker 1: You don't need the secret. You're you're doing just fine,
Speaker 1: You're doing great. But I'll tell you the download is amazing.
Speaker 1: Band one point one million. You know, we're already into
Speaker 1: this is just started out third year. That's pretty incredible number.
Speaker 1: Uh So we're proud of that. We work at it.
Speaker 1: But the big thing, Ben, I just think that the
Speaker 1: radio show has to be two things, fun and informative.
Speaker 1: That's it. Fun and informative. Can't be all fun, can't
Speaker 1: be just all numbers and information. It's got to be
Speaker 1: a combination. Because if I'm making your laugh or whatever,
Speaker 1: or I'm you know, making you react negatively positively, but
Speaker 1: you do walk away with something and you say, man,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, you know, Chris dropped the nugget
Speaker 1: on me that I could drop, you know, talk to
Speaker 1: my friends at worker or you know, your friends that
Speaker 1: you text with or you you get a beer with
Speaker 1: it every so often, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: people want to bring away something from the show. So
Speaker 1: that's really what it's all about. Fun and informative. And
Speaker 1: if you can put those two off, I think people
Speaker 1: will listen. And I've told you this before, Rob, but
Speaker 1: when I was moonlighting at w EI and it was
Speaker 1: a slow day and you had said something to Skip
Speaker 1: and Chain it on TV about Tom Brady, you know,
Speaker 1: just just it's something, you know, a mild comment. You know,
Speaker 1: you you've shown some haymakers at Brady over the years,
Speaker 1: but just like a mild comment and that that would
Speaker 1: cultivate like tons of reaction. I can't believe Rob said
Speaker 1: this about Tom Brady. How there you you know? And
Speaker 1: and uh, I know you're aware of it because we've
Speaker 1: talked about it before. But uh, you know, the the
Speaker 1: Boston Market, they they're so protective. Now I guess not
Speaker 1: anymore because Brady's gone. But you were the punching bag
Speaker 1: when it came to Tom Brady for probably ten years
Speaker 1: at least, maybe longer than that. I mean that what
Speaker 1: Ben the thing that really got me and told me
Speaker 1: that that I didn't I did you know? Shake the
Speaker 1: bear is that when if you remember, I predicted that
Speaker 1: Kansas City would be the Patriots in the a f
Speaker 1: C Championship game and the Patriots one, and the Patriots
Speaker 1: on their Twitter to social media they have four point
Speaker 1: four million followers. They put a video together and they
Speaker 1: spliced in my comments between the highlights of Brady thrown
Speaker 1: touchdowns and winning. And I have just thought to myself seriously, like,
Speaker 1: if you didn't matter, Ben, and you were just some
Speaker 1: hack and nobody respected your opinion, they wouldn't do it.
Speaker 1: Am I Right? Yeah? And the other thing I've heard
Speaker 1: about Belichick is that, you know, the Patriots during that run,
Speaker 1: like no one criticized them other than the cheating stuff,
Speaker 1: but as far as like the football stuff, you were
Speaker 1: one of the few guys Rob that would do that.
Speaker 1: So I imagine that, you know, inside the Patriot facility,
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, Tom Robbing and Bob Parker said this,
Speaker 1: that and the other thing. I don't think that's out
Speaker 1: of balance that that could have happened. Uh. And when
Speaker 1: the Patriots were playing, because they were looking for that
Speaker 1: kind of motivation and you were inspired. You inspired the
Speaker 1: Patriot run Rob, How does that make you feel? That
Speaker 1: doesn't make me feel good since they won and with
Speaker 1: those lucky super bowls. But it is what it is.
Speaker 1: But I just, uh, there are no sacred cows and sports.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Ben, you know, and I'm not one of
Speaker 1: these guys. I'm not gonna say because this is they
Speaker 1: got this narrative and stuff that they just are going
Speaker 1: to recite. It's just like going to a team fan
Speaker 1: a team's website. Really are you gonna read when you're
Speaker 1: gonna read the column Ben that the Clippers should fire
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers on Clippers dot com. You'll never read that column.
Speaker 1: I'm all right, Okay, When are you gonna read the
Speaker 1: story about how bad a player is? And the Players Tribune? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that website. Uh, from the player's perspective, this is
Speaker 1: what I'm telling you. So for people who are really
Speaker 1: honest and want the real stuff, you can't go to
Speaker 1: those sources. And you can't go to these guys who
Speaker 1: are fami boys who want to take pictures with everybody,
Speaker 1: and and and and you know what I mean, in
Speaker 1: glad hand everybody, And I'm not talking about been ripping
Speaker 1: everybody just to rip people but call it like you
Speaker 1: see the Kyler Murray is not that guy, say it.
Speaker 1: We had Martin Wiss on our show. Martin Wiss comes on.
Speaker 1: You know these young guys, uh like Gascon, you know,
Speaker 1: with the brim and they're gonna rewrite sportswriters and they're
Speaker 1: gonna tell us all this stuff. And and he was
Speaker 1: making the case that Kyler Murray is gonna be the
Speaker 1: m v P because Lamar wanted his second year and
Speaker 1: so did Patrick Mahomes, you know, a second year in
Speaker 1: the league. They both wanted it. Now this is Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray's turn. So so Chris and I both said, oh
Speaker 1: is that's right? Okay, good, So let's make a bet
Speaker 1: and we bet them three pair of Jordan's, two pair
Speaker 1: of Jordans each to one, two to one, So you
Speaker 1: win four Clare Jordan's. Had he Kyler Murray wanted at
Speaker 1: of was? He backed down because he because he didn't
Speaker 1: have a case, you know what I mean, he couldn't
Speaker 1: really make that case. And now as we look Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: I'm not he's a talent. I'm not saying he can't play,
Speaker 1: but let's let's pump the brakes on all his fandom.
Speaker 1: That's all pump the brakes and robbed. On that note
Speaker 1: with Luke Panella, did you ever get into a verbal
Speaker 1: altercation with an editor regarding a specific story that you
Speaker 1: either did or didn't want to to publish. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. There was stuff pushed back on some stuff,
Speaker 1: but for the most part, you know, they want to know,
Speaker 1: like who your sources are, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: and as long as you could clear it, uh, and
Speaker 1: they have a feel for who it is, uh you're
Speaker 1: talking about or whatever, you know what I mean, just
Speaker 1: to cover themselves. Remember that's the difference between working for
Speaker 1: a newspaper and writing a blog from your you know,
Speaker 1: grandmother's basement. Is that where when you're wrong or when
Speaker 1: somebody comes to sue you, they could sue the newspaper
Speaker 1: and get money. You can't get you know, money from
Speaker 1: your grandmother's basement. So those are just the thing that
Speaker 1: you have to be able to uh identify and and
Speaker 1: and be clear about, you know what I mean, where
Speaker 1: you're getting the information from that you're writing. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: other thing, Rob kind of following the train of thought
Speaker 1: here about the fans and the media and all that,
Speaker 1: it seems like a lot of fans these days have
Speaker 1: been programmed to they don't want to hear anything negative
Speaker 1: about their team. They can't handle it, like they I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's because how they were raised or whatever.
Speaker 1: I hear that all the time. It's like tribalism is
Speaker 1: the word here. Nobody wants to I say nobody, But
Speaker 1: it seems like a higher percentage now than than years ago.
Speaker 1: Can handle the criticism. But you're a New York guy.
Speaker 1: That's how you did it when you were going up right,
Speaker 1: Robbie heard you were robbsolutely absolutely, and you're right though.
Speaker 1: I think they're all just people don't want to hear
Speaker 1: or anything negative or the truth is just is shocking.
Speaker 1: I can still remember, and this one of the greatest
Speaker 1: columns I've ever read. I hate it. I hated it
Speaker 1: made me furious, I was so kissed. But but I
Speaker 1: I carried that column with me my whole life. And
Speaker 1: it was by Dick Young, the late great Dick Young,
Speaker 1: who was a columnist for a long time for the
Speaker 1: Daily News in New York and then the Post and
Speaker 1: I get on the train and Dwight Goodness coming back
Speaker 1: from drug we have and Dick Young, the lead of
Speaker 1: his column was stand up and Boo, and he basically
Speaker 1: wrote a column that people should boo Dwight Gooden his
Speaker 1: first time back. He's a DRUGGI you know, like like
Speaker 1: win in on him. And it just got me, you know,
Speaker 1: and I thought, wow, I could you write this about
Speaker 1: Dwight Gooden? Blah blah blah. But those are the columns
Speaker 1: that that you to write like. It's not milk toast,
Speaker 1: middle of the road. He put it out there, and
Speaker 1: and I always think of that column and I still
Speaker 1: remember the lead. And this is a true story too.
Speaker 1: People ask me all the time about, you know, how, well,
Speaker 1: how did I get to be this the columnists that
Speaker 1: I am and and the takes that I have or whatever.
Speaker 1: And I went to Columbia J School and I had
Speaker 1: a teacher, joint Lee, and she called me into her office.
Speaker 1: Not at the time I was going to Columbia J School.
Speaker 1: I was uh. I was covering the nets in New
Speaker 1: Jersey nets for the daily News This is night. And
Speaker 1: she called me in and she said, Robert, you know,
Speaker 1: like you're way ahead of your classmates. People here are
Speaker 1: trying to learn about journalism. You're already working for a
Speaker 1: major daily. You know where the story is, you know
Speaker 1: how to write lead. She says, You're way advanced from
Speaker 1: everybody else. To j school, she said, but you're not.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let you walk out of here and cruise,
Speaker 1: you know, to a master's degree. I'm not. She said,
Speaker 1: I want more from you. And she was a small
Speaker 1: Asian woman and she walks up to me, and I
Speaker 1: say this just to say, you know, to the imagery
Speaker 1: of it. She walks up to me. Here, I am
Speaker 1: a six ft four black guy, small five ft something
Speaker 1: Asian woman. She walks up to me. She acts like
Speaker 1: she has an imaginary knife in her hand, and she
Speaker 1: sticks it in my back and she says, I want
Speaker 1: you to take the knife, stick it in, turn it
Speaker 1: and draw blood. That's what I want from you. That unbelievable,
Speaker 1: that's the message she gave me. Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to get a reaction, you want
Speaker 1: to have something classionate. I mean, as you said milk
Speaker 1: Toads just kind of playing it down the middle. I
Speaker 1: mean that you know that's there's nothing that anybody can
Speaker 1: do that ben you just even if it's if I
Speaker 1: learned this from Skip Payless, either you're all the way
Speaker 1: in or you're all the way out. That's that's all.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? Like, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: be in on to after you're in Ben and you
Speaker 1: think Mookie Betts is the greatest thing since light spread,
Speaker 1: be all the way in on Mookie Bets. If you
Speaker 1: don't think Mookie Betts is good or Kyler Murray's good,
Speaker 1: you should be all the way out. That's just playing
Speaker 1: the commas and of uh, you know, trying to soft
Speaker 1: soak it or soft sell it. Just just go for
Speaker 1: it and make your case as strong as you can
Speaker 1: in favor of somebody or against somebody. Yeah, don't just
Speaker 1: tip your toe in the water. You gotta jump in
Speaker 1: there and do a belly whopper, is no doubt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. We did have a big NBA trade the
Speaker 1: other day this week. Here, Russell Westbrook is on the
Speaker 1: mover Rob, so I guess we should do some hard
Speaker 1: oh sports stuff. But where where are you at on Westbrook?
Speaker 1: This is a guy either love him or you hate him,
Speaker 1: But where you at on the Westbrook trade? If I'm Westbrook,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm pissed because I didn't even think that the
Speaker 1: NBA could make trades to the Washington generals. I didn't
Speaker 1: even believe that that was possible, But here he is.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to talk about NBA Siberia, that's
Speaker 1: what the Wizards are. I mean I would feel like
Speaker 1: I was dumped and now don't have a chance to win,
Speaker 1: you know, like before he was on some teams that
Speaker 1: haven't had a chance. I'm not saying a great chance.
Speaker 1: He went from having a chance to no chance with
Speaker 1: that franchise and that organization. So if I'm him and
Speaker 1: then your numbers start to be diminished now, like even
Speaker 1: if you get the triple doubles and you're not winning.
Speaker 1: But the one thing I've admired about him when he
Speaker 1: was an okay, see you couldn't rip him, was that
Speaker 1: those numbers when he when he had a triple double
Speaker 1: thing used to win. They wanted a high clip. So
Speaker 1: it wasn't just you know, being doing stat Patford un
Speaker 1: filling your statue. I mean he actually was hoping the
Speaker 1: team win. So I wouldn't like it if I was him.
Speaker 1: Well now, but he can do whatever he wants in Washington.
Speaker 1: And that was the problem him and Harden they had.
Speaker 1: They were both ball dominant guys, and now he can
Speaker 1: go to Washington, although Bradley Beale's there and he's going
Speaker 1: to demand the ball a fair amount. But that's how
Speaker 1: much winning will they do? With a question that's that's
Speaker 1: a big thing. I say they make the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: need they're the Eastern Conference, the bottom of the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: I see my problem with Westbrook. He's he's like the
Speaker 1: guy that runs the New York Marathon and goes great
Speaker 1: for five miles and then the last, you know, last
Speaker 1: one point two miles, he pulls a hammy and he
Speaker 1: can't finish the race. Because he's what Westbrook gets you
Speaker 1: to the finish line. But those last two mus You've
Speaker 1: seen it rob over the years, those last two minutes,
Speaker 1: the bad decisions. He can't shoot from the outside. Guys
Speaker 1: leave him open. Remember the Lakers in the playoffs in
Speaker 1: the bubble, they were leaving him wide open. He kept
Speaker 1: shooting three point shots. It was it was terrible, but
Speaker 1: that it was definitely embarrassing. But I gotta wager for you.
Speaker 1: Let's do let's bet twenty wingstop wings. I want all
Speaker 1: flat farmer, John Garlic and the diet coke, get whatever
Speaker 1: and a drink I'm betting that the Wizards do not
Speaker 1: n O TAM make the playoffs. I think I think
Speaker 1: you're not thinking about what Atlanta has done in the
Speaker 1: off season. I don't see the Wizards making the playoffs.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm in. I mean, I'll take that bet.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bet on and you're gonna make me bet
Speaker 1: on Westbrook. I'm not even a big fan of his game,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna bet on Westbrook. And the other thing
Speaker 1: that Rob, I I haven't talked to you in in a while,
Speaker 1: so last week spoke you were making decrees about the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets. We're gonna win the NBA Championship. Did you
Speaker 1: come off that position? Rob? Are you sticking by this?
Speaker 1: This upcoming NBA season, which is about to start, is
Speaker 1: the year of the Brooklyn Net. I'm all in on
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets. They definitely will get to the finals.
Speaker 1: I don't know who they'll play. You want to bet
Speaker 1: on that as well? I'm gonna say Brooklyn does not
Speaker 1: get to the Uh, this is gonna be Um. How
Speaker 1: should I describe the relationship like oil and water? Like
Speaker 1: I can't Durant and Kyrie and and you've got the
Speaker 1: New York tabloids. And this is not this is not
Speaker 1: gonna be a great situation. Let's do it. Because let's
Speaker 1: do it. We'll do two for one, We'll do two.
Speaker 1: I got the Wizards bet and we got the Nets bet.
Speaker 1: So I'm all in. I can't wait, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean I might have to put on an extra ten
Speaker 1: pounds after hanging out with you. So but it's okay.
Speaker 1: Remember we're doing our service. What are these chickens supposed
Speaker 1: to do, you know, Like they don't go to college,
Speaker 1: they don't get married, they don't find a house. They're
Speaker 1: here for us to maunch on. So let's do it.
Speaker 1: Of course, assuming that this bet actually gets paid out,
Speaker 1: that means you, too, gentlemen, will actually have to leave
Speaker 1: your your mansions, you guys, I have to leave your
Speaker 1: palaces that actually meet people and consume. And well we
Speaker 1: got it'smistic, guest, We've got a vaccine. Come in, come on, man,
Speaker 1: I'm planning on going to Russia come August. Russia. I'm optimistic.
Speaker 1: I'm optimistic. You can say hi to my family, my
Speaker 1: relatives in Russia. I think it's Romania now it used
Speaker 1: to be Russia. But yeah, there you go. Nice there
Speaker 1: you go. Most people do not know this, but I
Speaker 1: will disclose you've been to all seven continents in this
Speaker 1: wide world of ours guests. Absolutely. It was one year ago,
Speaker 1: December three, that I landed or not landed, but cruised
Speaker 1: into Antarctica, and that was the seventh and final continent.
Speaker 1: Been all over. I love it. I'd love to travel,
Speaker 1: I'd love to see new things. Just an unbelievable experience.
Speaker 1: I mean I left that place feeling like, um, like
Speaker 1: I could accomplish anything here. I am a kid from Jamaica,
Speaker 1: Queens from the neighborhood. You know, can you imagine dreaming
Speaker 1: about going to Antarctica and then actually going there? You
Speaker 1: know how few people actually get to make that journey
Speaker 1: to the to the bottom of the Earth and to
Speaker 1: touch land there and see how untouched and how natural
Speaker 1: it still is and and man had The air was
Speaker 1: was unbelievably clear and clean. In the water unbelievable clean
Speaker 1: as well. It's just it was a different place. I
Speaker 1: felt like a different world. And uh, it's been a
Speaker 1: year since I since I went there, but I hold
Speaker 1: onto that feeling. It was. It was an unbelievable feeling.
Speaker 1: And to celebrate that trip you actually topped it off
Speaker 1: by going on a golden girl's cruise, right, which was unbelievable. Man,
Speaker 1: don't laugh. Don't let that gray hair fool you. Man.
Speaker 1: I had a great time on that cruise and all
Speaker 1: the cheesecake decay. It was pretty amazing. I love the show.
Speaker 1: Was one of the all time great sitcoms. I don't know, Ben,
Speaker 1: do you have you watched it? I'm sure you've seen it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you see, I did back in the day. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: it was on the nineties and back when it was
Speaker 1: on it was kidding. I've been watching it. It's been off,
Speaker 1: it's been on. It was thirty five years old recently,
Speaker 1: I think, and i've watched it. I still watched it
Speaker 1: any chance I get. And some of the writing and
Speaker 1: the delivery as is as good as it gets. So,
Speaker 1: as you know, Blanche was like the tramp of the group,
Speaker 1: and he was one of my my two favorite lines
Speaker 1: from the show. So Blanche is in the kitchen with
Speaker 1: Dorothy and it's raining outside, and she said, lah, she says,
Speaker 1: the rain reminds me of my first kiss. And Dorothy says,
Speaker 1: how romantic you had your first kiss in the rain?
Speaker 1: And blance says, no, in the shower. That's a great line.
Speaker 1: And once Sophia, she's slipping the TV set to Sophia
Speaker 1: with the mother that you know, Strothy's mother who lived
Speaker 1: with them. She's flipping the set around and and uh,
Speaker 1: this is this is like, this is not connected to anything.
Speaker 1: It's not set up. It's like out of nowhere. Okay,
Speaker 1: just a line that's just left out there. And she's
Speaker 1: she's clicking the TV and she goes, hey, look there's
Speaker 1: a black guy anchor in the news and it isn't
Speaker 1: even the weekend. Hey, Rob if If who's the guy
Speaker 1: that runs Elon Musk, that runs Teslaft. He said, you
Speaker 1: know what, I like you on TV. I want you
Speaker 1: to go into one of my spaceships and go out
Speaker 1: into the cosmos. Would you would you sign up for that? Rob?
Speaker 1: Would you be willing to go to outer space? If
Speaker 1: the people said we want you to do a test
Speaker 1: program and go out in outer space. I'm there. I'm
Speaker 1: absolutely there. I have no doubt about it. I would
Speaker 1: take the chance. And uh, we'll see. I mean why not.
Speaker 1: I mean I feel blessed. I said this earlier, but
Speaker 1: I feel like I've done just about everything. I ever
Speaker 1: wanted to do in life, and and that's a great feeling.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would be up for trying something new.
Speaker 1: Definitely outstanding. You're a professor, you're a podcaster, radio, TV,
Speaker 1: You've covered all all forms of media and life as
Speaker 1: far as that's concerned. So continued success. Thanks. I will
Speaker 1: have you on again. Man. I appreciate it, Thank you,
Speaker 1: no doubt it. Alright. Hey Ben, David Man, thank you man.
Speaker 1: You guys are the best. You know that two of
Speaker 1: my favorite people, not just that Fox Sports Radio, but
Speaker 1: just in general. My man, good looking out. Thanks for Robin.
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